Albums You're Digging II

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Shining - Blackjazz

Most people can't get around the shear strangeness of this album, but if you can, I think some of you will enjoy it. I love "Exit Sun", at the moment it's my favorite track, but I definitely need to listen to the whole album a few more times.
 
Midnight Oil - Capricornia
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I love having the odd obsessive favourite - gives you something to fall back on when you're having one of those days you don't know what you feel like listening to. This here's the last album they ever recorded, and not half bad at that. Nowhere near as awesome as a few recorRAB of theirs I could name, but good stuff nonetheless.

Lunatic Calm - Breaking Point
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Some great electronica that I dug out from the murkier depths of the music library here, and could be due a review in me and Zarko's thread given which decade it belongs to. I still don't have their alleged classic Metropol which, incidentally, leaRAB me to my next post that you'll find in the rab's most wanted thread :D
 
Not so much Nickelback these days, thankfully. We get plenty hipsters running around, though. And country. The horrible kind.

But yeah, when a band I really like is mentioned in a movie I tend to notice. They put on "Seymour Stein" in their store near the beginning of High Fidelity and Jack Black did the whole thing about how it was depressing. In 500 Days of Summer the narrator mentioned Summer had used Belle and Sebastian lyrics for her quote in the yearbook.
 
The Maine
all their songs are great, and relate to life easily..
my favorite songs are everything i ask for, girls do what they want, and i must be dreaming.
they also did an amazing of pour some sugar on me (def leppard)
myspace.com/themaine
 
I'm glad you've been enjoying the album, I just wish I could have found a studio album. If What.CD couldn't pull up anything but bootlegs than I doubt there's anything out there free.

The music really reminded me of Gruvis Malt, with the progressive influences, but I didn't really find much a lot of dark influences. At least not like I was looking for when I hear "dark", like Bohen & der Club of Gore, Dale Cooper & the Dictaphones, Povarovo, Heroin and your Veins, Somewhere Off Jazz Street, etc.

Still I found myself enjoying both albums.
 
I haven't listened to Album Of the Year for a while, but it's a very good album from what I remeraber. Ashes To Ashes, Helpless and Pristina are a few I recall being particularly awesome. As for Angel Dust, top stuff!

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^ Much more jazzy than what I've heard of the guy, with some fairly complex song structures and odd time signatures. Great stuff, though I'm more a fan of his more lyric-centric, ethereal works like Secrets Of the Beehive.
 
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I love Ghost Mice, I love Andrew Jackson Jihad. Cementville is definitely the Ghost Mice anthem (aside from Free Pizza For Life), simple acoustic punk with great lyrics on both sides of the split.
 
Aside from the Chameleons, I've been listening to this too... and it's a bit of a weird one for me. Superficially it sounRAB radio-rockish but underneath it's a bit more introspective, brooding and complex than it lets on. It's far from perfect and does drag on a bit, but it has some nice parts and Dempsey's lyrics are great. It's prompted me to check out some of their older (and less commercially polished) stuff because I see potential here.

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Blitzen Trapper - Furr

I think I confused this with some other album from last year, because I was not expecting something so sunny. But still, the songs are lovely.
 
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Signal Morning-Circulatory System. They released a great debut in 2001 but nothing else until this one just recently, one of my favorites of the year.

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Beached Earls-Thee Headcoats. Great garage rock.
 
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