I should really start listening to that album, I love it.
My favorites are probably All coming back, always worth it, at your best, and perfect now.

I saw her live opening for Martha Wainwright, otherwise I never would have found out about her.

This is one of my favorite CDs ever! I love all the songs, but I especially love Haunted, Amazed, If you were here, wild...they're all such great songs though, it's hard to pick my favorites.

i should send some tracks from sarah blasko's second album to cherub's ass. it's good. there are no songs that jump out like "always worth it" but as a whole, it's more serious, even flirting with radiohead lite.

wow Joan of Arc what A beauiful cover!

always lately

That would be great if you could send me a song!

I don't think I really like Radiohead.. well they aren't bad so much as I don't really like Thom Yorkes voice.

yeah, well, sarah's voice is definitely more to my liking than thom's. i mean, the instrumentation is more akin to radiohead. her sophomore record has really beautiful guitars, like poe's haunted.

I have been in like an alanis mode and shit. I fucking love this album and "Jagged LIttle Pill" but thats it really and including "uninvited" not a big fan of her recent stuff though.....

i'm not a big fan of cursing.. but... i love Alanis too like the old stuff. i'm with u there

and sorry i'm grumpy. this guy just dumped me like no big thing. i hate life sometimes.



good album for heartbreak. for apathy and everything. i love this man

ah

sad elliott. rip.

The Greatest - Cat Power

I'm really getting into this.

maria taylor - lynn teeter flower

ah.. maria taylor's voice, what an extraordinary listen. i put her voice up there with rose melberg, truly one of the most beautiful, sweetest, dreamiest i have ever heard. like rose, she can make it seem like she's immersed in the emotions while sounding totally spaced out. i guess, i shouldn't be this complimentary when she has this naturally. anyway, she's back with _lynn teeter flower_. her sophomore album is not really that different from her debut. it still has packets of twee pop sugar and pretty, folky ruminations. she did opt for less use of vocal layers which made her voice in her debut spectacular, like being assaulted by angels. oh wow, i'm going on and on about her voice. i can't help it, it's just so beautiful. so what about music here? okay, let's see. we have xanax part 2, otherwise known as "no stars". it has the massive guitars but none of the noctural pads of vocals. there's a track here that reminded me of the electronica, dance pop of some of the songs in her debut. "irish goodbye" has the beats and the groove and... a rap break which is okay but kind of distracting. i mean, is maria going dido on us? i hope not. it doesn't make the song less good though, thankfully. i think this album is a step forward for maria. she's definitely experimenting here but nothing big, nothing overly ambitious, smart move. one complaint though, i hate when people add a track of them singing as a kid. it's so moronic. she does here. i think it's the title track. it's cute but c'mon.

a good start
lost time

charlotte hatherley - the deep blue
it took three spins for me to fall deeply for this album. and it took a certain amount of exhaustion. i was in a state of near asleep and then listened to the song "again" from hatherley's second album and it just clicked with me. here's where she excels at, a drop dead gorgeous melody, rich vocal harmonies and an array of sounds, guitars noise, reverb, feedback and lush strings. i was stunned. i wanted to drown in the music. a more scattershot work than her debut, perhaps because she recorded this in months while the debut took two weeks. this is also less punk-y than her last effort. what she lacks in energy, she makes up with a knack for woozy melodies and swirling guitar turns. i think most of the songs here can pass off as modern dream pop. actually, the music can only be described as shredded pop music or buzz pop, if you will. it certainly reminds me of the breeders, sans the warped lyricism of kim deal. easily avoiding tired songwriting and that dreaded sophomore jinx by simply doing what she's always done right, charlotte hatherley may be one of the better things to come out of england. now, why isn't she as heralded as the long blondes? she deserves to be, perhaps more so.
standout tracks: again, behave



myspace

"Come and get me... What?!" by Imani Coppola.
This album was made after Chupacabra, it's the one that got her dropped from her label.
And it's a shame! It's full of energy, catchy hooks and is very wacky. I can see why they didn't want to market the album, (it's quite ambitious) even though it probably would have done fine.
You can hear previews for it here: http://www.imanicoppola.net/process.php?PH...D&AlbumID=3

dirty three

club 8 - club 8
moving away from the chirpy melodies of nouvelle and friend i once had, club 8's self titled album proves to be a defining moment. opening with the minimalist melancholy of "love in december", never has the band sounded so good. everything seems to be in order, in tune. the female vocals are subtle and sad. the synth pads quietly along a brittle melody that never collapses under the weight of its own flow. the song is so perfectly modulated that it seems to be a downer to follow it up. but club 8 does follow up nicely. "she lives by the water" sounds like it could have been taken from a david lynch movie, what with the ominous synth and heartbreaking vocals from karolina. this whole album manages to be sad, sweet and shimmering. they'll be trying to remake this album ever since, with varied results.

