365 Albums In 365 Days

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1. Pink Hearts, Yellow Moons by Dressy Bessy (1999)

2. Thinking of You... by Freakwater (2005)
3. Stay Gold by First Aid Kit (2014)
4. Bona Drag by Morrissey (1990)
5. Comedown Machine by The Strokes (2013)
6. Moonrise Kingdom original soundtrack (2012)
7. Fosbury by Tahiti 80 (2005)
8. Give 'Em Enough Rope by The Clash (1978)
9. Run the Jewels 2 by Run the Jewels (2014)
10. Living with the Living by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (2007)
11. Thao & Mirah by Thao & Mirah (2011)
12. Sonic Highways by Foo Fighters (2014)
13. Maverick a Strike by Finley Quaye (1997)
14. Mandatory Fun by Weird Al Yankovic (2014)
15. Rocket to Russia by The Ramones (1977)
16. Black Messiah by D'Angelo and the Vanguard (2014)
17. These Are the Good Times People by Presidents of the United States of America (2008)
18. Tonight: Franz Ferdinand by Franz Ferdinand (2009)
19. Kites Are Fun by The Free Design (1967)
20. In the Attic of the Universe by The Antlers (2007)

21. Beat the Champ by The Mountain Goats (2015)
22. No Cities to Love by Sleater-Kinney (2015)
23. Glean by They Might Be Giants (2015)
24. Long Distance by Ivy (2001)

Ivy's another band where I initially became an online radio site determined I'd like them via algorithm. AND THAT AUTOMATED SYSTEM WAS CORRECT. I loooooove downtempo chillout shit, and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FZcC5jh7XQ'>"Undertow" is pretty unimpeachable on that front. So I bought this album years later on the strength of it being The Undertow Album, only to realize that actually I know like 80% of it already due to the fact that I like to listen to online radio stations that play mostly chill music (such as Ivy or Sneaker Pimps). So when I actually listened to this start-to-finish, it ended up being a whole lot of "wait, shit, I know this song. This was Ivy too? What the fuck."

So yeah. This is really good, and worth listening to especially during the summertime. It's very warm and soothing, perfect for taking a nap out in the sun which is pretty much exactly what I'm doing in like half an hour. Check it.

Best Track:

isn't a new song to me per se, but since I had to flip through the tracks to find the title so I'm counting it. It's really nice. Great chorus.

[Benji]

[Benji]

[Benji]

[GoGo Yubari]

1.

Pink Hearts, Yellow Moons by Dressy Bessy (1999)

2. Thinking of You... by Freakwater (2005)

3. Stay Gold by First Aid Kit (2014)

4. Bona Drag by Morrissey (1990)

5. Comedown Machine by The Strokes (2013)

6. Moonrise Kingdom original soundtrack (2012)

7. Fosbury by Tahiti 80 (2005)

8. Give 'Em Enough Rope by The Clash (1978)

9. Run the Jewels 2 by Run the Jewels (2014)

10. Living with the Living by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (2007)

11. Thao & Mirah by Thao & Mirah (2011)

12. Sonic Highways by Foo Fighters (2014)

13. Maverick a Strike by Finley Quaye (1997)

14. Mandatory Fun by Weird Al Yankovic (2014)

15. Rocket to Russia by The Ramones (1977)

16. Black Messiah by D'Angelo and the Vanguard (2014)

17. These Are the Good Times People by Presidents of the United States of America (2008)

18. Tonight: Franz Ferdinand by Franz Ferdinand (2009)

19. Kites Are Fun by The Free Design (1967)

20. In the Attic of the Universe by The Antlers (2007)

21. Beat the Champ by The Mountain Goats (2015)

22. No Cities to Love by Sleater-Kinney (2015)

23. Glean by They Might Be Giants (2015)

24. Long Distance by Ivy (2001)

25. This Is the Sonics by The Sonics (2015)

Sweet mother of fuck, it's 2015 and I'm listening to a brand-new Sonics record. Life is good. For those who don't know, The Sonics were one of the original garage rock bands out of the Pacific Northwest, melting faces off in the early-to-mid '60s. They got back together after decades apart a few years ago, and after touring extensively this is their first album in FIFTY FUCKING YEARS. And it's really good! The production is a little slicker (they got the guy who did the White Stripes' first album for this, which was a damn good choice), and the only place where you can really tell their age is the singing, and that's not a bad thing. There are a lot of great revival acts doing the kind of music The Sonics pioneered (The Jim Jones Revue, for example), but getting to hear the men themselves not having lost a step even though their in their fucking seventies is almost life-affirming.

