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Re: Record Store Day 2012 Release List

Kuntymcshitballs — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:23:52 -0000

EXACTLY.

Re: MONM 4, 5 and 6.

LeahVL — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:08:12 -0000

Please look at Dave Brubek, Stan Getz, and Chet Baker! Actually, just talk to me. I love jazz.

Re: Post MONM: HP Riot.

The Basement Rug — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:37:43 -0000

glad you liked The Basement Rug LP rip of H.P. Riot. This album has just been re-issued by Ubiquitous in California - more details at http://basementrug.com/5849.

Re: Thoughts Regarding Kanye’s Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy on Vinyl

FoZRpl — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:04:48 -0000

I've been back and forth about buying this on vinyl. I am a fan of the album but hear harsh criticism about the sound of the vinyl. I appreciate your thorough review and just maybe you pushed me over the fence. I really wish I could listen to it before dropping the $30+. Oh well. Kanye is an audiophile so it is hard to imagine him signing off on something low quality, right? Right. I should just buy the damn thing.

Re: Help Japan.

Shannon Romeike — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:28:27 -0000

Hi Mason, It's Shannon and Billy. We bought one of the Fushimi Inari prints, and look forward to it coming in the next few weeks. Great idea and your art is beautiful.

Re: Thoughts Regarding Kanye’s Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy on Vinyl

Cawlin — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:32:46 -0000

Keep writing about this shit I love reading it

Re: MONM 2010 #8 Quintron and Miss Pussycat — Swamp Tech

ＭＨ — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:04:16 -0000

Glad I'm making myself sound like such an authority when I can't even recognize a cover of one of the most popular rock bands ever.

Re: MONM 2010 #8 Quintron and Miss Pussycat — Swamp Tech

Kallen — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:00:18 -0000

Duuuuuuuude, Kiss.

Re: MONM 2010 #8 Quintron and Miss Pussycat — Swamp Tech

ＭＨ — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 19:58:33 -0000

I didn't know it was a cover.

Re: MONM 2010 #8 Quintron and Miss Pussycat — Swamp Tech

Kallen — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 19:53:41 -0000

Well yeah, but the cover of "God of Thunder" is just really, really, really great.

Re: MONM 2010 #8 Quintron and Miss Pussycat — Swamp Tech

ＭＨ — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 19:49:30 -0000

Since it's so great, wouldn't any track do?

Re: MONM 2010 #8 Quintron and Miss Pussycat — Swamp Tech

Kallen — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 19:46:44 -0000

Good thing the sample is "God of Thunder", I woulda flogged your ass if it was any other track off this great album.

Re: MONM 2010 #4 FrankMuzic — Complete Me

Sarah Blue — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:08:39 -0000

I am loving your daily reviews.

Re: MONM 2010 #2 Tinie Tempah — Disc-Overy

Sean P. Young — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:42:18 -0000

I'm with you on this for sure. What I've heard so far, it sounds like a really fun album.

Re: MONM 2010 #1: Crocodiles — Sleep Forever

Cawlin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:15:16 -0000

Sweet I'm totally going to listen to this for one of my days

Re: The desert island top 5.

myownbiggestfan — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:32:37 -0000

For me, this exercise tells me more about myself at the present moment than what my favourite albums are. If I just close my eyes and breathe and let the lizard brain do the choosing, then the five float to the top. They will be different from day to day. Like the way Nebraska was switched to Dog Man Star, I felt just that much more pompous the day after and needed the string swells.

Re: The desert island top 5.

Bill — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:55:40 -0000

If by gray case you mean gold-ish case? Was it one solid colour? I mean, all of their disc jackets that were done by the Designers Republic are kinda the same. I dunno. Maybe LP5? EP7? Fuck it. All I know is that over my be hangs the two 12" records for the Cichlisuite EP.

I would also agree that Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is another good pic. One may also add Bjork's Post, and Tricky's Maxinquaye. Don't forget about:
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Mastodon - Leviathan
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works II
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Arab Strap - The Last Romance
Murder By Death - In Bocca al Lupo
Beck - Sea Change
Soul Couching - Ruby Vroom
Skinny Puppy - Bites/Remission
Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk

There are so many albums that stand the test of time. Limiting to just 5 is cruel and unusual!

Blonde Redhead - Misery Is a Butterfly
Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place out in the Country
Bola - Soup
Bowie, David - Scary Monsters
Daft Punk - Homework
Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist
Del Tha Funky Homosapien - Deltron 3030
Depeche Mode - Violator
Four Tet - Rounds

The list, it goes on and on.

Re: The desert island top 5.

@chompson — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:54:36 -0000

Zoviet France-Collusion
Slowdive-Pygmalion
T.Rex-Electric Warrior
New Order-Substance
Erik Satie-a remastered collection of the Gymnopédies

Re: The desert island top 5.

myownbiggestfan — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:35:51 -0000

Bill - I'm a fan of The Fragile as well. Underrated. My Autechre go-to album is the one that was packaged in the grey case.

Eric - I've been meaning to, but haven't gotten around to yet. Hard to find a reasonably priced copy that isn't scratched to shit. Might just download it.

Colin - asked on another day, I might have put Lonesome Crowded West on mine as well.

Sean - Never pegged you as a Fleetwood Mac fan. We have more in common than I thought.

Kara - I haven't listened to that album in a long long time. If I remember correctly, I liked it, but found it a little repetitive.

Re: The desert island top 5.

felice — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:33:37 -0000

1. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
2. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

Those are the first two... I'll comment again later when I give it more thought. Picking just 5 is hard for me.

Re: The desert island top 5.

Kara — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:58:54 -0000

What about Digable Planets - Blowout Comb? 15 years later still good.

Re: The desert island top 5.

@MediumSeen — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:55:28 -0000

1. Elliott Smith - XO or Either/Or, it'd be a last min call.
2. Pink Floyd - Animals
3. Atmosphere - Seven's Travels
4. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
5. Ice-T - O.G. (Original Gangster)

Re: The desert island top 5.

Cawlin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:45:14 -0000

In no particular order:

Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Small Sails – Similar Anniversaries
Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
múm – Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West

I really want to put Terry Riley - In C on there but I think on a desert island it would eventually make me go insane. Pixes - Surfer Rosa was fighting to get in there as well.

Re: The desert island top 5.

Eric — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:40:05 -0000

I've recently taken a shine to Bruce Springsteen's The River. Actually like it more than Nebraska.

Re: The desert island top 5.

Bill — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:43:20 -0000

Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Radiohead - The Bends
Autechre - Tri Repetae++