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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Jim Connelly's
Favorite Recordings Of 2006
Monday, January 15, 2007
Jesse Steichen's Favorite Recordings Of 2006
Friday, January 12, 2007
Bill Bentley's Favorite Recordings Of 2006
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Tom Ridge's Favorite Recordings Of 2006
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Lee Templeton's Favorite Recordings Of 2006
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Anthony Carew's 13 Fave Albums Of 2006
Monday, March 27, 2006
SXSW 2006: Finding Some Hope In Austin
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Letter From New Orleans
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Jennifer Przybylski's Fave Albums of 2005
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Music For Dwindling Days: Max Schaefer's Fave Recordings Of 2005
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Sean Fennessey's 'Best-Of' 2005
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Lori Miller Barrett's Fave Albums Of 2005
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Lee Templeton's Favorite Recordings of 2005
Thursday, January 5, 2006
Michael Lach - Old Soul Songs For A New World Order
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Found In Translation — Emme Stone's Year In Music 2005
Tuesday, January 3, 2006
Dave Allen's 'Best-Of' 2005
Monday, January 2, 2006
Steve Gozdecki's Favorite Albums Of 2005
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Johnny Walker Black's Top 10 Of 2005
Monday, December 19, 2005
Neal Block's Favorite Recordings Of 2005
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Jenny Tatone's Year In Review
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Dave Renard's Fave Recordings Of 2005
Monday, December 12, 2005
Jennifer Kelly's Fave Recordings Of 2005
Thursday, December 8, 2005
Tom Ridge's Favorite Recordings Of 2005
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Ben Gook's Beloved Albums Of 2005
Monday, December 5, 2005
Anthony Carew's Fave Albums Of 2005
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Prince, Spoon And The Magic Of The Dead Stop
Monday, September 12, 2005
The Truth About America
Monday, September 5, 2005
Tryin' To Wash Us Away
Monday, August 1, 2005
A Psyche-Folk Heat Wave In Western Massachusetts
Monday, July 18, 2005
Soggy But Happy At Glastonbury 2005
Monday, April 4, 2005
The SXSW Experience, Part 3: All Together Now
Friday, April 1, 2005
The SXSW Experience, Part 2: Dr. Dog's Happy Chords
Thursday, March 31, 2005
The SXSW Experience, Part 1: Waiting, Waiting And More Waiting
Friday, March 25, 2005
Final Day At SXSW's Charnel House
Monday, March 21, 2005
Day Three At SXSW
Saturday, March 19, 2005
Day Two In SXSW's Hall Of Mirrors
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Report #1: SXSW 2005 And Its Hall Of Mirrors
Monday, February 14, 2005
Matt Landry's Fave Recordings Of 2004
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
David Howie's 'Moments' From The Year 2004
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Lori Miller Barrett's Fave Recordings Of 2004
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Noah Bonaparte's Fave Recordings Of 2004
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Kevin John's Fave Albums Of 2004
Friday, January 14, 2005
Music For Those Nights: Max Schaefer's Fave Recordings Of 2004
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Dave Renard's Fave Recordings Of 2004
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Neal Block's Top Ten Of 2004
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Jenny Tatone's Fave Albums Of 2004
Monday, January 10, 2005
Wayne Robins' Top Ten Of 2004
Friday, January 7, 2005
Brian Orloff's Fave Albums Of 2004
Thursday, January 6, 2005
Johnny Walker (Black)'s Top 10 Of 2004
Wednesday, January 5, 2005
Jennifer Przybylski's Fave Albums (And Book) Of 2004
Tuesday, January 4, 2005
Mark Mordue's Fave Albums Of 2004
Monday, January 3, 2005
Lee Templeton's Fave Recordings Of 2004
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Monday, December 15, 2003
Steve Gozdecki's Favorite Albums of 2003
Neumu's Michael Goldberg writes: As 2003 draws to a close, it's time for those much-anticipated Neumu "best-of" lists. Each year we ask our contributors to consider all that they've listened to during the past year, and to come up with a list of their favorite albums (and, if they are so moved, their fave songs, concerts or whatever). Today we feature the 10 fave albums of Neumu Contributing Editor Steve Gozdecki.
