03. The Coup - Pick a bigger weapon [Anti]

I was really excited when this came out because I liked Party Music a lot. Not sure what happened, it just never clicked with me.

Other than that and Jenny Lewis (in the end, that album was a big let down for me) - I'm not familiar with any of the artists in your top 10. Which is awesome. Thanks for posting it. It strikes me that an especially awesome thing would be for you to make a Best of 06 mix based off this list and post it to the gmail account. But, you know, no pressure. (Do it!Do it!Do it!)

Off to eat dim sum with my mom...

PaBW was the first thing I heard with the Coup, never been that much into hip hop before. The Jenny Lewis was with me the whole year, and while the album is far from perfect, the good parts won out.

Tingsek, Deltahead, Nisse Hellberg, and Anna Ternheim are Swedish bands/persons so I don't think that many of you have heard them.

Oh, and sure, I'd love to do a mix. I don't have access to buffistarawk, so I'm not entirely familiar with how you do it. But no big deal.

That list reminds me that I completely forgot to pick up Avatar. I love Comets on Fire! I keep hearing good things about Regina Spektor, too, but I've never heard anything.

Anyway, this inspired me to start an early list.

Best:
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Mission of Burma - The Obliterati
Isis & Aerogramme - In the Fishtank 14
The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
Ratatat - Classics
Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Beach House

Contenders:
Tortoise & Bonnie Prince Billy - The Brave and The Bold
Six Organs of Admittance - Sun Awakens
The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls in America
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
Hella - Acoustics
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
The Flying Luttenbachers - Cataclysm
El Perro del Mar
Danielson - Ships

A little disappointing:
Eric Matthews - Foundation Sounds
Calexico - Garden Ruin
Akron/Family - Meek Warrior
Scott Walker - The Drift

Free WFMU stuff:

Marie Osmond Does Hugo Ball

"Marie Osmond became co-host with Jack Palance. In the format of the show, little topic clusters (like "weird language") were introduced by one of the hosts. In this case, the frame was Cabaret Voltaire. Marie was required to read Hugo Ball's sound poem "Karawane" and a few script lines. Much to everybody's astonishment, when they started filming she abruptly looked away from the cue cards directly into the camera and recited, by memory, "Karawane." It blew everybody away, and I think they only needed that one take. A year or so after it was broadcast, Greil Marcus approached me, wanting to use Marie Osmond's rendition of Hugo Ball for a cd produced in England as sonic companion to his book Lipstick Traces; so I was delighted to be able to arrange that."

Faust's Lost Album V + TV footage

Wow, gawd bless the internet for serving up recordings of legendary Kraut pioneers Faust that I'm sure many of us hadn't heard before (or knew existed). Turns out that after the band recorded their album IV for Virgin and had a somewhat chaotic tour, Richard Branson had his fill of their shenanigans and cut them loose once again in 1975. Although, at this point the band had gone ahead and run up some expensive hotel and studio bills at Giorgio Morodor's Araballe studios....

Cool lists!

I was wanting to check out that Thea Gilmore too. Just the prompt I need.

The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes

I had way too high expectations on this record. I loved the early singles and their radio gigs -- and then this came and... I just have a really hard time getting past the tin shed aesthetics on the vocals.

Nicklas, buffistarawk info has been sent to your profile address.

Your list gives me much to consider, CI. For instance I am going to download this:

Isis & Aerogramme - In the Fishtank 14

right now.

I love end-of-the-year best-ofs!

Btw, I tried a new dim sum place tonight - boo. Everything was salty and yet still bland.

I didn't know about this:

22. Greg Graffin - Cold As the Clay [Anti]

either, but I am downloading it now as well. Sounds great:

Following a solo album released in 1997 under the alias American Lesion, Cold as the Clay comes as the first effort from Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin issued under his own name. Unlike the simple singer/songwriter approach of American Lesion, this album finds Graffin -- backed by members of the Weakerthans, among other musicians -- paying homage to his early upbringing in Wisconsin (where family singalongs were prevalent) with what the album sticker proclaims as "a heart-rending collection of old-timey American folk." And essentially, that's exactly what Cold as the Clay is. Recorded and mixed in a week with players sitting in the studio as though around a campfire, the reflective songs range from mere acoustic numbers to ones that further incorporate banjo, mandolin, harmonica, and more.

[link]

I just have a really hard time getting past the tin shed aesthetics on the vocals.

Oh, I like it. It sounds oh-so-Shangri-Las to me.

Tina, be forewarned that the Isis/Aerogramme disc is somewhere between Sabbath and Tortoise.

And Tommyrot, thanks for the Faust!

Faust is one of those "always meant to listen to" bands, so this is the first I've actually heard them. Hmm... eMusic has some of their stuff...

off to download...