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Bob - 2008-12-19 22:32:29
Gee, you didn't find the Raveonettes' "Lust Lust Lust" or the Kills "Midnight Boom" even worth mention? I'd not heard either band, (not that they're obscure), but that's just as well, since I wasn't too impressed by their prior stuff when I when back and listened to it, and being familiar with it might've kept me from bothering to give these albums a listen. And, it turns out they're skateworthy. (Even ol' [tho not compared to me] "O-Rida" thought so.)
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Paula - 2008-12-19 22:39:49
Gee, you didn't find the Raveonettes' "Lust Lust Lust" or the Kills "Midnight Boom" even worth mention?
Nope, but I liked the album cover for the first one.
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* - 2008-12-19 22:41:25
(Well, not skateworthy without some paring down, but little is.) Re that snowman, though, I like how it is liberally sprinkled with appendages.
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2fs - 2008-12-19 23:13:33
That A.C. Newman is a cheat - I'm pretty sure its release date isn't until 1/09.
Also, Sam Phillips' music has sounded as if it has simpler arrangements, but it really doesn't: they're just subtler in their complexity. That is, they can create the impression of "oh, it's just her voice, an acoustic guitar, and some drums," but then you listen more closely and all kindsa stuff is going on. Contrasted with the Beatles-baroque of her first two "Sam" albums, or the kitchen sink of Omnipop (which everyone else hates but I love). Regardless: I love this album lots too!
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Paula - 2008-12-19 23:24:38
Egads, I thought the Newman was out already. What do I do? What do I do??
As for Sam, I'm more talking about the production than the arrangements, but your point is taken. And I love Omnipop, too, I think it's a classic alongside Ms & Bs.
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MacGregor - 2008-12-20 00:26:03
I've heard nothing from this but the Dirtbombs, which I love, and Dengue Fever, which is fun. Le Fin Du Monde is my favorite track on the Dirtbombs release. It's got such a pop feel for such a trashed up song. Actually, it's a song I could imagine AC Newman doing.
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Tom G. - 2008-12-20 06:27:50
Yeah Paula, no fair on the AC Newman! I've had it on pre-order for weeks now. I am SO jealous. My 2008 ratings are here. Wasn't "Lust Lust Lust" released in 2007?
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Bob - 2008-12-20 07:36:25
Nope, Tom, you're anachronistically getting ahead of yourself there (whereas Paula's boo-boo won't be anachronistic until next month exists?)... "LLL" was Feb 19 2008. And I'm with MacGregor on those two being my standouts of Paula's (though I've merely Sampled "Venus on Earth", and am trying to find it cheap). But the sampling sounded more than just fun, or "camp", to me, (as, for that matter, do Roxy Music's first two albums, which a) often rock, and b), in spite of how over-the-top the vocals are, seem invested with real, albeit bemused, heart, whereas Ferry's subsequent work strikes me as JUST over-the-top)... and this (usually fleeting) ability to be over-the-top but really put something into it, that Jeffrey Lee Pierce also had, it seems like Dengue Fever's vocalist may have... though I guess I'M getting ahead of myself a bit here, not having heard full songs of theirs. (Also, I realize that some people find that combination that I find endearing just frightful or embarrassing.)
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Paula - 2008-12-20 19:01:55
Tom, I gotta hear that Army Navy album, it seems to be making a lot of people happy.
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Bob - 2008-12-20 20:21:23
I just listened to samples of that on Amazon, (where you can download the entire album for $3.50, which is strange), and it made me kinda happy, and, oddly enough, (considering it's not a female vocalist), the vocals at one point struck me as reminiscent of Paula's....
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MacGregor - 2008-12-21 00:16:54
Paula--a couple years ago I used your best of list as a shopping list and didn't do too badly at all. With the economy though I think I'm going to take up making my own music. I play a mean comb.
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athena - 2008-12-21 03:18:45
i checked my itunes, and it seems that the only music i purchased that was produced in 2008 was "the step and the walk" by the duke spirit. so, i thank you for this list, especially as i'm struggling with my emusic subscription. :-)
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Paula - 2008-12-21 03:29:52
I love that song!
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Bob - 2008-12-21 06:09:01
I was remiss in sorta dismissing The Raveonettes' entire work prior to "Lust Lust Lust", cuz after another sampling, I've wound up ordering a cheap used copy of "Chain Gang of Love", (I think I just couldn't afford to appreciate That one at the time of my first sampling, or maybe it was hearing entire songs from it on video on Last FM that assured me I liked it enough, or maybe "LLL" helped me get into it), but re-sampling in The Kills' case has convinced me that I should have pointed out that I downright Dislike their vocalist's "trying to be seriously edgy" efforts prior to "Midnight Boom", but that, thankfully, they don't take that approach at all on "MB", and the results are VERY different. And and and while they're still available, even though they didn't come out in 2008, I just haveta recommend two (gasp) compilation CDs (from Brit label "Music Club" no less...). One is ska, rock steady, and early reggae from the sixties that gets good 4 songs in, and is 15/24 F.A.B. (even though it doesn't have any Prince Buster), titled "You Can Get It If You Really Want", and the other is the 23 cut British version (which is way cheaper, and cheap, to get ahold of anyway, even with overseas shipping) of "Dub Chill Out: [X#] Massive Cuts from the Original Masters of Dub". Got these in a recently closed record shop, and they remain the greatest early-ska and dub-ever albums I have come across, even after extensive sampling in those departments, and even though they're damn compilations. Lotso fun. (And I do haveta thank Paula for cluing me into the Swell Maps here this year, cuz I love the nowdays obscure tribute to Prince Buster's record label that introduces their song "International Rescue" ["F.A.B...".] [British acts seem nicely fearless when it comes to crossdressing genre-wise;; I like M.I.A.'s opening tribute to the Modern Lovers more than the rest of the song "Bamboo Banga".])
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A case of "needs to be arrested"-development?? - 2008-12-21 16:56:16
Rescue" needs a period after it.
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Bob - 2008-12-21 17:36:56
An' speaking of not-2008, I also like "supa-Indian-babe"/Sri-Lankan M.I.A.'s Tribute-to/Conflagration-with Flarda's (Seminole) Indians at the start of the otherwise-worst song on "Kala", "Come Around". (My grammaw, in her late thirties, was made an "honorary Seminole princess" for helping them with some issues... albeit facetiously, since there wasn't such a thing as a non-honorary one.)
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mister muleboy - 2008-12-23 14:54:03
You inquire: ""Why are Scottish bands so awesome?"" * * * * * * well, it's the genes, baby, it's the genes. If the bastard English hadn't subjugated us for lo those many centuries, we'd'a conquered the universe . . . .
Thanks for cluing us in to Ms. Hatfield's developments. I agree with you on the "honourable mention" status of the latest release; not a worldbreaker, but always worth a listen. But she makes really good stuff seem so routine that I never know how to rank her stuff.
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mister muleboy - 2008-12-23 14:55:23
btw, I enjoy the word "stuff." It is a fun noun, and a great verb
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Paula - 2008-12-23 16:02:52
Yeah, JH tends to make albums that I admire a lot, but don't end up listening to frequently. The final test is the Jogging Playlist--and all my top five albums had songs that made it to the JP...
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