Sunday 28 December 2008

2008 best of

Favourite albums:

Proud Simon Night of Criminals (Proud Simon)

Jenny Lewis Acid Tongue (Rough Trade)
Devon Williams Carefree (Ba Da Bing!)
Robert Forster The Evangelist (Tag 5)
The Donkeys Living on the Other Side (Dead Oceans)


also enjoyed

Beaujolais Love At Thirty (Parasol)
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)
Nicole Atkins Neptune City (Columbia)
The Streets Everything is Borrowed (679)
The Gutter Twins Saternalia (Sub Pop)
Damien Jurado Caught in the Trees (Secretly Canadian)
Arms Kids Aflame (Melodic)
Silver Jews Look Out Mountain, Look Out Sea (Drag City)
Kelly Stoltz Circular Sounds (Sub Pop)
Danny and The Champions of the World S/T (Loose)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Dig Lazarus Dig! (Mute)

2008 Playlist

The Streets The Escapist
Proud Simon Newspaper Boat
Jenny Lewis Tryin' My Best
Bon Iver For Emma
Nicole Atkins The Way It Is
Spiritualized Soul on Fire
Devon Williams Stephanie City
The Donkeys Dolphin Center
The Streets Everything is Borrowed
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds More News From Nowhere
Nicole Atkins Neptune City
Arms Kids Aflame
Proud Simon Like Clockwork, On and On
Jenny Lewis Sing a Song
Robert Forster If It Rains
American Music Club Decibels and Little Pills
Dr Dog The Ark
Black Kids I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend To Dance With You
The Gutter Twins Idle Hands
Proud Simon Tar Washed Ashore
The Donkeys Excelsior Lady
War On Drugs Arms Like Boulders
Robert Forster Did She Overtake You
Devon Williams A Truce
Beaujolais May I Have The Honor

Wednesday 26 November 2008

i've got my conscience and you've got the car













Beaujolais Love At Thirty (Parasol) CD
Proud Simon Night of Criminals (Proud Simon) CD
Songs Ohia Didn't It Rain (Secretly Canadian) LP
The New Pornographers Electric Version (Matador) CD
The New Pornographers Twin Cinema (Matador) CD
The Sexual Objects Here Come The Rubber Cops (A&B) 7"
The Sexual Objects Merrie England (A&B) 7"
Low Santa's Coming Over (Sub Pop) 7"
The Go-Betweens Liberty Belle & The Black Diamond Express (Beggars Banquet) LP
The Go-Betweens 16 Lovers Lane (Lomax) DBL CD
The Yellow Moon Band Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World (Static Caravan) CD
Greg Dulli Amber Headlights (Infernal) CD
Mark Eitzel The Ugly American (Tongue Master) CD

Friday 7 November 2008

everything i've done, i've done for you




Patti Smith Radio Ethiopia (Arista) LP
Nicole Atkins Pissing In A River (live) You Tube Video
A.C Newman The Slow Wonder (Matador) CD
A.C Newman Get Guilty (forthcoming) CD
The New Pornographers Challengers (Matador) CD
Van Morrison Astral Weeks (Warner Bros) CD
REM Losing My Religion (Warner Bros) 7"
The Sisters of Mercy Temple of Love (Merciful Release) 12"
The Sweet Things Teen Guitars EP (Mugshot) 7"
The Triffids Peel Session (Strange Fruit) 12"
Prefab Sprout Swoon (Columbia) CD

Wednesday 22 October 2008

where my guardian angel?


Television Live At The Old Waldorf (Elektra) CD
ESG A South Bronk Story (Universal Sound) DBL LP
Patrick Cleandenim Orange Moonbeam Floorshow (Broken Horse) forthcoming CD
Straitjacket Fits Hail (Flying Nun) LP
Hungry Ghosts S/T (Reliant) CD
Jenny Lewis Acid Tongue (Rough Trade) CD
The Streets Everything is Borrowed (679) CD
Rilo Kiley Under The Blacklight (Warner Bros) CD
The Replacements Tim/Pleased To Meet Me/Don't Tell A Soul/All Shook Down (Sire) remastered CDs
Proud Simon Night of Criminals (Proud Simon) CD
Beat Happening Angel Gone (K) 7"
Spectrum Indian Summer (Silvertone) 7"

