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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