What's the most feverishly excited you've ever been about an upcoming album?

All of the standard stuff, I guess.

And in typical SST fashion, the release was delayed a few times.

Beyond that, I remember being quite excited to get my mitts on Too Tough to Die by the Ramones when it came out in 1985, though in retrospect, it didn't turn out to be that mind-blowing of an album. I think I was all charged up because I went to the record-signing at Tower Records on Broadway and got to shake their hands and all that.

I do remember feverishly anticipating The Final Cut by Pink Floyd.....and being absolutely despondent upon realizing how fucking CRAP it turned out to be.

I got a kick out of that.

Nowadays, though, as my UK brethren put it, I couldn't be arsed.

In recent times I was excited by "On the beach" if only to get a proper copy where the speed doesn't change throughout; I can't say I've ever been excited by Shaky, although I did have "Give me your heart tonight".

was also not happy that it got released in the uk in august and here in the states in october. could have bought the import but was holding out for bonus tracks (damn you reprise).

In LA, huge (all ya need are the first two sentences or so).

(i may be counting chickens before they hatch)

The last time I was so, so amped about something that was upcoming that the knowledge that I was getting closer to it SECOND BY SECOND was almost too much to bear? Nirvana's "In Utero." And when I finally got to the shopping center near high school and shelled out the cash and had it in my hand....can't even describe that feeling.

lots more...

Beyond that, I was counting the days until the Donner Party reissue CD...ummm, Eno/Cale's "Wrong Way Up" (ha)....you know, I just tend to scrounge out of the used bin, so it doesn't really matter much when things come out. What matters is how long it takes for someone else to decide they don't like it.

albums i was dying with excitement about:
Pixies- surfer rosa
Rapeman- 2 nuns and a packmule
American Music Club- everclear, san francisco
Beatles- anthology 1,2 & 3
Oasis- what's the story? (seems weird in retrospect, but true...)
froSTed- cold
Mogwai- come on die young

the past couple of Spiritualized releases don't count because I heard the demos/promos almost a year before the album came out.

The Streets too.

My finances were constrained when I was smaller so I tried not to get so excited about records coming out because I knew I couldn't have them yet.

The only record I've ever queued up to buy was the second Orb album! I wasn't looking forward to it desperately, it was just a social thing.

Currently excited about: Speakerboxxx/Love Below, Kish Kash, Room On Fire.

Nicolette - Let No-One Live Rent Free In Your Head
Bjork - Homogenic
Leila - Like Weather
Ladytron - 604/Light & Magic
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Black Box Recorder - The Facts Of Life
Pulp - We Love Life

This year has been especially brimful with BBR and Patrick Wolf and Broadcast and Richard X etc etc. Obviously you can't guarantee that the overanticipated records are always going to be as fantastic as hoped, although all the ones mentioned above really ARE, so any disappointments may have been mentially-blocked.

If/when American Sweetheart finally surfaces I anticipate being extremely frenziedly whipped-up about that, also the prospect of Speakerboxx/The Love Below has Got To Me more than I would've expected.

I'm currently very excited about the first Plastikman album for YEARS, plus Kish Kash and the new LFO. I remember being feverishly excited about Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space as well. Like, stupidly.

Agree with Matt that filesharing has killed release-day anticipation to a degree but I usually avoid downloading more than a track or two from the most longed-for upcoming releases to preserve as much mystique as possible. I do see this whole process as a massively positive thing and will probably spend all afternoon coming up with others that I forgot to list earlier.

Only thing like that in recent memory would be highly anticipating, fretting 'cause it was sold out, then managing to get in to a preview screening of the new Claire Denis film (this was Trouble Every Day) at the Quai de la Seine theater in the 19e during.. hm.. perhaps the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (director's week) of screenings..

I think filesharing has killed this feeling of building release-day excitement

Matt is OTM. For example, I couldn't have given a bollock about Vespertine's release a month or so before cos I'd already had the thing on mp3 for yonks.

