Chris
Glen’s Top Albums (2000s)
These albums really got me going at one time or another. After #1, the order doesn’t really matter. They’ve all been just about equally inspirational AND they are all pretty damn different.
1. Los Valienteles Del Mundo Nuevo (Black Lips/2007/Punk)
2. Nouns (No Age/2008/Experimental Noise Pop)
3. You and Me (Walkmen/2008/Post-Punk)
4. The King Khan & BBQ Show LP (The King Khan & BBQ Show/2004/Doo-Wop)
5. In Rainbows (Radiohead/2007/Art Rock)
My Top Albums of the Decade
Just flipping through the latest issue of Rolling Stone (I rarely read the mag) and taking a gander at their bests of the decade lists, I can’t get over the massive discrepancies in our’s and their’s. RS overwhelmingly favors mostly mainstream/major label acts and a few independent acts with some degree of commercials success. So of course, our homeboys (Black Lips, Jay, King Khan, No Age, etc.) are virtually nonexistent because they’re not big enough! Wow, what a terrifically horrendous way to evaluate music… Anyway, case in point, their top 50 albums of the decade barely included 1/5 of independent music, whereas our lists are the complete opposite. Anyway, here’s their list: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/31248017/100_best_albums_of_the_decade/44 and here’s mine, the better one :)
1) Black Lips- Los Valientes Del Mundo Nuevo (2007, Vice)
2) Jay Reatard- Matador Singles ’08 (2008, Matador)
3) The King Khan & BBQ Show- What’s For Dinner? (2006, In the Red)
4) Jay Reatard- Blood Visions (2006, In The Red)
5) Jay Reatard- Singles ’06-’07 (2008, In the Red)
6) Bright Eyes- I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (2005, Saddle Creek)
7) The King Khan & BBQ Show- The King Khan & BBQ Show (2004, Goner)
8) Animal Collective- Strawberry Jam (2007, Domino)
9) No Age- Nouns (2008, Sub Pop)
10) King Khan & The Shrines- The Supreme Genius of King Khan & The Shrines (2008, Vice)
11) Arcade Fire- Neon Bible (2007, Merge)
12) Black Lips- 200 Million Thousand (2009, Vice)
13) Page France- Hello, Dear Wind (2005, Suicide Squeeze)
14) Box Elders- Alice and Friends (2009, Goner)
15) The Pains of Being Pure At Heart- The Pains of Being Pure At Heart (Slumberland Records, 2009)
16) Against Me!- Reinventing Axl Rose (2002, No Idea)
17) Girls- Album (2009, True Panther Sounds)
18) The Nightwatchman- One Man Revolution (2007, Epic)
19) Glassjaw- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence (Roadrunner, 2000)
20) Mark Sultan- The Sultanic Verses (2007, In the Red)
21) Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (2006, Domino)
22) Kimya Dawson- Remember That I love You (2006, K)
23) Black Lips- Good, Bad, Not Evil (2007, Vice)
24) The Almighty Defenders- The Almighty Defenders (2009, Vice)
25) The King Khan & BBQ Show- Invisible Girl (2009, In the Red)
26) System of A Down- Mesmerize/ Hypnotize ( 2005, American)
27) Deerhunter- Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP (2009, Kranky)
28) Head Automatica- Decadence (2004, Warner Brothers)
29) Deftones- White Pony (2000, Maverick)
30) System of A Down- Toxicity (2001, American)
31) Mabuses- Mabused (2007, Magpie)
32) Glassjaw- Worship and Tribute (2002, Warner Brothers)
33) Against Me!- As the Eternal Cowboy (2003, Fat Wreck Cords)
34) Black Lips- Black Lips (2003, Bomp!)
35) Black Lips- We Did Not Know the Spirit Made the Flowers Grow (2004, Bomp!)
36) Animal Collective- Feels (2005, Fat Cat)
37) Sonic Youth- The Eternal (2009, Matador)
38) Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009, Domino)
39) Fugazi- The Argument (2001, Dischord)
40) Those Darlins- Those Darlins (2009, Oh Wow Dang)
41) The Strange Boys and Girls Club (2009, In the Red)
42) The Used- The Used (2001, Reprise)
43) Arctic Monkeys- Humbug (2009, Domino, Warner Brothers, EMI)
44) Editors- The Back Room (2005, Kitchenware, Fader)
45) Shellac- 1000 Hurts (2000, Touch And Go)
I’m leaving 5 slots open for possible last minute acceptances.
Chris
Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight)
Chris
Song of the Day
The Hives – Main Offender
Great song off one of my favorite albums of the 2000s Veni Vidi Vicious! A trained eye might draw some comparison to Jay Reatard. This is more “accessible” so to speak, but yeah.
Person of the Day
Bamboorella!
KK BBQ Show Set + Interview
This is a pretty new one that has in it Leo Chips (the SHOW in King Khan & BBQ Show). They play four songs and then do a little interview after. It’s all good!
BUT…you kind of have to skip some of it to get to the good stuff. Not to say that the first band/interview isn’t great, but come on now.
Don’t Take These While Driving
Question of the Week: Jesus v Santa?
Who would win in a fight?! Place your bets! Hopefully this will steer you in the right direction.
Chris
Random Thought Of the Day…
As we waltz our fat asses into another decade, I’m struck by the thought of how memorable or unmemorable not only this decade, but the previous decade has been. It’s a sad commentary when the first things that come to my mind are all classic mass hysteria: Columbine, 9/11, the Swine Flu Epidemic, etc. When we look back on the 90s and 00s I hope we are not simply remembering tragedies, facebook, and Kanye’s interruption at the Mtv awards. Fortunately, the underground (and to an extent the overground in the 90s) have given us some of the best Rock and Roll ever. But, still our generation seems to lack the cultural significance that previous generations championed. Just the other day, I was watching the Wedding Singer, which was released in 1997, but was set in 1985. I thought to myself, why hasn’t there been a movie released in this decade that takes place in the 90s? It’s really peculiar when you look at how quickly other decades got their due: American Graffiti was released in 1973 and set in 1962 (only 11 year difference) and Dazed and Confused was released in 1993 and takes place in 1976 (17 years). So, what does that say about our culture in the past 20 years or so? Is it so monotonous that it is not worthy of an era capturing film? Oh well, perhaps the next decade will be radical and/or there will be a feature film set in the 90s/00s as worthy as its nostalgic predecessors.
Chris
Kids Like You & Me (KLYAM) 