Suicide. At least the first LP.

Heavy Vegetable.

Xiu Xiu.

Wu Tang Clan

I'm still strung out on Cheval de Frise

I recently started playing Oxes in heavy rotation

Gomez.

A buddy made me a "best of" Gomez CD. After about three days of listening to it, I bought every album they've made, saw them at the Vic and am currently witnessing to anyone/everyone about the word of Gomez.

Neurosis The eye of every storm. Heard it the day it came out, and I still listen to it almost everyday. I've tried breaking the addiction by listening to neil young, creation, Mark Spybey...anything not neurosis. Not working.

this is not easy, been a while since I've had that lovin feeling. I think the last time I was really looking forward to a band's release/tour/existence would be hot snakes. Although I'd say were more like friends though.

Some fine lists here. I might be overlooking someone worthy here, but the last time I went absolutely nuts over a band was some years back, when I first heard Joel RL Phelps and the Downer Trio on college radio, in this case "Hope's Hit" off the SA-recorded 3. Not only did I go out and buy all the JRLP CDs I could find, it led me (thankfully!) to SKWM, another band that deeply affected me.

Ah, the feeling of loving a band's work. This feeling, she is awesome.

Lately I've been listening to a lot of Branca, but that's a fascination going back many years. Bonnie Prince Billy's I See A Darkness is tremendous, but he took the love away with a show of complete mediocrity some years ago. The album is still great, but the love...is not the same.

Perhaps a more recent case can be made for Aphex Twin, whose works were exposed to me while on tour a while back. This same tour exposed me to the beauty of Melochrome, courtesy of Melochrome leader Pramod Tummula and this own forum's (Coctail) Barry Phipps. The Melochrome album This Is Motion is indeed gorgeous, and should be sought out.

Ah, now I remember! The year 2001 was very special, for falling in love with Big Star, the Band, and the Coctails (based on the exquisite, unassuming pop beauty of Peel)! What a fine summer! And then, it all ended so sadly. But the music is still good.

Perhaps a case can be made for the spring of this year, with my discovery for myself of the latest Mark Kozelek project Sun Kil Moon, which hit my Neil Young nerve in all the right ways. And then Van Morrison's Astral Weeks! Such music of healing! Bella!

Earlier in the year someone played me The Concretes. Then my brother played it alot in the house so i kept hearing it in the background. He went away and it felt like something was missing. So i worked out what it was, bought the record and then listened to it over and over and over. It's in the car too and i still can't stop listening to the album! And i play it to everyone i possibly can. I think i've generated at least 20 extra sales for them.


I sing all the songs to myself near constantly.

So yeah i guess you could call it love.

Maurice wrote:Perhaps a case can be made for the spring of this year, with my discovery for myself of the latest Mark Kozelek project Sun Kil Moon, which hit my Neil Young nerve in all the right ways.

i love that record! easily the best thing he's ever done. "salvador sanchez" sounds like neil young meets husker du via god.. just fantastic.

i just got seamonsters (the wedding present) this year and was pretty obsessed with that record; it's basically flawless. went and got most of their back catalog.. pretty good but nothing quite touches that one