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

ck’s top 100 albums of the decade: #50-11

25Jan10

Hey hey, here we go. I hope you spent the entire weekend evaluating the picks from the previous post. This has been quite the metaphorical trip down memory lane for me; I was 14 when the naughties began, and I’m 24 on the way out. Most of my music-listening life happened in the last ten [...]

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Tags: 2000s, afi, alkaline trio, animal collective, annuals, antlers, arcade fire, brave saint saturn, death cab for cutie, decemberists, format, fun, girl talk, gnarls barkley, hives, joy electric, juliana theory, killers, knife, lindsey pool, m83, mars volta, muse, panda bear, shout out louds, spoon, strokes, sufjan stevens, taking back sunday, u.s.e., vampire weekend, white stripes, yeasayer

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

tk’s top 40 albums of the decade

03Jan10

I pity the poor suckers who unleashed their “Albums of the Decade” lists before midnight on January 1st, 2010, because they ALL MISSED THIS ONE! This album (the one that I linked with pink ink before the exclamation point and after the word “they”) did MORE than just convert me to Epistemological Luddism–it also reminded [...]

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Tags: animal collective, antlers, apr financing, arcade fire, bad plus, battles, bill callahan, brian wilson, broken social scene, decemberists, devendra banhart, dj tiesto, doves, epistemological luddism, fleet foxes, fuck buttons, iron & wine, joanna newsom, johann johannsson, jose gonzalez, knife, lcd soundsystem, liars, m83, murder by death, national, noughties, old crow medicine show, panda bear, radiohead, sigur ros, silversun pickups, strokes, sufjan stevens, tallest man on earth, tv on the radio, war on drugs

tk’s top 10 albums of 2009

21Dec09

Alas, after a whole lot of this and a little bit of that, my 2009 list is ready to go. I’ll start by saying, yes, I do feel bad for the poor artists who are releasing albums this Tuesday, the 29th of December. But no, I don’t feel quite bad enough to wait until January [...]

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Tags: animal collective, antlers, antony and the johnsons, bill callahan, camera obscura, decemberists, dirty projectors, ESPN, felice brothers, fuck buttons, girls, japandroids, loney dear, m. ward, metric, phoenix, silversun pickups, xx

Notable Emissions: tk’s turn for ’09

16Dec09

Notable Emissions for 2009… No, I’m not talking about the carbon kind. Nor am I referring to that of the nocturnal variety. Rather, I am now tackling my Notable Emissions (er… Omissions) of 2009, the music that couldn’t quite claw its way into my Top 10 but left an impression on me nonetheless. I will [...]

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Tags: 2009, air, akron family, andrew bird, antony and the johnsons, balmorhea, bat for lashes, ben gibbard, bob marley, camera obscura, coldplay, death cab for cutie, decemberists, dry spells, edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros, family of the year, fever ray, fool's gold, foreign born, girls, grizzly bear, here we go magic, jack kerouac, kid cudi, knaan, leslie and the badgers, linkin park, low anthem, m. ward, metric, mew, morrissey, mount eerie, neko case, noah and the whale, patrick watson, phoenix, pos, silversun pickups, swell season

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 2006

28Nov09

Not to be outdone, here are my top ten albums of 2006. You can see the list with commentary and a bunch of other categories right here. This was the first year that I wrote a full commentary for the list, and it was INDEED a great year in music. Don’t forget that this is [...]

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Tags: 2000s, 2006, afi, big city rock, decemberists, girl talk, gnarls barkley, knife, matisyahu, sufjan stevens, taking back sunday, thom yorke

tk’s top 10 albums of 2006

25Nov09

2006 was an outstanding year for music. If you disagree then you’re not my friend anymore. I have elected to share my list from that year rather than 2005 for two reasons: 1) A strange and inadvertent hibernation I experienced in 2005 within the caves of Malaysia. 2) My recent obsession with one-upping everyone around [...]

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Tags: 2000s, 2006, band of horses, belle & sebastian, decemberists, islands, joanna newsom, knife, liars, malaysia, strokes, sufjan stevens, thom yorke

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