Content Wasn't Worth Reading In The First Place

I hope this wasn’t a DLD? Cuz I just posted one. I can take it down for now if you want.

• The Blueprint by Jay-Z (2001)
• Stillmatic by Nas (2001)
• The Black Album by Jay-Z (2003)
• The College Dropout by Kanye West (2004)
• Late Registration by Kanye West (2005)

Hip hop really fell off after about 1996, so this list is relatively unimpressive.

but I really liked the Decemberists “Hazards of Love” record this year.

1) Dave Matthews – Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King

2) Michael Buble – Crazy Love

3) John Mayer – Continuum

4) Harry Connick Jr. – Your Songs

5) Ne-Yo – Year of the Gentleman

Hoizons (2007) by Parway Drive. i dont recomend anyone listen to this unless you like something very heavy. im into it though

The Mars Volta – Deloused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta – Frances the Mute
Porcupine Tree – In Absentia
Steven Wilson – Insurgentes
Opeth – Blackwater Park
Pain of Salvation – The Perfect Element
Pain of Salvation – Remedy Lane
Radiohead – Kid A
Radiohead – Amnesiac
Godspeed You Black Emperor! – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

Here’s my top 6 of the decade….

1. U2 – All That You Can’t Leave Behind
2. Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
3. Bruce Springsteen – The Rising
4. Mark Knopfler – Sailing to Philadelphia
5. Marc Cohn – Join the Parade
6. Genesis – Live over Europe 2007 (this one is for Gaijin_Suketto)

Elliott Smith – From a Basement on a Hill
The Shins – Wincing the Night Away AND Oh, Inverted World
Brendan Benson – Lapalco
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Fountains of Wayne – Traffic and Weather
Muse – Origin of Symmetry
Radiohead – Kid A
Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head

kid cudi-man on the moon(2009). great album, could change hip hop/rap/music depending on how it lasts
kanye west-graduation(2007?) solid album top to bottom
T.I.-paper trail(08). similar to graduation, just a great album throughout.
john mayer-continuum. great album, nuff said

i used to know what albums had come out in the last ten years… and just last week i was thinking that of all the hundreds of records i bought in the last ten years, only 7 of them were actually recorded in that time. and actually only one of them did i buy in the sense that i gave someone money for it, but still i guess that counts for something in demonstrating part of what i like. they are:

fleshies, kill the dreamer’s dream
fleshies, the sicilian
fleshies, scrape the walls
fleshies, brown flag
(yeah, i’m devoted… but also, they rule)


bullets*in, conceive
baader brains, the complete unfinished works of the young tigers
phantom limbs, applied ignorance

An incomplete list, I’m sure, and it looks like I’ve slowed down in my old age…

Steve Earle Jerusalem
Steve Earle Transcendental Blues
Old Crow Medicine Show OCMS
John Prine Standard Songs for Ordinary People
Todd Snider Peace Queer
Hank Williams III Straight to Hell
The Legendary Shack Shakers Believe
Drive-By Truckers Decoration Day
Loretta Lynn Van Lear Rose
Norah Jones Feels Like Home (For Bird)
Fergie The Dutchess
I also think Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ first EP was teh awesome.

I’m sure I’m forgetting many, but here are some of my favorites, in random order:

A Girl Called Eddy, S/T; British Sea Power, The Decline of British Sea Power; Kathleen Edwards, Failer; Don Lennon, Routine; Hem, Rabbit Songs; Leatherface, Dog Disco; Malcolm Middleton, Into the Woods; The Mountain Goats, All Hail West Texas; The Mountain Goats, The Sunset Tree; The Real Tuesday Weld, The London Book of the Dead; Ulrich Schnauss, Far Away Trains Passing By; Sigur Ros, Takk; The Twin Atlas, Bring Along the Weather; The Twin Atlas, Sun Township; Stew, Guest Host; Teenage Fanclub, Howdy!; The Field, From Here We Go Sublime; Underworld, Everything, Everything; Underworld, 1992-2002; Underworld, Oblivion With Bells; Gillian Welch, Time (The Revelator); The Stills, Logic Will Break Your Heart; Guided by Voices, Earthquake Glue; Guided by Voices, Half Smiles of the Decomposed; Guided by Voices, Isolation Drills; Robert Pollard, From a Compound Eye; Amy Winehouse, Back to Black; Bottom of the Hudson, Fantastic Hawk; The Sheds, Dadcommunication; Sarabeth Tucek, S/T; Burial, S/T; Burial, Untrue; Delays, Faded Seaside Glamour; Sufjan Stevens, Illinois; Trespassers William, Different Stars; Stars, Do You Trust Your Friends?

