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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: ratioci nation on September 06, 2007, 02:17:00 pm
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anybody?
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Don Lennon - Routine (http://www.emusic.com/album/Don-Lennon-Routine-MP3-Download/10917694.html)
I forgot how great this album is.
All Music:
Don Lennon's charming, geeky fourth album is an autobiographical concept piece about standup comics, television comedies, and minimum wage employment. Musically and vocally, Routine is a mix of Jonathan Richman and early folkie King Missile, with Lennon's voice sometimes coming across as a dead ringer for Erlend �ye or the Ocean Blue's David Schelzel. Even a casual listen of Routine suggests that the gentle-voiced indie rocker watches a huge amount of television and isn't afraid to flaunt it. Lennon name-checks Jimmy Fallon while bemoaning and praising Saturday Night Live in "What SNL Stands For," compares and contrasts John Ritter with Carrot Top and Bill Cosby in "Last Comic Standing," and seemingly goes mad about Fraiser in "The Death of My Imagination." While Lennon's quirky lyrics and subject matter are always interesting, his music is strong enough that he needn't go so far down the wacky Beat Happening path. A song like the delicate "My Resume," without the Access Hollywood revelry that peppers much of the album, is endearing and touching enough to compare favorably to Magnetic Fields or East River Pipe. But given the album's autobiographical slant, it really becomes hard to find fault. If television is so dear to Lennon, these song-stories gain some credibility as a musical slice of life. Routine is a somewhat difficult first listen, given its inherent naïvety and television geekery, but it reveals its charm quite handily with more listens. With all the soul-bearing on display, Lennon seems like a really nice, talented fellow, but his outright honesty will probably make his music a love it or hate it affair for most listeners. It's both sad and wonderful that Routine is saddled with such artistic honesty.
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Recent downlaods for me:
Magnolia Electric Company
Descendents
Beirut
James Kochalka Superstar
Jay Reatard
Thunderbirds Are Now!
The Twilight Sad
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Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation
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Originally posted by P Harmony:
Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation
I downloaded this a while ago and had high hopes for it but it never did anything for me, maybe I should try it again.
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Originally posted by bellenseb:
Don Lennon - Routine (http://www.emusic.com/album/Don-Lennon-Routine-MP3-Download/10917694.html)
that review scares the hell of out of me, but I will check it out thanks
and maybe Jay Reatard
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the Jay Reatard is great
if you download anything by Reatard dowload My Shadow -amazing song
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Originally posted by pdx pollard:
Originally posted by P Harmony:
Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation
I downloaded this a while ago and had high hopes for it but it never did anything for me, maybe I should try it again. [/b]
I just downloaded it and can't stop listening to it. However, I can see how their sound is kind of polarizing. You either love it or hate it.
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My downloads this month
Calla - Strength In Numbers
Death Set - To
Minus The Bear - Planet of Ice
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
Ra Ra Riot - Ra Ra Riot
White Rabbits - Fort Nightly
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I'm really diggin' the The Hazey Janes (http://www.emusic.com/artist/The-Hazey-Janes-MP3-Download/11590638.html) EP, but haven't downloaded the full length album yet. Hailing from Dundee Scotland, they were described elsewhere as having a Big Star/Teenage Fanclub country pop sound with a dash of Ash. Mighty tasty indeed....
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also just got the latest Gorgoroth and Black Lips. Digging the Black Lips.
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some of my better recent downloads:
Portugal the Man / Church Mouth
Earlimart / Mentor Tormentor
Mystery Jets / Zootime
Young Galaxy / Young Galaxy
Haven't had a chance to listen to the new Caribou yet, I need to do that.