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heathalouise replied to your post: The 20 Albums From 1999 I’m Taking With Me To LA
Fight Songs should never go on the chopping block. Drag It Up, however… (And Too Far To Care is the crown jewel.)I’m still on the fence about Rhett Miller, whose constant professions of…
Regardless of what the person looks like, no one ever gets good at an instrument without being at least a bit of a loser. The end result may be great, but when you’re reading about the phyrgian mode in guitar player magazine, you’re being a loser. Or if you decide to just grab your squire and play along with the same set of records over and over again, it’s not…cool.
No doubt, and I knew even with the “even if” I was taking a cheap shot instead of unpacking why his “unlucky in love” songs don’t hit me the way other folks’ do. But still, he can take it, with that beautiful hair of his.
heathalouise replied to your post: The 20 Albums From 1999 I’m Taking With Me To LA
Fight Songs should never go on the chopping block. Drag It Up, however… (And Too Far To Care is the crown jewel.)
I’m still on the fence about Rhett Miller, whose constant professions of loserdom I’d question even if he wasn’t pretty. I have a mix of the old stuff someone made me I need to revisit (and I’ll definitely check out Too Far To Care), but of the two albums I have (bought at Virgin Records when they closed!) Satellite Rides blasts past my objections more on the hook front.
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imathers replied to your post: The 20 Albums From 1999 I’m Taking With Me To LA
we had verrrrry different 1999s (µ-Ziq, radar bros, mogwai, low, etc)
Well, I can only claim to having been a fan of about half these albums in 1999, mostly the “pop side of college radio” stuff. My actual list from that year would have had even more of it - Flaming Lips, Sleater-Kinney, Sparklehorse, etc…anything that didn’t sound like it was aiming for a Tibetan Freedom Concert slot was looked at with skepticism.
THERE CAN ONLY BE TWENTY FROM EACH YEAR, BE THEY LP, CD OR CD-R. TWENTY.
*potentially on the chopping block if I hear a better album from 1999. But I’m going to try and avoid that until I move.
THERE CAN ONLY BE TWENTY FROM EACH YEAR, BE THEY LP, CD OR CD-R. TWENTY.
Look at all those asterisks next to old farts and outtakes comps from long-time favorites. 2008 is the most recent year I’ve got anywhere near 20 albums from, and considering how detached from the pulse I’ve gotten, you’d think I became a successful magazine publisher or something (“guys, I’ll write the Death Cab blurb…this is their most REM-ish album yet! Alt-rock is back!”).
*potentially on the chopping block if I hear a better album from 2008. But I’m going to try and avoid that until I move.
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THERE CAN ONLY BE TWENTY FROM EACH YEAR, BE THEY LP, CD OR CD-R. TWENTY.
*potentially on the chopping block if I hear a better album from 1991. But I’m going to try and avoid that until I move.
imathers replied to your post: The 20 Albums From 1988 I’m Taking With Me To LA
Predictably enough I’m shocked that Spirit of Eden isn’t in here.
You’re not the only one, actually! Off the top of my head, I’m never quite sure which Talk Talk albums I’ve kept around. Answer: the two before this one (for now), but I have three of the six tracks from Eden on a self-made comp. I think l liked those guys best when they were moving away from Duran Duran towards ambient jazz balladry, but hadn’t quite made it there yet.