I haven't fully been keeping up, but I like the records by:

Guinea Worms
John Wesley Coleman
Ratas Del Vaticano
Puffy Areolas
Drunkdriver
The Men
Tandoori Knights
Balaclavas
Swans
Sun City Girls
Paul Collins
Dead Farmers
Defektors
Circle Pit
Demon's Claws
Nice Face

Still want to hear the new MOTO

Anyone got anything else? I feel like every year I mostly listen to older music and then spend the last couple months trying to catch up on everything new I missed. It'd be nice to hear some new music not of the "garage" variety -- I know this is Goner and everything, but still -- so many bands are going for that sound nowadays without having any hooks to back it up, and it can get pretty tiring. What are you guys listening to?

New Tyvek is great!

Sun City Girls Funeral Mariachi LP has been the only thing that I have been listening too. The second side is wonderful.

James Arthurs manhunt, Overnight Lowes "City of Rotten Eyes", John Wesley Coleman "Bad Lady Goes to Jail", and Thee Oh Sees "Warm Slime" have been my favorites.

I just listened to The Menthols for the first time today(missed 'em at Gonerfest). They sound awesome. Ordered the record. I have a feeling that album is going to be goood.

New Tyvek is great!

HOLY BALLS - seconded! Definitely on my top ten for this year for sure. It RAGES.

outside garage, i kinda have a thing for rockabilly, bluegrass stuff. the new two man gentlemen band is okay, but i like great calamities the best. new legendary shack shakers is great as always. movie star junkies is good, same with everything on voodoo rhythm records. for more local stuff in that genre, i'm okay with buffalo clover and barnstormers new albums, but i think i'm biased.

OK Judge Revival and 333. Haven't really thought about it yet though.

Overnight Lowes
Ours closes at 10.

Warm Slime was awful.

Warm Slime was awful.

No way. Those guys put out great music. You could make the argument that "Help" was better, but that record is not awful.

I'm a big fan. Warm Slime and Dog Poison were superfluous and not good.

333

A-Frames? I only ever got the 7". Good?

Mainly mad I missed out on the Mayyors from last year.
If anybody has a copy....

I Gotta get the TYVEK record. Saw'em in Lawrence and they slayed!

I think next to Masters Bedroom, Warm Slime is the best thing Oh Sees have ever done. Never warmed up to Help in the same way I did to either of those records.

My personal favorites of the year are probably the Puerto Rico Flowers 12" (really underrated record) and the Happy Birthday LP (which I think is just as good as the King Tuff record). I also thought that Nice Face LP and both the Mount Carmel and Puffy Areolas records on Siltbreeze were great. Probably bought more re-issues this year than actual new records, which is a first in many years for me. Dunno if the quality of new releases had anything to do with it, or these re-issues are just so damn enticing....

The Promise...sessions from the Darkness on the Edge of Town....holy crap! I love Bruce Springsteen. it's true.

Weathered Pines-Sky Between the Buildings! I think it technically came out in Feb? Country. straight up.

best of November 9th-12th for me anyway!

endtables

The Limes record has definitely been a highlight of the year for me.

Sharon Jones "I Learned the Hard Way" also got a lot of airplay around the house.

Television Personalities - A Memory is Better Than Nothing

The Limes record has definitely been a highlight of the year for me.


Yep, add The Limes record to my list. I shouldn't have I left it out. Great record. Alot of times what you listen to depends on the mood your in, that record has been perfect for me.

Sharon Jones "I Learned the Hard Way" also got a lot of airplay around the house.

I love what Daptone has been doing. I'm a huge fan.

I've been listening to the Crusaders of Love record over and over again.

harvey milk "a small turn of human kindness"

Tyvek record fuckin' slayed me; also...

Woven Bones- In And Out And Back Again
Endtables
Gonjasufi- A Sufi And A Killer
Rip Off Records compilation
Clinic- Bubblegum
Timmy's Organism- all of it, especially Rise Of The Green Gorilla
The Welders 7"
Ex Humans
Subtle Turnhips- Terd
Chronic Sick reissues

Fred Eaglesmiths "Cha Cha Cha" gets heavy rotation at the house, and if not album of the year, clearly "I would" wins out for catchiest song of the year.

Wooden Tit
Burning Hatreds

I like this list so far. Past years there's been a lot of the same names mentioned. This one so far has a lot of stuff I haven't listened to yet and a bunch of new stuff. Keep it going!

i'm hoping janderass will add j.c. satan to this list.

I'm not sure about adding something I don't exactly know how to say.

Satàn. How are you supposed to pronounce that? With a gay Frenchy accent or the regular way, like a Georgia hick.

satin, like the silk.

It's good. Sometimes I buy two of the same record because I think it might sound good if you play both sides at once. Totally works for this one! Best record all year for playing both sides at once!!!!

Would sound better on colored vinyl though.

I was going around saying it like 'rattan'. What a Dip!

Here's another one; Ethier, French pronunciation or clumsy American pronunciation?

'Cop Killer' - Also a crucial release from way back on Jan. 1!

I've only heard about half that Tyvek record, but it will be at the top.

GUINEA WORMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll also get behind 333.

I didn't buy much new music. Not really into this year.

'rattan'


that's correct.

OK! I like that. RECORD OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

J.C. Satan sounds like most everything else to me...yet another lo-fi garage pop/punk album with the right sound but few/no hooks. What's latching you on to that one?

New Jason and the Scorchers is good. Is that lame?

JAILL thats how we burn
MAGIC KIDS memphis


KILLER ALBUMS!

few/no hooks


it's nothing but hooks!

disclaimer: i work for the label

truth: i've listened to this record about 100 times because i honestly love it, and i don't come on here and say that about everything we release.

What's latching you on to that one?
I'm just fucking around. I just started listening to that one. It has few hooks but it's still real powerful. I get something new out of each listen. I don't know, it was awesome for playing D&D to yesterday . . .

For a little while this year I was getting really into space organ type of stuff like Black Boy George and The Spectrometers. I'm not sure if any of that is from this year though.

What's latching you on to that one?

Also meant to say, I'm totally into all the French bands right now anyway.

it was awesome for playing D&D to yesterday . . .


That record has a +3 in low fi hooks damage.

Ty Segall - Melted
Wrong Words (Oakland)

New Jason and the Scorchers is good. Is that lame?

No, not at all.

I got the Menthols lp in yesterday....holy shit....this thing is vicious and it took one day to make my top three.

Saw the Royal Baths at the weekend and picked up their LP. Great drone and definitely on the list of the best of 2010.

Personal & the Pizzas/Wounded Lion/Knights Of The New crusade

Hi Folks, greetings from Boston, first post here: The new Vaselines record, Sex with an X, is great!

Did this come out in 2010?

Did this come out in 2010?

i'm hoping janderass will add j.c. satan to this list.


OK! I like that. RECORD OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I want it known that I ordered j.c. satan soley on janderass's strong reccomendation. When you put that many exclamation points in there...it's gotta be good.

it's fucking great.

ya know, i have a hard time dealing with the fact that bands in the genre (poppsychgarageshit???) are being hyped way more than j.c. satan. the first time i put the record on when i got the test press i was floored, and all i could think to myself was, "goddamn, this thing is fucking perfect. i better keep drinking." and i drank, and i played it over and over and over. i'm hearing way too much poppsychgarageshit from alot of bands lately, but this is the only album i ever put on and thought that it was as good as a beatles record. non-beatles fans, don't be afraid. there's no overhyped band legend stigma attched to these guys. and no paul macca chipmunk face, either.

also:

HAUNTED GEORGE
HUMAN EYE (LIVE)

i have a hard time dealing with the fact that bands in the genre (poppsychgarageshit???) are being hyped way more than j.c. satan.

i know it's only been out less than a month, but that seems like 5 years in goner/ termbo time.

Well, just for the record, I was kidding about "record of the year", but I meant it with the exclamations. You get what I'm saying about D&D soundtrack music, so I'm guessing you'll dig it.

My friends bought me the gift of a ride in a bi-plane this coming weekend. I also think this record will also be good soundtrack for that.

I'm open to other suggestions for mile-high open cock-pit listening . . .

Yeah, I knew you were kidding. I sampled it by watching some videos. I know I'll dig it.

I just went and listened to some youtube clips. I must agree that there are no hooks. But, my definition of a hook is a little more complex than a wash of monotonous riffs that turn on a dime. The Fall and Joy Division have monotonous riffs that divert your attention from the brilliant hook. It's sly. This stuff seems to be missing something.

ok, ok. i get your point. the melodies and mood and groove (gasp!) slay me though.

buy my mix tape!

i think the song "prehistoric love" has what fits your definition of a hook. i think we're speaking technically about structure, right?

check this weird site i've been setting up slovenly band stuff on:

http://www.stereokiller.com/JCSatan

take a listen and lemme know.

Not bad at all and groovin' fer sure.

but as far as what you mean by a "hook?"

that band bio is really poorly written

band's not bad, but not sure it warrants the handjob bj's giving it

that band bio is really poorly written

i ain't no writer, that's for sure.

ride in a bi-plane

does that come with ribbon candy and an oversize lapel button exclaiming that your voted for calvin coolidge?

Actually, comes with a deluxe buffet and free champagne in a WWI theme restaurant. I like your idea though . . . maybe I'll wear a costume.

Goodnight Loving was pretty great this year, except that they split. Acrobaleno then Supper Club.

.holy crap! I love Bruce Springsteen. it's true.

you see, cort? other people DO LOVE the boss! knew i wasn't the only one!

and what about ECSR- Rush to Relax??? That's gotta be in the top ten of the year.

I must agree that there are no hooks. But, my definition of a hook is a little more complex than a wash of monotonous riffs that turn on a dime.

our friend don howland disagrees. he wrote this to the band, who forwarded it to me:

Facebook alerted me to your sound. I've listened to the songs on the myspace page and think they are among the best things I've heard in a long, long time. Please let me know when your LP/CD is out.

and then he wrote to me, when i asked his permission to use the above quote, which he approved:

can't really imagine how anyone could slam a record w/ those songs on it. It sounds fantastic and the songs are both hooky and rank.

Don FUCKING Howland!!!

hook and rank

I'm going to get two new dogs just so these can be their names!

My previous comment was based on live youtube clips. Which once again, seem kinda monotonous. Don's was based on the audio clips of the album. I think I already said that I checked out the myspace and thought the record sounded pretty cool. That said, I do not feel the compulsion to like everything Don"fucking"Howland likes. Don also told me once that his guilty pleasure was Jewel. Will Black radiator be signing her, or slovenly?

Will Black radiator be signing her

HEE-HAW

Don also told me once that his guilty pleasure was Jewel.

Musically or aesthetically pleasing?

El Duce liked Jewel alot too

Joe, I think you're taking this a bit too personally.

I've been listening to the latest Tyvek which ranks as a best album of '10. The 2nd song on side 2 sort of reminds me of Blitz.

I do not feel the compulsion to like everything Don"fucking"Howland likes.

i never insinuated you had to, but an endorsement like that from a guy i respect as much as i respect you needed to be posted. i think most goner board readers have the same equal admiration for don fucking howland and the legendary ed o alike. i gotta say it was pretty thrilling to read that for the first time, but i never went digging for it. it was just sent to me by a band member.

you also said "there are no hooks" based on a live clip, but we are talking about "albums" in this thread, not live clips. it's fine if you like it or don't like it, but record shop asshole, who apparently has heard the album, said it has "few/ no hooks." so once again, i'm confused as to what a hook is, based on don fucking howland's confirmation of the album's hooks. are hooks an opinion or a matter of fact?

Joe, I think you're taking this a bit too personally.

i always take matters of my taste personally. i truly feel bad for people that don't dig what i freak on, whether i'm involved in it or not. you think i even wanna know anyone who doesn't love the oblivians, cheater slicks or 60s go-go music? i have been moved by this album, and i'm defending it as i would anything else someone was, for a lack of a better term, harshing. i know i probably have it coming to me after all the shit talikng i've done here for the past 8 years, and i'm fine with that. i'm excited about the album, and i won't stop making my points about it.

Don also told me once that his guilty pleasure was Jewel. Will Black radiator be signing her, or slovenly?

my guilty pleasure is the cardigans. i'd love to do a record with them. jewel sucks!

getting that new tyvek record soon. can't wait!

Can I nominate that Spits/NoFx record without hearing it?

you can nominate one side of it since you haven't heard it. a or b?

Weathered Pines The Sky Between the Buildings - I love this record, and not just because it's my little sister's band. I think they could be HUGE if more people heard them.
(www.myspace.com/weatheredpines ...pretty sure she's channeling Ed O on "Run & Hide")

The Goodnight Loving Supper Club

Sex Church 6 Songs

Outrageous Cherry Seemingly Solid Reality

And I guess it came out last year, but I've been really into The Golden Boys Thee Electric Wolfman this year. The title track reminds me of Zappa's "Zomby Woof." I hope that doesn't offend anyone from the band that might post here. Zappa is a touchy subject for some people.

If you dig it, shout it from the highest mountain. I would! I just don't want to be dragged into some third party instigation with Don.
Regarding hooks.
Good question. What constitutes a hook probably is subjective. In the sense that a hook should grab "you". If it doesn't, there's no hook. The subjective element here is the "you". So one could say that there are hooks but they just don't work very well or just don't work very well on "you". Is that the same as stating that there is no hook? I dunno, it's a good question. And to be clear, we are no longer talking about J C Satan. Just hooks. But if nothing grabs me, I would probably say there are no hooks.

I got my J.C. Satan record in the mail today. I've spun it, both sides, about 4 times. I think it's great and in my non-musician opinion....it has alot of hooks.

you can nominate one side of it since you haven't heard it. a or b?

Whichever side is The Spits.

I just don't want to be dragged into some third party instigation with Don.

seriously greg, instigation wasn't my intention at all. i hope you know that, but i certainly wouldn't blame you for thinking i might be trying to stir shit up.

thanks for the hook talk. it's pretty much the answer i was looking for. i was under the assumption that it was strictly a song structure issue.

I got my J.C. Satan record in the mail today. I've spun it, both sides, about 4 times. I think it's great and in my non-musician opinion....it has alot of hooks.

nice!

i'd say the titus andronics record is by far the best i've heard this year, probably the best show too. nobunny is real good. tyvek has 6 really great songs, 6 okay ones, it'll make top 5 probably, but certainly not number 1.

i truly feel bad for people that don't dig what i freak on, whether i'm involved in it or not. you think i even wanna know anyone who doesn't love the oblivians, cheater slicks or 60s go-go music?

well, i'm sure they're getting by ok.

I'll ride for the Strange Boys record that came out this year. They don't make kids who make records like this anymore.

well, i'm sure they're getting by ok.


fuck those dickweeds!

nobunny

The DMR Single was a slam dunk and surely one of the biggest hits this year. First Blood was disappointing though (sorry Goner).

JAILL thats how we burn

Where do I get this?

Since I have nothing better to do, except for cow tipping or something, I've decided to drink a few beers and make a top ten list. It's going to be hard, because I didn't really start digging the scene until about October of 09. The thing is I bought alot of great 2010 records, but 2010 was also the year I bought my first Oblivians and Back From the Grave albums. It's all a little tainted I think. Sorry, if this gets long but I'm bored and I've got a six pack to kill.....

10. No Bunny-First Blood- I think this guy is a great songwriter. That might be sometimes missed in all the masked antics and such. I do seem to like my stuff a little harder and weirder so that's what kept this at #10.

9. J.C. Satan- Sick Of Love- Alright, this pick is really tainted. Mainly because I just got it today and It's all I've been listening to. I do love it though. I love the Oh Sees alot. These guys kind of sound like them but a little less pretentious and with less freak out guitars and I love the slower songs. Just good grooves and strong songwriting.
It's also the only record I've bought that the cover made my wife(a church piano player,but not a fundamentalist) raise an eyebrow. She was like "WTF is this about?" I just said "rock 'n' roll" and she just shrugged.

8.Pierced Arrows-Descending Shadows- I've played the hell out of this. Great record. The only thing I've heard from the Cole's so I know I'm behind, but for people in their fifties to be writing songs this good is amazing.

7.Eddie Current Suppression Ring-Rush To Relax-Great album by one of the best bands on the planet. It should be higher. The problem is that when I bought this I'd only had "Primary Colors" for about a month so I think it got overshadowed. It's great though. I have a feeling I'll start listening to it more later and be like, "This should have been #1!".

6.Limes-Rhinestone River-Like a garage rock Dylan. Simply great songs with a weird country twist. I don't need to write alot, if you've heard it you understand.

5.Thee Oh Sees- Warm Slime-I love this band. This band is to me what Pink Floyd are to classic rock dudes. It's weird though, as good as they are, and have been, you just get the feeling that they're going to release a "classic" at some point that can't be denied.

4.Overnight Lows-City of Rotten Eyes-I love punk. It's what helped define me as a teen. This is a great, kick-ass, punk album from my state of MS and I didn't think that was possible. I'm fucking proud.
Hung out with Marsh at Gonerfest a couple of times...really cool guy.

3. Menthols-Michigan Works-This is just a kick ass album. I will be listening to this years down the road. I think this album is a low-fi classic that will never get it's proper due. When I'm not listening to it, I remind myself how life would be more kick-ass if I was.

2.James Arthurs Manhunt- This is a delightedly fucked up album. The sounds this band gets just touches a nerve with me. This is the kind of music I'd like to make if I had any talent. I don't even know how to properly describe it, which is a huge compliment.

!. John Wesley Coleman-Bad Lady Goes To Jail-This guy is my favorite at the moment. This is everything I love about music. It's loose, fun, and catchy. I think that this guy is highly underrated in the Goner universe. His music is everything I've ever heard about Austin, Texas put on wax. I can't get enough.

!. John Wesley Coleman-Bad Lady Goes To Jai

i need this. i love the golden boys so... the one song i heard (was it from a video?) was great.

2010 was also the year I bought my first Oblivians and Back From the Grave albums.

this doesn't make me question your opinions at all. i dig your enthusiasm and taste.

Thanks for reading that long, drunken, piece of shit post.

Tonight! Moonshine and my top 50 7"!....just kidding.

Singer from the Strange Boys has an awful voice...was easy to overlook on the first LP but I can't do it on this new one for some reason.

Also, still can't figure out why so many people love the last Nobunny LP but don't like the new one...sure, the Hunx-like singing can get annoying, but I think the songwriting is better on the new one.

Haters...explain?

I love everything Golden Boy. Gonna see them three times in Europe. I'll be wearing my new coat.

I named myself after Don Howland. I shat myself when he played Barbara at Gonerfest last year.

Breakaways- walking out on love LP
Recorded in 78 or so but not released until this year. Amazing!

Also, still can't figure out why so many people love the last Nobunny LP but don't like the new one...sure, the Hunx-like singing can get annoying, but I think the songwriting is better on the new one.

Haters...explain?


i love 9 out of the 11 songs, but it took me a few listens to get into most of them. i still don't like 'motorhead with me' because the 7" version is so superior. but i usually feel that way, the version i hear first i tend to like more. same with strong come on. i had the 7" before popular favorites so i think that version is much better. anyway, motorhead i don't like, and 'breathe' just sucks. complete rubbish song. i like the record a lot, but i don't think too many people will say it's better than 'love visions.' because it just isn't.

Singer from the Strange Boys has an awful voice...was easy to overlook on the first LP but I can't do it on this new one for some reason

his awful voice is actually what i like most about strange boys. yet, i'm not a big fan of the new(est) album.

i've had a hard time not playing the limes album since i got it last week. i also got the latest demon's claws & intelligence albums at the same time. between the 3, they've been all i've been listening to << not a complaint.

Also, still can't figure out why so many people love the last Nobunny LP but don't like the new one...sure, the Hunx-like singing can get annoying, but I think the songwriting is better on the new one.


Agreed. It's pretty killer. Maybe people view it as schtick and are tired of "the act" but the songwriting is really strong. Play it once a week which is more than I can say for a lot of other stuff I bought this year.

Haters...explain?

It's because . . .the songwriting is better on the new one

Takes himself way to serious on the new one and it's not much fun. Bring back the schtick, I say.

Singer from the Strange Boys has an awful voice...was easy to overlook on the first LP but I can't do it on this new one for some reason.

I missed the first album but I cannot take the newer one because of the singing. Sounds like it ruins what might be a good act.

it's not much fun


"(Do the) Fuck Yourself" How much more fun do you want?

but for people in their fifties to be writing songs this good is amazing
Fred and Toody are in their sixties. Long may they live.

I'm digging on the Jail Weddings "Love is Lawless" lately.

1. Bill Orcutt- Way Down South
in no particular order:
2. Twin Stumps- Seedbed
3. Peripherique EST- Demos Vol. 2
4. Group Doueh- Beatte Harab
5. Overnight Lows- City of Rotten Eyes
6. John Wesley Coleman- Bad Lady Goes to Jail
7. Cheetah Chrome autobiography
8. Only Death is Real (Hellhammer/Celtic Frost book)
9. Eddy Current Suppression Ring- Rush To Relax
10. Om- God Is Good
probably forgot lots of stuff

yep,
11. Michael Hurley- Blue Hills

1. Wheels on Fire - liar liar
2. the Moonhearts - s/t
3. the Fresh & Onlys - play it strange
4. Tokyo Electron - az238
5. Ganglians - monster head room

Best com: You Baby- the songs of Sloan & Barri on Ace

No love for Melted? That's a hell of an album.

the record me and norton put out!
http://www.goner-records.com/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPa th=2&products_id=6370

buy my mixtape!!!

Guinea Worms
ECSR
Nobunny


i only bought three cuz im gay.

Acephalix "Aporia"
Best Coast "Crazy For You"
Cola Freaks
fleshies "Brown Flag"
Harlem "Hippies"
Neil Young "Le Noise"
Sade Soldier of Love
Sigh "Scenes From Hell"
Titan "Sweet Dreams"
Tokyo Electron "AZ238"
White Wires "WWII"
Toad/Drone Throne split 12"

Mind Spiders timesucker 7"
Arctic Flowers 7"
Folded Shirt 7"

Sade Soldier of Love
Barnes and Noble in-store play!
Don't Terminal Boredom guys see this, it will spark a 10 page thread about how not cool Sade is ...

worried

My previous comment was based on live youtube clips. Which once again, seem kinda monotonous. Don's was based on the audio clips of the album. I think I already said that I checked out the myspace and thought the record sounded pretty cool. That said, I do not feel the compulsion to like everything Don"fucking"Howland likes. Don also told me once that his guilty pleasure was Jewel. Will Black radiator be signing her, or slovenly?
WHOOA! come on, now!
I check in on here from time to time as a reader, but I had to sign up to respond to this shit! I don't usually give a fuck what people say about me - there was a rumor going around Columbus for a while that I'd been spotted at a Chicago el station at 4:00 in the morning in a dress and I let that slide (even encouraged it), but UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES DID DON HOWLAND TELL ANYONE, LEAST OF ALL A MAN OF "INTEGRITY" LIKE GREG O THAT "JEWEL" WAS HIS GUILTY PLEASURE. Princess Tinymeat, perhaps. Sia, definitely. But I have never heard a motherfucking Jewel song in my life. Goddamn - I'm looking into pressing slander charges on this shit.

And the fact that I am not seeing the Puffy Aereolas LP on these lists means yer all full of shit!

Peace!

Dead Ghosts s/t
Estrogen Highs Tell It to Them
Ty Segall Melted
Moonhearts s/t
Straight Arrows It's Happening

Peace!

Awesome! Welcome, Don.

hilarious!

and now i want to hear the puffy aereolas lp.

And the fact that I am not seeing the Puffy Aereolas LP on these lists means yer all full of shit!

No it doesn't; just absent-minded. In The Army 1981 is a killer. Anybody that ganks that Let It Rock photo for label art is alright by me. Need to see those boys live ASAP.

don't have the record, don't even have the mp3s...but just heard a song last night by this band and have been listening to their songs on myspace and I'm now in love with them

Not Jewel? It was something like that! Tori Amos? I saw the disc at your house and you said "oh yeah, that's my guilty pleasure". Maybe it was your daughter's and you were pulling my leg. But about that closet full of dresses....

Dunno. Kate Bush, maybe? I have lots of embarassing records. Just... not... Jewel... Are we clear on that? JUST NOT JEWEL.

That closet was in my daughter's room.

My dresses are hidden in my basement, in a dummy furnace duct.

Don, will anyone be putting out any of the other Gibson Bros. material along the lines of this year's Build a Raft reissue?

(Not that I know of. But then the CDR thing was pretty much done before Jeff or I learned about it... I'd like to see Big Pine get that treatment one day. That was actually decent.)

There's quite a few thing already mentioned that would go into my list for this year but I know some where Joe Kile "Southern Beauty Queen" will rank high on my list. Blah blahs and webshits about it being some logical extention of the Townes Van Zandt vibe are actually warranted. Too bad the label that put it out made it really rare (100 copies or some shit) cuz it's a charmer in it's creaky own way. He actually sounds like he's got some hurt in those songs.

Thought I'd be into Joe Kile after reading about it everywhere but he just sounds like another horrible indie singer/songwriter to me...he's got that generic voice that so many others have (and I personally can't stand it).

Thought I'd be into Joe Kile after reading about it everywhere but he just sounds like another horrible indie singer/songwriter to me...he's got that generic voice that so many others have (and I personally can't stand it).

I am usually like that too but there's something about that album I like.I'm not big into the folkie dudes but that one nabbed me this year. I was pissed that I didn't like the AA Bondy record from this year though.

I'm also with Stephanie (the Wisconsin one) about the Springsteen's 'The Promise'. There's some good songwriters out there but it's hard to beat that version of 'Racing In The Street' on that thing....Also, Stephanie plays bass on the Sugar Stems album which is one of my favorites of the year too.

Wes Coleman 'Bad Lady', the Menthols and both the Black Mountain and Black Angels albums will be in top 20 too. I still have the rest to mull over.

Oh yeah, and Wheels On Fire "Liar, Lair" is one my list too...

Don told me of his secret admiration of Jewel as well, my wife chalked it up to cuteness, Jewel's that is.

3. Peripherique EST- Demos Vol. 2


from their 45

3. Menthols-Michigan Works-This is just a kick ass album. I will be listening to this years down the road. I think this album is a low-fi classic that will never get it's proper due. When I'm not listening to it, I remind myself how life would be more kick-ass if I was.

Thanks Cole! Those dirty buttlickers are dead to the live world but I still have plenty of copies of the LPs in my dining room, bedroom, and spare bedroom if anybody still hasn't gripped it yet.

Here's my list in almost order off the top of my head in 15 minutes. I'm sure that I missed a few.

Lengths
Menthols - Michigan Work$ LP
Riverdales - Tarantula LP
Nobunny - First Blood LP
Spits - Haunted Fang Castle 10"
Overnight Lows - City Of Rotten Eyes LP
Guinea Worms - Sorcererers Of Madness 2xLP
Dead Farmers - Go Home LP
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Rush To Relax LP
Personal And The Prizzas - Raw Pie LP
Kitchen's Floor - Loneliness Is A Dirty Mattress LP
Puffy Areolas - In The Army 1981 LP

Sevens
Circle Pit - Everybody Left 7"
Spits split 7" on Scion/Vice
Total Control - Paranoid Video 7"
Peripherique Est - Demos Vol. 2 7"
Vex Ruffin And The Lo-Fi Jerkheads - 7" EP on Black Gladiator
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Wet Cement 7"
People's Temple - Make You Understand 7"
Ooga Boogas - Eisbaer 7"
Unfuckable - 7"
Drugs Dragons - I'm In A Braingrave/Predator Weapons 7"

Re-issues
Jon Wayne - Texas Funeral LP
Endtables - Process Of Elimination 12"
Rollerball - Savage Eyes 7"
Voice Of The Pruppets - I Don't Wanna Know 7"

Spits - Haunted Fang Castle 10"

Who knows where this is being sold!?!! My girlfriend's been on my back to order one for her for a couple weeks!

third man underground has it on ebay
TTT has it in their catalog
and bradx is selling it as well

Haha. Good one!

the Sugar Stems album

I'm Going Down gives me a boner.

^

something about that sentence just ain't right.

I'll throw in for one of the Scion Garage releases - That Bad Sports song is killer! I ended up with most of the series, but I say it's only about 50% good. The good tracks are all pretty great though.

Probable late season Best ofs that I haven't heard yet:

Cheveu - 1000
The Rebel - T.R.A.T.H.U.

Anybody have these yet and will they make this thread?

records i want to get:

a-frames 333
limes-i love the 1st two records, why haven't i bought this yet?
new grinderman

also, is there a new Viva L'American Deathray album?

i got the Sex Church Hozac 7" in the mail last week! 209! dooooooooood

a-frames 333
Still my in my top two this year (kind of shocked there's no love for the other one I mentioned up top). I'm a big fan, but also jaded, but was still BLOWN AWAY! Still digesting, really.

new grinderman
My best friend is a real fag for this shit and keeps pushing this album on me, but I have a hard time paying attention to it. I like Nick C. at the right times I guess (at least I used to).

Personal and the Pizzas- Raw Pie
Sex Church- 6 songs by Sex Church
Happy Birthday- Girls FM
Limes- Rhinestone River

but was still BLOWN AWAY! Still digesting, really.


I got into a car accident the night of the show here in town over the summer so i missed it. worst.

the Sugar Stems album

I'm Going Down gives me a boner.
^

something about that sentence just ain't right.


Dude, the first lyric in the song from this chick is "Just look at, my brown eye..."

Syrupy sweet and awesome.

Dude, the first lyric in the song from this chick is "Just look at, my brown eye..."


maybe she's actually sandy duncan.

I really like Grinderman 2 a lot, full of weirdness. Saw them 2 weeks ago in Atlanta, they were on fire. The Range Rats (Fred and Toody Coles early 80's swamp-blues-primitive-twang band is great.) I think it came out last year on Mississippi Records, but I still play it all the time. Still love the last Golden Boys, and Wes records as well.
If any of the Burning Bus stuff we've recorded ever gets released some of you will be psyched , I think.

Been wanting the new Hank IV, but it's hard justifying that high dollar siltbreeze vinyl $ for 8 tunes. Noticed they were out of stock anyway at Goner, so this seems like a good excuse to just go for the .99 cent download..

Killing Joke "Absolute Dissent"




Enforcer "Diamonds"

Cheveu - 1000
Man this is going to be good!

I just opened up a box from Goner and I really like that Sonny & the Sunsets - Tomorrow Is Alright LP (i think it's from 2009) but it's pretty darn good.

Clone Defects

Nevermind, I thought this was the best albums of the decade list.

Ditto for my other choices...I only half read these things.

Afro-Beat Airways (Ghana & Togo 1972-1979) - another great Analog Africa comp. Just picked this up and it's outstanding.

That is my favorite record of last year and I am blown away by the 2nd side each time...

Eric.... Sun City Girls?
Cool! Last one rules. Side one seems to last for 4 hours and is never boring.

Spits - Haunted Fang Castle 10"

Who knows where this is being sold!?!! My girlfriend's been on my back to order one for her for a couple weeks!

Did you find one yet? My friend was selling copies that he got from the band at show here in Kalamazoo last week.

Still looking for two.

the tyvek record sreally does kick so much ass

http://cgi.ebay.com/SPITS-FANG-CASTLE-10-BOOK-RECORD-PUNK-1000-press-/ 330508886101?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item4cf3dd6055

Or on eBay you can get it for $12.00.

Somebody that really hates NOFX should help me find a copy of the Spits split 7" because I don't want to pay SoCal, Veraflex deck, and Vision street wear sweatband prices.

Timmy's Organism- all of it, especially Rise Of The Green Gorilla

I'll second that, and can't wait to hear the new Human Eye track recorded for Scion/Vice, produced by Ivan Julian!

Did you find one yet? My friend was selling copies that he got from the band at show here in Kalamazoo last week.

Does your friend still have it? No luck on the eBay link.

Funeral Mariachi by Sun City Girls is definitely one KICKASS record.

I think my favorite of the year is One Life Stand by Hot Chip. Guess it's been a pretty gay year for me.

i'm slightly impaired right now...but I'll voice my opinion anyhow....

Raw Pie is the best release of the year. Stooges influenced Ramones songs (or is that Ramones influenced Stooges songs)...and 38.4% of the songs are about pizza...and one of the songs chorus is about a retard...and tearjerker is like the same 4 or 5 words over and over again...sublime, ecstatic, euphoric brilliance

Black Jaspers...I know, I know, it came out in December of 2009...that should count for 2010...who had this on their 2009 list? NOBODY, that's who, because December 2009 should count as 2010. I don't know if stupider songs exist, but if they do, I want to hear them.

Brutal Knights-Blown 2 Completion...stupider songs do exist...and they're on this. I love it! Reminds me of those cleverly retarded early 80s hardcore-punk albums I used to salivate at the record store for when I was in high school.

Black Angels: Phosphene Dream...this reminds me of Roky...huge 13th Floor Elevators vibe here...not for all the Goner-geeks, but I love this. Psychedelic, for sure, but different than the trebly OH SEES or JC Satan...this is thicker...trippier.

That JC Satan thing is good, too.
ECSR of course

Celebration Ale is making tonight great.

Oh yeah, that Nolan Strong tribute is a winner...it has the best Dirtbombs song in YEARS..

no love for the Wavves? "Linus Spacehead" is a great cut.

of course, the John Wesley Coleman is great, too...at first it sounded like unfinished Golden Boys outtakes, but now I'm addicted

cleverly retarded, huh? tolle wurst.

tyvek record is a a a KILLER! A KILLER! A KILLER!

you know i got the new tyvek and the old (only?) karate party the same day and i love how they both have a song titled 1234 or a variation of that line up. uh, yeah...

Going have to check out the Tyvek!
Loving this John Wesley Coleman album...

But also spent a lot of time listening to these:
Overnight Lows
ECSR
Tokyo Electron - AZ238
Vending Machine - Let the People sing
Ty Seagull


I know I am forgetting some from earlier this year.

iranian homos 7" is the best 7" of 2010.

you know i got the new tyvek and the old (only?) karate party the same day and i love how they both have a song titled 1234 or a variation of that line up. uh, yeah...

1-2-3-4, I don't like you anymore. 1-2-3-4, I don't like you at all.

mayyors

karate party
I had that record. I broke it by accident one day when I was leaning back in my chair and lost my balance and fell on it. I should get another. That was a best of '03 or whenever it came out.

Mark Sultan - '$'

The definition of a grower, but I love it now! Thinking it will be a pretty good NYE mood setter to play at the bar tonight!

DUUUDESSSS


Reading Rainbow

Still listening to Weathered Pines...man. She probably wrote these songs when she was like 22 and aches likes she's been through a 100 broken relationships.

Got the latest Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan album..one of these songs has a Goodnight Loving riff (which is probably from something else...who knows)! and there's a very ethereal, mazzy star-ish-y-whatever song that's awesome...all songs really good and it's all over the place.

Got the latest Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan album..one of these songs has a Goodnight Loving riff (which is probably from something else...who knows)! and there's a very ethereal, mazzy star-ish-y-whatever song that's awesome...all songs really good and it's all over the place.

i really dig that record too.

Tyvek
Ty Segall
The Swans
Endless Boogie
Howling Hex
John Wesley Coleman
The Fall
Endtables
ECSR
Superchunk
Hank IV
Ghostface Killah
Heavy Times
The Mantles
The Young
Good God Comp on Numero Uno
Saigon Rock-n-Soul Comp
In the Storm So Long Comp
Menthols

Did you find one yet? My friend was selling copies that he got from the band at show here in Kalamazoo last week.

Does your friend still have it? No luck on the eBay link.

I bought an extra, sealed copy from him the other night thinking that you might actually exist in real life and not just on the internet.

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I made my list in radio form.
Listen here: http://keddy.podomatic.com/
Lots of great stuff this past year.

I exist in real life! I'll email you tomorrow!

Sandwitches 'How To Make Ambient Sad Cake' is pretty good girlie slice if pop-wonderfulness.

Sitting here and and drinking a few beers while listening to the Limes lp again. Damn it's good. No, it's fucking genius. How cool would it have been to be playing on or recording or putting out this fucking great album? Congrats to all who worked on it. It's sooo good.

Still listening to Weathered Pines...man. She probably wrote these songs when she was like 22 and aches likes she's been through a 100 broken relationships.

She's only 24 now and the record was recorded 3 years ago. Ballad of the Boozehound is the first song she wrote at age 15!

Ballad of the Boozehound is the first song she wrote at age 15!


fuuuuuuuuuuck

brian costello "gets" j.c. satan: http://yourfleshmag.com/music/j-c-satan-sick-of-love-cdlp/

more: http://killsville.com/post/4063083202/critical-hits-j-c-satan-sick-of- love

just got around to matt k. shrugg "gone ashtray"

better late than never. gnarly record that sounds good back to back with obnIII's. these dude are the shit!

the new obnIII's 45 is a double b-side! anyone know of another other record that has that? seems like an obvious trick, but i can't recall any.

tunnel of love "rockin' rollin' bitches" reissue from last '10 reviewed by bobby hussy:

http://www.kindturkey.com/mysh/record-of-the-week-tunnel-of-love-rocki n-rollin-bitches/