Buy New or Used from Amazon 1. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – Magic When Born To Run came out a lifetime ago, it was at once stunning, passionate, majestic and poetic, words that might also describe Magic. Listening to “Girls In Their Summer Clothes,” I’m still surprised it doesn’t once reference a boardwalk.     Buy new or used from from Amazon 2. AMY WINEHOUSE – Back To Black This girl is a serious singer. With some serious problems. She might be the only singer in a position to follow up a classic album (and this is a classic) with a…

What I remember listening to in 2007   First, a confession: my motivation and enthusiasm are on the wane. The music seems to mean less than it used to (old fartism). Politics seems a lot more interesting. Listened less and was generally unimpressed but…..     Buy new or used through Amazon Magic – Bruce Springsteen Except for “Radio Nowhere”, which was trite from the first listen, a nice return for the E Streeters. From the frothy “Girls in their summer Clothes” to the overtly political, really loved it     Buy new or used through Amazon Play It as…

Well, the long wait is nearly over … no, I’m not talking about Bush’s presidency, I’m talking about the POOP 2007! As usual, I’m still procrastinating, and still trying to squeeze in a few purchases before deadline. There is some better news from this part of the world though. There will be another bairn in the Nerney clan come this summer. My plan for world domination continues! Well, maybe not world domination … and Nat and I will probably lose what little control we have in our own house with another little rugrat running around. Anyway, it’s certain to be…

    Buy from Calexico store Calexico – Tool Box     Buy new or used through Amazon The Sadies – New Seasons     Buy new or used through Amazon Iron & Wine – The Shepherd’s Dog     Buy from Dusty Groove Sven Libaek – Inner Space (soundtrack 1973)     Buy new or used through Amazon Dean & Britta – Back Numbers     Buy new or used through Amazon Benjamin Biolay – Trash Ye Ye     Buy from Dusty Groove Edda Dell’Orso – Voice (compilation)     Buy from Elefant Single (Spanish band) – Pio…

POOP 21st BIRTHDAY EDITION A toast to the POOP’s 21st drunken birthday! Mark must be such a proud papa. As my people say, slainte! Speaking of my people, I wonder how my shanache ancestors would feel about the fact that my musical mind has been colonized by the Brits. Cacophony and chaos cripple Cromwellianism. I may need an intervention, Or rehab. I say, no, no, no.     Buy new or used through Amazon Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare The jagged and jarring guitar tension that explodes from the opening “Brain Storm” puts to rest any fear of a…

Greetings from the folks at Ovulation Station! FYI: We never download our music. Everything we listen to we purchase directly from the artist or those modest, indie labels we choose to support. DOWN WITH CORPORATE MEDIA! Here are our faves of 2007!     http://www.hop-frog.com/URCKpostasiatic.html V/A – Post-Asiatic: Lost War Dream Music (Urck Records) Hands down the boldest and most exciting compilation to surface in 2007. Features a diverse assortment of musicians from all walks of life playing instruments from around the world with surprising skill.     http://www.paradigms-recordings.com/store.html Hallvardur Asgeirsson – Lifsblomid (Paradigms Recordings) Blowing composers like Johann Johannson…

This has never seem less important. In a year or two, we won’t even be listening to half of this stuff. Hands up, who had Hole on their list back when, and who has since traded it in or thrown it away? I used to herald Radiohead, and now the sound of Thom Yorke’s reedy little voice has me reaching for         a) my shotgun         b)my shotglass         c)my Mudhoney         d)all the above   And will pitchfork please shut the fuck up, for a year or ten? Maybe, by that time, I’ll be listening…

Pondering Onerous Opinions Personally, ‘07 Got retired in October and though I’ve yet to find a groove for myself, I’m just being and having fun looking and listening for that groove. Here’s a few I’ve heard.     Buy new or used through Amazon Eilen Jewell – Letters from Sinners and Strangers Think a choice set list from Dylan’s radio Theme Hours and you’ve got Eilen’s sound.     Buy new or used through Amazon Emmylou Harris – Songbird Three songs into this five disc set and I knew this was top notch PoOp material. I can still get little…

Another year of downloads, mostly singles. So my album collection, due to formatting, is becoming quite limited. Who needs five great tunes and four fillers when you can pick and choose for 99 cents a selection. Best single title- “ME,YOU, AND MY MEDICATION: Boys Like Girls.’ Lots of RIP’s (not just ripped but the dead variety). Too numerous to mention, so I’ll just go on with my selections…and the first one will be an RIP probably way too soon….     Buy new or used through Amazon AMY WINEHOUSE – Back To Black Not just The Rehab song, but this…

Another girl, another planet. Another year, another POOP list. They just called the South Carolina GOP primary for John McCain, so i can finally get off the edge of my seat and rave up those favorite records from the past 12 or so months. I am sure it was a spectacular year for music, but I tried to avoid it all, mostly in an “I’m so far ahead of the underground music curve that all I listen to is my neighbor’s syphilis ridden monkey pound away on bongos as accompanied by the autistic boy down the street on mellotron –…

