Hey folks,

Last week was one of those special "friend I haven't seen in a really long time came down to visit and we laughed like idiots through the entire show" kind of shows. Apologies to anyone who listened and was annoyed by our constant mirth. I promise this week's show will be joyless and professional. Promise.

Last week's playlist:

Things that Are Square 8-29-08

(*) = New release

Akron/Family - Raising the Sparks - Akron/Family & the Angels of Light

Liars - We Got Cold. Coughed. And Forgot Things - We No Longer Knew Who We Were
(*) Jaguar Love - Highways of Gold - Take Me to the Sea
The Vaselines - Sex Sux (Amen) - The Way of the Vaselines: A Complete History
(*) The Dead Science - The Dancing Destroyer - Villainaire

Matt & Kim - It's a Fact (Printed Stained) - Matt & Kim
Best Fwends - M.Y.S.E.L.F. (XXXChange Remix) - Alphabetically Arranged
Nose Bleed Island - Pizza Planet - More Tails from Blood Island
Japanther - I Io - Master of Pigeons

ocdj - The Milk's Gone Bad - Hooray
Dan Deacon - The Crystal Cat - Spiderman of the Rings
The Books - An Owl With Knees - Lost and Safe
(*) Fujiya & Miyagi - Uh - Lightbulbs

Jonathan Richman - Our Swingin' Pad - Having a Party with Jonathan Richman
Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Bashers - Maggie's Farm - I'm Not There
Yo La Tengo - Here Comes My Baby - Fakebook
Beulah - Me and Jesus Don't Talk Anymore - Yoko

The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride - Heretic Pride
Herman Düne - This Will Never Happen - Not on Top
Jeffrey Lewis - Life - The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane and Other Favorites
John Phillips - Holland Tunnel - The Wolfking of L.A.

(*) Okkervil River - Calling and Not Calling My Ex - The Stand Ins
Okkervil River - Okkervil River Song - Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See
The Skygreen Leopards - Disciples of California - Disciples of California
Bishop Allen - WEKH - November

Belle and Sebastian - Wrapped Up in Books - Dear Castrophe Waitress
Blood on the Wall - I'd Like to Take You Out Tonight


If you want to listen this week, tune in tomorrow (Thursday) from 6-8pm PST on KUCI 88.9FM or listen live online at KUCI.ORG, the public radio presets of iTunes, or the flash player on our myspace page. Tomorrow's show is all about Jesus. Yeah. There's a ton of songs about the dude.

<3,
Kyle

Andrew Morrison:
Andy has two shows repeating every day in September's schedule on Dandelion Radio. His two hour regular show features two brand new sessions: one from John Peel faves Decoration, the other from Fidgital. Decoration's second session for the show includes exclusive versions of material from their forthcoming second album 'See You After The War' and a mystery cover version. Fidgital contribute an innovative live violin and decks set as their session tracks. There's also a live recording from Alex Canasta's album launch party in Copenhagen at which Andy was a guest DJ, as well as an exclusive new remix of a track from the album. The show also has several tracks from bands playing at September's Bestival on the Isle of Wight and the excellent 12" version of Bloc Party's new single 'Mercury'.
The latest instalment of the occasional Andy's Archives finds him once again rummaging randomly through his sizeable record collection for an hour, picking lots of excellent tracks that are at least ten years old. Choices this time around include Mansun, Billy Bragg, The Future Sound of London, Arab Strap, Dubstar, The Prodigy, All About Eve, and many more. Join Andy for this aural trip down memory lane, with classic and obscure selections for your listening pleasure.
Listen out for Andy presenting a show on Bestival FM, live from the festival site on Saturday September 6th from 9am 'til 10am - broadcasting to the entire Isle of Wight on 87.7MHz FM and the world at http://www.bestival.net!

Dubster:
As we near the end of another glorious British summer...ahem, Steve and Brian bring you 3 more hours of sunshine from Scotland's T in the Park and the Wickerman Festival. Having secured press passes for both, marvel as they try desperately to secure interviews with musical icons, struggling with recording levels and a recently aquired addiction to Pimms along the way.
There are interviews galore with some of Scoltand's finest upcoming musical talent and a few surprise guests, plus a cracking set of tracks from performers at both weekends. So don't be putting away the tent and soft bog roll yet, let us take you on one more summer festival journey before the onset of dark nights and colder weather once more drag you into the depths of misery and self pity.
Will they get to speak to Mark E. Smith, Glasvegas or Annie Nightingale? ... You'll just have to tune in to find out.
Wagon roll!!

