TOP 10 ALBUMS
1. Halcyon Digest – Deerhunter
2. Measure – Field Music
3. How I Got Over – The Roots
4. Teen Dream – Beach House
5. The Suburbs – Arcade Fire
6. Blood/Candy – The Posies
7. Gemini – Wild Nothing
8. Before Today – Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
9. Grinderman 2 – Grinderman
10. Stroke: Songs For Chris Knox – Various Artists
Bubbling Under:
• New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) – Erykah Badu
• Mount Wittenberg Orca – Dirty Projectors & Björk
• This Is Happening – LCD Soundsystem
• Transference – Spoon
• My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – Kanye West
TOP 40 TRACKS
1. “The Suburbs” – Arcade Fire
2. “The Day” – The Roots (featuring Blu, Phonte, and Patty Crash)
3. “Round and Round” – Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
4. “Revival” – Deerhunter
5. “For the Ashes” – The Posies
6. “I Can Change” – LCD Soundsystem
7. “Desire Lines” - Deerhunter
8. “We End Up Together” – The New Pornographers
9. “Cousins” – Vampire Weekend
10. “Chinatown” – Wild Nothing
11. “Waterfall” – Fresh and Onlys
12. “Stylo” – Gorillaz (featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack)
13. “Ready to Start” – Arcade Fire
14. “Don’t Catch Fire” – Peter Gutteridge
15. “Don’t Fall in Love with a Lonely Girl” – Freedy Johnston
16. “Right On” – The Roots (featuring Joanna Newsom and STS)
17. “Them That Do Nothing” – Field Music
18. “The Outer Skin” – Sean Donnelly
19. “Who Makes Your Money?” - Spoon
20. “On Melancholy Hill” - Gorillaz
21. “Measure” – Field Music
22. “The Blues” – Primary 1 (featuring Nina Persson)
23. “Shutterbugg” – Big Boi (featuring Cutty)
24. “This Time Around” – The Radio Dept.
25. “Used to Be” – Beach House
26. “Helicopter” – Deerhunter
27. “Runaway” – Kanye West (featuring Pusha T)
28. “So Caroline” – The Posies
29. “Our Composition Book” – Wild Nothing
30. “Palaces of Montezuma” – Grinderman
31. “Invisibility: Nonexistent” – Kurt Vile
32. “Youth” – Beach Fossils
33. “The Fall” – Teenage Fanclub
34. “Walcott” – Robert Forster
35. “Just Enough” – Julian Lynch
36. “In My Younger Days” - Eels
37. “New York Is Killing Me” – Gil Scott-Heron
38. “Albatross” – Besnard Lakes
39. “Window Seat” – Erykah Badu
40. “Sprawl II” (Mountains Beyond Mountains) – Arcade Fire
BEST BASSLINE:
• “Who Makes Your Money” – Spoon
WORST ALBUM TITLES:
• InDRUpendence Day – Dru Hill
• Y Not – Ringo Starr
NEWLY DISCOVERED:
• The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories – Felt (1984)
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Rick Sieber's 2009 List
TOP 10 ALBUMS
1. Two Dancers – Wild Beasts
2. Bitte Orca – Dirty Projectors
3. Logos – Atlas Sound
4. Jewellery – Micachu & the Shapes
5. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
6. Embryonic – Flaming Lips
7. Merriweather Post Pavilion – Animal Collective
8. Nowhere Forever – Love of Diagrams
9. Actor – St. Vincent
10. Primary Colours – The Horrors
Bubbling Under:
• Mister Pop – The Clean
• Bonfires on the Heath – The Clientele
• Get Guilty – A.C. Newman
• Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
• Watch Me Fall – Jay Reatard
TOP 40 TRACKS
1. “Cannibal Resource” – Dirty Projectors
2. “Quick Canal” – Atlas Sound (featuring Laetitia Sadier)
3. “Marrow” – St. Vincent”
4. “Stillness is the Move” – Dirty Projectors
5. “Summertime Clothes” – Animal Collective
6. “I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris” – Morrissey
7. “The Fun Powder Plot” – Wild Beasts
8. “Daniel” – Bat for Lashes
9. “Golden Phone” – Micachu & the Shapes
10. “Wounded” – Jay Reatard
11. “Knotty Pine” – David Byrne & Dirty Projectors
12. “Black Hearted Love” – PJ Harvey & Jon Parish
