My Top Ten Albums of the Year So Far (Alphabetical order)
There’s a poll going on right now at NPR for your favorite albums of the year so far:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2011/06/14/137038730/vote-for-the-years-best-music-so-far
So here were my votes (East River Pipe was a write-in, as they didn’t have it listed as a vote option)
Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Cults, Cults
Destroyer, Kaputt
DeVotcvhKa, 100 Lovers
East River Pipe, We Live in Rented Rooms
EMA, Past Life Martyred Saints
R.E.M. Collapse Into Now
Radiohead, The King of Limbs (with the plus two songs)
Thurston Moore, Demolished Thoughts
Wye Oak, Civilian
NPR had to be broad in their top 25 list:
June 14, 2011
NPR Music's 25 Favorite Albums Of 2011 (So Far)
Adele, 21
Alexander Tharaud, Scarlatti: Sonatas
Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal, Chamber Music
Ben Allison, Action-Refraction
Big K.R.I.T., Return Of 4eva
Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Bright Eyes, The People's Key
Colin Stetson, New History Warfare, Vol. 2: Judges
Demdike Stare, Tryptych
Diego Garcia, Laura
Dominik Eulberg, Diorama
Donnacha Dennehy, Grá agus Bás
E-40, Revenue Retrievin': Overtime Shift
Ebène Quartet, Fiction
Frank Ocean, Nostalgia, ULTRA
F——- Up, David Comes To Life
Gretchen Parlato, The Lost And Found
James Blake, James Blake
Jill Scott, The Light Of The Sun
Julianna Barwick, The Magic Place
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, Diamond Mine
Krallice, Diotima
Tommy Guerrero, Lifeboats And Follies
tUnE-yArDs, w h o k i l l
Wye Oak, Civilian
posted by John Gallaher @ 1:50 PM
5 comments
5 Comments:
I like the Thurston Moore album. Do you have a take on "Mina Loy"?
I've no idea why he'd call it that. Maybe he was inspired by her junk collages and terrible love life?
I really like the bit about the diamond that becomes water. That's a nice lyric. Some of the other lyrics get pretty odd on the album. The one about getting caught in outer space by the space police, for instance.
I'm puzzled too, but odd lyrics are no surprise from a Sonic Youth guy. Like you I looked for a connection to collage and Cravan. Nothing. Then I read somewhere that Beck had posters of "revolutionary woman poets"--Mina Loy et al.--all over the studio. Moore was smitten with Loy's "onyx eyes." So I guess he's addressing Loy. Maybe he has a thing for female poets. I've heard he had a crush on Patti Smith.
Patti Smith or Kim Gordon? Tough choice, for me...
Nice:
Beck: Hurry Thurston, I need a title for this track so I can label the file.
Moore: Uh, hey, look at all these pictures on the wall! "Mina Loy" it is.
To think that but for the choice in Beck decorations, we could be talking about a song called "Jorie Graham" . . .
Hey, someone should write an acoustic song about Jorie, about being laved by the brown torrent of her hair or something...
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