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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:

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Originally posted by ajar:
Southern Tenant Folk Union - Revivals, Rituals and Union songs

I was unable to find this one to try out, but I'm really enjoying their self-titled from last year, so thanks.

i bought mine straight from the band, try emailing them at myspace.

I'll be playing with this tentative list for awhile. I have a top 50 I'm pretty satisfied with and about 150 albums on my "to listen to" list.

01. PAS/CAL, I Was Raised on Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Laura
02. Jeff Hanson, Madam Owl
03. Portishead, Third
04. My Brightest Diamond, A Thousand Shark's Teeth
05. Why?, Alopecia
06. Joel Alme, A Master of Ceremonies
07. Cut Copy, In Ghost Colours
08. Man Man, Rabbit Habits
09. Shearwater, Rook
10. Erykah Badu, New Amerykah, Part One
11. Girl Talk, Feed the Animals
12. Inara George with Van Dyke Parks, An Invitation
13. Frightened Rabbit, The Midnight Organ Fight
14. Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
15. Air France, No Way Down (EP)
16. Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend
17. Born Ruffians, Red, Yellow and Blue
18. Caz Mechanic, The Secret Life of the Wife of the Captain of the Ship in a Bottle on the Mantle Piece
19. Marching Band, Spark Large
20. Sunny Day Sets Fire, Summer Palace
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21. The Dodos, Visiter
22. The Dø, A Mouthful
23. El Perro del Mar, From the Valley to the Stars
24. The Ruby Suns, Sea Lion
25. Animal Collection, Water Curses (EP)
26. Hot Chip, Made in the Dark
27. Have a Nice Life, Deathconsciousness
28. She & Him, Volume One
29. M83, Saturdays=Youth
30. Plants and Animals, Parc Avenue
31. My Morning Jacket, Evil Urges
32. Jim Noir, Jim Noir
33. The Breeders, Mountain Battles
34. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
35. The Bird and the Bee, One Too Many Hearts (EP)
36. Elvis Costello and the Imposters, Momofuku
37. Destroyer, Foam Hands
38. R.E.M., Accelerate
39. Santogold, Santogold
40. Okay, Huggable Dust
41. The Mountain Goats, Heretic Pride
42. Blood on the Wall, Liferz
43. Stephen Malkmus & Jicks, Real Emotional Trash
44. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Lie Down in the Light
45. Dr. Dog, Fate
46. Lykke Li, Youth Novels
47. Stereolab, Chemical Chords
48. Laura Cantrell, Trains and Boats and Planes (EP)
49. Sigur Rós, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
50. Goldfrapp, Seventh Tree

Total: 149

A few albums would have made the list, but were originally released in 2007.
Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago
Tim Finn, I'll Be Lightning
Ravonettes, Lust Lust Lust

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Originally posted by ajar:

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:

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Originally posted by ajar:
Southern Tenant Folk Union - Revivals, Rituals and Union songs

I was unable to find this one to try out, but I'm really enjoying their self-titled from last year, so thanks.

i bought mine straight from the band, try emailing them at myspace.

Thanks. I see they've got a couple mp3's on their home site. I'll check those and consider purchasing. I just got a big raise, all the way up to $7.25 an hour, so I've got all kinds of disposable income now, haha.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
Thanks. I see they've got a couple mp3's on their home site. I'll check those and consider purchasing. I just got a big raise, all the way up to $7.25 an hour, so I've got all kinds of disposable income now, haha.

RL, I just noticed that you're contributing to one of my favorite music blogs, very cool. I've been meaning to check out Southern Tenant Folk Union for awhile now, so thanks for posting it. I've been looking for the newer one too but looks like its only available in the UK and iTunes right now. Maybe it'll be available on eMusic soon...

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all the way up to $7.25 an hour

What is the minimum salary in the US now?...americans are poor.

$7.00 an hour in Ohio. I believe it's different in every state

Nothing I've heard this year I'd give an all-time classic Highest Recommendation to(like Hissing Fauna, Boxer, Sound of Silver, In Rainbows, All Right Still all landed last year), but these are the 2008 titles I've heard that I'd list as enthusiastic Strong Recommends.

For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver
The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow (my 2008 front runner at moment)
Vampire Weekend - s/t
Dig, Lazarus, Dig - Nick Cave
Third - Portishead (a big grower)
Fleet Foxes - s/t


P.S. - For the record, I've checked out a bit in '08...probably only picked up 40 or so titles this year so far, and have only really dug into about 20...so take this as an incredibly incomplete list.

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Nothing I've heard this year I'd give an all-time classic Highest Recommendation to(like Hissing Fauna, Boxer, Sound of Silver, In Rainbows, All Right Still all landed last year),

All Right Still? What's that?

Yeah, I have no idea on that one either. Googling turns up lyrics for a Lily Allen song.

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all the way up to $7.25 an hour

What is the minimum salary in the US now?...americans are poor.

Only the bottom 90% of Americans are poor. The top 10%, and especially the top 1%, are doing better than ever. The minimum wage in Indiana is the same as the federal minimum wage. I think it's $6.25. I used to make $6.50.

I really hope it is not being claimed that Lily Allen's mediocre debut album is an all time classic. It had a couple of decent songs...


Btw, RL... I bought The Great Outdoors album on the strength of your recommendation. Enjoying it after the first listen.

