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 >Reply-To: audities@smoe.org >To: >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 > >