Monday, December 30, 2019

In the End, The List You Make is Equal to the List You Take: 50 Year Vintage- The Best of 1969

Top Albums of 1969
1. Nick Drake- Five Leaves Left
2. King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King
3. The Beatles- Abbey Road
4. The Stooges- The Stooges
5. Scott Walker - Scott 3
6. Led Zeppelin- II
7. Al Green- Green is Blues
8. White Noise- An Electric Storm
9. Amon Duul II- Phallus Dei
10. The Meters- The Meters
11. Tim Buckley- Blue Afternoon
12. MC5- Kick Out the Jams
13. Don Cherry- Mu pt1&2
14. Neil Young- Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
15. The Velvet Underground- The Velvet Underground
16. David Axelrod- Songs of Experience
17. Gal Costa- Gal
18. Richard Hayman- Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine
19. Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg- Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin
20. Silver Apples- Contact
21. The Can- Monster Movie
22. Dickens Royal Incantation- Dickens Royal Incantation
23. Rolling Stones- Let It Bleed
24. Nina Simone- Nina and a Piano
25. Kinks- Arthur



Top Songs of 1969
1. Isaac Hayes- "Walk on By"
2. Nick Drake- "Cello Song"
3. The Stooges- "No Fun"
4. Jackson Five- "I Want You Back"
5. Led Zeppelin- "Communication Breakdown"
6. Neil Young- "Sugar Mountain"
7. Nina Simone- "I Shall Be Released"
8. Mulatu Astatke- "Yekermo Sew"
9. Gal Costa- "Divino, Maravilhoso"
10. The Winstons- "Amen Brother"
11. Shocking Blue- "Love Buzz"
12. Toots and the Maytals- "Pressure Drop"
13. Tim Buckley- "I Must Have Been Blind"
14. Stevie Wonder- "My Cherie Amour"
15. Scott Walker- "It's Raining Today"
16. Silver Apples- "A Pox on You"
17. Gershon Kingsley- "Hey Hey"
18. The Can- "Yoo Doo Right"
19. Leonard Cohen - "The Partisan"
20. MC5- "Starship"
21. The Beatles- "Here Comes the Sun"
22. David Bowie- "Space Oddity"
23. Hugo Montenegro- "Moog Power"
24. Sly and the Family Stone- "I Wanna Take You Higher"
25. Checkmates Ltd- "I Keep Forgettin"

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Sunday, December 29, 2019

These Memories Can't Wait: 40 Year Vintage- The Best of 1979

Top 40 Albums of 1979

1. Public Image Ltd- Metal Box
2. Wire- 154
3. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
4. Michael Jackson- Off  the Wall
5. Gary Numan- The Pleasure Principle
6. The Slits- Cut
7. The Boys Next Door- Hee Haw
8. Sylvester- Stars
9. Japan- Quiet Life
10. Flying Lizards- Flying Lizards
11. Gang of Four- Entertainment!
12. Devo- Duty Now for the Future
13. Cabaret Voltaire- Mix Up
14. Sun Ra- Sleeping Beauty
15. Talking Heads- Fear of Music
16. Pink Floyd - The Wall
17. Roedelius- Jardin Au Fou
18. Throbbing Gristle- 20 Jazz Funk Greats
19. The Pop Group- Y
20. Leonard Cohen- Recent Songs
21. The Clash- London Calling
22. The B-52's- The B-52's
23. SPK- Factory EP
24. David Bowie- Lodger
25. Eduard Artemiev- Solaris OST
26. Univers Zero- Heresie
27. Poison Girls- Hex
28. The Cars- Candy-O
29. P-Model- In a Modern Room
30. This Heat- This Heat
31. The Fall- Dragnet
32. Led Zeppelin- In Through the Out Door
33. Thomas Leer and Robert Rental- The Bridge
34. A Certain Ratio- The Graveyard and the Ballroom
35. Prince-Prince
36. Dickies- Dawn of the Dickies
37. JJ Burnel - Euroman Cometh
38. The Cure- Three Imaginary Boys
39. Neil Young- Rust Never Sleeps
40. The Residents- Eskimo

