Stuff I didn't like - December

2009
The Beautiful Confusion - The Beautiful Confusion
Canoe - The Goldminer
The Clarks - Restless Days
The Dangerous Summer - Reach For The Sun
The Evening Rig - Is Doin' Stuff
Exsonvaldes - Near the Edge of Something Beautiful
Fastball - Little White Lies
Florence And The Machine - Lungs (Deluxe Version)
The Gathering - The West Pole
The Ghost Is Dancing - Battles On
Girls - Life in San Francisco (single)
The Higher - Its Only Natural
The Junior League - Smile Shoot Smile
Karen O and the Kids - Where the Wild Things Are
Lake Heartbeat - Trust In Numbers
The Lemonheads - Varshons
Liam Finn and Eliza Jane - Champagne In Seashells (EP)
The Life And Times - Tragic Boogie
Lisa Germano - Magic Neighbor
Little Hands Of Asphalt - Spit Back At The Rain
The Lonely Forest - We Sing The Body Electric!
The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms
Mesmer - The Ghost Of A Tennis Court
The Most Serene Republic - ...And The Ever Expanding Universe
Moke - The Long & The Dangerous Sea
Montt Mardie - Skaizerkite
Múm - Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know
The Music Lovers - Masculine Feminine
National Skyline - Bliss & Death
New Found Land - We All Die
Niccokick - The Good Times We Shared Were They So Bad
Nightmare_Of_You - Infomaniac
Noah And The Whale - The First Days Of Spring
One Hundred Hurricanes - 60 Years Under The Stars
Other Lives - Other Lives
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Higher Than The Stars EP
The Picture - Bluebirds
The Secret Handshake - My Name Up In Lights
The Seldon Plan - Lost and Found and Lost
Socialist Leisure Party - Tactical POP! For Coffee Cadets
The Sunday Drivers - The End Of Maiden Trip
Virgin of the Birds - Dear Furies
The Voluntary Butler Scheme - Tabasco Sole
Various Artists - Modular Leave Them All Behing III

pre-2009
The Aquarium - The Aquarium (2006)
The Brother Kite - Moonlit Race (2007)
The Brother Kite - Thebrotherkite (2004)
Dave Edmunds - Anthology (1968-1990)
Dave Edmunds - Closer To The Flame (1990)
Dave Edmunds - Repeat When Necessary (1979)
Dave Edmunds - Rockpile (1972)
Death Ships - Seeds of Devastation (2006)
Little Esther - Bad Baad Girl!
Lonesome Lake - A Change of Heart, A Change of Season (2008)
Maps - We Can Create (2007)
Midnight Choir - Amsterdam Stranded (2008)
Monahans - Low Pining (2007)
Pasteboard - Glitter (2005)
The Pearly Gatecrashers - Popsuey (1996)
Pen Expers - Baby's Gone Straight (2008)
Pint Shot Riot - Holes (2008)
Sing Sing - Sing Sing & I (2005)
Sisters - Everybody (2008)
Solid Gold - Bodies of Water (2008)
Stars for the Innocent - It's You and Them (2008)
Tafra - Why Even Bother (2008)
That Ghost - Young Fridays (2008)
Various Artists - Nightmare Revisited (Danny Elfman) (2008)
Various Artists - Never lose that feeling vol. 1
Various Artists - Never lose that feeling vol. 3
Various Artists - Hey! Where'd The Summer Go (2004)
The Whispertown 2000 - Swim (2008)

Stuff I didn't like - October/November

2009
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - The Century of Self
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
The Besties - Home Free
The Drums - The Drums EP
Editors - In This Light and On This Evening
The Exploding Boy - Afterglow
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Fryars - Dark Young Hearts
Heat-Ray - Loveallover
The Jezabels - The Man Is Dead EP
Little Boots - Hands
Memory Cassette - Call And Response EP
The National - Ashamed of the Story I Told (single)
Phantogram – Eyelid Movies
The Rumble Strips - Welcome To The Walk Alone
Tegan And Sara - Sainthood
Throw Me The Statue - Creaturesque
Tiga - Ciao
Time and Distance - Gravity
The Twilight Sad - I Became A Prostitute (single)
The Veils - Sun Gangs
The Vera Violets - ST
Young Love - One Of Us

Pre-2009
Badfinger - No Dice (1970)
Bromheads Jacket - Demos
Bromheads Jacket - Woolley Bridge/Lesley Parlafitt Single (2005)
David Gilmour - David Gilmour (1978)
The Flaming Lips - Oh My Gawd!! (1987)
The First International Sex Opera Band - Anita (1969)
Le Tigre - This Island (2004)
My Chemical Romance - I Brought You My Bullets You Brought Me Your Love (2002)
The Rapture - Pieces Of The People We Love (2006)
Rory Gallagher - Calling Card (1976)
Six By Seven - Any Colour So Long As It's Black (2008)
Sophia Somajo - The Laptop Diaries (2008)
Split Enz - True Colours (1980)
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (1968)
Various Artists - Series Two Records Vol. 1 (2007)

Albums I didn't like this month - September

I've had a lazy summer when it comes to this blog. I'm back and ready to start up again.

