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2009-01-15T21:49:00.005-05:00

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The end has come for the blogspot version of the pooplist. All posts from now on will be on http://www.pooplist.net

PoOPlists are archived at http://www.pooplist.net

The links to the left point there now.

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The Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton found dead at 60 (AP)

2009-01-06T20:44:00.000-05:00

The Associated Press: The Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton found dead at 60

What "long tail"?? Most music didn't sell a single copy in 2008 | Music | guardian.co.uk

2008-12-23T23:10:00.000-05:00

According to a study by the UK royalties agency most music didn't sell a single copy in 2008. But I'd say figures are more likely to be accurate for these items, the 13 million tracks offered for sale on the internet, rather than the notoriously prone to under-reporting LP/CD sales. So much for the long tail. (guardian.co.uk)

Did you know that FAC 191 was a cat?

2008-12-21T14:45:00.000-05:00

Factory Communications UK Discography - Part 4 A fascinating set of pages listing all the FAC releases in the UK. Yet another work of lunatic scholarship for which the web is ideal.

Which just goes to show that even published journos/professors/book writers/bloggers have gaps in their knowledge...

2008-12-18T00:23:00.000-05:00

O-Dub introduces the track, and then says EXACTLY what I said to myself when I first heard this song in 1990 "This song is epic and a definite face-melter. How have I never heard this before? I feel so unworthy of its greatness. " Soul Sides: Lorraine Ellison: The Song That Rocked

Let the guessing games begin...

2008-12-15T18:08:00.000-05:00

See if you can figure what percentage of these: NPR Listeners Pick The Year's Best Music : NPR Music CDs will be on our own PoOPlist 2008 (my bet is 75 to 80%). Depressing? Affirming? Discuss...

Trust me, this will make you feel good...

2008-12-14T00:21:00.001-05:00

YouTube - Holy Ghost VS Andy C & MC GQ - Baptazia NYE 2007 - part 3 Turn it up loud if you can. BTW, YouTube user "airloaf", who made this one, has a bunch of other cool ones.

Techdirt: Why A Music Tax Is A Bad Idea

2008-12-11T00:17:00.000-05:00

Techdirt: Why A Music Tax Is A Bad Idea Just as innovative businesses and musicians are working out how to make this digital music thing work, Warner Brothers wants to reward the failed business model...

From 2007 : The Best Music Snob T-Shirt Ever

2008-12-10T15:47:00.002-05:00

Mens 2XL for me please...

M.I.A. track nominated as Record of the Year!

2008-12-04T15:34:00.000-05:00

Full list of Grammy nominations. Go Diplo!!!!!!!!!!!! Also listed are too many Coldplay items. Here's a little experiment; you're a music fan, how many of these records do you own? GRAMMY.com

Wireless Buccaneers Pirate Radio Tapes

2008-12-03T19:33:00.000-05:00

Energy Flash Simon Reynolds on "golden age" pirate radio tapes from London rave/'ardcore scene. Small list of places to download tapes.

Edwyn Collins

2008-11-27T23:52:00.000-05:00

A touching piece from Edwyn Collins, post-stroke. My feathered friends (Guardian UK) "A stroke left musician Edwyn Collins unable to walk, read or write. Three years on, he's back with his band. And it's all thanks to these birds."

FactMagazine - 20 best: Jungle

2008-10-28T11:48:00.000-05:00

FactMagazine - 20 best: Jungle k-punk with a nice, dense, chewy look at 1992 - 1996

Beatles Box includes iPod classic

2008-10-22T09:17:00.000-05:00

Costs only $800 but at least the shipping is free. (Bloomingdales) But what exactly do they mean by "includes two masters"?

Gone to the great Go-Go in the sky

2008-04-23T22:15:00.001-05:00

Robert Reed, keyboard player for Trouble Funk has died. A couple of places in "my all-time favourite top 8 live shows" list are held by the great TF. It's taken as read that the DC Go-Go scene never really made it out of Chocolate City because the recorded artifacts never lived up to the live events, but I've always wondered if maybe the records would have done better if the shows had not but sooooo bloody great.

Mikey Dread Dead

2008-03-21T15:36:00.000-05:00

Bummer

A Funk Inferno

2008-02-18T15:54:00.000-05:00

When Martin Luther King was assassinated 40 years ago, only one US city was spared the riots that followed. Ed Vulliamy tells the extraordinary story of a James Brown gig that changed history. (Observer UK)

Relative Geeks

2008-02-18T15:29:00.000-05:00

Funny story. At record show in Boston last week. It's being held by a particular promoter in conjunction with his regular comic book show. A regular NYC customer comes up to me and says "Did you you ever think that the record show guys would NOT be the geekiest people in the house...?" Nice one! I swear, one of the guys had a Dalek tattoo! (Which must be akin to having a yellow peel-off banana tattoo or something)

The Incredibly Handy Music-Blogger “Best of 2007″ List Cheat-Sheet

2008-02-12T00:38:00.000-05:00

Published October 12 2007.... nice!
Although, PoOPlist went for Wilco, from the "Not. Bloody. Likely" section. Unlike anybody else.

Ho Hum

2008-02-11T09:27:00.000-05:00

Grammy results. PoOpsters may (?) be pleased that Amy Winehouse seems to have done OK.

You've Got PoOP!!!!

2008-02-04T09:54:00.000-05:00

February 2008

Dear Comrades-In-POOP:

Let there be POOP. And there was. And it was good.

At age 21, POOP enters adulthood. After two decades of blather and bile, POOP seems to have taken on a life of its own. We’ve developed quite the tight community of music lovers who each year, with a little cajoling, faithfully bundle their favorites into cute little lists. It’s all very sweet. I feel like a proud papa (to quote one list). This year a record 36 fans, fanatics and people with some serious record collecting issues have bundled.

If you’ve been here before, feel free to skip this paragraph. As usual, I’ve attempted to tabulate the entries and, as is customary, I’ve employed the now time-honored What-The-Hell’s-He-Talking-About-Anyway System. One more time, I’ve given 2 points to each pompoid’s Top 10 choices and 1 point to each title beyond a Top 10 or in the variously designated “honorable mention” categories (up to 25 titles in all). I’ve pro-rated titles above 25 listed titles, hence the half-points. Basically, the more titles you listed, the less each one counted or something like that. Somehow it works.

So find a comfortable chair and ask, “Let’s see where he buried my list this year?” I present: the answer key:

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1. WILCO – Sky Blue Sky 22 (appearing on 13 of 34 lists)

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2. AMY WINEHOUSE – Back To Black 20 (10)

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3. NEIL YOUNG – Live at Massey Hall 1971 17 ½ (11)

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4. SPOON - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 16 ½ (10)

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5. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – Magic 15 (8)

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6. RADIOHEAD – In Rainbows 14 ½ (10)

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7. PANDA BEAR – Person Pitch 13 (8)

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8. I’m Not There original soundtrack – 10 ½ (7)

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9. ROBERT WYATT – Comicopera 10 (5)

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10. IRON AND WINE – The Shepherd’s Dog 9 ½ (7)

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11. DINOSAUR JR. – Beyond 9 ½ (6)

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NEW PORNOGRAPHERS – Challengers 9 ½ (6)

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ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS – Raising Sand 9 ½ (6)

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14. LEVON HELM – Dirt Farmer 9 (5)

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15. SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS – 100 Days 100 Nights 8 ½ (5)

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THE SADIES – New Seasons 8 ½ (5)

Good bathroom reading everyone.
Mark R.
Papa POOP

(Web pompoid Zip adds: Approximately half a dozen PoOPs remain to go up on the web. That will happen soon...)

2008-02-02T17:14:00.000-05:00

New poops up from Emilio Alicia Bill Still and others PS I am typing this on my friend's iPod Touch.

The Hype Machine - 2007 Music Blog Zietgeist

2008-01-28T22:45:00.000-05:00

BTW: That "other" list is out

2008-01-28T20:15:00.000-05:00

New PoOPs up

2008-01-25T21:53:00.000-05:00

Raissa St. Pierre
and NEW PoOPster: Eric Steinman ... welcome!!

