Comments

seems to have been taken down :(
Say Yes! But I like this list.
For me, at least, it's because of this song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oz47aLDTBc
Another +1 for the Zoo Station cover...love when it locks into the rhythm for the last few minutes.
Agreed--Chronic Town, Dead Letter Office, Eponymous, Monster, Up, Reveal, and half a dozen live bootlegs from the IRS years all get heavy, heavy rotation from me. Accelerate & Collapse Into Now, a slightly lesser extent. I just think of them more as "fan" albums. The ones listed above (sans Out of Time) I'd all consider decade-defining records.
Murmur Reckoning Fables of the Reconstruction Lifes Rich Pageant Document Green Out of Time Automatic for the People New Adventure in Hi-Fi +A handful of other albums I've come to love Holy Jesus Christ.
Sounds like a plastic straw sliding against a soda lid to me. Justin bringing the middle-American authenticity.
My fav: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Ke8mhZNus
Excellent, as always. Reminds me more of Rounds in its smoothness. Now, if only I can get that cover out of my future nightmares.
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up (later this month)
AchtungBaby/ZooTV/Zooropa is my favorite thing to happen to music, but I can understand how it's been more or less forgotten. As you mentioned, nearly all the press it receives focuses exclusively on the band's reinvention, implying that it exists solely to contrast The Joshua Tree. Critical perception aside, I would have guessed mid-90's U2 to resonate more with the irony-addled indie music scene of today. Instead, glibly sporting tie-dye wolf shirts & trucker hats is "challenging" while streaming live feeds from Sarajevo in the middle of a television-themed rock show is not. Didn't know it came out the same day as Laughing Stock, what a day.
Anyone notice the "It's Us V Them" banner. The ads have become self-aware.
I remember checking out the Summerteeth cassette from my library (they didn't have the CD) and listening to it every Sunday one Florida summer. I had to go into my sister's room for the only cassette player in the house, so it was sort of a ritual. I could never figure out which side I was one because of the "hidden" Shot In the Arm reprise. Anyway, sorry if you were expecting a story. Summerteeth was a huge part of my childhood, and probably a lot of others' too. Thanks for the tunes Jay!
Srsly man i know...I wish Revolver didn't leak so soon.
This is a nice reminder of how much I enjoyed Up.
Were you the dude that just posted Animal Collective > KDE4 over at slashdot???
"Neeerrrddds!" - the fictional Eagles
"Learn English, son, before pretentiousness" And then when you've learned enough English, spend 25 more years learning pretentiousness only to still pale in comparison to the poster above me.
I was thinking of last. :( Good thing REM isn't my favorite band or anything.
Forgive you for listening to Pavement and Built to Spill? You're asking us to forgive you for one SINGLE thing in your post. And it's that. In the words of that new Fleet Foxes song: I'm Amazed.
Well I'm from Seattle...just got tickets for the Monday show in Portland (go to ticketwes...hurry!), and now intend to go to the Saturday Sasquatch show to see REM. If they play Saturday afternoon I might die before I get to Portland.
But...but...we're IMPORTANT! Fuck...time to get train tickets.
NO. Jesus Christ. FUCK. It's a song. People like it, people don't like. It's not fucking about being fucking cool or uncool. It's not about irony. It's not about fucking anything except being A FUCKING SONG. GAAAHHH.
Funny you should say that. Pitchfrok: "...so yeah, the new U2 single is here and it ain't bad." Another possibility, beyond non-non-non-conforming, is...well...maybe some people just don't like this song. I think it's OK, and am still very excited for the new album. Wow. Opinions.
Not to impose, but I'd like to set up a recording session with your ass ASAP.
I love music!!! There's so much of it and it's so good!! Thank you for finding this and making me happy!!
The Zooropa & Boy covers are pretty memorable in my opinion. Can we at least agree that How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb's cover was terrible? I am very excited to hear this. Few bands can release albums after 30 years that can get people excited. Happy listening.
What happened to the other Sugimoto picture where there was, you know, no line on the horizon??
I went home to 85F weather in FL and listened to it all break while riding around on my bike and kayaking. Yes, it sounds even better as a summer record. It's still amazing in Seattle, but I'll always think of sunshine and beachballs when I hear it. So maybe (for me) it's better that it came out in Winter.
If you've made it all the way down here, you should probably refresh the page. And start again.
My bad. I missed the memo. To avoid going through this embarrassment twice, am I in the clear to put YHF in my top 5? Thanks! :)
I, for one, appreciate your sweeping generalizations.