Jeff Grainger:
Hello again! My Show for September is a two hour bonanza of Myspace finds; (KateGoes and Jujuman to name two.) mixed with Northern Soul resplendence; (Could this be Bill Cosby’s debut on Dandelion Radio?) Topped up with brilliant tracks of yore from the likes of Sister Nancy and Paul Rooney and equally brilliant tracks of the ‘Now’ with Warning! Heatwave, The Beep seals and Clutter vs Susan Matthews. Gabrielle’s Wish bring us this months featured Album with the jaw dropping-ly awesome ‘Portal’. Cornerstone to the proceedings is a nod to the late great Isaac Hayes
As a final touch, in a desperate attempt, to usher in the start of Oldham’s Dandelion Radio Nights starting the Thursday 25th of September. (See News/Events page) There’s a track from each of the Bands on the bill; Bingo Jesus, Rev Porl with Teatime, My Captive Audience and Contra Mundum.
Right lets get to work on Octobers’ Goodies

Mark Cunliffe:
It's September and the leaves are going to start falling to the ground quicker than Didier Drogba feeling a puff of wind in the penalty box. On the show we have a recording of Derby's king of drum & bass, Iziah DC live from The Vic Inn. For his live shows he employs the talents of P.Fine on MCing duties and M Alton on sax.....it's BIG! As well as that we have Sugar Bill getting all boombastic on us. There's No.Lay spitting some truth and Nigel Mansell makes an appearance but only under the guidance of Brighton's Chevron. For the kids we have a visit to London Zoo courtesy of The Bug. sarandon has a Massive Haircut but hopefully not a Gianluigi Buffon. Vex'd finally gets a look in (I've been meaning to play it for MONTHS....sorry Vex'd). Top Cat goes a bit jungle on us in an old skool stylee. Damien Shingleton's found a band and has gone Tunng like which meets approval round these parts. Finally, The Rocky Nest feel things are moving in a promising fashion which is a nice positive note to end on I think.... :-)

Pete Jackson:
September's show sees us invite a few mates round to console us as summer finally gives up and disappears. The Greencoats take a trip from Sweden, Lucy and The Popsonics pop round from Brazil, and Stereolab and Dr Usui join us from space (probably) to enjoy some crazy psychedelic rock from India and Nigeria and some irreligious bluegrass from The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir.
Plus we warm up for the first Dandelion Radio night in Warrington on September 19th with some classic live mayhem from headliners Lovecraft.
See you down the front!

Rachael Neiman:
In September’s very special edition of ‘The Rachael Neiman Experience’, we have two extra special guests, Ste Mccabe and Paul Forster who are joining us to talk about the forthcoming Ladybois – Men and bois who support Ladyfest’ Ladyfest Manchester fund-raising extravaganza and play some of the bands who will be performing at the event, including Pete Bentham and the Dinnerladies and The Seven Inches. We also play a couple of songs from Ste’s forthcoming debut album Hate Mail. Paul and Ste also pick some favourite tracks from the likes of Tender Trap, Cars Can Be Blue and a couple of golden oldies from The Popguns and Huggy Bear.
Elsewhere we have riot grrrl goodness from Trickbabies, Violet Violet, micropenis, Postcode, dark pop from Fuck Dress, Captain Polaroid and Paul Hawkins plus sublime indiepop from KateGoes, Mexican Kids At home, Shrag, Silence At Sea, Socks and Shoes, The Deirdres, Awesome Wells, The Tony Head Experience, Hyperbubble, ShiSho, Gnu and the shrew and Cherryade's amazing new signings The Lovely Eggs. We also take a chance to celebrate the release of the Best Of Fortuna Pop! Compilation and the upcoming ‘Remembering Slampt’ festival in Newcastle by playing a classic track from Spraydog.

Rocker:
September brings another packed three hour show from Rocker. There's live tracks from the current LP by The Manhattan Love Suicides, and more new tracks than you can shake a stick at, unless you try quite hard. Or are very good at shaking sticks at large numbers of things.
There's tracks from The Wave Pictures; The Brazen; Bakers at Dawn; Je suis Animal; the Tamborines; Engine; The Bumblebees; Lonely Boy; Skream; Puerto Muerto; Coming Soon; Ballboy; Flannel; and (the) Nervous Rex. Also new singles from The Pains of Being Pure at Heart; Phil Wilson; Fuck Dress; and Pete Green; as well as techno / electro from facundo mohrr; The Chemical Brothers; Sennh; and Ricardo Tobar.
The Charlatans; Laura Cantrell; and Jeremy Warmsley all cover songs by the same act from the 80s, there's a remix of a classic 80s track by Laurie Anderson, and this month's Peel's big 45 is a seminal electronic reggae track from the same era. There's also a brace of classic 60s soul records, in tribute to two of the great singers who we have lost in the last few weeks.
As well as little known acts, here's this month's little known fact: The Manhattan Love Suicides are named after a series of raw and extreme erotic short films from 1985 by New York underground filmmaker Richard Kern, who also directed the "Death Valley 69" video by Sonic Youth.

