be prepared to be blown away. it quite possibly is the best cd of the year. it's already in metacritic's top ten best rated of the year. by the way does it have a bonus track? allmusic says it does although it's not listed.

Meh, metacritic is often inaccurate of the general feelings of reviewers. The majority of American Doll Posse reviews loved it, yet it's average was 69, they leave out a lot often.

Any ways, Revolution in Me by Siobhan donaghy finally arrived today. While I don't think I'll like it as much as I love ghosts, it's shaping up to be very,very good. Shame about its lack of success, hopefully Ghosts doesn't suffer the same fate.

A lot of the ADP reviews that I read gave ADP an average grade. I don't remember reading many where they absolutely loved it.

well, metacritic is not wrong about suzanne vega's album. beauty and crime is literate and beautiful.

thank you.

Really? I remember reading a lot of very positive ones.

I didn't come up with a hidden track either with EAC or iTunes. My CD player doesn't play one either. Maybe it was only in the advance copy?

This is a really nice album that I am very happy with.

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Edit:
I like this review of Beauty & Crime:
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews...a-beauty-crime/

Guided By Voices - Under The Bushes Under The Stars
Veruca Salt - American Thighs
Metric - Grow Up And Blow Away
Erase Errata - At Crystal Palace
Regina Spketor - Live at Bull Moose
Heavens To Betsy - Calculated
Bangs - Tiger Beat
Superchunk - No Pocky for Kitty
Robbers on High Street - Tree City

Absolute Garbage

Best Buy had it on sale for $9.99. This is a best of album and only has one new song on it.

I had the first album on cassette only (picked it up when I was up in the DC area on one of my business trips in the mid 90s). I was partial to "Stupid Girl" and "I'm Only Happy When It Rains" off of that album, but I know that there's other cuts from that album here.

For some reason, I'm honestly not interested in any of their work past their debut album.

I downloaded the best of and I haven't really played it properly.

That's entirely cool. I've gotten some pretty good tips on music from you and that's part of the value that I place on this forum.

Maybe someone else will like what I like, but then again, maybe not. I'm pretty old, you know.

Everyone else on here who likes Garbage generally likes all of their music.

I don't know what it is, but I've never gotten past the debut. All their later singles just felt like they were trying to recreate something and the chemistry just wasn't there for me.

I always thought Version 2.0 was their best record. It was slicker than their self-titled debut but god are the songs good.

From here onwards however, things started to go downhill. beautifulgarbage, described as a David Lynchian record, overall has neither the intrigue nor the creativity of said icon. However, some songs stand out like the 60s-pop Can't Cry These Tears, the sombre ballads Drive You Home and So Like a Rose that Garbage do so well, the spooky Nobody Loves You, the typical but fun. anthemic Parade and of course, the glossy Cherry Lips. The rest of the record is either alright or mediocre.

Bleed Like Me is a massive improvement over the muddled beautifulgarbage but nothing new is being said. All it does is confirm Garbage's strengths that were prominent on their debut. Thus, while it is a solid record, it's a blatant attempt to recapture the glory they've lost since Version 2.0.

The Absolute Garbage collection thankfully focuses more on their 90s work rather than their 00s stuff (although the world is not enough should have been discarded). However, in the 5 songs chosen to represent their 2 albums released in the 00s, only 3 deserve to be here (Why Do You Love Me, Bleed Like Me, Cherry Lips). The other 2 (It's All Over But the Crying and Shut Your Mouth) are garbage-by-numbers. In their places, I would have placed Right Between the Eyes (from Bleed Like Me) and Can't Cry These Tears (beautifulgarbage). The new song, Tell Me Where It Hurts, could have been good but there's too much going on in terms of the production. The whole song is just a wash of sound and while it's pleasant, it's not memorable.

To be honest, I think this is the end of Garbage. But there's always Shirley Manson's solo record around the corner.

loudon wainright III - strange weirdos from knocked up (yes. that same knocked up. i got it used new for $6.99)
rooney - calling the world

reddie, it's not the end of garbage. they're already working on a new record and they're eying mid 2008 to release it.

i like all their albums. sure, there are some weak spots but there are some gems in all of them. i'm not excluding their debut from that. their debut had some songs for the life of me i cannot embrace, songs that sound like weak versions of songs already done by shoegaze band Curve.

oh and i would have imagined lightyears would like "you look so fine". i imagine him having sex to that song. lol. or getting dateraped.

juliana's pony arrived today.

as beyonce sang in dreamgirls:

heavy, heavy... you got so heavy, baby...

heh. it is heavy. the dark twisted sister of beautiful creature. i love how juliana can successfully pull off both sides to her musical personality.

It really is amazing how Juliana can create such wonderful hard rock songs as well as beautiful ballads.