That's awesome, Borachon. "Land of My Deceased" is probably my favorite song off of Food, Booze, & Entertainment, but "Cold Cars" and "Chekhov and I" are great as well. I was thrilled with the packaging as well. I think the book-as-album-packaging idea is brilliant.

The packaging is fantastic. Really made me warm to the band before I'd even stuck the cd in. Thanks for the rec. Got any of their other stuff? I thought I read somewhere that this album was part of a trilogy. Did I just make that up?

It is supposed to be the second part of a "book trilogy." I don't own the first one, but the free download I heard from it didn't sound all that great, and I know a guy who has it, and he says Food Booze & Entertainment is much better. This year they are releasing an EP for each season. I have Spring and Summer, both of which have minimal packaging but cool cover art. Spring is just 3 songs but they're great, and Summer is 4 songs and good but not as good as their other stuff.

Those EPs are available at CD Baby for just $5 each. I'm looking forward to the Fall and Winter releases.

1. The Dodos - Visiter
2. Said the Whale - Howe Sounds/Taking Abalonia
3. Portishead - Third
4. Hey Ocean! - It's Easier to be Somebody Else
5. Beck - Modern Guilt
6. R.E.M. - Accelerate
7. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
8. Black Mountain - In the Future
9. Fleet Foxes - s/t
10. Conor Oberst - s/t

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Nothing I've heard this year I'd give an all-time classic Highest Recommendation to(like Hissing Fauna, Boxer, Sound of Silver, In Rainbows, All Right Still all landed last year),


All Right Still? What's that?
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Lily Allen's album from early '07/tail end of '06 that included the big hit "Smile"...it's much breezier and cheekier than Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville, but strikes me in a very similar way as a picture perfect portrait of a sexually forthright young woman growing up in her specific era...Oh, and it's really funny.

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I really hope it is not being claimed that Lily Allen's mediocre debut album is an all time classic. It had a couple of decent songs...


Btw, RL... I bought The Great Outdoors album on the strength of your recommendation

That's exactly what I'm claiming...see above for reasons why. And I think collectively, SMILE, KNOCK EM' OUT, EVERYTHING'S JUST WONDERFUL, NOT BIG, TAKE WHAT YOU TAKE, & FRIEND OF MINE qualifies as a little more than just a couple of decent songs.

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That's exactly what I'm claiming...see above for reasons why. And I think collectively, SMILE, KNOCK EM' OUT, EVERYTHING'S JUST WONDERFUL, NOT BIG, TAKE WHAT YOU TAKE, & FRIEND OF MINE qualifies as a little more than just a couple of decent songs.

Well, you're entitled to your opinion, as am I, but I think this just proves that people chuck around the word "classic" far too freely these days. You'd honestly, hand on heart, elevate Lily Allen into the Pantheon of pop music, alongside the best offerings of The Beatles, Hendrix, Dylan, Beach Boys, Stones, and on through the decades? Seriously?

Of the songs you listed, I enjoy Smile, Knock Em Out is fairly irritating, Everything's Just Wonderful is fairly catchy above average pop fare, Not Big is enjoyable enough, Take What You Take is okay, but I always thought it sounded like a Natalie Imbruglia cast-off, Friend Of Mine is one of the better tracks, but it's still nowhere near approaching what I'd consider "all-time classic" status.

I actully rate LDN more highly than any of the tracks you've listed, apart from Smile, but listening to the album today, I can't help but feel the whole album already sounds fairly dated. Still, it's all just opinion.

I really liked the Lily Allen debut as well-although I don't think I even placed it in my top 20 in 06. Still, I could see it being labeled a "classic" breakup album for the next 5 years or so.

Or at least until her sophomore LP sucks

1 . Sam Roberts • Love at the End of the World
2 . Plants and Animals • Parc Avenue
3 . Fleet Foxes • Fleet Foxes
4 . Balmorhea • Rivers Arms
5 . The Dodos • Visiter
6 . Beck • Modern Guilt
7 . Langhorne Slim • Langhorne Slim
8 . Takka Takka • Migration
9 . Nomo • Ghost Rock
10 . Bon Iver • For Emma, Forever Ago
11 . Fuck Buttons • Street Horrrsing
12 . Wolf Parade • At Mount Zoomer
13 . Noah and the Whale • Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down
14 . Coldplay • Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
15 . Death Cab for Cutie • Narrow Stairs
16 . Man Man • Rabbit Habits
17 . Frightened Rabbit • The Midnight Organ Fight
18 . Elbow • The Seldom Seen Kid
19 . The Accidental • There Were Wolves
20 . The Tallest Man on Earth • Shallow Graves
21 . Why? • Alopecia
22 . Ratatat • LP3
23 . Vampire Weekend • Vampire Weekend
24 . Sun Kil Moon • April
25 . The Black Keys • Attack and Release
26 . Born Ruffians • Red, Yellow and Blue
27 . Sigur Ros • Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust
28 . The Raconteurs • Consolers of the Lonely
29 . Mountain Goats • Heretic Pride
30 . The Ruby Suns • Sea Lion


Judging by my list, what are some albums I should check out?

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I wonder how long it will be until someone dares to critically evaluate Skeletal Lamping in a numerically graded form... There haven't exactly been many lists lately in a thread designed for that very purpose, so i assume quite some time.

(Edit: It's not doing wonders for me at the moment.)

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