Simon Hickinbotham
This month's show is a staggering 92.8% music, so that means only 7.2% glitches, mumbling, false starts and pauses whilst frantically hitting alt+tab. Of the musical content, 30% is from Britain, (including Ugly Billy, Dub Syndicate, The Polaroids and Little Boots), 7% is from Japan (Velocityut and In Corridors), and 3.5% each from Italy (Gum) and Germany (Phonotones).
We have two songs from fifties America - I didn't plan it, it just happened that way, and to give more details here would spoil the surprise. However, I can reveal that we'll also be hearing a track from Pepe Kalle - one of the African artists that, to quote John Peel "will make you dance until you bleed".

Yank Sizzler:
Come lament the end of summer with me on the Yank Sizzler this month. We will fight the coming of shorter days with awesome new music from Bodies of Water, Suzannah Johannes, Coat Party, The Wilders, Eli Paperboy Reed & Anna Kramer.
The fortifications of our spirits will be strengthened by superb classics from Dr. Alimantado, Tom Waits, Ken Boothe, Percy Mayfield and Galaxie 500.
Lastly the tunes of Bembeya Jazz National, King Khan, DJ Donna Summer, Modeselektor, Vivian Girls, Blood on the Wall and CPC Gangbangs will ensure that we do not go quietly.

1. right to lite tonight - Blood on the Wall
2, I'm A Wheel - Wilco
3. Heart Cooks Brain - Modest Mouse
4. Bitch - The Crust Brothers
5. I Need A Life - Born Ruffians
6. Shake It Around (Recorded live Melbourne, Australia. July 18, 2002) - Stephen Malkmus
7. Lounge (Closing Time) - Modest Mouse
8. Hold Music - Architecture in Helsinki
9. Western Homes - Pavement
10. The Navajo Know - Pixies
11. Goin' On - The Flaming Lips
12. Kids Don't Know Shit - Islands
13. Go Slowly - Radiohead
14. Lovesick (Bob Dylan cover) - The White Stripes
15. Saltbreakers - Laura Veirs
16. Oh Sister (Bob Dylan cover) - Andrew Bird
17. Standing At The Threshold - Deer Tick
18. Let's Dance To Joy Division - The Wombats

Where are we, 2008? What's up with all this crazy music? It's pop music vs. indie experimental and just about everything in between. Let's see where we stand...my recommendations are marked with asterisks (one= yes, two=double yes, three=brilliant/must hear!)

*Abe Vigoda "Skeleton" - L.A. experimental

Alkaline Trio "Agony and Irony" - Goth-punk for the radio world.

**Amanda Palmer "Who Killed Amanda Palmer" - Creepy and brash, warm, discordantly beautiful.

Ashlee Simpson "Bittersweet World" - Cool synth riffs; please, stop singing.

Barenaked Ladies "Snacktime" - A gag album? Cute and entertaining.

*Beck "Modern Guilt" - Dystopian and danceable.

The Black Angels "Direction to See a Ghost" - Psychedelic reverbed bliss.

**Blood on the Wall "Liferz" - RAWK

*Born Ruffians "Red, Yellow & Blue" - If only all indie was this good.

**Broken Social Scene Presents: Brendan Canning "Something For All of Us..." - Gentler, more guitar rock; so good.

*Capillary Action "So Embarrassing" - Post-punk avant-jazz spazz-rock.

*Charlotte Sometimes "Waves & the Both of Us" - Intelligent and captivatingly sultry.

Coldplay "Viva La Vida" - Yeah, we get it.

Crystal Castles "Crystal Castles" - RemixCity!

*Dan Friel "Ghost Town" - FEEDBACK

Death Cab for Cutie "Narrow Stairs" - Again: yeah, we get it.

*E-603 "Something for Everyone" - The title doesn't lie.

*Eat Skull "Sick to Death" - Bloody hell noise; good dirty fun.

