bright eyes - fevers and mirrors
feist - let it die
every time i die - gutter phenomenon

liars - drum's not dead
islands - return to the sea
rosebuds - birds make good neighbors

panic! at the disco - a fever you can't sweat out

stars - set yourself on fire

on my last used cd hunting adventure I found limited edition 1st pressings of:

Doves - the last broadcast
Broken social scene - Broken social scene.

for $8 each.

Bounus tracks rule!

I've also been fairly addicted to jenny lewis & the watson twins - rabbit fur coat.

Lynn Seaton Trio
"Puttin' On The Ritz"

gueralito > remixes of beck's guero

Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
some old Calexico (Feast of Wire specifically)
ditto on the new Belle & Sebastian!

randar82 - actually saw Belle & Sebastian several weekends ago - good concert!

oh. that must have been awesome! i just saw death cab for cutie and franz ferdinand. pretty good, although the best concert for me was turin brakes and west indian girl. incredible.

funny how so many of the above mentioned cd's have been on heavy rotation on my ipod as well. i wonder if there is a trend with architecture students and music style?? creepy.

Saint Etienne.
...both old & new stuff.

amusement parks on fire
guided by voices - isolation drills (not new, but newly rediscovered)
nada surf - the weight is a gift
matt pond pa - several arrows later

randar82

I dont think it is a trend with architecture students.........but rather a generation. you have been labeled, classified, and marketed to........INDIE my arse.

NIN
with teeth

yeah guided by voices!

ghostland observatory - delete.delete.i.eat.meat

voxtrot - mothers, sisters, daughters, & wives
in flames - come clarity
peeping tom - s/t

yeah, i have no consistancy in my tastes.

j - if you start finding your music by word of mouth, rather than the plasticky pop the radio churns out, you'll fit in a little better.

dconscience - love that NIN! I obsessed over that for a long time, still do a bit.

Since last weekend, Johnny Cash, old and new both. By the way, among the "new" stuff he has a NIN cover, Hurt, suits him pretty well.

Also: Esthero, Wicked lil girl (or something like that)

j, I don't know what to tell you. There is so much out there... go explore.

buck 65: talkin honky blues
mark lanegan: whiskey for the holy ghost
freestyle fellowship: inner city griots
dangerdoom: the mouse and the mask

oh, and tom waits. always tom waits.

j-

my word of advice:
get a subscription to musicmatch or rhapsody. it costs less than the price of a cd, and gives you the opportunity to try out something different without the commitment of purchasing a cd you know nothing about.

given what you have listed i would check out:

the shins-both albums
patrick park-loneliness knows my name
the john butler trio
the white stripes-the early stuff
and of course, my favorite
turin brakes-anything!

any crazy sufjan stevens fans out there??

music got so boring. what happened?

the number twelve looks like you [ Nuclear. sad. Nuclear ]

Arctic Monkeys-Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not

p.s. i'll bet that you look good on the dance floor.

'i suppose i'll also have to start wearing all black, smoking, and being generally jaded...'

err....no. people who like obscure music are a breed of their own, it has more to do with having become addicted or obsessed with music for some personal reason.
i think with me seeing sonic youth's kool thing video when i was 10 and being totally shocked+amazed+scared that music could be that way was what intiated my tastes hence forth + i derive pleasure from messy, more disharmonious sights and sounds over harmonious, clean, picture perfect ones.

in saying that, i've been listening to Glenn Branca and Swans lately, two groups related to sonic youth.

and i can understand why you don't like modest mouse, i never liked them as well, i can't stand that guys singing style, and steve malkmus was in his prime in early pavement, although i can understand why you wouldn't like them either.

Hmmm, let's see what iTunes says I'm listening to most...

Kayne West
Clap Your Hands & Say Yeah
Louis XIV
Tegan and Sara
Wilco-A.M. & Summer Teeth
Andrew Bird
Art Brut
Handsome Boy Modeling School
Shrift

Also like the new Belle & Sebastian, guess I have to listen to it a few dozen more times.

I've also gone back and checked out some older British invasion stuff, Kink's Village Green Society and The Who's A Quick One (Happy Jack.) Kind of in part due to all the ads using their brilliant songs, whatever happened to , "Hope I die before I get sold?" Ah well, if they didn't sell out then I never would have discovered them.

trade cds:

Im addicted to this thing:

lala.com

dconscience, NIN tickets went on sale at 10:00 am this morning, May 30th at Red Rocks.