Top 40 Tracks of 1979

1. Joy Division- "Transmission"
2. The Slits- "Shoplifting"
3. Suicide- "Dream Baby Dream"
4. Michael Jackson- "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough"
5. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark- "Electricity"
6. Flying Lizards- "Her Story"
7. Delta 5- "Mind Your Own Business"
8. Tubeway Army- "Are Friends Electric"
9. Sylvester- "I Need Somebody to Love Tonight"
10. Lady B- "To the Beat Y'All"
11. Talking Heads- "Memories Can't Wait"
12. The Younger Generation- "We Rap More Mellow"
13. Dead Kennedys- "California Uber Alles"
14. Wire- "Map Ref 41N 93W"
15. The Boys Next Door- "Faint Heart"
16. Rose Royce- "Is It Love That You're After"
17. XTC- "Making Plans for Nigel"
18. The Pretenders- "Brass in Pocket"
19. P-Model- "Kameari Pop"
20. Sugarhill Gang- "Rapper's Delight"
21. The Human League- "The Dignity of Labour"
22. Edwin Birdsong- "Cola Bottle Baby"
23. 20/20- "Yellow Pills"
24. Yellow Magic Orchestra- "Behind the Mask"
25. Donna Summer- "Bad Girls"
26. James White and the Blacks- "Contort Yourself"
27. Blondie - "Dreaming"
28. Glaxo Babies- "This is Your Life"
29. The Cure- "Boys Don't Cry"
30. George Duke- "I Love You More"
31. Willie Williams- "Armagideon Time"
32. The Buggles- "Video Killed the Radio Star"
33. Cerrone- "Rocket in the Pocket"
34. Supertramp- "Goodbye Stranger"
35. Prince- "Why You Want to Treat Me So Bad"
36. A Certain Ratio- "Do the Du"
37. BeeGees- "Love You Inside Out"
38. Donnie and Joe Emerson- "Baby"
39. David Bowie- "Boys Keep Swinging"
40. Shalamar- "The Second Time Around"
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Wave of Mutilation: 30 Year Vintage- The Best of 1989

Top 40 Albums of 1989


1. The Cure- Disintegration
2. Ministry- The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
3. Virgo- Virgo
4. Bitch Magnet- Umber
5. Godflesh- Streetcleaner
6. De La Soul - Three Feet High and Rising
7. AC Temple- Sourpuss
8. Pixies- Doolittle
9. Beastie Boys- Paul's Boutique
10. Spacemen 3- Playing With Fire
11. Green Day- 1000 Hours EP
12. Nine Inch Nails- Pretty Hate Machine
13. Julee Cruise- Floating Into the Night
14. Galaxie 500- On Fire
15. Shelleyan Orphan- Century Flower
16. Dog-Faced Hermans- Everyday Timebomb
17. 808 State- 90
18. The Jesus Lizard- Pure
19. Nirvana- Bleach
20. Brighter- Around the World in 80 Days EP
21. The Orchids- Lyceum
22. Meat Beat Manifesto- Storm the Studio
23. Faith No More- The Real Thing
24. Janet Jackson- Rhythm Nation 1814
25. Ice T- The Iceberg (Freedom of Speech…Just Watch What You Say)
26. Martin L Gore- Counterfeit
27. Yo La Tengo- President Yo La Tengo
28. Ryuichi Sakamoto- Beauty
29. Chris and Cosey- Trust
30. Prince- Batman
31. Vaselines- Dum Dum
32. Boredoms - Soul Discharge
33. Grant Hart- Intolerance
34. Tone Loc- Loc'd After Dark
35. Baby Ford- Ooo The World of Baby Ford
36. The Telescopes- Taste
37. Skinny Puppy- Rabies
38. Sugarcubes - Here Today Tomorrow Next Week
39. A.R. Kane- i
40. Ashra- Walkin the Desert

Top 40 Tracks of 1989

1. Chris Isaak- "Wicked Game"
2. Nine Inch Nails- "Head Like a Hole"
3. Hex- "Diviner"
4. Orbital- "Chime"
5. The Cure- "Pictures of You"
6. Virgo- "In a Vision"
7. Madonna- "Like a Prayer"
8. De La Soul- "Me Myself and I"
9. Galaxie 500- "On Fire"
10. AC Temple- "Miss Sky"
11. Mescalinum United- "Into Mekong Center"
12. They Might Be Giants- "Birdhouse in Your Soul"
13. Sweet Exorcist- "Testone"
14. Public Enemy - "Fight the Power"
15. Ministry- "So What"
16. A Tribe Called Quest- "Description of a Fool"
17. The Black Dog- "Virtual"
18. The House of Love- "I Don't Know Why I Love You"
19. The B-52's - "Love Shack"
20. Soul II Soul- "Back 2 Life"
21. Depeche Mode- "Personal Jesus"
22. Seaweed- "Stargirl"
23. Stetsasonic- "I Ain't Makin' It"
24. The Field Mice- "Sensitive"
25. Nirvana- "Stain"
26. Pixies- "Debaser"
27. Yo La Tengo- "Barnaby, Hardly Working"
28. Chris Rea- "The Road to Hell (Part 2)"
29. Jody Watley- "Real Love"
30. Happy Mondays- "Hallelujah"
31. Mother Love Bone- "Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns"
32. Spacemen 3- "Lord Can You Hear Me?"
33. Pale Saints- "She Rides the Waves"
34. Brighter- "Things Will Get Brighter"
35. All- "She's My Ex"
36. Vaselines- "Lovecraft"
37. Love and Rockets- "So Alive"
38. (Super)Chunk- "What Do I"
39. KMFDM- "Virus"
40. Jesus and Mary Chain- "Head On"


