Stuck Inside My House With the Unemployment Blues Again

I'll make this brief since I really have nothing much music related to speak of. Basically it's January and that generally means down time for the music industry. Unless your the Strokes and are hoping your album will go unnoticed or your Radiohead and your album has already been released officially through your website (more or less for free), nobody really releases new albums in January.

Having said that I realize there are probably albums that have already been released this year other than Radiohead. The thing is I'm unemployed, sick, and working on a computer built by Nikola Tesla. So that's my excuse.

The good news is I have a job interview with a used books/music/movies store on Wednesday, so hopefully I won't be unemployed much longer.

That's all for now. I hope to have a real update soon.

So What Didn't Make the List?

In light of my last post I thought I'd list the other albums I heard this year that didn't make my top 25. I want to tell you that this will shed some light on the process by which I came to my conclusions, but really I think I just like listing things. You can probably expect to see more lists in the future.


Other Albums I Heard This Year

1990s - Cookies
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
Air - Pocket Symphony
Art Brut - It's A Bit Complicated
Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation
B.R.M.C - Baby 81
Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew - Spirit If...
Caribou - Andorra
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder
Dr. Dog - We All Belong
Earth - Hibernaculum
Grizzly Bear - Friend
Levon Helm - Dirt Farmer
Interpol - Our Love To Admire
Jay Z - American Gangster
Jesu - Silver
Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
Liars - Liars
Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
The National - The Boxer
The New Pornographers - Challengers
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Oakley Hall - I'll Follow You
Pelican - City of Echoes
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Vietnam - Vietnam
Kanye West - Graduation



Albums I Wanted to Hear But Didn't

The Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
Black Lips - Good Bad, Not Evil
Boris with Merzbow - Rock Dream
Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
Deerhunter - Cryptograms
Ghostface Killah - The Big Doe Rehab
Gorgol Bordello - Super Taranta!
Justice - t
Les Savy Fav - Lets Stay Friends
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
M.I.A. - Kala
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Youssou N'Dour - Rokku Mi Rokka
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
Wu Tang Clan - Diagrams


Albums That Came Out Last Year But Still Made Other Lists This Year

Lilly Allen - Alright, Still
Peter, Bjorn, and John - Writer's Block



Anyway, that's that. Please feel free to comment and tell me if you feel I grossly under estimated an album or if their's an album I should have heard but didn't and didn't list.

Also I added pictures to the first post for those of you who, like me, can't read anything online longer than a paragraph without visual stimuli.