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The 11 Best Rare Tracks By Wilco

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One of the original points of this blog was to do a retrospective of a band leading up to their most recent release.  Only on a rare occassion would I include a new song, but mostly it was a guide to a band’s material up until this point.  The only time, I side-stepped that rule was when a band would release their own retrospective.  Material on my list would naturally cross over with the tracklist of the release.  This is especially true in the case of Wilco.  Having heard 95% of these songs over the past two decades, there’s nothing new to report except to chronicle the contents.  The retrospective is the retrospective.  A few songs didn’t make it onto Wilco’s 77-track rare songs LP but for the most part, this set is as exhaustive as they come.

Here are the 11 Best Rare Tracks By Wilco:

  1. Promising (Chelsea Walls Soundtrak)
  2. Glad It’s Over (Heroes Soundtrack)
  3. Any Major Dude Will Tell You (Me, Myself, & Irene Soundtrack)
  4. Panthers (A Ghost Is Born Deluxe Edition)
  5. Bob Dylan’s 49th Beard (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Bonus CD)
  6. One Hundred Years From Now (Return of the Grievous Angel)
  7. Blasting Fonda (Outtasite)
  8. Thirteen (Big Star, Small World)
  9. True Love Will Find You In The End (Daniel Johnston Tribute)
  10. Message From Mid-Bar (The Whole Love Bonus EP)
  11. A Magazine Called Sunset (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Bonus CD)

Buy Wilco’s new Rare Tracks Set, Alpha Mike Foxtrot…now!

 

 

Don’t forget to check out our blog’s awesome new book The 111 Best Lists of the 2000s.  Available now!  (featuring Wilco)

The 11 Best Reasons to Buy The 111 Best Music Lists of the 2000s

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GBU 2000s front cover FINAL

It’s been one week since the release of our first book and the reception has been incredibly unexpected.  I thank everyone who has purchased the book…and am giving the stink eye to everyone who has not.  If you haven’t picked up a copy yet…here are some amazing points at why you should.

 The 11 Best Reasons to Buy The 111 Best Music Lists of the 2000s:

  1. There are 111 lists – where most books go to 100 ours does them 11 better and goes to 111.
  2. It features many good artists including: Arctic Monkeys, Beck, The National, Wilco, and Radiohead
  3. It features many bad (ass) artists including:  The Black Keys, The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and the Foo Fighters
  4. It features unknown artists including: The Dirtbombs, Jay Reatard, Assemblage 23, Mr. Lif, and the Great Lake Swimmers
  5. It cost less money ($12.95) than a concert ticket and it lasts longer
  6. Reading makes you smarter.  This book will make you 111 times smarter.
  7. It makes for a great Christmas gift and a belated Hanukkah gift for all your Jewish friends
  8. It is proven to kill flies if you hit them hard enough with it
  9. It is a great conversation starter for a boring New Year’s party (or any party for that matter)
  10. It is the perfect guide for making a ’00s playlist for a ’00s-themed party.
  11. There’s a secret ending just like in the Marvel movies which hints at a bigger story.  Sorta.

Buy The 111 Best Music Lists of the 2000s…now!!!

 

 

 

 

The Unknown – Spoon’s Get Nice!

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I had a good response from my fans picking up the Spoon album this week.  You can still get it from my Amazon store although the $3.99 offer has ended.
 
So, as promised, I’m posting Spoon’s very rare “Get Nice.”  A bonus CD of demos included on some copies of GAx5.  But there’s a catch.  Sorta.  I’m asking everyone to donate some money to the victims of the Haiti quake. 
 
Below are FIVE ways to donate money to Haiti relief and get free music out of it.  I’m asking everyone to please give something.  You can only download Spoon’s “Get Nice” if you donate.  I’m not going to check and see…so it’s on the honor system.
 
1.  Music For Relief – This is a charity run by Linkin Park.  Donate whatever you want…and in return you’ll get a compilation of free music, featuring new tracks by LP, Dave Matthews, Slash, All American Rejects, Hoobastank, Lupe Fiasco, and more.
 
2.  Paste Magazine – Again, donate what ever you feel comfortable doing and get access the Paste Vault, featuring over a hundred tracks (some rare) by artists like She & Him, Andrew Bird, Ben Folds, Emmylou Harris, Passion Pit, Jason Isabel, The Avett Brothers, Jayhawks, Low Anthem, String Cheese Incident, and many many more.
 
3.  Hope For Haiti Now – This is the full concert from Friday’s benefit show on TV.  This will only run you $7.99.  Featuring artists like Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keyes, Justin Timberlake, Coldplay, Jay-Z, Dave Matthews, John Legend, Shakira, Sting, Bono & The Edge, Mary J. Blige,  Beyonce, and others.
4.  WilcoWorld – Wilco is offering two full concerts for a $15 donation to Doctors Without Borders or Oxfam.  Both shows are from 2009 and are pretty epic.
 
5.  Eddie Vedder – My City of Ruins – Eddie’s live cover of Bruce’s song.  Only .99 cents and it goes to Haiti relief.

 

Thanks for your support.

The 111 Albums of 2009

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Well, here it is…the annual epic 111 best albums of 2009…as voted on by you.   Usually it’s a close race…but this year, Animal Collective ran away with it.  In fact, the entire top ten was leaps and bounds above the rest.  And…if you have a problem with the list…then blame yourselves…you’re the ones who voted.
 
See ya, next decade!!
 
Here are the 111 Best Albums of 2009:
1.  Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
2.  The xx – xx (Crystalised BBC)
3.  Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
4.  The Antlers – Hospice  (Kettering)
5.  Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (1901 live)
6.  Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca (The Bride)
7.  Wilco – Wilco (the Album)
8.  Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz (only $5.00)
9.  Metric – Fantasies (Help Im Alive)
10. Girls – Album
11. St. Vincent – Actor
12. Pearl Jam – Backspacer
13. Japandroids – Post Nothing
14. Monsters of Folk – Monsters of Folk
15. White Rabbits – It’s Frightening (Percussion Gun daytrotter)
16. Modest Mouse – No One’s First and You’re Next
17. Bob Dylan – Together Through Life
18. Built To Spill – There is No Enemy
19. Silversun Pickups – Swoon
20. Lisa Hannigan – Sea Sew
21. Morrissey – Years of Refusal
22. The Dead Weather – Horehound
23. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
24. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
25. Cage The Elephant – Cage The Elephant
26. Regina Spektor – FAR
27. Fanfarlo – Reservoir
28. Various Artists – Dark Was The Night
29. Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Beware
30. Passion Pit – Manners
31. Noah and the Whale – The First Days of Spring
32. Mos Def – The Ecstatic
33. The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love
34. The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You
35. K’naan – Troubadour
36. Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years
37. M. Ward – Hold Time
38. Sunset Rubdown – Dragon Slayer
39. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
40. Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
41. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport 
42. Samantha Crain – Songs In the Night 
43. David Gray – Draw The Line
44. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
45. Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown (Know Your Enemy Colbert Report)
46. The Pains of Being Pure of Heart – POBOH
47. Karen O and the Kids – Where the Wild Things Are
48. Dave Matthews Band – Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King
49. Devendra Banhart – What Will We Be
50. The Swell Season – Strict Joy
51. Why? – Eskimo Snow
52. Julian Plenti – …is a Skyscraper
53. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why There Are Mountains (Cold Spring)
55. Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms
56. Mew – No More Stories Are Told Today
57. Fun. – Aim and Ignite
58. The Horrors – Primary Colours
59. Conor Oberst – Outer South
60. Crystal Method – Divided By The Night  (only $5.00)
61. Miike Snow – Miike Snow
62. The Big Pink – A Brief History of Love
63. Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
64. Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3.0
65. The Mountain Goats – Life of the World To Come
66. Dan Deacon – Bromst
67. Florence and the Machine – Lungs
68. Weezer – Raditude
69. Mastodon – Crack the Skye
70. Say Anything – Say Anything
71. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – Up From Below
72. Trail of Dead – Century of Self
73. Paramore – Brand New Eyes
74. Sonic Youth – The Eternal
75. Handsome Furs – Face Control
76. Wavves – Wavves
77. Antony and the Johnsons – The Crying Light (only $5.00)
78. Maxwell – BLACKsummer’s Night
79. Von Bondies – Love, Hate and Then There’s You
80. Deer Tick – Born On Flag Day (Straight Into A Storm)
81. Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
82. Muse – The Resistance
83. The Mars Volta – Octahedron
84. Cut Off Your Hands – You and I
85. Tanya Morgan – Brooklynati
86. Brand New – Daisy
87. Manchester Orchestra – Mean Everything To Nothing
88. The Black Crowes – Before The Frost…Until the Freeze
89. The Fray – The Fray
90. Roman Candle – Oh Tall Tree In The Ear
91. Band of Skulls – Baby Darling Dollface Honey
92. U2 – No Line on the Horizon
93. Placebo – Battle For the Sun
94. Various Artists – Ghana Special (1968-91)
95. Gogol Bordello – Live from Axis Mundi
96. Flyleaf – Memento Mori (only $5)
97. Taking Back Sunday – New Again
98. Third Eye Blind – Ursa Major (only $5.00)
99. Jack Penate – Everything Is New
100.             Levon Helm – Electric Dirt (only $5)
101.             Mumford and Sons – Sigh No More
102.             Dananananaykroyd – Hey everyone!
103.             El Grupa Nueva De Omar Rodriguez Lopez – Cryptomnesia
104.             Raekwon – Only Built For Cuban Linx P2
105.             Wale – Attention Deficit (only $5.00)
106.             Franz Ferdinand – Tonight
107.             Matt & Kim – Grand ($5.00)
108.             Memory Tapes – Seek Magic
109.             Drake – So Far Gone (only $5.00)
110.             Andrew Bird – Noble Beast
111.             Tegan and Sara – Sainthood

The 11 Best Albums of 2009 1-11 (Part 5):

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So here it… the best 11 albums of 2009…according to me.

But if you want a voice…then it’s time to vote on your favorite albums. Next week, I will publish a list of the 111 best albums of 2009…according to you…my readers.

If you want to vote…just put your top 20 albums in the comment section anywhere on the blog.

Here are the 11 Best Albums of 2009: 1-11 (Part 5):
1. The xx – The xx
2. Samantha Crain – Songs In the Night (Devil’s in Boston)
3. Wilco – Wilco (the Album)
4. Morrissey – Years of Refusal
5. The Antlers – Hospice (Kettering)
6. The Low Anthem – Oh My God, Charlie Darwin (Ticket Taker)
7. Built To Spill – There is No Enemy
8. The Swell Season – Strict Joy (Low Rising)
9. Crystal Method – Divided By The Night
10. Metric – Fantasies
11. Von Bondies – Love, Hate and Then There’s You