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

Fatal Omissions: 2010

18Dec10

The music industry is a battlefield. I realize that’s an easy metaphor to pull out of your back pocket, but it’s more true than ever. However, it’s no longer the sort of battlefield where two opposing armies walk toward each other until they are close enough to swing swords. No, this battlefield is the kind [...]

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Tags: 2010, acorn, against me!, alkaline trio, anberlin, animal collective, annoying abuse of alliteration, annuals, antoine dodson, arcade fire, band of horses, belle and sebastian, bjork, bleach, bloc party, brandon flowers, broken bells, caribou, ceo, christina aguilera, chromeo, coheed and cambria, danger mouse, david byrne, dead weather, deconstructionism, dinosaur feathers, dirty projectors, double rainbow, dr. dog, eclipse, fatboy slim, five iron frenzy, free energy, freelance whales, fun, games, ghoti hook, girl talk, gregory brothers, gym class heroes, hold steady, imelda marcos, jack johnson, joanna newsom, jonsi, kele, laura veirs, lcd soundsystem, los campesinos!, m.i.a, mars volta, mates of state, maximum balloon, mgmt, michael jackson, mortal kombat, motion city soundtrack, my chemical romance, national, peter gabriel, phantogram, plants and animals, ra ra riot, rihanna, robyn, rocket summer, roots, sasquatch, sasquatch! music festival, she & him, shins, shout out louds, sigur ros, something corporate, spoon, stupid personification tricks, sufjan stevens, taking back sunday, thermals, travie mccoy, tv girl, tv on the radio, twee, twilight, vedera, wale, weekend, weezer, white stripes, wolf parade, yeasayer, young veins

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 2008

09Dec09

My 2008 list and I get along well. We still do. It featured a few more obvious picks like Fleet Foxes, TV on the Radio, and Bon Iver and a few overlooked gems from The War on Drugs, Plants and Animals, and The Week that Was. It also featured a few 80s throwbacks in the [...]

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Tags: bon iver, cut copy, fleet foxes, m83, plants and animals, randy newman, shearwater, the week that was, tv on the radio, war on drugs