1. The Sea and Cake - Weekend
2. The Books - All Our Base are Belong to Them
3. Dirty Projectors - Knotty Pine
4. Yeasayer - Tightrope
5. The Beatles - In My Life

In no particular order:

Uncle Tupelo "We've Been Had"
The Music Lovers "Saturday"
Stevie Wonder "Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing"
Julie Doiron "Spill Yer Lungs"
Stories "Brother Louie"

I like this thread.

Saliva - Viktor Vaughn
Reminds me of the days when RJD2 was putting out classic albums (aka the Def Jux days). This whole album is great, but this song really stands out as of right now. I never realized how much I like MF DOOM.

Stevie Nix - The Hold Steady
Probably my favorite song off of Separation Sunday. Some of the most bittersweet lyrics Craig Finn has ever written.

"And the carpet at the thunderbird has a burn for every cowboy that got fenced in."

I Need Your Love - The Rapture

I forgot what a stone cold classic Echoes is. This is just the song stuck in my head right now off of it. Ask me tomorrow and it'll probably be something else (Sister Savior sounds good).

Bump - Spank Rock

This beat is just plain silly. I used to wish that Spank Rock had a better MC leading them, but I guess the clumsiness is just part of the charm. Amanda Blank kills with her vulgar guest feature too, I'm glad to hear she's finally putting out a solo album.

That's Gangsta - Bun B (feat. Sean Kingston)

This song is so clumsy that its embaressing. The idea that Bun B is giving people a check list on things that are and aren't "gangsta" ends up just sounding stupid.....or it would if the beat weren't so bumping, and if the hook provided by Sean Kingston weren't so infectious.

Mastodon "Divinations"
The Decemberists "The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid"
Veronicas "Untouched"
Kylesa - (track four on the new album, forget what it's called...)
Walkmen "Wake Up"

1.This I promise you-'N-Sync
2.I'm your angel-Celine Dion
3.Insomiac-Craig David
4.Single Ladies-Beyonce Knowles
5.With You-Chris Brown

Somebody has awoken the Spam Beast.

Not really in any order:

"Cellz" - DOOM
Charles Bukowski reads from "Dinosauria, We" for almost two minutes, and then DOOM comes in with his usual non-sequitir poetry with dark undertones.

"Pussy Control" - Prince
A 14 year old song, from his last classic album, The Gold Experience, which is out of print now. Prince has never been a great rapper, but in this case he doesn't have to be. This song just has that certain aura. Hard and inexhaustable.

"My Neck, My Back (Lick It)" - Khia
I've been listening to the first Crunk Hits compilation. This stands out as a sublimely trashy throwaway. I remember when this used to be on the radio. "My neck, my back, lick my pussy and my crack."

"Dark Vadar" - Kool Keith
Just one of Kool Keith's many tossed-off pieces of minor genius, this one from the end of his 1996-2001 golden era as a solo artist. "Black starship control, walk like I'm Darth Vader/My green limousine, purple Maury alligators/Glow in the dark Pele jacket/Shoes shine in your face accurate/Never seen a leather jacket with lights in the back of it"

"I Luv Your Girl" - The-Dream
From his first album, an unusually pained (maybe even despairing) stole-your-girl boast.

american wedding, gogol bordello - i finally got 'super taranta!' from my friend and this has been in my head for 2 weeks now. hooray for marinated herring!

jesus' choir, neva dinova - only found out about them last month. to me, the perfect end of the year/summer song.

cheaper than therapy, rogue wave - i don't listen to them very often, but this track is amazing. love its honesty.

complete control, the clash - i used to hate this song. i realized last night how brilliant it is, haha.

the flying club cup, beirut - it gets better everytime i listen to it, how cliche. probably my #1 song in the past few months.

