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From Christopher <plattc@optonline.net>
Subject Re: influenced by the 2003 lists?
Date Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:11:16 -0500

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> Top album on my list that isn't on many other lists but that 
> I think you all should hear:
> 
> 1. The Long Winters: When I Pretend to Fall
> 
> I love this record. It's not really power pop, but it is some 
> smart and often beautiful indie pop. Killer harmonies, hooks, 
> and lyrics. I'm not sure whether the absence of this record 
> from so many audities lists is because people heard it and 
> didn't care for it or didn't hear it. Just in case it's the 
> latter, consider this as my attempt to evangelize. And go see 
> them play if they come to town.
> 

I saw them open for Brendan Benson last summer.  Very good, very
tuneful, very quirky -- kind of a more pop-oriented mid-80's era R.E.M.
to my ears.  Didn't grab me enough to rush out to buy the CD, but from
the sporadic but avid kudos they're generating in the year-end lists,
I'll definitely pick it up.  Lead singer John Roderick did some stuff
with Harvey Danger a few years back, as I recall.

Christopher



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