| Product Summary | | Label: Vice | | UPC: 00075596861823 | | Release Date: 8/21/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 204936751 | | Item#: M3PCHS | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Prayer, The - Bloc Party ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. Cheated Hearts - Yeah Yeah Yeahs ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Do You Believe In Rapture? - Sonic Youth ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Phantom Limb - The Shins ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Underdog - Spoon ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Four Winds - Bright Eyes ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Lived In Bars - Cat Power ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Hold On, Hold On - Neko Case ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse - Of Montreal ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Perfect Me, The - Deerhoof ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Chips Ahoy! - The Hold Steady ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Hang Me Up To Dry - Cold War Kids ~ Various Artists | | | 13. Colleen - Ted Leo & The Pharmacists ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Chinese Translation - M. Ward ~ Various Artists | | | 15. Satan Said Dance - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah ~ Various Artists | |
| Featuring Indie artists such as Block Party, The Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Sonic Youth, The Shins, Spoon, and more, This Is Next compilation series aims to expose a wider audience to the unending creativity inside the alternative and independent music community. Next attempts to reach beyond the core album consumer and toward the casual buyer.
*Bonus:*
If you like what you hear, be sure to pick up all these artists' full length albums in our This Is Next Store.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | True indie lovers are likely to shun any compilation that features the indie world's biggest artists' biggest singles, since hipster bylaws state that an indie artist must stay obscure to be reputable. By nature, most hipsters are pretentiously under the impression that it's only respectable to mention an indie band that crossed over into the mainstream when it's in reference to a first rare bootleg EP that was cool before the band's popular album was released. But before this turns into an analysis penned by Jeff Foxworthy -- "you know you're a hipster if," it should be mentioned that territorial indie rock experts will find this compilation completely unnecessary, and should direct themselves elsewhere. Those newcomers who are unfamiliar with the artists on this disc (yes, there are still some people who aren't aware of indie rock) will find it a valuable sampler platter for introducing new music, in the fashion of a K-Tel compilation or the alternative collection Stanley, Son of Theodore, and a pretty good one, since at least half of these artists are essential to have in a blossoming indie rock record collection. It's not a comp for the trendy, since most of the songs are from albums that have already broken ground in the past year or two, and the artists aren't brand new or up and comers. However, the song choices are solid, despite the fact that they aren't necessarily the biggest hits. It's doubtful that someone with limited knowledge of indie rock's wide span will enjoy every type of band, and due to the scattered musical styles the flow wavers a bit, especially towards the end of the disc with lackluster tunes by Cold War Kids ("Hang Me Up to Dry") and Ted Leo & the Pharmacists ("Colleen") but hopefully, listeners will walk away from this release educated enough to dig further into their favorite artists' back catalogs. In a perfect world, the formerly uninformed will invest in Deerhoof's amazing The Runners Four, Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Fever to Tell and the godfather of indie releases, Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation. Think of it as the Christmas present that could potentially convert your mom and little brother from Neil Diamond and HIM fans into aficionados of Cat Power and Of Montreal. ~ Jason Lymangrover |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 08/21/2007 | | Original Release Date : 2007 | | Catalog ID : 68618 | | Label : Vice Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 54m : 55s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00075596861823 |
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