2009
Janek Samolyk - Don't Think Too Much EP
Light In Your Life - Light In Your Life

Other
Keith Hudson - Playing It Cool & Playing It Right (1981)
kingmaker - sleepwalking (1993)

Albums I didn't like this month - August

2009
A-Ha - Foot Of The Mountain
Blackbud-Blackbud
Corsage - Finito L'Amore
Delay Trees - Soft Construction
Filthy Dukes - Messages (single promo)
Green Day - 21St Century Breakdown
Hecuba - Paradise
Horse Shoes - The Imperial School EP
Light In Your Life - Light In Your Life
Lady Gaga - Fame
Mando Diao - Give Me Fire
Merchandise - Listen Up!
Mike Bones - A Fool For Everyone
Nouvelle Vague - 3
Portrait Painters - A Future Crime (single)
Regina Spektor - Far (Bonus Tracks)
Thieves Like Us - Really Like to See You Again EP
Twiggy Frostbite - Through Fire
U2 - No Line On The Horizon
The Wave Pictures - If You Leave It Alone


2008
El Perro Del Mar - From The Valley To The Stars
iLiKETRAiNS - The Christmas Tree Ship EP
Longital - Gloria
Lucky Misu - In Winter
The Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop, Drop, And Roll!!!
The Shortwave Set - Replica Sun-Machine
The Submarines - Honeysuckle Weeks
Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins

Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell

Other
The Clovers - Rock 'n' Roll Legends
The Coasters - Rock 'n' Roll Legends
Diana Ross & The Supremes - Supreme Rarities (Motown Lost and Found)
That's Mighty Childish - Various Artists
Johnny & The Hurricanes - Rock 'n' Roll Legends
Lucky Misu and Bleulel - Away from Home (2007)
Megafaun - Bury The Square (2007)
moose - baby, it's over EP (1999)
Moose - High Ball Me, Baby! (2000)
Moose - Reprise EP (1991)
Moose - uptown (1993)
The Platters - Rock 'n' Roll Legends
The Spaniels - Rock 'n' Roll Legends
Ruth Brown - Rock 'n' Roll Legends
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Rock 'n' Roll Legends
Lavern Baker - Rock 'n' Roll Legends
Yael Naim - Yael Naim (2007)

Albums I didn't like this month - July

Albums from 2009
American Aquarium - Dances for the Lonely
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast (Deluxe Edition)
A Place To Bury Strangers - Missing You EP
Alfa Matrix-Re:Covered (V. Artists) - A Tribute To Depeche Mode
Amber Oak - Your Missing Piece EP
The Answering Machine - Another City, Another Sorry
The Apathy Eulogy - Resolved to Dream
Ash - Return of White Rabbit (single)
As Cities Burn - Hell or High Water
Azeda Booth - Tubtrek
Behind Crimson Eyes - Behind Crimson Eyes
Better Than Ezra - Paper Empire
The Boy Least Likely To - The Law Of The Playground
The Breeders - Fate To Fatal
Peter Broderick - Ten Duets
Boy In Static - Candy Cigarette
Burn Halo - Burn Halo
City Center - City Center
Cof Cof - Safari
Coldplay - Left Right Left Right Left
The Complainer & The Complainers - Power Joy Happiness Fame!
Consider The Thief - Signs And Wonders
Deep Insight - Sucker For Love
Deer Tick - Born on Flag Day
Dogs Die in Hot Cars - Pop Nonsense
Dommin - Love Is Gone
Dropout Year - The Way We Play
El Perro del Mar - Love Is Not Pop
Endless Hallway - Autonomy Games
Exsonvaldes - Near The Edge Of Something Beautiful
Falling Up - Fangs!
Fat Les - Who Invented Fish & Chips (Re-Issue)
The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away
Fightstar - Be Human
Flea Market Poets - Dirty Days
Fly Upright Kite - Weightless
Fm Static - Dear Diary
Friday Bridge - Bite My Tongue
Golden Silvers - True Romance
Gomez - A New Tide
The Hangover OST - (Various Artists)
The Heartbeat Of Krakow - The Heartbeat Of Krakow
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Hot Silk Pockets - Panda Eyes
Immaculate Machine - High On Jackson Hill
It's Like Love - You're Too Sweet For Rock And Roll
Jam On Bread - Jam On Bread EP
John Me - I Am John
Karate High School - Invaders
Kilians - They Are Calling Your Name
Let's Wrestle - In The Court Of The Wrestling Let's
Love Is All - Last Choice EP
Lovers - I Am The West
Lucky Boys Confusion - Closing Arguments
Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine
Malcolm Middleton - Waxing Gibbous
New York Dolls - Cause I Sez So
Oh Sweet Music! - Oh Sweet Music! EP
Our Brother The Native - Sacred Psalms
Phosphorescent - To Willie
Pilot Speed - Wooden Bones
Pocahaunted - Passage LP
Ripchord - Beginners Luck
Say Hi - Oohs & Aahs
Screen Vinyl Image - Interceptors
Shiftless Decay: New Sounds Of Detroit (Various Artists)
Teitur - The Girl I Don't Know EP
Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted To Sin
The Working Title - Bone Island
Zoot Woman - We Won't Brake (single)

