en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 60 http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices http://www.last.fm/user/doublelibra/journal The Last.fm journal for doublelibra. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. http://www.last.fm/user/doublelibra/journal/2013/01/06/5pqsxy_doublelibra%27s_25_favorite_albums_of_2012 Sun, 6 Jan 2013 04:43:36 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/doublelibra/journal/2013/01/06/5pqsxy_doublelibra%27s_25_favorite_albums_of_2012 After much deliberation, here are my 25 favorite albums of 2012, in no particular order:


Between the Time and the Tides - Lee Ranaldo



Synthetica - Metric



Django Django - Django Django



Until the Quiet Comes - Flying Lotus



A Different Ship - Here We Go Magic



Bend Beyond - Woods



Oshin - DIIV



New Multitudes - Jay Farrar



Psychedelic Pill - Neil Young and Crazy Horse



Top Ten Hits at the End of the World - Prince Rama



Songs of Patience - Alberta Cross



Bloom - Beach House



Free Reign - Clinic



Melody's Echo Chamber - Melody's Echo Chamber



Sweet Heart Sweet Light - Spiritualized



Boys And Girls - Alabama Shakes



Among The Leaves - Sun Kil Moon



Delta Spirit - Delta Spirit



Observator - The Raveonettes



State Hospital (EP) - Frightened Rabbit



Celebration Rock - Japandroids



Twins - Ty Segall



A Thing Called Divine Fits - Divine Fits



Blunderbuss - Jack White



Life is People - Bill Fay

]]> http://www.last.fm/user/doublelibra/journal/2012/01/09/5a3lw1_my_top_40_new_albums_of_2011 Mon, 9 Jan 2012 13:42:32 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/doublelibra/journal/2012/01/09/5a3lw1_my_top_40_new_albums_of_2011 I just completed a list of my top 40 favorite new albums of 2011, and thought I'd share them. Everything listed is either something I have bought, or would buy. Happy New Year!

~ Doublelbra


Doubelibra's Top 40 Albums of 2011 (In NO particular order)


1. Radiohead - King of Limbs


2. Bright Eyes - The People's Key


3. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient


4. Arbouretum - The Gathering


5. Mary Timony - The Golden Dove


6. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo


7. Battles - Gloss Drop


8. Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math


9. King Creosote and John Hopkins - Diamond Mine


10. Caveman - Coco Beware


11. A. A. Bondy - Believers


12. Destroyer - Kaputt


13. Mogwai - Hard Core Will Never Die But You Will


14. Wilco - The Whole Love


15. The Antlers - Burst Apart


16. Peaking Lights - 936


17. Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin'


18. The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck


19. Atlas Sound - Parallax


20. TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light


21. Wooden Shjips - Days


22. The Sister Ruby Band - In Cold Blood


23. Tarwater - Inside the Ships


24. Robbie Robertson - How to Become Clairvoyant


25. Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts


26. Feelies - Here Before


27. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien


28. Noel Gallagher's Hgh Flying Birds - Self-Titled


29. Cold Cave - Cherish the Light Years


30. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light


31. Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here


32. Danger Mouse - Rome


33. Golden Dogs - Coat of Arms


34. The Decemberists - The King is Dead


35. Real Estate - Days


36. Thundercat - The Golden Age of Apocalypse


37. P.J. Harvey - Let England Shake


38. Wye Oak - Civilian


39. Yuck - Yuck


40. Tune-Yards - Whokill



Bonus: Three great EP's


Alberta Cross - Rolling Thunder (EP)


Typhoon - New Kind of House (EP)


Silversun Pickups - Seasick (EP)]]> http://www.last.fm/user/doublelibra/journal/2011/10/18/4tnrj6_sonic_youth:_kim_and_thurston_break_up Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:25:34 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/doublelibra/journal/2011/10/18/4tnrj6_sonic_youth:_kim_and_thurston_break_up I just saw this news. This is just too sad. It brought back a bit of my long-ago life, and it's just too sad.

Kim and Thurston.

Me and John.

We were the hub of a fun-loving bunch of hippies. Our house was THE hangout. Always expansive. Always a pot of something on the stove. Everyone welcome. My younger brother lived there. His friends were there. We were THE couple. We were the template. We were in love. Little golden-haired Johnny was the evidence. Fast-forward 4 years.

John and Judy were breaking up.

Almost as painful was the disappointment of our friends. The cause? Did it matter?

Kim and Thurston. Death of an archetype.

