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Årtiets album

munkejens — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:36:49 +0000

Ja, nu er året snart slut og vi begynder at se top-lister for årets bedste plade poppe frem rundt omkring. Men samtidig slutter et helt årti, og derfor har det britiske musikblad NME sammen med en jury bestående af nogle prominente navne (bla. New Order, Ian Brown, Arctic Monkeys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dave Grohl, Alan McGee, Michael Eavis), sammensat en liste over årtiets hundrede bedste albums. Det kan virkelig ikke have været en nem opgave. Listen indeholder nogle gode kendinge i blandt. Især har jeg bidt mærke i at Wild Beasts er kommet til trods for den er ganske ny. Det gør den naturligvis ikke mindre egnet til at være med på listen og det er tilmed også end rigtig rigtig fed plade. Jeg er især også glad for at se små perler som Frightened Rabbit, Sufjan Stevens og Wilco på listen. Nummer 1 er nu en smagssag, men jeg kan faktisk ikke være uenig selvom jeg ikke ville have placeret den samme sted.

Skulle jeg begå mig ud i en lignende opgave, ville resultatet nok blive en anelse mere snævert. Men jeg tillader mig nu alligevel at spørge hvor er store navne som The Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Coldplay, Doves, Guillemots, Kings Of Leon, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Notwist, TV On The Radio og Wolf Parade? Dem havde jeg ikke forventet kunne udelades fra en top 100 liste.

Se bla. Gaffa’s årsfavoritter på http://gaffa.dk/nyhed/36018. Kudos til Grizzly Bear er helt klart en værdig top. Derudover indeholder listen et par mine egne favoritter, selvom det er en ret bred liste. Kan kun konstatere at jeg i år ikke har fået lyttet til alle de nye plader jeg gerne ville.

Favorite albums of 2008

munkejens — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:21:15 +0000

It’s been a good and stellar music year. A lot of debuts have made it to the top ten all around the media. My list is no exception. These are my favorite albums released in 2008:

TV On The Radio – Dear Science
Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight
Teitur – The Singer
Shearwater – Rook
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
Kings Of Leon – Only By The Night
The Notwist – The Devil, You + Me
The Dodo’s – Visiter
No Age- Nouns
Delta Spirit – Ode to Sunshine
Bowerbirds – Hymns For A Dark Horse
Okkervil River – The Stand Ins
Wolf Parade – At Mount Zoomer
Blind Pilot – 3 Round and a Sound
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
Bloc Party – Intimacy
The Raconteurs – Consolers Of The Lonely
Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
The Walkmen – You & Me
Port O’Brien – All We Could Do Was Sing
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Lie Down in the Light
Bound Stems – The Family Afloat
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson – Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
Annuals – Such Fun
Coldplay – Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
Conor Oberst – Conor Oberst
Mugiboogie – Mugison
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly – Searching For The Hows And Whys
Land Of Talk – Some Are Lakes
Nomo – Ghost Rock

And albums that I didn’t get to listen to due to lack of time and/or money, but definitly will get to as soon as possible:

Portishead – Third
Deerhunter – Microcastle
The Uglysuit – The Uglysuit
Mercury Rev – Snowflake Midnight
Tapes n’ Tapes – Walk It Off
MGMT – Oracular Spectular
Eagles Of Death Metal – Heart On
The Kills – Midnight Boom
Nick Cave: Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
Sun Kil Moon – April
Sigur Rós – Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust
Choir of Young Believers – This Is for the White In Your Eyes
Beck – Modern Guilt
Deerhoof – Offend Maggie

Favorite albums of 2007

munkejens — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:35:18 +0000

My favorites 40 albums of 2007. Soo much magnificent music. Impressive that exceptional bands like Wilco, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Queens Of The Stone Age ended up below top 10.

Andrew Bird – Armchair Apocrypha
Menomena – Friend and Foe
Okkervil River – The Stage Names
Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City
Jens Lekman – Night Falls Over Kortedala
Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Radiohead – In Rainbows
Windmill – Puddle City Racing Lights
Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
The White Stripes – Icky Thump
The National – Boxer
Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
Band of Horses – Cease to Begin
Iron & Wine – The Shepherd’s Dog
Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Tunng – Good Arrows
Explosions In The Sky – All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
Ryan Adams – Easy Tiger
Josh Ritter – The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
Interpol – Our Love To Admire
Queens Of The Stone Age – Era Vulgaris
Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
The Kissaway Trail – The Kissaway Trail
Frog Eyes – Tears of the Valedictorian
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Baby 81
The Shins – Wincing the Night Away
LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
PJ Harvey – White Chalk
The Earlies – The Enemy Chorus
Feist – The Reminder
Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew – Spirit If…
Apostle of Hustle – National Anthem of Nowhere
The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse
Akron/Family – Love Is Simple
Blitzen Trapper – Wild Mountain Nation
Blue Foundation – Life Of A Ghost
Cold War Kids – Robbers & Cowards
Blonde Redhead – 23
Kings Of Leon – Because Of The Times
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! – Some Loud Thunder

I would also like to mention the albums that I didn’t get time to listen to thoroughly. Ah, all this music.

