Albums you Must own (for $5 a piece!) Nr. 04

Amazon.com is constantly running $5 album deals for mp3 albums..  Each month or so, they post a new list of 100 albums.

Here are a few albums from their list that should 100% be in your music collection.

Did I mention these are all only $5

1.

 Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

 2.

Radiohead - OK Computer 

 3.

Damien Jurado - Saint Bartlett

4.

Andrew Bird - Noble Beast

 5.

 Coconut Records - Nighttiming

Others you should probably pick up while they are cheap:

Spoon - A Series of Sneaks

Battles - Mirrored

 

Conor Oberst - Outer South  

A.A. Bondy - When the Devil's Loose

The Dodos - Visiter

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

Mates of State - Crushes (The Covers Mixtape)

Coldplay - X & Y  

Ben Harper - Burn to Shine

Ani DiFranco - Ani DiFranco

Jim Gaffigan - Doing my Time

Albums you Must own (for $5 a piece!) Nr. 03

Amazon.com is constantly running $5 album deals for mp3 albums..  Each month or so, they post a new list of 100 albums.

Here are a few albums from their list that should 100% be in your music collection.

 1.
Local Natives
Gorilla Manor
 

2.
Minus the Bear
Menos el Oso


3.
Coconut Records
Nighttiming


4.
Spoon
Kill the Moonlight

Albums you Must own (for $5 a piece!) Nr. 02

Amazon.com is constantly running $5 album deals for mp3 albums..  Each month or so, they post a new list of 100 albums. 

Here are my top 2 albums from their list that should 100% be in your music collection and if they are not, your music collection is NOT complete.

1.

Iron & Wine:

Our Endless Numbered Days

2.

fun.

Aim and Ignite

Some other great titles on their current $5 deals include:

The Rhumb Line by Ra Ra Riot

Oh, Inverted World by The Shins

Pablo Honey by Radiohead

Parachutes by Coldplay

Exit Planet Dust by The Chemical Brothers

Fight For Your Mind by Ben Harper

Hearts Of Oak by Ted Leo & The Pharmacists

Mouthfuls by Fruit Bats

Also - Radiohead's Kid A is only $5.99.  Not bad for what many blogs ranked as the best album of the last decade!

Mumford & Sons - The best way to spend $7.99

In the recent past, there has only been one album for which I have been willing a hands-down, recommend to any and everyone with a ironclad guaruntee that they would love the album: that was  Fleet Foxes' self-titled debut LP.

I haven't been willing to give such a strong recommendation until now.  I know I have blogged about them in the last few days, but feel the need to do so again.  Let me introduce Mumford & Sons' Sign No More.  This is folk and roll at its best!  They combine some very familiar folky (at times even Irish-ish) elements and embue them with an exuberance, bombasticity (not a word, I know) and sing-along harmonies that has me fully hooked.  I have not been this excited about a band for quite a while!

To top it off, Amazon.com is selling it for $7.99.



So here is my guarantee-clad recommendation (I won't do this very often, so I'm quite serious about this).

I hereby promise you that if you purchase this album, you WILL love it.

No matter what kind of music you are into, you will love this.  If you don't, well, then I will have to seriously reconsider my acumen as a self-proclaimed purveyor and connoisseur of fine music.

Here are a few samples: