blurrrx's Last.fm Journal

Best of 2011

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:54:15 +0000

DISCLAIMER: I've been obsessing over this list for days and I almost didn't make it cuz I don't have a fave song or album. Still not sure I got it right. So this is just a bunch of jams I vibed to at some point this year. Need you now 2k12 (via Sleigh Bells, AnCo + more...yes plz).

ALBUMS (with songs)
Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation (Montana, 17)
Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde (Smile, All Die Young)
M83- Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (Splendor, Claudia Lewis)
Cults - Cults (You Know What I Mean, Abducted)
The Antlers - Burst Apart (Putting The Dog To Sleep, I Don't Want Love)
Yuck - Yuck (The Wall, Shook Down)
Shannon & The Clams - Sleep Talk (Done With You, Baby Don't Do It)
Akron/Family - S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT (Light Emerges, Another Sky)
Helmet Hair - Glitter Fuzz EP (What Can I Say?, The Brightest) (I might be biased but this is good music. F'real.)

OTHER SONGS
roeVy - 5 Minute Meltdown
Jack's Mannequin - Keep Rising (Glass Passenger demo, wasn't even written this year)
Atlas Sound - Mona Lisa
Cut Copy - Where I'm Going
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Hysterical
Panda Bear - Last Night At The Jetty
The Submarines - Birds
The Go! Team - Apollo Throwdown
Fleet Foxes - Lorelai
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Made In America (feat. Frank Ocean) (minus Jay's verse)

MOST OVERRATED
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
ZZZZZ. Not saying this is bad, just puts me to sleep.

MOST UNDERRATED
Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
After reading as many "official" year end lists I could find, and only seeing it on one, I think this is one of the most underrated albums this year. Espesh since P4K gave it BNM and didn't even include it in top albums or honorable mentions, and other artists that didn't get BNM were in the top 20 (???)

BEST CONCERT
Pitchfork Music Festival even though I nearly passed out during Yuck, lost my purse during Odd Future and almost fell asleep multiple times. It was a fun adventure I got to have with mah bfffff (via overnight bus rides, hostels and 97º weather).

Best of 2010

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:19:37 +0000

Since it's the last day of the year, it's time to post my best of 2010 list, even though I made it at the beginning of the month. Compiled for my radio station, blacksquirrelradio.com.

TOP ALBUMS

1. Sleigh Bells - Treats
Favorite songs: Tell ‘Em, Kids, Riot Rhythm, Infinity Guitars, Rill Rill, Crown on the Ground, Straight A’s, A/B Machines, Treats

2. Beach House - Teen Dream
Favorite Songs: Take Care, Zebra, Use to Be, Silver Soul

3. of Montreal - False Priest
Favorite songs: I Feel Ya Strutter, Enemy Gene, Famine Affair

4. Deerhunter- Halcyon Digest
Favorite songs: Memory Boy, Helicopter, Don’t Cry

5. MGMT - Congratulations
Favorite Songs: Flash Delirium, Congratulations, I Found a Whistle

6. Jonsi - Go
Favorite songs: Go Do, Animal Arithmetic, Boy Lilikoi

7. She & Him - Volume Two
Favorite songs: Don’t Look Back, Brand New Shoes, Home

8. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Favorite songs: Monster, Runaway, All of the Lights

9. Happy Birthday - Happy Birthday
Favorite songs: Subliminal Message, 2 Shy, Perverted Girl

10. Gold Motel - Summer House
Favorite songs: Perfect in my Mind, Summer House, Safe in L.A.

OTHER FAVORITE SONGS
Beach House - White Moon
Belle & Sebastian - I Didn’t See It Coming
Best Coast - When I’m With You
Big Boi - Shutterbug
CocoRosie - The Moon Asked The Crow
Janelle Monae- Tightrope
Porcelain Raft- Dragonfly
Shy Child - Disconnected
TV Girl - If You Want It
Vampire Weekend- White Sky

Best of 2009

Mon, 7 Dec 2009 21:40:53 +0000

I made this list for the radio station where I DJ. Go to www.blacksquirrelradio.com right now!

TOP ALBUMS
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Self Titled
Favorite songs: Stay Alive, Young Adult Friction

Passion Pit - Manners
Favorite songs: To Kingdom Come, Little Secrets

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Favorite songs: Summertime Clothes, Brother Sport

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
Favorite songs: Dull Life, Hysteric

Dark Was The Night compilation
Favorite Songs: Happiness by Riceboy Sleeps, Lenin by the Arcade Fire

Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
Favorite songs: French Navy, The Sweetest Thing

fun. - Aim & Ignite
Favorite songs: I Wanna Be The One, The Gambler

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadaeus Phoenix
Favorite songs: Listzomania, 1901

Blake Miller - Burn Tape
Favorite songs: In The Danger, We Drove Through Winter

N.A.S.A. - Spirit of Apollo
Favorite songs: Strange Enough (Karen O, Ol' Dirty Bastard & Fat Lip), Whatchadoin? (M.I.A., Santogold, Spank Rock & Nick Zinner)

I'm happy with the top 5 albums, but the rest of it is kind of fuzzy. I wasn't sure what ranked where in my favorites.

