Best of 00's ???

[Rae]

Do you have anything post-Warmer Corners?

No, sadly my collection neatly overlaps yours (the only exception being that I have Staring at the Sky on 10").

~Rae

[tlax25]

I completely missed this post, but thought I would add some to the lists already on here (some great choices, though I wonder if the album concept has been completely destroyed in the 00's by iPod, online radio stations, etc... Anyway, here are some that I would add to the list:

Damien Rice - 0
Alexi Murdoch - Time Without Consequences
Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go
The Frames - The Cost
Joe Purdy - Julie Blue
Green Day - American Idiot (I know it has already been said, but awesome album)
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out

[Rae]

Was Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out really a 2000 release? Damn. That might get added to my list, too, although somehow my brain lumps it in with their 1990s work.

~Rae

[tlax25]

Yeah, Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out was released Feb 22, 2000 (at least according to Wiki, for what that is worth). Hell of a good start to the 00's...

[jonnyhambone]

thanks for the reminder - I sorta threw The Lucksmiths into the Belle Sebastian pile of 'neuter-rock' but they do transcend that (I only have Naturalista...). I've been spinning that one a lot since I read this thread and would love to hear more.
There's quite a few I'd have to put on a 00's list but my two mentions for the moment are
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Lyre of Orpheus/Abbatoir Blues
just great songs and a very listenable Cave - not so crushing as some of his stuff.
Angels of Light - Sing Other People
Akron/Family as backing band - amazing headphone album w/ the harmonies and production/instrument subtleties.

[Davey]

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Lyre of Orpheus/Abbatoir Blues
just great songs and a very listenable Cave - not so crushing as some of his stuff

Yea, that is a good one with a nice mix of styles. Awful recording and/or mastering, but ace songs. I'll add The Hill by Richard Buckner. Right up there with some of my all-time favorites.

[Rae]

Yea, that is a good one with a nice mix of styles. Awful recording and/or mastering, but ace songs. I'll add The Hill by Richard Buckner. Right up there with some of my all-time favorites.

Oh fuck, you guys should just write my list. The Hill was transformative... I got lost in that record for weeks. I read the whole Spoon River Anthology. I buttonholed strangers on the street to ask them if they'd heard it. I pondered whether "rue de reveille"/"rude revelry" was an intentional double entendre until my mind turned inside out. I listened to it over and over and over and over. "And all I could say was don't, don't, don't."

~Rae

[Rae]

No, sadly my collection neatly overlaps yours (the only exception being that I have Staring at the Sky on 10").

~Rae

I just ordered all of the post-Warmer Corners stuff online, so give me about 3 months to digest it and then this project is on. Amazon has all 5 of their pre-Happy Secret releases available as mp3 downloads (they're OOP and prohibitively expensive on CD)... is that going to work for this crowd?

~Rae

[Stone]

I just ordered all of the post-Warmer Corners stuff online, so give me about 3 months to digest it and then this project is on. Amazon has all 5 of their pre-Happy Secret releases available as mp3 downloads (they're OOP and prohibitively expensive on CD)... is that going to work for this crowd?

~Rae

Wow, cool. Let me see what I can do on the early stuff. We may ultimately have to rely on some mp3s.