December 2010
7 posts
correction
When I wrote that blob o’ text, I wrote that Cathy Davey’s only appearance on Stateside lists was some Google News scrape. This is no longer true; it’s now on Wears the Trousers’ top 100 list (which appears, by the way, to be fantastic so far).
I hit queue at about 3 a.m. so technically this is still after the time of publication. But then, as correx go, this is a pretty...
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Sounds from 2010: Cathy Davey - The Nameless
]Well, it’s finally here. Wall of text behind the cut.
Next up: Fight Like Apes - The Body of Christ and the Legs of Tina Turner.
At least two of these posts (three if I decide to count late-to-the-party; more if I forgot something at 3:33 a.m. Christmas Eve when I wrote this[1]) will be about Irish albums. None have gotten much press outside Ireland. Looking at the non-Irish best-ofs,...
stop trying to make "slutwave" happen it is not... →
Can’t fill that empty space in your year-in-review? Heat up some congealing BS from months ago! Namely, the kind that takes the oldest topic for songs ever, picks the minimum three examples for a trend piece, sticks it with a genre-ish suffix, and tries to make it a Thing.
And sure, it’s a big joke and we’re all being trolled and it’s just RS, but there are now about...
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Sample conversation with myself, 1:15 a.m.
1) How did I just find out Rose Kemp had a new album out?
1a) Especially with about eight Maddy Prior fans on the email lists I read.
1b) Especially when I went and put her first one on my Amazon wish list, which means I actively sought her out.
2) Wikipedia lists two side projects and about fifteen albums. How did I not know this.
3) OK, so she had an entirely different new album out and...
koganbot asked: Wait, do you think that there aren't vast gaping gaps in everybody's listening? That's one of the purposes of this end-of-year exercise, to see what other people are hearing that we're not, or that they're liking that we're not, and so forth. Back in 2000 Xgau pointed out that "Of the 1,621 albums named by our 586 respondents, 1,021 appeared on precisely one...
This was less of a post than I planned
I’m not doing a best-of-2010 this year. There are too many gaps in my listening for me to feel comfortable doing so. It’d be ridiculous. Literally. I would be ridiculed. In lieu of that, I’ll just be writing up a few of my favorite albums/songs from this year. Ideally they won’t be boring.
First up, taking advantage of timeliness (sort of), will be Cathy Davey’s The...