ladytron - evil

California


I got this really good idea.

Just bought and am currently listening to The Raconteurs', Jack White and Brendon Benson, new album "Consolers Of The Lonely". It's all over the place --- rock, ballads, country, folk. Great arrangements, musicianship, and lyrics. Excellent stuff!! Highly recommend this one.

Human Nature- Madonna

The music here is exactly what you'd expect from looking at the cover. Girl rock with an edge, taking a page out of The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and other female fronted rock bands. The singer's voice reminds me of Bif Naked and I'm not really crazy about Bif's vocals. This girl incorporates a lot of the punky bipolar schtick that is increasingly becoming annoying and anyway, I can listen to Juliette Lewis anytime I want a taste of lunacy. The songs too are kind of contrived though decent enough. They just feel kind of polished and a bit unoriginal. Like what else do they have to offer other than the kind of pop punk that everyone else are shelling out? That said, this is really not that bad. It can rock you out if you're relatively interested in the bands I've mentioned. Juliette and the Licks, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bif Naked... What else? There are so many soundalikes who actually do it better.

Jonatha Brooke - Charming

a camp - song for the leftovers

i think we're the best leftovers of the night
everything is alright now

Do you sleep? - Lisa Loeb

emily haines - crowd surf off a cliff

this is a fuckin downer.

Sarah Blasko- Planet New Year


This song has the best music video ever. It's hilarious!

i love sarah blasko
she's so lovely

listening to liz phair - girls girls girls

oh god, guyville is perfect. this is a really fine song. i feel bad for starting the elimination thread. lol
to eliminate a song from the album is what the girls call murder!

Calvin Harris- I Created Disco

She is! I saw her live twice last year and she's just the cutest thing ever.



Sarah McLachlan- Witness

clare burson - boat of leaves

Jimmy Hoffa Jokes - Aimee Mann

Head Over Feet - Alanis Morissette

^I COULDN'T HELP IT...IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Isn't it Ironic, Don'tcha think??????

The new Madge w/ Justin.

TOTAL SUCKAGE!!!

^Why do you listen to some of this stuff??? I mean like what you want to like but Timberlake & Britney????? I'm gonna have to get to Ohio & just take & shake you!!!!!!

LOL! It was on the radio. I am at work and my radio only gets a few stations here. They have firewalled all my online stations. I recently got a new computer and all my music was deleted, so its been rough.

And it was Madonna and JT, not Brit Brit. And I LOVE the latest Britney cd, truly.

I knew who you meant-it's just I have heard you make NUMEROUS references to "Brit-Brit" as you call her <KF4 shudders>.
Well, OK, I understand about the radio...I can't really listen to music while I work anyways.
I still want to take & shake you, though, just because I'm a mean bitch...

Ooh, looks like we're alone now
You ain't gotta be scared
We're grown now
I'm a hit defrost on ya
Let's get it blazin'
We can turn the heat up if you wanna
Turn the lights down low if you wanna
Just wanna move you
But you're froze up
That's what I'm saying

^Oh, PLEASE say you weren't singing that to ME...

Kylie Minogue- All I See

Is a snowballs chance in hell on wheels.

Liz phair - Giving it all to you

I just realized it sounds pretty much like a That dog. song.

but this won't work as well as the way it once did
cuz i want to decide between survival and bliss
and though i know who i'm not i still don't know who i am
but i know i won't keep on playing the victim

The Missionary's Daughter - Natalie Merchant

Cryin' in the chapel................The Pelvis!!

Helium - XXX

i see your wallet in your pocket
you know i carry my heart around my neck like a locket
so i can take it off

Lucy at the Gym - Jill Sobule

Shitloads Of Money

r.e.m. - accelerate


it's the best cd of the year so far. it's also one of the best cd's put out in the last 16 years. definitely in the top 5. their best since automatic for the people. once again, they proven themselves to be america's second best rock n roll band has blown every one out of the water.

No.

Jesus Saves, I Spend - St. Vincent

what do you mean?

Lol I was just joking.

