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2011 albums I have shelled out for (to date)…
alphabetical via iTunes

1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See
3. Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
4. Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
5. Beirut - The Rip Tide
6. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
7. Compact Space - Nameless
8. Cults - Cults
9. Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome
10. The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
11. Destroyer - Kaputt
12. Eddie Vedder - Ukelele Songs
13. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
14. Foo Fighters - Medium Rare
15. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
16. Foster The People - Torches
17. The Horrors - Skying
18. Iron And Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
19. Okkerville River - I Am Very Far
20. Panda Bear - Tomboy
21. Paul Simon - So Beautiful or So What
22. Peter Murphy - Ninth
23. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
24. R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
25. Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
26. Sleeper Cell - Celabrasion
27. Songs For Japan
28. Spider Man: Turn Off The Dark
29. The Strokes - Angles
30. Tedeschi Trucks Band - Revelator
31. Tones On Tail - Weird Pop
32. The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines
33. Washed Out - Within And Without

Also, RAC Vol. 2, but that was free.
 
You've beat me, Danny Boy. There are a number of other non-2011's I've bought this year, but not as many "new" albums as some years past. The older I get, the happier I am to buy less, but at least sorta be able to keep up with listening to them all. Still a number of these I haven't given enough time. Anyways, here's my list of full length albums (too lazy to list titles):

1. Beastie Boys
2. Beirut
3. Black Lips
4. Bon Iver
5. Cake
6. Cults
7. Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi
8. Death Cab For Cutie
9. The Decemberists
10. Destroyer
11. The Dodos
12. Elbow
13. Eleanor Friedberger
14. Explosions in the Sky
15. Fleet Foxes
16. Kurt Vile
17. Low
18. Mogwai
19. My Morning Jacket
20. Okkervil River
21. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
22. Panda Bear
23. REM
24. Radiohead
25. Roddy Woomble
26. The Strokes
27. TV on the Radio
28. Washed Out
 
Ha, that happens a lot for me as well. Whenever there is a quieter moment in a song on my iPod, I hear Kesha or some other pop drone briefly caterwauling over it. It makes for an odd juxtaposition.

Albums that I am anticipating for the last quarter of 2011:

1. Feist
2. Noel Gallagher
3. Bjork
4. Zola Jesus
5. St. Vincent
6. Girls
7. Neon Indian
8. M83
9. Coldplay
10. ...and some others that I am sure I am forgetting

On top of that, several reissues are due that I want to purchase.

Add these to my list:

The Rapture
Mogwai EP
Ladytron
DJ Shadow (maybe)
The Avalanches (if it comes out)
 
My stats are a little skewed this year because I just haven't listened to as much this year as last (I really have to get myself a new laptop soon).

Purchased from Amazon:
Born This Way
Yuck
Bon Iver

:huh:...could've swore I bought a few more. Usually I've purchased most of my top 20 albums from the year by the end, so there's a while to go still.

Doesn't mean I'm downloading them though. Just Groovesharkin'.
 
Artists I've covered on my YouTube channel

1. U2
2. R.E.M.
3. The Police
4. The Fray
5. Coldplay
6. Red Hot Chili Peppers
7. Mandy Moore
8. Aly & AJ
9. Maroon 5
10. The Goo Goo Dolls
 
12. Eddie Vedder - Ukelele Songs
How do you like this? I've been shopping for a ukulele the last few months and thought I should get this, but then I watched some stuff online and decided I don't like how he plays ukulele. He plays (and holds) it like a guitar. Which is fine I guess (not everyone wants to play cute little ukulele songs) but makes me wonder why he didn't just slap a capo on the guitar instead. Or maybe he does some other interesting things with it that I haven't heard yet.

