>would anyone like to share their top of 2000??? music, movies, books...???
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>pop out,
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>marc...
I'll have my say, I guess.
Top Ten of 2000.
1) Yo La Tengo - ...and then nothing turn itself inside out (Matador)
So this has to be their masterpiece. A longtime coming, but what
buildup. A mellow synthesis of all that makes them great: a little
avant-rock rock out, sturdy drones and a few bah-bah-bahs. Simple
bliss. Really and truly.
2) Third Eye Foundation - Little Lost Soul (Merge)
Back in fine form. Puts some of the intelligence,occasionally the
dance, and always the music, in IDM.
3) Morr Music Comp. - Putting the Morr Back in Morrissey (Morr)
The future of future pop. Brilliant mix of American, German/European
and Canadian stay-at-home folks remixing themselves and one another.
Perrey and Kingsley for the black turtleneck set. Thoughtful and
melodic, this somehow summed up my taste for the past twenty years in
ways so many records this year couldn't.
4) Lowfish - Eliminator (Suction)
Canadian analog knob-twiddler. Hooked up with the Morr music set.
Dance music for aliens, robots and you.
5) GoBetweens - Songs for Rachel Worth (Jetset)
After many years out in the wilderness (or cane fields as the case
may be) and McLennan and Forster return to team up with those savvy
rioting types to jump start what were beginning to look like
lacklustre solo careers. Fine and as perfectly out of step as they
always were.
6) B. Fleischmann - Pop Loops for Breakfast (and the Sidonie EP) (Morr)
More on the electronic pop fron with way out sounds worth grooving
to. Got my circuits breaking in ways they haven't broken before.
7) Lali Puna - Tridecoder (Morr)
Again, something from Morr Music. Cool and French (and German and
Portuguese), but only barely paraphrasing Stereolab. This is
beautiful, graceful and elegant. And more.
8) Various - Remixen die Welttraumforscher (Gagarin Records)
From Gagarin Records, more out-there Germans doing what they do best:
quirky, detached, abstract and all done up with cute German accents.
Playful and occasionally ponderous, but only just.
9) Tomas Jirku - Variants (Alien8)
I'm not sure why the top 10 is so chock'a'block with Canucks. Well
two, actually. More noodling, but this time dub-flecked minimalist
techno. Warm and gurgly blips and clicks enveloped in a gauzy haze.
Powerbook bong music.
10) Ersatz Audio - Forgotten Sounds of Tomorrow (Ersatz Audio)
More retro-electro. If rock can shamelessly plunder the past, so can
electronic music. Cool and artificial in all the right ways.
Tastefully timeless.
Bubbling Under
Elk City - Status
Mitchell Akiyama - intr_verse
Low and Springheel Jack - Bombscare EP
Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damages Lemons
Reissues/Compilations
Raymond Scott - Manhattan Research Inc.
Pop-Shopping: Juicy Music from German Commercials 1960-1975
Lee Hazlewood - The Cowboy and the Ladies
OMD - Peel Sessions
OHM - The Early Gurus of Electronic Music
Doob Doob O'Rama 2 - More Filmsongs from Bollywood
Mixed Up in the Hague Vol. 1
Disappointment
Godspeed you black emperor - Lift yr skinny fists...
Living where I live, it's been hard listening to Godspeed the same
way I did say four years ago. I hate to buy into the 'local
saturation syndrome' but that's about it. A little too studied and
much more explicitly rockist than previous releases. Even with mini
stabs at avant-garde artiness, they seem to be riffing just a little
too often on the first four letters of 'progressive.'
Label of the year has to be Germany's Morr Music, with Suction (in
Toronto) running a close second.
Many disappointments and high points that, for the sake of brevity
and to avoid by-now tired cliches about how sucky or great the year
was, I've left out.
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Geoff Stahl
Department of Art History and Communication Studies
McGill University
Home page: http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/gstahl.htm
IASPM-Canada page: http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/iaspm/
Canadian Journal of Film Studies (Editorial Assistant):
http://www.film.queensu.ca/fsac/cjfs.html
CKUT 90.3 FM (Montreal) Wednesdays at Midnight (EST) for your aural
pleasure. http://www.ckut.ca
MP3 is killing home taping
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