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beltmann
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 Posted: 12.09.2005 3:48 am Post subject: Music of 2005 |
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It's that time of year.
Once again I qualify my list by conceding that I don't keep up enough with new music to know what the year's "best" are. These are merely the records I bought and played the most in 2005:
Favorites of 2005
1. Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
2. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
3. White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
4. Magic Numbers - Magic Numbers
5. My Morning Jacket - Z
6. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals ? Cold Roses
7. Son Volt - Okemah and the Melody of Riot
8. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Enjoyed With Reservation
9. Riviera - At the End of the American Century
10. Decemberists - Picaresque
11. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
12. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
13. New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
14. Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth
15. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
16. Beck - Guero
17. Aimee Mann - The Forgotten Arm
18. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Jacksonville City Nights
19. Bruce Springsteen - Devils & Dust
20. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Notable ?Others?
Wilco?s Kicking Television
Fountains of Wayne?s Out-of-State Plates
Belle & Sebastian?s Push Barman to Open Old Wounds
Albums on My Christmas Wish List
Andrew Bird
Neil Young
Robbie Fulks
M. Ward
Rogue Wave
Marah
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Elbow
Supergrass
Albums I Just Could Not Stomach
Coldplay
Jack Johnson
Bright Eyes (both of 'em)
Garbage
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the night watchman
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| Posted: 12.24.2005 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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The only new albums I heard this year are System of a Down's double CD album, which is okay, but I wouldn't buy it, and Lamb of God's newest, ditto. I got my wife the new Depeche Mode for Christmas, but we've only given it a once through and nothing's grabbed me as of yet. (Yes, we had Christmas early -- ain't being a grown-up cool?)
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Albums I Just Could Not Stomach
Garbage
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The most appropriately named band ever.
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Michael Scrutchin
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| Posted: 01.01.2006 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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Hey, Eric, have you heard The Mendoza Line's Full of Light and Full of Fire? I'm listening to it right now, and I'm convinced that it's one of 2005's best (probably top 10 material), yet it's sorely overlooked. Given your taste, I think you'd like it. The glowing PopMatters review gives a good idea of what it's like. I can't believe more people aren't talking about this band and this record.
I like/love many of your picks, Eric. I'll list my 2005 favorites soon.
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beltmann
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| Posted: 01.03.2006 1:30 am Post subject: |
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| Michael B. Scrutchin wrote: | Hey, Eric, have you heard The Mendoza Line's Full of Light and Full of Fire? I'm listening to it right now, and I'm convinced that it's one of 2005's best (probably top 10 material), yet it's sorely overlooked. Given your taste, I think you'd like it. The glowing PopMatters review gives a good idea of what it's like. I can't believe more people aren't talking about this band and this record.
I like/love many of your picks, Eric. I'll list my 2005 favorites soon. |
Wow, Mendoza Line does sound like something I need to check out ASAP.
I probably should have waited to draw up my list... since posting that, I've purchased quite a few albums that probably deserved consideration: Ryan Adams' 29; Clap Your Hands Say Yeah; M Ward's Transistor Radio; Deerhoof's The Runners Four; Andrew Bird's The Mysterious Production of Eggs; Marah's If You Didn't Laugh You'd Cry; Neil Young's Prairie Wind, and Robbie Fulks' Georgia Hard. I haven't listened to them enough to know where I'd place them--if at all--but surely a few would make the list. Plus, there's a bunch more that I'm hoping to catch up with over the next few weeks/months, as the budget allows.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to your list, and thanks for the heads-up on Mendoza Line!
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beltmann
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Mention of belle and sebastion made me smile.
p.s. you're my humanities teacher 2nd semester...
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| Erickson wrote: | | p.s. you're my humanities teacher 2nd semester... |
I know! Maybe I should start thinking about planning for that class...
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| I'd have to add the Foo Fighters to the list. I think they did a phenomenal job with the album. I still can't stop listening to Green Days too. |
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| beltmann wrote: |
I know! Maybe I should start thinking about planning for that class... |
Plans are overrated.
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beltmann
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| Erickson wrote: | | beltmann wrote: |
I know! Maybe I should start thinking about planning for that class... |
Plans are overrated. |
I could just wing it. We'll just spend the semester watching Iranian movies and listening to Wilco. Occasionally I'll have to say something "profound" about mise-en-scene or juxtaposition, just to sound like I'm doing my job.
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Jim Harper
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| beltmann wrote: | | I could just wing it. We'll just spend the semester watching Iranian movies and listening to Wilco. Occasionally I'll have to say something "profound" about mise-en-scene or juxtaposition, just to sound like I'm doing my job. |
That's humanities? Sounds a tad more interesting than the corresponding classes on this side of the pond. |
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beltmann
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| Jim Harper wrote: | | beltmann wrote: | | I could just wing it. We'll just spend the semester watching Iranian movies and listening to Wilco. Occasionally I'll have to say something "profound" about mise-en-scene or juxtaposition, just to sound like I'm doing my job. |
That's humanities? Sounds a tad more interesting than the corresponding classes on this side of the pond. |
Last week we analyzed Stan Brakhage's Moth Light, and talked about what Plato, Horace, Pater, Ruskin, Mill, Carlyle, Morris, and Wilde had to say about the purpose of art. This week we're going to talk about the landscape sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, debate whether graffiti is art--can something be both illegal and art simultaneously?--and consider whether krump dancing is valuable art. On Friday we're going to talk about how there's more to art than just story or plot; I plan to show several paintings out of focus, show several movie clips with the sound and/or subtitles turned off, and play several songs in a foreign language so that we're forced to deal exclusively with the works' non-narrative qualities. It's a fun class.
Eventually we'll study the techniques and styles of various painting movements, then we'll do the same for cinema and talk about the overlaps. That's where juxtaposition comes in.
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it really is a good class
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beltmann
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| Posted: 02.07.2006 3:02 am Post subject: |
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| xAndyx wrote: | | it really is a good class |
Damn you and that avatar. 
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