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wnycradiolab asked: Not to worry, a Mancestor campaign poster is coming soon!
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thugsteppin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barons,_Alberta I grew up here, it was so peaceful and beautiful
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December 2012
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Dylan's Top 10 Albums of 1992
Criteria: Something that is ahead of its time isn’t as impressive as something that defines it (that’s why Rage is behind STP and Chains.)
[[MORE]] 1) Dr. Dre – The Chronic [[MORE]]There’s really not much to say that hasn’t been said, except that it lives up to everything that’s ever been said. But it’s not just a great record because it’s an influential, successful, watershed,...
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Dylan's Top 25 Albums and Top 10 Songs of 2002
Pre(r)amble
Top 25 Albums:
1) Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf If this isn’t a perfect album, I’ve never heard one.
2) RJd2 - Deadringer This is probably the strongest argument, ever made, that sampling can be songwriting. (Read my full re-review here.)
3) Mr. Lif - I Phantom Lif comes with intense lyrical condemnation of the American culture of consumerism and...
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2002
2002 was right after 2001. The domestic Bush doctrine—be sad, be patriotic, but don’t be frugal—was in full force. Of course the state of America after 9/11 affected the music. Before you did anything in 2002—and then constantly during and after—you had to ask, “too soon?” Bush told us it mostly wasn’t. But you still had to ask. Is it too soon to sing about death? To complain about trivial...
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Candidates for top 10 albums of 2002: The Roots -...
The Roots
Phrenology
MCA
Goddamnit does ?uesto groove! But that’s not what makes this record so amazing. (I mean, it is. But that’s what makes every Roots record amazing.) They perennially try something new with someone new but this is The Roots at their best (in terms of both gutsy experimentation and crossover pop success of their collaborations.) [[MORE]](See “Thirsty” and look for...
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Candidates for top 10 albums of 2002: Spoon - Kill...
Spoon
Kill the Moonlight
Merge
Now this album is an album’s album. You know, like Louis C.K. is a comic’s comic? Actually, it’s not like that, because you can’t (easily) measure albums’ respect for each other. But Kill the Moonlight has all the special pieces and patient pacing of a great record.
I’ll explain.[[MORE]]
The catchy hits hit hard, thanks to some songs that aren’t at all...
WatchListen to Hey Indy by canvas: the human.
(This was the only song I ever wrote for my HS band. We just put our two studio…er…not live albums on bandcamp for fun’s sake.)
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Candidates for top 10 albums of 2002: Medeski...
Medeski Martin & Wood
Uninvisible
Blue Note Records
Uninvisible is unmistakably the MMW trio. But they aren’t at all shy about using other “voices” to push and humble themselves and their sound. Sometimes it comes out dubby (with effectsed horns) funky (with a guitarist or a DJ) or just weird (with words.) But even with some looping, it always feels organic. Another liberty they take with...
November 2012
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"HOW BOUT IT?!" with Aaron
Dear Bored people
The band is on a holiday vacation. I’m sitting around doing absolutely nothing. So if anyone is still visiting this blog at all, I thought I’d write something. Mostly because I’m having a latte, and I feel writing a blog entry is a very latte thing to do. I won’t call this is a reoccurring segment, because every time I say that there’s never a...
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Candidates for top 10 albums of 2002: Of Montreal...
Of Montreal
Aldhils Arboretum
Kindercore
Aldhils Arboretum doesn’t sound like it came out in 2002. I mean, obviously it does, because it did. It just doesn’t make sense next to anything else that was happening at the time.[[MORE]]
Of Montreal (somehow successfully) drop a heavy dose of the drug-induced but sharply-polished pop and imaginary narrative of the ‘60s into a musical...
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Candidates for top 10 albums of 2002: Eminem - The...
The Eminem Show is the concluding chapter of the original Eminem trilogy. Following the cartoony Slim Shady LP (named for his mischievous alter-ego) and the more personal/powerful Marshall Mathers LP (named after the real man), The Eminem Show (obviously, named after his stage moniker) is about fame and—even if it’s not any more mature than the other two—it is more tame.
This trilogy matches the...
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Candidates for top 10 albums of 2002: Mr. Lif - I...
Mr. Lif
I Phantom
Def Jux
I Phantom—Mr. Lif’s concept record that employs a complex narrative to question turn-of-the-millennium American priorities—is an awesome album in every way. And it’s not even his best work of 2002. That designation belongs to Lif’s Emergency Rations EP (released earlier in the year) which actually has the song “I Phantom” (masterfully produced by El-P.) Lif apparently...
