Ah, what the hell. Here are the best records of the last ten years, in no particular order.
Reigning Sound - Too Much Guitar
Nobunny - Love Visions
King Khan & BBQ Show - S/T
Black Lips - Let It Bloom
Strokes- Is This It?
Eddy Current Suppression Ring- S/T
Hunches- Yes. No. Shut It.
Compulsive Gamblers - Crystal Gazing, Luck Amazing
Deadly Snakes- Ode to Joy
Dirtbombs- Ultraglide in Black
Dan Melchior- O Clouds Unfold
The Duchess and the Duke- Sunrise/Sunset
Espers- II
Silkworm- Italian Platinum
Pissed Jeans- all three of those fucking records
Ray Davies- Other People’s Lives
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments- No Old Guy Lo Fi
Dead Moon- Echoes of the Past
Bantam Rooster- Fuck All Y’All
9 comments:
hmmm, pretty good, i like deal me in, better than fuck all y'all and would probably choose a differant deadmoon album. i would add spider bags - A Celebration of Hunger and one of the harlan t bobo albums
damn, add a golden boys album, i'll just toss out goodbye country 'cause it's nearly impossible to get
Deal Me In was from the 90s, but I like it better too.
I really liked The Golden Boys live but their records still haven't grabbed me.
Yea, I just threw in that Dead Moon comp cuz it's the one that really put me over the top with them.
Never heard Spider Bags, and the one Harlan Bobo record I have is just OK.
You do support the local boys, though, so good for you...
yeah, i guess i lost focous on the bantam rooster, but harlan's the only local(i think i prefer his first album, but it's a break up album which is as much of a bummer to listen to as the first reigning sound or big star sister lover) golden boys are texas, spider bags are carolina and dead moon portland
I stand corrected. Will check out the Spider Bags and revisit Mr. Bobo.
I need to be at home to list my faves, but this is a pretty good list. I would differ with King Khan and No Bunny, and frankly I never shared the same degree of enthusiasm for the Deadly Snakes and Bantam Rooster. Perhaps most exciting is that some of these grps I don't really know. This is a plus.
I went to several establishments this weekend which served beer. Bad, mass produced corporate beer. Like Sam Adams was the most exotic they had. I submit that the aughts will be remembered mostly for bad things, but perhaps no crime is more unforgivable than a NoCal restaurant serving Bud Light when so much great beer is made here. Just outrageous
where the hell are you going? I don't know any places that don't at least have Racer on tap, and you are in for a treat at Cato's- they have the Racer X, which I never see.
Too bad I have a fucking cold.
I just bought the issue if Rolling Stone which has the decade in music. The aughts sucked, it's official. Even Rolling Stone admits as much. According to the magazine of the musical mainstream, Radiograd and Wico are geniuses. Dylan, Springsteen and U2 are eternal. Arcade Fire are the kings of indie rock, Kanye is a brilliant business man and err musician.
This is a celebrity pop culture magazine at the end of the day. And yet somehow these music "stars" seemed small as a group. Thomas Yorke, Jeff Tweedy and the 5-6 nobodies in Arcade Fire never smashed up a hotel room, screwed hookers, got caught doing blow. They're way to studied to let themselves go like that. Even Kanye or Jay Z seem more like sneaker brands than dangerous musicians.
I'll freely admit the 80s and 90s produced a ton of bad music which sold a lot. But I sure hope the next decade brings back the sexy, the rawk and some damaged folks who gotta have that white hot spotlight. As a culture, we need entertainers who can grab all of our attention and shake our asses. The diversity which supposedly prevents someone from having that kind of impact is bogus. Give me a hot baseline, a beat and something to look at.
Businessmen and grad students make shifty records.
Shitty records. I hate how Iphone corrects you when you swear! Shifty Records would be a cool name for a label, though.
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