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- #momusic RZA/Digital Bullet/8 I really can't argue with RZA's production, flow or motivation on this album, but there too much everything #
- #momusic Against Me!/As the Eternal Cowboy/8.5 Solid acoustic-driven punk that shimmers like The Smiths. But too short to feel substantial #
- It's snowing pretty badly/I'm working from home vs. my work is serving breakfast today. WHAT THE FUCK THIS IS BULLSHIT #
- #momusic Rachael Yamagata/Rachael Yamagata/8 The purest expression of the talent in this voice (in pen, in sound waves) #
- #momusic Johnny Cash/My Mother's Hymn Book/7.5 The reverent Reverend. Cash hits the soul harder with fire and brimstone, though. #
- #momusic Alicia Keys/The Diary of Alicia Keys/8 Always reach for big things that are only barely out of reach without heels or stepladder! #
- Have purchased 90 albums from this year and only feel like 4-5 of them really belong on a top 10 year-end list #
- And I reiterate what I've said elsewhere: Fuck The Blueprint 3, and motherfuck Cudi's Man on the Moon. #
- I will get a PS3 when I can afford this: bit.ly/6v0g66 (and then I will get robbed and sad) #
- #momusic Pearl Jam/Binaural/7.5 Every Pearl Jam album seems to have 4-5 killer songs on an album, and then a bunch of meandering bullshit #
- Dear New England Patriots: You just lost 2 consecutive games for the first time since '06. Get to your meetings on time. #
- Everyone knows I love Penguins and Pandas. Third place? BABY RHINO! bit.ly/5Su6JW #
- #momusic Raekwon/The Lex Diamond Story/7.5 Top-rate work by The Chef can't erase second-rate beats and third-rate guests (Ghostface aside) #
- Dear Google: I know a friend sent me a Wave invite. Let it show up! #
- #momusic Dead Prez/Let's Get Free/8 Some fantastic rhymes, and very focused. Would be paranoid if it wasn't sometimes true. #
- #momusic Lit/Atomic/7 Hair metal without the excess #
- #momusic Tenacious D/Tenacious D/9 Part of being the best band is acting like it. An awesome result of too many rockstar fantasies #
- #momusic Nick Cave/The Lyre of Orpheus/9.5 in addition to being menacing and badass, Cave shows he can also be jaunty and upbeat #
- #momusic Lucinda Williams/Essence/9 A beautiful meditation on loneliness. Gorgeous melodies and textures throughout. #
- #momusic Primal Scream/XTRMNTR/9.5 The acid dub house rave people discover electronic instrumentation and horror. The wonderful horror! #
- #momusic Fountains of Wayne/Welcome Interstate Managers/7.5 I want to give this a higher rating. So sweet, but it bores me halfway through! #
- Oh man. I can only imagine an edited-for-TV version of The Departed #
- Leo DiCaprio: "Yeah, he talks like his talk don't stink" #
- Never before have I heard the word "Freakin" used so extensively. #
- I'm pretty sure this version just went over 20 [FREAKIN] minutes of [FREAKIN] action in [FREAKIN] less than 10 [FREAKIN] minutes #
- Bowlong alley just played Rihanna and Chris Brown tracks back to back. Oy vey #
- #momusic Basement Jaxx/9.5 A party in a pack. Wild and varied; I don't find it sexy, but I also cannot resist it. Nor do I want to. #
- #momusic Collective Soul/Youth/8 Rare is a band so publicly inspired by leaving a label. Rarer is the band that sounds sleeker after leaving #
- #momusic Santana/Shaman/5 Exactly what you'd expect from Hollywood's soundtrack to a Santana biopic. Except without the film. #
- #momusic Hilary Duff/Metamorphosis/6 Vapid, but jubilant without a dash of cynicism. A kind of refreshment, like soda. #
- $400 for 25 Akira Kurosawa films, and I consider that a bargain. I'd get it, too, if I didn't already own 3 or 4 of them. #
- #momusic Dave Matthews Band/Busted Stuff/8 There's something live-in and wonderful about these performances #
- The threat of not having anything to do on NYE: A great motivator. #
- Saw a dead bug in my Trader Joe's salad. Gonna be nauseous the rest of the day. #
- #momusic Korn/Untouchables/7 They only have one idea, musically, and it's tired. Sometimes they stumble onto a hook or two. #
- #momusic Britney Spears/Oops I Did It Again/6 First you get the money. Then you get the power. Then you get producers who have the talent. #
- I bet if you give Britney Spears 5 more years, she'd knock a re-do of "Lucky" out of the park on an emotional level. #
- #momusic Laurun Hill/MTV Unplugged 2.0/3 VH1 Storytellers meets VH1 reality programming #
- #momusic Injected/Burn It Black/5 Average alt Rock of the 00s: Too smooth to be cool, too smooth to be unlistenable #
- #momusic Wilco/A Ghost is Born/8.5 Now that I've actually heard Kraftwerk, I understand what they're going for and appreciate it more. #
- #momusic The Donnas/Gold Medal/4.5 "We're badass and we wanna fuck you if you can handle it" shtick works better without sleek production #
