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'YEAR END LISTS ARE THE DEATH OF CULTURE!'- who the f*ck are you mr. Roderick

It's fun to go through cd's/vinyls/books to make a list and it's even greater fun to read other year endlists to get tips.

Here's my list 'best of the decade':

pop:

- Death Cab For Cutie - we have the facts and we're voting yes

- Broken Social Scene - you forgot it in people

- The National - Boxer

- De Portables - Girls Beware!

- Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs

- Pinback - Blue Screen Life

- Menomena - Friend and Foe

- Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

- Calexico - Hot Rail

- Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals

Other:

- Vicente Amigo - Ciudad de las Ideas

- The very best of Ethiopiques

- Orchestra Baobab - Specialist in all styles

- Sound Dimension - Mojo Rocksteady Beat

- Tropicalia: a Brazilian revolution in sound

- Inspiration Information: Mulatu Astatke / The Heliocentrics

- Ali Farka Toure - Savane

- Tinariwen - Aman Iman

- Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate - in the heart of the moon

- Tomatito - Aguadulce

Books:

doesn't make much sense to write down my favorite books since I'm Dutch ;-). But if I have to name one English book than it's definitely 'David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas' and for you Americanos I really enjoyed reading George Pelecanos.

posted 2009-11-29 09:29:06 by Edwin [Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS]

currently listening to:    1. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement    2. Menomena - Mines King Sunny Ade - Juju Music    3. Tony Allen - Afro Disco Beat Maps & Atlases - Perch Patchwork

Re: 'YEAR END LISTS ARE THE DEATH OF CULTURE!'- who the f*ck are you mr. Roderick

This is what I came up with of the top of my head.

1.Death Cab For Cutie "Transatlanticism" [Barsuk]

2. Pedro The Lion "Control [Jade Tree]

3. Arcade Fire Funeral [Merge]

4. Sufjan Stevens Michigan [Asthmatic Kitty]

5. Postal Service Give up [Sub Pop]

6. Interpol Turn Off The Bright Lights [Matador]

7. Nada Surf Let Go [Barsuk]

8. Iron and Wine Creek Drank The Cradle [Sub Pop]

9. Headphones Headphones [Suicide Squeeze]

10. The Long Winters Putting The Days To Bed [Barsuk]

posted 2009-11-29 11:36:15 by Mike McCusker [Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM]

currently listening to:   Nine Black Alps Buy Nothing   Say Hi Oohs and Ahhs   Telekinesis TELEKINESIS!

Re: 'YEAR END LISTS ARE THE DEATH OF CULTURE!'- who the f*ck are you mr. Roderick

"Best of Decade":

(In no particular order, and very very very incomplete)

Bjork: Vespertine - 2001 [One Little Indian]

Death Cab For Cutie: We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes - 2000 [Barsuk]

Norma Jean: Redeemer - 2006 [Solid State Records]

Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - 2002 [Nonesuch]

So Many Dynamos: The Loud Wars - 2009 [Vagrant]

Bright Eyes: I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning - 2005 [Saddle Creek]

Elliott Smith: Figure 8 - 2000 [Dreamworks]

The American Analog Set: Know By Heart - 2001 [Tiger Style]

Kanye West: Late Registration - 2005 [Roc-A-Fella]

John Vanderslice: Pixel Revolt - 2005 [Barsuk]

Tokyo Police Club: A Lesson in Crime - 2006 [Paper Bag Records]

Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell - 2003 [Interscope]

Bloc Party: Silent Alarm - 2004 [Wichita]

The Blood Brothers: Young Machetes - 2006 [V2 Records]

Really good decade, I think.

posted 2009-11-30 17:30:58 by George [Long Beach, CA]

currently listening to:   Maps & Atlases Perch Patchwork   Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?   The Jesus and Mary Chain Munki

Re: 'YEAR END LISTS ARE THE DEATH OF CULTURE!'- who the f*ck are you mr. Roderick

