Monday, December 28, 2020

No One Man Should Do All These Lists: 10 Year Vintage best of 2010

 40 Long-Form Streams, Music Blog RARs, or Album-format Releases


1. Various - Bang and Works Volume 1

2. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today

3. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

4. Arp - The Soft Wave

5. Drake - Thank Me Later

6. El Guincho - Pop Negro

7. Kingdom - That Mystic EP

8. Games - That We Play

9. James Blake - CMYK EP

10. Balam Acab - See Birds EP

11. Seven Fields of Aphelion - Periphery

12. Sun Araw - On Patrol

13. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

14. Das Racist - Shut Up, Dude

15. Chuck Person - Eccojams Vol 1

16. Bing & Ruth - City Lake

17. Eluvium  - Static Nocturne

18. Various - Let Me Shine for You

19. Hype Williams - Find Out What Happens When People Stop Being Polite

20. The-Dream - Love King

21. John Roberts - Glass Eights

22. Kangding Ray - Pruitt-Igoe EP

23. Diddy Dirty Money - Last Train to Paris

24. Actress - Splzash

25. Laetitia Sadler - The Trip

26. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - The Social Network OST

27. LA Vampires Meets Zola Jesus - LA Vampires Meets Zola Jesus

28. Solvent - Subject to Shift

29. Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids

30. Com Truise - Cyanide Sisters

31. Bibio - Mind Bokeh

32. Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?

33. Sandwell District - Feed Forward

34. Pariah - Safehouses

35. Robert AA Lowe and Rose Lazar - Eclipses

36. Four Tet - There is Love In You

37. Jacques Greene - The Look EP

38. Dean and Britta - 13 Most Beautiful

39. High Places - Vs Mankind

40. Superchunk - Majesty Shredding



40 Nasty and Quick Scrobble-Songs


1. Girl Unit - "Wut"

2. Kanye West - "Runaway"

3. Balam Acab - "See Birds"

4. Deerhunter - "Helicopter"

5. Slava  - "Dreaming Tiger"

6. Kingdom - "Bust Broke"

7. Endgames - "Ecstasy (Jam City Refix)"

8. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Round and Round"

9. Ke$ha - "Blow"

10. Seven Fields of Aphelion - "Grown"

11. Far East Movement  - "Like a G6"

12. Roska and Untold - "Myth"

13. El Guincho - "Bombay"

14. Oneohtrix Point Never featuring Antony - "Returnal"

15. Ghost Mutt - "Thoroughbred"

16. Drake - "Over"

17. Com Truise - "Sundriped"

18. Grouper - "Hold the Way"

19. Ghostface Killah - "In Tha Park"

20. Azari & III - "Into the Night"

21. Deadboy - "If U Want Me"

22. Sun Araw - "Deep Cover"

23. Solvent - "Formulate"

24. Active Child - "Wilderness"

25. The-Dream - "Yamaha"

26. Jacques Greene - "The Look"

27. Roots Manuva - "Witness (Slugabed mix)"

28. Four Tet - "Love Cry"

29. Raime - "We Must Hunt Under the Wreckage"

30. LA Vampires Versus Zola Jesus - "No No No"

31. Gayngs - "The Gaudy Side of Town"

32. Rihanna - "Cheers (Drink to That)"

33. Martin Solveig - "Hello"

34. High Places - "The Longest Shadows"

35. Starkey - "Stars"

36. KOP - "Fire It Up (funkystepz mix)"

37. Caribou - "Odessa"

38. Taz - "Gold Tooth Grin"

39. Pure Ecstasy - "Easy"

40. oOoOO - "Sedsumthin"



