jamie on December 15th, 2006
Okay, busy Friday for me here- we're moving offices today, so I'm working from the floor in what used to be my office, on the one remaining machine on the interwebs. I'll try to get around to adding a bit more description here (when I get home from tonight's show - PassrBy's CD release party @ The 585- sometime around 3 am), and forget about a cover image…just deal with tracks 35 through 21 of my Top 50 of 2006…k?
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Tracklist:
21 - Morning Runner - Burning Benches
22 - Rhymefest - Bullet (ft Citizen Cope)
23 - Jamie Lidell - Multiply
24 - We Are Scientists - Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt
25 - DJ Shadow - This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way)
26 - Damien Rice - 9 Crimes
27 - Ben Kweller - Penny On The Train Tra
28 - Just Jack - Writer's Block
29 - Paolo Nutini - Last Request
30 - The Duhks - Three Fishers
31 - James Morrison - Under The Influence
32 - Mark Ronson - Just
33 - Commuter - Chapters
34 - Orson - No Tomorrow
35 - David Gray - Smile Like You Mean It
jamie on December 14th, 2006
(via Stereogum) Another end-of-year/best-of list. This one's from the folks at Rolling Stone, and lists their top albums of the year. One surprise is the recently-released Fishscale from Ghostface Killah coming in at #5. Anwyays, here's the RS list:
50. It's Never Been Like That - Phoenix
49. Pick A Bigger Weapon - The Coup
48. Public Warning - Lady Sovereign
47. Brightblack Morning Light - Brightback Morning Light
46. You Don't Know Me: The Songs Of Cindy Waker - Willie Nelson
45. Fox Confessor Brings The Flood - Neko Case
44. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
43. Tropicalia: A Brazilian Revolution In Sound - Various Artists
42. Under The Skin - Lindsey Buckingham
41. Friendly Fire - Sean Lennon
40. Make History - Thunderbirds Are Now!
39. The Tragic Treasury - The Gothic Archies
38. 10,000 Days - Tool
37. Alive And Kickin' - Fats Domino
36. I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass - Yo La Tengo
35. Once Again - John Legend
34. The Eraser - Thom Yorke
33. The Devil You Know - Todd Snider
32. Supernature - Goldfrapp
31. Like Father, Like Son - Birdman And Lil Wayne
30. Robbers & Cowards - Cold War Kids
29. We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions - Bruce Springsteen
28. Broken Boy Soldiers - The Raconteurs
27. Pieces Of The People We Love - The Rapture
26. FutureSex/LoveSounds - Justin Timberlake
25. Blue Collar - Rhymefest
24. The Information - Beck
23. The Crane Wife - The Decemberists
22. Night Ripper - Girl Talk
21. Begin To Hope - Regina Spektor
20. The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
19. Taking The Long Way - Dixie Chicks
18. Game Theory - The Roots
17. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys
16. Food & Liquor - Lupe Fiasco
15. Wolfmother - Wolfmother
14. American V: A Hundred Highways - Johnny Cash
13. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
12. One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This - The New York Dolls
11. Continuum - John Mayer
10. Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers And Bastards - Tom Waits
09. Blood Mountain - Mastodon
08. Boys And Girls In America - The Hold Steady
07. Hell Hath No Fury - Clipse
06. The Greatest - Cat Power
05. Fishscale - Ghostface Killah
04. Return To Cookie Mountain - TV On The Radio
03. Rather Ripped - Sonic Youth
02. Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers
01. Modern Times - Bob Dylan
jamie on December 13th, 2006
iTunes released it's list of top downloads for 2006 this week. No big surprises on it, considering the general public's usual poor taste in music.
Albums:
1 The Fray - How To Save A Life
2 John Mayer - Continuum
3 Jack Johnson and Friends - Sing-a-Long
4 James Blunt - Back To Bedlam
5 Justin Timberlake - FutureSound
6 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Staium Arcadium
7 Dixie Chicks - Taking The Long Way Home
8 Various/OST - High School Musical
9 Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can't
10 Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
11 Rascal Flatts - Me And
12 The Killers - Sam's Town
13 Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
14 KT Tunstall - Eye To The Telescope
15 Evanescence - The Open Door
Singles:
1 Daniel Powter - Bad Day
2 Nellie Furtado - Promiscuous
3 James Blunt - You're Beautiful
4 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
5 Sean Paul - Temperature
6 Justin Timberlake - SexyBack
7 The Fray - Over My Head (Cable Car)
8 Shakira - Hips Don't Lie
9 Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
10 Chamillionaire - Ridin'
11 RHCP - Dani California
12 Fergie - London Bridge
13 The All-American Rejects - Move Along
14 Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
15 The Pussycat Dolls - Buttons
The UK version of the iTunes list are more to the SquirrelFood liking. Seems Brits have slightly better taste in singles, but the album selections are hella better.