10-17-2011]]> http://www.last.fm/user/doublelibra/journal/2011/01/31/46v53f_doublelibra%27s_top_40_albums_of_2010 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:54:27 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/doublelibra/journal/2011/01/31/46v53f_doublelibra%27s_top_40_albums_of_2010 Hello friends,

We're well into the New Year already. I hope it's going well for you.

Here is my annual list at long last! We moved to a different house between Christmas and New Year's (pain in the butt, of course). Because of this and other circumstances, I'm very late getting this out. If anyone has a "best of" list, please share it with me if you haven't already.

Albums and EP's are listed IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER of preference.


Doublelibra's Top 40 Albums of 2010


1. The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night

2. Warpaint The Fool

3. Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse et. al. Dark Night of the Soul*

4. Citay Dream Get Together

5. Woven Hand The Threshingfloor

6. The Fresh & Onlys Play It Strange

7. Deerhunter Halcyon Digest

8. The Black Angels Phosphene Dream

9. Gorillaz Plastic Beach

10. Charlotte Gainesbourg Irm

11. The Phenomenal Handclap Band The Phenomenal Handclap Band

12. Blitzen Trapper Destroyer of the Void

13. Deer Tick The Black Dirt Sessions

14. The Sadies Darker Circles

15. Neil Young Le Noise

16. Phosphorescent Here's to Taking It Easy

17. Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan The Hawk

18. Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz

19. Menomena Mines

20. Beach House Teen Dream

21. The National High Violet

22. Inisout Inisout

23. Ray La Montagna God Willing and the Creek Don't Rise

24. Broken Bells Broken Bells

25. Black Mountain Wilderness Heart

26. Frightened Rabbit The Winter of Mixed Drinks

27. Underworld Barking

28. Massive Attack Heligoland

29. The School of Seven Bells Disconnect from Desire

30. Sleigh Bells Treats

31. Spoon Transference

32. Teenage Fanclub Shadows

33. Klaxons Surfing the Void

34. Mogwai Special Moves (live)

35. Arcade Fire The Suburbs

36. Caribou Swim

37. Kurt Vile Square Shells (EP)

38. Girls Broken Dream Club EP

39. Washed Out Life of Leisure EP

40. Pearl Harbor Something about the Chaparalls EP


* "In early 2010, it was announced that Dark Night of the Soul was slated for a tentative summer 2010 release, even though the CD-R version had been available since the previous May. A Lex Records logo appears next to the Capitol Records logo on the final version." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Night_of_the_Soul_(album)

I love it, so it was on my Top 40 for two years!]]> http://www.last.fm/user/doublelibra/journal/2009/12/30/3akskn_doublelibra%27s_top_40_cd%27s_of_2009 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:45:06 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/doublelibra/journal/2009/12/30/3akskn_doublelibra%27s_top_40_cd%27s_of_2009 This is my TOP 40 CD's of 2009, IN NO Particular Order. These CD's all kick ass. I probably forgot some good stuff, but here it is:

2009
Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, David Lynch: Dark Night of the Soul
Wye Oak: The Knot
The Phantom Band: Checkmate Savage
Roofwalkers: Roofwalkers
The Antlers: Hospice
Arbouretum: Song of the Pearl
Sonic Youth: The Eternal
The Flaming Lips: Embryonic
Wilco: Wilco
Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard: One Fast Move or I'm Gone (Soundtrack)
Fever Ray: Fever Ray
Bear in Heaven: Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Lou Barlow: Goodnight Unknown
White Denim: Fits
Crystal Antlers: Tentacles
Silversun Pickups: Swoon
The Dead Weather: Horehound
Cracker: Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey
Steven Wilson: Insurgentes
The Decemberists: The Hazards of Love
Why: Eskimo Snow
The Pink Mountaintops: Outside Love
Son Volt: American Central Dust
The Fresh and Onlys: Grey-Eyed Girls
Joan of Arc: Flowers
Moby: Wait for Me
Soulsavers: Broken
Nurses: Apple's Acre
The Low Anthem: Oh My God Charle Darwin
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour: Fruit
Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band: Outer South
The Rural Alberta Advantage: Hometowns
Sunset Rubdown: Dragonslayer
Doves: Kingdom of Rust
Kurt Vile: Childish Prodigy
Ruminant Band: Fruit Bats
Glasvegas: Glasvegas
The Bats: The Guilty Office
Metric: Fantasies
Kasabian: West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum]]>