1. Grizzly Bear "Two Weeks"
2. Metric "Gimme Sympathy"
3. Junior Boys "Work"
4. D'Angelo "Playa Playa"
5. St. Vincent "Actor Out of Work"

"Take Pills" by Panda Bear
"Chicago" by Sufjan Stevens
"Two Weeks" by Grizzly Bear
"I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" by The Beach Boys
"Kokomo" by Black Dice

"Time Of The Season" by The Zombies

Recently I was on a quest for some new music, i stumbled on to this song on a RYM list of great pop songs. The beginning with its astounding yet subtle drums to the piercing yet ghost-like vocals gets me every time. The song with its eerie organ and catchy guitar riff ,along with its beautiful harmonies doesn't just ask you to love it, it makes you love it.

"There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" by The Smiths

Frankly, I didn't start listening to the Smiths till last week. I was getting donuts with a friend, when he popped "The Queen Is Dead" into his CD player and I finally listened to what I had been missing. Up till then, all I had listened to by The Smiths was "How Soon is Now" and had only thought of them as the band that people continually overhype which unfortunately kept me from listening to them. But I enjoyed the jangly pop I heard on the album so much, that I had to get it. This song quickly became my favorite on the disc, Morrisey's lyrics are a mixture of youthful exuberance with a woeful reminiscence that I connected with. And the music itself was so catchy, that I had to listen to it over and over. It's a beautiful song ,which I think I'll come back to twenty years from now and still enjoy.

"Crawl Babies" by The Pastels

This song is so depressing but so gratifying. The half-spoken, half spoken lyrics go from happiness to sadness to happiness again. It's one of the few songs you want to continue after it's runtime.

"Brass in Pocket" by The Pretenders

How can you not love this song? The guitar in the song propels the lyrics and to "make you make you notice" how amazing this song is. The lead singer's vocals grow during the song from a whisper to a yell that puts you on her side. There is nothing in this song to dislike, and so much to like. I can not stop listening to it.

"I Wanna Be Adored" by The Stone Roses

The haunting guitar that begins this song along with that thunderous drum beat continue through out the song becoming more distorted and yet melodic as the lead singer rasps for adoration. It is the beginning to a great album.

So there are songs I've liked lately.

"Salvador Sanchez" by Sun Kil Moon

"Celebrated Summer" by Husker Du

"As I Sat Sadly By Her Side" by Nick Cave

"Beyond Here Lies Nothin'" by Bob Dylan

"Glass" by Bat For Lashes

Elvis Perkins - "I Heard Your Voice In Dresden"

Pink Mountaintops - "Vampire"

Wilco - "Sunny Feeling"

Vandaveer - "Turpentine"

Tom Brosseau - "Big Time"

Ben Harper: Fly One Time
Grizzly Bear: While You Wait for the Others
U2: "40"
Sin Fang Bous: Sunken Ship
Animal Collective: Visiting Friends

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Einsturzende Neubauten - Youme and Meyou
Orphans and Vandals - Terra Firma
Coil - Going Up
Can - Future Days
Syd Barret - She Took A Long Cold Look

Andrew Bird - Not a Robot, But a Ghost
Trail of Dead - Caterwaul
Interpol - Heinrich Maneuver
Spoon - The Infinite Pet
PB&J - Nothing to Worry About

EDIT: I also can't get Mates of State's "Goods" out of my head. It really is ALL in my head.

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Everlong- Foo fighter
Right here Right now- Fatboy slim
Can I kick it?- A tribe called quest
Times like these- Foo fighters
Immortal-Adema

Cheers!

"The New" - Interpol
"Hot Soft Light" - The Hold Steady
"Say Yes" - Elliott Smith
"New England" - Billy Bragg
"Dominos" - The Big Pink


This was a fun thread, I'm sad it died off after a while. Here's to hoping it will resurrect itself.

"Meat Market" -Everybody Else
"Anything So Much" -Sam Lowry
"Use Me" -Bill Withers
"The Train from Kansas City" -Neko Case
"With My Face On The Floor" -Emitt Rhodes

1. Antlers "Bear"
2. HEALTH "Die Slow"
3. YACHT "Psychic City (Voodoo City)"
4. Pictureplane "Goth Star"
5. Devendra Banhart "Carmencita"