Chicago: The Eponymous Thread

I've narrowed it down to like a dozen.

I hate music.

My second choice was also released in 2010.

2011: the year the music died.

I'm going to put all Pit Bull songs.

As usual, I am overthinking this. Should I focus on songs that you guys probably have not heard?

I'll see what I can do but, yeah, I fear all my choices would be boring, like PJ Harvey.

Listening to the cosmic dead as we speak and enjoying it.

i personally am focusing on the maybe less-heard, more underrated songs i liked (so i look cooler) but you should do what you want

Hahaha, oh shit, two of my songs are eliminated. Well, only one was an exact repeat, but I feel like it would be silly to just throw on another track from the same album.

that psychic paramount album is amazing

I have been really lame wrt new music this year but I think I can remember up some favorites.

Yeah I was going to throw up another Psychic Paramount track and THE SAME EXACT Cosmic Dead track.

DONE
i left psychic paramount for nick because he was the one who told me to listen to it!!

Should I focus on songs that you guys probably have not heard?
this is what i did

HAHA sorry jvc
that song rules though amirite

you are very rite, glad to see someone else liking it tbh

Are we okay with live stuff that was just released this year?

sorry dudes. having trouble deciding on a third song.

Blargh, I am already regretting the one song I put up. Can I get like 10 songs?

this doesn't have to be done today
i decided hastily, as i do with virtually every task of this nature -- just give us three songs you liked and you think we will like from 2011

if we want a round 2, we can do a round 2!!

Yeah, I'm going to have to add mine tonight. Can't find YouTube links for a couple of mine and I'm having trouble accessing my Spotify.

OK, I included Yuck b/c it's probably my #1 song of the year, even though probably everyone that would like it has already heard it.

OK I am happy with my choices for now.

it's funny to see the spreadsheet update while looking at it,

jmc I accidentally erased one of yr entries for Yuck but I think I fixed it correctly

Oh yeah, it looks fine.

other stuff i was thinking about: liturgy, action bronson. destroyer "kaputt" is probably my album of the year. worried i'm forgetting stuff because we lost some albums when our old hard drive died. sarah's going to contribute too btw.

don't think i've heard "the laziest river" though!

u guys srsly that youth lagoon album... it's one of those that makes me embarrassed to like it as much as I do

I think my top albums are Destroyer, Toro y Moi, and Bon Iver.

Which are all plundering '80s soft rock in various ways.

i am not listening to bon iver ever again if i can help it

i don't know if i've ever heard any of his stuff; i think i just assumed i wouldn't like it but maybe i was wrong

i made extra columns for listener comments and complaining

the only bon iver song I know is "skinny love" and they once played it while I was browsing in a bookstore and I will admit to being moved by it.

i look forward to listening to these while i am at the office today

ha ha our VP just walked through the library while i was listening to the laziest river and she probably thought i was jamming out to smooth jazz

Ha. I was pretty indifferent to the first Bon Iver album, but I kind of love the new one. And I also take some glee in the fact that a lot of dudes who were down with Vernon's lo-fi strummy heartsick cabin songs can't wrap their heads around the adult-contemporary signifiers.

Is there a setting I need to change on my end? Its only letting me view, not add anything.

i don't know - i've definitely got you enabled to edit

Works fine now, maybe I just needed to close and reopen it.

I'll think of a third song later. But for now I'm listening and enjoying!

i don't think my comments column is going to work because you will have to identify yourself after each comment, which could be a PITA
well anyway, this came together nicely
good job everyone

Updated my Falloch, realized I linked to the wrong track.

Amanda, have you heard much Lindstrom?

Nope. Should I?

Okay, I uploaded my three tracks. Was originally going to put up one of the Hebden/Reid/Gustafsson live tracks, but couldn't narrow it down to which one.

damn that album is SO GOOD
i was gonna put one on there too -- lyman place (?) is the only one that's < 10 min

xxp I think you might like some of his stuff, maybe? Norwegian "space-disco." Cosmic pulses. Etc. Where You Go I Go Too is the one that people usually enthuse over -- it's probably his most focused work -- but I actually prefer his most recent collab with Prins Thomas, titled II.

Here is a track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DpAW4RWI18

(Fun fact: I sampled the bass line for my cover of Usher's "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love.")

That's a great album, I really love Lindstrom, particularly both albums with Prins Thomas.

my connection at work is slow (wonder if people are watching jersey shore in the library again? hm?) so i have had trouble listening to these songs very efficiently

argh

ok i have now officially jammed many of these jams. thanks for submitting!

also i would like to encourage anyone to participate even if you think your choices are not partic exciting or obscure or whatever you think they should be but aren't. if nothing else it's a funny little archive.

which means it needs some pitbull

I feel confident that I can find something a little more interesting than Pitbull. I just need to check out the playcounts on iTunes. A year is a long time to remember something.

john have you heard this song? i only heard it this morning but i feel like it's in your wheelhouse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jv3pMACSbI