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Candidates for top 10 albums of 2002: Sage Francis...
Sage Francis
Personal Journals
Anticon
Sage Francis makes Atmosphere look like the Cash Money Millionaires. He’s a focused but flamboyant foil to regular rap music and culture. But he doesn’t dispose of conventions, he categorically counteracts them: instead of rapping about selling drugs, smashing hoes, or rocking gold chains, Sage exclaims (but doesn’t preach) that he’s straight-edge, vegan,...
October 2012
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Candidates for top 10 albums of 2002: Foo Fighters...
oo Fighters
One By One
RCA
This isn’t quite an amazing album—they can’t all be—but it’s a well-above-average album that’s executed perfectly (…almost too perfectly. If this album has a flaw, it’s that the Foos are too focused on the little things.)
Even though it sounds nothing like it, in an abstract way, One By One is surprisingly similar to[[MORE]] Songs About Jane, by Maroon 5, from the same...
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Candidates for top 10 albums of 2002: Atmosphere -...
Atmosphere God Loves Ugly Rhymesayers Entertainment
od Loves Ugly feels like it was thrown together as much to spite life as to glorify squeezing the most out of it. But, even though Atmosphere’s only consciously overarching concept was probably something like, ‘let’s record enough stuff for a full-length,’ they ended up with a well-rounded hip hop record that combines a few self-effacing...
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Candidates for top 10 albums of 2002: Brad Mehldau...
Brad Mehldau
Largo
Warner Bros. Records
I guess this is technically a jazz record—I mean, it’s core is a piano-fronted jazz trio—but it’s so much thicker than that. Largo isn’t a set-up-some-room-mics-and-jam jazz record (although there’s super-impressive improvisation.) Instead, you’ll find scaffolded song structures and purposeful production that’s not as heavy-handed as textural overdubs...
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Candidates for top 10 albums of 2002: Audioslave
orry. But, as much as we wanted to brush-off this record as the pathetic product of washed-up rockers, Audioslave’s self-titled debut is too loaded with deftness to deny. Sure, I prefer Soundgarden and Rage Against the Machine to this supergroup, but it’s no profligate progeny. One positive change is that, whereas the parent-bands were often prone to privilege riffage over songwriting, this...
Matty's Candidates for Best Albums of...
At 4:12 PM on October 15th 2012, I received this e-mail from Matty “El-Scorcho” Hamilton.
Note: This e-mail has been slightly modified from it’s original version.
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Pickles, as promised, here’s my potentials.
2002 Candidates: (AKA...
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Candidates for top 10 albums of 2002: Bright Eyes...
ome fall, you’ll invariably find lists of the best albums of the year, decade, millennium, epoch, etc. But you can’t possibly expect me to make any sort of legitimate judgment about music that has just dropped! So, instead, as you may know, I make lists of the best albums of 10 and 20 years back. (If I’m still doing this when I’m 30, I’ll have a bigger workload.) This...
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Candidates for top 10 albums of 2002: Non Phixion...
very fall, you’ll find frantic “albums of the year” lists. But, since some albums are still honeymooning, others are stuck in the just-play-out phase, and you haven’t given radiohead albums enough of a chance yet, any judgment is premature. So, every year (as of last year) I don’t do that. But I do something very close: I make “albums of the year” lists for 10 and 20 years back—stuff from my own...
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Candidates for top 10 albums of 2002: Rjd2 -...
t the end of every year, you’ll find rushed “top 10 albums of the year” lists. But, since some albums are still new and exciting, others are stuck in their just-played-out phase, and you haven’t given radiohead albums enough of a chance yet, any judgment is premature. So, every year (starting last year) I go back and make top 10 lists for 10 and 20 years back—stuff...
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rictide asked: The poster was for my high school (we have this thing where we decorate our whole school with posters) lol and now that I think of it, it kinda doesn't make sense but who cares. You didn't have to sound so rude about it :/
September 2012
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you're the reason why i'll move to the city →
yo.
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything here but it’s not because I don’t love you. It’s because I was busy working two jobs/planning a wedding/playing mad shows. Howeva, I just quit one of those jobs so IM BACK SNOOP LION!
Anyway, a few things since it’s been oh so long:
1) Dylan has been killing it at keeping us internet relevant. Way to go brah, you win this week’s Golden Baron’s...
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