OK...it's Tuesday...watcha listenin' to?

[ForeverAutumn]

Wow, I mailed those packages about 3 weeks ago.

Cross border mail is reeeeeeeeeal slow these days, I've noticed. It took almost six weeks for a package from Finchy to reach me. And about 3 or 4 weeks for stuff that I sent to Finchy and Troy to reach them. Dave, did you ever get the stuff that I sent you? I mailed it the same time that I mailed the stuff to FP and Troy.

The Shins - "Oh Inverted World" - fell in love with a couple of their tunes featured on the soundtrack to "Garden State" and bought the album which i like just as much.

I'm seeing The Shins live on Sunday night. I can't wait!!!

Listens for this week include:
The Zutons - Who Killed...The Zutons.
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World and Chutes Too Narrow
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Rheostatics - 2067 - I guess that I like this one more than Troy, but I'll agree that it isn't Whale Music.
Pinback - Summer in Abaddon - what exactly is "Abaddon" anyway?
Ray LaMontagne - Trouble - The more that I listen to this, the more I like it. Quickly becoming a favourite.

[Slosh]

Pinback - Summer in Abaddon - what exactly is "Abaddon" anyway?

Canada, errr, I mean hell

[Davey]

Canada, errr, I mean hell

Yeah, or a little town in Pennsylvania. Or who knows?

...the literal meaning of Abaddon as "complete destruction or ruin," as well as being the Hebrew name for the demon guarding the pits of Hell. It could, of course, also be referring to the small township in Pennsylvania. The album itself is also full of contrasts, meshing crisp, mid-tempo math-rock rhythms and pristine guitar work with rather cryptic and unsettling lyrics, one part journal entry and one part jagged-romance manifesto. Copious syncopation and vocal harmonies hint at mid-era Sunny Day Real Estate, though Pinback's bass-heavy melodies owe more of a debt to slowcore heroes Bedhead. The group approaches the emotional peaks of early Modest Mouse with the stiff-and-staggered delivery of "Non Photo-Blue" and "Syracuse," but the drums-and-piano arrangement of "The Yellow Ones" hints at a darker direction towards the end of the album. Perhaps not quite dark enough to verge on the aforementioned pits of Hell, but certainly enough to seem pitch black against the idyllic atmosphere of the rest of the record.

[Snowbunny]

Canada, errr, I mean hell

I find this post offensive and thus have requested that you, Slosh aka Sloshy, Studmuffin, Beefcake, Poopypants, Ms Nomer be banned from the board.

I'll take you out one by one, cause after all it is all about me...

[Slosh]

I find this post offensive and thus have requested that you, Slosh, be banned from the bored.

C'mon, that's no reason to be cross

[mad rhetorik]

Interestingly, I also spun Kraftwerk's Autobahn. I love the title track, and also track 3. Can't remember the title (and I can't type in German worth a fart).

Anyway, lots of quality spins from favorite albums this week:

My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
Jane's Addiction: Nothing's Shocking
Can: Tago Mago
Meshuggah: Chaosphere
Converge: Jane Doe
Nick Drake: Pink Moon
Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks
Einsturzende Neubaten: Perpetuum Mobile
Bruce Springsteen: Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Tom Waits: Rain Dogs & Swordfishtrombones

[BinFrog]

Jane's Addiction: Nothing's Shocking
Nick Drake: Pink Moon

2 great choices

[Davey]

Dave, did you ever get the stuff that I sent you? I mailed it the same time that I mailed the stuff to FP and Troy.

Hmmm, I don't think so. In fact, I'm almost 100% positive that the answer is negative. But I'll double check tonight because 100% is never really 100%, is it? What was in it, again?