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#277 - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Bellbottoms
Orange
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#345 - Cat Power - Bathysphere
Cat Power covers > her own songs.
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#20 - Interpol - Untitled
Perhaps far too young to make statements like this as it’s purely retrospective, but there must not have been a more badass band back in 2002. Posting this has made me relisten to Turn On The Bright Lights and while it’s a record perhaps lacking in inventiveness or originality, it still sounds so completely fresh and vital, I can’t think of an “indie” record of the ilk released this year (or the past few for that matter) with nearly that much quality.
I actually think that going 100% on the music contained within, Antics is barely behind the debut as a record; but as a band it’s so impossible to separate image and aesthetic from the music produced, it worked to their advantage in 2002, but in 2004, and in a far greater extent 2010, the mystique has vanished.
Very hard to choose between this and Not Even Jail and The Specialist.
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#111 - Cold Cave - Youth And Lust
Of all the bands doing new snythpop stuff, Cold Cave are probably my favourite thanks to tracks like these.
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#283 - Yo La Tengo - Our Way To Fall
I suppose one of the “indie heavyweights” to fall so early in the list. Ridiculously consistent albums. There are 100000 yo la tengo fans who are better yo la tengo fans than i am, and would explain to you why theyre so good, far better than i can. Ask them.
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#319 - Mission Of Burma - Youth Of America
PAAAAAAAAAAANCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY.
This is a cut from Mission Of Burma’s 2004 live record Snapshot. It doesn’t capture the highs of Vs./Signals era MoB or the Wipers original, but both of those are highs seen very very rarely in the history of mankind, so I’ll let them off for producing a more-than-adequate cover version in their fifties. I can think of very few (any?) other rock bands that still sound vital at that age. Ridiculously psyched to catch them at ATPavement later this year.
