» Best Of http://the-music-snob.net Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:08:10 +0000 en hourly 1 Top 20 Albums of 2011 http://the-music-snob.net/2011/12/top-20-albums-of-2011/ http://the-music-snob.net/2011/12/top-20-albums-of-2011/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:35:05 +0000 Matt Moeller http://the-music-snob.net/?p=1193
# Artist Album Label
1. Wooden Birds Two Matchsticks Barsuk |Listen|Buy|
2. Fruit Bats Tripper  Sub Pop |Listen|Buy|
3. Joy Formidable The Big Roar Atlantic |Listen|Buy|
4. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks Mirror Traffic Matador |Listen|Buy|
5. Decemberists The King Is Dead Capitol |Listen|Buy|
6. Gillian Welch The Harrow & The Harvest Acony |Listen|Buy|
7. Dodos No Color Frenchkiss |Listen|Buy|
8. Richard Buckner Our Blood Merge |Listen|Buy|
9. Mates Of State Mountaintops Barsuk |Listen|Buy|
10. Gruff Rhys Hotel Shampoo Wichita |Listen|Buy|
11. Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues Sub Pop |Listen|Buy|
12. Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 Capitol |Listen|Buy|
13. Cults Cults Columbia |Listen|Buy|
14. Sloan The Double Cross Yep Roc |Listen|Buy|
15. Lykke Li Wounded Rhymes Atlantic |Listen|Buy|
16. Iron & Wine Kiss Each Other Clean Warner Bros. |Listen|Buy|
17. Vaccines What Did You Expect From The Vaccines Columbia |Listen|Buy|
18. Gang Of Four Content Yep Roc |Listen|Buy|
19. Feist Metals Interscope |Listen|Buy|
20. Lonely Island Turtleneck & Chain Republic |Listen|Buy|

Honorable Mention:  Peter Bjorn & John – Gimme Some (Almost Gold)  PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Vagrant)  Yuck – S/T (Fat Possum)  Phantogram – Nightlife EP (Barsuk)  Handsome Furs – Sound Kapital (Sub Pop)  Head & The Heart – S/T (Sub Pop)  Thao & Mirah – S/T (Kill Rock Stars)  Sondre Lerche – Sondre Lerche (Redeye)  Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo (Matador)  Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Belong (Slumberland)  Josh Rouse & The Long Vacations – S/T (Bedroom Classics)  Rubblebucket – Omega La La (Megaforce)  Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde (Fat Possum)

Please see also: my “selections from” playlists for the top 20 list and the honorable mentions. Enjoy and Happy New Year!

]]> http://the-music-snob.net/2011/12/top-20-albums-of-2011/feed/ 0 Playlist: Selections from my Top 20 Albums of 2011 http://the-music-snob.net/2011/12/playlist-selections-from-my-top-20-albums-of-2011/ http://the-music-snob.net/2011/12/playlist-selections-from-my-top-20-albums-of-2011/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:34:39 +0000 Matt Moeller http://the-music-snob.net/?p=1202 Considering the faltering legal status of my usual go to music playlist site Grooveshark.com, I am also including a link to the playlist through Spotify.

Selections from Top 20 Albums of 2011

Until its future demise I will continue embedding playlists from Grooveshark.

If you do not see the embedded playlist below please follow this link or check it on Spotify through the link above.

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Selections from Top Albums of 2011 – Honorable Mention

Until its future demise I will continue embedding playlists from Grooveshark.

If you do not see the embedded playlist below please follow this link or check it on Spotify through the link above.

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# Artist Album Label
1. Beach House Teen Dream
 Sub Pop |Listen|Buy|
2. Manic Steet Preachers Postcards From A Younger Man
 Columbia |Listen|Buy|
3. Band Of Horses Infinite Arms
 Fat Possum |Listen|Buy|
4. National High Violet
 4AD |Listen|Buy|
5. Jenny & Johnny I’m Having Fun Now
 Warner Bros. |Listen|Buy|
6. Laura Veirs July Flame
 Raven Marching Band |Listen|Buy|
7. New Pornographers Together Matador |Listen|Buy|
8. Frightened Rabbit Winter Of Mixed Drinks
 Fat Cat |Listen|Buy|
9. Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record Arts & Craft |Listen|Buy|
10. Best Coast Crazy For You Mexican Summer |Listen|Buy|
11. Vampire Weekend Contra XL |Listen|Buy|
12. Arcade Fire The Suburbs Merge |Listen|Buy|
13. Twin Shadow Forget Terrible |Listen|Buy|
14. Black Keys Brothers Nonesuch |Listen|Buy|
15. Les Savy Fav Root For Ruin Frenchkiss |Listen|Buy|
16. Yeasayer Odd Blood Secretly Canadian |Listen|Buy|
17. Dum Dum Girls I Will Be Sub Pop |Listen|Buy|
18. Broken Bells Broken Bells Columbia |Listen|Buy|
19. Four Tet There Is Love In You Domino |Listen|Buy|
20. Stars The Five Ghosts Vagrant |Listen|Buy|

