mogwai - government commisions 1996-2003 doves - some cities new order - waiting for the sirens call autechre - untilted sam prekop - who's your new professor? lcd soundsystem - s/t
Guided By Voices - Half Smiles Of The Decomposed The New Pornographers - Electric Version Dressy Bessy - Self Titled Anna Waronker - Anna
Mogwai - Government Commissions (At the very least great music to do homework to) Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (Have to listen to a few times before you make a judgment) Bright Eyes - Digital Ash In A Digital Urn (Take It Easy and Hit The Switch are immediately catchy songs) Jimmy Eat World - Futures (Best J.E.W. ballads in quite some time) The Arcade Fire - Funeral (Might need some patience, but very rewarding)
The songs are catchy like the Replacements or the Beatles but the production slip shod with a premium put on catching the song as it's just coming together. No Phill Spector here. The leader Bob Pollard is rumored to write thre classics while takeing a crap such is his abundance of output.
I've been harping on them on this board forever, and I don't know if you noticed or not, but my last sig. was from "Kenai" off that album.
As far as I'm aware, these are all pretty recent.. Arcade Fire - Funeral (Took a while to grow on me, but it has) Ted Leo + The Pharmacists - Shake The Streets (damn catchy) Secret Machines - Now Here is Nowhere Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street (simple, but I suggest everyone check it out anyways) Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
I am on lcd as well these days. Please tell me more about sam prekop. On my hifi these days: Jack Johnson - In between dreams the Fiery Furnaces - EP (brand new)!!! Rogue Wave - out of the shadow Nic Armstrong - the greatest white liar Maritime - glass floor
Man, I went through and listened to a bunch of this stuff. Amazing how many of these bands sound almost EXACTLY like the stuff I grew up listening to. I mean, Guided by Voices sounds like bands I heard at the skate park when I was 16. Latest for me: U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb Green Day - American Idiot Gavin Degraw - Chariot
guided by voices was my favorite band thru the mid-late 90's. if you want the true GBV experience than you must check out alien lanes or bee thousand. this is their beggars banquet-sticky fingers-exile on mainstreet era of being at the peak of their game. GBV was always a rotating cast based around robert pollard, but by the late 90's all the original, drunken factory worker/"musicians" were replaced by slicked out, drunken, professional rock-dudes. with that, the band lost that lo-fi, garage band quality that endeared them to so many.
Jack Johnson... In Between Dreams Mars Volta... Frances the Mute Bright Eyes... I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning Bright Eyes... Digital Ash in a Digital Urn Ani Difranco... Knuckle Down The Arcade Fire... Funeral Kings Of Leon... Aha Shake Heartbreak New But Not So New The Killers... Hot Fuss The Garden State Soundtrack The Postal Service... Give Up
