Putting together this list was a learning experience for me. Mostly I now realize how much of the music I listen to was made in 1997 or by REM in the '80s. Not that I was cool enough to have been listening to any of it back then. Petra anyone?
1. Ben Folds Five: The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
Funny and sad, quiet and rockin'.
2. The Black Angels: Passover
A gorgeous unity of rock. Plus, no one uses a drone machine better.
3. Iron and Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days
The most beautiful album I know.
4. Radiohead: In Rainbows
Less rock, more strange, but just as catchy.
5. Brian Jonestown Massacre: Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?
Let's go F%#*ing mental.
6. HEM: Eveningland
Yes, I get my music from npr. This was our background for family dinner for about a year.
7. Sufjan Stevens: Songs for Christmastime
Not only the only Christmas music I love, but also the only Christmas music I don't hate.
8. Dandy Warhols: Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
Probably a drug album, but I don't catch those sorts of references until too late. First fifteen minutes are seamless; crank it up. But not in church.
9. Tom Waits: Mule Variations
Dammit, Nate. I have to find another 9th place.
10. Ani Difranco: Revelling: Reckoning
Not as angry as she used to be.
It's actually good if you have overlap--that means your choices will get better seeds and better matchups.
ReplyDeleteAh. You see, I read the rules, but that doesn't mean I understood them.
ReplyDeleteSo last 10 years would disqualify two of these albums:
ReplyDeleteTom Waits: Mule Variations (2009)
Ben Folds Five: The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner (2009)
I love both of those albums, but alas...
Hmm, I guess I didn't read the rules closely enough. I was thinking we were doing the decade (2000 - 2010). I guess I should have looked at the name of the death match...
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