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January 12th, 2012 at 11:08AM

My Top 99 Albums of the 2000s + “69 Love Songs”

This is a list I made on Jan 1, 2010 on Facebook. Putting it here for archiving purposes.

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Yeah, I know you didn’t ask. Here it is anyways.

My Top 99 Albums of the Decade + “69 Love Songs.”
Albums are in alphabetical order by artist.
Albums in bold are either a Top 20 album for me or The Magnetic Fields’ “69 Love Songs.” :)

And thanks to this guy, whoever he is, for saving me a lot of typing: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts03.php?page=2

#Animal Collective #Arcade Fire #Bjork #Bloc Party #Gustavo Cerati #Music #Panda Bear #Phoenix #Radiohead #Sahara Hotnights #Spoon #The Hives #The Hold Steady #The Magnetic Fields #The Strokes #The White Stripes #Year End List #my post

January 7th, 2012 at 1:14PM

2010 - My Favorite Albums

This is a list I made in 2010. Putting it here for archiving purposes. It’s fun to look back at these things.

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To my ears this was the best year in music since 1991. That’s a year that saw the releases of Achtung Baby, Nevermind, Loveless, Out of Time, Ten, Trompe le Monde, Laughing Stock, and Metallica’s Black Album. My favorite album of 2010 changed 3 times through year in this sequence: High Violet -> The Suburbs -> My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Basically in the order they were released. It was a year that was so packed with goodness that two of my favorite bands ever (The Magnetic Fields and The Hold Steady) released OK albums that stacked against the releases in the list below sound like serious disappointments. Spoon’s ridiculous streak of quality continued with an amazing album that nonetheless is “only” #4 on my list. That’s how good this year was to me. If anybody tells you music sucks nowadays it’s because they aren’t paying attention.

January 5th, 2012 at 8:34PM

2011 - My Favorite Albums

Goodbye 2011! So, 2011 wasn’t as obviously great as 2010. But it was still an amazing music year. For the first time since 2007 I have an honest-to-goodness tie for my #1 spot. And even then, looking back at it, I’d now give an edge to Spoon’s “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga” over Arcade Fire’s “Neon Bible” in 2007.

Anyways, this year was very much a retro year. With a couple of notable exceptions everyone was looking back. Sloan (60s, 70s), M83 (80s), Cut Copy (80s), Washed Out (80s), Handsome Furs (80s), Wye Oak (90s), Adele (60s, 70s), Lady Gaga (1984), Destroyer (1984 - 3am - neon-lit steamy alleyway). Not sure why that happened but there you have it. Without further ado, my list:

2011 - My Favorite Albums

01 (tie). M83 - Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

01 (tie). Sloan - The Double Cross

03. Atlas Sound - Parallax

04. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo

05. Destroyer - Kaputt

06. Battles - Gloss Drop

07. Handsome Furs - Sound Kapital

08. tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l

09. Bon Iver - Bon Iver

10. The Drums - Portamento

11. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes

12. Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams

13. Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation

14. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy

15. Cut Copy - Zonoscope

Honorable mentions (no particular order):

Washed Out - Within and Without

Adele - 21

Lady Gaga - Born This Way (cut the 5 weakest songs and it makes my top list)

Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne

Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost

Panda Bear - Tomboy

Beirut - The Rip Tide

Beyonce - 4

Childish Gambino - Camp

Feist - Metals

Wye Oak - Civilian

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong

Very good albums by established music giants that nevertheless didn’t make my top albums list:

Bjork - Biophilia

Radiohead - The King of Limbs

TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light

Pleasant surprises from established artists:

Paul Simon - So Beautiful or So What

The Bangles - Sweetheart of the Sun

Awesome compilations:

Sloan - Select Singles 1992-2011 (for free!)

Stephin Merrit - Obscurities