PoOPlists

Richard Allen Poop ’11

Favorite Things ~ 2011 ALBUMS    Buy New or Used via Amazon FareWell Poetry ~ Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite (Gizeh) This music is dangerous. It invites us to pass through the raging fire so that we might stand on the ravaged side, patting the flames on our singed clothes and glaring triumphantly at the monster that should have destroyed us. Spoken word, post-rock and Shakespeare’s Troillus and Cressida are combined in such a way as to challenge Godspeed! You Black Emperor for the post-rock crown.    Buy from Tartaruga Records Petrels ~ Haeligewielle(Tartaruga) Haeligewielle (holy well, sacred spring)…


Ken Beck Poop ’11

At the end of the year when I go back and figure out what musically excited me and throw all the titles onto the digital paper, I can’t help but feel self-conscious about how narrow my tastes continue to be, even at age 42. Thankfully this year I can finally say that I have broadened my horizons with not only Bombino’s Agadez but also Raphael Saadiq’s Stone Rollin’. I stumbled upon Agadez through a random NPR album stream one uneventful day at work. Mr. Moctar is from the Northern African region of Tuareg and was raised on a steady diet…


Ken Beck PoOP ’11

At the end of the year when I go back and figure out what musically excited me and throw all the titles onto the digital paper, I can’t help but feel self-conscious about how narrow my tastes continue to be, even at age 42. Thankfully this year I can finally say that I have broadened my horizons with not only Bombino’s Agadez but also Raphael Saadiq’s Stone Rollin’. I stumbled upon Agadez through a random NPR album stream one uneventful day at work. Mr. Moctar is from the Northern African region of Tuareg and was raised on a steady diet…


It’s time for PoOP – Call for submissions

Dear leader and fearless PoOPmeister Mark Rosen writes: Yes, it’s time to POOP. This year’s list will be the 25th Annual edition of POOP. The rules remain the same: limit yourself to that which will fit on 2 sides of a page, leaving a small margin where the inside binding will go. send me an attached copy, preferably as a Word Doc. send me a few bucks to cover my expenses. I usually lose a bit of buckage on these and my losses seem to be slowly trending upwards. You no longer have to send me a hard copy as…


Main Poop Analysis 2010

January 2011 In a year marked by the earthquake in Haiti, Elvis-impersonating Chilean miners and the end of Lost, we are reminded that in the greater scheme of things, it’s only POOP. But while Tea Partyers, one JetBlue flight attendant and Cee Lo explored new ways to express their ire and frustrations, we 29 POmpous and OPinionated patrons of the musical arts embraced the new era of civility in our annual rite of peaceful pontification. No POOP libel here. If you’ve been here before, feel free to skip this paragraph. As usual, I’ve attempted to tabulate the entries and, as…


John Stewart Poop ’10

It was a revolting year, the Teabagging nuts took the Congress thanks to a Supreme Court filled with Nazis like John Roberts, Sam Alito, Clarence Thomas (whose wife is a Teabagger) and Antonin Scalia. Kudos to the San Francisco Giants who won. Wherever my dad may be, I am sure he was smiling. He loved the Giants even long after they left Harlem. Maybe Aston Villa will win the premiership in England. Only one championship since 1910, thus making them the Boston Red Sox of English soccer. Top 10 NEW RELEASES FOR 2010 This is a tough one because I…


Bill Still Poop ’10

 Buy New or Used via amazon 1. Mi Ami : Steal Your Face ( bought this unknowing of the band strictly on cover art. quickly became my favorite grating noisy annoying masterpiece. previous members were “Black Dice” also very good.)  Buy New or Used via amazon 2. Wooden Shjips : Vol. 2 (saw them ATP and was enthralled with their trancey Krautrock even though they’re American.)  Buy New or Used via amazon 3. John Zorn : Interzone (one of many Zorn releases this year, this one is all over the map.)  Buy New or Used via amazon 4. The Sadies…


Bill Still Poop ’10

 Buy New or Used via amazon 1. Mi Ami : Steal Your Face ( bought this unknowing of the band strictly on cover art. quickly became my favorite grating noisy annoying masterpiece. previous members were “Black Dice” also very good.)  Buy New or Used via amazon 2. Wooden Shjips : Vol. 2 (saw them ATP and was enthralled with their trancey Krautrock even though they’re American.)  Buy New or Used via amazon 3. John Zorn : Interzone (one of many Zorn releases this year, this one is all over the map.)  Buy New or Used via amazon 4. The Sadies…


Kevin Falahee Poop ’10

ALBUMS  Buy New or Used via amazon 1) Titus Andronicus – The Monitor  Buy New or Used via amazon 2) Male Bonding – Nothing Hurts  Buy New or Used via amazon 3) The Dream – Love King  Buy New or Used via amazon 4) Fang Island – Fang Island  Buy New or Used via amazon 5) Grinderman – Grinderman 2  Buy New or Used via amazon 6) LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening  Buy New or Used via amazon 7) Vampire Weekend – Contra  Buy New or Used via amazon 8) Surfer Blood – Astro Coast  Buy New or Used…