Best Track: The album is a mix of covers and originals, so I'll pick one of each. Best cover? "You Can't Judge a Book By the Cover". Best original? "Save the Planet," a song about how Earth must be saved because you can't get drunk on Mars. Yessssssssss.

[Gorka]

001. Arcade Fire - Reflektor

002. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West

003. Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow

004. Gorillaz - Demon Days

005. Eagles of Death Metal - Heart On

006. Lorde - Pure Heroine

007. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

008. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere

009. Childish Gambino - Because the Internet

010. Half-Japanese - Overjoyed

011. Mimicking Birds - Eons

012. Blonde Redhead - Barragan

013. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug

014. Alt-J - This is All Yours

015. Cage the Elephant - Thank You Happy Birthday

016. Wax Fang - La La Land

017. Royal Blood - Royal Blood

018. Hozier - Hozier

019. Johnny Marr - Playland

020. Weezer - Everything Will Be All Right in the End

021. Warpaint - Warpaint

022. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

023. Catfish and the Bottlemen - Balcony

024. Gary Clark Jr - Gary Clark Jr

025. The Black Keys - Magic Potion

026. Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose

027. The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From the Vaccines?

028. Foster the People - Supermodel

029. The Naked and Famous - Passive Me, Aggressive You

030. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

031. Lana Del Ray - Born to Die

032. The Klaxons - Love Frequency

033. Haim - Days are Gone

034. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier

035. Clean Bandit - New Eyes

036. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare

037. Minus the Bear - Infinity Overload

038. Airbourne - Black Dog Barking

039. Ben Howard - I Forget Where We Were

040. Kasabian - 48:13

041. The Last of the Shadow Puppets - Age of the Understatement

042. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

043. Wax Fang - The Astronaut

044. Rainbow - Rising

045. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

046. Fozzy - Do You Wanna Start a War

047. Chemical Brothers - Further

048. George Ezra - Wanted on Voyage

049. The Black Keys - Turn Blue

050. Childish Gambino - Camp

051. Reuben - Racecar is Racecar Backwards

052. The 1975 - The 1975

053. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures

054. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

055. TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light

056. Calvin Harris- Motion

057. Pink Floyd - The Wall

058. Of Monsters and Men - My Head is an Animal

059. Superfood - Superfood

060. Clark - Clark

061. Lily and Madeline - Fumes

062. Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out of Something

063. Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways

064. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis - The Heist

065. Tame Impala - Lonerism

066. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

067. The XX - The XX

068. Arctic Monkeys - A.M.

069. Kasabian - Velociraptor!

070. Warpaint - The Fool

071. Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions

072. Ramones - Ramones

073. TV on the Radio - Seeds

074. Rammstein - Mutter

075. Ramones - Leave Home

076. Battles - Gloss Drop

077. Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History

078. Pitbull - Globalization

079. Glasvegas - Euphoric///Heartbreak\\\

080. Ramones - Pleasant Dreams

081. Basement Jaxx - Scars

082. Black Keys - Brothers

083. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

084. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

085. Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid

086. Arctic Monkeys - Suck it and See

087. Mark Ronson - Record Collection

088. Jack Ladder - Playmates

089. She & Him - Volume One

090. Iggy Azalea - Reclassified

091. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

092. Deap Valley - Sistrionix

093. Horse Feathers - So It Is With Us

094. Imagine Dragons - Night Visions

095. Surfer Blood - Pythons

096. Daft Punk - Discovery

097. Silk Rhodes - Silk Rhodes

098. Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown

099. Ramones - Adios Amigos

100. Black Keys - Thickfreakness

101. Daft Punk - Human After All

102. Modest Mouse - Good News for People who Love Bad News

103. Plan B - The Defamation of Strickland Banks

104. Blink 182 - Enema of the State

105. The XX - Coexist

106. Cage the Elephant - Melophobia

107. Manic Street Preachers - Futurology

108. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

109. Bowling for Soup - Lunch.Drunk.Love