Thursday 25 September 2008

looking for a kiss



New York Dolls S/T (Mercury) LP
Plush Underfed (Sea Note) CD
Plush Fed (Broken Horse) CD
Neil Young & Crazy Horse Zuma (Reprise) LP
Jenny Lewis Acid Tongue (Rough Trade) CD
Micah P Hinson & The Red Empire Orchestra (Full Time Hobby) CD
Rainy Day S/T (Rough Trade) LP
George McCrae Rock Your Baby (Jay Boy) 7"
Spiritualized Songs in A&E (Universal) CD
Mayo Thompson Corky's Debt To His Father (Drag City) CD
Monster Magnet S/T (Glitterhouse) CD
The Magnetic Fields Get Lost (Domino) CD
Aztec Camera Mattress of Wire (Postcard) 7"
The Pogues Haunted (MCA) 7"
Flying Saucer Attack Coming Home (Domino) 7"
Paw Sleeping Bag (Nasty Pope) 7"
Labradford Julius (Merge) 7"
Palace Brothers An Arrow Through The Bitch (Domino) 12" EP
Lou Reed New York (Sire) LP
The Waterboys The Whole of the Moon (Ensign) 12"

Wednesday 27 August 2008

catching up













Fingers Cut Megamachine Pipe Dreams (Thick) CD EP
Herbie Hancock Rockit (CBS) 7"
Drag City Super Session Tramps, Traitors and Little Devils (Drag City) LP
Plush Fed (Broken Horse) CD
Songs Ohia Nor Cease Thou Never Now (Secretly Canadian) 7"
Felt My Face is on Fire (Chery Red) 7"
Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five The Message (PRT) 7"
Strictly Ballroom Fire (Sub Pop) 7"
Sneaky Feelings Hard Love Stories (Flying Nun) LP
The Bodines Played (Magnet) LP
Cardinal S/T (Dedicated) LP
Big Star #1 Record (Ardent) LP
The Apples in Stereo Her Wallpaper Reverie (Earwom) LP
The Walkabouts Cateract (Sub Pop) LP
Eric Matthews The Lateness of the Hour (Sub Pop) CD
The Autumn Defense S/T (Broken Horse) CD
Espers S/T (Wichita) CD
Liz Phair Exile in Guyville (ATO) CD & DVD
The Revolving Paint Dream Flowers In The Sky - The Enigma of the Revolving Paint Dream (Revola) CD
Harry Nilsson Nilsson Schmilson (Camden) CD

Thursday 31 July 2008

see the rain about to fall













The Velvet Underground Another View (Verve) CD
The Donkeys Living On The Other Side (Dead Oceans) CD
Neil Young Live At Massey Hall 1971 (Reprise) CD
Plush Fed (Broken Horse) CD
Bob Dylan John Welsey Harding (Columbia) LP
Kevin Tihista Demos (from forthcoming album) CD
Dr Dog Fate (Park The Van) CD
Paul Westerberg 49.00 (self released) download
Focus In and Out of Focus (Polydor) LP
Smog Dongs of Sevotion (Domino) DBL LP

Sunday 13 July 2008

while you were sleeping













Fleetwood Mac Live (Warner Bros) DBL LP
The B-52's - S/T (Island) LP
Pete Astor Hal's Eggs (Static Caravan) CD
Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding (Columbia) LP
Fun Boy Three Our Lips Are Sealed (Chrysalis) 12"
Richard Swift Dressed Up For The Letdown (Polydor) CD
Pigbag Dr Heckle & Mr Jive (Y) LP
Elvis Perkins While You Were Sleeping (XL) 7"
Greg Weeks Blood is Trouble (Ba Da Bing!) CD
Rilo Kiley Under The Blacklight (Warner Bros) CD
The Heart Strings Try Blue Sky (Grandpa Stan) promo CD
The Isles Perfumed Lands (Melodic) LP
The Original Modern Lovers S/T (Mohawk) LP *


*=Original 1972 demos produced by Kim Fowley

Monday 7 July 2008

i'll write you a letter tomorrow













The Replacements Pleased To Meet Me (Sire) LP
The Replacements All Shook Down (Sire) LP
David Vandervelde Waiting For The Sunrise (Secretly Canadian) CD
The Jayhawks Sound of Lies (American) CD
The Weather Prophets Naked As The Day You Were Born (Creation) 12"
My Bloody Valentine Ecstacy (Lazy) Mini LP
My Bloody Valentine You Made Me Realise (Creation) 12"
Lindsay Buckingham Go Insane (Elektra) LP
New Order Perfect Kiss (Factory) 12"
Bauhaus Bela Lugosi's Dead (Small Wonder) 12"

Sunday 22 June 2008

what could I do but care?













