[grawk]

The Flaming Lips - Zaireeka

A 4 cd set. That you had to play all 4 at once to get the appropriate effect. The "Boom Box Experiments" in album form. Wow. Amazing. The anticipation of getting a situation to hear them at once combined with the wait for the album itself.

 

[slindeman]

Joy Division - Heart & Soul box set.
As soon as the import hit the streets where I lived I happily paid $75 for it.

 

[Cyclone]

Quote:

Originally Posted by bubbamc119 Future: New TOOL album can not wait for that one!!

yup

 

[feverish]

Quote:

Originally Posted by jpr703 I'm getting reved up thinking about the upcoming White Stripes album.

I'll second that!

 

[bln]

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Originally Posted by feverish I'll second that!

I as well.

Other upcoming releases I'm anxiously awaiting: Spoon's Gimme Fiction and Sufjan Stevens's Illinois (sample song title: The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience But You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, "I have fought the Big Knives and will continue to fight them until they are off our lands!").

I was really looking forward to Interpol's second album Antics, and although the critical reception wasn't very good, I think it's fantastic. Kind of like with the Strokes: in my opinion, Room on Fire was a much better album than Is This It, but they were almost universally lambasted. It's as if people didn't actually listen to the music.

 

[elrod-tom]

Personally, I'm waiting for the new SACD-Hybrid of The Who's Quadrophenia.

The most anxiously awaited album in recent memory was the "American" cuts of the first four Beatles albums in the first box set. I guess what I'm really waiting on is the Yesterday and Today, Rubber Soul, Revolver releases of same!!

Now, these are re-issues, so I don't know if that counts or not....

 

[mtkversion]

Dr. Dre - Detox
Saigon - The Greatest Story Never Told
Kanye West - Late Registration

 

[tortoise]

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Originally Posted by bln Other upcoming releases I'm anxiously awaiting: Spoon's Gimme Fiction and Sufjan Stevens's Illinois (sample song title: The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience But You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, "I have fought the Big Knives and will continue to fight them until they are off our lands!"). I was really looking forward to Interpol's second album Antics, and although the critical reception wasn't very good, I think it's fantastic. Kind of like with the Strokes: in my opinion, Room on Fire was a much better album than Is This It, but they were almost universally lambasted. It's as if people didn't actually listen to the music.

Yeah, I'm very excited about the new Spoon & Sufjan, too (and the new Broken Social Scene, mentioned above). Speaking of Stevens, have you heard Andrew Bird's latest, The Mysterious Production of Eggs? It has a very Sufjanesque quality to it, both in the instrumentation and the literate lyrics. Highly recommended.

I think with sophomore albums by groups like Interpol and (especially) The Strokes, critics get so caught up reacting to (i.e. backlashing against) the whole hype machine that they barely do listen to the music. I too thought Antics was fantastic.

 

[PinkFloyd]

Pink Floyd - Animals

Got it the first day it hit the shops on Vinyl

 

[Doc Sarvis]

20+ years ago - Led Zep In Through the Out Door - I liked it!
10 years ago - Midnight Oil Breathe - Disappointing at first, ultimately ok.
3 years ago - Peter Gabriel UP - I think it's his best.
3 years ago - Spock's Beard Snow - Not what we expected by very good, followed closely by the shock of the Morse departure.
Last year - Dream Theater Live at Budokan - Incredible (DVD sound issues notwithstanding)!

 

[redshifter]

most recently:

stereolab: "sound-dust"

also, whatever boards of canada releases next.

 

[carlosgp]

AC/DC Back in Black. The return of AC/DC after Bon Scott death.

 

[DJ e]

whoops...double post...

 

[DJ e]

A few weeks ago it was definitely Queens of the Stone Age's Lullabies to Paralyze. Went to the store to get it as soon as I could the day it came out; it was the first album they released while I was actually a fan, so I couldn't wait to see what new stuff they came up with. Sure there will be many more highly anticipated albums to come, though...

 

[tortoise]

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Originally Posted by redshifter most recently: also, whatever boards of canada releases next.

Yes, that is indeed something to look forward to, almost as excited about that as the next Stars of the Lid.