Wednesday, December 31, 2008

The Steve List

Sparks - No. 1 In Heaven
Various Artists - Wizzz: Psychorama Francais 66-71
The Gun Club - Fire Of Love
Suicide - Self Titled
Various Artists - So Young But So Cold
Tyvek - Fast Metabolism
Os Mutantes - Self Titled
Radio Birdman - Radios Appear
The Nils - Green Fields In Daylight
Angels Of Light - We Are Him
One AM Radio - The Hum Of The Electric Air
Songs Ohia - The Magnolia Electric Co
Broadcast - Tender Buttons
French Quarter - Overpassing
King Khan & The Shrines - Mr. Supernatural
Public Works - Numbers
Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction
Angry Samoans - Back From Samoa
Masshysteri - Var Del Av Stan
Earth - Hex (Or Printing In the Infernal Method)
Lester Bangs & The Delinquents - Jook Savages On The Brazos
Black Heart Procession - The Spell
Red House Painters - Songs For A Blue Guitar
Comets On Fire - Avatar
A Place To Bury Strangers - Self Titled


Thanks jerk. . . it's going to take me until May to find this stuff.

The Kyle List

3 Inches of Blood - Advance and Vanquish
Against Me! As The Eternal Cowboy
The Aquabats - Charge!!
Bang Camaro - ST
Be Your Own Pet - ST
The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
Canned Hamm - Erotic Thriller
Comeback Kid - Wake the Dead
The Darkness - Permisson to Land
Dr Horribles Sing Along Blog
Evil Dead: Original Broadway Cast Album
Head Automatica - Decadence
The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
Huey Lewis and the News - Sports
Men Women and Children - ST
Moneen - The Red Tree
Motley Crue - Dr Feelgood
The Offspring - Americana
Reggie and the Full Effect - Songs Not to Get Married to
Say Anything - Is A Real Boy
Set Your Goals - Mutiny!
Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler
Test Icicles - For Screening Purposes Only
Tom Gabel - Heart Burns
William Shatner - Has Been

The Patrick List

I. (everything by) The Forbidden Dimension
II. Man... or Astro-man? » A Spectrum Of Infinite Scale/A Spectrum Of Finite Scale
III. Olivia Tremor Control » Dusk At Cubist Castle/Black Foliage
IV. The Raveonettes » Lust Lust Lust
V. Thee Oh Sees » The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In
VI. The Warlocks » Rise And Fall
VII. Guided By Voices » Alien Lanes
VIII. Black Moth Super Rainbow » Drippers
IX. Devo » Duty Now For The Future
X. Monks » Black Monk Time
XI. Experimental Aircraft » Third Transmission
XII. Soccer Team » "Volunteered" Civility And Professionalism
XIII. The Replacements » Let It Be
XIV. Chris Page » Decide To Stay And Swim
XV. Camp Radio » Camp Radio
XVI. The Flaming Lips » Clouds Taste Metallic
XVII. Pulp » The Peel Sessions
XVIII. The Mummies » Never Been Caught
XIX. Coachwhips » Double Death
XX. The Red Tyger Church » Free Energy
XXI. Jim Noir » Tower Of Love
XXII. Grinderman » Grinderman
XXIII. Simply Saucer » Cyborgs Revisited
XXIV. All In The Golden Afternoon » EP
XXV. The Beatles » Revolver

The Shaun List

1. Pearl Jam - No Code / Yield / Vitalogy
2. Tom Petty - Wildflowers
3. The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
4. Cat Stevens - Harold & Maude SDTK
5. The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
6. Two Minute Miracles - Vol. II
7. The Bonaduces - Democracy of Sleep
8. Nada Surf - The Weight is a Gift
9. Death Cab For Cutie - Photo Album / Plans
10. Okkervil River - The Stage Names / The Stand-Ins
11. Reindeer Section - Son of Evil Reindeer
12. Sigur Ros - ( )
13. Johnny Cash - American I, II, III, IV & V
14. The Constantines - Tournament of Hearts
15. The Paperbacks - An Episode of Sparrows
16. Joel Plaskett - LaDeDa
17. Neil Young - After the Goldrush
18. Hawksley Workman - For Him and the Girls
19. Leonard Cohen - Songs Of
20. Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
21. The National - Boxer
22. Portishead - Dummy
23. Josh Rouse - Nashville
24. Aimee Mann - Magnolia SDTK
25. Radiohead - In Rainbows

Shaun also has the unique position so far of being the only list-maker to also have an album listed on one of the recommendation lists (The Details came up on my list.)

