When I was fourteen, I moved out of SBGville and went to boarding school in Fargo. I was heading to high school seminary and I had some ideas about how that might be. Turns out that it was a lot different than I expected. Most of the guys there were pretty regular and I figured out early on that the guys there would exploit any weakness that you had. I wasn't really used to all of the ribbing that I was about to take. I look back on that experience and I think it really toughened me up. I was a sensitive kid before then but I learned to take shit -- and dish it out, too.
Anyway, there was this kid there who was a year older than me named Roger. Roger was kind of a hyperactive dude. He always seemed to be getting into trouble. One of his buddies, Todd, started calling him "Orph", which was short for orphan. Pretty soon, everyone called him Orph. I thought it was a pretty funny name. It was only years later that I found out that he really WAS an orphan. In case he ever forgot that, we reminded him of about 50 times a day.
Orph's favorite band was AC/DC. Frankly, before I met Orph, I had never heard of them, even though they were pretty big already. (They'd get a lot bigger later on when Back in Black was released.) I got a big dose of AC/DC though, including this one, The Jack, which was one of his favorites. I still like this one. That sound!
Drop your Lists.
"I Spy" Pulp - Different Class
"I Don't Care" Television - The Blow Up
"Little Red Riding Hood" Hit The Road Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
"Candy Says" The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
"Keep It Clean" Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder
"Another Day" This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears
"Long Distance Operator" Bob Dylan & The Band - The Basement Tapes
"Stupid Girl" The Rolling Stones - Aftermath
"Disappear" My Brightest Diamond - Bring Me The Workhorse
"Beast For Thee" Bonnie "Prince" Billy & Matt Sweeney - Superwolf
"Living For The City" Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
I was always partial to "Whole Lotta Rosie."
42-39-56!
You could say she's got it all
'Whole Lotta Rosie' is my favorite AC/DC song
1. Current 93 "Not Because the Fox Barks" Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain
2. Jóhann Jóhannsson "Escape" And in the Endless Pause There Came the Sound of Bees
3. The Bug f/ Spaceape "Fuckaz" London Zoo
4. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy with Thomas A. Minor and the Picket Line and Cheyenne Mize "You Remind Me of Something (Live)" 7/26/2008 at Funtown, Jeffersontown, KY
5. Child's View (Nobukazu Takemura) "Saburè (Dylan Group's Home-Baked Live Version)" Funfair
6. Sun Kil Moon "Unlit Hallway" April
7. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy "Lie Down in the Light" Lie Down in the Light
8. Bobby Bare Jr's Young Criminals' Starvation League "Borrow Your Cape" The Longest Meow
9. Eric Copeland "Alien in a Garbage Dump" Alien in a Garbage Dump EP
T. Coil "The Spoiler" Scatology
B. Röyksopp f/ Karin Dreijer "What Else Is There?" The Understanding
I feel very good about this list.
4. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy with Thomas A. Minor and the Picket Line and Cheyenne Mize "You Remind Me of Something (Live)" 7/26/2008 at Funtown, Jeffersontown, KY
Somehow, a venue named Funtown and Bonnie Billy just doesn't seem right together.
I believe "Funtown" is actually a stage set up at someone's farm or a place out in the woods or something like that, just outside of Louisville (Bonny's home). The banter mentions going swimming and camping and stuff like that, plus someone being the "Mayor of Funtown". And I think that the Picket Line is "the official party band of Funtown." There's pictures of the concert available online.
It's probably my favorite bootleg of all I have. The versions are generally a bit faster and peppier, more bluegrassy, more "Funtown-y." Plus, the ambient noise of cicadas and other things gives it a warm, summery, intimate, and very real feel. (Like Animal Collective's "Campfire Songs" was going for, but on a different scale.)
He's actually releasing a live-in-studio album with that band:
"Funtown Comedown." You can download a non-album track from the sessions, "Death to Everyone."
