Recent Music Acquired

[ewok20t3]

"All Is Full of Love" is one of my least favorite songs from that album (and it's still a good song). The first four on Homogenic are the powerhouses for me. It reminds me of how The Joshua Tree is good all the way through, but the first four tracks kind of overshadow everything else for me. "Bachelorette" is one of my Top 5 Bjork songs. And I've gushed about its music video elsewhere.

Yeah, I've always thought "All Is Full of Love" was a decent enough song, although it doesn't blow me away or anything. Hopefully I'll get a chance to give the album a good listen or two tomorrow at work and report back with my initial thoughts about it.

[bloop]

Put me in the camp that doesn't vastly underrate "All Is Full of Love", and it's one of her very best videos as well.

[ewok20t3]

I got a chance to listen to Homogenic today and I very much enjoyed the album. I agree that the best tracks are the first four on the album. I didn't get to listen to it enough to comment on it much more than that, but it looks like the album will be getting more playing time in the future.

[murlough23]

Put me in the camp that doesn't vastly underrate "All Is Full of Love", and it's one of her very best videos as well.

That's probably a pretty sizeable camp, given that it was the lead track on her greatest hits album; then again, the single version had a different mix, which I actually like a bit more. (Bjork going untethered by rhythm for too long one of my chief complaints about her, which explains why most of Medulla drives me up the wall - glad I gave her a second chance after mistakenly starting with that one.)

[ewok20t3]

Black Sabbath - Sabotage
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead

[ewok20t3]

Lucero - 1372 Overton Park
Poison The Well - The Opposite of December
Deftones - Adrenaline
Every Time I Die - Hot D*MN!
Machine Head - Supercharger
Fear Factory - Obsolete
Remembering Never - Women and Children Die First

Anyone heard that Lucero album?

[bloop]

Yeah.  Good album, but I haven't listened to it for a while now.

[ajyouthguy]

Andrew Peterson--Counting Stars

[ewok20t3]

Just got these from Amazon:
Converge - Jane Doe
Explosions In The Sky - How Strange, Innocence

Jane Doe was named "Album of The Decade" by Decibel and Sputnik Music, so I'm anxious to check it out.

[plvarona]

Andrew Peterson--Counting Stars

My copy of that one arrived in the mail today.

[ewok20t3]

On my quest to complete my Explosions In The Sky Collection I purchased these:
Explosions In The Sky - All of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
Explosions In The Sky - All of A Sudden I Miss Everyone Remixes
Explosions In The Sky - Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever
Now I'm only missing the Friday Night Lights Soundtrack, which should be on the way.

Also got Busta Rhymes - The Coming and Every Time I Die - Last Night In Town from the cheap bin.

[ajyouthguy]

House of Heroes--Suburba

[murlough23]

Paper Route - Are We All Forgotten EP
R.E.M. - Reveal

[ewok20t3]

House of Heroes--Suburba

I got that, too.

[ajyouthguy]

The Reign of Kindo--This is What Happens

[Aaron]

im jealous! 

[ewok20t3]

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Arcade Fire - Arcade Fire EP
Friday Night Lights Movie Soundtrack (Featuring lots of Explosions In The Sky)
Friday Night Light TV Show Soundtrack Vol 2 (Featuring Sufjan Stevens and others)

[plvarona]

The Reign of Kindo--This is What Happens

My copy of that one arrived in the mail today.

[ewok20t3]

I found Derek Webb's Mockingbird in the dollar bin tonight. I also picked up a second copy of Further Seems Forever's The Moon Is Down. Pretty good finds!

[murlough23]

We stumbled across a Christian bookstore here in Victoria, BC, and I was pleased to see that they had House of Heroes' Suburba in stock, so I picked up a copy for our drive back to Seattle tomorrow.

[Aaron]

ordered the new House of Heroes and Arcade Fire cds last week.  Trying to find Reign of Kindo, however, is not as easy at the sites I go to.  Its not in any stores either (unless it hasn't hit stores yet and I'm just a total moron)

[plvarona]

Children 18:3: Rain's a Comin'

I actually like this one better than their self-titled.  I think they pulled off the alternate vocals more smoothly this time, and instrumentally they sound more crisp.

[plvarona]

Finally arriving:

House of Heroes: Suburba

I'm currently on track 5 and so far, so good.

[ajyouthguy]

Live at the Brown Owl--Cool Hand Luke

[ewok20t3]

I went up to Cincinnati to go to one of my favorite used music stores today. I bought about 30 cd's (some were single's or record label compilations) for 25 cents each. I bought about 20 cd's for a dollar each and a couple for $2.50 each. Here's some of the one's I got that I thought might be of some interest here:

For $2.50:
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain

For $1:
Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell
Dashboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
Bjork - Telegram
Bjork - Debut
Nirvana - Nevermind
Chronic Future - Lines In My Face
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Jets To Brazil - Perfecting Loneliness
Counting Crows - Films About Ghosts: The Best of...
Helmet - Meantime
Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob
Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
Depeche Mode - Exciter
Two Tongues - Two Tongues
Faithless - Reverence

25 cents:
Steven Curtis Chapman - The Great Adventure
Phillips. Craig & Dean - Favorite Live Songs of All
Natalie Imbruglia - Left of The Middle
Various - Revival Generation: I Could Sing of Your Love Forever
Melee - Devils & Angels
Guardian - Buzz
According To John - A2J
Fair To Midland - The Drawn and Quartered EP
and probably my favorite find of the day, Further Seems Forever & Recess Theory out of print split EP - From The 27th State

So, what should I listen to first?

[bloop]

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
Bjork - Debut
Nirvana - Nevermind
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

These are my favorite 5 of the batch. You made out like a bandit.

[ewok20t3]

These are my favorite 5 of the batch. You made out like a bandit.

It's the first time I'd been there in over a year, so I figured I'd find some good stuff, but I had no idea I would find as much as I did.

I've already heard the TV on The Radio and Nirvana albums, so I'm thinking I may start with Wilco. I've read so many positive things about Yankee Hotel Foxtrot over the years, I'm anxious to listen to it.

[bloop]

It's the first time I'd been there in over a year, so I figured I'd find some good stuff, but I had no idea I would find as much as I did.

I've already heard the TV on The Radio and Nirvana albums, so I'm thinking I may start with Wilco. I've read so many positive things about Yankee Hotel Foxtrot over the years, I'm anxious to listen to it.

Yeah, I think it's about the third best album of the 00s (that I've heard, obviously), but to better manage your expectations, I give you murlough's review (which definitely qualifies as a bit of a low outlier).

[ewok20t3]

Yeah, I think it's about the third best album of the 00s (that I've heard, obviously), but to better manage your expectations, I give you murlough's review (which definitely qualifies as a bit of a low outlier).

Well, I guess I won't be alone if I don't love the album as much as everyone else does. It's refreshing to read a review like that for this album, because I've only heard 3 or 4 Wilco songs before, and all of them left me with a similar apathetic feeling towards them. I'm also a bit concerned that I'll be missing out on whatever originality this album brought at the time of it's release, considering alt-country has pretty much exploded since then. Either way, I'm excited to hear it.

[bloop]

I personally thought the review was rather presumptuous back in the day, but that is a very old flame war.

[ewok20t3]

I personally thought the review was rather presumptuous back in the day, but that is a very old flame war.

Haha, I see. Well, I'll give the album a listen tonight or tomorrow and I'll let you know what my initial impression of the album is.

[murlough23]

I personally thought the review was rather presumptuous back in the day, but that is a very old flame war.

It was a bit presumptuous; I was brand new to Wilco, everyone else seemed to be raving about it, and I just didn't understand the context, much like when I first listened to Kid A. I'm still not jump-up-and-down excited with YHF, but I've come to like it, even love a few songs, and I don't regret buying a copy (used, from Wanderer).

I'm the odd Wilco fan who actually thinks Sky Blue Sky is pretty cool. I kind of enjoy being the dissenter on that one.

[bloop]

I'm the odd Wilco fan who actually thinks Sky Blue Sky is pretty cool. I kind of enjoy being the dissenter on that one.

I would be the somewhat less rare Wilco fan that defends Sky Blue Sky while thinking some of their earlier work was more accomplished. Wilco (The Album) may actually be more controversial among Wilco fans than even SBS anymore, though.

[murlough23]

I would be the somewhat less rare Wilco fan that defends Sky Blue Sky while thinking some of their earlier work was more accomplished. Wilco (The Album) may actually be more controversial among Wilco fans than even SBS anymore, though.

True. The self-titled was accessible to me at first (more so than SBS), but didn't have a whole lot of staying power outside of a few songs.

I liked Jeff-Tweedy's comments about the "dad-rock" criticism. "My dad listens to Merzbow. Does that make it dad-rock?"

[ewok20t3]

I listened to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot once through this morning. It's definitely an excellent album. It didn't change my life or anything, but I'm liking it quite a bit. Obviously, one listen isn't enough to form a whole lot of opinions about it, but it's one I'll definitely come back to for more listens after I get through some of the other music I just bought.

I'm currently listening to Paul's Boutique, which is also an excellent album. "5-Piece Chicken Dinner" just came out of nowhere and made me chuckle a bit.

[ajyouthguy]

Caedmon's Call--Raising Up the Dead

[ajyouthguy]

Standing Small-- Asleep at the Oars, Dreaming of Freedom

[murlough23]

Finally picked up a copy of The Suburbs, after trying and failing to find it in several stores during our trip. Even the local Target back down here didn't have it despite their website saying otherwise. Best Buy did. I actually realized in the end that it wasn't the "immediate buy" that I figured it'd be when I first heard it, but I also wanted to be sure I was rating it based on a clean copy, since I wasn't sure if the mushy texture of some of it was intentional when I downloaded the rip from the vinyl. It does sound a little clearer now, but the overall sound/style of this record still doesn't excite me as much as the better parts of past Arcade Fire records.

[bloop]

Yeah, I'm not sure the guy who did the vinyl rip really knew what he was doing. I've heard a lot better vinyl rips than that anyway. Really, though, for a digital copy that I'd put on my iPod, I like to just have it ripped from a digital source (assuming they didn't muck up the CD). I prefer vinyl at home spinning the old fashioned way.

As for the album, it grew on me quite a bit, but I'm not calling "masterpiece" on this one. I appreciate the Arcade Fire for really making an album album, though. I think it's about on par with Neon Bible, below Funeral.

Derek Webb apparently really, really loves it. He's been tweeting about it constantly.

[murlough23]

As for the album, it grew on me quite a bit, but I'm not calling "masterpiece" on this one.

Good to have some solidarity on that one. It makes me feel better about preparing to say in my review that the dude who declared it better than OK Computer was off his rocker.

I appreciate the Arcade Fire for really making an album album, though.

I like that it has a theme and feels like the songs belong together. Unfortunately, they belong together in the sense that they are a tirade on something that many other musicians have already gone into a tirade over (basically, sterile suburban life. Yeah, we get that rampant capitalism sucks away your soul and produces apathetic kids. Tell us some stuff we don't know.)

Derek Webb apparently really, really loves it. He's been tweeting about it constantly.

I know from past experience that his liking something doesn't always mean I'll feel the same.