The morning after

Hello,
Great night last night, the smaller group worked well.
I definitely picked up a few things I want to check out.
For my part here's my list of 2004's top albums:
Damien Rice "O"
Ray Lamontagne "Trouble"
Elliott Smith "From a Basement on a hill"
Rilo Kiley "More Adventurous"
Kanye West "The College Dropout"
Jet "Get Born"
Snow Patrol "Final Straw"
Razorlight "Up All Night"
Neko Case "The Tigers Have Spoken"
Loretta Lynn "Van Lear Rose"
Cheers-Alan

What's happening deadbeats?

Hello, hello....
Testing.....
Is this thing on......?
Hey folks anybody out there?
Anything new rocking your world?
All ready for the next meeting?
I've been really into the Kanye West album in the last few weeks maybe on the back of the Grammy hoopla. Great album, very funny.
I also got about 20 Cds from the Toronto public library as I was bored last week and had nothing else to do but surf for CD's.
The library is fantastic.
Cheers, Alan
"Rock N' Roll means well but it can't help telling young boys lies"

A couple of great videos to check-out

Hello,
Here are some lovely videos you should check out (both will warm your heart, I promise, although they both might make you sad to):

1-The Reindeer Section "You are my joy"
This is a beautiful song and a great, touching and very cheap video.
http://www.sputnik7.com/vod/index.jsp?section=music&key=urmj
(I just found sputnik7 and they have some great videos)

2-Aberfeldy "Love is an arrow"
Another lovey dovey video this time with eskimos.
http://www.aberfeldys.com/
(both these bands are Scottish)

I watched the Wedge on Much Music and I just can't understand why they don't have more of that on. 1 hour a week of good music is just not enough. Last nights show was highlighted by the wonderful new video for Bright Eyes "First Day of my Life". I wanted to put that on the above list but I couldn't find it on the web. When it gets posted on his site I will put it up.

Next Meeting

Next meeting is still scheduled for the 25th, right? And we're doing Best 10 Albums of 2004?

The CDs that Alan and I made were more favourite songs than best albums (at least mine was), so I think I need to redo my CD for this meeting.

I'm wondering if we should clarify the rules a bit? Perhaps we can decide that each person's list can only include albums that were released -- or that gained momentum -- during 2004? (For example, even though Damien Rice's O came out a couple years ago, nobody in North America had heard of it before late 2003.)

This will make a big difference to my personal list, as a lot of the music I was listening to last year came out in the late '90s, but if we're really making this a Best Albums of 2004 instead of a Favourite Albums in 2004, we should limit it to albums from that year.

Any thoughts?

Yucky!

Wow. I just sat down and listened to Gwen Stefani's new album, Love Angel Music Baby. What an awful album! I kinda liked the first single (and since I don't listen to the radio or watch live TV, I hadn't heard it more than three times all the way through), so I decided to check out the rest. It's so, so bad. I can't even describe how unlistenable it is.

History will not be kind to this record.

Death Cab Confessions

So, Lali, I have a confession to make: I added Death Cab for Cutie to my LaunchCast station a few months ago after your trip to NYC, and I couldn't get into them. I tried really hard because I knew how much you digged them, but I couldn't do it. I had to downgrade them to 2 stars.

However, recently I listened to your Best Of album again, and I'm totally digging on the Death Cab song you put on there. I listened to it over and over and over (well, just twice). I liked it so much so that I'm willing to give them another chance, and upgrade them to 4 stars on Launch. Maybe even so much that I'd need to borrow your ablum?...