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

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

Harri's 80s Retrospective Volume 3 Mix!

I threw together a third 80s mix (the first two are here), and I swear I would have had it ready sooner but I dunno... it was just MISSING SOMETHING and luckily I got turned on to a few really good bands in the last month from that decade so I could finish. But enough about me (boring), here's the music! It's a nice mix of upbeat cheese, synthyness, sad moaning, and strutting.

01 - Slow Children - Too Weak To Eat (3:01)
02 - Fools Face - Maiden U.S.A (2:17)
03 - Romeo Void - Shake The Hands of Time (3:20)
04 - Passionate Friends - Whats The Odds (4:22)
05 - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Beating My Head (3:45)
06 - Revillos - Where's The Boy For Me (2:03)
07 - Delmontes - Ga-Ga (2:57)
08 - The Great Unwashed - Boat With No Ocean (2:56)
09 - The Go-Betweens - Ask (5:11)
10 - Trees - Delta Sleep (3:43)
11 - Shox - No Turning Back (2:50)
12 - Commercials - Simon (2:18)
13 - Land of Giants - Canibal Dolls (3:29)
14 - Meat Whiplash - Don't Slip Up (3:21)
15 - Pylon - Functionality (4:28)

http://www.mediafire.com/?1ymxi1tmzyz

Listening party is scheduled for next Sunday (the 12th) at 9 PM EST! and we're going to follow this mix with the megaMIX, music made by RHMBers, that is (from a different decade, though a good chunk of them were produced in the 80s, so maybe that counts OR SOMETHING). Just add the megaMIX to the end of the playlist.

download the megaMIX mp3!

fun!

Harri

P.S. streamable version will be up before Sunday!

RHMB megaMIX!

Truly one of it's kind, this is a project between a handful of the RHMB's nicest boardies (y'know, the ones who won't kill each other given the chance!) I submit to you the shortest and most homegrown RHMB mix yet! RHMB megaMIX!

credits:

maraca + baby sounds: jacob
mc: DJ
synth stuff: hoot
flute: brooke
guitar: shaun
additional vocals: mela, strack, nat
turntable, tenor sax, bass synth, tambourine, production/recording: jonyboy

and a *FREE* mp3 download:

RHMB megaMIX!

lub ya, folks

Harri

GRAB THIS!: Sarah Juice 2008!

Sarah Juice has a "favorite songs of 2008 mix" to share with people, and we're planning on a Wednesday night 9PM EST listening party! Download will be uploaded soon.

Thanks Sarah Juice!

Also, I've added a Google Calendar option at the bottom of the page, which might help get things organized a bit more (BOR-RRRING). If anyone else has any Web 2.0 suggestions for the site, lemmeknow.

cheers!

Harri

Here's the thing! About the mixes!

The RHMB Mix Blog is in full effect.

This is your one stop shop for keeping up with the upcoming mixes and what not. Give me a holler if you want to set something up, and I'll be glad to post it.

Update your RSS!

Tell your friends! Especially the hot ones, right?

now that we have an official blog for this, ignore the backlash (an internet tradition).

and remember, if someone makes fun of your music, don't get mad. they're probably sterile and/or ugly.

cheers,

Harri