Chuck Eddy's albums 51 through 150

[koganbot]

Chuck Eddy's Best Albums Of The Year Countdown, Part 2: Numbers 51 - 100 (has eleven albums I've heard, including Veronicas and María Daniela Y Su Sonido Lasser)

Chuck Eddy's Best Albums Of The Year Countdown, Part 1: Numbers 101 - 150 (has five albums I've heard, including Black Kids and Demi Lovato)

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[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you've heard more of these than I have!

Just kidding.

Here's 1 - 50, if anybody cares (though sadly, nobody seems to):

http://blog.rhapsody.com/2008/12/george-jones-once-called-1970-a-good-year-for-the-roses-and-though-the-fellow-who-made-my-very-favorite-album-this-year-ac.html

[koganbot]

Curious about this one. May check out their MySpace when I get the chance (if they have one):

Lazy Magnet – Is Music Even Good? (Corleone)

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, *Is Music Even Good?* is definitely an intriguing title (somewhat reminiscent of a certain late '80s fanzine that I seem to remember.) And the album is easily one of the most look-how-electic-we're-being-aren't-you-impressed pieces of arhythmic artsy fartsy nerd-rock bullshit on my list, too. Thing is, I *am* impressed. And I didn't hear anybody else this year -- certainly no other indie twerps -- who were anywhere *near* as eclectic as this band (really one guy and a bunch of people helping him, apparently). None of which would matter if, every time I wound up putting the CD back in the changer, I was surprised by how much of it wound up seriously pushing my pleasure buttons. Anyway, here's the review I wrote for the online magazine *Blurt* a few months ago (formerly the non-online magazine *Harp*); it ran in one of *Blurt*'s first couple "issues", which I'm told have since disintegrated from the Internet ether, since the magazine changed tech partners:



LAZY MAGNET Is Music Even Good? (Corleone)

Pretension beyond the call of duty: 19 disjointed tracks of nebbish new wave, by-the-book Pavement tributes, deadly dull indie jangle, split-second noise-punk, fuzzy skuzzy electronica, pomp-and-circumstance glam-swish (“Wilder Climes”), café-jazzed French pop (“Un Coco Pour Dejuner”), liquid Santana boogie (“Fighting to Survive Live With Langenus, Beckman, Francisco, Taber & Cousins”), extended space-psych blasting off from the Middle East (“Your Hidden Adversary Is Rising Pt 3: A Flower Fighting A Dragon”), tightly compacted but courageously over-the-top Art Bears prog-metal (“Weird Bummer Of A Spiritual Sheild”), and talked country where your stereo goes on the fritz (“Masters of Science Fiction.”) The success-to-failure ratio is way higher than cassette-culture veteran Jeremy Harris and his 16 Providence pals probably deserve. There are even a couple actual songs!

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

I meant:

>None of which would matter if, every time I wound up putting the CD back in the changer, I WASN'T surprised...

[koganbot]

Heard sixteen of these, including Ne-Yo and Heidi Newfield.