日志

What a nightmare, my favourite year of the 00s, my heart is bleeding that I have to choose 10.

1. A Certain Trigger - Maxïmo Park

2. Worlds Apart - ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

3. Funeral - Arcade Fire

4. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - Bright Eyes

5. Alligator - The National

6. Silent Alarm - Bloc Party

7. The Back Room - Editors

8. I Am a Bird Now - Antony and the Johnsons

9. Keine Lieder über Liebe - Hansen Band

10. Catch Without Arms - dredg

Runners-up (I know that this is ridiculous...): Picaresque - The Decemberists, You Could Have It So Much Better - Franz Ferdinand, Some Cities - Doves, Come On Feel The Illinoise! - Sufjan Stevens, The Alternative to Love - Brendan Benson, Leaders Of The Free World - Elbow, Mittelpunkt der Welt - Element of Crime, Demon Days - Gorillaz, Bang Bang Rock And Roll - Art Brut, Von Spatzen und Tauben, Dächern und Händen - Kettcar, Oceans Apart - The Go-Betweens, Late Registration - Kanye West, Lullabies To Paralyze - Queens of the Stone Age

so far.
what has touched, inspired, burned me down.
in the order of remembrance.


Soap&Skin
Lovetune for Vacuum

Peter Doherty
Grace/Wastelands

Mi and L'au
Good Morning Jokers

Antony and the Johnsons
The Crying Light

Marissa Nadler
Little Hells

Alela Diane
To Be Still

Andrew Bird
Noble Beast

Kris Kristofferson
Closer To The Bone

Morrissey
Years of Refusal

Lily Allen
It's Not Me, It's You

Dead Man's Bones
Dead Man's Bones

more stuff will probably be included, need to remember some and listen more properly to some.

01 Placebo "Battle For The Sun"
02 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart "The Pains of Being Pure at Heart"
03 Mew "no more stories are told today"
04 Mono "Hymn To The Immortal Wind"
05 Antony and the Johnsons "The Crying Light"
06 Cymbals Eat Guitars "Why There are Mountains"
07 Passion Pit "Manners"
08 Soulsavers "Broken"
09 Mastodon "Crack The Skye"
10 Isis "Wavering Radiant"

11 White Denim ”Fits”
12 Atlas Sound ”Logos”
13 Julian Plenti ”Julian Plenti is...Skyscraper”
14 Phoenix ”Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix”
15 The xx ”xx”
16 Sonic Youth ”The Eternal”
17 Bear In Heaven ”Beast Rest Forth Mouth”
18 Black Math Horseman ”Wyllt”
19 Quest For Fire ”Quest For Fire”
20 The Raveonettes ”In And Out Of Control”

The list is based on my listening habits the past 12 months. I would’ve rated it a bit differently, but it’s actually pretty close to what I had in mind. And by doing it like this I wind up with what I actually listen to and not some fancy hipster top 20.

Anyhow, musically, I don't think I would've rated Placebo as number 1, but this album has some kind of sentimental value to me, and it was great solace thru the summer. Furthermore I’d also move The Raveonettes and Atlas Sound up a few more notches.

Anyway, I hope next year will be just as good and fruitful as this one. I really think there have been a lot of exceptionally good albums released thru 2009. So thanks to all the massively talented and creative minds who keep providing us with good music!

Merry x-mas and happy new year, y’all..

rock on,
mr wejs

Since I joined last.fm, I've done a couple of end of the year most played albums journals. I intend on keeping a tradition of sorts, but in order to celebrate the "Best of 2009" last.fm countdown, and group, I've decided to make a preliminary list extended beyond my usual 15 releases and place them arbitrarily, by the way of guess-making, based on my current mood and recollection of enjoyment and satisfaction. It may very well change in one week... That's why I like to order these journals by play count!

Now these year end journals usually contain a lengthy rant about each release, but I'll save that for the most played recap.

25 Albums of 2009
Only full albums qualify
Tag: 2009

01. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
02. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
03. Ramona Falls - Intuit
04. The Horrors - Primary Colours
05. The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead
06. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
07. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
08. The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage
09. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion / Fall Be Kind
10. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
11. Dead Man's Bones - Dead Man's Bones
12. The Jaguar Club - And We Wake Up Slowly
13. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
14. A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
15. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
16. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Through The Devil Softly
17. The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
18. White Rabbits - It's Frightening
19. Maybeshewill - Sing The Word Hope In Four Part Harmony
20. Atlas Sound - Logos
21. Micachu - Jewellery
22. Arms - Kids Aflame
23. Telepathe - Dance Mother
24. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
25. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light

