Well that's that for the 2008 epics! Though intrinsically flawed/floored, hopefully they've been diverting enough to wade through. Quite often opinion seems to have been mistaken for fact - just so you know, i'm aware that not everyone thinks just like me! Oh, and for some reason The Flaming Lips and XTC posts switched places, but it's not terribly important.
Thank you very much for the comments (both here and elsewhere) and keep them coming! That way i know people are still reading! Hitherto i've been flogging my wares on message boards for fans of the artists i've been discussing, which is all well and good and nice for everyone, though i am essentially preaching to the converted. Ideally though, some random bod might type 'Julian Cope reviews' into Google and, hey presto, come across me rhapsodizing about the guy and be inspired to pick up something new. Then, he might notice the 'Scott Walker' post and fall in love all over again.
I might be getting ahead of myself, though.
Anyway, i'll try to keep this going for a little while at least - i've got a few things in the pipeline which i'll post as and when they're fully cooked. Don't worry though - they won't all be Ulysses-length efforts (though i've got my eye on a Beach Boys/Brian Wilson post which undeniably lends itself to extended ramblings). There might even be the odd break from music, let us wait and see.
Right now, i'm off for a lie down. Just resting my eyes...
(Falls off chair).
Showing posts with label arrested development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arrested development. Show all posts
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Sunday, 31 January 2010
Obsessive list-making
So as to provide a bit more of an insight into the directions this blog will be heading in, here are a few self-indulgent exercises in canonization.
TOP 20 FAVOURITE ALBUMS EVER -
1. Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
2. Brian Wilson - SMiLE
3. Love - Forever Changes
4. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
5. Teardrop Explodes - Wilder
6. Scott Walker - Scott 3
7. Super Furry Animals - Mwng
8. Zombies - Odessey And Oracle
9. John Cale - Paris 1919
10. Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream Of Trains
11. Julian Cope - Fried
12. XTC - Skylarking
13. Neu! - Neu! '75
14. Scott Walker - Scott 4
15. Flaming Lips - Zaireeka (Stereo Mixes)
16. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
17. XTC - Apple Venus
18. Dukes Of Stratosphear - Chips From The Chocolate Fireball
19. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - The Doldrums
20. Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
(Sure i've missed a few out there)
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TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2009 -
1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
2. Flaming Lips - Embryonic
3. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
4. St. Vincent - Actor
5. Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
6. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
7. Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
8. Atlas Sound - Logos
9. Here We Go Magic - Here We Go Magic
10. Bibio - Vignetting The Compost
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TOP 15 COMEDY SHOWS - (whatever that means)
1. Arrested Development (for the comedy snobs out there)
2. The Office (UK)
3. The Simpsons
4. Curb Your Enthusiasm
5. The Day Today
6. Peep Show
7. Brass Eye
8. Larry Sanders Show
9. I'm Alan Partridge (Series 1)
10. Armando Iannucci Shows
11. Spaced
12. Fawlty Towers
13. The Thick Of It
14. Father Ted
15. This Morning With Richard Not Judy (Stewart Lee/Richard Herring vehicle)
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TOP 10 FILMS -
1. This Is Spinal Tap
2. Monty Python's Life Of Brian
3. Taxi Driver
4. Truman Show
5. Monty Python And Holy Grail
6. Shawshank Redemption
7. In The Loop
8. Fearless Freaks (if it counts)
9. Lost In Translation
10. Kes
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TOP 15 BOOKS - (mainly novels)
1. Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
2. Head-On - Julian Cope
3. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
4. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick
5. Sirens Of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
6. Lint - Steve Aylett
7. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
8. Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K Dick
9. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut (hang on... there's a pattern forming here)
10. Catch-22 - Jospeh Heller
11. Repossessed - Julian Cope
12. The Outsider - Albert Camus
13. God Bless You, Mr Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
14. Gold - Dan Rhodes
15. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
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TOP... well, my favourite stand-up, by some distance, is super Stewart Lee. Beats all those 'Mock The Week' fools into the ground! Here's a choice example...
...and here he is with the equally wondrous Armando Iannucci...
TOP 20 FAVOURITE ALBUMS EVER -
1. Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
2. Brian Wilson - SMiLE
3. Love - Forever Changes
4. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
5. Teardrop Explodes - Wilder
6. Scott Walker - Scott 3
7. Super Furry Animals - Mwng
8. Zombies - Odessey And Oracle
9. John Cale - Paris 1919
10. Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream Of Trains
11. Julian Cope - Fried
12. XTC - Skylarking
13. Neu! - Neu! '75
14. Scott Walker - Scott 4
15. Flaming Lips - Zaireeka (Stereo Mixes)
16. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
17. XTC - Apple Venus
18. Dukes Of Stratosphear - Chips From The Chocolate Fireball
19. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - The Doldrums
20. Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
(Sure i've missed a few out there)
-------------------------------
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2009 -
1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
2. Flaming Lips - Embryonic
3. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
4. St. Vincent - Actor
5. Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
6. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
7. Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
8. Atlas Sound - Logos
9. Here We Go Magic - Here We Go Magic
10. Bibio - Vignetting The Compost
-------------------------------
TOP 15 COMEDY SHOWS - (whatever that means)
1. Arrested Development (for the comedy snobs out there)
2. The Office (UK)
3. The Simpsons
4. Curb Your Enthusiasm
5. The Day Today
6. Peep Show
7. Brass Eye
8. Larry Sanders Show
9. I'm Alan Partridge (Series 1)
10. Armando Iannucci Shows
11. Spaced
12. Fawlty Towers
13. The Thick Of It
14. Father Ted
15. This Morning With Richard Not Judy (Stewart Lee/Richard Herring vehicle)
-------------------------------
TOP 10 FILMS -
1. This Is Spinal Tap
2. Monty Python's Life Of Brian
3. Taxi Driver
4. Truman Show
5. Monty Python And Holy Grail
6. Shawshank Redemption
7. In The Loop
8. Fearless Freaks (if it counts)
9. Lost In Translation
10. Kes
-------------------------------
TOP 15 BOOKS - (mainly novels)
1. Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
2. Head-On - Julian Cope
3. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
4. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick
5. Sirens Of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
6. Lint - Steve Aylett
7. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
8. Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K Dick
9. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut (hang on... there's a pattern forming here)
10. Catch-22 - Jospeh Heller
11. Repossessed - Julian Cope
12. The Outsider - Albert Camus
13. God Bless You, Mr Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
14. Gold - Dan Rhodes
15. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
-------------------------------
TOP... well, my favourite stand-up, by some distance, is super Stewart Lee. Beats all those 'Mock The Week' fools into the ground! Here's a choice example...
...and here he is with the equally wondrous Armando Iannucci...
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