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episode date - January 5, 2006
…a Few of Our Favorite Things…
Everybody’s got to have their own year-end “Best Of” list, right? Music critics in particular must partake in this annual assemblage of personal opinions as a continuous rite of passage. I suppose we see it as a means of proving that we’re paying attention, and that we haven’t grown obsolete, but let’s be truthful here. I’ve been perusing a few of my own lists from previous years, and – a few years removed from the actual year when they were made – they just don’t seem to be adequate anymore.
The reasons for this are numerous. First, it’s simply impossible to familiarize ourselves with everything that we hear. My own purchases for 2005 amount to a bit more than one CD per day, so it’s only logical that some releases that will get short shrift. Either they required more attention than I gave them, or I listened while in the wrong mood… or I simply missed some of it. Who can honestly claim that their ‘best of’ list is even remotely definitive? To complicate matters even further, 2005 happens to have been an incredibly active year for popular music. It seemed that wherever I turned, some good music came poking out of the corners.
For all of these reasons, we have abandoned the ‘best of’ list this year altogether. Instead, we are simply presenting ‘a few of our favorite things’ that were released in 2005. With such a big subject, and so much deserving material, this week’s entry exists in two parts, as follows;
A Few of Our Favorite Things, 2005 (Part 1)
1) Get the Mop – Henry ‘Red’ Allen – Oxford American Sampler 2005
2) Box Full of Git – Jimmy Lee Fautheree
3) Only a Dream – Neil Young
4) Woman King – Iron and Wine
5) Freedom Fries – Robert Plant
6) Mannequin’s Complaint – Guided By Voices
7) Your Heart Is an Empty Room – Death Cab for Cutie
8) I Lay Down – Zucchero & Co. (with John Lee Hooker)
9) Celtic New Year – Van Morrison
A Few of Our Favorite Things, 2005 (Part 2)
1) John Wayne Gacy Jr. – Sufjan Stevens
2) Que Onda Guero – Beck
3) Twin Cinema – The New Pornographers
4) Product of DK – The Blue Van
5) Wordless Chorus – My Morning Jacket
6) Take Take Take – White Stripes
7) Lyla – Oasis
8) Oh No, Not You Again – The Rolling Stones
9) It’s the Nighttime – Josh Rouse
10) Pencil Rot – Stephen Malkmus
11) Down to Zero – Bettye Lavette
Now, go out, pick up these CD’s and make your own list for 2005!!
Happy New Year!, everyone.
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