Kevin Falahee Poop ’10

ALBUMS  Buy New or Used via amazon 1) Titus Andronicus – The Monitor  Buy New or Used via amazon 2) Male Bonding – Nothing Hurts  Buy New or Used via amazon 3) The Dream – Love King  Buy New or Used via amazon 4) Fang Island – Fang Island  Buy New or Used via amazon 5) Grinderman – Grinderman 2  Buy New or Used via amazon 6) LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening  Buy New or Used via amazon 7) Vampire Weekend – Contra  Buy New or Used via amazon 8) Surfer Blood – Astro Coast  Buy New or Used…


John DeLaire Poop ’10

I don’t think I’ll make it this year. I think I’ve heard only one new thing Brian Wilson does Gershwin and Mom said if you don’t have anything nice to say. Oh wait a minute Crowded House “The Intriguer” sounds to me more of a group effort that a Finn project,very polished, melodic with nothing to hang their heads about. There’s lack of pretense and application of proficient chops I found musically satisfying for pop music which is a feeling I didn’t find much for what was presented to me in 2010. I find returning to works like Buster Williams…




Duncan Clark Poop ’10

 Buy New or Used via amazon 1. THE IMAGINED VILLAGE – Empire & Love: The project is premised on the belief that traditional folk music was never intended to be static or relegated to history in the form that a generation finds it. It was meant to be poked, adapted, stretched and reflective of the times and society to be passed on to the future. That apparently includes old Slade songs. Buy New or Used via amazon Buy New or Used via amazon 2. DAVID HIDALGO & LOUIE PEREZ – The Long Goodbye and LOS LOBOS – Tin Can Trust:…


Duncan Clark Poop ’10

 Buy New or Used via amazon 1. THE IMAGINED VILLAGE – Empire & Love: The project is premised on the belief that traditional folk music was never intended to be static or relegated to history in the form that a generation finds it. It was meant to be poked, adapted, stretched and reflective of the times and society to be passed on to the future. That apparently includes old Slade songs. Buy New or Used via amazon Buy New or Used via amazon 2. DAVID HIDALGO & LOUIE PEREZ – The Long Goodbye and LOS LOBOS – Tin Can Trust:…


Eric Fine Poop ’10

Is it me or is it getting harder and harder to get my POOP out? Pun very much intended. I know everything seems much harder these days. One of the benefits of being on the other side of 40, I guess. Nonetheless, I somehow managed to get in it, just under the wire. My soft rock tastes of 2010…  Buy New and Used via amazon 1. Junip – Fields Can a record be both light and heavy at the same time? Deep and bass heavy with a 70’s pop/rock sensibility. Pop shines though in the lightness and the rock brings…


Eric Fine Poop ’10

Is it me or is it getting harder and harder to get my POOP out? Pun very much intended. I know everything seems much harder these days. One of the benefits of being on the other side of 40, I guess. Nonetheless, I somehow managed to get in it, just under the wire. My soft rock tastes of 2010…  Buy New and Used via amazon 1. Junip – Fields Can a record be both light and heavy at the same time? Deep and bass heavy with a 70’s pop/rock sensibility. Pop shines though in the lightness and the rock brings…


Jim Finnigan Poop ’10

21st Century Schizoid POOP by Jim Finnigan New Paltz, that’s the place we be livin’ If we ain’t puffin’ blunts, we be chasin’ women Magnum Man & Bighead 2010 THOUGHTS Buy New or Used via amazon A good year for music, I thought. My album of the year is Three Bonzos and A Piano’s Hair of the Dog, and the question is, can Roger Ruskin Spear, Rodney Slater and Sam Spoons restore the life and fire that was absent from the Neil Innes-helmed Bonzos reunion from 2007? And the answer is CERTAINMENT, thank you Mrs. Slater. Peter Stampfel‘s Dook of…


Jim Finnigan Poop ’10

21st Century Schizoid POOP by Jim Finnigan New Paltz, that’s the place we be livin’ If we ain’t puffin’ blunts, we be chasin’ women Magnum Man & Bighead 2010 THOUGHTS Buy New or Used via amazon A good year for music, I thought. My album of the year is Three Bonzos and A Piano’s Hair of the Dog, and the question is, can Roger Ruskin Spear, Rodney Slater and Sam Spoons restore the life and fire that was absent from the Neil Innes-helmed Bonzos reunion from 2007? And the answer is CERTAINMENT, thank you Mrs. Slater. Peter Stampfel‘s Dook of…


John Greak Poop ’10

Wish I had something interesting to say; alas, the only news I have is that 2010 was a pretty – I said pretty – good year for new music. These are my 15 fave raves, in some particular order.  Buy New or Used via amazon 1. Ted Leo/Pharmacists – The Brutalist Bricks  Buy New or Used via amazon 2. Sharon Van Etten – Epic  Buy New or Used via amazon 3. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest  Buy New or Used via amazon 4. The National – High Violet  Buy New or Used via amazon 5. Titus Andronicus – The Monitor  Buy…