And yeh I'm a London bunny these days, with scorch-marks on my heels from the time I got the hell out of Donny... still go back a few times a year to see Maw and Paw tho.

I was also really excited about the last Talib Kweli album, which didn't disappoint me at all, though I haven't put it on for awhile (mostly because it's on vinyl and I haven't been listening to much music at home lately).

I was all about the new Bad Plus album too, but only found out that it was getting released like a week before it came out, so it didn't have time to build up or anything.

I was flipping through the used CD rack at a record store once in college and found a promo copy of Sleater-Kinney's All Hands on the Bad One at least a month before it came out. I just gasped and got dizzy. And then I bought it and practically ran the two miles back to my dorm room.

I really love that excitement. I am so amped about a whole lot of records coming out in the next couple of months: Spiritualized, Outkast, Atmosphere, Lungfish, Clipse, Ludacris, the Rapture, Jay-Z.

Bit later on, was unbelievably excited about Wu-Tang Forever - spent hours listening to it in HMV because I was a penniless student the week it came out...

More recently: was pretty psyched for Fever To Tell, but got it early thanks to someone with Soulseek and a burner... Will be getting Clones in a few days and am keen for that, but the one that really, really has me rubbing my sweaty palms together is the new Outkast, as many others have said...

Nirvana/Nevermind, SY/Dirty, Cure/Wish, Janes/Ritual I remember from high school. Boy did it suck too, because I lived 90 miles from the nearest record store and sometimes had to wait weeks past release date before I could get my hands on them!

It's interesting how it goes both ways as well -- most of the time getting mp3s means I just burn them and think, "Right. I'll listen to it when I do." As far as I can recall, the only full album I just had to hear this year as soon as I had access to the mp3s was Radiohead.

Thsose must've been the latest.

Also I can remember slavering for Achtung Baby and Zooropa.

When Radiohead came out with OK Computer? OMG! Since then, I've loved and bought every CD they've released (if it wasn't given to me, first).

Talk about getting down quickly... :-)

After that, the biggest ones chronologically, all bought on the first day, were probably:
Around the World in a Day, 1985. It wasn't Purple Rain, but it was some kind of wonderful.

Raising Hell in 1986.

...And Justice For All in 1988. This was the greatest. I was only a sophomore in high school, so wasn't allowed to leave campus for lunch. But a couple of my older buddies drove over to the mall and picked it up during their lunch break. It was like this holy object. They brought it back to school and let me pour over the liner notes, and catch a couple furtive listens through their walkman in between classes. Good memories.

Paul's Boutique in 1989. Actually didn't like this at first! Couldn't really get into it the first couple plays.

Ritual de lo Habitual in 1990. Probably my most anticipated album ever. I'd only spent the last two years getting stoned and listening to Nothing's Shocking every couple days.

Use Your Illusion I & II, 1991. I think I may have done the midnight deal for these two, if I recall...

Badmotorfinger, 1991. It was pretty good but my interest in this kind of music was waning.

Laughing Stock, 1991. Awesome, orgasmic bliss. Took it home, dimmed the lights, sat cross-legged on the floor in front of the stereo. Thought I was in heaven.

Really haven't been enough of a fanboy of anything to have done it since then.

Really 1989-1991 were like the greatest years ever.

I was also giddy with delight when I finally received a copy of Turin Brakes' The Optimist LP in the mail, because I'd heard three songs from that album and I thought all three of those songs were amazing and gorgeous and lush and beautiful. And to this day I still feel the same. Oh yes, and I also waited with bated breath for The Cure's Bloodflowers, Depeche Mode's Songs of Faith and Devotion and Exciter, and U2's Zooropa, Pop, and All That You Can't Leave Behind. None of the above were disappointments, quite happily enough.

Hahaha...I was 29 in 1996.

(if, by social construct, you mean more than driving with more than just yourself in the car.)

