Stolen from my other board:

archers of loaf: icky mettle
arcwelder: pull
seam: the problem with me
pond: pond
unrest: perfect teeth
seaweed: four
chokebore: anything near water
mazzy star: so tonight that i might see
swell: 41
velocity girl: copacetic
the dead c: operation of the sonne
drive like jehu: yank crime
swervedriver: mezcal head
small factory: for if you cannot fly
thinking fellers union local 282: strangers from the universe
cardinal: cardinal
zumpano: look what the rookie did
the bevis frond: son of walter
bailter space: wammo
the geraldine fibbers: lost somewhere between the earth and my home
spain: the blue moods of spain
thomas jefferson slave apartments: bait and switch
bowery electric: beat
butterglory: are you building a temple in heaven?
brainiac: hissing prigs in static couture
silkworm: firewater
come: near life experience
the lucksmiths: the green bicycle case
the frogs: my daughter the broad
godheadsilo: skyward in triumph
rachel's: the sea and the bells
chavez: ride the fader
versus: secret swingers
the spinanes: strand
trash can sinatras: a happy pocket
chisel: set you free
rollerskate skinny: horsedrawn wishes
the halo benders: the rebels not in
the dismemberment plan: is terrified
flying saucer attack: new lands
home: 13 - netherregions
number one cup: wrecked by lions
tobin sprout: moonflower plastic
jack drag: dope box
space needle: the moray eels eat the space needle
you am i: hourly daily
cornelius: fantasma
duster: stratosphere
grant hart: good news for modern man
caustic resin: the medicine is all gone
ganger: hammock style
quickspace: precious falling
beulah: when your heartstrings break
the go: whatcha doin'?
wheat: hope and adams
the delta 72: ooo
the waxwings: low to the ground
deltron 3030: deltron 3030
the azusa plane: america is dreaming of universal string theory
dusty trails: dusty trails
the glands: the glands
lifter puller: fiestas + fiascos
the webb brothers: maroon
papas fritas: buildings and grounds
neutral milk hotel: on avery island
tripping daisy: tripping daisy
royal city: alone at the microphone
ex models: other mathematics
beachwood sparks: once we were trees
the anniversary: your majesty
walker kong: there goes the sun
jerk with a bomb: pyrokinesis
the notwist: neon golden
the organ: grab that gun
antipop consortium: arrhythmia

I got tired of Magnet several years ago because of their narrow scope. This list reminds me why. On the other hand, there's some old favorites there, like Seam, Drive Like Jehu and Swervedriver. I haven't listened to any of that stuff in a long time.

-- Fastnbulbous, Thursday, April 26, 2007 2:20 PM (6 hours ago)

These I got/like

Swervedriver and the Notwist are great albums. Mazzy Star, Flying Saucer Attack, and the very simple the Organ album are also pretty good.

Most of the rest "Lost Classics?"

thinking fellers union is this generations VU, where no one ever bought one of their albums but the three dudes that did started zines about them.

I own about half of that list, but what jumped out at me is Swell. I have no idea what is up with them at this point, but they have an extensive catalog that is amazing. Fuck even flow.

Spain? I own 3 of their cds. A poor man's Red House Painters piggybacking on the famous jazz dad.

Silkworm, Lucksmiths, Number One Cup, and of course Beulah (really unknown?)... I agree with.

that's what i got. there were a few other bands in there that i have other albums by (seaweed, seam, halo benders)

I own about 20 o' these.

some of my favorites, though I own a bunch more on the list. I think this list is interesting as a primer to people born post 1990, but overall these albums, at least to me, seem to be still on a great deal of shelves of friends. I talked about Spain with a friend the other day come to think about it, and spun Come-Near Life Experience, just a few weeks ago as well.

How is Chavez a lost gem when they just reissued it as part of a Chavez package?

75 albums that indie rockers liked when Magnet was relevent.

That Jack Drag album is awesome. Now I have to go pull it out and listen to it again.


Hearing that Cornelius album I got recently in SF for the first time...it's really weird. Don't know if I'd call it a lost classic though.

I just got the "Hope and Adams" Wheat cd through lala and I thought it was not that good as compared to their per second, per second, per second album, which I love. It's got a great Thin Lizzy feel/vibe to it.


Mazzy Star? Lost?

Hmmm.

Opal, maybe. But not Mazzy Star. Not yet, anyway.

Yeah, that was every sensitive indiegirl's favorite album to swoon over back in the day.


1995 maybe? I forget when that came out orginally.

i think they just looked at the bottom 50 of a bunch of old CMJ charts.

These are the ones that I own; and I have albums by several more of the bands listed, too (just not that album).

I don't have have a problem calling any of these "classics", as that is what you make of it. But calling them "LOST"? Many of these you can find in just about any used bin, and lots of them are still even IN PRINT... some even on a major label!

Lost?
I know where all of these are.

Yeah, I think "lost" was a poor choice of words. That is definately a very strong list of albums, though.

Well at least they can still count.

I really like 'Your Majesty' by The Anniversary.

i got these.

These are the only one's I've heard. Mazzy Star and Swervedriver are in my top 50 of all time.

The Glands... what a great Athens, GA band that never got the attention they deserved. I wonder if Ross is still managing School Kids Records?

So magnet's not relevant anymore? Its probably not relevant to me anymore but I thought that was because my taste had changed and not that its not still a decent mag for indie music even if its samplers are awful. If Magnet isn't a decent indie rag, what is?

That list is mediocre though. I'd consider maybe 5-10 of those worth owning. One of which is Spain. I'll disagree that they are a poor man's red house painters. I like them a whole hell of a lot more than the Red House Painters.

For indie kids, as a magazine, It's relevant on a level slightly higher than Spin and RS.

but is the medium itself relevant anyone? at my other board we debated if music reviews still held any importance... since you can just click a link and hear a song for yourself, why read about what some other schmoe thinks of it?

Really? I thought that album was really boring and lost all the lo-fi charm of their first 2 albums. Apparently, the band doesn't like it all that much either.

Yeah, I was an early fan of Wheat and did not take well to the turn they took after H&A. Actually, most of H&A doesn't do it for me either, though I dig the production work (shocker).

Although, some of the initial versions of the Per Second songs (not what ended up on the album) are on my "do not delete" list. Much rawer, less antiseptic.

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I haven't read a copy of Magnet in years, but I hear the guy who runs it is topnotch good people. Still though, this list is kinda

Well, there was a naive moment when rock critics actually reviewed albums. In other words, they applied practical criticism to the subject at hand and attempted to measure it against accepted yardsticks of quality and set it in its proper spot in the pantheon. Of course, we're now in the era of "it sucks" or "it rules" and all that's gone out the window - and even the verbose review sites (like Pitchfork) are made up of know-nothing 20-somethings with such an inaccurate revisionist view of rock history that their opinions mean absolutely bupkis.

So, no.