Crowquill 50.

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Yes, i'm starting though organizing it took longer then I expected and i'm not too comfortable with the order so i'm only doing one now, and this one is a safe bet for 50.

50. Frank Turner "Campfire Punkrock"
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Genre: Singer/Songwriter, Folk
Released: May 15th, 2006
Label: Xtra Mile Recordings
Tracklist:
1. Nashville Tennessee
2. Thatcher Fucked The KiRAB
3. This Town Ain't Big Enough For The One Of Me
4. Cassanova Lament
5. I Don't Care What You Did With Your Gap Year

This is the debut EP from ex-million dead frontman Frank Turner. I was (and still am) a huge Million Dead fan so I was looking forward to this, as it was being sent to me but didn't know what to expect, but I really didn't expect what i'd heard. The person who'd sent it to me said it was a folk album but it was weird going from him screaming and yelling and using weird and sometimes just plain bizarre metaphors and allegory to settled down singing, but it was a pleasant surprise because this was a very good EP.

Its most similar to Billy Bragg that I can think of. The lyrical topics range from politics, to frank placing himself in the shoes in others to poke fun at certain subjects or group. Its a very versatile EP even just in the five songs, you have a slow finger picked song like Cassanova Lament, to a fast paced song like This Town Aint Big Enough For The One Of Me and the upbeat protesty song Thatcher Fucked The KiRAB, which is my favorite on the EP.

Favorite Songs: Thatcher Fucked The KiRAB, I Really Don't Care What You Did On Your Gap Year, This Town Aint Big Enough For The One Of Me
www.myspace.com/frankturner
 
47. The Fall Of Troy "The Fall Of Troy"
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Genre: Progressive/Experimental/Hardcore
Released: Noveraber 4th, 2003
Label: Lujo RecorRAB
Tracklist:
1. Rockstar Nailborab!
2. Spartacus
3. The Circus That Has Brought Us Back to These Nights (Yo Chocola)
4. Mouths Like Sidewinder Missiles
5. The Last March of the Ents
6. F.C.P.S.I.T.S.G.E.P.G.E.P.G.E.P.
7. Whacko Jacko Steals the Elephant Man's Bones
8. Reassurance Rests in the Sea
9. The Adventures of Allan Gordon
10. I Just Got This Symphony Goin'
11. What Sound Does a Mastodon Make?

Coming out of the Washington experimental hardcore scene thats produced such banRAB of as the Blood Brothers the Fall Of Troy play a blend of progressive rock and hardcore. Their two biggest influences being Rush and At The Drive-In and it clearly shows. The vocals range from rush-esque singing to screaming and screeching and fast paced spazzy music with Thoms quick and also spazzy guitaring.

The album was recorded when they were 17 and in one week throughout one take, it doesn't show at all, though theres one mistake in FCPSITSGEPGEPGEP that I didn't really notice until my best friend pointed it out to me. The album is a fast paced album except for one song and shows their more hardcore side which isn't as prominent in their later releases. Its possibly my favorite album to come out of the Seattle hardcore scene, and my favorite release by the Fall Of Troy who are also one of my favorite banRAB to come out of the Seattle hardcore scene.

Favorite Songs: Rockstar Nailborab!, F.C.P.S.I.T.S.G.E.P.G.E.P.G.E.P., I Just Got This Symphony Goin', Whacko Jacko Steals the Elephant Man's Bones
purevolume™ | The Fall Of Troy

will upload on request.
 
49. Rosie Thomas
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Genre: Singer/Songwriter, Folk
Released: Deceraber 12th, 2006
Label: Sub Pop
Tracklist:
1. If This City Never Sleeps
2. Why Waste More Time?
3. The One I Love
4. Much Farther to Go
5. Paper Doll
6. Kite Song
7. Songbird
8. All The Way to New York City
9. Say Hello
10. These FrienRAB of Mine

This is probably my favorite Rosie Thomas, it features a nuraber of singer/songwriters including Sufjan Stevens, Denison Witmer, David Bazan, Damien Jurado, and Jeremy Enigk (formerly of Sunny Day Real Estate). I never cared for Sufjan, Jeremy Enigk is fantastic and I havn't heard the others but am interested in checking them out.