Vinyl and download only. I think I'll buy the vinyl and never play it (because my turntable sucks), and then download it illicitly. I have a real problem not physically owning the music I buy. I've probably spent $25 total on downloaded music in my life, and now I found one of the bands' CDs online and want to re-buy it in physical form.
I agree on the feeling of owning an album. We've been replacing music lost in the fire through itunes downloads, it just isn't the same.
Time to put Pandora back in its box; this week’s random 10 are soundtrack tunes off the extended harddrive.
“Panic” – Yasunori Mitsuda, Xenosaga
“Absinken” – Klaus Doldinger, Das Boot (The Directors Cut)
“Half of Me is Wild” – John Scott, Greystoke, The Legend of Tarzan
“Dangerous Woman” – Rick Wakeman, Crimes of Passion
“Laurens, Iowa” – Angelo Badalamenti, The Straight Story
“Chores” – Jerry Goldsmith, Fierce Creatures
“Speargun” – James Newton Howard, Waterworld
“Samwise the Brave” – Howard Shore, Lord of the Ring: The Two Towers
“Treasure” – Trevor Rabin, National Treasure
“The Far Side of the World” – Christopher Gordon, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
I have been to Laurens, Iowa. It's home of Blue Bunny Ice Cream.
Actually, LeMars is the home of Blue Bunny Ice Cream. Laurens is about 20 miles south of Emmetsburg.
I had lunch in LeMars last Sunday.
You're leavin' us hanging, DP: did you have Blue Bunny Ice Cream with your lunch or not?
Nope, they close on Sundays in the winter months. We enjoyed the deliciousness that is Taco John's.
Apple Grande!!!! FTW.
Awe crap, you're right. Move along folks, nothing to see here.
I was once offered a job in Laurens, Iowa.
Check out The Straight Story sometime. I was intrigued that David Lynch would/could do a G rated movie, and it's not too bad, in a slow moving, Prozac-y way.
'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' - U2 The Joshua Tree
'Cover Me' - Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA
'I Can't Stand It' - Eric Clapton The Cream of Clapton
'Stephen's Last Night In Town'- Ben Folds Five Whatever and Ever Amen
'Talk of the Town' - The Pretenders Pretenders II
'Murder City' - Green Day 21st Century Breakdown
'Cannonball' - The Breeders Last Splash
'Behind Blue Eyes' - The Who Who's Next
'She Said' - Collective Soul 7even Year Itch
'Respectable' - The Rolling Stones Jump Back: The Best of the Rolling Stone 1971-1993
Whatever and Ever Amen is one of my top ten albums.
Won us over with stories about Linda McCartney
Lost points with the ladies for saying he couldn't
Love a woman with cellulite
Nothing Left To Borrow - The Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green Grass
Might - Modest Mouse - This Is A Long Drive...
A Moment Isn't Very Long - Willie Nelson - Crazy: The Demo Sessions
Untrustable Part 2 (About Someone Else) - Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
Echos Myron - Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
I'm A Long Gone Daddy - Hank Williams - The Ultimate Collection
Dreamer In My Dreams - Wilco - Being There (Disc 2)
Kingsport Town - Eleni Mandell - Country For True Lovers
Fight The Power - Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Up the Bracket - The Libertines - Up The Bracket
Fight The Power - Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Nineteen eighty-nine... oh god, I love love love that track.
I will never not know what year "Do the Right Thing" came out.
Whenever I think of Elvis I think motherf#$k him and John Wayne.
Saw this in Deadspin right now... PE got a big correction in the Washington Post:
Awesome.
Woo hoo! GBV
very nice list. very nice.
I'm A Long Gone Daddy - Hank Williams - The Ultimate Collection
Every time I hear him sing that song I anticipate the yodeling from "Long Gone Lonesome Blues." I really love this compilation; I once spent an entire summer with just this album and The Patsy Cline Story in my stereo, wishing my Volvo was an old pickup.
