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it's all a matter of personal choice, but to my ears, you're shoring up your list with some of the blandest, most uninspiring releases of the year

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Originally posted by LD:

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it's all a matter of personal choice, but to my ears, you're shoring up your list with some of the blandest, most uninspiring releases of the year

Personally, I just don't understand how someone could make both of these points in the same sentence.

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LD
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Posted 04 November 2006 04:42 PM Hide Post
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it's all a matter of personal choice, but to my ears, you're shoring up your list with some of the blandest, most uninspiring releases of the year


Personally, I just don't understand how someone could make both of these points in the same sentence.

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Marlon
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Posted 04 November 2006 05:49 PM Hide Post
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Originally posted by LD:
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it's all a matter of personal choice, but to my ears, you're shoring up your list with some of the blandest, most uninspiring releases of the year


Personally, I just don't understand how someone could make both of these points in the same sentence.


Yeah, he contradicts his high-brow opinions by starting off saying 'the right thing' "it's all a matter of personal choice". Should have ended there, it would have been classy, but then he decides to get a case of early dementia slash schizophrenia and follows that up with by calling his personal choices 'some of the blandest, most uninspiring releases of the year'. Not sure what to make of this fellow.

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I was in Traverse City, I'm down in Saginaw now.

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Originally posted by Vykromond:
Very, very preliminary top 35:

1. Joanna Newsom - Ys
2. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon
3. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
4. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
5. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
6. Califone - Roots and Crowns
7. James Blackshaw - O True Believers
8. Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
9. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
10. Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar
11. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
12. Motoro Faam - Fragments
13. Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
14. Geoff Mullen - Thrtysxmllnmnfstns
15. Subtle - For Hero: For Fool
16. Liars - Drum's Not Dead
17. Horse Feathers - Words Are Dead
18. Phil Niblock - Touch Three
19. Scott H. Biram - Graveyard Shift
20. Luomo - Paper Tigers
21. The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America
22. Venetian Snares - Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms
23. The Roots - Game Theory
24. William Elliott Whitmore - Song of the Blackbird
25. Grails - Black Tar Prophecies Vols. 1, 2, & 3
26. Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Bob Seger Sessions
27. Jason Molina - Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go
28. Twilight Singers - Powder Burns
29. Prurient & Hototogisu - Snail on a Razor
30. Indian Jewelry - Invasive Exotics
31. J. Tillman - Long May You Run, J. Tillman
32. Los Lobos - The Town and the Country
33. Squarepusher - Hello Everything
34. T.I. - King
35. Dark Meat/ Vomit Lasers Family Band - Universal Indians

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Originally posted by Vykromond:
Very, very preliminary top 35:

1. Joanna Newsom - Ys

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Anyway there is no longer a close bid for album of the year, because Ys is far and away my favorite of 06.

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Haha, I just saw the Rolling Stone review of the Joanna Newsom album today. It's way too laughably off-base to even get angry at.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
Yeah, it really surprises me that Rolling Stone gave a bad review to an indie harp album with 10-minutes non-linear songs and a singer with an unusual and squeaky voice. Thought it would be right up their alley.