Albums from 2008
Adem Ilhan - Takes
Andre Ethier - Born On Blue Fog
Ani Difranco - Red-Letter Year
Beth Rowley - Little Dreamer
The Black Angels - Directions To See A Ghost
Circle- Just Keep Swimming
Cloud Cult - Feel-Good Ghosts
Chase The White Whale - Driver F
The Dandy Warhols - Earth To The Dandy Warhols
The Duhks - Fast-Paced World
Elf-Power - In A Cave
Elliott Brood - Mountain Meadows
The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
Fantastic Something - Fantastic Something
Faun Fables - A Table Forgotten
Firewater - The Golden Hour
Fredrik - Na Na Ni
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ-Fight
Fujiya and Miyagi - Lightbulbs
The Foals - Antidotes
Giant Sand - Provisions
God Is An Astronaut - God Is An Astronaut
The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
Helms Alee - Night Terror
The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
Herman Dune - Next Year In Zion
The Horror-Pops - Kiss Kiss Kill Kill
Howlin' Rain - Magnificent Fiend
Jack Johnson - Sleep Through The Static
James Mcmurtry - Just Us Kids
James Yorkston - When The Haar Rolls In
Jeff Who? - Jeff Who?
Johnny Dowd - A Drunkard's Masterpiece
Johnny Flynn - A Larum
Kocani Orkestar - The Ravished Bride
Korpiklaani - Korven Kuningas
Körperwelten - Avatars Of Rape And Rage
The Last Shadow-Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
Lindsey Buckingham - Gift Of Screws
Local H - Twelve Angry Months
Louis XIV - Slick Dogs And Ponies
Lykke Li - Youth Novels
The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
Man Man - Rabbit Habits
Megapuss - Surfing
Meiko - Meiko
Merzbow - Anicca
Merzbow - Dead Leaves
Merzbow - Dolphin Sonar
Merzbow - Eucalypse
Merzbow - Here
Merzbow - Hodosan
Merzbow - Peace for Animals
Merzbow - Protean World
Merzbow - Tombo
Mostly Autumn - Glass Shadows
The Mountain Goats - Heretic-Pride
Mudcrutch - Mudcrutch
Noah And The Whale - Peaceful The World Lays Me Down
The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me
Nurse With Wound - Huffin'-Rag Blues
Paul Hayden Desser - In Field And Town
Pilot Cloud - In Transition
Pg Lost - It's Not Me, It's You!
Porn And Merzbow - ...And the Devil Makes Three.
Puscifer - D Is For Dubby
Robedoor - Closer To The Cliff
Scary Mansion - Every Joke Is Half The Truth
Secret Chiefs 3 - Xaphan
The Secret Machines - Secret Machines
Shearwater - Rook
Shugo Tokumaru - Exit
Sid And Fancy - Barrelhouse Angelinas
Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns
Sonic Youth - J'accuse Ted Hughes
South San Gabriel And Centro-Matic - Dual Hawks
Sparks - Exotic Creatures of the Deep
Thee Emergency - Solid
Tv On The Radio - Dear Science
Two-Cow Garage - Speaking In Cursive
Vetiver - Thing Of The Past
The Welcome-Wagon - Welcome To The Welcome-Wagon
Willie Nile - Live From The Streets Of New York
Wolf Parade - At Mt. Zoomer
The Zutons - You Can Do Anything

Albums from an earlier year
Aitch - ¡Aitch Y Double Hockey Sticks! (2007)
Alice Cooper - Muscle Of Love (1973)
Alice Cooper - Pretties For You (1969)
Brandi Carlile - Brandi Carlile (Deluxe Edition) (2006)
Ceremony - Disappear (2007)
Dolly Mixture - Dreamism (1998)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Pictures At An Exhibition (1971)
Exlovers - Exlovers
Gospel Gossip - Sing into My Mouth (2007)
Isaac Hayes - Black Moses (1971)
Lindsey Buckingham - Live At The Bass Performance Hall (2007)
Marine Girls - Lazy Ways (1983)/Beach Party (1982)
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (2007)
The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic (2003)
Series Two Compilation Vol. 1 - VA (2007)
the Organ - Grab That Gun (2004)
the Organ - Sinking Hearts (2002)
Rare Earth - Greatest Hits & Rare Classics
Ringo Deathstarr - Ringo Deathstarr (2007)
Rocketship - Singles 1993-96
Rush - Rush (1973)
Rush - Caress of Steel (1975)
Rush - Fly By Night (1975)
Rush - 2112 (1976)
Rush - A Farewell To Kings (1977)
Rush - Hemispheres (1978)
Rush - Moving Pictures (1980)
Rush - Signals (1982)
Rush - Grace Under Pressure (1984)
Traffic - Welcome to the Canteen [Expanded] (1971)
7% Solution - All About Satellites and Spaceships (1996)
7% Solution - Gabriel's Waltz (1999)

Albums I didn't like this month - June

Too many things distracted me from listening to new music this month, so this little list represents the stuff I didn't like. The list should be 3 times bigger next month.

Albums that had a couple of good songs
Die Amsterdam Klezmer Band - Zaraza (2008)

Albums from 2009
Bill Ryder Jones - Film Music
Dog Day - Concentration
Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Pop Nonsense
ESP Summer - The Complete Recordings
Jeremy Jay - Love Everlasting EP
General Elektriks - Good City For Dreamers
Gustaf Spetz - Good Night Mr Spetz
Peter Bjorn & John - Living Things
The Sleepover Disaster - Hover
Washington - Rouge/Noir

Albums from 2008
The Aliens - Luna
Amadou and Mariam - Welcome To Mali
Aviette - The Way We Met
Henrik Nordvargr Bjorkk - Helvete
Henrik Nordvargr Bjorkk - Interstellar
Henrik Nordvargr Bjorkk - Pyrrhula
Black Mountain - In The Future
Blitzen Trapper - Furr
Boris - Smile
Boris with Michio Kurihara - Cloud Chamber
Buck 65 - The Dirtbike Project
Buck 65 - Heck
Buck 65 - With Symphony Nova Scotia
Charades - En ningún lugar
Cold-War Kids - Loyalty To Loyalty
Jason Collett - Here's To Being Here
Colour Revolt - Plunder, Beg, And Curse
Creature - Creature
Darker My Love - 2
Dead Confederate - Wrecking-Ball
The Dears - Missiles
Delaney & Bonnie - Home
Hiawata! - Blacks On Blondes EP
Horse Feathers - House With No Name
Times New Viking - Rip It Off

Albums from an earlier year
el-p - I'll Sleep When You're Dead (2007)
Todd Rundgren - Something-Anything (1972)

Episode 11 - The American Songbook Series

The Soundtrack Of My Life
Episode 11
5/30/09

Download the AAC file here. It contains album artwork and chapters for each song for your iPod or Zune player. Just make a playlist and drag the file in.