110. Eagles of Death Metal - Peace, Love, Death metal

111. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave

112. Foster the People - Torches

113. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots

114. Mark Ronson - Uptown Special

115. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold

116. Fall Out Boy - American Beauty/American Psycho

117. Gorillaz - Gorillaz

118. Rainbow - Richie Blackmore's Rainbow

119. Chemical Brothers - We are the Night

120. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time

121. Kanye West - Yeezus

122. Rae Morris - Unguarded

123. Kasabian - Empire

124. Noah and the Whale - Last Night on Earth

125. Iron Maiden - Dance of Death

126. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

127. The Strypes - Snapshot

128. Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler

129. Modest Mouse - Moon & Antarctica

130. Charli XCX - Sucker

131. Crystal Castles - III

132. Crystal Castles - II

133. 2:54 - 2:54

134. Jape - This Chemical Sea

135. Blood Red Shoes - Blood Red Shoes

136. Jose Gonzales - In Our Nature

137. Ben Howard - Every Kingdom

138. Kings of Leon - Mechanical Bull

139. UFO - Phenomenon

140. Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams

141. Black Sabbath - 13

142. Rainbow - Long Live Rock n Roll

143. Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album)

144. Mastodon - Crack the Skye

145. Black Keys - The Big Come Up

146. Twisted Wheel - Do It Again

147. She & Him - Volume 3

148. Bombay Bicycle Club - Flaws

149. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

150. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday

151. The Vaccines - Come of Age

152. Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists

153. Black Box Revelation - Silver Threats

154. Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers

155. Freaky Age - Every Morning Breaks Out

156. Tahiti 80 - The Past, The Present, The Possible

157. Accept - Blind Rage

158. Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves

159. Modest Mouse - This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About

160. Little Matador - Little Matador

161. The Family Rain - Under the Volcano

162. Witchfinder General - Death Penalty

163. Witchfinder General - Friends of Hell

164. Yuck - Yuck

165. The Wombats - This Modern Glitch

166. Carl Barat and the Jackals - Let it Reign

167. Neil Cicierega - Mouth Silence

168. Ugly Casanova - Sharpen Your Teeth

169. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

170. The Seeds - The Seeds

171. American Football - American Football

172. The Dead Weather - Horehound

173. Imagine Dragons - Smoke and Mirrors

174. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

175. The Dictators - Go Girl Crazy

176. Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones

177. The Darkness - Permission to Land

178. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

179. The Dictators - Manifest Destiny

180. Ed Sheeran - X

181. Cage the Elephant - Cage the Elephant

182. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2

183. The Mountain Goats - Beat the Champ

184. Blur - Magic Whip

185. The Wombats - Glitterbug

186. Muse - The Resistance

187. The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth

188. MC5 - Back in the USA

189. MC5 - Kick Out the Jams

190. MC5 - High Times

191. Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream

192. Agent Orange - Living in Darkness

193. The Presets - Pacifica

194. The Stooges - Raw Power

195. The Stooges - The Stooges

196. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

197. The Germs - GI

198. Andrew Jackson Jihad - People Who Eat People are the Luckiest People in the World

199. New York Dolls - New York Dolls

200. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe

201. Andrew Jackson Jihad - Knife Man

202. Andrew Jackson Jihad - Candy Cigarettes and Cap Guns

203. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels

204. New York Dolls - Too Much Too Soon

205. Slaves - Are You Satisfied?

206. Angelic Upstarts - Teenage Warning

207. Adolescents - Adolescents

208. Slaughter and the Dogs - Bite Back

209. Of Monsters and Men - Beneath the Skin

Slaves had a decent debut. I liked a couple of their songs before the album was released but their singles are the better part of the album. I liked "Cheer Up London", "Despair and Traffic", "Wow!!!7AM", "Live Like an Animal", "Feed the Mantaray" and "Sugar Coated Bitter Truth".

The Angelic Upstarts were great punk music, have to listen to more of their stuff. "Teenage Warning", "Student Power", "Young Ones", "Never Again", "I'm an Upstart". "Youth Leader" and "Let's Speed" were the picks.

Adolescents get the same praise as well. "Wrecking Crew", "LA Girl", "Self-Destruct", "Kids of the Black Hole". "Amoeba" and "Rip It Up" were good.

and again with Slaughter, "What's Wrong Boy?", "She Ain't Gonna Show", "Hell in New York", "Crashing Out with Lucy", "Allover Now", and "Don't Wanna Die" to be the best of the album.

While I enjoyed Of Monsters and Men's previous album, I didn't feel it for this one. There were too many tracks that never hit a mark or petered out when something promising was coming. Mind you, "Crystals", "Humans", "Wolves Without Teeth" and "We Sink" had to be the picks.

[Benji]

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[Benji]

[GoGo Yubari]

1.

Pink Hearts, Yellow Moons by Dressy Bessy (1999)

2. Thinking of You... by Freakwater (2005)

3. Stay Gold by First Aid Kit (2014)

4. Bona Drag by Morrissey (1990)

5. Comedown Machine by The Strokes (2013)

6. Moonrise Kingdom original soundtrack (2012)

7. Fosbury by Tahiti 80 (2005)

8. Give 'Em Enough Rope by The Clash (1978)

9. Run the Jewels 2 by Run the Jewels (2014)

10. Living with the Living by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (2007)

11. Thao & Mirah by Thao & Mirah (2011)

12. Sonic Highways by Foo Fighters (2014)

13. Maverick a Strike by Finley Quaye (1997)

14. Mandatory Fun by Weird Al Yankovic (2014)

15. Rocket to Russia by The Ramones (1977)

16. Black Messiah by D'Angelo and the Vanguard (2014)

17. These Are the Good Times People by Presidents of the United States of America (2008)

18. Tonight: Franz Ferdinand by Franz Ferdinand (2009)

19. Kites Are Fun by The Free Design (1967)

20. In the Attic of the Universe by The Antlers (2007)

21. Beat the Champ by The Mountain Goats (2015)

22. No Cities to Love by Sleater-Kinney (2015)

23. Glean by They Might Be Giants (2015)

24. Long Distance by Ivy (2001)

25. This Is the Sonics by The Sonics (2015)

26. On the Strength of All Convinced by Daphne Loves Derby (2005)

"Daphne Loves Derby" is like the most twee, sensitive indie rock band name, isn't it? Which is fitting, because that's exactly what this band is. Like, when I saw the date they formed (2001) and where they're from (half an hour out of Seattle), it all made sense; the music is part-emo, part-Death Cab. And none of that's a bad thing, especially for me since I grew up hearing tons of bands like this being touted as The Next Big Thing Out of Seattle. I got this album off the strength of "Pollen and Salt," but the whole thing is just very pleasant. Sometimes they speed things up and the songs are more uptempo, but even then it's a really mellow sort of uptempo? Like it should be on a Canadian teen show or something. Not a lot of standout tracks, but an album that would be good in the background while at work.

Best Track: Aside from "Pollen and Salt," I like "Sundays" a lot.

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[Benji]

[Gorka]