13. “Disappearing Ink” – Deerhunter
14. “Young Adult Friction” – Pains of Being Pure at Heart
15. “All the King’s Men” – Wild Beasts
16. “Who Can Say” – The Horrors
17. “Got Nuffin” – Spoon
18. “Antenna” – Sonic Youth
19. “Zero” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
20. “Everyone’s At It” – Lily Allen
21. “Lisztomania” – Phoenix
22. “Forever” – Love of Diagrams
23. “Once We Walked in the Sunlight” – Papercuts
24. “Friend to Many” – David Kilgour & Sam Hunt
25. “No You Girls” – Franz Ferdinand
26. “Prison Girls” – Neko Case
27. “In the Dreamlife U Need A Rubber Soul” – The Clean
28. “That Damned Fly” – Future of the Left
29. “City Lights (Days Go By)” – Bob Mould
30. “Hey, Snow White” – New Pornographers
31. “Lust for Life” – Girls
32. “Journal for Plague Lovers” – Manic Street Preachers
33. “Famous Last Words” – Deerhunter
34. “Come Saturday” – Pains of Being Pure at Heart
35. “Bull Black Nova” – Wilco
36. “Evil” – Flaming Lips
37. “Static Information” – Love of Diagrams
38. “Save Me From What I Want” – St. Vincent
39. “Two Lines” – The Bats
40. “Red Oak Way” – Lotus Plaza
BEST BASSLINE: “Cannibal Resource” – Dirty Projectors
WORST ALBUM TITLE (Tie):
• Abnormally Attracted to Sin – Tori Amos
• Sacred, Profane, & Sugarcane – Elvis Costello
1. Two Dancers – Wild Beasts
2. Bitte Orca – Dirty Projectors
3. Logos – Atlas Sound
4. Jewellery – Micachu & the Shapes
5. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
6. Embryonic – Flaming Lips
7. Merriweather Post Pavilion – Animal Collective
8. Nowhere Forever – Love of Diagrams
9. Actor – St. Vincent
10. Primary Colours – The Horrors
Bubbling Under:
• Mister Pop – The Clean
• Bonfires on the Heath – The Clientele
• Get Guilty – A.C. Newman
• Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
• Watch Me Fall – Jay Reatard
TOP 40 TRACKS
1. “Cannibal Resource” – Dirty Projectors
2. “Quick Canal” – Atlas Sound (featuring Laetitia Sadier)
3. “Marrow” – St. Vincent”
4. “Stillness is the Move” – Dirty Projectors
5. “Summertime Clothes” – Animal Collective
6. “I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris” – Morrissey
7. “The Fun Powder Plot” – Wild Beasts
8. “Daniel” – Bat for Lashes
9. “Golden Phone” – Micachu & the Shapes
10. “Wounded” – Jay Reatard
11. “Knotty Pine” – David Byrne & Dirty Projectors
12. “Black Hearted Love” – PJ Harvey & Jon Parish
13. “Disappearing Ink” – Deerhunter
14. “Young Adult Friction” – Pains of Being Pure at Heart
15. “All the King’s Men” – Wild Beasts
16. “Who Can Say” – The Horrors
17. “Got Nuffin” – Spoon
18. “Antenna” – Sonic Youth
19. “Zero” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
20. “Everyone’s At It” – Lily Allen
21. “Lisztomania” – Phoenix
22. “Forever” – Love of Diagrams
23. “Once We Walked in the Sunlight” – Papercuts
24. “Friend to Many” – David Kilgour & Sam Hunt
25. “No You Girls” – Franz Ferdinand
26. “Prison Girls” – Neko Case
27. “In the Dreamlife U Need A Rubber Soul” – The Clean
28. “That Damned Fly” – Future of the Left
29. “City Lights (Days Go By)” – Bob Mould
30. “Hey, Snow White” – New Pornographers
31. “Lust for Life” – Girls
32. “Journal for Plague Lovers” – Manic Street Preachers
33. “Famous Last Words” – Deerhunter
34. “Come Saturday” – Pains of Being Pure at Heart
35. “Bull Black Nova” – Wilco
36. “Evil” – Flaming Lips
37. “Static Information” – Love of Diagrams
38. “Save Me From What I Want” – St. Vincent
39. “Two Lines” – The Bats
40. “Red Oak Way” – Lotus Plaza
BEST BASSLINE: “Cannibal Resource” – Dirty Projectors
WORST ALBUM TITLE (Tie):
• Abnormally Attracted to Sin – Tori Amos
• Sacred, Profane, & Sugarcane – Elvis Costello
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Vinay Kini's 2010 List