- #momusic M.O.P./ Warriorz/8.5 Rough (Ruff?) and tumble, delivered with way more than enough spide #
- Been playing 200-2004 albums in completely random order for how many weeks? And 3 of the ones left are still John Mayer. HOW? #
- #momusic Snoop Dogg/Paid tha Cost to be Da Bo$$/7.5 Far too long, but Snoop is one of the few artists capable of coasting on charisma alone #
- Bus ride this morning was too short. Don't wanna work. Wanna read more David Foster Wallace writing about David Lynch. #
- #momusic Sugar Ray/Sugar Ray/3.5 Sunny but perfunctory. Weezer without personality. #
- #momusic The Who/Live at Royal Albert Hall/4 A greatest hits set, but with some of the lesser hits and some guests. They've done worse. #
- Allmusic offers a brutal - BAH-ROO-TAL - one-star review of Chris Brown's new album: bit.ly/61XHuJ #
- #momusic Placebo/Black Market Music/7.5 Androgynous swagger helps -but doesn't completely salvage- a lack of memorability #
- #momusic Erykah Badu/Mama's Gun/8 How you wish all your open mic nights went #
- #momusic Aerosmith/Just Push Play/4 Overdone. Half-baked. Tasteless. Aerosmith on an average day. #
- #momusic Val Emmich/Slow Down Kid [Red Ink]/8 Successful reboot of debut record; doesn't avoid some unfortunate emo cliches #
- #momusic Stroke 9/Rip It Off/2.5 Hooky for the first half, but almost all the songs I liked in high school sound crap to me now. Pity. #
- #momusic Oasis/Heathen Chemistry/6 Oasis is never bad. But it's pretty easy to bang out a not bad one on autopilot, too. #
- #momusic 2 Many DJs/As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2/9.5 An invigorating mix. If I ever need to teach the idea of juxtaposition... #
- #momusic Butch Walker/Heartwork/5 2 album tracks (+1 alternate), a good song, and an ingenious Cars mashup. A warmup for the actual album. #
- #momusic Incubus/Morning View/5 Long, meandering and masturbatory. High school poetry (and high school) in a nutshell #
- We're down to 99 albums for this half of the decade, people. #
- #momusic blink-182/blink-182/8 A risky, mature record that never sacrifices pop for expanding their sound #
- #momusic Common/Electric Circus/7 When going for weird, go for broke. Two Hendrix-loving freak outs tacked at the end won't cut it. #
- #momusic Paul McCartney/Driving Rain/8 A generally gorgeous and heartfelt tribute to loss. Death has a way of honing your priorities. #
- #momusic Wu-Tang Clan/The W/8.5 Aside from an unfortunate ODB track propped up by Snoop Dogg, the best rap outfit doing great rap #
- Good thing y'all are asleep. Gonna flood your Twitterverse with momusic #
- #momusic Shakira/Unplugged/8 Maybe her best album of the decade; certainly the best Unplugged of the decade #
- #momusic The White Stripes/Elephant/10 J. White comes into his own as a guitar hero; provides the world with its toughest tender love songs #
- #momusic The Darkness/Permission to Land/9 Ridiculous falsetto and great hooks elevate this to "We are glam!" to "GLAM, MOTHERFUCKER!" #
- #momusic Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds/Abattoir Blues/9.5 When Nick Cave wants to blast your door down and break your CDs, he will #
- #momusic Pink/Try This/9 Pink's Put-it-all-out-there aesthetic and songwriting style pays off better than ever. A top pop album of the 00s. #
- #momusic Missy Elliott/Under Construction/7.5 A good party broken up by the host reading parts of a dissertation every 5 minutes #
- #momusic The Mooney Suzuki/Electric Sweat/8.5 Too much Nuggets makes band rock something fierce #
- #momusic Modest Mouse/Good News for People Who Love Bad News/8.5 Melancholic and scattershot with a little help from friends #
- #momusic Silverchair/Diorama/8 Pretty pretty falsetto vocals, some strings and some 90s post grunge wrapped up in a not-bad package #
- #momusic Avril Lavigne/Under My Skin/5 Pop tart asks to be seen as an omelette #
- A warm butt means a good sit #
- #momusic Madlib/Blunted in the Bomb Shelter/8 Warped and weedy Madlib mix, where nothing overstays its welcome #
- #momusic John Mayer/Heavier Things/5 Perpetually self-concerned search for... self. A very tame "Fame is strange" album. #
- Why can't I get a higher score in Tetris?! #
- #momusic Ryan Adams/Demolition/8 So maybe this all doesn't hold together well, but it's got "Dear Chicago" and some of his best songs #
- "Dear Chicago" is damn-near mandatory listening for snowy days. ♫ blip.fm/~hcmek #
- #momusic JC Chasez/Schizophrenic/4 Club songs about sex that make him sound like a virgin. Ballads that confirm it. #
- Currently listening to Lil Wayne's "On Fire." Theory: The goal of REBIRTH is to make the most highly anticipated bad joke of 2009 #
