One Week One Band: Fugazi →
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Scheduled to feature new interviews with all four members. How’d they know I’d need this this week? (via PGWP)
October 2011
10 posts
Some Bands Who Done Never Broke Up, And Haven't Gone More Than Six Years Without Releasing A New Album Since The Early '90s
In case Sonic Youth drops out:
They Might Be Giants, Public Enemy, Ween, Depeche Mode, Flaming Lips, Goo Goo Dolls, Yo La Tengo, U2, Cypress Hill, Pet Shop Boys, Teenage Fanclub, Beastie Boys, The Cure, Sloan, Radiohead, De La Soul (if you count mixtapes and Nike tie-ins), Green Day, Magnetic Fields, Built To Spill, Low, Weezer, Bettie Serveert, Rancid
Two of these feature married couples, too!
Anthony's Favorite Albums: 2000-2004 (Now With Honorable Mentions!)
2. Desaparecidos, Read Music/Speak Spanish
3. Good Charlotte, The Young And The Hopeless
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever To Tell
6. Hot Snakes, Automatic Midnight
7. Interpol, Turn On The Bright Lights
8. The Hives, Tyrannosaurus Hives
10. Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand
11. The White Stripes, DeStijl
12. Eagles Of Death Metal, Peace Love Death Metal
13. Nellie McKay, Get Away From Me
14. Hot Snakes, Audit In Progress
15. The Mountain Goats, We Shall All Be Healed
16. Rocket From The Crypt, Live From Camp X-Ray
17. The Go-Betweens, Friends Of Rachel Worth
18. The Distillers, Sing Sing Death House
20. Rocket From The Crypt, Group Sounds
21. Dismemberment Plan, Change
22. Rival Schools, United By Fate
25. The All-American Rejects, The All-American Rejects
26. Radiohead, Kid A
27. Queens Of The Stone Age, Rated R
28. Outkast, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
29. Kimya Dawson, Hidden Vagenda
32. Travis Morrison, Travistan
33. R. Kelly & Jay-Z, Unfinished Business
34. The Twilight Singers, Twilight As Performed By The Twilight Singers
36. The Dandy Warhols, Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
37. Ludacris, Back For The First Time
38. Luna, Romantica
39. Weezer, Weezer (The Green Album)
40. Superchunk, Here’s To Shutting Up
41. Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Greendale
42. Northern State, Dying In Stereo
43. Ghostface Killah, The Pretty Toney Album
44. The Donnas, Spend The Night
45. Limp Bizkit, Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water
46. Courtney Love, America’s Sweetheart
48. Sun Kil Moon, Ghosts Of The Great Highway
Other artists who recorded 10 to 50 songs between 2000-2004 that I still own: Amadou & Mariam, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, David Banner, Basement Jaxx, Blink-182, Bowling For Soup, Manu Chao, Chk Chk Chk, Clem Snide, Clipse, De La Soul, Death Cab For Cutie/Postal Service, Deftones, Devin The Dude, Drive-By Truckers/Patterson Hood, Missy Elliott, Eminem, The Faint, Fiery Furnaces, Mannie Fresh, The Gossip, Grandaddy, Icarus Line, Enrique Iglesias, The Isley Brothers feat. Ronald Isley aka Mr. Biggs, Janet Jackson, Junior Boys, Kaito UK, The Knife, Ted Leo/Pharmacists, Les Savy Fav, Lifter Puller/Hold Steady, Linkin Park, Low, Stephen Malkmus, McLusky, M83, Modest Mouse, Monkeywrench/Mudhoney, Nelly, Old 97s, Pitbull, Placebo, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Amy Rigby, Rilo Kiley, Elliott Smith, Sonic Youth, Regina Spektor, Streets, Tegan & Sara, The Thermals, Usher, Weakerthans, Wilco, Wu-Tang Clan, Ying Yang Twins, Young Heart Attack and Thalia Zedek
Relatively obscure indie acts on my Stylus Top 50 Albums list absent here because I lost my copies and haven’t bothered to hunt new ones down: Crooked Fingers, I Am The World Trade Center, Trouble Everyday
Pop acts on that Stylus 50 who now solely reside on the Favorite Singles 2000-2004 list I may well write someday: Liz Phair, t.A.T.u
Distressing Update To My 3/4 Year Wrap-Up
Revisited the studio version of “Pumped Up Kicks” after enjoying the SNL performance, and the effect on the verse vocal is rather annoying. Someone should just stick the chorus into the middle of “Young Folks” and be done with it.
2011: The Year In Music (So Far)
I like that “Pumped Up Kicks” song!
“I struggle to write, but I somewhat strangely love negotiating reprint rights.”
—Daphne Carr, reaffirming her awesome-osity.