2010 ALBUMS – [best song]
A-trak – dirty south dance 2 [we don’t want no goblins]
Darkstar – north [under one roof]
Four Tet – there is love in you [plastic people]
Das Racist – sit down, man [all tan everything]
Pantha du Prince – black noise [lay in a shimmer]
Drake – thank me later [unforgettable]
Big Boi – sir lucious left foot [daddy fat sax]
Janelle Monae – the archandroid [tightrope]
Caribou – swim [odessa]
Kanye West – my beautiful dark twisted fantasy [power]
SINGLES
Scuba – lights out
Matthew Dear – black city
Curren$y – the day
How to Dress Well – lover’s start
Mark Ronson – bang bang bang
Jay Electronica – exhibit c
James Blake – CMYK
James Blake – I only know (what I know now)
Lindstrom and Christabelle – lovesick
Crystal castles ft. Robert Smith – not in love
Arcade Fire – ready to start
Blockhead – tricky turtle
LCD Soundsystem – I can change
Gold Panda – same dream china
The XX – VCR (four tet remix)
Wiz Khalifa – mezmorized
Superpitcher – black magic
The National – England
Shabazz Palaces – kill white T
Ramadanman – don’t change for me
Salem – king night
A-trak – dirty south dance 2 [we don’t want no goblins]
Darkstar – north [under one roof]
Four Tet – there is love in you [plastic people]
Das Racist – sit down, man [all tan everything]
Pantha du Prince – black noise [lay in a shimmer]
Drake – thank me later [unforgettable]
Big Boi – sir lucious left foot [daddy fat sax]
Janelle Monae – the archandroid [tightrope]
Caribou – swim [odessa]
Kanye West – my beautiful dark twisted fantasy [power]
SINGLES
Scuba – lights out
Matthew Dear – black city
Curren$y – the day
How to Dress Well – lover’s start
Mark Ronson – bang bang bang
Jay Electronica – exhibit c
James Blake – CMYK
James Blake – I only know (what I know now)
Lindstrom and Christabelle – lovesick
Crystal castles ft. Robert Smith – not in love
Arcade Fire – ready to start
Blockhead – tricky turtle
LCD Soundsystem – I can change
Gold Panda – same dream china
The XX – VCR (four tet remix)
Wiz Khalifa – mezmorized
Superpitcher – black magic
The National – England
Shabazz Palaces – kill white T
Ramadanman – don’t change for me
Salem – king night
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Matt Wiens' 2010 List
ALBUMS 2010
Halcyon Digest – Deerhunter : Helicopter
Pigeons – Here We Go Magic : Land Of Feeling
The Wild Hunt – The Tallest Man On Earth : The Wild Hunt
Lisbon – The Walkmen : Juveniles
Becoming A Jackal – Villagers : I Saw The Dead
Forget – Twin Shadow : Castles In The Snow
Astro Coast – Surfer Blood : Floating Vibes
The Suburbs – Arcade Fire : We Used To Wait
Innerspeaker – Tame Impala : It Is Not Meant To Be
Contra – Vampire Weekend : I Think UR A Contra
King Of The Beach – Wavves : Post Acid
Teen Dream – Beach House : Lover Of Mine
SONGS
Better Things To Do – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
The Last Prom On Earth – Gayngs
Daddy Fat Sax – Big Boi
Alesund – Sun Kil Moon
Promises – The Morning Benders
Our Deal – Best Coast
Bloodbuzz Ohio – The National
ONE – Yeasayer
July Flame – Laura Veirs
Everlasting Light – The Black Keys
Sweetest Kill – Broken Social Scene
RECENTLY DISCOVERED
Touched – Ken Stringfellow (2001)
Halcyon Digest – Deerhunter : Helicopter
Pigeons – Here We Go Magic : Land Of Feeling
The Wild Hunt – The Tallest Man On Earth : The Wild Hunt
Lisbon – The Walkmen : Juveniles
Becoming A Jackal – Villagers : I Saw The Dead
Forget – Twin Shadow : Castles In The Snow
Astro Coast – Surfer Blood : Floating Vibes
The Suburbs – Arcade Fire : We Used To Wait
Innerspeaker – Tame Impala : It Is Not Meant To Be
Contra – Vampire Weekend : I Think UR A Contra
King Of The Beach – Wavves : Post Acid