The aim of this podcast is to highlight my favorite tracks from the American Songbook series collection. I received a couple of requests for song standards so I decided to compile a list from this series I was listening to at the time. If you are not familiar with the American songbook, this will be a real treat for you. Give it a listen, I can't imagine someone not singing along with these songs after you listen to it. Some of these songs are not the definitive version but they are just as good.

(Track)-(Artist)-(Song) (Composer)
01 - Billie Holiday - Solitude (Duke Ellington)
02 - Gwen Verdon - If My Friends Could See Me Now (Dorothy Fields)
03 - Lee Wiley - Easy To Love (Cole Porter)
04 - Louis Armstrong - Mack The Knife (Kurt Weill)
05 - Teddi King - This Is Always (Harry Warren)
06 - Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra Featuring Frank Sinatra - The Song Is You (Jerome Kern)
07 - Frances Langford - I'm In The Mood For Love (Dorothy Fields)
08 - Fred Astaire - Puttin' On The Ritz (Irving Berlin)
09 - Betty Hutton - Rumble, Rumble, Rumble (Frank Loesser)
10 - Peggy Lee - Lover (Rodgers & Hart)
11 - Kitty Kallen - It's Been A Long, Long Time (Jule Styne)
12 - Helen Forrest - I've Heard That Song Before (Jule Styne)
13 - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra Featuring Liza Morrow - All The Cats Join In (Alec Wilder)
14 - Ella Fitzgerald - What Is This Thing Called Love (Cole Porter)
15 - Mabel Mercer - It's De-Lovely (Cole Porter)
16 - Jo Stafford - The Things We Did Last Summer (Jule Styne)
17 - Gogi Grant - Why Was I Born (Jerome Kern)
18 - Mel Tormé - P.S. I Love You (Johnny Mercer)
19 - Chet Baker - Everything Happens To Me (Tom Adair & Matt Dennis)
20 - Eileen Farrell - In The Still Of The Night (Cole Porter)
21 - Tony Bennett - I Wanna Be Around (Johnny Mercer)
22 - Ethel Merman & Donald O'Connor - (You're Not Sick) You're Just In Love (Irving Berlin)
23 - Peggy Lee - Big Spender (Dorothy Fields)
24 - Judy Garland - Get Happy (Harold Arlen)
25 - Margaret Whiting - You Couldn't Be Cuter (Dorothy Fields)
26 - Bob Crosby Featuring Helen Ward- Day In, Day Out (Johnny Mercer)
27 - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra - I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Dorothy Fields)
28 - Johnny 'scat' Davis & Frances Langford - Hooray For Hollywood (Johnny Mercer)
29 - Lena Horne - Then I'll Be Tired Of You (E.Y. Harburg)
30 - Jo Stafford - Dream (Johnny Mercer)
31 - Doris Day - I've Never Been In Love Before (Frank Loesser)
32 - Betty Hutton - Blow a Fuse (It's Oh So Quiet) (Hans Lang and Bert Reisfeld)
33 - Peggy Lee - It's All Right With Me (Cole Porter)
34 - The Boswell Sisters - Louisiana Hayride (Arthur Schwartz)
35 - Esther Williams And Ricardo Montalban (Khan!!!) - Baby, It's Cold Outside (Frank Loesser)
36 - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - Don't Fence Me In (Cole Porter)
37 - Cole Porter - Anything Goes (Cole Porter)
38 - Julie Andrews - Thoroughly Modern Millie (James Van Heusen)
39 - Wini Shaw - Lullaby Of Broadway (Harry Warren)
40 - Al Bowlly - Time On My Hands (Vincent Youmans)
41 - Andy Williams - Moon River (Johnny Mercer)
42 - Judy Garland - Over The Rainbow (Harold Arlen)
43 - Mildred Bailey - I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart (Duke Ellington)
44 - Peggy Lee - I've Got You Under My Skin (Cole Porter)
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Albums I didn't like this month - May

A light month as I didn't have as much time to listen to music. I had to catch up to some podcasts that were piling up in my iPod. June figures to be a better month since school is just about over.

Albums from 2009
Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band - Outer South
Americans In France - Pretzelvania
Burn The Negative - In The Atmosphere
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Doll And The Kicks - Doll And The Kicks
Helen Love - Calm Down Dad
Justin Bennett - Wanting More
Kyte - Science For The Living
My Latest Novel - Deaths And Entrances
Oliver The Penguin - Button Pusher
Sahara Hotnights - Sparks
Yellow Ostrich - Yellow Ostrich

Albums from 2008
Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno - Journey Into The Cosmic Inferno
Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno - Ominous From The Cosmic Inferno
Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno - Pink Lady Lemonade
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Summerlong Silences
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
The Broken West - Now Or Heaven
David Byrne and Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
The Cat Empire - So Many Nights
Catfish Haven - Devastator
Clinic - Do It!
Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
Jesper Norda - Little ones EP/B-sides
Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara - Soul Science
Jukebox The Ghost - Let Live & Let Ghosts
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cardinology
The Airborne Toxic Event - The Airborne Toxic Event

Albums from an earlier year
Chapterhouse - Mesmerise EP (1991)
Chapterhouse - Sunburst EP (1991)
Dolly Mixture - Live at the Marquee (1982)
Headlights - The Enemies EP (2005)
Luisa Mandou - Um Beijo (2005)
Swirlies - Damon Andy Rob Ron: The Yes Girls (2000)
Swirlies - Sneaky Flute Music (1996)
Viva Voce - The Heat Can Melt Your Brain (2004)
Viva Voce - Lovers Lead the Way (2003)

Episode 10 - Best of 2009 part 01

The Soundtrack Of My Life
Episode 10
5/3/09

Download the AAC file here. It contains album artwork and chapters for each song for your iPod or Zune player. Just make a playlist and drag the file in.

