Saturday, January 22, 2005
MB and Rip's Faves (Oceanchum Repost)
Rip's
yearender (beginninger)
happy new year, everyone! and but of course!
i thought that i'd drop my top ten records of
2004 here on ye old oceanchum. some topnotch shit
came out this year. here goes:
1. sonic youth - sonic nurse
2. animal collective - sung tongs
3. ariel pink's haunted graffiti - doldrums
4. joanna newsom - the milk-eyed mender
5. devendra banhart - rejoicing in the hands
6. the dears - no cities left
7. arcade fire - funeral
8. tortoise - it's all around you
9. xiu xiu - fabulous muscles
10. the go! team - thunder lightning strike
i'm sure there's great stuff that i'm forgetting, but i do well to remember to flush the toilet after myself, so conjuring up 10 records that i liked in 2004 is quite a feat.
MB's
My best of 2004:
hmmmmmm, seems that I have still followed my trend of not keeping up with what's hip or even new, for the most part. my list won't be comprised of totally new stuff, but just stuff that was either re-issued or I picked up this year. Here goes. Also, order is irrelevant.
(1) Crime Mob: "Knuck if you Buck was definitely the crunkest single of the year and the record hits other highs with "Stilletos", "I beat Yo Ass" and "Crunk Inc." were also pretty straight.Too violent, though.
(2) Animal Collective Sung Tongs: Duh....this is probably on everyone's list
(3) Sufjan Stevens: Seven Swans is awesome but I truly dug Greetings from...Michigan. He really turned my interest back towards pop.
(4) Wolf Eyes Burned Mind: Probably not their best but this shit rocks so goddam hard.
(5) Devendra Banhart: Rejoicing in the Hands.... great live show as well
(6)Eddie Gale: Black Rhythm Happening...highly recommended if you dig a little soul and gospel wit yo freedom jazz...It's a Blue Note reissue on 4 Men With Beards. Great soulful female vocals as well.
(7) Ghost:Hypnotic Underworld: I received this one as a gift a month or so ago and it keeps on giving. Best psychadelic folk band around. period. This one kinda reminds me of some of the Leo Smith stuff on Tzadik at times.
(8)KMD: Mr Hood: Okay, this one was reissued back in 2000 or 2001, but it remains the most underrated Daisy era hiphop record ever. Serious shit from the man who is now MFDOOM and DJ Subroc, who died before Black Bastards was suposed to be released.
(9) 600% Dynamite(released near the end of 2003) and Studio One Funk (comps): Soul Jazz reissues are almost always awesome, and these two follow the traidition. 600 Percent Dynamite, the 6th installment in the series (duh!) covers more ground than some of the earlier Dynamites. The title track by Alozade and Hollow Point is probably the most off-the-chain dancehall song I've ever heard. The rest of the cd is kinda all-over the place, ranging from an 80's soulful rendition of "Ready or Not" to some funny techno/reggae song by someone whose name I can't recall. Studio one Funk is pretty awesome, but probably not the best of the Studio One series. The cover of the Shaft theme is pretty ggod, though.
(10) The Black/Grey albums. How could both of these not make the list?
(11) Skygreen Leopards: 1000 Bird Ceremony. Part of the Jewelled Antler Collective, the San Francisco hippies go out into nature to record their acoustic psychadelic pop. Yep, that's really a goat or sheep baaahhhhing on the first track. Yep, those are real birds and yep, this isn't from the late 60's. Good mood stuff for the green of mind. Ya dig?
Other mentionables that crossed my path this year: The Homosexuals (reissued at the end of 2003), Arial Pink, Ludacris(red light district), Kanye West (College Dropout), The Third Unheard (a Connecticut hiphop comp. circa 1980-82 on Stones Throw) and ??????????
Rip's
yearender (beginninger)
happy new year, everyone! and but of course!
i thought that i'd drop my top ten records of
2004 here on ye old oceanchum. some topnotch shit
came out this year. here goes:
1. sonic youth - sonic nurse
2. animal collective - sung tongs
3. ariel pink's haunted graffiti - doldrums
4. joanna newsom - the milk-eyed mender
5. devendra banhart - rejoicing in the hands
6. the dears - no cities left
7. arcade fire - funeral
8. tortoise - it's all around you
9. xiu xiu - fabulous muscles
10. the go! team - thunder lightning strike
i'm sure there's great stuff that i'm forgetting, but i do well to remember to flush the toilet after myself, so conjuring up 10 records that i liked in 2004 is quite a feat.
MB's
My best of 2004:
hmmmmmm, seems that I have still followed my trend of not keeping up with what's hip or even new, for the most part. my list won't be comprised of totally new stuff, but just stuff that was either re-issued or I picked up this year. Here goes. Also, order is irrelevant.
(1) Crime Mob: "Knuck if you Buck was definitely the crunkest single of the year and the record hits other highs with "Stilletos", "I beat Yo Ass" and "Crunk Inc." were also pretty straight.Too violent, though.
(2) Animal Collective Sung Tongs: Duh....this is probably on everyone's list
(3) Sufjan Stevens: Seven Swans is awesome but I truly dug Greetings from...Michigan. He really turned my interest back towards pop.
(4) Wolf Eyes Burned Mind: Probably not their best but this shit rocks so goddam hard.
(5) Devendra Banhart: Rejoicing in the Hands.... great live show as well
(6)Eddie Gale: Black Rhythm Happening...highly recommended if you dig a little soul and gospel wit yo freedom jazz...It's a Blue Note reissue on 4 Men With Beards. Great soulful female vocals as well.
(7) Ghost:Hypnotic Underworld: I received this one as a gift a month or so ago and it keeps on giving. Best psychadelic folk band around. period. This one kinda reminds me of some of the Leo Smith stuff on Tzadik at times.
(8)KMD: Mr Hood: Okay, this one was reissued back in 2000 or 2001, but it remains the most underrated Daisy era hiphop record ever. Serious shit from the man who is now MFDOOM and DJ Subroc, who died before Black Bastards was suposed to be released.
(9) 600% Dynamite(released near the end of 2003) and Studio One Funk (comps): Soul Jazz reissues are almost always awesome, and these two follow the traidition. 600 Percent Dynamite, the 6th installment in the series (duh!) covers more ground than some of the earlier Dynamites. The title track by Alozade and Hollow Point is probably the most off-the-chain dancehall song I've ever heard. The rest of the cd is kinda all-over the place, ranging from an 80's soulful rendition of "Ready or Not" to some funny techno/reggae song by someone whose name I can't recall. Studio one Funk is pretty awesome, but probably not the best of the Studio One series. The cover of the Shaft theme is pretty ggod, though.
(10) The Black/Grey albums. How could both of these not make the list?
(11) Skygreen Leopards: 1000 Bird Ceremony. Part of the Jewelled Antler Collective, the San Francisco hippies go out into nature to record their acoustic psychadelic pop. Yep, that's really a goat or sheep baaahhhhing on the first track. Yep, those are real birds and yep, this isn't from the late 60's. Good mood stuff for the green of mind. Ya dig?
Other mentionables that crossed my path this year: The Homosexuals (reissued at the end of 2003), Arial Pink, Ludacris(red light district), Kanye West (College Dropout), The Third Unheard (a Connecticut hiphop comp. circa 1980-82 on Stones Throw) and ??????????
