Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Better than anyone's list: 100 albums of the decade

I. An introduction
The problem with lists is they're so arbitrary. Anyone can throw together a list of favorite albums, but based on what? What's the logic behind numbering things you like from 1 to a certain number? Forget about subjectiveness for a while. That's another topic we lack the space and time to cover. The act of crafting a list in itself is by its nature absurd. Without guidelines or a true system of evaluation, lists are subject to the capricious whims of their individual authors and are therefore meaningless.

But here I am doing a list. And there's no way I'd be doing this if I hadn't discovered a workable system that I think judges every album I've listened to that came out in this decade fairly. An explanation of this system follows. If you just want to see the list, you can skip to part III - THE LIST.

II. An explanation
The first criterion for an album to be eligible for this list is that every song from it still needs to be on my iPod. It seems obvious, but you'd be surprised how many albums didn't make the cut despite having several of my favorite songs on them. If I didn't come up with this system, I might have included these albums anyway, but this method lends itself to a more accurate judgement of the merit of an entire album. So that's the first criterion: it must be an album I'm still willing to listen to all the way through.

Now when I break down the system, you'll see why it's important that every song is included. Looking over my earlier list, the top 500 songs of the decade, I regretted my decision to limit it to 5 songs per album. I resolved to come up with a better way to rank this list. Rather than simply tally up the number of plays and rank accordingly, I decided to come up with a way to calculate a "score" for the album using the plays weighed against the number of tracks (this way otherwise mediocre albums with huge standout tracks wouldn't dominate more solid albums with evenly-distributed numbers of plays, although presumably criterion #1 would nip this in the bud already). I needed an additional factor, since dividing number of plays by number of tracks wasn't cutting it. I decided to take the number of plays of the most-played track of a given album and subtract by the number of plays of the least-played track on the album, resulting in a number I will call the "spread". The formula I came up with is this:

score = (spread/tracks)plays

Or, score equals spread divided by tracks times plays. To use an example, "Kid A" by Radiohead has a total of 97 plays spread across 10 tracks on my iPod. The most played track, "Morning Bell", has 22 plays. The least-played track, "Idioteque", has 4 plays. 22-4 is 18. 18 divided by 10 is 1.8. 1.8 times 97 is 174.6. So the album has a final score of 174 (I will truncate rather than round up to keep things simple).

This method results in a unique score for nearly every album, though in the event of a tie I will allow my capricious whims to decide the order.

III. THE LIST (from left to right: rank, artist, album, score, year)
001. Yea Big + Kid Static - Yea Big + Kid Statoc - 2495 - 2007
002. The Mae Shi - HLLLYH - 1551 - 2008
003. She & Him - Volume One - 1315 - 2008
004. Converge - Jane Doe - 1098 - 2001
005. Doomriders - Black Thunder - 1026 - 2005
006. The Blood Brothers - March On Electric Children - 1011 - 2002
007. Made Out Of Babies - Trophy - 960 - 2005
008. Doves - The Last Broadcast - 955 - 2002
009. Botch - We Are The Romans - 829 - 2000
010. Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams - 827 - 2007
011. Kid Static - In The Meantime - 782 - 2008
012. The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl vol. 1 - 708 - 2001
013. Subtle - For Hero: For Fool - 699 - 2006
014. The Evens - Get Evens - 669 - 2006
015. The Aquarium - The Aquarium - 601 - 2006
016. Oxbow - The Narcotic Story - 572 - 2007
017. The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes - 572 - 2006
018. The Blood Brothers - Crimes - 540 - 2004
019. Joanna Newsom - Ys - 507 - 2006
020. The Evens - The Evens - 452 - 2005
021. The Blood Brothers - ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn - 421 - 2003
022. Tera Melos - Drugs to the Dear Youth - 400 - 2007
023. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Élan Vital - 370 - 2006
024. The Austerity Program - Black Madonna - 351 - 2007
025. Made Out Of Babies - The Ruiner - 350 - 2008
026. Wu-Tang Clan - Iron Flag - 325 - 2001
027. Cat Power - The Greatest - 298 - 2006
028. Nina Nastasia & Jim White - You Follow Me - 297 - 2007
029. Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue - 294 - 2006
030. Pet Genius - Pet Genius - 290 - 2007
031. Rob Sonic - Sabotage Gigante - 290 - 2007
032. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - The Secret of Elena's Tomb - 289 - 2003
033. Eleni Mandell - Miracle of Five - 287 - 2007
034. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes - 280 - 2002
035. Gregor Samsa - Rest - 273 - 2008
036. Cat Power - You Are Free - 262 - 2003
037. Clouds - We Are Above You - 262 - 2008
038. Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals - 220 - 2007
039. The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic - 186 - 2000
040. Ungdomskulen - Cry-Baby - 186 - 2007
041. Kayo Dot - Blue Lambency Downward - 180 - 2008
042. The Knife - Deep Cuts - 177 - 2004
043. Radiohead - Kid A - 174 - 2000
044. Spoon - Girls Can Tell - 174 - 2001
045. Codeseven - Dancing Echoes/Dead Sounds - 166 - 2004
046. Zozobra - Harmonic Tremors - 161 - 2007
047. Cat Power - Jukebox - 158 - 2008
048. Liars - Liars - 157 - 2007
049. Made Out Of Babies - Coward - 157 - 2006
050. Battles - Mirrored - 148 - 2007
051. Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel The Illinoise! - 145 - 2005
052. Clipd Beaks - Hoarse Lords - 133 - 2007
053. Kayo Dot - Choirs of The Eye - 132 - 2003
054. The Knife - Silent Shout - 126 - 2006
055. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat - 113 - 2002
056. These Arms Are Snakes - Oxeneers or The Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home - 111 - 2004
057. M.I.A. - Arular - 110 - 2005
058. Maps & Atlases - Trees, Swallows, Houses - 109 - 2006
059. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! - 105 - 2008
060. Spoon - Gimme Fiction - 103 - 2005
061. The Austerity Program - Terra Nova - 99 - 2003
062. Mission of Burma - The Obliterati - 98 - 2006
063. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away - 94 - 2007
064. Cave In - Perfect Pitch Black - 94 -2005
065. Radiohead - In Rainbows - 93 - 2007
066. Battle of Mice - A Day of Nights - 92 - 2006
067. Jaguar Love - Take Me To The Sea - 89 - 2008
068. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass - 88 - 2007
069. TV On The Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain - 87 - 2006
070. Jucifer - L'Autrichienne - 87 - 2008
071. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus - 86 - 2004
072. Dälek - Abandoned Language - 84 - 2007
073. Q & Not U - Power - 83 - 2004
074. Benton Falls - Guilt Beats Hate - 79 - 2003
075. Some Girls - All My Friends Are Going Death - 73 - 2003
076. At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command - 72 - 2000
077. El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead - 68 - 2007
078. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema - 68 - 2005
079. consonant - consonant - 63 - 2002
080. Jesu/Battle of Mice - Jesu/Battle of Mice - 62 - 2008
081. Read Yellow - Read Yellow - 62 - 2003
082. Spoon - Kill The Moonlight - 61 - 2002
083. Fugazi - The Argument - 60 - 2001
084. Holy Fuck - LP - 59 - 2007
085. PJ Harvey - White Chalk - 58 - 2007
086. Cave In - Antenna - 56 - 2003
087. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - 53 - 2007
088. Rob Sonic - Telicatessen - 50 - 2004
089. Isis - Panopticon - 48 - 2004
090. The White Octave - Menergy - 47 - 2001
091. The New Pornographers - Electric Version - 2003
092. Edie Sedgwick - Things Are Getting Sinister and Sinisterer - 41 - 2009
093. Gorillaz - Gorillaz - 40 - 2001
094. Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild - 40 - 2007
095. Cave In - Jupiter - 38 - 2000
096. Lupe Fiasco - The Cool - 38 - 2007
097. Red Animal War - Black Phantom Crusades - 38 - 2003
098. The Blood Brothers - This Adultery Is Ripe - 37 - 2000
099. Nisennenmondai - Neji Tori - 36 - 2008
100. Black Eyes - Cough - 36 - 2004