We’ll see what the next two weeks bring.

I was pretty pleased with myself for figuring out 5 albums that I liked from this year. Why did you have to go and make it music for the whole decade?

Since I’m here, my five albums for 2009 are:
*Mi Ami — Watersports
*Mika Miko — We Be Xuxa
*Vee Dee — Public Mental Health System
*Animals and Men — S/T EP
*Fuck Buttons — Tarot Sport

If I’m going all the way back to 2000, then maybe it would be something like:
*Fugazi — The Argument
*Sleater-Kinney — The Woods
*Hella — Hold Your Horse Is
*Radiohead — Kid A, Amnesiac, and probably In Rainbows too
*Mission of Burma — The Obliterati

but who knows?

Since U Been Gone and Umbrella and Zero and You Belong with Me and Paper Planes and Ooh La La and Kerosene and Freak Like Me and LES Artistes and Maps and Galang and Star Witness and Heartbeat and Heartbeats and Pull Shapes and Rehab and those are just ones off the top of my head sung by women…

John Tesh — Worship at Red Rocks
Simply Red — Stay
Jim Nabors — When He Spoke
Neil Diamond — Three Chord Opera
Kenny Rogers — Water & Bridges
David Foster — Hitman: David Foster and Friends
Pat Boone — American Glory
John Davidson — John Hamilton Davidson Is A Funny Guy
Kenny G — Rhythm & Romance
Justin Bieber — My World (Part I)

The Big Sleep – Son Of The Tiger (2006)
The Black Eyed Snakes – Rise Up! (2003)
Bound Stems – Appreciation Night (2006)
Brendan Benson – Lapalco (2002)
The Busy Signals (2007)
Caribou – The Milk of Human Kindness (2005)
The Changes – First of May EP (2005)
Citizens Here And Abroad – Ghosts Of Tables And Chairs (2004)
Constantines – Shine A Light (2003)
Constantines – Tournament of Hearts (2005)
The Cricket Rumor Mill – Renderings (2002)
The Dark Horse Project (2006)
Deerhoof – The Runners Four (2004)
Don Caballero – American Don (2000)
Doves – The Last Broadcast (2002)
Edan – Beauty And The Beat (2005)
Headlights – Kill Them With Kindness (2006)
Kelley Stoltz – Below The Branches (2006)
Kings of Convenience – Quiet Is The New Loud (2001)
Kings of Convenience – vs. (2001)
NOMO – New Tones (2006)
The Octopus Project – One Ten Hundred Thousand Million (2005)
Paucity – An Untitled Album (2005)
Paucity – Deer Bird Bear Ship (2009)
The Six Parts Seven – Casually Smashed To Pieces (2007)
toe – New Sentimentality EP (2006)
Victor! Fix The Sun – Retractable Claws (2007)

Just-missed:
The Red Scare – Strangers Die Everyday (1999)
Red Stars Theory – Life In A Bubble Can Be Beautiful (1999)

There are about a hundred more I just can’t think of on the fly. It would be a lot easier once I get home to just look at the average rating for each album on my iTunes. The top 5 in this list alone have to be:

The Big Sleep – Son Of The Tiger
Bound Stems – Appreciation Night
Headlights – Kill Them With Kindness
NOMO – New Tones
Paucity – Deer Bird Bear Ship (still has that new album smell)