DAGGER TOP TEN'S
TOP 10 CDS: JANUARY 2012
1. wussy- strawberry (shake it)
2. cardinal- hymns (fire)
3. yukon blonde- fire/water (nevado/dine alone)
4. opposite sex- s/t (fishrider)
5. b-movie lightning- rain on a river (micropolis)
6. ty segall- singles 2007-2010 (goner)
7. desario- mixer (test pattern)
8. adam arcuragi- like a fire that consumes all before it
9. the jigsaw seen- winterland (vibrophonic)
10.metropolitan farms- our hero pleads his flimsy case (braxeling)
TOP FAVORITE CLUBS (PAST OR PRESENT) IN PORTLAND
1. doug fir
2. wonder ballroom
3. nocturnal
4. the blackbird
5. slabtown
6. mississippi studios
7. aladdin theatre
8. sabala's mt. tabor theatre
9. holocene
10.the woods
TOP 10 CDS; DECEMBER 2011
1. the bats- free all the monsters (flying nun)
2. deardarkhead- oceanside 1991-1993 (captured tracks)
3. sea lions- everything you always wanted to know about sea lions but were afraid to ask (slumberland)
4. cruddy- negative world (12xu)
5. the 65's- strike hard (dromedary)
6. wavves- life sux ep (ghost ramp)
7. allen clapp & his orchestra- mixed greens (minty fresh)
8. azure blue - rule of thirds (matinee)
9. void- sessions 1981-1983 (dischord)
10.blind pilot- we are the tide (expunged)
10 FAVORITE FLYING NUN BANDS
1. the chills
2. the bats
3. the clean
4. look blue go purple
5. able tasmans
6. sneaky feelings
7. the verlaines
8. straightjacket fits
9. bird nest roys
10.the 3-d's
11. tall dwarfs
12. bailter space
13. the puddle
TOP 10 CDS: NOVEMBER 2011
1. faith- subject to change plus first demo (dischord)
2. mark sultan- whatever, whenever (in the red)
3. real estate- days (domino)
4. balloon magic- mornings ep (shelflife)
5. dot dash- sparks>flame>ember>ash (the beautiful music)
6. prince edward island- this day is a good enough day (crocfingers)
7. gospel music- how to get to heaven from jacksonville, fl (kill rock stars)
8. youth lagoon- the year of hibernation (fat possum)
9. kathryn calder- bright and vivid (f.u.m.)
10.bonnie prince billy- wolfroy goes to town (drag city)
TOP 10 FAVORITE DISCHORD BANDS
1. minor threat
2. dag nasty
3. rites of spring
4. faith
5. govt. issue
6. embrace
7. gray matter
8. marginal man
9. scream
10.nation of ulysses
11.fugazi
12.void
13.medications
TOP 10 CDS: OCTOBER 2011
1. masters of the hemisphere- maybe these are the breaks (magic marker)
3. dum dum girls- only in dreams (sub pop)
3. buck owens- bound for bakersfield (rockbeat)
4. still corners- creatures of an hour (sub pop)
5. gem club- breakers (hardly art)
6. vegas with randolph- above the blue (caged giant)
7. the drums- portamento (french kiss)
8. robbers on high street- hey there golden hair (rocco grecco)
9. devon williams- euphoria (slumberland)
10.man or astroman- your weight on the moon (overground)
10 FAVORITE CURRENT RECORD STORES (no partic. order)
1. amoeba (san francisco)
2. music millennium (portland)
3. mod lang (el cerrito)
4. green noise records (portland)
5. twist & shout (denver)
6. aquarius (san francisco)
7. exiled (portland)
8. princeton record exchange (princeton, nj)
9. philly record exchange (philly)
10. jackpot (portland)
TOP 10 CDS: SEPTEMBER 2011
1. veronica falls- s/t (slumberland)
2. stephin merritt - obscurities (merge)
3. mates of state- mountainstops (barsuk)
4. the bye bye blackbirds- fixed hearts (rainbow quartz)
5. big troubles- romantic comedy (slumberland)
6. bad sports- kings of the weekend (dirtnap)
7. b.c. fitzpatrick- lost, stolen & strayed (saint rose)
8. cabin dogs- midnight trail (crippled hound)
9. widowspeak- s/t (captured tracks)
10.male bonding- endless now (sub pop)
TOP 10 RECENT LIVE BANDS
1. the fresh & onlys
2. grass widow
3. band of horses
4. off!
5. ladybug transistor
6. david kilgour
7. devo
8. jon spener blues explosion
9. reverend horton heat
10.those darlins
TOP 10 CDS: AUGUST 2011
1. drive by truckers- ugly building, whores and politicians (new west)
2. gold leaves- the ornament (hardly art)
3. bart & friends- stories with the endings changed (lost and lonesome)
4. cults- s/t (columbia)
5. cute lepers- adventure time (1234 go)
6. eleanor freidberger- last summer (merge)
7. tommy keene- behind the parade (second motion)
8. the vaccines- what did you expect from the vaccines? (columbia)
9. Dom- Family of Love (Virgin)
10.pallers- the sea of memories (labrador)
TOP 10 SONGS BY THE DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
1. uncle frank
2. self-destructive zones
3. the righteous path
4. cartoon gold
5. a ghost to most
6. zip city
7. 3 dimes down
8. ronnie and neil
9. bulldozers and dirt
10.the three great alabama icons
etc. etc. etc.