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Saturday, December 28, 2019

Pre-Millennial Tension- 20 Year Vintage: The Best of 1999

Top 40 LPs of 1999

1. The Chemical Brothers- Surrender
2. The Magnetic Fields- 69 Love Songs
3. Various- Splendor OST
4. Boredoms- Vision Creation Newsun
5. The Flaming Lips- Soft Bulletin
6. Various- Warp 10+3 Remixes
7. MF Doom- Operation Doomsday
8. Susumu Yokota- Sakura
9. Handsome Boy Modeling School- So How's Your Girl?
10. Drexciya- Neptune's Lair
11. Orbital- Middle of Knowhere
12. Basement Jaxx- Remedy
13. Nobukaruzu Takemura- Scope
14. Fiona Apple- When the Pawn…
15. Pole- 2
16. Rage Against the Machine- The Battle of Los Angeles
17. Sigur Ros- Agaetis Byrjun
18. Underworld- Beaucoup Fish
19. μ-Ziq- Royal Astronomy
20. Nine Inch Nails- The Fragile
21. AOA- Surfin Alright
22. Surgeon- Force + Form
23. The Faint - Blank Wave Arcade
24. Missy Elliott- Da Real World
25. Mr. Bungle- California
26. Four Tet- Dialogue
27. Solvent- Solvently One Listens
28. Aphex Twin- Windowlicker
29. Air- The Virgin Suicides OST
30. Le Tigre- Le Tigre
31. Add N to (X)- Avant Hard
32. Beck - Midnite Vultures
33. adult.- Entertainment EP
34. Beluah - When Your Heartstrings Break
35. Trans Am- Futureworld
36. Tosca- Suzuki EP
37. Death in Vegas- The Contino Sessions
38. Philip Glass and Kronos Quartet- Dracula
39. The Caretaker- Selected Memories from the Haunted Ballroom
40. To Rococo Rot- The Amateur View

Top 40 Tracks of 1999

1. The Chemical Brothers- "Sunshine Underground"
2. Aphex Twin- "Untitled (SAW CD 1 Track 1) (Four Tet mix)"
3. Broadcast- "Echo's Answer"
4. The Micronauts- "The Jag"
5. Rage Against the Machine- "Testify"
6. Sigur Ros- "Starálfur"
7. Trans Am- "Sad and Young"
8. Ladytron- "Playgirl"
9. Squarepusher- "Iambic 5 Poetry"
10. N'n'G- "Liferide"
11. Flaming Lips- "Buggin"
12. Beck- "Debra"
13. Aftershock- "Slave to the Vibe (Dem 2 mix)"
14. Basement Jaxx- "Red Alert"
15. ODB ft Kelis- "Got Ya Money"
16. The Faint- "Worked Up So Sexual"
17. Destiny's Child- "Say My Name"
18. Solvent- "Solvently One Listens"
19. Nine Inch Nails- "The Great Below"
20. Metro Area- "Pina"
21. Underworld- "King of Snakes"
22. Modest Mouse- "Night on the Sun"
23. Aphex Twin- "Windowlicker"
24. Incubus- "Stellar"
25. The Avalanches- "Electricity"
26. Chicks on Speed- "Turn of the Century"
27. Cat Power- "Sea of Love"
28. Orbital - "Nothing Left pt. 1-2"
29. Armand Van Helden feat Roland Clark- "Flowez"
30. Marcy Playground - "All the Lights Went Out"
31. DMX- "Party Up"
32. Sasha- "Xpander"
33. DJ Luck and MC Neat- "With a  Little Bit of Luck"
34. Lali Puna- "6-0-3"
35. Aimee Mann- "Save Me"
36. Lush- "Sweetness and Light (The Orange Squash mix)"
37. Moby- "Porcelain"
38. DMX Krew- "The Glass Room"
39. Filter - "Take a Picture"
40. Zombie Nation- "Kernkraft 400"
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2019 A Very Pop Predisposition