50 Songs of 2009
Limited to one song per artist

01. Fever Ray - Dry And Dusty
02. The Horrors - Scarlet Fields
03. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers (i)
04. Grizzly Bear - Ready, Able
05. The Twilight Sad - The Room
06. Animal Collective - Brother Sport
07. Ramona Falls - I Say Fever
08. Fuck Buttons - Flight of the Feathered Serpent
09. The Big Pink - Velvet
10. The Phantom Band - Folk Song Oblivion
11. The Flaming Lips - Worm Mountain
12. Atlas Sound - Walkabout (w/ Noah Lennox)
13. Phoenix - 1901
14. Arctic Monkeys - Dance Little Liar
15. Micachu - Vulture
16. The Jaguar Club - Sleepwalking
17. Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is the Move
18. Bat for Lashes - Daniel
19. A Place to Bury Strangers - Deadbeat
20. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction
21. Florence + The Machine - Girl With One Eye
22. Dead Man's Bones - Lose Your Soul
23. Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire
24. Arms - Shitty Little Disco
25. Blue Roses - Doubtful Comforts
26. Voxtrot - Berlin, Without Return...
27. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Thinking Like That
28. Maybeshewill - You Can't Shake Hands With a Clenched Fist
29. Antony and the Johnsons - Daylight and the Sun
30. Tiny Vipers - Dreamer
31. Spoon - Got Nuffin
32. The xx - Basic Space
33. Here We Go Magic - Tunnelvision
34. Doves - The Greatest Denier
35. White Rabbits - They Done Wrong / We Done Wrong
36. Slaraffenland - Meet and Greet
37. Handsome Furs - Evangeline
38. The Antlers - Bear
39. Mount Eerie - Wind’s Dark Poem
40. Crystal Stilts - Love Is A Wave
41. Former Ghosts - Hold On
42. Nudge - Two Hands
43. Morrissey - All You Need Is Me
44. Julian Plenti - Skyscraper
45. Moby - Pale Horses
46. Telepathe - Drugged
47. Sonic Youth - Sacred Trickster
48. To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie - Villain
49. Silversun Pickups - The Royal We
50. The Joy Formidable - Austere

Antony and the Johnsons Fistful of Love (2005)

from the album I Am a Bird Now

It goes: "so I'm left to pick up the hints, the little symbols of your devotion"

Love me, even if it hurts.



If you like this, listen to: Man Is the Baby, What Can I Do?, You Are My Sister, Hope There's Someone, Epilepsy Is Dancing, The Lake, Shake The Devil, Crazy in Love

;]

Good records:

Mastodon - Crack The Skye


dälek- Gutter Tactics


Fever Ray - s/t


Rome - Flowers From Exile


Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light


Antigama - Warning


Bill Calahan - Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle


Causa Sui - Summer Sessions vol. 2 and 3



Flunk - This Is What You Get


Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest


Misstress Barbara- I'm No Human


Ortega Cartel - Lavorama


The Devin Townsend Project - Addicted


Tosca - No Hassle


Current 93 - Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain


Shpongle - Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland


Megasus - s/t


Kylesa - Static Tensions


HEALTH - Get Color


Absynthe Minded - st


Soap&Skin - Lovetune For Vacuum


The Flaming Lips - Embryonic


Black Math Horseman - Wylt


Minsk - With Echoes Of Movement In The Stone



Correct records:

The Field - Yesterday And Today


Pure Reason Revolution - Amor Vincit Omnia


TenTypMes - Zamach Na Przeciętność


State of Mind - Faster Than Light


Sally Shapiro - My Guilty Pleasure


Jenny Wilson - Hardships!


Altar of Plagues - White Tomb


Katatonia - Night Is The New Day


pg.lost - In Never Out


múm - Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know


Not good enough:

Spięty - Antyszanty


Phoenix - Wolgang Amadeus Phoenix


Trzeci Wymiar - Złodzieje Czasu


L.U.C - 39/89 Zrozumieć Polskę


Just boring:

Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition


Callisto - Providence


Porcupine Tree - The Incident



...and the best:

Moshic - Hiloola


Sparks - The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman


Claro Intelecto - Warehouse Sessions


Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself


Clubroot - s/t




To be updated and updated, and updated...

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Top-50 на 2 Декабря 2009 года:

1. Current 93 - 572
2. Коммунизм - 444
3. Tindersticks - 344
3. The Tiger Lillies - 344
5. Sol Invictus - 328
6. Олег Митяев - 323
7. Гражданская Оборона - 307
8. Микаэл Таривердиев - 304
9. Darkwood - 302
10. Meat Beat Manifesto - 227
11. Orplid - 224
12. Rome - 219
13. Sonne Hagal - 214
14. Инструкция По Выживанию - 213
15. Хуй Забей - 211
15. Coil - 211
17. Majdanek Waltz - 193
18. Max Raabe & Palast Orchester - 178
19. The Legendary Pink Dots - 172
19. Von Thronstahl - 172
21. The Days of the Trumpet Call - 170
22. Fire + Ice - 167
23. Эдуард Артемьев - 165
24. НОМ - 164
25. Antony and the Johnsons - 160
26. Argine - 159
27. Ô Paradis - 157
28. Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson - 156
29. Asian Dub Foundation - 154
30. Antonio Vivaldi - 153
31. Ataraxia - 152
32. Death in June - 144
32. Anthesteria - 144
34. Arcana - 142
35. Dub Syndicate - 140
35. Александр Ливер - 140
37. Decadence - 138
38. Кровосток - 134
39. Neutral - 132
40. Leonard Cohen - 131
41. Алексей Хвостенко - 130
42. Luftwaffe - 128
43. Allerseelen - 123
43. Zoviet France - 123
45. sToa - 117
46. Goethes Erben - 114
47. Engelsstaub - 109
47. Tim Rice - 109
47. Laibach - 109
47. Ianva - 109