1. Conversation -- Gary Numan
2. The Murder Mystery -- Velvet Underground
3. Fame Throwa -- Pavement
4. And I Love Her -- The Beatles
5. Mexico City Blues 104 -- Jack Kerouac
6. Dig For Fire -- Pixies
7. Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon -- The Flaming Lips
8. Help -- Howie Day
9. This Is Not a Photograph -- Mission of Burma
10. Blackbird -- Sarah McLaclan
Bonus: One Way Street -- Bevery Williams
Here's some Kerouac
Hat tip for having Kerouac on your iPod, free. Is that from The Kerouac Collection box?
The Raconteurs - "Steady As She Goes" (Live in Glasgow)
Johnny Hodges - "The Hare"
Stereolab - "Bop Scotch"
Brian Wilson - "Wind Chimes"
Harry Belafonte - "Jump Down Spin Around"
The Decembrists - "Shiny"
Greg Brown - "Mose Allison Played Here"
Sweet Emma and Her Preservation Hall Jazz Band - "Clarinet Marmalade"
Gerry Mulligan - "Maytag"
Beth Orton - "Shopping Trolley"
Bonus: Elvis Costello & The Confederates - "It Tears Me Up" (Live On Broadway)
Fool King's Crown - Jay Farrar - Stone, Steel, & Bright Lights
Locust Street - Black Crowes - Warpaint
Come Out Tonight - Steven J. Bernstein - Sub Pop 200
Breathe - The Cult - Beyond Good and Evil
People Lead - Ben Harper - Fight For Your Mind
Apples and Bananas - Children's Songs
Chloe - Louis Armstrong - All-Time Greatest Hits
Spiders (Kidsmoke) - Wilco - A Ghost is Born
Candy - Iggy Pop - Nude&Rude: The Best of Iggy Pop
Across the Universe - Fiona Apple - Pleasantville: Music From The Motion Picture
for being a pretty simple, repetitive (and long) song, i'm a big fan of "spiders (kidsmoke)".
It took awhile for that one to grow on me but I really like it now.
Whenever someone denigrates Wilco as "Dad Rock" I pull out Spiders(Kidsmoke).
If Wilco is "Dad Rock", I must be listening to Grandpa rock. (Oh, and E-6, Springsteen would be Grandpa rock, too.)
The other day, I was walking somewhere with Miss SBG and I saw young guys with their kids that are older than Miss SBG and the realization that I am actually old enough to be my daughter's grandfather sunk in again (I was 42 when she was born, my own grandmother was 43 when I was born).
You'll want to make a point to stay the hell away from listening to anything by Kid Rock.
Moss thought rappers were the king of thieves when it came to music, but this dude tops them all.
Nice. I share a birthday with "Mr." Rock. But, I'll ignore that and focus on the fact that I also share a birthday with Mick Taylor, the erstwhile lead guitarist for the Rolling Stones.
Also this group, also known for their thievery, released their first album in the United States on my 4th birthday. They are no Wilco or anything, but, Rolling Stone magazine has described them as "the heaviest band of all time", "the biggest band of the '70s" and "unquestionably one of the most enduring bands in rock history". Similarly, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes them being "as influential in that decade (70s) as the Beatles were in the prior one".
You had to write that long paragraph just to say...that you're old??
Write it? Silly boy.
I merely cut and pasted most of it without giving proper attribution, in the spirit of the whole thing.
Ramble on.
go ahead, moss, you've earned it.
The live version of "Spiders (Kidsmoke)" on Kicking Television totally rulz, like Wilco's little tribute to the Velvets and/or NEU!
A-Punk - Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Neighborhood #2 - Arcade Fire - Funeral
That's Not Me - The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Shop Around - Smokey Robinson
Only Lie Worth Telling - Paul Westerberg - Mono
Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)- Neil Young
Make it Funky, Parts 1, 2, 3 % 4 - James Brown - Make it Funky: The Big Payback 1971-1975
My 1st Song - Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
We Suck Young Blood - Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Spanish Pipedream - John Prine - John Prine
I love that John Prine song....
blow up your TV
throw away your paper
go to the country
build you a home
plant a little garden...