TOP 10 CDS: JULY 2011
1. sebadoh- bakesale (reissue (sub pop)
2. fonda- better days ep (self released)
3. brilliant colors- again and again (slumberland)
4. beach fossils- what a pleasure ep (captured tracks)
5. black lips- arabia mountain (vice)
6. golden bloom- march to the drums (the sleepy west)
7. thurston moore- demolished thoughts (matador)
8. washed out- within and without (sub pop)
9. robert ellis- photographs (new west)
10.fishboy- classic creeps (hhbtm)
TOP 10 SEBADOH SONGS
1. the freed pig
2..brand new love
3. temporary dreams
4. pig (coward)
5. hung up
6. think (let tomorrow bee)
7. soul and fire
8. not too amused
9. together or alone
10.willing to wait
11. ride the darker wave
and many, many more....
TOP 10 CDS: JUNE 2011
1. the ladybug transistor- clutching stems (merge)
2. kids on a crime spree- we love you so bad (slumberland)
3. fan modine- gratitude for the shipper (daniel 13 press)
4. fucked up- david comes to life (matador)
5. giorgio tuma- in the morning we'll meet (elefant)
6. seapony- go with me (hardly art)
7. chris mills- heavy years; 2000-2010 (ernest jenning)
8. these trails s/t- (drag city)
9. the middle class- out of vogue: the early years (frontier)
10.the damnwells- no one listens to the band anymore (pledgemusic)
TOP 10 SONGS BY THE LADYBUG TRANSISTOR
1. meadowport arch
2. clutching stems
3. rushes of pure spring
4. fallen and falling
5. perfect for shattering
6. in december
7. today knows
8. light on the narrow gauge
9. always on thee telephone
10.into the strait
etc. etc. etc.
TOP 10 CDS: MAY 2011
1. david kilgour & the heavy eights- led by soft (merge)
2. antietam- tenth life (carrot top)
3. girls names- dead to me (slumberland)
4. ha ha tonka- death of a decade (bloodshot)
5. overlord- in soviet russia, my heart breaks you (storm tower)
6. the black watch- led zeppelin five (eskimo)
7. dave depper- the ram project (jackpot)
8. the pains of being pure at heart- belong (slumberland)
9. hammer no more fingers (churchkey)
10.the literary greats- black blizzard (self released)
TOP 10 SONGS BY DAVID KILGOUR (solo, not with The Clean)
1. wave boarder
2. no no no
3. way down here
4. fine
5. look at it
6. slippery slide
7. wave of love
8. shivering
9. gold in sound
10.a break in the weather.
and too many more....
TOP 10 CDS: APRIL 2011
1. the feelies- here before (bar none)
2. j. mascis- several shades of why (sub pop)
3. kurt vile- smokm ring for my halo (matador)
4. vivian girls- share the joy (polyvinyl)
5. exene cervenka- the excitement of maybe (bloodshot)
6. brown recluse- evening tapestry (slumberland)
7. caitlin rose- own side now (theory 8)
8. those darlins- screws get loose (oh wow dang)
9. wanda jackson- the party ain't over (nonesuch)
10.the pains of being pure at heart- belong (slumberland)
TOP 10 SONGS BY THE FEELIES
1. on the roof
2. nobody knows
3. it's only life
4. let's go
5.waiting
6. should be gone
7. original love
8. higher ground
9. the high road
10.la ce-la
etc. etc. etc. etc.
TOP 10 CDS: MARCH 2011
1. buffalo tom- skins (scrawny)
2. i'm from barcelona- forever today (mute)
3. acid house kings- music sounds better with you (labrador)
4. yuck- s/t (fat possum)
5. brave irene- s/t (slumberland)
6. middle brother- s/t (partisan)
7. edwyn collins- losing sleep (heavenly)
8. v/a- casual victim pile II (12xu)
9. papercuts- fading parade (sub pop)
10.blank pages- absolute uncertainty (kool kat)
WAIT....10 MORE!
11. dum dum girls- he gets me high ep (sub pop)
12. memphis- here comes a city (arts & crafts)
13. la resistance- philosophy (self released)
14. chamberlin- bitter blood (rol call)
15. eulogies- tear the fences down (dangerbird)
16. graham repulski- electric worrier (shorter)
17. aaron dean- mpls (self released)
18. champagne riot- moonstruck ep (matinee)
19. quiet life- big green (safety meeting)
20. i was a king- old friends (sounds famylyre)
TOP 10 SONGS BY BUFFALO TOM
1. down
2. mountains of your head
3. summer
4. directive
5. sunflower suit
6. taillights fade
7. here i come
8. velvet roof
9. crawl
10.lost weekend
etc.etc.etc.
TOP 10 CDS: FEBRUARY 2011
1. the radio dept- passive aggressive: singles 2002-2010 (labrador)
2. smith westerns- dye it blond (fat possum)
3. white wires- II (dirtnap)
4. dynamic truths- understanding is overrated (little black cloud)
5. agony aunts- greater miranda (mystery lawn music)
6. tim lee 3- raucous americanus (cool dog sound)
7. british sea power- valhalla dancehall (rough trade)
8. matt & kim- fader (sidewalks)
9. rachel goodrich- s/t (yellow bear)
10.bart davenport- searching for bart davenport (tapete)
TOP 10 SONGS: THE RADIO DEPT
1. this time around
2. where the damage isn't already done
3. the worst taste in music
4. david
5. ewan
6. pulling our weight
7. why won't you talk about it?
8. pet grief
9.you and me, then?
10.never follow suit
etc. etc. etc. etc.
TOP 10 CDS: JANUARY 2011
1. east river pipe- we live in rented rooms (merge)
2. le concorde- house (le grand magistery)
3. reading rainbow- prism eyes (hozac)
4. v/a- space escapade unit 1 (elefant)
5. mark bacino- queens english (dreamcrush)
6. minks- by the hedge (captured tracks)
7. the old ceremony- tender age (alyosha)
8. someone still loves you boris yeltsin- let it sway (polyvinyl)
9. kidnappers- will protect you (alien snatch)
TOP 10 SONGS BY EAST RIVER PIPE
1. my life is wrong
2. cold ground
3. metal detector
4. monumental freaks
5. silhouette town
6. shiny, shiny pimpmobile
7. summer boy
8. the club isn't open
9. make a deal with the city
10.girls on the freeway
etc.etc.etc.
TOP 10 CDS: DECEMBER 2010
1. bubblegum lemonade- sophomore release (matinee)
2. surf city- kudos (fire)
3. phil wilson- god bless jim kennedy (slumberland)
4. the fresh and onlys- play it strange (in the red)
5. girls- broken dreams club (true panther sounds)
6. happy dead men- eleven pop songs (fraction discs)
7. sorrows- bad times good times (bomp)
8. donovan quinn & the 13th month- your wicked man (shrimper)
9. john wesley coleman- bad lady goes to jail (goner)
10.amy bezunartea- restaurants and bars (kiam)
TOP 10 MATINEE RECORDS (EARLY) 7"S
1. monterey- the motorway
2. belle vista- was the last
3. lovejoy plays biff bang pow!
4. the lucksmiths- southernmost
5. sportique- love & remains
6. harper lee- bug
7. sweet william- dutch mother
8. the lucksmiths- untidy towns
9. the fairways- darling don't you think?
10.the windmills - three sixty degrees
TOP 10 CDS: NOVEMBER 2010
1. the autumn defense- once round (yep roc)
2. le futur pompiste- s/t (shelflife)
3. smith westerns- s/t (fat possum)
4. eux autres- broken bow (bon mots)
5. the salteens- grey eyes (boompa)
6. the sugar stems- the sweet sounds of... (dream on/ dusty medical)
7. weekend- sports (slumberland)
8. the britannicas- s/t (kool kat)
9. gospel claws - C-L-A-W-S (common wall media)
10.dafni- sweet time (daffer doodle)
TOP 10 SONGS BY THE AUTUMN DEFENSE
1. the sun in california
2. allow me
3. long forgotten love
4. winterlight
5. why i'm like this
6. make it through the summer
7. tell me what you want
8,, feel you now
9. written in the snow
10.silence
TOP 10 CDS: OCTOBER 2010
1. belle and sebastian - write about love (matador)
2. no bunny- first blood (goner)
3. the posies- blood/candy (rykodisc)
4. sex robots- night moves (roadhouse tunes)
5. the jigsaw seen- bananas foster (vibro phonic)
6. justin townes earle- harlem river blues (bloodshot)
7. the tamborines- camera & tremor (self released)
8. junip- fields (mute)
9. the mommyheads- finest specimens (dromedary)
10.the silent boys- princess by the sea (walrus)
TOP 10 SONGS BY BELLE ANS SEBASTIAN (from DEAR CATASTROPHE WAITRESS forward)
1. wrapped up in books
2. another sunny day
3. write about love
4. asleep on sunbeam
5. the blues are still blue
6. i didn't see it coming
7. if you find yourself caught in love
8. sukie in the graveyard
9. i'm cuckoo
10.(i believe in) travellin' light
TOP 10 CDS: SEPTEMBER 2010
1. the thermals- personal life (kill rock stars)
2. white fence- s/t (woodsist)
3. woven bones- in and out and back again (hozac)
4. jen wood- finds you in love (new granada)
5. kathryn calder- are you my mother? (file under music)
6. trampled by turtles- palomino (banjodad)
7. sebastian blanck- alibi coast (red book room)
8. the literary greats- ocean, meet the valley (self released)
9. chatham county line- wildwood (yep roc)
10.brett harris- man of a few words (self released)
TOP 10 SONGS BY THE THERMALS
1. no culture icons
2. i don't believe you
3. here's your future
4. every stitch
5. brace and break
6. not like any other feeling
7. our trip
8. a pillar of salt
9. your love is so strong
10.when you're thrown
etc. etc. etc.
TOP 10 CDS: AUGUST 2010
1. wavves- king of the beach (fat possum)
2. gaslight anthem american slang (side one dummy)
3. perfume genius- learning (matador)
4. chris brokaw and geoff farina- the angel's message to me (capitan)
5. tommy keene- you hear me: a retrospective 1983-2009 (second motion)
6. leatherface- the stormy petrel (no idea)
7. mates of state- crushes: the covers mixtape (self released)
8. david cross- bigger and blackerer (sub pop)
9. ariel pink's haunted grafitti - before today (4ad)
10.magic bullets- s/t (mon amie)
TOP 10 LIVE BANDS I SAW THIS SUMMER
1. beach fossils
2. jaill
3. dawes
4. the mummies
5. the mantles
6. phosphorescent
7. the secret history
8. old 97's
9. pavement
10.wavves
TOP 10 CDS: JULY 2010
1. pernice brothers- goodbye, killer ashmont)
2. phosphorescent- here's to taking it easy (dead oceans)
3. tender trap- dansette dansette (slumberland)
4. the love language- libraries (merge)
5. the contrast- god of malfunction (wicked cool)
6. elvyn- the decline (little wagon)
7. the honus huffhines- a brief history of... (braxeling)
8. hanoi janes- year of panic (captured tracks)
9. rabbit children- thou shalt have a time machine (clutter bear)
10.thieves like us - again and again (shelflife)
WAIT, HERE'S 10 MORE!
11. son of the sun- the happy loss (self released)
12. true love- !pas net! (main man)
13. blitzen trapper- destroyer of the void (sub pop)
14. trashcan sinatras in the music (lo five)
15. michael trent- the winner (shrimp)
16. quakers on probation- every living thing self released)
17. fjord rowboat- under cover of brightness (self released)
18. the young sinclairs- we spoke our minds ep (planting seeds)
19. outrageous cherry- seemingly solid reality alive)
20. lucky delucci- december 1986 ep (bubble warp)
TOP 10 SONGS BY JOE PERNICE/PERNICE BROTHERS
1. she heightened everything
2. we love the stage
3. the weakest shade of blue
4. crestfallen
5. somerville
6. flaming wreck
7. bechamel
8. there goes the sun
9. clear spot
10.automaton
etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.etc.etc.
TOP 10 CDS: JUNE 2010
1. teenage fanclub- shadows (merge)
2. band of horses- infinite arms (columbia)
3.the successful failures- three nights (face down)
4. buzzcocks- loves bites, another music in a different kitchen, a different kind of tension (reissues, emi/mute)
5. halsted- life underwater (ashbury)
6. matt pond pa- the dark leaves (altitude)
7. jamie & steve- english afterthoughts (loaded goat)
8. the lodger- flashbacks (slumberland)
9. jason falkner- i'm ok, you're ok (cobraside)
10.nick jaina- a bird in the opera house (hush)
WAIT...HERE'S 10 MORE!
11.snowglobe- little more lived in (makeshift)
12.venice i sinking- sand & lines (one percent press)
13.the service industry- calm down (saustex)
14.discover america- future paths (lujo)
15.the plimsouls- live! beg, borrow & steal (bomp/alive)
16. the whitsundays- saul (friendly fire)
17..keane- night train (interscope)
18.frank royster- innocence is bliss (kool kat)
19.household names- stories, no names (self released)
20.pepper rabbit- shakes & clicks (self released)
TOP 10 SONGS BY TEENAGE FANCLUB
1. everything flows
2. sometimes i don't need to believe in anything
3. sparky's dream
4. accidental life
5. the concept
6. everybody's fool
7. baby lee
8. the cabbage
9. it's all in my mind
10.about you
etc. etc. etc.
TOP 10 CDS: MAY 2010
1. club 8- the people's record (labrador)
2. joe pug- messenger (lightning rod)
3. the radio dept.- clinging to a scheme (labrador)
4.dum dum girls- i will be (sub pop)
5. barton carroll- together you and i (skybucket)
6. the fall- your future, our clutter (domino)
7. chin chin- sound of the westway (slumberland/mississippi)
8. the small change- every line in my head (unsmashable)
9. harlem- hippies (matador)
10.marching band- pop cycle (u & l)
WAIT..HERE'S 10 MORE!
11. shark speed- education ep (self released)
12. tindersticks- falling down a mountain (constellation)
13. sourpatch- crushin (hhbtm)
14. the bulletproof vests- attack! (electric room)
15. woods- echo lake (woodsist)
16. kings of convenience- declaration of dependance (astralwerks)
17. johnny bertram & the golden bicycles- days that passed (esperanza plantation)
18. drive by truckers- the big to-do (ato)
19. the coal porters- durango (prima)
20. titus andronicus- the monitor (xl)
TOP 10 SONGS BY CLUB 8
1. blue skies
2. isn't that great?
3. everlasting love
4. jesus, walk with me
5. spring came, rain fell
6. love in december
7.shape up!
8. don't be gone
9. the chance i deserve
10.be mad, get ill, be still
etc. etc. etc.