Honorable Mention: Sun Kil Moon – Admiral Fell Promises – Caldo Verde Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo – Sub Pop Posies – Blood/Candy – Rykodisc Pernice Brothers – Goodbye, Killer – Ashmont Nada Surf – If I Had A Hi-Fi – Mardev Marnie Stern – Marnie Stern – Kill Rock Stars Sarah Harmer – Oh Little Fire – Zoe Bettie Serveert – Pharmacy Of Love – Second Motions Freedy Johnston – Rain On The City – S/R Teenage Fanclub – Shadows – Merge Matt Pond PA – The Dark Leaves – Megaforce Neil Young – Le Noise – Reprise Local Natives – Gorilla Manor – Frenchkiss ]]> http://the-music-snob.net/2010/12/top-20-albums-of-2010/feed/ 0 Playlist: Best Songs of 2010 http://the-music-snob.net/2010/12/playlist-best-songs-of-2010/ http://the-music-snob.net/2010/12/playlist-best-songs-of-2010/#comments Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:57:47 +0000 Matt Moeller http://the-music-snob.net/?p=1147

Below is a playlist featuring some of the best tracks off the albums listed on my Top 20 list of 2010.  If you do not see the embedded playlist below please follow this link.

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]]> http://the-music-snob.net/2010/12/playlist-best-songs-of-2010-%e2%80%93-honorable-mention/feed/ 0 Playlist: Best Songs of 2009 – Honorable Mention http://the-music-snob.net/2010/02/playlist-best-songs-of-2009-honorable-mention/ http://the-music-snob.net/2010/02/playlist-best-songs-of-2009-honorable-mention/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:10:27 +0000 Matt Moeller http://the-music-snob.net/?p=881 As a companion to my list and playlist of the top 20 best albums of 2009, I present a playlist featuring the best cuts from 2009 that were not included on those lists.

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]]> http://the-music-snob.net/2010/01/playlist-best-songs-of-2009/feed/ 0 Top 20 Albums of 2009 http://the-music-snob.net/2010/01/top-20-albums-of-2009/ http://the-music-snob.net/2010/01/top-20-albums-of-2009/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:06:51 +0000 Matt Moeller http://the-music-snob.net/?p=849
# Artist Album Label
1. Metric Fantasies Metric/Last Gang |Listen|Buy|
2. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca Domino |Listen|Buy|
3. Handsome Furs Face Control Sub Pop |Listen|Buy|
4. Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career 4AD |Listen|Buy|
5. Joe Henry Blood From Stars Anti |Listen|Buy|
6. Why? Eskimo Snow Anticon |Listen|Buy|
7. Jason Lytle Yours Truly, The Commuter Anti |Listen|Buy|
8. Dinosaur Jr. Farm Jagjaguwar |Listen|Buy|
9. Andrew Bird Noble Beast Fat Possum |Listen|Buy|
10. Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle Drag City |Listen|Buy|
11. Doves Kingdom Of Rust EMI |Listen|Buy|
12. Built To Spill There Is No Enemy Warner Bros. |Listen|Buy|
13. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion Domino |Listen|Buy|
14. Antlers Hospice Frenchkiss |Listen|Buy|
15. Pains Of Being Pure At Heart Pains Of Being Pure At Heart Slumberland |Listen|Buy|
16. jj jj n° 2 Sincerely Yours |Listen|Buy|
17. Lou Barlow Goodnight Unknown Merge |Listen|Buy|
18. Sonic Youth The Eternal Matador |Listen|Buy|
19. Mountain Goats Life of The World To Come 4AD |Listen|Buy|
20. Yeah Yeah Yeahs It’s Blitz Interscope |Listen|Buy|

Honorable Mention:

The Gossip – Music For Men Girls – Album Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse – Dark Night Of The Soul Mos Def – The Ecstatic Mountain Goats & John Vanderslice – Moon Colony Bloodbath Wilco – Wilco (The Album) tUnE-yArDs – BiRd-BrAiNs Boat – Setting The Paces ]]> http://the-music-snob.net/2010/01/top-20-albums-of-2009/feed/ 2 Best Albums Of 1999 http://the-music-snob.net/2009/02/best-albums-of-1999/ http://the-music-snob.net/2009/02/best-albums-of-1999/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:13:28 +0000 Matt Moeller http://the-music-snob.net/?p=84

BEST ALBUMS OF 1999

#
Artist Album Label
1
Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin Warner Bros.
2
Wilco Summer Teeth Warner Bros.
3
Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I Desoto
4
Splashdown The Red Shift EP/Blueshift Java/Unreleased
5
Pinback Pinback Ace Fu
6
Tom Waits Mule Variations Anti
7
Low Secret Name Kranky
8
Folk Implosion One Part Lullaby Interscope
9
Guided By Voices Do The Collapse TVT
10
Matthew Sweet In Reverse Volcano
11
Sloan Between The Bridges Murder
12
Built To Spill Keep It Like A Secret Warner Bros.
13
Hang Ups Second Story Restless
14
Arcwelder Everest Touch & Go
15
Essex Green Everything Is Green Kindercore
16
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci Spanish Dance Troupe Beggars Banquet
17
Old 97′s Fight Songs Elektra
18
Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs Merge
19
Les Savy Fav The Cat & The Cobra French Kiss
20
Kingsbury Manx Kingsbury Manx Overcoat ]]> http://the-music-snob.net/2009/02/best-albums-of-1999/feed/ 0