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December 16, 2009
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Top 50 Albums of 2000-2009
Tomorrow at 3 PM on WXCI John is doing his top 20 of the 2000s.
Here is my top 50
1. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
2. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3. Radiohead - Kid A
4. The Postal Service - Give Up
5. The Microphones - The Glow Pt 2
6. Elliott Smith - Figure 8
7. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
8. Cursive - the Ugly Organ
9. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
10. Joana Newsom - Ys
11. Ugly Casanova - Sharpen Your Teeth
12. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
13. Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts & We’re Voting Yes
14. Mountain Goats - the Sunset Tree
15. Pinback - Blue Screen Life
16. The Decemberists - Hey Majesty
17. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming
18. Bright Eyes - Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground
19. The Shins - Chutes to Narrow
20. The Album Leaf - In a Safe Place
21. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
22. Blonde Redhead - 23
23. Ted Leo RX - The Tyranny of Distance
24. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robot
25. Caribou - Up in Flames
26. Beck - Sea Change
27. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
28. Radiohead - In Rainbows
29. The Strokes - Is This It?
30. The Thermals - Fuckin A
31. Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun
32. Sigur Ros - Takk…
33. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
34. Cat Power - You are Free
35. Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel the Illinoise!
36. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
37. man man - six demon bag
38. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
39. Of Montreal - Satanic Panic In the Attic
40. Wolf Parade - Apologies to Queen Mary
41. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
42. The Books - Lost & Safe
43. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
44. Hop Along, Queen Ansleis - Freshmen Year
45. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
46. Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
47. The Good Life - Album of the Year
48. Ryan Adams & the Cardnals - Cold Roses
49. Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
50. Q and Not U - Different Damage- Top 50 Albums of the Decade
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We are so happy about this.. Will be the best online music zine ever..
okay, I’ve tasted the sweet nectar of music lists again… I heard one of my best friends grace the holy and pure airwaves of college radio with the top albums of 2000s. I’ve been diving deeper into my Top 20 of 2009 and my top 10 songs of the year as well as expanding my top 50 of 2000s to a top 75.
Alpaugh (marriedtothesea) approached me about bringing about some new Empty Page in some way shape or form… Brian always has http://betterthandisco.com/ that I’ve written for and my old colleague Bill Kenney just contacted me about writing for a blog he might start.Cheers!
p.s. comments? concerns? music war in smoky car? passed out on new years listening to DCFC on repeat?
December 11, 2009
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Love Lost, Music as a Girlfriend
I’m not a fighter I’m a lover… Famous last words of the poet laureate, pacifist, and of course the iconic Kinks. But even more important, last words of the the audiophile. Spooning their LPs in the night like long lost lovers. Soothing their emptiness with the easy sounds of Morrissey imports, familiar melodies of the Beach Boys, and the distant echos of The Animal Collective.
We are a group of indecent ladies and gentlemen ripped to shreds by the sound of a pop tune, or the bark of a genre breaking melody, hacking into the deep recesses of a soul effected by the tales of infectious romance and love lost. We will love many things in our lives but will only be in love with music.
Have you ever been left by a band? Misdirected into thinking that your emotions are directly feeding the lifeline which is the lyrical genius of your current steady record? Well be cautions young lovers they will all leave you one day.
One morning you will arise from a night of neurotic pop melodies dancing in your subconscious, to a ground breaking release from your favorite artist. It is then that you realize that your musical love affair’s trip to the bodega for American Spirits was not a trip at all. They have left you for a new genre. They have decided to sign to a major label and their sound will be affect for eternity. We are doomed as fans.
Our fate is inevitable. We will be left, and the only thing to console us will be the reissue of Pet Sounds that we bought at Urban Outfitters, (by the way, that should never be repeated, to anyone, under any circumstance, Urban Outfitters that is, not the Pet Sounds.) God Only Knows, repeatedly plays in the background as we grasp for our last breath and micro beer. We dive for our internet connection to find the next release that will accommodate our current but always fleeting new favorite genre, alt- country/indie/experimental/new wave. The realization that there is only one cure that exists, is blessed upon our shoulders in a divine order. This medicine, a re-spin of our heroic album, while scoffing all of the changes the new one has invented. Then in a haze of Dogfish Head and PBR we decide to blog our furious demeanor caused by the greatest disappointment we have been left to experience. Our recent favorite artist has broken up, with us. Depression sets in.
We only dream of being an inspiring artist ourselves. Taking our new anger and love loss, commit it to recycled, organic parchment and compose the epitome of a singer songwriter track. This release will be the definition of an understatement, with hints of Elliott Smith and a dash of Nick Drake. Scratch that, more Smith, less Drake, and a hint of…. of…. something a bit more out of character. Ok perfect. A track that is Elliot Smith, a little Drake, poppy like Sondre Lerche but dark like Owen. Owen post, No Good, for No One, but pre, I Do Perceive. Maybe even throw in a little Matt Skiba, heroine abused, Good Fucking Bye - grit, to spice it up. And alas we have closure.
The reality is that our collection of next to famous artists will rarely carry our emotions through a half decade without drop kicking across the beer covered floor of our favorite venue or salvo decorated studio. Heartbreak is inevitable for us.
My suggestion, is live as loner, a rebel. Recluse yourself, drag no soul into the depths you wish to explore as an aficionado of music culture. Or start a club os same minded self afflicted snobs like yourself. Maybe you already reside by these tenements, because the bitter sweet reality is that, your favorite artists are the sea which carries the waves, and we are just the wreckage of the finest galleons, laid waste to the bosom of the ocean floor.Music is nothing but but a summer girlfriend. A Jersey Shore weekend score. No matter how bad the burn we just keep returning to the fire.
m. alpaugh
November 24, 2009
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New Porchlight Sessions Podcast..
We are looking to record a new Porchlight Session this coming holiday, maybe even another two. If you are interested, have a suggestions we would be glad to take them.
email: bhrandcompany@me.com with your suggestions.
- Porchlight Sessions,
November 17, 2009
November 10, 2009
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A TRUE SUPPORTER!!
my BHR & Co. shirt came!
November 4, 2009
November 2, 2009
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The Human Era @ the Clash Bar
October 30, 2009
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The Human Era Live
The Human Era live tonight 10:30 @ The Clash Bar in Clifton, NJ
October 29, 2009
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Back Up Gravity Plan - New Track in the making
This is a song I’m currently working on. I’m not done yet but I wanna know what you dudes and dudets think of it. Be honest it helps make it better. So let me know :)
Backup Gravity Plan
“no name yet”- Has been played 77 times.