Interesting comparison. I think for me it splits about even between friends who are fairly obsessed to one extent or another and who enjoy but don't focus in on music. But this also certainly has a lot to do with the social venues I joined in -- college radio for eleven years will inevitably lead to a tight-knit circle where music is a common language.

I'm now distrustful of both the 'fresh magic' and the 'old man on porch' stances, they seem unrealistic -- or maybe more accurately, they're diametric opposites in a state of mind that presumes necessary constant engagement. One can let go some from that engagement, at least, and then deal from there without abandoning listening and reflecting entirely.

hmmm

ok computer, then especially kid a
terror twilight
alice in chains (tripod)
opeth's blackwater park
superunknown

To pick one, it'd have to be Wish. Me and my friends were juniors in highschool, it was late spring and the school year couldn't end quick enough, we were already looking for any excuse to ditch any and every period, the Cure is following up the Best Album Ever -- prefect recipe for GIDDY. I remember we snuck out during art and I heard it for the first time in my friend's Miata... the way you just park the car and listen to the album all the way through, saying next to nothing. And it was great. To this day I still love Wish and all criticisms of that album just don't compute.

I didn't really get into Radiohead until Kid A, so I was pretty excited about Amnesiac and remember buying it the day it came out. Those two are still by far my favorites of Radiohead's work, and I probably like Amnesiac more. Bjork's Vespertine is another, though I can't say I was hugely excited about picking up her albums since that one.

But to be honest, I'm pretty bad at keeping up with new releases as soon as they come out. Most new stuff I tend to look into within 6 months to a year after a release date. The times when I do feverishly anticipate an upcoming album it's obviously because I truly loved the artist's previously released album, so there's a large possibility that I'll end up being pretty disappointed. Boards of Canada's Campfire Headphase is a good example of this. Most of my favorite albums that have been released since I started seriously listening to music, in fact, I didn't discover until quite a while after their release date, usually no less 3 or 6 months.

That said, I'm very excited to hear the new Om album that they're recording with Steve Albini, due in September, I think. Since 2007's pretty awesome Kompakt's Pop Ambient collection, I'm also excited to hear 2008's. (After hearing the Field's track "Kappsta" I really anticipated his full lenghth, but I was a little disappointed in it). If Wolfgang Voigt resurrected his Gas alias for another album, I would be very feverishly excited.

mogwai - mr beast

should have known, really ;_;

Paul's Boutique. Had the Love American Style cassingle and listened to it obsessively. The dark picture of them on the back, against a bleary LA skyline, was mysterious and foreboding.

The day it came out I raced to, damn can't even remember the name of the chain but it was over by TCU in Ft Worth. They hadn't even stocked it yet so I had to wait as they got a couple of copies out of boxes for me.

Hah like many people on this thread, mien would definitely be the Cure's 'Wish'. I was on the mailing list of some kind of Cure fan club and was receiving bits of information every now and then during the 6 montsh preceding the release.

weeks of fantasizing that led up to it - once the track listing was printed, pretending to make up songs that fit the titles, to "guess" what sounded like; obsessing over the artwork; etc.

Completely spot-on. Thanks for bringing up the memories.

i'm guessing you all thought that 'open' and 'end' would be little acoustic vignettes, not gloriously frenzied guitar-drenched epics :-D

Stereolab's Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements is one I remember. I'd discovered Switched On, Peng!, and Low Fi all around fall/winter 1992 and was just overwhelmed. During the summer of 1993 I caught Princeton's WPRB playing an early copy of "Golden Ball" while driving and nearly had an accident. Soon after that, I tracked down the Jenny Ondioline 10" and the split with NWW at 3rd Street Jazz, which got me even more worked up. I found out exactly which Tuesday it was coming out (v. late August?) and shot over to Repo after work that day. I think Unrest's Perfect Teeth came out about the same day.

