Another List Thread (Discourse = One Paddlin')

[Cute Irish Bono]

My favorite albums today:

 

[BlueSilkenSky]

Songs that I was surprised to hear on the radio (but that made me happy):

1. Take Me Out- Franz Ferdinand
2. Sweetest Thing- U2
3. King of Pain- The Police (and all the other singles off Synchronicity except Every Breath You Take)
4. Dog Days Are Over- Florence and the Machine
5. I Will Follow- U2 (and then it turned out I was listening to an all-day U2 marathon.)

Albums I want to own soon
1. Mylo Xyloto- Coldplay
2. Ceremonials- Florence and the Machine
3. Elegantly Wasted- INXS
4. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me- The Cure

Artists I must see live or else
1. Florence and the Machine
2. Thriving Ivory
^wish there was more but I'm really not interested in seeing anyone else

Songs I have recently discovered and been listening to a lot
1. Desert Rose- Sting
2. Pumped Up Kicks- Foster The People

 

[AnCatKatie]

Blue, you really need to see more concerts than those two!


Songs that have improved my mood recently:

Leaving Of Liverpool—The Pogues
Head Over Heels—Tears For Fears
Second Song—TV On The Radio
Just Like Heaven—The Cure
Fortress Around Your Heart—Sting
I Fought The Law—The Clash
Warrant—Foster The People

 

[cobl04]

Every lover on a mission, shift your known position into the light ooh ooh ooh ooh

 

[prbiker15]

Concert DVD's I have watched this weekend:

1) Madonna - Sticky & Sweet Tour (Live in Buenos Aires)
2) U2 - Popmart Tour (Live in Mexico City)
3) AC/DC - Black Ice World Tour (Live in Buenos Aires)
4) U2 - Vertigo Tour (Live in Chicago)

My favorite one out of all was Popmart. My least favorite was Vertigo, though all were great.

 

[BlueSilkenSky]

Blue, you really need to see more concerts than those two!

Um... does seeing U2 again count? I can think of plenty of artists I like but none that I would see in concert... *sigh*

Edit- And some that I can't see in concert... *SIGH*

 

[AnCatKatie]

Every lover on a mission, shift your known position into the light ooh ooh ooh ooh

That song is awesome. You saw them in concert recently, right? Lucky bastard.

Blue--no, doesn't count

 

[cobl04]

Yeah saw them Saturday and I'm seeing them again Wednesday night I think.

 

[AnCatKatie]

they'd better come to Baltimore sometime in the next 4 years...

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

I am loving Broken Social Scenes' Forgiveness Rock Album! Texico Bitches and World Sick and All To All are my favorites so far.

 

[BlueSilkenSky]

Songs that I was surprised to hear on the radio (but that made me happy):

1. Take Me Out- Franz Ferdinand
2. Sweetest Thing- U2
3. King of Pain- The Police (and all the other singles off Synchronicity except Every Breath You Take)
4. Dog Days Are Over- Florence and the Machine
5. I Will Follow- U2 (and then it turned out I was listening to an all-day U2 marathon.)

6. Drive- R.E.M.
7. Nothing- The Script
8. Need You Tonight- INXS

 

[AnCatKatie]

Stuff I am gonna make my older sister listen to:

1. U2
2. Echo & the Bunnymen
3. Joy Division/New Order
4. The Runaways
5. The Stooges
6. The Stone Roses
7. The Ramones
8. The White Stripes
9. The Replacements


bc I put a bunch of my CDs on her iTunes...

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

Mix CD I Made My Sister. I made two songs from each artist for her to get a good sample from each.

1. Broken Social Scene - Forced To Love
2. Broken Social Scene - Texico Bitches
3. Stars - The Night Stars Here
4. Stars - Let's Start A Riot
5. Coldplay - Paradise
6. Coldplay - Hurts Like Heaven
7. Phoenix - Fences
8. Phoenix - Girlfriend
9. Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma
10. Vampire Weekend The Kids Don't Stand A Chance
11. Portugal The Man - Floating
12. Portugal The Man - So American
13. Ra Ra Riot - Can You Tell
14. Ra Ra Riot - Ghost Under the Rocks
15. Scattered Trees - Four Days Straight
16. Scattered Trees - Love And Leave
17. Young the Giant - My Body
18. Young the Giant - Cough Syrup
19. Ryan Adams - When the Stars Go Blue
20. Ryan Adams - Gonna Make You Love Me

 

[LemonMelon]

Rhapsody's list of artists that look most like Santa Claus:

1. Billy Gibbons
2. Jerry Garcia
3. Edgar Winter
4. Leon Russell
5. Brent Hinds
6. Fat Bearded Jim Morrison
7. Rick Rubin
8. Everyone in Buffalo Killers
9. Mick Fleetwood
10. William Lee Golden

Terrible list after the first four.

Wait, I'm not supposed to comment on the list, am I?

 

[Danny Boy]

It's only discourse if someone responds to you.

Oh, shit.

 

[LemonMelon]

My top 10 albums on last.fm:

1. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
2. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
3. Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
4. Deerhunter - Microcastle
5. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
7. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
8. The National - Alligator
9. Brian Eno - Another Green World
10. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

Awesome. Thank you, last.fm, for quickly assembling a list of albums that would make me happy at any given moment.

 

[bono_212]

My top 10 albums on last.fm:

1. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
2. U2 - Achtung Baby
3. The Killers - Day & Age
4. U2 - Zooropa
5. U2 - The Joshua Tree
6. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
7. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
8. The Killers - Hot Fuss
9. The Killers - Sam's Town
10. U2 - War

 

[LemonMelon]

Albums released this year that are awesome:

Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance
Beach House – Bloom
Andrew Bird – Break It Yourself
Shearwater – Animal Joy
Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
John Talabot - ƒin
Frankie Rose – Interstellar
Julia Holter – Ekstasis
Lambchop – Mr. M
Of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks
Amadou & Mariam – Folila
Grimes – Visions
Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls
Tindersticks – The Something Rain
Chromatics – Kill For Love

 

[iron yuppie]

Albums released this year...
Beach House – Bloom

Ahem.

 

[LemonMelon]

I am just not allowed to gush over that album, am I?

 

[iron yuppie]

One more month.

At that point, I will probably be gushing over it as well.

I have also been listening to Cocteau Twins lately and am beginning to think that Beach House owes them style royalties or something.

 

[LemonMelon]

Were you into Cocteau Twins before? I've never heard you talk about them.

Perhaps that parallel is why I love Beach House so much; Cocteau Twins are just as awesome.

 

[iron yuppie]

Were you into Cocteau Twins before? I've never heard you talk about them.

I just started over the last two weeks. I've heard Treasure and Heaven or Las Vegas. Both $3 at Reckless.

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

Favorite new acts I got into recently:

1. Rogue wave
2. Say hi
3. The helio sequence

 

[cobl04]

European Oils
Painter in Your Pocket
Rubies
Looters' Follies
Watercolours
3000 Flowers
Sick Priest
Dangerous Woman
Your Blues
Priest's Knees

Destroyer Rushmore - European Oils, Kaputt, Bay of Pigs, The Bad Arts

 

[BlueSilkenSky]

Pink Floyd songs that were played on the "Top 500 Rock Songs" countdown that I listened to on the radio this Memorial Weekend-

1. Brain Damage/Eclipse (counted as one song)
2. Have A Cigar
3. Time
4. Young Lust
5. Money
6. Hey You
7. Wish You Were Here
8. The radio station announced they were going to play another one just as we lost the signal. At number 65, so they may have played more.

Beatles songs they played during the countdown:
1. Come Together
2. Revolution

7 Floyd songs and 2 Beatles songs seems very strange to me.

 

[iron yuppie]

Talking about Sound of Silver made me think about where it would fall on my list of the best albums of the 2000s:

1. Radiohead: In Rainbows
2. Radiohead: Kid A
3. Radiohead: Hail to the Thief
4. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Raising Sand
5. The National: Alligator
6. The White Stripes: De Stijl
7. Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
8. Arcade Fire: Funeral
9. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: No More Shall We Part
11. Sufjan Stevens: Seven Swans
12. The Horrors: Primary Colours
13. Los Campesinos!: We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
14. Bat for Lashes: Two Suns
15. Bjork: Vespertine

 

[cobl04]

Do you like This Is Happening more, may I ask? It's definitely my favourite.

Incidentally:

All My Friends
Someone Great
Get Innocuous!
New York, I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down
North American Scum
Time to Get Away
Sound of Silver
Us V Them
Watch The Tapes

 

[LemonMelon]

Sound of Silver is my least favorite of the three, despite having his two best songs on it. The fact that we can generally agree on what the good and not-so-good songs is a bad thing.

 

[iron yuppie]

Do you like This Is Happening more, may I ask? It's definitely my favourite.

The two are pretty close for me, but I think Silver just gets the edge. It feels the most cohesive of his three albums. Dance Yrself Clean is an absolute beast, though, the caliber of song that most artists spend their whole careers trying to make.