40 LPs

1. Jamila Woods- LEGACY! LEGACY! LEGACY
2. Caroline Polachek- Pang
3. Lana Del Rey- Norman Fucking Rockwell
4. Brittany Howard- Jaime
5. Charli XCX- Charli
6. Sharon Van Etten- Remind Me Tomorrow
7. Murlo- Dolos
8. Freddie Gibbs and Madlib- Bandana
9. FKA Twigs- Magdalene
10. Sote- Paralell Persia
11. Roy Montgomery & Emma Johnston- After Nietzche
12. Billie Eilish- When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go
13. nkisi- 7 directions
14. Jessica Pratt- Quiet Signs
15. Jenny Hval- The Practice of Love
16. Abul Mogard- And We Are Passing Through Silently
17. Duke- Uingizaji Hewa
18. Tyler the Creator- IGOR
19. Camedor- Portal
20. Solange- When I Get Home
21. 21 Savage- I Am Greater Than I Was
22. Puce Mary, Francesco Leali, Heith, Alessandro Branca- An Exploitative Version of Surgery
23. Blanck Mass- Animated Violence Mild
24. Pharmakon- Devour
25. Tayhana- Tierra Del Fuego
26. Vampire Weekend- Father of the Bride
27. Danny Brown- uknowwhatimsayin
28. Moor Mother- Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes
29. Sheer Mag- A Distant Call
30. Black Mountain Transmitter- Behold the Undead of Dracula
31. Anderson .Paak- Ventura
32. Fennesz- Agora
33. Xosar- The Possessor Possess Nothing
34. Gavilian Rayan Russom- The Envoy
35. Infinity Crush- Virtual Heaven
36. Twin Lake Records- Spiral Wave Nomads
37. Patricia- Heavy Merging
38. Panda Bear- Buoys
39. Tamaryn - Dreaming the Dark
40. Pup- Morbid Stuff


10 EPs

1. AQXDM- Infrared
2. Lanark Artefax- Cora Linn
3. Throwing Snow- The Death of Pragmatism
4. Lamin Fofana - Brancusi Sculpting Beyonce
5. Mateis E Aoir- Chrome Upon Guayota
6. The Range- Providence
7. Marquis Hawkes- Light of My Life
8. Lone- Abraxas
9. Beak>- Life Goes On
10. Boylan- Renegade

40 Songs

1. Lana Del Rey - "Venice Bitch"
2. Caroline Polachek - "Door"
3. Jamila Woods - "BASQUIAT"
4. Billie Eilish  - "Bury a Friend"
5. Charly Bliss - "Young Enough"
6. Sharon Van Etten - "No One's Easy to Love"
7. Jessica Pratt - "This Time Around"
8. Brittany Howard - "13th Century Metal"
9. Beck  - "Tarantula"
10. Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - "Education"
11. FKA Twigs - "Fallen Alien"
12. Vampire Weekend - "Harmony Hall"
13. Jenny Hval - "Ashes to Ashes"
14. Charli XCX feat Christine and the Queens - "Gone"
15. Deerhunter - "What Happens to People?"
16. Sky Ferreira - "Downhill Lullaby"
17. Destroyer - "Crimson Tide"
18. Lil Nas X feat Cardi B - "Rodeo"
19. Tyler the Creator - "What's Good"
20. Holly Herndon - "Eternal"
21. Mary Lattimore - "Never Saw Him Again (Julianna Barwick mix)"
22. Carly Rae Jepsen - "Want You In My Room"
23. Jai Paul - "Do You Love Her Now"
24. Fly Pan Am - "Distance Dealer"
25. Angel Olsen - "All Mirrors"
26. Four Tet - "Anna Painting"
27. Hatchie - "Stay With Me"
28. .clipping - "Aquacode Databreak"
29. Gavilan Rayna Russom - "Kemmer"
30. Lizzo feat Missy Elliot - "Tempo"
31. Ciara - "Thinkin About You"
32. Karenn  - "Salz"
33. Valee ft DRAM - "About U"
34. Tame Impala - "Patience"
35. Marquis Hawkes - "Dreamy"
36. PUP  - "Free At Last"
37. YG feat Tyga and Jon Z - "Go Loko"
38. DJ Haram - "Gemini Rising"
39. Jessie Ware - "Adore You"
40. Com Truise - "Existence Schematic"
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10 Year Vintage: The Best of 2009

A year I had previously already documented on this blog, back when it was far more active, revisited a decade later.   In many ways, much of the music of 2009 launched the musical era of the 10s


Top 25 LPs of 2009

1. Fever Ray- Fever Ray
2. Fuck Buttons- Tarot Sport
3. Oneohtrix Point Never- Zones Without People
4. Bat for Lashes- Two Suns
5. Drake - So Far Gone
6. Neon Indian- Psychic Chasms
7. Hudson Mohawke- Butter
8. Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavillion
9. Sweet Trip- You Will never Know Why
10. Brock Van Wey- White Clouds Drift On and On
11. Black Moth Super Rainbow- Eating US
12. Lone- Ecstasy and Friends
13. Shackleton- The Three Eps
14. Various- My Estrogeneration
15. Nicki Minaj- Beam Me Up Scotty
16. Broadcast and the Focus Group- Investigate the Witch Cults of the Radio Age
17. Four Tet - There is Love in You
18. The Prodigy- Invaders Must Die
19. Tyler the Creator- Bastard
20. Yo La Tengo- Popular Songs
21. Junior Boys- Begone Dull Care
22. Marissa Nadler- Little Hells
23. Pimmon- Smudge Another Yesterday
24. Leyland Kirby- Sadly the Future is Not What It Was
25. Flaming Lips- Embryonic


