“Cryin’” is as old now as “Dream On” was when “Cryin’” came out.
With her “My Boo” interpolation at least briefly brushing the top 40, “Oh” leaves When Everything Snapped: Late ’00s Gold! and “Goodies” sidles up between Kanye and Akon on It Started In The ’00s (Top 10 Chart Debuts). Ciara’s voice will remain on the former playlist, however, until Field Mob manages a comeback. But really, so what. So whaaaat.
THERE CAN ONLY BE TWENTY FROM EACH YEAR, BE THEY LP, CD OR CD-R. TWENTY.
- Eric B. & Rakim, Don’t Sweat The Technique
- Basehead, Play With Toys
- Body Count, Body Count
- Leonard Cohen, The Future
- The Cure, Wish
- Das EFX, Dead Serious
- The Fall, Slates/A Part Of America Therein, 1981
- The Flaming Lips, Hit To Death In The Future Head
- PJ Harvey, Dry
- Jesus & Mary Chain, Honey’s Dead*
- Luna, Lunapark
- Morrissey, Your Arsenal
- Pavement, Slanted & Enchanted
- R.E.M., Automatic For The People
- Ride, Going Blank Again*
- Screaming Trees, Sweet Oblivion
- Sloan, Smeared
- Sugar, Copper Blue
- Superchunk, Tossing Seeds (Singles 89-91)
- The Vaselines, Way Of The Vaselines
*potentially on the chopping block if I hear a better album from 1992. But I’m going to try and avoid that until I move.
THERE CAN ONLY BE TWENTY FROM EACH YEAR, BE THEY LP, CD OR CD-R. TWENTY.
- Adam & The Ants, Kings Of The Wild Frontier
- Bauhaus, In The Flat Field
- Jimmy Castor Bunch, C*
- The Cure, Seventeen Seconds
- The English Beat, I Just Can’t Stop It
- The Fall, Grotesque (After The Gramme)
- The Feelies, Crazy Rhythms
- Michael Hurley, Snockgrass
- Joy Division, Closer
- Motorhead, Ace Of Spades
- The Pretenders, The Pretenders
- Prince, Dirty Mind
- John Prine, Storm Windows
- Pylon, Gyrate
- The Rolling Stones, Emotional Rescue*
- Siouxsie & The Banshees, Kaleidoscope
- Swell Maps, Jane From Occupied Europe
- Talking Heads, Remain In Light
- XTC, Black Sea
- Warren Zevon, Stand In The Fire
Haven’t double-checked, but I believe this is my most Brit-intensive year, what with all the ripping up and starting again.
*potentially on the chopping block if I hear a better album from 1980. But I’m going to try and avoid that until I move.