10 Best Albums of 2010

Yeezy taught me well...

1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

2. MGMT - Congratulations

3. Robyn - Body Talk: Part 1 & 2

4. Hot Chip - One Life Stand

5. Best Coast - Crazy For You

6. The Drums - The Drums

7. Girl Talk - All Day

8. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles

9. Delorean - Subiza

10. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Animal Collective - Banshee Beat

"Cause when I'm snuffed out I doubt I'll find a swimming pool"

Animal Collective - Banshee Boat

Are You Still Down?

Spring is coming.

Tanlines - Real Life

10 Best Albums of 2009

Completely fell in love with Primary Colours this past year and it continues to get complete listens weekly. I will add that this is the most underrated album of the year.

1. The Horrors - Primary Colours

2. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

3. jj - jj n° 2

4. The xx - xx

5. Passion Pit - Manners

6. Cut Off Your Hands - You & I

7. Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young

8. The Raveonettes- In and Out Of Control

9. Cold Cave - Love Comes Close

10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

Cut Off Your Hands- Expectations

I've been waiting for this album to finally be released in North America. I have had a different version of this track for a while now and it was one of my faves last year. Its been cleaned up alot and slowed down but the sing-a-long quality of it still holds.

Cut Off Your Hands- Expectations

Longwave- I Don't Dare

The Worst Taste In Music is alive in 2009. Very well "produced" rock song to kick off the new year.

Longwave - I Don't Dare

Passion Pit- Sleepy Head

I really wish this song could be a minute longer.  Maybe then the play count wouldnt be at 22 right now...

Passion Pit- Sleepy Head

10 Best Albums of 2008

Early on in 2008 i was blown away by a certain band from Scotland.  The raw energy and emotion from Glasvegas was one of my best friends this past year.  Thank you.

1.Glasvegas- Glasvegas

2.Friendly Fires- Friendly Fires

3.Kings of Leon- Only By the Night

4.MGMT-  Oracular Spectacular

5.Santogold-Santogold

6.Cut Copy- In Ghost Colours

7.M83- Saturdays=Youth

8.The Raveonettes- Lust Lust Lust

9.The Walkmen- You & Me

10.Alphabeat- This is Alphabeat

Cazals - New Boy In Town

French. Rock. New. Boy. New. Boy. In. Town.

Cazals - New Boy In Town

Metric- Help, I'm Alive

As my man Larry David would say, "pretty pretty pretty good."

Metric - Help, I'm Alive

New Order

If you consider yourself any kind of music fan of the 1980s then it's your duty to listen to New Order.  So if you haven't then there's no better time then now because their first 5 albums have been remastered and reissued(all are double discs).  Here's my standouts from each album.

New Order- Ceremony (taken from Movement 1981)

New Order - Lonesome Tonight (taken from Power, Corruption, & Lies 1983)

New Order - Love Vigilantes (taken from Low-Life 1985)

New Order - 1963 (taken from Brotherhood 1986)

New Order - Run (taken from Technique 1989)

The Killers - Spaceman

Therrrree Baackkk! With more Oh-Oh-Oh's to drown your whole pop collection. Brandon Flowers is the orginal gangsta dont front. So get ready for some high energy synth pop coming straight to your dome kid.

The Killers - Spaceman

Interpol- Precipitate

Fall in love all over again.

Interpol- Precipitate

Matt & Kim- Daylight

This song would ignite the crunkest sing-a-long everrr.  

Matt & Kim-Daylight

Los Campesinos!- You'll Need Those Fingers For Crossing

Two albums in one year! Thank you.  Best song yet. If you haven't heard what you waiting for?

Los Campesinos!- You'll Need Those Fingers For Crossing

Chairlift- Bruises

So you have surely heard the new ipod nano commercial with this song. Ya apple knows how to  pick these fucking cute little numbers. Its really genius.  I bet there are gonna be a lot of people that hear the commercial and think this is Feist. You wait and see.

Chairlift- Bruises

Salem- Brustreet

So this is pretty much a cover of Bruce Springsteen "Streets of Philadelphia".  Which came out on the Philadelphia soundtrack.  I loved both the movie and song when they first came out.  The movie is still watchable but at parts is very dated. The song has always held up in my book as one of the most dark pop songs that had top 40 success to come out in 90s.  The darkness gets stretched to limit in this version and its done perfectly.

Salem- Brustreet

Robots In Disguise- The Tears

Can you really start comparing bands to MGMT?  Sure.  This band is the girl version.

Robots In Disguise- The Tears

Bloc Party- Ion Squared

It's Bloc Party going all Arcade Fire on us.  This is the work of genius.

Bloc Party- Ion Squared

John Mayer- Kid A

I'm 48 hrs away from my first live Radiohead  concert.  Acually it's not a concert it's an experience.

John Mayer- Kid A