2010 Communal Mix: Gambling With Souls!

This year has been a veritable roller-coaster ride of emotion on the RHMB, not that I would know since I'm rarely given over to sentiment or "feelings." Personal relationships can be chaotic, beast-like things, better left to the more swarthy races. It gets so confusing you never know just whom is doing what to whomever! One thing is for sure though, people do have opinions about music! What better way to get all these thinkings about musics out in the open where they can be debated, bitterly, leading to the shredding of friendships, than on a somewhat democratic list or "mix" of sorts? Also, as you can plainly make out from the picture, this path may also lead to waywardness and spotty morality ---> OR EVEN COMMUNISM.

Try this: track #, artist, title, (boardie who picked it):

1. Blank Dogs - Goes By (~Harri)
2. Sl**** B***s - Tell 'Em (Buck Sexington)
3. Antoine Dodson - Bed Intruder Song! (Okely)
4. Boy Eats Drum Machine - ABQ (Nymphadoratonks)
5. Oneohtrix Point Never - Stress Waves (rich)
6. Sex Bob-omb - Threshold (lindy lou who)
7. Säkert! - Dansa, fastän (pocki)
8. The Walkmen - Angela Surf City (Sarah Juice)
9. Electric President - Mr. Gone (Clarabelle)
10. Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La (hamdy)
11. Kitchen's Floor - Twenty-Two (witches hat)
12. Gonjasufi - Holidays (revilo)
13. Kurt Vile - Invisibility: Nonexistent (swan swan hum)
14. Small Black - Hydra (fradleybox)
15. Tunng - Hustle (The Grolsch)
16. Typhoon - Starting Over (Bad Habits) (strack)
17. The Bird And The Bee - Maneater (Romi & Wesley)
18. Tap Tap - Codeine (Completely Unhinged)
19. L** S********* - D*nce Yrs*lf Cl**n (really dizzy)
20. Beach House - Lover Of Mine (Miss Modular)

http://www.mediafire.com/?e0ecgypo43r1i3y

Thanks for submitting the tracks, folks! *MOST* of the songs are from 2010... most of them. Listening party @ 7PM EST this Friday but there might also be a mid-thursday one, around 1PM EST (and I should have a streamable version up by then).

~Harri

P.S. whoever gave me the Glenn Richards track I'm sorry. I didn't write down your name so I just left it off the mix. So in honor of this person, please reader, listen to Barfly Prometheus by Glenn Richards!

RHMB Best of 2010 Lists!

Here's a collection of RHMBers and their picks / comments on the music of 2010! I tried keeping up with the lists I saw but I might have missed some, so I apologize in advance if yours isn't here. Pictured above is Before Today, which was mentioned a bunch here. Please leave your favorites in the comments if you want!

big-eyed reindeers:

1) ariel pink's hg Before Today

And in no order...

joanna newsom Have One On Me
oneohtrix point never Returnal
jonny greenwood Norwegian Wood [OST]
games That We Like To Play EP
sufjan stevens The Age Of Adz/ All Delighted People EP
eluvim Similes/ Static Nocturne
magnetic fields Realism
le sang song Le Sang Song
twin sister Color Your Life
mice parade What It Means To Be Left-Handed
denseland Chunk
women Public Strain
autechre Oversteps

hamdy:

1) Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti - Before Today
2) Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Rush to Relax
3) LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
4) Flight - The Lead Riders EP
5) Four Tet - There Is Love In You
6) Beach House - Teen Dream
7) Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
8) Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime
9) Le Sang Song - s/t
10) Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
11) Crystal Castles - s/t
12) Nice Face - Immer Etwas
13) The Soft Moon - s/t
14) Liars - Sisterworld
15) Blank Dogs - Landed and Fixed
16) Here We Go Magic - Pigeons
17) The Ponys - Deathbed Plus 4 EP
18) Department of Eagles - Archive 2003-2006
19) Harlem - Hippies
20) Rayon Beach - The Memory Teeth EP

Harri:

1. Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime
2. Moon Duo - Escape
3. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
4. Liars - Sisterworld
5. Autechre - Move of Ten
6. Beach Fossils - Face It / Distance 7"
7. Blank Dogs - Landed and Fixed
8. Gary War - Police Water EP
9. Flight - Ghosts 7"
10. Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Rush to Relax
11. Dunes - s/t EP
12. Panda Bear - Tomboy 7"
13. Le Sang Song - s/t LP
14. Junip - Fields
15. Solvent - Subject to Shift
16. The New Lines - BEKO single
17. Bitters - East General
18. Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
19. Wooden Shjips - Vol. 2
20. Matthew Herbert - One One

mela:

2010 - in no specific order

the tindersticks - falling down a mountain
the national - high violet
holly mirinda - the magician's private library
antony & the johnsons - swanlights
the black keys - brother
wovenhand - the treshingfloor
solveig slettahjell - tarpan seasons
menomena - mines
caribou - swim
nina nastasia - outlaster

only sleeping:

here's my list for public ridicule and derision:

