This album touches my soul, is listenable at any given moment in my life and proves to me that punk is not dead in the 00s:
Hot Snakes: Audit in Progress 2004

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Do I slate the whole britpop movement? I don't really listen to much britpop, but I like Blur. I know I said I hated Oasis but that was mostly just to annoy you anyways;)

Plus it's not like I think The Bends is super amazing or anything, it's just clicked a bit more for me than their other albums. OK Computer isn't far behind and I still have yet to listen to Amnesiac.

It's a decent collection of songs but by virtue of being an odds and sods collection it doesn't really work as an album particularly well.

fantastic album and wonderful, underrated band but even so i must say i prefer both of Drive By Jehu's LPs to anything Hot Snakes have done.

#1:
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#2:
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#3:
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I posted a Kayo Dot album as 'Here's one for starters' to give me some time to deliberate and after careful thought regarding an overall package it has to be this for me:

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No one was expecting an album like this after such a long hiatus. Ridiculously non conformist and highly original considering what was expected and that's the beauty of it. It's not a late attempt at Trip hop or an album begging to be loved to rely on past glories. Machine Gun is still the best song released in this decade just because it refuses to adhere to basic songwriting principles yet everyone remembers it.

You really don't know what you are going to get with this album and pigeon holing it into basic Electronic music is a huge disservice. Nothing has come close to being so utterly perplexing for years.

And the best part is that another album is in the works and they just released a new track :)

It's too hard to pick just one. Here's a couple possibilities:

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http://www.ihatepunkrock.net/mewitho...usthefoxes.jpg

Probably the first, I can listen to every song on that album 100 times in a row and never get bored. Half Asleep is my favorite song, of all time.

Hey, I know I said Izzy Stradlin's On Down The Road earlier and that is a truely amazing album, but now that I really think about it...http://californiasound.files.wordpre...velations1.jpg