“There aren’t enough Youtube video re-posts around here,” you say? Here’s another one.
Mike Long, a self-proclaimed “social rocktivist”, plans to perform once dance a day around the world and post each video up on YouTube for the next two years. I can’t think of a better idea. (via It’s Nice That)
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With a slight danger of AKD becoming a YouTube video dumping ground, here’s a clip of Cornelius performing Count Five or Six live on hipster kids TV show Yo Gabba Gabba.
There’s a higher quality version of the video over at Jezebel.
With Bill Murray.
“It’s such a sadness when you think you’ve seen a film in on your fucking telephone.” (via Boing Boing)
To conclude my end-of-2007 music post trilogy (well, 2.5-ogy) I intended to do a top ten albums of the year. I wrote a list, but it was too long. I pulled a few out… it was still too long. So I gave up on the top ten idea.
Here’s a bunch of albums I liked in 2007 in no particular order. There’s more than ten, and I probably missed some really good ones.
The Fiery Furnaces
Widow City
Thrill Jockey Records
thefieryfurnaces.com
myspace.com/thefieryfurnaces
Ex-Guru music video
Fabchannel: Live show video
Modest Mouse
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Epic
modestmouse.com
myspace.com/modestmouse
Kings of Leon
Because of the Times
Hand Me Down
kingsofleon.com
myspace.com/kingsofleon
The National
Boxer
Beggars Banquet
americanmary.com
myspace.com/thenational
Battles
Mirrored
Warp
myspace.com/battlestheband
Justice
†
Ed Banger
myspace.com/etjusticepourtous
Arcade Fire
Neon Bible
Rough Trade
www.arcadefire.com
http://www.myspace.com/arcadefireofficial
The Go! Team
Proof of Youth
Memphis Industries/Sub Pop
www.thegoteam.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/thegoteam
New Young Pony Club
Fantastic Playroom
Modular
wearepony.com
myspace.com/newyoungponyclub
!!!
Myth Takes
Warp
chkchkchk.net
myspace.com/chkchkchk
Of Montreal
Hissing Fauna, are you the Destroyer?
Polyvinyl
ofmontreal.net
myspace.com/ofmontreal
Simian Mobile Disco
Attack Decay Sustain Release
Wichita
simianmobiledisco.co.uk
myspace.com/simianmobiledisco
What have I missed?
In what’s now becoming an annual tradition, here’s what last.fm considers my top 20 most listened to artists of 2007. Some serious surprises in there. I’ve listened to a lot of music this year and some of these I hardly remember hearing at all.
1. The Fiery Furnaces
2. Beastie Boys
3. New Young Pony Club
4. Kings of Leon
5. !!!
6. The Go! Team
7. Cansei de Ser Sexy
8. Broken Social Scene
9. Prefuse 73
10. Hot Chip
11. Death From Above 1979
12. The Arcade Fire
13. Ratatat
14. Four Tet
15. Klaxons
16. Ikara Colt
17= Man or Astro-man?
17= Disney
19= Django Reinhardt
19= Justice
19= MSTRKRFT
Massive oddities include Disney (playing the Musical History of Disneyland just once accounts for 65 tracks!) and Django Reinhardt (his haunting version of La Mer/Beyond the Sea from Bioshock made me search out more by this Jazz great. More Bioshock soundtrack tips here, incidentally).
Some old favourites like Man or Astro-man? and Ikara Colt have re-entered as well, thanks to iPod shuffle.
It doesn’t look like DoCopenhagen have compiled their own list of top music videos for this year so you’re going to have to make do with this top 50 from Pitchfork. Still marvellous. | Comments (1) »