Teen Dream – Beach House : Lover Of Mine
SONGS
Better Things To Do – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
The Last Prom On Earth – Gayngs
Daddy Fat Sax – Big Boi
Alesund – Sun Kil Moon
Promises – The Morning Benders
Our Deal – Best Coast
Bloodbuzz Ohio – The National
ONE – Yeasayer
July Flame – Laura Veirs
Everlasting Light – The Black Keys
Sweetest Kill – Broken Social Scene
RECENTLY DISCOVERED
Touched – Ken Stringfellow (2001)
Sunday, December 12, 2010
D. Lucas Landis' 2010 List
Here are my favorites for the Year 2010. Choosing the top 10 was relatively easy this year. I didn't find many albums that pressed for top of the list credentials, but the ones I did like, I really liked. In terms of songs, most of the ones I picked came from albums that I really liked. I toyed with placing Katy Perry on the list, but remembered that her singles wore thin after the second listen.
Without further ado, here's the lists:
Albums:
10. Swim - Caribou
Without further ado, here's the lists:
Albums:
10. Swim - Caribou
9. Black Noise - Pantha Du Prince
8. Sir Lucious Left Foot...The Son of Chico Dusty - Big Boi
7. Love Remains - How to Dress Well
6. White Magic - CEO
5. Halcyon Digest - Deerhunter
4. Treats - Sleigh Bells
3. Astrocoast - Surfer Blood
2. The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
1. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
The Rest of the Best:
11. IRM - Charlotte Gainsbourg
12. The Lady Killer - Cee Lo Green
13. Teen Dream - Beach House
14. Contra - Vampire Weekend
15. Body Talk Pt. 1 - Robyn
16. The Archandroid - Janelle Monae
17. Gorilla Manor - Local Natives
18. Innerspeaker - Tame Impala
Songs (In no Particular Order):
All of the Lights – Kanye West
We Used to Wait – Arcade Fire
Follow Us – Big Boi
Round and Round – Ariel’s Pink Haunted Graffiti
Bright Lights Bigger City – Cee Lo Green
Dissolve – Chemical Brothers
Coronado – Deerhunter
Young Aren’t You – The Hundred in the Hand
Tightrope – Janelle Monae
Runaway Love – Kanye West
Bang Bang Bang – Mark Ronson
Paradise Circus – Massive Attack
Little Lion Man – Mumford and Sons
Kids – Sleigh Bells
Who Makes Your Money – Spoon
Floating Vibes – Surfer Blood
Northwestern Skies – Tired Pony
Horchata – Vampire Weekend
Wide Eyes – Local Natives
Acapella – Kellis
Ready for the World – How to Dress Well
Sentimental X's - Broken Social Scene
Rude Boy - Rihanna
Monday, January 04, 2010
Megan Ramer's Decade End Lists
From Megan,
"It's late, and it's long, and it's probably one of the least interesting entries, but for the record, here it is......."
25 Artists Of Megan's Decade, incl. favorite album & track(s):
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (Skinny Love)
Eastmountainsouth - Eastmountainsouth (Hard Times; So Are You To Me)
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Do You Realize??)
The Long Winters - When I Pretend To Fall (Blue Diamonds; Cinnamon)
Low - Things We Lost In the Fire (Sunflower)
Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor (Kick, Push; Daydreamin', with Jill Scott)
*The New Pornographers - Challengers (Myriad Harbour; Adventures In Solitude)
Moby - Hotel (Spiders)
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News (The World At Large)
PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (A Place Called Home; The Mess We're In, with Thom Yorke)
Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block (Amsterdam)
The Postal Service - Give Up (Such Great Heights)
R.E.M. - Accelerate (Hollow Man)
Radiohead - In Rainbows (Nude)
Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope (Fidelity; Better)
She & Him - Volume One (Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?)