Rappers unite for Edward Tufte!!

2008-01-24T09:38:00.000-05:00

How many can you spot...

DC go-go update

2008-01-13T14:55:00.000-05:00

Steinski (finally!) has a blog. A recent post gives a really interesting overview of the current DC go-go scene. Some really nice video clips too.

First PoOPs of the new year are in

2008-01-05T20:32:00.000-05:00

First PoOPs of the new year are in: Mike Jurkovic Andy Stewart Ken Beck

And now, a word from our fearless PoOPmeister... 'Tis the season [again] to write POOP lists, fa-la-la-la-la. The usual ground rules, which include:

limit your swill to 2 sides of a page
make it copy-ready by leaving at least a one inch margin on both sides
deadline: NO LATER THAN JANUARY 31st!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Send to this email address AS AN ATTACHMENT, if you are able to do so
Also send me a hard copy to the address below
Toss in a few bucks. I never state how much because somehow each year your contributions just about cover the mailing/printing costs within a few bucks
spread the POOP. Anybody can contribute!
Any format that works for you works for POOP
Also send your list as an attachment to zipszig@ulster.net for CyberPOOP [viewable at pooplist.blogspot.com]

Thanks for all. Look for hardPOOP during the first week of February and CyberPOOP throughout January. Happy Kringle and Betty Grable to you. mark ++++++++++++++++++ if you need the mailing address, email zip

How's this for a Christmas single...

2007-12-09T12:26:00.000-05:00

Malcolm Middleton used to be in Arab Strap. He's released solo record and one of the songs on it, We're All Going To Die, is about to be released as a "Christmas Single" in the UK. The "Christmas Single" is a long-lived and somewhat odd little artifact of the UK charts. Basically, it comes from the fact that the UK market is so small that if a (not always huge) number of people all buy a single on the same day, and for a couple of days afterwards, the song stands a very good chance of getting into the official charts. Once it's on the charts, of course, the pop radio stations must play it and thenit is on its way. This is one of the main reasons why the UK charts move so much more quickly than the US charts. It is also the reason that underground dance music has a much better chance of reaching the charts in the UK than in the US. If every DJ in the land buys a record on the same day it gets into the charts. And so to the "Christmas Single". It used to be that if a single was Number One at Christmas, it could expect to have a nice bump in sales as every parent and granny would buy it for the kiddies' stockings. This lead to a series of "Christmas Single Wars", set up by record companies and the music press. Blur vs. Oasis was a famous one. In recent years the media feeding frenzy has expanded to include Then there are the charity singles. The most famous, of course, is "Do They Know It's Christmas", but there are a raft of others. Pick your charity or cause and there is bound to be a Christmas single for it. Autism, Child Poverty etc etc. Here's the site: http://www.wereallgoingtodie.co.uk/

I must be halluncinating

2007-10-19T23:51:00.000-05:00

I just saw an American Express commercial on TV. The soundtrack was "Gimme some Money" by spinal Tap.

Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses and Content vs. Context, a Presentation for Some Music Industry Friends

2007-10-08T20:11:00.000-05:00

..... But in the middle I gave a brief, twenty minute presentation to some friends in the music industry about why it’s time we pay closer attention to consumer needs when it comes to digital music. I thought I’d share my presentation in case others were interested. Hello. My name is Ian Rogers. I’ve been building digital media applications since 1992, dropped out of a Computer Science PhD program to tour with Beastie Boys in 1995, and have been purchased by both AOL and Yahoo! in the ten years since then, with a stint running the new media department for a record label in the middle. Currently I work at Yahoo! Entertainment on Yahoo! Music..... Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses and Content vs. Context, a Presentation for Some Music Industry Friends

Must see addition to hip hop blogs

2007-10-02T08:18:00.000-05:00

www.illdoctrine.com - Jay Smooth,long-time radio host on WBAI, posts a series of short videos dealing with hip hop etc. Funny, to the point and very watchable.

Spinal Tap at Live Earth roundup - better late than never

2007-08-31T02:37:00.000-05:00

with marti debergi http://youtube.com/watch?v=kxSvF8iNEPg on radio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWDzRveO0DA on breakfast tv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38t4yPv4koA the show itself http://youtube.com/watch?v=EXy0hZDIrmY

Music industry types say "Stop us before we compress again...!"

2007-08-25T10:50:00.000-05:00

Today I spotted a disc by someone called John Ralston. It is called "Sorry Vampire" and is due in stores in the US on October 2, 2007. It was completely unremarkable except for a note on the back:
This record is intentionally quieter than some to preserve the dynamics of the original performances. Visit TurnMeUp.com for more information.
Apparently, the official copy now reads like this:

To preserve the excitement, emotion and dynamics of the original performances this record is intentionally quieter than some. For full enjoyment simply Turn Me Up! (www.TurnMeUp.org)

I'd be interested to see the list of folks who are signed up. How many of them have Top 10 rock hits from the last 3 years under their belt? How many belong to the major labels driving the loudness wars?

Sgt Pepper must die!

2007-06-15T08:18:00.000-05:00

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? It's meant to be a classic album, but all you can hear is a load of boring tripe ... we've all felt that way. And so have the musicians we asked to nominate the supposedly great records they'd gladly never hear again Sgt. Pepper Must Die! (Guardian UK)

Spinning Into Oblivion

2007-04-06T21:07:00.000-05:00

The major labels wanted to kill the single. Instead they killed the album. The association wanted to kill Napster. Instead it killed the compact disc. Spinning Into Oblivion

I wonder how many members actually voted in all catgories...

2007-02-12T09:55:00.000-05:00

GRAMMY.com - 49th Annual Grammy Awards Nominee List (with winners highlighted in orange...)

village voice > pazzandjop06

2007-02-11T17:17:00.000-05:00

The copycats over at the Voice have their own PoOPlist out: village voice > pazzandjop06 Chris Ott wonders if we need it: The Sheep Take a Buffalo Stance (but i liked Timbuk 3)...

The Results: Pooplist 2006

2007-02-06T08:29:00.000-05:00

All PoOps are now up. See the rundown here: The Results: Pooplist 2006 And click on the links to the left for individual PoOPs.

karaoke underground :: home

2007-02-04T15:04:00.000-05:00

Dude! This is sooo your next birthday party. Buzzcocks on karaoke?? Brilliant! karaoke underground :: home (check the songlist!)

WIRED Blogs: Listening Post

2007-02-04T14:39:00.000-05:00

All Tomorrow's Parties vs. The Fans: An Interactively-Booked Festival

New PoOPs up

2007-01-21T17:40:00.000-05:00

Paul Cangelosi
Kent Benzinger
Jeff Schwartz

Worthwhile astroturf...

2007-01-20T17:12:00.000-05:00

EFF: Don't Let Congress Shackle Digital Music

Are U friggin' kiddin' me?

2007-01-19T00:55:00.000-05:00

DJ Drama Arrested - Report - New York Times (Reg. req.)

Kevin Falahee Pooplist 2006

2007-01-19T00:17:00.000-05:00

Kevin Falahee Pooplist 2006

Mike Miller � pooplist 2006

2007-01-16T22:27:00.000-05:00

Mike Miller pooplist 2006

First poops of '06

2007-01-14T19:19:00.000-05:00

Richard Allen PoOPlist 2006
Mike Jurkovic PoOPlist '06

FMC | Radio Study 2006

2007-01-08T20:38:00.000-05:00

Future of Music Coalition on the case!! FMC | Radio Study 2006

Reasons to be cheerful

2007-01-02T09:30:00.000-05:00

This is why I am happy to be out of the loop......

PoOPtarget?

2007-01-02T09:21:00.000-05:00

This is either something to aim for, or something to run away from...

wayneandwax.com ? Another Crunk Genealogy

2006-12-31T14:04:00.000-05:00

Remarkable mix, part of the ongoing "Blogariddims" series. Another Crunk Genealogy Dig that reeeealy loooong explication, also!

