LESTER SHUE’S best finest paramount unsurpassed greatest preeminent pinnacle summit peak vital chief supreme unequaled matchless utmost (kind of)(not in any paticular order)list of 2006 Music:
1) The Replacements (Best Of): The Minnesotan garage mess of pop trash. Paul Westerberg aka Grandpaboy and company are treated with a collection that collects 18 tracks with two new tunes.
2)Silver Jews: The countrified ramshacle stumble of Tanglewood Numbers is as happy as a hangover: Yes, It was fun, but how am I feeling Now songs that make you realize behind every smile there is, well, you can imagine. Plus they toured. Welcome back.
3)Destroyer: Destroyer’s Rubies. I love Destroyer. Saw them play in the southwest and since them I have been bearing my aching heart. Daniel Bejar (The New Pornographers and Swan Lake)wrote an album (#7) of Dylanesque songs (meaning the period of Dylan like rolling thunder)that is just the most engrossing album of Destroyer's career since Streethawk.
4)Annuals: Be He Me. Adam Baker. Yes. This North Carolina orchestral joy escape whose songs flirt with waltz classic rock disco chant you name it just makes you oh yesyes. Impressive debut.
5)Pink Mountaintops: Axis of Evol. Steve McBean (also Black Mountain). Seven tracks of evengelical white light and stoner heat on war peace hell sex the end of the world.
6)Active Driveways: Proof for Indio. Whole lotta fuzz sinister and trashy on the low-fi spectrum. Guitars jitter, drumming like body blows, excess urban white noise, cheap keyboards, and other unpredictable instrumentation, and a singer singing in the finest tradition of vocalization: He talks. A must if you can find it.
7)Sunset Rubdown: Shut Up I am Dreaming. Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade) Slippery, physical, whispery, sad, fable-like songs for an album that just demands the head space and phones.
There is definitely more albums worthy of mention, so let me know.
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Adamski says:
thanks lester,
I'm collecting all the alblums I i once had as a nipper,
right now: The Associates - terrific early 80's Scots band - Billy MacKenzie will put yer soul on edge..
also - Ruts DC - post Ruts outfit that put together a great roots/dub CD with Mad Professor and Zion Train
and ALL of The Fall - ahhh, amazin what you can do with two chords...
MARK E SMITH - fuckin geeenyus!
PS:
adum says:
if yu had to choose one Echo track, which one would it be???
anomski:
Funny the Mark E. Smith::::I was just listening to 50,000 Fall Fans collection today. funny funny. As for the echo, dunno. gimme some time.
anomski:
Funny the Mark E. Smith::::I was just listening to 50,000 Fall Fans collection today. funny funny. As for the echo, dunno. gimme some time.
A correction of my own:
There "are" definitely more albums worthy of mention, so let me know.
Yea, yea, yea punk ass...
For the Car Outside My Window
I was waiting for the moment when the car idling like something clearing its throat will turn into music.
I was waiting for the wing mirrors to hear my song – sally me into their long canals, their glass rivers, and vanish me there.
I was waiting for the little engine of being – my own hot combine. I was waiting for it to love you back – waiting for the metal in me to burn
as you burn. Sweet curb drifter. I too pause on Bedford Avenue and purr with mileage. I stroll my vehicle. I roll down the windows of my song.
I too feel the iron music push its river through my blood doors. I carry the night with you. I dream it through the grills of my skull.
ad says
Villers Terrace - the Peel session version - less full on - more acoustic...love that medicine
I've got to stop reading poetry. It's no good for me. Along with those Steely or Steeley or Stealee Dan records or bands named after dildos or dans. I just wanna spend some time with Bijou Phillips. or ?
come on Lester
song your song
take a line
SING
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