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

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.

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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.

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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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