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The Dream Syndicate, “Tell Me When It’s Over”

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:49:59 -0400

The Dream Syndicate, “Tell Me When It’s Over”

Congratulations, Ciara!

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:55:11 -0400

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.

The 20 Albums From 1992 I’m Taking With Me To LA

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:12:48 -0400

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.

The 20 Albums From 1980 I’m Taking With Me To LA

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:39:08 -0400

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.

aliceteeple: Some more light reading.

Sun, 12 May 2013 09:12:35 -0400

aliceteeple:

Some more light reading.

tompeyer: The armpit! If you would like to learn more about...

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:27:59 -0400

tompeyer:

The armpit!

If you would like to learn more about the armpit, please call this number to receive a pamphlet…

Minutemen, “Joe McCarthy’s Ghost” Less than...

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:20:26 -0400

Minutemen, “Joe McCarthy’s Ghost”

Less than two minutes long, including the minute-long dance party intro.

Anthony Is Right: heathalouise replied to your post: The 20 Albums From 1999 I’m Taking...

Thu, 09 May 2013 18:18:00 -0400

Anthony Is Right: heathalouise replied to your post: The 20 Albums From 1999 I’m Taking...:

lastbutnotleast:

anthonyisright:

heathalouise replied to your post: The 20 Albums From 1999 I’m Taking With Me To LA

Fight Songs should never go on the chopping block. Drag It Up, however… (And Too Far To Care is the crown jewel.)

I’m still on the fence about Rhett Miller, whose constant professions of…

Regardless of what the person looks like, no one ever gets good at an instrument without being at least a bit of a loser. The end result may be great, but when you’re reading about the phyrgian mode in guitar player magazine, you’re being a loser. Or if you decide to just grab your squire and play along with the same set of records over and over again, it’s not…cool.

No doubt, and I knew even with the “even if” I was taking a cheap shot instead of unpacking why his “unlucky in love” songs don’t hit me the way other folks’ do. But still, he can take it, with that beautiful hair of his.

heathalouise replied to your post: The 20 Albums From 1999 I’m Taking With Me To LA Fight Songs...

Thu, 09 May 2013 17:49:00 -0400

heathalouise replied to your post: The 20 Albums From 1999 I’m Taking With Me To LA

Fight Songs should never go on the chopping block. Drag It Up, however… (And Too Far To Care is the crown jewel.)

I’m still on the fence about Rhett Miller, whose constant professions of loserdom I’d question even if he wasn’t pretty. I have a mix of the old stuff someone made me I need to revisit (and I’ll definitely check out Too Far To Care), but of the two albums I have (bought at Virgin Records when they closed!) Satellite Rides blasts past my objections more on the hook front.

Darren Hayes, “On The Verge Of Something...

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:22:00 -0400

Darren Hayes, “On The Verge Of Something Wonderful”

I’ve been listening to “best singles of the year” CD-Rs I made five or so years ago, and came across this awesomely inscrutable ‘07 non-hit from the Savage Garden dude. The verses are a seemingly random bunch of nouns (except for the bit about how “Harry still dropped the bomb”), the chorus is all incoherent anticipation, and the bridge opens with “you can dance in the devil’s shoes if you like walking in heels/ there’s a decent living to be made in the selling out of ideals” before climaxing with “life is for leading, not people pleasing/ a race that has never been won.” WORD UP, DUDE. I like this even more than that Savage Garden song about how he wishes he was in The Lion King.

(Note: the person who posted the lyric video made the main image of Rick Astley to scare away the non-believers. This is not a rick roll, this is a Darren Hayes lyrics video.)

imathers replied to your post: The 20 Albums From 1999 I’m Taking With Me To LA we had verrrrry...

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:10:00 -0400

imathers replied to your post: The 20 Albums From 1999 I’m Taking With Me To LA

we had verrrrry different 1999s (µ-Ziq, radar bros, mogwai, low, etc)

Well, I can only claim to having been a fan of about half these albums in 1999, mostly the “pop side of college radio” stuff. My actual list from that year would have had even more of it - Flaming Lips, Sleater-Kinney, Sparklehorse, etc…anything that didn’t sound like it was aiming for a Tibetan Freedom Concert slot was looked at with skepticism.

The 20 Albums From 1999 I’m Taking With Me To LA

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:34:07 -0400

THERE CAN ONLY BE TWENTY FROM EACH YEAR, BE THEY LP, CD OR CD-R. TWENTY.

