Common - Be
Alana Davis - Surrender Dorothy

MendesCity said:

Yeah, it took a while for this album to grab with me as well. Frankly, I had a difficult time getting past the overly compressed and far too bright sounding production. This album really would have benefited from a lusher, softer sound - but the songs are there, I think.

How did you find the sound of the album? Did you find it as off-putting as I did at first? I've heard similar complaints made about the new Sleater-Kinney lp, and I know you're a fan of that act - did you find a similar problem there?

garnis said:

Ah, garnis. We missed the sweet, inimitable smell of your smug superiority.

it just depens on the kind of music you like...

The best POP album is clearly - Mariah Carey

still looking forward towards Stevie Wonder's release.

Common has the best/most authentic hip hop album

REBIRTH by J-lo "Get Right da da da da da daaaaa, da da da da da daaaaa get right"

Nothing really for me right now. I love both BE and Livin' The Luxury Brown but they are not the best to me. Coldplay's first single off X&Y sounds too much like Clocks. The rest of the albums listed I've mostly never even heard of the people.

Ben Folds- Songs for Silverman

namepeace said:

Xavier24 said:

I've heard absolutely nothing so far this year that's really blown me away. But after reading some of these posts and listening to samples online (I loved what I heard), I'm going to give this one a try:

So far this year my favorite album is...



The Tears - Here Come The Tears

BorisFishpaw said:

I think this was a bit lame... although better than last two Suede albums. Some great songs anyway and I love Butler's guitar!

prinssi said:

I didn't even know that was out yet. Way to promote an album!!

Common-Be
112-Pleasure & Pain

garnis said:

I finally picked up this album today! I'm excited to give it a spin

Screw Common and Mariah Carey. This is the underdog right here.

I'm hoping that Paul McCartney's new album "Chaos and Creativity in the back yard" will be one of the years best. certianly has potential

The Dissociatives...Who apparently not many people have heard of in the US. It's a project put together by Daniel Johns (Yes lead singer of Silverchair) and a DJ friend of his name Paul Mac. If anyone is familar with Silverchair's last cd Diorama imagine that mixed with some Radiohead KidA and Beatles/Beach Boys type vibe. Quite an amazing CD. Great songwriting, melodies and interesting music.

Bfunkthe1 said:

Sounds quite interesting.. Thank u for explaining and letting us know about this.. I'm always up for combinations such as this.

BorisFishpaw said:

I love that album cover.

Bfunkthe1 said:

Wow thanks for givin us a heads up on this album.. I just bought it tonight and I love it.. very interesting and exactly how I wanted/thought it would sound...
Gonna give a good few spins before reviews.. but this is a great album.


Thanks!

Lina or Mariah

My favest album so far;

wasnt released in the uk until febuary of this year so my favourite is by a country mile.....
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ARCADE FIRE FUNERAL
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and a special mention to antony and the johnsons wonderful album "i am a bird now"
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Sdldawn said:

I found it by accident but what a great accident! If you want to go deeper, try to find their project called "I Can't Believe it's Not Rock" EP which is more darker and more dense.
Runner up for "Best of 2005", Robert Plant and Strange Sensation" Mighty Rearranger". For organic,blues,trip-hop,mid-eastern/mid-70's Zep with north african stylings, you can't go wrong.

AnckSuNamun said:

Nikka Costa "Cantneverdidnothing"
Depeche Mode "Playing The Angel"