IV. Notes
- My original idea, upon completion of this list, was to write 100 more blogs, consisting of an essay for each album trying to justify its place in a top 100, including a download link. I may still embark on this project at some future date, but right now I'm content that the list speaks for itself.
- I can't tell you how many albums I wish I had deleted at least a couple of songs off certain albums, thus rendering them ineligible. To be sure, this is probably not what I would call my favorite 100 albums of the decade. But it is an honest summation of new music I've been listening to since mid-2007(which is part of the reason why the years 2006, 2007 and 2008 are so inordinately represented). And that's all I was going for with this - honesty.
- Nor does this list give an accurate picture of what I've been listening to since the beginning of the decade. That would only be possible if I'd had an iPod at the beginning of 2000 and it kept track of all my plays since then. I listen to music on several different formats, but I use the iPod most often, pretty much due to my work, walking, and sleeping habits. I don't know how I'd judge what I listen to the most without the iPod. Maybe I could count the scratches on my CDs.
- Update 10-3-09: so I went through and changed a couple of these because I had to make sure there weren't any on this list with tracks I wanted to delete. 99 and 100 are now changed. But that's it. Assume everything else on this list is an album where I could not remove even one song from it without losing something from the listening experience. Anyway now I gotta get started on next decade's list.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Better than Pitchfork's list: 500 songs I probably liked this decade

I made my own list of the top 500 songs of the decade using an incredibly scientific method: by the number of plays on my iPod. Considering I've only had an iPod since 2007 it's more a picture of new music I've listened to the most since then. Also I limited it to 5 songs per artist, because if I didn't then several entire albums would've shown up on here. As a result it's a pretty screwy list, where songs that only logged 5 plays end up at the bottom. And there might be a couple that actually came out before 2000, but whatever. Overall I like how it came out. Could be better, but that would require spending more time on it than I've got.