1. boy eats drum machine - hoop+wire / 20 beats
2. lcd sounsystem - this is happening
3. wolf parade - expo 86
4. the black keys - brothers
5. autechre - move of ten / oversteps
6. flying lotus - cosmogramma / pattern+grid world
7. les savy fav - root for ruin
8. beach fossils - beach fossils
9. four tet - there is love in you
10. eddy current suppresion ring - rush to relax
11. ra ra riot - the orchard
12. archie bronson outfit - coconut
13. tobacco - maniac meat
14. the nels cline singers - initiate
15. best coast - crazy for you
16. bare wires - seeking love
17. isobel campbell & mark lanegan - hawk
18. sun kil moon - admiral fell promises
19. elvis costello - national ransom
20. gorillaz - plastic beach

stay gold jonyboy:

MY TOP FIVE RECORDS OF 2010:
1. Barbes Records (Various) - The Roots Of Chicha 2
2. Typhoon - Hunger And Thirst
3. The Roots - How I Got Over
4. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part II: Return of the Ankh
5. Menomena - Mines

The Grolsch:

25 records from 2010

My favourites

1. Broadcast 2000 - Broadcast 2000
2. The National - High Violet
3. Dry The River - Bible Belt / Family Tree EP
4. The Acorn - No Ghost
5. Megafaun - Heretofore EP
6. The Black Keys - Brothers
7. Stornoway - Beachcomber's Windowsill
8. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
9. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
10. Pavement - Quarantine The Past*

*Okay, I know Pavement's a cop-out but it was better than everything else. And I saw them play live so I'm counting it.


Honorable mentions

Anais Mitchell - Hadestown
Beach Fossils - Beach Fossils
Boy Eats Drum Machine - Hoop and Wire
Dark Dark Dark - Wild Go
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?
Emma Pollock - The Law of Large Numbers
Fionn Regan - The Shadow Of An Empire
Forest City Lovers - Carriage
Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs - Medicine County
Holly Miranda - The Magician's Private Library
The Magnetic Fields - Realism
Panda Su - Sticks and Bricks EP
Tunng - ... And Then We Saw Land
Wild Nothing - Gemini


Horrible guilty pleasure that I can't turn off despite the fact that it's rotting my soul

Marina and the Diamonds - The Family Jewels

witches hat:

i would've struggled with a top 30 nevermind 40
it appears i forgot to listen to most stuff more than once

1. Thee Oh Sees 'Warm Slime'
2. Forest Swords 'Dagger Paths'
3. Nina Nastasia 'Outlaster'
4. Scott Tuma 'Dandelion'
5. Kitchen's Floor 'Loneliness Is A Dirty Mattress'
6. King Kong Ding Dong 'Youth Culture Index'
7. Sean McCann 'Chances Are Staying'
8. Seijaku 'Mail From Fushitsusha'
9. Sun City Girls 'Funeral Mariachi'
10. he North Sea 'Bloodlines'
11. Smoke Jaguar 'The Whaler's Rest'
12. Pumice 'Worldwide Gullet'
13. Swans 'My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky'
14. Faust 'Faust Is Last'
15. Liars 'Sisterworld'
16. Beach House 'Teen Dream'
17. Kim Doo Soo 'Evening River'
18. Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephen 'ForThe Ghosts Within'
19. Celer 'Dying Star'
20. Alastair Galbraith 'Mass'

I hope 2011 is just as good.

~Harri

P.S. 2010 RHMB Communal Mix is coming soon!

LATE ADDITIONS:

really dizzy:

They're kind of in order. I can't believe Beach House is at the top of the list.

0. Beach House - Teen Dream
1. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
2. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
3. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
4. Four Tet - There is Love in You
5. Boy Eats Drum Machine - 20 Beats
6. Boy Eats Drum Machine - Hoop + Wire
7. Caribou - Swim
8. The Books - The Way Out
9. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
10. Twin Sister - Color Your Life
11. Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime

Harri's 2000s Picks! a mix.

I thought I'd put together a big mix of songs from some favorites albums and EPs from the last ten years in anticipation of the upcoming 2000s list-making (exciting! I know!) I left off a lot of stuff I love that everybody is probably already familiar with, though a few of these are pretty well known I guess. Anyway... *points at tracklist/links* she's a long'un, folks! haw!

01 - Aphex Twin - jynweythek ylow (2:23)
02 - Primal Scream - Accelerator (3:41)
03 - Clinic - T.K. (2:31)
04 - Crystal Castles - Crimewave (4:18)
05 - The Microphones - Ice (2:19)
06 - Broadcast - Minim (3:00)
07 - James Figurine - Leftovers (5:35)
08 - Action Biker - Love For Sure (2:12)
09 - Gary War - No Payoff (2:47)
10 - Jay Reatard - Oh It's Such A Shame (2:28)
11 - Chris Clark - Herzog (4:23)
12 - Low - On The Edge Of (3:49)
13 - Beach House - Gila (4:46)
14 - Ms John Soda - Misco (4:17)
15 - Tree Wave - Sleep (3:07)
16 - Liars - Cycle Time (2:17)
17 - Jacuzzi Boys - Ghost Ghost (2:27)
18 - Thee Oh Sees - Rainbow (1:46)
19 - Deerhunter - Like New (2:16)
20 - Cannibal Ox - Pigeon (6:10)
21 - Piano Magic - Speed the road rush the lights (7:44)
22 - Cyann & Ben - Behind Her Smiling Eyes (4:02)

Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?jxjfxntf0w1
Part 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?2gruumezmzw

No listening party planned or anything... GOD I LOVE THESE TUNES. - Greedo

Harri

Call for RHMB Noughties Lists!