TOP 10 CDS; APRIL 2010
1. pavement- quarantine the past (matador)
2. the soft pack- s/t (kemado)
3. painted hills- s/t (birdsong)
4. beach house- teen dream (sub pop)
5. night driving in small towns- serial killer (lower 40)
6. golden triangle- double jointer (hardly art)
7. jason & the scorchers- halcyon time (nash vegas times/ courageous chicken)
8. yukon blonde- s/t (bumstead)
9. paul winders and the goodness- you can have it all (dunedin music)
10.drink up buttercup- born and thrown on a hook (yep roc)
TOP 10 SONGS BY PAVEMENT
1. fork lift
2. box elder
3. summer babe
4. range life
5. trigger cut
6. debris slide
7. silence kit
8. frontwards
9. you're killing me
10.gold soundz
11. here
TOP 10 CDS: MARCH 2010
1, the orange peels- 2020 (mystery lawn)
2. world atlas- s/r ep (magic marker)
3. joe pug- messenger (lightning rod)
4. kings of convenience- declaration of dependance (astralwerks)
5. magnetic fields- realism (nonesuch)
6. very truly yours- things you used to say (skywriting)
7. ben sollee & daniel martin moore- dear companion (sub pop)
8. memphs 59- ragged but right (self released)
9. bad lieutenant- never cry another tear (original signal)
10.alec ounsworth- mo beauty (anti)
TOP 10 SONGS BY THE ORANGE PEELS
1. we're gonna make it
2. back in san francisco
3. circling the sun
4. something strange happens
5. 2020
6. so far
7. something in you
8. all the world could pass me by
9. redwood city
10.seaside holiday
TOP 10 CDS: FEBRUARY 2010
1. pylon- chomp more (dfa)
2. curtains for you- what a lovely surprise to wake up here (spark & shine)
3. the silent league- but you've always been the caretaker (something in construction)
4. fireflies- autumn almanac (little music)
5. my dad is dead- a new clear route (unhinged)
6. le loup- family (hardly art)
7. cheap red- s/t (555)
8. adam green- minor love (fat possum)
9. reigning sound- love and curses (in the red)
10.cold cave- love comes close (matador)
WAIT...HERE'S 10 MORE!
11. allison weiss- was right all along (self released)
12. yellow fever- s/t (ww)
13. pocketbooks- flight paths (how does it feel to be loved)
14. shellshag- rumors in disguise (don giovanni)
15. steven deal- radio twelve (seditionary kitten)
16. deserters- pale morning (pop boomerang)
17. sam bisbee- son of a math teacher (le grand magistery)
18. the lucy show- undone (words on music)
19. brilliant colors- introducing... (slumberland)
20. christmas island- blackout summer (in the red)
TOP 10 SONGS BY PYLON
1. m-train
2. crazy
3. feast on my heart
4. cool
5. yo-yo
6. gravity
7. k
8. dub
9. italian movie theme
10.volume
TOP 10 CDS; JANUARY 2010
1. old 97's- wreck your lifew...and then some (bloodshot)
2. the scruffs- conquest (scruffsville)
3. richard hawley- truelove's gutter (mute)
4. curtains for you- what a lovely surprise to wake up here (spark & shine)
5. i see hawks in l.a.- shoulda been gold (american beat)
6. the breakaways- walking out on love (the lost sessions) (bomp/ alive)
7. those darlins- s/t (oh wow dang)
8. boy genius- staggering (self released)
9. christmas island- blackout island (in the red)
10.the mary onettes- islands (labrador)
TOP 10 SONGS BY THE OLD 97'S
1. house that used to be
2. up the devil's pay
3. won't be home
4. lonely holiday
5. dance with mr
6. doreen
7. barrier reef
8. bird in a cage
9. valentine
10.niteclub
and way too many more.....
TOP 10 CDS: DECEMBER 2009
1. jeremy- journey to the center of the heart (jam)
2. dawes- north hill (ato)
3. afternoon naps- parade (hhbtm)
4. devries- death to god (noise on noise)
5. thomas function- in the valley of sickness (fat possum)
6. the spindles- picture in picture (self released)
7. apple orchard- leafy lanes (haymarket)
8. the rural alberta advantage- hometowns (saddle creek)
9. parlour steps- the hidden names (9 mile)
10.new roman times- on the sleeve (new granada)
TOP 10 SONGS BY JEREMY
1. vanity fare
2. come clean
3. upside down
4. pop dreams for you and me
5. chain reaction
6. church of byrds
7. superstar
8. find the way to be happy
9. wake up
10.it's getting better
TOP 10 CDS: NOVEMBER 2009
1. the marked men- fix my brain (dirtnap reissue)
2. boat- setting the paces (magic marker)
3. the dimes - the king can drink the harbour dry (pet marmoset)
4. the apples in stereo- #1 hits explosion (yep roc)
5. alan singley & pants machine- feelin' citrus (bladen county)
6. spiral stairs- the real feel (matador)
7.the june- magic circles (rainbow quartz)
8. robin guthrie- carousel (darla)
9. the black hollies- softyl towards the light (ernest jennings)
10.v/a- welcome to the wetherbeat scene 1988-'91 (555)
HONORABLE MENTIONS: The Box Elders,The Furious Seasons, The Shazam, etc.
