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Seattle Listens Or: We Bought Music Today

xmas-sufjan.jpgSeattlest got paid today. What does that mean? Off to the record store we go.

On our list today: Sufjan Stevens: Songs For Christmas (for tolerable Christmas music at home this year), Built To Spill: You In Reverse (finally), Joanna Newsom: Ys (we just stumbled upon her online today), and The Shins: Phantom Limb EP (for the wife. She finds them just adorable).

So what's the rest of Seattle listening to this week? Here are the top-sellers from points all over town. Also, what are you listening to? Color us curious.


Sonic Boom
Ballard:
1. Tom Waits “Orphans”
2. Sufjan Stevens “Songs for Christmas”
3. Decemberists “Crane Wife”
4. Live @ KEXP “Vol. 2”
5. Joanna Newsom “Ys”
6. Beck “Information”
7. Willie Nelson “Songbird”
8. Damien Rice “9”
9. Sparklehorse “Dreamt for Light Years”
10. Tenacious D “Pick of Destiny”

Capitol Hill:
1. Sufjan Stevens “Songs For Christmas”
2. Tom Waits “Orphans”
3. Joanna Newsom “Ys”
4. The Shins “Phantom Limb”
5. The Decemberists “The Crane Wife”
6. Swan Lake “Beast Moans”
7. Jay-Z “Kingdom Come”
8. PJ Harvey “The Peel Sessions 1991-2004”
9. Brand New “The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me”
10. Damien Rice “9”

Fremont:
1. Sufjan Stevens “Songs For Christmas”
2. Tom Waits “Orphans”
3. Decemberists “Crane Wife”
4. Brand New “Devil & Got Are Raging Inside”
5. Joanna Newsom “Ys”
6. Beck “Information”
7. Swan Lake “Beast Moans”
8. Pavement “Wowee Zowee”
9. Cold War Kids “Robbers & Cowards”
10. Damien Rice “9”


Easy Street
Queen Anne:
1. Decemberists: Crane Wife
2. Shins: Phantom Limb
3. Band Of Horses: Everything All The Time
4. Jeremy Enigk: World Waits
5. Neko Case: Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
6. VA-Live At KEXP Volume Two
7. Pearl Jam: Live At Easy Street
8. Viva Voce: Get Yr Blood Sucked Out
9. Thermals: The Body The Blood The Machine
10. Blue Scholars: Long March EP

West Seattle:
1. Decemberists: Crane Wife
2. Pearl Jam: Live At Easy Street
3. Shins: Phantom Limb
4. VA-Live At KEXP Volume Two
5. Band Of Horses: Everything All The Time
6. Viva Voce: Get Yr Blood Sucked Out
7. Blue Scholars: Blue Scholars
8. Supersuckers: Live @ Bart’s CD
9. Blood Brothers: Young Machete
10. Jeremy Enigk: World Waits

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By Jack in on December 1, 2006 2:15 PM

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  • jack

    Gotcha. Thanks Scrooge. I thought something looked funny there. Looks like their only overall Top 10 represents both store locations.

  • Scrooge

    Easy Street lists are actually their Pacific Northwest Top 10 sellers, not overall Top 10.

  • Jeff

    Dropped some cash at Sonic Boom in Fremont today.

    1. Soul Jazz 100% Dyanamite Dancehall Style

    2. Soulwax Nite Versions

    3. LCD Soundsystem (used)

  • Don't neglect the fantastic work done on the album by Jim O'Rourke and Van Dyke Parks. Seriously, what a line-up. "Sawdust and Diamonds" is my favorite too.

  • Dan

    I'd argue that it isn't necessarily the harp that you're a fan of. Or, rather, there's lots of other harp stuff out there that is, I'm sure, fantastic, but inaccessible to us because it's packaged as "Celtic Strings" or something dumb. Newsome passes those tests because the album was produced by Steve Albini and put out by Drag City and their influence has made it palatable. I mean, of course you're a fan of the harp - It's an instrument that's been around forever. It's too much to stomach when it's mired in vapid New Age territory, though.

  • Definitely a goodie. I'm particularly fond of "Cosmia." Who knew I'd become a fan of the harp?

  • Dan

    I'm listening to that Ys. album and specifically the song Sawdust and Diamonds puts me in a trance for the entire 9 minutes 55 seconds. In fact, I loop it. It's my one song this week.

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