- Just watched Paris, Texas for the first time. Was gonna clean, but first I'm gonna wait about a 1/2 hour until I'm not completely devastated #
- #momusic Maroon 5/Songs About Jane/6 Kinda sexy lite-funk-rock. Sexier than that boy band guy I reviewed. Some a bit too fluffy, though #
- #momusic The Wallflowers/Breach/8 The best Wallflowers album - every song memorable. But their style lends itself to consistent smaller joys #
- #momusic Lady Gaga/The Fame Monster/8 At (approximately) EP length, I can get with Gaga. #
- I sorta kinda super love Parks & Rec #
- Sometimes, it's the ludicrous/silly episodes of The Office that I love #
- So... that Office episode was unusually deflating and made me hate Michael #
- #momusic Queens of the Stone Age/Songs for the Deaf/8.5 They do a great job on heavy atmosphere, not so much on memorability #
- Just heard "California Dreamin" at the post office. That song's never gonna be the same again, huh? #
- #momusic Michelle Branch/Broken Bracelet/8 Probably the most "pure" example of her tastes - free of synth-y pop production. #
- #momusic Dave Matthews Band/Everyday/4 Dave Matthews IN: The Strange Adult Contemporary Gambit! #
- #momusic Beck/Sea Change/10 Come for the most heartbreaking album of the 00s (Fuck Carrabba; Fuck Oberst), stay for the lush production #
- Wow. No matter who wins the Album of the Year Grammy, it's gonna suck. I'm guessing Beyonce or DMB will win, but T. Swift is always possible #
- #momusic 50 Cent/Get Rich or Die Tryin'/9 Sometimes you forget that Fiddy came out of the gate exploding with charisma and hooks. #
- #momusic Robert Randolph & The Family Band/Unclassified/6.5 Not memorable except for sizzling guitars. Sags when the spotlight is elsewhere. #
- It's humbling that I've spent so much time with film (video store clerk, student) and still have missed so much this decade #
- #momusic Britney Spears/Britney/7.5 The singles (except "I'm Not a Girl...") feature some of the hottest production money can buy #
- #momusic Usher/Confessions/8.5 Too long by about 1/4, but maybe the closest thing he'll ever have to Thriller #
- #momusic Kanye West/The College Dropout/9.5 Chipmunk soul and middle class struggles. Kanye's brash honesty at its best: in music. #
- #momusic Pearl Jam/Riot Act/7.5 Pearl Jam is Pearl Jam is Pearl Jam is kinda bland is Pearl Jam is Pearl Jam is technically proficient is #
- #momusic Michelle Branch/Hotel Paper/6.5 Her best-written, best-sung set of songs, marred by a busy kind of overproduction #
- Tell him I found Zack & Miri tame. RT: @mattyooch: Going to see Kevin Smith tonight a NU! #
- #momusic Dave Matthews Band/The Central Park Concert/9 Explaination: 1. Doesn't have "Ants Marching." 2. Has almost all the good songs. #
- #momusic Tegan and Sara/So Jealous/8 A wonderfully melancholic harmonic folkotic popotic albumotic. #
- #momusic Atmosphere/Seven's Travels/8 Tough, angry rap tunes about being broke and never not being broke. Affecting and energizing. #
- #momusic Marc Broussard/Carencro/6 John Mayer circa Heavier Things, but more of a voice and less a guitar, and much less of the ambition. #
- #momusic The Arcade Fire/Funeral/9.5 Anthemic, sometimes giddy, sometimes glum. U2-esque without being too maudlin. How? I don't know. #
- #momusic Suede/A New Morning/7.5 I'm a sucker for these guys' sad-eyed glam, even in their less compelling, pretty spotty later period. #
- #momusic Ghostface Killah/The Pretty Toney Album/8 Doesn't stop the show, but you put Ghost on some Delfonics samples and I'm there #
- #momusic Reflection Eternal/Train of Thought/9 Sparse but subtlely detailed beats are the best backdrop for Kweli's wordpile rhymes #
- #momusic Rich Robinson/Paper/2 Jesus, I'm glad the Black Crowes are together again. #
- #momusic Madvillain/Madvillainy/10 Which do I bring up? The idiosyncratic-but-smooth Madlib productions, or MF Doom's endless two-liner bag? #
- #momusic Ted Leo & The Pharmacists/The Tyranny of Distance/9.5 the best Ted Leo album for guitar heroics and lurching momentum #
- #momusic No Doubt/Return of Saturn/8 Marrying Stefani's diary lyrics and the band's New Wave is the best way to make both interesting #
- #momusic The Roots/Phrenology/9 I can't for the life of me remember any lyrical specifics, but on a purely musical level, this is tops #
- #momusic The White Stripes/White Blood Cells/8.5 Kinda comes apart at the end, but is also a wide-ranging set of creative highs #
- #momusic Shivaree/Rough Dreams/8 A dark and steamy Neko Case-esque set. Ambriosa Parsley's voice alone could sell a manual #
- #momusic Outkast/The Love Below/9.5 If you're gonna go Prince-weird, you go as far as it's gonna go, even if there's too little rapping #
- #momusic The Avalanches/Since I Left You/8 Mesmerizing, sometimes beautiful, sometimes funky. The fun of synthesis. #