*El Buzzard "Songs for Total Dicks" - Metal on mute; mixing-board mayhem.

**Ellen Allien "Sool" - Minimal ambient dance, gorgeous and haunting.

The Fashion "The Fashion" - You hang out at the mall too much.

**Fleet Foxes "Fleet Foxes" - Anthems from mountain tops.

**Foot Village "Friendship Nation" - Yelling. Drums. ta-da!

*Genghis Tron "Board Up the House" - The synths are turned up, the metal arriving.


(more to come...)

*War - Free Embarcadero Show - 2000

*Matchbox Twenty w/ Sugar Ray – San Jose – 3/21/2001

*The Rolling Stones w/ Sheryl Crow - Pac Bell Park - 11/8/2002

*Red Hot Chili Peppers w/ The Flaming Lips - Oakland Arena - 10/17/2003

*The Vines/Jet w/ The Living End – Warfield – 4/10/2004
*Live 105’s BFD 2004 – Shoreline Amphitheatre – 6/11/2004
Beastie Boys, The Strokes, Violent Femmes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bad Religion, New Found Glory, Death Cab for Cutie, Story of the Year, The Von Bondies, Yellowcard, The Killers, The Streets, Dizzee Rascal
*Interpol w/ Secret Machines – Warfield – 10/25/2004
*Live 105’s Not So Silent Night 2004 – Bill Graham Civic – 12/10/2004
Modest Mouse, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, Interpol, Muse, Taking Back Sunday
*The Hives w/ The Bronx – Warfield – 12/11/2004

*Kaiser Chiefs w/ The Lovemakers – Slim’s 3/22/2005
*Queens of the Stone Age w/ Throw Rag – Fillmore – 4/16/2005
*Stereophonics – Great American Music Hall – 4/27/2005
*Arcade Fire w/ Wolf Parade – Warfield – 9/18/2005
*Green Day w/ Jimmy Eat World & Flogging Molly – Pacific Bell Park – 9/24/2005
*Download Festival 2005 – Shoreline Amphitheatre – 10/8/2005
The Killers, Modest Mouse, The Arcade Fire, Doves, British Sea Power, HIM, Mindless Self Indulgence, Ambulance LTD, The Lovemakers
*Nine Inch Nails w/ Queens of the Stone Age & Autolux – Oakland Arena – 11/20/2005
*The Lovemakers w/ She Wants Revenge – Fillmore – 11/22/2005
*Live 105’s Not So Silent Night 2005 – Bill Graham Civic – 12/9/2005
The White Stripes, Death Cab for Cutie, Hot Hot Heat, Coheed and Cambria, Autolux

*Arctic Monkeys w/ The Spinto Band – Great American Music Hall – 3/13/2006
*The Strokes w/ Eagles of Death Metal - SF Concourse - 3/24/2006
*Yeah Yeah Yeahs w/ Blood on the Wall – Warfield – 4/29/2006
*The Raconteurs – Amoeba Records – 6/8/2006
*Live 105’s BFD 2006 – Shoreline Amphitheatre – 6/10/2006
AFI, The Strokes, Echo & the Bunnymen, HIM, Every Move a Picture, Yellowcard, Franz Ferdinand, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, She Wants Revenge, Panic! At the Disco, Wolfmother, Thursday, Anti-Flag, The Sounds, Hard-Fi, OK Go, Birdmonster
*Pearl Jam w/ Sonic Youth – The Forum (Los Angeles) – 7/9/2006
*The Raconteurs – Warfield – 7/23/2006
*Red Hot Chili Peppers w/ The Mars Volta - Oakland Arena - 8/25/2006
*Download Festival 2006 – Shoreline Amphitheatre – 9/30/2006
Beck, Muse, The Shins, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, Coheed and Cambria, Rogue Wave, Kinky
*Clap Your Hands Say Yeah w/ Architecture in Helsinki – Warfield – 10/13/2006
*Secret Machines – Grand Theatre – 10/20/2006
*Wolfmother w/ Silversun Pickups – Fillmore – 12/6/2006
*Live 105’s Not So Silent Night – Bill Graham Civic – 12/8/2006
The KillersThe Shins, Modest Mouse, The Raconteurs, Silversun Pickups