The aim of this podcast is to highlight my favorite music of 2009.

01 - Silversun Pickups - Panic Switch
02 - Morrissey - All You Need Is Me
03 - Joy Zipper - Just Like Heaven
04 - The Indelicates - The Recession Song
05 - Matt & Kim - Ginders
06 - The Low Frequency In Stereo - Texas Fox
07 - Metric - Help I'm Alive (Acoustic)
08 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Little Shadow
09 - Marissa Nadler - River Of Dirt
10 - M. Ward - Rave On (Featuring Zooey Deschanel)
11 - The View - Gem Of A Bird
12 - Here We Go Magic - Tunnelvision
13 - Of Montreal - First Time High (Of Chicago Acoustic Version Of 'An Eluardian Instance')
14 - Devics - Catch
15 - Camera Obscura - French Navy
16 - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Come Saturday
17 - St. Vincent - Actor Out Of Work
18 - Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band - Worldwide
19 - Neil Young - Just Singing A Song
20 - Storsveit Nix Noltes - Trakijska Racenica
21 - Peaches - Show Stopper
22 - Fol Chen - No Wedding Cake
23 - The Cloud Room - La La Losing
24 - A Band Called Quinn - BabywhenIseeyoureyes
25 - Fanfarlo - The Walls Are Coming Down
26 - Dog Day - Neighbour
27 - Findlay Brown - I Still Want You
28 - The Empty Set - Alton Towers (I'll Cry)
29 - The Kills - Crazy
30 - Polly Scattergood - Breathe In Breathe Out
Recommendations
There are enough good songs on these albums to recommend them:
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart (My favorite album of 2009)
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
M. Ward - Hold Time

Buy the other albums at your own risk but do search for the posted songs and support these artists.

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Albums I didn't like this month - April

2009
1990s - Kicks
Americans In France - Pretzelvania
A Shoreline Dream and Ulrich Schnauss - Neverchanger CDS
A Shoreline Dream - Recollections Of Memory
Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
Beirut - March Of The Zapotec EP & Realpeople - Holland EP
Bell X1 - Blue Lights on the Runway
Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve w/VA - Re-Animations, Vol. 1
Boy In Static - Candy Cigarette
Chris Cornell - Scream
Death Cab For Cutie - The Open Door EP
Evripidis And His Tragedies - Our Trash EP
Findlay Brown-Love Will Find You
FrYars - Dark Young Hearts
Wentworth Kersey - O
The Kills - Black Balloon EP
La Roux - La Roux EP
The Lonely Island-Incredibad
Matt and Kim-Grand
Modern Skirts - All of Us in Our Night
My Darling YOU! - A.K. ART EP
My Darling YOU! - Saying Things You Don't Want To Hear EP
The National - Sleep All Summer (single)
Official Secrets Act-Understanding Electricity
Old Jerusalem - Two Birds Blessing
Peaches - I Feel Cream
Phosphorescent - To Willie
P.O.S.-Never Better
Pterodactyl-Worldwild
The Red Well - Amid Storms We Arrive
Screaming Females - Power Move
The Seal Cub Clubbing Club - Super Science Fiction
Stephane TV - Stephane TV EP
Strand of Oaks - Leave Ruin
Swanton Bombs - Mammoth Skull (Promo_EP)
Pati Yang - Faith Hope And Fury
The Cloud Room - Waiting
The William Blakes - Dear Unknown Friend
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz

2008 and earlier
Various Artists - Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
Aesthesys - Demo (2008)
All The Saints - Fire On Corridor X (2008)
Andice Rupen [Candie prune] - Garage sessions(2000)
Balmorhea - Tour EP (2008)
Bardo Pond - Batholith (2008)
Big Black - Songs About Fucking (1987)
Camille - Le Fil (2005)
Elbow - Asleep In The Back (2001)
Elbow - Leaders Of The Free World (2005)
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (2008)
Nikka Costa - Pebble To A Pearl (2008)
The Carrots - Beverly 7'' (2008)
Crooked Fingers - Daytrotter Session (2008)
Crooked Fingers - Forfeit/Fortune (2008)
Dead Meadow - Old Growth (2008)
Dengue Fever - Venus On Earth (2008)
Department Of Eagles - In Ear Park (2008)
The Dodos - Visiter (2008)
The Dutchess And The Duke - She's The Dutchess, He's The Duke (2008)
The Dutchess And The Duke - Daytrotter Session (2008)
Eagles Of Death-Metal - Heart-On (2008)
Gil Evans Orchestra - Gil Evans Orchestra - Plays Jimi Hendrix
Grateful Dead - American Beauty (1970)
The Groovy Cellar - When You Fly Away EP (2008)
Lisa Hannigan - Sea Sew (2008)
Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers (2007)
Lou Reed - Berlin (2006)
Motörhead - Bomber (Deluxe Edition) (1979)
Motörhead - Iron First (Deluxe Edition) (1982)
Motörhead - Motörizer (2008)
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand (2007)
Patti Smith - Horses (1975)
Phosphorescent - Pride (2007)
The Stills - Oceans Will Rise (2008)
Kelley Stoltz - Circular Sounds (2008)
Swingset - The Great Shakes (2008)
The Tallest Man On Earth - Shallow Grave (2008)
These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid (2008)
The Portugals - Setubal EP (2008)
The New Standards - Rock And Roll (2008)
The Verve - Forth (2008)
The Waco Brothers - Waco Express (2006)
The War On Drugs - Barrel Of Batteries (2008)
The War On Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues (2008)
Abigail Washburn - Abigail Washburn and The Sparrow Quartet (2008)
Paul Weller - 22 Dreams (2008)
What Made Milwaukee Famous - What Doesn't Kill Us (2008)
The Whigs - Mission-Control (2008)
White Denim - Workout Holiday (2008)
Lizz Wright - The Orchard (2008)
Why? - Alopecia (2008)
Wire - 154 (1979)
Wire - Chairs Missing (1978)
Wire - Pink Flag (1977)

