PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH!

I basically feel the exact same way. 2005 was a weird year in that there was quite a few good-to-really good albums but pretty much nothing that screamed "Best of the Year." The Runners Four, Arular, Late Registration and LCD Soundsystem were all pretty solid contenders for second best, but not one of them really stands out as some kind of super-great all-time classic. On the other hand, 2004 and 2006 both produced two albums each that I'd consider among the 10 best of the 00s (Blueberry Boat and Cam'ron's Purple Haze for '04; Hell Hath No Fury and Ys for '06).

Half-way through my first listen and I'm just about ready to give the title to Widow City. I love The Fiery Furnaces.

Clipse haven't released anything new since last November. Hell Hath No Fury is, however, leaps and bounds better than any album I've heard this year.

I really like "I Will." Granted, it's not much of a song on its own, but it's pretty and it works nicely as a quiet breather between "There There" and "A Punch Up at a Wedding." The transition into the latter is one of my favorite moments on the album. "The Gloaming" seems to serve a similar structural purpose, in that it effectively separates the first and second halves of the album. It's sort of like "Treefingers," except more irritating.

So bands other than Coldplay have used "melodic, chiming guitar chords" in their music before. Okay. But "Arpeggio" and "All I Need" don't sound like those other bands, they sound like Coldplay. Also, this whole thing caused me to go back and listen to Hail to the Thief for the first time in like 2 years. I'd forgotten how good the back-end of that album actually is. The run from "There There" to the "A Wolf at the Door" is easily as good as anything else they've done. Too bad the first half had to be so full of stinkers.

Yeah, I wasn't including you in my "you people are retarded" comment. Fucking what the hell, Coldplay? If you can't hear strains of Coldplay in "Arpeggi" and "All I Need" you must be deaf. Now, it's not as prevalent as I made it sound last night (eg songs like "15 Step" and "Videotape" obviously don't sound anything like Coldplay) but it's there. Anyway, after giving this a few more listens I like it more than I initially did. I'll even go so far as to agree with the "it's their best since Kid A" sentiment that seems to be so popular in this thread.

A lot of stuff on here sort of sounds like what would happen if Coldplay started taking their cues from Amnesiac instead of The Bends. I'm not impressed. Really, at this point I'm not even sure if it's better than the truly mediocre Hail to the Thief, which at least had "A Wolf at the Door" and "There There." Also Thom Yorke singing "I don't wanna be your friend/I just wanna be your lover" is straight up embarrassing.

What the heck is a death class?

I'd like to hear this but the stupid website is being all slow and unresponsive. Anyone want to hook a brother up with a sendspace link?

It's brilliant rap criticism written in the form of fake(??) e-mails to Jay-Z.

1. Free Darko 2. AOL Fanhouse 3. Pitchfork 4. YouTube 5. Gabe Said "We're Into Movements"

I get sort of sad whenever I see lost dog signs posted around town.

Clipse songs 1. The Funeral 2. We Got It For Cheap (Intro) 3. Cot Damn 4. When the Last Time 5. Hello New World

Right now I'd say it's a toss-up between M.I.A's KALA, Liars' s/t and maybe Graduation. There's a few albums coming out in the next couple months which could potentially surpass these, though (In Rainbows and Widow City mainly, but I'm also naively holding out hope that Jay-Z will somehow manage to defy expectations and release something worth a shit).

Post the rest of the series. Still waiting for this.

Post the rest of the series.

Black people need to realize that protesting racism only serves to make the racists angrier and more racist. It's just common sense.

But what point does bringing this up serve other than to weakly deflect some of the blame on to the people who are ultimately the victims in all of this. What you're essentially saying is, "Well, there's obviously some pretty horrible racism at work here, but if those black kids had just used some COMMON SENSE this whole mess could have been avoided!"

The new Liars album is probably their best one yet and anyone who says that it's not as good as the admirable-but-not-really-listenable Drum's Not Dead is dead wrong.

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I wish someone would tase Invader3k every time he posts.

This thing's taking forever to download. It better be worth it. EDIT: This is pretty good.

Is there supposed to be a link or a picture or something in the OP?

Aladdin Sane is the most overrated Bowie album.