captains dead’s top 30 records of the decade, 1-10
when i was a little kid i remember constantly asking my mother how old i would be in the year 2000. this was before i could count or add and stuff, or maybe i just did it cause i was lazy. regardless, the answer always came up as 26, but she always liked to add that i may not live to see said age or date – alluding to the fact that she may kill me beforehand. apparently, i was a pain in the ass in my younger days.
when 2000 hit i was indeed 26, and as it turns out was never murdered by my mother. i was living in chicago, like i had the previous 26 years, and life was grand. i was getting married in august, had a good job, she had a good job, decent amount of disposable income, lots of friends and things seemed like they were moving in the right direction.
a scant 10 years later, and holy shit has my life changed! you all prob know my story so im not going to get into it, but yeah its changed. in brief though: got two kids, live in new orleans, still married, still have a good job, she just got a good job, much broker and still wondering what i want to do with my life. one thing that hasnt changed,nor will it ever probably, is my obsession and my love affair with music. i guess thats why i keep doing this?
anyway, here are my top 10 favorite records of the 00’s – 11-30 will be posted over the next two days.
1. wilco.yankee hotel foxtrot
2. califone.quicksand/cradlesnakes
vampiring again
horoscopic amputation honey
3. chin up chin up.we should have never lived like we were skyscrapers
we should have never lived like we were skyscrapers
virginia, dont drown
4. the everybodyfields.nothing is okay
5. dbt.the dirty south
puttin people on the moon
carl perkins cadillac
6. the kamikaze hearts.oneida road
noone called you a failure
deer hunter
7. richard buckner.the hill
emily sparks
stream it via merge
8. modest mouse.the moon and antarctica
i came as a rat
life like weeds
9.songs:ohia.magnolia electric co
long dark blues
just be simple
10. the avalanches.since i left you
since i left you
stay another season
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I don’t think I could possibly come up with a top 30 of the decade. I do like yours however. The only album I don’t know is that Richard Buckner. I loved his early stuff but I somehow drifted away from him. I’ll have to check that out.
actually the top ten wasnt that hard… everything else though is kinda all up in the air. the hill is prob my second fave buckner record. it was released as one piece, but has since been broken up into individual tracks. i actually like it better as one piece cause it just flows perfectly and requires you to sit down and listen instead of just picking apart the pieces.
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good list; the chin up X2 album is one of the most invigorating, hopeful albums i know, and the magonlia electric co is timeless and epic. Their new one is the first, I think, to get anywhere near the quality of that album.
i’m with the guy who couldn’t muster up 30 albums for the past decade (although, give me a few more weeks of unemployment and we’ll see). I forget enough shit on an end-of-year list, that I’d probably get to album, 28 and realize, crap, i’d left my 5 favorite albums off altogether. how long did this take to put together?
gabe, agreed re: mec. the new one is pretty fucking good and one of my faves of the year. the list was actually pretty easy, probably took me a couple hours. i went through my last.fm acct and that was a big help.
The Hill is amazing! Richard Buckner is a songwriter of uncompromising elegance. His insurgent country twang is the product of a San Francisco/Lubbock association, being born and raised in California but having a strong musical affinity for the likes of Texas country giants TERRY ALLEN and JIMMIE DALE GILMORE. His impressive catalogue of albums move from folk balladry to tawdry guitar rave ups . Pitchfork complimented him thusly: “whether taking on folk, power-pop, country, rock, or gently experimental drones, he produces uniformly gleaming, misty enigmas. He intones elusive lyrics in a smeared voice, artfully skirting the subject.” And we have to agree. The man knows how to craft and perfectly deliver distinctly lovely songs. Leave the ear plugs, bring the girl to The Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western Ave. Chicago this Saturday, September 19th.
i think you might like this….
click my name if your interested, modest mouse influenced but not a copy cat.