The inevitable end of year list is being produced by every news outlet. So, I felt compelled to share mine. Maybe you’ll find something in one of the lists that becomes a new favorite of yours. If so, comment about it below.
Concerts, as you know, per my pasts posts, I’ve been to quite a few shows and seen a lot of bands this year. I promised myself that I’d just do Austin City Limits. Well, that just didn’t happen. Here’s my top 5 concerts.
1. ACL – Ghostland Observatory, Bjork, Regina Spektor, Muse.
2. Rufus Wainwright & Neko Case
3. Rilo Kiley
4. The Black Angels
5. TOOL
This year has to be the year that too many bands released too many good albums. It was hard to choose, but my number one is my number one because it was just that good. The marketing, the websites, the CD it’s self, the go fuck the music industry attitude of the lead singer just made it that much better.
1. Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero
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2. Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
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3. Tori Amos – American Doll Posse
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4. Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
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5. Beirut – The Flying Club Cup
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As I said, there has been a whole lot of really really good music released this year. My favorite new discoveries this year are bands that I found via various podcasts and word of mouth.
1. The Black Angels
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2. Rilo Kiley
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3. Yeasayer
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4. Animal Collective
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5. Band of Horses
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If I’ve kept you here. Then now onto non music top 5′s.
Movies
1. The Bourne Ultimatum
2. Transformers
3. Knocked Up
4. Superbad
5. Hot Fuzz
Mentioned time and time again, I listen to and watch video podcasts like TV shows. I actually spend more of my time listening and watching them then regular radio & tv broadcasts. So here are my top five Podcast & Vidcasts this year.
1. Wait Wait!! Don’t Tell Me – http://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/
2. Feast of Fools – http://www.feastoffools.net
3. Dan Savage – Savage cast NSFW
4. SModcast – Kevin Smith’s Podcast – http://quickstopentertainment.com/smodcast/
5. Midwest Teen Sex Show NSFW Videocast
Due to the nature of my job and my school and side jobs, I do a lot of web surfing. I have to thank the all mighty master Google for creating and updating Google Reader to where I can use it. I honestly can surf 10x faster and find stuff that really interest me via RSS feeds, rather than actually reading everything and going to the sites.
Here are my top 5 website discoveries
1. ColourLovers – Lovers of color and mixtures – http://www.colourlovers.com/
2. PSDTuts – Photoshop Tutorials – http://psdtuts.com/
3. Explosm.net / Cyanide and Happiness – http://www.explosm.net/comics/
4. Hypem.com – The Hype Machine <– Firefox + Download Helper = Free Mp3′s
5. Design is Kinky – About all designs, real world and digital.
There could be many many more 5′s in this list. But for now, this will do. Let me know what you think by commenting.