Also liked "One Day in Your Life"....listened to some more of the recent stuff via youtube and I'm not quite sold on it, I'm afraid. Were they to put out an album this year, I'm not certain it would make Spin magazine's 20 Best Albums of 2009 so far.

Seem like an odd thing to write? Not if you're trying to segue into linking to Spin magazine's 20 Best Albums of 2009 so far.

Not sure I'd agree with all the selections but there are a few there that I have been digging a lot this year. Notice that Wilco appears, perhaps obligatorily, on the list. Has anyone listened to their latest? I heard a few tracks and wasn't all that impressed. Kind of the same response I had when I sampled some of the latest Hayden disc on emusic....very little to distinguish this music from previous releases. In some cases, this is a good thing. In Neko Cases (groan), for example, where her latest sounds very much like her last two but that's kind of okay with me. In the forementioned Hayden or Great Lakes Swimmers discs, it's a little bit monotonous.

Do you have any formerly cherished artists whose non-varied output causes you to stop listening to any new material? Do you like/hate with the intensity of a thousand burning suns/not give a shit about the Spin list? Will Stuart ever make an appearance here or will his bullshit excuse of a broken collar bone keep him off these boards for another few weeks? Discuss. Speculate. Post links to porn, etc.