Sunday, December 27, 2020

List A: 20 Year Vintage's Best Music of 2000

 40 Albums to Search the Used CD Bins for

1. Broadcast - The Noise Made By People

2. The Avalanches - Since I Left You

3. Radiohead - Kid A

4. Outkast - Stankonia

5. Peaches - The Teaches of Peaches

6. PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

7. Gas - Pop

8. Chicks on Speed - Will Save Us All

9. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele

10. Primal Scream - XTRMNTR

11. Elastica - The Menace

12. Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country

13. Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One

14. Luomo - Vocalcity

15. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - The Doldrums

16. Deftones - White Pony

17. Thievery Corporation - Mirror Conspiracy

18. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out

19. Simian - Watch It Glow

20. J Masic + The Fog - More Light

21. New Pornographers - Mass Romantic

22. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica

23. Various - Clicks and Cuts

24. Belle and Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk like a Peasant

25. Tosca  - Suzuki

26. Optiganally Yours - Presents: Exclusively Talentmaker

27. Various - O Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack

28. Fischerspooner - Fischerspooner

29. Tripping Daisy - Tripping Daisy

30. Coil - Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil

31. Cat Power - The Covers Record

32. Destroyer - Thief

33. At the Drive In - Relationship of Command

34. Phoenix - United

35. Bjork - Selmasongs

36. Doughty - Skittish

37. Phife Dawg - Ventilation

38. Erase Errata - Erase Errata EP

39. Adult. - Nausea

40. XTC - Wasp Star (Apple Venus Vol 2)


40 Tracks to Download over your 28.8k/s modem


1. Broadcast - "Come On Let's Go"

2. Outkast - "B.O.B"

3. Cat Power - "I Found a Reason"

4. Daft Punk - "One More Time"

5. Peaches  - "Fuck the Pain Away"

6. Radiohead - "Idiotechque"

7. New Pornographers - "Letter from an Occupant"

8. Solvent - "A Panel of Experts"

9. Boards of Canada - "In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country"

10. The Avalanches - "Since I Left You"

11. Ensemble - "Proposal 5"

12. Aaliyah - "Try Again"

13. Gorillaz - "Rock the House"

14. Primal Scream - "Exterminator"

15. Ghostface Killah - "Apollo Kids"

16. PJ Harvey - "You Said Something"

17. Kid606 - "Straight Outta Compton"

18. Optiganally Yours - "Gepetto"

19. Modest Mouse - "Third Planet"

20. Simian - "The Wisp"

21. Phoenix - "Too Young"

22. Da Brat - "That's What I'm Looking For"

23. Tosca - "Honey"

24. Bjork - "In the Musicals"

25. Fischerspooner - "Emerge"

26. Elastica - "My Sex"

27. Mystikal - "Shake Ya Ass (UKG Mix)"

28. St. Germain - "Rose Rouge"

29. Wu-Tang Clan - "Gravel Pit"

30. Overseer - "Supermoves"

31. Cex - "A Mansion as the Body She Resides In"

32. Doves - "Firesuite"

33. Adult.  - "Hand to Phone"

34. Belle and Sebastian - "I Fought in a War"

35. Shiftplus - "This is Hardcore"

36. Neko Case and Her Boyfriends - "No Need to Cry"

37. True Steppers - "Out of Your Mind"

38. Hives - "Hate to Say I Told You So"

39. At the Drive In - "Invalid Litter Dept."

40. Queens of the Stone Age - "Feel Good Hit of the Summer"

Saturday, December 26, 2020

Groove Is In the Heart: 30 Years Vintage (1990)

