Oh...And another thing

I don't usually follow 'best of' music lists, but it's been a dry year, and I tend to trust the A/V club for their reviews. I usually just listen to Phil and Dave to make some good recommendations, but thought I'd try something different this year...And it's now a very clear fact that I am old and do not like new music any more :) That's a bit of an exaggeration, obviously, but dude..I was hardly impressed with any of these releases. Sorry. In rant mode, and sorry Brooklyn, I've always thought 'The Hold Steady' sucked and this latest outing from them confirmed it. Vampire Weekend (yeah, I know i'm about 8 months behind the times) sounds like the bastard love child of Paul Simon circa 'Graceland' and a camel. Sucky. Wolf Parade...Super sucky. And on my suckiest of all list....The Gaslight Anthem rounds out my sucky list. Yeah, it's good. It's catchy. But it still stucks.

I really wanted to like Black Mountain, and I kinda did, but again, nothing crazy new there. I mean, certainly not bad, but mediocre.

I've always really liked The Helio Sequence, and their new album is no exception. Check it out. TV on the Radio. Didn't love it, but think it's a really amazing piece of work. Fleet Foxes. Jeff Forrest got me into these guys, and I'd been reading about them for a while. Good good stuff. A more ethereal, if possible, Midlake.

Thus enduth my music reviews for 2008...

Game over, man. Game over...

When people look back on 2008, I think the summary might look something like this...

Banks collapsing, savings disappearing, values plummeting, stocks dying and now...Killer f***ing mice...


what's next, man? One of these things??? RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!