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meandi · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 2:57 pm Post subject: Best ever bought CD?

I'm looking for some new music to get into and I was wondering if anyone has got a great CD to recommend? I'm looking for pop/punk/rock-music, if it helps but if you've got a great on, tell me! I really want to expand my CD-collection with great new music for the fall/winter

For me, the best ever is Green Day's American Idiot (can it get any better?), Alanis Morisette's Jagged Little Pill (a lot of memories), and Bodies Without Organs' Prototype (sounds like their greatest hits album, but it's their debut... http://www.poplife.se/Magellan/pages/main.jsp?storeId=10151&pageId=collectionDisplay&viewId=656326)

But I'd like to hear your music!

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IntoTheVoid · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 5:10 pm Post subject:

I used to buy CD's, then I found Limewire

So I dont bother with CD's anymore so its really annoying when people buy me HMV vouchers

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meandi · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 5:13 pm Post subject:

Okay, I get a kick off going to the CD store and get them. But I do like LimeWire too

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PsychoCynic · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 5:16 pm Post subject:

Like IntotheVoid, I don't bother with CDs (I'd go broke if I did).

Hmm, rock/pop/punk?

Try:
Muse - Showbiz or Absolution
Panic! At the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
James Blunt (I know it's not any of the above genres, but I noticed you liked him in the What You're Listening To Thread) - Back to Bedlam
Damien Rice (If you like James Blunt, you'll LOVE this guy) - O (yeah, it's the title of the album)
Coldplay - X&Y
Weezer - Make Believe

I could just keep listing, but you might not even like the ones I have down. If you want to hear samples, I'm sure you can just type in the album in www.amazon.com or something like that and hear them.

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meandi · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 5:19 pm Post subject:

thefilmchick · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 5:31 pm Post subject:

Elvis Costello's early best-of CD provides a good introduction (not the crappy recent one, which has stuff like 'She' on there.)

So do 'A Quiet Normal Life' or 'Genius,' the best-of Warren Zevon CDs.

(I had to recommend both, heh.)

More in line with your tastes, I'd recommend 'Drums and Wires' or 'Black Sea,' XTC, 'Frosting on the Beater,' The Posies, ''#1 Record/Radio City,' Big Star, 'Spilt Milk,' Jellyfish, and some early REM - 'Life's Rich Pageant' or 'Document' are decent introductions to some of the less accessible stuff.
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meandi · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 5:39 pm Post subject:

Oh thanks TFC! I'll check all of em out, maybe I find something I really like

Elvis Costello is great, my aunt has actually been to one of his gigs in the US... so I like him too, but his music doesn't run very much in my iPod.
That, in the other hand, does the early REM! They're soo great, one of my faves

What do you guys think of Bodies Without Organs? I know it's not your kind of music, and actually it's not mine either (I'm more into punk/rock/hardrock) but BWO totally stole my heart...

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IntoTheVoid · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 7:00 pm Post subject:

Oh! Coldplay X & Y the best album I ever bought! I had to buy that one from a CD store cos those were the days when I didnt have an MP3 or an iPod so I used my good old portable CD player

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"Jack is the guy she should be with.
She does genuinely love him.
And she knows that he would take excellent care of her." - Damon Lindelof

SuperKC · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject:

I am no help at all, but you reminded me of this one time years ago when my friend Jake was over and looking through my CDs and he goes, "Who's Damien Rice-O?" As if that was his name. "Rice-O" Haha. I just started cracking up and he said it like two more times, completely unaware at why I was laughing. Every time I'd catch my breath from laughing long enough to start explaining it he would ask again and I would lose it once again.

So off topic. I'm sorry.

PsychoCynic · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 7:49 pm Post subject:

SuperKC · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject:

I hear Damien Rice collects souls. Puts them in a little jar on his night stand. It's fairly creepy actually.

PsychoCynic · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 7:53 pm Post subject:

PsychoCynic · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 7:54 pm Post subject:

Meandi, I so apologize for having this thread turn into complete unrelated spamming.

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SuperKC · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 7:54 pm Post subject:

I really like Jack Johnson and Joseph Arthur. But I just discovered this fun band called The Kings of Leon. Check out their song called "King of the Rodeo." I promise not all of their music has a royalty theme haha.

I'm currently trying to collect a bunch of music to make a new mix-tape of new stuff.

meandi · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:41 pm Post subject: