Damn, is it spring already? February seemed to fly by – almost like it was shorter than all the other months…
Alright, all bad jokes aside, the end of February is also the unofficial end of winter, meaning it’s time to take a look at all the fantastic album art that’s come out in the last three months.
Here are 10 that caught my eye:
And we’ve finally hit the end of our Best of 2012 series! Hope you enjoyed all our posts so far!
Allah-Las – Allah-Las [Innovative Leisure]
Buxton – Nothing Here Seems Strange [New West]
Hospitality – Hospitality [Merge]
The Men – Open Your Heart [Sacred Bones]
Take By Tress – Other Worlds [Secretly Canadian] Read More
I’ve got my best albums of 2012 ready for Friday, but I have to be honest that I always enjoy putting together my best songs lists. You might not sit down and listen to your ten or twenty favorite albums at once, but you can relieve the year through single songs in a couple of hours.
My best of ____ mixes (and those throwback one’s made by Dan) are some of my favorite mixes of all time. If you’re not already making best of ____ mixes, you need to start. Today. The only rules? One song per artist, and the song was released in some fashion (album, EP, 7″, mp3) in 2012.
In the meantime, check out the list of my favorite songs of the year. Jams, every single one of them.
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It’s list time again folks! And Laura says I can write some lists too!! So here are some lists of some random things – books, records, songs, etc. It’s long but I hope you enjoy it some… either way, it’s the end of the year wrap up!!
IRRITATING THINGS!
Since I write the throwback Thursday section sometimes I get to be the resident cranky person. I love it since I can often be found shaking my fist at baggy pants wearing teenagers who have the gall to walk on my lawn!
Anyway, here is a list of things that are dumb and/or irritating to me right now. They aren’t in any real order except number 1 is probably in the right spot… I would say that this is for the whole 2012 but I can’t remember all the way back an entire year!
Best of 2012 continued. Fave covers are up, and top tracks and albums will be posted this week.
Keeping the albums separate from the EPs again this year, because how can you judge a 5 song EP to 17 song album?
And let me say, for the millionth time, more EPs please! Perfect introduction to a new band, perfect release that keeps me happy between full-lengths from a favorite band. So thank you to these bands/artists for indulging my craze by putting out some excellent EPs.
Kicking off “Best of 2012″ week a little early with my top five cover songs from this year. Next week, I’ll post my favorite EPs, songs, and albums, along with some of Dan’s favorites (and least favorites) of the year.
As I’ve ranted about before, covers can be a tricky thing, particularly if you’re a fan of the original song. Too close to the original, and its karaoke. Too far from the original, and it’s blasphemy. Here are a few I thought hit that sweet spot. Read More
I’ve finally completed my favorite “best of” list – the songs. As much as I enjoy creating (and reading) best album lists, the truth is that I’ll probably never go back and listen to all 30 of my favorite albums from 2011 in succession.
However, I will go back and listen to my “best of” mix – aka my favorite tracks of 2011. It’s a musical time capsule. You can return to your past best of mixes and get a sense where you were musically, personally, emotionally.
Unlike my other “best of” lists, they’re not ranked in order. Rather, they’re arranged in a way that I think works as a complete playlist. If you want to hear it, you can check it out here on Spotify.
Tracklisting after the jump.
There seems to be some misunderstanding in the bloggosphere about “best of” lists. This year, I saw several rants preceding year-end lists that went to great lengths to explain that they were NOT “best of” lists, because no one can definitely say who had the best albums (because, of course, no one has listened to every album produced in a given year and music is subjective and on and on). Seriously? I didn’t realize the Internet took things so literally.
So I will go on calling my lists “best of” lists, because it sounds so much better than “some albums I thought were kind of good, but I don’t know, you could have a different opinion, right?” Enjoy!
So, I could write a really self-righteous post about “best of” lists right now – about how its ridiculous that people are posting them in the beginning of December, about how everyone is rushing to be the first to put their list up – but here’s the reality: i’m putting up my best of 2011 lists now because this is the first time in a few months I’ve actually had the time to do so.
I’ve taken a break from blogging for the last few months, but I haven’t taken a break from consuming music. So for that reason – and because “best of” lists are one of my favorite parts about blogging – I’m kicking off Best of 2011 posts today! My top albums will be up later this week, and my top tracks will be up next week, but in the meantime, here are my favorite EPs of 2011.