Top 40 Cassettes and CDs and other Releases of 1990


1. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

2. Depeche Mode - Violator

3. My Bloody Valentine - Glider EP

4. A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instictive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

5. Slowdive - Slowdive EP

6. Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

7. Sonic Youth - Goo

8. Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual

9. Pale Saints - The Comforts of Madness

10. Manic Street Preachers - New Art Riot EP

11. Green Day - 39/Smooth

12. Galaxie 500 - This is Our Music

13. Flaming Lips - In A Priest Driven Ambulance

14. Eno/Cale - Wrong Way Up

15. Mark Lanegan - The Winding Sheet

16. Paul Simon - The Rhythm of the Saints

17. Ice Cube - Amerikkka's Most Wanted

18. Yo La Tengo - Fakebook

19. Loop - A Gilded Eternity

20. The Divine Comedy - Fanfare for the Comic Muse

21. Ride - Nowhere

22. They Might Be Giants - Flood

23. Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly

24. Black Dog - Techno Playtime

25. Living Colour - Time's Up

26. Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park

27. Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour

28. Danzig - II: Lucifuge

29. 808 State  - UTD State 90

30. Chapterhouse - Freefall EP

31. Lard - The Last Temptation of Reid

32. The Boo Radleys - Ichabod and I

33. Prince and the New Power Generation - Graffiti Bridge

34. Happy Mondays - Pills Thrills and Bellyaches

35. Beats International - Let Them Eat Bingo

36. Phish - Lawn Boy

37. George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1

38. Heavenly - Heavenly vs Satan

39. Psychic TV - Towards Thee Infinite Beat

40. McCarthy - The Banking Life



The 40 Best Single Songs in 1990


1. My Blood Valentine - "Soon"

2. LFO - "LFO (Leeds Warehouse mix)"

3. Bel Biv Devoe - "Poison"

4. Sinead O'Connor - "Nothing Compares 2 U"

5. A Tribe Called Quest - "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo"

6. Green Day - "Going to Pasalacqua"

7. Cocteau Twins - "Heaven or Las Vegas"

8. Primal Scream - "Come Together (Andrew Weatherall mix)"

9. Kronos Quartet - "Marquee Moon"

10. Ride - "Dreams Burn Down"

11. Lush - "Sweetness and Light"

12. The Orb - "Little Fluffy Clouds"

13. Depeche Mode - "Enjoy the Silence"

14. DJ Mink - "Hey! Can You Relate?"

15. The Sundays - "Here's Where the Story Ends"

16. Sonic Youth - "Mote"

17. Manic Street Preachers - "New Art Riot"

18. Holy Noise - "Father Forgive Them"

19. Logic - "The Final Frontier"

20. Deee-Lite  - "Groove is in the Heart"

21. Jane's Addiction - "Stop"

22. Galaxie 500 - "Listen, the Snow is Falling"

23. Psychic TV - "IC Water"

24. Nirvana - "Sliver"

25. 4 Hero - "Mr. Kirk's Nightmare"

26. Massive Attack - "Daydreaming"

27. Skinny Puppy - "Spasmolytic"

28. 808 State - "Cubik"

29. Tony Toni Tone - "Feels Good"

30. Blur  - "Sing"

31. Orbital - "Omen"

32. Wilson Philips - "Hold On"

33. Voodoo Child - "Voodoo Child"

34. Paul Simon - "Obvious Child"

35. Alice in Chains - "Man in the Box"

36. DHS - "Holo-Voodoo"

37. Jane Child - "Don't Want to Fall in Love"

38. Joey Beltram - "Energy Flash"

39. Nine Inch Nails - "Get Down Make Love"

40. David J - "I Hear Only Silence Now"

Thursday, December 24, 2020

The Spirit of 1980 Radio- a 40 Year's Vintage (1980)

Ultimate LPs from 1980

1. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
2. Prince - Dirty Mind
3. Joy Division  - Closer
4. Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe
5. Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
6. Devo - Freedom of Choice
7. Harold Budd and Brian Eno - Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirrors
8. Cabaret Voltaire - The Voice of America
9. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
10. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
11. Harald Grosskopf - Synthesist
12. The Durutti Column - The Return of the Durutti Column
13. Peter Gabriel - Scratch
14. The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
15. Chris Carter - The Space Between
16. David Bowie - Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
17. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
18. Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette
19. The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
20. Fela Kuti - International Thief Thief
21. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetable
22. The Pretenders - The Pretenders
23. The Dance - Dance for Your Dinner
24. Carl Erdmann - Bizzarophytes
25. Adam and the Ants - King of the Wild Frontier
26. Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth
27. Walter Rockman - Underwater vol 1
28. XTC - English Settlement
29. Human League - Travelogue
30. Daryll Hall - Sacred Songs
31. The Selecter - Too Much Pressure
32. Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs
33. Van Halen - Women and Children First
34. Yello  - Solid Pleasure
35. Suicide - Alan Vega: Martin Rev
36. Various - Slow
37. Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue
38. Visage - Visage
39. Indoor Life - Indoor Life
40. Paul McCartney - McCartney II






