Tuesday, March 27, 2007

What Goes Around Comes Around For KOTJ


Tim, look at this low-ass Pitchfork rating! I TOLD YALL we shoulda tapped the Rapture instead of Fall Out Boy

Folks, you can't make up shit this great:

http://www.nme.com/news/27233

Edit: Holy shit. I just noticed I haven't posted anything in like, a month. Ummm...okay. I really think this Menomena bullshit has been blown out of proportion. So the band makes LOOPS. All of Wincing The Night Away should've been so lucky to have sounded like "Australia" or "Girl Sailor." Bright Eyes' Four Winds EP really doesn't hold interest like it first sounds, whereas formerly annoying hype-types Clap Your Hands and Arcade Fire made albums that turned out to be the opposite. None of these holds water compared to Crunk Hits 2. And the Timbaland album's pretty good, actually, even if it's loaded with outrageous lines like "Bounce like your ass has the hiccups," and probably my favorite non-Mistah Fab lyric of the year so far: "I'm number one, you ain't number shit." But that's still no excuse to ruin the Hives, collaborate with She Wants Revenge or waste a fucking great-sounding track with Elton John (wtffle) by just muttering "uh-huh" and "you like that?" over it like you're watching the track receive a nipple massage (Hey, I did hear from Scott Storch that Timbo likes his packs of franks. . .). Lastly, Pitchfork's just as greedy as I knew they'd eventually be, charging mutherfucking $50 for Clipse and Sonic Youth. I just wanna be the first to yell sellout. Don't dish it out if you can't take it, Panda Bear lovers.

Thursday, March 01, 2007

all the fun lists by kotj

i suck at doing an all-time list of albums. so breaking it down into these little nuggets is way fucking easier. this should sate your cravings.

best albums of 2006:

1. ghostface killah - fishscale
2. be your own pet
3. clipse - hell hath no fury
4. the roots - game theory
5. gnarls barkley - st. elsewhere

2005:

1. sleater-kinney - the woods
2. clem snide - end of love
3. wussy - funeral dress
4. the mountain goats - the sunset tree
5. gogol bordello - gypsy punks: underdog world strike

2004:

1. the hives - tyrannosaurus hives
2. nellie mckay - get away from me
3. the arcade fire - funeral
4. rilo kiley - more adventurous
5. sonic youth - sonic nurse

2003:

1. cursive - the ugly organ
2. yo la tengo - summer sun
3. the shins - chutes too narrow
4. liz phair
5. buck 65 - talkin' honky blues

2002:

1. rhett miller - the instigator
2. the mountain goats - tallahassee
3. spoon - kill the moonlight
4. kimya dawson - i'm sorry that sometimes i'm mean
5. imperial teen - on

2001:

1. the shins - oh, inverted world
2. radiohead - amnesiac
3. old 97s - satellite rides
4. the dismemberment plan - change
5. jay-z - the blueprint

2000:

1. eminem - the marshall mathers lp
2. sleater-kinney - all hands on the bad one
3. sonic youth - nyc ghosts & flowers
4. pj harvey - stories from the city, stories from the sea
5. common - like water for chocolate

1999:

1. the dismemberment plan - emergency & i
2. jay-z - vol. 3. . .the life and times of s. carter
3. the magnetic fields - 69 love songs
4. le tigre
5. old 97s - fight songs

1998:

1. sonic youth - a thousand leaves
2. sunny day real estate - how it feels to be something on
3. pearl jam - yield
4. liz phair - whitechocolatespaceegg
5. local h - pack up the cats

1997:

1. radiohead - ok computer
2. old 97s - too far to care
3. yo la tengo - i can hear the heart beating as one
4. sleater-kinney - dig me out
5. that dog. - retreat from the sun

1996:
1. dj shadow - endtroducing. . . .dj shadow
2. r.e.m. - new adventures in hi-fi
3. pearl jam - no code
4. sleater-kinney - call the doctor
5. bikini kill - reject all american

1995:
1. tricky - maxinquaye
2. luna - penthouse
3. archers of loaf - vee vee
4. green day - insomniac
5. that dog - totally crushed out!

1994:
1. nirvana - unplugged in new york
2. latin playboys -
3. sonic youth - experimental jet set, trash, and no star
4. sugar - file under: easy listening
5. r.e.m. - monster

1993:
1. liz phair - exile in guyville
2. pj harvey - rid of me
3. archers of loaf - icky mettle
4. nirvana - in utero
5. wu-tang clan - enter the wu-tang (36 chambers)

1992: tom waits - bone machine
1991: my bloody valentine - loveless
1990: the chills - submarine bells
1989: i can't recall a 1989 album i play on a regular basis
1988: sonic youth - daydream nation
1987: or 1987, but that's okay cuz i have two for 1986 to make up for it
1986: paul simon - graceland
the indestructible beats of soweto
1985: the velvet underground - vu
1984: the replacements - let it be
1983: jonathan richman - jonathan sings!
1982: marshall crenshaw
1981: x - wild gift
1980: the clash - london calling
1979: nick lowe - labour of lust
1978: elvis costello - this year's model
1977: television - marquee moon
1976: eno - another green world
1975: bob dylan - blood on the tracks
1974: new york dolls in too much too soon
1973: iggy & the stooges - raw power
1972: the allman brothers band - eat a peach
1971: led zeppelin IV
1970: the velvet underground - loaded
1969: the velvet underground
1968: (nothing really, so i'll do three for 1967)
1967: the who sell out
beach boys - wild honey
bob dylan - highway 61 revisited
1966: bob dylan - blonde on blonde
1965: the beatles - rubber soul

if i play anything older than 1965 it is not often.

best "world" music:
1. the indestructible beat of soweto
2. gogol bordello - gypsy punks: underdog world strike
3. tom ze - brazil classics vol. 4: the best of tom ze
4. the rough guide to youssou n'dour & etoile de dakar
5. fela kuti - the best best of fela kuti
6. oumou sangare - oumou
7. franco & rochereau - omona wapi
8. red hot + riot
9. ali farka toure - the river
10. the rough guide to bhangra dance

best hiphop:
1. ghostface killah - fishscale
2. jay-z - vol. 3. . . .the life and times of s. carter
3. eminem - the marshall mathers lp
4. clipse - hell hath no fury
5. common - like water for chocolate
6. the notorious b.i.g. - ready to die
7. the roots - game theory
8. wu-tang clan - the w
9. lil' wayne - tha carter II
10. jurassic 5 ep

best of the best:
1. radiohead - ok computer
2. liz phair - exile in guyville
3. pj harvey - rid of me
4. dj shadow - endtroducing. . . .dj shadow
5. tricky - maxinquaye
6. the dismemberment plan - emergency & i
7. sonic youth - a thousand leaves
8. sleater-kinney - the woods
9. ghostface killah - fishscale
10. old 97s - too far to care