Copycat or not, might as well take my stab at the top albums of the decade. I figure the listeners like me (who don't buy into the lo-fi, rap, or psych electro music that Pitchfork tries to cram down our throat) need a voice. Here it is. Enjoy and feel free to leave comments or your top album list. I tried to limit the same artists to two albums.
60. The RAA - Hometowns
59. Dan Bern - Breathe
58. The Cave Singers - Welcome Joy
57. Kings of Leon - Youth and Youth Manhood
56. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
55. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
54. Interpol - Antics
53. The Go Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
52. Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowards
51. Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
50. Dan Bern - New American Language
49. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
48. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
47. Trampled By Turtles - Trouble
46. The Strokes - Is This It?
45. Air - Talkie Walkie
44. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
43. Ryan Adams - Gold
42. Wilco - The Album
41. The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
40. Sigur Ros - ( )
39. Richard Buckner - The Hill
38. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
37. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
36. The Strokes - Room On Fire
35. Wolf Parade - Apologies to Queen Mary
34. The Mountain Goats - Sunset Tree
33. Conor Oberst - S/T
32. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
31. John Vanderslice - Cellar Door
30. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dark Place
29. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
28. Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
27. Modest Mouse - Moon and Antarctica
26. Vampire Weekend - S/T
25. Belle and Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap
24. The Felice Brothers - Tonight at the Arizona
23. Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
22. Deer Tick - Born on Flag Day
21. My Morning Jacket - Z
20. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine
19. Fleet Foxes - S/T
18. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
17. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
16. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
15. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
14. The National - Boxer
13. My Morning Jacket - At Dawn
12. Drive By Truckers - Dirty South
11. The Postal Service - Give Up
10. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
9. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
8. Bright Eyes - Lifted...
7. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
6. Deer Tick - War Elephant
5. The Felice Brothers - Adventures of the Felice Brothers Vol. 1
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. Sigur Ros -- Agaetis Byrjun
2. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - S/T
1. The National - Alligator
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Streaming Ben and Jay
NPR is streaming Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar's new album, One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Music From Kerouac's Big Sur due out October 20th.
New Felice Brothers Mixtape/newish CD
Check it out. BUY HERE FOR 10 bucks.
1. Forever Green
2. Ahab
3. White Limo
4. Let Me Come Home
5. The Captain’s Wife
6. Indian Massacre
7. Old Song
8. Marie
9. Marlboro Man
Monday, October 05, 2009
New Music Tuesday
The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come
Lucero - 1372 Overton Park
Built to Spill - There is No Enemy
Noah and the Whale - First Day of Spring
The Clientele - Bonfires on the Heath
Air - Love 2
Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
Lucero - 1372 Overton Park
Built to Spill - There is No Enemy
Noah and the Whale - First Day of Spring
The Clientele - Bonfires on the Heath
Air - Love 2
Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
Monday, September 28, 2009
New Releases
New Avett Brothers and new Langhorne Slim out this week.
Also, new albums from the Swell Season and Zero 7.
Also, new albums from the Swell Season and Zero 7.
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Strange Collaboration: Farrar, Gibbard
Death Volt
From Rolling Stone:
Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard and Son Volt frontman Jay Farrar have teamed up for a set of original music inspired by Jack Kerouac’s novel Big Sur. The music will be featured in an upcoming documentary about the cult author entitled One Fast Move Or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur. Gibbard and Farrar, who began working on music for the project in 2007, used Kerouac’s own Big Sur prose for the song’s lyrics.
Both the documentary and its soundtrack, featuring 12 new songs from Gibbard and Farrar, will be released on October 20th, the 40th anniversary of Kerouac’s death. The doc will also feature appearances from both Gibbard and Farrar, as well as rock poet laureate and “living god” Tom Waits, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Patti Smith and playwright Sam Shepard. One Fast Move Or I’m Gone will be released as a stand-alone album, a CD/DVD combo featuring the doc or a special edition with the CD/DVD, a 40-page book and a copy of Kerouac’s Big Sur.