Sigur Ros - () (Untitled #4, a.k.a. Njosnavelin)
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand (Killing The Blues)
Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills (Time Left For Love)
Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel The Illinoise (Casimir Pulaski Day; Chicago)
The Swimmers - People Are Soft (A Hundred Hearts; Save Me (From The Brightness))
**Tegan & Sara - So Jealous (You Wouldn't Like Me; I Know I Know I Know)
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind (Elevation)
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (M79)
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Pot Kettle Black)
*most difficult to identify favorite anything - solid anyway, anyhow, anywhere - my favorite artist of the decade
**most difficult to identify favorite tracks - equally solid from start to finish
3 Soundtracks of Megan's Decade:
Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, Interference - Once
Various - Garden State
Various - O Brother, Where Art Thou?
50 (Additional) Singles of Megan's Decade:
Alexi Murdoch (Orange Sky)
Beck (E-Pro)
Beck (Lost Cause)
Belle & Sebastian (Funny Little Frog)
Beyonce (Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It))
Bishop Allen (Clementines)
Bishop Allen (The Same Fire)
Bjork, with Thom Yorke (I've Seen It All)
The Blind Boys of Alabama (I Shall Not Walk Alone)
Bright Eyes (Land Locked Blues)
Britney Spears (Circus)
Califone (The Orchids)
Caribou (Eli)
Cat Power (Living Proof)
The Clientele (The Violet Hour)
Eddie Vedder (Hard Sun)
Elivs Perkins In Dearland (Shampoo)
Feist (1 2 3 4)
Frou Frou (It's Good To Be In Love)
Gnarls Barkley (Crazy)
Imogean Heap (Hide and Seek)
India Arie (The Heart Of The Matter)
Iron & Wine (Woman King)
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter (Doralee)
Kings Of Convenience (Cayman Islands)
MGMT (Time to Pretend)
M.I.A. (Paper Planes)
M. Ward (Chinese Translation)
Madonna (Don't Tell Me)
The Minus 5 (Days of Wine & Booze)
My Morning Jacket (Knot Comes Loose)
Neko Case (Things That Scare Me)
The New Pornographers (The Laws Have Changed)
Nikka Costa (Everybody Got Their Something)
Old 97's (Designs On You)
Old 97's (Question)
OutKast (Hey Ya!)
Pink (So What)
R.E.M. (Imitation Of Life)
Rachel Ries (Our Summertime)
Rachel Ries (Unkind)
The Raconteurs (Steady As She Goes)
Rhett Miller, with Rachael Yamagata (Fireflies)
Sia (Breathe Me)
T.I., with Rihanna (Live Your Life)
The Twilight Sad (Walking For Two Hours)
Voxtrot (The Start Of Something)
Wilco (Handshake Drugs)
The Wrens (Hopeless)
Yo La Tengo (Black Flowers)
"It's late, and it's long, and it's probably one of the least interesting entries, but for the record, here it is......."
25 Artists Of Megan's Decade, incl. favorite album & track(s):
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (Skinny Love)
Eastmountainsouth - Eastmountainsouth (Hard Times; So Are You To Me)
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Do You Realize??)
The Long Winters - When I Pretend To Fall (Blue Diamonds; Cinnamon)
Low - Things We Lost In the Fire (Sunflower)
Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor (Kick, Push; Daydreamin', with Jill Scott)
*The New Pornographers - Challengers (Myriad Harbour; Adventures In Solitude)
Moby - Hotel (Spiders)
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News (The World At Large)
PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (A Place Called Home; The Mess We're In, with Thom Yorke)
Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block (Amsterdam)
The Postal Service - Give Up (Such Great Heights)
R.E.M. - Accelerate (Hollow Man)
Radiohead - In Rainbows (Nude)
Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope (Fidelity; Better)
She & Him - Volume One (Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?)