Top-50 Albums Chart:

1.Микаэл Таривердиев – Я такое дерево. Автопортрет - 141
2.Sonne Hagal – Jordansfrost Digipak - 123
3.Эдуард Артемьев – Музыка из кинофильмов - 96
4.Darkwood – Notwendfeuer - 93
5.Anthesteria – Sublustrum OST - 92
5.Luftwaffe – Event Nihility - 92
5.Олег Митяев – Романтики больше не будет - 92
8.Алексей Хвостенко – Последняя малина - 90
9.Коммунизм – Жизнь что сказка - 86
10.Antonio Vivaldi – Complete Works for the Italian Lute - 83
10.Current 93 – Soft Black Stars - 83
12.Neutral – Serpents in the Dawn - 81
13.Majdanek Waltz – Детство Гамлета - 80
14.Гия Канчели – Кин-Дза-Дза! (оригинальная музыка из фильма) [bootleg] - 78
15.Ленинград & The Tiger Lillies – Huinya - 75
15.Kinovia – Knjiga Pelinova - 75
17.Гражданская Оборона – ЗАЧЕМ СНЯТСЯ СНЫ?(2007) - 74
18.Коммунизм – Чудо-музыка - 73
19.Александр Ливер – Честное Предложение - 70
20.Rome – Masse Mensch Material - 67
20.Fire + Ice – Seasons of Ice - 67
22.Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson – Dust to Dust - From the films - 64
22.Coil – Love's Secret Domain - 64
24.Коммунизм – Народоведение - 63
25.Tim Rice – Jesus Christ Superstar [MCA Original Cast Recording] Disc 1 - 62
26.Asian Dub Foundation – Enemy of the Enemy - 60
27.Antonio Vivaldi – Romantic Classic - 59
28.Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson – Angels of the Universe - 58
29.Ajs Nigrutin – Strokavi Pazuh - 55
29. vto – Nema Nazad - 55
29.Marlene Dietrich – Der Blonde Engel - 55
32.Decadence – Leftovers From Another Summer - 54
32.Кровосток – Гантеля - 54
32.Death in June – Scorpion Wind - 54
35.Orplid – Greifenherz - 53
35.Goethes Erben – Nichts bleibt wie es war - 53
37.Current 93 – Black Ships Ate the Sky - 51
38.Blood & Sand – Bardo - 50
39.The Days of the Trumpet Call – I Saw No Temple in the City - 49
39.Orplid – Orplid - 49
41.Олег Митяев – Как трудно быть художником - 48
41.Argine – Luctamina in rebus - 48
41.Микаэл Таривердиев – Ночные забавы - 48
44.Forseti – Erde - 47
44.Tim Rice – Jesus Christ Superstar [MCA Original Cast Recording] Disc 2 - 47
44.Death in June – Rose Clouds of Holocaust- 47
44.Sol Invictus – In Europa - 47
48.Пётр Лещенко – Утомлённое Солнце - 46
48.Sol Invictus – The Devil's Steed - 46
50.The Tiger Lillies – Freakshow - 45

Top-10 Tracks Chart:

1.Kinovia – lelej - 23
2.Микаэл Таривердиев – Из к/ф "Русский регтайм" - 22
3.Neutral – Serpents in the Dawn - 19
4.Микаэл Таривердиев – Из к/ф "Я обещала - я уйду" - 18
4.Sonne Hagal – Das Letzte Lied - 18
6.Sonne Hagal – Totentanzlied - 16
7.Олег Митяев – Красная река - 15
7.Sonne Hagal – Flackerndes Feuer - 15
7.Darkwood – Der Falken Flug - 15
10.Darkwood – Totenburg - 14

1 - Sea Sew - Lisa Hannigan
2 - Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart - Rachael Yamagata
3 - Abnormally Attracted To Sin - Tori Amos
4 - Gee whiz but this is a lonesome town - Moriarty
5 - To Be Still - Alela Diane
6 - Stories From The Safe House - Hugh Coltman
7 - Midwinter Graces - Tori Amos
8 - Wooden Arms - Patrick Watson
9 - Far - Regina Spektor
10 - No Baggage - Dolores O'Riordan
11 - Twist The Truth - Lene Marlin
12 - Tree of life - Yodelice
13 - The Resistance - Muse
14 - Give Me That Slow Knowing Smile - Lisa Ekdahl
15 - Ellipse - Imogen Heap
16 - The Crying Light - Antony and the Johnsons
17 - Noble Beast - Andrew Bird
18 - Sound The Alarm - Howie Day
19 - We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things - Jason Mraz
20 - Two Suns - Bat for Lashes