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07 June 2005

London Calling I just decided that London Calling is my favorite album. Do you think it's a mistake to pick that album, do you think it's a mistake to think in absolutes? I have to say that listening to London Booted not only confirms my choice, it may have been responsible for solidifying it in the first place.
London Calling is definitely one of those "perfect albums" where everything fits together so well you can't think of any other song that should be on it instead. (I've had that particular discussion with one of my friends several times, and LC is one of three albums that we both agree are perfect). So, while I don't have a favourite album, I think you are not making a mistake picking this particular one.
posted by gaspode 07 June | 15:03
It can't be a mistake if it's your opinion. Sure, why not think in absolutes? No harm in having a favorite of something. You can always change your mind. It's not like you're going to get "London Calling is my favorite album" tattooed on your forehead. Right? Right, omiewise??

I was just thinking about this last night, while working on the mc mp3 mix, and I don't think I have a favorite album. I wish I did. I have to think about it.

gaspode, what are the other two?
posted by iconomy 07 June | 15:04
London Calling... I don't have a copy of any of the Clash's albums. Out of all the bands for which I don't own music, though, they are among my favorites. I was in high school when they started hitting it big. I wasn't "sure" about them, though, and bought safer albums and never got around to buying any of their stuff. I think my favorite song of theirs is Rock the Casbah from 1982's Combat Rock (especially after I noticed the background rhythm of a digital watch alarm playing Dixie- how random is that?)

London Calling is a revolutionary album. Easily one of the best EVAR, and surely belongs at the very top of some lists. I don't have any problem with anyone calling it their all-time favorite.
posted by Doohickie 07 June | 15:14
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes and Surfer Rosa - Pixies.

(we argue about many other albums though)

The weird thing is, if I had to pick a fave album it wouldn't be any of those three, although they would be high up there... maybe in my head perfection isn't the most desirable thing. I think my very favorite albums have one or two tracks that (imo) stink up the place.
posted by gaspode 07 June | 15:15
I guess "Sandinista!" is chopped liver.
posted by Smart Dalek 07 June | 15:20
Violent Femmes, another near perfect album. Also, I think, Nebraska by Springsteen.

I like Sandinista, but it's pretty weak in parts.

Why, oh why, won't other people actually say what their faves are? My post was a backhanded way of inquiring. [/passiveaggressive]

What are your faves? Even you iconomy, after all, I got this tattoo on my forehead to impress you.
posted by omiewise 07 June | 15:27
Only the Sith deal in absolutes.
posted by agropyron 07 June | 15:28
gaspode, what are the other two?

Not sure what albums gaspode was referring to, but among my faves for complete album are Springsteen- Born to Run, Neil Young- Harvest, and Rod Stewart- Every Picture Tells a Story.
posted by Doohickie 07 June | 15:28
Oops. Now I know what albums gaspode was referring to.
posted by Doohickie 07 June | 15:30
I can't think of an album that i love where every single song is perfect, and the flow is, too. Maybe Cocteau Twins -- Heaven or Las Vegas? Or someone's best-of compilation (but i guess that's cheating?)
posted by amberglow 07 June | 15:32
Harvest isn't perfect because it has "A Man Needs a Maid" on it. Before I even read gaspode's comment I was thinking "Violent Femmes" as one of the other two, and would totally agree with Surfer Rosa.
posted by matildaben 07 June | 15:32
Heh, Born to Run is great, but my old boss played it in our lab EVERY SINGLE DAY for oh, I dunno, 4 years.

The albums I listen to most are: Doolittle - Pixies, In Utero - Nirvana, Souvlaki - Slowdive and If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle and Sebastian. (I'm thinking you can tell how old I am by that?) I think that in the future I'll be adding Antics - Interpol to the list.

Sandinista is good, but I don't like the order that the songs are in.
posted by gaspode 07 June | 15:35
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith

Another vote for the first Violent Femmes album, too.
posted by yhbc 07 June | 15:38
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
posted by caddis 07 June | 15:53
Best-of compilations are unrealistic with the continuous highs of constant hits. The best albums have ebbs and flows. Several Springsteen albums have this; it is much better to listen to a whole album of his than to listen to a greatest hits compilation.