The Stuart (Stewbacca) List

Stewie, thusfar, is the only person to alphabetize his list. I'm also wicked pumped to listen to these selections, because this is so far the only list with punk on it in more than one position.

Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose
Anti-Flag - Terror State
Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction
Bedouin Soundclash - Street Gospels
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue I
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend
Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur
The Clash - London Calling
The Creepshow - Run For Your Life
Dropkick Murphys - Live on St. Patrick's Day from Boston, MA
Feist - The Reminder
Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords
From Autumn To Ashes - The Fiction We Live
Less Than Jake - Pezcore
Mad Caddies - Just One More
Minus The Bear - Planet of Ice
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Mustard Plug - Evildoers Beware
Reel Big Fish - Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album
Rise Against - Siren Song Of The Counter Cult
Rjd2 - Dead Ringer
Strung Out - Live in a Dive
Tegan and Sara - It's Not Fun, Don't Do It!
The Toaster - Dub 56
The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour

The Corey List

I can't lie, I'm really excited about this list as Corey and I have a lot of random similar tastes, and I haven't even heard of 1/3 of the stuff on here. Corey also wanted to make it clear that he's the man because he has no duplicate artists. I could argue that neither do I, as Easy Tiger is technically a Ryan Adams & the Cardinals album, and Avalanche and Loser Anthems are technically by two separate musical groups, Matt Good solo and Matthew Good Band group. . . but I digress.

1 nick cave and the bad seeds // murder ballads

2 murder by death // who will survive, and what will be left of them

3 the american analog set // know by heart

4 wilco // summerteeth

5 the beach boys // pet sounds

6 the beatles // abbey road

7 beck // sea change

8 built to spill // there's nothing wrong with love

9 david bowie // low (woooooooowwwwwwwww)

10 dirty three // ocean songs

11 do make say think // goodbye enemy airship the landlord is dead

12 elliott smith // xo

13 eluvium // an accidental memory in the case of death

14 explosions in the sky // the earth is not a cold dead place

15 neutral milk hotel // in the aeroplane over the sea

16 godspeed you black emperor! // lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven

17 hayden // the closer i get

18 tom waits // rain dogs

19 iron and wine // our endless numbered days

20 joy division // unknown pleasures

21 low // secret name

22 television // marquee moon

23 mono // you are there

24 my bloody valentine // loveless

25 the national // alligator

honorable mentions (fuck you, you never said we couldn't do this!):

neil young // after the gold rush
interpol // turn on the bright lights
refused // the shape of punk to come
george harrison // all things must pass

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

The Derek List

1.Bruce Springsteen. born to run
2.Radiohead. ok computer
3.The matthew good band. beautiful midnight
4.waking eyes. holding on to whatever it is
*5.tom waits - real gone
*6.counting crows - recovering the satellites
7.radiohead. in rainbows
8.matthew good. avalanche
9.the beatles.abby road
10.wintersleep.welcome to the night sky
11wolf parade. at mount zoomer
12. ours. distorted lullabies
13.radiohead. the bends
14.the wooden sky - when lost at sea
15.the weakerthans. left and leaving
16.the refreshments. fizzy, fuzzy, big and buzzy
17.weezer. pinkerton
18. neil young and crazy horse. live rust
19.arcade fire. funeral
20.the decemberists. the crane wife
21.damien rice. o
22.elvis costello and the impostors. the delivery man
23.conor oberst. s/t
24. wilco. kicking television
25.neutral milk hotel. in an airplane over the sea