Top 40 Tracks of 2009
1. Animal Collective- "My Girls"
2. Au Revoir Simone- "Shadows (Tanlines mix)"
3. Washed Out- "Feel it All Around"
4. Ke$ha- "Tik Tok"
5. Delorean- "Seasun"
6. Lily Allen- "The Fear"
7. Fuck Buttons- "Surf Solar"
8. Oneohtrix Point Never- "Hyperdawn"
9. Neon Indian- "Deadbeat Summer"
10. DJ Rashad- "You Know I Do (Part 1)"
11. Don'aeo- "Party Hard"
12. Grizzly Bear- "Two Weeks"
13. Crookers Feat Kelis- "No Security"
14. Slugabed- "The Moon Zoop Jam"
15. Miley Cyrus- "Party in the USA"
16. L-Vis 1990- "Compass"
17. Blue Daisy feat Lanote- "Space Ex"
18. Cliffordandcalix- "You and I"
19. Dirty Projectors- "Stillness is the move"
20. David Guetta feat Kelly Rowland- "When Love Takes Over"
21. Flaming Lips- "Convinced of the Hex"
22. Kid606- "Dancehall of the Dead"
23. Rihanna - "Rude Boy"
24. Newworldaquarium- "Tresspassers (Redshape tresspassed mix)"
25. Lone- "Sunset Teens"
26. Fiona Apple- "Why Try to Change Me Now"
27. Nitzer Ebb- "Join the Chant (Surgeon Mix)"
28. Air - "Sing Sang Sung"
29. Simian Mobile Disco Feat Beth Ditto- "Cruel Intentions (Joker mix)"
30. Joker & Ginz- "Purple City"
31. Black Moth Super Rainbow- "Twin of Myself"
32. Four Tet- "Love Cry"
33. Starkey feat Anneka- "Stars"
34. Atlas Sound feat Panda Bear- "Walkabout"
35. Tamaryn- "Mild Confusion"
36. Raffertie- "Antisocial"
37. James Blake- "Air and Lack Thereof"
38. Small Black- "Despicable Dogs"
39. Susumu Yokota- "A Flower white"
40. Jamie Vex'd- "Saturn's Reply"
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Sunday, December 22, 2019

