Don Quixote
Footballguy
Alright one more guess with the April 2003 hint… Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Fever to Tell.
ETA: Or was it The Guitar Romantic above?
ETA: Or was it The Guitar Romantic above?
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I am listening to the best rock and roll album of the past twenty years - guess which one (1 Viewer)
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rockaction
Footballguy
Great guess but look upthread!
MAC_32
Footballguy
Is this that band you mentioned in the 31's thread a couple weeks ago?
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Yeah, yeah, yeah… Just edited my post.
rockaction
Footballguy
I might have. I don’t remember really. Usually I remember mentioning the Hearts because I get the feels.
northern exposure
Footballguy
I see Wiki listed The Undertones as one of their influences. I have to admit until very recently I had not heard of the band. I found somebody selling some used vinyl records and they had early Bowie, Mott The Hopple, Clash and The Jam records as well as one by The Undertones. The seller couldn't tell me anything about it, but the price was right so I added it to my pile.
Adjacent before they signed to a major. . .
Think of punk rock towns producing great power pop.
Think north of that.
Move to Portland, OR
Go listen to the Exploding Hearts and their first and only album, Guitar Romantic and include the demos from the Shattered comp, later released.
It has everything you'd want. It's got power pop, swinging rock n' roll, trash, glam, all rolled into a maximum rock effort.
Unfortunately, the boys died young in a van crash on their way back from a gig.
Adam Cox, Matt Fitzgerald, Jeremy Gage.
RIP to all of them. I always get this sense of incredible sadness when I think about it, often moved.
From Wikipedia:
The band rose to prominence in the US Pacific Northwest scene shortly after they formed in 2001. The band drew influences from early British punk bands such as The Undertones, Buzzcocks, The Clash, The Jam, The Boys and The Only Ones, as well as power pop acts like Nick Lowe.[1] Adam Cox invited New Orleans musician King Louie Bankston into the band's lineup after Cox heard Bankston's song "I'm a Pretender" during a telephone conversation.[2] Cox and Bankston formed a songwriting partnership that would produce many of the songs that would appear on Guitar Romantic.[2]
The Exploding Hearts led a revival of 1970s-era power pop and new wave in the Seattle and Portland area along with bands like The Briefs and the Epoxies on the then-Seattle-based Dirtnap Records. Their combination of punk rock and power pop influenced melodies and their energetic live shows brought them attention on the West Coast and from magazines such as Maximumrocknroll and Shredding Paper, which featured them on their covers.[3] They released their debut studio album, Guitar Romantic, in April 2003. Bankston left the band shortly after the album was released.[2]
Exploding Hearts - Modern Kicks
Exploding Hearts - Shattered (You Left Me)
Pitchfork review of Guitar Romantic
The Exploding Hearts: Guitar Romantic
Ladies and gentlemen, please switch off your irony detectors. The Exploding Hearts are not tongue-in-cheek punk-pop revivalists, and they aren ...pitchfork.com
Ten years later, in reminiscence
Still Crazy: Ten Years of the Exploding Hearts
In 2003, the Portland power-pop band released their debut album, Guitar Romantic, and then ended in heartbreaking tragedy. Matt LeMay looks back on their legacy a decade later.
"What I remember about the Exploding Hearts is how excited they made me, both about their music and about the music that they loved. The Exploding Hearts fundamentally got both the artistry and the energy behind the best pop and punk music of the last half-century. They channeled it so well that it was easy to miss just how much was actually going on, how many perfect little decisions were made in each of their songs."
I'm glad I did because it is right in my wheelhouse.
I have heard of Feargal Sharkey, but only as a solo artist.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Sleater-Kinney : The Woods
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
One of the best albums of the '00s. But it's Turn On the Bright Lights.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Well, I have another guess. If correct it would spoil my countdown a tad, but tie nicely into tomorrow's pick.
Not quite.Well, I have another guess. If correct it would spoil my countdown a tad, but tie nicely into tomorrow's pick.
It was from the year Beyond was released. Scratch that. It's earlier than Beyond.
rockaction
Footballguy
That's actually what I thought, looked it up, and still got it wrong. Way to go, rock!
Ah, I see why. Searching with the wrong name still leads you to that album in a Google search. Saw the picture and figured "good to go."