The Beastie Boys, Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds Of Science
Beck, Midnite Vultures
The Birthday Party, Live 1981-1982
East River Pipe, The Gasoline Age
Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott, Da Real World
Eminem, The Slim Shady LP
The Faint, Blank-Wave Arcade
Folk Implosion, One Part Lullaby
Jay-Z, Vol. 3: The Life And Times of S. Carter*
Fela Kuti, The Best Best Of Fela Kuti
Latin Playboys, Dose
Le Tigre, Le Tigre
The Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs
Method Man & Redman, Blackout!
Randy Newman, Bad Love
Old 97s, Fight Songs*
Prince Paul, A Prince Among Thieves
John Prine, In Spite Of Ourselves
Slick Rick, The Art Of Storytelling
Wilco, Summerteeth

*potentially on the chopping block if I hear a better album from 1999. But I’m going to try and avoid that until I move.

The 20 Albums From 2008 I'm Taking With Me To LA

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:18:00 -0400

THERE CAN ONLY BE TWENTY FROM EACH YEAR, BE THEY LP, CD OR CD-R. TWENTY.

Amadou & Mariam, Welcome To Mali
Eef Barzelay, Lose Big
The Breeders, Mountain Battles
Death Cab For Cutie, Narrow Stairs
Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs*
Electric Six, Flashy
Electric Six, Sexy Trash
Robert Forster, The Evangelist*
Neil Halstead, Oh! Mighty Engine*
Louis XIV, Slick Dogs And Ponies*
Love Is All, A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night
The Mountain Goats, Heretic Pride*
Randy Newman, Harps And Angels
Paramount Styles, Failure American Style*
Portishead, Third
Jay Reatard, Singles 06-07*
Rocket From The Crypt, All Systems Go! 3
Rocket From The Crypt, RIP
Sun Kil Moon, April*
Usher, Here I Stand

Look at all those asterisks next to old farts and outtakes comps from long-time favorites. 2008 is the most recent year I’ve got anywhere near 20 albums from, and considering how detached from the pulse I’ve gotten, you’d think I became a successful magazine publisher or something (“guys, I’ll write the Death Cab blurb…this is their most REM-ish album yet! Alt-rock is back!”).

*potentially on the chopping block if I hear a better album from 2008. But I’m going to try and avoid that until I move.

richardlawson: Hahahahahahahahaha

Tue, 07 May 2013 17:08:54 -0400

richardlawson:

Hahahahahahahahaha

The 20 Albums From 1991 I'm Taking With Me To LA

Tue, 07 May 2013 12:27:13 -0400

THERE CAN ONLY BE TWENTY FROM EACH YEAR, BE THEY LP, CD OR CD-R. TWENTY.

James Brown, Star Time
Chapterhouse, Whirlpool
Cypress Hill, Cypress Hill
The Feelies, Time For A Witness
Fugazi, Steady Diet Of Nothing
Kix, Hot Wire*
My Bloody Valentine, Loveless
Nirvana, Nevermind
Pet Shop Boys, Discography: The Complete Singles Collection
The Pixies, Trompe Le Monde
PM Dawn, Of The Heart, Of The Soul And Of The Cross: The Utopian Experience
The Pooh Sticks, The Great White Wonder*
R.E.M., Out Of Time
Sonny Sharrock, Ask The Ages*
Slowdive, Just For A Day
Matthew Sweet, Girlfriend
Teenage Fanclub, Bandwagonesque
Richard Thompson, Rumour And Sigh*
Throwing Muses, The Real Ramona
A Tribe Called Quest, The Low End Theory

*potentially on the chopping block if I hear a better album from 1991. But I’m going to try and avoid that until I move.

imathers replied to your post: The 20 Albums From 1988 I’m Taking With Me To LA Predictably...

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:08:00 -0400

imathers replied to your post: The 20 Albums From 1988 I’m Taking With Me To LA

Predictably enough I’m shocked that Spirit of Eden isn’t in here.

You’re not the only one, actually! Off the top of my head, I’m never quite sure which Talk Talk albums I’ve kept around. Answer: the two before this one (for now), but I have three of the six tracks from Eden on a self-made comp. I think l liked those guys best when they were moving away from Duran Duran towards ambient jazz balladry, but hadn’t quite made it there yet.

attackofthekillerderk replied to your post: The 20 Albums From 1988 I’m Taking With Me To LA ...

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:07:00 -0400

attackofthekillerderk replied to your post: The 20 Albums From 1988 I’m Taking With Me To LA

Year-relevant question: thoughts on Randy Newman’s “Land of Dreams” (I think it’s the man’s most underrated record).