Sonic Boom Spectrum (Silvertone) LP
East River Pipe What Are You On? (Merge) CD
Rain Parade Crashing Dream (Island) LP
Beachwood Sparks Midsummer Daydream (Sub Pop) 7"
Fleet Foxes S/T (Bella Union) CD
Arms Kids Aflame (Melodic) CD
The Railway Children Brighter (Factory) 12"
Orange Juice L.o.v.e..Love (Polydor) 12"
Primal Scream Ivy Ivy Ivy (Creation) 12"
The Weather Prophets Almost Prayed (Creation) 12"

Thursday 12 June 2008

since last time.....













Felt Gold Mine Trash (Cherry Red) LP
Sisters of Mercy Walk Away (Merciful Release) 7"
Laura Nyro & Labelle Gonna Take A Miracle (BGO) CD
Grandmaster & Melle Mel White Lines (Don't Do It) (Sugarhill) 12"
Silver Jews Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City) CD
Danny & The Champions of the World S/T (Loose) CD
Andrew Morgan S/T (Andrew Morgan) CD
Mission of Burma Academy Fight Song (Ace of Hearts) 7"
Robert Forster The Evangelist (Tuition) LP
Mark Langegan Field Songs (Beggars Banquet) CD
Silver Ray Homes For Everyone (Broken Horse) CD
Plush Fed (After Hours) CD
Plush Unfed (Sea Note) CD
Arms Kids Aflame (Melodic) CD
The Beatles 1967-1969 (Apple) DBL CD
The Magnetic Fields Get Lost (Domino) CD
Proud Simon Night of Criminals (Proud Simon) forthcoming CD
The Smiths The Queen is Dead (WEA) CD
The 1900s Cold & Kind (Parasol) CD
The Afghan Whigs Black Love (Blast First) CD
Jim O'Rourke Insignificance (Domino) CD
Oakley Hall Gypsum Strings (Brah) LP
Codeine Frigid Stars (Sub Pop) LP
Pigbag Dr Heckle & Mr Jive (Y) LP
Pigbag Lend An Ear (Y) LP
Bob Dylan Blonde On Blonde (CBS) DBL LP
Apple Boutique Love Resistance (Creation) 12"
The Clientele Suburban Light (Pointy) LP
Kelley Stoltz Circular Sounds (Sub Pop) CD
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar) CD

Tuesday 22 April 2008

April 21st & 22nd













The Swimmers Fighting Trees (Mad Dragon) CD
Elvis Costello and The Attractions Armed Forces (Columbia U.S version) LP
The Redskins Neither Washington Nor Moscow (London) LP
Black Heart Procession 2 (Touch & Go) CD
My Bloody Valentine Glider EP (Creation) 12"
Creedence Clearwater Revival Green River (Fantasy) LP
The Apartments All You Wanted (Rough Trade) 12"
John Fahey Live in Tasmania (Sonet) LP
Queens of the Stoneage Rated R (Interscope) LP
Razorcuts Storyteller (Creation) LP

Sunday 20 April 2008

April 20th













The Feelies Only Life (A&M) LP
Big Black The Hammer Party (Homestead) LP
The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen (Blast First) LP
American Music Club Engine (Zippo) LP
Beirut Gulag Okestar (4AD) CD
The Felice Brothers S/T (Loose) CD

Monday 7 April 2008

April 7th













Jacobites S/T (Secretly Canadian) CD
OK Jones Expert Logic (Centropolis) CD EP
White Whale WW I (Merge) CD
The Feelies Time For A Witness (A&M) CD
Sacred Miracle Cave Heavy Black Noise (SFTRI) 7"
The Chills Brave Worlds (Flying Nun) LP
The Go-Betweens Liberty Belle & The Black Diamond Express (Beggars Banquet) LP
The Bats Daddy's Highway (Flying Nun) LP

Sunday 6 April 2008

April 6th













Silver Jews Tennessee (Drag City) CD EP
Catherine Howe What A Beautiful Place (Numero Group) CD
Fleetwood Mac Live (Warner Bros) DBL LP
Dinosaur Jr Feel The Pain (Blanco Y Negro) 10"
Mark Robinson Origami and Urbanism (Tomlab) CD
Neil Michael Hagerty Plays That Good Old Rock and Roll (Drag City) CD
The Pearlfishers Up With The Larks (Marina) CD

Friday 21 March 2008

March 20th/21st




















Silver Ray Homes For Everyone (Silver Ray) CD
Beachwood Sparks S/T LP
Grant Hart Intolerance (SST) LP
The Feelies Time For A Witness (A&M) LP
Orange Juice Rip It Up (Polydor) LP
The Smithereens Beauty & Sadness (Enigma) 12" EP
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar) CD
Tears For Fears Pale Shelter (Mercury) 12"
Spacemen 3 For All The F**** Up Children (SFTRI) LP
Hardship Post New Wave (Sub Pop) LP

Monday 17 March 2008

March 17th




















The Gutter Twins Saturnalia (Sub Pop) CD
Arms Whirring (Melodic) 7"
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone Etiquette (Tomlab) CD
Luna Lunapark (Summershine) LP
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar) CD
The Yellow Moon Band Entangled (Static Caravan) 7"
Fleetwood Mac Not That Funny (Warner Brothers) 7"
The Singing Adams Problems (Track & Field) CD

Monday 25 February 2008

old playlists

June 19th 2006

Conner Hello Graphic Missile (Sonic Boom) CD
The Human League Being Boiled (Fast Product) 7"
New Order Blue Monday (Factory) 12"
Built To Spill You In Reverse (Warner Bros) CD
Camera Obscura Let's Get Out of This Country (Elefant) CD

May 15th 2006

Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Domino) DBL CD
Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill (Domino) CD
The Human League Being Boiled (Fast Product) 7"
The Afghan Whigs Black Love (Mute) CD
The Tyde Twice (Rough Trade) CD
Kevin Tihista's Red Terror S/T (Rough Trade) Mini LP

May 8th 2006

Co-Pilgrim Pucker up Buttercup (Broken Horse) forthcoming CD
Songs Ohia Axcess and Ace (Secret Canadian) LP
The 1900's Plume Delivery (Parasol) CD EP
The Servants Reserved (Cherry Red) CD

March 13th 2006

Kelley Stoltz Crockodials (Beautiful Happiness) CD
Ricky Gervais Show (Guardian Unlimited) Podcasts
East River Pipe What Are You On (Merge) CD
The Durutti Column Tomorrow (Factory Benelux) 12"
Jens Lekman You're So Silent Jens (Secretly Canadian) CD
Jody Wildgoose Afterlife (Sketchbook) CD

December 4th 2005

Mike Gale Pucker Up Buttercup (forthcoming 2006 album) CD
Kevin Tihista Look Alive! (recent home demos) CD
Bill Ricchini Tonight I Burn Brightly (Transdreamer) CD

October 28th 2005

Eric Matthews The Lateness of the Hour (Sub Pop) LP
The Redskins Lean On Me (CNT) 7"
The Redskins Lev Bronstein (CNT) 7"
Cardinal S/T (Dedicated) CD
Eric Matthews Six Kinds of Passion Looking For an Exit (Empyrean) CD
Bill Ricchini Tonight I Burn Brightly (Transdreamer) CD
Luna Everybody's Talikn' (Sub Pop) 7"
Bread The Best of Bread (Elektra) LP
Doleful Lions Song Cyclops Vol 2 (Parasol) forthcoming CD

October 7th 2005

Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited (Columbia) LP
The Futureheads Hounds of Love (679) 7"
The Tyde Once (Orange Sky) LP
Eric Matthews Six Kinds of Passion Looking For an Exit (Empyrean) CD

August 10th 2005

Gary Higgins Red Hash (Drag City) CD
Plush Underfed (Drag City) CD
Sufjan Stevens Come On Feel The Illinoise (Rough Trade) CD
The Smiths This Charming Man (Rough Trade) 12"

July 19th 2005

Songs Ohia Ghost Tropic (Secretly Canadian) LP
Baikonour For the Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos (Melodic) CD
Pete Krebs & The Gossamer Wings Sweet Ona Rose (Cavity Search) CD
Josef K The Only Fun In Town (LTM) CD
Josh Rouse Nashville (Rykodisc) CD

July 6th 2005

Televison Adventure (Elektra) CD
Felt The Final Resting of the Ark (Creation) 12"
Songs Ohia Ghost Tropic (Secretly Canadian) LP
Cam Butler Go Slow (Broken Horse) forthcoming CD

June 30th 2005

Big Chief Platinum Jive-Greatest Hits 1969-1999 (Capitol) CD
Go Kart Mozart Tearing Up The Album Chart (West Midlands) CD
The Chills Kaleidoscope World (Homestead) CD
Bob Dylan Live At The Albert Hall (Columbia) DBL CD
Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island (Fire) CD

June 14th 2005

The Clean Compilation (Flying Nun) LP
The Servants It's My Turn (Glass) 12"
Go Kart Mozart Instant Wigwam & Igloo Mixture (West Midlands) LP
Sneaky Feelings Sentimental Education (Flying Nun) LP
Josef K Young & Stupid (Supreme International Editions) LP
Flying Saucer Attack S/T (FSA) LP
Jesus & Mary Chain Sidewalking (Blanco Y Negro) 12"
Orange Juice Rip It Up/A Sad Lament (Polydor) 12"
Spiritualized Anyway That You Want Me (Dedicated) 12"

June 12th 2005

Mables Expo (Spin Art) CD
Orange Juice You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (Polydor) LP
Sufjan Stevens Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty) CD
Go Kart Mozart Tearing Up The Album Chart (West Midlands) CD
Kevin Tihista's Red Terror Judo (Parasol) CD

May 26th 2005

The Webb Brothers Beyond The Biosphere (Webb Bros) CD
Elliot Smith Either/Or (Domino) CD
Teenage Fanclub Songs For Northern Britain (Creation) CD
Sons and Daughters Dance Me In (Domino) 7"
Ambulance Ltd S/T (TVT) CD
LCD Soundsystem S/T (DFA) CD
Iron and Wine Woman King (Sub Pop) CD
Kevin Tihista's Red Terror Judo (Parasol) CD

May 20th 2005

Aztec Camera High Land Hard Rain (Rough Trade) LP
British Sea Power It Ended on an Oily Stage (Rough Trade) CDs
Kevin Tihista's Red Terror Don't Breathe A Word (Atlantic) CD
Secret Square S/T (Elephant 6) LP
The Shins Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop) CD
Pavement Slanted & Enchanted (Big Cat) CD
Masters of the Universe Protest A Dark Anniversary (Sidewinder Sounds) CD
Pernice Brothers Nobobdy's Watching/Nobody's Listening CD/DVD
Buffalo Tom Let Me Come Over (Beggars Banquet) CD

April 6th 2005

Rilo Kiley Portions for Foxes (Warner Bros) CD single
Velvet Crush In The Presence of Greatness (Creation) LP
Kevin Tihista's Red Terror Judo (Parasol) CD
Joe Kennedy Van Cortlandt Park (Neon Tetra) CD
Iron & Wine Woman King (Sub Pop) CD
The Futureheads Hounds of Love (679) 7"

March 20th 2005

Pete Yorn Day I Forgot (Columbia) CD
Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding (Columbia) LP
Josh Rouse 1972 (Rykodisc) CD
Doleful Lions Shaded Lodge & Mausoleum (Broken Horse) forthcoming CD
Cub Country Stay Poor/Stay Happy (Broken Horse) forthcoming CD
Kevin Tihista's Red Terror Don't Breathe A Word (Blanco Y Negro) CD

Feb 28th 2005

Doleful Lions Shaded Lodge & Mausoleum (Broken Horse) forthcoming CD
Cub Country Stay Poor/Stay Happy (Broken Horse) forthcoming CD
Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home (Columbia) LP
LCD Soundsystem S/T (DFA) CD

Feb 20th 2005

Ed Harcourt Loneliness (Heavenly) 7"
The Arcade Fire Funeral (Merge) CD
Josh Rouse Nashville (Rykodisc) CD
The Dears No Cities Left (Bella Union) CD
The Smiths This Charming Man/Jeane (Rough Trade) 7"
The Chills I Love My Leather Jacket (Flying Nun) 12"

Jan 6th 2005

Kevin Tihista Sucker (rock version) (cwas) V/A CD
REM Murmur (IRS) CD
Paul Westerberg Eventually (Reprise) CD
Magnolia Electric Company The Dark Don't Hide It (Secretly Canadian) MP3
The Earlies These Are The Earlies (679) CD
Kelley Stoltz Antique Glow (Beautiful Happiness) CD
Smog Knock Knock (Drag City) LP
Josh Rouse Nashville (Rykodisc) forthcoming CD
The Sadies Favourite Colors (Yep Roc) CD
Mark Lanegan Bubblegum (Beggars Banquet) CD
The Cranebuilders Just Idleness (Ten People Tell) CDs

