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| From | "Gene Good" <javagene@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Top Whatever |
| Date | Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:27:19 +0000 |
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nice list full of items I need.I have to break down and get Dungen-for
awhile it was out of stock it seemed.And that Pillbugs is calling me as well
as the Bronco Bullfrog.So much stuff...
Ain't music grand.
>From: Brian Kassan <brian@powerpop.org>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Top Whatever
>Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:52:28 -0800
>
>There's a lot of stuff I haven't heard this year that I know I'd like, but
>as is the case every year, so many releases--too little time and money to
>hear it all....hopefully these all count per the rules:
>
>1. Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt -late in the year arrival that blew off me head!
>2. Brian Wilson - Smile - worth the wait
>3. Green Day - American Idiot - quality tunes and arrangements
>4. Tears For Fears - Everybody Loves A Happy Ending - maybe their best ever
>5. Elliott Smith - From A Basement On A Hill - sorry it's his last
>6. Pillbugs - Happy Birthday - a little long, but very consistent
>7. Mew - Frengers - import only- think My Bloody Valentine/Sigur
>Ros/Cocteau
>Twins - quite original sounding though
>8. Chris O'Neill - s/t - Macca drenched, but very, very good
>9. Muse - Absolution - Queen and Radiohead wrestle in an alley with Led Zep
>10.Cloud Eleven - Terrestial Ballet - Rick's b-sides? jeez...
>11.Bronco Bullfrog - Oak Apple Day - why can't these guys get a UK deal?
>12.Cliff Hillis - Better Living Through Compression - solid gold hooks...
>13.Keane - Hopes and Fears - nice to hear piano at the fore, lovely
>14.Earlimart - Treble and Tremble - fine tribute to Elliott--almost too
>close
>15.Ambulance Ltd. - s/t - super tuneful indie stuff this
>
>Other things I enjoyed: Secret Machines, Gripweeds, Gurus....oh there's
>many more I can't think of:
>
>Waiting for: Sugarplastic, Eugene Edwards (I must be the only person here
>who hasn't heard this yet)
>
>Reissue of the year: The Village Green Preservation Society - the Kinks!
>
>Happy New Year everyone!....I think and hope this year will see a new Chewy
>Marble cd released...:) If I would only finish the darn thing...
>
>Brian
>
>
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