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and then there were 9....
Bright Eyes gets the boot from the 2003 Shotlist Music Prize finalist list. apparently the album just recently broke the 500,000 sales mark, which is the upper limit for eligible albums. cool for Conor and all, but i really would have thought Turn On the Bright Lights was outselling Lifted.

Eponymous 2: Da Return
when i heard that R.E.M. was going to be releasing a greatest hits package for the post 1988 Warner Brothers years, i wasn't all that excited. i have all the album from that time period, so i figured there'd be no reason to pick up In Time. sure, there would be that obligatory new track to try and sucker me into buying it, but i would hold steadfast. well, after seeing the final tracklist - i'll be picking it up. two, not just one new track and two tracks from soundtracks that i never got around to picking up. here's the list, thanks to the 'fork for the hookup.

01 Man on the Moon
02 The Great Beyond [from Man on the Moon soundtrack]
03 Bad Day [previously unreleased]
04 What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
05 All The Way To Reno (You're Gonna Be A Star)
06 Losing My Religion
07 E-Bow The Letter
08 Orange Crush
09 Imitation of Life
10 Daysleeper
11 Animal [previously unreleased]
12 The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
13 Stand
14 Electrolite
15 All The Right Friends [from Vanilla Sky soundtrack]
16 Everybody Hurts
17 At My Most Beautiful
18 Nightswimming

damn, yo. nice to see Up and Reveal getting some love, but one track from Monster? come on, it was a good album. they've probably got room for one more song, throw on either "Crush with Eyeliner" or "Strange Currencies" and i'd be happy with it.

Split Personality Crisis
Paul Westerberg is back with two new albums this October, both under his own name and the Grandpaboy alter ego. Come Feel Me Tremble, under his own name, is due out Oct. 21st but no exact date give on Grandpaboy's Dead Man Shake. maybe they'll slip some copies in the initial pressings of Come Feel, like they did with the Stereo/Mono package last time around.

Rave On
picked up the new BRMC and Raveonettes discs yesterday. haven't gotten to dig into BRMC yet, but took the Raves for a couple of spins last night. nice, very nice. hoepfully more later tonight though.