2009

What I listened to most in 2009.
Not a best of 2009 as many are not even from this decade.

An insane amount:
01- *Traveling Wilburys - Vol. 1
02- Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns [2008, re-released 2009] $
03- *The Beatles - Yellow Submarine

Still an insane amount, but does not even compare to the above:
04- Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
05- *Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank [*]
06- *Jeremy Fisher - Back Porch Spirituals [2001, but released in the US 2009] $
07- Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On the Run

After #7, the race is really tight...
08- Against Me! - New Wave
09- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell [*] $
10- Matt Costa - Unfamiliar Faces
11- K'naan - The Dusty Foot Philosopher [*] $
12- White Stripes - De Stijl
13- Elliot BROOD - Mountain Meadows [2009] $
14- Woodhands - Heart Attack [2009] $$
15- Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike
16- Luke Doucet & the White Falcon - Blood's Too Rich $
17- Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique [1989, remastered 2009]
18- Jurassic 5 - Power in Numbers
19- The Stills - Oceans Will Rise $$
20- Japandroids - Post-Nothing [2009] $
21- Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
22- Janis Joplin - Pearl
23- Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
24- Sam Roberts - We Were Born in a Flame $
25- The Avalanches - Since I Left You
26- Patti Smith - Horses
27- Hey Rosetta! - Into Your Lungs $
28- Pheonix - Wolfgang Amadeus Pheonix [2009]
And because I wrote an essay on this album and it got me through another:
2009- Nevermind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols



2009 was a good year for concerts, but 2008 had a ridiculous amount of great releases.



Legend of the Symbols:
*- Traveling Wilburys-Vol. 3, The Beatles-Help!, Modest Mouse-Good News For People Who Love Bad News, Jeremy Fisher-Goodbye Blue Monday would all rank almost equally high, but were left off the list to avoid repetition. Many of the lower ranks are the same.
[*]- Released an album in 2009 that I listened to almost as much
$- Saw them live in 2009

December 29 2009

Quick, last minute..

K'naan - Troubadour (2009)
"ABC's"
"Fatima"
"Wavin' Flag"
"Take a Minute"

Song for new years:
"Auld Lang Syne" is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard, but I have yet to find a satisfying recorded version. I did however find a version that is apparently Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra.

Link of video I watched recently
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZR12iqua-I

December 22 2009

I almost forgot!

Plants and Animals - Parc Avenue [2008]
2008 was a good year..
" Bye Bye Bye"
" Mercy"
" Feeback In the Field"

Broken Bells "The High Road"

Some xmas songs..
http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=10&title=title_355&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Don't know if you watched this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOS6Jf5q9PI

new!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEI8Xb2oA3Y

December 15 2009

Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight (2008)
ONCE AGAIN, I have already told you my top track (Keep Yourself Warm)soooo...
3 songs:
Modern Leper
Old Old Fashioned
Poke

3 other songs:
Jim Noir - My Patch
PJ Harvey and Thom Yorke - This Mess We're In (loved this back in highschool!)
Jon McKiel - Fist Fight http://www.myspace.com/jonmckiel (from Halifax, opened for Hey Rosetta!)

3 videos
(speaking of) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYJiT_F2B4c I recommend checking out some of their other videos. "The Year You Were Born" has a robot!

Some old Luke Doucet www.youtube.com/watch?v=o00LmKKSFQo
and check this one out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbH6YAiwjXA

Home in just over 3 days and just over 3 hours of flying!

blog

Usually, I can get on board with good advertising or the genius behind an idea.. but something about American Apparel's blatant use of sex gets on my nerves. I found this one in a bus shack in front of a middle school. Smart I guess.. gotta catch them young, but come on. It didn't take long for that graffiti to show up.

December 8 2009

Q-Tip - The Renaissance 2008
#1 Won't Trade, but I already made you listen to that one
- Official
- Johnny is Dead
- Life is Better (ft Norah Jones)

Two songs because of the "Won't Trade" overlap
- Cannonball Adderley - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
- Dan Mangan - Robots

One music video:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=60110306

One old, Christmassy ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzyWVkOSQqg
Which brings me to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiCle1Vk4Sg
It seems so long ago...

