Happy New Year. Somehow I managed not to throw up yesterday.
Not that anybody cares, but I made a list for elsewhere, so I'll share it here too...my 20 (25, actually) favorite records of MMX:
Not from NC:
Shannon Wright-Secret Blood
The Art Museums-Rough Frame
The Dynamic Truths-Understanding is Overrated
The National-High Violet
Sleepy Sun-Fever
Stuart Moxham-Personal Best/Viv Albertine-Flesh EP/The Vaselines-Sex With an X
Kurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell-present Kort: Invariable Heartache
The Extra Lens-Undercard/Versus-On the Ones and Threes/The Arcade Fire-The Suburbs
The Swans-My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky/Grinderman-Grinderman 2
Black Tambourine-Black Tambourine re-issue
from NC:
Black Congo NC-Live in Miami, 1984
Cassis Orange-s/t EP
Finger-Still in Boxes 1990-1994
Superchunk-Majesty Shredding
The Love Language-Libraries
GRIDS-Kansas
Schooner-The Duckee Sessions/VR Presents
Veelee-The Future Sight
North Elementary-Southern Rescue Trails
Anna Bullard-Split Heart
Not that anybody cares, but I made a list for elsewhere, so I'll share it here too...my 20 (25, actually) favorite records of MMX:
Not from NC:
Shannon Wright-Secret Blood
The Art Museums-Rough Frame
The Dynamic Truths-Understanding is Overrated
The National-High Violet
Sleepy Sun-Fever
Stuart Moxham-Personal Best/Viv Albertine-Flesh EP/The Vaselines-Sex With an X
Kurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell-present Kort: Invariable Heartache
The Extra Lens-Undercard/Versus-On the Ones and Threes/The Arcade Fire-The Suburbs
The Swans-My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky/Grinderman-Grinderman 2
Black Tambourine-Black Tambourine re-issue
from NC:
Black Congo NC-Live in Miami, 1984
Cassis Orange-s/t EP
Finger-Still in Boxes 1990-1994
Superchunk-Majesty Shredding
The Love Language-Libraries
GRIDS-Kansas
Schooner-The Duckee Sessions/VR Presents
Veelee-The Future Sight
North Elementary-Southern Rescue Trails
Anna Bullard-Split Heart