Monday, November 30, 2009
Friday, November 27, 2009
$5 albums on Black Friday Amazon
Flight of the Conchords, The Decemberists, Andrew Bird, Built to Spill, Bon Iver, Volcano Choir, Ben Harper, Radiohead, Mike Doughty, John Vanderslice, Brendan Benson and Okkervil River
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Thursday, November 26, 2009
Song du Jour Nr. 008 (Thanksgiving Edition)
#1
Thank You Mario But Our Princess is in Another Castle
[download mp3]
by
The Mountain Goats & Kaki King
from
The Black Pear Tree [EP]
[2008]
#2
Thank You Lord, for Sending me the F Train
[download mp3]
by
Mike Doughty
from
Half Smofe: Live in Minneapolis
[2007]
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Best 100 Albums of the 2000s
So, don't bust my chops on this!
Every time I look at it, I move stuff around, and have decided that I just need to post it. So, this is a very generalized list. I am pretty solid on my top 5, but after that a bunch could probably be moved around quite a bit.
At the bottom, I have included other albums that I liked enough to keep in my music library over the last decade, but didn't make the top 100.
Enjoy.
1. Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism [2003]
2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes [2008]
3. Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs [2001]
4. Bright Eyes - Cassadaga [2007]
5. Band of Horses - Cease To Begin [2007]
6. The Decemberists - Picaresque [2005]
7. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days [2004]
8. The Format - Dog Problems [2006]
9. Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales [2002]
10. Rocky Votolato - Suicide Medicine [2003]
11. Sigur Ros - Meth suth i eyrum vith spilum end [2008]
12. Radiohead - In Rainbows [2007]
13. J. Tillman - Year In The Kingdom [2009]
14. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American [2001]
15. Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow [2002]
16. Grand Archives - Grand Archives [2008]
17. Minus the Bear - highly refined pirates [2002]
18. Josh Ritter - The Animal Years [2006]
19. The Player Piano - Player Piano / Satellite [2002]
20. The Postal Service - Give Up [2004]
21. Blue Scholar - Blue Scholars [2004]
22. Phantom Planet - The Guest [2002]
23. R.E.M. - Accelerate [2008]
24. Owen - At Home with Owen [2006]
25. Common Market - Tobacco Road [2008]
26. The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving [2000]
27. The Promise Ring - Wood/Water [2004]
28. Band of Horses - Everything all the Time [2006]
29. Death Cab For Cutie - The Photo Album [2001]
30. Dashboard Confessional - the swiss army romance [2000]
31. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise [2005]
32. Brendan Benson - The Alternative To Love [2005]
33. Death Cab For Cutie - Plans [2005]
34. Built to Spill - You In Reverse [2006]
35. J. Tillman - Minor Works [2008]
36. The New Amsterdams - Worse For The Wear [2004]
37. OneLineDrawing - The Volunteers [2004]
38. Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowards [2007]
39. Damien Jurado - Caught In The Trees [2008]
40. Dear and the Headlights - Drunk Like Bible Times [2008]
41. Saves The Day - Stay What You Are [2001]
42. Domo - Baby Mercury [2007]
43. Okkervil River - The Stage Names [2007]
44. Elliott Smith - Figure 8 [2000]
45. Owen - I Do Perceive [2004]
46. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife [2006]
47. J. Tillman - Vacilando Territory Blues [2009]
48. Jimmy Eat World - Futures [2004]
49. Sigur Ros - Takk . . . [2005]
50. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree [2005]
51. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief [2003]
52. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs [2008]
53. Joshua James - Build Me This [2009]
54. The Format - Interventions and Lullabies [2003]
55. Jose Gonzalez - In Our Nature [2007]
56. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix [2009]
57. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride [2008]
58. Lifesavas - spirit in stone [2003]
59. The National - Boxer [2007]
60. The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour [2007]
61. Pele - The Nudes [2000]
62. Hey Mercedes - Everynight Fire Works [2001]
63. Maritime - Heresy And The Hotel Choir [2007]
64. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning [2005]
65. Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice [2007]
66. Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs [2007]
67. Shark Speed - Sea Sick Music [2009]
68. Radiohead - Kid A [2000]
69. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Pershing [2008]
70. The Get Up Kids - On a Wire [2002]
71. Jeremy Enigk - World Waits [2006]
72. Kalai - Rebel Hands [2004]
73. The Gloria Record - A Lull In Traffic [EP] [2000]
74. Before Braille - Kill the Messenger, Keep the Message [2008]
75. Ashton Allen - Dewdrops [2005]
76. Radiohead - Amnesiac [2001]
77. Ben Kweller - Sha sha [2000]
78. The Go Reflex - Phosphate Antigen [EP] [2003]
79. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha [2007]
80. The Pale Pacific - Urgency [2005]
81. Ben Harper - Live From Mars Disc 1 &2 [2001]
82. Beck - Sea Change [2002]
83. The Long Winters - Putting The Days To Bed [2006]
84. Dashboard Confessional - The Places you have come to fear the most [2001]
85. Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels [2009]
86. John Vanderslice - Pixel Revolt [2005]
87. Rufus Wainwright - Want One [2003]
88. The Appleseed Cast - Peregrine [2006]
89. The Thrills - So Much For The City [2003]
90. TV on the Radio - Dear Science, [2008]
91. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend [2008]
92. Before Braille - the rumor [2002]
93. fun. - Aim and Ignite [2009]
94. Hudson River School - scenes from a leather recliner [2001]
95. Jimmy Eat World - Futures [2005]
96. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Take A Break [2003]
97. Mike Doughty - Rockity Roll [2003]
98. Black Eyed Peas - Bridging the Gap [2000]
99. Mr Kline + the Wizards of Time - This Album's Cursed [2005]
100. Sean Lennon - Friendly Fire [2006]
OTHER ALBUMS OF THE 2000s I LIKED
Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs [2005]
· Andrew Bird - Noble Beast [2009]
· Art for Starters - Drugs Made my Favorite Bands / Drugs Ruined my Favorite People [2009]
· Ben Folds - Supersunnyspeedgraphic, The LP [2006]
· Ben Folds - Way To Normal [2008]
· Ben Kweller - Ben Kweller [2006]
· Ben Kweller - Freak Out, It's . . . Ben Kweller [2000]
· Blackalicious - Nia [2000]
· Blackalicious - The Craft [2005]
· Blackpool Lights - This Town's Disaster [2006]
· Blue Scholars - Bayani [2007]
· Brendan Benson - My Old, Familiar Friend [2009]
· Bright Eyes - Fevers And Mirrors [2000]
· Bright Eyes - Lifted, or the Story is in the Soil... [2002]
· Built to Spill - Ancient Melodies of the Future [2001]
· Chris Walla - Field Manual [2008]
· Classic Case - Dress To Depress [2005]
· Coconut Records - Nighttiming [2007]
· Coconut Records - Davy [2009]
· Coldplay - a Rush Of Blood To The Head [2002]
· Coldplay - Parachutes [2000]
· Coldplay - Viva la Vida [2008]
· Coldplay - X&Y [2005]
· Collections Of Colonies Of Bees - Birds [2007]
· Common Market - Common Market [2006]
· Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst [2008]
· Counterfit - Super Amusement Machine for Your Exciting Heart [2002]
· Damien Jurado - And Now That I'm in Your Shadow [2006]
· Damien Jurado - I Break Chairs [2002]
· Damien Jurado - On My Way To Absence [2005]
· David Bazan - Curse Your Branches [2009]
· Dear and the Headlights - Small Steps, Heavy Hooves [2007]
· Deer Tick - Born On Flag Day [2009]
· Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer? [2005]
· Dent May - The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele - [2009]
· Desaparecidos - Read Music Speak Spanish [2002]
· Domo - Sweet Creepy [2006]
· Down to Earth Approach - Another Intervention [2004]
· Drew Danburry - This Could Mean Trouble, You Don't Speak for the Club [2008]
· Easy Star All-Stars - Radiodread [2006]
· fifteen minutes fast - remedial math rock [2003]
· Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots [2002]
· Fruit Bats - Spelled In Bones [2005]
· G. Love - G. Love's Lemonade [2006]
· Gabriel Teodros - Lovework [2007]
· Galactic - From the Corner to the Block [2007]
· Gary Jules - Gary Jules [2006]
· General Elektriks - Cliquety Kliqk [2005]
· Good Charlotte - Good Charlotte [2000]
· Gratitude - Gratitude [2005]
· Great Lake Swimmers - Ongiara [2007]
· Guster - Keep It Together [2003]
· Honeycut - The Day I Turned to Glass [2006]
· Hotel Lights - Firecracker People [2008]
· Hudson River School - Rise & Fall [2008]
