Last week Ryan and I (hows that for grammar, Ritchie?) presented our albums as a mutual effort. This time around we put together our own lists of 30 of our favorite songs this year. Think I’ve ripped through an entire legal pad and a full box of bic-sticks in the process, but I was finally able to squeeze this out. Honestly, my list could have topped 100 so feel free to tell me what a jerk I am for leaving something off.
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Yeah, we’ve already had one list this year but we figured we’d tone things down a bit this time. Rather then tackle an entire decade we’ve listed the albums that spent the most time in our headphones this year. Once again, this list was a collective effort (our personal favorite tracks are coming up) but we feel like it’s a proper representation of “who we are”. Aside from our own insight, we’ve gathered the thoughts of Sawyer Carter Jacobs (Underwater Peoples/Family Portrait), Edwin (Tonstartssbandht), Nicole (Eternal Summers), Jason (Fergus & Geronimo), Jonathan Clancy (His Clancyness), Dent May (of, um, Dent May), and more. Stay tuned for our individual favorite tracks of the year. In the mean time, enjoy the mp3s that accompany our favorite albums.
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Spending the younger days of my life in an incredibly small town, it’s a wonder that I could be exposed to even a tenth of the albums included on this list. Let’s just say that the music I listened to then… well, let’s just not say. It wasn’t until a year or two before I graduated high school in ‘01 that I began to familiarize myself with music outside of the radio world. Before I drag on and get entirely too nostalgic… it just seems fitting that our first list of an entire decade happens to be one where I started to explore music from it’s beginning.
The three of us (Nate, Jordan, and Ryan) joined forces, created our own lists, and then duked it out to whittle things down to fifty. Although this is the product of three individual’s distinct opinions, we were finally able to come to a general consensus. Fortunately, no one was hospitalized in the process. We felt that a decade was too long to have any less than fifty albums, but that any more than fifty would require too little thought. We also noticed how easy it is to spout off the number of artists that should be here, but how difficult it is to say why any of these artists shouldn’t. While some may think we (as well as other list-making bloggers) are doing this for ‘mad hits’/ ‘shitload of comments’, it’s hard to argue with how much fun it is to sit down with good friends and talk music. This blog may be too young for people to render our opinions “valid”, but in being young, this list can help to define us. So, take it for what you will, these are the albums that we have dug the shit out of in this ten year period.
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