hey. this is the last time i'll post to the list with non b&s stuff, but i had to make a couple of comments. i noticed a lot of you mentioned neutral milk hotel and east river pipe as other bands you were listening to. and i mentioned lambchop. and the other day someone brought up the magnetic fields. it's funny, because all of these bands are on merge. and merge didn't used to be all that good of a label. i like the bands mentioned above but i never sat down and put it together how good of a label merge has become in the last couple of years. and i got "thriller" today, for those who know what i'm talking about. on first listen, i'm not that impressed. and only eight songs?!? that one "your fucking sunny day" is a total departure though. and one last thing..while this post has been mostly about merge, i would like to recommend one more band that i can almost guarantee any b & s would love, not that they sound like them, but because they're one of the best pop groups around......ladybug transistor. they have one album out on merge so far "beverley atonale" and they have another album before that one called "marlborough farms" which isn't anywhere near as good (coincidentally, if any of you like ladybug transistor, the first album is quite hard to come by, so if you want a copy let me know). but back to "beverley atonale"....i urge everyone on this list to go buy it if you can find it. if you don't like it, you can verbally abuse me on this very list. i promise you'll like it. that's a pretty big statement because i don't know any of you. song number three has that jesus and mary chain drum intro, you know...the "dum dumdum ch, dum dumdum ch" and then it breaks into a song so beautiful, you'd think you'd gotten hold of some long forgotten creation primal scream single (back when they were good). anyway, that's my last recommendation for a while. this list may now be returned to b&s. -brad oh yeah. a question. just how popular are magnetic fields across the ocean? are they well known? i couldn't picture them playing an outdoor festival. for those of you who don't know who they are, i'm sorry. you're missing possibly the best songwriter to ever come out of america. i saw them in concert a couple of months back and about three hours into the show (yeah, three hours, longest show i've ever seen) stephin said, "alright this is my new song" then they played the best cover version of bela lugosi's dead you could ever hope to hear. then followed that by refugee by tom petty. go figure. and if you've never seen them live, there's no drum machine or keyboards anywhere on stage. there's stephin on guitar, another guy on guitar, a guy on cello, and claudia on drums, and that's it. but the songs don't lose anything. they're even better with that minimal setting. this is longest p.s. i've ever written. and future bible heroes, another stephin merrit project, has a full length album out now..."memories of love". it's got claudia singing most of the songs, but stephin sings some of them. i recommend it also. goodbye for real. -brad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------