Albums:
1. Eyes Open - Snow Patrol
2. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys
3. Inside In Inside Out - The Kooks
4. Undiscovered - James Morrison
5. Razorlight - Razorlight
6. In Between Dreams - Jack Johnson
7. Sam's Town - The Killers
8. Ta-Dah - Scissor Sisters
9. Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae
10. Twelve Stops and Home - The Feeling
Singles:
1. Crazy (Single Version) - Gnarls Barkley
2. I Don't Feel Like Dancin' - Scissor Sisters
3. Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
4. No Tomorrow - Orson
5. Maneater - Nelly Furtado
6. Hips Don't Lie - Shakira
7. Sexy Back - Justin Timberlake
8. Naive - The Kooks
9. America - Razorlight
10. Put Your Records On - Corinne Bailey Rae
jamie on December 8th, 2006
Last week, I took a look back at my picks for the best tracks of 2005, minus James Blunt- who got a whole lotta those Grammy noms this week- leave it to the Grammy awards to be so far behind. Anyway, this week's mixtape kicks off my Best of 2006 list. Counting backwards from 50, I'll post 15 this Friday, 15 next week, and the top 20 the week following. A couple notes about the list:
- Only songs posted in a Friday Mixtape were eligible - there are some really great tracks that for one reason or another didn't get posted in a mixtape.
- To make a much room as possible on the lsit or additional artists, I've tried to list each artist only once, ranked by their highest scoring track. The list started at a few hundred tracks, with many artists adding more than one track to the list.
- I change my mind all the time- so by next week, the order of this list would have changed. It's just the way I am- some days I like a song more than others.
Right, let's take a look at the first 15 tracks:
36 - Apathy (Bloc Party sample) - Banquet Remix
37 - Kasabian - Empire
38 - Guillemots - Made Up Love Song #43
39 - Phoenix - Long Distance Call
40 - Band Of Horses - The Funeral
41 - Larrikin Love - Happy As Annie
42 - Smoosh - Find A Way
43 - Razorlight - America
44 - Primal Scream - Country Girls
45 - Matt The Electrician - My Dog
46 - Matt Wertz - Carolina
47 - Jose Gonzales - Teardrop (Massive Attack cover)
48 - Umbrellas - The City Lights
49 - Gomez - How We Operate
50 - Donavon Frankenreiter - Lovely Day
DJ Green Lantern, Mike Shinoda, and Apathy came together to remix Bloc Party's Banquet, which gets a bit cheesy- but the beats are great, and "I pistol whip Tony and fuck Meadows Soprano always just made me laugh. Smoosh really impressed me with their second album this year, Free To Stay. For barely teen-aged musicians, it's an amazing album. Also, I've known of Matt The Electrician for a couple years now, but never really got into any of his songs- until a friend pointed me to his myspace page to listen to My Dog, and I've really grown to like the song since. It's got a great narrative, and a bit of social commentary to it as well. The Jose Gonzalez cover of Massive Attack's Teardrop (know to 90% of the world as "the House MD theme") got a lot of spins on my ipod this year- it just kept creeping into mixes here and there. Anyways, those were just a few thoughts on the tracks at the bottom of the top 50 this year. Take a listen for yourself, and come back next friday for the next set!
Squirrelfood.net Best of 2006 [50-35] (one weekend only)
About the image: in keeping with the "Best of 2006" theme, I picked a photo of my beloved Chelsea footballers claiming the Premiership trophy this year…looking forward to seeing this scene again next year!
jamie on December 8th, 2006
Sia, whose Breathe Me made tracks this year is working on a new album- and a preview of this track is available online for a limited time from PopJustice.com.
Sia - Little Black Sandals
