The Single Best Album of the Past 10 Years

[Slosh]

Yeah, tough one. Probably one of these mostly anti-mainstream indie elitist hipster snob minor classics ...

Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
Black Heart Procession - 2 Amore del Tropico
Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Notwist - Neon Golden
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs All Is Dream
Spoon - Girls Can Tell A Series Of Sneaks
Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane, Over The Sea
Radiohead - OK Computer

Whaddaya mean that's cheating? Ok, Ok. Perfect From Now On

Aren't you glad I cleared that up?

[Davey]

Aren't you glad I cleared that up?

Yeah, thanks! I knew it didn't look right

I need to pull out OK Computer more often. Got kind of tired of it around the turn of the century and hardly ever listen anymore. Got kind of detached from it, although it's kind of made to be listened to a little detached. And then it seemed like everyone was trying to sound like Radiohead, and talk like Radiohead, and walk like Radiohead, and be like Radiohead, and I got kind of sick of Radiohead. But I feel a spiritual renewal coming sometime in my future.

[Slosh]

I'm more than a little burnt out on OK Computer as well but for me it's like Rubber Soul or Beggars Banquet in that sooner or later I'll come around to it and be amazed all over again.

NP: another all-time favorite of mine: SFA - Rings Around The World

[Troy]

Mike Keneally- Dancing
Porcupine Tree- In Absentia
Echolyn- Cowboy Poems Free

[Davey]

Mike Keneally- Dancing

Hey Troy, I was just wondering if that title is a reference to his mentor's purported comment about music critics? You know, the dancing about architecture thing? Or does it actually have a meaning in relation to the songs? Seems like a person would probably look pretty funny trying to dance to some of his songs. Or is it just something out of the air?

[Troy]

Hey Troy, I was just wondering if that title is a reference to his mentor's purported comment about music critics? You know, the dancing about architecture thing? Or does it actually have a meaning in relation to the songs? Seems like a person would probably look pretty funny trying to dance to some of his songs. Or is it just something out of the air?

I have no idea. Maybe its a metaphor for trying to hold a 12 piece band together. Maybe it's irony.

Recently I read that "Dancing about Architecture" thing was attributed to Elvis Costello.

[Davey]

Recently I read that "Dancing about Architecture" thing was attributed to Elvis Costello.

Yeah, I've also read that his use of it is the only one that is very easily verifiable since it apparently appeared in a magazine interview, but he also claims to not even remember saying it, and I believe actually attributes it to Martin Mull or some other comedian (Steve Martin?), and if you've read some of Costello's lengthy comments on his own work it would seem not really to fit all that well. But who knows.

It does later show up in that Laurie Anderson concert album, and she jokes about square dancing to her music, or something like that. I saw her once at the Berkeley Community Theater and she was totally spellbinding