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Yeah, I thought the best part of it was the little poster that came with the cd but it is really an amazing, speedy little bit of brilliance.

but their composed works don't hold up well for me

I think they tend to try and tell little stories that don't interest me in the least. In fact I get offended at what they think might be worthy of exploration.

yeah yeah yeahs are just grr-oss

TVOTR, XX and B and S primarily

Of course I am but being me feels more like the crazy old dude carrying around a homemade sign which reads "REPENT!"

I am just scheming on ways to turn my talent into a viable career before I die. I have purchased a web domain called "MUSICNAZI.COM" and I hope to have something "SUPER SPECIAL" up on the web by late 2010 - Mid 2011.

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Holy Fuck
Secret Machines
Interpol
DFA 1979
Chrome Hoof
HEALTH
Torche
Godflesh
Minutemen
Painkiller
ZU
Fantomas
Dead Kennedys
!!!
Melvins
DEVO
Urge Overkill

take this song for instance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2DBcbZc3ck

great fucking song but when was the last time anyone mentioned Shocking Blue on DiS or anywhere else?

Jesus that chick has the most fucked up wig ever!

Of the bands you mentioned; Of Montreal comes closest to being a giant artist. That singer/front man is amazing but it's all been done before (and done better) by David Bowie and Bryan Ferry so what else can I say about Of Montreal? Belle and Sebastian, TVOTR, M83 and AC I have nothing against personally or critically; I like them fine but I resent them for not living up to the hype.

Darnielle's tunes are hack and his lyrics are too reckless, feckless and jaded to have any meaning or worth let alone be held up as some of the best of this decade. Shit, he's going to write a song about folding laundry- MARK MY WORDS.

three nondescript guys writing ditties about odball topics but that should be OK cause they aren't trying to be sexy or political or high minded so they should get a pass- fuck the mountain goats, we all read got Half Man Half Biscuit, Dead Milkmen and They Might Be Giants and a half dozen funny geezer bands- that's plenty.

Bizarre though it might be; it does have a prpose. I just wanted to blow out the chairs before I start dancing.

gunna hav'ta take you down a rung or six

here's a few, well ten (in specific order)

I like the DiS model w/ 50 albums and that's what I will end up with but the top ten will like this:

Monoliths & Dimensions- Sunn O)))
The Bee's Made Honey In The Lion's Skull - EARTH
Flood - BORIS
TOtBL - Interpol
LIARS - DND
October Language- Belong
Black Sea or Endless Summer - Fennesz (still deciding)
Cryptograms - Deerhunter
Altar- Sunn O))) & Boris
The Sky's Run Into The Sea - Growing

There may be changes 4-10 but I love these albums so much I can't hardly stand it

11-50 will contain more stuff from those above and from:
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore
Grails
Alva Noto
Fuck Buttons
Coil
Stars Of The Lid
Crystal Castles
DFA 1979
Holy Fuck
Torche
Secret Machines
Queens Of The Stoneage
Gorillaz
Onieda
Editors (Edith Bowman be fucking damned)
Modest Mouse
Dungen
Einstürzende Neubauten
Clinic
William Basinski

and others

I'd say Arcade Fire, M83 and Yeah Yeah Yeahs have done some really good, mind bending, life affirming genius stuff.

You really nailed the yyy experience for me. I never knew what to call it before but punk fashionista seems to really fit. Plus they all seem delusional about how sexy they are- fuck, they ain't, they just ain't but that's OK, cause they're pop stars- I forgive them but I gotta be honest about their work.

You are so right about M83 and no I haven't heard Dead Cities even though I have seen it rec'd and DiS'd many times hear but you're right, if Sean hadn't gone off and made Saturdays=Youth the album of the year last year I'd have been fine with M83- decent artist, no skin off my nose but BAM "album of the year"? gimme a fuckin' break

but I think wilco are kind of a son volt, pavement lite and they don't do much at all for me. I love that cover picture on YHF, it's Marina City, a 1960's, upscale, Jetsons-ish apartment complex on the shore of the Chicago River right between the Gold Coast and The Loop and it brings back memories of my time in that wonderful city and I like that they are Chicago boys but I need more than that..much more.

Wilco created Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, which to my ears is the finest album of the decade, even above Kid A, but only barely. To me it always had the same emotional impact, but lacked the distancing soundscapes. Which, soundscapes are by no means bad, but I find it adds a little bit of distance. All of YHF was very, very close to me.

As for Sufjan... I am embarrassed that I have never gotten around to Michigan. I think it's because Illinois and Seven Swans have sort of taken me in too much, and I don't feel that I've yet gotten all that I need to out of them. There's too much intimacy in his work to just glance over and move on to the next album.

but David Ferry and David Bowie totally already did that show- about 10 times better too. Plus about half of his music is Sesame Street material. I like when he does whacky vocals. Skeletal Lamping is pretty awesome. I really love the packaging on that cd- that's why I bought it.

You're right, they aren't part of this fight. They probably didn't even make it onto the P4K 200 did they? Poor Belle and Sebastian- I'm sorry.

