23 posts tagged “music”
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I usually do the year-end top-ten or twenty new records (and persist in calling them records though they are primarily ones and zeroes these days). I scraped together the new music I've listened to this year and I can't find much that I think deserves to be top-tenned. They are all runners up.
1. Blonde Redhead: 23
This may well be the one record that gets a number. It's a dreamy record, and although dream-pop doesn't suit me everyday, there are some days that it's more refreshing than limeade in August.
- Low: Drums & Guns\Low fans generally don't like this overtly poppy and unusually positive record. I've always found Low's sound a bit too melancholy for everyday listening, so I actually find Drums & Guns rather refreshing. Still, it's not great enough for the top 10.
- Radiohead: In Rainbows\ Clever marketing aside, this record is just ok. There are a couple of great tracks, but even those tracks don't beat OK Computer in my book.
- The Shins: Wincing the Night Away\ I'm sick of The Shins. I'm also sick of Interpol, Arcade Fire, Franz Ferdinand, Art Brut, and The Arctic Monkeys, while I'm at it.
- Feist: The Reminder \ This is a nice record. Critically acclaimed. Extremely fucking boring.
- Amy Winehouse: Back to Black \ I'm glad she finally agreed to go to rehab. I love the motown thang, but the hype got a bit big for its britches. Just not excessively great.
- Cinerama: The Complete Peel Sessions \ I would like to give this a number, but I had already heard all the songs three years ago. Cinerama (Wedding Present side project) holds a special place in my heart for numerous reasons.
- Justice: The Cross \ Ah, French disco. Excellent dance music, but not really something to write home about.
- Tiny Vipers: Hands Across the Void \ This is a quite nice record. Not sticking, but I think quite good.
- Jose Gonzales: In Our Nature \ Jose deserves the hype, but this is just not up to the songwriting of Veneer.
- PJ Harvey: White Chalk \ OK, this is really close to getting a number 2. It's a new sound for PJ, with traces of old-school Phil Specter production values. It's just so grim.
Please, tell me what I've missed this year.
What's your musical horoscope? (Put your player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.)
- Aphex Twin: Yellow Calx
- Jamie Liddell: A Little Bit More
- Blondie: Kung Fu Girls
- The Fall-Outs: What Does That Make You?
- Clinic: Anne
- Out Hud: The Song So Good They Named It Thrice
- Cocorosie: Noah's Ark
- Sufjan Stevens: What Child is This Anyway?
- The Beatles: Good Morning Good Morning
- The Undertones: Beautiful Friend
I'll write something fer real soon, meanwhile entertain yourself by trying to glean meaning from my "musical horoscope"... I certainly can't.
Do you tend to like music in particular genres, or are your tastes all over the place? What are your most and least favorite musical genres?
According to iTunes, I listen to:
- Alternative
- Alternative & Punk
- AlternRock
- Ambient Pop
- Blues
- Chanson
- Classical
- Country
- Dream
- Easy Listening
- Electronic
- Electronica
- Electronica/Dance
- Emo
- Folk
- Folk-Rock
- General Electronic
- Gothic
- Hip-Hop/ Rap
- Holiday
- House
- Indie
- Indie Rawk
- Indie-rock
- Industrial
- InstrumentArt
- iTunes Latino
- Jazz
- New Age
- Other
- Pop
- Pop/ Rock
- Pop/ Rock 2000's
- Post-punk
- Progressive
- Psychedelic Rock
- R&B
- R&B/ Soul
- Reggae
- Rock
- Soul and R&B
- Soundtrack
- Tribal
- UK Rock
- Unclassifiable
- Vocal
- World
- 03.14
These two songs have been added to my life-soundtrack lately. For some reason they both really suit my mood(s) of late...
1 Jose Gonzales - Crosses/ 2 Amel Larrieux - All I Got
Also, I just watched Tartovsky's The Stalker.... and, wow. I may have to watch that a few more times.
They were so cool. I saw Daniel Ash in a record store once. He's short.
This is possibly one of the worst songs ever, but please check out the Bela Lugosi's Dead t-shirt. The foundations of my reality were shaken when I saw this...
Which friend or acquaintance most influenced your taste in music?
Submitted by Rev Stan.
No doubt about this one. Patrick. He was one step ahead of me with bands like Devo and The Human League by the 5th grade. He introduced me to all of by favorite 80's bands, and he made me tons of mix tapes... The last of which were stolen from my car last year :-(
Now I just check the sidebar of his blog to see what he's listening to...
