2011 in music: The CKTK quarterly report

09Apr11

This year, we’re turning over a new leaf. We’re combining the Quarterly Reports. CK and TK’s opinions, boiled down into one easy-to-digest list with a couple hundred tags. The only question left is: WILL IT BLEND? Favorites So Far: Albums that stand a distinct chance of being on one of our Top 10 lists at [...]

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Tags: about group, adele, akron family, andre 3000, antlers, arctic monkeys, beck, bill callahan, blaqk audio, blink 182, bon iver, bright eyes, burial, cake, coldplay, colin stetson, cults, cut copy, danger mouse, danielson, death can for cutie, decemberists, demdike stare, destroyer, devotchka, dodos, does it offend you yeah?, dr. dre, duran duran, fleet foxes, foo fighters, ford & lopatin, fountains of wayne, g side, games, go! team, gym class heroes, hercules & love affair, hunx and his punx, iron & wine, islands, jack white, jack's mannequin, jay-z, jens lekman, julianna barwick, kanye west, killers, kills, lady gaga, lindsey pool, liz janes, lonely island, low anthem, lupe fiasco, m83, matisyahu, moddi, modest mouse, mogwai, moonface, mother mother, muse, my morning jacket, nicholas jaar, outkast, pains of being pure at heart, panda bear, panic! at the disco, parts and labor, passion pit, patrick stump, patrick wolf, peter bjorn and john, psychic paramount, r.e.m., radiohead, red hot chili peppers, reel big fish, rivers cuomo, rome, santigold, sea and cake, shins, smith westerns, strokes, stryper, switchfoot, taking back sunday, teddybears, tegan and sara, tennis, travie mccoy, trio mediaeval, tv on the radio, weeknd, weezer, weird al yankovic, wire, wye oak, yuck

The soundtrack of our lives

14May10

As I was listening to The Tallest Man On Earth’s fantastic new record last week, I started thinking to myself, “this is such an autumn/winter record. This record doesn’t sound like something I should be listening to now.” It’s a great record, but it doesn’t especially lend itself to listening at max volume with the [...]

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Tags: beck, bob dylan, danny baller, high school, knife, reel big fish, ska, tallest man on earth

ck’s top 100 albums of the decade: #100-51

23Jan10

Welcome back. It’s that time again; time for another list pored over by one of your two founding listmaniacs. We’ve spent so much time reading top album lists over the past decade, we needed to give back. What follows are my thoughts about the greatest albums of 2000-2009. I won’t be doing any decade analysis; [...]

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Tags: beck, belle and sebastian, ben folds, coheed and cambria, coldplay, conor oberst, daft punk, dashboard confessional, decemberists, elliott smith, fall out boy, five iron frenzy, flaming lips, get up kids, girls, hives, jack johnson, jamie lidell, jimmy eat world, johnny cash, kings of convenience, matisyahu, mew, modest mouse, muse, of montreal, ozma, panic! at the disco, passion pit, phantom planet, phoenix, reggie and the full effect, rocket summer, shins, sigur ros, straylight run, sufjan stevens, taking back sunday, tv on the radio, u.s.e., vroom, weezer, white stripes

ck’s “best of 2009″ mix

08Jan10

Every year since 2006, I’ve been making a “Best Of” mix at the end of the year to give to friends and family members around the holidays. This year, I was not able to see most of my friends, so I decided to make the playlist and stick it online instead. So, here we are! [...]

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Tags: 2009, 2010, adam lambert, animal collective, antlers, atlas sound, basement jaxx, beck, books, dark was the night, darkness, deerhunter, dirty projectors, discovery, fun, girls, grizzly bear, john lennon, jose gonzalez, justin hawkins, kris allen, matisyahu, metric, michael jackson, nick drake, passion pit, phoenix, ps22, record club, rivers cuomo, tegan and sara, u.s.e., velvet underground, weezer, yeah yeah yeahs

Notable Omissions: 2009 Edition

14Dec09

Four score and seven years ago, it was 1922. And while the Roaring ’20s were the first great height of leisure time in the US, it was hard to discover music independently without going to ballroom dances every night. Fast forward from the Jazz Age to the Digital Age, and it seems as if everyone [...]

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Tags: 2009, adam lambert, afi, andrew bird, antony and the johnsons, arctic monkeys, beck, beirut, bob dylan, conor oberst, dan deacon, danger mouse, dark was the night, darkness, dead weather, decemberists, discovery, fever ray, flaming lips, grizzly bear, islands, jay-z, julian casablancas, julian plenti, justin hawkins, kid cudi, kings of convenience, kris allen, lady sovereign, lily allen, lonely island, mars volta, metric, mew, mika, modest mouse, monsters of folk, muse, pains of being pure at heart, patrick wolf, pete yorn, pictureplane, pink, relient k, riceboy sleeps, rivers cuomo, say anything, scarlett johansson, silversun pickups, sparklehorse, st. vincent, sufjan stevens, sunset rubdown, switchfoot, taking back sunday, tegan and sara, them crooked vultures, velvet underground, very best, wilco, xx, yeah yeah yeahs

ck’s top ten albums of 2008

07Dec09

Thanks for following the curves of our counting-down compendium. We are zeroing in on our top ten albums of 2009, as well as some pretty sizable lists about the best records of the decade. Stay tuned; CKTK will be taking care of you through the new year. We have two more rerun lists for you [...]

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Tags: 2000s, 2008, annuals, beck, coldplay, conor oberst, girl talk, jamie lidell, m83, panic! at the disco, sigur ros, vampire weekend

ck’s top ten albums of 2005

24Nov09

First, a note about the direction of CKTK. We will be posting our end-0f-the-decade thoughts soon. Also, our top albums of 2009 lists will drop in mid-to-late-December. To lead up to those, we will be posting our top ten albums of the year lists from 2005-2008, sans commentary. We will, of course, link to places [...]

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Tags: 2000s, 2005, alkaline trio, beck, decemberists, fall out boy, jack johnson, junior senior, panic! at the disco, rocket summer, sigur ros, sufjan stevens, this blog