Thursday, July 21
culture .05
1. me and you and everyone we know
2. 5x2
3. batman begins
4. nobody knows
5. look at me
6. fear and trembling
7. survive style 5+
8. millions
9. the life aquatic with steve zissou [or was this last year? i feel like it was, but i don't remember it being on year-end lists]
10. rize
11. my summer of love
12. 3-iron
13. layer cake
14. howl's moving castle
15. crash
16. walk on water
17. a very long engagement
18. bad education
19. in the realms of the unreal: the mystery of henry darger
20. the upside of anger
1. the mountain goats, the sunset tree
[honorary mention: "come, come to the sunset tree"]
2. spoon, gimme fiction
3. m.i.a., arular
4. optimo, how to kill the dj [part 2]
5. jamie lidell, multiply
6. lcd soundsystem, s/t
7. mice parade, bem-vinda vontade
8. busdriver, fear of a black tangent
9. the books, lost and safe
10. the hold steady, separation sunday
11. akron/family, s/t
12. feist, let it die
13. common, be
14. daedelus, exquisite corpse
15. caribou, the milk of human kindness
16. sufjan stevens, illinois
17. inara george, all rise
18. luke vibert, lover's acid
19. the russian futurists, our thickness
20. sleater-kinney, the woods
21. keith fullerton whitman, multiples*
22. low, the great destroyer
23. mahjongg, raydoncong 2005
24. art brut, bang bang rock and roll
25. the decemberists, picaresque
26. st. etienne, tales from the turnpike house*
27. eluvium, talk amongst the trees
28. okkervil river, black sheep boy
29. four tet, everything ecstatic
30. aimee mann, the forgotten arm*
31. of montreal, the sunlandic twins
32. michael andrews, me and you and everyone we know ost*
33. the chemical brothers, push the button*
34. block party, silent alarm*
35. skeletons and the girl-faced boys, git
*many of these definitely need more processing, especially:
out hud, let us never speak of it again
missy elliott, the cookbook
v/a, run the road
martha wainwright, s/t
gorillaz, demon days
[inspiration by dave]
the best laugh never leaves your lungs