One of my favorite musicians of the last couple years has been Jay Reatard—definitely one of the most listened to. I used to listen to his music on my headphones when I rode my bike home from my art studio. I would always turn it up full blast because I’d be in a pretty insular mental state from painting. It would rattle me awake for a ride home into the sunset. A few of the songs levels were much, much higher than the rest and when those would come on my head would explode and my heart would fall out my pants and my eyes would bug out of my face and I think Jay Reatard would think that’s really funny.
I’ve spent the last couple days listening to his music. I’ll miss the albums he never made (but he made enough for three lifetimes) and I’ll regret never having seen him play live. Rest in peace Mr. Reatard.
2010/01/15 | Categories: music, video | Tags: favorite music, jay reatard, r.i.p., song, video | Leave a comment
I need to rate and sort and organize and, apparently, report back. I can’t help it. after the jump, I’ve listed my favorite albums of 2008 along with some other musical tidbits:
favorite albums of 2008
top five albums of 2008
favorite songs of 2008
favorite live shows of 2008
favorite 2008 discoveries of old music
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2009/03/18 | Categories: music | Tags: a hundred things keep me up at night, abe vigoda, acid tongue, an eluardian distance, at mount zoomer, beach house, black francis, black kids, black mountain, blind, british sea power, bsp, cape cod kwassa, castro, cut copy, dan bejar, dear science, deerhunter, dennis wilson, department of eagles, der golem, destroyer, devotion, dexy's midnight runners, do you like rock music?, dodos, end of year list, evangelicals, favorite music, felt, fleet foxes, genesis, gila, golden age, graveyard girl, hawkwind, heartless, hemlock, hercules & love affair, hercules and love affair, i'm not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance with you, in ear park, in ghost colors, in the new year, independent, jay reatard, jenny lewis, jodi, joy ride, kanye west, killers, l.e.s. artistes, lindstrom, lords of the new church, love is all, lust, m83, man man, marnie stern, matador singles 08, mbv, mezzanine, mgmt, microcastle, my bloody valentine, my favorite year, nancy & lee, neon neon, no age, no one does it like you, nouns, of montreal, oracular spectacular, out there on the ice, phil collins, portishead, rabbit habits, raveonettes, santogold, saturdays=youth, seasick, sf design concourse, simple minds, skeletal lamping, skeleton, stainless style, stoned again, talk talk, the dodos, the evening descends, the week that was, third, this is it and i am it, time to pretend, trouble in dreams, tv on the radio, vampire weekend, visiter, walkmen, walkment, where you go i go too, white winter hymnal, wolf parade, wucan, you & me | 1 Comment
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