Friday, March 30, 2007

The National - Boxer
2007


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Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2002
For my 100th post, my favourite album.
If you havent heard it, get it now!

"Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was commercially released by Nonesuch Records on April 23, 2002. The album sold 55,573 copies during its first week of release, peaking on the Billboard 200 album chart at number thirteen.[16][17] The album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America and has sold over 517,000 units.[18][19] The album received positive reviews from media outlets such as Rolling Stone and BBC.[20][21] Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll.[22] The album was ranked 493rd on The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone and was voted as the 100th "Greatest Album Ever" in a 2006 Q Magazine poll."
Also one of 2 albums to ever get a 10 out of 10 from Pitchfork
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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
2007

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Monday, March 26, 2007

Band of Horses - Tour EP
2005

1. Savannah Part One (Demo)
2. The Snow Fall (Demo)
3. For Wicked Gill (Demo)
4. The Great Salt Lake (Live)
5. Billion Day Funeral (Live)
6. (Biding Time Is A) Boat Row (Live)

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Uncle Tupelos Last Gig Ever
1994
Its one long mp3 and not split into individual tracks but still very cool, good recording.
Below is Jeff Tweedys actual setlist from the show-

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Saturday, March 24, 2007

Viva Voce - Get Yr Blood Sucked Out
2006

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Friday, March 23, 2007

Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
2000

Highly recommended !

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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Oakley Hall - Gypsum Strings
2006

Thanks to Kuro for the recommendation.

"Long regarded as one of the best live acts in NY, Oakley Hall delivers this masterpiece, recorded over several sessions at the Sunset Grill in Brooklyn in late 2005. It's their second full-length of 2006 and first on Brah Records. Springing from 60's west coast legends like The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Bros., The Charlatans, and Moby Grape, adding elements of X, Neu, The Feelies, Mercury Rev, and Fairport Convention, this record finds the group refusing the dictates of stale No-Depression era norms. The sextet's trademark killer songwriting chops boast some beautiful ballads that temper the heavier tunes. All told, "Gypsum Strings" cements Oakley Hall's rep as luminaries of the new psych-roots movement."
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Beastie Boys - The Sounds of Science
1999
A must have !



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Disc 1
Disc 2

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

The Postal Service - Morning Becomes Eclectic
2004


1. "Intro"
2. "District Sleeps Alone Tonight"
3. “We Will Become Silhouettes”
4. "Nothing Better (feat Jenny Lewis)"
5. Interview
6. “Clark Gable”
7. “This Place Is A Prison”
8. “Such Great Heights”
9. “Brand New Colony” (Radio Mess Up)
10. Brand New Colony
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Wilco - Summerteeth
1999
If you want to get into Wilco, this is prob the best album to start with.
Shot in the Arm, Via Chicago, Pieholden Suite, I'm Always in Love etc

"Wilco's Summer Teeth spreads its digits far into guitar-heavy Britpop, with full-group backing vocals carrying bouncy choruses and synths whistling over the melodies. "We're Just Friends" and "Via Chicago" stand as harmonized twists on ballad formulas, the latter recalling Mermaid Avenue's "California Stars" with the opening line, "I dreamed about killing you again last night / And it felt all right to me." So it's not always uplifting or cheery, but it's got dozens of surprises in a mere 15 songs."
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Wilco - A Ghost Is Born EP

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Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - #3
2006

Playing Whelans in Dublin this May !!!!!

"Originally released in 2005 and reissued in '06 on the Minty Fresh label, #3 is actually the first full-length album by the Swedish indie-pop duo Suburban Kids with Biblical Names. (#1 and #2 are EPs.) While the acoustic-guitar-toting Scandinavian pair invites comparisons to Norway's Kings of Convenience, Peter Gunnarson and Johan Hedberg actually hew closer to the eclectic and eccentric sound of fellow Swede Jens Lekman, as revealed on the light, lilting "Funeral Face" and the ridiculously catchy, lo-fi "Rent a Wreck," which features an infectious "ba-ba-ba" chorus. Irrepressibly witty, fun, and happy rock 'n' roll from a duo who sound like children who've played together forever. Exuberant, joyful; it even puts a bounce in yer booty."
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Monday, March 19, 2007

