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Connection might have coincidentally sounded like the Are you being served tune, BUT the connection to Wire's "Three Girl Rhumba" (track 3 pink flag) was more than coincidental and they offered publishing royalties because of it :
Don’t think I’ve made it all the way through Sufjan Stevens’ Illinois in a single sitting yet. It’s not that I don’t like it, it’s just slightly longer than the time I ever seem to find available for uninterrupted listening. Thankfully the music is less pretentious than the ludicrous song titles led to be believe it might be.
Currently listening to ‘The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me’ by Brand New from 2006. It’s not exactly ‘sing along’ stuff, but it’s quite enjoyable.
I finished blogging my 2000's album choices. Classified scores and pools panel verdicts:
2000 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven. Extraordinary, well worth a 4/5, could grow up to be a 5.
2001 - The Microphones, The Glow, Pt.2. 3/5 - interesting but not a keeper.
2002 - Interpol, Turn on the bright lights. Right up my strasse in terms of musical style, without offering anything hugely new and different. 4/5.
2003 - The Shins, Chutes too narrow. 2/5. Just bland really.
2004 - Madvillian, Madvilliany. Within its genre, pretty good. Within the whole wide world, merely ok. 3/5.
2005 - Sufjan Stevens, Illinios. What's not to love? 4/5.
2006 - Arctic Monkeys, Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not. They're quite the buzz, cock. 3/5
2007 - Bon Iver, For Emma, forever ago. An ugly-beautiful 4/5.
2008 - Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes. This record leaves me utterly cold. 0/5. Maybe the first album I've scored a zero. [Scurries off to check]. Yes, the only zero in 42 years' worth of newmusicness. I must have been in a really bad mood that day.
2009 - Animal Collective, Merriweather post pavilion. Interesting but not a keeper. 3/5. I might have to play this back-to-back with 2001's The Glow, Pt.2 by The Microphones in a "not-a-keeper" play-off.
Interestingly Fitz, the Fleet Foxes stood out to me in your list among a load of dull indie bands. Mind don’t get me started on Father John Misty . . . what utter tripe
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