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 Amazon2. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – “Sunday At Devil Dirt”
Buy New or Used via Amazon3. Bon Iver – “For Emma, Forever Ago”
Buy New or Used via Amazon4. Free Kitten – “Inherit”
Buy New or Used via Amazon5. She & Him – Volume One
Others I dug on for a while:
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – “Real Emotional Trash”; Smoking Popes “Stay Down”; Juliana Hatfield – “How To Walk Away”; Blitzen Trapper – “Furr”
Reissues!
I bought way more reissues this year – The Byard Lancaster Unit, New Order, CCR, Swervedriver, Sixto Rodriguez, Melvyn Price, Otis Redding, and of course every Replacements disc – with bonus tracks! Demos! The things I live for?
Movies!
Iron Man, Pineapple Express, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Religulous, The Dark Knight – I missed a lot of stuff this year, obviously!
Life!
Yay for Obama! A big thank you to Howard Dean!
RIP
Your 401K, Bettie Page, Sign Man, Jimmy Giuffre, Tony Schwartz, Bo Diddley, Bobby Murcer, Steve Foley, Isaac Hayes, Jerry Wexler, Killer Kowalski, Frank Navetta, Davey Graham, Freddie Hubbard.
John Greak