Anyone buy any good CD's lately?

danger boy
danger boy Posts: 15,722
edited June 2010 in Music & Movies
Ok.. i tend to like pop/indie/rock music in that order.. yeah I like mostly mainstream bands/music.

Anyone pick up anything worth owning lately?

Death Cab for Cutie just came out with a new CD I think yesterday.. anyone pick it up?

BareNakedLadies I hear have a new CD out too.

Gavin DeGraw just came out with a new CD too. Anyone hear it yet?

Clay Aiken :eek: :eek: :eek: :p (no i don't like his music)
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  • AndyGwis
    AndyGwis Posts: 3,655
    edited May 2008
    I've recently purchased:

    Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely - 8.5/10, I really dig this album
    Silversun Pickups - Carnavas - 8/10, I listen to this album nonstop but might not be everyone's cup of tea

    I've heard some good buzz about Vampire Weekend but haven't heard much of their stuff yet. I've been listening to some Modest Mouse and Interpol recently as well, both good bands in my opinion.
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited May 2008
    The Vampire Weekend album is stellar. I've had it on repeat for weeks now.
    Interpol is one of my favorites. I've been lucky enough to catch them in concert several times. Excellent shows.
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
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  • AndyGwis
    AndyGwis Posts: 3,655
    edited May 2008
    Zombie likes Vampires. . . why I am not surprised?
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  • honda cber
    honda cber Posts: 267
    edited May 2008
    picked up this yesterday:
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    great record and well recorded. also features some big names,
    and
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    a strangely abbreviated yet thorough compilation--- featuring the best players. besides, HH kills.

    also picked up a couple of dave brubeck records, pat metheny "american garage", and mott the hoople "rock and roll queen" on used vinyl, and jack johnson's newest on new vinyl. also a sealed copy (ahh, NOS lol) of the soundtrack for "siesta" (miles davis and marcus miller) from '86--- pretty interesting stuff, i must say.

    in this bush economy, i should really stay out of record stores :rolleyes: .
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    1 down, 4 up....
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited May 2008
    What kind of music is Vampire Weekend?
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  • Belcon
    Belcon Posts: 25
    edited May 2008
    The new BNL album is kids album.

    If you have elementary school kids, this might be something worthwhile.
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited May 2008
    Kinda hard to describe their sound Darla. Blender's review seems to pin it better than I could...
    Review

    Vampire Weekend
    Vampire Weekend



    (XL)
    Release Date: 1/29/2008

    Recent college grads get an A- in Advanced Rock Chic
    Reviewed by Ben Sisario
    In “Oxford Comma,” Ezra Koenig ponders a question straight out of a preppies-behaving-badly Whit Stillman film. “Who gives a **** about an Oxford comma?” he sings over a staccato organ riff, coyly angling for a nerdy, flirty debate. Addressing a lover whose blood is as blue as his, he’s referring to a finer point of punctuation, and as the song swells with angsty, Afropop-tinged guitars, Koenig shouts out both Lil Jon and the Dalai Lama.

    Fond of showing off their bonus-miles-worthy worldliness (“Spilled kefir/On your keffiyah”), this quartet of blog-hyped Columbia University grads pick up the thread of 1980s world beat exemplified by Paul Simon, Talking Heads and Peter Gabriel. Though they know their Congolese soukous and vintage calypso, they never lose footing in their taut, hook-heavy pop tunes. “M79” follows an impressionistic bus trip across Central Park (“pollination yellow cab”), its harpsichord and chamber strings—arranged by the group’s instrumental mastermind, Rostam Batmanglij—given bounce by a cool early-ska lilt. Koenig’s slippery tenor is boyish but not innocent; he sounds as if he’s asking questions he already knows the answers to, whether on a date or in the classroom.

    Musical explorers run the risk of becoming simple tourists, spicing up their material with hints of exotica. And the endless hopscotching—from Dharamsala to Hyannisport to NYC—is steeped in leisurely privilege (they jokingly call their sound Upper West Side Soweto). But Vampire Weekend’s version of globalization is too tightly and smartly woven to be mere dilettantism, and at times Koenig is emphatic, even desperate, about escaping white-bred familiarity. In “Walcott,” he urges a friend: “Don’t you know/That your life could be lost?/Out of Cape Cod tonight.” In other words, find new places, new sounds.
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,195
    edited May 2008
    Yes, Rush "Moving Pictures" well above par recording. http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67348

    Also, Evanescence "Anywhere but Home" great recording and good tunes. LIVE album. Set the volume, grab a beer, sit down and enjoy the concert. This one parks in the CDP often and loves to be played loud.

    All the other CD's I've purchased in the past two months are just that. CD's, or normal to badly recorded music.
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited May 2008
    Thanks Zombie. I think I will check them out.

    I did pick up Madonna's Hard Candy recently and was pretty disappointed overall.
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited May 2008
    If I remember correctly, you're a bit of a Paul Simon fan. You'll definitely find shades of him all over the album - in particular, Graceland.
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited May 2008
    NIN's new release, "The Slip" is a improvement over anything Trent has released in the last couple of years.

    Free download too, even in 4608 kbps PCM, which is between CD and SACD quality.
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited May 2008
    zombie boy 2000 wrote: »
    If I remember correctly, you're a bit of a Paul Simon fan. You'll definitely find shades of him all over the album - in particular, Graceland.