001. Arcade Fire - Reflektor

002. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West

003. Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow

004. Gorillaz - Demon Days

005. Eagles of Death Metal - Heart On

006. Lorde - Pure Heroine

007. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

008. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere

009. Childish Gambino - Because the Internet

010. Half-Japanese - Overjoyed

011. Mimicking Birds - Eons

012. Blonde Redhead - Barragan

013. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug

014. Alt-J - This is All Yours

015. Cage the Elephant - Thank You Happy Birthday

016. Wax Fang - La La Land

017. Royal Blood - Royal Blood

018. Hozier - Hozier

019. Johnny Marr - Playland

020. Weezer - Everything Will Be All Right in the End

021. Warpaint - Warpaint

022. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

023. Catfish and the Bottlemen - Balcony

024. Gary Clark Jr - Gary Clark Jr

025. The Black Keys - Magic Potion

026. Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose

027. The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From the Vaccines?

028. Foster the People - Supermodel

029. The Naked and Famous - Passive Me, Aggressive You

030. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

031. Lana Del Ray - Born to Die

032. The Klaxons - Love Frequency

033. Haim - Days are Gone

034. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier

035. Clean Bandit - New Eyes

036. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare

037. Minus the Bear - Infinity Overload

038. Airbourne - Black Dog Barking

039. Ben Howard - I Forget Where We Were

040. Kasabian - 48:13

041. The Last of the Shadow Puppets - Age of the Understatement

042. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

043. Wax Fang - The Astronaut

044. Rainbow - Rising

045. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

046. Fozzy - Do You Wanna Start a War

047. Chemical Brothers - Further

048. George Ezra - Wanted on Voyage

049. The Black Keys - Turn Blue

050. Childish Gambino - Camp

051. Reuben - Racecar is Racecar Backwards

052. The 1975 - The 1975

053. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures

054. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

055. TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light

056. Calvin Harris- Motion

057. Pink Floyd - The Wall

058. Of Monsters and Men - My Head is an Animal

059. Superfood - Superfood

060. Clark - Clark

061. Lily and Madeline - Fumes

062. Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out of Something

063. Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways

064. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis - The Heist

065. Tame Impala - Lonerism

066. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

067. The XX - The XX

068. Arctic Monkeys - A.M.

069. Kasabian - Velociraptor!

070. Warpaint - The Fool

071. Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions

072. Ramones - Ramones

073. TV on the Radio - Seeds

074. Rammstein - Mutter

075. Ramones - Leave Home

076. Battles - Gloss Drop

077. Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History

078. Pitbull - Globalization

079. Glasvegas - Euphoric///Heartbreak\\\

080. Ramones - Pleasant Dreams

081. Basement Jaxx - Scars

082. Black Keys - Brothers

083. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

084. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

085. Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid

086. Arctic Monkeys - Suck it and See

087. Mark Ronson - Record Collection

088. Jack Ladder - Playmates

089. She & Him - Volume One

090. Iggy Azalea - Reclassified

091. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

092. Deap Valley - Sistrionix

093. Horse Feathers - So It Is With Us

094. Imagine Dragons - Night Visions

095. Surfer Blood - Pythons

096. Daft Punk - Discovery

097. Silk Rhodes - Silk Rhodes

098. Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown

099. Ramones - Adios Amigos

100. Black Keys - Thickfreakness

101. Daft Punk - Human After All

102. Modest Mouse - Good News for People who Love Bad News

103. Plan B - The Defamation of Strickland Banks

104. Blink 182 - Enema of the State

105. The XX - Coexist

106. Cage the Elephant - Melophobia

107. Manic Street Preachers - Futurology

108. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

109. Bowling for Soup - Lunch.Drunk.Love

110. Eagles of Death Metal - Peace, Love, Death metal

111. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave

112. Foster the People - Torches

113. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots

114. Mark Ronson - Uptown Special

115. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold

116. Fall Out Boy - American Beauty/American Psycho

117. Gorillaz - Gorillaz

118. Rainbow - Richie Blackmore's Rainbow

119. Chemical Brothers - We are the Night

120. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time

121. Kanye West - Yeezus

122. Rae Morris - Unguarded

123. Kasabian - Empire

124. Noah and the Whale - Last Night on Earth

125. Iron Maiden - Dance of Death

126. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

127. The Strypes - Snapshot

128. Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler

129. Modest Mouse - Moon & Antarctica

130. Charli XCX - Sucker

131. Crystal Castles - III

132. Crystal Castles - II

133. 2:54 - 2:54

134. Jape - This Chemical Sea

135. Blood Red Shoes - Blood Red Shoes

136. Jose Gonzales - In Our Nature

137. Ben Howard - Every Kingdom

138. Kings of Leon - Mechanical Bull

139. UFO - Phenomenon

140. Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams

141. Black Sabbath - 13

142. Rainbow - Long Live Rock n Roll

143. Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album)

