so i've liked these records:

madvillain
kanye
ghostface
sonic of youth
mission of burma
ahleuchatistas
team doyobi
black forest/black sea
charalambides
pg six
born heller
comets on fire
black eyes
sufjan stevens
skygreen leopards
deathprod
darkthrone
emotional joystick
wilco
deadbeat
decomposure
isan
loretta lynn
mouse on mars
murs
sunburned hand of the man
jason sirota's rebel souls
aoki shimada
richard youngs
the advantage
jason forrest
trapist
vetiver
wiley
fires were shot
animal collective
and probably some other stuff i'm forgetting about. this is excluding stuff like boxes and re-releases and all that shit.

anyway, really all i want are some recommendations of stuff i'm missing.

(p.s. w/ descriptions, if you can. love, chris)

<img src="http://gooom.com/promo/happylike/images/01.jpg">

<img src="http://gooom.com/promo/badthriller/images/01.jpg">

what's that second thing

they did a remix of run into flowers on that m83 single.

Originally posted by killed radio star
they did a remix of run into flowers on that m83 single.


m83 kicks ass!

http://gooom.com/promo/happylike/index.html

There's a bunch of cyann and ben soundclips.

Originally posted by sawdust restaurants
what's that second thing

http://gooom.com/promo/badthriller/index.html

here's a list of stuff i have on my hard drive i think is good:

!!!
1/3rd Octave Band
Acid Mothers Temple
The Advantage
Anaksimandros
Animal Collective
Bark Psychosis
Battles
Bill Wood and Fredrik Ness Sevendal
Birchville Cat Motel
Black Dice
Black Eyes
Black Forest, Black Sea
Blithe Sons
Califone
Caretaker
Cerebrus Shoal
Charalambides
Chib
CJA
Coachwhips
CocoRosie
Daedelus
dDamage
Dat Politics
Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words
Dead Machines
Deathprod
Decomposure
Deerhoof
Destroyer (just for the first track, really)
Donato Wharton
The Double
Edward Ruchalski
Ekkehard Ehlers, Joseph Suchy, Franz Hautinger
Emotional Joystick
The End. (the ipecac one)
Enduser
Faust & Dalek
Fennesz
Flashbulb
Food for Animals
FRX
Functional Blackouts
Gang Wizard
Gorge Trio
Greg Davis
Hair Police
Headset
The Hunches
Japanther
Jason Forrest
Kanye West
Keith Rowe & Christian Fennesz
Kid606
Kill Me Tomorrow
Klimek
Kukkuva Poliisi
Leprechaun Catering
Les Georges Leningrad
Liars
Madvillain
Matmos (yes, i do like Rat Relocation)
Matsui
Mclusky
Metalux
Midnite Snake
Mindflayer
Mitchel Akiyama
Mokira
Motion
Mountain Goats
Mouse on Mars
Mystic Chords of Memory
Nautical Almanac
Neptune
No Neck Blues Band
Noxagt
Numbers
Ocs
OOIOO
Organum & Z'ev
Paivansade
Pan Sonic
The Ponys
Rammellzee
Robert Lippok
Sachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura, Otomo Yoshihide
Satanicpornocultshop
Shalabi Effect
Shitmat
Skygreen Leopards
Skyphone
Shoplifting
Sonic Youth
Spektrum
Squarepusher
Sunburned Hand of the Man
Syndrone
Taylor Deupree
Team Doyobi
Teenage Panzerkorps
The Thermals
Traject
Trapist
Tulsa Drone
Tussle
TV on the Radio
Utabi
Venetian Snares
Vibracathedral Orchestra
Violetta Beauregarde
Vladislav Delay
White Magic
Wolf Eyes
Xiu Xiu
Yumiko Tanaka

idunno, there's a lot of other good stuff too. like Hearts of Darknesses, Experimental Dental School, i should pick those up. or burn them from the station. i'll never be satisfied with the amount of music i hear.

i knew i could count on you, rp.

:love:

you are an indie piece of shit

My god, you two must just like whatever shit you pick up.

Originally posted by sawdust restaurants
(p.s. w/ descriptions, if you can. love, chris)

The sap is so thick I wish I had some pancakes. Why don't <i>you</i> give us some descriptions, fucker? Love, Elisabeth.

Originally posted by sawdust restaurants
i knew i could count on you, rp.

:love:

You guys are supposed to be faggy in an intelligent way, not in a purely faggy way. Shape up now, k?

Originally posted by I_was_aborted
My god, you two must just like whatever shit you pick up.

Nah. I just tend to have music on whenever I'm in my apartment, which is a most of the time from Wednesday to Sunday, so I tend to listen to a lot of stuff. There's a good 10-20 albums on Ryan's list that I've heard and don't like.

Talk to me, fucker.

Description:

Elisabeth is a smart, sassy Netphorian who still has her moderator stars. I think some time in the last few days, she stole not only my stars but also my virginity and my innocence.

