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Rolling Stone released its list of fall's "twenty biggest CDs"
And it's mostly useless for me. I don't care about Ashlee Simpson's upcoming record or Rod Stewart's fourth pillaging of American music classics. But RS need to sell magazines and their picks will shift units, unlike the majority of albums I'm anticipating in the next two months.
Check out "The 885 All Time Great Albums" as chosen by listeners, artists and the staff of WXPN, the University of Pennsylvania's non-profit radio station. The full list hasn't been revealed yet (the countdown is up to #59, but Eat a Peach by The Allman Brothers Band), thumbnail images across the top of the page hint that Radiohead, Beck, Bob Dylan, Prince, The Beatles will be somewhere near the top. Click the XPN Host & Artist Picks to see top 10 choices from Air, Gang of Four, Norah Jones, and Phoenix. [Thanks Metafilter]
Continuing my Depeche Mode obsession: my review Playing the Angel, commenting: "'Playing the Angel' is hardly the most essential Depeche Mode album ever, but it is Depeche Mode doing what they do best, and for that reason alone they'll make a great deal of people very happy and miserable all at the same time. Job well done then." [Thanks DJ Martian]
If I wasn't already committed to seeing Fiery Furnaces at Town Hall tomorrow night, I'd check out Aberdeen City at Mercury Lounge. The band is releasing its debut album, The Freezing Atlantic, on October 25. Try out the first single from the album, "Sixty Lives" (MP3), "God is Going to Get Sick of Me" (MP3) (which won the Boston Music Award for best local song), or "In Combat" (MP3).
More stuff to do: Check out Former Talking Heads/Tom Tom Club members Tina Weymouth and Chris Franz DJ the Cheeky B*stard party at Guest House on October 19. For details on the party, visit the GBH web site and download Tom Tom Club's essential "Genius of Love"