The Vines - Highly Evolved
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jurassic Five - Power in Numbers
Death Cab For Cutie - The Photo Album (released in Australia in '02, so it counts for me)
**And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Source Tags and Codes
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Machine Gun Fellatio - Paging Mr Strike
Chemical Brothers - Come With Us
Get Up Kids - On A Wire
Kosheen - Resist
(Although, to be fair I haven’t yet heard the Godspeed, Sigur Ros, Beck, Wilco, Liars, Beth Gibbons or Ben Kweller albums. In fact, there are still many more reputedly great albums that I haven’t heard. I need more money.)
My music purchasing has been way down lately. I just don’t find that much these days that I find more interesting than stuff I already own. I suppose that means I’m getting old.
Stuff I did buy and like was:
Beck - Sea Change - gorgeous album.
Peter Gabriel - Up - meh. I need to listen to it some more, but I found it very tiresome.
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - I liked this one a lot
Weezer - Maladroit - not bad
Badly Drawn Boy - About a Boy - okay
Somebody already mentioned this, but I feel the need to echo:
Yanqui UXO by godspeed you! black emperor is phenomenal. And that’s not just because I’m from Montreal.
Other than that, the only things I’ve obtained are Sea Change which I thought was killer, and Bob Dylan Live 1975, which was definitely very cool.
I’m intending to pick up ( ) by Sigur Ros, as well as Ceux Qui Inventent n’ont Jamais Vécu by Fly Pan Am and & Yet & Yet by Do Make Say Think when I get some cash.