In total random order:

Panda Bear – Person Pitch
The Twilight Sad – Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
Liars – Liars (Good koncert, though)
Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Beirut – The Flying Club Cup
Deerhoof – Friend Opportunity
Battles – Mirrored
The New Pornographers – Challengers
Devendra Banhart – Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
The Good, The Bad & The Queen – The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Dinosaur Jr. – Beyond
Bright Eyes – Cassadaga
Sunset Rubdown – Random Spirit Lover
British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music
Deerhunter – Cryptograms
St. Vincent – Marry Me
Josh Rouse – Country Mouse City House

Favorite albums of 2006

munkejens — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 19:11:26 +0000

When Flaming Lips released At War with the Mystics and after seeing their fantastic live show, I would never have thought that they wouldn’t be on my top 10 list of favorite album of 2006. But this proved to be the case after a year with a buck load of terrific albums with superb music.
My Latest Novel released at unique debut and it took me several considerations not to give it the top spot. But Black Holes And Revelations contained super summer hits for the whole year – even wintertime. An achievement which was impossible to overlook. Their personal mixture of indie rock, electronica, progressive rock and heavy metal really came into it’s own on this album.
The Decemberists takes indie pop even further wth The Crane Wife. Based on an old Japanese tale, the album is a huge ambitious project that succeeds in every way. This stuff really grows on you.
The Thermals, The Mondo Generator and Cursive RUBAR (Rock Us Beyond All Recognition) and takes no prisoners. (Yes, I have seen Saving Private Ryan recently.)

No more talking. Here they are, my favorite albums of 2006:

Muse – Black Holes And Revelations
My Latest Novel – Wolves
The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
The Thermals – The Body, the Blood, the Machine
Tunng – Comments of the Inner Chorus
The Mondo Generator – Dead Planet: SonicSlowMotionTrails
Cursive – Happy Hollow
Ratatat – Ratatat: Classics
Guillemots – Through the Window Pane
Band of Horses – Everything All the Time

The year 2006 wouldn’t be complete without listening to Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones, TV On The Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain, The Flaming Lips – At War With the Mystics, Swan Lake – Beast Moans, Annuals – Be He Me, Midlake – The Trials of van Occupanther, Loose Fur – Born Again in the USA

Favorite albums of 2005

munkejens — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:49:04 +0000

After much consideration, here’s my list of favorite albums released in 2005.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Howl
The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
Queens of the Stone Age – Lullabies to Paralyze
Eels – Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
System Of a Down – Mezmerize
Doves – Some Cities
Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary
Death Cab for Cutie – Plans
Sufjan Stevens – Come On Feel the Illinoise
Athlete – Tourist

Also very mentionable (In alphabetical order)

…And You Will Know Us By Trail Of Dead – Worlds Apart
Adams, Ryan – 29
Adams, Ryan – Cold Roses
Adams, Ryan & The Cardinals – Jacksonville City Nights
Arcade Fire – Funeral
Audioslave – Out of Exile
Beck – Guero
Block Party – Silent Alarm
Bravery, The – The Bravery
Broughton, David Thomas – The Complete Guide to Insufficiency
dEUS – Pocket Revolution
Elbow – Leaders of the Free World
Electric Six – Señor Smoke
Foo Fighters – In Your Honor
Gorillaz – Demon Days
Harcourt, Ed – Elephant’s Graveyard
Kashmir – No Balance Palace
Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
Mercury Rev – The Secret Migration
Nationals, The – Alligator
Nine Black Alps – Everything Is
Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth
Opeth – Ghost Reveries
Rouse, Josh – Nashville
Spoon – Gimme Fiction
Standard, The – Albatross
Subways, The – Young for Eternity
System of a Down – Hypnotize
Turbonegro – Party Animals
Whitey – The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is A Train
Wilco – Kicking Television (Live) [If this wasn't live recordings from their three previous albums, it would definitely have been high up on that top ten list. I guess Wilco just have to be satisfied with the fact that they propably would have taken the top spots with their last two albums, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born]
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