{"id":703,"date":"2007-12-05T10:22:39","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T10:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=703"},"modified":"2007-12-05T10:22:39","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T10:22:39","slug":"albums_i_did_no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/12\/albums_i_did_no.html","title":{"rendered":"Albums I Did NOT Buy in <S>2006<\/S>2007 [doh!]."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But am now planning on at least checking out due to their proliferance on other people&#8217;s year-end lists (or specific comments on the lists of people whose other choices I am down with, even where they differ from me).  (Largehearted Boy has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/11\/2007_online_bes.html\">a huge list of links <\/a>to people&#8217;s lists. Fun, fun!)<br \/>\n<UL type=\"square\"><LI>Bat for Lashes &#8220;Fur &#038; Gold&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI><strong>Burial &#8220;Untrue&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI>Justice &#8220;[cross]&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<LI>The Field &#8220;From Here We Go Sublime&#8221; (&#8216;quiet is the new loud&#8217; \/ minimal techno)<br \/>\n<LI>Animal Collective &#8220;Strawberry Jam&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI><strong>Jens Lekman &#8220;Night Falls Over Kortedala&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<LI>Smashing Pumpkins &#8220;Zeigeist&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI><strong>Bowerbirds &#8220;Hymns for a Dark Horse&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<LI>White Rabbits &#8220;Fort Nightly&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI>Clorox Girls &#8220;J&#8217;aime Les Filles&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI>Caribou &#8220;Andorra&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI>Mavis Staples &#8220;We&#8217;ll Never Turn Back&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI>Jarvis Cocker &#8220;Jarvis&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI><strong>Miranda Lambert &#8220;Crazy Ex-Girlfriend&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<LI>Avett Brothers &#8220;Emotionalism&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI>The Perishers &#8220;Victorius&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI>The Octopus Project &#8220;Hello, Avalanche&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI><strong>Akron\/Family &#8220;Rise Above&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<LI>Moonbabies &#8220;Moonbabies at the Ballroom&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI>Franklel (Michael Orendy) &#8220;Lullaby for the Passerby&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI> Lucy Wainwright Roche &#8220;8 Songs&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI>Wintersleep &#8220;Welcome to the Night&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI>The Cobbs &#8220;The Deathcapades&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI>Vampire Weekend<br \/>\n<LI><strong>Au Revoir Simone<\/strong><\/UL><br \/>\n<u>Already bought based on others&#8217; lists:<\/u><br \/>\n<strong>Brother Ali &#8220;The Undisputed Truth&#8221;<\/strong> (like it!)<br \/>\n<u>Albums\/Bands for which I cannot even comprehend the hype (and I&#8217;ve even seen these acts live):<\/u><br \/>\nBattles<br \/>\nSt. Vincent<br \/>\nDeerhunter<br \/>\n<u>Surprising Comments:<\/u><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfuv.org\/music\/best\/bestof07_staff.html\">One review <\/a>referred to Ben Harper&#8217;s &#8220;Lifeline&#8221; as &#8220;tepid.&#8221;  (But another had it #1.)  You know I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s anything tepid about that boy.<br \/>\n<u>Hilarious reviews:<\/u><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynvegan.com\/archives\/2007\/12\/best_of_2007_by.html\">This dude&#8217;s take <\/a>on Rufus Wainwright&#8217;s &#8220;Judy Does Carniegie Hall&#8221; is hilarious.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.doubleviking.com\/bullet-points-10-worst-hit-songs-of-2007-7200-p.html\">The comment <\/a>that &#8220;Young Folks&#8221; made whistling cool again.  &#8220;And we mean cool as in annoying.&#8221;<br \/>\n<u>Great way to start a year-end list:<\/u><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/ryancapuano.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/top-ten-albums-of-2007.html\">We&#8217;re already at the end of another godforsaken year&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But am now planning on at least checking out due to their proliferance on other people&#8217;s year-end lists (or specific comments on the lists of people whose other choices I am down with, even where they differ from me). 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