Me too.
I heard him say once - maybe on Austin City Limits - that he started by going to some open mic night. He didn't want people to hear the same songs all the time, so he would write all new material before going back the next week and that he pretty much wrote the first album that way in like a month. That's some highly-concentrated songwriting genius right there.
We saw John Prine at the State Theater last year (April, it was a birthday present). His voice is a little deeper and rougher now, but it was an awesome show. He introduced Flag Decal something like this:
"This next song is a protest song. I wrote it back in the sixties. After a while I sort of put it into retirement, but I started singing it again because the President requested it. (Pause) Well, he didn't really request it. But he was askin' for it."
That's an awesome anecdote.
01. Funky Worm - Ohio Players
02. You Can't Hurry Love - Diana Ross and the Supremes
03. Dancing Days - Led Zeppelin
04. Mr. Magic - Grover Washington, Jr.
05. All Or Nothing - Theory of a Deadman
06. Karn Evil 9 - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
07. The Hands of Time - Michel Legrand
08. La Grange - ZZ Top
09. I'll Be Seeing You - Jimmy Durante
10. 157 Riverside Avenue - REO Speedwagon
Video Selection:
Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton
“mother nature’s son – the beatles – the beatles
“meant to be” – squirrel nut zippers – hot
“street singer” – merle haggard – best of the early years
“crater lake” – liz phair – whip-smart
“la-da-da” – basia bulat – oh, my darling
“heaven 90210” – urge overkill – saturation
“downtown” – tegan and sara – so jealous
“long time woman” – pat grier – jackie brown soundtrack
“hurry up let’s go” – shout out louds – howl howl gaff gaff
“visions of johanna” – bob dylan – the bootleg series, vol. 4: bob dylan live 1966, the “royal albert hall” concert
bonus: “quiet as a mouse” - margot and the nuclear so and so's – the dust of retreat
Alright, time for my weekly installment of easy listening favorites:
1. "Dead Sound of Misery" - Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth
2. "Termination Force" - Sanctuary Refuge Denied
3. "Seed of Hate" - Arch Enemy Burning Bridges
4. "Let Go of My World" - Testament The Ritual
5. "When the Link Becomes Missing" - Control Denied The Fragile Art of Existence
6. "Henchman Ride" - Testament The Formation of Damnation
7. "Among the Lazarae" - Primordial Spirit the Earth Aflame
8. "A Dangerous Meeting" - Mercyful Fate Don't Break the Oath
9. "After the Holocaust" - Nuclear Assault Game Over/The Plague
10. "Break the Chains" - Dream Evil Evilized
lol
I was hoping to at least get a ballad-like song on there to make my description a little closer to accurate.
So you are saying "Seed of Hate" is not a ballad?
Maybe by the loosest of definitions.
* Deftones – Passenger – White Pony
* Stone Temple Pilots – Sex and Violence – No. 4
* The Offspring – Nitro (Youth Energy) – Smash
* Black Sabbath – War Pigs – Paranoid
* Tool – Disposition – Lateralus
* Tool – Rosetta Stoned – 10,000 Days
* Atomship – Withered – The Crash of ‘47
* Static X – Otsegolation – Wisconsin Death Trip
* Jimi Hendrix Experience – Castles Made of Sand – Axis: Bold as Love
* System of a Down – Hypnotize – Hypnotize
Apparently it's Maynard James Keenan week.
