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Best of 2009 lists!
*******Cooper **********
(no, the stereo is not broken; the record is suppose to sound like this.)
Nels Cline “Coward” (Cryptogramophone)
PJ Harvey/John Parish “A Woman A Man Walked By” (Island)
Polvo “In Prism” (Merge)
Nisennenmondai “Destination Tokyo”
(Smalltown Supersound)
Bygones “By” (Sargent House)
Jim O’Rourke “I’m Happy And I’m Singing And A 1, 2, 3, 4” Editions
Mego (reissue)
Sir Richard Bishop “The Freak of Araby” (Drag City)
Final “Reading All The Right Signals Wrong” (No Quarter)
Volcano Choir “Unmap” (Jagjaguwar)
Evan Parker & Ingebrigt Haker Flaten “The Brewery Tap”
(Smalltown Superjazz)
[Recommended Listening...]
Nels Cline + G.E. Stinson “Elevating Device”
(Sounds Are Active)
The Thing “Bag It!” (Smalltown Superjazz)
The Frame Quartet “35mm” (Okka Disk)
Jim O’Rourke & Loren Connors “Two Nice Catholic Boys”
(Family Vineyard)
Secret Chiefs 3 “Traditionalists: Le Mani Destre Recise Degli Ultimi
********Kim ***************
(in no particular order)
Los Angeles Nuggets “Where The Action Is! 1965-1968”
Boston Spaceships “Zero to 99”
Arctic Monkeys “Humbug”
Reigning Sound “Love & Curses”
The Midwest Beat “At The Gates”
Paper Cuts “You Can Have What You Want”
The Spits “Self titled fourth album”
White Denim “Fits”
Built to Spill “There Is No Enemy”
Dinosaur Jr. “Farm”
Vieux Farka Toure “Fondo”
Bawku West Collective Vol. 1
Death “For The Whole World To See”
Antiprism “Antiprism”
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez “Old Money”
Yo La Tengo “Popular Songs”
{other hightlights}
Dinosaur Jr. at the Majestic
Steely Dan at the Riverside Theater
re-dicovering Ian Hunter’s discography, Hugh Masekela
& Amon Duul
******Monya (the calculator ninja) ********
1. Volcano Choir: Unmap (Jagjaguwar)
2. Big Star: Keep an Eye on the Sky (Rhino)
3. Them Crooked Vultures: Them Crooked Vultures (DGC)
4. The Flaming Lips: Embryonic (Warner Brothers)
5. M. Ward: Hold Time (Merge)
6. El Valiente: Daceton (Self Published)
7. Built to Spill: There Is No Enemy (Warner Brothers)
8. Neko Case: Middle Cyclone (Anti-)
9. The Vaselines: Enter the Vaselines (Sub Pop)
********Dave Zero (of space sector 2814) *********
(in no particular order)
Reigning Sound “Love and Curses”
Pains of Being Pure at Heart “self titled”
Cheap Trick “The Latest”
Viex Farka Toure “Fondo”
The Spits “Self titled fourth album”
Son Volt “American Central Dust”
Something Fierce “There Is No Answer”
Death “…For the Whole World To See”
The Pretty Things “Philippe DeBarge”
Big Star “Keep An Eye On The Sky” (box)
Zero Boys “History of…”
The Thermals “Now We Can See”
Vetiver “Tight Knit”
Honorable Mentions:
Dinosaur Jr. “Farm”
Califone “All My Friends are funeral Singers”
Patterson Hood “ Murdering Oscar”
Zola Jesus “The Spoils”
Papercuts “You can Have What You Want”
*********Hank (as seen in the MadCity Music Commercial Extravaganza!)
10. Dream Death Pittsburgh Sludge Metal LIVE 1986
9. Reigning Sound Love & Curses
8. Deicide Till Death Due Us Part
7. Death For All The World To See
6. [live music] *Butthole Surfers LIVE @ The Barrymore
5. Flipper Generic (Gone Fishin’ re-issues…suffer with them all over again)
4. (Dio era) Black Sabbath Mob Rules and Heaven & Hell (not 2009). Sheer Awesomeness. Defies Time.
3. Shrinebuilder s/t
2. [live music] *Maryland Deathfest 3-days of heaven in hell
1. LEAFBLOWER 16 yr. old Doom Metalers from Mt. Carol, Illinois who named their band after the bassist’s lawncare job. Video is of first show at local church talent event.
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