Episode 09 - Best of 2008 part 7

The Soundtrack Of My Life
Episode 09
3/31/09

Download the AAC file here. It contains album artwork and chapters for each song for your iPod or Zune player. Just make a playlist and drag the file in.

The aim of this podcast is to highlight my favorite music of 2008. I did it again, track 10 is from 2009.

01 - Love Is All - Movie Romance
02 - Tilly And The Wall - Jumbler
03 - The Apples In Stereo - Stephen Stephen (for Stephen Colbert)
04 - Thao with The Get Down Stay Down - Travel
05 - Crooked Fingers - Luisa's Bones (Daytrotter session)
06 - Elbow - One Day Like This (Daytrotter session)
07 - Winterpills - Immortal
08 - Emiliana Torrini - Hold Heart
09 - El May - I Remember
10 - Washington - Guerre De Rue
11 - The Kills - Black Balloon
12 - The Bird And The Bee - Ray Gun
13 - Klaus & Kinski - Crucifixión, La Solución
14 - Sr. Chinarro - Timidos
15 - Bubblegum Lemonade - Susan's In The Sky
16 - Hotel Lights - Nobody Let You Down
17 - Misophone - Grey Clouds (Part 2)
18 - David Vandervelde - Cryin' Like The Rain
19 - One For The Team - What Are You Gonna Cry About
20 - Headlights - On April 2
21 - Dreamend - If Only For A Day
22 - Moscow Olympics - Safe
23 - Sigur Ros - Vid Spilum Endalaust
24 - The Organ - Even In The Night
25 - Lightning Love - Work Today
26 - Los Campesinos! - Sweet Dreams Sweet Cheeks
27 - The Light Sleepers - Panama
28 - The Passionistas - Righters Block
29 - The Wave Pictures - One Line At A Time
30 - Mates of State - Lullaby Haze
31 - Ida Maria - See Me Through
32 - Jenny Lewis - Love Hurts (Live On Radcliffe And Maconie)
Recommendations
There are enough good songs on these albums to recommend them:
Love is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini
Moscow Olympics - Cut the World
Sigur Rós - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
Klaus & Kinski - "tu hoguera està ardiendo"
Headlights - Some Racing, Some Stopping
One for the Team - Build It Up
Bubblegum Lemonade - Doubleplusgood
Tilly And The Wall - O

Still listening to (but liking):
David Vandervelde - Waiting for the Sunrise

Buy the other albums at your own risk but do search for the posted songs and support these artists.

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Albums I didn't like this month - March

I spent most of February on planning at work and playing "Rock Band 2" so I did not spend as much time listening to music as I normally do. Here are a list of the albums I didn't like this month, so far. I also put some albums I heard before I started to do this.

Updated 3/31
2009
Bell Orchestre - As Seen Through Windows
Ben Kweller - Changing Horses
Clem Snide - Hungry Bird
DAT Politics - Mad Kit
Handsome Furs - Face Control
Here We Go Magic - Here We Go Magic
Kevin Blechdom - Gentlemania
Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate
Polly Scattergood - Polly Scattergood
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - #4
The View - Which Bitch

2008
Adorable - Footnotes 92-94
Absolute Body Control - Never Seen (EP)
Albert Hammond Jr. - ¿Cómo Te Llama?
Ane Brun - Changing Of The Seasons
The Alps - III
Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer
Apollo Sunshine - Shall Noise Upon
A Weather - Cove
BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge Vol. 3 - VA
The Bad Things - It'll All Be Over Soon
Beach-House - Devotion
Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
Big Dipper - Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology
The Blue Seeds - The Blue Seeds
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - My Bloody Underground
Bodies Of Water - A Certain Feeling
Bodies Of Water - Daytrotter Session
Bon Iver - Blood Bank EP
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Calexico - Carried To Dust
Cessna Slim's Auto Club - Cipher
Cheb I Sabbah - Devotion
Chicha Libre - ¡Sonido Amazonico!
Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
The Coral - Singles Collection
Creature - No Sleep At All
Dawn Chorus Ignites - Glimmer EP
Dead Leaf Echo - Pale Fire EP
The Delano Orchestra - A Little Girl...
Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams
The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded
The Dudley Corporation - Year of the Husband
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
Flaming Lips - Christmas On Mars
The Fuck-Buttons - Street-Horrrsing
Grampall Jookabox - Ropechain
Greg Laswell - Three Flights From Alto Nido
Hank III - Damn Right, Rebel Proud
I See Hawks In L.A. - Hallowed Ground
Jagat Skad - Collection 2008
Jamie Lidell - Jim
Kristin Hersh - Daytrotter Session
Kristin Hersh - Speedbath
Margot And The Nuclear So-And-So's - Animal!
Margot And The Nuclear So-And-So's - Not Animal
Mark Morriss - Memory Muscle
My Cell Phone is Better Than Your Cell Phone - There's No Internet On The High Seas
The Moondoggies - Don't Be A Stranger
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
The Nightwatchman - The Fabled City
One Day As A Lion - One Day As A Lion
The Organ - Thieves EP
Joan Osborne - Little Wild One
Ra Ra Riot - Daytrotter Session
Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line
[praw] + On Travel - The War Begins
On Travel - Yellow Paper
On Travel - There's No Internet On The High Seas
Parts And Labor - Escapers Two
Parts And Labor - Receivers
Phantom Planet - Daytrotter Session [Phantom Planet]
Phantom Planet - Raise The Dead
Sam Phillips - Don't Do Anything
Santogold - Santogold
Sera Cahoone - Only As The Day Is Long
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
Sons and Daughters - This Gift
Sr. Chinarro - Ronroneando
The Shadow Line - Fast Century
The Sleeping Years - We're Becoming Islands One By One
The Starlets - Out Into The Days From Here
She Swings, She Sways - Wasted Love Songs
Thomas Feiner & Anywhen - The Opiates
The Veronicas - Hook Me Up
31 Knots - Worried Well
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Yuki - Yuki EP 1

Other
Astreal - Fragments of the Same Dead Star (2006)
Absolute Body Control - Is There An Exit? (7" Single 1981)
Absolute Body Control - Wind[Re]Wind (2007)
Absolute Body Control - Figures (1983)
Boston - Don't Look Back (1978)
Boston - Third Stage (1986)
Boo Radleys - C'Mon Kids (1996)
Boo Radleys - Everything is sorrow (ep 1997)
Boo Radleys - Find the answer within pt. 1&2 (ep 1995)
Catherine Wheel - 30 Century Man (ep 1992)
I See Hawks In L.A. - California Country (2006)
Jonny Greenwood - Bodysong (2003)
Mates Of State - All Day (2004)
Mates Of State - Team Boo (2003)
Metric - Live At Metropolis (2007)
Moose - Baby It's Over! [EP] (1999)
The Pierces - Thirteen tales of love and revenge (2007)
Planet I'm Gone - Dreamtime Mapping
Radio Free Isaac - Vladek EP
Radio Free Isaac - Broken Hearts & Other Mortal Wounds (2003)
RJD2 - Dead Ringer (2002)
RJD2 - The Horror EP(2003)
RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke (2004)
RJD2 - The Third Hand (2007)
Sciflyer - Fair Weather Karma (2003)
The Sleeping Years - You And Me Against The World (2007)
Solar Powered People - Solar Powered People (2007)
Starflyer 59 - I Am the Portuguese Blues (2004)
Tender Souvenirs - Scars & Souvenirs (2007)

Episode 08 - Best of 2008 part 6

The Soundtrack Of My Life
Episode 08
2/24/09

Download the AAC file here. It contains album artwork and chapters for each song for your iPod or Zune player. Just make a playlist and drag the file in.

The aim of this podcast is to highlight my favorite music of 2008. (Well...sort of...I made 2 errors this time. Track 3 is from 2009 and Track 16 is from 2006. It was too late to re-cue the tracks so I left them in.)

01 - Portishead - The Rip
02 - Emiliana Torrini - Birds
03 - Loney, Dear - Distant Lights
04 - Ray Lamontagne - Gossip In The Grain
05 - Liz Durrett - Not Running
06 - Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
07 - Slow Club - Let's Fall Back in Love
08 - Tilly And The Wall - Pot Kettle Black
09 - Bromheads Jacket - Where
10 - The Black Keys - I Got Mine
11 - Be Your Own Pet - The Kelly Affair
12 - Queen Adreena - In Red (Live Astro Hall)
13 - Nine Inch Nails - 1,000,000
14 - Raconteurs - Salute Your Solution
15 - Klaus & Kinski - Nunca estás a la altura
16 - Headlights - Tv
17 - Piano Magic - Vacancies
18 - Bubblegum Lemonade - Tyler
19 - Cocoanut Groove - The End Of The Summer On Bookbinder Road
20 - MGMT - 4th Dimensional Transition
21 - Love Is All - Wishing Well
22 - Ida Maria - Morning Light
23 - One For The Team - Dress Up Party
24 - No Age - Sleeper Hold
25 - The Little Ones - Morning Tide
26 - The Bird And The Bee - You're A Cold
27 - Jolie Holland - Corrido Por Buddy
28 - Elvis Costello And The Imposters - Pardon Me Madam, My Name Is Eve
29 - Company Of Thieves - Mia's Ballad
30 - Joan As Police Woman - To America
31 - Girls In Hawaii - Sun Of The Sons
32 - Little Champions - Sea Of Frogs
33 - The Light Sleepers - The Family Lisp
34 - Okay - Blind
35 - Gus Black - I'm Fucked

Episode 07 - Shoegaze Part 02

I will be updating this post this week with my comments.
Download Episode 07 here