With the pandora this week
Owls "All Those In Favor" Daughters and Suns
Dr. Dog "California" Talkers and Leavers
Kelly Stoltz "Memory Collector" Below The Branches
The Shins "Red Rabbits" Wincing The Night Away
Neko Case And Her Boyfriends "Thrice All American" Furnance Room Lullaby
Neko Case And Her Boyfriends "Thanks A Lot" The Virginian
Magnolia Electric Co. "Leave The City" Trials and Errors
Cat Power "Talking People" What Would The Community Think
Waylon Jennings "Bob Wills Is Still The King" Live In Austin, Texas
Gram Parsons and The Flying Burrito Brothers "Close Up The Honky Tonks" Live At The Avalon Ballroom
I think six would agree a double shot of Neko is nothing to sneeze at.
I only have Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, so it looks like I have some searching in front of me.
And some old Cat Power, too. Pandora's been berry berry good for you today...
FWIW, Furnace Room Lullaby might be my fave of hers. Lots of rough and tumble guitars.
The B-52's, "Rock Lobster", The B-52's
Matchbox 20, "Long Day", Yourself or Someone Like You
Blue October, "Drop", Consent to Treatment
Enya, "Aldeberan", The Celts
Simon & Garfunkel, "Scarborough Fair/Canticle", Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
John Michael Talbot, "Regina Ceali", Chant from the Hermitage
Simon & Garfunkel, "Sparrow", Live from New York City, 1967
John Michael Talbot, "Psalm 62", Master Collection Volume 1 - The Quiet Side
Maroon 5, "Sweetest Goodbye", Songs About Jane
Barenaked Ladies, "Call and Answer", Stunt
Kind of an odd playlist with repeats of chant and Simon and Garfunkel, with Enya and the B-52's for good measure.
Something for Rocketeers. Damn you and your bad attitudes earlier this week.
I can't believe Bernie Taupin was able to give a straight intro on this. I'd have expected either tears or guffaws.
Shatner is the greatest actor of the last century.
Shatner is
the greatest actor of thelast century./fixed
From Pandora while studying for finals...
1. Michael Franti & Spearhead - "What I Be" - Instant Live: The Roxy - Boston, MA
2. Galactic - "Paint" - Ruckus
3. Jack Johnson - "Good People" - In Between Trees
4. Bob Marley - "Zion Train" - Uprising
5. The Hold Steady - "Citrus" - A Positive Rage
6. Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash - "Jackson" - At Folsom Prison
7. U2 - "One" - The Best of 1990-2000
8. Bob Seger - "Against the Wind" - Greatest Hits
9. The Killers - "All These Things That I've Done" - Hot Fuss*
10. MGMT - "Time to Pretend" - Mgmt
*I'm not really into The Killers, but I love this song
Talking with Fireworks/Here, It Never Snowed, The Twilight Sad, Fourteen Autumns, Fifteen Winters
Ice Cold Body, Roma Di Luna, Ice Cold Body
For Emma, Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago
Little Maiden Gin, Haley Bonar, Big Star
Ara batur, Sigur Ros, Med sud I eyrum vid spilum endalaust
Black Like Me, Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Brown Eyed Girl, Van Morrison, Bang Masters (alt. take)
Worldwide, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Outer South
Creosote, Son Volt, Straightaways
Summer Days, Bob Dylan, Love & Theft
Bonus: Cowbell, Tapes 'n Tapes, The Loon
From LaBlogotheque:
I am a huge fan of the Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band record. They opened for Wilco for their Buffalo show and I am super impressed.
I like it too and was entirely prepared not to. I was never compelled by Bright Eyes. I've heard mixed feelings re: Monsters of Folk though.
I balls LaBlogtheque. I could, and have, spent hours digging through the videos there.
I balls LaBlogtheque.
Oui.
I'm going to listen to some Spoon now.
1. "Human Fraud," Blood Red Throne, Souls of Damnation
2. "M.J.C.," Anal C*nt, Top 40 Hits (I "disliked" this one immediately; the profanity in the band name is just not my bag)
3. "When I Fall In Love," Miles Davis, The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions.
Now there's a profound change of direction. Thanks, Pandora.