*Wolfmother w/ The Icarus Line – PNE Forum (Vancouver) – 2/22/2007
*Muse w/ Immigrant – Bill Graham Civic – 4/9/2007
*Wolfmother w/ Cage the Elephant – Warfield – 4/15/2007
*The Decemberists – Warfield – 4/26/2007
*The Kooks w/ Illinois – Slim’s – 5/1/2007
*Arctic Monkeys w/ Be Your Own Pet – Warfield – 5/2/2007
*Arcade Fire w/ electrolane – Greek Theatre – 6/2/2007
*Live 105’s BFD 2007 – Shoreline Amphitheatre – 6/9/2007
Bloc Party, Social Distortion, Queens of the Stone Age, Kaiser Chiefs, Scissors For Lefty, The Faint, Silversun Pickups, The Bravery, Cold War Kids, Sum 41, Shiny Toy Guys, Tiger Army, The Lovemakers, CSS
*Yeah Yeah Yeahs w/ Brian Glaze - Fillmore - 8/21/2007
*Treasure Island Music Festival 2007 - Treasure Island - 9/16/2007
Modest Mouse, Spoon, Built to Spill, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, M. Ward, Two Gallants, Film School, The Devil Makes Three, Sea Wolf
*Klaxons w/ Mystery Jets - Fillmore - 9/28/2007
*Galactic - Fillmore - 10/13/2007
*Interpol w/ Liars - Bill Graham - 10/20/2007
*Queens of the Stone Age w/ Jaguar Love - Warfield - 12/20/2007

*Phil Lesh w/ Strawberry Hubcap - Fillmore - 1/25/2008
*Black Lips w/ Pierced Arrows - GAMH - 2/8/2008
*Scissors For Lefty w/ Strawberry Hubcap - Bay School - 4/12/2008
*Man Man - Amoeba Records - 4/22/2008
*Tapes 'n Tapes w/ White Denim - Fillmore - 5/10/2008
*Live 105's BFD 2008 - Shoreline Amphitheater - 6/7/2008
Moby, MSTRKRFT, Cypress Hill, Santogold, Pennywise, Flogging Molly, Lyrics Born, Alkaline Trio, The Kooks, Everlast, Anti-Flag, MGMT, Atreyu, The Phenomenauts
*Scissors For Lefty w/ Elephone, Locksley - GAMH - 7/16/2008
*Wolf Parade w/ Listening Party - Fillmore - 7/17/2008
*Wolf Parade w/ Wintersleep - Lincoln Theatre (Raleigh, NC) - 7/29/2008
*The Black Keys w/ Magic Wands - Metro (Chicago) - 7/31/2008
*Lollapalooza 2008 - Grant Park (Chicago) - 8/1/2008
Radiohead, Stephen Malkmus, Bloc Party, Grizzly Bear, Mates of State, Gogol Bordello, The Kills, Louis XIV, Yeasayer, Rogue Wave, Black Lips
*Lollapalooza 2008 - Grant Park (Chicago) - 8/2/2008
Rage Against the Machine, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Broken Social Scene, Okkervil River, Explosions in the Sky, MGMT, The Gutter Twins, Dr. Dog, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, De Novo Dahl
*Outside Lands Festival 2008 - Golden Gate Park - 8/23/2008
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Cake, Two Gallants, Regina Spektor, Lupe Fiasco, Liars, dredg, Thriving Ivory
*Treasure Island Music Festival 2008 - Treasure Island - 9/20/2008
Justice, Cansei de Ser Sexy, TV on the Radio, Mike Relm, Goldfrapp, Amon Tobin, Hot Chip, Foals, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Nortec Collective, Aesop Rock, Chester French, Loquat, The Frail

Некоторые альбомы, которые мне понравились в этом году, пока по алфавиту :))
First impressions, these albums recommend to listen :) All genres, a/b sorted