- #momusic Drive-By Truckers/The Dirty South/10 Fuck it. Listen to "The Day John Henry Died" and tell me this is less than a 10 for that alone #
- I feel like if the Pats played like this 2-3 years ago, Bellicheck would've killed someone with his bare hands at halftime #
- I wish I had the influence to make #throwittoRANDY a trending topic #Patriots #
- If the Patriots can't stop them on this drive, I'm going to bed. #
- YES!!!!@@! Even though I was kind of hoping to get to bed. #Patriots #
- Let's try this again: If the Patriots don't score here, I'm going to bed. #
- That Saints fan looked nervous. WHY!? #Patriots #
- 14 points in 8 minutes is possible. 21 in 8? Next-to-impossible. Seriously - this time, if the Saints score, I'mma go to bed. #
- ::sigh:: I'm scared as fuck if these two meet at the Superbowl, but after tonight? Not thinking it's gonna get that far. #
- #momusic Spoon/Girls Can Tell/8.5 Noir in approach (but not really demeanor), spy movie music in need of a film. #
- #momusic Lil Wayne/500 Degreez/4.5 All of it is good, especially musically, but none of grabs me or sticks in my memory. #
- The drums sound horrible on this Jesse Malin album #
- After seeing The Fantastic Mr. Fox, I'm thinking all of Wes Anderson's movies should be stop-motion. Makes the cutesy feel appropriate. #
- #momusic Jesse Malin/The Fine Art of Self-Destruction/7.5 The Ryan Adams route to solo stardom; less eccentric therefore less interesting #
- #momusic Nelly Furtado/Whoa, Nelly!/7.5 A few fantastic singles, pre-MIA globe pop and good ol' youthful enthusiasm keep things afloat here #
- #momusic Live/V/5 Shaking things up with a more rhythmic approach makes the earnest big statements ring more hollow #
- #momusic Erykah Badu/Worldwide Underground EP/7 I think "EP" is meant to denote that it's an afterthought. It meanders but finds mild funk #
- #momusic Talib Kweli/Quality/9 You get a motivated emcee's emcee, some Kanye and Dilla beats (and others that hang together) and you win. #
- #momusic Chris Robinson/This Magnificent Distance/8 Captures the Crowes' jam-band tendencies with some Old West aesthetic. #
- #momusic U2/All That You Can't Leave Behind/7 Dashing singles, but a saggy second half. This "Peace on Earth" thing sounds boring, Bono. #
- #momusic The Hold Steady/Almost Killed Me/9 Bars, bands, The Boss, songs parties, beer, rock, bands bars, puns, Ybor City. Hold Steady. #
- #momusic Bob Dylan/"Love and Theft"/10 A rollicking, brilliant tour through Americana: its history, its poetry, its humor #
- #momusic Killer Mike/Monster/7.5 I had forgotten that this was any good, but the rap-with-rock-guitars thing works well here on this listen #
- I think one of the hints for Amazon's lightning deals implies that the Jim Carrey The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is a "holiday classic." Ick #
- #momusic Missy Elliott/Miss E... So Addictive/9 No matter who Timbaland works with, his musical soulmate is Missy. An untouchable duo. #
- #momusic Ryan Adams/Love Is Hell/7.5 As far as Adams' pastiche efforts go, Smiths-esque mope-rock fits him better than, say, garage-punk. #
- #momusic Paul McCartney/Back in the U.S./3.5 I mean, yeah, it all sounds good and whatever. But it's just a souvenir. #
- Am Batman. To the max. #
- Top 3 weekly #lastfm artists: Dropkick Murphys - 39. The Black Crowes - 39. Shakira - 36. bit.ly/fO0x9 #
- #momusic Flaming Lips/Fight Test EP/8 Novelty covers acquit themselves well. A good companion to the excellent album. #
- #momusic Prince/The Rainbow Children/7 The musical equivalent of having a kid into LARPing: you just shrug and be happy he has friends. #
- Took me 4 separate copies, but I FINALLY got to see Season 3 of The Venture Brothers. Absolutely worth it. #
- #momusic Animal Collective/Sung Tongs/8 I don't see where the "challenging"/"experimental" tags come from, but I'm a Tyrannosaurus Rex fan. #
- #momusic The White Stripes/De Stijl/9 A furious and wide-ranging collection of blues songs, stories and garage leanings. Consistent, too. #
- #momusic The Rolling Stones/Live Licks/6 If this wasn't their 8th live set, it'd have a higher rating. How much "Satisfaction" Do you need? #
- #momusic Rachael Yamagata/Happenstance/7.5 A malleable raspy-sweet voice shows that it works better in some styles than others #
- #momusic Matchbox Twenty/EP/4 Not sure why this exists; 4 live songs add little to their discography. "Suffer Me" is pretty good, though #
- #momusic John Legend/Get Lifted/6 Throwback old-school kind of R&B gets tedious about halfway through. Flashes of brilliance, though #
- #momusic Supergrass/Life on Other Planets/8.5 Turning in another sunny collection of... power pop? Brit pop? Whatever. Fun, most of all. #
