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Comment by Whatevs

Whatevs — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:05:16 -0800

LCD SNDSYTM vs. Dan Deacon. too close to call.

How come you guys ignored both Dan Deacon shows this last weekend? You missed out.

Comment by Ari Spool

Ari Spool — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:11:47 -0800

Oh man, you're tellin' me. I stupidly scheduled a stupid, stupid vacation before either of those shows were announced, so I missed both shows (but the vacation was fun). The next vacation I take is to Chicago for Pitchfork Festival, and Battles AND Dan Deacon are playing that. (And Yoko Ono, and Sonic Youth, and tons of other worthwhile music.) I'm super psyched to see both of my favorite bands so far this year in one sitting.

Comment by vegetable lasagna

vegetable lasagna — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:34:20 -0800

1) Of Montreal. Turns out that Rolling Stone has sunk their Metacritic rating "An intermittently pleasurable record from a talented songwriter with an overstuffed brain." How is that rag even published?

2) Thermals '06 or '07? +/- Let's Build a Fire '06 or '07? If neither of those are '07, then the National's new disc.

Comment by no one in particular

no one in particular — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:36:24 -0800

Dan Deacon vs. Battles vs. Panda Bear for me.

The hype on Dan Deacon gives me faith that the Internet will eventually find rad artists no matter how weird... I saw him (in Portland) in March in front of 30 people (on a recommendation, I had no idea who he was at the time), and then he played last week at Holocene to a sold-out crowd (300 or so). Go Dan! If we're talking best live shows of the year, his two shows are on my top two spots, no exaggeration.

Comment by douglas martin

douglas martin — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:45:18 -0800

it's getting tougher as the year progresses, and my favorite album of the year is wildly variable, but right now, it's a four way tie between hissing fauna, person pitch, shearwater's palo santo reissue/redo, and the twilight sad's fourteen autumns and fifteen winters. and veggie, i think they're both '06, but i could be wrong about +/-. the national record, due to my four-way tie, comes in at number two(five).

Comment by vegetable lasagna

vegetable lasagna — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:03:51 -0800

I agree wth @4 about the Internet (and @5 with those picks). I can't remember the source, but there once were hundreds of bands with thousands of fans and now there are thousands of bands with hundreds of fans. I love the Internet and still bear the scars of the spending the seventies and eighties with corporate radio.

Comment by douglas martin

douglas martin — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:35:46 -0800

and since when did talented songwriters with overstuffed brains become a bad thing in music? the dinosaur critics at rolling stone should be replaced-- stat.

Comment by Clark

Clark — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:31:39 -0800

I saw Dan Deacon at the Healthy Times Fun Club on Sat, LCD Soundsystem at the Showbox in May and Of Montreal in Feb. as well.

The winner of the live show? Dan Deacon.

What's the best album though? Let's just say there's "Something Great" about Sound of Silver, and musically it's stands out from the band's previous material more than the others. Deacon's album seems like the well-earned conclusion to years of sound slavery, while I still never felt like a wraith pinned to the mist during Hissing Fauna. Deacon's an unbelievable live performer�trust me I lost ten pounds and had a raging erection for Wham City by the time I left�but LCD has the better album.

Comment by KS

KS — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:08:31 -0800

Two letters for you: Ys.

Comment by Erik R

Erik R — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:53:42 -0800

Jesu - Conqueror
Pissed Jeans - Hope For Men
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
Bj�rk - Volta
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
Earthless - Rhythms From a Cosmic Sky
Dungen - Tio Bitar

Comment by Ari Spool

Ari Spool — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:41:49 -0800

I think Ys came out late last year. But it is really good!
I haven't listened to that new D�ngen, I better get on it. I liked Volta (I would say that Bjork is the best live show so far this year for me), and I liked Pissed Jeans, but i think Battles and Dan Deacon are both more innovative and crazier and total freakfests in a way that my psyche can get down with.

Comment by brad

brad — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:14:29 -0800

how come no one has noticed that the Battles song is a rip off of marilyn manson's "the beautiful people"?

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