· Iain Archer - Magnetic North [2006]
· Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle [2003]
· Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog [2007]
· Jack Johnson - On and On [2003]
· Josh Ritter - Hello Starling [2003]
· Joshua James - The Sun Is Always Brighter [2008]
· Jurassic 5 - Quality Control [2000]
· Kaki King - Legs to Make Us Longer [2004]
· Kalai - acousticum [2001]
· Kalai - six strings and the rainy day man [2002]
· Keane - Hopes And Fears [2004]
· Lateef & the Chief - Maroons: Ambush [2004]
· Less Than Jake - Anthem [2003]
· Less Than Jake - Borders and Boundaries [2000]
· Lifesavas - Gutterfly: The Original Soundtrack [2007]
· Lyrics Born - Later that Day [2003]
· Lyrics Born - Same !@#$ Different Day [2005]
· Maritime - Glass Floor [2004]
· Maritime - We, the Vehicles [2006]
· Mark Kozelek - If You Want Blood [2000]
· Maroon 5 - Songs about Jane [2002]
· Matt Pond PA - Several Arrows Later [2005]
· Matt Pryor - Confidence Man [2008]
· Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic [2005]
· Mike Doughty - Sad Man Happy Man [2009]
· Minus the Bear - Menos El Oso [2005]
· Mogwai - Mr Beast [2006]
· Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins [2008]
· Onelinedrawing - Visitor [2002]
· Owen - New Leaves [2009]
· Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd. [2008]
· Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit [2000]
· Pele - Elephant [2003]
· Pele - Enemies [2002]
· Peter Bjorn & John - Writer's Block [2006]
· Pigeon John - And The Summertime Pool Party [2006]
· Pinback - Summer In Abaddon [2004]
· Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line [2008]
· Rajiv Patel - Obey The Cattle [2003]
· Ratatat - Ratatat [2004]
· Reel Big Fish - Cheer Up [2002]
· Reggie & The Full Effect - Greatest Hit's '84-'87 (Lord Of The Bling Trilogy) [2004]
· Reggie & The Full Effect - Songs Not To Get Married To [2005]
· Reggie & The Full Effect - Under The Tray [2003]
· Reubens Accomplice - the Bull, the Balloon, and the Family [2004]
· Rocky Votolato - Burning My Travels Clean [2002]
· Rogue Wave - Out of the Shadow [2004]
· Saul Williams - Amethyst Rock Star [2001]
· Saves The Day - In Reverie [2003]
· Say Hi - Oohs And Aahs [2009]
· Shearwater The Dissolving Room [2001]
· Shearwater Winged Life [2004]
· Shearwater Palo Santo [2006]
· Shearwater Rook [2008]
· Sigur Ros - ( ) [2002]
· Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga [2007]
· Spoon - Gimme Fiction [2005]
· Strange Fruit Project - The Healing [2006]
· Straylight Run - Straylight Run [2004]
· Sun Kil Moon - April [2008]
· Talib Kweli - Quality [2004]
· Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance [2001]
· The All-American Rejects - All-American Rejects [2002]
· The Anniversary - Designing a Nervous Breakdown [2000]
· The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis [2000]
· The Appleseed Cast - Sagarmatha [2009]
· The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible [2007]
· The Ataris - End is forever [2001]
· The Casket Lottery - Survival Is For Cowards [2002]
· The City On Film - In Formal Introduction [2006]
· The Dodos - Visiter [2008]
· The Fire Theft - The Fire Theft [2003]
· The Get Up Kids - Guilt Show [2004]
· The Gift of Gab - Escape 2 Mars [2009]
· The Gift of Gab - Fourth Dimensional Rocketships [2003]
· The Gift of Gab - Supreme Lyricism Vol. 1 [2006]
· The Gloria Record - Start Here [2002]
· The Letterpress - input / output [2004]
· The Living End - Roll On [2000]
· The Mighty Underdogs - Droppin' Science Fiction [2008]
· The Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed [2004]
· The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely [2006]
· The Mountain Goats - Tallahasse [2002]
· The Mountain Goats - the Life of the World to Come [2009]
· The New Amsterdams - Killed Or Cured [2005]
· The One Up Downstairs - The One Up Downstairs [2002]
· The Pale Pacific - gravity gets things done [2000]
· The Suicide Machines - The Suicide Machines [2000]
· The Thrills - Let's Bottle Bohemia [2004]
· The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site [2003]
· The Wooden Birds - Magnolia [2009]
· Thom Yorke - The Eraser [2006]
· Very Secretary - Standing In The Shade [2000]
· Volcano Choir - Unmap [2009]
· Waxwing - One For the Ride [2002]
· Zookeeper - Becoming All Things [2007]