- #momusic David Bowie/Heathen/6 I've skipped his 80s and 90s stuff. Is it a "return to form?" It's middling with a few very good songs to me #
- According to Netflix, I'll like Curb Your Enthusiasm because I like a whole bunch of Jewish comedians... and Dave Chappelle. #
- Theory: The Colts half-ass the first half every week and attack in the second half better rested. Fuck it. #
- tweetphoto.com/5581048 Perhaps this franchise is in need of a "back to roots" reboot, eh? #
- #momusic Morrissey/You Are the Quarry/7.5 Not even a relatively shiny production can make Morrissey be more than the Morrissey we love #
- #momusic PJ Harvey/Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea/8.5 A lot of artists can learn from this: how to romance and keep your bite #
- RT @groovyshoe y @theaudioperv Rolling Stones's "Exile On Main Street" (Amazon MP3) for FREE with code: MP34FREE bit.ly/8Iqiss #
- #momusic Loretta Lynn/Van Lear Rose/10 J. White has done more for country and blues legends than the Halls of Fame devoted to such things #
- #momusic No Doubt/Rock Steady/7 General rule: the farther from bad ska and close to OK New Wave, the more I like No Doubt #
- #momusic Butch Walker/Left of Self-Centered/7.5 Adopts some familiar and uncomfortable hats on his solo debut, but "Sober" is devastating. #
- The latter half of this "Best of the Decade" project is gonna get cluttered when I get to those Lil Wayne mixtapes. ::sigh:: #
- #momusic Val Emmich/Slow Down Kid [Childlike]/7 First pass at a debut in the indie leagues shows a great voice, tonally inconsistent #
- #momusic The Roots/The Tipping Point/5.5 Jamming out can be fun, but it also might mean you're on autopilot for most of it. #
- #momusic Matchbox Twenty/More Than You Think You Are/8 Maudlin? Sure. But they're an awfully consistent, well-crafted bunch of songs #
- #momusic Jennifer Love Hewitt/BareNaked/4 It's good to hear a pop album that takes some cues from 70s radio rock, but she has no personality #
- #momusic Prince/One Night Alone.. Live!/8 Loopy preaching aside, his band is scintillating on then-new material and deep cuts #
- #momusic Shivaree/Breach/7.5 Never understood why this band never got big. They reek of sensuality and Pulp Fiction-esque cool #
- #momusic Christina Aguilera/Stripped/7.5 Too long and patchy, but the highlights are pretty high #
- #momusic Shivaree/I Oughtta Give You a Shot in the Head for Making Me Live in This Dump/6 The best songs blow me away; the rest bore me #
- Fuck! That last one came out in late '99. Damn you, iTunes! #
- #momusic Drive-By Tuckers/Decoration Day/9.5 Love, death, desperation, compassion in the south. Guns in closets, abandoned altars, tragedy. #
- #momusic David Cross/It's Not Funny/7 Parts are great, but there are some dead spots. A bit dated since so much is outrage against Bush. #
- #momusic Dead Prez/RBG: Revolutionary But Gangsta/4 Political rap for people who think Public Enemy had too little fighting the man #
- #momusic Norah Jones/Feels Like Home/8 An album for those Sunday mornings where hot cocoa just feels like the right state of mind #
- #momusic Michelle Branch/The Spirit Room/7.5 Lots of potential(-ah). She's got ears for a sneaky hook-uh and a somewhat strong voice(-ah). #
- #momusic Musiq/Soulstar/6 Wish I could think of a name as clever as "SNorah Jones" for Musiq. Consistent, soulful, but too long and one-note #
- Man, if only it wasn't raining, I'd-... Nah, actually, I still wouldn't leave the apartment #
- #momusic Radiohead/Amnesiac/9 Being more song-oriented than its sister album makes these textures and sounds a good companion to Kid A #
- #momusic Rilo Kiley/Take Offs and Landings/6 "We're precious but we sing about big things!" shtick gets on my nerves about halfway through #
- Popped in the Seinfeld episode "The Mom and Pop Store" without realizing it was a Thanksgiving episode #
- #momusic Lit/Lit/7.5 Freed from major label expectations, Lit takes a harder edge to their sound. Feel more natural as a result. #
- I rarely watch my Seinfeld DVDs, but once I get started I wind up watching like 3 half-seasons over the course of two weeks #
- #momusic Bjork/Vespertine/8.5 That voice! A sensuous run through moods and rhythms, but the showcase is truly on that powerhouse voice #
- #momusic Ryan Adams/Rock N Roll/4 Somehow achieves a major bore by rocking out hard and heavy. Lazy and tired sounding. #
- Alright. I'm actually buying milk and juice. Hopefully people are too busy buy 70" flatscreen TVs at Wal Mart to grocery shop #
- #momusic Oasis/Familiar to Millions/5 Now that there's an actual "Best of Oasis" collection, this isn't much more than a souvenir #
- bit.ly/4P9FI4 Tiger Woods suffers "serious" injuries in car accident #
- Gotta say, in EP form, Stillwater (from Almost Famous) holds up pretty well #
