Happy Friday! Tonight at midnight, the government may very well shut down because the GOP wishes to throw women’s rights under the bus. Surprise! Â Here’s a mix I’ve compiled in celebration of our country’s (and our economy’s) impending doom.
REM – It’s the End of the World As We Know It
OFF! – Panic Attack
Green Day – American Idiot
Public Enemy – Fight the Power
Rage Against the Machine – Guerilla Radio (live)
50. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Round and Round
49. OFF! – First Four EPs
48. Marnie Stern – S/T
47. Crystal Castles – S/T
46. The White Stripes – Under Great White Northern Lights
200. The Golden Filter – Solid Gold
199. Delorean – Real Love
198. Band of Horses – On My Way Back Home
197. Games – Heartlands
196. Cults – Oh My God
195. El Guincho – Bombay
194. Marnie Stern – Nothing Left
193. Interpol – Barricade
192. Ke$ha – Your Love Is My Drug
Once every three months I list the best of what I heard in albums/songs/remixes for the quarter. I do this to personally keep up with all the awesome music I hear, as it ultimately helps me at the end of the year when I do my overall listing for the previous twelve months. I also do it to introduce you cool cats to tunes you may have missed independently.
This year I made the big move from Lubbock to Austin, and the transformation has done wonders for my live music fix. I should have been writing down all the awesome bands I saw this year (and the years before, for that matter) but alas, hindsight, she is 20/20 once again. I think this post covers the highlights more or less, however. There’s plenty of great live music I saw this year that I’m leaving out, but after the jump, in no particular order, are twelve of the best shows I witnessed in 2010, eleven of them right here in the Live Music Capital of the World.
And for the record, I wanted to put the Sleigh Bells show on here, as fun as it was once they finally started playing, but everyone who attended knows Beauty Bar is at fault for that show’s omission. What a disaster.
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Daft Punk – Tron Legacy Soundtrack
When I heard back in February Daft Punk were doing the music for Tron, I was immediately excited – new Daft Punk? Awesome! In retrospect I don’t know why I thought producing a score for a Disney sci-fi film would sound anything like Discovery, and inevitably it doesn’t. That doesn’t mean this hour-long soundtrack doesn’t have its moments – the sound is great, the French duo’s first stab at composing orchestral tunes is to be applauded, and the combination of strings with Daft Punk’s trademark house crescendo is simultaneously creepy and, well, cinematic. And there are even a couple bangers hidden in here too, reminiscent of the good ol’ Daft Punk. There just aren’t enough for my tastes. In the end, it’s just a film score.
Rating: 6