On preview: (I'm thinking you can tell how old I am by that?)
Yeah, and how old must I be if the youngest artist in my list is Springsteen?

I disagree with Abbey Road. When I listen to it, I can hear the Beatles coming unglued. The songs taken individually are all-time greats, but they just don't seem to go together.
posted by Doohickie 07 June | 15:53
IV
posted by mlis 07 June | 15:54
Beck - Odelay
posted by robocop is bleeding 07 June | 15:54
Referencing another thread:
Maybe Cocteau Twins -- Heaven or Las Vegas?

Wow, I guess Cocteau Twins is gay music.

Personally, I don't know if I have a favorite album now, but for quite a while it was probably Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible
posted by bugbread 07 June | 15:55
I love Odelay. I always forget about it, and then find it every few months, and remember how good it is.
posted by gaspode 07 June | 15:57
Abbey Road has Something in the Way She Moves, which drags a bit and would do better in a different spot on the album (or nowhere at all). Born to Run would be a better album 2nd-side-1st.

The 60-Foot Dolls' unreleased Joya Magica is almost perfect, too (Baby Says Yeah sux).

TLC's Crazy Sexy Cool is close to perfect.

Damn the Torpedoes, Parallell Lines, The Chronic.

Doohickie's on the mark with Every Picture Tells a Story. I'll risk Ron Wood saturation by nominating Exile on Main Street, too, but I know those gospelly numbers pull it back from the brink.

One drawback to Harvest that you might have overlooked, though, is Neil Young.
posted by Hugh Janus 07 June | 16:10
That's a damn fine trinity gasplode.

How to determine a favorite: Did it invigorate or re-invigorate my sense of what music was, is, and could be? Did I listen to it intensely for some time, and did I find myself returning to it? If it is new did it re-vitalize a genre that was once dead to me? Conversely, if from my younger years did it provide an entry into what was at the time an otherwise alien world or different kind of music?

Some of my favs:
7 Seconds: Crew. Walk Together Rock Together.
Anthology of American Folk Music
Bad Brains: Rock For Light
Bauhaus: swing the heartache - bbc sessions
The Beastie Boys: Paul's Boutique. Licensed to Ill
Big Black: Songs About F*cking
Black Flag: Damaged
David Bowie: Hunky Dory. Ziggy Stardust
Built To Spill: Perfect From Now On. The Normal Years. Ultimate Alternative Wavers
The Buzzcocks: Singles Going Steady
Can: Delay 1968. Ege Bamyasi
Charles Mingus: Mingus ah um. Tijuana Moods. Mingus Mingus Mingus!
Cheap Trick: Cheap Trick (Remaster)
Codiene: White Birch.
Elvis Costello: My Aim Is True. Armed Forces. This Year's Model
Crackerbash: Tin Toy. Crackerbash.
The Cure: Seventeen Seconds. Head on the Door. Boys don't Cry.
Dinosaur Jr.: Green Mind. Bug. You're living all over me.
Drive like Jehu: Drive like Jehu. Yank Crime.
Eric B. & Rakim: Paid in Full.
Ex Models: Other Mathematics. Zoo Psychology.
The Fall: Grotesque (After The Gramme). This Nation's Saving Grace
Fugazi: 13 Songs. Repeater+3 Songs. Steady Diet of Nothing. In on the Kill Taker. Red Medicine. The Argument
Galaxie 500: This Is Our Music
Gang of Four: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On?
Gillian Welch: Time (The Revelator).
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven. Yanqui U.X.O.
Guided By Voices: Bee Thousand. Alien Lanes. Propeller.
Hot Snakes: Automatic Midnight. Suicide Invoice. Audit in Progress
Hüsker Dü: New Day Rising. Zen Arcade
The Jam: Surrender
Jawbox: Grippe. For your own special sweetheart. My Scrapbook of Fatal Accidents.
Jesus Lizard: Goat. Liar. Down.
Joe Jackson: Look Sharp!
Joy Division: Closer. Substance.
King Crimson: Red. Earthbound
Low: Trust.
The Melvins: Ozma. Stoner Witch. Houdini
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool. In a silent Way.
Minor Threat: Complete Discography
Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime
Mission of Burma: Horrible Truth About Burma. Vs.
Modest Mouse: Lonesome Crowded West.
Mountain Goats: Zopilote Machine. All Hail West Texas.
Mudhoney: Mudhoney. Superfuzz Bigmuff
New Order: Substance
Nirvana: Bleach
No Means No: Live+Cuddly. Wrong.
Outkast: Stankonia
Pavement: Slanted & Enchanted. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain.
Joel R. L. Phelps: Warm Springs Night
Pixies: Surfer Rosa. Come On Pilgrim.
PJ Harvey: Rid of Me.
Polvo: Exploded Drawing.
Quasi: Featuring "Birds". R&B Transmorgrification. Hot Sh*t
R.E.M.: Green. Life's Rich Pageant.
Refused: The Shape of Punk to Come.
Shellac: At Action Park. 1000 Hurts
Silkworm: In the West. Libertine. Firewater.
Sleater-Kinney: Dig Me Out. Call The Doctor. One Beat. The Woods.
Slint - Spiderland.
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation. Confusion is Sex / Kill Yr Idols. Sonic Youth. Goo. Dirty
Talking Heads: Sand in the Vasaline. Fear Of Music
Television: Marquee Moon
Tom Waits: Early Years vol 1. Rain Dogs.
Unwound: Fake Train.
Violent Femmes: Violent Femmes
The Who: Live At Leeds
Wire: Pink Flag
XTC: Drums and Wires
Neil Young: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
ZZ: Rio Grande Mud


