URGENT !! need input !!

[ycartrob]

 a friend of mine gave me 30 free songs on E-Music (I scored a Stars of the Lid album!) and I want to download another album and I want it to be of an artist I do not have and something released after 2005. Some of the ones I am batting around are, Umphrey's Magee, the Constaintines, the Decemberists, the Hold Steady (to name a few).

So, the challenge is for [size=24]you[/size] to convince [size=24]me[/size] what album I need to download and why. I'll give you till Friday evening (March 6) at midnight-CST. The winner gets nothing other than the satisfaction of having turned someone on to some great music. Good luck...

[xmascriminal]

Well, I've heard Umphrey's Magee and The Hold Steady and I don't like either. Knowing you, I'm not convinced you'd like the Decemberists, even though I love them. Here are my favorite albums ever (not counting MMJ or The Ds). If you don't have any of these, let me know which and I'll try to figure out the best of them.

Abattoir Blues by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Hail to the Thief by Radiohead
Benefit by Jethro Tull
In a Priest Driven Ambulance by The Flaming Lips
Lola Vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround by The Kinks
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One by Yo La Tengo
If I Should Fall From Grace With God by The Pogues
Vauxhall and I by Morrissey
Urban Hymns by The Verve

If you don't have any of those, they're all essential in my opinion.

[ycartrob]

Well, I've heard Umphrey's Magee and The Hold Steady and I don't like either. Knowing you, I'm not convinced you'd like the Decemberists, even though I love them. Here are my favorite albums ever (not counting MMJ or The Ds). If you don't have any of these, let me know which and I'll try to figure out the best of them.

Abattoir Blues by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Hail to the Thief by Radiohead
Benefit by Jethro Tull
In a Priest Driven Ambulance by The Flaming Lips
Lola Vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround by The Kinks
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One by Yo La Tengo
If I Should Fall From Grace With God by The Pogues
Vauxhall and I by Morrissey
Urban Hymns by The Verve

If you don't have any of those, they're all essential in my opinion.

thanks for the quick response xmas, you get the spirit award. I have most of the artists you mentioned and what I will stress in my initial post is something new, post 2005.

thanks!

[xmascriminal]

Sorry, I didn't notice that part, despite you putting it in bold. I was too excited. I just like to tell everybody I can about those albums, along with Z and Her Majesty by The Decemberists.

Year of the Crow by State Radio is a really great album released in '07. They're very liberal though, so I don't know how you feel about that. I highly recommend it. It's very diverse and well written. Though their new album coming this fall is going to destroy YotC. It's going to be absurdly awesome.

[Jaimoe]

I'd go with The Hold Steady over the rest (by a landslide - not including some of xmas' suggestions). Great guitar band with nods to The Boss, Elvis Costello and The Kinks.

I'm not a fan of Umphrey's - they are a 2nd or 3rd tier jam band.

And I think you may already know what I think of The Decemberists.

[Penny Lane]

Well, I've heard Umphrey's Magee and The Hold Steady and I don't like either. Knowing you, I'm not convinced you'd like the Decemberists, even though I love them. Here are my favorite albums ever (not counting MMJ or The Ds). If you don't have any of these, let me know which and I'll try to figure out the best of them.

Abattoir Blues by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Hail to the Thief by Radiohead
Benefit by Jethro Tull
In a Priest Driven Ambulance by The Flaming Lips
Lola Vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround by The Kinks
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One by Yo La Tengo
If I Should Fall From Grace With God by The Pogues
Vauxhall and I by Morrissey
Urban Hymns by The Verve

If you don't have any of those, they're all essential in my opinion.

thanks for the quick response xmas, you get the spirit award. I have most of the artists you mentioned and what I will stress in my initial post is something new, post 2005.

thanks!

1. Kudos to you for mentioning the VERVE
2. However Urban Hymns came out in 1997 BUT IF YOU DO NOT HAVE IT< IT IS THE GREATEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME
3. if #2 applies to you, Tracy. SHAME on you for not having that album.  :-)

download the first Chris Robinson solo album

[el_chode]

Listen, I know you want post-2005, but can you settle for this album from 2004?