TOP 10 SONGS BY THE MARKED MEN
1. don't lose it
2. a little time
3. gone away
4. all in your head
5. what can i say
6. it's not a crime
7. on the outside
8. fortune
9. we won't talk about it
10.broken record
TOP 10 CDS: OCTOBER 2009
1. the clientele - bonfires on the heath (merge)
2. girls- album (true panther sounds/ matador)
3. fruit bats- the ruminant band (sub pop)
4. rose melberg- homemade ship (k)
5. lou barlow- goodnight unknown (merge)
6. pissed jeans- king of jeans (sub pop)
7. the maldives- listen to the thunder (mt fuji)
8. the hush now- constellations (self released)
9. horse shoes- the imperial live (shelflife)
10.drive by truckers- fine print: a collection of oddities and rarities 2003-2008 (new west)
TOP 10 SONGS BY THE CLIENTELE
1. an hour before the light
2. i wonder who we are
3. since k got over me
4. from brighton beach to santa monica
5. bicycles
6. spirit
7. never anyone but you
8. the violet hour
9. here comes the phantom
10.sketch
TOP 10 CDS: SEPTEMBER 2009
1. the clean- mister pop (merge)
2. the corner laughers- ultraviolet garden (popover corp)
3. sugarplum fairies- chinese leftovers (starfish)
4. jay reatard- watch me fall (matador)
5. pugwash- giddy (ape)
6. chris marshall- starting out ep (oh my soul)
7. the drums- summertime! (twenty seven)
8. sons of great dane- s/t (self released)
10.kurt vile- childish prodigy (matador)
10.the peppermint trolley company- beautiful sun (now sounds)
TOP 10 SONGS BY THE CLEAN
1. billy two
2. drawing to a whole
3. in the dreamlife u need rubber soul
4. champagne & misery
5. wake up in the morning
6. crazy
7. tally ho
8. i wait around
9. factory man
10.at the bottom
and many, many more
TOP 10 CDS: AUGUST 2009
1. damon & naomi- the sub pop years (20/20/20)
2. the meatmen- cover the earth (meatmen records)
3. golden bloom- fan the flames (the sleepy west)
4. the lovetones- dimensions (planting seeds)
5. the delfields- ogres (self released)
6. morrissey- years of refusal (attack/lost highway)
7. the boy least likely to- the law of the playground (plus one)
8. iron & wine - around the well (sub pop)
9. tinted windows- s/t (s curve)
10.greg pope- pete ep (octoberville)
TOP 10 SONGS BY DAMON & NAOMI
1. e.t.a.
2. the new historicism
3. i'm yours
4. this car climbed mt. washington
5. in the morning
6. the navigator
7. astrafiammante
8.tour of the world
9. new york city
10.little red record co.
etc .etc.
TOP 10 CDS: JULY 2009
1. outrageous cherry- universal malcontents (bomp/alive)
2. audible- in simple intervals (self released)
3. the leftovers- eager to please (oglio/crappy)
4. socalist leisure party- tactical POP for coffee cadets (shelflife)
5. the isles- troika (self released)
6. almost charlies- the plural of yes (words on music)
7. the autumn leaves- long lost friend (dabbler)
8. linda draper- bridge & tunnel (planting seeds)
9. poland- most of them are clockwork (series two)
10.desolation wilderness- new universe (k)
TOP 10 SONGS BY OUTRAGEOUS CHERRY
1. the song belongs to evrryone
2. genevieve
3. my suspicious midwest
4. pale frail lovely one
5. (you're not) a nice girl
6. why don't we talk about something else
7. nothings gonna cheer you up
8. a song for someone sometimes
9. new creature
10.detroit blackout
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BEST OF 2011 DAGGER WRITERS LISTS
TIM HINELY
1. Gold Leaves- The Ornament (Hardly Art)
2. Dum Dum Girls- Only in Dreams (Sub Pop)
3. The Bats- Free All The Monsters (Flying Nun)
4. Real Estate- Days (Domino)
5. Ladybug Transistor- Clutching Stems (Merge)
6. The Feelies- Here Before (Bar-None)
7. Fucked Up- David Comes to Life (Matador)
8. Veronica Falls- S/T (Slumberland)
9. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit- Here We Rest (Lightning Rod)
10. Smith Westerns- Die It Blonde (Fat Possum)
WAIT, HERE’S 10 MORE..
11. Fan Modine- Gratitude for the Shipper (Daniel 13 Press)
12. Seapony- Go With Me (Hardly Art)
13. Ha Ha Tonka- Death of a Decade (Bloodshot)
14. Overlord- In Soviet Russia My Heart Breaks You (Storm Tower)
15. Kurt Vile- Smoke Ring For My Halo (Matador)
16. Azure Blue- Rule of Thirds (Matinee)
17. The Sea Lions- Everything You Always Wanted To Know About the Sea Lions But Were Afraid to Ask (Slumberland)
18. Yuck- S/T (Fat Possum)
19. Those Darlins – Screws Get Loose (Oh Wow Dang)
20. Cults- S/T (Columbia)
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Bart & Friends, Fountains of Wayne, Tommy Keene, Bye Bye Blackbirds, Masters of the Hemisphere, Brilliant Colors, Cruddy, Girl, Robbers on High Street, Buffalo Tom, The Red Button, Blind Pilot, Bad Sports, Something Fierce, Cute Lepers, etc.