I suffer from the inability to narrow down to a single favorite album or two. :(
posted by safetyfork 07 June | 16:44
Gaspode: Between 35 and 45.
posted by matildaben 07 June | 16:49
Between 29 and 37. Or, 42.
posted by safetyfork 07 June | 17:04
i'll second New Order's Substance.

Wow, I guess Cocteau Twins is gay music.
Of course it is, silly--and Lush is for the straights.
posted by amberglow 07 June | 17:16
and Lush is for the straights

I bought the first Lush album, and it was good, but...something missing. Just didn't grab me right.

Man, my wife is going to be pissed. Not fun to find out your husband of two months is gay.
posted by bugbread 07 June | 17:21
bugbread-Mazel Tov on your wedding.

safetyfork: good list. I always forget Pink Flag, although I love it well.
posted by omiewise 07 June | 17:38
safetyfork is right. And that's a great list of music, btw.

You've had me thinking about this all afternoon, omiewise. I was thinking about where the taste in music comes from. I was lucky in that I had a friend, when I was 10, who had an impossibly cool older brother who introduced me to Talking Heads, The Cure, Velvet Underground and U2, which were the first bands I had ever really listened to. Not a bad start in music life.
posted by gaspode 07 June | 17:42
Safetyfork is one of my fave music compilers, next to PST of course. However, I was listening to Trust the other day and it just didn't hold up as much as when I got it. Things We Lost In the Fire would supplant it in my list as Low's most "perfect" album.
posted by matildaben 07 June | 17:49
I don't really have a favorite album either, but I'd say The Velvet Underground & Nico is a "perfect album" in Gasbode's sense.
posted by nixxon 07 June | 17:51
A couple of friends had cool older siblings who were my gateway to the good stuff also. One went so far as to take us to see the Pixies and Janes' Addiction w/Primus opening. My first "real" concert.

Ah, gaspode, I just realized I exploded your user name earlier, so sorry about that.

matildaben -- Things we lost....I must go home and compare! Also, I'm a big fan of their Secret Name album.

And, that's the edited list!
posted by safetyfork 07 June | 18:02
I can never choose a "favorite" album, but I'll tell you which albums (in my collection) I consider to be perfect:

Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Beck - to be controversial I'll say Midnight Vultures
RHCP - Mother's Milk

I'll also agree with Miles Davis, both Kind of Blue and Birth of a Cool. I'd also add Radiohead's KidA and Amnesiac, if it was some sort of double-album. There are some others, but I'm too tired to think and I don't have access to all my music at work...
posted by muddgirl 07 June | 18:03
One drawback to Harvest that you might have overlooked, though, is Neil Young.
You are, of course, correct. But even with that drawback, Harvest is way up there for me. (This may have something to do with the fact that it's a recent purchase after many years of coveting. Ask me again in a year.)

