Music!

[redgreenblue]

All right, I suppose it’ll be the 60 GB iPod after all. It’s going to be a little while until I can actually afford it-still have things like health insurance and student loans to contend with, after all-so for now I am filling iTunes with music. That way when the iPod finally arrives, it will be a simple matter of plugging it in and filling it up

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[redgreenblue]

Done and done. Look up. :-)

[azuresky]

The Dandy Warhols - any album, but especially "13 Tales from Urban Bohemia." This album defined summer 2004 for me

[redgreenblue]

- I love love love The Dandy Warhols! I have both Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia and Welcome to the Monkey House. I really found myself digging the latter. Thirteen Tales has lots of great tracks (“Sleep” is my favorite, ”Bohemian Like You’ being a close second). Monkey House is just a great overall album, a very cohesive experience and also a very fun listen.

- As for Radiohead, I have The Bends and Pablo Honey, come to think of it. But yes, I must get my hands on OK Computer!

- How the fuck did I forget Oasis? I mean really, it was the soundtrack to my high school years (along with Depeche Mode and The Cure).

- Mellon Collie is a classic. It’s been years since I last heard it!

- I loved Boys for Pele from the start, mostly because it was so different from anything I had heard before (at that time).

- Yes, Blue Album! I have Green Album, but I only wound up liking certain tracks. Have you heard any of their new stuff (other than “Beverly Hills”)? I have not yet, and I wonder if it is any good

[azuresky]

i'm glad you already enjoy so much of the music i recommended! check out the others too if you can - they're all great.

i haven't heard new weezer except for "BH." i've heard it's not that impressive, much like their last album ("maladroit," which i have and have listened to maybe once). i have the green album, but blue is just so much better. if you love blue then you'll definitely love "pinkerton."

have fun listening!

[sonatine]

You absolutely positively must have OK Computer. It is quite possibly the most brilliant album ever made in the past fifteen years. Kid A/Amnesiac is kind of weird blippy and electronic in the bad way, I found. But Hail to the Thief is great.

Speaking of electronic, see if you can find a copy of Moby's Play with the b-sides. They're all really good. I also like Everything is Wrong a lot too.

I also would not be able to get along without Elliott Smith's either/or, Figure 8, and the posthumous release From a Basement on a Hill. If you must limit yourself to one, either/or would be my choice.

I also don't know what Tori Amos you have/don't have, but Scarlet's Walk is the strongest thing she's done, I think. After something like that, I was kind of disappointed by The Beekeeper.

Uh, I'm also fond of David Gray's entire back catalogue, but White Ladder is still his best work. And I'm really digging the new Death Cab for Cutie CD. Hopefully this should be enough to get you started.

[laeva]

T. Rex - Electric Warrior. Mellow and glammy, you might like it if you like early Bowie.

Speaking of Bowie:
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Aladdin Sane
Diamond Dogs
The Man Who Sold the World.
Hunky Dory. I like pretty much everything he's put out, but these are my essentials.

Pretty much every Smashing Pumpkins album.

Iggy Pop - Lust for Life

The Clash - Self Titled, and The Story of the Clash, Vol. 1

Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

Poe - Hello

PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

Elliott Smith - XO

Blondie - Self-titled

A lot of Bob Dylan. I couldn't even pick one.

Soundtracks:
Velvet Goldmine - Glam homage!
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - More glam homage!
Blackhawk Down - Mostly Hans Zimmer

Rachid Taha - Made in Medina. Algerian rock with a kind of electronic feel.

U2 - The Joshua Tree and War.

Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire

The Chemical Brothers - Come With Us

The Eels - Breautiful Freak

Franz Ferdinand - Self titled

The Who - Who's Next, Tommy

[grenadinegirl]

Amazon has Discosis, although it is for 30 bucks or so. Also, perhaps you can try at Amoeba. I've never looked for it, but they might have it.