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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: Three months left Top 20 |
| Date | Tue, 02 Sep 2003 02:43:51 -0400 |
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Unlike Mike, my list has undergone significant revision in the last three
months, largely because a lot of really good albums have come out recently.
Only half of my current top 20 (Nellie McKay, Damone, Waltham, New
Porographers, Jeffrey Lewis, Bronwyn, Danny McDonald, Club 8, Richard
Thompson, the High Dials) was in my half-year list.
Most surprising entry so far: I never really rated Toothpaste 2000, even
back when they were called Cowboy and Spin Girl. And listening back to
those records, I still don't like them much. But CATCH-22 is a pretty
marvelous slice of jangle pop that's head and shoulders above everything
else they've ever done.
Album I really can't believe isn't being talked to death all over Audities:
LEAP OF FOLLY by the Trolleyvox. First people complain because there
aren't any decent power pop records coming out anymore, and then, when
hands down the best pure power pop record in quite literally YEARS shows
up, nobody says boo about it. Whatever.
JUST GENERALLY KICKING MY ASS:
1. Lil Beethoven -- Sparks
2. Leap of Folly -- The Trolleyvox
3. Nellie McKay -- Nellie McKay
4. From the Attic -- Damone
5. Permission To Build -- Waltham
6. Electric Version -- The New Pornographers
7. It's the Ones Who've Cracked That the Light Shines Through -- Jeffrey Lewis
8. D-D-Don't Stop the Beat -- Junior Senior
9. Through the Fog, Through the Pines -- Bronwyn
10. Sky Meadows -- The Pearlfishers
11. Music for the Forgotten Future Volume 1 -- Pinataland
12. Summer City -- Danny McDonald
13. Strangely Beautiful -- Club 8
14. The Old Kit Bag -- Richard Thompson
15. The Beginning Stages (reissue with bonus EP) -- The Polyphonic Spree
16. A New Devotion -- The High Dials
17. Piece of Mind -- Robin Lane and the Chartbusters
18. Socialisme ou Barbarie -- Monade
19. Elephant -- White Stripes
20. Catch-22 -- Toothpaste 2000
ANOTHER FINE ALBUM BY ARTISTS I ALWAYS TEND TO LIKE (in alphabetical order):
Rings -- Absinthe Blind
Happy To Be Here -- Andrew
Honeyspot -- The Asteroid No. 4
Welcome Interstate Managers -- Fountains of Wayne
Obedience -- Larval
Underwater Casino -- Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp
Report Card -- R. Stevie Moore
Supernatural Equinox -- Outrageous Cherry
Liz Phair -- Liz Phair
L'Avventura -- Britta Philips and Dean Wareham
Dark Island -- Pram
Summer Sun -- Yo La Tengo
PROMISING DEBUTS AND/OR PLEASANT NEW DISCOVERIES (ditto):
A Way With Birds -- Calvin, Don't Jump!
Greatest Hits -- Dame Darcy
Dengue Fever -- Dengue Fever
The Stars of San Andrea -- The Devics
The Eaves -- The Eaves
Career Ojective -- The Methadones
One Step More and You Die -- Mono
Republic of Two -- Nedelle
All Around -- The Oranges Band
When I'm Falling -- Terminal 4
Woman on the Mountain -- Violeta de Outono
Volta Do Mar/Murder By Death (split CD)
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