Voxtrot
2007

Really cool debut album, thanks to The Peanut for the recommendation

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Saturday, March 17, 2007

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81
2007


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Thursday, March 15, 2007

"Crunchy Nut cornflakes are Frosties for wankers !"
"Yeah well Frosties are just Corn Flakes for people who can't face reality"
Dinosaur Jr - Ear Bleeding Country, The Best of Dinosaur Jr
2001


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The Reindeer Section - Son of Evil Reindeer
2002


For their follow-up to their 2001 debut, Y'All Get Scared Now, the members of Astrid, Belle and Sebastian, Mogwai, Mull Historical Society--have been joined by a deluge of new recruits headed by Idlewild's Roddy Woomble and Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake, swelling their number to a staggering 27. It seems every Glaswegian with a guitar has signed up to join honorary Scot and Snow Patrol singer Gary Lightbody's lo-fi folk answer to the Traveling Wilburys. The fact that Son of Evil Reindeer is infinitely more coherent and intimate than its predecessor is astounding, and Lightbody himself deserves most of the credit. Aside from Moffat's brilliantly woozy "Whodunit?" the tender words and music are all Lightbody's, and it's the Snow Patrol singer's quietly aching voice that adds melancholy to acoustic ambles "Budapest" and "Your Sweet Voice," and feeling to the country-rock grind of "You Are My Joy." With the co-op's more avant-garde noise factors reined in, the other 26 contributors are seemingly confined to minor cameos, but when the results are as touching as this, it hardly seems to matter.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Sonic Youth - Dirty
1992

Sugar Kane, 100%, Youth Against Fascism- great album

Sugar Kane was the first Sonic Youth song I ever heard, it was on Jools Holland in 1992, wasn't 92 when I watched it but bought this album on that performance which is below.

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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Josh Rouse - Nashville
2005

Really good album, seen him live a few times.
"Don't be fooled by the title of Josh Rouse's fifth solo album. Yes, the singer-songwriter lived in the commercial country music capital for nearly a decade. Yes, he has been known to use the occasional pedal steel guitar. And okay, there is a soft southern lilt to his voice. But there are no rhinestone-studded cowboy hats or tattered American flags to be found in this "Nashville," an album of gentle AM radio nostalgia and understated folk-rock beauty. Influenced in equal parts by Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, and the Smiths, Rouse moves gracefully between intimate acoustic ballads ("Saturday") and handclap-drenched pop songs ("Winter In The Hamptons"), all the while delivering more personality and deft songwriting than his platinum-certified neighbors could ever conceive."

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Ryan Adams - 48 Hrs
"He's not as good as Jeff Tweedy."
Unreleased album made after Gold, some of the songs were on Demolition.

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Monday, March 12, 2007

Wilco - Being There
1996

"Wilco gave alt country a golden crown and scepter in the form of this sophomore double album. The band's chemistry was at such a peak on these sessions that no alt country rockers since have come close to touching the album's perfection—not even Ryan Adams."
I didn't make up the Ryan Adams bit Niamh! Its a quote! HA!

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The Bens EP
2003

Cool EP from Ben Folds, Ben Kweller and Ben Lee.

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Bruised
Beck - Sea Change
2002

Record company trouble? long term girlfriend dumps you?, hanging out with Radioheads producer? This album is the result of such a union.
My favourite Beck album, laid back and basically acoustic.

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Lost Cause
The Rentals - Seven More Minutes
1999

Not as bad as people make it out to be, i quite like it

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The Divine Comedy - Victory for the Comic Muse
2006

Winner of the Choice Music Prize(Irish equivalent of Mercury Music Prize) Best Irish album of 2006, well deserved too.

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The Rentals - The Return of the Rentals
1995

Matt Sharp formerly of Weezer makes an album that sounds like Weezer, suspicious....

