» Handsome Furs http://the-music-snob.net Sun, 02 May 2010 18:53:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Playlist: Best Songs of 2009 http://the-music-snob.net/2010/01/playlist-best-songs-of-2009/ http://the-music-snob.net/2010/01/playlist-best-songs-of-2009/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:25:26 +0000 Matt Moeller http://the-music-snob.net/?p=867 Running a little late on this one…  As a companion to my list of the top 20 best albums of 2009, I present a playlist featuring one of the best cuts off of each of those albums, re-sequenced for maximum enjoyment.

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# 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 Playlist: Songs To Be Obsessed With – Volume 4 http://the-music-snob.net/2009/05/playlist-songs-to-be-obsessed-with-volume-4/ http://the-music-snob.net/2009/05/playlist-songs-to-be-obsessed-with-volume-4/#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 04:08:39 +0000 Matt Moeller http://the-music-snob.net/?p=585 Please enjoy a new batch of songs that I’ve been obsessed with over the last 6 months or so.  Here is a more detailed list of what you will find in the playlist at the bottom of this post.

1) “Misunderstood” by Wilco (6:28)from Being There – 1996.
2) “Borrowed Tune” by Neil Young (3:26) from Tonight’s The Night – 1975.
3) “Shine A Light” by Rolling Stones (4:16) from Exile On Main Street – 1972.
4) “Long as I Can See The Light” by Creedence Clearwater Revival (3:34) from Cosmos Factory – 1970.
5) “I Saw The Light” by Williams, Hank (2:44) from the single of the same name – 1948.
6) “Acuff-Rose” by Uncle Tupelo (2:35) from Anodyne – 1993.
7) “School Days” by Wainwright, Loudon, III (3:06) from Album I – 1970.
8) “The Mess Inside” by Mountain Goats (3:35) from All Hail West Texas – 2002.
9) “Surrounded” by Mountain Goats & John Vanderslice (2:21) from Moon Colony Bloodbath – 2009.
10) “Wind and the Dove” by Bill Callahan (4:34) from Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle – 2009.
11) “Tape From California” by Phil Ochs (6:47) from Tape From California – 1968.
12) “Sunny South Kensington” by Donovan (3:46) from Mellow Yellow – 1967.
13) “Oh! You Pretty Things” by David Bowie (3:15) from Hunky Dory – 1971.
14) “Photograph” by Ringo Starr (3:57) from Ringo – 1973.
15) “Collect Call” by Metric (4:46) from Fantasies – 2009.
16) “Little Bit” by Lykke Li (4:34) from Youth Novels – 2008.
17) “Very Loud” by Shout Out Louds (4:05) from Howl Howl Gaff Gaff – 2005.
18) “Treason” by Teardrop Explodes (2:58) from Kilimanjaro – 1980.
19) “Talking Hotel Arbat Blues” by Handsome Furs (2:43) from Face Control – 2009.

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ating: Track: Sound Code: Track Title: Length:
**** 1. M Legal Tender 2:53
**** 2. M Evangeline 3:42
***** 3. MH Talking Hotel Arbat Blues 2:43
* 4. M (Passport Kontrol) 1:26
***** 5. M All We Want, Baby, Is Everything 3:11
**** 6. MH I’m Confused 3:38
*** 7. M (White City) 1:29
** 8. M Nyet Spasiba 4:21
*** 9. M Officer of Heart 5:47
*** 10. MH Thy Will Be Done 3:18
***** 11. MH Radio Kaliningrad 4:53

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The second release from this Indie/Synth Pop duo made up of husband and wife team Dan Boeckner & Alexei Perry.  You may recognize the vocals as this is a side project to Dan’s main enterprise the Canadian Indie Rock group Wolf Parade.  This release is among my top 5 so far this year.  It took me a little to warm up the synth background but after a few listens I marveled at the singer’s ability to convey emotions against the artificial background.

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