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: #10-1

27Jan10

No analysis today; I’m letting the music stand for itself (which, of course, it does). As always, click on any album title to listen on lala. Read part I here and part II here. 10    The National – Boxer (2007) 9    Taking Back Sunday – Tell All Your Friends (2002) 8    Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca (2009) [...]

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Tags: brand new, death cab for cutie, dirty projectors, modest mouse, national, postal service, radiohead, saves the day, sufjan stevens, taking back sunday

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

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 2007

01Dec09

I had a lot of fun with my 2007 list. At the time, I was truly convinced that there was an obvious #1 album, with several pretenders to the throne that were each slightly flawed in some way. This is one of those lists that would be very different today – you’ll see how that [...]

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Tags: 2007, animal collective, arcade fire, lindsey pool, modest mouse, of montreal, rocket summer, shins, spoon, white stripes, yeasayer