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Once they closed my local CD store, I stopped buying albums except for those sold at concerts and music festivals. So when I originally posted, I was thinking old-school albums. Now I mostly download songs as opposed to albums.
Having said that, there is a lot of new music out there that I love. Arcade Fire, Stars, Serena Ryder and Sufjan Stevens among them. I am definitely inclined to purchase Adele's album 21 and on a more local level, I really love the groups Nathan and Weakerthans (as well as Samson's new solo work).
Other talents that I haven't gotten around to purchasing music from are Hey Rosetta!, Great Lake Swimmers, Bon Iver, Goodbye Tanyas and Kathleen Edwards.
The question is, do CDs count as albums?
And that Modern Lovers album is a great one - not only for John Cale's production and piano playing.
Freedom 55. I would think it depends on the person. Some people gravitate to a certain era; others don't. I think it is VERY interesting that so much influence, for good and ill, still comes from popular music that was made almost 50 years ago.
Another important question about good new music is where to FIND it - certainly not on regular media. Anything new and good I run into is either at a music festival, on CBC or community radio, or streaming something from overseas .
Or as Neil Young pointed out (and he's right) youtube is the new radio.
CDs are definitely albums. I'm listening to Bob Dylan at Bukodan on cassette tape right now - I have it on vinyl, cassette, and CD - no difference between them as to content.
No more than my choices of Wilco and BSS.
I chose to limit my picks to 2002-present, but this might even make my top five of all time.
And I stand by my Iron Maiden pick.
Geez - a lot of musicians mentioned here that I've never heard of. If old Bob Dylan albums are good enough for me, he's good enuff for the rest of ye. Harrrumph.
Eddie lives.
More albums that date me:
Dreamboat Annie - Heart (Ann and Nancy Wilson)
Maria Muldaur - Maria Muldaur