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Remember blogs? Shit.
Good Records From 2013
In no particular order:
Connections: Private Airplane
Connections: Body Language
Tony Molina: Dissed & Dismissed
Yo La Tengo: Fade
Superchunk: I Hate Music
Dick Diver: Calendar Days
Joanna Gruesome: Weird Sister
Eat Skull: III
Iceage: You're Nothing
Kurt Vile: Wakin' on a Pretty Daze
best reissues:
Toy Love: s/t
William Onyeabor: Who Is William Onyeabor?
that Unwound box set
why is everything so different now?
I don't like this future.
Where did all of your comments go?
This is sad.
My Favorite 2011s
'11 Songs
1. Dominant Legs - Hoop Of Love
2. Cut/Copy - Take Me Over
3. Summer Camp - Better Off Without You
4. Cass McCombs - County Line
5. The Drums - Days
6. Ladybug Transistor - Life Less True
7. Papercuts - Do You Really Wanna Know?
8. Little Dragon - Ritual Union
9. AIH - Yr Go To
10. Panda Bear - Last Night At The Jetty
11. Twerps - Who Are You
12. Real Estate - Wonder Years
13. Eleanor Friedberger - My Mistakes
14. Real Estate - It's Real
15. Still Corners - Wish
16. Deerhoof - Super Duper Rescue Heads
17. Cut/Copy - Need You Now
18. AIH - Contact High
19. J Mascis - Not Enough
20. Supermelody - I Want Your Blood
'11 Albums
1 Cut/Copy - Zonoscope
2 Twerps - s/t
3 Darren Sylvester - tour cdr
4 Panda Bear - Tomboy
5 The Drums - Portamento
6 John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
7 J Mascis - Several Shades Of Why
8 Papercuts - Fading Parade
9 Cass McCombs - Humor Risk
10 Real Estate - Days
11 Dominant Legs - Invitation
12 Destroyer - Kaputt
13 AIH - Moment Bends
14 Folklore - Home Church Road
15 Slow Club - Paradise
16 Still Corners - Creatures of An Hour
17 Deerhoof - Deerhoof vs. Evil
18 Ladybug Transistor - Clutching Stems
19 Supermelody - Destination Unknown
20 Summer Camp - Welcome To Condale
the good music of 2011
In alphabetical order...
Times New Viking - Dancer Equired
Twerps - s/t
Crystal Stilts - In Love With Oblivion; Radiant Door
Total Control - Henge Beat
Fucked Up - David's Town: 11 Original Hits From Byrdesdale Spa, UK!
Kitchen's Floor - Look Forward To Nothing
Life Partners - Music Is Hard
UV Race - Homo
Iceage - New Brigade
Wounded Lion - IVXLCDM
Reports - Dinamo Cambridge
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo / So Outta Reach
Oneida - Absolute II
Masters of the Hemisphere - Maybe These Are The Breaks
Comet Gain - Howl of the Lonely Crowd
The Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler / The Dream; Castlemania
Je Suis France - Let's Give 'Em Something To Talk About
Big Troubles - Romantic Comedy
Gold Bears - Are You Falling In Love?
google 'em if you want
Mezzy Labor Day mix
1. Foo Fighters - Have A Cigar
2. Flower Travelling Band - Satori pt. 2
3. Red Dirt - Memories
4. Black Lips - Don't Mess With My Baby
5. Bleached - Think of You
6. Dr. Feelgood - She Does It Right
7. Blue Peter - Radio Silence
8. Christian Death - Romeo's Distress
9. Dirty Beaches - Lord knows Best
10. The Passions - I'm In Love With A German Film Star
11. Yaz - Situation
12. Yelle - Safari Disco Club
13. SBTRKT - Wildfire
14. The Hood Internet - Feel It On The South Side (feat Birdman/Lil' Wayne/Washed Out)
15. Jay-Z & Kanye West - Who Gon Stop Me
SUMMER MIX III
This is the opposite of SA's mix from last week. Too big, too disjointed, no flow, and no theme other than "stuff I like". Not much of it is from 2011, either. But I am a noted arbiter of taste* and so you can trust me and whatever future mixes I might endeavor to make.
1. Z Factor - I am the Deejay!
2. Milk Music - Beyond Living
3. Cuffs - Archer
4. Home - My Friend Maurice
5. Mountains - Sequel
6. Crystal Stilts - Sycamore Tree
7. NRBQ - I Want You Bad
8. Reading Rainbow - Always On My Mind
9. Further - Quiet Riot Grrrl
10. Ultimate Spinach - Mind Flowers
11. Iceage - You're Blessed
12. Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments - Cheater's Heaven
13. Times New Viking - Fuck Her Tears
14. Reports - Arrows
15. Cinema Red and Blue - You're Gonna Screw My Head Off
16. The Chills - Rolling Moon
17. Archers of Loaf - Telepathic Traffic
18. 18th Dye - Easy (& How We Got There 1st)
Download it
here.
*: noted by me, of course.
SUMMER MIX II
Here's mine.
Sorry for the brevity - I was really limiting the sound palette. Really going for a theme. Really going for a mean cohesion. Striving for the mix.
All of these songs are from 2011.
1. Roommates - Elsie Dormer
2. Cut/Copy - Take Me Over
3. Dominant Legs - Hoop Of Love
4. Geoffrey O'Connor - Whatever Leads Me To You
5. Blue Harvest - The Follow Through
6. Melted Toys - Come On
7. Crush - I Need You
8. Summer Camp - Better Off Without You
9. Hooray For Earth & Twin Shadow - A Place We Like
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HERELabels: songs
Ski-ezy F. Baby
Thanks Rip!!!
places I wish I had been when I learned of Osama bin Laden's death
1. on an airplane
2. at WrestleMania
3. at a piano bar
4. Reno, Nevada
5. right at the cusp of the first drop at Space Mountain
Radio Undefined playlist 3/21
UNKLE - Money and Run (feat. Nick Cave)
Rolling Stones - Out of Time
REM - Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter
Cults - Go Outside
The Bangles - The Real World
Je Suis France - I Do Secret Things
Young Orchids - Twelve Feet Tall
Young Orchids - Tonight
All Night Drug Prowling Wolves - Where We've Been
Nation of Ulysses - Look Out! Soul Is Back
The Kills - DNA
Plimsouls - Everyday Things
Raveonettes - Recharge and Revolt
TV on the Radio - Caffeinated Consciousness
Todd Rundgren - Couldn't i Just Tell You
Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math
Turf War - Part of My Heart
Velvet Underground - Crimson and Clover
J. Mascis - Not Enough
Kurt Vile - Jesus Fever
Soft Kill - Sea of Doubt
Beady Eye - Millionaire
Radio Undefined playlist 3/14
TV on the Radio - Caffeinated Consciousness
Nirvana - On A Plain
Deerhunter - Desire Lines
Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math
Inspiral Carpets - Two World Collide
Beady Eye - Millionaire
PJ Harvey - Written On the Forehead
The Pretty Things - You Don't Believe Me
J. Mascis - Not Enough
Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears - Booty City
Royal Bangs - Fireball
Budgie - Crash Course In Brain Surgery
JEFF The Brotherhood - Diamond Way
Jawbreaker - Chesterfield Kings
Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Belong
Cults - Go Outside
Kurt Vile - Jesus Fever
Peter Bjorn and John - Second Chance
White Denim - Drug
David Bowie - Drive In Saturday
Raveonettes - Recharge and Revolt
REM - Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter
Anna Calvi - Blackout
Buffalo Springfield - Bluebird