Ritual De Lo Habitual - I seem to remember it came out the day after I saw JA live for the second time (at Brixton Academy I think). I bought it on vinyl, and it had a funny little booklet with the lyrics in inside the sleeve. I'd been excited about it for a long time, but having heard all the new songs live the night before, my little 18 year old brain was nearly melting with excitement. Incidentally, the day before - the afternoon of the day we saw them at the Academy - me and my sister were in Kensington Market, and Dave Navarro approached us, and clumsily tried to chat up my sister. He was very drunk, we could smell it on him, and he was showing us this new tattoo he had on his right forearm. It must've been about a few days old, because it was still crusty. It was only after a few minutes that I realised who he was, and I was too gob-smacked to actually do or say anything interesting. About 5 minutes later I was kicking myself for not pimping my sister out to him in exchange for a backstage pass.

The only impending "new" release I've ever been really really excited about was Master of Puppets. But I was far more thrilled a year before that to learn of the impending Velvet Underground re-releases, which I'd never heard. And I got excited again a decade later when I learned of the CD reissue of MX-80 Sound's Hard Attack/Big Hits. (My favourite album then-and-now, along with the even scarcer as-yet-unheard debut EP on one shiny pancake = best ceedee evah)

[I'd sent for the disc on mail-order just before leaving town for a week on vacation, expecting it to arrive home before myself. Then found a copy for sale at Dr. Disc and considered buying that one to take home with me! I didn't; and my own copy didn't arrive for another few days after I got home, grr. Didn't fit in the mail-slot.]

Metallica - My mom drove me to the mall in her minivan on the first day.
Wu-Tang Forever - Camped out in line until midnight with approximately 70 other white guys
Kettle Whistle - Asked for news every week for a year at Sam Goody. They gave me a job to shut me up.
Private Press - "I will NEVER waste so much time and energy anticipating an album again."
Boys and Girls in America - "Dammit!"

woah that jane's/ freaky trigger piece is ace. i haven't played it in years. i will tonight.

HERE WE *GO*!

Since the advent of the net, I've kept a list (first on paper, now on my Treo) of forthcoming releases that I'm planning on picking up and am regularly excited about them. This year's Barbara Manning 3-CD reissue got me all hot and bothered and I get whipped up about the Messthetics releases.

city_worker, both of those albums did come out on the same day. I remember it pretty well also, going to down to the record store to pick them both up, the double vinyl and the box of 6 7 inch records. This would probably qualify as the double-trouble version of "most feverishly excited" for me. Then they both toured together. Whoa. Sadly, I can't say I've been quite as feverishly excited since...

I went to the midnight sale of "Wish" at the same Penny Lane that Ned picked up "Ritual," but I was just tagging along with friends since my Cure boner had waned by then. But also for sale at midnight was the new Beastie Boys ("Check Your Head"), so I just picked that one up instead. It was pretty good.

wow Unrest and Stereolab toured together?! where was I?

smashing pumpkins - mellon collie & the infinite sadness

skipped out of school @ 9 am so i could be there when the record store opened. didn't have a discman, so i had to wait until i got home from school to play it. like some others upthread, had many of the lyrics memorized before i'd even heard it

I remember reading about drukqs in an internet cafe in Manaus, Brazil. I don't know where I first heard the thing, but I do remember being tremendously disappointed...

Before Ys came out I really couldn't sleep... Boys and Girls in America too.

xpost. One of my most inexplicably missed concerts was Unrest and Stereolab, playing right around the corner from my job (I was at the Strand Bookstore and they were at some no-longer-there club on 13th and Lex). I can only note that I had just started dating someone very cute and was probably going home to fool around. Nonetheless, still kick myself for missing that one.

Anyway, I'm pretty feverishly excited about the upcoming 18th Dye album, but I'm also kind of expecting to be disappointed. Also get very worked up each time U.S. Maple deign to release something. The idea that there might be an unreleased album (unverified rumor from another thread) keeps me up some nights.

Oh, God. Here goes:

Together Alone-Crowded House.

And it was as good as I'd hoped.