Duck, Mother Fuckers! Yea Big & Kid Static Yea Big & Kid Static Hip-Hop/Rap 1:59 96 7/30/2009 8:32 AM
Lamb And Lion The Mae Shi HLLLYH 2:22 83 9/3/2009 2:10 PM
Black Thunder Doomriders Black Thunder Rock 2:39 81 8/20/2009 11:10 AM
The Broken Vow Converge Jane Doe 2:13 78 7/23/2009 10:26 AM
Words Doves The Last Broadcast 5:42 76 7/23/2009 11:58 PM
Siamese Gun The Blood Brothers March On Electric Children Alternative & Punk 3:19 72 5/5/2009 11:05 PM
Blind Man's Arrow The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl vol. 1 3:39 69 8/17/2009 11:18 PM
Pushed Against The Wall The Evens Get Evens Alternative & Punk 3:34 65 6/29/2009 12:20 AM
C. Thomas Howell As The "Soul Man" Botch We Are The Romans Metal 4:44 62 4/17/2009 1:23 PM
Can't Afford To Live Here The Aquarium The Aquarium Rock 3:40 61 8/31/2009 8:54 AM
Laser Life The Blood Brothers Young Machetes 2:45 61 8/26/2009 11:07 AM
Around The Corner The Evens The Evens 3:25 57 7/2/2009 4:00 AM
Swarm Made Out Of Babies Trophy Other 3:18 56 8/28/2009 9:57 AM
Love Rymes With Hideous Car Wreck The Blood Brothers Crimes Alternative & Punk 3:15 55 6/25/2009 11:21 PM
Sentimental Heart She & Him Volume One Pop 2:36 55 8/11/2009 4:48 PM
Change Is Hard She & Him Volume One Pop 3:03 52 8/11/2009 4:57 PM
02 - Internet Superstar Kid Static In the Meantime Other 1:15 51 9/2/2009 8:54 AM
Run To Your Grave The Mae Shi HLLLYH 3:55 50 9/3/2009 2:14 PM
Run To The Facts (Mae-Shi Mash Up) Mae-Shi + Yea Big & Kid Static HLLLYEA 2:36 49 8/18/2009 12:08 AM
A Tale of Apes I Subtle For Hero: For Fool 3:18 49 8/31/2009 3:56 PM
Move Along The All-American Rejects Move Along Alternative 4:00 48 7/20/2009 10:23 AM
Take it back Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams Hip-Hop 4:12 47 8/29/2009 12:29 AM
Cecilia & The Silhouette Saloon The Blood Brothers Burn, Piano Island, Burn 4:52 45 4/20/2009 10:04 AM
Herculoid Made Out Of Babies Trophy Other 3:47 45 8/10/2009 11:47 AM
The Geometry Of Business OXBOW THE NARCOTIC STORY Doom Metal 4:12 45 7/23/2009 12:35 PM
A Spoonful of Slurry Tera Melos Drugs To The Dear Youth Experimental 2:47 43 9/3/2009 10:10 AM
In Response to Stars Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart Pop 3:40 42 6/25/2009 3:37 PM
Man Of The Mountain Pet Genius Pet Genius Rock 3:47 42 8/14/2009 10:21 PM
The Mercury Craze Subtle For Hero: For Fool 4:40 39 8/31/2009 4:32 PM
I Thought I Saw Your Face Today She & Him Volume One Pop 2:50 38 8/11/2009 5:08 PM
Take It Back She & Him Volume One Pop 2:37 38 8/11/2009 5:10 PM
Pyrite Pedestal Pretty Girls Make Graves Elan Vital 3:29 37 8/9/2009 10:59 PM
This Is Not A Test She & Him Volume One Pop 3:31 37 8/11/2009 4:54 PM
Chicago Sufjan Stevens Come On Feel The Illinoise! Alternative & Punk 6:05 37 9/1/2009 10:11 AM
Mondrian Was A Liar Botch We Are The Romans Metal 2:41 34 4/17/2009 1:08 PM
I Don't Blame You Cat Power You Are Free Rock 3:05 34 8/30/2009 9:31 PM
Uzi (Pinky Ring) Wu-Tang Clan Iron Flag Rap & Hip-Hop 4:43 34 4/29/2009 11:54 PM
Wounded Rhino Made Out Of Babies Trophy Other 4:01 33 8/10/2009 11:58 AM
Speak the Facts Yea Big & Kid Static Yea Big & Kid Static Hip-Hop/Rap 2:19 33 11/21/2008 3:01 PM
Song 18 The Austerity Program Black Madonna 1:15 32 8/20/2009 1:25 PM
Empires In Basements Clouds We Are Above You Psychedelic Rock 2:37 32 6/23/2009 8:28 PM
Static Leads the Coup Yea Big & Kid Static Yea Big & Kid Static Hip-Hop/Rap 2:48 32 1/12/2009 11:27 PM
Monkey & Bear Joanna Newsom Ys 9:29 31 8/31/2009 10:35 PM
We've Built a Time Machine That Runs On Beats. We Shall Only Use It for Good. Yea Big & Kid Static Yea Big & Kid Static Hip-Hop/Rap 2:23 31 2/27/2009 5:39 PM
How Near How Far ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Source Tags & Codes Alternative & Punk 4:00 30 6/28/2009 11:11 PM
Sawdust & Diamonds Joanna Newsom Ys 9:56 30 8/27/2009 10:31 AM
Invisible Ink Made Out of Babies The Ruiner Metal 4:36 30 9/3/2009 3:34 PM
The Melody The Mae Shi HLLLYH Rock 2:18 30 9/3/2009 2:17 PM
So Fresh, So Clean Outkast Stankonia Hip Hop/Rap 4:00 30 7/14/2009 2:17 PM
07 - Rappin N Shit Kid Static In the Meantime Other 4:15 29 9/2/2009 9:03 AM
You Take My Breath Away The Knife Deep Cuts Electronica/Dance 4:28 29 8/31/2009 9:08 AM
Boyz M.I.A. Kala Electronica & Dance 3:28 29 6/17/2009 3:50 PM
Love Today Mika Love Today - Single Pop 3:53 29 6/24/2009 4:28 PM
Things Have to Change, Pete. Yea Big & Kid Static Yea Big & Kid Static Hip-Hop/Rap 3:25 29 1/26/2009 10:45 PM
Waiting for the Summer Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals Alternative 4:55 29 8/20/2009 11:38 PM
Song 17B The Austerity Program Black Madonna 8:00 28 7/1/2009 10:32 PM
My Twin Eleni Mandell Miracle Of Five 4:12 28 8/14/2009 3:26 PM
Breakaway Kelly Clarkson Princess Diaries 2 3:59 28 8/12/2009 10:28 AM
In The Evening Nina Nastasia & Jim White You Follow Me 2:26 28 8/31/2009 9:17 PM
The Fitted Shirt Spoon Girls Can Tell Alternative & Punk 3:12 28 8/19/2009 3:52 PM
rushing elephants Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams Hip-Hop 3:01 28 8/17/2009 11:24 PM
Aura On An Asylum Wall Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper To Rock 7:44 27 8/28/2009 11:00 AM
Mass Romantic The New Pornographers Mass Romantic General Rock 4:04 27 7/19/2009 4:41 PM
Crowning Of A Heart ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead The Secret Of Elena's Tomb [EP] Alternative & Punk 3:30 26 3/31/2009 5:26 PM
Steps & Numbers The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl vol. 1 5:54 26 7/5/2009 11:55 PM
Willie Cat Power The Greatest Folk 5:56 26 9/3/2009 5:27 PM
The Adolescent Gregor Samsa Rest post-rock 5:33 26 7/2/2009 10:29 PM
Walk Away Kelly Clarkson Breakaway Pop 3:08 26 7/20/2009 1:32 AM
Cooker Made Out of Babies The Ruiner Metal 5:49 26 9/3/2009 3:25 PM
Celebrator The Blood Brothers Crimes Alternative & Punk 2:16 25 4/15/2009 4:04 PM
Boys Lie Brandtson Trying to Figure Each Other Out 3:49 25 8/31/2009 7:58 PM
Silent Shout The Knife Silent Shout Synthpop 4:56 25 7/3/2009 7:44 PM
Book of Numbers The Mae Shi HLLLYH Rock 1:56 25 9/3/2009 2:19 PM
Everywhere Michelle Branch The Spirit Room 3:38 25 7/20/2009 12:50 AM
Supernaturally Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds The Lyre of Orpheus 4:37 25 7/8/2009 3:30 PM
Caught by the River Doves The Last Broadcast 5:55 24 5/7/2009 4:25 PM
Sweetness Jimmy Eat World Bleed American Alternative & Punk 3:40 24 8/12/2009 10:24 AM
Hot N' Cold Katy Perry One Of The Boys Pop 3:40 24 8/19/2009 11:58 PM
Down A Stair Backward OXBOW THE NARCOTIC STORY Doom Metal 5:01 24 7/14/2009 3:20 PM
Dead as Disco Rob Sonic Sabotage Gigante Hip Hop/Rap 3:49 24 8/10/2009 4:26 PM
life changes Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams Hip-Hop 7:21 24 8/19/2009 11:18 PM
Song To Bobby Cat Power Jukebox Alternative & Punk 4:17 23 4/22/2009 5:56 PM
Sunflower Codeseven Dancing Echoes/Dead Sounds 5:12 23 4/29/2009 3:57 PM
Paper Plate GZA Pro Tools Hip-Hop 2:48 23 6/19/2009 3:28 PM
Too Little, Too Late JoJo Too Little, Too Late - Single Pop 3:35 23 8/24/2009 10:57 PM
What Would They Know Liars Liars 3:13 23 6/16/2009 2:20 PM
Sweet Misery Michelle Branch The Spirit Room 3:45 23 7/21/2009 12:01 PM
Our Discussion Nina Nastasia & Jim White You Follow Me 3:05 23 7/9/2009 2:18 PM
Australia The Shins Wincing The Night Away Alternative & Punk 3:57 23 8/14/2009 11:35 PM
Spartacus Ungdomskulen Cry-Baby Rock 6:53 23 11/19/2008 2:19 PM
Soon To Follow Zozobra Harmonic Tremors Metal 4:14 23 4/6/2009 12:24 PM
Relative Ways ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Source Tags & Codes Alternative & Punk 4:03 22 4/1/2009 2:59 PM
Blindspot Brandtson Send Us a Signal Alternative 4:08 22 8/29/2009 12:49 AM
Names Cat Power You Are Free Alternative 4:51 22 8/30/2009 11:31 PM
The Kiss Consonant Consonant Alternative 3:40 22 9/1/2009 11:26 PM
Clelia Walking Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward Experimental 5:29 22 8/9/2009 3:20 PM
Good, Not Great Mission Of Burma The Obliterati Rock 2:08 22 7/7/2009 10:58 AM
Morning Bell Radiohead Kid A 4:36 22 8/4/2009 5:44 PM
windmill Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams Hip-Hop 4:31 22 8/11/2009 11:32 PM
Somebody Else Eleni Mandell Miracle Of Five 3:00 21 5/13/2009 2:36 PM
Bleed American Jimmy Eat World Bleed American Alternative & Punk 3:01 21 8/21/2009 10:45 AM
Amazon M.I.A. Arular Club/Dance 4:17 21 6/17/2009 3:16 PM
You're The Wanker, If Anyone Is Say Anything In Defense Of The Genre 3:22 21 8/11/2009 4:31 PM
Combat Rock Sleater-Kinney One Beat Alternative & Punk 4:47 21 8/13/2009 3:14 PM
A Chinese Character The White Octave Unreleased 2:52 21 7/31/2009 11:24 AM
All St. Day ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead The Secret Of Elena's Tomb [EP] Alternative & Punk 3:53 20 9/3/2009 12:32 AM
We Will Bomb You Clipd Beaks Hoarse Lords mixes 2.13.07 4:08 20 7/11/2009 1:28 AM
Ain Leuh Gregor Samsa Rest post-rock 5:28 20 5/26/2009 4:26 PM
Barnburner Harvey Milk Life...The Best Game In Town Rock 2:19 20 8/20/2009 10:58 AM
Timeless Kate Havnevik Melankton 4:03 20 6/26/2009 12:06 AM
Marathon Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye Noise 10:14 20 9/4/2009 9:09 AM
Sister Jack Spoon Gimme Fiction Alternative & Punk 3:35 20 8/19/2009 4:32 PM
2080 Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals Alternative 5:25 20 7/14/2009 10:31 AM
Atlas Battles Mirrored 7:07 19 4/8/2009 11:50 PM
Snare Hangar Battles Mirrored 1:59 19 8/18/2009 11:04 PM
The Wrath Of Marcie The Go! Team Proof of Youth Indie 3:23 19 8/26/2009 10:52 AM
Blue Lambency Downward Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward Experimental 10:00 19 8/9/2009 3:15 PM
Everyplace Is a House Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses 3:58 19 8/17/2009 8:19 PM
It's Not A Fashion Statement, My Chemical Romance Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge Punk 3:30 19 7/17/2009 12:42 AM
Crank That (Soulja Boy) Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com Rap 3:42 19 8/17/2009 5:18 PM
Angela's Secret These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers 3:35 19 8/5/2009 10:51 PM
Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of) The Mars Volta Deloused In the Comatorium Rock 7:31 18 8/5/2009 10:29 AM
District Night Prayer Q & Not U Power 1:16 18 7/30/2009 3:44 PM
Breaking the Broken Sparta Porcelain Rock 3:47 18 8/18/2009 3:49 PM
Coffee Aesop Rock None Shall Pass Rap & Hip-Hop 9:34 17 7/6/2009 7:00 PM
song 11 The Austerity Program Terra Nova (EP) Indie 8:07 17 6/16/2009 11:40 PM
The World Is In Your Way Cave In Perfect Pitch Black 5:10 17 4/23/2009 5:58 PM
Bats Over The Pacific Ocean Jaguar Love Take Me To The Sea Indie 3:44 17 8/21/2009 10:41 AM
Gemini Becoming The Tripod Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper To Rock 10:44 17 8/17/2009 11:41 PM
15 Step Radiohead In Rainbows 3:57 17 8/4/2009 4:08 PM
Middleclass Stomp Subtle For Hero: For Fool 4:15 17 8/31/2009 4:16 PM
Invalid Litter Dept. At The Drive-In Relationship of Command 6:05 16 4/3/2009 4:27 PM
Bones in the Water Battle of Mice A Day of Nights Indie 5:21 16 4/6/2009 4:12 PM
Angel on Hiatus Benton Falls Guilt Beats Hate 4:23 16 8/31/2009 8:10 PM
On Three Brandtson Death & Taxes 2:30 16 4/17/2009 1:55 PM
Who Makes You Feel Dido Life for Rent 4:21 16 7/2/2009 4:15 AM
Drive El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead Hip Hop/Rap 4:14 16 7/17/2009 5:33 PM
Girls Eleni Mandell Miracle Of Five 3:25 16 8/14/2009 3:22 PM
Miracle Of Five Eleni Mandell Miracle Of Five 4:04 16 8/14/2009 3:39 PM
Reputation Outlives Application Fire Divine It's All a Blur 3:33 16 7/15/2009 10:36 PM
I Never Need It Now So Much The Go! Team Proof of Youth Indie 3:27 16 7/20/2009 12:07 AM
Company Gregor Samsa Rest post-rock 2:19 16 5/26/2009 4:34 PM
Emily Joanna Newsom Ys 12:09 16 6/7/2009 11:48 PM
How Will You Love Me Nina Nastasia & Jim White You Follow Me 3:25 16 7/9/2009 2:30 PM
I Come After You Nina Nastasia & Jim White You Follow Me 3:18 16 8/29/2009 12:24 AM
Undone Pearl Jam Lost Dogs 1 3:10 16 7/20/2009 5:47 PM
The Number Pretty Girls Make Graves Elan Vital 3:12 16 8/17/2009 8:04 PM
The Over Under Rob Sonic Sabotage Gigante Hip Hop/Rap 3:38 16 8/10/2009 3:46 PM
Anything You Want Spoon Girls Can Tell Alternative & Punk 2:17 16 8/19/2009 3:54 PM
Province TV On The Radio Return To Cookie Mountain Indie 4:37 16 11/19/2008 12:58 PM
Rainbow Battles Mirrored 8:11 15 8/28/2009 9:53 AM
Saint Matthew Returns To The Womb Botch We Are The Romans Metal 3:05 15 4/17/2009 1:26 PM
Hang Me Up To Dry Cold War Kids Robbers & Cowards Alternative & Punk 3:39 15 4/29/2009 4:46 PM
Perfect Stranger Eleni Mandell Miracle Of Five 3:18 15 8/14/2009 3:42 PM
Smoke & Mirrors Fire Divine It's All a Blur 4:32 15 7/29/2009 11:58 PM
Pencil GZA Pro Tools Hip-Hop 3:58 15 5/27/2009 4:32 PM
My Organ Sounds Like Jaguar Love Take Me To The Sea Indie 5:09 15 7/28/2009 12:06 AM
Falling From Grace Jesu Jesu / Battle of Mice 7:22 15 8/16/2009 11:20 PM
Traitors Jucifer L'Autrichienne Other 2:28 15 6/10/2009 2:40 PM
Nowhere Warm Kate Havnevik Melankton 4:57 15 7/2/2009 4:33 AM
Burning Up Ladytron Velocifero Rock 4:08 15 6/12/2009 4:51 PM
HLLLYH The Mae Shi HLLLYH Rock 4:56 15 9/3/2009 2:23 PM
Hold On, Hold On Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings the Flood Country 2:47 15 7/2/2009 5:19 PM
Return of the Vein Subtle For Hero: For Fool 4:12 15 8/31/2009 4:41 PM
The Shit Sisters These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers 3:34 15 8/28/2009 10:50 AM
Fat Waves Torche Meanderthal Metal 4:33 15 2/11/2009 6:16 PM
Leave the Pieces the Wreckers Recordings Country 3:33 15 5/26/2009 5:49 PM
Days Of Being Wild ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Source Tags & Codes Alternative & Punk 3:27 14 4/1/2009 2:55 PM
Something in the Water Another Statistic 4:16 14 7/28/2009 10:26 AM
The Lamb & The Labrador Battle of Mice A Day of Nights Indie 6:56 14 4/6/2009 4:07 PM
The Bishop Battle of Mice Jesu / Battle of Mice 6:51 14 4/7/2009 11:30 AM
Metal Heart Cat Power Jukebox Alternative & Punk 3:54 14 4/22/2009 5:36 PM
Lost in the Air Cave In Antenna 3:42 14 7/3/2009 6:49 PM
Manipulator Clipd Beaks Hoarse Lords mixes 2.13.07 4:56 14 7/11/2009 1:11 AM
Abandonded Language Dälek Abandoned Language Hip Hop/Rap 10:13 14 5/4/2009 12:34 AM
Table of Elements David Singer The Cost of Living 2:33 14 5/5/2009 3:32 PM
Abutting, Dismantling Gregor Samsa Rest post-rock 6:14 14 5/26/2009 4:32 PM
Alphabets GZA Pro Tools Hip-Hop 2:43 14 5/27/2009 4:35 PM
Cutsman HORSE the band R. Borlax Alternative 3:51 14 5/29/2009 2:06 PM
Blackpowder Jucifer L'Autrichienne Other 2:17 14 8/2/2009 4:05 PM
Tomorrow Ladytron Velocifero Rock 3:36 14 6/29/2009 10:10 AM
Go Go Gadget Flow Lupe Fiasco The Cool Rap & Hip-Hop 4:11 14 6/16/2009 5:48 PM
The Bleeding Heart Show The New Pornographers Twin Cinema Pop 4:27 14 7/19/2009 5:32 PM
Moonland Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, dig!!! 3:54 14 7/7/2009 3:45 PM
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Unknown Satellite Seven Storey Dividing by Zero 3:47 14 8/11/2009 4:46 PM
The Rains Some Girls All My Friends Are Going Death 1:02 14 8/17/2009 4:53 PM
Cut Your Ribbon Sparta Wiretap Scars Rock 3:05 14 8/18/2009 3:45 PM
Don't Let It Get You Down Spoon Kill The Moonlight 3:29 14 8/19/2009 5:40 PM
Crazy People the Wreckers Recordings Country 3:13 14 5/27/2009 5:45 PM
Tonto Battles Mirrored 7:43 13 7/2/2009 3:53 AM
All The Best Dreams Codeseven Dancing Echoes/Dead Sounds 3:58 13 4/29/2009 3:20 PM
Wake the Dead Comeback Kid Wake the Dead 3:17 13 4/30/2009 2:50 PM
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Deficit Jucifer L'Autrichienne Other 2:30 13 6/10/2009 2:09 PM
01 - Where You Go Kid Static In the Meantime Other 1:38 13 8/23/2009 10:42 PM
Black Cat Ladytron Velocifero Rock 5:09 13 7/7/2009 12:20 AM
All For Swinging You Around The New Pornographers Electric Version Pop 3:42 13 7/19/2009 3:25 PM
Albert Goes West Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, dig!!! 3:33 13 7/7/2009 3:54 PM
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Bowtie Outkast Speakerboxx 3:57 13 7/13/2009 5:29 PM
White Chalk PJ Harvey White Chalk-(Advance) Rock 3:13 13 8/4/2009 11:53 AM
The Noctural House Pretty Girls Make Graves Elan Vital 4:07 13 8/9/2009 10:56 PM
Parade Pretty Girls Make Graves Elan Vital 2:43 13 8/9/2009 11:05 PM
Read Yellow Read Yellow Read Yellow Alternative & Punk 2:43 13 8/29/2009 1:07 AM