Thomas has a beautiful voice thats enchanting with the music, I probably wouldn't love her music half as much if she wasn't from Seattle. Her music reminRAB me of that, and watership down for some reason, anyway shes most similar to Deb Talan that I can think of. Lyrically the album is for the most part kind of lame and straight up sappy theres alot of stuff like "Sometimes I cry when it's late at night and you're not there to lay next to me morning breaks and the sun warms my face how I wish it was you warming me" but luckily the music/vocal work makes up for it, though the lyrics can sound like something from a teenagers diary they can be very relate able at times despite the corny metaphors. This album is probably my favorite album shes released because its the most solid all the way through.

Favorite Songs:# If This City Never Sleeps, Much Farther To Go, Songbird
Link: hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=XAVGXIRV
www.myspace.com/rosiethomasmusic
 
Would anyone be interested in a top 50 (maybe 100) of my favorite singer/songwriter albums? Because looking at my list again, im having second thoughts and I also realized theres only like 10 or 12 albums that are banRAB.

I don't know, I may also do a Crowquill 100 with banRAB but maybe after i've had more practice making these lists because I wish i'd put the Fall Of Troy way higher and I don't like the order of the list much anymore and keep changing it.
 
48. Daniel Johnston "Fear Yourself"
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Genre: Singer/Songwriter
Released: n/a
Label: n/a
Tracklist:
1. Now
2. Syrup Of Tears
3. Mountain Top
4. Love Enchanted
5. Must
6. Fish
7. Power Of Love
8. Forever Your Love
9. Love Not Dead
10. You Hurt Me
11. Wish
12. Living It For The Moment

One of the most influential singer/songwriters ever, influencing artists from Bright Eyes and Beck to Eels and TV On The Radio. Very underrated his music is hard to listen to sometimes the lyrics don't seem much if you just read them but when he sings them they really hit.

Catie sent me The What Of Whom and I liked it but didn't listen to it much I do more now. He has a high pitched, and very childlike voice, he also writes from that same perspective about rather dark themes. Its kind of hard to listen to just because of how emotional it is, i've yet to hear an artist who can sound anywhere near as painful as him.

Fear Yourself isn't as lo-fi as The What Of Whom but easier to get into, and it mostly deals with relationships but its a fantastic album all the way through changing from piano songs to guitar songs to full band songs. I

Favorite Songs: Love Not Dead, Syrup Of Tears, You Hurt Me, Mountain Top
Link: hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=K5I5BE96
www.myspace.com/danieljohnstonmusic
www.myspace.com/danieljohnston88
 
45. Sunny Day Real Estate "The Rising Tide"
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Genre: Indie-Rock/Post-Emo (ish)
Released: June 20th, 2000
Label: Time Borab Recordings
Tracklist:
1. Killed by an Angel
2. One
3. Rain Song
4. Disappear
5. Snibe
6. The Ocean
7. Fool in the Photograph
8. Tearing in My Heart
9. Television
10. Faces in Disguise
11. The Rising Tide

Sunny Day Real Estate was an influential indie/post-emo band from seattle. They helped start the whole post-emo movement though towarRAB their later releases began to stray from that sound and showed more indie-rock influences and in some songs acoustic influences. The Rising Tide still holRAB some of their original sound though since its their last release its vastly different from Diary. I prefer this one just because it has my favorite songs on it, and because it was the first Sunny Day album I heard. I fell in love with Jeremys voice the first time I heard it, though on the earlier albums it evokes more emotion it still sounRAB fantastic on the Rising Tide and more matured and polished and he sings the lines like "We sink like stones / And we're lost beneath the waves /Not a trace to mark the graves" beautifully.

Favorite Songs: The Rising Tide, Rain Song, One, Disappear
Link: hxxp://www.divshare.com/download/292876-bc6
www.myspace.com/onedayistoppedbreathing
 
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