Wu-Tang Forever - Camped out in line until midnight with approximately 70 other white guys

lol i have done this

I got up early on my day off to buy Terror Twilight, and it was anticlimactic

Kate Bush's Aerial. Gobbled up every bit of press while on tour in Europe + UK. Bought it in London week it was out. Remember loving some of it, saddened by most of it. Haven't really played it in over a year.

And I remember the crazy anticipation back when The Cure's Kiss Me... was first announced. Reading all news on it in the UK music rags, then the reviews, then - finally - buying it and being completely blown away. '87 was a good year for rekkid albums, young 'uns.

As I write this, I'm listening to my copy of Absolute Garbage which came in the mail today and is bringing back so many memories. Let's set the way-back machine for the spring of '98...

I just can't wait for Version 2.0. I've been waiting for it since my first full airing of the debut, which I had on tape and had replaced with one of my first ever CD purchases. That's how stoked I am. I pick up practically any magazine that has a mention of the band. I listen to my local Modern Rock station every day for any advance trax or news nugget. One Sunday evening, Mr. David Sadof announces he will be premiering a new single entitled "Push It" on his Lunar Rotation show. He plays it and I tape it. A couple weeks later the CD single--featuring a remix and a new song called "Thirteen" that I soon find out was originally done by group called Big Star--is in stores and a copy lands in my collection.

Finally the release date, May 12th, rolls around. I'm in school all day, getting ready for the end of my freshman year. I'm even wearing my "red star" t-shirt. I finally get home but can't go to the store. I ask my dad to take me, but he wants to wait until my mom and sister get home from work. "We'll eat out and you can go to the store" he tells me. As it happens, the female half of the family doesn't get home till that evening and I have to talk them into going out. We finally go and I get to the store right before they close, buy my copy, and am out in mere moments. We eat and I get home, listen to the album in full at once. I repeat that last act every day for the next, oh three or four months.

...Back to the present. I still have my Garbage albums, but they are in storage. I did get the two follow-ups on day of release. I still have my T-shirt, but it's now worn to sleep or housework. I don't have to go as far to get albums in a store environment now. Sadof lost his radio show in June of '98. He's since resufaced (after a very long hiatus) on another station, while his ex-employers are basically unlistenable now. The memories are something else entirely.

I wrote two installments of "most anticipated albums" a couple years ago, and it's about time I did my third.

My first entry:

ELO - Time (Jet) 1981
In a case of accidental good taste, the first two albums I ever bought were Gary Numan's The Pleasure Principle and Talking Heads' Fear Of Music, based on the singles "Cars, and "Life During Wartime." However, the albums' coldness and paranoia were a little over my head as I was just turning ten, so my favorite bands were Queen and Electric Light Orchestra. While Discovery sounded a little too much like the Bee Gees for my taste, Out Of The Blue was by far my favorite album at the time. It was perfect for a kid my age, with cartoonish imagery of spaceships and jungles, a big sound that wasn't too dissonant, with simple Beatlesque melodies. Even the dorky clerks at the record store/headshop The Asteroid were excited about the new ELO album.

As soon as I saw the cover, I was fluffed. The liquidy cover art resembled the science fiction books I'd been reading. I sensed it would be the most groundbreaking, futuristic album ever. Hearing the robot voice introduce the record ("I have a message from another time") sent a shiver of excitement down my spine as intense as anything I'd experience for a while. The ringing synthesizer and drumroll that introduced "Twilight" got my heart pounding. It would be one of my favorite songs for months to come. The cool, burbling computer sounds that introduced "Yours Truly, 2095" were mindbending. It was about a love affair with a robot, which coincidentally parallels the theme of Rudy Rucker's early cyberpunk classic Software that was also published in 1981. "She has an IQ of 1001/She has a jumpsuit on/She's also a telephone." Three tracks in I'd decided Time was the most awesome album ever. In fact I think I wrote my first ever review saying as much, in order to convince friends to check it out. While the rest of the album didn't really hold up and I quickly outgrew ELO, I remember attending a hipster party several years ago at Steve Albini's old house and discovering Time in the collection. I hadn't heard the album in over 15 years, and put it on. It sounded pretty great! Half the guys at the party ended up bonding over ELO. Pitchfork just gave an ELO collection a good review!

