Renaissance Man Ryan Adams has recently added list-making to his laundry list of creative pursuits. He's already given us the "Top 10 Things I Think About When the World is Caving In" (Hot Baths and Comic Books should totally be his next album title), and now we've got the marginally more optimistic "Top 10 Ways to Be a Gentleman." Take notes after the jump boys
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Now that Moby has reaffirmed his love for the down-and-dirty debauchery of the NYC club scene with the excellent Last Night disc, Moby's "Top 10 Songs Chronicling New York City Depravity..in a Good Way" could be valuable info for the budding hedonist in each of us.
The list includes tracks from Interpol, Lou Reed, David Bowie and the New York Dolls, but our favorite bit comes from his synopsis of The Strokes' "Is This It?" - Though to be fair, the band hasn't been this cool in years:
"When i first heard this song i remember thinking to myself, 'fuck, they got it right'. 'it' defined as the feeling of being in Max Fish at 3 a.m on a Tuesday night in August and being in a disfunctional but flawless relationship with a beautiful but emotionally damaged woman and drinking too much and stumbling back to her 5th floor walk-up apartment and passing out sweaty in the heat to the sound of garbage trucks making the backing up 'beep beep beep' sound as the red sun starts beating on the thin curtains."
As a band, Oasis has had more luck making tabloid news via the warm-and-cuddly brothers Gallagher, but it seems that we've underestimated the lasting appeal of their early, Beatles-lovin' work.
Q and HMV recently took a poll of the 50 Best Ever British Albums, and Definitely Maybe and (What's The Story) Morning Glory? took the top two spots respectively. The discs held off legendary albums like Radiohead's OK Computer, London Calling from The Clash and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. (Not to mention the entire Beatles catalog.)
But before we crown Oasis the greatest band of all time, let's note that Keane's Under the Iron Sea came in at #8. That's #8, all-time. Ever. Riiight.
Read the full top 50 after the jump
When a reader's "Best Of" list kicks off with Starship's "We Built This City," perhaps the worst song by a once great band (in the Jefferson Airplane days) in history, we had to wonder who the heck RS was polling for the "25 Best Eighties Movie Themes." #24? - Frank Stallone's "Far From Over." Sweet Jesus!
Michael McDonald, Ray Parker Jr. - the cheese just keeps on comin'. There are a few highlights (Lindsay Buckingham, Oingo Boingo, Survivor) but let's admit it, even the "classics" are exactly the kind of stuff that gave 80s music a bad name. So if you're still reading (God bless you), strap on your proton accelerator and check out the full list over at Rock and Roll Daily.
Now this is pretty cool way to spend tomorrow's snow day - MojoHD is featuring live footage from over 80 bands and artists including Albert Hammond Jr, Amy Winehouse, Bat For Lashes, Beck, Bloc Party, Editors,
Feist, The Flaming Lips, Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, Rufus Wainwright, Jarvis,
Wolfmother, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Killers, The Kooks, Lily Allen, Tapes ‘n Tapes,
Kaiser Chiefs, and many more performing at The Koko Club in London. Phew.
Now, while sifting through all of this might take you right up to Christmas Eve, your determination will grant you a vote for which artist you'd like to see on the "London Live New Year's Eve Countdown," as the top 20 vote getters will be broadcast starting at 10pm EST. Just log on, crank that laptop speaker and voila, this time that lame NYE party you end up at could have a kick-ass soundtrack.
NME just published its Top 50 albums of 2007, and even though the British music press pretty much thinks every band in existence is destined for super-stardom, at least for a day...This list ain't too shabby.
We won't get behind The Klaxons as the year's best (or Arctic Monkeys at #2 for that matter), but a top 20 featuring Bloc Party, The White Stripes, The Shins, Arcade Fire, MIA and Radiohead can't be all bad.
Our only WTF moment comes at the bottom reaches of the chart where Kaiser Chiefs' Yours Truly, Angry Mob, one of our most-disappointing of '07, holds down the #46 position, three notches above Interpol's latest. Hah!
See the full list after the jump.
Maxim's top ten of 2007 might be just a case of picking out the most radio-friendly and/or recognizable discs from the thousands of blogger year-end lists and hitting shuffle, but we gotta say, this list ain't all that bad.
Sure, the summaries are the typical 8th-grade reading you find in the "laddie" mags (Interpol is not "crazy and fun" but definitely "worth a listen." Such insight!), but we can't argue with including the likes of Spoon, Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Amy Winehouse, MIA...cripes, they all are pretty good actually. That's it - Maxim is the new Pitchfork!
Read the full top ten after the jump.
Our pals at Filter have announced their Top Ten Albums of 2007 and surprise surprise, a little indie band called Radiohead topped the list. Though including Thom Yorke and co.'s best work in a decade was a bit of a no-brainer, the rest of the list is certainly going to conjure up its share of fanboy debates. Our main gripe: Band of Horses at #2!!?? Sigh...If only.
See the full top 10 after the jump, and check out Filter-mag.com for staff and artist lists from the likes of Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock, Paul Banks of Interpol and Kings of Leon guitarist Jared Followill.
For a guy who made his living writing books about demonic cars, rabid dogs and telekinetic prom dates, Stephen King is a pretty fair music critic. We've enjoyed, and often agreed with his take on pop music during his time as a columnist for EW, and Uncle Stevie's "Top Seven Albums of 2007" is certainly not without merit. But gosh, Ozzy Osbourne's Black Rain ("finest heavy metal record of the year; a true speaker-buster") at number five? Well that's just about the scariest thing we've read since The Shining.
We'll dispense with the long dissertation on how silly a list of the "100 Greatest Indie Rock Albums Ever," as comprised by the editors of Blender really is, and just give you guys the top 10. Honestly? It ain't all that bad. A couple quibbles though: (1) We're pretty sure R.E.M.'s debut album wasn't called "Mumu" and (2) We'll still never get over how many people place Let it Be as the very best 'Mats disc. (Should be: Third place behind Tim and Pleased to Meet Me, barely beating out the criminally-underrated All Shook Down.)
10. The Smiths, The Smiths
09. Big Star, Third/Sister Lovers
08. My Bloody Valentine, Loveless
07. The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground
06. Arcade Fire, Funeral
05. Pixies, Surfer Rosa
04. R.E.M., Murmur
03. The Replacements, Let it Be
02. Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation
01. Pavement, Slanted and Enchanted
Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice: While it doesn't break any new ground, this would qualify as the band's "serious" record
Tegan and Sara - The Con: The Quin sisters employing the sharp production skills of Chris Wala (Death Cab for Cutie)
Fountains of Wayne - Traffic and Weather: So-so tunes, but still infuses mundane snapshots of life with wit to spare
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