4. "Too Marvelous For Words," Stan Getz, The Smoothest Operator
5. "It's Easy To Remember (Live)," Mulgrew Miller, Live at Yoshi's Volume 2
6. "Eight Track Blues," Sonny Stitt, An Introduction to Sonny Stitt
7. "Beauty and the Beast," Jim Brickman, The Disney Songbook. Eww.
8. "Random Hearts," Dave Grusin, Now Playing
9. "Always By Your Side," Ralph Towner, Time Line
10. "It's Only a Paper Moon," George Shearing, Relaxing Jazz Piano
Jiminy, Pandora! Isn't there anything in between Anal C*nt and easy f-ing listening for you to offer me?
From Anal C*nt to The Disney Songbook in six tracks. This has to set the record for randomest random 10 of all time.
I dislike the profane band-names as well. I wish the F*ck Buttons would have a different name... I think my kids might enjoy them. (Their music's instrumental.) I think I'll call them the "F Buttons."
Also, not keen on the names of the Meat Puppets, the Breeders, or the Butthole Surfers (although the only song "of theirs" I listen to is Ministry's "Jesus Built My Hotrod").
And yet, Steely Dan is just fine.
I did not say that. I did not know that about their moniker either. But it doesn't matter, I don't listen to them or other bands like "Revolting Cocks", "F*cked Up", "Lords or Acid", "F*ck", or "Elvis Hitler."
Well, okay, I was saying that at least.
at this point, i should give a shout-out to the f*ck knights. they're a rocking band on your local indie scene. seriously, check `em out.
/friend of band plug
that's a literary allusion, Rhu_Ru.
So you probably aren't gonna be rushing out to buy Yo La Tengo's side project record: The Condo F*cks F*ckbook?
All those band names make this seem quaint. Witty, even.
01. Funky Worm - Ohio Players
02. You Can't Hurry Love - Diana Ross and the Supremes
03. Dancing Days - Led Zeppelin
04. Mr. Magic - Grover Washington, Jr.
05. All Or Nothing - Theory of a Deadman
06. Karn Evil 9 - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
07. The Hands of Time - Michel Legrand
08. La Grange - ZZ Top
09. I'll Be Seeing You - Jimmy Durante
10. 157 Riverside Avenue - REO Speedwagon
Video Selection:
Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton
For those who enjoyed it, a video from this same broadcast is scheduled for Blue Monday a bit down the line.
1. Motion City Soundtrack - I am the Movie: "Indoor Living"
2. The All American Rejects - Move Along: "Change Your Mind"
3. Matchbox 20 - Yourself or Someone Like You: "Girl Like That"
4. Lostprophets - The Fake Sound of Progress: "Kobrakai"
5. Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea: "Baby Let's Rock!"
6. Mason Jennings - Century Spring: "New York City"
7. House of Heroes - The End Is Not The End EP: "In The Valley Of The Dying Sun"
8. Gym Class Heroes - As Cruel As School Children: "Sloppy Love Jingle, Pt. 1"
9. Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux: "27"
10. Daniel Powter - Daniel Powter: "Styrofoam"
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01. Buddy Holly - Slippin' and Slidin' [Down the Line: Rarities]
02. Al Green - All I Need [Lay It Down]
03. Bill Frisell - What We Need Part 2 [History, Mystery]
04. Wire - Start to Move [Pink Flag]
05. Duke Ellington Orchestra - On a Turquoise Cloud [Live in Hamburg, 1950]
06. Arturo Sandoval - Georgia on My Mind [Just Music]
07. Frankie Ruíz - La Cura [Salsa: A Musical History]
08. Marc Ribot - Green Party [Soundtracks, Vol. 2]
09. Bo Diddley - Pills [The Chess Box]
10. Al Green - I Want to Hold Your Hand [Green is Blues]
An Al Green twin-spin is always welcome.