Rush * Grace Under Pressure (Mercury) 1984
Iron Maiden * Powerslave (Capitol) 1984
U2 * The Unforgettable Fire (Island) 1984
Husker Du * Warehouse: Songs And Stories (WB) 1987
R.E.M. * Document (IRS) 1987
Sonic Youth * Daydream Nation (Blast First) 1988
The Pixies * Doolittle (Elektra) 1989
Fugazi * Repeater (Dischord) 1990

etc. More later

I don't do this as much anymore but I know I did it like crazy in high school, for things as varied as Anthology 2 and the Foo Fighters' There Is Nothing Left To Lose. In general I remember these more when they pan out in disappointment - I suspect I've rarely been so jazzed about a record coming out as Feminist Sweepstakes nor as bummed out after listening to it and trying to like it as much as I wanted to. Also: Reveal. A few things have panned out really well in relatively recent times - particularly Smile and Andrew WK's (still underrated) The Wolf...

I'm not sure if filesharing has taken the edge off so much as the internet generally, that is to say, access to opinions about the music before you hear it. In high school I had Addicted to Noise and whatever website was using the AMG reviews (I think CDNow.com), plus Spin Magazine or whatever. Now I stumble on reviews of about-to-be-released things when I'm not even looking for them, plus ILX, etc - everywhere you turn you're getting prompted with positives and negatives about the album. Combined with the "hell, I didn't even realize that was coming out" effect which just comes with my life filling up with various other distractions and hobbies, it's a recipe for "oh, cool" rather than "OH MY GOD I CAN'T WAIT."

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the pas/cal album because it's been coming soon for such a long time, i feel like it's never gonna actually be released even though it has allegedly been completed. it's all a cruel joke.

I feverishly anticipated The New Pornographers' Challengers, so much so that I bought the Executive Edition so I could stream it now, instead of just waiting for the official release to download it on eMusic. It wasn't what I expected, but it still exceeded my expectations.

I'm also feverishly anticipating about half-a-dozen other forthcoming discs (although slightly less than Challengers), e.g., M.I.A.'s KALA, Liars' self-titled disc, and the new Richard Hawley.

Kate Bush's Aerial. Gobbled up every bit of press while on tour in Europe + UK. Bought it in London week it was out. Remember loving some of it, saddened by most of it. Haven't really played it in over a year.

-- Capitaine Jay Vee, Wednesday, August 1, 2007 12:43 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

my answer too, except for the sad part. listen, i know what u mean but u should give it another listen. u can't go in expecting it to be the dreaming or HoL, ya just can't. that's it.

great story, fastnbulbous. i love 'out of the blue' and your description/anticipation is making me want to hear 'time' asap

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If I'd known that there was an actual pas/cal album, I'd probably be equally feverish. I don't read up on them, and had just assumed that they planned to do only ep's. Was just listening to them yesterday and thinking, "Wow, it's odd that this little no-album band is possibly the best clever-pop group going these days." That "Little Red Radio" track is just a monster of brilliance.

xpost.

I'm feverishly excited about the prospect of the next Judas Priest album, seriously. A rock opera based on the life of Nostadamus by Judas Priest. The thought of it makes my cheese fry.

"Aah The Name Is Bootsy Baby"

(and I wasn't disappointed either!)

i'm etremely excited about the new sunburned hand of the man and magik markers lp's

Probably Underworld's Barking last year, I've been a huge UW fan my whole life and thought that this was for sure going to be a stunner after I loved the lead single "Scribble" so much (it turned out to be a pretty good album and better than most probably expected, but not what I had pictured)

I usually wind up disappointed in these - I was really excited for TMBG's The Spine in 2004, after reading something that said it would be like Flood, which it wasn't at all, turned out to be my least favorite by them (their latest release Join Us is the kind of thing I was looking for)

Cake's Pressure Chief - oye, I can always remember thinking, "okay, you can't convince yourself anymore that this is as good as their other albums"

Spiritualized's "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space". I hassled local record stores constantly about when they would be getting vinyl copies and then ended up buying it on CD anyway cuz that came out first.