HELLO BABBY NEW DECADE! Well, the decade we call "the noughties" is finally over (shut up pedants!) Now it's time to make a list of the best releases! This is due on MARCH 27th at 12PM EST and I'm going to aggregate this one like I did the 90s list, except for a couple of changes: 1. I want between 20 and 50 picks from you and 2. the points system is slightly different. To keep things simple and relatively fair, you will get 20 points for your #1, 19 points for your #2, and so on until #16 when that pick and everything after gets 5 points. In other words:

#1 = 20 points
#2 = 19 points
#3 = 18 points
...
#16 = 5 points
#17 = 5 points
#18 = 5 points
...
#49 = 5 points
#50 = 5 points

Anything with a release date year beginning with the numbers 20** is fine (though, remasters are frowned upon! BY ME!) I'd prefer to get the lists in descending order starting with #1, and if you could include the year of release along with the band name and album title (or single, etc), it would save me an awful lot of work. Send lists to me @ my gmail addy: harrizonn@gmail.com or put them in the comments.

I look forward to the lists! And don't forget, this *IS* a competition, so SPAM your favorites on the msgboard!

Harri

RHMB's Best Of 2009 Lists!

Make your list, Santa... check it twice. If you don't see your list here, put it in the comments (I must not have gotten one from you).

mela:

1 choir of young believers - this is for the white in your eyes/burn the flag
2 julie doiron - i can wonder what you did with your day
3 vic chesnutt - at the cut
4 soap & skin - lovetune for vacuum
5 castanets - texas rose, the thaw & the beasts
6 m. ward - hold time
7 broad cast and the focus group - Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
8 bob dylan - together through life
9 blk jks - after robots
10 fraet - for another day

+ dark was the night best compilation 2009

okelydokely computer:

1-20

1) Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
2) Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
3) The Horrors - Primary Colours
4) Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
5) Reigns - The House On The Causeway
6) Asobi Seksu – Hush
7) Son Of A Bricklayer – Shitao/La Jetee
8) Crippled Black Phoenix - 200 Tons Of Bad Luck
9) Tosca - No Hassle
10) Broadcast & Focus Group – Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
11) Taken By Trees - East Of Eden
12) David Sylvian – Manafon
13) Sonic Youth - The Eternal
14) Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
15) Atlas Sound - Logos
16) Blue Roses - Blue Roses
17) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
18) PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By
19) Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People.. Lazers Do
20) Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest

21-50

21) Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
22) Susumu Yokota – Mother
23) Andrew Weatherall - A Pox On The Pioneers
24) Evangelista - Prince Of Truth
25) Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
26) Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
27) The Twilight Sad - Forget the Night Ahead
28) The Papercuts - You Can Have What You Want
29) Hudson Mohawke – Butter
30) Antlers – Hospice
31) Various - Warp20
32) Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
33) Nosaj Thing - Drift
34) Riceboy Sleeps - Riceboy Sleeps
35) HEALTH - Get Color
36) Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence
37) Julie Doiron - I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
38) Jamie Vex'D - In System Travel EP
39) Wooden Birds – Magnolia
40) The Invisible - The Invisible
41) Seeland - Tomorrow Today
42) A.A. Bondy – When The Devil’s Loose
43) Johann Johannsson - And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees
44) Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
45) Gary War - Horribles Parade
46) Boys Noize – Power
47) Gui Boratto - Take My Breath Away
48) Various - Echodub Loves (Vol. 01)
49) Telefon Tel Aviv – Immolate Yourself
50) Various – Dark Was The Night

James Grolsch:

1. Fanfarlo - Reservoir
2. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3. Emmy The Great - First Love
4. Florence and the Machine - Lungs
5. Metric - Fantasies
6. Megafaun - Gather, Form & Fly
7. Moderat - Moderat
8. Atlas Sound - Logos
9. Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
10. Regina Spektor - Far

Best of the rest, in no particular order

Ohbijou - Beacons
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Blue Roses - Blue Roses
Stricken City - Songs About People I Know
Volcano Choir - Unmap
Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
The XX - XX
Beirut - March of the Zapotec and Realpeople Holland
Sian Alice Group - Troubled, Shaken etc
Frank Turner - Poetry of the Deed

Best compilation

Various Artists - Dark Was The Night (Red Hot compilation)

witches hat:

1. Leyland Kirby 'Sadly, the Future is no Longer what it Once Was' (History Always Favors the Winners)
2. Richard Youngs 'Beyond The Valley Of Ultrahits' (Sonic Oyster)
3. Alasdair Robert 'Spoils' (Drag City)
4. Bleeding Heart Narrative 'Tongue Tangled Hair' (Tartaruga)
5. Aaron Martin 'Chautauqua' (Preservation)
6. Meth Teeth 'Everything Went Wrong' (Woodsist)
7. Gary War 'Horribles Parade' (Sacred Bones)
8. Ben Nash/Natutilus splt (Blackest Rainbow)
9. Tim Hecker 'An Imaginary Country' (Kranky)
10. Grass Widow 'Grass Widow' (Makes A Mess)
11. Emeralds 'Emeralds' (Wagon)
12. Black to Comm 'Alphabet 1968' (Type)
13. Current 93 'Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain' (Coptic Cat)
14. Magik Markers 'Shame Mask' (Arbirary Signs)
15. Reiko Kudo & Tori Kudo 'Light' (Siwa)
16. These Are Powers 'All Aboard Future' (Dead Oceans)
17. Vivian Girls 'Everything Goes Wrong' (In The Red)
18. Axolotl 'Of Bonds In General'
19. Kodama 'Turning Leaf Migrations' (Olde English Spelling Bee)
20. Gin En Tsubame 'Yukino' (Sloow Tapes)
21. Lovvers 'OCD Go Go Go Girls' (Wichita)
22. Thee Oh Sees 'Help' (In The Red)
23. Folle Eglise 'Anna's Present'
24. Camera Obscura 'My Maudlin Career' (Rough Trade)
25. Broadcast & The Focus Group 'Investigate with Cults of the Radio Age' (Warp)
26. Tara Jane O'Neil 'A Ways Away'
27. Antony & the Johnsons 'The Crying Light' (Secretly Canadian)
28. Peaking Lights '2 Songs For Ceremony' (Night People)
29. Music For One 'The Red Thumb' (Perennial)
30. Condo Fucks 'Fuckbook' (Drag City)
31. Suishou No Fune 'Phantom of the Eternal Night' (There)
32. The Fresh & Onlys 'Grey-Eyed Girls' (WOODSIST)
33. Sonic Youth 'The Eternal' (Matador)
34. Steven R. Smith 'Cities'(Immune)
35. Skullflower 'Malediction' (Second Layer)
36. Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions 'Through the Devil Softly' (Nettwerk)
37. Dredd Foole & Ed Yazijian 'That Lonesome Road Between Hurt and Soul' (Bo Weavil)
38. Harappian Night Recordings 'The Glorious Gongs of Haiduwele' (Bo'Weavil)
39. LSD March 'Under Milk Wood' (Important)
40. Jim O'Rourke & Loren Connors 'Two Nice Catholic Boys'(Family VIneyard)

stuff i didnt get to listen to but probably shouldve

Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - White Lunar
William Basinski - 92982
Sunn O))) - Monolith & Dimensions
David Sylvian - Manafon
Barn Owl - The Conjurer
all the Type, Woodsist,Blackest Rainbow, Under The Spire, Sacred Bones, Skaters-linked stuff
Bill Orcutt - A New Way To Pay Old Debts
Andrew Chalk - The Cable House

stuff that clearly should be in everyone's list but is a comp or a rerelease

Onna - Holy Mountain
The World s Lousy With Ideas Volume 8 comp

albums where i expected more from what i read but were in fact a bit shite
bat for lashes
animal collective
beach house
noah and the whale

only sleeping:

1 Sonic Youth - The Eternal
2 The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
3 Chris Clark - Growls Garden / Totems Flare
4 Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
5 Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
6 Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
7 Dan Aurebach - Keep it Hid
8 Mos Def - The Ecstatic
9 Antipop Consortium - Flourescent Black
10 Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
11 Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence
12 Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry, They Washed Away…
13 Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
14 Hannu - Hintergarden / Harhailua
15 Fraet - For Another Day
16 Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
17 Dan Deacon - Bromst
18 Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
19 Medeski, Martin & Wood - Radiolarians II / Radiolarians III
20 Wilco - Wilco [The Album]

grep (chet):

Here's a top 25:

1 Dangermouse and Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul
2 The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
3 Portugal. The Man - Satanic Satanist
4 Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
5 Musette - Datum
6 Lorenzo Meo - The E.P.M. Project
7 The Beatles - Everyday Chemistry
8 Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
9 Radio Moscow - Brainwaves
10 Neil Young - Dreamin' Man Live 92'
11 Cuo2duo - Clockspeed
12 Hockey - Mind Chaos
13 The XX - xx
14 Wilco - Wilco the album
15 Elvis Perkins in Dearland - Elvis Perkins in Dearland
16 Super Furry Animals - Dark Days Light Years
17 Andrew Bird - Noble Beast Useless Creatures
18 Steve Earle - Townes
19 Brand New - Daisy
20 Fever Ray - Fever Ray
21 Joel Plaskett - Three
22 Elysian Fields - the afterlife
23 Nils Lofgren - The Loner
24 Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
25 Zywiolak - Nowa Ex-Tradycja

*L* @ Medeski Martin & Wood

Harri

My Favorite Music Of 2009!

