Sinister: he ate up all of my corn

[brad !]

recommendations from this list got me all kinds of good stuff in the past. 
gobetweens, orange juice, some other stuff i can't remember. actually, it's 
one of the few reasons i rejoined. well, that, and because i have no life.

i had to order all those lucksmiths cds from the candle records website, 
too. but it worked out well because the american dollar was apparently 
better than the australian whatever they call it...so i got all the cds 
minus the two i already had for about 70 bucks. it must be said though, that 
the first cd with the giraffe on the cover is crap. and the one with the 
song about fridge magnets isn't much better. but after that, minus a couple 
of songs here and there, it's smooth sailing.

no one one the list has ever mentioned billy bragg i don't think. i always 
wrote him off as a political song writer, and i hate political songwriters. 
as much as i love dylan, i skip right past some of that early shit about war 
and hattie carroll. but i've recently become a billy bragg fan. there's a 
couple of those political songs on each album, but if you skip past them, 
he's a mighty fine lyricist and songwriter. my favorite album is "worker's 
playtime"

yes vonnegut is good. what were you quoting from? one of his newer things? 
while those are all fine and dandy, they don't come nowhere near the genius 
of say "breakfast of champions" (don't rent the horrible horrible movie 
version) or "cat's cradle".....but everyone knows that richard brautigan is 
the best writer ever...right? right?

i'd like to recommend some items now:

beach boys "wild honey"...a much overlooked classic in my opinion
fred neil "fred neil"...not so much overlooked, but a classic nonetheless
townes van zandt "live at the old quarter"...i never heard it get that quiet 
in here
"beg scream and shout...the big ol' box of 60's soul"....worth every penny
vic chesnutt ...anything you can get your hands on except for the new one 
"merriment"...the jury's stil out on that one
lamchop...everything
leonard cohen...everything. even the ones people tell you are crap. "new 
skin for the old ceremony" is my personal favorite (thanks rachael)
essex green....their album and ep that i can't remember the names of right 
now

and now for the best album i've purchased so far this year:

the mendoza line "we're all in this alone"

i hate when people start talking about indie bands i've never heard of as 
much as the next person, but this album is one bad motherfucker! and their 
last album "i like you when you're not around" even quotes stuart murdoch in 
the liner notes and has a song called "ink polaroids" after stuart 
david...and on this kindercore christmas compilation (the new one) they 
cover "fox in the snow"........but that's not to say that they sound 
anything like belle and sebastian..cause they don't. at all. one of the male 
singers reminds me of dylan kinda..especially on the fox in the snow cover. 
it sounds like if dylan started making music today rather than in the 60's 
and then he decided to cover belle and sebastian.

whew!

(said in a "that was a lot" kinda way rather than in a "ric flair" kinda 
way)

-brad

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