5 BEST EPS OF 2011
1. Fonda- Better Days (Fonda Music/Minty Fresh)
2. Beach Fossils- What a Pleasure (Captured Tracks)
3. Sally Crewe & the Sudden Moves-Transmit/Receive EP (8-Track Mind)
4. Balloon Magic- Mornings (Shelflife)
5. Wavves- Life Sux (Ghost Ramp)
5 BEST REISSUES/COLLECTIONS
1. The Left Banke- Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina (Sundazed)
2. Bitch Magnet – S/T (Temporary Residence)
3. Deardarkhead- Oceanside: 1991-1993 (Captured Tracks)
4. Faith- Subject to Change (plus first demo) (Dischord)
5.Human Switchboard- Who’s landing in my Hangar? Anthology 1977-1984 (Bar-None)
MARY LEARY
Fave Rock & Pop + Indie Genre-Benders
Amor de Dias: Street of the Love of Days (Merge)
The Beets: Let the Poison Out (Hardly Art)
The Bloody Hollies: Yours Until the Bitter End (Alive Records)
The Clutters: Breaking Bones (Chicken Ranch)
The Do: Both Ways Open Jaws (Six Degrees Records)
Kathryn Calder: Bright and Vivid (File Under Music)
Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop)
Floating Action: Desert Etiquette (Park the Van)
Sam Humans: Live Free/The Heligoats/Let Loose (Greyday Records)Mercies: Three Thousand Days (Self-Released)
Jack Oblivian: Fat City (Fat Possum)
Radiation City: The Hands That Take You (Tender Loving Empire)
Robbers on High Street: Hey There Golden Hair (Rocco Grecco)
Sleepy Vikings: They Will Find You Here (New Granada)
Treefight for Sunlight: A Collection of Vibrations for Your Skull (Friendly Fire)
Fave Reissues, Roots/Folky/Americana, World, Compilations, & Electronica (Admittedly, I need to get on more promo lists)
Aurelio: Laru Beya (Sub Pop)
Pieta Brown: Mercury (Red House)
Channel In Channel Out: The Author and the Narrator (Karaoke Kalk)
Dennis Crommett: In the Buffalo Surround (Signature Records)
Human Switchboard: Who’s Landing in My Hangar? (Reissue – Bar None)
Lake Street Dive: Lake Street Dive (Signature Sounds)
Pakistan Folk and Pop Essentials 1966-1976 (Sublime Frequencies)
The Raincoats: Odyshape (Reissue – We Three Records)
Los Saicos: Demolicion! The Complete Recordings (Munster Records)
Soley: We Sink (Morr Music)
St. Even: Spirit Animal (Dustbin)
Talk Talk: Laughing Stock (Ba Da Bing)
Trentemoller: Reworked/Remixed (In My Room)
Under the Covers, Vol. 2: A Tribute to Paul Collins, Peter Case, & Jack Lee (Volar Records)
The Velvet Monkeys: Everything is Right (Reissue – Instant Mayhem/Thick Syrup)
Best Rock & Pop Artists in My Town (San Diego):
Nena Anderson
Beehive and the Barracudas
The Blackout Party
The Bloody Hollies
The Dragons
Joey Harris and the Mentals
Heavy Hawaii
Lord Howler
Marcelo Radulovich
The Mashtis
Mrs Magician
Nicey Nice World
Plateaus
Rattlesnake Aces
Gary Wilson
JEREMY GRITES
TOP 10 FOR 2011 (no particular order)
1. the Bats - free all the monsters
2. the War on Drugs - slave ambient
3. Telekinesis - 12 desperate straight lines
4. Dex Romweber - is that you in the blue
5. the Sea and Cake - moonlight butterfly
6. Booker T Jones - the road from Memphis
7. 11th Dream Day - riot now!
