(Okay, Caravan is prog, so I'm lying there, but otherwise, this is fairly accurate.)
Death Cab For Cutie, We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
Liars, They Threw Us in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top
Two Dollar Guitar, Weak Beats & Lame-Ass Rhymes
Caravan, If I Could Do it All Over Again, I'd Do it All Over You
Butthole Surfers, Widowermaker! EP (actually, I could fill this list with nothing but Buttholes records)
Magnetophone, I Guess Sometimes I Need to Be Reminded of How Much You Love Me
Spacemen 3, Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To
Big Black, The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape
Pussy Galore, Dial M for Motherfucker
Dead Milkmen, Bucky Fellini
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Article comments
1 - Bill Sherman
My personal fave from the past year: Meat Purveyors' All Relationships Are Doomed to Fail
2 - Kenan Hebert
I think the Big Black album Songs About Fucking would have made a much more to-the-point entry to the list. Rich Man's 8-Track isn't even an album.
3 - Billy No Mates
"Trouble Over Bridgwater" (Half Man Half Biscuit)
4 - Nigel
This fear of prog... Everyone needs a little 11/8 mellotron excess in their lives. But Caravan's "If I Could Do it All Over Again, I'd Do it All Over You" is from their earlier days when they still had plenty of quaint rural psychedelic charm and bombastic organ riffage was kept in check.
5 - Eric Olsen
N, I agree about this overreaction against "prog" - you must pick and choose like anything else, but there is much greatness to be found amongst the bombast. I think you hit the nail on the head that the presence of phychedelia is a leavening agent, hadn't quite thought of it that way before.
Caravan has several albums I like and one I love: "Blind Dog at St. Dunstans" (or something close to that). "If I Had to Do It" isn't even their best title - that's "Cunning Stunts"