Exceelent Music You've Heard Lately

[frae]

Band of Horses has a good sound - a few nice songs but might all start to sound the same after a while
I have never seen MMJ but listened to their catalog very frequently - a lot of live youtube and other clips too. There music puts me in a great mood. They are a rambling jam band and songs could take a long strange trip of a time. I would like to see them. You hopes might be high but I think a huge amount of the crowd will be high.

I think Overkill has seen both and would have an educated opinion

Well I have seen Phish (1st time) and Dave Matthews (unable to keep count) already this summer so I am pretty well versed in my stoner crowds. On the down side i am going with 5 other teachers so we are destined to run into students who will be sending out twit pics of us at the show with very pc captions I am sure. Anyway, I am looking forward to it.

[BuckyBuckner]

Pitchfork Top 200 albums of 1996-2011 voted on by the readers. I have a love hate with these lists. It's fun to look through them but then I just realize how little I have in common musically with most people. Out of the 200 albums there are only about 20 that I really like and maybe only a few would make my top 10 of this time frame. It's got the Hold Steady but it's Boys and Girls in America which is far inferior to Separation Sunday.

But I thought I'd post it anyway.

[Mithrandir]

The White Stripes are the only band of which i own a CD.

No Rush..What a joke

[BuckyBuckner]

Here are 25 that I like and the ones in bold are ones that I consider to be great.

4 Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
7 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
14 The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin
31 Belle And Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister
37 Elliott Smith Either/Or
43 The Postal Service Give Up
47 The Shins Chutes Too Narrow
52 The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs
55 The Shins Oh, Inverted World
77 Wilco Summerteeth
86 Built to Spill Keep it Like a Secret
103 The Dismemberment Plan Emergency and I
104 Built to Spill Perfect from Now On
109 Bonnie "Prince" Billy I See a Darkness
117 Ryan Adams Heartbreaker
118 Weezer Pinkerton
137 Titus Andronicus The Monitor
147 The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America
155 Wilco Being There
157 Fugazi The Argument
158 The New Pornographers Twin Cinema
170 The Decemberists The Crane Wife
186 The Wrens The Meadowlands
188 The New Pornographers Mass Romantic
193 Bright Eyes Fevers and Mirrors

[DMT]

Pitchfork Top 200 albums of 1996-2011 voted on by the readers. I have a love hate with these lists. It's fun to look through them but then I just realize how little I have in common musically with most people. Out of the 200 albums there are only about 20 that I really like and maybe only a few would make my top 10 of this time frame. It's got the Hold Steady but it's Boys and Girls in America which is far inferior to Separation Sunday.

But I thought I'd post it anyway.

Well if you don't like Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Animal Collective or the White Stripes then it's not surprising you feel disconnected from that list. Not sure how you don't like any of those four bands, but I'm sure you're itching to tell us.

[BuckyBuckner]

Well if you don't like Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Animal Collective or the White Stripes then it's not surprising you feel disconnected from that list. Not sure how you don't like any of those four bands, but I'm sure you're itching to tell us.

Haha. I don't dislike Arcade Fire but I never really got into them. OK Computer has some really good songs but overall they are just an OK band to me. The White Stripes are unlistenable to me.I don't know Animal Collective that well but they haven't caught my attention.

[DMT]

Haha. I don't dislike Arcade Fire but I never really got into them. OK Computer has some really good songs but overall they are just an OK band to me. The White Stripes are unlistenable to me.I don't know Animal Collective that well but they haven't caught my attention.

Fair enough. AC is definitely an acquired taste. I still listen to at least 15 of the top 20 and I'd say I enjoy roughly 60% of the albums on the list. Of the remaining 40%, I have never listened to probably 1/3 of those so I'm sure I'd enjoy some of them as well.

[DMT]

And just to be clear, my comments are not an endorsement of that list as definitive by any means. The fact that Calexico and DeVotchKa were left off shows their ignorance.

[BuckyBuckner]

The list seems to be totally void of any music that his heavy (and I don't mean heavy metal - I don't expect Pitchfork folks to like metal) but some hard rock. If they love Wilco then why is [/]Too Far To Care[/i] by the Old 97's not on the list?

Kids made the list, 70% of people are under 30 and half are under 25.

[swampdragon]

Calexico missing does seem weird

Death Cab for Cutie missing seems like some sort of tallying error - especially with The Postal Service on the list
Black Keys?
Band of Joy - Robert Plant and Allison Krauss?
Avett Brothers?
Mumford and Sons-


oh well

[BuckyBuckner]

Uh, how about the bands that are on EVERY list? Bob Dylan? Amy Winehouse? Bruce Springsteen?

That list is some kind of lame alternative list or something.

Has Dylan done something since 1996 that is worthwhile? I don't pay enough attention to him to know any better. Even if he did the Pitchfork crowd wouldn't care. They don't care about a band like Superchunk that are pretty huge in the indie rock circle.

[johnnya24]

The Stone Roses ... that was one of those epic religious experience gigs. As far as reunions go, that was just as good as the first Pixies comeback gig I went to. I wasn't sure about going ... didn't think they'd be able to live up to the legend, but the whole thing was perfect ... even the weather behaved.

[johnnya24]

Sorry, I shouldn't have said "lame". I actually like a bunch of the music on there.

Bob Dylan's 'Modern Times' is the #8 album of the 2000s according to Rolling Stone. I don't really love Dylan all that much so I can't really say whether it's worthwhile.

There are two modern Dylan records that are very highly regarded. IMO they are nowhere near as good as the classic 60's and 70's recordings, but some people swear by them. His voice has been shot for ages now, but he can still write a quality song in his sleep.

[BuckyBuckner]

Some interesting thoughts on the Pitchfork list.

[BuckyBuckner]

I think there is something really wrong with music today when guys in their 50s rock harder than any of the new contemporary "indie rock" bands out there today. Granted they are playing songs written 10-15 years ago but they are still out there rocking harder than the likes of Bon Iver, Wilco, Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Beach House etc. New music just lacks any punch.