Posts Tagged ‘phoenix’
tk’s song of today (II)
Prepare to be charmed by this dazzling cover of Phoenix’s “Lisztomania” by a children’s choir called PS22 Chorus.
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Tags: phoenix, ps22 chorus
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
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
Getting in
While talking with TK this week about our favorite albums of 2009, we got into a discussion about the merits of Phoenix’s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. We each had similar experiences with the album. Because the first two tracks are both so great (“Lisztomania” and “1901“), we each had this preconception that the album was very […]
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Tags: john mayer, passion pit, phoenix, something corporate
ck’s top ten albums of 2009
It’s here! It’s here! It’s the Top Ten Albums of 2009 list, something that makes me almost as excited as this video does. For this year’s list, I followed TK’s lead and posted a link to each album on lala.com. That way, you can listen to each album in its entirety and decide for yourself. […]
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Tags: 2009, animal collective, antlers, arcade fire, blink 182, dirty projectors, format, fun, girls, glasvegas, matisyahu, panda bear, passion pit, phoenix, ps22, star wars, u.s.e., weezer
tk’s top 10 albums of 2009
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
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