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PoOPlists 2001 January 3, 2009

Kent B Poop 01

Best New Stuff of the Year – with random comments 1. Proximo Estacion: Esperanza – Manu Chao. Some might dismiss this as a novelty record where silly sound affects, childlike voices and melodies intertwine in a multitude of dialects. But listen closer. The melodies have the irrepressible quality of nursery rhymes that you can’t get out of your head. There are some incredible horns floating faintly in the background. One song has a mother lovingly talking to her child in Spanish followed by a Latin radio announcer rolling his “Rs”. The songs all evoke strong images of the way we…

PoOPlists 2001 January 2, 2009

Ken Beck Poop 01

Graduating Class – 2001 Pernice Brothers – – The World Won’t End (Ashmont Records) “Most likely to make Big Star & Alex Chilton drop a load in their pants” The New Pornographers – – – Mass Romantic (Mint Records) “Most likely to squelch any further Canadian jokes.” Ted Leo/Pharmacists – – – The Tyranny of Distance (Lookout Records) “Most likely to end up in intensive care for severe tendon damage.” Fugu – – – Fugu 1 (Minty Fresh Records) “Most likely to change the way most people feel about the French.” Death Cab For Cutie – – – The Photo…

PoOPlists 2001 January 2, 2009

Richard Allen Poop 01

Albums Bjork: – Vespertine This consistently gorgeous, lyrically relevant, emotionally soothing opus is a gift from one of the music industry’s true treasures. In every song, we can hear her struggling, stretching and striving for strings of hope, and holding on with all her might An icicle album from the Icelander, to be cherished year-round. David Visan: – Chill Out in Paris This Buddha Bar collection is a balm for the spirit, flawlessly mixed and inspirational in vision. A global mix that is much more than the sum of its parts – a cohesive, uplifting, life-affirming album. The Avalanches: –…

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2002, Yearly PoOP Analyses January 2, 2009

Main Poop Analysis 2002

February 2003 Dear POOPster: : You’ve got POOP. The Sixteenth Annual POmpous and OPinionated List is now official and in your sweaty hands. You may notice that it’s a bit lighter this year than last due to only 27 cranky-ass, self-righteous, self-important, musically correct, pontificating blowhards having submitted lists. But when it comes to swill it’s the quality, not the quantity, that counts. That we’ve got. As usual, I’ve attempted to tabulate the entries and, as is customary, I’ve employed the usual What-The-Hell’s-He-Talking-About-Anyway System. One more time, I’ve given 2 points to each pompoid’s Top 10 choices and 1 point…

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2003, Yearly PoOP Analyses January 2, 2009

Main Poop Analysis 2003

February 2004 Dear POOPster: No weapons of mass destruction here either but at least we’ve got POOP. The Seventeenth Annual POmpous and OPinionated List is here. This year 30 cranky-ass, self-righteous, musically correct blowhards have blessed us with the usual self-important pontificating. We even picked up some new meat to spice up the pot. So let’s hoist up the “Mission Accomplished” banner and get down to business. As usual, I’ve attempted to tabulate the entries and, as is customary, I’ve employed the now time-honored What-The-Hell’s-He-Talking-About-Anyway System. One more time, I’ve given 2 points to each pompoid’s Top 10 choices and…

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2004, PoOPlists 2005, Yearly PoOP Analyses January 2, 2009

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…

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2005, Yearly PoOP Analyses January 2, 2009

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…

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2006, Yearly PoOP Analyses January 2, 2009

Main Poop Analysis 2006

February 2007 Greetings Fellow POOPsters: POOP Happens. And we have reached a milestone, indeed. As POOP attains adulthood in its twentieth year, I think back to when the POOP package consisted of a pile of 7 or 8 lists crudely stapled together. That was a long time ago–before the spiral notebook editions, the stitched bindings, the plastic covers and digiPOOP. After two decades we have shown that as the world transforms itself, as crises continue to challenge us, as leaders change, as wars come and go and sometimes come and stay, that no matter what-we can count on death, taxes,…

Uncategorized January 2, 2009

January 02 2009 – Starting anew

Welcome to the new online home of the PoOPlist! I’ll be transferring all the individual lists here over the next few weeks, the Main PoOP Analyses are up. Posts earlier than this one are imported from http://pooplist.blogspot.com , our earlier blog. The importing process was a little janky, so archives, permalinks and some other bits and pieces are a little broken. From now on, all should be well… I think Mark Zip, Chief Web Pompoid ==================================

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2007, Yearly PoOP Analyses January 2, 2009

Main Poop Analysis 2007

February 2008 Dear Comrades-In-POOP: Let there be POOP. And there was. And it was good. At age 21, POOP enters adulthood. After two decades of blather and bile, POOP seems to have taken on a life of its own. We’ve developed quite the tight community of music lovers who each year, with a little cajoling, faithfully bundle their favorites into cute little lists. It’s all very sweet. I feel like a proud papa (to quote one list). This year a record 36 fans, fanatics and people with some serious record collecting issues have bundled. If you’ve been here before, feel…

