Playlist 08/12/14

Today I continued the C86 segment. It's important to know your roots, even if they are decidedly un-dread white roots.

C86 Side B:
Shop Assistants/ It's Up to You
Close Lobsters/ Firestation Towers
Miaow/ Sport Most Royal
Half Man Half Biscuit/ I Hate Nerys Hughes (From the Heart)
The Servants/ Transparent
The Mackenzies/ Big Jim (There's No Pubs in Heaven)
bIG fLAME/ New Way (Quick Wash and Brush Up with Liberation Theology)
We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It/ Console Me
McCarthy/ Celestial City
The Shrubs/ Bullfighters Bones
The Wedding Present/ This Boy Can Wait
Addendum: The Wedding Present/ El Rey/ Spider-Man on Hollywood

I also got a little excited about winter and the snow. I misplaced my usual snow-songs CD, so I played some obvious favourites.

Winter - it's snowing!
P:ano/ Brigadoon/ The Snow
Rose Melberg/ Cast Away the Clouds/ Cold Sea
Julie Doiron/ Goodnight Nobody/ Snow Falls in November
Tullycraft/ Old Traditions, New Standards/ Willy Goes to the Seashore
Winter Vacation/ Detectives/??? I lost the tracklist and it's not online!

Book for my baby

Contemplated giving this book to Cody for Christmas for about two seconds before I dismissed it as a yuppie coffee table adornment. I think we'll browse it at Powell's when we go to Portland next year instead.

Year-end Top Ten

I really resent top ten lists. I'd rather make a list that included non-chart releases from the year, like a "top ten records you discovered this year". Don't you think such a list would be more inclusive? Anyway, Justin asked me to submit my top ten to CMJ, so I was forced to come up with a more typical list. In it, I tried to represent the indiepop community, the North American Pacific coast, and Victoria. Here it is, unordered as requested by CMJ:

• Magnetic Fields/Distortion/Nonesuch
• Endless Bummer/No Beach Out of Reach/Self-released
• No Kids/Come Into My House/Tomlab
• Mirah/The Old Days Feeling/Modern Radio
• Various/The Second Old Life Compilation/Old Life
• Primal Scream/Beautiful Future/WEA Int'l
• The Manhattan Love Suicides/Burnt Out Landscapes/Magic Marker
• Vivian Girls/Vivian Girls/In the Red
• Women/Women/Flemish Eye
• White Lung/Magazine/Deranged

Unlike my playlists, this top ten list goes ARTIST/ALBUM/LABEL.

*Honourable mentions:
Cause Co-Motion/ It's Time
Karl Blau/ Nature's Got Away and That's How I Got to Memphis 7"
Crystal Stilts/ Alight of Night
Young Lions/ the Blue Dot stuff
Almonds, Cohen/ Ontario (on Stereo!)
The Lucksmiths/ First Frost

Fill-in this Sunday

I have my Big Scary Theory Exam on Monday morning, so Ashly Kissman has graciously offered to fill in for me.

I will be doing all my shows over the holidays, and even doing some extra ones. Yay! Get ready for bad punk Christmas songs.