TOP SONGS NOT FROM TOP ALBUMS
Akron/Family: Sun Will Shine
Animal Collective: What Would I Want? Sky
Atlas Sound - Walkabout
Bat For Lashes - Pearl's Dream
Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
Helmet Hair - Aww Yeah
Jay-Z - Empire State Of Mind
Peter Bjorn & John - Nothing to Worry About
YACHT - Psychic City

All these songs are amazing. End of story.

P.S.: Sorry for not writing reviews of the Flaming Lips and Nicole Atkins concerts. I have been so swamped with school work this semester that I literally didn't have time. Just know that both concerts owned. Flaming Lips was a confetti-fest of epic proportions, while Nicole Atkins was at a super tiny club and there were about 10 people there—literally. I got to meet her afterwards and bought Neptune City on vinyl.

P.P.S.: 2010 is shaping up to be a pretty awesome year for music too. She & Him and Nicole Atkins are both coming out with new albums!

Music Survey

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:23:32 +0000

I posted this on facebook (7-23-09) but it makes sense to post it on here too, so I'm just gonna update the few questions that apply to right now.

1. What are you listening to right now? Fold Your Hands Child by Cobra Starship

2. What song makes you sad? Songs that remind me of Liz <3

3. What is the most annoying song in the world? Most "popular" songs tend to be annoying

4. Your favorite band? I guess if I had to pick, I would say Jack's Mannequin

5. Your newly discovered band is? Coconut Records, Donora

6. Best female voice? Chan Marshall

7. Best male voice? Sufjan Stevens

8. Music type you find yourself listening to most? Indie/pop rock/classic rock

9. What do you listen to to hype you up? Girl Talk

10. What do you listen to when you want to calm down? I love a lot of chill music, favorites include (Deja Entendu) Brand New, Sufjan, Mum, etc.

11. Last event you went to?: Girl Talk!

12. Bands you find yourself listening to the most right now? Cobra Starship's new album and a lot of other random stuff, see my recently played list

13. Song that makes you happy? Spree songs & Dancing In The Street (Bowie & Jagger) makes me laugh. A lot.

14. Song that makes you think? Sufjan makes me think

15. Band that you think the world should love as much as you do? The Polyphonic Spree

16. Coolest music video? I don't watch many music videos

17. Music video with the most babe watch? What does this mean?

18. What do you play/would you play in the bedroom to spice things up? Music to fall in love to

19. Can you play a musical instrument? Does kazoo count?

20. Ever been in a mosh pit? Yah

21. Are you in a band? Not unless you count the Animals of the Abyss

23. Ever dated a musician? Nope

28. Do you wish yourself that you were a musician? Yeah

29. Best chick band you know of? CocoRosie

31. Last song that you heard on the radio/cd...etc...? I listened to Cobra in the car today

32. What do you think of Classical music? I can dig it

33. What do you think of Country music? I can't dig it

34. What do you think of Death metal? It scares me

35. Do you like music? Uh, DUH.

36. Are you a groupie? Hah.

37. Do you listen to music in foreign languages? Sigur Ros :)

38. What famous musician would you like to f***!? Ert...all I'm saying is that Sufjan is attractive

39. Worst concert moment? I saw Cartel in concert once

40. Funny concert moment? At Girl Talk when Heaven Is A Place On Earth came on after me and Sara had been singing it all day...we thought it was funny

41. Sad concert moment? Who gets sad at a concert?

42. Best local act you can think of? Girl Talk, Punchline

43. If you were a musical instrument what would you be? XYLOPHONE

44. Do you listen to the radio? Black Squirrel Radio

45. Do you watch music TV? What's that?

46. Do you follow the music charts, like the top 40? Not really

47. Have you met any famous musicians? Andrew :)

48. Are any of your friends/family/etc. musicians? Yep. My friends are talented :)

49. Song that best describes your feelings right now? Somewhere Over The Rainbow

50. Song that describes your life? Watch The Sky by Something Corporate & Yoshimi by the Flaming Lips :)

51. Do you know the names of all the band members that you listen to? I listen to the Spree, do you really think I know all their names?

52. Does a musician's physical attractiveness play a role in the music that you listen to? No, I don't know what most of them look like.

53. What famous musician do you want to marry? I don't care, I still want to marry Andrew!

53. Favourite movie sound track? Juno

55. Any musician hates? I try not to hate, but I'll say that I get annoyed by Bono & bands like All Time Low

56. What do your parents listen to? Mom listens to "lite" FM, my dad listens to old school rock

57. What are you listening to right NOW? To Kingdom Come by Passion Pit

58. Do you wear band t-shirts? I have a few

59. What do you think of people who do? Wear what you want

60. What music sub-culture do you feel like you belong to? The one that listens to good music?

61. What song is stuck in your head right now? What I'm listening to

62. Do you sing in the shower? Maybe sometimes

63. If so, why? If not, why not? Because I feel like it

64. Would you rather marry a musician or be one yourself? Marry. I'm better as a fan than as a musician.

66. How important is your partner's taste in music to you? Yes.

67. Hanson moves in next door to you, do you go introduce yourself, or do you arrange to beat them up? I revert to my 5th grade self and scream like a little girl...maybe.

68. Sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll, you dig? I like shrooms

69. Do you cook to music? Hah.

70. Do you have any guilty pleasures? Well I think the obvious answer to this question is Cobra Starship