Variety.com - XTC's Partridge discusses boxset, Monstrance

2006-12-05T09:39:00.000-05:00

Variety.com - XTC's Partridge discusses boxset, Monstrance

Thousands of songs in your pocket: An audiophile's nightmare? | csmonitor.com

2006-12-03T11:10:00.000-05:00

Decent, brief, mainstream overview of the problems of lossy compression. Thousands of songs in your pocket: An audiophile's nightmare? | csmonitor.com

Record show Nov 3, 4, 5 2006

2006-11-03T07:59:00.000-05:00

WFMU Record Fair is Friday Nov. 3, Saturday Nov. 4 and Sunday Nov. 5 2006. Metropolitan Pavilion 18th St. and 7th Ave. NYC Even if you are not a complete record geek, it's worth a trip just for the sociology...

Review: Slits at Bard

2006-11-03T07:58:00.000-05:00

PoOPster Jim Finnigan writes: The Slits put on a great show at the Bard College Campus Center Multi-Purpose Room [how swanky is that name?] on Thursday 26 October. This free concert attracted mostly a hunnerd or so Bard stoonts but there was a smattering of nutters from out in the real world of neighboring Kingston and Woodstock and Poughkeepsie to groove to the Slits punky dubby sounds. After the opening acts Shellshag (the White Stripes meet Television Personalities meet Z’ev they had the ultimate minimalist punk song with “1, 2, 3”) and the Apes (Stereolab meets Devo) [and no, Leon Botstein did not give a music appreciation lecture at the start of the show…] the anticipation rose and finally out came Ari Up inna curly-locks stylee, Tessa on bass, and new recruits No (a/k/a Nadya) on lead guitar, Adele on scratchy guitar, Holly on harmonies, and clean-cut Anna on drums, launching into bird sounds and John Holt’s Man Next Door. Well, Ari tried to do bird sounds but the soundman had a little trouble figuring out how to do reverb and there was the little issue of Ari being on the guitar mike and No being on Ari’s mike and Tessa’s booming bass distorting through the stage monitors but after a humorously chaotic opening it all worked out irie. The Slits set was a great hi-energy selection of stuff from Cut and some of Ari’s True Warriors songs: Man Next Door / FM / World of Grown-ups / No More Cruel War / New Town / Shoplifting / Dennis Brown’s Revolution / Typical Girls / Kill Them With Love / Let’s Do the Split (2006 punky stylee). Lots of singing along everybody knew the words - and some pogoing and jitterbugging (the stoonts, not the nutters) and girls invited on stage [a ‘typical boy’ declined the honor]. Lots of bass sound Tessa was great! Ari had the band lower volume and vamp in a buncha songs so Tessa could dub up the bass and Ari could rap and toast inna dancehall stylee. Everyone had a great time and two of my pompous and opinionated colleagues hi Bill! hi Raissa! both agreed that it was a fun show and that Tessa and Ari were great!

Why the Clash are still rock titans | Review | The Observer

2006-10-29T09:36:00.000-05:00

It began with a White Riot in 1977 and ended in 1986 when the band split. But 20 years later, the Clash are more influential than ever. Neil Spencer explains their lasting appeal, while James Brown asks famous fans to pick their favourite singles Why the Clash are still rock titans (The Observer, UK)

All-Time Worst Music Albums

2006-10-24T20:39:00.000-05:00

All-Time Worst Music Albums OUP blog, via Colin Larkin, editor of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music. (Thanks to L for link)

The Believer - The Syncher, Not the Song

2006-10-11T23:05:00.000-05:00

more than you ever wanted to know about the Numa Numa Dance - The Believer - The Syncher, Not the Song: "THE SYNCHER, NOT THE SONG THE IRRESISTIBLE RISE OF THE NUMA NUMA DANCE DISCUSSED: Dance Dance Revolution, Ex–Doom Metal Musicians, Romanian Celebrities, Boy-Band Fluff, Japanese Internet Forums, Flash-Animated Cats, Bad Transliteration, Steaming Plates of Fettuccine, Too-Small Glasses, Fear of Cockroaches, The Star Wars Kid, The Electric Slide, The New Cultural Order

