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