Blue Shift Red Animal War Breaking in an Angel 4:13 13 8/7/2009 3:15 PM
Middleclass Kill Subtle For Hero: For Fool 4:36 13 8/31/2009 4:20 PM
I Was A Lover TV On The Radio Return To Cookie Mountain Indie 4:21 13 1/23/2009 3:19 PM
Salt Bridge Battle of Mice A Day of Nights Indie 5:49 12 4/6/2009 4:43 PM
False Positive Black Eyes Cough 2:47 12 4/14/2009 3:02 PM
Trepanning Cave In Perfect Pitch Black 4:08 12 4/24/2009 2:08 PM
Heisenberg Says... Clouds We Are Above You Psychedelic Rock 1:39 12 8/29/2009 12:31 AM
Paragraphs Relentless Dälek Abandoned Language Hip Hop/Rap 5:33 12 5/1/2009 5:56 PM
Sound Check (Gravity) Gorillaz Gorillaz Rock 4:41 12 6/29/2009 12:16 AM
Rendered Yards Gregor Samsa Rest post-rock 2:33 12 5/26/2009 5:00 PM
Pseudonyms Gregor Samsa Rest post-rock 6:13 12 5/26/2009 5:06 PM
Slow Hands Interpol Antics 3:04 12 9/2/2009 8:53 AM
Wills Dissolve Isis Panopticon Metal 6:47 12 6/1/2009 4:47 PM
Thermidor Jucifer L'Autrichienne Other 0:32 12 6/10/2009 2:04 PM
05 - Of Prophets & People Kid Static In the Meantime Other 3:21 12 9/2/2009 8:59 AM
Plaster Casts of Everything Liars Liars 3:57 12 6/16/2009 2:05 PM
Raid Madvillain Madvillainy 2:31 12 6/18/2009 3:28 PM
Letter From an Occupant The New Pornographers Mass Romantic Rock 3:46 12 8/31/2009 10:39 PM
Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, dig!!! Rock 3:39 12 7/7/2009 3:38 PM
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Time, Gentlemen, Time OXBOW THE NARCOTIC STORY Doom Metal 4:53 12 7/14/2009 3:15 PM
It's The Giving, Not The Taking OXBOW THE NARCOTIC STORY Doom Metal 6:01 12 7/14/2009 3:51 PM
X-Polynation Q & Not U Power 2:47 12 7/30/2009 3:57 PM
Jambalaya Red Animal War Black Phantom Crusades 3:53 12 8/7/2009 2:47 PM
Brand New Vandals Rob Sonic Sabotage Gigante Hip Hop/Rap 3:49 12 8/10/2009 3:42 PM
Mother of All Bombs Rob Sonic Sabotage Gigante Hip Hop/Rap 3:58 12 8/10/2009 3:50 PM
Super Ball Rob Sonic Telicatessen Alternative Hip-Hop 4:00 12 8/10/2009 4:53 PM
Some Girls Have All The Fuck Some Girls All My Friends Are Going Death 0:49 12 8/17/2009 4:57 PM
You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Alternative & Punk 3:09 12 8/19/2009 2:13 PM
Captain Easychord Stereolab Oscillons From The Anti-Sun Electronica/Dance 2:54 12 8/24/2009 12:38 PM
A-Punk Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend Alternative & Punk 2:18 12 5/4/2009 12:22 AM
Getaway Car Aesop Rock None Shall Pass Rap & Hip-Hop 3:15 11 3/30/2009 4:10 PM
Arcarsenal At The Drive-In Relationship of Command 2:55 11 4/3/2009 4:09 PM
Song 12 The Austerity Program Black Madonna 5:27 11 8/31/2009 11:17 PM
Sleep & Dream Battle of Mice A Day of Nights Indie 5:58 11 4/6/2009 4:18 PM
Race : In Battles Mirrored 4:51 11 4/8/2009 10:59 PM
Defining the Warm-Up Benton Falls Guilt Beats Hate 5:27 11 4/13/2009 4:18 PM
Everest Cave In Tides Of Tomorrow Rock 5:25 11 7/3/2009 7:09 PM
Asylum Chantal Kreviazuk Ghost Stories Pop 4:14 11 4/24/2009 3:49 PM
Wrathscapes Clipd Beaks Hoarse Lords mixes 2.13.07 4:40 11 7/11/2009 1:06 AM
Hoarse Lords Clipd Beaks Hoarse Lords mixes 2.13.07 3:40 11 7/11/2009 1:18 AM
Year Zero Clouds We Are Above You Psychedelic Rock 2:29 11 8/3/2009 10:18 AM
Alt. Wav Codeseven Dancing Echoes/Dead Sounds 3:42 11 4/29/2009 3:46 PM
My Other Side Comeback Kid Wake the Dead 2:18 11 4/30/2009 2:47 PM
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Authority Song Jimmy Eat World Bleed American Alternative Rock 3:37 11 9/4/2009 11:12 AM
To Earth Jucifer L'Autrichienne Other 3:05 11 6/10/2009 2:07 PM
03 - Man Up Kid Static In the Meantime Other 3:52 11 6/11/2009 4:49 PM
Houseclouds Liars Liars 3:22 11 6/16/2009 2:08 PM
Jimmy M.I.A. Kala Electronica & Dance 3:29 11 6/17/2009 3:54 PM
Collect the Diamonds Q & Not U Power 3:44 11 7/30/2009 3:48 PM
Everything in its Right Place Radiohead Kid A 4:11 11 8/4/2009 4:51 PM
The National Anthem Radiohead Kid A 5:52 11 8/4/2009 5:01 PM
How to Disappear Completely Radiohead Kid A 5:56 11 8/4/2009 5:07 PM
Blues Singer Some Girls All My Friends Are Going Death 0:51 11 8/17/2009 4:59 PM
Maxxo Sesh The Aquarium The Aquarium Rock 3:26 10 4/3/2009 3:09 PM
Trial & Terror Benton Falls Guilt Beats Hate 4:02 10 7/17/2009 1:04 AM
Our Proudest Moments Burns Out Bright 3:22 10 7/15/2009 10:25 PM
The Calypso Cave In Tides Of Tomorrow Rock 4:04 10 7/3/2009 7:04 PM
Meltr Clipd Beaks Hoarse Lords mixes 2.13.07 3:48 10 7/8/2009 1:44 AM
Concubine Converge Jane Doe 1:19 10 4/30/2009 3:05 PM
Bitter & Then Some Converge Jane Doe 1:28 10 4/30/2009 3:24 PM
Hope Street Converge You Fail Me 1:07 10 7/12/2009 10:48 PM
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Sirens Doomriders Black Thunder Alternative & Punk 5:28 10 5/6/2009 5:03 PM
Black and White Town Doves Some Cities 4:15 10 5/7/2009 4:58 PM
Royal Gregory Holy Fuck LP 3:52 10 5/28/2009 5:37 PM
So Did We Isis Panopticon Metal 7:31 10 6/1/2009 4:07 PM
Clear Stream Jesu Jesu / Battle of Mice 8:09 10 6/3/2009 5:34 PM
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To Spit A Sparrow Planes Mistaken For Stars Mercy Rock 2:49 10 7/27/2009 4:14 PM
Belly Full of Hell Planes Mistaken For Stars Up In Them Guts 3:43 10 8/4/2009 12:03 AM
Domino Pretty Girls Make Graves Elan Vital 3:41 10 7/28/2009 3:54 PM
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Glory Hole Ungdomskulen Cry-Baby Rock 7:57 10 11/26/2008 2:22 PM
The Constant is Zero The White Octave Menergy 2:53 10 8/15/2009 11:48 PM
Style No. 6312 The White Octave Style No. 6312 5:55 10 11/19/2008 2:56 PM
