Hey! Someone forgot to start the Tuesday thread!!!

[notphilmitchell]

Though they don't have that epic Ian McCulloch vocal sound - I really do keep hearing Bunnymen, even more so now with album 3...which has a chace to supplant their first as my favorite BSP album. I have tickets to see them on May 15th and I'm really looking forward to it - everything I've heard, read, seen tells me that they put on a quirky and energetic show.

I can't recall if Swish has weighed in on BSP - but being the HUGE Bunnymen fan that he is (as am I) I expect he'd really like them.

Glad I checked out the Tuesday thread! BSP's Decline was my record of the year for 2003. I thought Open Season was good and didn't even realize they had a new record. I will be going to TuneTribe to purchase it.

I don't really get a strong Echo vibe from them. Has Ian McCulloch released anything as of late? I saw him (and the Bunnymen) at Shepherd's Bush Empire about half a dozen years ago, bought the live DVD and haven't seen anything since.

Today, I've been listening to a couple of my favorites from 2007...

Kate Nash: Made of Bricks. I still haven't tired of Foundations and Merry Happy after too many spins of them.

The Wombats: A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation. Let's Dance to Joy Division was probably my favorite single of last year- enjoy the irony, indeed!

Manic Street Preachers: Send Away the Tigers. I grow weary of the Manics's albums- things get a bit tedious for me... I bought this for the Your Love is Not Enough single which is their best for years.

and some choice oldies:

The Jam: Extras. A nice collection- you don't have to dig out all the individual singles and EPs. Although, the Bitterest Pill EP tracks really mark the descent into the Style Council (which frequently left me cold).

The Feelies: Only Life. This record just hooks me...

[notphilmitchell]

OK- they just played Echo's The Killing Moon on the radio. I now hear BSP...

[Swish]

Interesting. I had the exact same thoughts three years later upon listening to the latest one. Check out this quirky live vid. I'm waiting for Swishy to come around and say he was at the gig, picked up a leaf and got leaf autographs when he was hanging out with the band.

I'm not a huge fan but I do like 'em plenty, and the new one, Rock Music, is pretty darned fine. Not sure I would agree that Open Season was their Ocean Rain, but time will tell. A leaf autograph. Hmmm. You might be on to something.

Swish Baby - geezer autograph hound

[jasn]

Four hours in the car today on shuffle and the studio version of this gets top grade. I found this snooping around and think it could be even better:

[Ex Lion Tamer]

I'm not a huge fan but I do like 'em plenty, and the new one, Rock Music, is pretty darned fine. Not sure I would agree that Open Season was their Ocean Rain, but time will tell. A leaf autograph. Hmmm. You might be on to something.

Swish Baby - geezer autograph hound

Yeah - that Open Season/Ocean Rain comment seems a bit pre-mature - especially cosidering Open Season is probably my least favorite of their three albums - but, at the time it did seem they had matured as a band rather quickly from their raw early sound to a more focused, albeit less exciting sound - accomplishing in two albums what it took Bunnymen four. But in hindsight now, nothing on Open Season is anywhere near as accomplished as Killing Moon or Seven Seas or Thorn of Crowns or My Kingdom or the title track. (Man what an awesome album...I think I'll listen to it tonight.)

Perhaps it prooved a little too quick an evolution as Rock Music seems to be an almost perfect blend of the first two albums.

[3-LockBox]

Just got back from my fave rekkid store, Everybody's.

I never noticed they had a listening station...oh, they have a station for used stuff, I knew that, but they had a sampler station for new releases. I walked in tonight and heard something over the store system I'd heard before, and liked, but didn't get the name, until now...Land Of Talk. They have a new one out and that's what I have been hearing off and on for a few weeks - I'd call'em a sort of updated, indie version of Romeo Void - I bought it and like it.

At the new release sampler station I listened to the new Keane, and this one has a sort of '80s new wave pastiche, not the dance stuff, the mid-80s stuff. I'll think about this one...

I took the head phones off and heard a new one playing over the store hardware and while I perused the isles, I was diggin what was playing. Turns out, its a band I'd heard of before, but not in a long time...The Sea And Cake has a new one out called Car Alarm, which I'd say was pretty good, yet another with a sort of '80s pastiche. I bought it.

I looked over at the "Staff Picks" kiosk and there was that Ray Lamontagne that FA raves about. I had to go, but I said something like, "I heard of that dude, I should check him out", and the guy behind the counter says, "You want me to open it?" and I said, "Its new isn't it?" and he said, "We open new stuff all the time...we'll open anything we can. We don't want people to get stiffed with something they'll hate just for being curious".

I think I'm in love...I didn't have time to stay, but I'll definately be back.

[ForeverAutumn]

I think I'm in love...I didn't have time to stay, but I'll definately be back.

Thanks, I'm pretty fond of you too. Ooops, or were you talking about the guy at the record store?

I'll add a couple more titles to the envelope...