December 1 2009

I'm finally seeing them this month!

Hey Rosetta! Into Your Lungs 2008
1 - Red Heart (obviously.. how could I choose another?)
Runners-up: "I've Been Asleep for a Long, Long Time" and "There's an Arc"

Kasabian - Where Did All the Love Go?

He's coming to Rumours.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAKEZbrnO4w

November 24 2009

Sticking with bands I saw this fall...
The Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain - 2007
1 Flood Pt. 1
2 Antenna
3 Low Gravity

Frightened Rabbit - Keep Yourself Warm

Not sure how I got to watching these, but
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9noeBD5m4c
And Simon Pegg is awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP6JGK9vxpU

November 17 2009

Because they were so good live last Friday night!!

Elliott BROOD - Mountain Meadows 2008
Write It All Down for You
Miss You Now
Without Again

Bonus song:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSVCNJr3rnU <3

Bonus video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWmd63SJgOA jk

Actual bonus video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LdoB9qivMc ok wait... I guess that is also a song

SO VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypMl2RFTC9Y

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

First Day

Maybe one day this will become an actual blog. For now, this is as good as it gets.

November 10 2009

Ahh it's already Tuesday!

Immaculate Machine - High On Jackson Hill - 2009
1. Only Love You For Your Car (but I already told you to listen to that
1. Sound the Alarms
2. Thank Me Later
3. He's a Biter

Song: Q-Tip - Won't Trade
Video: Beastie Boys - The Rat Cage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKQTEXWWtdQ

November 3 2009

Something different this week

Music that will make you feel like a baller!

Jurassic 5. Album: Power In Numbers and the song Concrete and Clay!!
Beastie Boys. Album: To the 5 Bouroughs (solid rhymes start to finish)
k-os. Album: Exit
The Coup. Album: Pick a Bigger Weapong (frightening and intense)
anything by Balkan Beat Box. Just trust me.

and obviously the Training Day soundtrack

song: Public Enemy - Sophisticated Bitch. Cause that's what you'll be.

enough of these beats and you'll be walkin like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H-5OM1GJSY

October 27 2009

Ohhhh it's Tuesday so as for the catchy tunes..

Arkells - Jackson Square (2008)
No Champagne Socialist
Ballad of Hugo Chavez
Abigail

Caribou - Hello Hammerheads
so good

October 20 2009

To help you ring in Tuesday with some hip hip songs..

Modest Mouse - No One's First and You're Next [ep] (2009)
Guilty Cocker Spaniels
Satelite Skin
I've Got It All (Most) ... this on'es weird cause it's like they just took everything that is classic Modest Mouse and threw it in a fishbowl. Then the water evaporated leaving the minerals behind which over time and glue (or something. I don't think I did good on that question) made a chemical sedimentary rock aka the song

and in honour of the world obsessing over Karen O
Song: N.A.S.A. - Strange Enough (album: the Spirit of Apollo)
and a video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGDakOBeP_o


Response: so i agree with satelite skin and i've got it all (most), but my favourite song is history sticks to your feet. and king rat.


Re-do:
Awesome, here's some cancon!
Japandroids: Post-Nothing (2009)
Sovereighnty
Heart Sweats
Crazy/Forever

October 13 2009

Week II
Horses by Patti Smith (1975)
Tidbit of info: produced by John Cale
1. Free Money
2. Gloria
3. Land

Some extra awesomeness: "Only Love You For Your Car" - Immaculate Machine


and when we talked I mentioned "Dominos" by The Big Pink

October 6 2009

so album of the week:
K'Naan's The Dusty Foot Philosopher (2005)
#1: "The Dusty Foot Philosopher"
Runners up: "If Rap Gets Jealous" and "In the Beginning"

Bonusness: "Animal Party" by King Kahn and BBQ Party