Music For Listeners 01/01/2011
Best of 2010

0) The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu-"Burn the Bastards" From the vinyl LP 'Who Killed the JAMs?' JAMS LP 2. Started 4:30 minutes before 2011. The chimes of Big Ben rang right at midnight CST.
1) Beastie Boys-"Country Mike's Theme"  From the CD 'The Sounds of Science: Beastie Boys Anthology'.
2) Laura Marling-"Blues Run the Game"  From the vinyl 7" single for "Blues Run the Game".
2) Avi Buffalo-"What's In It For?"  From the CD 'Avi Buffalo'.
3) Warpaint-"Undertow"  From the CD 'The Fool'.
4) Bombay Bicycle Club-"Rinse Me Down"  From the CD 'Flaws'.
5) Foals-"Spanish Sahara"  From the CD 'Total Life Forever'.
6) Chapel Club-"Don't Look Down"  From the vinyl 7" single released exclusively in the UK for Record Store Day 2010. 500 copies only.
7) Gorillaz-"Rhinestone Eyes"  From the CD 'Plastic Beach'.
8) Sky Larkin-"Still Windmills"  From the vinyl 7" single for "Still Windmills".
9) Django Django-"Wor"  From the vinyl 7" single for "Wor".
10) The Vaccines-"Wrecking Ball (Ra Ra Ra)"  From the vinyl 7" single for "Wrecking Ball"/"Blow It Up".
11) Chapel Club-"O' Maybe I"  From the vinyl 7" single for "O' Maybe I".
12) Biffy Clyro-"Many of Horror"  From the CD 'Only Revolutions'.
13) Wild Nothing-"Golden Haze"  From the vinyl 12" single for "Golden Haze".
14) The Whigs-"I Am For Real"  From the CD 'In the Dark'.
15) Wild Moccasins-"Skin Collision Past"  From the CD 'Skin Collision Past'.
16) ROAR-"I Can't Handle Change"  From the brand new CD EP 'I Can't Handle Change'.
17) Generationals-"Carrying the Torch"  From the CD 'Trust EP'.
18) The Answering Machine-"Animals"  From the CD single for "Animals".
19) The Radio Dept.-"Heavens on Fire"  From the CD 'Clinging To A Scheme'.
20) Minks-"Funeral Song"  From the vinyl 7" single for "Funeral Song".
21) Cults-"Go Outside"  From the vinyl 7" single for "Go Outside".
22) Allo Darlin-"Dreaming"  From the vinyl 7" single for "Dreaming".
23) A Classic Education-"I Lost Time"  From the EP 'Hey Stranger'.
24) Broken Bells-"October"  From the CD 'Broken Bells'.
25) Superchunk-"Digging For Something"  From the brand new CD 'Majesty Shredding'.
26) Frankie and the Heartstrings-"Tender"  From the vinyl 7" single for "Tender"/"I Want You Back".
27) Sex Bomb-omb-"Garbage Truck"  From the CD soundtrack for the motion picture "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World".
28) The Gaslight Anthem-"Bring It On"  From the CD 'American Slang'.
29) Blur-"Fool's Day"  From the vinyl 7" single for "Fool's Day".
30) Still Corners-"Endless Summer"  From the vinyl 7" single for "Endless Summer".
31) Johnny Flynn-"Barnacled Warship"  From the CD 'Been Listening'.
32) Rival Dickens-"Knot"  Side project of Rick Valentin from Poster Children/Salaryman. Downloaded from their Bandcamp page.
33) Charlie Parr-"I Dreamed I Saw Jesse James Last Night"  From the CD 'When the Devil Goes Blind'.
34) "The Mid-Morning Recording"                        Standard Fare-'The Noyelle Beat'
Where to begin? The female/male dialogue, presented almost like play script? Or maybe it's the incredibly catchy choruses that speak to my hook laden pop sensibilities? Maybe it's that over the course of the year, I kept coming back and listening to it over and over and over. The lead off track alone was enough to get my father to prick up his ears and ask, "Who is that?". Now he listens to it in his truck regularly. In 2010 I don't believe I played this album for anyone who didn't like it after the fact. It was strange but I kept feeling the ghost of John Peel surrounding this album. Not only did the press release mention his name, but it just feels like a piece of great music that he would rather enjoy.. It's an album that just makes you feel happy to be alive.. Just good songs that are listenable over and over and over. Thanks to Bar/None Records, because this album struck a huge pop chord with me in 2010, and I'll be listening to this album for years to come. Easily my favorite album of the year. "Say you don't want anything. Say you don't want to be here. Say you don't want anything from me. Say you don't want to do this." - Michael - MFL
35) James-"Sayonara"  From the CD 'Wah-Wah'.