Such a great year for music. I can usually barely figure out 15 or 20 that I really love, but I was just swamped with great stuff in 2009. A lot of LPs I enjoyed had just as good (and sometimes better) singles and EPs, so I'll list those along with:

1. Gary War - Horribles Parade
-- Anhedonic Man 7"
-- Galactic Citizens 12"
-- Opens WFMU Sessions CS
-- Zontag 7"
-- Reality Protest WEB
2. Broadcast & The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
-- Broadcast - Mother Is The Wilky Way EP
3. Blank Dogs - Under And Under
-- Seconds 12"
-- Waiting 7"
-- Slow Room 7"
4. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
-- Daytrotter Session WEB
5. Thee Oh Sees - Help
-- Tidal Wave 7"
-- Dog Poison
-- Zork's Bruise Tapes
6. Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence
7. Tonstartssbandht - An When
8. Atlas Sound - Logos
-- Rough Trade EP
-- Time Warp Virtual 7" WEB
-- Virtual 7" No. 8 WEB
-- Virtual 7" No. 6: Solo, or 'The Square' WEB
9. Roman Soldiers - Warmer 7"
10. Crystal Stilts - Love Is A Wave 7"
-- Daytrotter Session WEB
11. The Mantles - s/t
-- Bad Design 7"
12. Here We Go Magic - s/t
13. Ganglians - Monster Head Room
14. Fraet - For Another Day
15. Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
16. Fresh & Onlys - s/t
-- Bomb Wombs CS
-- Laughter Is Contagious 7"
-- I'll Tell You Everything 7"
17. Woven Bones - With You Alone 7"
-- Janie 7"
-- Needless 7"
18. Matthew Dear & Seth Troxler - Hurt (single)
19. Clark - Growls Garden EP
20. TeePee - Morals
-- Aware 7"
21. Timbre Timbre - Timbre Timbre
22. Beirut - March of the Zapotec / Real People Holland EP
23. Guiseppe Ielasi - Aix
24. Jacuzzi Boys - No Seasons
25. Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
26. Flight - Flowers 7"
27. Sean McCann - Phyylum Sigh CS
28. Jeans Wilder - Antiques
29. Meth Teeth - Everything Went Wrong
30. Woods - Songs of Shame
-- Sunlit 7"
31. Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong
-- Moped Girls 7"
32. Rantouls - Little Green Hat 7"
33. Venetian Snares - Filth
34. Cheveu - s/t
35. Bibio - Ambibalence Avenue
36. 10-20 - s/t
37. Audion - Stoplight 7"
-- That's That 7"
-- Look At The Moon 7"
38. Skyramps - Days of Thunder
39. Mark Templeton & Aaron Munson - Acre Loss
40. Sore Eros - Second Chants

I'll post everyone else's lists tomorrow afternoon (don't forget to send them to me!)

Harri

Call For End Of Year Lists!

Regarding your Best Of 2009 album lists, I'm going to post whatever people give me in one long post on, uhh... December 19th. The release just has to be from this year (can be a repackaging/rerelease or anything with a 2009 date), and the list can be from five to fifty.

So, whatever lists I've gotten by then will be posted (with comments if you want), and there they shall be for all internet eternity.

If I don't know you from the RHMB, feel free to post your lists in the comments that day! Or maybe if you trick me into thinking I know you, I will post your lists with my friends'. If you are an enemy I will also post your list, because you're supposed to keep your enemies close (to take revenge at arm's length.)

Harri

1990s List Single Vote Entries!

These are all the albums that only recieved a single vote (separated by how many points their single fan gave them.) You will see albums here that you hate, that you love, and even more likely, you've never heard of. I've also uploaded a zip file of the raw data in a few different formats, here. Enjoy the reading!

Band Name - Album Title and # of Points Given

Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight.. Yeah 20
Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind 20
Primus - Frizzle Fry 20
Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park 20
Sultans of Ping FC - Casual Sex In The Cineplex 20
The Edges of Twilight - The Tea Party 20

Afghan Wigs - Black Love 19
Corrosion Of Conformity - Deliverance 19
Garageland - Last Exit to Garageland 19
James - Laid 19
Queens Of The Stone Age - Queens Of The Stone Age 19
Soda Stereo - El Ultimo Concierto B 19
The Innocence Mission - Birds of My Neighborhood 19

Built To Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love 18
Chris De Burgh - Beautiful Dreams 18
Garbage - Garbage 18
Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight 18
Soda Stereo - El Ultimo Concierto A 18
Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things 18
Super Furry Animals - Guerrilla 18
The Cardigans - The First Band On The Moon 18
The Vaselines - The Way Of The Vaselines 18

At The Drive-In - In/Casino/Out 17
Front 242 - Up Evil 17
Garbage - Version 2.0 17
Nas - Illmatic 17
Sun City Girls - Torch Of The Mystics 17
Vic Chesnutt - Is The Actor Happy 17

American Music Club - Mercury 16
De La Soul - Buhloone Mindstate 16
Jandek - Lost Cause 16
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 16
Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire 16
Scrapping Young Lad - Heavy As A Really Heavy Thing 16
Turbonegro - Ass Cobra 16
Ween - Chocolate And Cheese 16

