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OK, so I have basically spent the last couple of years catching up on back catalogs of classic artists and critically hailed bands from some years prior. The consequence is that I really don't know much about music from the past couple of years--save for a few bands that I've always followed. I am looking for good stuff here. What are some of the best albums you know of that came out semi-recently? Recommend away!

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 lovelikesonnets wrote:

rock mommy-

maybe it was because they were playing bowery which is where they started. i have no idea.

i still love their studio albums but i just was really sad in that i legit wanted to see them for 6 years and then it ended up being very anti-climactic.

that and people kept yelling pavement songs and being drunk and annoying.

and my hip gave out so i couldn't stand any more. (yes i am old.)

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Re: asdf

simon dawes- carnivore

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rock mommy-

maybe it was because they were playing bowery which is where they started. i have no idea.

i still love their studio albums but i just was really sad in that i legit wanted to see them for 6 years and then it ended up being very anti-climactic.

that and people kept yelling pavement songs and being drunk and annoying.

and my hip gave out so i couldn't stand any more. (yes i am old.)

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 Rock Mommy wrote:


I saw them last month in Chicago and they did not disappoint. Janet Weiss is a revelation. I guess she never really got to rock her skills as much while in Sleater Kinney. Yes, Jen, you definitely need to see them on this tour. Malkmus has become a guitar hero and he's about the wittiest, smartest frontman around.

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 daria169 wrote:

let see some recent bands i've been listening to.

edie
the dresden dolls
devotchka
stereophonics
vermillion lies
julia savicheva
leningrad
milla jovovich
interpol
muse

yeah i havn't boughten an actual album in about a month. before that 6 months.

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 Criminally Elegant wrote:

 lovelikesonnets wrote:


i'm kind of mad at the jicks right now. they played here last month and refused to play anything from the first album. my favourite song is the hook and it was failure on their part...

At least you've seen them. :(

I think they're at the top of my bands I need to see list.

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 lovelikesonnets wrote:


i'm kind of mad at the jicks right now. they played here last month and refused to play anything from the first album. my favourite song is the hook and it was failure on their part...

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Re: the black keys

i know a lot of people mentioned liking the black keys, they are performing for free in cleveland;

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=44431422&albumID=1699773&imageID=29799142

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 lovelikesonnets wrote:

 RastaMan304 wrote:

Yoav - Charmed and Strange

Liam Finn - I'll be lightning

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash

liam finn is amazing. better to be is such a good song.

i'm kind of mad at the jicks right now. they played here last month and refused to play anything from the first album. my favourite song is the hook and it was failure on their part...

you have fab taste in music, ps.

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Sondre Lerche

Found him because did pretty much the entire soundtrack for that movie "Dan in Real Life" and I loved the music.

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Re: hmm...

let see some recent bands i've been listening to.

edie
the dresden dolls
devotchka
stereophonics
vermillion lies
julia savicheva
leningrad
milla jovovich
interpol
muse

yeah i havn't boughten an actual album in about a month. before that 6 months.

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 RastaMan304 wrote:

Yoav - Charmed and Strange

Liam Finn - I'll be lightning

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash

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Re: you should try out...

Yoav - Charmed and Strange

Liam Finn - I'll be lightning

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash

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Re: Re: Woo woo,

 LouieStoleMyPickle wrote:

Thanks for your suggestions so far. As for what I listen to already:
Van Morrison
Bob Dylan
Beulah
Rilo Kiley
The Elected
Everybody Else
The Rolling Stones
Ben Folds (Five)
Belle and Sebastian
Weezer
White Stripes
The Strokes
Stars
The Beach Boys
The Band
Adam Green
Jeff Buckley
Dixie Chicks
The Good Life
The Kinks
Lucinda Williams

if that gives you a better idea

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hmm...well these are some of my favorite bands:

Voxtrot- s/t
The Moog- Sold for Tomorrow
Your Vegas- A Town and Two Cities
Maximo Park- Our Earthly Pleasures
Spoon- Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Modest Mouse- We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Metro Station- s/t
Rogue Wave- Asleep at Heaven's Gate
Editors- An End Has A Start
The Cribs- Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever

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 LouieStoleMyPickle wrote:

Thanks for your suggestions so far. As for what I listen to already:
Van Morrison
Bob Dylan
Beulah
Rilo Kiley
The Elected
Everybody Else
The Rolling Stones
Ben Folds (Five)
Belle and Sebastian
Weezer
White Stripes
The Strokes
Stars
The Beach Boys
The Band
Adam Green
Jeff Buckley
Dixie Chicks
The Good Life
The Kinks
Lucinda Williams

if that gives you a better idea

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It would be really waaayyyy eaiser if you told what genre you are listening to. I can be a pretty good advicer in alternative/ indie rock sphere.

