The annual music-of-the-year post

What would a year of sparse posting on this blog be without my year-end list of music? My listening habits are kind of crap lately, so I don’t have much of a system anymore except to look at other people’s year-end lists and say “oh yeah, I liked that one.” But for what it’s worth, here it is. To save space, I’ll put the top 2 above the fold. Click through for 3-10.

The National - Boxer
I’d like to think that my musical tastes have grown up with me. Smarter (or at least more wily), with a more mature wit, and less acerbic without being any less rocking. So I heard Boxer and i said to myself, “Oh, I get it. This is kinda like me.”

Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth
Political / socially conscious music is hard to find these days, and when you do they’re often preachy and uninteresting, like Tom Morello. These problems are magnified in hip hop because there’s such an emphasis on materialism and thugishness. But Ali finds just the right mix of authentic rage and confessional candor. He talks about his personal demons in a way that makes you believe him. His outlook might be angry, but you see quickly that it’s directed anger.
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December 26th, 2007 - Posted in Music | | 0 Comments

Incoming

Welcome, readers of our Christmas letter. Our New Year’s resolution is to blog more. Please note that it is not the new year yet, however.

More regular contributions are on the way. I’d also say “a redesign is on the way,” but the Internetz are littered with sites boasting “new update coming July 12, 1998″ and such. I don’t want to even set my foot down close to that hole…

December 18th, 2007 - Posted in Uncategorized | | 0 Comments