Ani Difranco- Little Plastic Castle

REM;s best of album... a great cd to listen to over and over again. I just wish it had "The Sweetness Follows" on it.

I just love Carly's work from the 70s. Shame she became excessively commercial in the 80s and onwards (despite a few great songs). Her 2000 album The Bedroom Tapes is the only exception.

That is hardly "the best of REM", actually its no where near. It does not cover the IRS years which were their best.

Murmur, Document, Fables of Reconstruction....the list goes on. All classic material. But new REM is um not so classic.

loooovely

On my way back to school I listened to:
Lisa Loeb - The very best of Lisa Loeb
Carly Simon - Greatest Hits
Tori Amos - Under the Pink
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine

...and another one, but I forgot which one

Eden,
Thanks for fixing up the previous note so that everyone could see the image.

I had this album on casette, but never on CD. I need to go and pick up the CD.

i had that on tape but the player ate it and the tape broke. i taped it back with scotch tape but it still skipped. it was so sad.

I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT!
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT!!!

Garbage is my shit! fuck yeah!

I love Carly Simon alot, more than carole king!!!

I did always sing a song the right thing to do lately! it such classy and classic album, everybody totally have to get this album! right?

do you like the song called mocking bird with james taylor?

like it?!

Mock-
Yeah
-ing
yeah
bird
yeah
yeah
yeah
mockingbird now
everybody have you heard
have you heard
he's gonna buy me a mockingbird...

and the right thing to do is just my favourite carly song ever. so exquisite.

Disc D of A Piano : The Collection.

We know your music, but of course we'd never buy it, its too fake man, right man, we dont give a fucking damn

sally shapiro - disco romance
the synth, not particularly a new instrument but it's been setting the tone for most of the more interesting musical works of late. sally shapiro's disco romance is simultaneously warmed up and chilled down by the synth, that is the driving instrument of her album. her pretty melodies will be pedestrian if not for the presence of the unique sound. it gives her work an eighties, dance club, european edge, a sadness brought on by a supposedly cheesy noise. the breakout track here is "anorak christmas", which as far as catchy songs go is a very bittersweet. it has a punchy drumline and synth beats fall like snow, along with the singer's own gossamer delivery. it's perfectly upbeat yet it more than hints at a melancholy. most of disco romance does the same and if we're talking about the best parts, anorak christmas doesn't even compare to the pitch perfect miserablist dance anthem, "i'll be by your side" and there's the self contained synth kaleidoscope of "i know". all the nine tracks in this collection is as self assured as any club hit but also as personal and intimate as any work by some singer songwriter. some people might be mistaken to thinking this is annie version 2.0 but sally shapiro (not her real name) is way less into penning catchy tunes and more into full throttle gloom, she's the one on the dancefloor, crying, swaying into a minimalist groove.

one
thing
about

Forsythiaaa...

angela desveaux - wandering eyes
oh canada. canada gave us the wonderful kathleen edwards and now, angela desveaux. angela sounds a lot like edwards, in the sense that she makes toe tapping alt country which you can easily hear on the radio. she's been endlessly compared to edwards and particularly and more often, to lucinda williams. angela nails that withering lilt in her voice. in ballads like "if only" and rootsy pieces like "familiar times", one can almost hear that it's something she's perfected. i do struggle with thinking if she fakes it. the woman probably does but her songs are lovely and tuneful enough to discard any thought of lashing back. when the opener "heartbeat" gets things started with a wistful, catchy shuffle and a nice touch of double tracked vocals, it's very difficult to think of something else other than "what a nice girl..." and it's also not a bad thing that the record smacks sweet of indie rock backing from musicians involved with arcade fire and the wooden stars.

Some obscure album called "whitechocolatespaceegg"

My favorite CD ever...

mus - el naval

language of flowers - songs about you
the spirit of velocity girl lives on with language of flowers. although the band more than toys with the eighties style jangle, vocalist tara simpson is almost a deadringer for sarah shannon. and the melodies, while nowhere near as memorable as the ones velocity girl used to power through, are sweet and high octane. "tara mascara", the clear standout, is reason enough to check this out. it's urgent and pretty, the way indie pop should be.

ladytron - witching hour

Regina Spektor - Live in California 2006 EP

The Birthday Massacre- Violet

i like the birthday massacre.
doomed synth pop

OHBIJOU - Swift feet for Troubling Times

ohbijou-misty eyes
ohbijou-steep

PELE.
I thought I appreciated this album... and today I'm listening to it and I'm realizing I still have to listen to it many more times before I'll completely be able to appreciate it for what it's worth.

For some reason I never listened to Marianne before, it's a great song.

I love that CD. But I find it hard to get into Not the Red Baron. I don't know why. I've just never really liked that song.

i'm watching a live performance of marianne in youtube. it's very pretty and sad. she looks crazy. she's in that crazy position again.

neither am I.. the intro is so long

i guess i'm a "Marianne" fan.. it depends on my mood