1. Shame - Stabbing Westward **
2. Selling the Drama - Live **
3. Mighty to Save - Laura Story **
4. Sound of Madness - Shinedown (Heck yeah!) ****
5. Rapture - Hurt **
6. More Human than Human - White Zombie ***
7. Love Changes Everything - Climie Fisher *
8. Licking Cream - Sevendust ***
9. Keep on Knocking - Death *
10. Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins **
Ah, Sound of Madness. That is quickly becoming a favorite.
I have no list. But I have been reading countless 'Best of the 2000s' lists and I was wondering your guys' bests. Albums. New Artists. Whatever. Here is a compilation Top 20 from the lists I was reading: (albums in bold, currently on my phone)
Radiohead-Kid A
Arcade Fire-Funeral
The Strokes-Is This It
The White Stripes-Elephant
Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Arctic Monkeys-Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not
LCD Soundsystem-Sound of Silver
Outkast-Stankonia
Modest Mouse-The Moon & Antarctica
Jay-Z -The Blueprint
Sufjan Stevens-Illinois
Interpol-Turn on the Bright Lights
The Streets-Original Pirate Material
The White Stripes-White Blood Cells
Spoon-Kill the Moonlight
MIA-Arular
Kayne West-The College Dropout
Primal Scream-XTRMNTR
Sigur Rós-Ágætis byrjun
Daft Punk-Discovery
I'll go with my 30 favorite albums. I should probably write a blurb about them, but thats a lot of work
The White Stripes - Elephant
The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
The Zutons - Who Killed the Zutons?
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Ray Davies - Working Man's Café
Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway
Green Day - American Idiot
The Strokes - Is This It
Dropkick Murphys - The Warrior's Code
The Features - Exhibit A
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
The Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart
Weezer - Weezer [Green Album]
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
The Zutons - You Can Do Anything
System of a Down - Toxicity
The Pink Spiders - Hot Pink
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
The Presidents of the United States of America - These Are the Good Times People
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Tell 'em What Your Name Is!
My list is pretty mainstream rockish stuff. That's ok with me.
umm, not a single Kinks album?? What's up with that, dw??
He has Ray Davies in there.
Wandering thoughts on Milt's list...
I've got Radiohead's Kid A on my iPod, but only because I've heard so much good about it I had to know what it was. Still not my bag, but "How to Disappear Completely" would have fit nicely on "The Eraser," which I like a lot more than any of the band's albums.
LCD Soundsystem's album is pretty damned good... it moves off and onto my iPod.
Arular and Stankonia got a lot of listens from me in the days when everything I listened to was off purchased CDs. But I think Kala is a lot better than Arular (kindof the fruition of the good ideas... the first 5 songs on Kala are better than anything on Arular, and that doesn't even include "Paper Planes." Although I am quite partial to "URAQT").
I guess I'm surprised that Stankonia is a 00's album... but the repository says it did come out in Oct '00.
Really wanted to like "Discovery" more than I did... I'm surprised that XTRMNTR made a best of list, I hadn't heard it that hyped before. Also didn't realize that was from this decade. I first heard "Swastika Eyes" in January '00 on a German music video channel... It was titled "War Pigs" probably because you can't use Nazi signifiers commercially in German or something like that.
I have no thoughts on dw's list, apparently, we have very different tastes.
Okay, and Animal Collective will be making a lot of end-of-decade lists. But will it be "Sung Tongs", "Strawberry Jam", or "Merriweather Post Pavillion"? I vote for "Strawberry Jam."
My list would probably include "Kala," "Strawberry Jam," and "Stankonia" plus...
Black Dice "Beaches & Canyons"
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy "Sings Greatest Palace Music"
Björk "Medulla"
Coil "And The Ambulance Died In His Arms"
Ha Ha Tonka "Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South" (Yeah, I love this album)
The Knife "Silent Shout"
Low "The Great Destroyer"
cLOUDDEAD "cLOUDDEAD"
Schneider TM "Zoomer"
Hercules & Love Affair "Hercules & Love Affair"
Vampire Weekend "Vampire Weekend"
Current 93 "Black Ships Ate The Sky"
James Blackshaw "The Glass Bead Game"
Marit Bergman "3.00 A.M. Serenades"
But I haven't thought too hard & long about it, there are probably some obvious ones here (for me) that I've completely forgotten about.
