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| From | Shawn Huckaby <tikiking@att.net> |
| Subject | Re: 2003 Releases |
| Date | Sat, 14 Feb 2004 08:35:53 -0700 |
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While we're on the subject of the whole voter's remorse thing, I too
usually have a couple of late arrivals that would have shaken up my
year-end list. This year it's The Postal Service and Beulah that would
have probably been shoehorned in somewhere (and I still haven't heard
the new Splitsville or Pearlfishers discs).
Realizing the gargantuan effort it takes to track and compile these
things, would anyone nevertheless be interested in participating in a
"looking back" style of list somewhere around the middle of the
following year (when everyone seems to be wanting to post
something--whether a partial list for the current year or best songs
about fudge, etc.)? For those of us not in the industry, it would give
us a better chance at actually getting around to a bigger sample of all
of the great stuff out there from any given year.
Just a thought...
Shawn Huckaby
garymaher@juno.com wrote:
>And while we're on 2003 releases, I have to own up to a bit of voter's
>remorse. I bought a couple dozen CDs at Princeton Record Exchange this
>past November, several of which came out in 2003. At the end of the
>year, I pulled all of those out of the stack so I could listen to them
>before I submitted my Top 20 list. Or at least I thought I got them all.
>
>Towards the end of January, towards the bottom of the pile, I came across
>a CD by The Lucksmiths called Naturaliste, which I had picked up because
>their name sounded familiar. A couple of songs in, I thought "wow, this
>is really good -- when did it come out?" and found to my dismay that it
>was a 2003 release. If only I had known and listened to it sooner, it
>definitely would have been in my top 5. It might even have been bumped
>up a notch for the cheekiest Smiths reference ever, a song called There
>Is A Boy That Never Goes Out. Musically, it has a Smiths / Belle &
>Sebastian vibe but is sparse, simple, not overly mopey. Maybe more along
>the lines of the aforementioned Bros. Pernice. Great stuff!
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