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Bees/Free+the+Bees

Here are important songs:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5rs847Meew[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN48kxZut98[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS0CjhITScg[/media]

If you insist on post-05, then get the Bee's 3rd release, Octopus. It's just not the ultimate summer album like Free the Bees.

If you want Umphreys, Safety in Numbers is probably best to get a feel for the band. Mantis is an awesome album, but it's somewhat of a different feel.

I think the Hold Steady's Boys in Girls of America is one of the top 10 albums of this decade. It's the album that convinced me to like them after not liking their two prior releases.

However, now that I like them, I like their first album the most out of all of them. Really Raw, damn energetic, and Most People are DJs is a great drinking song.

[corey]

Tracy, my vote is for "Boys and Girls in America" by the Hold Steady.

Why? Because I can see you jumping around in your living room waving your shirt in circles above your head after the first time that you give it a spin.

[ycartrob]

Tracy, my vote is for "Boys and Girls in America" by the Hold Steady.

Why? Because I can see you jumping around in your living room waving your shirt in circles above your head after the first time that you give it a spin.

Corey gets the Insider Information award  ;)

[primushead]

Since you're trying to kick Caffeine, I would recommend the band Boris and their album Pink.  

No coffee?  No Problem.  This crazy ass japanese stoner metal will get you going in the morning.  Guaranteed.

Gregg

[bowl of soup]

Tracy - you'll love the Hold Steady and you can't go wrong with either Boys and Girls or Stay Positive.  See here:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/v/3Cem1ME-OvQ&hl=en&fs=1[/media]

note the Rush shirt.  I really think that I like Stay Positive more:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/v/gklwmaCqd-0&hl=en&fs=1[/media]

There's always the greatest post 2005 work of music ever: Powder Burns by the Twilight Singers (Greg Dulli).  You may relate to the themes:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/v/SUPEZH8ngcY&hl=en&fs=1[/media]

[Vadie Stark]

Son Volt's 2005
Okemah And The Melody Of Riot

[capt. scotty]

I to this day dont understand how so many people love Hold Steady. Not just like them, love them. I dont think theyre bad, but I have yet to hear anything special from them.

Ill have to think about this the next couple days to get together a few recommendaciones

[el_chode]

I to this day dont understand how so many people love Hold Steady. Not just like them, love them. I dont think theyre bad, but I have yet to hear anything special from them.

Ill have to think about this the next couple days to get together a few recommendaciones

Listen to Most People are DJs
USSSSSSSSSSS Sexuality

[megalicious]

go for umphrey's safety in numbers. it's a bit more chill than some of their other stuff, and it's a road-trip favorite of mine.

added bonus: huey lewis (sans the news) on harmonica.

[capt. scotty]

go for umphrey's safety in numbers. it's a bit more chill than some of their other stuff, and it's a road-trip favorite of mine.

added bonus: huey lewis (sans the news) on harmonica.

I just remembered they came out with an album a month ago or so, do you have it??

Based on the clips I just listened to, it sounds awesome  :o

this is the last track on it and its rocking my face

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsKgf4op7FU[/media]

[Ruckus]

James McMurtry's Just Us Kids.  Good ole American rock n' roll with some country mixed in with a liberal bent.  Little Steve Earle, Tom Petty, Lou Reed and Bruce mixed in.

What a discography but I dig the new album a lot

Random live cuts - 1st one off new album
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWC0TA03b8I[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGn_aeqgiJk[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpi39g-a8Is[/media]

[jones]

Umphrey's MaGee?:

[ycartrob]

I suppose you meant Umphrey's McGee.

Wow, how did you ever discern that I meant Umphrey's McGee when I merely wrote Umphrey's Magee?

You must be psychic or really, really, really, REALLY smart!

(currently crossing Umphrey's Magee off the list)

[jones]