I've finally put together my "best of" list for 2011. It's been a pretty legit year in music from my perspective. Sure it didn't have too many mind blowers, but it was a memorable year. I'm heading to work in a few minutes so I'll just post my honorable mentions in no particular order as these all just barely missed the top 10.
Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
Any year with a Beastie Boys release is a good year as far as I'm concerned. It had been far too long since a proper release, (all due respects to The Mix-Up, a wonderful instermental album), and it's hard to find any faults in the new album. The Boys have somehow managed to keep spitting some of the illest rhymes all the while staying relevant after nearly 30 years. How the fuck did they pull that off?
Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament
Beirut - The Rip Tide
Listening to Beirut has always helped take me to another place in my head. It didn't seem to matter what was going on in my life at the time, but as soon as I threw on a Beirut album life seemed to get a little bit simpler and idyllic and this album is no different. Yeah, there isn't quite as much East-European influence slathered on it, but that's not a bad thing. The songwriting is just as tight as ever and beautiful as ever.
Vagabond
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo OST
The follow up soundtrack to my top album of 2010 is monolithic in nature. The crazy bastards made an album that's pushing 3 hours long for a film that's two and a half hours long. It's still filled with chilling dark ambient tracks that makes my skin crawl and that's a wonderful thing. I need to add this disclaimer, I have yet to see the film, and once I do there's a good chance that my opinion about this album will change and it might end up making my top 10. Anyways, at face value, if you dug The Social Network OST, you should dig the hell out of this one, too.
Immigrant Song (featuring Karen O)
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Friday, May 6, 2011
Say What?
Yep, I'm done with college and it feels great.
Anyways, that's enough about that. Tomorrow I'll be going to the KNDS block party with Mr. Day and it's shaping up to be a pretty fun night. Starting off the night S. Carey (tour drummer for Bon Iver (it's pretty much required to mention that when you mention S. Carey)), Dark Dark Dark, and Tiny Moving Parts will be free to the public. I'm really excited to see S. Carey and Dark Dark Dark, but the real treat is the 21+ show afterwords.
The headliner is Har Mar Superstar and it's a dude I've never heard of before last week, but boy have I been missing out. This dude is the shit and if he didn't look the way he does he would be ridiculously famous. Just check out a couple of videos of his...
Yeah, I don't see what could go wrong and it only costs 5 bucks to see him perform. According to his Wiki article he's usually stripped down to a Speedo at some point during the show. This might rival the craziness that I was able to see when I went to a Gwar concert.
Anyways, that's enough about that. Tomorrow I'll be going to the KNDS block party with Mr. Day and it's shaping up to be a pretty fun night. Starting off the night S. Carey (tour drummer for Bon Iver (it's pretty much required to mention that when you mention S. Carey)), Dark Dark Dark, and Tiny Moving Parts will be free to the public. I'm really excited to see S. Carey and Dark Dark Dark, but the real treat is the 21+ show afterwords.
The headliner is Har Mar Superstar and it's a dude I've never heard of before last week, but boy have I been missing out. This dude is the shit and if he didn't look the way he does he would be ridiculously famous. Just check out a couple of videos of his...
Yeah, I don't see what could go wrong and it only costs 5 bucks to see him perform. According to his Wiki article he's usually stripped down to a Speedo at some point during the show. This might rival the craziness that I was able to see when I went to a Gwar concert.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
A Girl in a Slayer Jacked
3. Girl Talk - All Day
Okay well this is awkward... This is a band (one many show (god above men)) who I've listened since 2006. That said, good God I love Girl Talk. It is really really close to being drugs on music (which only makes sense after listening to Girl Talk). This album is just as amazing as anything he has created before and that is nothing but awesome. You want some Wu Tang Clan beats on top of Radiohead? You've got it! You want Black Sabbath over anything??? Well there you go, it's there. I really wanted to give this the top album of the year, but I just couldn't... So good, but I just couldn't give a mashup the best of...
2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Okay, I just want to point out that I made my top ten mid-December so the fact that this album was the album of the year according to the Grammy's should be irrelevant, but I still feel like I need to point this out... Alright... is that cleared up?? okay?? Good. I have no problem in saying that Arcade Fire's 2004 album, Funeral, is at least to me one of the top 10 albums of the past 15 years. With that out of the way, The Suburbs manages to create a cohesive message of the existence of being from a suburb/small ass town/anywhere. I have found it almost impossible to suggest to my friends and classmates, but in that same breath, the album is not universally suggestible. Yeah, I love it and it is indie heaven, and sure lyrically the album can easily be dwelled on for years to come. But that shouldn't matter... The Suburbs has easily the best one-two combo as far as tracks come since I've been listening to music in The Suburbs and the track Ready to Start.
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That just isn't fair to such an awesome album so I'll put another track on the blog...
Goofy haircut aside, here's another amazing track off of The Suburbs.
If you don't dig Arcade Fire or Indie in the first place, this is a loss of a post... If you are somewhat intrigued, this just might turn into your album of the year, it's that good.
Okay well this is awkward... This is a band (one many show (god above men)) who I've listened since 2006. That said, good God I love Girl Talk. It is really really close to being drugs on music (which only makes sense after listening to Girl Talk). This album is just as amazing as anything he has created before and that is nothing but awesome. You want some Wu Tang Clan beats on top of Radiohead? You've got it! You want Black Sabbath over anything??? Well there you go, it's there. I really wanted to give this the top album of the year, but I just couldn't... So good, but I just couldn't give a mashup the best of...
2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Okay, I just want to point out that I made my top ten mid-December so the fact that this album was the album of the year according to the Grammy's should be irrelevant, but I still feel like I need to point this out... Alright... is that cleared up?? okay?? Good. I have no problem in saying that Arcade Fire's 2004 album, Funeral, is at least to me one of the top 10 albums of the past 15 years. With that out of the way, The Suburbs manages to create a cohesive message of the existence of being from a suburb/small ass town/anywhere. I have found it almost impossible to suggest to my friends and classmates, but in that same breath, the album is not universally suggestible. Yeah, I love it and it is indie heaven, and sure lyrically the album can easily be dwelled on for years to come. But that shouldn't matter... The Suburbs has easily the best one-two combo as far as tracks come since I've been listening to music in The Suburbs and the track Ready to Start.
.
That just isn't fair to such an awesome album so I'll put another track on the blog...
Goofy haircut aside, here's another amazing track off of The Suburbs.
If you don't dig Arcade Fire or Indie in the first place, this is a loss of a post... If you are somewhat intrigued, this just might turn into your album of the year, it's that good.
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