The Top of The Pop 2008

001 5ive - Hesperus
002 A Shoreline Dream & Ulrich Schnauss - Neverchanger
003 AC Berkheimer - In A Series Of Long Days
004 Action Biker - Hesperian Puisto
005 Air - Moon Safari 1998 (Special Edition 2008)
006 Aimee Mann - @#%&*! Smilers
007 The Airfields - Up All Night
008 Alanis Morissette - Flavors of Entanglement
009 Alistair Crosbie - Sad Faces of the Moon
010 Marc Almond with Michael Cashmore - Gabriel & The Lunatic Lover
011 Amorphous Androgynous - The Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness
012 The American Dollar - A Memory Stream
013 Architecture in Helsinki - Like It or Not EP
014 Asobi Seksu - Me And Mary EP
015 Aspen Woods - New World Disorder
016 Astrobrite - One Hit Wonder
017 Astrolab - The Blue Thread Saga
018 Au - Verbs
019 Auburn Lull - Begin Civil Twilight
020 Audrey - The Fierce And The Longing
021 Autumn's Grey Solace - Ablaze
022 Autechre - Quaristice
023 The B-52's - Funplex
024 Balmorhea - Rivers Arms
025 Battlelore - The Last Alliance
026 Barry Adamson - Back to the Cat
027 Beach House - Devotion
028 Belong - Colorloss Record EP
029 Benoît Pioulard - Temper
030 Bitcrush - Epilogue in Waves
031 Bitcrush - Shimmer & Fade
032 Peter Bjorn and John - Seaside Rock
033 The Black Angels - Directions To See A Ghost
034 Blood on the Wall - Liferz
035 Boris - Smile
036 Black Forest / Black Sea - Portmanteau 10" LP
037 Blackfilm - Blackfilm
038 The Breeders - Mountain Battles
039 Carla Bruni - Comme si de rien n'était
040 Christopher Bissonnette - In Between Words
041 Camille - Winter's Child
042 Calder - Lower
043 David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
044 Matthew Robert Cooper (Eluvium) - Miniatures
045 Coldworld - Melancholie²
046 Colour Kane - Mild To Wild
047 Conservative Man - Mirabel and the Hikikomori
048 costa music - Lighter Subjects
049 City of a Hundred Spires - Graveyard of Ships
050 Crawl Back In - With Fractured Lips You Cursed Me Goodbye
051 Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
052 Cruyff in the Bedroom - Saudargia
053 Crystal Antlers - S/T EP
054 Crystal Castles - S/T
055 Crystal Stilts - S/T
056 Cryptacize - Dig That Treasure
057 The Cure - Raised Up
058 Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
059 Daniel Dorobantu - Knock On The Sky And Listen To The Sound
060 Dälek vs. Ifwhen - Hear Less / No Good Trying EP
061 Darker My Love - 2
062 Daturah - Reverie
063 Daysleeper - Daysleeper EP
064 The Daysleepers - Drowned In A Sea Of Sound
065 Dawn Chorus Ignites - Glimmer EP
066 Detektivbyrån - Wermland
067 de la Mancha - Atlas
068 Dead Meadow - Old Growth
069 Deerhunter - Microcastle
070 Deerhunter - Weird Era Cont.
071 Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
072 The Dø - A Mouthful
073 Dianogah - qhnnnl
074 Digitonal - Save Your Light For Darker Days
075 Dreamtiger - Glisten EP
076 Dwayne Sodahberk - Fjärilsfalu
077 Dungen - 4
078 Earth - split with Sir Richard Bishop
079 Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
080 Earlimart - Hymn and Her
081 El Perro del Mar - From The Valley To The Stars
082 Eat Lights : Become Lights - They Transmit EP
083 the Electric pop group - Sunrise EP
084 Electric Six - Flashy
085 Envy and Other Sins - We Leave At Dawn
086 Entertainment - Gender
087 Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
088 Exit calm - Higher Learning
089 Experimental Aircraft - Third Transmission
090 Expedicion a las estrellas - 72 EP
091 Fabio Orsi - Picture Myself In a Cloud (Speaking Through Thought)
092 The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
093 Fennesz - Transition
094 Flavor Crystals - Ambergris
095 Frank Black - Svn Fngrs EP
096 Free Kitten - Inherit
097 Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
098 The Garlands - S/T
099 Genaro - Genaro
100 Gemma Ray - The Leader
101 Ghost of the Russian Empire - The Mammoth
102 Glowworm - The Coachlight Wood
103 Grails - Take Refuge in Clean Living
104 Growing - All the Way
105 The Great Northwest - The Widespread Reign Of
106 Get Well Soon - Rest Now, Weary Head! You Will Get Well Soon…
107 Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
108 Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
109 Hammock - Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow
110 Hate Eternal - Fury & Flames
111 Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
112 Hearts by Darts - S/T
113 Heroes of Switzerland - Comfort In Fear
114 High Places - 0307 - 0907
115 David Holmes - The Holy Pictures
116 Hualun - Silver Daydream
117 It Hugs Back - Other Cars Go
118 Iambic² - (laridae037) As The Snow Fell
119 Rafael Anton Irisarri - Daydreaming
120 Jarboe & Justin Broadrick - J²
121 Jap Jap - This Is Where Well End
122 Jasper TX - This Quiet Season
123 Jacaszek - Treny
124 Jesu - split with Envy
125 Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect? EP
126 Jeremy Jay - A Place Where We Could Go
127 Je suis Animal - Self-Taught Magic From A Book
128 The Jesus and Mary Chain - Rarities Collected on Box Set
129 Joanne Robertson - The Lighter
130 Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fordlândia
131 July Skies - The Weather Clock EP
132 Mark Kozelek - 7 Songs Belfast
