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    very clever with maracas Davey's Avatar
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    What's at the top of YOUR wishlist?

    Been a while since we last checked what everyone has the itchies for....so what's at the top of your list?

    I've been wanting to check out that new Mission of Burma SACD, OnOffOn. But I'm also interested in that Les Savy Fav singles collection that Sloshy keeps plugging. I only have the Rome EP from them. And I listened to some of that Ambulance Ltd full length a few weeks ago and liked it quite a bit. And the new Honeydogs 10,000 Years is now widely available and is supposed to be a very good pop/rock epic - kind of a modern day concept album that is meeting with some high acclaim. Lots of others that people have been talking about around here too, but I'll say right now, today, the one at the top of my list is the new one by The Places, Call It Sleep. I really liked the last one by Amy Annelle and her friends and already listened to the two songs available for download a few times, so this should be a good one for me too. Kind of mellow and gentle like Low, with lots of space and subtle dynamics. But now I'm thinking, maybe I have enough music like that already. They do get cranking pretty good at the end of 'Til The Death, though. I guess the real question is, which do I want more, the latest by an artist I already know pretty well, or one that I don't know? Hmmmm.....what about you? Maybe I'll go with the Honeydogs.....



    http://hushrecords.com/discs/callitsleep.htm
    Amy Annelle is a gifted songwriter and performer: daringly original, unaffected and affecting, but all the while answering to some ancient, spooky muse. And on her latest, Call It Sleep, she has reunited with The Places to create a devastating, gorgeous wreck of an album. The ensemble is made up of Annelle's musical allies who also play in The Thermals, Death Cab for Cutie, Last of the Juanitas, Maplewood, 31 Knots, Grails, E*Rock, Swords Project and the Decemberists. In this group of Northwest eccentrics, alchemy picks up where chemistry usually leaves off. The Places prove the perfect translators on Annelle's latest songwriting trip: down murky tunnels lit with escape and addiction, rootlessness, betrayal, and empathy for the enemy.

    Annelle’s two solo albums, and her first with The Places (The Autopilot Knows You Best), won universal praise for their deceptive gentleness and familiarity that gave way to darker, starker truths. And though the last Places album might have been called hopeful, Call It Sleep finds the group truly haunted, exploring deeper palettes of improvisation, psychedelia and found sounds. The album is a homegrown affair, recorded at Portland’s own Type Foundry (M. Ward, Little Wings, Decemberists) and mixed by Larry Crane (Quasi, Elliot Smith, Sleater-Kinney) at Jackpot Recording.

    Call It Sleep employs a jazz-inspired lineup (upright bass and violin, vibrophone, piano, brushed drums and trumpet), but The Places are too weird to stick to one musical genre. Instead they wander wide-eyed through 60’s folk-rock, futuristic murder ballads and intuitively shifting time signatures. The arrangements elaborate on Annelle’s dusky narratives, while allowing her silky, almost in-your-head vocals to deliver the fatal blows. An extra treat is an interpretation of The Dreamies 1973 underground gem “Program Ten” that breathes with despair and alienation, and perhaps a distant beacon of hope.

    Fans of the dark and lucid songwriting of Black Heart Procession, Cat Power or Dirty Three will surely feel right at home here. What unfolds in the course of Call It Sleep is akin to Big Star’s Third/Sister Lovers or Nick Drake’s Bryter Later: a beautifully battered, subtly detailed map of the dark side.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Davey
    Been a while since we last checked what everyone has the itchies for....so what's at the top of your list?
    There are two that I've been wanting to get my hands on for 2 weeks now, and my local indiehipsterelitistsnob music store has thus far let me down: Devendra Banhart's Rejoicing In The Hands, and Born Heller, S/T. Gonna check again at lunch today, and if they still ain't available, I'll be forced into the old Internet buy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tentoze
    Devendra Banhart's Rejoicing In The Hands
    Have you heard anything by him yet? It's also on my wishlist but I can't remember where it came from and it doesn't look like I have any MP3s in my folder either so I'm not sure about it. Did you get the itchies from a Pitchfork review? I'll have to find a sample or two....the description is kinda warbly Will Oldham or Iron and Wine type music, right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Davey
    Have you heard anything by him yet? It's also on my wishlist but I can't remember where it came from and it doesn't look like I have any MP3s in my folder either so I'm not sure about it. Did you get the itchies from a Pitchfork review? I'll have to find a sample or two....the description is kinda warbly Will Oldham or Iron and Wine type music, right?
    Can't remember- might have been pitchfork. I heard a couple of cuts from his debut a few months ago- raw recordings, very short tunes- like 2 minutes or less. Trippy folk sounds (see another current fav, Espers ). If I can't get the new one today, I'm gonna buy the debut cd, cuz I know they have it in stock.

