Favorite Singles For 2005-12-05

Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger - Postcard of a Painting
Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger - Graffiti
Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger - Apply Some Pressure
Forget Cassettes - Demo - Sleeper

Favorite Singles 2005-12-01

• The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers - Love Me Like You
• Modest Mouse - Everywhere and His Parlour of Nasty Tricks - Night on the Sun
• Modest Mouse - Everywhere and His Parlour of Nasty Tricks - You're the Good Things
  

Favorite Singles of the Week - 2005-11-18

• Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia - She Said
• The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike - Huddle Formation
• Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth - Baby C'mon
• My Morning Jacket - Z - Off the Record

The Top Albums of 2005

01. Wolf Parade - AttQM
02. Decemberists - Picaresque
03. Common - Be
04. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
05. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
06. BSS - BSS
07. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
08. Sun Kil Moon - Tiny Cities
09. Okkervil River - BSB
10. Iron & Wine - Woman King EP
11. CYHSY - CYHSY
12. Dangerdoom - The Mouse and the Mask
13. Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
14. Andrew Bird - Mysterious Production of Eggs
15. Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures
16. Iron & Wine with Calexico - In the Reins
17. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
18. White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
19. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
20. Kanye West - Late Registration
21. LCD Soundsystem - ST
22. Edan - Beauty and the Beat
23. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
24. Lucksmiths - Warmer Corners
25. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
26. My Morning Jacket - Z
27. Boy Least Likely To - BLLT
28. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
29. Beck - Guero
30. The Game - The Documentary
31. Wilco - Kicking Television (Live in Chicago)
32. Robbers on High Street - Tree City
33. Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth
34. Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
35. Blueprint - 1988
36. The Juan Maclean - Less Than Human
37. Quasimoto - FAoLQ

Since 37 albums seems like a lot, here are some that were considered.
Albums That Didn't Make the List
- Clipse - We Got It 4 Cheap
- Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die

Currently Listening To:
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike - The Power Is On

Original Deadbeef Resurrected

I finally got the original deadbeef back up but I think I'm going to maintain both sites, since this one obviously looks much better.


Currently Listening To:
My Morning Jacket - Z - Gideon

2005 Year End Album List

Today I started making a list of all the albums that I got this year. Right now, I have listed 34 albums, I'm waiting on one in the mail, and I still have yet to listen to five others. I also started to try and order them, which is a real beast to try and determine which was better, Spoon or Bloc Party? I think I have finally come to the conclusion of what will be the best album of the year. I know it's a little premature since I have to listen to six albums but I think I finally found an album to fall in the same category as album of the decade with Modest Mouse's The Moon and Antarctica.

Currently Listening To:
Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures - Salesman at the Day of the Parade

Home Site

Ok, well I finally got my home site backup, the main word there is home site. Because I supposedly have http://deadbeef.dynalias.com linked/aliased to my home site but I have not been able to visit this site from work. I even have a script that updates my ip to the dynamic dns alias, still haven't been able to get it to work. The only thing I can think of is that for some reason work is blocking it. Nope TCT just verified that it's my router. Good to know. Well, I better get back to painting...

Favorite Singles of the week:

• Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia - Runnin'
• Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary - Shine a Light
• Go Home Productions - Uptight Maggie (Stevie Wonder vs. Rod Stewart)
• Go Home Productions - Girl Wants (to say goodbye to) Rock and Roll (Christina Aguilare vs Velvet Underground)

Currently Listening To:
Neko Case - The Tigers Have Spoken - Soulful Shade of Blue

Sun Kil Moon - Tiny Cities

Back in 2003 Sun Kil Moon aka Mark Kozelek put out a great folk album Ghosts of the Great Highway. Now he's back with Tiny Cities, an album of all cover tunes of Modest Mouse. I love Modest Mouse and I have to say I was anxious to see how this album would come out. And I have to say that this is everything what I expected and more.

Including songs from almost all of Modest Mouse discography, it strips out the typically energetic rock and allows the listener to pay more attention to the lyrics and realize how great of songwriter Isaac Brock is. Even Tiny Cities Made of Ashes which was one of my least favorite songs, and got very few listens, is now one of my favorites. It is going to be very hard to narrow down a top 10 album list by the end of the year at this rate. Note: Sun Kil Moon's - Tiny Cities comes out next Tuesday, November 1st, 2005.

TV Sucks

I just watched a terrible movie last night. Sometimes you're in the mood for a bad movie, kind of like Alien vs. Predator, which may I add is better than I expected. But this movie's poor quality took me by surprise. Ok first off, it has Clint Eastwood. Ok Oscar winner, did Mystic River, The Good, Bad, and the Ugly, Million Dollar Baby, can't go wrong no? Wrong. The movie was shown on HBO Signature, all the movies are classics, right? Wrong. It's a drama/murder mystery, oh I love those! Let me reiterate, this movie was awful! This movie was so predictable, poorly written, and terribly directed. The movie played like James Bond was the lead character in Basic Instinct, but at least Basic Instinct was a good movie! So, next time you see this on tv and you think might want to waste 115 minutes of your life, try watching Alien vs. Predator. Excuse me while I write a letter to Clint asking for 115 minutes of my life back.

More Favorite Singles 2005-10-21

This is addition to the previous post, mainly in part due to the insane number of releases the past month.

• Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary - I'll Believe In Anything
• Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary - Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts
• Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene - Windsurfing Nation

Currently Listening To:
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary - I'll Believe In Anything

Best Singles of the Week 2005-10-19

Since the old dedbeef site is still down, I will try to keep up with the same theme by adding my favorite singles of the week.

• Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene - Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)
• Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)
• Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine - Oh Sailor
• Dangerdoom - The Mouse and the Mask - Space Ho's

Currently Listening to:
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene - Bandwitch

What a Great X-mas Idea!

This CD will definitely be in my Year End Top 10

Listening to:
Interpol - Precipitate EP - A Time To Be So Small

He-Man Is Just Trying to Get Up That Big Old Hill

One more before I go. http://www.whoomp.com/articles/163/1/He-Man-does-4-non-blondes

Currently Listening To:
Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine - Romantic Rights

This Country's Camel Toad Problem

I still haven't figured out if this a joke or not.
http://www.revo1.com/CamelToads.jpg

Currently Listening To:
Talking Heads - Remain In Light - Crosseyed And Painless

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So this is the temporary web site until the old dedbeef gets back up. What can I say, I'm just a google whore.