I enjoy katydids, peppermint soap, root beer, and the following ten records released between January 2006-June 2006. I have included a destination super location as to where the album would be most appropriate to play in my life. Dirty. Scrumptions. Raw.
HSD has left us, no more will he known High School Dave, now he will be referred to as College Dave or CD. Here is his top ten.
Maybe I’m overly optimistic, but I had a hard time picking just ten records. The last six months have been pretty good for sounds and if the next six are as good as I’m anticipating my year-end list should be painstaking for me. So here’s ten records I thoroughly enjoy.
We started talking about top tens 3 weeks ago and I have found 2 surfacing point of views. One - people with a fond love for straightfoward pop music with experimental tendancies do not know how to narrow it down to 10 choices. Two - everyone else thinks there haven’t even been ten good records [...]
These are some of my favorite records, to come out the first half of the year.
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Sufjan Stevens
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Illinoise
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MP3 | Chicago
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Crossing the distinctive intimacy of Michigan (2003) with even more lush arrangements, deeper storylines, and a small army of extra vocalists- Steven\’e2\’80\’99s latest was a favorite from the first of the 21 ambrosial tracks.
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Sufjan will bring the love. Open [...]
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Ryan Adams
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Cold Roses
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Listen | All tracks click in the top left
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Cold Roses is like driving around aimlessly at dawn, having not slept for the better part of a week, on the last day of the greatest summer of your life. You can smell the dew melting off of the ground and the honeysuckle opening. You [...]
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1. Dead Meadow
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Feathers
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MP3 | At Her Open Door
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Video | At Her Open Door
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Barreling down the highway, the needle eases past 70 mph. This desert is very unsettling. In my rearview, I can see the sun’s first light start to rise. I exhale the smoke in my lungs and flick the butt out into the void. [...]
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Sufjan Stevens
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Illinois
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MP3 | Casmir Pulaski Day
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To be shared with all. Teach your children now and give them hope. Never before has an artist caused me to reflect on all the ways I choose to live my life. This record [...]
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New Order
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Waiting for the Sirens Call
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Video | Krafty
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After the tragic end of Joy Division the remaining members formed New Order, They have proven themselves over the years and continue to be one of the biggest influences to most of the hot 80’s style pop bands around now. You need more info still? tough…. you want [...]
