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alphabetically:

!!! - Myth Takes
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
budhi - Koan
Caspian - The Four Trees
The Go! Team - Proof Of Youth
Interpol - Our Love To Admire
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
Liars - Liars
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover

The best new track tonight was 'DQMOT' by People Under The Stairs. Every album they release is full of gems and I really had a tough time picking one to play tonight. Amazing hip hop, just pure fun and wicked rapping!

The sharp-eyed Groinker might notice a bit more retro electro than I normally play. This is because I was still buzzing from watching the BBC's 'Synth Britannia.' So, there is no one best old tune tonight - it's every song that made my teenage electropop years fantastic. Thank you, synth kids. :-)

This is what you heard:

J. Scrilla & Royalty - Wut Up
Apollo 18 - End
Benny Page & Zero G - pan pipes
In Defence - Don't Call Me A Moshist
Alphabetix - Bounce
The Elephants - Take it!
Mesmer - Some Disney Scene
Kool Shen - Salope.Com
Rustie - Bad Science
The Orphan, The Poet - Archetype
Spearmint - sweeping the nation
Bound By Honor - Word Play
Black Flag - 08-police story
Trash80 - Icarus
Bury Tomorrow - You & I
The Normal - Warm Leatherette
Los Campesinos! - Drop It Doe Eyes
Cormega - Make It Clear (Prod. By DJ Premier)
fun. - Benson Hedges
Get Up Kids - How Long Is Too Long
Pinch - attack of the giant killer robot spiders!
Converge - Cutter
Exlovers - Photobooth
J-Diggs - Code of Da Streets (Ft. Big Rich and Misstory)
Vitalic - Terminateur Benelux
War from a Harlots Mouth - No High Five For C.oward
Jens Lekman - I Saw Her In The Anti War Demonstration
People Under the Stairs - DQMOT
GusGus - Hateful
Blessthefall - Hey Baby, Here's That Song You Wanted
Princeton - Shout It Out
Jern Eye (Lunar Heights) - So and So Ft. Guilty Simpson
Human League - Being Boiled (Being Boiled 7in 1978)
Arise Horror - The Descent
The Darling Buds - Shame on You
Jap Adaptors - I Am An Ant
U-God - Stomp Da Roach
Austrian Death Machine - Come On, Do It, Do It, Come On, Come On, Kill Me, Do It Now
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Sad Girls
The National - Blank Slate
The Bloody Beetroots - Awesome
The Holly Springs Disaster - I D.A.R.E. David Bowie To Drive Drunk
Dananananaykroyd - Watch This!
LMFAO - I'm in Miami Bitch
Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper
Tarkan - Kiss Kiss
HORSE the band - Between The Trees
Matre - Defrost Ft. Esto Es Eso
MASSHYSTERI - Var Del Av Stan
Rilo Kiley - the absence of god
LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous!
Mew - Repeaterbeater
Yeti Lane - Lonesome George
Every Time I Die - After One Quarter Of A Revolution
Horrorshow - Inside Story
The James Taylor Quartet - Theme from Starsky and Hutch
Wreck Of The Minotaur - Big Money Stella
The Joy Formidable - Cradle
Benga - technocal
All - Problematic
Del The Funky Homosapien & Tame One - Specifics
Good Clean Fun - A Little Bit Emo, A Little Bit
Atmosphere - FEEL GOOD HIT OF THE SUMMER 2
Belle and Sebastian - It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career
The Hidden Cameras - Kingdom Come
Wilco - Wilco (The Song)
The Divine Comedy - Songs of Love

...alphabetical order...

Air - Talkie Walkie
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Blonde Redhead - Misery Is a Butterfly
Comme Restus - Pharmácia Ananáz
Crotchduster - Big Fat Box of Shit
Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Ho-Chi-Minh - Ho-Chi-Minh
Humanos - Humanos
Jens Lekman - "When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog"
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street
Mão Morta - Nus
Migala - La increíble aventura
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Rodrigo Leão - Cinema
Sigur Rós - Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans

this is volume 3 of my top 100 albums list -- not a best of all time, just a personal selection -- compiled in october of 2009.

you can also check out a pdf of the list with album art and one song from each of the albums, while they last, on my blog.

1. Silver Jews- The Natural Bridge
2. Pixies- Doolittle
3. Pavement- Wowee Zowee
4. The Flaming Lips- The Soft Bulletin
5. Captain Beefheart- Trout Mask Replica
6. Fiona Apple- When the Pawn
7. The Beatles- Abbey Road
8. Brian Eno- Here Come the Warm Jets
9. Destroyer- Destroyer’s Rubies
10. Smog- Knock Knock
11. Joanna Newsom- The Milk-Eyed Mender
12. Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci- The Blue Trees
13. The Halo Benders- God Don’t Make No Junk
14. David Bowie- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
15. Built to Spill- There’s Nothing Wrong with Love
16. Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited
17. Sparklehorse- It’s A Wonderful Life
18. Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
19. Ugly Casanova- Sharpen Your Teeth
20. Guided by Voices – Bee Thousand
21. Frank Black- Teenager of the Year
22. Neil Young- After the Gold Rush
23. Led Zeppelin- IV
24. Holopaw- Holopaw
25. Modest Mouse- Lonesome Crowded West
26. Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes
27. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
28. Radiohead- Amnesiac
29. Nick Drake- Pink Moon
30. Beck- Sea Change
31. The National- Alligator
32. Sufjan Stevens- Seven Swans
33. Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation
34. Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
35. Blonde Redhead- Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
36. At the Drive-In- Vaya
37. Talking Heads- Stop Making Sense [Special Edition]
38. Soltero- Defrocked And Kicking The Habit
39. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks- Pig Lib
40. Television - Marquee Moon
41. Ted Leo and The Pharmacists- Hearts of Oak
42. Mercury Rev- All Is Dream
43. Badly Drawn Boy- The Hour of Bewilderbeast
44. Blur- Blur
45. Arcade Fire- Funeral
46. Mothers of Invention- We’re Only in it for the Money
47. Wilco- A Ghost Is Born
48. The Kinks- The Village Green Preservation Society
49. East River Pipe - The Gasoline Age
50. The Olivia Tremor Control- Black Foliage- Animation Music Vol. 1
51. Lou Reed - Transformer
52. The Mountain Goats- We Shall All Be Healed
53. Black Heart Procession - Amore Del Tropico
54. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
55. Syd Barrett – The Madcap Laughs
56. Air- Moon Safari
57. Robyn Hitchcock – I Often Dream of Trains
58. Frank Zappa- Hot Rats
59. Cat Power- Moon Pix
60. Belle and Sebastian- Dear Catastrophe Waitress
61. Nine Inch Nails- The Downward Spiral
62. Bat for Lashes – Fur And Gold
63. Frog Eyes – Golden River
64. Black Sabbath- Paranoid
65. The Presidents of the United States of America- The Presidents of the United States of America
66. Spoon- Girls Can Tell
67. Soul Coughing- Ruby Vroom
68. El Guapo- Super/System
69. Dinosaur Jr. - BUG
70. Sunset Rubdown- Shut Up I Am Dreaming
71. Hayden – Elk Lake Serenade
72. Sam Prekop – Who’s Your New Professor
73. The Cure- Disintegration
74. Wolf Parade- Apologies to the Queen Mary
75. Slint- Spiderland
76. Archer Prewitt – Wilderness
77. The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers
78. Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
79. Gary Higgins – Red Hash
80. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney- Superwolf
81. Pedro the Lion- Control
82. Jens Lekman – Oh You’re So Silent Jens
83. The Rolling Stones- Sticky Fingers
84. The Grateful Dead- American Beauty
85. Meat Puppets – II
86. Jens Carelius – The First Songs
87. Jimi Hendrix- Electric Ladyland
88. The Eels- Souljacker
89. Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
90. Nirvana- In Utero
91. of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
92. Nada Surf- Let Go
93. The Doors – The Doors
94. Kurt Vile – Constant Hitmaker
95. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
96. Dr. Octagon – Dr. Octagonecologyst
97. Fredrik – Na Na Ni
98. The Decemberists – The Tain
99. Primus- The Brown Album
100. Andre Ethier – On Blue Fog

Now, before we start, can I just say one thing? I like music. I mean, I really like music. I suppose, or at least I hope, that fact is pretty self-evident. But then again, don't we all? I could reel off a load of bullshit about the subjective nature of music, opinions, taste and so on and so forth but that'd make this here lil' listy rather pointless, wouldn't it? Shit like this is designed to inspire debate and evoke feelings of outrage, agreement, disbelief and, more often than not, sheer-fucking-wall-punching-bin-kicking-hand-breaking anger. If you can be arsed reading what I've scribed, then kudos to you. Hopefully you won't agree. I doubt you will. I probably don't. If you do you're likely to be a stalker who wants to have sex with me. You better be female. And fit(ish).

Anyway, enjoy. Or don't. I'm off to make some toast.

Go!



100. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm



99. No Age - Nouns

98. Shearwater - Rook

97. Matt & Kim - Grand

96. The Libertines - Up the Bracket

95. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson



94. The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America

93. St Vincent - Marry Me

92. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns

91. OutKast - Stankonia

90. Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block



89. Camera Obscura - Let's Get out of This Country

88. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Etiquette

87. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

86. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike

85. Jay Z - The Black Album



84. Malajube - Trompe-l'oeil

83. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride

82. Maths & Physics Club - Maths and Physics Club

81. Deer Tick - War Elephant

80. Willy Mason - Where The Humans Eat



79. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar

78. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans

77. The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2

76. Fennesz - Endless Summer

75. Karate - Unsolved



74. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

73. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Ease Down the Road

72. Okkervil River - The Stage Names

71. School of Seven Bells Alpinisms

70. Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams



69. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion

68. Daft Punk - Discovery

67. The Sea and Cake - Oui

66. Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim

65. The Yeah yeah yeahs - Fever To Tell



64. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat

63. King Biscuit Time - No Style

62. The Walkmen - You & Me

61. TV on the Radio - Dear Science,

60. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster...



59. The Strokes - Is This It?

58. of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?

57. The Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home

56. Dan Deacon - Spiderman Of The Rings

55. Liars - Drum's Not Dead



54. Junior Senior - D-D-Don't Stop The Beat

53. Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens

52. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days

51. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife

50. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away



49. Beach House - Devotion

48. Jose Gonzalez - Veneer

47. M83 - Saturdays = Youth

46. The Dodos - Visiter

45. WHY? Alopecia



44. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells

43. Gui Boratto - Chromophobia

42. Joanna Newsome - The Milk-Eyed Mender

41. The National - Boxer

40. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar



39. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup

38. Do Make Say Think - You, You're A History In Rust

37. Dntel - Dumb Luck

36. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming

35. The Thermals - More Parts Per Million



34.The Shins - Oh Inverted World

33. The Decemberists - Picaresque

32. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

31. Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State

30. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours



29. royksopp - Melody AM

28. Air - Talkie Walkie

27. The Coral - Magic and Medicine

26. The Avalanches - Since I Left You

25. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest



24. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica

23. Arcade Fire - Funeral

22. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

21. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, Its Morning

20. Life Without Buildings - Any Other City



19. The Books - The Lemon of Pink

18. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire

17. Panda Bear - Person Pitch

16. The Walkmen - Bows + Arrows

15. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain



14. The Knife - Silent Shout

13. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

12. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala

11. The Postal Service - Give Up

10. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow



9. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver



8. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes



7. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois



6. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary



5. Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures



4. The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave



3. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot



2. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots



1. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Happy Friday, folks!

This week totally blew. I took a mental health day on Monday, and even with a shorter week, it STILL bit dicks. Let us join together in celebrating this working week's death...and our shared love of the following bands:

The playlist:

Things that Are Square 10-15-09

(*) = New release

Jonathan Richman - Rooming House on Venice Beach - I, Jonathan

(*) The Drums - Don't Be a Jerk, Jonny - Summertime!
Yo La Tengo - Blitzkrieg Bop - Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo
The Light Footwork - Docomo - One State Two State
Beulah - Me and Jesus Don't Talk Anymore - Yoko

(*) Thao with The Get Down Stay Down - When We Swam - Know Better Learn Faster
Okkervil River - Do What You Gotta Do - Golden Opportunies Mix Tape
Daniel Johnston - Held the Hand - 1990
(*) The Mountain Goats - Genesis 3:23 - The Life of the World to Come

(*) Lake - Sing 99 & 90 - Let's Build a Roof
Jens Lekman - Your Arms Around Me - Night Falls Over Kortedala
Belle and Sebastian - To Be Myself Completely - The Life Pursuit

The Cramps - Human Fly - Gravest Hits
Beat Happening - Pinebox Derby - You Turn Me On
Nat Baldwin - Lake Erie - Most Valuable Player
Dirty Projectors - I Will Truck - The Getty Address

(*) Do Make Say Think - Do - Other Truths
Slint - Good Morning, Captain - Spiderland

(*) Fool's Gold - Ha Dvash - Fool's Gold
Gang Gang Dance - God's Money V - God's Money
Fog - We're Winning - 10th Avenue Freakout
Animal Collective - For Reverend Green - Strawberry Jam
Blood on the Wall - I'd Like to Take You Out Tonight - Awesomer

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey - Psychocandy

If you want to tune in next Thursday, thereby making my week better, TtAS is on every Thursday 6-8pm PST on KUCI 88.9FM in Irvine, CA and worldwide on the internet at KUCI.ORG, the public radio presets of iTunes, etc.etc.etc.

<3,
Kyle

The best new song tonight was 'Straight Edge Hangover' by the chaps above, In Defence. A lovely dollop of new (but old-skool-sounding) sXe hardcore, it slotted in nicely towards the end of my set when I had a need for some straight-edge shoutiness. Probably because I've been getting so much shit for choosing to be edge lately. *sigh*

In Defence are on tour at the mo, go and catch them as they sound like they'd be great fun live. :-)


And on more of a true old-skool emo tip, The Promise Ring's sunny 'Skips A Beat Over You' was tonight's best old track. For you modern, fringe-flinging emo kids, check out some emo from the days before autotune and shit drum machine programming...

This is what I played:

Woolfy - That Lady
Little Red - It's Alright
Bound By Honor - Word Play
Strawberry Fair - I Can't Do Anything
Apollo 18 - End
Matthew Rozeik - Five Easy Steps
Akir - Politricks
Twin Atlantic - Old Grey Face
Rustie - Bad Science
Arise Horror - The Descent
Goto80 - Spill
Dananananaykroyd - Watch This!
anti-pop consortium - Shine
Refused - the shape of punk to come
The Bloody Beetroots - Awesome
Band of Horses - The First Song
HORSE the band - Between The Trees
Debaser - The Crown Fits
Those Dancing Days - Those Dancing Days
LMFAO - I Am Not A Whore
Burning Hearts - I Walked Among The Trees
Shinobu Tanaka, Kenta Nagata - Mario Kart Main Theme
Michael Hunter - Soviet Connection (Theme from Grand Theft Auto IV)
Frightened Rabbit - The Twist
August Burns Red - Rationalist
Trash80 - Icarus
Bombay Bicycle Club - Magnet
The Knife - Silent Shout
Nine high - Life Pt 3 (Prod. Ghosttown)
Austrian Death Machine - Come On, Do It, Do It, Come On, Come On, Kill Me, Do It Now
Djedjotronic - james
Taking Back Sunday - Sink Into Me
Saves the Day - Certain Tragedy
iTAL tEK - Tokyo Freeze
The Answering Machine - Obviously Cold
Evergreen Terrace - Rip this!
Beat Happening - Hot Chocolate Boy
Micachu - Golden Phone
WHY? - Sanddollars
Headstrong Company - Long Time Comng
The Cars - Just What I Needed
La Casa Azul - En noches como la de hoy
Wienzeile - nur ein gruss
Loney, Dear - Airport Surroundings
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Kurt Cobain's Cardigan
Tiga - shoes mr oizo remix)
Grayskul - Mod Volatile
The Hidden Cameras - Kingdom Come
A Place to Bury Strangers - It Is Nothing
Freeland - Best Fish Tacos In Ensenda
The Fall of Troy - Straight-Jacket Keelhauled
The Elephants - Take it!
Sapient - Famine
The Holly Springs Disaster - I D.A.R.E. David Bowie To Drive Drunk
Cable - God gave me gravity
Half Hearted Hero - Colder Weather
Headlights - Secrets
Kings of Convenience - Peacetime Resistance
Deerhoof - Chandelier Searchlight
Jens Lekman - You Are the Light
Adebisi Shank - Jump Cut
The Ettes - Take It with You
Promise Ring - Skips A Beat (Over You)
Good Clean Fun - Ex-Straight Edge Ex
In Defence - Straight-Edge Hangover
Minor Threat - Filler
Casey Jones - Know This X
Youth of Today - Wake Up And Live
God Help The Girl - Funny Little Frog
Randy Newman - Ragtime

Artists/bands chosen from my top 8 for the past 6 months.

1. Kent
First heard; Sundance Kid
First fell in love with; Pärlor
Current favorite song; Månadens erbjudande
Favorite album; Du & Jag Döden

2. Håkan Hellström
First heard; Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg
First fell in love with; Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg
Current favorite song; Mitt Gullbergs kaj paradis
Favorite album; Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg eller Det är så jag säger det

3. Hello Saferide
First heard; I Thought You Said Summer Is Going to Take the Pain Away
First fell in love with; My Best Friend
Current favorite song; Parenting Never Ends
Favorite album; Introducing... Hello Saferide

4. Jens Lekman
First heard; The Opposite of Hallelujah
First fell in love with; Black Cab
Current favorite song; You Are the Light (By Which I Travel Into This and That)
Favorite album; Oh You're So Silent Jens

5. Markus Krunegård
First heard; Jag är en vampyr
First fell in love with; Det är ett idogt jobb att driva ungdomen ut ur sin kropp
Current favorite song; Ibland gör man rätt, ibland gör man fel
Favorite album; Markusevangeliet

6. Joel Alme
First heard; Always on My Mind
First fell in love with; The Queen's Corner
Current favorie song; A Young Summer's Youth
Favorite album; A Master Of Ceremonies

7. Vapnet
First heard; Kalla mig
First fell in love with; Thoméegränd
Current favorite song; Thoméegränd
Favorite album; Jag Vet Hur Man Väntar

8. Laakso
First heard; Västerbron
First fell in love with; High Drama
Current favorite song; Long Beach
Favorite album; Mother, Am I Good Looking?