tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51634814053398147562011-12-31T10:01:51.133-05:00Matthew Vliegerhttps://profiles.google.com/104462756876143636041noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163481405339814756.post-39909159709366780972011-12-30T12:53:00.000-05:002011-12-30T12:53:46.522-05:00

Below are 25 of my favorite albums of 2011.  They are purely subjective and, as always, open to discussion. 25. Radiohead - The King of Limbs Lotus Flower 24. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient Baby Missles  Come to the City 23. We Were Promised Jetpacks - In the Pit of the Stomach Medicine  Human Error 22. Yuck - Yuck Get Away Rubber  Georgia 21. Chad Vangaalen - Diaper Island Peace on the Rise 

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25. Carolina Chocolate Drops - Genuine Negro Jig 24 The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt 23 Wild Nothing - Gemini 22 Wolf Parade - EXPO 86 21 The Roots - How I Got Over 20 Tokyo Police Club - Champ 19 Les Savy Fav - Root For Ruin 18 Tamaryn - The Waves 17 Jónsi - Go 16 Foals - Total Life Forever 15 Blood Red Shoes - Fire Like This 14 LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening 13 Dum Dum Girls - I

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I usually spend the end of each year trying to figure out which albums from that year were the best, oh I don't know, top 300.  This became a futile exercise in typing and boasting ("Hey, look at all of this crap!") as my opinions of album #100 and #125 really weren't that significantly different. Beginning with the middle of the year, I am challenging myself to decide on which 20 albums I've

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Fever Ray - Fever Ray When I Grow Up  If I Had A Heart  Triangle Walks  Seven  Keep the Streets Empty For Me  Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time ATX  Leave Us Or Forgive Us Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion My Girls  Summertime Clothes  In the Flowers  Baroness - Blue Record A Horse Called Golgotha  Bear in Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth Bowerbirds - Upper Air Chimes 

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No Age - EraserGreat noise band.Johnny Foreigner - Eyes Wide TerrifiedTwee-core? Not sure, but a catchy song nonetheless.Kasey Chambers - Rattlin BonesStripped down country from Australia's Kasey Chambers and her husband.The Kills - Tape SongOne of many great songs off of their latest.The Mae Shi - Run to Your GraveWeird...Offbeat...Catchy as hellMGMT - KidsMy favorite song off their album.

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These are 20 of my favorite songs of 2008, in no particular order. Some songs didn't make the list because they didn't have a video on Youtube (yeah, I'm looking at you Grand Archives and your song "Sleepdriving")Part two tomorrow.Invincible - LocustsThis is a 10 minute document/video for the song. Amazing rapper from Detroit by way of Israel, her album Shapeshifters is one of the best of 2008.

Matthew Vliegerhttps://profiles.google.com/104462756876143636041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5163481405339814756.post-63572768466544593992008-03-28T06:42:00.003-04:002008-03-28T06:43:47.450-04:00

Along with the Liam Finn performance below, the Late Show with David Letterman has had some really good acts of late. The latest? The Raveonettes doing a great version of 'Aly Walk with Me.

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Blood Red Shoes - It's Getting Boring By the Sea

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Check out this video of Liam Finn on Letterman. Wow.

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British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?The Raveonettes - Lust Lust LustThe Kills - Midnight BoomSupergrass - Diamond Hoo HaDrive-by Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's DarkPortishead - ThirdGnarls Barkley - The Odd CoupleLiam Finn - I'll Be LightningKelley Polar - I Need You to Hold On While the Sky Is FallingFleet Foxes - Ragged WoodCloud Cult - Feel Good GhostsDirtmusic - DirtmusicElbow -

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I was doing this per quarter, but figured I have the tools to do this once a month, so why not...British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?The Raveonettes - Lust Lust LustJonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood SoundtrackNada Surf - LuckyThe Mountain Goats - Heretic PrideBlack Mountain - In the FutureDead Meadow - Old GrowthStephen Malkmus and The Jicks - Real Emotional TrashI Was a Cub Scout - I

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Here are some videos from some of the early releases of 2008.British Sea Power - Waving FlagsMGMT - Time to PretendThe Raveonettes - Dead SoundSons and Daughters - DarlingSons and Daughters - Gilt ComplexLightspeed Champion - Tell Me What It's WorthThe Kills - U R A FeverThese New Puritans - ElvisTyler Ramsey - Long DreamMoby - Alice

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According to my media player, I have 287 hours worth of music from 2007. According to my trusty spreadsheet that I used to rank these albums, I listened to 347 albums. There is a greater than likely chance that I wasn't able to give a fair listen to many of the albums that didn't make the top 210, or even those below the top 50. With that, I'd like to apologize to some of the following artists

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