Some crap you might actually be interested in ;-)

[mcshutup]

I don't know why it took me so long to link this, but here is michaelallroy's Top 25 albums of 2006 list. I've been listening to as many as I can and so far it's been a great launching pad for eye opening stuff. I'm now the last person on the internet to have an official obsession with The Hold Steady. Best rock lyrics I've heard in years

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my breakdown of (only) his top 25

[shshaw_shshaw]

artists/albums I already love:

jedi mind tricks - servants in heaven, kings in hell
joanna newsom - ys
lucero - rebels, rogues & sworn brothers
bonnie "prince" billy - the letting go
rocky votolato - makers
arab strap - the last romance
clint mansell with kronos quartet and mogwai
the evens - get evens
murder by death - in bocca al lupo
p.o.s. - audition
ghostface killah - fishscale

artists/albums I need to hear more of:

the hold steady - boys and girls in america
regina spektor - begin to hope
girl talk - night ripper
the draft - in a million pieces
matisyahu - youth
john zorn f. mike patton, trevor dunn, and joey baron - astronome

artists albums I haven't heard at all:

mecca normal - the observer
casiotone for the painfully alone - etiquette
sprites - modern gameplay
lymbyc systym - LIVE 11.30.05
zombi - surface to air
blackpool lights - this town's disaster

artists/albums I have no interest hearing more of:
(most metal/hardcore just doesn't do it for me anymore)

unearth - iii: in the eyes of fire
terror - always the hard

[mcshutup]

Right on.....P.O.S. is not quite on the high level of Jedi Mind Trix, for me, but maybe it needs more listens. Also, you and the whole world are much more clued into music than me. =-) Feel free to reccomend me hip-hop (or anything for that matter) if you hear something good.

In the meantime I will be enjoying Joan Jett =-P

[michaelallroy]

if you're digging the hold steady record(s), i highly suggest checking out the lifter puller stuff, too. it's more "artsy post-punk" than straight-up bar-rock, but the lyrics are the thing, for sure. craig finn's a fucking genius lyrically.

i'm waiting on the new brother ali until a version leaks that's uncensored, without promo drops, so as not to "spoil" it. interestingly, i was just reading an interview with CF where he calls bob dylan the greatest lyricist ever and brother ali is the greatest lyricist of our time. i love when crap interrelates like that.

[mcshutup]

Cool, I enjoyed the interview. I haven't been able to get any Lifter Puller stuff so far (or Almost Killed Me), but I will keep at it at my usual uninspired pace =-) I think the Dylan influence, in voice and ideas, is just something I gravitate to in artists.

I thought the promo drops were unobtrusive, but cool...hopefully you'll like it as much when you hear it.