133 Kira kira - Our map to the Monster Olympics
134 Kino Oko - Alphabetically Divided Highway
135 Klee - Berge Versetzen
136 Kristin Hersh - 2008 EP's
137 KYPCK - Черно
138 The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of Understatement
139 Land of Talk - Some Are Lakes
140 Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
141 Laura - Yes Maybe No EP
142 Le corbeau - S/T
143 Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
144 The Legendary Pink Dots - Plutonium Blonde
145 LSD POND - S/T
146 Lucky Dragons - Dream Island Laughing Language
147 Lykke Li - Youth Novels
148 M83 - Saturdays = Youth
149 Manhattan Love Suicides - Burnt Out Landscapes
150 Mariah Carey - E=MC²
151 Martha Wainwright - I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too
152 Matmos - Supreme Balloon
153 Matt Bartram - Arundel
154 Max Richter - 24 Postcards in Full Colour
155 Medeski, Martin and Wood - Let's Go Everywhere
156 Melodyguild - Aitu EP
157 Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight
158 Mercy Arms - Mercy Arms
159 John Metcalfe - Scorching Bay
160 Miss Kittin - Batbox
161 Monade - Monstre Cosmic
162 Morten Harket - Letter From Egypt
163 The Morning Paper - It's Getting Clearer
164 Moscow Olympics - Cut The World
165 Mus - La Vida
166 My Bloody Valentine - Live at Roundhouse, London
167 Nadja - Bliss Torn From Emptiness
168 Nick Cave - Dig Lazarus Dig!!!
169 Nightmares on Wax - Thought So…
170 No-Man - Schoolyard Ghosts
171 Nurse With Wound - Huffin' Rag Blues
172 Oeil - Half Dreaming
173 Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
174 Operator Please - Yes Yes Vindictive
175 October Equus - Charybdis
176 of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
177 Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
178 Parka - Attack Of The Hundred Yard Hardman
179 Parenthetical Girls - Entanglements
180 The Parallelograms & The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - split EP
181 panophonic - Untouched In Ages EP
182 Peter Broderick - Float
183 Stefano Pilia - Action Silence Prayers
184 PJ Harvey - 2008.06.05, Gorky MKhAT, Moscow
185 Pia Fraus - After Summer
186 Pia Fraus & Ulrich Schnauss - Mute The Birds / Ships Will Sail EP
187 Portishead - Third
188 Ports of Call - Like Thieves...
189 Port Blue - The Albatross EP
190 port-royal - Anya Sehnsucht EP
191 Pram - Prisoner of the Seven Pines EP
192 Primal Scream - Beautiful Future
193 The Prodigy - More Music for the Jilted Generation
194 Psapp - The Camels Back
195 Pyramids - S/T
196 Ratatat - LP3
197 The Radio Dept. - Freddie and The Trojan Horse EP
198 Resplandor - Pleamar
199 Red Sparowes - Aphorisms EP
200 ROVO - Nuou
201 the ruling class - Tour de Force EP
202 Russian Circles - Stations
203 The Residents - The Bunny Boy
204 Safe As Home - Grid Single
205 SCSI-9 - Easy As Down
206 Sea Dweller - Underwater Town
207 Secret Shine - All Of The Stars
208 Sennen - [UK] Where The Light Gets In
209 Sepiatone - An Introduction To...
210 Sharleen Spiteri - Melody
211 Sheryl Crow - Detours
212 The Shortwave Set - Replica Sun Machine
213 Klaus Schulze & Lisa Gerrard - Farscape
214 Since (Time) - Entropiate
215 The Silents - Things To Learn
216 Sigur Rós - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
217 Sigur Rós - Live at DK Lensoveta St.Petersburg
218 Small - Teenage Cover
219 Skywave - & Gold - Split 7"
220 Sonic Youth - SYR7: J'Accuse Ted Hughes
221 Sonic Youth - SYR8: Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth
222 The Sound of Arrows - Danger!
223 Soundpool - Dichotomies and Dreamland
224 Sparks - Exotic Creatures of the Deep
225 Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
226 the static silence - Found
227 Stephen O'Malley - Salt
228 Stephen O'Malley & Attila Csihar - 6°F Skyquake
229 Stereolab - Chemical Chords
230 The Submarines - Honeysuckle Weeks
231 Swervedriver - Live 05.31 Henry Fonda Theater
232 Suki Ewers - Kind Of Hazy
233 The Tallest Man On Earth - Shallow Grave
234 Taken By Cars - Endings Of A New Kind
235 Tears Run Rings - Always, Sometimes, Seldom, Never
236 The Teenagers - Reality Check
237 Tearwave - Different Shade of Beauty
238 Televise - Volume 3
239 TIAC - Overstaying The Welcome
240 tiny microphone - Home
241 Tindersticks - Hungry Saw
242 The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
243 Trains Followed Us - Sinking, Sleeping
244 Trouble Books - The United Colors Of
245 True Colour of Blood - The Cave Of Knowledge EP
246 The Turn-ons - Curse
247 Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
248 The Twilight Sad - Here It Never Snowed Afterwards It Did
249 Uh Huh Her - Common Reaction
250 Ufomammut - Idolum
251 Ulaan Khol - I
252 Ulrich Schnauss - Stars EP
253 Vapnet - Döda Fallet
254 The Verve - Forth
255 The Very Hush Hush - Evil Milk
256 Vivian Girls - S/T
257 Wake This Day - Gaze Into The Beyond
258 The Wedding Present - El Rey
259 Windy & Carl - Songs For The Broken Hearted
260 Windy Weber - I Hate People
261 Wire - Object 47
262 World's End Girlfriend - Hurtbreak Wonderland
263 Xploding Plastix - Treated Timber Resists Rot
264 Yann Tiersen - Tabarly
265 Yellow studs - Dengon
266 yellow6 - When The Leaves Fall Like Snow
267 YMCK - Family Genesis

