Monday, December 13, 2004

The classical.

Yup time for the year-ending best of list

Cds/Vinyl

Alone, Stinking and Unafraid

John Peel's 37 years of BBC1 shows from Top Gear to Sessions at Maida Vale
If just once I can pull off a wry, dry, insouciant joke like he did daily I'll die fulfilled
I remember when we did our first Peel session he said "And here we have the mighty Echo and the Bunnymen", and we were so chuffed.
Will Sergeant

You know "You'll Never Walk Alone."


Separating from the Pack:

The Ex, Turn
Drive-By Truckers, The Dirty South
Fe-Mail, Skylubb Fra Haelvete
The Futureheads
YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO, All Roads to Fault
Mission of Burma, Snapshot (iTunes only download of live session at WBCN)
GbV, bee thousand director's cut (3 lp set)
GbV, "Huffman Prarie Flying Field," "The Closets of Henry," "Everyone Thinks I'm a Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking)"
The Magnetic Fields, "I Thought You Were My Boyfriend," "It's Only Time"
Jon Langford, All the Fame of Lofty Deeds
Sally Timms, In the World of Him
Pavement, Crooked Rain Crooked Rain: L.A.'s Desert Origins
The Fall, 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong

Still Pretty Good

Mark Applebaum, Catfish
Arcade Fire, Funeral
Floorian, What the Buzzing
The Libertines
Green Day, American Idiot
deerhoof, Bibidi Babadi Boo (free download)
Interpol, Antics
The Mountain Goats, We Shall All Be Healed
The Persians, A Thing Like Any Other

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