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The year in loudness
Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 12:25 pm on 12/20/2005
Every year for… I think four years now, I’ve been making a mix CD for my friends at the end of the year. I make the rule that the mix must always be composed entirely of music that came out during the year that’s just passed (except for the occasional little comic bit, of the kind I like to use as intermissions or codas). For a number of years now, I’ve also been publishing on some web page or another my top ten albums of the year.
This year, I took these two traditions, made them fight each other, and banished the loser to shame and exile. So, instead of the top ten, here’s the track listing for this year’s mix. Enjoy!
Saul Williams – List of Demands (Reparations)*
New Pornographers – Use It
Low – Step
Boards of Canada – Chromakey Dreamcoat
Gorillaz – Dirty Harry
Bloc Party – Pioneers
Hot Hot Heat – Island of the Honest Man
Get Him Eat Him – Mumble Mumble
Lemon Jelly – Don’t Stop Now
Nobody feat. Mia Doi Todd – You Can Know Her
Iron and Wine – Jezebel
New Pornographers – These Are The Fables
Edan feat. Dagha – Rock and Roll
The Books – An Animated Description of Mr. Maps
Caribou – Pelican Narrows
Low – When I Go Deaf
Sleater-Kinney – The Fox
Low – Walk Into The Sea
New Pornographers – The Bleeding Heart Show
* indicates I am cheating on this one
You can more or less tell what my two favorite albums of the year are, I guess. A couple of these tracks made notable appearances on The Loud Report, which I seem to have stopped doing. Many others I first heard on Music For Robots. Anyway, you need a copy, let me know now before packing gets too crazy.