Braid - Frame And Canvas 15
Chemlab - East Side Militia 15
Duncan Dhu - Greatest Hits 15
Gavin Bryars & Tom Waits - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet 15
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand 15
Mark Eitzel - 60 Watt Silver Lining 15
Modest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive For Someone With Nothing to Think About 15
Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge 15
Oval - 94 Diskont 15
The Stone Roses - The Stones Roses (Rerelease) 15
Various Artists - Latcho Drom Soundtrack 15
Violent Femmes - Add It Up (1981–1993) 15

16 Horsepower - Sackcloth'n Ashes 14
Ani DiFranco - Living In Clip 14
Dead C - Harsh 70's Reality 14
DJ Shadow - Pre-emptive Strike 14
Frontline Assembly - Hardwired 14
Heroes del Silencio - Senderos de Traicion 14
Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted 14
Red House Painters - Ocean Beach 14
Slowdive - Just For A Day 14
Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom 14
The Magnetic Fields - Charm Of The Highway Strip 14
Thurston Moore - Psychic Hearts 14
Tool - Undertow 14

Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five 13
Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On 13
Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas 13
David S. Ware - Wisdom Of Uncertainty 13
Erykah Badu - Baduizm 13
Failure - Fantastic Planet 13
I Mother Earth - Scenery And Fish 13
Idlewild - Hope Is Important 13
James Brown - Star Time! 13
Lo-fidelity Allstars - How To Operate With A Blown Mind 13
Mansun - Six 13
Mobb Deep - The Infamous 13
Momus - Ping Pong 13
Primus - Pork Soda 13
Richard Youngs - Sapphie 13
Sebadoh - Bakesale 13
Smashing Pumpkins - Adore 13
Soul Coughing - El Oso 13
The Divine Comedy - A Short Album About Love 13

Bikini Kill - The CD Version Of The First Two Records 12
Elbow - Noisebox EP 12
Junior M.A.F.I.A. - Conspiracy 12
Keiji Haino - Tenshi no gijinka 12
Kent - Isola 12
Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam 12
Natalie Imbruglia - Left Of The Middle 12
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Night Song 12
Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II: The Pharcyde 12
Soul Coughing - - Irresistible Bliss 12
Spiritualized Royal Albert Hall October 10 1997 12
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Perennial Favorites 12

Arab Strap - Philophobia 11
Bark Psychosis - Hex 11
Bikini Kill - Bikini Kill EP 11
Breeders - Last Splash 11
Crowded House - Together Alone 11
Jesus Lizard - Liar 11
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - No Quarter: Jimmy Page And Robert Plant Unledded 11
Mr. Bungle - California 11
Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got 11
Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot 11
Stereo MCs - Stereo MCs Connected 11
Supergrass - Supergrass 11
The Bluetones - A Bluetones Companion 11
The Faint - Blank Wave Arcade 11
The Pastels - Mobile Safari 11

Coil - Love's Secret Domain 10
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus 10
Faith No More - King For A Day... Fool for a Lifetime 10
Gil Scott-Heron - Spirits 10
Haujobb - Solutions For A Small Planet 10
Hefner - Fidelity Wars 10
Jesus Lizard - Goat 10
Outkast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik 10
Papa M - Live From A Shark Cage 10
Pixies - Tromp le monde 10
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish 10
The Beautiful South - Quench 10
TLC - CrazySexyCool 10
Yann Tiersen - La Phare 10

Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star 9
Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish 9
Cornelius - Fantasma 9
Disco Inferno - In Debt 9
Elastica - Elastica 9
Hombres G - Los Singles 1984 - 1993 9
Oasis - Be Here Now 9
R.E.M. - Out Of Time 9
Radiohead - My Iron Lung EP 9
Skinny Puppy - The Process 9
Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet 9
Swans - Love Of Life 9
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency And I 9
The Microphones - Don't Wake Me Up 9

10,000 Maniacs - Our Time In Eden 8
Cat Power - What Would The Community Think 8
Curve - Doppleganger 8
Dave Matthews Band - Under The Table And Dreaming 8
Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions 8
New Bomb Turks - Destroy-Oh-Boy! 8
Pearl Jam - Vs. 8
Piano Magic - A Trick Of The Sea 8
Sigur Ros - Von 8
Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona 8
U2 - Pop 8
Various Artists - Romeo & Juliet Soundtrack 8
Weezer - Pinkerton 8

Caifanes - El Silencio 7
Dr. Dre - The Chronic 7
Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharack - Painted From Memory 7
Gas - Gas 7
Lionrock - An Instinct For Detection 7
Nautilus Pompilius - Naugad 7
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version 7
Polvo - Today's Active Lifestyles 7
Polygon Window - Surfing On Sinewaves 7
Renegade Soundwave - RSW 1987 - 1995 7
Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow 7
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger 7
The Cinematic - Orchestra Motion 7
Toots and The Maytals - The Very Best Of 7
Various Artists - Trainspotting Soundtrack 7
Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory 7
Underworld - Born Slippy (single) 7