Sigur Ros - () (Untitled #4, a.k.a. Njosnavelin)
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand (Killing The Blues)
Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills (Time Left For Love)
Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel The Illinoise (Casimir Pulaski Day; Chicago)
The Swimmers - People Are Soft (A Hundred Hearts; Save Me (From The Brightness))
**Tegan & Sara - So Jealous (You Wouldn't Like Me; I Know I Know I Know)
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind (Elevation)
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (M79)
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Pot Kettle Black)
*most difficult to identify favorite anything - solid anyway, anyhow, anywhere - my favorite artist of the decade
**most difficult to identify favorite tracks - equally solid from start to finish
3 Soundtracks of Megan's Decade:
Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, Interference - Once
Various - Garden State
Various - O Brother, Where Art Thou?
50 (Additional) Singles of Megan's Decade:
Alexi Murdoch (Orange Sky)
Beck (E-Pro)
Beck (Lost Cause)
Belle & Sebastian (Funny Little Frog)
Beyonce (Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It))
Bishop Allen (Clementines)
Bishop Allen (The Same Fire)
Bjork, with Thom Yorke (I've Seen It All)
The Blind Boys of Alabama (I Shall Not Walk Alone)
Bright Eyes (Land Locked Blues)
Britney Spears (Circus)
Califone (The Orchids)
Caribou (Eli)
Cat Power (Living Proof)
The Clientele (The Violet Hour)
Eddie Vedder (Hard Sun)
Elivs Perkins In Dearland (Shampoo)
Feist (1 2 3 4)
Frou Frou (It's Good To Be In Love)
Gnarls Barkley (Crazy)
Imogean Heap (Hide and Seek)
India Arie (The Heart Of The Matter)
Iron & Wine (Woman King)
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter (Doralee)
Kings Of Convenience (Cayman Islands)
MGMT (Time to Pretend)
M.I.A. (Paper Planes)
M. Ward (Chinese Translation)
Madonna (Don't Tell Me)
The Minus 5 (Days of Wine & Booze)
My Morning Jacket (Knot Comes Loose)
Neko Case (Things That Scare Me)
The New Pornographers (The Laws Have Changed)
Nikka Costa (Everybody Got Their Something)
Old 97's (Designs On You)
Old 97's (Question)
OutKast (Hey Ya!)
Pink (So What)
R.E.M. (Imitation Of Life)
Rachel Ries (Our Summertime)
Rachel Ries (Unkind)
The Raconteurs (Steady As She Goes)
Rhett Miller, with Rachael Yamagata (Fireflies)
Sia (Breathe Me)
T.I., with Rihanna (Live Your Life)
The Twilight Sad (Walking For Two Hours)
Voxtrot (The Start Of Something)
Wilco (Handshake Drugs)
The Wrens (Hopeless)
Yo La Tengo (Black Flowers)