Decade LPs

Here are my 150 best albums of the decade, in alphabetical order, with one release per artist
3.33 - Draft
Actress - R.I.P
AJA - AJA
Amnesia Scanner - Another Life
Anderson .paak - Malibu
Angel Ho - Ascension
Anohni - Hopelessness
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
Arca - Mutant
Arp - The Soft Wave
Kaitlyn Auriela Smith - The Kid
Au Revoir Simone - Move in Spectrums
Erykah Badu - But You Can't Use My Phone
Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
Beyonce - Beyonce
Bjork - Utopia
Blank Banshee - Blank Banshee 0
Blawan - Water Will Always Dry
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
David Bowie - Blackstar
Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
Carter Tutti Void - Transverse
Charli XCX - Pop 2
Childish Gambino - Awaken, My Love!
Com Truise - Galactic Melt
Container - LP (1)
Copeland - Because I'm Worth It
Das Racist - Shut Up, Dude
Dawn - Blackheart
Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell
D'Eon - Music for Keyboards vol III
Death Grips - The Money Store
Diddy Dirty Money - Last Train to Paris
Disasterpiece - It Follows OST
DJ Clap - Best Night Ever
DJ Paypal - Sold Out
DJ Rashad - Double Cup
DJ NJ Drone - Syn Stair
Dopplereffekt - Cellular Automata
Drake - Nothing Was the Same
Duke - Uingizaji Hewa
Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
Egyptrixx - A/B Til Infinity
Ekoplekz - Memowreckz
El Guincho - Pop Negro
Evian Christ - Kings and Them
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
Factory Floor - Factory Floor
James Ferraro - Far Side Virtual
FKA Twigs - LP1
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Bandana
Gazelle Twin - Unflesh
Johnny Greenwood - Phantom Thread OST
Grouper - AIA: Alien Observer/Dream Loss
Hacker Farm - UHF
Helen - The Original Faces
Holly Herndon - Platform
Julia Holter - Ekstasis
Brittany Howard - Jaime
Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
Innergaze - Mutual Dreaming
Jam City - Classical Curves
Jlin - Dark Energy
John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
John Wizards - John Wizards
Ka - The Night's Gambit
Kingdom - Tears in the Club
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
Kuedo - Severant
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Kurt Vile - Walkin on a Pretty Daze
LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
Le1f - Dark York
Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears
Liars - WIXIW
Lone - Galaxy Garden
LSDXOXO - Fuck Marry Kill
Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe
M.E.S.H. - Piteous Gate
Migos - Culture
Miguel - Wildheart
Abdul Mogard - Drifted Heaven
Moor Mother - Fetish Bones
Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
Jurgen Muller - Science of the Sea
Mr Mitch - Parallel Memories
Murlo - Dolos
My Bloody Valentine - M B V
Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
Palmboben II - Palmboben II
Owen Pallett - In Conflict
Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
Perc - Wicker & Steel
Pharmakon - Bestial Burden
Pixelord - Human.exe
Caroline Polachek - Pang
Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs
Prurient - Frozen Niagra Falls
Puce Mary - The Spiral
Brian Reitzell - Hannibal OST Vols 1,2,3
Rihanna - Anti
John Roberts - Glass Eights
RP Boo - Legacy
Roly Porter - Third Law
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
Rustie - Glass Swords
Salva - Complex Housing
Seven Fields of Aphelion - Periphery
Slava - Raw Solutions
Slowdive - Slowdive
Solange - A Seat at the Table
Sophie - Oil of Every Pearl's Essence
Sote - Parallel Persia
Vince Staples - Summertime 06
Dylan Stark - Heartland
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
Strange U - #LP4080
Tommy Four Seven - Primate
St Vincent - Masseducation
Sun Araw, M. Geddes Grengras and The Congos - Icon Give Thank
Taylor Swift - 1989
Syd - Fin
SZA - CTRL
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Teams - Dxys Xff
Them Are Us Too - Remain
Tirzah - Devotion
Tyer the Creator - Flower Boy
Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
Mark Van Hoen - The Revenant Diary
Various - A Girl Walks Alone Home at Night
Various - Apocalypse Survival Kit (ASK)
Various - Bang and Works vol 1 & 2
Various - Keysound Sound Presents…This is How We Roll
Various - Inside Llewyn Davis
Vatican Shadow - Kneel Before Religious Icons
Violetshaped - Violetshaped
Voices from the Lake - Voices from the Lake
The Weeknd - House of Balloons
Kanye West - Yeezus
Wire - Change Becomes Us
Jamila Woods - Legacy Legacy Legacy
Xosar - Holographic Matrix
X-TG - Faet Narok
Young Thug - No My Name is Jefferey
Yves De Mey - Metrics
Rachel Zeffira - The Deserters
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Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Decade of Tubes

So here are what I'd consider the best TV shows of the decade. As I stated with the songs list, decades lists are hard to parse. For this list, I decided to limit to shows that started between 2010 and 2019. This unfortunately eliminates many shows that continued on from the previous decade, include ones (like Parks and Rec, Community, Breaking Bad, et al.) that started at the tale end of the 00s but had major impact into the 10s (and would have been top 10 contenders). It'd be a cliche to go into all the ways TV has fundamentally changed and blah blah blah, but let's just say I'm considering Twin Peaks The Return a new show and not a 3rd season and I'm considering Children's Hospital for its adult swim run and not its pre-TV web shorts, even if I would not have for, say, High Maintenance.

This is also a fundamentally unfair exercise because it celebrates shows that have just launched before they inevitably get old and stale, while shows that launched a while back may have their full runs work against them for an off season, or failing to stick a landing. Similarly shows that get prematurely cancelled have the advantage of being frozen in amber, always remaining pitch perfect (see 3,4). No list is ever definitive, so the best advice in assembling them is always to just not worry about it, have fun, regret it in the morning, and move on.

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
2. Atlanta
3. Lodge 49
4. Enlightened
5. Hannibal
6. American Crime Story
7. Mr Robot
8. Russian Doll
9. High Maintenance
10. Watchmen
11. Veep
12. Superstore
13. Random Acts of Flyness
14. Fargo
15. The Good Place
16. The Eric Andre Show
17. Game of Thrones
18. The Americans
19. What We Do in the Shadows
20. Children's Hospital
21. Rick and Morty
22. Euphoria
23. Big Mouth
24. Adam Ruins Everything
25. Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated
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Friday, December 6, 2019

Top 200 tracks of 2010s

Presenting:  My top 200 tracks of the decade. Made this a while back and whittled it down from a list of 305 or so, and added a few from 2019 in there. I'm sure I'm missing/overlooking a ton. It's been an insanely luxurious decade filled with more music than anyone could logically consume/process/remember, but these are all songs that I've kept returning to throughout the decade. It'd be a fool's errand, not to mention highly tedious, to even try to rank them, plus I think it's way more interesting to look at an alphabetical listing as a snapshot in time rather than fuss over omission and ranking and inclusion and hierarchies and all that. Decades are way too big to sort out without an amount of spare time and analytical framework that I simply do not possess. So here's my simple rules