PoOPlists 2007 January 1, 2009

Richard Allen Poop 07

Favorite Things ~ ALBUMS ‘07 Buy new or used through Amazon Arcade Fire ~ Neon Bible (Merge). Recorded and performed in churches, “Neon Bible” is, ironically, a heartfelt diatribe against the evils of organized religion. “Not much chance for survival,” sings Wim Butler, “if the neon Bible is right.” Yet beneath all the disappointment and anger flows a river of faith, apparent in the organ tones of “Intervention,” the prophetic imagery of “The Well and the Lighthouse” and the determined yearning of “My Body Is a Cage.” Strings, brass and gospel choirs enrich the band’s already textured sound and…

PoOPlists 2003 January 1, 2009

Rick Lange Poop 03

PoOPlists 2006 January 1, 2009

Rick Lange Poop 06

PoOPlists 2004 January 1, 2009

RoseAnn Fino Poop 04

CDs 1. Garden State Soundtrack 2. Taking Back Sunday – Decade Under the Influence 3. Tegan And Sara- So Jealous 4. Butterfly Boucher – Flutterby 5. The Butchies – Make Yr Life 6. The Cure – The Cure 7. Snow Patrol – Final Straw 8. Bright Eyes – Lua [cd single] 9. Interpol – Antics 10. The Killers – Hot Fuss 11. The OC – Mix 2 Concerts 1. Little Steven’s Underground Garage Festival 2. The Vans Warped Tour 2004 3. Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson at the Dutchess Stadium 4. Mest and Hawthorne Heights at the Chance 5. Matchbook…

PoOPlists 2006 January 1, 2009

RoseAnn Fino Poop 06

Buy new or used through Amazon 1. Yell Fire!- Michael Franti and Spearhead Buy new or used through Amazon 2. We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions-Bruce Springsteen Buy new or used through Amazon 3. Modern Times-Bob Dylan Buy new or used through Amazon 4. The Believer-Rhett Miller Buy new or used through Amazon 5. Begin To Hope-Regina Spektor Buy new or used through Amazon 6. Animal Years- Josh Ritter Buy new or used through Amazon 7. Crane Wife-The Decembrists Buy new or used through Amazon 8. Marie Antoinette Soundtrack- Various Artists Buy…

PoOPlists 2007 January 1, 2009

RoseAnn Fino Poop 07

Buy new or used through Amazon Wilco – “Sky Blue Sky” Buy new or used through Amazon Bruce Springsteen – “Magic” Buy new or used through Amazon Josh Ritter – “The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter” Buy new or used through Amazon Original Soundtrack – “Once Soundtrack” Buy new or used through Amazon Bright Eyes – “Casadaga” Buy new or used through Amazon Amy Winehouse – “Back to Black” Buy new or used through Amazon Feist – “The Reminder” Buy new or used through Amazon The Shins-“Wincing the Night Away” Buy new or used through Amazon Various Artists-“Juno” Buy new…

PoOPlists 2004 January 1, 2009

Scott Dellamore Poop 04

Mastodon – Leviathan Isis – Panopticon Burnt by the Sun – Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good Old man gloom – Christmas Pig Destroyer – Terrifier Neurosis – The Eye of Every Storm Sunn 0))) – White 2 Tusk – Tree of No Return These Arms Are Snakes – Oxeneers or The Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home TV on the Radio – Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes Arcade Fire – Funeral Madvillain – Madvillainy Jill Scott – Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds, Vol. 2 MF Doom – MM..Food? Viktor Vaughn AKA MF Doom – Venomous Villain Handsome…

PoOPlists 2005 January 1, 2009

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…

PoOPlists 2006 January 1, 2009

Scott Dellamore Poop 06

A list of words that spell out the patterns and sounds of two.thousand.seven A year … made better by the noise 1. Akron/Family – Love Is Simple 2. Sunn 0))) – Oracle 3. Lesbian – Power Hor 4. Bonnie Prince Billy – Ask Forgiveness 5. Pig Destroyer – Phantom Limb 6. Torche – In Return 7. Oxbow – The Narcotic Story 8. Battles – Mirrored 9. Acid Mothers Temple – Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under The Stars 10. Jesu – Conqueror 11. Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works 12. Angels Of Light – We Are Him 13. Thurston Moore – Trees…

PoOPlists 2006 January 1, 2009

Tom Whalen Poop 06

30 TOPS – – – – 30 – casiotone for the painfully alone – etiquette (tomlab) makes the postal service sound like the telegram 29 – the thermals – the body, the blood, the machine (sub pop) makes green day sound really, really old 28 – indian jewelry – invasive exotics (monitor) doom-plated psych-rock from the bowels of the bowels 27 – grizzly bear – yellow house (warp) winner of my first annual scott dellamore album layout of the year award 26 – skygreen leopards – disciples of california (jagjaguwar) straight up heartache; another notch in the jagjag belt 25…

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