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    What I really want is a beautiful, sexually adventerous, smart, funny, financially independent, young woman who knows exactly when to STFU And who has friends like her.......oh, and thinks LSF is the best post-punk band ever!

    But if I have to settle for music:

    McLusky - The Difference Between You And Me Is I'm Not The One Who's On Fire

    and new albums from:

    Clinic
    BtS
    The Decemberists
    Travis Morrison

    NP: Spoon - A Series Of Sneaks
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    I'm still trying to recover from a very impulsive and sustained buying binge from a month or two ago (thanks to you guys!), so my wallet list hasn't been out much. However, if I were passing by a Newbury Comics today, I'd probably be tempted by Frank Jordan's Milk the Thrills and Raising the Fawn's The North Sea.

    Can anybody comment on these?

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    I still need to get that Eszter Balint disc. And I really want the new one from the New Year, The End is Near, when it comes out. There about a dozen others I want including the Deathray Davies and Caitlin Cary, but I don't see any of them coming my way any time soon, so I'll just keep on listening to all of the great comps I've gotten from my buds here on RR.

    John

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    I'd like to pick up the new Mum, if it's out yet...should be anytime if not. A few things I'm waiting on. I'd also like to grab the new Blonde Redhead. Then, there's a bunch of stuff I usually look around for that's older and I've just never gotten a copy. Always wanted a vinyl copy of KLF's Chill Out. There's a couple Husker Du recordes I passed by and would like to grab.

    Need to beef up my jazz collection as well. Don't have any Horace Silver, there's a couple Coltrane albums I want. Tons here I'd like to pick up.

    I may pick up this compliation I've seen at a record store around here called This Is Rockabilly Clash! All rockabilly covers of Clash songs...may be a fun listen as I love both rockabilly and the Clash.

    Then, there's always the stuff that I just stumble across when record hunting, so I rarely end up getting what I figured I'd buy upon walking into the place.

    Is the new McLusky out yet?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Whooptee
    And I really want the new one from the New Year, The End is Near, when it comes out.
    I'm really looking forward to this too. Do you know the release date on it?


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    Is the new McLusky out yet?
    May 18 I believe.
    And the world will turn to flowing pink vapor stew.

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    oh, and...

    Decahedron - Disconnection Imminent, which in effect appears to be a new Frodus album. Good, I need some more stuff that rawks

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    The New Year - The End Is Near

    Quote Originally Posted by Stone
    I'm really looking forward to this too. Do you know the release date on it?


    May 8th. if all goes according to plan
    Last edited by Slosh; 05-07-2004 at 11:04 AM. Reason: A Saturday release date? Typo? WTF?

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    Well I just ordered two from DeepDiscountCD.com

    TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

    and

    The Bad Plus - Give

    Not much on my wish list since I've been so busy, but I really need to get
    Iron and Wire - Our Endless Numbered Days based on what I've read about it, but hearing is believing.


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    Getting laid

    Oh, you mean, music related?

    Lacrimosa - Inferno
    Collide - Vortex
    Curve - The Way of Curve
    Skinny Puppy - The Greater Wrong of the Right
    Múm - Summer Make Good (I've already heard it though -- ha-ha, doesn't suck to have friends in record stores, neh?)
    All the older Lali Puna disks -- I really like Faking the Books
    Eschew fascism.
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    I want hardcore

    I don't know why heavy, pummeling noisy rawk has been so satisfying to my brain recently. I can't get enough of the Dillinger Escape Plan's CALCULATING INFINITY.