Steve Gozdecki writes: Since Neumu is a global Web site (and I a globalist, at least in my thinking), my list lacks three 2002 albums that I love to death but didn't get until their belated U.S. releases: The Notwist's Neon Golden, Hate by The Delgados, and The Libertines' Up the Bracket.
Note to record companies: staggered release dates are sooooo 20th century. So cut it out already, if only so we rock criticizers don't have to play this game when we're putting together our year-end lists.
Some other near-misses (hits that didn't quite make my list o' 10) include The Constantines, Wire, Grandaddy, Portastatic, The Wrens, Basement Jaxx, UNKLE, and the soundtrack to A Mighty Wind.
Here are the 10 albums of 2003 that meant the most to me, presented countdown style:
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever to Tell (Interscope): I find Karen O about as compelling as Britney Spears (which is to say, not very), but I also happily found that these three young chameleons have added just enough original spark to their slew of influences to make one tasty new wave-y gravy stew.
9. Massive Attack, 100th Window (Virgin): Not much new ground is broken on the Bristol collective's fourth longplayer, which for all intents and purposes is a 3-D solo album due to Mushroom's departure and Daddy G's parental leave. But that doesn't mean that this field bears no fruit — the competition may be catching up, but Massive Attack still gives that Massive Attack feeling better than anyone else, and provides the perfect soundtrack for paranoid moments. And airports.
8. Raveonettes, Chain Gang of Love (Sony): The Danish boy-girl duo gets what made the Jesus & Mary Chain so great: not just the noise, but the gleeful embrace of Phil Spector and early Motown girl groups. The Raveonettes may just be a one-trick pony, but what a trick it is.
7. The Stills, Logic Will Break Your Heart (Vice): Beneath the obvious influences alluded to by the effects-heavy production, which recalls memories of any number of shoe-gazers, lies a power-pop heart that suggests these tunes would sound almost as good unplugged. Almost.
6. Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks (Merge): Clearly calculated to evoke memories of the band's past, even as the words coming from these men's mouths belie their age — and damn if it doesn't work. An astonishing return to form.
5. The Strokes, Room on Fire (Capitol): A slow seduction in place of the debut's instant kiss-ability, the second Strokes album's opaque heart of glass grows on you, the music's lack of immediate Velvet-y appeal supplemented by an addictive new-wave cool, even as Julian Casablancas works against the grain by singing with as much emotion on any given song here as he did on the entirety of the debut.
4. The Twilight Singers, Blackberry Belle (Birdman): It took nearly a decade for him to get back on track, but Greg Dulli has finally returned to the swaggering genius sound he perfected on the Afghan Whigs' Gentleman. Even after all these years, he's still got a dick for a brain, and that brain remains intent on selling his ass to you.
3. Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros, Streetcore (Epitaph): This album shouldn't even exist, really. Strummer should have lived long enough to complete it, and a score or more years beyond that. Sid Vicious, Dee Dee Ramone, Darby Crash — they were the punks that were born to die, while Joey Ramone and Joe Strummer have left us far too early. Lovingly completed by Mescaleros Martin Slattery and Scott Shields, the embryonic Streetcore found Strummer wandering the earth for inspiration, augmenting his eclectic new material with wondrous covers of Bob Marley and rock pioneer Bobby Charles.
2. Death Cab for Cutie, Transatlanticism (Barsuk): Ben Gibbard's croon always suggested that he was ideally suited for sparse piano accompaniment. This album's gorgeous title track proves it. Oddly enough, Transatlanticism — despite a relative scarcity of guitars — is also the disc that finally helped me understand those Built to Spill comparisons.
1. Lloyd Cole, Music in a Foreign Language (Sanctuary): An absolute masterpiece that eclipses anything Lloyd Cole has done before. In stripping away the musical and lyrical excesses that detracted from some of his previous material, he leaves nothing but his raw, beating heart. Old beyond his years and talented beyond any measure, Cole has delivered an album to absolutely cherish.
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