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Title: Harp Magazine's 50 Most Essential CDs Since 2001 Post by: Shady on October 11, 2006, 03:50:35 PM From #50 to #1:
Gillian Welch: Time the Revelator Roots: Phrenology Queens of the Stone Age: Songs For the Deaf Silver Jews: Tanglewood Numbers Guided By Voices: Isolation Drills Neko Case: Blacklisted Solomon Burke: Don't Give Up On Me Kathleen Edwards: Failer Mark Lanegan: Bubblegum Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros: Streetcore Lucinda Williams: World Without Tears Missy Elliott: Miss E...So Addictive Sparklehorse: It's a Wonderful Life Libertines: Up the Bracket Black Keys: Rubber Factory Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand Wolf Parade: Apologies to Queen Mary Bob Dylan: Love & Theft Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Drive-By Truckers: Decoration Day Ryan Adams: Gold Steve Earle: The Revolution Starts...Now Elvis Costello: The Delivery Man Strokes: Is This It? White Stripes: White Blood Cells Shins: Chutes Too Narrow White Stripes: Elephant Cat Power: You Are Free Loretta Lynn: Van Lear Rose Devendra Banhart: Cripple Crow My Morning Jacket: It Still Moves Outcast: Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Steve Earle: Jerusalem Iron & Wine: Endless Numbered Days Wilco: A Ghost is Born PJ Harvey: Uh Huh Her Kanye West: Late Registration New Pornographers: Electric Version White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan Sleater-Kinney: The Woods Mars Volta: Frances the Mute M.I.A.: Arular Antony & the Johnsons: I Am a Bird Now Tom Waits: Real Gone My Morning Jacket: Z Tom Waits: Alice Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Brian Wilson: Smile New Pornograpers: Twin Cinema Arcade Fire: Funeral Number 3....Not bad :o Title: Re: Harp Magazine's 50 Most Essential CDs Since 2001 Post by: PMcC on October 11, 2006, 05:32:49 PM Tom Waits-Alice, sucks.......Smile is a much better choice........PMcC
Title: Re: Harp Magazine's 50 Most Essential CDs Since 2001 Post by: Sheriff John Stone on October 11, 2006, 05:42:43 PM That list has succeeded in making me feel sooooooo old. Not only haven't I heard about half of those CD's, I haven't even heard OF THEM....
Title: Re: Harp Magazine's 50 Most Essential CDs Since 2001 Post by: NimrodsSon on October 11, 2006, 08:38:11 PM Tom Waits-Alice, sucks.......Smile is a much better choice........PMcC ????!!!!! I LOVE that album! Perfect from start to finish, and "Barcarolle" gives me chills every time I hear it, especially followed by "Fawn"! Do yourself a favour and give it a second chance. Then you can come back and thank me. ;) But I do have to say, as much as I love The New Pornographers, to say that Twin Cinemas is more essential than SMiLE is just...laughable...to say the least. Title: Re: Harp Magazine's 50 Most Essential CDs Since 2001 Post by: absinthe_boy on October 12, 2006, 04:28:53 AM That list has succeeded in making me feel sooooooo old. Not only haven't I heard about half of those CD's, I haven't even heard OF THEM.... Ditto. I've hardly heard of any of the artists....and where I have heard of them I cannot often name a single song by them! but kudos to Brian for making #3 on the list. Title: Re: Harp Magazine's 50 Most Essential CDs Since 2001 Post by: aNonbeliever on October 12, 2006, 04:27:30 PM Lots of good stuff on this list ... Lucinda Williams, Kathleen Edwards, Tom Waits, Solomon Burke.
Title: Re: Harp Magazine's 50 Most Essential CDs Since 2001 Post by: skip on October 28, 2006, 01:01:13 AM What a perfect hipster shell of a list -- overrated pap at the top, substantial stuff in the middle, obscurities at the bottom. Good placement of BWPS, though.
Title: Re: Harp Magazine's 50 Most Essential CDs Since 2001 Post by: Susan on October 28, 2006, 05:51:32 PM Whoever compiled it sure like the White Stripes...and Van Lear Rose is just NOT that good, regardless of what anybody says.
I, too, must be officially old, if age is a function of being familiar with the artists on that list... Title: Re: Harp Magazine's 50 Most Essential CDs Since 2001 Post by: Magic Transistor Radio on October 28, 2006, 10:35:13 PM How is Radiohead's Kid A or Amnesiac not on that list?!!
Title: Re: Harp Magazine's 50 Most Essential CDs Since 2001 Post by: the captain on November 01, 2006, 02:45:54 PM Tom Waits-Alice, sucks.......Smile is a much better choice........PMcC It is probably his best album, and that's a man with a long list of great albums. I love it. Title: Re: Harp Magazine's 50 Most Essential CDs Since 2001 Post by: PMcC on November 01, 2006, 04:06:17 PM God, really? I can't get into it at all. I like one song, and that's about it. Oh, well. It's great that there are such diverse tastes, or music would be a very boring artform
Title: Re: Harp Magazine's 50 Most Essential CDs Since 2001 Post by: the captain on November 01, 2006, 08:01:51 PM I think Tom Waits is among the top half-dozen lyricists in pop history, and his melodies are beautiful, too. His singing voice...not so much. But it's got character. Still, songs like "Coney Island Baby" off of Blood Money, "Flower's Grave" off Alice, or a dozen other songs off of other albums are just beautiful.
Title: Re: Harp Magazine's 50 Most Essential CDs Since 2001 Post by: CosmicDancer on November 02, 2006, 07:09:40 AM The man is a great performer as well. I saw him a couple of months ago when he did his very short and ultra rare tour of the states and he owned! The crowd was eating out of the palm of his hand. And to weigh in on the "Alice" debate, I think it is one of his best by far. My favorite is either Small Change or Mule Variations.
Title: Re: Harp Magazine's 50 Most Essential CDs Since 2001 Post by: the captain on November 02, 2006, 02:34:23 PM I'd kill (well...maim) to see him live. I missed him in about '98 in Minneapolis, and he hasn't been back (to my knowledge) since! I heard about his little recent mini-tour after the fact, and thus didn't get to see him--I would've gone to Chicago for him.
Title: Re: Harp Magazine's 50 Most Essential CDs Since 2001 Post by: CosmicDancer on November 03, 2006, 07:02:17 AM It was tough to score tickets for the mini-tour. All 8 shows sold out in 10 min.!!! My brother in law in Ohio somehow managed to get a pair for the Akron Ohio date online. A friend of mine tried to get tickets and as soon as he clicked on the site they were all gone! The people that sat next to us bought their tickets off of ebay for $300! I think that life just might be complete after seeing Brian perform Smile in Atlanta and hearing Tom do Tom Traubert's Blues live. I cried like a baby at both!
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