#5 "L" BARS @ 12" O.C.
AND 2 BARS @ 6"O.C. AT TOP
AND BOTTOM OF WALL. EMBED
12" INTO EXISTING WALL

the flaming lips - the soft bulletin
wolf parade - apologies to the Queen Mary

Inara George: All Rise
Winterpills: Winterpills
The Postal Service: Give Up
Sondre Lerche: Two Way Monologues
Modest Mouse: Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Rilo Kiley: Take-Offs and Landings

Magnet - The Tourniquet
Mono - You Are There
Appleseed Cast - Peregrine
Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
Stars - Set Yourself On Fire

i just started participating in a loosely structured cd 'club'. there are 11 of us. i know two of the others, but most don't really know each other much.

we take turns making cds for each other - an update of mix tapes more or less - so that we can introduce each other to new stuff, old stuff, things we may have missed.

i've received three discs so far and, though i know much of music, i didn't have a lot of it and the mix and the new spin on putting it together has been fun. everyone seems to be deciding on themes for deciding what to include. so far: old school rap, a historic survey of 20C popular music (i.e., the impt folks), and all covers).

after we get a cd we end up discussing it and the associations it triggers via email for a couple of days.

geeky but grand.

highlights so far:
-paul pena's original version of 'jet airliner'
-the gourds bluegrass version of snoop dogg's 'gin and juice'
-live dylan 'leopard skin pill box hat' from royal albert hall bootleg (not really recorded at royal albert hall)
-ice t's 'high rollers'
-buddy holly 'well alright'
-t rex 'mambo sun'

ahhh note to foglite. all british invasion stuff is old stuff...so, lets ferry cross the mersey...

m83 - before the dawn heals us
four tet - everything ecstatic
hot chip - coming on strong
out hud - let us never speak of it again
mice parade - bem vinda votade
jesus and mary chain - munki

without these, i wouldn't be able to get through the 8,000 stair sections i draw everyday at work...

CD? What's that?

My Soundock is rocking out to The Strokes...god, I must have missed the "this band kicks @ss" memo, lol....

When my roommates left for spring break I kinda "borrowed" their cd collections and uploaded their music to my ipod so now I get to discover all of the awesome non-commercial released songs on albums where I only know a few of the more popular songs

Interpol
M83
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Closer
Aphex Twin
Goldfrapp
Mogwai
Stellastarr*
Whitey
The Postal Service
Death Cab For Cutie
Smashing Pumpkins
Ladytron
Autechre
The Rakes
Architecture in Helsinki
Be Your Own Pet
Peaches (Fuck the pain away is always good)
Stealers Wheel: Stuck in the middle with you
Broadcast
T.Rex
The Rapture
Arcade Fire
Le Tigre
LCD Soundsystem
Sigur Ros
White Rose Movement
Soulwax
The Go Team
...much much more

currently on heavy rotation...

apples in stereo
arctic monkeys
art brut
badly drawn boy
belle & sebastian
ben kweller
ben lee
benzos
birdmonster
caesars
clap your hands say yeah
cold war kids
grand national
guillemots
kaiser chiefs
ludes
maximo park
metric
mike doughty
minus the bear
nine black alps
silversun pickups
son volt
the sound team
steve earle
tapes n' tapes
the bens
the decemberists
the fall
the futureheads
the go! team
the national
the rakes
the subways
tiara
voxtrot
we are scientists
wilco
wolf parade
wolfmother
yeah yeah yeahs

anyone listen to online radio (not quite a cd, but a cheap alternative for finding new music)? kexp.org has an awesome one, fyi. any other good ones out there?

is great for "indie" music... they were free up until a few months ago... they are now subscription based, but you can listen to a lower quality stream for free...

Arcade Fire
Ghostface Killa-Iron Man
Architecture in Helsinki-Fingers Crossed
Postal Service-Give Up
Phantom of the Opera Movie Soundtrack
Mr. Lif-Emergency Rations
Roxy Music
John Lennon

vado-
Seems like there are always a couple bands that someone is heralding as the "new British Invasion." And I've never been entirely clear on what qualifies as brit invasion and what doesn't. Was it the early period when everyone looked like Gerry or does the later more psychedelic stuff by the same groups still qualify?

next stop: wikipedia

Simon & Garfunkel
minus the bear
pedro the lion
appleseed cast
Inspection 12
ben folds
ben kweller
the velvet teen
Queen
American Analog Set
Radiohead
Flaming Lips
Say Hi to Your Mom
Ted Leo & the Pharmacist
U2

etc etc

some things on my ipod in heavy rotation...

the egg - walking away (tocadisco rmx)
bloodhound gang - hefty fines (esp uhn tiss)
jack's mannequin
nick and danny chatelain - is killing me
mode hookers

oh... and paula abdul :)

the british invasion was from 1964-1966...

bloodhound gang...are those the guys who sang about animals having sex?

yeah thats them... new cd is so much better than their previous stuff imo... uhn tiss uhn tiss uhn tiss is pretty hot... funny video too