PoOPlists 2005

Jim Finnigan Poop 05

Well my ultimate PoOP list is here and I didn’t even write it! Simon Reynolds book Rip It Up and Start Again – Postpunk 1978-1984 was my favorite musical experience of the year. Not the book alone – I DJ’d my reading experience with the records listed or mentioned in the text, and the soundtrack on my stereo(s) was better by far than anything else that made it to my turntables or CD players. And what a selection: Slits meets Pop Group meets Gang of Four meets Mutant Disco meets 99 meets On-U meets PiL meets YMG meets Joly [!]…


Eric Fine Poop 05

Greetings and welcome to another journey through my discovery of this year’s music trials, tribulations, struggles, and triumphs. I hope the pleasure you received from new music this year was more enjoyable that years gone by. Finding new music has become a full time job. And finding free time has been almost as challenging as finding good new music. The more music I heard that I liked; the more I realized that there were actually identifiable pockets where great music is being made. I guess it reminded me of a time when you knew a band was good based on…


Kevin Falahee Poop 05

Sorry, Sufjan… 40) Foo Fighters – In Your Honor 39) High On Fire – Blessed Black Wings 38) Wilderness – s/t 37) CocoRosie – Noah’s Ark 36) M83 – Before The Dawn Heals Us All 35) Seemless – s/t 34) Bear vs. Shark – Terrorhawk 33) Jesu – s/t 32) John Vanderslice – Pixel Revolt 31) Serena Maneesh – s/t 30) Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine 29) Spoon – Gimmie Fiction 28) Broken Social Scene – s/t 27) …Trail Of Dead – Worlds Apart 26) Aesop Rock – Fast Cars, Danger, Fire… 25) Blood On The Wall – Awesomer 24)…


John DeLaire Poop 05

Hey ! All the young dudes and those fine ladies also partaking in the 2005 Poop effort. Well there goes another year and the music press is filled with stories about file sharing The big boys are litigating. You don’t litigate Rock “N’ Roll. Try sending me a subpoena. Now on to the real opinionated privileged stuff I got last year.      Buy new or used through Amazon 1) Petra Hayden — “The Who Sell Out” I think the album is older than her, no deterent to vocally reproducing the Who’s masterpiece done honestly and faithfully to the original…


Scott Dellamore Poop 05

30 records of two.thousand.five that inspired me to write a list. + 26 more that I liked but didn’t feel like numbering & a couple of movies. -scott dell’amore [redsupergiant AT gmail DOT com]     Buy new or used through Amazon Orthrelm – Ov [Ipecac]    Buy new or used through Amazon Sunn O))) – Black One [Southern Lord]    Buy new or used through Amazon Pelican – The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw [Hydra Head]     Buy new or used through Amazon Kinski – Alpine Static [Sub Pop] Buy new or used through Amazon…


Duncan Clark Poop 05

  Buy new or used through Amazon 1.RYAN ADAMS – Cold Roses Hyperactivity is not necessarily a bad thing. Channel-ing the Dead’s American Beauty gave him his strongest album in a short but very busy career. 29 and Jacksonville City Nights were almost as good.    Buy new or used through Amazon 2.THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS – Twin Cinema More hooks per song than some bands manage in an entire career.    Buy new or used through Amazon 3.YOUNG DUBLINERS – Real World They have come of age in the last two albums. Like other Irish bands of note, now living…


Kent B Poop 05

Sweet Sixteen   Buy new or used through Amazon Blue Highway, – Marbletown Not only do these guys play great bluegrass, but they write songs that match the real stuff on Brother Where Art Thou. You know, songs that tell stories about death, Lazarus, dark clouds and lighting.   Buy new or used through Amazon Wide Right – Sleeping on the Couch A very unglamorous foursome performs searing songs about rockers struggling with day jobs and lost dreams as they drift into middle life. Singer Leah Archibald has a great rock voice. When she sings about marital woes and taking…


Main Poop Analysis 2004

February 2005 Dear POOPster, POOP’s  here. The Eighteenth Annual POmpous and OPinionated List, that is. It’s time to try to make some sense out of this past year, a year in which three defining moments seemed to defy any and all semblance of logic. Bush was elected president. The Red Sox won the World Series. And Bush was elected president. It was a year that introduced new nouns to the lexicon, like iPod (appearing on three lists) and Jesusland (mentioned or implied all over the place). And Bush was elected president. Obviously, anything can happen and pretty much did. But…


Main Poop Analysis 2005

Dear POOPster: You’ve got POOP in your hands. The Nineteenth Annual POmpous and OPinionated List, that is. It’s hard to believe but when this whole POOPthing first started in 1987, we had a conservative Republican president surrounded by scandalous goings-on and Antonin Scalia from New Jersey had just been confirmed to a lifetime membership as one of The Supremes. It is indeed comforting to know that as America undergoes such sweeping change, POOP lumbers on. And lumber it has as 30 POOPsters have managed to get their lists past the National Security Agency and onto these pages (and onto the…


Scott Dellamore Poop 05

    Buy new or used through Amazon Orthrelm – Ov [Ipecac]     Buy new or used through Amazon Sunn O))) – Black One [Southern Lord]     Buy new or used through Amazon Pelican – The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw [Hydra Head]     Buy new or used through Amazon Kinski – Alpine Static [Sub Pop]     Buy new or used through Amazon Akron/Family & Angels of Light – Akron/Family & Angels of Light [Young God]   Earth – Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method [Southern Lord] Animal Collective – Feels [Fat Cat] Red Sparowes – At…


Tom Whalen Poop 05

Buy new or used through Amazon The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday (French Kiss) When I was in my early teens and first “discovering” rock n’ roll and the unique salvation it represented, all of my favorite songs and albums bled into one singular experience, a looping hits compilation of sensation and memory that was so pure, romantic and uninhibited, and one that contrasts so distinctly with the detached, exhaustingly analytical way I approach most music these days, that I have a hard time even remotely identifying with it. Years before I bogged myself down with trivia, music was a…