I’m party to that underrating at the moment - sold back my vinyl copy not too long ago and I’m afraid I don’t remember too much about it aside from off-putting arrangements and, not unrelatedly, the rap parody. I’ll definitely revisit it some day - wouldn’t be the first time I got over “off-putting arrangements” on a Newman album - but for now I’m sticking with six other albums and a Born Again/Little Criminals “best-of” CD-R. If you have a favorite track or two I should YouTube, let me know.

The 20 Albums From 1988 I’m Taking With Me To LA

Mon, 06 May 2013 09:46:27 -0400

THERE CAN ONLY BE TWENTY FROM EACH YEAR, BE THEY LP, CD OR CD-R. TWENTY.

Louis Armstrong, Hot Fives, Vol. 1
Louis Armstrong, Hot Fives & Hot Sevens, Vol. 2
Beat Happening, Jamboree
Cocteau Twins, Blue Bell Knoll*
Leonard Cohen, I’m Your Man
The Feelies, Only Life
Galaxie 500, Today
The Go-Betweens, 16 Lovers Lane
Half Japanese, Charmed Life
Tom T. Hall, The Essential Tom T. Hall: The Story Songs
Biz Markie, Goin’ Off
My Bloody Valentine, Isn’t Anything
Mary Margaret O’Hara, Miss America*
The Pixies, Surfer Rosa
Poison, Open Up And Say…Ahh!*
Public Enemy, It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
R.E.M., Green
Scrawl, He’s Drunk
Paul Simon, Negotiations And Love Songs
Slick Rick, Great Adventures Of Slick Rick*

*potentially on the chopping block if I hear a better album from 1988. But I’m going to try and avoid that until I move.

perpetua replied to your post: The 20 Albums From 1997 I’m Taking With Me To LA It seems...

Sun, 05 May 2013 23:53:00 -0400

perpetua replied to your post: The 20 Albums From 1997 I’m Taking With Me To LA

It seems very pointed to skip OK Computer and Brighten the Corners here.

I’m afraid you’re misreading the tea leaves, dude. While my personal canon favors Pavement pre-97 and Radiohead post-97, I don’t dislike these albums. I have seven tracks from Brighten The Corners on a CD-R followed by some Terror Twilight and B-sides. I’ve also got eight tracks from OK Computer lumped in on one with seven from In Rainbows. If I did the trimming now rather than a few years ago, both albums would receive lil’ “21st Best Album Of…” blurbs. Fans of Timbaland & Magoo, The Pulsars, Modest Mouse, Bjork, Superchunk, Portishead, etc, etc shouldn’t be affronted just because there are 20 albums I’d rather hear in full from 1997 than the fine albums they dropped that year. I’d just rather throw on a CD-R of non-stop awesome than skip past or endure the handful of numbers that don’t really do it for me.

I apologize if the all-caps “ONLY TWENTY” stuff clouds that these are aggressively subjective lists, and intentionally phrased as such. This is not The Ultimate Guide To The 20 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die And All Others Can Be Assumed Shit And Shat Upon Thusly. I simply like my music collection to be wieldy rather than unwieldy.

As this suggests, if anyone’s DYING to know what I think about their favorite platter from any year, I’ll tell you. I have no secrets in my binders.

The 20 Albums From 1997 I'm Taking With Me To LA

Sun, 05 May 2013 18:31:16 -0400

THERE CAN ONLY BE TWENTY FROM EACH YEAR, BE THEY LP, CD OR CD-R. TWENTY.

Blur, Blur
Built To Spill, Perfect From Now On
Dio, Anthology
The Donnas, The Donnas
Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott, Supa Dupa Fly
Everclear, So Much For The Afterglow
Ben Folds Five, Whatever And Ever Amen*
Half Japanese, Heaven Sent
The Hives, Barely Legal
Jay-Z, In My Lifetime Vol. 1
Jonathan Fire*Eater, Wolf Songs For Lambs
Les Savy Fav, 3/5*
Luna, Pup Tent
The Misfits, Static Age
The Mountain Goats, Full Force Galesburg
Prince Paul, Psychoanalysis (What Is It?)
Sleater-Kinney, Dig Me Out
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Straight To Video
Various Artists, What’s Up Matador?
Yo La Tengo, I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

*potentially on the chopping block if I hear a better album from 1997. But I’m going to try and avoid that until I move.