01- Ride - Like A Daydream (Smile 1990)
02- Secret Shine - Stars in the Sky (All Of The Stars 2008)
03- Swervedriver - Son Of Mustang Ford (Demo Version) (Original version on Raise 1991)
04- Mogwai - Glasgow Mega-Snake (Mr. Beast 2006)
05- Chapterhouse - Guilt (Whirlpool 1991)
06- Moscow Olympics - What Is Left Unsaid (Cut The World 2008)
07- The Raveonettes - The Best Dies (Lust Lust Lust 2008)
08- Cocteau Twins - Otterley (Treasure 1984)
09- Slaraffenland - How Far Would You Go (Private Cinema 2007)
10- Slowdive - Catch The Breeze (Just For A Day 1991)
11- Astrobrite - Kisspeach (Whitenoise Superstar 2007)
12- Kontakte - Sterile World (Soundtracks To Lost Road Movies 2008)
13- The Vera Violets - You Turn Me (The Last Kiss 2005)
14- Autolux - Plantlife (Future Perfect 2004)
15- Saloon - Have You Seen The Light (Lo-Fi Sounds, Hi-Fi Heart 2006)
16- Serena Maneesh - Drive Me Home The Lonely Nights (Fixxations 2003)
17- My Bloody Valentine - She Loves You No Less (Ecstasy & Wine 1989)
18- Yesan Damen - Perfect (or So It Seems) (The Never Beginning Story 2006)
19- Moose - Jack (Jack EP 1991)
20- Blonde Redhead - 23 (23 2007)
21- Film School - Lectric (Hideout 2007)
22- Pale Saints - Baby Maker (In Ribbons 1992)
23- Superdrag - Bloody Hell (The Fabulous 8-Track Sound Of Superdrag 1995)
24- The Boo Radleys - Tortoiseshell (Every Heaven EP 1991)
25- The Twilight Sad - Twenty Four Hours (Joy Divison Cover) (Killed My Parents & Hit the Road 2008)
26- The Rational Academy - White Bears Of Norway (Stranded: A Compilation of Brisbane Music 2007-2008)
27- Kaito - 3 A.M. (Band Red 2003)
28- M83 - Asterick (Before The Dawn 2005)

The best album of 2009??

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
The s/t debut on Slumberland Records (us) + Fortuna Pop (uk) will be released in Feb. 2009 on CD/LP/MP3.
A must buy!

Albums I didn't like this month - January

You have to rustle through a lot of garbage to find something good. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I'm starting this so I can remember what I didn't like this year. I tend to forget and listen to the same garbage sometimes.

Updated 1/28
2008
Marah - Angels Of Destruction
Ballady I Romanse - Ballady I Romanse
Bjork - Wanderlust EP
Black Nite Crash - Array
Crooked Fingers - Forfeit_Fortune
The Complainer And The Complainers - Power Joy Happiness Fame!
The Damned - So, Who's Paranoid?
Daniel Wylie - Car Guitar Star
Dear And The Headlights - Drunk Like Bible Times
Division Of Laura Lee - Violence Is Timeless
Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant
Golden Animals - Free Your Mind And Win A Pony
Goodnight, Sleep Well - The Recovery
Human Highway - Moody Motorcycle
I'm From Barcelona - Who killed Harry Houdini?
Jeremy Jay - A Place Where We Can Go
Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
Luga - Be May Day
Masshysteri - Var Del Av Stan
Mint - Hinterland
Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
Moxie - I.C.U. (EP)
Moxie - Broken Fantasy
Mr Copy - Minerva (EP)
Nodzzz - Nodzzz 12''
Old Time Radio - Just Because We Were Wrong
The Passionistas - The Passionistas 7`
Plug And Play - Electric Night EP
Plus-Minus - X's On Your Eyes
Russian Circles - Station
Sonofold - Change Is How You Feel
The Stills - Oceans Will Rise
Sufjan Stevens - Songs For Christmas Vol. 8
The Orchid Highway - The Orchid Highway
Vivian Girls - I Can't Stay 7''
Vivian Girls - Wild Eyes 7''
Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls
Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby - Wreckless Eric And Amy Rigby

2009
Telepathe - Dance Mother

Other
A Faulty Chromosome - As an Ex-Anorexic's Six Sicks Exit,...(????)
A Hundred Times Beloved - Antarctic Sunrise (2007)
Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde (2007)
Blind Mr. Jones - Eyes Wide EP (1992)
B Movie - Nowhere Girl EP (1982)
Cruyff In The Bedroom - Top Of The World (2005)
Curve - The Blindfold EP (1991)
Drop Nineteens - Delaware (1992)
Elvis Presley - Live in Dallas (12/28/76)
Friends Of Dean Martinez - Random harvest (2004)
Friends Of Dean Martinez - A Place in the Sun (2000)
Friends Of Dean Martinez - The Shadow of Your Smile (1995)
Friends Of Dean Martinez - Under The Waves (2003)
Friends Of Dean Martinez - Lost Horizon (2005)
Girls At Our Best - Peel Sessions (1981)
Jeremy Jay - Airwalker EP (2007)
Josef K - The Only Fun in Town (1981)
Mellonta Tauta - Sun Fell (1994)
Minor Threat - Complete Discography (1989)
Mint - Magnetism (2006)
Old Magic Pallas - Pull My Daisy (1995)
Rollerskate Skinny - Shoulder Voices (1993)
Rumskib - Rumskib (2007)
Russian Circles - Enter (2006)
Russian Circles - Russian Circles (2005)
Russian Circles - Upper Ninety (7 Inch) (2006)
Secret Shine - After Years (2003)
Secret Shine - Beyond Sea and Sky (2006)
Secret Shine - Wish Coming True (1994)
Tiger Lou - Is My Head Still On? (2004)
Various Artists - Bela - A Tribute To Bauhaus (1996)