1. The Wrens -- The Meadowlands

2. Stars -- Heart

3. Neko Case & Her Boyfriends -- Furnace Room Lullabye

4. Interpol -- Turn on the Bright Lights

5. Arcade Fire -- Funeral

6. Wilco -- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

7. Bloc Party -- Silent Alarm

8. The Decemberists -- Castaways and Cutouts

9. Bright Eyes -- I'm Wide Awake it's Morning

10. Death Cab for Cutie -- We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes

posted 2009-12-06 03:34:03 by distantmantra [Greenlake, Seatte]

currently listening to:   Pains of Being Pure at Heart S/T   Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career   My Bloody Valentine Loveless

Re: 'YEAR END LISTS ARE THE DEATH OF CULTURE!'- who the f*ck are you mr. Roderick

MY BEST OF 2009:

- John Roderick's Best of 2009 list

posted 2009-12-07 17:04:21 by thee professor [greenlake]

currently listening to:   dr. horrible's sing-along   blog bikini kill   geto boys westside connection

Re: 'YEAR END LISTS ARE THE DEATH OF CULTURE!'- who the f*ck are you mr. Roderick

I didn't make a decade list, but here we got for 2010:

Cass McCombs - Catacombs

Japandroids - Post-Nothing

Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadaeus

Telekinesis! - S/T

Raveonettes - In and Out of Control

Avett Brothers - I and I Love You

Girls - Girls

Generationals - Con Law

posted 2009-12-15 10:44:37 by bethany [New York, NY]

currently listening to:   I LIKE BANDS   THERE ARE LOTS OF BAND   THAT I LIKE

Re: 'YEAR END LISTS ARE THE DEATH OF CULTURE!'- who the f*ck are you mr. Roderick

My Top 25 of the Decade:

1~Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights

2~Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

3~White Stripes- White Blood Cells

4~Radiohead- Kid A

5~Arcade Fire- Funeral

6~Sufjan Stevens- Michigan

7~Wrens- Meadowlands

8~Fleet Foxes- S/T

9~Broken Social Scene- You Forgot it In People

10~Dismemberment Plan- Change

11~Grandaddy- Sumday

12~Postal Service- Give Up

13~Trail of Dead- Source Tags and Codes

14~Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin- Broom

15~The Strokes- Is This It

16~The Shins- Chutes Too Narrow

17~Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah- S/T

18~Pedro the Lion- Control

19~Sun Kil Moon- Ghosts of the Great Highway

20~Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

21~Death Cab for Cutie- We Have the Facts

22~Destroyer- Rubies

23~Rilo Kiley- Take Offs and Landings

24~Emily Haines- Knives Don’t Have Your Back

25~Nada Surf- Let Go

posted 2010-01-13 09:45:12 by Skippy [Philly, PA]

currently listening to:   www. cleanequations   .com Clean Equations

Re: 'YEAR END LISTS ARE THE DEATH OF CULTURE!'- who the f*ck are you mr. Roderick

My best of 2009 list (in no particular order):

- awkward i - i really should whisper

- Mulatu Astatke & Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information vol 3

- Fever Ray - s/t

- We vs Death - a black house, a coloured home (free download here: http://www.beepbeep.nl/bands/we-vs-death/profile/)

- Phantogram - Eyelid Movies (european release)

- Lee Fields & The Expressions - My World

- Ramona Falls - Intuit

- Quantic & his combo barbaro - tradition in transition

- Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

- Dinosaur jr. - Farm

- Noami Shelton and the Gospel Queens - what have you done, my brother

- Reigning Sound - Love and Curses

- Ceu - Vagarosa

- David Bazan - Curse Your Branches

- M Ward - Hold Time

posted 2010-01-22 06:32:51 by Edwin [Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS]

Re: 'YEAR END LISTS ARE THE DEATH OF CULTURE!'- who the f*ck are you mr. Roderick

yeah!! love for Quantic! that album was amazing, totally took me by surprise.

posted 2010-01-22 20:07:57 by kjunker [reading, MA]

Re: 'YEAR END LISTS ARE THE DEATH OF CULTURE!'- who the f*ck are you mr. Roderick

Yes, that Quantic record is great. Any tips for me kjunker?

posted 2010-01-24 15:28:57 by Edwin [Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS]