Hey Subby

Your favorite band sucks!

/Yes, I love Neko Case
//This album is in my top 10 of this year
///The only thing more beautiful than her face is her voice

My tastes are getting twangy as I get older, but here is the list I'm trying to whittle down and number.

CHARLIE MARS Like A Bird, Like A Plane
DAVID GRAY Draw The Line
ELVIS COSTELLO Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
GRIZZLY BEAR Veckatimest
IRON & WINE Around the Well
KIERAN KANE Somewhere Beyond The Roses
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project
LYLE LOVETT Natural Forces
MATISYAHU Light
MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD Radiolarians III
MORPHINE At Your Service: The Best of Morphine (unreleased studio & live tracks)
PATTERSON HOOD Murdering Oscar (and Other Love Songs)
SONIC YOUTH The Eternal
SON VOLT American Central Dust
THE BOTTLEROCKETS Lean Forward
THE DEVIL MAKES THREE Do Wrong Right
TIM EASTON Porcupine
WAYNE HANCOCK Viper Of Melody
WILCO Wilco (The Album)

almost forgot
RODRIGO Y GABRIELA 11:11
the best and fastest flamenco guitar in the universe

no that was last year 11:11 was put out a couple of months ago...it is great. Puts you in a great mood

I haven't listened to Neko Case in a while. Now I have a new album to listen to.

Haven't listened to Neko Case in a long time. Perhaps I should check it out.

how about the new Broadcast album?

Perhaps I also should have just read Mobkey's comment and either simply said "this". Jesus, that was weird.

And to make matters worse, the word "either" randomly appeared in that post. The Faildome, I have entered it.

Wow, I have actually heard of her, seen her live, and like this album. Maybe I am a music snob after all.

Neko Case is good.
Necco wafers aren't good.

In the main, this year has been about the reissue and the music that I was either not alive for or was too young to fully appreciate This, this, and this (all new windows) have been the three titles I've listened to the most and enjoyed out of all of the collections of songs I've listened to this year.

Out of the new albums I've listened to this year (and I'll cop up front to missing a lot that I'll be giving initial listens to in my life to come), these are the ones I think will stand the test of time qualitatively:

Clint Mansell - "Moon" (original motion picture soundtrack score)

dinosaur jr. farm (new window)

steve martin the crow: new songs for the 12 string bango (new window)

animal collective merriweather post pavilion (new window)

mumford & sons sigh no more (new window)

ha ha tonka novel sounds of the nouveau south (new window)

yeah yeah yeahs it's blitz! (new window)

super furry animals dark days/light years (new window)

harlem shakes technicolor health (new window)

doves kingdoms of rust (new window)
eels hombre lobo: 12 songs of desire (new window)

sonic youth the eternal (new window)

the xx the xx (new window)

m.ward hold time (new window)

the silversun pickups swoon (new window)

pj harvey & john parish a man a woman walked by (new window) (expletives forthcoming)

yonlu a society in which no tear is shed is inconceivably mediocre (new window)

anya marina slow & steady seduction: phase II (new window)

placebo battle for the sun (new window)

jarvis cocker further complications (new window)

dent may and his magnificent ukulele the good feeling music of dent may & his magnificent ukulele (new window)

spinnerette eponymous (new window)

wilco wilco (the album)k (new window)

soap&skin lovetune for vacuum (new window)

fight like apes fight like apes and the mystery of the golden medallion (new window)

eleni mandell artificial fire (new window)

antony & the johnsons the crying light (new window)

laura gibson beasts of seasons (new window)

mos def the ecstatic (new window)

bob dylan together through life (new window)

subby is a farking moran.

If I could, I'd retroactively place "Middle Cyclone" on my list. It's too bad she's not playing anywhere within 300 miles of my present base of operations on her present tour, as I'd be first on line for a ticket.

Her album definitely wins "dumbest album cover of the year".

She's on a muscle car with a sword! LOL so random!

Fark used to be a good place to check out/hear tunes from new musicians or ones I hadn't listened to before. Now it's a joke. Most are either obvious troll threads or from Contact Music.

Prefer the old Neko stuff compared to her new album, but it's still good. Great voice that's for sure.

Oh well, I guess it will be feed the troll threads until the next time...

...5 String Banjo...

I don't say this with any pride (nor conversely any shame), but I honestly have not heard of her.

Seriously though, I think this is, ironically, a result of the internet. No one listens to radio or watches MTV anymore for music. We get habituated to certain sites with a bias (like say, classic rock), and to a certain circle of friends. Once you find a certain group of people, music outside your/their interest is filtered out.

Which, in a way is sad... but in a way is awesome because, well, listening to music you don't like sucks massive balls.

My 2 cents:

Champion - "Resistance"
Jets Overhead - "No Nations"
The Wailin' Jennys - Live at Montreaux

/Cancon WOOT

dholway: Neko and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (new window)

I like Neko Case, but I could smell B.O. from watching that video. Very strange.

/I'm clean.

I'm getting lazy about acquiring new music, but the only two things I've listened to a lot this year are Phoenix and Japandroids.

And as much as it makes me feel like a hipster douche, I'm really loving that Sleigh Bells song. (new window) That shiat is going to be Paper Planes 2009.

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Neko's latest album was awesome and is definitely one of my favorite albums of the year along with:

The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
Tinted Windows - Tinted Windows
Regina Spektor - Far
Death - ...For The Whole World To See (Discovered because of Fark! Thanks!)

Yous guys' is dildos.

Haven't been too impressed with her solo work, but I LOVE her work with the New Pornographers.

PickinWhiskers: Neko Case is good.
Necco wafers aren't good.

NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me explored this very topic with her back in July...

It was hilarious.

Neko is a very nice person who has a voice so pretty I refuse to sing along with her cause I don't wanna ruin it.

truth_is_stranger_than_fishin: CHARLIE MARS Like A Bird, Like A Plane
DAVID GRAY Draw The Line
ELVIS COSTELLO Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
GRIZZLY BEAR Veckatimest
IRON & WINE Around the Well
KIERAN KANE Somewhere Beyond The Roses
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project
LYLE LOVETT Natural Forces
MATISYAHU Light
MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD Radiolarians III
MORPHINE At Your Service: The Best of Morphine (unreleased studio & live tracks)
PATTERSON HOOD Murdering Oscar (and Other Love Songs)
SONIC YOUTH The Eternal
SON VOLT American Central Dust
THE BOTTLEROCKETS Lean Forward
THE DEVIL MAKES THREE Do Wrong Right
TIM EASTON Porcupine
WAYNE HANCOCK Viper Of Melody
WILCO Wilco (The Album)

You, sir, have great taste in music.

I have a question. I own every David Gray album through A New Day At Midnight, and I love them all. However, whatever I heard after that record bored the crap out of me. What's the new record like? Can you expand on your recommendation?

I have heard of Neko Case but I'm pretty underwhelmed by her. She's good, has a lovely voice but I just don't get a spark from her. I'd rather hear Gillian Welch. Link (new window) form her first album, don't think she's dropped anything for a while

I have only heard of her because she's among the "six artists that intercall lounge is/was featuring. Enjoy the music while you wait for your conference call to begin."

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//would rather have dethklok on the wait music rotation