The Decemberists have the #1 selling record in the US.

[Swish]

Yeah, the new The King Is Dead is loud and in your face. Very '90s. Its as though they're begging for forgiveness for having made a concept album and trying to win back their critic darlings status by making an REM album. How tragically hip of them.

I was beginning to think I was the only one who thought 'Down by the Water' sounded very similar to 'The One I Love'. Very similar.

[atomicAdam]

I was beginning to think I was the only one who thought 'Down by the Water' sounded very similar to 'The One I Love'. Very similar.

I've got this albums playing right now while the snow is melting and sun is shining. On the larger system it is actually pretty good.

[Mr MidFi]

The Decemberists disc is most definitely growing on me. (But then again, I've always liked REM, so that's probably has something to do with it.) And the I&W disc grabbed me from the jump. Sure, it lacks the 'intimacy' and vulnerability of much of his previous work, but these songs are doing well with the more self-assured and readily accessible treatment they're being given. It's that kind of album, so why not.

The new Radiohead is a puzzler to me. It's either trying too hard, or not trying hard enough. I dunno, but there's not much for me to connect with. So far.

[tentoze]

New Decemberists= thumbs up, regardless of SQ.

New Iron & Wine= Never got past the 3rd song. Dreadful. I suppose this is where Beam's been heading, but I think he should have made a u- turn back to teaching school about 3 albums ago.

[Slosh]

New Decemberists= thumbs up, regardless of SQ.

Agreed.

New Iron & Wine= Never got past the 3rd song. Dreadful. I suppose this is where Beam's been heading, but I think he should have made a u- turn back to teaching school about 3 albums ago.

Disagree, album of the year for me (at this point). Me & Lazarus and Monkeys Uptown are among the best I&W songs to date, and every other song has grown on me. The Shepherd's Dog will probably always be my favorite I&W album but Kiss Each Other Clean is exceptional as well. The Creek Drank The Cradle and Our Endless Numbered Days I like in bits and pieces. TSD and KEOC I always seem to play straight through.

[Swish]

New Decemberists= thumbs up, regardless of SQ.

New Iron & Wine= Never got past the 3rd song. Dreadful. I suppose this is where Beam's been heading, but I think he should have made a u- turn back to teaching school about 3 albums ago.

I like the Iron & Wine more than the Decemberists new record, but both are getting plenty of spins around my house. I really can't figure out how you can call the former 'dreadful'. That's as puzzling to me as Jim Clark's trashing of the last Josh Ritter cd. Oh well.

[tentoze]

I like the Iron & Wine more than the Decemberists new record, but both are getting plenty of spins around my house. I really can't figure out how you can call the former 'dreadful'. That's as puzzling to me as Jim Clark's trashing of the last Josh Ritter cd. Oh well.

Swish-baby, I can call it dreadful because that is exactly what my ears tell me it is. I't just differences of opinion. Vive le difference, eh?

[Swish]

Swish-baby, I can call it dreadful because that is exactly what my ears tell me it is. I't just differences of opinion. Vive le difference, eh?

...by saying it was 'puzzling'. You're certainly entitled to your own opinion, no matter how ridiculous it may be.

[tentoze]

...by saying it was 'puzzling'. You're certainly entitled to your own opinion, no matter how ridiculous it may be.

Well, the perception of ridiculous opinion should come as no surprise- I've always been swimming against the current here, like the sacrilegious stance that Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is a piece of non-essential fluff.

[bobsticks]

Now it gets good.

[Swish]

Well, the perception of ridiculous opinion should come as no surprise- I've always been swimming against the current here, like the sacrilegious stance that Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is a piece of non-essential fluff.

...are that much different in the grand scheme of things. I would bet we agree much more than disagree.

[tentoze]

...are that much different in the grand scheme of things. I would bet we agree much more than disagree.

You're right, of course.










P.S.: That new Iron & Wine really sucks.

[ForeverAutumn]

You two are reminding me of a great line I heard recently...

"If I agree with you, then we'll both be wrong. "