The Band - Music from big pink

I always thought of this Biggie album as a a letdown. It easily has his best songs (Kick in the Door, Ten Crack Commandments, Somebody's Gotta Die), but these great moments are ruined by Puffy's pop tracks (although Hypnotize is a great party song). I generally don't think Hip Hop double albums work (All Eyez on Me, Wu-Tang Forever). There's way too much filler and they're usually way too monotonous.

it could've worked if one CD was all pop tracks and the other was all grimey & raw. i dig the pop tracks, but i agree about the album having too much filler. that Lil Kim track and Playa Hater are just the worst songs ever on a classic album, Mamacita-status.

Elliott Smith - Either / Or

so the other day i just realized this might be my fav Kast album.

delta machine.
live is tonight and i have been a bad fan, not checking the new album all this time.

miles - faint hearted
alan licht - four years older
the fall - the unutterable
evol - proper headshrinker
stephen o'malley - salt
lee gamble - join extensions
stereolab - mars audiac quintet
demdike stare - tryptych
lasse marhaug / john wiese - country & western
mama baer - asylum lunaticum
wolf eyes - no answer : lower floors
a handful of dust - the philosophick mercury
best available technology - excavated tapes 1992-1999, vol. 1
omar-s - thank you for letting me be myself
illusion of safety - busier than happier
oneohtrix point never - returnal
rhythm and sound - with the artists
sunn o))) - la mort noir dans esch / alzette

Half String. Another great sounding American shoegaze band I recently discovered.

The Doors - Strange days