Everything Louder Than Everything Else

2006-09-30T20:28:00.000-05:00

Good piece about compression on current CD mastering.Everything Louder Than Everything Else

YARD SALE TIME AGAIN

2006-09-01T11:43:00.000-05:00

AWESOME MUSIC YARD SALE! THOUSANDS OF LPs, CDs, 12"s, and 45s (Woodstock NY)

Zip’s Ziggurat presents another Insane! music yard sale 1000s of LPs, CDs, 12”s and 45s

rock, pop, hip hop, country, dance, world, folk, reggae, soul, alt.rock, jazz, funk, punk, r+b, metal, classical, techno, new wave, house, old-timey, breaks, spoken, 80’s, electro, blues, promos, DVDs, tons more

at insultingly low prices
as low as $0.50

(hey, some are even “cheaper than free”)

Listen before you buy

(free refreshments too!)

Saturday + Sunday Sep 2 + 3 10am - 5pm
(and a little on Monday too)

all covered, so it’s rain or shine

Osnas La. Near Rt 212 + Glasco Tpke
Woodstock / West Saugerties, NY

Thruway to Exit 20, Rt. 212 west towards Woodstock Mapquest map

Google Map

Attention Wes Anderson

2006-09-01T11:41:00.000-05:00

Fagen and Becker are completely mad.

Remix videos on the fly using your voice

2006-04-02T12:40:00.000-05:00

sCrAmBlEd? HaCkZ! by Sven König is an amazing piece of video remixing software. It takes music videos, chops them up by beats and indexes the samples by sound signature in a database. You then beatbox into a microphone to describe the music you want to hear. The software builds the music you want out of the sample database. There is an excellent video that describes the program and has example performances. It’s a must watch: Watch it on YouTube. (via HackADay.com)

Two extremes of the music "industry"

2006-03-30T09:08:00.000-05:00

Looong G 'n R saga. Telling us exactly why we do not need any more rock dinosaurs (are you listening, Radiohead?) The Most Expensive Album Never Made (repost from NY Times - March 06, 2005)

Steve Albini from 1993 (make sure to check the figures at the end...) The Problem with Music (repro from The Baffler)

LiveScience.com - The Science of Hit Songs

2006-02-09T21:58:00.000-05:00

A bunch of interesting stuff over at Live Science: The Science of Hit Songs (How social networks and perceived popularity makes hits... Why Amercans Have Bad Rhythm ... not too clever, apparently... Are you frontin' cool taste? Coworkers Judged by iTunes Playlists>

village voice > pazzandjop05

2006-02-09T00:30:00.000-05:00

Obligatory Post:Village Voice: Pazz and Jop05 Reynolds thinks that Pazz + Jop is rockist?? He obviously ain't read the PoOP. Another dissenting voice... (I wonder what he would make of the PoOPlist!!)

Dubstep Warz

2006-02-08T23:36:00.000-05:00

Absolutely BANGIN'! Link CORRECTED! --->> Breezeblock: 10th January 2006 Dubstep Special (download zipped mp3 from PoOP server, includes setlist)

Time to upgrade Winamp / Get Diplo mix while you're there

2006-02-06T09:43:00.000-05:00

Serious security bug fixed. Time to upgrade. Winamp Free 5.13 Diplo mix here: High or Low

2005 PoOP completed (except one)

2006-02-05T18:07:00.000-05:00

All PoOPs for 2005 are now online (except one) Use the right nav to get there. Blogger invitations going out now.

Coldcut in the mix

2006-02-04T11:25:00.000-05:00

Coldcut rip it up in the mix on BBC Radio 1 - Jan. 29, 2006. Get it while it's still up... Quite similar to their Nightmares on Wax deal of several years ago, but still works for me. Tracklist available through this page. (Broadband required)

You've Got PoOP!

