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Haha, I've seen Fitter Happier get bashed every now & then, alas. Agreed on The Locust. Way-stoked for the new one. Pretty excited for a new DEP on the horizon, too.

Matthew Good Band - Raygun, Underdogs, Beautiful Midnight, Loser Anthems (Heard all these a billion times over, and will rarely skip a track. The first two-three years they were out, I didn't skip a single track) But that's kind of a given, anyways. Radiohead - OK Computer (Yes, I still don't skip Fitter Happier) Isis - Oceanic Bear Vs. Shark - Terrorhawk jesu - s/t Dillinger Escape Plan w/Mike Patton - Irony is a Dead Scene The Locust - Safety Second, Body Last (Admittedly, the last two are EPs, but whatever, they hold up amazingly well under repeated listens.) I could add a bunch more where I loved almost every song, but if we're looking for stuff that coheres overall, that's my list. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs gets honourable mention. For a 19 track album, I don't usually listen to 3-ish songs.

Total fan of the Team Sleep album. The biggest letdown was that "Kool-Aid Party" wasn't on it. (It was on the leaked demos, and had Mike Patton helping out on vocals. Still my favourite Team Sleep tune.)

Yeah, that was a collection of the manifestos. Dear San Diego wasn't in it. I'm just reading the Dear San Diego stuff for the first time now, so I'm not sure how much there is... But if there's a shit-ton of it, I'd be excited if he expanded and published it.

Ahhh Genghis Tron. Cloak of Love is awesome. Cape of Hate was cool for a stopgap, and Dead Mountain Mouth is fucking incredible.

Thirded.

Hm. I know Geoff is taking a well-deserved hiatus... But... Still so curious...

They opened for Alexisonfire last night. This post just reminded me that I picked up their EP. I should give it a spin. I rember a bit of an Against Me vibe... Good times.

"Tango 'Til They're Sore" off of Rain Dogs (well, all of Rain Dogs, really) is my required pre-drinking listening for New Years eve. If nothing more than for the line "Let me fall out of the window with confetti in my hair."

They're hitting Toronto: The Opera House on March 20th, I believe. Zozobra and Jesu are opening. It will be amazing.

Meh. I sent him a message through his blog. Either he's been inundated with too many, or he just hasn't noticed. Or he's just perplexed.

Ooh man. Double-post AND ressurrecting a dead thread. That said: In the Absence of Truth SHOULD be at a cd retailer near YOU. (Dec. 5th was the official drop day. HMV didn't seem to have it, but Sunrise did. Woot.)

See, I wasn't losing my shit over the self-titled when it hit dirt, either. But to stack it up against White Pony just isn't fair, really. On a track-by-track basis, though, the self-titled doesn't do too shabbily. Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event just floors me, and nobody really mentions it much.

Definitely need to add: dredg - Live at the Fillmore to the above.

I'd be down with "Dark Town Gospel"

Ye gods. Thank you.

The Sunrise records chain still uses ICQ to communicate between stores. Oh yeah. So 1999.

Converge - No Heroes Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist The Jesus Lizard - Liar Young Widows - Settle Down City Sarah Slean - Orphan Songs (Totally picked up tickets to see her at Harbourfront on Dec. 16th, too.)

Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards Kind of excited about the new Incubus. Anna-Molly was a jammin' little ditty. Technically the new Isis hasn't been "released" in Canada until the 14th.

Hm. A fair few good calls on here. Young Widows - Settle Down City These Arms are Snakes - Easter Converge - No Heroes Jucifer - If Thine Enemy Hunger Blood Brothers - Young Machetes Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist Isis - In the Absence of Truth Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards (Going on a limb on this one, since I haven't heard all of it, but the songs I HAVE heard are awesome) Tool - 10,000 Days World/Inferno Friendship Society - Red Eyed Soul HORSE the Band - Pizza EP (the) Melvins - (a) Senile Animal Sarah Slean - Orphan Music Jury's still out on the new Incubus, obviously, and whatever else might drop into my lap.

Yeah, that vid is badass. And it looks like it was delayed AGAIN. Fucking hell. I loathe HMV. And here I thought things were going pretty well with getting weird shit in the day it's supposed to come out.

I think I see what you're saying, but I wouldn't call Pink Cellphone the only experimental track on the album. Perhaps one of the weirder tracks, yeah. But they're running amok with the conventions on a few other tunes. Beware, comes to mind, at least at the beginning.

It would be kind of awkward, but a worthwhile video, to see Matt Good playing guitar and singing to Buckley's corpse. But if they could re-animate Jeff for a bit of recording, then count me in and a half. Hm. I don't know. Damned good question. Tom Waits would be awesome to see, but not sure how that might translate across the board. I'd think maybe pretty well. I don't see Matt working out too well w/Maynard... But it would be interesting to see what would happen if he and Trent were left in a studio together. Holly McNarland I'd like to see come back and do more stuff w/him. Radiohead would be a pretty cool blend. Though nobody knows her on here (so far as I know) Carina Round would be an awesome female vocalist to hear work with Matt.

Obvious Heart was really bad ass off their Self-Titled. The rest also grew on me a fair bit. I was still a nerd and picked up the special edition of their self-titled, though. Which was totally worth the cash, since it had a live set of theirs recorded. Wasn't the most QUALITY recording, but still worth the while.