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)

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