I also have to get something from Dire Straits on my list, but I can't decide which one.

Oh.. and as a complete album: Supertramp- Crime of the Century. The album is synergistic in that it is greater than the sum of its parts.
posted by Doohickie 07 June | 18:04
Supertramp!! Ban him, ban him now!

The correct answer of course is Marty Robbins' 1959 album Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs.

To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
Hardly spoke to folks around him didn't have too much to say
No one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip
for the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip

posted by LarryC 07 June | 18:30
Am I the only one wondering where j*n*c is in this thread?
posted by bugbread 07 June | 18:34
Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells a Story is indeed a perfect album, as is the Byrds' Sweethearts of the Rodeo and half the early Stones albums (Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Beggars Banquet, and of course the masterpiece Exile on Main Street). But none of the Beatles' albums, great as they are, can be called perfect; each has at least one song that can be skipped with pleasure and profit.

On preview: jonmc is taking hours composing a reply that will blow everyone else out of the water, complete with a '60s band so obscure even their families haven't heard them.
posted by languagehat 07 June | 18:38
say it ain't so
i will never find the time to even read all these music threads, not even to talk about contributing
posted by ethylene 07 June | 18:59
*Disturbed that no one else has mentioned LED ZEPPELIN*
posted by mlis 07 June | 19:01
Marty Robbins fan radio.
posted by LarryC 07 June | 20:37
Ella Fitzgerald - The Cole Porter Songbook
posted by matildaben 07 June | 21:01
Okay... Led Zeppelin- Houses of the Holy or IV.
posted by Doohickie 07 June | 22:08
*Disturbed that no one else has mentioned LED ZEPPELIN*

I think the thing about Zep, at least for me, and I'm going to get crucified for saying this, is that they make SONGS, and not albums so much. I, II and III all have fluctuating moments of greatness. I have to admit that IV is pretty close to a perfectly cohesive album, but I feel that Four Sticks is somehow wrong. Except for HoH, anything beyond IV probably doesn't merit discussion.

My three perfect albums:
Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power (emphatically)
Pink Floyd - Animals (emphatically)
and...the last one turns out to be:
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim

I had trouble deciding between that, Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth, and Transformer, by Lou Reed. I think the latter two are superior, but in terms of albumcraft, Come On Pilgrim is without defect.


posted by invitapriore 07 June | 22:46
Oh, and about the Clash, where's the love for...well...the Clash (US and UK)? I love that album, but people seem to like the Clash better when they're not being punk rock.

London Calling is still a great album, though..
posted by invitapriore 07 June | 22:51
Since jonmc is a little late to the party, allow me to float The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus by Spirit as the (relatively) obscure 60's band with the perfect album.

Also, I know it's not cool to love Elvis Costello's Imperial Bedroom, but it certainly qualifies as a perfect album in my book.

Otherwise, dittos on Kind Of Blue, Let It Bleed, and Every Picture Tells A Story.
posted by bmarkey 08 June | 00:13
God Damn! You people have got some seriously excellent taste in music! I'm impressed. I agree with amberglow, Cocteau's "Heaven or Las Vegas" is easily in my top five. That album is profoundly magical. I love XTC's "Skylarking", Beck's "Odelay", The The "Mind Bomb", LZ's "Houses of the Holy" (The Rain Song is AMAZING), Tool's "Aenima". Can't think anymore--brain cramp.
(but I need to add Van Morrison, Tom Waits, Radiohead, Miles Davis, Bob Marley, Steely Dan, Bjork, CSN&Y, The Police, Coldplay, and David Sylvian)
posted by codeofconduct 08 June | 00:56
all of these are perfect albums:
joni mitchell: blue
neil young: everyone knows this is nowhere
be good tanyas: blue train
portishead: dummy
talking heads: fear of music
posted by rumple 08 June | 01:50
You know, Blue is a perfect album. I used to hate it, but I was a fool.
posted by omiewise 08 June | 09:13
Not in a ragging way, but I'm just surprised how mainstream everyone's tastes are...
posted by bugbread 08 June | 10:04
codeofconduct- Let me help flesh out your additions:

Van Morrison: Moondance
CSNY: Deja Vu

I think I also need to add something from Rush... candidates are Farewell to Kings, 2112, Hemispheres, and Moving Pictures. I heard "Closer to the Heart" from Farewell to Kings on JackFM a week ago and really listened to the words. The damned song almost made me cry. The vocal stylings are shrill, but the lyrics represent some of the very best, most intelligent and insightful poetry in rock.
posted by Doohickie 08 June | 12:47
bugbread-I don't know, what counts as not mainstream? I might say that there are many albums that I might talk about that saw pretty limited release, but it would limit the discussion a little bit. As it is, many of the albums on, say, safetyfork's list are records I've never heard because I was too busy listening to small label releases centered on DC punk rock. When I only bought records from punk labels, there was a lot I missed.

Less mainstream favorites:

The Hated-Every Song LP
Reptile House LP on Merkin Records
Lungfish-Necklace of Heads Dischord/Simple Machines Split
Candy Machine-Cardboard 7"
Circus Lupus-First 7" on the Pittsburgh label (oh, the shame of not remembering chapter and verse (and the deeper shame of not really caring))
Naked Raygun-All Rise
Nation of Ulysses-13 Point Program to Destroy America
Wolfgang Press-Birdwood Cage
Vile Cherubs-demos
Uncle Tupelo-March 16-20, 1992 (These guys are very mainstream now.)
Velocity Girl-I Don't Care if You Go 7" from Slumberland Records (The one with Bridgette from Unrest on vocals).
Malcolm X Park-Unrest
First Bikini Kill Cassette
Black Candy-Beat Happening
God Don't Make No Junk-The Halo Benders
The Pastels
Government Issue-Crash
Simple Machine Wedge 7"
posted by omiewise 08 June | 13:39
Back to perfect albums (which are different from favorites although there may be overlap):

Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Elvis Costello - King of America
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
posted by matildaben 08 June | 14:44
Just to clarify, my above list is of perfect albums, Also, just to clarify, I started the list Artist-Album, but scrambled it toward the bottom. I don't know why.
posted by omiewise 08 June | 14:47
I don't know, what counts as not mainstream?

I can't really say. It's just a feeling (there being no arbiter of "mainstream" versus "non-mainstream"). I suppose it's just that music threads in Mefi bring up so many bands I've never heard of (over, and over, and over again), yet this thread had much more common bands (Clash, Pixies, Beatles, etc.). Like I say, not a bad thing, but I was expecting the thread to be an avalanche of bands I've never or seldom heard of.
posted by bugbread 08 June | 14:55
On preview: Oh, No! matildaben! Not back on topic....

Yeah, when I said I edited my list I mostly took out all the things that would look like I was trying to "out-indie" someone as well as a few extras that upon further reflection I felt just didn't hold up to what I'd consider my favorite albums. It doesn't surprise me at all to have the majority of music in a discussion of favorite albums fit someone's definition of the mainstream. With such a blurring of boundaries in information distribution, attempts at market saturation with formerly "indie" rooted and punk music, and the veritable collapse of the so true, so tiny moment, it almost seems self-evident these days. People can barely have a micro-scene without risk of overexposure (Fort Thunder as recent example). I think maybe that's what omiewise, not to put words in the mouth, is getting as when he asks: what counts as not mainstream?

I didn't really know how to interpret what bugbread said since he could've meant limited release or music of completely different genres, like afrobeat. Though one thing that has seemed pretty consistent in my discussions with others about music is that depending on the perspectives of the people involved in an exchange, calling something "mainstream" is often a charge against authenticity, and on those grounds I used to find it all very sad when I felt that somehow "the mainstream" had stolen something precious from me, and turned it into an inauthentic experience for others. But now maybe I've become jaded or burnt out on trying to hold on to something that I used to see as just mine and a few friends. (Which I think now, was never really ours to possess....how selfish of us! Of course, nor was it the record industry's either...) Now I enjoy the music regardless of what happens to it out there.

On preview (again): Dang, I don't think I ever did perfect albums. Those were just some favorites up there. Though a lot of them are damn fine. Oh, well.

On preview (again, again): Thanks bugbread! Look how much you had me typing!
posted by safetyfork 08 June | 14:59
Reading the above, I'm a total spazz. I don't even know what the "so true, so tiny moment" is exactly. I think I know what I'm trying to say there, but it's all borked.