Sunday, January 03, 2010
Janneken Smucker Decade End Songs
1. Paper Planes, MIA
2. I’m the Man Who Loves You, Wilco
3. Crazy in Love, Beyonce
4. House of Cards, Radiohead
5. The Way We Get By, Spoon
6. Time to Pretend, MGMT
7. Chicago, Sufjan Stevens
8. Yoshimi vs the Pink Robots, Flaming Lips
9. Dard-e-Disco, from the soundtrack to Om Shanti Om,
10. North American Scum, LCD Soundsystem
11. Single Ladies, Beyonce
12. No Cars Go, Arcade Fire
13. Gold Digger, Kanye West
14. Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken, Camera Obscura
15. You Know I’m No Good, Amy Winehouse
16. Give It, X-Press 2, featuring Kurt Wagner
17. Seven Nation Army, White Stripes
18. 1234, Feist
19. Hey Ya, Outkast
20. Milkshake, Kelis
21. M79, Vampire Weekend
22. This Mess We’re In, PJ Harvey featuring Thom Yorke
23. Season of the Shark, Yo la Tengo
24. Rehab, Amy Winehouse
25. This Town, Rufus Wainwright
26. American Boy, Estelle
27. I’ve Seen it All, Bjork with Thom Yorke
28. Spiders (Kidsmoke), Wilco
29. Oxford Comma, Vampire Weekend
30. Playground Love, Air
31. California, Rufus Wainwright
32. Young Folks, PB&J
33. New Slang, The Shins
34. Lost Cause, Beck
35. Don’t Make Me a Target, Spoon
36. Kings, Bitter Bitter Weeks
37. Myriad Harbor, New Pornographers
38. Ms. Jackson, Outkast
39. Tiger Phone Card, Dengue Fever
40. Up With People, Lambchop
41. Miss You Much, Lykke Li
42. Do You Realize?, Flaming Lips
43. Portland, Oregon, Loretta Lynn featuring Jack White
44. In the New Year, The Walkmen
45. Jump, N.E.R.D.
46. Float On, Modest Mouse
47. Cherry Chapstick, Yo la Tengo
48. We Float, P.J. Harvey
49. Come On Feel the Illinoise, Sufjan Stevens
50. Last Night, The Strokes
51. Sing Me Spanish Techno, New Pornographers
52. Touch the Sky, Kanye West
53. Suspended from Class, Camera Obscura
54. Falling Slowly, Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova
55. Night Nurse, Britta and Dean
56. California, Phantom Planet
57. Everything in its Right Place, Radiohead
58. Caroline and I, The Go-Betweens
59. Telephone, The Stratford Four
60. Australia, The Shins
61. Feel Good Inc., Gorillaz
2. I’m the Man Who Loves You, Wilco
3. Crazy in Love, Beyonce
4. House of Cards, Radiohead
5. The Way We Get By, Spoon
6. Time to Pretend, MGMT
7. Chicago, Sufjan Stevens
8. Yoshimi vs the Pink Robots, Flaming Lips
9. Dard-e-Disco, from the soundtrack to Om Shanti Om,
10. North American Scum, LCD Soundsystem
11. Single Ladies, Beyonce
12. No Cars Go, Arcade Fire
13. Gold Digger, Kanye West
14. Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken, Camera Obscura
15. You Know I’m No Good, Amy Winehouse
16. Give It, X-Press 2, featuring Kurt Wagner
17. Seven Nation Army, White Stripes
18. 1234, Feist
19. Hey Ya, Outkast
20. Milkshake, Kelis
21. M79, Vampire Weekend
22. This Mess We’re In, PJ Harvey featuring Thom Yorke
23. Season of the Shark, Yo la Tengo
24. Rehab, Amy Winehouse
25. This Town, Rufus Wainwright
26. American Boy, Estelle
27. I’ve Seen it All, Bjork with Thom Yorke
28. Spiders (Kidsmoke), Wilco
29. Oxford Comma, Vampire Weekend
30. Playground Love, Air
31. California, Rufus Wainwright
32. Young Folks, PB&J
33. New Slang, The Shins
34. Lost Cause, Beck
35. Don’t Make Me a Target, Spoon
36. Kings, Bitter Bitter Weeks
37. Myriad Harbor, New Pornographers
38. Ms. Jackson, Outkast
39. Tiger Phone Card, Dengue Fever
40. Up With People, Lambchop
41. Miss You Much, Lykke Li
42. Do You Realize?, Flaming Lips
43. Portland, Oregon, Loretta Lynn featuring Jack White
44. In the New Year, The Walkmen
45. Jump, N.E.R.D.
46. Float On, Modest Mouse
47. Cherry Chapstick, Yo la Tengo
48. We Float, P.J. Harvey
49. Come On Feel the Illinoise, Sufjan Stevens
50. Last Night, The Strokes
51. Sing Me Spanish Techno, New Pornographers
52. Touch the Sky, Kanye West
53. Suspended from Class, Camera Obscura
54. Falling Slowly, Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova
55. Night Nurse, Britta and Dean
56. California, Phantom Planet
57. Everything in its Right Place, Radiohead
58. Caroline and I, The Go-Betweens
59. Telephone, The Stratford Four
60. Australia, The Shins
61. Feel Good Inc., Gorillaz
Janneken Smucker Year End
Best Songs of the Year:
1. Lust for Life, Girls
2. Save Me, St. Vincent
3. Knotty Pine, David Byrne with Dirty Projectors
4. Stillness is the Move, Dirty Projectors
5. Young Adult Friction, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
6. Quick Canal, Atlas Sound featuring Laetitia Sadier
7. Zero, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
8. Lisztomania, Phoenix
9. Two Weeks, Grizzly Bear
