09 was an interesting year. Since this is my second year of POOP I did a better job of noting what I listened to throughout the year and managed to actually get a larger list together this time around. These albums are in no particular order, they are just the 10 that I came back to the most often over the course of the year in general.   Buy through amazon   OR   @ eMusic 1. Illinois: The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe I referenced this album last year, at that time only a few “chapters” were available, finally this…

  Buy from amazon  OR   @ eMusic Ray Barbee meets the Mattson 2 – s/t   Buy New or Used through amazon The Embassadores – Coptic Dub   Download from eMusic Emilie Proulx – La Lenteur Alentour   Buy through amazon  OR @ eMusic Lhasa De Sela – Lhasa   Buy New or Used through amazon Lay Low – Farewell Goodnights Sleep   Buy through amazon  OR   @ eMusic John Doe & The Sadies – Country Club   Buy through amazon  OR   @ eMusic Ceu – Vagarosa   Buy through amazon  OR   @ eMusic Jeb Loy…

Try as I might, 2009 seems to be the year I officially entered old-fartdom. I could only find one single new studio recorded release that I felt enthusiastic enough about to include on this list.   Buy New or Used through amazon 01. Kraftwerk – Remasters (Astralwerks)   Buy New or Used through amazon 02. Tom Waits – Glitter & Doom (Anti)   Buy New or Used through amazon 03. Tom Waits – Orphans (vinyl version) (Anti)   Buy @ amazon   OR   Buy @ eMusic 04. Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um: 50th Anniversary Edition (Columbia Legacy)   Buy at Hip-O Select 05….

     Buy New or Used from amazon 1) Various Artists Take Me To The River: A Southern Soul Story 1961-1977 (Ace/KentRecords) Pricey import that matches the hype. Almost uniformly slow-burning but still the best soul box since Rhino’s 1997 Beg, Scream & Shout!, hands down.       Buy through amazon   OR   @ eMusic 2) Tinariwen Imidiwan: Companions (World Village) After 2007’s comparatively studio-driven Aman Iman: Water is Life, Mali’s masters of desert psych-blues strip it back down to the roots. Heady and addictive.      Buy New or Used through amazon 3) Various Artists Where the…

THE BEST OF 2009   Buy @ amazon  OR   @ eMusic 01. The Reigning Sound – Love and Curses   Buy through amazon   OR through eMusic  02. Black Hollies – Softly Towards The Light   Buy through CD Baby  OR  through eMusic 03. Wau Y Los Arghhhs!!! – ¡¡¡Viven!!!   Buy through amazon   OR   through eMusic 04. The A-Bones – Not Now!   Buy through amazon   OR   through eMusic 05. King Khan & The Shrines –What Is?!  Buy through amazon   OR   through eMusic 06. Ty Segall – Lemons   Buy through amazon…

poop o mine 09 just as I thought the country had turned a great corner, I come to realize it’s more fucked than ever. Now I gotta intelligently (a word obsolete in our manner & discourse) disinter what sucked from what didn’t (a line harder & harder to discern as my eyes and interest flee south). Hell man, I’m not Glenn Beck the great anesthesia stooge. I can’t lead you from the darkness. so I don’t know what the best of the worst was. I’m going on what made an impact. What shielded me and mine from the madness coming…

The POOP for 2009, in no particular order:   Buy New or Used through amazon Neko Case – Middle Cyclone   Buy @ amazon OR Buy @ eMusic Tom Russell – Blood and Candle Smoke   Buy New or Used through amazon Little Walter – The Complete Chess Masters 1950-1967   Buy New or Used through amazon Joe Henry – Blood from the Sky   Buy @ amazon  OR Buy @ eMusic Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women   Buy New or Used through amazon Allan Toussaint – Bright Mississippi   Buy @ amazon  OR Buy @ eMusic Lee Fields and the Expressions – My World   Buy @ amazon  OR Buy @…

Best Records:   Buy New or Used via Amazon Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend This album brings me back to days of tapping kegs and watching bands play on the beach at Fairfield University. College pop, in the best way. Love the way that it evokes Paul Simon in songs like Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa and early Police in others like The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance – super songwriting and great beats. Caught them at the Bowery Ballroom earlier in the year and had a blast.   Buy New or Used via Amazon 2. The Virgins – Virgins Though…

Top 25 favorites from the year proper Buy New or Used via Amazon Buy New or Used via Amazon Buy New or Used via Amazon 1 Earth – The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull (Southern Lord) 2 James Blackshaw – Litany of Echoes (Tomkins Square) 3 Grails – Doomsdayer’s Holiday / Take Refuge in Clean Living EP (Temporary Residence/Important) [2008 was the first year since I was in high school that I devoured more past music than current jams (see below). Unenthused by the sterile, finished-off hype-pop that has f(l)attened most year end round-ups (Vampire Weekend, Fleet Foxes,…

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  Buy New or Used via Amazon #1 GRAILS – DOOMSDAYER HOLIDAY   Sold out at Sub Pop #2 OM – GEBEL BARKAL   Buy New or Used via Amazon #3 EARTH – BEES MADE HONEY IN THE LIONS SKULL   Buy New or Used via Amazon #4 JACASZEK – TRENY   Buy New or Used via Amazon #5 PENTEMPLE – o))) PRESENTS. . . SIGUR ROS – MED SUD I ERYUM VID SPILUM ENDALAUST OXFORD COLLAPSE – BITS DON CABALLERO – PUNKGASM ROMAN – LIVE ABOVE NEKO SESSIONS SUNN 0)) – DOMKIRKE PARTS + LABOR – RECIEVERS MOGWAI –…

A last minute Poop List – who wants to miss this?   Buy New or Used via Amazon 1. The Hold Steady – “Stay Positive”   Buy New or Used via Amazon 2. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – “Sunday At Devil Dirt”   Buy New or Used via Amazon 3. Bon Iver – “For Emma, Forever Ago”   Buy New or Used via Amazon 4. Free Kitten – “Inherit”   Buy New or Used via Amazon 5. She & Him – Volume One Others I dug on for a while: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – “Real Emotional Trash”;…

As I now go back and decide which records moved me the most in 2008, I realize how stark and bleak all of it was. A musical colon cleanse is in order. Where is that late night infomercial when you need it? It used to be for every brokenhearted album, I’d find a ray of shinning musical light. Not this year. Has the doom and gloom just taken us over, or have I just not realized it’s been like this along? My pointer finger has become hardened by skipping songs on the iPod that do not work for the mood….