On a lighter note.... favorite music '07
Dec. 29th, 2007 02:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jack_babalonWell we all love to make a list and they're kinda fun to look back upon especially after i've gotten a few years in me... so what the hell, right? Here's how we'll do this. I'll save the best for the last (in my opinion at least) and give you the rest in no particular order. I'll qualify this to say that this is just what got released in '07, otherwise Evil 9's You Can Be Special Too and Deadbolts I should've killed you (which has become the unoffical soundtrack to my 'Sheriff of Unity' story) would be on here.
Here we go just off the top of my head...
Beastie Boys The Mix Up - my favorite come home and chill out CD.
Amon Tobin Foley Room - from the haunted opening with the Kronos Quartet, to the monster nightmare of Big Fuzzy Head and with great sonic backdrops such as The Killers Vanilla there's not much to dislike. Great trip-hop atmospherics or electronica or whatever the fuck it's supposed to be called. How about a kick ass cd?
Death Proof Soundtrack - I've said it before... i'd love to be the Tarrantino of DJs one day.
Aesop Rocks None Shall Pass - I don't do hip-hop often but this is sheer rhyme virtosity, with a flow that forces you to decipher the lyrics with more than just a casual listening. None of that homocidal yuppy materialism I get off my most mainstream 'rapping'.
Block Party - Weekend In The City - I gotta admit it, i'm surprised it's on here as well, but for infectious make you snap your fingers, bob your head, this one really stands out.
The best release...
This is how Nick Cave has fun!
How? By unleashing a salvo of balls-to-the-wall rock'n'roll across 11 tracks.
Opening up with a call to "kick all those white mice and baboons out" with Get It On, to the war dance stomp inducing No Pussy Blues, from there we go into the sensual (Electric Alice, Grinderman), the playful (Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars), Go Tell The Woman) and even the downright sad (Man In The Moon) the record does for me what Let Love In did when I first heard it - gripped me by the throat and wouldn't let go to the last track was done.
These are all songs Cave said he couldn't do with the Bad Seeds. Which is funny to me, because when I listen to this album I can't help but feel that this is a recently unearthed missing link between The Birthday Party and the previously mentioned Bad Seeds.
I'll try to get to books, movies and comics on later posts. If I forgot anything hip me to it baby... i'm all ears!
Here we go just off the top of my head...
Beastie Boys The Mix Up - my favorite come home and chill out CD.
Amon Tobin Foley Room - from the haunted opening with the Kronos Quartet, to the monster nightmare of Big Fuzzy Head and with great sonic backdrops such as The Killers Vanilla there's not much to dislike. Great trip-hop atmospherics or electronica or whatever the fuck it's supposed to be called. How about a kick ass cd?
Death Proof Soundtrack - I've said it before... i'd love to be the Tarrantino of DJs one day.
Aesop Rocks None Shall Pass - I don't do hip-hop often but this is sheer rhyme virtosity, with a flow that forces you to decipher the lyrics with more than just a casual listening. None of that homocidal yuppy materialism I get off my most mainstream 'rapping'.
Block Party - Weekend In The City - I gotta admit it, i'm surprised it's on here as well, but for infectious make you snap your fingers, bob your head, this one really stands out.
The best release...
This is how Nick Cave has fun!
How? By unleashing a salvo of balls-to-the-wall rock'n'roll across 11 tracks.
Opening up with a call to "kick all those white mice and baboons out" with Get It On, to the war dance stomp inducing No Pussy Blues, from there we go into the sensual (Electric Alice, Grinderman), the playful (Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars), Go Tell The Woman) and even the downright sad (Man In The Moon) the record does for me what Let Love In did when I first heard it - gripped me by the throat and wouldn't let go to the last track was done.
These are all songs Cave said he couldn't do with the Bad Seeds. Which is funny to me, because when I listen to this album I can't help but feel that this is a recently unearthed missing link between The Birthday Party and the previously mentioned Bad Seeds.
I'll try to get to books, movies and comics on later posts. If I forgot anything hip me to it baby... i'm all ears!