10. Summertime Clothes, Animal Collective
11. The Fear, Lily Allen
12. Warm Heart of Africa, The Very Best featuring Ezra Koenig
Best Albums of the Year:
1. Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca
2. St. Vincent, Actor
3. Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Pains of Being Pure at Heart
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, It’s Blitz
5. The Swimmers, People Are Soft
6. Grizzly Bear, Veckatimist
7. Girls, Album
8. Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
9. Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion
10. Various Artists, Dark Was the Night
1. Lust for Life, Girls
2. Save Me, St. Vincent
3. Knotty Pine, David Byrne with Dirty Projectors
4. Stillness is the Move, Dirty Projectors
5. Young Adult Friction, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
6. Quick Canal, Atlas Sound featuring Laetitia Sadier
7. Zero, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
8. Lisztomania, Phoenix
9. Two Weeks, Grizzly Bear
10. Summertime Clothes, Animal Collective
11. The Fear, Lily Allen
12. Warm Heart of Africa, The Very Best featuring Ezra Koenig
Best Albums of the Year:
1. Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca
2. St. Vincent, Actor
3. Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Pains of Being Pure at Heart
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, It’s Blitz
5. The Swimmers, People Are Soft
6. Grizzly Bear, Veckatimist
7. Girls, Album
8. Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
9. Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion
10. Various Artists, Dark Was the Night
Saturday, January 02, 2010
Amber Friesen (Year End & Decade)
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2009 albums
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1. Riceboy Sleeps -- Jonsi & Alex
2. Merriweather Post Pavilion – Animal Collective
3. Middle Cyclone -- Neko Case
4. The XX - XX
5. Lungs – Florence + The Machine
6. My Maudlin Career – Camera Obscura
7. Walking on a Dream – Empire of the Sun
8. Beacons -- Ohbijou
9. Two Suns -- Bat for Lashes
10. Found Songs -- Olafur Arnalds
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2009 Songs
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1. 24-25 – Kings of Convenience
2. My Girls – Animal Collective
3. Foreground – Grizzly Bear
4. Cosmic Love – Florence + The Machine
5. Sabali – Amadou & Mariam
6. Moths Wings – Passion Pit
7. Tightrope – Yeasear
8. Last Dance – The Ravonettes
9. 1901 – Pheonix
10. Shampoo – Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johanson
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Most (personally) influential musicians of the decade (with favorite
album noted)
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1. Sigur Ros ("Takk...")
2. Kings of Convenience ("Riot on an Empty Street")
3. The Shins ("Wincing the Night Away")
4. Neko Case ("Fox Confessor Brings the Flood")
5. Iron & Wine ("Our Endless Numbered Days")
6. The New Pornographers ("Challengers")
7. Jose Gonzalez ("Veneer")
8. Radiohead ("In Rainbows")
9. Arcade Fire ("Funeral")
10. The Postal Service ("Give Up")
2009 albums
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1. Riceboy Sleeps -- Jonsi & Alex
2. Merriweather Post Pavilion – Animal Collective
3. Middle Cyclone -- Neko Case
4. The XX - XX
5. Lungs – Florence + The Machine
6. My Maudlin Career – Camera Obscura
7. Walking on a Dream – Empire of the Sun
8. Beacons -- Ohbijou
9. Two Suns -- Bat for Lashes
10. Found Songs -- Olafur Arnalds
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2009 Songs
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1. 24-25 – Kings of Convenience
2. My Girls – Animal Collective
3. Foreground – Grizzly Bear
4. Cosmic Love – Florence + The Machine
5. Sabali – Amadou & Mariam
6. Moths Wings – Passion Pit
7. Tightrope – Yeasear
8. Last Dance – The Ravonettes
9. 1901 – Pheonix
10. Shampoo – Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johanson
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Most (personally) influential musicians of the decade (with favorite
album noted)
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1. Sigur Ros ("Takk...")
2. Kings of Convenience ("Riot on an Empty Street")
3. The Shins ("Wincing the Night Away")
4. Neko Case ("Fox Confessor Brings the Flood")
5. Iron & Wine ("Our Endless Numbered Days")
6. The New Pornographers ("Challengers")
7. Jose Gonzalez ("Veneer")
8. Radiohead ("In Rainbows")
9. Arcade Fire ("Funeral")
10. The Postal Service ("Give Up")
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