Your Five Favorite Anything

[B. Brian Brunzell 0]

Bad Religion songs:

 

5. "Do What You Want"

4. "Don't Pray On Me"

3. "Generator"

2. "Heaven is Falling"

1. "Sorrow"

 

Bad Religion albums:

 

5. The Process of Belief

4. New Maps of Hell

3. The New America

2. Recipe for Hate

1. Against the Grain

 

No love for No Control?

 

Nice to see Recipe for Hate in your list anyway, a slightly underrated album.

 

I like No Control alot, though I'm more of a fan of Suffer when it comes to the earlier material. And while I think that Against the Grain is the best album, Recipe for Hate is my favourite.

 

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

Updated Top 5 of 2007 So Far

 

1. M.I.A - KALA

2. Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3

3. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

4. Kanye West - Graduation

5. Justice - †

 

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Five 2007 Albums I Like A Whole Lot, In No Particular Order:

 

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline

The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse

High on Fire - Death is This Communion

Frog Eyes - Tears of the Valedictorian

 

There are some other albums from this year I like, but those are the standouts for me. Also, I'm not very "with it" on new music, so there's still a lot of stuff I haven't heard. Like Animal Collective's Strawberry Jam. I need to check that one out, though, fair warning, the only album by them I really like is Sung Tongs. Very spotty band.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

5 albums of 2007 I'm excited to get:

5. Dying Fetus - War of Attrition

4. Darkest Hour - Deliver Us (out already)

3. The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal (out already)

2. White Zombie box set (set to be released later this year)

1. Dethklok - Dethalbum (out 9/25)

[King Kamala 0]

Five Favorite Springsteen Songs

5. Hungry Heart (Love the opening line)

4. Promised Land

3. Badlands

2. Atlantic City

1. Racing In The Street

[Nighthawk 0]

Songs from Dethalbum

 

1. "Murmaider"

2. "The Lost Vikings"

3. "Face Fisted"

4. "Bloodrocuted"

5. "Awaken"

 

That was really hard to narrow down.

[Guest Gym Class Fallout]

Five Favorite Springsteen Songs

5. Hungry Heart (Love the opening line)

4. Promised Land

3. Badlands

2. Atlantic City

1. Racing In The Street

1. Atlantic City

2. Backstreets

3. 4th of July, Asbury Park

4. Kitty's Back

5. It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City

 

Honorable mention to "Incident on 57th Street" because of the organ part.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Songs from Dethalbum

 

1. "Murmaider"

2. "The Lost Vikings"

3. "Face Fisted"

4. "Bloodrocuted"

5. "Awaken"

 

That was really hard to narrow down.

For the most part, "Murmaider" kinda bores me, but the chanting towards the end (Murder / Murder / Mermaid / Murder) is amazing. It's sad when a faux-metal release is better than a large part of the real metal releases that same year.

 

Same topic:

5. "Kill You"

4. "Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle"

3. "Awaken"

2. "Thunderhorse"

1. "Birthday Dethday"

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

Clipse songs

 

1. The Funeral

2. We Got It For Cheap (Intro)

3. Cot Damn

4. When the Last Time

5. Hello New World

[Guest Gym Class Fallout]

I'm changing it to Top 10 for my top ten 2004 albums, three years late:

 

01) The Arcade Fire - Funeral

02) Nellie McKay - Get Away From Me

03) The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat

04) The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike

05) Jonny Greenwood - Bodysong

06) Wilco - A Ghost Is Born

07) Feist - Let It Die

08) Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch

09) Morrissey - You Are The Quarry

10) Interpol - Antics

 

[snuffbox 0]

2004 was a pretty good year. The 10th year package of Jeff Buckley's Grace (with 'Forget Her', etc) was released that year as well. And Modest Mouse's Good News/Bad News.

[Guest Gym Class Fallout]

I was looking at my list of music, and yeah, 2004 was really strong, as was 2006. I can't pick a prohibitive favorite out of my 2005ers, though. I didn't go crazy for Illinois, Twin Cinema made no huge impression, Broken Social Scene is kind of flawed, Rehearsing My Choir was bad, and The Mysterious Production of Eggs is really good but not the first thing I think of when I think "album of the year." Actually, now that I go back and revisit it, the Mountain Goats' The Sunset Tree has a lot of songs that I like. I had my Mountain Goats all mixed up together until a little while ago, y'see.

 

Actually, I still have the Decemberists' Picaresque that someone gave me a copy of. Perhaps that will solve this puzzle. In the meantime, 2006:

 

01 Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

02 Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds

03 Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea

04 Thom Yorke - The Eraser

05 Nellie McKay - Pretty Little Head

06 TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain

07 Ben Folds - Supersunnyspeedgraphic

08 Morrissey - Ringleader Of The Tormentors

09 Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope

10 John Mayer - Continuum

 

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

I was looking at my list of music, and yeah, 2004 was really strong, as was 2006. I can't pick a prohibitive favorite out of my 2005ers, though.

 

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).