Some songs I was happy to hear on the road today during the iPod shuffle:

1. I Am I said (Neil Diamond)
2. Lady With the Spinning Head (U2) (it came on twice)
3. The Big Sky (Kate Bush)
4. A King and Queen (Okkervil River)
5. I Will (Radiohead live, Musique Plus)
6. Things We Said Today (Beatles)
7. Blue Motel Room (Joni Mitchell)
8. Way Over Yonder (Carol King)
9. Living for the City (Stevie Wonder)
10. Heysatan (Sigur Ros)
 
joyfulgirl said:
How do you like this? I've been shopping for a ukulele the last few months and thought I should get this, but then I watched some stuff online and decided I don't like how he plays ukulele. He plays (and holds) it like a guitar. Which is fine I guess (not everyone wants to play cute little ukulele songs) but makes me wonder why he didn't just slap a capo on the guitar instead. Or maybe he does some other interesting things with it that I haven't heard yet.

The album pretty much is a collection of cute, lovey-dovey pop songs played to a swaying beat, so I don't see how he played the instrument "wrong" as such. Then again, I've never seen any live videos. Doesn't seem like it should translate well.
 
2011 albums I have shelled out for (to date)…
alphabetical via iTunes

1. The Antlers - Burst Apart
2. Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See
3. Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
4. Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
5. Beirut - The Rip Tide
6. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
7. Compact Space - Nameless
8. Cults - Cults
9. Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome
10. The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
11. Destroyer - Kaputt
12. Eddie Vedder - Ukelele Songs
13. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
14. Foo Fighters - Medium Rare
15. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
16. Foster The People - Torches
17. The Horrors - Skying
18. Iron And Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
19. Okkerville River - I Am Very Far
20. Panda Bear - Tomboy
21. Paul Simon - So Beautiful or So What
22. Peter Murphy - Ninth
23. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
24. R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
25. Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
26. Sleeper Cell - Celabrasion
27. Songs For Japan
28. Spider Man: Turn Off The Dark
29. The Strokes - Angles
30. Tedeschi Trucks Band - Revelator
31. Tones On Tail - Weird Pop
32. The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines
33. Washed Out - Within And Without

Also, RAC Vol. 2, but that was free.

I forgot...
Pearl Jam - Live On Ten Legs
U2 - Duals :madspit:

Death Cab is definitely on my list, I've been listening to it on Spotify.
And Martha has me about ready to pull the trigger on the Black Lips album, especially after I read that it was produced by Mark Ronson.

Man, who says there's no new music out there. I may end up buying over 50 albums this year, which I bet hasn't happened since college.

How do you like this? I've been shopping for a ukulele the last few months and thought I should get this, but then I watched some stuff online and decided I don't like how he plays ukulele. He plays (and holds) it like a guitar. Which is fine I guess (not everyone wants to play cute little ukulele songs) but makes me wonder why he didn't just slap a capo on the guitar instead. Or maybe he does some other interesting things with it that I haven't heard yet.

Nice, laid back set of summer ballads. Honestly, I haven't given his technique a lot of thought.
 
The album pretty much is a collection of cute, lovey-dovey pop songs played to a swaying beat, so I don't see how he played the instrument "wrong" as such. Then again, I've never seen any live videos. Doesn't seem like it should translate well.

Not wrong, just not traditional. He's simply playing it like a guitar with 4 strings.

I wouldn't describe this as lovey-dovey
Can't Keep - Eddie Vedder - YouTube

Anyway, just not terribly interesting to me in terms of ukulele.
 
That's the one song on the album where you could really say that he plays the uke "like a guitar." And it's easily the fastest paced, most aggressive song on the album. Because it began as a Pearl Jam track. It's the first song on Riot Act.
 
I haven't listened to that, mostly because the idea of listening to Eddie Vedder play ukelele for 40 minutes doesn't sound very appealing to me.
 
Ok. I don't really know PJ very well. I've listened to a number of the ukulele tracks now and I guess I just don't care for it.
 
GirlsAloudFan said:
That's the one song on the album where you could really say that he plays the uke "like a guitar." And it's easily the fastest paced, most aggressive song on the album. Because it began as a Pearl Jam track. It's the first song on Riot Act.

Yeah, bear in mind that a solid chunk of the album is comprised of covers...largely ballads. But if one is not into it, then I suppose that hardly matters. I personally love it.
 
Ok. I don't really know PJ very well. I've listened to a number of the ukulele tracks now and I guess I just don't care for it.

And I guess I just don't care for living, because two consecutive people saying negative things about that album means I'm going to kill myself.
 