- #momusic Against Me!/Reinventing Axl Rose/9 Blasts out of the gate, but the quieter songs at the end seal this album's range and power #
- I feel like an asshole fanboy when I give out too many 9's and 10's, but a LOT of the albums I have left for 00-04 are masterpieces #
- #momusic Quasimoto/The Unseen/9.5 Best use of Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song samples ever. Madlib has great chemistry with himself, too #
- #momusic Dropkick Murphys/Live on St. Patrick's Day from Boston, MA/9 Hey, you like drinking? You Irish? From Boston? Like drinking? etc. #
- Thing is, I'm 1/3 of the above (and I'm not a big Murphys fan), but that album is absolutely electric #
- #momusic Wilco/Yankee Hotel Foxtrot/9.5 Affecting, and weird. Usually at the same time, but never sacrificing the strength of a song. #
- Did it! Finally beat San Andreas. So... What's the over/under for me beating Bioshock? A decade? 2? #
- ::huffing, out of breath::... GUYS... fuckin'... Batman... Arkham... huff... Asylum... $25... OMG... on Steam... fuck! FUCK! #
- #momusic Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes/Live at the Greek/7 Billing says it all. Wish Zeppelin were more roots-y? This is for you. #
- #momusic The Vines/Highly Evolved/7 At times thrashy and at others sweetly melodic. A band of sporadic genius, but directionless #
- #momusic Outkast/Stankonia/10 Off-the-wall productions, raps that are as real-life as you can get. So many dynamics and contradictions. #
- #momusic Third Eye Blind/Out of the Vein/2 No way this just accidentally happened. It must be a stylistic exercise in the genre of "boring" #
- #momusic Nas/God's Son/8 A "grown-ass man" album. Its mellowness blunts its impact, but Nas's flow is never a bad thing #
- Why THE FUCK is Santa at Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade? Don't give in to that fucker, Macy's! He just wants attention! #
- #momusic Tabitha's Secret?/Tabitha's Secret?/8 Pretty good for a dressing-up of old Rob Thomas demo vocals. I prefer this to some MB20 stuff #
- #momusic Mitch Hedberg/Mitch All Together/9 Stand-up for the Twitter age, before the Twitter age. #
- #momusic Shakira/Live & Off the Record/6.5 Setlist is redundant thanks to Unplugged, but still a good showcase for Shakira at full power #
- #momusic Hanson/Underneath/7 Runs out of steam close to the end, but a sugary kind of pop-rock that goes down easy #
- #momusic Angie Aparo/The American/7.5 A very good songwriter and great singer marred by super-serious dramatization, delusions of grandeur #
- Ah, crap! Who un-followed me? You ruined my following/followers equilibrium! ::starts to slowly slide leftwards:: #
- #momusic Ted Leo & The Pharmacists/Hearts of Oak/8 Doesn't grab me like 'Sheets' or 'Tyranny,' but Ted Leo is never a bad place to be #
- #momusic Green Day/Warning/9 Green Day taking cues from The Kinks and Nuggets. Their most compulsively listenable work since Insomniac #
- #momusic Eminem/The Eminem Show/8 The exact meeting point between Em's talent and a literal "this is what I'm up to" approach to songwriting #
- #momusic Death Cab for Cutie/Transatlanticism/8.5 If music could be a soothing beach wave, where each melancholy ripple is... wait, what? #
- #momusic Aerosmith/Honkin' on Bobo/5 Blues-as-Vegas-revue, but that also means that the playing is tight, if a bit robotic #
- #momusic Prince/NEWS/4 4 tracks, exactly 14 minutes each. Virtuosic playing for the sake of playing, frowns to convey how "serious" this is #
- #momusic Modest Mouse/The Moon and Antarctica/9.5 Life, death, guitars filter through sonic chill, soul-crushingly beauty, even when rocking #
- November 25 and I have 23.5 more (24h) days' worth of music to listen to before December 31 - I think I'm making good time! #
- #momusic Shakira/Laundry Service/8 Front-packed, but some of the best Latin-flavored pop to crossover in America. Showed J Lo what's up. #
- #momusic The Marvelous 3/ReadySexGo/9.5 A masterstroke - hair metal with emo lyrics. Emo with hair metal guitars. Vomit and cum in love. #
- #momusic The Black Crowes/Lions/5.5 One one hand: a multi-textured adventurous album; the other: murky directionless muck muck #
- #momusic The Beastie Boys/To the 5 Burroughs/6.5 BBs: Let's go old school! Fans: Woo! BBs: Returning to our political screeds! Fans: WTF?! #
- #momusic Ted Leo & The Pharmacists/Shake the Sheets/8.5 It's heartening that political punk exists outside of rock operas #
- #momusic Cannibal Ox/The Cold Vein/9.5 Cold in the sense that they slice up rival emcees and any less-ambitious producers with no remorse #
- I've rated about 25 albums at 9, 9.5 or 10. I've got ~800 albums from this decade, total; should be a healthy Top 100 list soonish #
- #momusic The Black Crowes/Live/5 It's sad that the only official release of "Title Song" is on this occasionally engaging album. #