[Guest Gym Class Fallout]

Is it safe to say that Illinois wasn't very good yet? I think my problem was that musically, there's nothing distinctly local about it. There's nothing Polish, no house, no blues, no alt.country, no blue-collar aesthetic, nothing that I can point to as being of Chicago or of Illinois. It's just cloying and dainty. Illinois is not dainty, except maybe Barrington. You can take vibes, an acoustic, and a children's choir and write songs about anyplace. It's nothing special.

 

Aside from that, it's just really fucking long and boring.

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

It's just cloying and dainty.

 

That's really a perfect description of Sufjan Stevens's recorded output as a whole, though I'd throw "insufferable" in there too.

[Gary Floyd 0]

Is it safe to say that Illinois wasn't very good yet?

I've been saying that to friends for a long time now.

[snuffbox 0]

Neil Young albums since 1990:

 

1. Greendale

2. Harvest Moon

3. Silver & Gold

4. Sleeps With Angels

5. Prairie Wind

 

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Is it safe to say that Illinois wasn't very good yet? I think my problem was that musically, there's nothing distinctly local about it. There's nothing Polish, no house, no blues, no alt.country, no blue-collar aesthetic, nothing that I can point to as being of Chicago or of Illinois. It's just cloying and dainty. Illinois is not dainty, except maybe Barrington. You can take vibes, an acoustic, and a children's choir and write songs about anyplace. It's nothing special.

I'm not sure I care about it not being local, since I've never been to Chicago or Illinois. I don't really look at Stevens' albums-about-states thing as more than a pretty thin concept holding together a bunch of really good songs. And I rather liked 2005.

 

2005:

 

1. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary

2. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday

3. M.I.A. - Arular

4. New Pornographers - Twin Cinema

5. Love is All - Nine Times That Same Song

6. Animal Collective - Feels

7. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

8. Kanye West - Late Registration

9. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

10. Hilary Duff - Most Wanted

[Guest Gym Class Fallout]

10. Hilary Duff - Most Wanted

[King Kamala 0]

5 Favorite Opening Acts

 

5.Bleu (Opening for Guster, September 8th, 2007, Bank of America Pavillion, Boston, MA): The music itself ranged from average to pretty good but it was a sheer spectacle of a performance. For some reason, he had a teen choir onstage with them and at the end, he had forty guitarists play on the final song. And he played covers of "Shout"(Tears For Fears) and "The Way You Make Me Feel".

 

4. The Raconteurs (Opening for Bob Dylan, November 9th, 2006, Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME)

 

3. Ray Lamontagne (Opening for Guster, August 19th, 2006, Cumberland County Civic Center, Rogue Wave was the first opener. Great bill)

 

2. Elvis Costello (opening for Bob Dylan, October 4th, 2007, Cumberland County Civic Center)

 

1. Blackalicious (opening for G. Love and Special Sauce, November 26th, 2005, Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA. Only show I've seen where the opener was probably better than the headliner and G.Love was pretty good that night)

[Guest Gym Class Fallout]

It's just cloying and dainty.

 

That's really a perfect description of Sufjan Stevens's recorded output as a whole, though I'd throw "insufferable" in there too.

Rock and roll is dead. Saccarhine Christian-influenced chamber pop is alive.

[At Home 0]

My friend once said that it sucks that Sufjan Stevens is Christian, but could you really imagine his music without his religious influences? On "Casimir Pulaski Day," he sings "Tuesday night at the bible study / we lift our hands over your body / but nothing ever happens." Similarly (on the same song) "Oh, the glory that the Lord has made / and the complications you could do without." It's clear he's not a religious zealot; he has his doubts.

[Anorak 0]

Yo La Tengo - Tears Are In Your Eyes

The Dwarves - Demonica

Joe Henry - Spent It All

They Might Be Giants - She's An Angel

The Boo Radleys - (I Wanna Be) Touchdown Jesus

 

 

[Henry Spencer 0]

John Prine & Iris Defflent - In Spite Of Ourselves

Big Business - Grounds For Divorce

Kevin Ayers - Song For Insane Times

Silver Apples - I Have Known Love

Jandek - Naked In The Afternoon

[King Kamala 0]

Guilty pleasures at the moment;

 

Time (Clock of The Heart)- Culture Club

 

Burnin' For You-Blue Oyster Cult

 

We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off-Jermaine Stewart

 

Don't Answer Me- Alan Parsons Project

 

Pretty much anything by the original lineup of New Edition.

[snuffbox 0]

Neil Young songs:

1. Roll Another Number

2. Powderfinger

3. Razor Love

4. Only Love Can Break Your Heart

5. Like A Hurricane

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

1. Ambulance Blues

2. Birds

3. Motion Pictures

4. Albuquerque

5. On the Beach

 

[godthedog 0]

i still don't understand why 'on the beach' is supposed to be so good.

[Guest Pizza Hut's Game Face]

"Revolution Blues" is pretty strong, but I never really got into the rest of it quite so much.

[Gary Floyd 0]

5 favorite Cabaret Voltaire albums

 

5.) Code

4.) Red Mecca

3.) 2x45

2.) Microphonies

1.) The Crackdown