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JoA,

what do you think of Explosions in the Sky?

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I'm a meh on post rock and stuff like that, I need lyrics.

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if you're including an iron and wine album, it's woman king.

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7. Pixies - Surfer Rosa

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Do you think SR is > DL for someone who has never heard them before??

I think he is more likely to like DL.

(DL was on my preliminary list)

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Elliott Smith

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1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3. Radiohead - OK Computer
4. Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
5. Built to Spill - Keep it like a Secret
6. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
7. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
8. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
9. Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
10. Spoon - Kill The Moonlight
11. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
12. Ted Leo - Hearts of Oak

Yikes. This leaves out R.E.M., Fiery Furnaces, Trail of Dead, Cursive, Bright Eyes, Beck, At the Drive-In, Sufjan, Pretty Girls Make Graves, The New Pornographers, and My Bloody Valentine among others.

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Good list Jack, even if I would have chosen Slanted & Enchated for the Pavement album.

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7. Pixies - Surfer Rosa

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Do you think SR is > DL for someone who has never heard them before??

I think he is more likely to like DL.

(DL was on my preliminary list)

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Either one is fine. I started with Surfer Rosa and loved it, but Doolittle is cool. SR has the advantage of having the most famous Pixies song ("Where is My Mind")

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Elliott Smith

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I think you need at least one of Sufjan/Elliot/Iron and Wine, but probably not more than one.

Any sort of consensus on this? Illinois was on my preliminary list, but I really really love either/or.

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SR has the advantage of having one of the top 5 songs of the last 20 years ("Where is My Mind")

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A.C. Newman- The Slow Wonder
Lead singer of the New Pornographers.

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1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In An Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
4. Radiohead - OK Computer
5. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
6. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
7. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
8. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
9. The Apples in Stereo - Fun Trick Noisemaker
10. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
11. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See A Darkness
12. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World