Totes Magotes: Spoon - They Want My Soul

Totes Magotes

Random thoughts on what I'm listening to or thinking about lately

Ah Spoon. I didn't really like their first albums, really liked a few songs off of Gimme Fiction and Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, and didn't like Transference at all. But now you're back with They Want My Soul and I'm completely sold on this one. So good. Front to back, I love it.  I have listened to it while running (opening of Rent I Pay is perfect for starting a run), while mowing the lawn, while driving, while cooking...what can't this album do?!

Go get it.

Some samples:

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

Best Albums of 2010 (1 of 4) (amended)

This is an amendment to my previous post.  I recently have been listening to the new Mumford & Sons album, and didn't include it on this list because I saw that it had been released in October of 2009.  But, a friend (Ryan of You Look Nice Today Photography) just mentioned that October 2009 was the UK release, the US release was February 2010!!!  Hooray!  That means I can include it on this years list, and at #1 on less!


Here are my favorite albums for the first 3 months of 2010.  Rather than monthly editions, I am only doing 4 this year. 

LPs

1. Mumford & Sons - Sign No More
2. Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
3. Rocky Votolato - True Devotion
4. Jonsi - Go 
5. Vampire Weekend - Contra
6. The Weakerthans - Live at Burton Cummings Theatre
7. The Morning Benders - Big Echo
8. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
9. Beach House - Teen Dream
10. Spoon - Transference
11. Drew Danburry - Goodnight Gary
12. Galactic - Ya-Ka-May
13. Rogue Wave - Permalight

EPs

1. Cold War Kids - Behave Yourself
2. Bright Eyes & Neva Dinova - One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels (Reissue with new tracks)