  Buy new or used through Amazon 1.Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – 100 Days, 100 Nights     Buy new or used through Amazon 2.The Sadies – New Seasons     Buy new or used through Amazon 3.Southern Culture on the Skids- Countrypolitan Favorites     Buy new or used through Amazon 4.Los Straightjackets – Rock in Espanol, Vol. 1     Buy new or used through Amazon 5.Bo Diddley – I’m a Man: The Chess Masters: 1955-58     Buy new or used through Amazon 6.Charles Mingus Sextet With Eric Dolphy – Cornell 1964     Buy new…

  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…

  Buy new or used through Amazon Bruce Springsteen – ‘Magic’ – Every single word rings true.     Buy new or used through Amazon Wilco – ‘Sky Blue Sky’ – My favorite Wilco since ‘Being There’. Nels Cline gets MVP of the year for his amazing guitar work especially on ‘Impossible Germany’.     Buy new or used through Amazon Levon Helm – ‘Dirt Farmer’ – “ And some stayed on to finish what they started, they never parted, they’re just built that way”.     Buy new or used through Amazon Bruce Springsteen with The Sessions Band –…

Mission Improbable “Good Morning, Agent PoOp’007 – It has come to PoOp Central’s attention that several Pop Stars have gone missing and have been replaced by suspicious soundalikes and look-alikes. Your mission, Jim, should you decide to accept it, is to evaluate the replacements and report back with your Top 10…” The first suspicious singer we come upon is named Amy Winehouse. At first we suspected that she was Mary Coughlan in disguise, and indeed the Winehouse songs about love’s trials and tribulations could have been secretly written by Coughlan, but, we decided that Winehouse’s soul vocals and ska covers…

THE MANY MOODS OF 2007 I have been thinking a lot lately about Happiness. I recently found out that the derivative of the word itself, hap, means random, or by chance. Like happenstance. My first assessment of my personal happiness resulted in the realization that I just happen to be an extremely moody person. (By the way, my wife was on to this years ago.) All too often we all leave happiness to chance. Well, time to take things back into our control. Own your feelings. Create a path for yourself. Turn a negative into a positive. So, personally, my…

  Yawn   The only one syllable word fit enough to describe the musical dust bowl of 2007. Underwhelming releases from some acts that blew our hair back in previous years and no band that mightily earned the "new black" status on merit alone. Nonetheless, there were some decent releases that deserve recognition. So without further ado, I poop. Long, but not nearly as satisfying as previous years’ movements;     Buy new or used through Amazon 1) Neil Young – Live at Massey Hall: 1971 I always thought it a cop out when people would make reissues and/or live…

  Favorite 20 Albums of 2007: Buy new or used through Amazon 1. “Magic” – Bruce Springsteen Buy new or used through Amazon 2. “A Singsong and a Scrap” – Chumbawamba Buy new or used through Amazon 3. “Workingman’s Cafe” – Ray Davies Buy new or used through Amazon 4. “The Scene of the Crime” – Bettye LaVette Buy new or used through Amazon 5. “100 Days 100 Nights” – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Buy new or used through Amazon 6. “Don’t Tell Columbus” – Graham Parker Buy new or used through Amazon 7. “Sweet Warrior” – Richard Thompson…

DeLaire Minneapolis, Minnesota It Be POOP 2008 Oh man I really enjoy just saying pompous and opinionated let alone writing it. Let’s see I’ve been segregating 2007 releases all year and before me are on my a list too long to mention . So I start with the one’s who never seem to leave the tray in the car ,in the bedroom ,all my replay devices.   Buy new or used through Amazon 1) Jeff Beck – Official Bootleg USA This is recorded live in 2006 but I procured it 2007. The man ,the true rock n roll growl, the…

  Buy new or used through Amazon JOHN BUTLER TRIO – Grand National Something for everybody – superb playing, politics and ass kicking grooves. The CD that I played most often last year.     Buy new or used through Amazon LUCINDA WILLIAMS – West Not much going right with her life these days but it’s her best since “Car Wheels”.     Buy new or used through Amazon KATE RUSBY – Awkward Annie Her cover of the Kinks’ “Village Green Preservation Society” says it all: it’s a seamless mix of traditional and new songs.     Buy new or…

A few albums that didn’t make it to the top of my list but are still noteworthy: The A-Sides – Silver Storms Air – Pocket Symphony Dntel – Dumb Luck The Good, the Bad, and the Queen Gogol Bordello – Super Taranta!   Disappointments of the Year: Against Me! – New Wave Grizzly Bear – Friend EP Minus the Bear – Planet of Ice Okkervil River – The Stage Names Rilo Kiley – Under the Blacklight