    Others I want

    Cave-In UNTIL YOUR HEART STOPS before they turned into Failure Jr.
    Burnt By the Sun THE PERFECT IS THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD one of their song titles: "Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom" great title and it totally rawks..

    other stuff.. I still need that Sun Kil Moon cd. And the last Red House Painters album OLD RAMON. My wishlist is so backlogged it's really hard to weed through it. Seems like every day I find out about an OLD album I want, not to mention all the new releases and reissues.

    *yawn* it's beena long day.. 11 hours here this desk. I gotta get outta here.

    -jar
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    at the swingin' party down the line..


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    Quote Originally Posted by Slosh
    May 8th. if all goes according to plan
    Where did it say May 8?

    Looks like the actual release date is May 18 according to The New Year's site.

    The LP is pressed on virgin vinyl and comes with an 8-page booklet.
    And the world will turn to flowing pink vapor stew.

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    The last couple of speculative orders I've made have been for these :-

    Sweet Trip - Velocityesign:Comfort
    Freescha - What's Come Inside You

    Stuff I'd like to explore but don't have the funds for...

    Schematic Records
    Bogdan Raczynski
    Matt Elliott

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stone
    Where did it say May 8?

    Looks like the actual release date is May 18 according to The New Year's site.

    The LP is pressed on virgin vinyl and comes with an 8-page booklet.
    From the most recent Insound catalog on a Touch And Go ad. Must have been a typo.

    Doesn't matter 'cause Inches should be your next purchase anyway

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    Oh Dusty you are such a character

    Quote Originally Posted by Dusty Chalk
    Oh, you mean, music related?

    Lacrimosa - Inferno
    Collide - Vortex
    Curve - The Way of Curve
    Skinny Puppy - The Greater Wrong of the Right
    Múm - Summer Make Good (I've already heard it though -- ha-ha, doesn't suck to have friends in record stores, neh?)
    All the older Lali Puna disks -- I really like Faking the Books
    You must have many of the lady friends with your unique sense of humor you have been gifted with.I wish i could spend saturday nights watching TV Land like you surrounded by your many female admirers.You lucky man.
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    Post A few discs on my wishlist:

    Been wanting to beef up my metal section a bit.

    Agalloch: Mantle
    Candiria: 300 Percent Density
    Converge: Jane Doe
    In Flames: Clayman
    Death: Individual Thought Patterns
    Mastodon: Remission

    Can't wait for Dillinger Escape Plan's new disc to come out too. Other albums I've been looking to get:

    The Roots: Things Fall Apart
    Boogie Down Productions: By All Means Necessary
    Madvillian: Madvillainy
    Eric B & Rakim: Paid In Full
    Bob Dylan: Bootleg Series 1966
    The Pogues: If I Should Fall From The Grace Of God
    McClusky: Do Dallas
    Wes Montgomery: The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of..
    Miles Davis: Milestones
    John Coltrane: Crescent
    Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners and w. Coltrane

    etc. etc. etc....
    "...and then at the end of the letter I like to write <i>'P.S. - this is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.'</i> "


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    very clever with maracas Davey's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sloshy
    Doesn't matter 'cause Inches should be your next purchase anyway
    Hey Sloshy, just ordered up that one this morning along with a couple others. Probably take a month before I see them since it was from deepdiscountcd.com, but it's usually pretty hard to beat their delivered price for current stuff....

    Inches - Les Savy Fav $12.97
    Call It Sleep - The Places $11.97
    10,000 Years - The Honeydogs $11.97

    Shipping: FREE
    Your Total: $ 36.91

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    Quote Originally Posted by Davey
    Hey Sloshy, just ordered up that one this morning along with a couple others. Probably take a month before I see them since it was from deepdiscountcd.com, but it's usually pretty hard to beat their delivered price for current stuff....

    Inches - Les Savy Fav $12.97
    Call It Sleep - The Places $11.97
    10,000 Years - The Honeydogs $11.97

    Shipping: FREE
    Your Total: $ 36.91
    Yeah, Insound was kinda pricey. $17.98 with shipping but still that's not too bad considering it's 70 minutes of top shelf stuff (except for Reformat (Dramatic Reading), which is kind of a mini radio play) plus a DVD. But I wanted it right away (got it in three days).

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