Originally posted by sawdust restaurants
Description:

Elisabeth is a smart, sassy Netphorian who still has her moderator stars. I think some time in the last few days, she stole not only my stars but also my virginity and my innocence.

That's more like it!

Oh, I love it when you talk dirty.

Originally posted by Irrelevant
CocoRosie

<font color=33FFFF> get this one first</font>

this has been a really good year for albums so far.

Originally posted by sawdust restaurants
so i've liked these records:

madvillain
kanye
ghostface
sonic of youth
mission of burma
ahleuchatistas
team doyobi
black forest/black sea
charalambides
pg six
born heller
comets on fire
black eyes
sufjan stevens
skygreen leopards
deathprod
darkthrone
emotional joystick
wilco
deadbeat
decomposure
isan
loretta lynn
mouse on mars
murs
sunburned hand of the man
jason sirota's rebel souls
aoki shimada
richard youngs
the advantage
jason forrest
trapist
vetiver
wiley
fires were shot
animal collective
and probably some other stuff i'm forgetting about. this is excluding stuff like boxes and re-releases and all that shit.

anyway, really all i want are some recommendations of stuff i'm missing.

the mars volta are better to that of all your list.

Originally posted by I_was_aborted
My god, you two must just like whatever shit you pick up.

i hear more music in six months than you will hear in your life.

Originally posted by Irrelevant


i hear more music in six months than you will hear in your life. that's because you're an indie fuck.

Originally posted by Irrelevant


i hear more music in six months than you will hear in your life.

combine listening to that much music with making 17.5K posts on netphoria and I think it's safe to say you'll never have sex

Originally posted by Octopus Jar


combine listening to that much music with making 17.5K posts on netphoria and I think it's safe to say you'll never have sex

this is true. i make love to the little hole in my Entertainment! LP instead.

Originally posted by Irrelevant


i hear more music in six months than you will hear in your life.
how do you find so many new/unknown artists so easily?

Originally posted by kiwi
how do you find so many new/unknown artists so easily?

if you're willing to put in a bit of time, the internet reaps great rewards

Originally posted by sawdust restaurants


if you're willing to put in a bit of time, the internet reaps great rewards

Though rewards may indeed be reaped, I think it also tends to bloat your collection with 'good', but not 'exceptional' music, and when you listen to that much of it, it's really wasting a lot of your time.

Originally posted by Egadsman
Though rewards may indeed be reaped, I think it also tends to bloat your collection with 'good', but not 'exceptional' music, and when you listen to that much of it, it's really wasting a lot of your time.

depends on how you want to look at it, really--i'd rather listen to five good albums and one exceptional album in a day than listen to one execeptional album six times.

besides, there really is a LOT of good music being made. like, music worth listening to on a regular basis. i delete/sell back anything i don't like enough to listen to it more than a few times.

Originally posted by sawdust restaurants


if you're willing to put in a bit of time, the internet reaps great rewards
ie? I'm guessing you guys check out sites past allmusic and pitchfork ;)

Originally posted by kiwi

ie? I'm guessing you guys check out sites past allmusic and pitchfork ;)

<font color=33FFFF> always worth keeping an eye on, when it's updated anyway

http://www.brainwashed.com/releases/ </font>

<font color=33FFFF> I always browse through this as well

http://www.forcedexposure.com/new/newindx.html

</font>

Originally posted by sawdust restaurants


depends on how you want to look at it, really--i'd rather listen to five good albums and one exceptional album in a day than listen to one execeptional album six times.

besides, there really is a LOT of good music being made. like, music worth listening to on a regular basis. i delete/sell back anything i don't like enough to listen to it more than a few times.

Oh, I know there is a LOT of good music out there, and I'm rather happy when I come into something new, but with your analogy, that's where we differ. I wouldn't say I'm more likely to listen to an exceptional album 6 times, but I would be more likely to listen to 6 close to exceptional (or closer to my mood) albums that I've already heard 50 times before. When I find great music, I like to indulge in it for a while, and let it become part of my musical make up. I hate it when people listen to the same shit, year after year, and make no effort to find something new, but I really don't prescribe to making searching out music a full time job.

If this doesn't makes sense or isn't preticularly complimentary to what you were saying, I'm going to blame it on the 3 hours of sleep and the ear ache.

Originally posted by strange_one

Thank you sir.

Originally posted by Irrelevant

Kukkuva Poliisi

What is this?

Originally posted by Irrelevant


i hear more music in six months than you will hear in your life.

What's the point here?

Quality > quantity.

Originally posted by mono


What's the point here?

Quality > quantity.

larger quantity = more chance to discriminate for quality = though i like many albums, i hear many, many more that i don't like

Originally posted by mono


What is this?

some self-released thing that i ran across randomly, i think it's self-titled

Originally posted by Egadsman
Oh, I know there is a LOT of good music out there, and I'm rather happy when I come into something new, but with your analogy, that's where we differ. I wouldn't say I'm more likely to listen to an exceptional album 6 times, but I would be more likely to listen to 6 close to exceptional (or closer to my mood) albums that I've already heard 50 times before. When I find great music, I like to indulge in it for a while, and let it become part of my musical make up. I hate it when people listen to the same shit, year after year, and make no effort to find something new, but I really don't prescribe to making searching out music a full time job.

