12.31.2011

Year-end listmaking (again)

I'm back in California for New Year's this year. Pictures at left are from Point Lobos on a foggy day, at the southern end of Monterey Bay. Doesn't look that much like California, which is why I like it.

Here's the real 2011 year-end list, which is of course not limited to music, since in my opinion 2011 was a terrible music year. Exceptions to that would include City of Ships' Minor World and the new Decapitated and Blindead records, but I wouldn't even attempt to put together a top ten list for the year, since I can't think of ten records I liked that came out this year.


Best of 2011:
-Populist uprising in general (don't care what you think of Occupy, this was important and needed)
-China (this has nothing to do with "tourism")
-Europe/Russia tour (finally did Europe right)
-Building
-Kitty Hawk
-(Re)discovering Thomas Köner's entire catalog, all of which is fantastic
-Rosetta's friends and fans (the Kickstarter, FB-bombing Air Canada, feeding us, housing us, playing with us, etc.)
-Marisa in Madrid-Barajas Airport
-Battlestar Galactica
-Having a home and enough to eat


Worst of 2011:
-Vansetta
-The music industry
-The airline industry
-Being away from home for 122 days, apart from wife for ~135 days
-American politics
-A world ruled by incompetent plutocrats

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2 Comments:

Blogger AMH said...

Surprised to see Tim Hecker and A Winged Victory for the Sullen absent from your exceptions list.

1/01/2012 7:42 AM  
Blogger M. Weed said...

Winged Victory was good, even great, but no Stars of the Lid. And the very similar Christina Vantzou record came out too. I listened to both a lot, but ended up listening to old SOTL and Koner records much more. The new Tim Hecker wasn't different enough to be interesting to me, though I do like most of his work.

1/01/2012 1:15 PM  

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