2006-02-03T22:02:00.000-05:00

February 2006

Dear POOPster:

You’ve got POOP in your hands. The Nineteenth Annual POmpous and OPinionated List, that is. It’s hard to believe but when this whole POOPthing first started in 1987, we had a conservative Republican president surrounded by scandalous goings-on and Antonin Scalia from New Jersey had just been confirmed to a lifetime membership as one of The Supremes. It is indeed comforting to know that as America undergoes such sweeping change, POOP lumbers on. And lumber it has as 30 POOPsters have managed to get their lists past the National Security Agency and onto these pages (and onto the handsomely crafted http://pooplist.blogspot.com website).

As usual, I’ve attempted to tabulate the entries and, as is customary, I’ve employed the now time-honored What-The-Hell’s-He-Talking-About-Anyway System. One more time, I’ve given 2 points to each pompoid’s Top 10 choices and 1 point to each title beyond a Top 10 or in the variously designated “honorable mention” categories (up to 25 titles in all}. I’ve pro-rated titles above 25 listed titles, hence the half-points. Basically, the more titles you listed, the less each one counted or something like that. Trust me.

So, enough stalling already. Let’s put this past year’s releases to an up or down vote. The answer key:

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1. NEW PORNOGRAPHERS – Twin Cinema 17 ½ points (appearing on 10 out of 30 lists)

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2. WHITE STRIPES – Get Behind Me Satan 13 (9)

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(Tied) 3. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Feels 13 (7)

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(Tied) 3. BRIGHT EYES – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning 13 (7)

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(Tied) 5. RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS – Cold Roses 12 ½ (7)

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(Tied) 5. THELONIOUS MONK WITH JOHN COLTRANE –At Carnegie Hall 12 ½ (7)

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7. SIGUR ROS – Takk 11 (8)

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8. MY MORNING JACKET – Z 11 (7)

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9. RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS – Jacksonville City Nights 11 (6)

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(Tied) 10. FRANZ FERDINAND – You Could Have It So Much Better 10 (7)

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NEIL YOUNG – Prairie Wind 10 (7)

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12. IRON & WINE & CALEXICO – In the Reins 9 ½ (7)

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13. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – Devils & Dust 9 ½ (6)

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14. BECK – Guero 9 (5)

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15. PETRA HADEN – Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out 8 (4)

New PoOPs up

2006-01-30T00:30:00.000-05:00

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2006-01-28T21:13:00.000-05:00

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2006-01-27T00:49:00.000-05:00

Frightening... truly frightening ... David Hasselhoff is hooked on a feeling (The Superficial - www.thesuperficial.com)

2006-01-26T09:25:00.000-05:00

Kris Needs' trakMARX zine - well worth a look- trakMARX - JOHN PEEL'S FIRST RADIO ONE SHOW

Excellent short history of the punky-reggae era: trakMARX - ROCKER'S DELIGHT

2006-01-26T00:54:00.000-05:00

Remarkable, looooooong, informative paean... John Peel, his Producer Soulmate & the Mad Captain – by KRIS NEEDS

2006-01-25T23:00:00.000-05:00

List of lists - Fimoculous.com (scroll waaaay down for music)
An ongoing work of lunatic scholarship,,, Acclaimed Music
Greg's List - 75 top critically reviewed CD of 2005

2006-01-14T13:41:00.000-05:00

Excuse me, weren't you in the Fall? Mark E Smith's band is legendary for its ever-changing line-up. Dave Simpson made it his quest to track down everyone who has ever been a member, (Guardian UK)

2006-01-11T09:07:00.000-05:00

Corporate Rock Still Sucks (NYT - reg. req.)

2006-01-05T14:44:00.000-05:00

Another mp3 blog worth investigating... DoCopenhagen also a rather interesting list of Top 50 music videos

2005-12-20T09:57:00.000-05:00

Ha! (Although I love hip hop more that the folks who might think that this is real) (broadband sound needed)

2005-12-05T09:40:00.000-05:00

Released in 1979, the single "Rapper's Delight" launched hip-hop as a multi-billion-dollar phenomenon. Here is the definitive inside story - Hip-Hop Happens (Stephen Daley - Vanity Fair) - (printer friendly version with no popup) here

2005-12-05T01:18:00.000-05:00

OMIGOD! This needs to be set to music immediately!!!! Mark E Smith reads the footbal scores!

