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1. • CommentAuthorJShilpetski
   • CommentTimeAug 22nd 2008 edited

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   The original.
   
   
   And the superior cover.
2. • CommentAuthorsoso
   • CommentTimeAug 22nd 2008

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   What I’ve been listening to this week:
   Deastro – Keeper’s http://www.myspace.com/deastro
   (i have a feeling when the pitchfork crowd picks up on this band, they'll get big)
   
   Ra Ra Riot – The Rhumb Line http://www.myspace.com/rarariot
   (fans of vampire weekend should like these guys)
   
   Van She – V http://www.myspace.com/vanshe
   (slick, Australian dance rock. fans of digitalism should check them out)
   
   The Postmarks – By the Numbers (1-8) a series of 8 singles, all free on eMusic. http://www.myspace.com/thepostmarks
   (soft, lingering female vocals. nice and free!)
   
   tom
3. • CommentAuthorchris g
   • CommentTimeAug 22nd 2008 edited

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   ooh, CRYSTAL CASTLES!
4. • CommentAuthorBrent Wilcox
   • CommentTimeAug 22nd 2008

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   Joanna Newsom - Ys
   
   I can't see (or hear) what the controversy is all about. The eccentricity holds my attention, and on a weirdness scale it's fairly low. The Van Dyke Parks arrangements are like Americana on acid. Her voice is unusual; I find it oddly charming. But I'm a big Bjork fan, and have loved Dagmar Krause's voice for 30 years.
   
   An acquired taste, maybe, but you gotta keep acquiring tastes in life.
   
   Can't keep listening to the same stuff all the time, because Nostalgia Is Death.
5. •  
     CommentAuthornigredo
   • CommentTimeAug 23rd 2008

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   John Scoffield - Uberjam
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     CommentAuthorCassandra
   • CommentTimeAug 23rd 2008

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   @Brent Wilcox - I knew you'd like that album! 'Oddly charming' is a perfect description - it really grows on you too. Cosmia is incredible - especially live, like someone singing you a story...
   
   This week I've been finally getting round to loading my cds onto my computer (I'm slow to cotton on to the digital world) so I've been rediscovering lots of old favourites.
   
   Low - The Great Destroyer
   Juana Molina - Son
   Bell Orchestra - recording a tape the colour of light
   Primal Scream - Exterminator
   Iggy Pop - The Idiot
   Four Tet - Remixes
   
   Oh, and of course the rather brillilant Double Helix album
7. • CommentAuthorBrent Wilcox
   • CommentTimeAug 24th 2008

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   @Cassandra
   I knew you'd like that album!
   
   I'm always happy to discover something unusual I've never heard before. Her name has come up here and there over the past couple years, but frankly, it was Warren's description that waved the red flag in front of me (and still makes me laugh even after I discovered I liked her).
   
   Iggy Pop - The Idiot
   
   This is iconic for me... It doesn't sound as ear-opening to me as when it first came out (neither does Bowie's work from the same time), but it's essential.
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     CommentAuthorCassandra
   • CommentTimeAug 24th 2008

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   @Brent Wilcox
   

   This is iconic for me

   
   I keep forgetting it, then coming back to it a few years later by which time I've forgotten how good it is - seems to keep the impact fresh
9. • CommentAuthorcjstevens
   • CommentTimeAug 24th 2008

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   Best of Nazareth
   
   Kojack
   
   Uriah Heep
   
   Chemical Brothers
   
   Gogol Bordello ( discovered through this thread)
   
   Tom Waits
10. • CommentAuthorBrent Wilcox
    • CommentTimeAug 24th 2008

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    Another completely new discovery for me, which wound up in my mailbox at the station...
    
    Shearwater - Rook
    
    Very much like the late version of Talk Talk. I'm very impressed, and have to run to Allmusic.com to do some research.