-Released between 2010 and 2019
- One song per artist (this is easily the hardest work. Does not include when an artist guests on a track or is in more than one band)
- In rare instances, I've listed both a popular song and a defining remix of it alongside each other as supplements to the enjoyment of one another (you gotta have a cheat)


813 - "Floristique"
.clipping - "A Better Place"
A Tribe Called Quest - "We the People"
A.G Cook - "Beautiful"
Active Child - "Wilderness"
Airbird - "Part of the Game"
AJA - "Tuck It, Tape It"
Alabama Shakes - "Sound and Color"
Algiers - "Blood"
Amnesia Scanner - "AS Another Life"
Anderson .Paak - "Come Down"
Angel Haze - "Echelon"
Anohni - "4 Degrees"
Arca - "2 Blunted"
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Round and Round"
ARP - "Pastoral Symphony I:Dominoes II: Infinity Room"
Auli'l Cravalho - "How Far I'll Go"
Azealia Banks - "212"
Balam Acab - "See Birds"
Beyonce - "Formation"
Big Sean ft Drake - "Blessings"
Bill Converse - "Sea Bering"
Blawan  - "Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage"
Bloom - "The Menagerie"
Boards of Canada - "Reach for the Dead"
Britney Spears - "Til the World Ends (Original or Salem Mix)"
Burial - "Street Halo"
Camila Cabello - "Crying in the Club"
Cardi B - "Bodak Yellow"
Caroline Polachek - "Door"
Cat's Eyes - "Everything Moves Towards the Sun"
Chance the Rapper - "Same Drugs"
Charli XCX - "Boys"
Charly Bliss - "Young Enough"
Childish Gambino - "Feels Like Summer"
Christina Aguielera - "Elastic Love"
Chromatics - "I Can Never Be Myself When I'm With You"
Chvrches - "Dead Air"
Clams Casino - "I'm God"
Com Truise - "Brokendate"
Container - "Perforate"
Cosmetics - "Black Candy"
Cults - "You Know What I Mean"
Cut Copy - "Where I'm Going"
Danny Brown - "When It Rain"
Danny L Harle feat Carly Rae Jepsen - "Supernatural"
Darkstar - "Gold"
David Bowie - "Blackstar"
Dawn - "Not Above That"
Deafheaven - "Dream House"
Death Grips - "Guillotine"
Deerhunter - "Helicopter"
Deftones - "Sextape"
Dent May - "Born Too Late"
D'Eon - "Al-Qiyamah"
Destroyer - "Chinatown"
Dev - "In the Dark"
DIIV - "Under the Sun"
DJ NJ Drone  - "Syn Stair Blind"
DJ Paypal Dj Earl and DJ Taye - "Dose"
DJ Rashad & Spinn - "Show U How"
Drake - "Over My Dead Body"
DRAM - "Cute"
The-Dream - "Yamaha"
Earl Sweatshirt - "Chum"
El Guincho - "Bombay"
Elite Gymnastics - "Here, In Heaven 4&5 (CFCF Mix)"
Elohim - "Hallucinating"
Erykah Badu - "Phone Down"
Far East Movement - "Like a G6"
Fatima Al Qadiri - "Star Spangled"
Fear of Men  - "Island"
FKA Twigs - "Water Me"
Florentino - "Fantasia"
Frank Ocean - "Super Rich Kids"
fun.  - "Some Nights"
Funkineven & Fatima - "Phoneline"
Future feat Pharrell, Pusha T & Casino - "Move That Dope"
Gangsta Boo & Beatking - "Mashing"
Gavin Russom - "Night Sky (Roll the Dice mix)"
Gazelle Twin - "Belly of the Beast"
Girl Unit - "Wut"
Gnod - "Breaking the Hex"
Grimes - "Oblivion"
Grouper - "I'm Clean Now"
Gucci Mane feat Chief Keef - "Top in the Trash"
Heems - "Flag Shopping"
High Places - "Year Off"
Holly  Herndon - "Fade"
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Invention feat Kurt Vile - "Let Me Get You There"
The Internet feat Kaytranada - "Girl"
Ishawna - "ER (Iglew Bootleg)"
Jai Paul - "Jasmine"
Jam City - "How We Relate to the Body"
Jamie XX - "Far Nearer"
Jamila Woods - "BASQUIAT"
Janelle Monae - "Make Me Feel"
Japanese Wallpaper - "Arrival"
Jenny Hval - "Spells"
Jessica Pratt - "This Time Around"
Jessie Ware - "Runnin"
Jlin - "Erotic Heat"
Joey Bada$$ - "95 Til Infinity"
John Maus - "Believer"
John Wizards - "iYongwe"
Julianna Barwick - "Forever"
Justin Bieber - "What Do You Mean (original or  A.G. Cook remix of TRONICBOX whaaat 85  mix)"
Ka - "Peace Akhi"
Kali Uchis feat Steve Lacey - "Just a Stranger"
Kanye West - "Runaway"
Katie Perry - "This is How We Do"
Ke$ha - "Blow"
Kendrick Lamar - "Alright"
Kero Kero Bonito - "Picture This"
Kindling - "For Olive"
Kingdom - "Stalker Ha"
Kitty - "Barbie Jeep"
