Favorite Songs of 12/21/2009

• Animal Collective - What Do I Want? Sky
• Generationals - Con Law - When They Fight, They Fight
• Pomegranates - Everybody, Come Outside! - Everybody, Come Outside!
• Cotton Jones - Blood Red Sentimental Blues
• Frontier Folk Nebraska - Help Me Through
• PJ Harvey & John Parish - Black Hearted Love
• Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence - Boat Behind
• Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Cold Roses - If I Am a Stranger
• Washed Out - Feel It Around
• Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo
• The Tough Alliance - A New Chance (Juan MacLean Remix)

Best Albums of 2009

1.) Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
2.) Japandroids - Post-Nothing
3.) Mos Def - The Ecstatic
4.) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
5.) Passion Pit - Manners
6.) xx - xx
7.) Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
8.) Animal Collective - Merriweather Pavillion
9.) DOOM - Born Like This
10.) Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
11.) Various Artists - Dark Was the Night
12.) Real Estate - Real Estate
13.) Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
14.) Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
15.) Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
16.) Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
17.) Matt & Kim - Grand
18.) White Denim - Fits
19.) Girls - album
20.) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
21.) Bon Iver - Blood Bank
22.) Dodos - Time To Die
23.) The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
24.) St. Vincent - Actor
25.) King Khan & BBQ Show - Invisible Girl
26.) Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Linx pt. II
27.) Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement
28.) De La Soul - Are You In
29.) Gossip - Music For Men
30.) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
31.) Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
32.) Volcano Choir - Unmap
33.) Royksopp - Junior

Best Albums of 2008

I realized today that I have neglected keeping this site up to date. My first attempt will be posting my favorite albums from 2008.

01.) Dodos - The Visiter
02.) Fleet Foxes - ST
03.) Cut Copy - In Ghosts
04.) Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line
05.) M83 - Saturdays=Youth
06.) Sun Kil Moon - April
07.) Cat Power - Jukebox
08.) No Age - Nouns
09.) Walkmen - You & Me
10.) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
11.) Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
12.) Black Keys - Attack & Release
13.) Bon Iver
14.) Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us
15.) Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
16.) MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
17.) Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls
18.) Wolf Parade - Mount Zoomer
19.) Roots - Rising Down
20.) TV On the Radio - Dear Science
21.) Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
22.) Portishead - Third
23.) Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Life
24.) Times New Viking – Rip It Off

Best Albums of 2008 - So Far

01.) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

02.) M83 - Saturdays=Youth

03.) Dodos - Visiter

04.) Sun Kil Moon - April

05.) Cat Power - Jukebox

06.) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!

07.) Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair

08.) Black Keys - Attack & Release

09.) Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

10.) MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

11.) Portishead - Third

12.) Roots - Rising Down

13.) Cut Copy - In Ghosts

Currently Listening To:

De La Soul - Stakes Is High - Dog Eat Dog

Why You Should Download The Black Kids - Wizard of Ahhhs EP

• It's Free
• It made one of my top albums of 2007
• It's fun dance rock
• Four new songs are easy to digest
• One of it's songs, "I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance" made mine and Pitchfork's (if my opinion isn't enough) top singles of 2007 list.
• Did I mention it's free?

Download the Black Kids - Wizard of Ahhhs EP NOW!!!

Currently Listening To:
Glen Hansard and Markets Irglova - Once Soundtrack - When Your Mind's Made Up

Favorite Tracks of 1/1/2008

A week late...

• Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass - None Shall Pass


• UGK - Int'l Player's Anthem (I Choose You) feat. Outkast


• Michael Cera and Ellen Page - Juno Soundtrack - I Choose You


• The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters - Cold Days From the Birdhouse

Currently Listening To:
DJ Muggs vs. GZA/Genius - Grandmasters - General Principles

iTunes is the bane of my existance

It all started when I decided to get Kelly an mp3 player for her birthday in November. Being such a huge advocate of my Rio Karma, which has been discontinued, I decided to research into something that could live up to such a device. After much research, I found that the Trekstor Vibez 12GB mp3 player was a great device that could live up to the greatness of the Rio Karma.

What was great about the Rio Karma? Better sound quality, an equalizer (that was not available in the iPod at the time of purchase in 2004), support of ogg, flac, aac, and non-stop playback, and not to mention cheaper than the iPod by about $100.

The case was still true for the Trekstor, sans equalizer, so I found a place online to purchase from. Unfortunately, since the product is designed and manufactured in Germany, there was only one or two places that would import it. After shipment I eagerly tried it out, but to my dismay, it didn't work, at all. Unfortunately the importer provided a poor return policy and for audio devices would not repair them, I decided to return the item for a refund.

After this fiasco, along with other birthday present failures, I decided to go with the fail-safe iPod Touch. If it broke, at least I could take it somewhere to get fixed.

I had installed iTunes a couple of times before, just to play around with it and didn't care for the software. I didn't care for its bundling of Quicktime and a few other features I didn't care for, but I thought I would take it all in strides to own this cool little device.

48 hours after installation, my computer ground to a halt. No response was able to be made, a total reboot had to be made. 5 minutes later after reboot, the same thing. I then rebooted again and tried uninstalling the last apps that were installed, namely iTunes. Problem solved.

Until MediaMonkey or the iPod Winamp plugin supports the iPod touch I unfortunately have to live with the uninstalling/installing of iTunes just to connect to the iPod.

As far as the iPod Touch, it's freaking awesome, a very cool little toy.

Currently Listening To:
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver - All My Friends

Favorite Tracks of 2007

The lists just don't stop...

1.) Handsome Furs - What We Had
2.) Andrew Bird - Plasticities
3.) The Avalanches - Ray of Zdarlight
4.) Feist - My Moon My Man
5.) Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Tell Me
6.) Radiohead - Reckoner
7.) Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
8.) Kanye West - I Wonder
9.) Neko Case - Live from Austin City Limits - Buckets of Rain
10.) Spoon - You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
11.) Mark Ronson - Oh My God ft. Lily Allen
12.) Wilco - Impossible Germany
13.) Rougue Wave - Like I Needed
14.) Arctic Monkeys - Do Me A Favour
15.) Jens Lekman - I'm Leaving You / If I Could Cry (It Would Feel Like This)
16.) Black Kids - I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance

Currently Listening To:
Rogue Wave - Asleep At Heaven's Gate - Chicago x 12