I don't get so excited these days but I remember being excited about: the Great Escape, C'mon Kids and Hello Nasty in my time - all proving to be good albums but not the follow ups they might have been.

I definitely got unduly stoked for Andrew W.K.'s album. I was calling high school friends who I hadn't talked to for years in a fit to discuss it with anyone.

ACQUAINTANCE WHO I HAD NOT TALKED TO FOR 3 YEARS: Hey, Abbs! Good to hear from you! So are you majoring in journalism or what are you doing?
ME: Andrew W.K. has a new album coming out called "The Wolf" and according to this article in Blender he says he had moms listen to it to make sure it's ok!
ACQUAINTANCE: Uh, that's nice.
Repeat 5x with different people

I also skipped school to buy Kid A back in high school. Damn I felt like a badass. And it was a good album to be sad to (a hobby of mine at the time), so all the sad anxious waiting paid off with a sad finale! I sat in in school suspension (for sluffing) listening to it and feeling smug, drawing pictures of people whose faces were obscured by their hands (due to sad). High school!

damn they let you listen to music in ISS? from what I understand ours was run by ex-military dude who wouldn't let you breathe too loudly. but I never actually experienced it first hand.

yeah it made no sense to me either!

I got the impression it was a great place to sit around and draw or read while listening to headphones, which was my pic of a perfect day, but it was also what I was doing in all my classes anyway.

Anyone who doesn't answer Lulu in this thread is lying to themselves.

Seriously though, I don't really tend to get as excited as I used to, but there are generally a few albums a year that I really look forward to and try to avoid any previews, leaks, etc and prefer to experience it as a whole - this year, Mastodon, Wooden Shjips, and Atlas Sound were big ones for me.

The most excited I ever got for an album was the Jane's Addiction "Kettle Whistle" odds-and-ends comp. It was totally worth it for me too, even if only 5 of the songs were new to me.

I think the most excited I've ever been was for The Aeroplane Flies High box, which was pretty worthwhile imho.

Björk's Post, maybe? Debut altered my brain as a kid. After that, probably Amnesiac.

Gosh. This is a good question. I'm not sure. I'll have to think about it. And ask my wife.

I remember being so excited for Wild Mood Swings cuz I was one of the few who really adored Wish, and so yeah anyway ://///////////

Either Terror Twilight or Lil' Beethoven. First (and last) time I got to anticipate a new Pavement album, first time I got to anticipate a new Sparks album. Respectively my favorite bands at the time.

i was pretty stoked for "late registration". broke the law (i think) and bought it the day before it was released (worked at a record store at the time)

BW presents Smile.

Growing up - Insomniac, Mutations, The Fragile, maybe Bad Religion's The Gray Race? I played the shit out of that CD. It's hard to remember what I bought on new release Tuesday in the '90s though.

did anyone already mention the upcoming my bloody valentine album? ;-)

i was very excited about every new joni mitchell album after wild things run fast when i discovered her. and they were all more or less rubbish.

super excited for Rose Melberg's new band, Brave Irene to debut its LP. was ultimately p satisfied, in that "already prepared to be underwhelmed via inability to differentiate between songs" so voluminous in pretty much her entire career.

anyways, i was gonna go home to order it on the day it was released but checked my local rec-store an hour beforehand and was shocked to have found it. ended up buying 2 copies (they were $11 each, not bad) just b/c i love rose enough that I think she deserves all my money

if rose melberg ran a self charity site in benefit of paying for her weekly groceries, i wouldn't be able to live with myself if i knew she might be reaching for the Kid Cuisine