She's so....rock.

it's difficult breaking into. so far i can only recall the tune of 2 or 3 songs. i suppose that's the only thing i dislike about this album: the hatfield-esque hooks are absent.

me too. it's my least favorite juliana album. but it's brief and can grow on you. listen to it when you're really angry.

it's a toss up between this one and bed as worst for me. or least favorite anyway.

you're kidding.
there were some really great songs in that album
actually all of it is great. "running out" and "let's blow it all". "i want to want you" and "you are the camera"... great album. my least faves are probably total system failure and made in china.
you better check it out again.

nah! bed bored me pretty much. i even find made in china better. bed had very few melodies and was pretty faclees generic by the numbers rock. there wasn't really anything that stood out for me.

nah
i think you're just having a bad day, or an alzheimer episode.
want a neckrub?

rihanna - good girl gone bad

i got this second-hand.

pros: delicious electro-pop/R&B tracks
cons: ballads. they're not as bad as the godawful Unfaithful but the main problem is that her voice is too undemanding to pull them off. the more studio trickery there is, the better rihanna sounds.

hey! watch it or i'll call svu on you. that's harassment. i am quite capable of my resources. i know full well how bad or undercooked bed is. i ain't drinkin' none of yo kool aid foo!

:fixes your collar:

But why would you buy it?

I like Umbrella. And her new song.

It's such a sleazy album and it loses steam by track 6. the first 5 are frickin' fun though.

kate nash - made of bricks

and i ordered:

the b-52's - whammy!
the b-52's - wild planet

wild planet is really, really good. i like that one a lot. it also needs a two disc remastering done. as does the debut, which i hear is in the works. also i recently bought rush's snakes and arrows and smashing pumpkins' mellon collie and the infinite sadness.

Sheryl Crow - The Globe Sessions

i'm listening to it now

Lovers - Sleep with heat

Ooh, my favorite Sheryl album (Followed closely by the self titled)! I hope you like it.

common - finding forever
radiohead - com lag

yeah yeah yeahs - is is (ep)

finally!!!!!


the smashing pumpkins - adore
r.e.m. - around the sun (cd/dvd deluxe edition)
the smashing pumpkins - machina/the machines of god
kelly clarkson - my december
queens of the stone age - era vulgaris
beastie boys - hello nasty
dave matthews and tim reynolds - live at radio city

I love Bed and I don't even really love Juliana

ugh!!! that cd just bores me to tears. anyway, got some more new music.


buffalo tom - three easy pieces
sonic youth - daydream nation (2 disc remastered deluxe edition)

hope you like my december.

my brother bought the deluxe DN recently. He keeps telling me that if I love Throwing Muses, I'll love Sonic Youth so I'm gonna give them a go.

Good luck. I don't even care what anyone likes anymore apparently, because I've loved SY since I was a kid, but I don't even really have any advice about getting into them. They're such artists though, they culivate these sonic shells. Each song is like and atom, and their guitars bring into being particle/waves of sound that just build upon eachother. There's extravagence there, minamalism too; they have such a huge catalogue, so there is no way to summarize them.

i'm on the fence with this band. they're normally the type of band that i would not even touch. as i loathe a lot of what they stand for/represent. but for some reason i like them. especially their more recent material. yet i'm not really into them all that much. i try to get further into them and i don't necessarily. which is i'm on the fence about them. although i really dig the new thurston moore cd. i've been playing that one for a while now. i think it's probably his finest work. in and out of sonic youth. it appeals much more to my sense of taste.

Rilo Kiley - Under The Blacklight

It was released today and Best Buy had it for $7.99.

PhairPhreak's advocacy paid off--I guess. He got me interested with some of the Jenny Lewis cuts. It sounds good so far.

I noticed a new album by The New Pornographers also. Anyone have an opinion? I imagine that CC would be interested at least.

MIA : KALA

Fun, freaky, dancey sometimes, very nice. It's not as consistent as Arular, but I think it's possibly better with the variety.

Now if I can wait until oct 9 for that darn Imani album which I already have...

I'm not really into the New Pornographers. I like a couple of their songs, but that's all.

Love them, cant wait to get it.

i got the same deal. it's the reason i bought it. i also got some other cd's recently. here's the rundown:

lilith fair: a celebration of women in music brand new (for $.77)
the flaming lips - u.f.o's at the zoo the legendary concert in okalahoma city
natalie merchant - the house carpenter's daughter

i was listening to live in new york on my zune when i was in the store to get the flaming lips and had to get some natalie merchant. the natalie i didn't have was tigerlily and the house carpenter's daughter. can't get tigerlily yet as the new remastered version isn't out yet so i went with the house carpenter's daughter.

juliana hatfield's hey babe off ebay. im trying to get eisley's combinations off ebay too - too good an album to exist solely as a copy on an ipod.

so you like it?! yey!

I still haven't heard anything off of the new record.

I haven't listened to Room Noises in awhile, but I really love that album.

Stacy, the keyboardist and occasional vocalist, is a much better singer than Sherri, though and she should do more of the leads.