If this doesn't makes sense or isn't preticularly complimentary to what you were saying, I'm going to blame it on the 3 hours of sleep and the ear ache.

Oh, it makes plenty of sense. And it's perfectly rational. If that's what makes you happy, awesome.

But to explain: I think a large part of the never-ending search for music that's affected guys like Gav and Ryan (and me) is the same sort of thing that drives, say, coin collectors or guys who wind up in three rotisserie leagues come baseball season. It's not, as some people like to think, a need to be uber-cool or "indie." Really, for me at least, it's just a desire to search out new things combined with a genuine interest in music that's now turned into a really dorky passion. Just like some people can't understand why you would buy all the Criterion DVDs, some people can't understand why I want to hear everything that, for example, a certain label releases--and all I can say in my defense is that I'm a nerd.

Maybe there's a certain amount of smarminess there, but I think a lot of that is affectation. I haven't met a music nerd who isn't a nerd in general, for what that's worth. (Or a preening hipster, but really, they're just nerds convinced that they aren't.)

Originally posted by Irrelevant


some self-released thing that i ran across randomly, i think it's self-titled

What kind of music is that? I just found the name very interesting since it's Finnish, and I haven't heard of a local band of that name.

Originally posted by sawdust restaurants


Maybe there's a certain amount of smarminess there, but I think a lot of that is affectation. I haven't met a music nerd who isn't a nerd in general, for what that's worth. (Or a preening hipster, but really, they're just nerds convinced that they aren't.)
It's possible that nobody would really care except for the amount of arrogance that comes from you guys when we make posts about music that we like.

It is impossible to listen to that many albums in 7 months... I think 10 or 20 albums is more of a possibility.

Originally posted by Electron52
It is impossible to listen to that many albums in 7 months... I think 10 or 20 albums is more of a possibility. Pussy.

here's my top ten i guess. it wasn't intended to be just ten, but this is me kind of dipping my aural net through the two list makers list and catching the stuff that i felt have been good albums. here goes:

devendra banhart (why hasn't anyone listed him yet)
!!!
animal collective
black dice
liars
cocorosie
dat politics
ooioo
sonic youth
tv on the radio

ok, and my question to the two music studs is how do you guys properly absorb any of these albums. you guys lists look like you went through and just eliminated the ones that really really sucked. i used to love anything different too, but over the last year or so i've just come to realize a lot of it's just different to be different and different doesn't always equal interesting. maybe i'm just getting old and maybe i'm just starting to burn out. granted i'm only twenty six, but how old are you guys? i know at least one of you is in college, so i'm guessing early twenties. when i was twenty and the other numbers around that number i would listen to anything, now i've just gotten pickier i guess. i really don't think i'm any less adventurous. i have to admit you guys still listen to a good amount more than i ever did . i don't see where you get the time. i don't have a girlfriend either (i don't even have to guess that you guys don't), but i couldn't put in as much time as you guys seem to. while music is my central "passion" in life i have other interest. you guys seem like you must just do nothing, but listen to music. of course i don't get promos of stuff like you guys do and have bills to pay so i can't buy everything that looks interesting. anyway i just think you guys need a little more quality control, or you guys are going to burn out quick.

p.s. will someone explain to me what's so good about fennesz

Originally posted by plastic haircut
(i don't even have to guess that you guys don't), but i couldn't put in as much time as you guys seem to. while music is my central "passion" in life i have other interest. you guys seem like you must just do nothing, but listen to music.

I have a girlfriend. She's hot.

I also have a full-time job. Part of it revolves around music, and a lot of it is conducive to listening. Really, it's not that hard.

Originally posted by machinaddict
It's possible that nobody would really care except for the amount of arrogance that comes from you guys when we make posts about music that we like.

I'd love for you to point to a post where I (seriously, not jokingly) slammed someone's music taste. I really couldn't care less what you l listen to! To each his own; at the expense of sounding like a neo-hippie, music is a fantastic thing, and if it makes people happy, I am not one to complain.

In reading this thread, it's not too difficult to see who exactly is picking on who.

The fact that there are at least a few people on this board who are serious about listening to music is really what makes it worth reading, at least for me. While it does tend to be dominated by a few guys who relish in list-making, it's not like anyone really offers much contrary to that. There's nothing wrong with listening to the same albums over and over again, but you'll probably find that they don't do much as far as conversation stimulation, at least not here. It's not like anyone is stopping you from making a thread about how great Dark Side Of The Moon is upon the fifty-millionth listen, but I guess it's easier to reply to posts about music you've never heard of and call people indie fucks.

So, 2004 sucked.