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| From | "Hastie, John" <HASTIE_J@sunybroome.edu> |
| Subject | My Top 20 of 2008 |
| Date | Sun, 4 Jan 2009 11:32:22 -0500 |
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Happy New Year everyone!
As usual, too much music and too little time. But I managed to whittle
it down to the following items that I enjoyed throughout the year.
1. The Explorers Club - Freedom Wind (Dead Oceans)(I bought both CD
& Vinyl!)
2. Cliff Hillis - The Long Now (Tallboy) (great show in NYC!)
3. Pugwash - Eleven Modern Antiquities (1969)
4. IKE - Where to Begin (self released)
5. Sparks - Exotic Creatures of the Deep (Lil Beethoven)
6. Sloan - Parallel Play (Yep Roc)(on vinyl)
7. The Bridges - Limits of the Sky (Verve Forecast) (produced by
Matthew Sweet)
8. Greg Pope - Popmonster (Octoberville)
9. The Major Labels - Aquavia (self released)
10. The Break & Repair Method - Milk the Bee (Bluhammock)
11. Rick Springfield - Venus in Overdrive (New Door)
12. Kelly Jones - SheBANG! (Good Morning Monster)
13. The Crayons - What's Wrong with You (Near)(produced by the
Churchills)
14. Little Jackie - The Stoop (S Curve) (I love Imani Coppola!)
15. Nada Surf - Lucky (Barsuk)(on vinyl)
16. Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal (Back Porch)(on vinyl)
17. Luke Jackson - ...And Then Some (Popsicle)
18. Carrie Rodriguez - She Ain't Me (Back Porch)
19. She & Him - Volume One (Merge)(on vinyl)
20. Spiraling - Time Travel Made Easy (Dancing Pawn)
And just to make it interesting, I bought a bunch of vinyl this year, so
here's my top 15 VINYL (first five made the Top 20 above)
6. Mates of State - Re-arrange Us (Barsuk)
7. Duffy - Rockferry (Mercury)
8. TV on the Radio - Dear Science (DGC)
9. Shelby Lynne - Just a Little (Lost Highway)
10. Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead (Sub Pop)
11. Jim Boggia - Misadventures in Stereo (vinyl is
MONO!)(Bluhammock)
12. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Pershing (Polyvinyl)
13. Beach House - Devotion (Carpark)
14. Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree (Mute)
15. Rosebuds - Like Life (Merge)
And finally I wanted to add a top 5 EP just so I could mention Scott
Simons new EP (he used to be in The Argument and recorded one of my
favorite CDs of all time - Recess Serenade)
1. Scott Simons - The Start of Something (Rostrum)
2. Mike Previti - Lights (self released?)
3. Scot Sax - While She Was Working (self released)
4. Janelle Monae - Metropolis (Bad Boy)
5. Lykke Li - Little Bit (LL Recordings)
Looking forward to another year of too much music & not enough time!
Pop on!
John
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