so i’ve just finished the third revision of my top 100 albums list — which to avoid confusion/arguments is a personal selection, not an attempt at a best of all time list — and to build some interest/excitement in the list beyond myself and the 1-2 other people that have traditionally cared about this i’ve [...]

i’ve slowly begun working on the third revision of my personal top 100 albums list. as planned, this year i am making the transition to a one album per artist limit… which has automatically disqualified twenty excellent albums from last year’s list (see below). this has been a hard step for me to take, but [...]

mp3: brian eno – king’s lead hat …….. [buy]
king’s lead hat = talking heads. anagrams = fun.
mp3: manishevitz – king’s lead hatmp3: ultravox – king’s lead hatmp3: the dirtbombs – king’s lead hatmanishevitz and ultravox’s covers are both recorded live — manishevitz from a daytrotter session in february of 2007 and ultravox from [...]

mp3: david bowie – station to station ….. [buy]
i recently picked up the book on bowie’s low in the 33 1/3 series and, just 4 pages in, it has already hit me with a revelation. the first chapter begins with two quotes, the first of which makes a lot of sense to me….
“as [...]

i’ve finalized volume two of my top 100 albums list at last! check out the opening tracks of my top ten albums below and then check out the full list… plain text here… and/or a graphic version here (pdf, 3.8mb).

1) the natural bridge (1996) — [buy it]
mp3: silver jews – how [...]

mp3: human highway – the sound
while i don’t usually do this, a friend summed up the past week’s releases so well that i figured i might as well just post a section of his email here. thanks to brendan!
What a fucking week in music! First Byrne and Eno’s new CD drops on Monday with their [...]

mp3: brian eno – the big ship [link expired]
islands covered brian eno’s “the big ship” on daytrotter earlier this week. you’ll have to head over there to check their version out, but here’s the original from 1975’s another green world for those of you who aren’t familiar with it. the islands’ cover doesn’t differ [...]