Autechre - LP5 6
Backstreet Boys - Millenium 6
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty 6
Craig Armstrong - The Space Between Us 6
Dead Can Dance - Spiritchaser 6
Death In Vegas - Contino Sessions 6
Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind 6
Dirt - Sahara Of The Bozart 6
Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball 6
Killing Joke - Pandemonium 6
Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley 6
Labradford - mi media naranja 6
Lamb - Fear Of Fours 6
Manu Chao - Clandestino 6
Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet 6
Rachel's - Music For Egon Schiele 6
The All Seeing I - Pickled Eggs And Sherbert 6
Ultraviolence - Life Of Destructor 6

Belle And Sebastian - Tigermilk 5
Cracker - Cracker 5
Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches 5
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis 5
Orbital - Middle Of Nowhere 5
Outkast - Aquamini 5
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik 5
Robert Wyatt - Shleep 5
The Album Leaf - An Orchestrated Rise To Fal 5
The Roots - Things Fall Apart 5
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Lovelyville 5
Tindersticks - Tindersticks #2 5
Ween - Pure Guava 5
Wolfsheim - Spectators 5

Arvo Part - Fratres 4
Boredoms - Super AE 4
Catherine Wheel - Ferment 4
Faust - Rien 4
Fiona Apple - When The Pawn... 4
Gusgus - Polydistortion 4
Main - Dry Stone Feed 4
Mr. Scruff - Keep It Unreal 4
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication 4
Sheryl Crow - The Globe Sessions 4
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple 4
Suede - Suede 4
Supergrass - I Should Coco 4
Symposium - On The Outside 4
The Delgados - Peloton 4
The Fall - Extricate 4

Alanis Morisette - Jagged Little Pill 3
Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks OST 3
Blues Traveler - Four 3
De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead 3
Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide 3
Low - Songs For A Dead Pilot EP 3
Marcy Playground - Marcy Playground 3
Megadeath - Countdown To Exctinction 3
Nightmares On Wax - Carboot Soul 3
Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle 3
Pall Oskar - Seif 3
Sloan - Between The Bridges 3
Slowdive - Pygmalion 3
Swans - White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity 3
The Black Crowes - Southern Harmony and Musical Companion 3
The Cranberries - No Need To Argue 3
The Sea And Cake - The Fawn 3
Various Artists - Tibetan Freedom Concert NYC June 1997 3

Andy Bey - Shades of Bey 2
Bad Religion - Recipe For Hate 2
Charalambides - Market Square 2
Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman 2
Faith No More - Angel Dust 2
Harvey Milk - My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment of What My Love Could Be 2
Lush - Gala 2
Man Or Astroman? - Is It Man Or Astroman? 2
Oasis - Definitely Maybe 2
Pearl Jam - Yield 2
Sabres Of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall 2
Snow Patrol - Songs For Polarbears 2
The Verve - A Northern Soul 2
Various Artists - Judgement Night Soundtrack 2

Blatz/Filth - The Shit Split 1
Breeders - Pod 1
Bush - Sixteen Stone 1
Coldcut - Let Us Play! 1
Dead C - Tusk 1
Epic Soundtracks - Rise Above 1
Flying Saucer Attack - Further 1
Fountains Of Wayne - Fountains Of Wayne 1
Heavy Vegetable - Frisbie 1
Longpigs - Sun Is Often Out 1
Ministry - Psalm 69: The Way To Succeed and The Way To Suck Eggs 1
Muse - Showbiz 1
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream 1
Outkast - ATLiens 1
Passengers - Original Soundtracks 1 1
R.E.M. - Up 1
Silver Jews - American Water 1
Sloan - One Chord To Another 1
Suede - Coming Up 1
Supergrass - In It For The Money 1

hate on!

Harri

The RHMB Top Albums of the 1990s List!

Well, here it is! As you might expect Radiohead dominates, but there are a few surprises here, I think. The list gets a little more esoteric as it goes down, but it's sprinkled with mainstream favorites as well as cult classics. Unfortunately, because of the points system, bands with a number of really good albums, but no clear favorite, suffered (like Blur, PJ Harvey, Pavement, and a few others).

1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. Radiohead - The Bends
3. Sigur Ros - Ágætis byrjun
4. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
5. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
6. Nirvana - Nevermind
7. Portishead - Dummy
8. Bjork - Homogenic
9. Neutral Milk Hotel - In An Aeroplane Over The Sea
10. Jeff Buckley - Grace
11. Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
12. Belle And Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
13. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯A♯∞
14. Bjork - Post
15. R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi
16. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
17. Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
18. Beck - Odelay
19. The Beta Band - The Three EPs
20. U2 - Achtung Baby

