Peter’s grandfather regularly remarks that he believes music continues to get better and better. Peter has to agree.
Peter liked a lot of things in 2010. Mostly he liked the music. let me count the reasons:
favorite songs
favorite 20 albums
top 5 albums
top 5 eps
favorite official videos
favorite live videos
favorite concerts
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2011/01/02 | Categories: music, video | Tags: 2010, 6669, abe vigoda, all around and away we go, ariel pink, astro coast, at&t park, avi buffalo, avi buffaly, beach house, before today, best, best coast, best of 2010, big echo, bradford cox, broken bells, broken dreams club, bruce haack, casual, causers of this, color your life, congratulations, crocodiles, crush, deerhunter, don't look down, dr, dr. dog, drums, end of year list, excuses, expo 86, favorite, favorite albums, favorite concerts, favorite music, favorite songs, favorite videos, fever dreaming, fight softly, forget, fortress, games, gamh, gemini, girls, great american music hall, halcyon digest, haunted grafitti, hauschka, here we go magic, hidden cameras, independent, innerspeaker, king of the beach, live, macca, mgmt, mia dai todd, michel gondry, miniature tigers, morning benders, neon indian, new chain, no age, npr, odd blood, open your heart, out getting ribs, party machine, paul mccartney, pearl harbor, pigeons, pitchfork, play it strange, puro instinct, put the day away, rickshaw stop, round the moon, royksopp, ruby suns, shame, sleep forever, small black, solitude is bliss, something about the chaparrals, spencer krug, summer camp, sun airways, surfer blood, tame impala, teen dream, that we can play, the drug, the fresh & onlys, toro y moi, twin shadow, twin sister, underage, wavves, what's in it for, wild beasts, wild nothing, wolf parade, yeasayer, you hid, yours truly, yourstru.ly, yourstruly, zoo kid | 1 Comment
they’re really tapping into their inner Bruces Springsteens and inner Frank Blacks, respectively . . .
Wolf Parade // Expo ’86 : out 6/29 on Sub Pop
2010/06/08 | Categories: music | Tags: album, coming soon, dan boeckner, expo 86, favorite music, song, spencer krug, wolf parade | Leave a comment
Obviously, my feelings for this band go way beyond “like.” These two new songs from their forthcoming album just send my love further into the cosmos . . . !
[via MBV]
2010/05/03 | Categories: music | Tags: coming soon, dan boeckner, expo 86, favorite music, mbv, song, spencer krug, wolf parade | Leave a comment
“Expo 86 was a World’s Fair that happened in Vancouver in 1986. It’s been this thing we all talked about as a band. We all grew up in British Columbia, and we were all at Expo, which lasted about three or four days. It’s a weird little thought experiment– basically, we were all young children at the same big event. I remember Expo 86 was as big as the Olympics were this year in Vancouver. They completely reorganized part of the downtown core, and they built this giant geodesic dome called “Science World”. Now it looks completely, totally dated and a product of its time. They built monuments, built rides. It was something I don’t think we’re going to see in Canada ever again because World’s Fairs have fallen out of favor, at least for the Western World.” : Dan Boeckner [via Pitchfork]
Wolf Parade : Expo 86 // out July 2010 via SubPop.
[via MBV]
2010/04/27 | Categories: music | Tags: album, album cover, coming soon, dan boeckner, expo 86, favorite music, mbv, pitchfork, spencer krug, wolf parade | 1 Comment
Terrorism, war, recession . . . whatever. This was a terrific decade for music. These were the albums that gripped me and never let go and remain head-and-shoulders above the rest.
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2009/12/31 | Categories: music | Tags: album, animal collective, arcade fire, blonde redhead, clinic, daft punk, dan bejar, destroyer, end of year list, favorite music, girls, grizzly bear, interpol, m.i.a., modest mouse, of montreal, radiohead, spencer krug, sufjan stevens, swan lake, the dodos, the knife, the strokes, white stripes, wolf parade | 6 Comments
These are albums I love listening to from beginning to end and have a magical appeal no matter the time, place or mood. These are not necessarily the albums I respect the most. In other words: this is a list of what I consider to be my favorite albums—but not, in all cases, what I consider to be the best albums. I’ve listed them in chronological order of discovery (I guess I didn’t discover anything good during college years: 1995-1998.)
01 
abbey road the beatles [part of my earliest musical memories—thank you Mom]
All time favorite. The second side of the album is my favorite 22 minutes of popular music recorded.
02 
thriller michael jackson [Dixon 1982, age 5]
Do I need to explain anything? Even if the only song on the album was Wanna Be Startin’ Something, this would be one of my five favorite albums.
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2009/03/18 | Categories: music | Tags: abbey road, animal collective, b.a.d., b.a.d. ii, bad, bang, beast moans, beatles, belle & sebastian, big audio dynamite, bjork, black francis, bossanova, bowie, brian eno, bryan ferry, buzzcocks, chairs missing, chameleons, clinic, daft punk, dan bejar, david bowie, debut, destroyer, discovery, echo & the bunnymen, eno, eureka farm, favorite music, frank black, green, hall & oates, his 'n' hers, i should coco, iii, kid a, led zeppelin, love bites, loveless, m.i.a., macca, magazine, mbv, mccartney, mia, michael jackson, my bloody valentine, of montreal, omd, paul mccartney, pink floyd, pixies, pulp, r.e.m., radiohead, real life, rem, roxy music, sonic youth, supergrass, swan lake, teenager of the year, the cars, the globe, the very best of, the view, thriller, velvet underground, walking with thee, walkmen, what does anything mean? basically, what does anything mean? basicaly, white stripes, wire, wolf parade, world party | 5 Comments
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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