However, i always always recommend Beck's "Guero" (2005). The best damn album in the world.

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 lovelikesonnets wrote:

the picture of you with a child kind of freaks me out.


jens lekman
the black kids
calvin harris
iron & wine
cut copy
hot chip
cocorosie
mirah
the gossip

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Re: I think you might already listen to them.

Or I could be thinking of someone else, but LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver. Not that new, but whatevs.

Moving Units - Hexes For Exes

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Re: Woo woo,

Thanks for your suggestions so far. As for what I listen to already:
Van Morrison
Bob Dylan
Beulah
Rilo Kiley
The Elected
Everybody Else
The Rolling Stones
Ben Folds (Five)
Belle and Sebastian
Weezer
White Stripes
The Strokes
Stars
The Beach Boys
The Band
Adam Green
Jeff Buckley
Dixie Chicks
The Good Life
The Kinks
Lucinda Williams

if that gives you a better idea

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Re: Re: I wish I could do that, but I'm lazy.

the picture of you with a child kind of freaks me out.


jens lekman
the black kids
calvin harris
iron & wine
cut copy
hot chip
cocorosie
mirah
the gossip

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Re: I wish I could do that, but I'm lazy.

I second MGMT - Oracular Spectacular. So good.

She and Him - Volume One

The Good Life - Help Wanted Nights

The Velvet Teen - Cum Laude

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Living With the Living

Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty. I'm pretty sure they're not your cup of tea, but I love the album.

Men, Women and Children - S/T

Head Automatica - Popaganda

I haven't listened to much new stuff lately either. I've been very nostalgic for 02-03 for some reason.

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Well here are some recent-ish albums that I really love:

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81

We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor

Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself

The Black Keys - Rubber Factory (they have more recent albums, but they're always so expensive in shops that I haven't got round to buying them yet, but this CD is great).

The Cribs - Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever

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Re: some old, some new

well, let's see:

if you haven't already, you should try:

Arctic Monkeys- very upbeat- great lyrics, i prefer the first album: whatever people say I am, it's what i'm not, but the second album is good too

The Last Shadow Puppets- a side project of Alex Turner (lead singer of Arcitic Monkeys)- its like Arctic Monkeys singing James Bond music circa '60s- big orchestral pieces

MGMT- Oracular Spectacular-- some of their songs are trippy, but its good, or if you can getyour hands on the Time To Pretend EP, i like the versions of time to pretend and kids that are on the ep better

The Kooks- Inside In/ Inside Out- Naive was the big single off this album, i like eddie's gun too, as a rooney fan you should like them, they also just cam out with a new album recently Konk

Vampire Weekend- Oxford Comma is a pretty awesome song

Chester French- they are kind of like vampire weekend, they dont really have an album out yet but here's their myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/chesterfrench
they're very fun, they're producing an album with Pharrel right now

The Duke Spirit- Cuts Across the Land, they also have a new album out- Neptune- female lead singer, very cool, i like them a lot

Klaxons- Myths of the Near Future- also, you should lok fo rtheir covers of no diggity and Justin Timberlake's My Love

The Wombats- A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation

Switches- Heart Tunes to D.E.A.D.- there is an American version of this album- i just dont remember the name

The Subways- Young For Eternity- they also have a new album coming out soon

The Bravery- Sun and Moon- if you listen to the killers, i think you would like them

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so I don't really know what kind of music you like exactly but I listen to pretty much everything so I'll try and help....and i know you said semi-recent...but some of these are a few years old...

The libertines (self titile album)- I really liked this album..I thought it was really catchy and fun to listen to.

Ben Folds- Rockin ' the Suburbs- this was a little more "poppy" than his other albums and the stuff he did with Ben Folds Five but it's probably my favorite! It's also really catchy.

I feel a little silly for say this one but Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head. I wasn't a big coldplay fan unitl I heard this album and I was HOOKED! This album isn't quite as slow and so drawn out that it gets boring! I love every song.

Newer albums would be...

Radiohead's In Rainbows..I LOVE this album..I recommend the song 15 step.

M.I.A.'s album KALA is in like my top 5 albums to listen to right now. It's different but definitely something new and fresh.

Also i guess "classic" artists would be(to me anyway) Marvin Gaye. I could listen to him anytime of the day. I think he's one of the best.

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Re: Well...

What kind of music do you listen to? Then i'll know where to start.

I listen to more solo artists so I may not be of a whole lot of help. And I listen to music that probably not a lot of people listen to. haha.

Thanks to a fellow Rooney Forumer I am now wiser in my musical ways. Mostly with really good old material. Lots of folky/pop stuff.

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Re: To sweeten the pot

How about the person who recommends the album I like most gets Manzana, the old Rooney song? Huzzah!

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