So, it’s the time of year when every music writer in the country and abroad begins writing about their top albums of the past year. They also attempt to seem like they don’t really care about the list, or that the list was written without having heard a couple albums to which they were really looking forward.
I am no better.
Um, but I’m gonna be nice and not actually put the list here. If you’re so inclined, you can go over to Static Magazine‘s online page and read my top five albums of the year, as well as the top five records you should be ashamed to have bought. If you want to read it, you can. If not, you’re not going to be annoyed by seeing it here.
However, I do have to say that Neko Case‘s latest record, The Tigers Have Spoken is absolutely fantastic, and had I heard it before I wrote that list, it would have easily made the fucker. Goddamn… really, go buy it. Right now. Seriously, you’ll thank me. Go listen to a few songs over at the ANTI- site and see if I’m lying. You can look at sexy pictures of the lovely Ms. Case while you’re there, too.
eep.The Killers? You’re kidding, right?Also, I find your lack of Arcade Fire disturbing.
Arcade FireI try and seek out every album I can… and while I have amazing access to pirated records and promo copies, the Arcade Fire did not pass through my stereo.The Unicorns disc pretty much blew my mind today, though.
umThe Killers have a song called ‘Indie Rock and Roll\” on that record, which has to be the worst thing I’ve ever heard ever. The record is mediocre up to that point, but when that song comes on, it veers into the unforgivable. May they rot in hell for such a crappy song.Still, putting Franz Ferdinand on your crap list is just plain crazy. I mean, I understand the whole gotta-slay-sacred-cows menatality that any list like this has to have in order to keep hipster cred. But to give love to one Kinks-esque band and to ill on the other Kinks-esque band is a weird double standard. If you want to bag on a relativelt disappointing album, go after the Modest Mouse record.The Arcade Fire is incredible, and I think would have made your list. The good one, I mean.However, the rest of your list… all worthy albums from what I’ve heard. Like you’re looking for my approval 🙂 Interesting and provocative. Good job!
the KinksFranz Ferdinand, to me, is new disco mixed with sad-sack Kinks riffage. The Killers seem to steal more from Depeche Mode and the Cure.
you hatin’ on dance punk?I know it is so last-year now, but I think there is still some life left in the disco-beat dance punk stuff. The Rapture record last year was excellent, and this year’s !!! album is quite good, too. Don’t be harshin’ on my wanting to shake my ass!FF have some disco-esque stuff, but mostly just on their big single, \”Take Me Out\”. Most everything else just sounds like a young, amorous, and bi Ray Davies singing over some seriously jacked up Kinks tunes, in my opinion. And I love the Kinks, so it makes me so happy… people just don’t steal enough from the Kinks anymore.I’m also sad that the Walkmen aren’t getting much love on people’s year-ender lists. I guess they lost all their cred when they did a cameo on the OC.That Crimea stuff reminds of Pinback quite a bit.