8. Surfer Blood - astro coast
9. Apex Manor - the year of magical drinking
10. the Fall - ersatz (haven't even heard it yet)
PLUS 10 MORE:
1. Yuck - s/t
2. Reading Rainbow - s/t
3. the Feelies - here before
4. Obits - moody, standard and poor
5. Thurston Moore - demolished thoughts
6. Beach Fossils - what a pleasure
7. Ryan Adams - ashes and fire
8. David Kilgour - left by soft
9. Wye Oak - civilian
10. Pains of Being… - belong
TOP 5 RE-ISSUES OF 2011 (no order):
1. Archers of Loaf - icky mettle
2. Bitch Magnet - complete discography
3. Superchunk - foolish
4. Iggy & James Williamson - kill city
5. Wye Oak - the knot (vinyl)
ERIC EGGLESON
Top Ten 2011 CDs
1. Kaputt -Destroyer (Merge)
2. Tamer Animals -Other Lives (TBD)
3. Rain on a River -B-Movie Lightning (Micropolis)
4. Belong -The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (Slumberland)
5. Go With Me -Seapony( Hardly Art)
6. Hearts -I Break Horses(Cooperative Music)
7. The Family Tree: The Roots -Radical Face (Bear Machine )
8. Celestial Electric -AM & Shawn Lee (ESL Music)
9. The Coldest Winter for a Hundred Years -The Wild Swans (Kitten Charmer)
10. In the Morning We'll Meet -Giorgio Tuma (Elefant)
Top Ten Songs 2011 (I played to death)
1. "Symphony in White, No. 2" -Sun Airway (Dead Oceans)
2. "Gangsta" -tUnE-yArDs (4ad)
3. "Hauntin' Me" -Keep Shelly in Athens (Forest Family)
4. "Minor Keys" -Big Troubles (Slumberland)
5. "Grow" -The Last Dinosaur (Dearstereofan)
6. "Book of Revelation" -The Drums (Frenchkiss)
7. "Cyclopean Runways" -Circus Devils (Happy Jack Rock)
8. "Anyone but You" -Black Swan Lane (CDBY)
9. "Top Bunk" -Gauntlet Hair (Dead Oceans)
10. "Night is Young" -Southern Shores (Cascine)
ANDY GIEGERICH
Top Ten Albums
1. The Red Button, As Far As Yesterday Goes, Grimble Records
2. Metropolitan Farms, Our Hero Pleads His Flimsy Case, Braxeling Records
3. Wild Flag, S/T, Merge
4. Curtains For You, After Nights Without Sleep, Spark and Shine Records
5. Nick Lowe, The Old Magic, Yep Rock Records
6. Heidecker and Wood, Starting from Nowhere, Little Record Co.
7. The Great Book of John, S/T, Communicating Vessels
8. Overlord, In Soviet Russia My Heart Breaks You, Storm Tower
9. Petal Shop, The Scope, Michigan Records
10. Dave Giegerich, It's About Time, self-released
Ten great moments in other media
1. Breaking Bad. Just, Breaking Bad.
2. Ryan Gosling in Drive
3. The Oregonian's Occupy Portland pepper-spray shot
4. Portland Monthly's Bar Pilot, day after day
5. Ashland's Shakespeare Festival, as always
6. Brookings, Oregon conversation. Skank: My baby's five weeks old
today. Bartender: Is this your first time out since then? Skank: Nope.
It's my third.
7. My nephew and I playing Amazing Grace, w/a My Way ending, at Ray's
memorial service
8, Lebron James and Dwyane Wade losing. Finally.
9. Brandon Roy's Game Four fourth quarter.
10. Finally catching Treme's first season on DVD.
DAVE CANTRELL
10: MORNING TELEPORTATION expanding anyway (Glacial Pace)
9: WYE OAK civilian (Merge)
8: GIRLS father son holy ghost (True Panther)
7: WIRE red barked tree (Pink Flag)
6: EMA past life martyred saints (Souterrain Transmissions)
5: WAR ON DRUGS slave ambient (Secretly Canadian)
4: LUMERIANS transmalinnia (Knitting Factory)
3: FACTORY STAR enter castle perilous (Occultation)
2: DENIM d (Downtown)
1: PJ HARVEY let england shake (Vagrant)
ED MAZZUCCO
Top 10 LPs
Epic45 - Weathering (Make Mine Music)
Real Estate - Days (Domino)
Ringo Deathstarr - Colour Trip (Club AC30 / Sonic Unyion)
The Wild Swans - The Coldest Winter for a Hundred Years (Occultation)
Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls (Slumberland / Bella Union)
Germany Germany - Adventures (self-released)
I Break Horses - Hearts (Bella Union)
Azure Blue - Rule of Thirds (Matineé Recordings / Hybris)
Hong Kong in the 60s - My Fantoms (Proper Songs)
The Feelies - Here Before (Bar None)
Top 5 EPs
Echo Lake - Young Silence (No Pain in Pop)
The Blessed Isles - Caroline (self-released)
RxGibbs - Bleu Celeste (self-released)
Beach Fossils - What a Pleasure (Captured Tracks)
Weekend - Red (Slumberland)
IAN HENDERSON
1. OPPOSITE SEX – Opposite Sex (Fishrider) –http://oppositesex.bandcamp.com/
2. THE BATS – Free All The Monsters (Flying Nun) –https://www.flyingnun.co.nz/shop/115
3. DAVID KILGOUR & THE HEAVY EIGHTS – Left By Soft (Arch Hill/ Merge) – http://www.archhill.co.nz/2011/Artists/David-Kilgour/David-Kilgour-The-Heavy-Eights-Left-by-Soft-CD.html
4. AMOR DE DIAS – Street of The Love of Days (Merge) –http://www.mergerecords.com/store/store_detail.php?catalog_id=792
5. CONNAN MOCKASIN – Forever Dolphin Love (Phantasy/ Because) – http://www.facebook.com/phantasy.sound
6. WHITE FENCE – Is Growing Faith (Woodsist) –http://www.woodsist.com/
7. HAUNTED LOVE – Spirit Revival (Round Trip Mars) –http://www.roundtripmars.com/artistes.html
8. VERONICA FALLS – Veronica Falls (Slumberland) –http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/catalog/show/187
9. THE DECEMBERISTS – The King is Dead (Capitol) –http://decemberists.com/
10. WET WINGS – Glory Glory (L’il Chief) – http://www.lilchiefrecords.com/ |
