PoOPlists

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2013 January 28, 2014

Kevin Falahee Poop 2013

2013 Poopzus Albums of 2013 1) Phosphorescent – Muchacho 2) The World Is A Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid To Die – Whenever, If Ever 3) Run the Jewels — Run the Jewels 4) Lorde – Pure Heroine 5) Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City 6) FIDLAR– s/t 7) Chvrches — The Bones of What You Believe 8) Local Natives — Hummingbird 9) Superchunk – I Hate Music 10) Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork 11) Danny Brown – Old 12) Kurt Vile – Wakin’ on a Pretty Daze 13) Deafieaven – Sunbather…

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2013 January 28, 2014

Jamie Hosley Poop 2013

I skipped 2012 for no good reason but I’m back for 2013. Moving to an all subscription based music collection has resulted in a ton of music to listen to, probably too much in actuality but here we go with a list of those albums that I listened to most repeatedly over the last year. I’m going to keep my descriptions short because really music is a personal thing and one’s liking or disliking of something is based on their experience, and really is there anything more disappointing than to recommend something to someone saying how listening to it was…

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2013 January 28, 2014

John Lefsky Poop 2013

Like almost every other year there is so much good music I don’t have the time, or cash, to get it all. Most of my old favorites didn’t let me down. Most of the new favorites sound like old favorites. How many are going to break barriers and change music? I’m guessing none. I’m just glad that I still like it loud. My biggest musical disappointment was the closing of my favorite music venue, Maxwell’s. 95% of the time I became a fan of the opening act. They knew how to put a bill together. Luckily I was able to…

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2013 January 28, 2014

Dan Wilmer Poop 2013

“I hate music. What is it worth?Can’t bring anyone back to this earth.But fill in the space between all the notes,And I’ve got nothing else so I guess here we go.” – “Me and You and Jackie Mittoo,” Superchunk This list goes to eleven:    Buy New or Used via Amazon Jason Isbell – Southeastern. Just a perfect alt country album.    Buy New or Used via Amazon Kurt Vile – Wakin’ on a Pretty Daze. Love him and he’s just getting better and better.    Buy New or Used via Amazon Steve Earle – The Low Highway. One of his very best….

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2013 January 27, 2014

Irv Rosen Poop 2013

What I listened to in 2013 So little music, so much time. Listening less. And less. As part of my slide to senility, not much new seems to speak to me at all. So this list is mostly new efforts by older artists. I guess this is the way it is meant to be. Why is it that invariably (or almost so), the current releases of “legacy” artists while good, rarely seem to approach the quality (or my perception of the quality) of their older works? Is it perception or is it real?    Buy New or Used via Amazon Richard…

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2013 January 27, 2014

Mike Miller Poop 2013

POOP ’13 (the kaopectate version)    Buy New or Used via Amazon Howe Gelb – The Coincidentalist    Buy New or Used via Amazon Iron & Wine – Ghost on Ghost and… just about anything else Howe Gelb put out, most of The Sadies latest, The Tindersticks, the killer title track on Kurt Vile’s release, some Alice Russell, unearthed gems from the nether world … Sanford Clark, Lee Hazlewood Industries, etc. “Saunders Ferry Lane” by Sammi Smith, “Potters Field” by Alice Swoboda & “Black Night” by Cheryl Thompson … As always, I thank the powers that be that i live in an…

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2013 January 26, 2014

John Stewart Poop 2013

To be quite (honest) with you I am really losing it as far what is current. Maybe I just don’t give a crap anymore. It’s not that I don’t hate new music. I mean if I hear something I really like? I will stand up and take notice of it. I have been accused of many things such as being a rockist. But then again would a rockist name an album and single of the year by a French Technopop duo named Daft Punk? Really loved that album and the single “Get Lucky” was amazing. But I think the term…

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2013 January 25, 2014

Tom Whalen Poop 2013

Top Ten    Buy New or Used via Amazon 1. Burial – Rival Dealer (Hyperdub) Burial made his anti-bullying, transgender-empathetic message clear in his text to the BBC and in this EP’s spoken word coda, but on Rival Dealer the theme of identity flux is also a deep-seeded musical element. “Do you know who I am?” wonders one sample; “You know my fuckin’ style!” taunts another (Raekwon, I believe). We sure thought we knew, but on “Hiders” and “Come Down to Us”, Burial shows us a new side, one so bright and so warm, an unexpected gift.    Buy New or Used…

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2013 January 25, 2014

Patrick Kennedy Poop 2013

MUSIC Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City Speedy Ortiz – Major Arcana CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork Phosphorescent – Muchacho HAIM – Days Are Gone Kvelertak – Meir Kanye West – Yeezus Disclosure – Settle Jon Hopkins – Immunity Worth Mentioning: Dawn of Midi – Dysnomia; Blood Orange – Cupid Deluxe; Chance the Rapper – Acid Rap; Deafheaven – Sunbather; Waxahatchee – Cerulean Salt MOVIES The World’s End Her Short Term 12 Spring Breakers The Wolf of Wall Street Gravity 12 Years A Slave Mud Side Effects…

Public Service Broadcasting

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2013 January 24, 2014

Rich Allen Poop 2013

Favorite Things 2013 Albums    Buy New or Used via Amazon Public Service Broadcasting ~ Inform Educate Entertain (Self-Released). Talent and popularity don’t always go hand in hand, but Inform Educate Entertain is the exception: a guilty pleasure packed with hit singles. PSB plundered public archives to find samples, placing all topics on equal ground: television, exploration, fashion, color, war. A combination of dance beats, ambient washes and post-rock flavors, this potpourri of British culture created enough goodwill to stretch around the world.    Buy New or Used via Amazon Human Pyramids ~ Planet Shhh! (Oxide Tones). Planet Shhh! sounds like a…