144. Mastodon - Crack the Skye

145. Black Keys - The Big Come Up

146. Twisted Wheel - Do It Again

147. She & Him - Volume 3

148. Bombay Bicycle Club - Flaws

149. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

150. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday

151. The Vaccines - Come of Age

152. Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists

153. Black Box Revelation - Silver Threats

154. Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers

155. Freaky Age - Every Morning Breaks Out

156. Tahiti 80 - The Past, The Present, The Possible

157. Accept - Blind Rage

158. Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves

159. Modest Mouse - This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About

160. Little Matador - Little Matador

161. The Family Rain - Under the Volcano

162. Witchfinder General - Death Penalty

163. Witchfinder General - Friends of Hell

164. Yuck - Yuck

165. The Wombats - This Modern Glitch

166. Carl Barat and the Jackals - Let it Reign

167. Neil Cicierega - Mouth Silence

168. Ugly Casanova - Sharpen Your Teeth

169. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

170. The Seeds - The Seeds

171. American Football - American Football

172. The Dead Weather - Horehound

173. Imagine Dragons - Smoke and Mirrors

174. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

175. The Dictators - Go Girl Crazy

176. Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones

177. The Darkness - Permission to Land

178. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

179. The Dictators - Manifest Destiny

180. Ed Sheeran - X 

181. Cage the Elephant - Cage the Elephant

182. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2

183. The Mountain Goats - Beat the Champ

184. Blur - Magic Whip

185. The Wombats - Glitterbug

186. Muse - The Resistance

187. The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth

188. MC5 - Back in the USA

189. MC5 - Kick Out the Jams

190. MC5 - High Times

191. Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream

192. Agent Orange - Living in Darkness

193. The Presets - Pacifica

194. The Stooges - Raw Power

195. The Stooges - The Stooges

196. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

197. The Germs - GI

198. Andrew Jackson Jihad - People Who Eat People are the Luckiest People in the World

199. New York Dolls - New York Dolls

200. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe

201. Andrew Jackson Jihad - Knife Man

202. Andrew Jackson Jihad - Candy Cigarettes and Cap Guns

203. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels

204. New York Dolls - Too Much Too Soon

205. Slaves - Are You Satisfied?

206. Angelic Upstarts - Teenage Warning

207. Adolescents - Adolescents

208. Slaughter and the Dogs - Bite Back

209. Of Monsters and Men - Beneath the Skin

Edited July 4, 2015 by Gorka

[Benji]

[Benji]

[GoGo Yubari]

1.

Pink Hearts, Yellow Moons by Dressy Bessy (1999)

2. Thinking of You... by Freakwater (2005)

3. Stay Gold by First Aid Kit (2014)

4. Bona Drag by Morrissey (1990)

5. Comedown Machine by The Strokes (2013)

6. Moonrise Kingdom original soundtrack (2012)

7. Fosbury by Tahiti 80 (2005)

8. Give 'Em Enough Rope by The Clash (1978)

9. Run the Jewels 2 by Run the Jewels (2014)

10. Living with the Living by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (2007)

11. Thao & Mirah by Thao & Mirah (2011)

12. Sonic Highways by Foo Fighters (2014)

13. Maverick a Strike by Finley Quaye (1997)

14. Mandatory Fun by Weird Al Yankovic (2014)

15. Rocket to Russia by The Ramones (1977)

16. Black Messiah by D'Angelo and the Vanguard (2014)

17. These Are the Good Times People by Presidents of the United States of America (2008)

18. Tonight: Franz Ferdinand by Franz Ferdinand (2009)

19. Kites Are Fun by The Free Design (1967)

20. In the Attic of the Universe by The Antlers (2007)

21. Beat the Champ by The Mountain Goats (2015)

22. No Cities to Love by Sleater-Kinney (2015)

23. Glean by They Might Be Giants (2015)

24. Long Distance by Ivy (2001)

25. This Is the Sonics by The Sonics (2015)

26. On the Strength of All Convinced by Daphne Loves Derby (2005)

27. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan (1963)

confession: I have never, ever, ever been able to truly get into Bob Dylan. I think a big part of it is his voice? It works like gangbusters in some songs, but then in others he turns into a cartoon beaver that works in a coal mine. It's sort of like that here. GoGo Yubari Attempt to Get Into Dylan 2K15 was this album, which starts off as a pretty rapid-fire assault of the classics ("Blowin' in the Wind," "Masters of War") but for me slides inexorably into songs that are basically four minutes of improvised, pithy lines over a blues riff. And stuff like "Talkin' World War III Blues" is clever but I still don't need to listen to it again, and in part I think it's just because I just find Dylan's voice to be so distractingly silly. It's not fair. Why must your voice be so silly, visionary folk singer man? So silly. I get that it's folk, but even by folk standards, silly.

The silliest.

Next album.

Best Track: "Girl From the North Country" is actually a perfect match of voice and song. Very simple, evokes a really nice feeling of longing.

[Benji]