2005-11-10T09:32:00.001-05:00

EFF: List of CDs with Sony/BMG rootkit (There are bound to be others) How to turn off "autorun" on CD rom drives in Windows

2005-11-10T09:32:00.000-05:00

EFF: List of CDs with Sony/BMG rootkit (There are bound to be others) How to turn off "autorun" on CD rom drives in Windows

2005-11-09T09:47:00.000-05:00

And How! Your Band Sucks (SomethingAwful.com occasionaly music "criticism") Hilarious

2005-10-20T19:06:00.001-05:00

Rip It Up + Start Again - Post Punk '78 - '84 (Simon Reynolds) Discographies Core Curriculum and Esoterica (PDFs - Faber + Faber UK)

2005-10-20T19:06:00.000-05:00

Rip It Up + Start Again - Post Punk '78 - '84 (Simon Reynolds) Discographies Core Curriculum and Esoterica (PDFs - Faber + Faber UK)

2005-10-05T18:33:00.000-05:00

Utah Cops Squash Legal Rave with Teargas, Helicopters (video here)

2005-08-10T21:42:00.000-05:00

Huh?

2005-08-02T20:53:00.000-05:00

Famous LP covers / Advertising (after Nike uses Minor Threat cover)

2005-08-02T17:59:00.000-05:00

finally! A PhD for the rest of us ... Air guitar strikes academic chord

2005-07-29T08:52:00.000-05:00

Want the definition of "a work of lunatic scholarship" ...>Alan W. Pollack's Notes on ... Series In 1989 the American musicologist Alan W. Pollack started to analyze the songs of the Beatles. He published his first results on internet. In 1991 — after he had finished the work on 28 songs — he bravely decided to do the whole lot of them. About ten years later, in 2000 he completed the analysis of the official Beatles' canon, consisting of 187 songs and 25 covers. Here we have ordered this massive work in five categories. And, for your convenience, we've added an alphabetical, a canonical and a chronological index as well as a short introduction.

2005-07-29T07:51:00.000-05:00

(Jacob Slichter is the author of "So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star: How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful of Record Executives and Other True Tales From a Drummer's Life.") - from Semisonic, in the NYT, of all places - Why musicians are not at all surprised by the shit revealed in the Spitzer investigation of payola ("free" reg. req.)

2005-06-28T06:42:00.000-05:00

The Ultimate Reunion: Cream, 2005 Scroll down for The Manualist Jimi Hendrix Medley (reqires WMP and broadband) (Thanks to I for the link)

2005-05-25T08:27:00.000-05:00
Heavy metal umlaut - Wikipedia

2005-05-12T22:25:00.000-05:00
Covers, covers, covers... ! Copy, Right?

2005-04-30T12:43:00.000-05:00
Ah, the sweet smell of success. But what comes after? Bands have a popular album. They get smitten with their own success, take too many drugs, only had one good idea in the first place, are close to breaking up, release a half-baked effort, are hamstrung by the label—all reasons why the follow-up is terrible or, rather, why the follow-up is not well received by the public. The Non-Definitive Guide to the Follow-Up - Article - Stylus Magazine

2005-04-25T23:02:00.000-05:00
The Hipster iPod
Buy a brand new 60gb ipod photo pre-loaded with all the music you'll never be able to find on your own-- because you're just not cool enough! The Hipster Ipod Yes, now you can become instantly superior to all those smug Williamsburg hipsters. For only $899! Thats 3 cents a song! Yes the hipster ipod comes pre-loaded with 60gb of the best, authentic, hard-to-find, and obviously kick-ass albums of the last 50 years. Yes thats a little pretentious sounding.

2005-04-18T08:48:00.000-05:00
Address to send cards to :: Edwyn Collins :: (Orange Juice) (had a brain hemmorage Feb 20th 2005, struggling to get back)

2005-03-21T08:27:00.000-05:00
Tom Waits' favourite LPs 'It's perfect madness' (Observer UK, thanks to L for the link)