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
saw them play the entire album in sequence at Forest Hills in 2017 (15th anniversary)
still got it wrong lol
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I'm as pedantic as you are so I wasn't gonna let it go.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Was going to be my guess but saw it missed the cutoff
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
I'm as pedantic as you are so I wasn't gonna let it go.
i've only seen two artists play an album in sequence
Interpol advertised that concert as an anniversary show (think they did another one in London)
The other was Rosanne Cash - if pressed I probably couldn't name two songs from her, I was there for the middle act, The Lone Bellow. But it was actually pretty cool, she wrote a thematic album (around 2014) about the deep south called The River and The Thread, and even though I was not at all familiar with it - and listening to an entire album is something archaic in itself - I have to say it was really enjoyable. She took a series of trips down south with her family, each song is about a town or person. It all fits together in a beautiful way. Not really my jam but I appreciated it as a work of art.
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
I havet heard of most of these. Thanks for the thread. The countdown threads go too fast for me.
Looking forward to some new music.
Looking forward to some new music.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I have seen Neil Young play an album in sequence! 
It was Greendale.
It was Greendale.
JB Breakfast Club
Footballguy
Are you sure it isn't AM by Arctic Monkeys?
rockaction
Footballguy
Eh. Fairly sure. I sort of alluded to me not being the hugest Arctic Monkeys aficionado, so there's that. But it you like 'em, give 'em a mention!
Juxtatarot
Footballguy
Whatever it is, it sounds like it would be kind of boring. Sounds too narrowing. Expand that to all types with rock and roll in its DNA, and we have so much more to choose from.
rockaction
Footballguy
No accident that Third Man Records (Jack White) remastered this and re-released it this May. I had no idea, actually, that it has just been re-released. I simply found it in my record collection today and was jamming on it.
rockaction
Footballguy
Their other, potentially more "mature" output from the 2003 era.
We Don't Have To Worry
Busy Signals
Sniffing Glue
Making Teenage Faces
Punky punk bratty brat power pop.
We Don't Have To Worry
Busy Signals
Sniffing Glue
Making Teenage Faces
Punky punk bratty brat power pop.
rockaction
Footballguy
Only six TEs?
Cowboysfan8
Footballguy
Well, I have another guess. If correct it would spoil my countdown a tad, but tie nicely into tomorrow's pick.
Love Roseanne CashI'm as pedantic as you are so I wasn't gonna let it go.
i've only seen two artists play an album in sequence
Interpol advertised that concert as an anniversary show (think they did another one in London)
The other was Rosanne Cash - if pressed I probably couldn't name two songs from her, I was there for the middle act, The Lone Bellow. But it was actually pretty cool, she wrote a thematic album (around 2014) about the deep south called The River and The Thread, and even though I was not at all familiar with it - and listening to an entire album is something archaic in itself - I have to say it was really enjoyable. She took a series of trips down south with her family, each song is about a town or person. It all fits together in a beautiful way. Not really my jam but I appreciated it as a work of art.
Seven Year Ache is a good one. Tennessee Flat Top Box is my favorite (her Dads song but I like hers way better)
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Well, I have another guess. If correct it would spoil my countdown a tad, but tie nicely into tomorrow's pick.Love Roseanne CashI'm as pedantic as you are so I wasn't gonna let it go.
i've only seen two artists play an album in sequence
Interpol advertised that concert as an anniversary show (think they did another one in London)
The other was Rosanne Cash - if pressed I probably couldn't name two songs from her, I was there for the middle act, The Lone Bellow. But it was actually pretty cool, she wrote a thematic album (around 2014) about the deep south called The River and The Thread, and even though I was not at all familiar with it - and listening to an entire album is something archaic in itself - I have to say it was really enjoyable. She took a series of trips down south with her family, each song is about a town or person. It all fits together in a beautiful way. Not really my jam but I appreciated it as a work of art.
Seven Year Ache is a good one. Tennessee Flat Top Box is my favorite (her Dads song but I like hers way better)
Don't know the latter but Seven Year Ache was her first encore (the only song of hers I knew).....closed by bringing back out the first two acts - Buddy MIller & Jim Lauderdale + The Lone Bellow - to sing Heartaches by the Number.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Their debut was the album. I like their other stuff but never hit me the same way.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Way older than 20 years
PIK95
Footballguy
I thought we were doing 25
Godsbrother
Footballguy
I have a bootleg of SMiLE from the original sessions and while there is some outstanding songs on it the overall listening experience is bizarre.
Had it come out in ‘67 it would have been panned and a commercial flop. Eventually it would have found an audience but, despite having three amazing tracks, I just don’t think it would have changed the trajectory of the group and may in fact have made it worse.