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Jane Doe Converge Jane Doe 11:34 9 4/30/2009 3:49 PM
Starved For Truth Dälek Abandoned Language Hip Hop/Rap 4:35 9 5/4/2009 2:21 PM
Worthless Doomriders Black Thunder Alternative & Punk 1:51 9 5/6/2009 4:28 PM
Voice Of Fire Doomriders Black Thunder Alternative & Punk 5:40 9 8/3/2009 11:09 PM
M62 Song Doves The Last Broadcast 3:48 9 5/7/2009 3:48 PM
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Huddle Formation The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike Alternative 3:12 9 5/21/2009 4:43 PM
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Super Inuit Holy Fuck LP 3:35 9 5/28/2009 5:16 PM
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The Enthusiast Mission of Burma OnOffOn 3:38 9 6/26/2009 2:43 PM
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Hip Hop Rock Outkast Speakerboxx 4:36 9 7/13/2009 5:59 PM
Discontinued Race Car Riot 3:17 9 8/4/2009 2:05 PM
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Free The Human Race Rapider Than Horsepower Stage Fright, Stage Fright Unclassifiable 1:00 9 8/6/2009 4:42 PM
Turn On Me The Shins Wincing The Night Away Alternative & Punk 3:42 9 8/11/2009 5:57 PM
O2 Sleater-Kinney One Beat Alternative & Punk 3:30 9 8/13/2009 3:18 PM
Last Nite The Strokes Is This It 3:18 9 8/31/2009 2:20 PM
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Five Fingers Aesop Rock None Shall Pass Rap & Hip-Hop 4:07 7 3/30/2009 3:59 PM
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Untitled Bloody Panda Pheromone Metal 6:35 7 8/5/2009 11:15 PM
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Mothership, Mothership, Do You Read Me? Cursive Burst & Bloom 4:21 7 5/1/2009 4:34 PM
Content To Play Villian Dälek Abandoned Language Hip Hop/Rap 5:21 7 5/1/2009 6:02 PM
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Son the Father Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life 6:33 7 5/18/2009 3:24 PM
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Go Tell The Woman Grinderman Grinderman 3:24 7 5/27/2009 3:13 PM
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Silver Ghost Zozobra Harmonic Tremors Metal 3:20 7 6/2/2008 10:22 AM
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Leif Erikson Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights 4:00 6 5/31/2009 9:21 PM
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The Mute Speaks Out Mission Of Burma The Obliterati Rock 3:24 6 6/26/2009 2:22 PM
Wounded World Mission of Burma OnOffOn 3:29 6 6/26/2009 3:05 PM
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Sunrise Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals Alternative 4:09 6 12/9/2008 10:41 AM
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All These Things Benton Falls Fighting Starlight 5:04 5 4/13/2009 2:54 PM
Swimming With You Benton Falls Fighting Starlight 5:32 5 4/13/2009 2:59 PM
Coma Bloody Panda Pheromone Metal 10:20 5 4/16/2009 2:22 PM
Fever Bloody Panda Pheromone Metal 9:31 5 4/16/2009 2:32 PM
Ice Bloody Panda Pheromone Metal 12:46 5 4/16/2009 2:54 PM
Transitions From Persona To Object Botch We Are The Romans Metal 6:04 5 4/17/2009 1:14 PM
Frequency Ass Bandit Botch We Are The Romans Metal 4:27 5 4/17/2009 1:31 PM
Same Shade As Concrete Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo Screamo 4:33 5 4/24/2009 4:43 PM
Purple Pills D12 Devil's Night 5:04 5 5/1/2009 5:17 PM
No Ceiling Eddie Vedder Into The Wild (Music from the Motion Picture) Rock 1:34 5 5/11/2009 4:56 PM
Squeegee Man Shooting El-P Fantastic Damage Hip Hop/Rap 4:25 5 8/2/2009 5:36 PM
Only for tonight Elysian Fields The Afterlife Indie 5:03 5 8/19/2009 11:29 PM
Honey Honey Feist The Reminder Folk 3:27 5 7/20/2009 12:57 AM
No Epiphany Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life 4:20 5 7/14/2009 11:54 AM
Life And Limb Fugazi The Argument Alternative & Punk 3:10 5 5/18/2009 4:30 PM
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Panther Dash The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike Alternative 2:46 5 5/21/2009 3:58 PM
No Pussy Blues Grinderman Grinderman 4:21 5 8/3/2009 11:16 PM
Celestial (The Tower) Isis Celestial 9:42 5 6/1/2009 2:13 PM
Jaguar Pirates Jaguar Love Take Me To The Sea Indie 4:31 5 6/2/2009 2:38 PM
Humans Evolves Into Skycrapers Jaguar Love Take Me To The Sea Indie 3:50 5 6/2/2009 2:52 PM
Stanlow Jesu Conqueror Metal 5:58 5 6/4/2009 4:03 PM
I Khlyst Chaos Is My Name (Advance) Metal 2:45 5 6/20/2009 12:21 AM
Strange Ways Madvillain Madvillainy 1:52 5 6/18/2009 3:52 PM
Crystal Skull Mastodon Blood Mountain Progressive Metal 3:27 5 6/22/2009 4:22 PM
Sleeping Giant Mastodon Blood Mountain Progressive Metal 5:35 5 6/22/2009 4:44 PM
All You Wanted Michelle Branch The Spirit Room 3:40 5 6/24/2009 4:04 PM
Your True Enemy Nachtmystium Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. 1 Metal 4:16 5 7/1/2009 5:57 PM
Christmas Eve Part I Old Man Gloom Christmas Eve I & II + 6 Doom Metal 7:08 5 8/19/2009 10:51 PM
zozobra old man gloom seminar iii: zozobra 27:19 5 7/10/2009 5:51 PM
Preteen Weaponry Part 1 Oneida Preteen Weaponry Experimental 14:04 5 7/13/2009 2:15 PM
Breakerfall Pearl Jam Binaural Rock 2:20 5 7/16/2009 3:46 PM
Keep Your Teeth Planes Mistaken For Stars Mercy Rock 4:46 5 7/27/2009 4:12 PM
Church Date Planes Mistaken For Stars Mercy Rock 3:42 5 7/27/2009 4:28 PM
Lonely Here With Me Pop Unknown 4:13 5 7/28/2009 2:43 PM
Static Read Yellow Read Yellow Alternative & Punk 4:29 5 8/6/2009 5:45 PM