It's average. Poor Stipe should have retired after Monster. I feel sorry for the embarrasment they've made of themselves. And this album is okay but it's not worth all that much praise. At best, they returned to using guitars. Big woop!

um, ok. monster sucked big time. new adventures in hi-fi was much better. up and reaveal was actually quite good. around the sun sucked. now accelerate didn't just return to using guitars. r.e.m. have made a record that speaks volumes which is something that a lot of releases this year and for probably the last 10 years cannot claim to achieve. who else could write a song that starts off with th line if the storm doesn't kill me the government will only to have the song end up saying that america is still beautiful despite how shitty and crappy it is right now? not very many! hands down, accelerate is the best work this year.

and in the top 5 of the 00's. top of the last 17 years actually. this band and this album blows everyone else out of the water. r.e.m. come dangerously close to besting edie brickell and new bohemians. they surely have proved that with accelerate they can once again make excellent music. they are indeed america's second best rock n roll band and america's second best artist. very few can touch them. accelerate is far from average. sadly (and i hate to say this), accelerate shows how bad liz phair has become and even beats her best work whitechocolatespaceegg. in the past i would've put liz ahead of r.e.m., but acclerate has changed all that. all bets are off now. i would love to say that i made a record like accelerate. some artists grow old very gracefully and manage to stay on top. others fall flat on their ass.

Who's the fist?

"r.e.m. come dangerously close to besting edie brickell and new bohemians" - that's the number one band!!!

You write comedy don't you WLY?

Personally Stipe himself said in an interview that he wasn't going to deal with politics, he's a songwriter. So yeah, whatever dude, he's the only voice in music/film or television that deals with politics. Congratulations on winning the most narrow-minded interpretation of a culture since 9/11 became the war on Islam. p.s. they did it all better on Document. Check you local listings for details.

go exhume mccarthy.

sorry but you're wrong!!! there are so many musicians that write about politics. here's a rundown:


natalie merchant (she's more political than michael stipe)
10,000 maniacs (far more political than michael stipe or r.e.m.)
bruce springsteen
prince
the b-52's
ani difranco (she's worse than natalie merchant and michael stipe combined)
tori amos
paul simon
the beastie boys
aganist me
green day
a lot of punks such as anti-flag and bad brains
nofx
billy bragg
juliana hatfield
radiohead
suzanne vega
bob dylan
steve earl
bjork
tom petty
rufus wainwright (he's more political and definitely more in your face than r.e.m.)
the smiths
joni mitchell
joan beaz
rickie lee jones
tracy chapman
rage against the machine
rollins band
black flag
minor threat
fugazi
eminem
liz phair
the clash




political songs have been a fabric of music since the 1960's. a very big fabric as a matter of fact. and michael stipe has made some of his best political songs on accelerate. probably his best since document. it's on an equal par with that album. take houston for example. he took a quote from barbara bush about the katrina victims after visiting them at the superdome and he turned into a fantastic song. no one else currently could do that. the song speaks volumes on an album that speaks volumes. something no other release this year will have.

Goodnight Rose - Ryan Adams

good song. the whole album is actually. one of his better ones. he's not that great of an artist but he has made 3 really good records and that is one of them. nice choice.

New Soul - Yael Naim

WLY your definition of politics appears to be so broad it could include anything.

big haha's for these:

prince - are we talking sexual politics or about the politics of it being 1999?
the b-52's - Rock Lobster was about the student/workers' riots in '68! Cool!
paul simon - yeah he's political because he ripped off African music?
Tom Petty - haha
Bruce Spingstein - yeah those cars and girls are a pretty polarising issue
eminem! - hillarious

Do you write for a sitcom?

Some of the others I won't comment on because I really don't think they're political but they aren't so absolutely completely and utterly as funny as you putting those on the list.

You'd almost think you didn't know that Jello Biafra but an album out with the Melvins a few years back from your list, shameful missing that really.

Yeah the '60 is the time of political music through various forms, but in the 70s that kind of tapered off and in the 80s jesus they were mostly fucking around with synths. I'm surprised you don't add the Cure or Dire Straits to that list.

I admit I'll have to listen more closely to the REM album, but I'm just sick of the personal nature of Stipe's subject matter of the last 3-4 albums. So sick of it that those albums will forever be tainted as bordering on absolute crap. And I have more REM bootlegs than you can dream of, so believe me I don't make these comments lightly.

The Smiths, is that because they had a go at the Queen and talked about Meat being Murder? Unless Girlfriend in a Coma has some hidden underlying meaning of course.

WLY, you should look at http://zombtracker.the-zomb.com sign up there, there's tons of very old early 80s and new REM bootlegs too.

I'm a new soul
I came to this strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit bout how to give and take
But since I came here, felt the joy and the fear
Finding myself making every possible mistake

I have no clue why I love that song the way I do, I just do...

^^I know! I love that song so much. It's just so damn catchy!