Edit: Duh: Burial "Untrue" and the Field "From Here We Go Sublime"
Click my name to see my top 32 of the decade. Leave a comment if you agree or disagree.
This list only slightly represents my tastes. I'm not a huge Radiohead fan. I want to like Kid A, but I really don't. An album that I would have up there not listed is definitely Vampire Weekend. Also, I prefer Ga ga ga ga to Kill the Moonlight. And I like White Blood Cells very much.
Some top albums, in my estimation, from this decade. Listed in rough chronological order. Keep in mind, my exposure to new music since October 2006 has been very limited. I've included new releases of old live recordings (Miles, Monk/Trane, Bird/Diz, Neil, Zimmy), but left out archival comps although a lot of great ones have come out in recent years--particularly covering Africa and South America.
Various Artists - O Brother Where Art Thou? OST
Coldplay - Parachutes
Jason Moran - Facing Left
Thievery Corporation - The Mirror Conspiracy
Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo
Miles Davis - Live at the Fillmore East, March 7, 1970
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Mum - Finally We Are No One
Greg Osby - Inner Circle
Jason Moran - Black Stars
Stereolab - ABC Music: Radio One Sessions
Thievery Corporation - The Richest Man in Babylon
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Beth Orton - Daybreaker
Rosalia de Souza - Garota Moderna
Dave Douglas - Freak In
Elefant - Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid
Al Green - I Can't Stop
Menomena - I Am the Fun Blame Monster
Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Unclassified
Martina Topley-Bird - Quixotic
McCoy Tyner - Land of Giants
The White Stripes - Elefant
Air - Talkie Walkie
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Daddy G - DJ Kicks
Bebel Gilberto - Bebel Gilberto
Groundtruther - Latitude and Longitude
Stereolab - Margerine Eclipse
Brian Wilson - Smile
Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche à Bamako
Binary Dolls - Too Much Thinking Sinks Ships
The Campbell Brothers - Can You Feel It?
Ben Harper & The Blind Boys of Alabama - Live at The Apollo
Miles Davis - The Cellar Door Sessions 1970
Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith - Yo Miles ! Upriver
Bettye LaVette - I've Got My Own Hell to Raise
Brad Mehldau - Day is Done
Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane - Live at Carnegie Hall
St. Etienne - Tales from Turnpike House
M. Ward - Transistor Radio
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Wilco - Kicking Television: Live in Chicago
Toumani Diabaté - Boulevard de l'Indépendance
Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Neil Young - Crazy Horse at the Fillmore 1970
Gillian Welch - Black Star (EP)
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
M. Ward - Post-War
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Bobby Hutcherson - For Sentimental Reasons
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie - Town Hall NYC 1945
Bob Dylan - all of the Bootleg Series stuff; his new albums are supposed to be great too, but I haven't got around to them, yet.
OK, good enough.
Nice to see Crazy Horse at the Fillmore and Live at Massey Hall on your list, wig. Can't tell you how much I've enjoyed both releases. I'm thinking about buying disc one individually from the Archives Vol 1 set. The other 7 discs would be repeating much of what I already have, including the two aforementioned live discs.
I also just picked up Big Star's Keep an Eye on the Sky box set (My Xmas gift to myself.). Haven't had a chance to sit down and listen to the whole thing yet, but I already know I'll love it.
Multnomah County Libraries have the Neil Young Archives CD set; right now I'm at around #64 on the Hold list for it. Has he put out any new albums (non-archival) this decade that rang your chimes? I was partial to "Let's Impeach the President" when it came out, but never got around to buying that album--or any other new Neil Young wreckerds since Mirror Ball.
What's in the Big Star box?