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The Best Albums of 2009, pt. 3

Remember 2009? Well get ready, because you’re about to. The long goodbye to a regular-sized year ends with this short list. Here are my top 15 albums of 2009:

Honorable-ish mentions here and here.
15) Peter Bjorn and John – Living Thing
14) Asobi Seksu – Hush
13) I Was a King – I Was a [...]

The End Of Popcraft

(This is a response to Michael’s post “A Vampire Weekend In An Ikea Coffin”)

All across the nation, possibly dozens of friendships are undergoing the ultimate stress test; A band that some people like and other people don’t like has released an album, and now we all need to fight about it.
Michael and I are [...]

Tunes For Tuesday: Erasure – Chains of Love (again)

This was my tune two weeks ago, but I seriously can’t stop listening to it. I must have played this song close to 100 times in the past few weeks:

Certain people can do this, certain people can listen to the same song over and over for weeks at a time. I’m one of [...]

The Best Albums of 2009, pt. 2

Continuing from where I left off, here are my favorite albums of 2009, #’s 10-6:

10) La Roux – La Roux
When I was like ten, my friend’s parents kept giant boxes of candy in their basement, the boxes that they kept in supermarket checkout lines for kids my age to convince their parents to buy candy [...]

Tunes For Tuesday: Mariah Carey – All I Want For Christmas Is You

It’s so easy to complain when stores start playing Christmas music. People say that “they” play Christmas music earlier and earlier each year, and no! That’s not true! People just start bitching about it earlier. It’s to the point where I am equally annoyed by both sides of this hoilday gripe.
What [...]