Dec 22nd 2004

Grandpaboy Dead Man's Shake (Fat Possum) LP
Kevin Tihista Home Demons Vol 1 (Broken Horse) forthcoming CD
Herman Dune Not on Top (Track & Field) forthcoming CD
LCD Soundsystem Movement/Yr City's A Sucker (DFA) CDs
Songs Ohia Axxess & Ace (Secretly Canadian) LP

Sept 20th 2004

Doleful Lions Shaded Lodge & Mausoleum (Broken Horse) forthcoming CD
Aberfeldy Young Forever (Rough Trade) CD
Sufjan Stevens Greetings From Michigan-The Great Lake State (Asthmatic Kitty) CD

Sept 13th 2004

Kevin Tihista Home Demons Vol 1-IV (unreleased demos) CD
Kevin Tihista Dracula (download only demos) CD
Kevin Tihista's Red Terror Judo (Parasol) CD

August 29th 2004

Silver Ray Humans (Broken Horse) Forthcoming CD
Cub Country Stay Poor,Stay Happy (Future Farmer) CD
Cam Butler Go Slow (Pharmacy) Forthcoming CD
The Twilight Singers Blackberry Belle (One Little Indian) CD
Kevin Tihista's Red Terror Judo (Parasol) CD
Telstar Ponies Farewell, Farewell (Geographic) 7"
Nick Drake Pink Moon (Hannibal) LP
Urge Overkill Saturation (Geffen) LP
Cub Country Stay Poor/Stay Happy (Future Farmer) CD

July 13th 2004

The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers (CBS) LP
Miighty Flashlight S/T (Jade Tree) CD
Cub Country High Uinta High (Jade Tree) LP
Wilco A Ghost is Born (Nonesuch) CD
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch) CD
Wilco I Am Trying To Break Your Heart (Plexifilm) DBL DVD
Josh Rouse 1972 (Rykodisc) CD

June 25th 2004

Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde (Columbia) DBL LP
Andrew Morgan The Spires Conspire (Broken Horse) Mp3
Elliott Smith Pretty (Ugly Before) (Suicide Squeeze) 7"
Sufjan Stevens That Dress Looks Nice On You (Rough Trade) 7"
The Feelies No One Knew (Rough Trade) 12"
Damon & Naomi With Ghost (Drag City) LP
Smog Look Now (Drag City) 7"
Cam Butler Crazy Dreams (Pharmacy) CD
Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans (Rough Trade) CD
The Cure Just Like Heaven (Fiction) 12"
John Cunningham Homeless House (Mange Tout) CD

Jonathan Scott (Doleful Lions) is currently listening to

1. Pink Floyd- Live At Pompeii (Directors Cut) DVD
2. 20 Years of Dischord- Box Set
3. Black Sabbath- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
4. Celtic Frost- To Mega Therion
5. Blue Oyster Cult- On Your Feet, Or On Your Knees
6. Blue Oyster Cult- Tyranny And Mutation
7. Deathspell Omega- Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice
8. Order From Chaos- Dawnbringer
9. Neil Young- On The Beach
10. The Band- The Band
11. The Band- Northern Lights Southern Cross
12. R.E.M.- Murmur
13. Venom- Welcome To Hell
14. Doleful Lions- Shaded Lodge And Mausoleum (rough mixes)

May 19th 2004

Fleetwood Mac Rumours (Warner Bros) LP
Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans (Rough Trade) CD
Sufjan Stevens Greetings Ftom Michigan-The Great Lake State (Asthmatic Kitty) CD
Sufjan Stevens A Sun Came! (Asthmatic Kitty) CD
The Jacobites Robespierre's Velvet Basement (Glass) LP

April 16th 2004

Matt Suggs Golden Days Before They End (Merge) CD
Kevin Tihista Wake Up Captain (Parasol) forthcoming CD
Emitt Rhodes Daisy Fresh From Hawthorne,California (The Best of the Dunhill Years) (Edsel) CD
Cam Butler Crazy Dreams (Pharmacy) CD
James William Hindle Prospect Park (Track & Field) CD
Cass McCombs Not The Way (4AD) CD EP
Jason Falkner Bliss Descending (Jason Falkner) CD EP
DJ Shadow Entroducing (Mo Wax) CD
The Shins Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop) CD
Built To Spill Keep It Like A Secret (City Slang) CD