New Potential Ladyfriend Mixtape:

1. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) - Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
2. Ask - The Smiths
3. Can't Hardly Wait - The Replacements
4. Apartment Story - The National
5. Strange Powers - The Magnetic Fields
6. Harness Your Hopes - Pavement
7. Hey - Pixies
8. Heaven - Talking Heads
9. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) - Arcade Fire
10. Promenade - U2
11. Winter - The Rolling Stones
12. Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
13. Stephanie Says - The Velvet Underground
14. Love and Happiness - Al Green
15. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again) - Sly & The Family Stone
16. The Ballad of Dorothy Parker - Prince
17. Gone (ft. Consequence & Cam'ron) - Kanye West
18. Intro - The xx
19. Kaputt - Destroyer

She's also makin' me one as well. Very exciting stuff.
 
More I would say, since this could conceivably mean something to somebody else.
 
Non-2011 albums I discovered recently and enjoy a great deal.

From best to worst but still very good:

dEUS - In A Bar Under A Sea
Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
dEUS - The Ideal Crash
Trentemoller - The Last Resort
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Tool - Lateralus
Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Mogwai - Mr. Beast
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
 
Yesterday's gym ipod songs:

1. The Beast With 5 Hands--Groovie Ghoulies
2. Young Americans--Bowie
3. Anyone Can Play Guitar--'Head
4. Coochie--Black Keys (Blakroc)
5. Spanish Bombs--The Clash
6. It Ain't 1918--Sparks
7. Goon Squad--Elvis Costello
8. Eminence Front--Pete Townshend
9. Portland Oregon--Loretta Lynn and Jack White
 
:up:

tell me, do you submit a potential ladyfriend mixtape to the same rigours as a DI list?
Cobbler, don't you know the rules for making a successful mixtape?

The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don't wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules. You're using someone else's poetry to express how you feel. This is a delicate thing.

Yes, I totally stole that from High Fidelity, but Nick Hornsby phrases it better than I could.
 
This is where Cobbler's gonna have some trouble.

yeah... the last one I made looked like this:

1. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
2. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
3. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
4. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
5. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
6. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
7. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
8. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
9. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
10. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
 
Songs that have been in my head for the last 2 days:

1. U2—Pop Muzik
2. The Replacements—Kick It In
3. Ben Barnes & Robert Sheehan—Some Kind Of Loving (disturbing. disturbing. disturbing.)
4. U2—Night And Day (Steel String Remix)
5. The Replacements—I.O.U.

yeah... the last one I made looked like this:

1. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
2. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
3. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
4. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
5. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
6. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
7. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
8. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
9. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
10. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"

*blink* That's a looooot of Iggy.
 
yeah... the last one I made looked like this:

1. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
2. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
3. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
4. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
5. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
6. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
7. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
8. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
9. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
10. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
Cobbler, Cobbler, Cobbler. :tsk:

Look, all you gotta do, really, is figure out two or three of her favourite songs, then build from there, making sure that it sounds good together and there isn't any lyrical dissonance. Remember, someone else's poetry is being used to express how you feel. Make sure the lyrics say what you want to say.

She wants to know that what she says matters to you, and that you'll be attentive. There's a fine line between "He knows me so well" and "OMG, he's google-/facebook-stalking me!" So if you figure out a few of her favourite things through getting to know her, great. Use that. Take notes in your phone if you have to. Surprising her with something oddly specific that she posted on her facebook page two months ago is creepy, especially if you're not yet facebook friends.

...Did I just give Cobbler ladyfriend advice?
 
yeah... the last one I made looked like this:

1. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
2. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
3. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
4. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
5. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
6. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
7. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
8. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
9. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"
10. Iggy Pop - "Fall in Love With Me"

Yeah, you need something much more subtle. Let's see...

Red Delicious - Want Me
INXS - Need You Tonight
Rolling Stones - Let's Spend The Night Together
The Cure - Let's Go To Bed
The Faders - No Sleep Tonight
Bad Company - Feel Like Makin' Love
George Michael - I Want Your Sex
Soundgarden - Big Dumb Sex
Clarence Carter - Strokin'
Love And Rockets - Here Come The Comedown
Green Day - Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
 
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