- #momusic Trivia: That Crowes live album was taken from two shows; I was at one of them! #
- #momusic Bowling for Soup/A Hangover You Don't Deserve/6 Seriously. You cut this shit down to 12 songs, and it gets an 8.5. #
- Is there any worse feeling than failing a game's last mission? How about when it's GTA: San Andreas, and you've been playing for 4 years? #
- #momusic Adam Lambert/For Your Entertainment/6.5 You can build on this, but the more "rock" tracks blow the ballads away #
- #momusic Kid Rock/Kid Rock/7.5 Probably the best post-MTV songs he's capable of delivering, but 15 songs is still too much Kid Rock #
- #momovie Keaton/Steamboat Bill, Jr./10 I wouldn't give anything Keaton did in his prime less than an 8, and this is one of the best #
- #momusic AC/DC/Stiff Upper Lip/6.5 I always preferred Bon Scott's tongue-in-cheek attitude, so latter-day AC/DC doesn't do much for me #
- #momusic The New Pornographers/Mass Romantic/9.5 Best supergroup of the decade makes one of the best power pop albums. Giddy, fun, eclectic #
- The Donnas' Spend the Night has disappeared from my iTunes (???). That wasn't in any danger of being the best anything this decade :shrug: #
- #momusic Whiskeytown/Pneumonia/9 R. Adams' first foray into genre exercises? Purdy folk/country-tinged pop-rock? Pop-coated country rock? #
- #momusic Fuel/Something Like Human/3 The middle of the road is a slow, appraently angst-ridden ride. #
- Thinking much of my Christmas money will go toward that Buster Keaton box set #
- RT: @FakeAPStylebook: "Old Dirty Bastard" refers to either the late Wu-Tang Clan member or Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. #
- #momusic Elvis Costello/When I Was Cruel/7 So many songs, many so-so. But some belong on a 2nd tier just behind his career-bests #
- #momusic Rhett Miller/The Instigator/8 A sometimes ferocious, generally uplifting set featuring masterfully well-written rock #
- Finally, my iPod has switched on some hip-hop #
- #momusic Jay-Z/The Black Album/8.5 Some of the toughest hip-hop and the best crossover rap of the 00s. And then "Justify My Thug." #
- RT: @TheOnion: In Focus: 26-Year-Old To See Every Asshole He Ever Went To High School With On Night Before Thanksgiving bit.ly/6I1Orh #
- #momusic Mick Jagger/Goddess in the Doorway/3.5 Mick Jagger's pop posturing: still more dignified than Aerosmith. #
- #momusic SR-71/Tomorrow/4 For their sophomore album, singing turns to growling, pop goes alt, and hooks go extinct #
- #momusic Solomon Burke/Don't Give Up on Me/9 This is bordering an 8.5, but I can't resist how engaging and full Burke's vocals sound here. #
- #momusic Andrew WK/The Wolf/8 Life-affirming anthems not as compelling as previous anthems, but you still can't spell RAWK without AWK #
- #momusic Belle and Sebastian/Dear Catastrophe Waitress/9 "Twee" is one adjective. Others: "nuanced," "bouncy" "unforgettable" #
- #momusic Thrice/The Artist in the Ambulance/8 Not everything quite catches my ear, but there are at least 5 or 6 great songs on this album #
- #momusic The Wallflowers/Red Letter Days/8 Consistent, Tom Petty-like rock meets glossy pop sheen. Very pleasant if unspectacular results #
- #momusic Vanessa Mae/Subject to Change/8.5 Classical with nods to pop; great handle of emotional content. Parts can soundtrack Statham #
- #momusic The Hives/Tyrannosaurus Hives/9.5 How to do a full album of attitude-heavy Nuggets-inspired garage rock without being bland #
- #momusic Exploding Hearts/Guitar Romantic/10 This album is everything good about Weezer's green album, but fresher and more soulful. #
- Weezer's green album maintains its score (I gave it a 9), though #
- The Black Crowes' single for "Soul Singing" was probably better than most of the album the song was taken from #
- Correction: Left my iPod in my car (which Lily has taken for the day). Gonna be a sloooow work day. #
- LOL! RT @Kalel194 #Palin supporters are not a cult. Unlike Obots, she is supported because of ideas not personality. #teamsarah #palintweets #
- When I get home, I'm gonna put all of Curb Your Enthusiasm as the top however many spots in my Netflix queue #
- #momusic Jaylib/Championship Sound/8 Two of the best hip-hop producers of all time having fun, making whacked-out sounds, rapping casually #
- Lily brought back my iPod! I love Lily! #
- #momusic Radiohead/I Might Be Wrong: Live Records/7.5 At least proves that Kid A/Amnesiac can be played live. "True Love Waits" is a gem. #
- #momusic Ryan Adams/Heartbreaker/9 A bit inconsistent, but the less remarkable tracks are still evocative of its central mood. #
- #momusic Prince/Musicology/7.5 If this was a college course, the prof. would be on autopilot but would show some kick-ass movies/slide shows #
