...and your fav album of '06 so far is......

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  • Labyrinth
    Labyrinth Posts: 25
    JSBE wrote:
    echoes has good taste in music, so sorry if you don't know any of the tons of awesome bands that are outside of your commercial 'alternative rock' fm station...

    pearl jam, chili peppers and tool won't be in my top 10 come the end of the year. maybe tool will be, but they are all good albums, just not really my main thing anymore.

    you're so fucking cool dude... Pearl Jam, Chili Peppers, & Tool aren't in your top 10 anymore, you're just so fucking indie & cool, I hope someday I can be as cool & as underground as you.. It's so fucking cool to register with a Pearl Jam message board & post messages on it about how Pearl Jam isn't your thing anymore man, that's real cool of you, what a wild life you have, I'm so jealous of how cool you are JSBE.
  • Labyrinth
    Labyrinth Posts: 25
    oh & same to you echoes, really, same to you Echoes

    Because everyone knows how indie Wilco & Pavement are, you're real indie & underground for liking bands like the Arcade Fire who were on the cover of Canada's 'TIME magazine', that's real underground of you, I can tell you really know a lot about indie music...
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Echoes wrote:
    As for the "all so lame"? I guess I was just expressing an unhapiness with everyone's willingness to stick with what they know, especially given so much choice these day. There have been tonnes of great albums out this year, and still every post (almost exclusively) contains tool/pearl jam/rhcp/wolfmother. Maybe some of these people listen to lots of music and honestly choose to prefer these albums. I don't begrudge them that. I have a sneaking suspicion that these albums are on there because they are the only albums these people know about/have listened to this year, and I honestly think that is pretty lame. Maybe that makes me a snob, I don't know. I like to give everything a shot, and I wish other people would to. I listened to the Tool album a good 5 times to see if I missed anything when it didn't do anything for me the first time (turns out I didn't really). I don't know why I care so much about what other people listen to, maybe I don't, and maybe I just think it is lame that they are limiting themselves, and that's why I said that. Sorry if I'm a prick for saying what I'm thinking out loud.

    i dont have the new rhcp, tool, or wolfmother. i couldnt care less. i dont listen to the radio. it's crap. but i also dont have the money or time to spend scouring the web and indie rags and whatnot looking for relatively obscure bands. i get recommendations from friends and whatnot (oftentimes on here). sometimes it works out (my morning jacket is good), sometimes not (kings of leon SUCKS). it's possible id love that band you mentioned, but becos you come on here with your "you're all so lame" comment i will never bother to listen to it figuring it's as pretentious as you are. ive bought/listened to maybe 10 new albums this year, and that's a lot for me. my limit has to do with my time and wallet, as i imagine is the case with many on here who would prefer to hear a rhcp album that they know they'll like rather than dropping a fortune on 10 obscure albums that may be hit and miss. to some people, music is their life. to others, it's just a pleasant soundtrack to life. if that makes me lame, so be it.
  • Voodoo999
    Voodoo999 Posts: 11
    the 2 records of the year for me: the new sonic youth (seriously, it is THAT good) and the new pearl jam.
  • thankyougrandma
    thankyougrandma Posts: 1,182
    it's a tough one so far, so many good new album:

    Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
    Death by Sexy - Eagles of Death Metal
    Malajube - Trompe L'oeil
    Gomez - How we operate
    The Strokes - First Impression of earht
    Saintes Catherines - Dancing for Decadence
    Tool - 10000 Days
    Dany Placard - Rang de l'église
    Islands - Return to the sea

    Also Sonic Youth is awesome, just not release so i'll wait.

    Waiting for The Dears, Arcade Fire, Sonic Youth (the real thing), Muse, Raconteurs, Radiohead...
    "L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers"
    -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • gusturtle
    gusturtle Posts: 443
    bruce's seeger sessions / pearl jam

    too close to call at this point
  • Echoes
    Echoes Posts: 1,279
    Labyrinth wrote:
    oh & same to you echoes, really, same to you Echoes

    Because everyone knows how indie Wilco & Pavement are, you're real indie & underground for liking bands like the Arcade Fire who were on the cover of Canada's 'TIME magazine', that's real underground of you, I can tell you really know a lot about indie music...


    Uhhh dude I pretty much said that I recognised that I wasn't that indie, and that a lot of bands I liked were pretty well known. It was right there in my post! I thought it was pretty clear but I guess not, huh. I mean if you want I could have TRIED to be "indie" and namedropped stuff like boris or apse or molasses or even some of the bigger names I listen to like stereolab or yo la tengo. I'm sure tht would have been more "inide" but then again that isn't my point

    While I am glad that you are jealous of how cool I am, the fact is I've been registered here since september 2003, when, surprise surprise, I WAS a huge Pearl Jam fan. I didn't think that Pearl Jam had to be in one of my top ten bands in order to post here. I didn't know that the fact that I don't like the same bands everyone else does makes me an ironic hipster out to stir shit up around here. I'm not sorry I like different music than you, but I'm sorry my opinions seem to bother you. And you know, if they bug you that much, fuck them, they are essentially worthless. But I have fun talking about music, so I'm going to keep it up as long as I have a few people to discuss it with.
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  • gusturtle
    gusturtle Posts: 443
    Voodoo999 wrote:
    the new sonic youth (seriously, it is THAT good)


    they were on 'gilmore girls' last week.
  • Voodoo999
    Voodoo999 Posts: 11
    frogwater wrote:
    they were on 'gilmore girls' last week.

