Thursday, February 26, 2009

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)

Monday, February 23, 2009

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