- #momusic Justincase/Justincase/1.5 Disclaimer: I already reviewed this for the blog, and I'm not listening to it twice in the same year. #
- #momusic Avril Lavigne/Let Go/5.5 A solid set of pop songs. Some awkwardness (rapping on "Nobody's Fool") and mostly disposable, but catchy #
- #momusic Brian Wilson/Smile/10 An absolutely gorgeous set of compositions. Childishly innocent but Technicolored, too. #
- ohhhhhh, NO AMHERST CINEMA. WHERE THE FUCK IS BAD LIEUTENANT? YOU SAID IT WOULD BE SHOWING AND NOW IT'S NOT ON YOUR SITE. I NEED MY NIC CAGE #
- #momusic Pulp/We Love Life/9 More serene than their 90s endeavors, but still a literate and adventurous push forward for Britpop's best band #
- #momusic Rihanna/Rated R/8 A moody bit of R&B/pop that presents a convincingly tougher queen of autotune #
- #momusic Shakira/She Wolf/7 Hedonistic clubber set bogged down by 3/13 songs being repeated in Spanish, doubling how fast I'll bore of them #
- Top 3 weekly #lastfm artists: Johnny Cash - 49. Billie Holiday - 28. Norah Jones - 27. bit.ly/fO0x9 #
- #momusic Alicia Keys/Songs in A Minor/6 A good debut with singles that have held up, but it feels very same-y in the home stretch #
- #momusic Dave Matthews Band/Live at Folsom Field/5.5 AKA "DMB's predilection for redundant live albums #4." 'Everyday' songs improve, though #
- I'll admit that the rating on that thing dropped like a stone when I realized how F'N long the thing is. #
- #momusic NERD/In Search of.../8 Not sure what they're in search of, but they've found some pretty catchy/groovy sex raps along the way #
- #momusic Counting Crows/Hard Candy/8 Dressing up his misery with newfound optimism and pop hooks yields some career-bests, still uneven #
- NFL Week 1: Go Pats! NFL Week 11: FOR GOD FUCKIN' SAKES, PATS, GO!!!! #
- #momusic N Sync/Celebrity/9 The masterpiece of the boy band era. The moment Justin proved he was destined for solo stardom #
- These delay of game penalties are killing me. This team is coming apart and I don't like one bit! #
- It occcurs to me this is my first time at the Pearl Street Ballroom. Cozy. #
- Sorry, Willie Mason. I think my collection's full up on singer-string pickers #
- #momusic MF Doom/Mmm... Food/8.5 Is there any better combo than comics and food? Yes: food, comics and DOOM #
- The best show I've seen all year. They've converted me from fan to die-hard. ♫ blip.fm/~gnhqt #
- RT: @questlove: Hi-Fidelity with Elvis Costello on now! #
- #momovie Lynch/Inland Empire/8 A deeply intriguing movie, where "wtf?" becomes "Oohhhh" becomes "WTF!?!" #
- #momusic El-P/Fantastic Damage/9.5 Confrontational, dense productions and rhymes define the tension of America under Bush #
- #momusic NERD/Fly or Die/7.5 Underrated sophomore cut grooves and rocks well; not quite as catchy as the debut, but full of fun ideas #
- #momusic Radiohead/Kid A/9 I've listened to this dozens of times over the years; this is the first time I felt moved by its cold sheen #
- #momusic Robert Plant/Dreamland/8 Zep legend finally gets used to not having his mighty wail; delivers a soulful and mildly eclectic set #
- #momusic Elvis Costello/North/4 AKA "Because I Can: Classical Pop." Employing a style emphasizing his voice makes this somewhat tedious #
- In my iTunes, Paul McCartney's song "Freedom" appears twice. I consider that his mistake, not mine. #
- #momusic Nelly/Nellyville/3 The skits (about a guy who has absurd trouble finding this CD) are optimistic. Singles are good 'n' dumb. #
- #momusic Franz Ferdinand/Franz Ferdinand/9 Always found them more engaging than The Strokes, with a similar post-punk/dance bent. #
- #momusic Evanescence/Fallen/2 How to express pain without feeling it. Helluva voice; generic band to back it. #
- The Office is REALLY slacking on these cold opens this season. Loved Stanley's line though. #
- #momusic Elvis Costello & The Imposters/The Delivery Man/7.5 A half-complete concept makes a cohesive, intermittently exciting album #
- #momusic Say Anything/Is (Was) a Real Boy/9 Snide, snarky and more than a little mean. More emo needs to be like this. Better than whining. #
- #momusic *NSYNC/No Strings Attached/7 Some of the finest, dumbest pop. Sappy ballads, but I can't resist "That's When I'll Stop Loving You" #
- #momusic John Mayer/Room for Squares/7.5 Timeless in the sense that people between the ages of 14 and 20 will always feel this way. #
- Wow, I just guessed at a password I set a year ago and haven't used since! Go me@! #
- #momusic Gorillaz/Gorillaz/6 A kind of boring but eclectic and intermittently exciting album that does right by a lot of genres #
- #momusic Dave Matthews Band/Lillywhite Sessions/7 Without the refinement they delivered on Busted Stuff, this material is almost typical #
- About 2 hours from seeing The Felice Brothers! #