Tip Top Cuts of 1980

1.  Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
2.  Talking Heads - "Once in a Lifetime"
3.  David Bowie - "Ashes to Ashes"
4.  Zapp - "More Bounce to the Ounce"
5.  Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark - "Enola Gay"
6.  The Cure - "A Forest"
7.  Grace Jones - "Private Life"
8.  Killing Joke - "Requiem"
9.  Devo - "Gates of Steel"
10.  Prince - "Do It All Night"
11.  Alice Cooper - "Clones (We're All)"
12.  Was Not Was - "Wheel Me Out"
13.  Breakwater - "Release the Beast"
14.  Les Vampyrettes - "Biomutaten"
15.  Blondie  - "Rapture"
16.  Bauhaus - "Dark Entires"
17.  Rush - "The Spirit of Radio"
18.  Generation X - "Dancing with Myself"
19.  Bob Marley and the Wailers - "Redemption Song"
20.  The Birthday Party - "Waving My Arms"
21.  Robert Palmer - "Johnny and Mary"
22.  Ludus  - "I Can't Swim I Have Nightmares"
23.  Soft Boys - "I Wanna Destroy You"
24.  Dead Kennedys - "Holiday in Cambodia"
25.  u2 - "I Will Follow"
26.  The Selecter - "Everyday"
27.  Rema Rema - "Fond Affections"
28.  XTC - "Generals and Majors"
29.  The Equators - "Baby Come Back"
30.  Loose Joints  - "Is It All Over My Face"
31.  Ozzy Osbourne - "Crazy Train"
32.  Throbbing Gristle - "Adrenalin"
33.  The Clash - "Police on My Back"
34.  Becky Bell - "Super Queen"
35.  Visage - "Fade to Grey"
36.  Alan Parsons Project - "Time"
37.  Aksak Maboul - "Modern Lesson"
38.  Teena Marie - "Behind the Groove"
39.  The Korgis - "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime"
40.  Van Halen - "Everybody Wants Some"

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

2020 Bests and Brightests Recorded from the Bunker

 40 Songs (1 Per artist) That Made 2020 Not Suck


1. Moses Sumney-" Bless Me"

2. The Weeknd-" Blinding Lights"

3. Jamila Woods-" SULA (Paperback)"

4. Jorge Elbrecht-" Tuesday Morning"

5. Destroyer-" Cue Synthesizer"

6. Conway the Machine-" Front Lines"

7. 070 Shake-" Guilty Conscience"

8. Charli XCX-" Anthems"

9. The Weather Station-" Robber"

10. Dorian Electra-" M'Lady"

11. Rico Nasty-"iPhone"

12. Xyla-" Cold (feat Oso Feo)"

13. The 1975-" If You're Too Shy"

14. Penelope Trappes-" Eel Drip"

15. Earl Sweatshirt feat Maxo-" Whole World"

16. Terrace Martin-" Pig feet"

17. Oneohtrix Point Never-" Lost But Never Alone"

18. Thurston Moore-" Locomotives"

19. Childish Gambing-" 24.19 (Thank You)"

20. Dua Lipa-" Don't Start Now"

21. Kai Whiston-" Dear"

22. India Jordan-" For You"

23. Shygirl-" Freak"

24. Maria Minerva-" Every Single Thing That you Love"

25. Playboi Carti-" @Meh"

26. Metz-" A Boat to Drown In"

27. Zeroh-" Heyoka"

28. The Soft Pink Truth-" On"

29. Serpentwithfeet-" A Comma"

30. Lido Pimienta-" Te Queria"

31. Brockhampton-" Chain On/Hold Me"

32. Squarepusher-" Terminal Slam"

33. The Strokes-" At the Door"

34. Moor Mother and Billy Woods- "Furies"

35. Fiona Apple-" I Want you to love Me"

36. Nao-" Woman"

37. Billie Eilish-" Everything I Wanted"

38. Christine and the Queens-" People I've Been Sad"

39. Sega Bodega-" U Suck"

40. Half Waif-" In August"



25 Albums Worth a Number of Relistens (#1 by a country mile)


1. Moses Sumney - Grae

2. Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist - Alfredo

3. Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling

4. Hum - Inlet

5. Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic Oneohtrix Point Never

6. Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song

7. Destroyer - Have We Met

8. Oliver Coates - Skins n Slimes

9. Lyra Pramuk - Fountain

10. The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form

11. Xyla - Ways

12. Dorian Electra - My Agenda

13. Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia

14. Thurston Moore - By the Fire

15. Childish Gambino - 3.15.20

16. Run The Jewels - RTJ4

17. Boldy James - The Price of Tea in China

18. Adulkt Life - Taking Hits

19. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters

20. Elysia Crampton - Orcorara 2010

21. The Weeknd - After Hours

22. Green-House - Six Songs for Invisible Gardens

23. THX1312 - Intentional Decapitated Police Officer

24. Maria Minerva - Soft Power

25. Landowner - Consultant



20 TV Shows that Thrilled or Salved During Times of Trouble

1. What We Do in the Shadows 

2. Betty

3. The Great  

4. Pen15   

5. Better Call Saul 

6. The Boys  

7. High Maintenance

8. Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet    

9. The Good Place  

10. Mrs America     

11. Devs

12. Bojack Horseman  

13. Big Mouth

14. Ted Lasso

15. Never Have I Ever

16. Rick and Morty

17. The Mandalorian

18. The Outsider

19. Queen's Gambit  

20.  The Shivering Truth  




Film Was in a Weird Place This Year, But Here's 10 That I At Least Enjoyed, Having Not Seen Many of The Rest of Them

