Artist |
Song |
Album |
Label |
Some albums I enjoyed a lot this year, and a sample song from each:
|
Dim Dim
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Kika
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Kiwi
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Audio Dregs
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The Bran Flakes
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The Magical Fairy Princess
|
Bounces!
|
Happi Tyme
|
Bob Hund
|
Glom Allt Du Lart Dig (Forget All You Have Learned)
|
Stenaldern Kan Borja (The Stone Age Can Begin)
|
Silence
|
Kronos Quartet
|
El Llorar
|
Nuevo
|
Nonesuch
|
Jean Jacques Perrey & David Chazam
|
My Blue Morlok
|
Eclektronics
|
Basta
|
Hylozoists
|
The Hylozoists
|
La Nouvelle Gauche
|
Brobdingnagian
|
and some reissues:
|
Fanny
|
Conversation With a Cop; Badge; Hey Bulldog
|
First Time in a Long Time
|
Rhino Handmade
|
Machito
|
Freezelandia
|
Complete Columbia Masters
|
Columbia/Legacy
|
The Driving Stupid
|
Hide the Lobsters
|
Horror Asparagus Stories
|
Sundazed
|
The Beatles
|
Don't Ever Change
|
Live at the BBC (from '94, but I just got it this year!)
|
Capitol
|
and some of my favorite songs of the year, alphabetically by artist:
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Black Randy and the Metrosquad
|
Down at the Laundrymat
|
"Pass the dust, I think I'm Bowie" (originally from 1980)
|
Sympathy for the Record Industry
|
Afel Bocoum/Damon Albarn/Toumani Diabate & Friends
|
Makelekele
|
Mali Music
|
Astralwerks
|
Grace Braun/DQE
|
Could This Be the Moment?; Hot Dog!
|
I'm Your Girl
|
Dark Beloved Cloud
|
Laura Cantrell
|
Too Late for Tonight
|
When the Roses Bloom Again
|
Diesel Only
|
Johnny Cash
|
We'll Meet Again
|
American IV: The Man Comes Around
|
American/Lost Highway
|
Control Machete
|
Si Senor
|
Solo Para Fanaticos
|
Universal Latino
|
Cornelius
|
Brazil; Smoke
|
Point
|
Matador
|
Deerhoof
|
Surprise Symphony
|
"C" 7-inch single
|
Cool Beans
|
DJ Shadow
|
Six Days
|
The Private Press
|
MCA
|
Shelley Duval
|
He Needs Me
|
Punch-Drunk Love soundtrack (originally from Popeye soundtrack; songs by Harry Nilsson)
|
Nonesuch
|
Electric Eel Shock
|
In NY
|
Shit Associated Music, Vol 1 (various artists)
|
Micro Music
|
ESG
|
Step Off
|
Step Off
|
Soul Jazz
|
Family Fodder
|
Tender Words
|
DBC Singles Club
|
Dark Beloved Cloud
|
Future Bible Heroes
|
From Some Dying Star; Losing Your Affection
|
Eternal Youth
|
Instinct
|
Michael Hurley
|
O My Stars; Got Over It
|
Sweetkorn
|
Trikont
|
Catherine Irwin
|
Don't We All Have the Right to Be Wrong?; Power of My Love
|
Cut Yourself a Switch
|
Thrill Jockey
|
Mellow
|
Rivolizione Sessantanove; Take Me Higher
|
CQ soundtrack
|
Emperor Norton
|
Mountain Goats
|
Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton
|
All Hail West Texas
|
Emperor Jones
|
Of Montreal
|
Doing Nothing
|
Aldhils Arboretum
|
Kindercore
|
People Like Us
|
Scott Slim
|
Stifled Love
|
Mess Media
|
Puffy Amiyume
|
Atarashii Hibi (Brand New Days)
|
Japan for Sale Vol. 2 (various artists)
|
Sony Japan
|
Joey Ramone
|
What a Wonderful World
|
Don't Worry About Me
|
Sanctuary
|
Wire
|
I Don't Understand
|
Read and Burn 01
|
Pink Flag
|
Woozyhelmet
|
Not Real
|
Woozyhelmet
|
self-released
|
...and then there's this...
|
Wes Montgomery
|
Goin' Out of My Head (with Cholly-Olly, vocal)
|
Verve Jazz Masters 14
|
Verve
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