    I am not a Simon fan per se but Graceland is one off my top ten favorite albums of all time. Soooooo .... In spite of the fact that you like the Sugar Cubes :p I just picked up the VW album.









    Actually, the Cubes grew on me too. :)
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  • demaples
    demaples Posts: 266
    edited May 2008
    I just watched Stevie Ray Vaughans DVD from his boxed set and loved it. Now listening to disc 3. Wow, haven't listened to these since I upgraded. I'm listening in the all channel stereo mode on the Onkyo 805 now. Tried unplugged and 2 channel but like the all channel stereo for now anyway. Any thoughts? I brought the Extech digital sound level meter from work and it indicates I'm listening at around 105 db. Am I deaf or just too much scotch? :D
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  • polkatese
    polkatese Posts: 6,767
    edited May 2008
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B0013XZ4LS/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B00133KDRI/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B00160ANQY/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music
    I am sorry, I have no opinion on the matter. I am sure you do. So, don't mind me, I just want to talk audio and pie.
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  • demaples
    demaples Posts: 266
    edited May 2008
    That's some good stuff polkatese. Culbertson is good.

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  • ninerbj
    ninerbj Posts: 870
    edited May 2008
    RUSH Snakes & Arrows Live
    "she had the body of Venus, with arms."
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  • polkatese
    polkatese Posts: 6,767
    edited May 2008
    demaples wrote: »
    That's some good stuff polkatese. Culbertson is good.

    yeah, these are three artists, among others, whom I've been consistently waiting for their new albums.
    I am sorry, I have no opinion on the matter. I am sure you do. So, don't mind me, I just want to talk audio and pie.
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  • MillerLiteScott
    MillerLiteScott Posts: 2,561
    edited May 2008
    Cowboy Junkies. Trinity Revisted. Great sounding live CD and a DVD comes with it.
    I like speakers that are bigger than a small refrigerator but smaller than a big refrigerator:D
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited May 2008
    Black Sabbath "Paranoid" . . . great engineering job and mix and the music make you sweat its soo good. It makes my rig sound awesome.
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  • shawn474
    shawn474 Posts: 3,052
    edited May 2008
    Jack Johnson - Sleep Through the Static
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  • vonnie123
    vonnie123 Posts: 326
    edited May 2008
    Genesis 1983 - 1998 CD/DVD set
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited May 2008
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    Black Sabbath "Paranoid" . . . great engineering job and mix and the music make you sweat its soo good. It makes my rig sound awesome.
    The 180 gram version is probably one of the best sounding pieces of vinyl I own.
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  • fatchowmein
    fatchowmein Posts: 2,637
    edited May 2008
    Moby. "Last Night". It's different from "Play". I haven't listened to "18" but have been meaning to pick up a copy. Overall, I'd say it's okay and will probably grow on me.
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  • cstpeter
    cstpeter Posts: 387
    edited May 2008
    I second the Vampire Weekend recommendation. That's probably the best CD I've bought in a while. I really like Panda Bear's Person Pitch, but gotta warn it's a little weird (kinda like trippy Beach Boys).

    I'll have to check out the new Raconteurs album.

    June is gonna be a great month for new music: Wolf Parade, My Morning Jacket, The M's, Weezer, Radiohead (best of), etc.
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited May 2008
    Strangely enough Sean, I feel the urge to stab your crotch with chopsticks everytime I hear Dead Can Dance. So yeah... I'll take 'em back.

    smooches
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
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  • Ackaroth
    Ackaroth Posts: 99
    edited May 2008
    fatchowmein wrote: »
    Moby. "Last Night". It's different from "Play". I haven't listened to "18" but have been meaning to pick up a copy. Overall, I'd say it's okay and will probably grow on me.


    I bought 18 a few years ago, and it was enjoyable. Not something I would get stuck on, but pretty mellow music.

    I have been listening to Across the Universe soundtrack alot. Last cd I bought was Jimmy Eat World, and I liked it, was the one with Sweetness and A Praise Chorus.

    Someone mentioned Silversun Pickups. I only know one song, Lazy Eye, but it was really good.
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited May 2008
    Zero wrote: »
    What can I say?

    I love Jason. Why, I may even make love to him now that he's single again.

    But man, I don't get your taste in muzak.

    "Neon Bible" made me want to hit myself in the crotch. I had to beat kittens in response to Interpol's latest pile. Vampire Weekend was OK - although after listening to a few tracks - I felt the urge to stab my eardrums with a set of chopsticks. Instead however, I opted to throw the disc under the lawnmower.

    I hopes this doesn't change what we've got bay-be. But I felt it better to be direct and honest. btw: you can have your chopsticks back.

    OMG! Whaaatttttt!?!?!?!?!:eek::eek::eek:
    Neon Bible is brilliant!! Heresy! Blasphemy!
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited May 2008
    Best album of last year, I do believe.
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited May 2008
    zombie boy 2000 wrote: »
    Best album of last year, I do believe.

    Best in ten years!
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  • AndyGwis
    AndyGwis Posts: 3,655
    edited May 2008
    I'm listening to the new Death Cab for Cutie album. I'm only through song 6, but it's pretty solid so far.

    Oh, and I know I've already given a shout out for Silversun Pickups, but I listened to their album cover to cover last night and it's definitely worth a listen. Lazy Eye is very good, but there are a couple I like just as much (Well thought out twinkles may be the best).
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