As Rock Daily previously reported, Gibbard is a well-known follower of Kerouac’s works: On 2008’s Narrow Stairs, the track “Bixby Canyon Bridge” is filled with references to the Beat Generation author — Gibbard actually composed songs for the album while staying in the cabin Kerouac wrote about in Big Sur — and both We Have The Facts and We’re Voting Yes’s “Title Track” and “Lowell, MA” feature lyrics penned in the style of Kerouac (Lowell, Massachussets was Kerouac’s hometown.)
Check out the soundtrack’s track list below:
One Fast Move Or I’m Gone
1. “California Zephyr”
2. “Low Life Kingdom”
3. “Willamine”
4. “All In One”
5. “Breathe Our Iodine”
6. “These Roads Don’t Move”
7. “Big Sur”
8. “One Fast Move Or I’m Gone”
9. “Final Horrors”
10. “Sea Engines”
11. “The Void”
12. “San Francisco”
From Rolling Stone:
Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard and Son Volt frontman Jay Farrar have teamed up for a set of original music inspired by Jack Kerouac’s novel Big Sur. The music will be featured in an upcoming documentary about the cult author entitled One Fast Move Or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur. Gibbard and Farrar, who began working on music for the project in 2007, used Kerouac’s own Big Sur prose for the song’s lyrics.
Both the documentary and its soundtrack, featuring 12 new songs from Gibbard and Farrar, will be released on October 20th, the 40th anniversary of Kerouac’s death. The doc will also feature appearances from both Gibbard and Farrar, as well as rock poet laureate and “living god” Tom Waits, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Patti Smith and playwright Sam Shepard. One Fast Move Or I’m Gone will be released as a stand-alone album, a CD/DVD combo featuring the doc or a special edition with the CD/DVD, a 40-page book and a copy of Kerouac’s Big Sur.
As Rock Daily previously reported, Gibbard is a well-known follower of Kerouac’s works: On 2008’s Narrow Stairs, the track “Bixby Canyon Bridge” is filled with references to the Beat Generation author — Gibbard actually composed songs for the album while staying in the cabin Kerouac wrote about in Big Sur — and both We Have The Facts and We’re Voting Yes’s “Title Track” and “Lowell, MA” feature lyrics penned in the style of Kerouac (Lowell, Massachussets was Kerouac’s hometown.)
Check out the soundtrack’s track list below:
One Fast Move Or I’m Gone
1. “California Zephyr”
2. “Low Life Kingdom”
3. “Willamine”
4. “All In One”
5. “Breathe Our Iodine”
6. “These Roads Don’t Move”
7. “Big Sur”
8. “One Fast Move Or I’m Gone”
9. “Final Horrors”
10. “Sea Engines”
11. “The Void”
12. “San Francisco”
Friday, August 28, 2009
(Not So) Monthly Playlist/Mixtape
1. Wilco - I'll Fight
2. The Cave Singers - Hen of the Woods
3. Sigur Ros - Olsen olsen
4. Mott the Hoople - Henry and the H-Bomb
5. Uncle Tupelo - Effigy
6. The Low Anthem - The Horizon is a Beltway
7. Son Volt - No Turning Back
8. Deer Tick - Smith Hill
9. Kudzu Kings - Amsterdam
10. Modest Mouse - Satellite Skin
11. Yim Yames - Love You To
12. Bob Dylan - Mississippi
13. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
2. The Cave Singers - Hen of the Woods
3. Sigur Ros - Olsen olsen
4. Mott the Hoople - Henry and the H-Bomb
5. Uncle Tupelo - Effigy
6. The Low Anthem - The Horizon is a Beltway
7. Son Volt - No Turning Back
8. Deer Tick - Smith Hill
9. Kudzu Kings - Amsterdam
10. Modest Mouse - Satellite Skin
11. Yim Yames - Love You To
12. Bob Dylan - Mississippi
13. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
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