Additional goofiness: this is the thread that marks the moment that I add people to contacts based on music taste.
posted by safetyfork 08 June | 15:10
For reference, I'm like a mix of pitchforkmedia and jonmc: I like indie stuff (pitchforklike), but not because it's indie, just because I like it (jonmclike), and I feel disdain for people who play indier-than-thou (jonmclike), but also for people who play less-indie-than-thou (jonmc, when he's drunk or in a bad mood). So for me, "mainstream" isn't in any way either perjorative or positive. It's just there, like words like "crunchy" or "medium-sized" (also hard to specifically define).
posted by bugbread 08 June | 15:11
Yeah, no, I mean, I think I understand. The reason I went ahead and listed the bands and record I did is because they not only represent things I reall really like, but also because I think they limit discussion in some kind of way. One thing I'm sure of with them is that many many people would not consider them good music in any sense. Others might well react one way or another (crunchy) to the fact that they are bands they'd never heard of.
posted by omiewise 08 June | 15:24
Style Council--The Singular Adventures of the Style Council--definitely perfect.
posted by amberglow 08 June | 15:36
Perfect and favorite are at odds in my case. There are tracks I skip in my favorite CD's, and CD's I bought for just one favorite song.

Perfect albums include ones I don't like to listen to that much.

Favorites, alas, are for another thread.
posted by Hugh Janus 08 June | 15:47
omiewise, you can talk about Lungfish, Nation of Ulysses, Bikini Kill, Beat Happening, The Halo Benders, and Government Issue (and more) with me any time!

And, bugbread, I am now reading the same page...for all the possible circles, you're coming in crystal and I'm liking that sound.
posted by safetyfork 08 June | 15:53
Could it be that maybe sometimes when an album in a genre that might be off-center at the time of release is just so perfect that it garners evangelists, converts the unconverted to its way of seeing, and grows in influence through the test of time, hence leading people 10/20/30 years later to refer to it as "mainstream" just because a large number of people now appear to have heard of it?
posted by matildaben 08 June | 16:48
And, in addendum, just to be a little less mainstream:

Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
posted by matildaben 08 June | 16:49
Like the Pixies, you mean?
posted by Hugh Janus 08 June | 16:49
Could it be that [truncated]

Good point.
posted by bugbread 08 June | 17:02
I was expecting the thread to be an avalanche of bands I've never or seldom heard of.

You know, it's not easy to make a perfect album; it's not like coming up with a great single. Pitchers who pitch perfect games tend to be great pitchers, not one-shot wonders.
posted by languagehat 08 June | 19:07
Hugh, exactly, Surfer Rosa and [TH] Remain in Light would fall under the phenomenon I described. I think the Arcade Fire does also (although some people dislike it - check back in 10 years and see what they think then).

Here's another perfect non-mainstream album: Dog Faced Hermans - Hum of Life.
posted by matildaben 08 June | 23:18
matildaben, I'd stretch back and include REM in that group. Very indy at first, all the way thru Fables of the Reconstruction, then a big hit, then all their stuff is considered mainstream as the watercourse shifts. Of course, as they became more popular, REM met the stream halfway with lyrics that made sense and production as glossy as Leppard.

What did they call indy back then? College radio?
posted by Hugh Janus 09 June | 09:03
matildaben is true!
posted by safetyfork 09 June | 09:08
Hugh, you're right. I still think Fables was their last good album. (yes, and now everyone knows exactly how old I am.)
posted by matildaben 09 June | 09:18
This place is way better than meffy. I actually had an enjoyable, interesting conversation here. Meffy hasn't been like that in a long time. Thank you, matildaben. I could sing a million.

Is Mando Diao mainstream? Hurricane Bar is the newest nearly perfect album I know.

Also, it's not perfect, but check out Husky Rescue's album, Country Falls. They're Finnish, weird, and lovely. I think you might like them (you being not just matildaben, but whoever else is still reading this awesome thread).
posted by Hugh Janus 09 June | 10:52
Hugh, I actually just finished listening to Husky Falls for like the 25th time just now. Followed it up with some Flunk.

I like this place the best too because I get much better props here.
posted by matildaben 09 June | 18:04
Gay Unions are False. || Wee Beasties

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