I hang my head. I own merely eight of Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2003. As it's the ultimate online hipster music rag, I simply had to order five of them from Half.com.
I'm geniunely geeked over "Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State" by Sufjan Stevens. I mean, the track list is:
1. Flint (For The Unemployed And Underpaid)
2. All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace!
3. For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti
4. Say Yes! To Michigan!
5. The Upper Peninsula
6. Tahquamenon Falls
7. Holland
8. Oh Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)
9. Romulus
10. Alanson, Crooked River
11. Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie
12. They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black (For The Homeless In Muskegon)
13. Oh God, Where Are You Now? (In Pickeral Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Mackinaw?)
14. Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)
15. Vito's Ordination Song
Deliriously loopy.
This after buying a boxset and three discs (on all sale mind you!!) at Tower today. As I've said many a time, I have issues...
Posted by mikewolf at January 03, 2004 11:18 PMSo what'd ya get?
Posted by: Frankenstein on January 4, 2004 01:07 AMhttp://www.aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html
( and happy 04, you finnish metal minimalist...)
Posted by: fLuuDe (maybe one U should have some euro umlaut-type thing) on January 4, 2004 01:33 AM8 of 50 is far better than my 2 of 50. of course I've never claimed to have the hipster cred you do.
Posted by: Dennis on January 4, 2004 08:31 AMYou are 26% 2003 hipster. And happy new year to you; I woulda joined youse on Friday, but I slept for 24 straight hours.
Posted by: Ken Goldstein on January 4, 2004 03:36 PMWhat about the hidden tracks:
16. Marshall (Love the Smell of Froot Loops in the Morning)
17. Mt. Pleasant: Neither Mountainous Nor Pleasant
Ha! Couldn't resist!
Posted by: K.Britt on January 4, 2004 04:48 PMWhat did I get? Well...
From Tower in Stamford -
Drive by Truckers - "Decoration Day"
The Postal Service - "Give Up"
The Thrills - "So Much for the City"
"Must I Paint You A Picture?: The Essential Billy Bragg" (3 disc set)
From Half.com -
Songs: Ohia - "Magnolia Electric Co."
Broken Social Scene - "You Forgot It in People"
Sufjan Stevens - "Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State"
The Books - "The Lemon of Pink"
Weakerthans - "Reconstruction Site"
I looked for the St. Ettienne album @ Tower. They didn't have the right version. Just the one with the band on the cover.
Posted by: mrw on January 4, 2004 06:42 PMKBO,
For the last time. Marshall doesn't smell like Kellogg's. Battle Creek smells like cereal. Marshall, my hometown, smells like manure.
Posted by: mrw on January 4, 2004 06:42 PMI gotta say that that I didn't really like The Thrills. But then again I have a low tolerance for whiny rock bands..
Posted by: Frankenstein on January 4, 2004 07:26 PMI was trying to be kind... but you know, when it comes right down to it, there really isn't that much of a difference between Froot Loops and Manure, is there?
How's this for a compromise: Marshall (I love the smell of Schuler's at Lunchtime)
Posted by: K. Britt on January 5, 2004 02:19 AMKirsten, as usual, you have me laughing...Mike I am dying to hear about that album, most intriguing. Other missing tracks:
Yes, there REALLY is a Kalamazoo and Mackinac DOES have motor powered vehicles, they just hide them well!
Posted by: Holly on January 5, 2004 08:48 PM