We had a bit more year-end stuff planned for you, but our department was recently cut from seven to five, and take a wild guess who got to pick up the slack? So here are our year-end reviews, in review: Patrick’s Top Ten Album Covers of 2009 Patrick’s Most Anticipated Albums for 2010 Patrick’s Top [...]
Just Like Riding A Bike
This post is a bit off the reservation but not completely. Danny MacAskill is a Scottish born stunt cyclist that recently caught the attention of the NY Times. So why has a stunt cyclist caught my eye aside from the amazing skill that he so effortlessly possess? The sound track to the video just happens [...]
Artist of the decade, 2000-2009
She doesn’t remember it this way, but I do. This would have been late 2004 or early 2005. I was delirious with fever and half-sleeping, half-listening to her sing our infant son to bed. Those were the days she sang him Rufus Wainwright, and I don’t care what the man produces from here on out. [...]
The Flaming Liposuction goes Pink
Yeah, that’s pretty horrifying post title. But every time I type “The Flaming Lips” it comes out “The Flaming Lipos.” (See? I just did it again.) And did you ever see their video to “Watching the Planets?” And just what did you think the band name meant, anyway? Bygones. The reason for the call: Rhapsody [...]
Bombadil
Bombadil is a Durham North Carolina band that met while studying in Bolivia. The sound and recording style is retro in a way but not retro in a 70′s sense but retro in a 40′s or 50′s sense. The music is upbeat and inviting and that’s just what I’ve heard from the few songs that [...]
“we really wanted to put dre’s 2001 on here but realised it came out in 1999. in 2019 people will want to put this on these lists but will realise it came out in 2009. i think i just compared this to 2001. that’s fine, i’m sticking with it.”
Over at Ragged Words, We Were Promised Jetpacks list their top ten albums of the decade. Go read. Some WWPJ here:
The more things change,…
Someone teleported through time from the early 1950s to 2009 would find a music business curiously similar to the landscape of 60 years ago. Few specialty record outlets. Department stores dominating the market. A singles-driven industry. Pop music dominating radio. TV musical talent shows all the rage. That’s from Tyler Cowen. Read more here.
Top Singles of 2009
One of the many things that I did poorly this year was keep track of my favorite tracks as the year progressed even though I knew that this list was looming in the future. Over the past few weeks I have racked my brain trying to remember that one particular track that I heard from [...]
“A subject only a movie music reviewer can care about.”
Great post, and great point about year-end “bottom ten” lists, from our favorite battery type (that’s AA, you fiends; get your minds out of the gutter): Come on, if a movie was that bad, any lay person would have avoided it. It’s nothing we’re longing to erase from our memories. We figured out not to [...]
Top Ten LPs of 2009
by Fred. Damn! what a year. We lost Michael Jackson and we gained Girls. The Decemberists put out an LP almost as good as Picaresque, but what with the stiff competition you won’t find it on top 50 lists anywhere. Similarly, considering the new relative logic of the last twelve months, Muse and Mars Volta [...]