Sound City - Real to Reel

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2013 January 23, 2014

Jeff Schwartz Poop 2013

PoOp 2013 as delivered by Jeff Schwartz from Green Brook…… So the recordings listed below from the year twenty thirteen allowed for much toe tapping, head bobbing, songs sticking in my head and pleasantly holding my mind hostage, music that begged to be sung out loud at the top of my lungs (while alone of course in my car a scary sight for one to visualize be glad none of you had to be subjected to that), and overall what I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this past year….I offer this to you in a most pleasant, to the point, form…

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2013 January 15, 2014

Mike Jurkovic Poop 2013

Another year of grasping at straws And this is what I heard Wise Up Ghost Costello w/Roots snarlin’ at the wankers, Karen Grainger Shiver & Sigh Love bitin’ blues from an LA lady Miles, Chick, Holland, Wayne and DeJohnette Bootleg: Europe 69 Jarrett’s Concerts Bregenz Muchen Elton, Bernie ‘n Tbones’ Diving Board Mingus’ Jazz Workshops and Potter’s Sirens Neko’s The Worse Things Get . . . among the best McCartney’s New and perhaps concerts without the other three Speaking of which Live at The BBC and Zimmerman’s ‘other Side American Hustle and Kinky Boots Elvis @ UPAC ‘n Tuscany Blue…

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2013 January 13, 2014

Mark Zip Poop 2013

Albums     Buy New or Used via Amazon Disclosure – “Settle” – I was pleasantly surprised that this showed up quite high in a number of other US-based year -end lists. It’s a really good contemporary pop LP, made from a UK perspective. The beats are varied and interesting, house, two-step, garage- funky and, I’m sure, some other micro-genres with names I’m hip enough to know. They also manage to integrate many different guest vocalists remarkably seamlessly. Unlike the Major Lazer record (see below), Disclosure make a real effort to integrate guests into and overall sound and feeling. This one…

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2013 January 12, 2014

Matt Nerney Poop 2013

2013 was a year of big changes for my family and while music still played an important role in my experience, it just didn’t integrate itself as it usually has in the past. Moving to Vermont, finding new jobs, and shaping a new way of life has been a massive shift, an incredible life change that has included more wood-stacking, snow-blowing, and thankfully, more craft beer drinking. The experience has been intensely hectic and harried, but overall, happy. Music seemed almost to be an afterthought. The holidays though, as usual, brought many year-end reflections, and of course, the POOP. Tops…

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2013, Uncategorized January 12, 2014

Paul Cangelosi Poop 2013

(in no particular order)     Buy New or Used via Amazon Joan Jett & The Blackhearts: Unvarnished (Blackheart Records) I haven’t followed her career much over the years but I picked this up and was psyched to hear her rocking hard with her classic rock riffs. She’s still got “IT”.     Buy New or Used via Amazon Wau Y Los Arrrgh!!!: Todo Roto (Slovenly) This band is about as perfect for my taste in music as you can get. Crazed garage rock with wicked keyboard action. The vocals are as manic as ever. Still can’t understand a single thing he’s…

Special Request – Soul Music-2013

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2013 January 4, 2014

Andrew Martin PoOP 2013

Poop – Andrew W. Martin, Eddyville, NY Records and sounds that came to me in this year but were not necessarily released in this year… As the lone pooper representing sounds primarily directed at the dance floor and a non- listener of rock since the Pixies Doolittle (unless LCD Soundsystem counts as rock) … here are some interesting things I felt this year…      Buy New or Used via Amazon 1. Special Request – Soul Music – Houndstooth – 2013 – A man comfortable in all genres makes a stellar album deeply wed to old school UK hardcore. Paul…

Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2013 January 2, 2014

Andrew Stewart PoOP 2013

BEST: 2013 “Time for the comedown.”    Buy New or Used via Amazon 1. Kurt Vile / Wakin On a Pretty Daze: A mobius strip of psychedelia blooms up, up and away from this newly-minted guitar icon, who unfurls eighty minutes of magic here, and makes it seem effortless. Wonderful.    Buy New or Used via Amazon 2. Mikal Cronin / MCII: Former sidekick kicks down the mike stand, making your eyes widen and your heart pump love. Brendan Benson, take notice: this guy is eating your lunch.    Buy New or Used via Amazon 3. Islands / Ski Mask: Another fancy hopscotch…

Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze

PoOPlists, PoOPlists 2013 December 26, 2013

Ken Beck Poop 2013

BeCk PoOp 2013    Buy New or Used via Amazon Kurt Vile – Wakin on a Pretty Daze [Matador]    Buy New or Used via Amazon Queens of the Stone Age – … Like Clockwork [Matador]    Buy New or Used via Amazon Yuck – Glow and Behold [Fat Possum]    Buy New or Used via Amazon Of Montreal – Lousy With Sylvianbriar [PolyVinyl]    Buy New or Used via Amazon Superchunk – I Hate Music [Merge]    Buy New or Used via Amazon Endless Boogie – Long Island [No Quarter]    Buy New or Used via Amazon Shuggie Otis – Inspiration Information/Wings of Love [Sony]    Buy…