and the rest of the top 100...
21. Radiohead - Airbag EP
22. Elliot Smith - Either/Or
23. Beck - Mutations
24. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
25. Slint - Spiderland
25. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
27. Fugazi - Repeater
28. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See A Darkness
28. Portishead - Portishead
28. Pulp - Different Class
31. Suede - Dog Man Star
32. Tricky - Maxinquaye
33. Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
34. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
34. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
36. Bjork - Debut
36. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
36. Mogwai - Come On Die Young
39. Beck - Midnight Vultures
39. Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
41. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
41. The Verve - Urban Hymns
43. Mogwai - Young Team
44. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
44. The Fugees - The Score
46. Weezer - Weezer
47. Air - Moon Safari
47. Blur - Blur
47. Broadcast - Work And Non-Work
47. Gomez - Bring It On
47. Low - Secret Name
47. Pulp - His'n'Hers
47. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
54. Wilco - Summerteeth
55. The Divine Comedy - Casanova
55. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
55. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang Clan (36 Chambers)
58. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2
58. Ash - 1977
60. Sonic Youth - Goo
60. Blur - 13
62. Low - When Curtain Hits The Cast
62. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Boatman's Call
62. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
62. GZA - Liquid Swords
62. Le Tigre - Le Tigre
62. Slowdive - Souvlaki
62. Nirvana - In Utero
62. VNV Nation - Empires
70. Add N To (X) - Avant Hard
70. Foo Fighters - The Colour And The Shape
70. Liz Phair - Whip-Smart
70. The Divine Comedy - Promenade
74. Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
74. Pinback - This Is Pinback
76. Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory
76. Belle And Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
76. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
76. Tom Waits - Mule Variations
76. Depeche Mode - Violator
76. Earth - Earth 2
76. Janes Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
83. Blur - Parklife
83. Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
83. Hole - Live Through This
83. Portishead - Roseland NYC Live
83. Scott Walker - Tilt
88. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire
88. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
88. Pearl Jam - Ten
88. PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
92. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
92. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York
92. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
92. PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
96. Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
96. Grandaddy - Under The Western Freeway
96. Daft Punk - Homework
96. Piano Magic - Low Birth Weight
96. Soulwax - Much Against Everyone's Advice
101. Tool - Ænima
101. Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders

Cheers, folks!

Harri

P.S. see the comments section for albums that got more than one vote but didn't crack the top 100 (also, a alternate reality top 100 by average vote.)

UPDATE: The 1990s Lists Are In!

Votes are tallied and the crowd waits in eager anticipation for the results... will their favorite album be #1? Will all their favorite releases be openly hated leaving them alone and confused? Who knows. Okay, I know, but I won't tell until tomorrow.

Until then, some interesting bits!

- 43 Lists total
- 30 men sent in lists
- 13 women did
- 309 different bands were chosen
- 860 albums voted for in all
- out of those 418 were different
- 265 recieved only a single vote
- 63 albums got two votes
- 18 albums from 1990
- 29 albums from 1991
- 37 albums from 1992
- 35 albums from 1993
- 52 albums from 1994
- 46 albums from 1995
- 48 albums from 1996
- 49 albums from 1997
- 58 albums from 1998
- 47 albums from 1999
- 9,227 points given altogether
- with the #1 album receiving 529 on 31 lists

Thanks for participating, folks!

Harri

PS stats were updated to include a few latecomers

RHMB Top 20 Albums of the 1990s!

Just changing things up a bit here... I want as many boardies as can be "arsed" to do it to give me a top 20 music releases* of the 1990s to me so I can post it! Then I'll aggregate the lists, give your #1 20 points, #2 19 points, etc, add them all together, and see if we have 20 in common with a bunch of votes. I'm hoping for a lot of submissions...

*anything RELEASED in the 1990s (that's any year with a 199*, any kind of release, LP, EP, singles, rerelease, compilation, best of, ANYTHING if it's got a 90s date on it.)

I've got a deadline of August 7th (that's three weeks or so) if you want to submit something.

Remember, if you're favorite album isn't listed, and you didn't vote, you can't bitch!

send submissions to: harrizonn@gmail.com (or if you're shy, post it in the comments)

Harri

P.S. even if I'm the only person who votes, I'm still going to post it as the RHMB top 20! haha

A Few More Days Til 90s Lists Are Due!

Friday night at midnight is the deadline. Remember, it has to be posted in the comments section here or emailed to harrizonn@gmail.com to be counted (you can't just put it on the messageboard!) Two other things:

a. yeah, it's fine if there's more than one album/EP/single per band!

b. if you don't give me 20, you don't get a #1 20 points spot (I count them backwards, for instance if you only give me 13, your #1 gets 13 points.) Think hard!

cheers,

Harri

One Week Until 1990s Lists Are Due!

and I'm going to say until midnight next Friday to give you all day.

oh, and here's mine for what it's worth!

1. My bloody Valentine - Loveless
2. Radiohead - Airbag EP
3. Broadcast - Work and Non-Work
4. Autechre - EP7
5. R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi
6. Slowdive - Souvlaki
7. The Magnetic Fields - Charm of the Highway Strip
8. Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
9. Squirrel Nut Zippers - Perennial Favorites
10. Add N to (X) - Avante Hard
11. Piano Magic - Low Birth Weight
12. Disco Inferno - In Debt
13. The Beta Band - The Three EPs
14. Blur - Blur
15. Belle and Sebastian - Boy With The Arab Strap
16. Squarepusher - Music Rotted One Note
17. Low - Secret Name
18. Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
19. Underworld - 2nd Toughest in the Infants
20. Alice In Chains - Dirt

see ya,

Harri

PS I failed at release dates a couple of times! fixed.