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Say Yes! But I like this list.
R.A.P. Music: The Song
For me, at least, it’s because of this song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oz47aLDTBc
Another +1 for the Zoo Station cover…love when it locks into the rhythm for the last few minutes.
Agreed–Chronic Town, Dead Letter Office, Eponymous, Monster, Up, Reveal, and half a dozen live bootlegs from the IRS years all get heavy, heavy rotation from me. Accelerate & Collapse Into Now, a slightly lesser extent.
I just think of them more as “fan” albums. The ones listed above (sans Out of Time) I’d all consider decade-defining records.
Murmur
Reckoning
Fables of the Reconstruction
Lifes Rich Pageant
Document
Green
Out of Time
Automatic for the People
New Adventure in Hi-Fi
+A handful of other albums I’ve come to love
Holy Jesus Christ.
Sounds like a plastic straw sliding against a soda lid to me. Justin bringing the middle-American authenticity.
Excellent, as always. Reminds me more of Rounds in its smoothness.
Now, if only I can get that cover out of my future nightmares.
Shabazz Palaces – Black Up (later this month)
AchtungBaby/ZooTV/Zooropa is my favorite thing to happen to music, but I can understand how it’s been more or less forgotten. As you mentioned, nearly all the press it receives focuses exclusively on the band’s reinvention, implying that it exists solely to contrast The Joshua Tree.
Critical perception aside, I would have guessed mid-90′s U2 to resonate more with the irony-addled indie music scene of today. Instead, glibly sporting tie-dye wolf shirts & trucker hats is “challenging” while streaming live feeds from Sarajevo in the middle of a television-themed rock show is not.
Didn’t know it came out the same day as Laughing Stock, what a day.
Anyone notice the “It’s Us V Them” banner. The ads have become self-aware.
Primarily, the music.
7 more videos to go!!! I love this!
+1
I remember checking out the Summerteeth cassette from my library (they didn’t have the CD) and listening to it every Sunday one Florida summer. I had to go into my sister’s room for the only cassette player in the house, so it was sort of a ritual. I could never figure out which side I was one because of the “hidden” Shot In the Arm reprise. Anyway, sorry if you were expecting a story. Summerteeth was a huge part of my childhood, and probably a lot of others’ too. Thanks for the tunes Jay!
Srsly man i know…I wish Revolver didn’t leak so soon.
This is a nice reminder of how much I enjoyed Up.
Were you the dude that just posted Animal Collective > KDE4 over at slashdot???
“Neeerrrddds!” – the fictional Eagles
“Learn English, son, before pretentiousness”
And then when you’ve learned enough English, spend 25 more years learning pretentiousness only to still pale in comparison to the poster above me.
I was thinking of last. :( Good thing REM isn’t my favorite band or anything.
Forgive you for listening to Pavement and Built to Spill? You’re asking us to forgive you for one SINGLE thing in your post. And it’s that.
In the words of that new Fleet Foxes song: I’m Amazed.
I don’t know about liking it more, but I’ve probably listened to it more. It was definitely what got me into MBV. While less hypnotic and polished than Loveless, I initially found it more melodic, aggressive, emotive, and (charmingly) messy. In my mind, it’s a Kid A/OKC type thing…leaving one out as “the definitive MBV album” misrepresents the band.