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PoOPlists, Pooplists 2022, Yearly PoOP Analyses January 26, 2023

Main Poop Analysis 2022

Dear POOPsters: Time to POOP. For the 36th consecutive year, we POmpous and OPinionated rut-stuck regulars have re-convened to share the fruits of our music habits. In all 21 have weighed in and tilted at internet windmills this year. Even a few prodigal POOPsters have returned to the fold. That’s pretty encouraging given all that’s happened in America this past year; at least our Right To Choose music remains intact even if little else does. After fifteen separate ballots in the House of POOPresentatives, we have finally reached a consensus. I’ve once again employed the time-honored tabulation system, utilizing the…

Horace Andy - Rockers and Scorchers

PoOPlists, Pooplists 2022 January 23, 2023

Jim Finnigan Poop 2022

In this third year of the pandemic, I made a decision to slow down my record hunting activities and concentrate on exploring what’s already on my shelves (lots of shelves #fuckyeahphysicalmedia). But I found it a little difficult to go completely cold turkey so I still have enough new acquisitions to make a PooP List yet again. — Horace Andy, Pay It All Back Vol. 8, Dub No Frontiers, Jeb Loy Nichols, Spoon, Ghetto Priest x D.Foe, Mark Stewart, Holly Cook, Neneh Cherry, Karen Dalton, Dropkick Murphys, Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder

Chip Wickham - Cloud 10

PoOPlists, Pooplists 2022 January 7, 2023

Matt Nerney Poop 2022

POOP 2022: I have to say that I don’t think 2022 was a banner year for music. Yes, there were a handful of releases that seem likely to stand the test of time. But only the very top albums had that great “album” feel, with quality and continuity running through all of the tracks. Many other albums had some great individual tracks, but didn’t seem to hold up across the length of the whole. Overall, though, most of what I heard was pretty underwhelming. Is this the way it’s always been? Or is this the way that I’ve always been?…

Wet Leg - Wet Leg

PoOPlists, Pooplists 2022 December 31, 2022

Dan Wilmer Poop 2022

Best Albums for 2022 – Dan Wilmer, Jersey City, NJ – This List Goes to Eleven – — Wet Leg — Spoon — Spiritualized — Sierra Ferrell — Panda Bear & Sonic Boom — Afghan Whigs — Arcade Fire — UVTV — Better Oblivion Community Center — Elvis Costello — Wilco

Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2017 January 9, 2018

A Mystery Contributor Poop 2017

Say, what gives, McGillicuddy? Looking back on my ’16 list, I’ve realised that I barely got back around to some of those choices during ’17. Odd. I did really like that Car Seat Headrest record. Pinegrove too. Here’s what I discovered in ’17 that I hope will continue to excite me into ’18.

Planetarium - Planetarium

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2017 January 6, 2018

Matt Nerney Poop 2017

2017 done, dusted … and we’re still alive! We may be the laughingstock of the planet, but at least we’re still here to laugh. And at the end of these next four years (or less … hope springs eternal!) we may even have learned something valuable about ourselves as a nation. There is a feeling somewhere inside me that says this struggle we’re facing will make us a better people and a better nation. Don’t get me wrong, I still think most people don’t know what’s good for them, but I think enough people will realize that what we have…

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2014, Yearly PoOP Analyses January 30, 2015

Main PoOP Analysis 2014

2014 was a pretty rough year for the world. While good music might ordinarily offer a diversion from the bad and the ugly, occasionally a year comes dangerously close to getting its ass kicked. Seasoned as we are after 28 years of committing POOP to paper and post, we persevere and continue (in the face of beheadings, ebola, Boehner’s new band of blowhards, “I can’t breathe,” and climate calamity) to cling to both bad alliterations and silly year-end lists. Or do we? This year only 26 self-important pontificators got their cool cards punched (2 fewer than last year).

PoOPlists 2014 January 27, 2015

Don Cohen Poop 2014

Ariel Pink: Pom Pom ~ Wowie zowie! Derivative of Zappa’s first few albums, but who cares? Rosenberg carries on Frank’s absurdist satire and sonic chaos as if he were a genetically-related mutant offspring. You need this for mental health.

PoOPlists 2014 January 27, 2015

Kevin Falahee Poop 2014

1) Modern Baseball – You’re Gonna Miss It All — 2) Spoon – They Want My Soul — 3) Taylor Swift – 1989 — 4) Lives of the Obscure – Into the Stacks — 5) the Hotelier – Home…Like No Place There Is — 6) Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness — 7) Chumped– Teenage Retirement — 8) Vince Staples – Hell Can Wait EP — 9) Protomartyr – Under Color of Official Right — 10) You Blew It! – Keep Doing What You’re Doing

PoOPlists 2014 January 26, 2015

Patrick Kennedy Poop 2014

A Safe and Measured Appreciation of Popular Culture: 2014 Edition –
by Patrick Kennedy –
MUSIC –
1. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire for No Witness –
2. Spoon – They Want My Soul –
3. St. Vincent – s/t –
4. The Hotelier – Home, Like Noplace Is There –
5. Run The Jewels – RTJ2 –
6. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead! –

PoOPlists 2014 January 25, 2015

Jamie Hosley Poop 2014

Another year gone and another list put together, so in no particular order here are the albums I listened to the most over the last 12 months.

PoOPlists 2014 January 24, 2015

Tom Whalen Poop 2014

1) Sun Kil Moon – Benji (Caldo Verde) >> Ultimately, I’m kind of glad that Kozelek threw himself from grace with the War on Drugs stuff. The shine on this album was a little too bright. I’m not talking about discovery greed here; it’s not that I wanted this thing to myself, or could ever imagine having it that way (who would even admit to that!?). …

PoOPlists 2014 January 17, 2015

Matt Nerney Poop 2014

It was a year of continuous change, but also of hopeful permanence. We started the year in a small rental in Reading, Vermont and ended it in our rambling new home in Grafton, New Hampshire. In between, moving and madness. At journey’s end, we found the home of our dreams, a historic colonial, with barns, land, and forest. We’ve just ordered our seeds and are planning the vegetable garden. The cycle of life continues. Of course, one needs a soundtrack for all this change, and 2014 certainly provided it. Tops of the Pops     Buy New or Used via Amazon…

PoOPlists 2014 January 14, 2015

Dan Wilmer Poop 2014

1. Old 97’s – Most Messed Up. 22 years into their career, Rhett Miller and the boys produce one of their most raucous albums. ‘Mats bassist Tommy Stinson sits in on “Intervention” which poses the question: “He’s mystified why we’re so lame, but if he wakes up dead will he feel the same?” Lots of stompy, Hank Williams inspired honky tonk fun.