The Richard List

1)808 State - 8088898
2)Abandoned Pools - Armed To The Teeth
3)Armand Van Helden - Ghettoblaster
4)ATB- Seven Years
5)Coldcut - Sound Mirrors
6)Delerium - Semantic Spaces
7)Delerium - Nuages Du Monde
8)Editors - An End has A Start
9)Everything But The Girl - Like The Deserts Miss The Rain
10)Fear Factory - Transgression
11)Frogpond - Safe Ride Home
12)Frontline Assembly - Artificial Soldier
13)Frontline Assembly - Civilization
14)HIM - And Love Said No
15)Meat Beat Manifesto - Actual Sounds And Voices
16)Miss Kittin - I Com
17)Noise Unit - Decoder
18)Orbital - Blue Album
19)Orbital - Work
20)Paul Hartnoll - The Ideal Condition
21)Skunk Anansie - Post Orgasmic Chill
22)Sneaker Pimps - Splinter
23)The Presets - Apocalypso
24)Hedwig And The Angry Inch Movie Soundtrack
25)Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours

The Duane List

Many thanks to my pal Duane for completing his list in nearly record time after the project was announced.

radiohead - ok computer
radiohead - kid a
beatles - revolver
sigur ros - ( )
neutral milk hotel - in an aeroplane over the sea
ours - distorted lullabies
sigur ros - agaetis bryjun
matthew good band - beautiful midnight
*kent - hagnesta hill
weezer - pinkerton
bright eyes - i'm wide awake its morning
jeff buckley - grace
beatles - abbey road
radiohead - the bends
sigur ros - takk
matthew good - avalanche
weezer - blue album
the waking eyes - holding on to whatever it is
the weakerthans - left and leaving
thom yorke - the eraser
the weakerthans - reconstruction site
radiohead - in rainbows
the album leaf - in a safe place
the mars volta - deloused in the comatorium
wintersleep - wintersleep (2005)

The Ashley List

Ashley's 25 Album Recommendation List:

1. Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
2. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
3. Lady Gaga - The Fame (definitely a guilty pleasure, but a solid dance record)
4. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
5. Morningwood - S/T
6. Lykke Li - Youth Novels
7. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
8. Wilco - Kicking Television
9. GirlTalk - Feed the Animals
10. The Details - Draw a Distance, Draw a Border
11. Ryan Adams - Love is Hell
12. Mando Daio - Ode to Ochrasy
13. The Hives - Black and White Album
14. Matt Mays & El Torpedo - S/T
15. Luke Doucet & the White Falcon - Blood's Too Rich
16. Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong EP
17. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Nocturama
18. Matthew Good Band - Loser Anthems EP
19. Bright Eyes - Lifted (or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground)
20. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
21. Tyler Bates - 300 (Original Motion Picture Score)
22. Matthew Good - Avalanche
23. Conor Oberst - S/T
24. M83 - Saturday = Youth
25. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night

The Project

I've had an excellent idea to expose myself, and maybe others, to great new music in the new year. In the past, my friends have been responsible for introducing me to someone of my all time favorite bands, and I figured maybe now it was time to ASK them for introductions.

In 2009, I'm going to participate in a project. I want my music loving friends to compile a list of 25 albums. They can be your all time favorites, your current favorites, your guilty pleasures. . . anything. As long as it's 25 albums of music you like. Send me your list, and every month I will go through 1-3 lists (depending on how many I get). I will likely review the selections on this blog just to compare how much I already knew off the list, what I discovered I really liked, and what I didn't.

I'll also be posting my own list, so if you'd like to join in, you can add it to your rotation. If you want to submit your list, either send it to me via Facebook, or at ashley@ashleymaclennan.com

Notes on symbols:
bold indicates a selection I have listened to. For albums that appear on multiple lists, I will count them as having been listened to after the initial selection.
* indicates an album that needs to be purchased or downloaded in order to complete the list