March 23rd 2004

Cam Butler's (Silver Ray) current listening 19th March

Raw Power -- Iggy & The Stooges
Beethoven's 9th Symphony -- by, er, Beethoven
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - Vaughan Williams
Dark Summer -- Sepiatone (Hugo Race's electro "pop" project. It's their 2nd album, as yet unreleased)
Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus -- surprisingly by Charles Mingus
Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto # 2

March 4th 2004

The Belles Never Said Anything (Eat Sleep) CDs
Bill Ricchini Ordinary Time (Red Square) CD
Matt Suggs Amigo Row (Merge) CD
Explosions In The Sky The Earth is Not A Cold Dead Place (Bella Union) CD
Badly Drawn Boy The Hour of the Wilderbeast (Twisted Nerve) LP
The Twilight Singers Twilight (Columbia) CD
Archer Prewitt White Sky (Carrot Top) CD
UK States Well Done You're Number One (Dilly Dally Discs) promo CD EP
Kevin Tihista Wake Up Captain (Parasol) forthcoming CD
Royal City Alone At The Microphone (Rough Trade) CD

Feb 18th 2004

Andrew Morgan Misadventures in Radiology (Broken Horse) CD
Adem Sampler (Domino) 4 trk promo CD
Fruit Bats Mouthfuls (Sub Pop) CD
Fruit Bats Echolocation (Perishable) CD
Belle and Sebastian I'm A Cuckooo (Rough Trade) CDs
Clayhill Cuban Green (Eat Sleep) CD
Cam Butler Crazy Dreams (Pharmacy) CD
Oddfellows Casino Yellowbellied Wonderland (Pickled Egg) CD

Feb 11th 2004

Andrew Morgan's Top 10 for 2004

Artist / Album /Favorite Song / Year Released / Record Label / City Listened To In Most

Yann Tiersen / Amelie / La Valse D' Amelie (orchestra version) / 2001 / Virgin / LAWRENCE

Ghosty / Three Pop Songs / Big Surrender / 2002 / Self-Released / LAWRENCE

Nico / Chelsea Girl / Chelsea Girl / 1969 / Polydor / LAWRENCE

Manuel Barrucco / Plays Lennon & McCartney / Eleanor Rigby / 1994 / EMI Classics / LAWRENCE

Sondre Lerche / Faces Down / You Know So Well / 2002 / Astralwerks / CHICAGO

The Delgados / Hate / The Light Before We Land / 2002 / Chemikal Underground / CHICAGO

The Libertines / Up the Bracket / Vertigo / 2002 / Rough Trade / CAMBRIDGE

Beulah / Yoko / Hovering / Velocette / 2003 / CAMBRIDGE

Rufus Wainwright / Poses / Poses / 2001 / Dreamworks / NEW YORK

The Strokes / Room on Fire / What Ever Happened? / 2003 / RCA / CAMBRIDGE & NEW YORK

Album of the Year: The Strokes, Room on Fire

Single of the Year: Outkast, Hey Ya (Lend me some sugar -- I am your neighbor!)

Concert of the Year: The Strokes in Lowell, Massachussetts

Tops in 2004 so far: The Shins, Chutes to Narrow

December 31st 2003

Our Albums of the Year (in no particular order)

Josh Rouse 1972 (Rykodisc) CD/Matt Suggs Amigo Row (Merge) CD/Granpaboy Dead Man's Shake (Fat Possum LP)/Smog Supper (Domino) CD/Unpoc Fifth Column (Domino) CD/The Essex Green The Long Goodbye (Track & Field) CD/John Cunningham Happy-Go-Unlucky (Broken Horse) CD/Cam Butler Crazy Dreams (Pharmacy) CD/Songs Ohia The Magnolia Electric Co (Secretly Candian) LP/Paul Westerberg Come Feel Me Tremble (Vagrant) CD/Herman Dune Mas Cambios (Track & Field) CD/Silver Ray New Love (Broken Horse) CD/Damien Jurado Where Shall You Take Me (Secretly Canadian) CD/Daniel Johnston Fear Yourself (Sketchbook) CD/Andrew Morgan Misadventures in Radiology (AM) CD/The Tyde Twice (Rough Trade) LP/Royal City Alone At The Microphone (Rough Trade) CD