Blur's self-titled album and the Manics This Is My Truth the following year. I conned myself into believing the latter was great for a while - clearly it was one of their very worst overall

Blur's self-titled album and the Manics This Is My Truth the following year. I conned myself into believing the latter was great for a while - clearly it was one of their very worst overall

― Peas, Ants, Pigs & Astronauts (PaulTMA), Monday, November 7, 2011 11:59 PM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark

I remember being so excited for 'This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours' on release day myself. All of their four albums previous to that I had on regular rotation for years. I think my heart sank about half-way through 'I'm Not Working'. Although I liked 'Send Away The Tigers', and I loved 'Journal For Plague Lovers' (this has less to do with the fact that it's Richey's lyrics and more to do with the fact they sounded impassioned for the first time in what seemed like forever), I've never loved the Manics in the same way since as I did in the mid '90s.

Gotta be the Replacements' Tim, partly because the support tour was coming up and I had never seen them live until then.

bjork's medulla. and i never got excited about an upcoming album again.

Fear of a Black Planet, Death Certificate, Doggystyle, Goo

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Gosh. This is a good question. I'm not sure. I'll have to think about it. And ask my wife.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, November 7, 2011 8:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yeah, this is totally the call of people that you've ranted to for the weeks leading up to the release who then have to deal with your sulking and refusing to talk about it because it wasn't what you'd hoped.

If I'm completely truthful about this, I think one of the biggest ones for me was Linger Ficken' Good ...And Other Barnyard Oddities.

Which, let's face it, is terrible.

By the Revolting Cocks that is.

Post very much in character: I don't get feverishly excited about albums, at least not since I was eighteen. Over the last twenty years I've said, ooh, new Peter Gabriel, Public Enemy, Sleater Kinney, Ghostface, etc, but I wouldn't ever call it feverish. The album was going to be great, good, ok, or terrible, and depending on my allegiance to the act I'd listen to it anyway.

Stone Roses - Second Coming

lesson learned.

In Rainbows, and the amazing thing was that it actually lived up to that anticipation, at least for me.

Either Terror Twilight or Lil' Beethoven. First (and last) time I got to anticipate a new Pavement album, first time I got to anticipate a new Sparks album. Respectively my favorite bands at the time.

for me it was Hello Young Lovers. Lil' Beethoven was very good and I love Sparks, but I dunno how you'd get too excited for a new Sparks album in 2002 considering their track record for the two prior decades.

I dread a new Public Enemy album coming out tbh.

Possibly QOTSA "Songs For The Deaf"

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Yeah, that's a good one. I was stupidy excited about it coming out. I thought it was one of the best things ever for about a week and then I was like, calm down, it only alright. Nothing too special.

Swans, Harvey Milk before that.

Oh, wait, I thought it read "last album to excite you to the point of fever" not "highest fever achieved via album anticipation." Probably "Boys for Pele", which disappointed me on first listen and then blew me away second time around.

1993- Pearl Jam Vs
1995- Pavement Wowee Zowee
Nothing since then has been on the same level.

Probably Aimee Mann's Bachelor No. 2, as my Aimee fandom began just after the release of I'm With Stupid (1996) making it a long wait til the next one. It was, however, a long wait punctuated by an acclaimed movie soundtrack and a tour where she gave away a preview EP of the forever-in-limbo album, though all of this somehow just made the anticipation greater.

I remember dreaming about a new Oingo Boingo album, back when they were my favorite band in high school. This was sometime after Boi-ngo and before Dark at the End of the Tunnel. I dreamed I was in a record store, and I was browsing through the racks and saw the new album (I don't remember the format, but in those days I bought new music on cassette, so it was probably a cassette), so I bought it, took it home and listened to it. It sounded pretty good in the dream, and after I woke up, I could still kind of remember how one of the songs went.

bachelor #2, what a great upcoming album to be excited about. it was my first aimee mann, and it is the best, isn't it?

Kid A
the Green album
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

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