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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

    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…

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…

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…

   Buy new or used through Amazon The Sadies – New Seasons     Buy new or used through Amazon Les Breastfeeders – Les Matins de Grande Soirs     Buy new or used through Amazon Neil Young – Live at Massey Hall     Buy new or used through Amazon Dictators – Every Day is Saturday     Buy new or used through Amazon Southern Culture on the Skids – Countrypolitan Favorites     Buy new or used through Amazon Spoon – Ga Ga Ga     Buy new or used through Amazon The 1990’s – Cookies    …

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Buy new or used through Amazon The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday (French Kiss) When I was in my early teens and first “discovering” rock n’ roll and the unique salvation it represented, all of my favorite songs and albums bled into one singular experience, a looping hits compilation of sensation and memory that was so pure, romantic and uninhibited, and one that contrasts so distinctly with the detached, exhaustingly analytical way I approach most music these days, that I have a hard time even remotely identifying with it. Years before I bogged myself down with trivia, music was a…