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Sunday, March 11, 2007

Teenage Fanclub - 4766 Seconds-A Short Cut to Teenage Fanclub
2003

Not 1 song to skip on this best of

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Teenage Fanclub - Aint That Enough
This is the song with the cool lyrics "Toy town feelings here to remind you,
Summers in the city do what you gotta do". Dont be put off by the videos.

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Friday, March 9, 2007

Thursday, March 8, 2007

Voxtrot - Your Biggest Fan EP
Cool 3 song EP

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Bell X1 - Flock
2005

A pretty good album that def deserved to do way better in the UK. A bit overplayed in Ireland but i liked it a lot when it came out. Flame is a cool single and it should have been huge, but they messed it up with an awful awful video.

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Bell X1 - Music In Mouth
2004

A pretty good Irish band, dedeserve to be doing better outside of Ireland than they currently are.
Damien Rice used to be in this band before he up and joined Oxfam.

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Tokyo Police Club - A Lesson In Crime
2007


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Benjy Ferree - Leaving the Nest
2006



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Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Teenage Fanclub-Bandwagonesque
1997

Harsh as it sounds, another shit album cover from a very cool band.

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Video looks like it was made yesterday.

Teenage Fanclub - What You Do To Me
Covers
So, i decided to upload some cool covers I have. I sifted through the shit and have only put up the best.
Wilco - Thirteen (Big Star)
Just a really nice song covered very well.

Kings of Convenience - Free Falling (Tom Petty)

So cool.

Ben Folds - In Between Days (The Cure)


Ben Folds Bitches Ain't Shit(Dr Dre)
i know everybody probably has this but couldn't do an Eastenders and "leave it out"(will anybody get that joke?)

Eels - Feeling Good (Nina Simone)

Jeff Tweedy - California Stars
(a sort of a cover, Wilco and Billy Bragg did an album where they put music to Woody Gutherie lyrics, full band version is cool, this is acoustic)

Eels feat Afro Man - Because I Got High (Afro Man)
Basically Eels played a gig in Munich and a guy kept calling for Novocaine for the Soul, this guy was so pissed off it wasnt played he confronted E after the show who told him to fuck off and find something better to worry about.
The next day in Vienna Afro Man was staying in the same hotel as E, still not in the mood to play Novocaine, E asked him to come down to their gig and play his hit, Because I Got High, Afro Man agreed.The few seconds silence from the crowd when E introduces Afro Man is hilarious.
I wanna also add that Eels name all their tours, for instance "Eels with Strings" was semi acoustic, rock tour was last year "No Strings Attached" etc, this mp3 is taken from the tour in 2003 with the best tour name ever "Bus Driving, Band Rocking"
Video below but I prefer the mp3 myself:
Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth
2005


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Monday, March 5, 2007

Fountains of Wayne
1996

A really cool and catchy pop album. Very Weezerish. "Radiation Vibe" and "Sink to the Bottom" are brilliant.
Cool cover photo as well.

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BACK UP!
Wilco - More Like the Moon EP

1 Camera (alternate)
2 Handshake Drugs (alternate)
3 Woodgrain
4 A Magazine Called Sunset
5 Bob Dylans 49th Beard
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Fountains of Wayne - Traffic and Weather
2007

Because they're first album is so good and Stacys Mom is such an awesome song when listened to very loud on headphones. A must for fans of pre Make Believe Weezer.

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Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
2007
Album of the year is finally here !
I won't go on or i'l end up writing for ages but "Impossible Germany" and "Hate it Here" are awesome.
What other band will stream their new album thats not out til May from their site, knowing it'l get on the net?


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Saturday, March 3, 2007

Phoenix - United
2000


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Friday, March 2, 2007

Calexico - Garden Ruin
2006


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Phoenix - Alphabetical
2004

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Thursday, March 1, 2007

Bit by bit stuff getting back up, most of Eels stuf is back. Somethings wrong with my connection that i cant see any blogs, including my own, but i can still post to it and others can visit it so trying to figure that out as well.
Most requested things are up or will be up in a few hrs.

Feel free to request
All my links seem to have been taken off.
If anybody wants anything request it and i'l re up it instead of trying to put everything up again.
Sean