I don't have anything on the Odds & Ends front since I've been preoccupied with enlisting in the Navy. I just didn't get a chance to bookmark any of the typical items so I'm going to make a bunch of music lists instead. These won't be typical lists because I've been told I have an unorthodox taste in music.
Deal with it.
If you're curious about something, post a comment.
My Favorite Albums of 2008
This comes with the caveat that I didn't get a chance to listen to many new albums so I'm just going to pick from the ones that I am familiar with. There's just too much out there.
- Gnarls Barkley: The Odd Couple
- Portishead: Third
- TV On The Radio: Dear Science
- Squarepusher: Just A Souvenir
- The Roots: Rising Down
- Dungen: 4
- Beck: Modern Guilt
- The Sword: Gods Of The Earth
- The Sea And Cake: Car Alarm
- David Byrne & Brian Eno: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
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My Favorite Bands From Germany
I don't know what it is about this country, but it's been known to put out an unusual amount of amazing bands.
- Faust
- Einsturzende Neubauten
- Can
- Kraftwerk
- Neu!
- Tangerine Dream
- Cluster
- Mouse On Mars
- Dzyan
- Einzelganger
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My Favorite Bands From Japan
The Japanese tend to be very weird.
- Boredoms
- Flower Travelin' Band
- Ghost
- Boris
- 00I00
- Datenryu
- The 5,6,7,8s
- Acid Mothers Temple
- Soft
- Melt Banana
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My 10 Desert Island Albums
It's hard for me to narrow this down to 10. I'd have a hard time narrowing it down to 20 but right now, this is it.
- Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
- Tortoise: TNT
- Einsturzende Neubauten: Perpetuum Mobile
- DJ Shadow: Endtroducing...
- The John Coltrane Quartet: A Love Supreme
- Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti
- The Wu-Tang Clan: Enter The Wu-Tang(36 Chambers)
- Faust: IV
- Antipop Consortium: Arrythmia
- Neil Young: After The Gold Rush
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My 10 Guilty Pleasures
- Neil Diamond
- Leslie Gore
- Surf Music of any kind
- Amy Winehouse
- Free Jazz
- Electronic Classical Music (Think Switched-On Bach)
- Songs longer than 20 minutes but NOT jam bands.
- Doom Metal
- James Bond film soundtracks
- Exotica by Martin Denny & Arthur Lyman
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Number of songs in my iTunes/iPod: 15,736
Number of complete albums (not soundtracks or compilations: 1,326
Number of albums I have on vinyl: somewhere between 800 and 1,000 (and not just any old crap, good shit)
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Amount of time collecting music: 14 years
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Weirdest record I own: Korean Yodeling (artist unknown)
If anyone can read Korean and can translate the cover, please help.
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