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Thoughts on Watchmen

- The opening credits sequence in this movie is amazing and had me convinced this would be The Godfather of comic book movies. It's not, but it's pretty close, certainly better than The Dark Knight.
- Even the bad reviews seem to all agree that Jackie Earle Haley knocked it out of the park as Rorschach. Now all he has to do is die and he can get an Oscar like Heath Ledger.
- On reflection, Patrick Wilson as Nite Owl was the 2nd best performance. Considering how much the character is generally overshadowed by the rest of the cast, it's impressive how well I can remember his scenes. The man's got it.
- This has got to be the most brutally violent superhero movie ever made (unless the last Punisher movie was worse). At first it bothered me, but I realized that most films in this genre tend to show violence without showing its consequences. People get a thrill out of seeing people get beat up, as long as it's sanitized. To me that numbs us to violence much more than actually showing the horrific results of a superhero-style beatdown.
- Everything they changed for the movie was changed for the worse. Yet they didn't change anything particularly important to the characters or plot (with that one big exception, which needed a change anyway). I'm in awe of this.
- No way is the movie going to stay #1 this weekend. I'll be even surprised if it comes in at #2. Unless the fans somehow organize a large-scale movement to bump its ticket sales, it'll slide out of the top 10 easily. It was never gonna be a big hit anyway since it's trying to appeal to two entirely different sets of moviegoers (comics fans and people who aren't comics fans), etc.
- Right now opinion on it seems to be split. To me that's a good sign that maybe in the years to come it'll be accepted as if not a great film, at least one that still has a large following. DVD sales, for one thing, are gonna be astronomical.
- For some reason, it actually got me excited to see the American Death Note movie. I think the two comics share some of the same cool themes (Light = Adrian?) and if it's done as faithfully as this one was, it could be awesome.
- Then again, it would be cool if this were the beginning of the end for the age of superhero movies. Maybe it'll make traditional superhero films obsolete the way the comic did for its own traditional stories.
- The fact that I'm still thinking about it 5 days later is either a feat in itself or proof that I'm a loser with no hobbies.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

some Oscar predictions - don't mind me

BEST PICTURE

Milk
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Slumdog Millionaire
The Wrestler
The Dark Knight

BEST DIRECTOR

Gus Van Sant, Milk
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Darren Aronofsky, The Wrestler
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy

BEST ACTOR

Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Sean Penn, Milk
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Josh Brolin, W.

BEST ACTRESS (one of the first two will win)

Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Cate Blanchett, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky

BEST SCREENPLAY

Burn After Reading, Joel and Ethan Coen
Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman
Milk, Dustin Lance Black
The Wrestler, Robert Siegel
Vicky Christina Barcelona, Woody Allen

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Dark Knight, Christopher and Jonathan Nolan
Slumdog Millionaire, Simon Beaufoy
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Eric Roth
Doubt, John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon, Peter Morgan

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Josh Brolin, Milk
Brad Pitt, Burn After Reading
Emile Hirsch, Milk
Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

I don't know. Pick whoever you like.

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Man on Wire
I.O.U.S.A.
Encounters at the End of the World
Surfwise
Bigger Stronger Faster

BEST ANIMATED

WALL-E will win, who cares

Everything else: who cares.