I agree Frightened rabbit are fantastic, i bought the midnight organ fight within about a day of hearing them
Zack
· 1 year ago
That's why I love listening to KEXP so much - it's mostly good, and every once in a while they'll play a song that really knocks my socks off. I'm gonna send them some money.
TaylorTSides
· 1 year ago
This looks nice - great job putting it together.
kshane
· 1 year ago
Great job on the assembly. It's amazing how only a couple of albums got more than one vote. There's just so much music out there these days. It's great. By the way Jeff, I just heard that Felice Brothers album for the first time today. If I had heard it earlier, it probably would have made my list.
eric
· 1 year ago
No love for The Weepies - Hideaway? OK. Most of the list I have not heard, but they must be formidable albums to top the bittersweet pop harmonies and tight production of The Weepies. Plus, for all the banner ads I have seen for that album on this site, you should sell out and give them a top five rating. :)
Shelby Lynne did a great job on her Dusty tribute. About half the songs I don't care for, but it isn't a problem with Shelby and the band. I just didn't care much for those particular songs. Anyone Who Had A Heart and How Can I Be Sure bowled me over, though. (An aside: Tim Curry recorded a bombastic but great cover of Anyone Who Had A Heart, if you can track it down.)
jefito
· 1 year ago
I looooooooooooooooved the last Weepies record, but this one doesn't move me as much.
rwcass
· 1 year ago
Ronald Isley and Burt Bacharach's cover of "Anyone Who Had a Heart" five years ago was great as well.
Allen
· 1 year ago
Really? No love for the Mountain Goats? I submit that you just haven't heard Jukebox the Ghost. Or it would have made one of these lists. I guess these lists are fine. It's a pretty crappo year.
DavidMedsker
· 1 year ago
I've heard Jukebox the Ghost and like it. I just liked these others better.
jefito
· 1 year ago
Yep, same here.
TaylorTSides
· 1 year ago
For what it's worth, I liked the last Mountain Goats album more than any others of theirs I've liked.
Kanike Aloha
· 1 year ago
Steve Poltz is amazing live as well. And I do concur, 'Traveling' and 'Unraveling' are his best releases to date with Billy Harvey as producer.
nice wrinkle with the wordpress tables. We're hi tech stylin' today. Digg, people, digg!!!!
drcastrato
· 1 year ago
I want to say thanks for putting together these lists, including short descriptions, and providing mp3s when you can. It really makes for a great way to try to absorb a bunch of new music that I have not heard. I consider myself a fairly "with it" person, musically (I'm only 31!), and I have not listened to ONE full album from this post. Not even Vampire Weekend. So thanks again for doing this, and pretty much the whole website for that matter.
jefito
· 1 year ago
Glad you enjoyed it, Dr. C!
GrayFlannelSuit
· 1 year ago
Because nobody asked, here's mine:
1 - School of Language, Sea from Shore 2 - Russian Circles, Station 3 - R.E.M., Accelerate 4 - Fleet Foxes, s/t 5 - Portishead, Third
kshane
· 1 year ago
I just don't like that Fleet Foxes album. It seems that I'm pretty much alone in that opinion. And by the way, don't wait to be asked, just contribute.
TaylorTSides
· 1 year ago
Ken, you should try the EP. I like the album, but I think the songs on the EP are more immediately memorable.
SHWA25
· 1 year ago
HELIO SEQUENCE: KEEP YOUR EYES AHEAD.
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS: BRIGHTER THAN CREATION'S DARK.
THE KILLS: MIDNIGHT BOOM.
TaylorTSides
· 1 year ago
Good call on the Helio Sequence - that's a great little album.
Ryno23
· 1 year ago
I just dropped everything and purchased the Derek Webb & Sandra McCracken Ampersand EP. It's fantastic. I wish more of the entries were of this (and Kathleen Edwards') nature, but great job, guys.
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Shelby Lynne did a great job on her Dusty tribute. About half the songs I don't care for, but it isn't a problem with Shelby and the band. I just didn't care much for those particular songs. Anyone Who Had A Heart and How Can I Be Sure bowled me over, though. (An aside: Tim Curry recorded a bombastic but great cover of Anyone Who Had A Heart, if you can track it down.)
I submit that you just haven't heard Jukebox the Ghost. Or it would have made one of these lists.
I guess these lists are fine. It's a pretty crappo year.
Steve Poltz - http://www.myspace.com/stevepoltz
Billy Harvey - http://www.myspace.com/billyharvey
1 - School of Language, Sea from Shore
2 - Russian Circles, Station
3 - R.E.M., Accelerate
4 - Fleet Foxes, s/t
5 - Portishead, Third
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS: BRIGHTER THAN CREATION'S DARK.
THE KILLS: MIDNIGHT BOOM.