But, Nah, wait a minute, Belle and Sebastian now, isn't that the band responsible for "funny little frog"? Oh, god, just fuck it.

Die Belle!!! Die Sebastian!!! I don't care if you are from under appreciated Scotland- just fuck off and die.

you bastard

We are now considering a move back to the city for the express purpose of finding "help". Namely, a team of web designers that work for free or on "spec" to help me build the site and launch and maintain for a year or so.

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the trick is to make the music you like as popular as the pop-based stuff. That's what's eluding me. The goal isn't to steal the 13 yr. olds away from Jonas Brothers that is impossible. The goal is to make the media be more responsible to "important artists". You know, the artists that rely on t-shirt money to buy the gas necessary to get to the next sparsely populated gig and the next pizza while twats like Yeah Yeah Yeahs are filling stadiums and buying cheesy wardrobes. Does that sound socialist? Probably, but ask anyone I know and they'll tell you I am a fiend for JUSTICE.

I don't really have a problem with flash in the pan, really, other than how it feeds the machinery of crass commercialism and little else. Pitchfork sells ads, dickheads sell records, and a whole industry of leeches sell a manufactured dream. Ever tried listening to top 40 radio for an extended period of time? It is very hollow despite nostalgic feeling which may arise. Ten years from now, the only place you're gone to hear bands like Arcade Fire and YYY's is on some indie classic station and believe me; you're not going to get any more out of that music when it's on the radio. There is something to separate most of the bands on my good and bads- there's my word on it for one.

Look, it's like this: I love Bruce Willis and John Travolta but a steady and exclusive diet their movies is lame. I love those guys but a body needs a Daniel Day Lewis movie every once in awhile or you're just a nowhere, dolt of a potato head hardly worth talking to.

It's not your fault though. I really shouldn't blame or judge you to a damning degree but you do spend enough time around here to no there is differences between the bands on my lists. If you aren't aware of them at all and feel it's not important to have music that sticks to your ribs, that totally melts on your hands, making a huge mess and not neatly in your mouth, music that doesn't go in one ear and out yer ass- then I can't help you.

I guess I've been called strange before and understand why you would think that but I'm pretty sure all my posts aren't complete gibberish. Do you understand this post? I think I do and I think others in the seventy odd replies have gotten the gist of it. If you COULD explain: what would you say?

Try

omnganoldguytoo

need xtrasplainin sometimes

PS: I am in touch with a lot more than you think.

If I were to propose that every song that Belle & Sebastian have ever done could be the theme music for any and every stupid TV sitcom ever made; would that explain it a bit?

Belle and Sebastian are an ongoing omnibus of fluff- can't put it any simpler and I can't bear dissecting them for you- there's absolutely no point to it. You are being obtuse to even ask me that about B&S of all bands. I think Teletubbies blow Belle and Sebastian out of the water as far as art with practical sense and meaning goes.

I do feel like they shouldn't have been on "The List" because they are harmless and really don't garner an inordinate amount of press that I can see and I understand that a lot of people's lives are "enriched" by their insipid & cheesy tunage and too that lives are indeed "enriched" by any means of airheaded, musical divertissement - i suppose. I am just a long suffering saint who's stood by and watched great art virtually ignored as long as I am willing to without saying something.

Unfortunately, I have been forced to draw attention to the shortcomings of these bands because it no longer seems enough to simply give the effusive testimony about the music I love and call it good (and god knows I have done plenty of that here). It's a bit of a crusade now. I am aware that music taste is subjective and opinions are not truths but I don't care, I am still left with a sense of injustice over the music press. Just as I am about radio- the press and major media outlets seem to work in cahoots somehow. I grew up wondering why there was never anything good on the radio? I told myself "Well, you live in Montana. If you lived in L.A. there'd be something good on the radio." WRONG, shit there isn't good radio anywhere and I'll bet right now, right this minute, there isn't one radio station anywhere in America playing Belle & Sebastian. I would fall over dead if they played fucking Radiohead here. But I, digress.

I just want a media outlet that gets it right- just once. Is that too much to ask?

That band was indeed a secret machine

Daddy's In The Doldrums RRROCKS you fool as duz "Faded Lines". Uncork your ears son. You can hear the singers nostrils whistle over the drums on Faded Lines- It's lush.

LLLLLOVE IT

but I must say: a glorious specimen

.........love secret macheens

not kidding, this video makes me cry:

live at glasto, 2005

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so4c30k6N9s

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I'll hurry just for you

Sorry, but I don't like him or his music- he's a phoney baloney from the get go.

he was kind of on to something in the beginning but he turned into such a freaking poser. Of late, kind of a quasi nashville producer guru with a spazzy trophy wife. He's lick and poetry don't offset his general lameness. Someone like Elvis Costello- maybe but Ryan Adams? get outta here.

evidence of shitbirdness:

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All three albums will be in Saint_Cronin's 50 Best Of the 20-Oughts

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someday you'll love that album