    yeh, saw them perform what a waste with thurston and kim's daughter. i have no idea why they were on that lame show but it's been long since they had to prove something or explain themselves.

    edit: btw, the real thing (retail) is already out, just look in the right places.
  • Echoes
    Echoes Posts: 1,279
    soulsinging wrote:
    i dont have the new rhcp, tool, or wolfmother. i couldnt care less. i dont listen to the radio. it's crap. but i also dont have the money or time to spend scouring the web and indie rags and whatnot looking for relatively obscure bands. i get recommendations from friends and whatnot (oftentimes on here). sometimes it works out (my morning jacket is good), sometimes not (kings of leon SUCKS). it's possible id love that band you mentioned, but becos you come on here with your "you're all so lame" comment i will never bother to listen to it figuring it's as pretentious as you are. ive bought/listened to maybe 10 new albums this year, and that's a lot for me. my limit has to do with my time and wallet, as i imagine is the case with many on here who would prefer to hear a rhcp album that they know they'll like rather than dropping a fortune on 10 obscure albums that may be hit and miss. to some people, music is their life. to others, it's just a pleasant soundtrack to life. if that makes me lame, so be it.

    I never said "You're all so lame," it was "all so lame," directed at the albums that were chosen, not necessarily the people. I know I expressed annoyance at the narrow-mindedness of people, but ultimately it was the choices that made it lame, not the people. Uhhh I'd post more but I have to get to work. The gist of what I had to say would have been this - you can preview most albums on the internet these days. Or in the record store. Most of the albums I had bought had a full stream on the internet before their release. It doesn't have to be a shot in the dark. Most of these bands have histories too, so you know what they are going to sound like (approximately). I'm sorry my comment is going to steer you away from Destroyer, Dan is a really great dude who writes some great things
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  • Echoes
    Echoes Posts: 1,279
    Voodoo999 wrote:
    yeh, saw them perform what a waste with thurston and kim's daughter. i have no idea why they were on that lame show but it's been long since they had to prove something or explain themselves.

    The gilmores girls are actually pretty hot. I was glad I watched the show
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  • Voodoo999
    Voodoo999 Posts: 11
    the mom is hot, the daughter's got a forehead bigger than her face.
  • thankyougrandma
    thankyougrandma Posts: 1,182
    Voodoo999 wrote:
    yeh, saw them perform what a waste with thurston and kim's daughter. i have no idea why they were on that lame show but it's been long since they had to prove something or explain themselves.

    edit: btw, the real thing (retail) is already out, just look in the right places.

    really? i'll sure try to find it, thanks for the info.
    "L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers"
    -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Voodoo999
    Voodoo999 Posts: 11
    thankyougrandma wrote:
    really? i'll sure try to find it, thanks for the info.

    be greedy as a pig and you'll find it
  • Echoes
    Echoes Posts: 1,279
    Voodoo999 wrote:
    be greedy as a pig and you'll find it

    this dude knows where it is at.
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  • StoneG82
    StoneG82 Posts: 806
    wow this thread is like fucking WW3

    not liking an album does not make you an indie snob. i've heard the new RHCP and the Tool thing and I have to admit, they both sucked immensely. I love the new Pearl Jam though, go figure.

    If an album is bad, it's bad. I dont really think having "indie cred" has anything to do with it.

    Is that Destroyer record worth checking out Echoes? I've heard good things.
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  • pearljam_addiction
    pearljam_addiction Posts: 668
    so far the ones i like from this year Are

    Pearl jam_ Pearl Jam
    RHCP_ Stadium Arcadium
    Thursday_ A City By the Light Divided
    Wolf Mother_ Wolf Mother
    Jack Johnson_ Curious George
    Yeah Yeah Yeahs_ Show Your Bones
    Ben Harper_ Both Sides of A gun
    WE Are Scientists_ With love and Squalor
    The Subways_ Young For Eternity
    The Arctic Monkeys_ Whatever People Say About Me, That Waht I am Not
    Matusyahu_ Youth
    "I Will Scream my Lungs out 'til it fills this Room "

    " I Will Feel Alive as Long as I am Free"

    "Are We Getting SomeThing Out Of this All Encompassing Trip? Makes Much More Sense To Live In The Present Tense"

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  • transplant
    transplant Posts: 1,088
    StoneG82 wrote:
    Is that Destroyer record worth checking out Echoes? I've heard good things.
    not that you asked me, however I will second it once Echoes agrees that yeah, it is worth checking out.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Echoes wrote:
    The gilmores girls are actually pretty hot. I was glad I watched the show

    well, i do have to agree with you here. ive been in love with alexis bledel since i saw her in sin city.

    sorry if i jumped on you. like i said i had a roomate like that and it's so annoying. it's like the pot calling the kettle black when indie snobs start getting into how lame people are if they like anything mainstream. im glad you're not really like that.
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    soulsinging wrote:
    well, i do have to agree with you here. ive been in love with alexis bledel since i saw her in sin city.

    sorry if i jumped on you. like i said i had a roomate like that and it's so annoying. it's like the pot calling the kettle black when indie snobs start getting into how lame people are if they like anything mainstream. im glad you're not really like that.

    especially those highlighted blue eyes in SIN CITY...:D wow! i'm with you there, soulsinging!

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