December 2nd 2003

Gardener New Dawning Time (Sub Pop) CD
Silver Ray New Love (Broken Horse) CD
The Belles Omerta (Lakeshore) CD
Grandpaboy Dead Man's Shake (Fat Possum) LP
Malcolm Ross Low Shot (Marina) CD
The Mood Elevator Married Alive (Laughing Outlaw) CD
The Moon Without Earth & The Moon (Revola) CD
Grand Salvo River Road (Pharmacy) CD

10th November 2003

Grandpaboy Dead Man's Shake (Fat Possum) LP
Imitation Electric Piano Trinity Neon (Duophonic) CD
Badly Drawn Boy Let The Sunshine In (Twisted Nerve) off All Possibilities CDs
Bill Ricchini Ordinary Time (Red Square) CD
Iron & Wine The Sea & The Rhythm (Sub Pop) CD
The Feelies The Good Earth (Rough Trade) LP
The Moles Untune The Sky (Flydaddy) CD
Big Star Sister Lovers-Third (Rykodisc) CD

3rd November 2003

Josh Rouse 1972 (Rykodisc) CD
The Smiths Meat is Murder (Rough Trade) LP
Richard Davies Telegraph (Blue Rose) CD
REM Murmer (IRS) CD
Modest Mouse The Moon and Antartica (Matador) CD

6th October 2003

The Belles Omerta (Lakeshorse) CD
Joe Pernice Big Tobacco (Glitterhouse) CD
Fugu Fugu 1 (IDA) CD
Grand Salvo River Road (Pharmacy) CD
James Kirk You Can Make It If You Boogie (Marina) CD
Doleful Lions Song Cyclops Volume One (Parasol) CD

18th September 2003

Jonathan Scott (Doleful Lions) is currently listening to

1. Darkthrone "Transilvanian Hunger
2. Ramones "Pleasant Dreams"
3. Blue Oyster Cult "Fire Of Unknown Origin
4. At The Gates " With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness
5. Clandestine Blaze "Fist Of The Northern Destroyer"
6. Megiddo "The Atavism Of Evil"
7. Mercyful Fate "Dont Break The Oath"
8. Bathory "Under The Sign Of The Black Mark"
9. Burzum "Filosofem"
10. Graveland "In The Glare Of The Burning Churches"
11. John Cale "Paris 1919"

3rd September 2003


Cam Butler Crazy Dreams(Pharmacy)CD
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People (Mercury) CD
The Rapture House of Jealous Lovers (Output) 12"
J Mascis The John Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit) CD
Hungry Ghosts Alone,Alone (Smells Like) CD
M.Ward Transfiguration of Vincent (Matador) CD

17th August 2003


The Webb Brothers S/T (679) CD
The Like Young Art Contest (Parasol) CD
The Railway Children Brighter (Factory) 12"
Gorilla Biscuits S/T (Revelation) CD
Daniel Johnston Fear Yourself (Sketchbook) CD
You Am I Hourly, Daily (Ra Records) CD
The Television Personalites How I Learned To Love The Bomb (Overground) 12"

29th July 2003

Herman Dune Mas Cambios (Track and Field) CD
Luna Live (Arena Rock) DBL LP
Pete Yorn The Day I Forgot (Columbia) CD
St Johnny Go To Sleep (Ajax) 7"
Felt Forever Breathes The Lonely Word (Creation)LP
It's Jo and Danny But We Have The Music (Double Snazzy) CD

20th July 2003

Grand Salvo 1642-1727 (Pharmacy) CD
Candidate Nuada (Snowstorm) CD
Pernice Brothers Yours Mine and Ours (Ashmont) CD
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights (Matador) CD
John Cunnningham Homeless House (Mange Tout) CD
The Tyde Twice (Rough Trade) LP
Jesse Malin The Fine Art of Self Destruction (One Little Indian) CD

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Sunday 24 February 2008

Feb 23rd/24th 2008













Smog Dongs of Sevotion (Domino) DBL LP
Magnetic Fields I (Nonesuch) CD
REM Wendel Gee (IRS) 12"
REM S.Central Rain (IRS) 12"
Elected Sun, Sun, Sun (Sub Pop) CD
Cam Butler Dark Times (Symphony No.2) (forthcoming) CD
Camper Van Beethoven Take The Skinheads Bowling (Rough Trade) 12"

Thursday 21 February 2008

February 21st 2008

















Stephin Merritt Pieces of April Soundtrack (Nonesuch) CD
Loose Fur Born Again in the USA (Drag City) CD
Arthur & Yu In Camera (Memphis Industries) CD
Air Miami Me, Me, Me (4AD)