001 Инна Желанная - Зима
002 Neutral - Serpents In The Dawn
003 Light Under Water - Reflective landscapes of nowhere
004 Северо-Восток - Открытый берег
005 SCSI-9 - Easy As Down
006 Белые флаги зажигайте медленно - Даже если пролетариат возьмет власть в свои руки, весна все равно достанется нам, а цели войны останутся целями войны
007 Rekevin - A Peacock
008 Пахом и Вивисектор - Бонча
009 Дмитрий Александр Ливер Тихонов - Песни русскоязычных композиторов
010 Сказы Леса - Live at Places
011 the Superstrings - demo
012 Белорыбица - demo
013 Парни - Я хочу кого хотеть нельзя EP
014 Алиса - Пульс хранителя дверей лабиринта
015 Mooncake - Lagrange Points
016 Мумий тролль - Контрабанда
017 Валерия - Out Of Control
018 Messer Chups - Zombie Shopping
019 Bye-bye violet tapes - Bye-Bye Violet Tapes EP
020 Инфинити & D.I.P project - Где ты
021 Вячеслав Бутусов - Модель Для Сборки
022 Крематорий - Амстердам
023 Greenwich Village - Blurred Town EP
024 Дмитрий Чёрный Лукич Кузьмин - Концерт на Светлой
025 Komba Bakh - 42 выпускъ
026 Вова Синий - Синий в квадрате
027 Ривущие струны - MS : 4

One song for each year I've been alive, not necessarily the best or favorite, just whatever I feel like talking about when that year comes up.

Part 1 is here, and Part 2 is here.

1994: In the mid-90s, Pravda released a series of cover/tribute albums focused on the kind of top 40 pop trash that used to be featured on K-Tel and Ronco collections. Like virtually all examples of this kind of collection, the results were mixed, but the high points of the series were among the best covers I've heard. When The Loud Family tackle America's soft-rock hit horse with no name, the results transcend the limp original. Moving from a distorted and phased guitar into an ethereal bed of keyboards, Scott Miller's band delivers a psychedelic re-vision of the original.

I used to own all of the Pravda series, but they all went away at some point. Have to re-download those.

1995: The The Apples in Stereo were the first Elephant 6 band I heard, so they can be credited with leading me to Neutral Milk Hotel and The Olivia Tremor Control, among others. Glowworm is a glorious candy-pop song about the death of a friend. Fun!

1996: Big Ass Truck was basically a Southern boogie band, but with turntables. Theem From sounds as if DJ Food had been in the Allman Brothers. Around this time, a good friend of mine was in a surf band, and I told him they needed to do something like adding a turntablist to differentiate themselves from the thousand other surf bands. He was probably right to reject my suggestion, but I still think most surf guitar bands are pretty much interchangeable.

1997: Only Stephin Merritt could write a song as funny and as bleak as The Tiny Goat. "The world's a leech / Crawli