The Knife - "Full of Fire"
Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein - "Stranger Things theme"
Lana Del Rey - "Venice Bitch"
Le1f - "Mind Body"
Leonard Cohen - "You Want it Darker"
Let's Eat Grandma - "Hot Pink"
Liars - "Mess on a Mission"
Lil Texas - "Shaba"
Lone - "Crystal Caverns 1991"
Lorde - "Royals"
Lotic - "Heterocetera"
Low - "Just Make it Stop"
M83 - "Midnight City"
Macintosh Plus - "リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー"
Magic Fades - "Ecco (Vektroid Mix)"
Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars - "Uptown Funk"
Meek Mill - "Dreams and Nightmares"
Metronomy - "The Look"
Migos - "Bad and Boujee"
Miguel - "Coffee"
Miley Cyrus - "We Can't Stop (original or Extreme animals only god can judge us mix)"
Muse - "Madness"
My Bloody Valentine - "New You"
Mykki Blanco - "Wavvy"
Naomi Elizabeth - "The Topic is Ass"
Neon Indian - "Sleep Paralsyst"
Nicki Minaj - "Come on a Cone"
Nine Inch Nails - "God Break Down the Door"
Nite Jewel & Julia Hotler - "What We See"
Octo Octa - "I'm Trying"
Oddisee - "Counterclockwise"
Oneohtrix Point Never - "Sticky Drama"
Owen Pallett - "In Conflict"
Panda Bear - "Tropic of Cancer"
Perfume Genius - "Die 4 You"
Pharmakon - "Body Betrays Itself"
Plan B - "Ill Manors"
Playboi Carter feat Nicki Minaj - "Poke It Out"
Pup - "DVP"
Pusha T - "Lunch Money"
Raime - "We Must Hunt Under the Wreckage of Many Systems"
Rihanna feat Calvin Harris - "We Found Love"
Rizzla - "Iron Cages"
Rocko feat A$ap Rocky and Future - "UOENO (remix)"
Romare - "Love Song"
Rustie - "First Mythz"
Rytmeklubben - "Girlfriend"
Sage the Gemini - "Gas Pedal"
Salva - "Wake Ups"
Savages - "Adore"
Schoolboy Q feat Kendrick Lamar - "Collard Greens"
Seefeel - "Dead Guitars"
Selena Gomez - "Bad Liar"
Serpentwithfeet - "Four Ethers"
Shabazz Palaces - "An Echo from the Hosts that Profess Infinitum"
Shamir - "Sometimes a Man"
Sharon Van Etten - "No One's Easy to Love"
Sia - "Cheap Thrills"
Sky Ferriera - "You're Not the One"
Slava - "Dreaming Tiger"
Slowdive - "Star Roving"
Soft Metals - "Tell Me"
Solange - "Losing You"
Sophie - "Just Like We Never Said Goodbye"
St Vincent  - "Los Ageless"
Sufjan Stevens - "4th of July"
SZA - "Drew Barrymore"
Tame Impala - "Apocalypse Dreams"
Taylor Swift - "Welcome to New York"
Them Are Us Too - "Angelene (Scream Queens version)"
Thundercat - "Walkin"
Thurston Moore - "Benediction"
Tinashe feat Schoolboy Q - "2 On"
Tirzah - "Gladly"
US Girls - "Rosebud"
Vampire Weekend - "Harmony Hall"
Vince Staples - "Norf Norf"
Wave Racer - "Streamers"
The Weeknd - "What You Need"
Yaeji - "Raingurl"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Despair"
Yves De Mey - "Metrics"
Zebra Katz ft Njena Reddd Foxxx - "Ima Read"

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Friday, November 1, 2019

Various Artists- Remissamhain



A comp of some of the darker music I've made over the years, as a Halloween comp


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Thursday, August 22, 2019

Long-Running Bands That Are Still Together






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Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Lick the Star dir Sofia Coppola (1998)




What I remember high school culture feeling like, not necessarily the characters and plotlines, but something emblematic of suburban zine/punk culture that's just beyond the valley of the cinema of transgression but with the same kind of antisociality.  You know, your standard student film with Peter Bogdonavich as the principal

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Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Heavy Light dir Adam Beckett (1973)

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Thursday, June 20, 2019

Documentary Mixtape- Year Thirty-Six (2018)



To be continued...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Documentary Mixtape- Year Thirty-Five (2017)

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