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

David Byrne's American Utopia

Palm Springs

Disclosure

Tesla

Class Action Park

Wolfwalkers

The Hunt

Jasper Mall

Onward



Songs to the Siren: 50 Year Vintage and the Best of 1970

The Top 40 Full Lengths of 1970 


1. Curtis Mayfield - Curtis

2. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

4. Nick Drake - Bryter Layer

5. Gilberto Gil - Copacabana Mon Amour

6. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band

7. Funkadelic - Funkadelic

8. Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day

9. The Velvet Underground - Loaded

10. David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World

11. Tim Buckley - Starsailor

12. King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon

13. Fela Kuti - Fela Fela Fela

14. John Cale - Vintage Violence

15. Nico - Desertshore

16. Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Beverly Glenn-Copeland

17. Amon Duul II - Yeti

18. The Stooges - Fun House

19. Grateful Dead - American Beauty

20. Led Zeppelin - III

21. Syd Barrett - Barrett

22. Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk

23. Isaac Hayes - To Be Continued

24. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

25. Linda Perhacs - Parellelograms

26. Can - Soundtracks

27. Van Morrison - Moondance

28. Lee Hazelwood - Cowboy in Sweden

29. The Beatles - Let it Be

30. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush

31. Guru Guru - UFO

32. Donovan - Open Road

33. Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water

34. Genesis  - Trespass

35. Bruce Haack - Electric Lucifer

36. Stevie Wonder - Signed Sealed and Delivered

37. Dorothy Ashby - The Rubiyat of Dorothy Ashby

38. The Beach Boys - Sunflower

39. The Pretty Things - Parachute

40. Bob Dylan - Self-Portrait



The Top 40 Songs of 1970


1. Grateful Dead - "Ripple"

2. David Bowie - "The Man Who Sold The Wold"

3. Black Sabbath - "War Pigs"

4. Curtis Mayfield - "Don't Worry If there's a Hell Below We're All Gonna Go"

5. Stevie Wonder - "Signed Sealed Deliver I'm Yours"

6. Nick Drake - "One of These Things First"

7. Gil-Scott Heron - "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"

8. Velvet Underground - "I Found a Reason"

9. Tim Buckley - "Song to the Siren"

10. The Maytals - "Pressure Drop"

11. Led Zeppelin - "Immigrant Song"

12. Amon Duul II - "Archangels Thunderbird"

13. Linda Perhacs - "Paralellograms"

14. Five Stairsteps - "Ooh Child"

15. Edwin Starr - "War"

16. Neil Young - "After the Gold Rush"

17. Van Morrison - "Moondance"

18. The Stooges - "Dirt"

19. Ray Brown Orchestra - "Go Down Dying"

20. Can - "Mother Sky"

21. Simon and Garfunkel - "The Only Living Boy in New York"

22. Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Run Through the Jungle"

23. James Gang - "Ashes the Rain and I"

24. Jackson Five - "The Love You Save"

25. George Harrison - "My Sweet Lord"

26. Syd Barrett - "Gigolo Aunt"

27. King Crimson - "Cadence and Cascade"

28. Charles Wright - "Express Yourself"

29. Supersister - "She Was Naked"

30. John Lennon - "Love"

31. The Rattlers - "The Witch"

32. The Spinners - "It's a Shame"

33. James Brown - "Sex Machine"

34. Sir Lord Baltimore - "Helium Head"

35. Mungo Jerry - "In the Summertime"

36. Sugarloaf - "Green Eyed Lady"

37. Tom Jones - "I Who Have Nothing"

38. Stephen Stills  - "Love the One You're With"

39. The Guess Who - "No Time"

40. Brainticket - "Cottonwood Hill"