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The Bug: Skeng (Music Video)

My Interests

MyFamily | Metal | Other Music | More Music | Berlin | India | London | Radio | Cricket | NFL Football | Boston Red Sox | Boston Celtics | VfL Bochum |

Music:

Current album favourites...updated: 23 September 2008

    FLEET FOXES -- fleet foxes (Bella Union/Sub Pop) ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS -- raising sand (Rounder) ANE BRUN -- changing of the seasons (Determine) TV ON THE RADIO -- dear science (XL) LUOMO -- convivial (Huume) SIGUR ROS -- Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust (EMI) FRIENDLY FIRES -- friendly fires (XL advance) THE STREETS -- everything is borrowed (Warner advance) THE WEEK THAT WAS -- the week that was (Cooperative) THE PRESETS -- apocalpyso (Modular)

...10 personal favourites from 2007:
    RADIOHEAD -- in rainbows (inrainbows.com/XL) VIEUX FARKA TOURÈ -- Vieux Farka Touré (world village) GRAVENHURST -- the western lands (warp) ROBERT WYATT -- comicopera (domino) BARONESS -- the red album (relapse) KANYE WEST -- graduation (universal) BURIAL -- untrue (hyperdub) THE WHITE STRIPES -- icky thump (xl) THE ENEMY -- we live and die in these towns (warner) BAND OF HORSES -- cease to begin (sub pop)

...10 personal favourites from 2006
    JOANNA NEWSOM -- ys (Drag City) BECK -- the information (Geffen) SPARKS -- hello young lovers (Essential) BAND OF HORSES -- everything all the time (Sub Pop) THE MELVINS -- a senile animal (Ipecac) THE CLIPSE -- hell hath no fury (Sony BMG) BURIAL -- burial (Hyperdub) THOM YORKE -- the eraser (XL) CURRENT 93 -- black ships ate the sky (Durtro) SCOTT WALKER -- the drift (4AD)

...10 personal favourites from 2005
    SUFJAN STEVENS -- illinoise (Rough Trade) THE DECEMBERISTS -- picaresque (Rough Trade) THE ARCADE FIRE -- funeral (Merge) ANIMAL COLLECTIVE -- feels (Fat Cat) DUNGEN -- ta det lugnt (Subliminal Sound) ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS -- i am a bird now (Secretly Canadian) ENGINEERS -- engineers (Echo) BLOC PARTY -- silent alarm (V2) KATE BUSH -- aerial (EMI) ROGUE WAVE -- descended like vultures (Sub Pop)

...10 personal favourites from 2004
    WILCO -- a ghost is born (Nonesuch) RUFUS WAINWRIGHT -- want two (Dreamworks) FENNESZ -- venice (Touch) RADIAN -- juxtaposition (Thrill Jockey) BJÖRK -- medulla (One Little Indian) THE SHINS -- chutes too narrow (Sup Pop) EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN -- perpetuum mobile (Mute) SUNN O))) -- white 2 (Southern Lord) GREEN DAY -- american idiot (warner music) PANTHA DU PRINCE -- diamond daze (Dial)

...10 personal favourites from 2003
    THE MARS VOLTA -- de-loused in the comatorium (Universal) RUFUS WAINWRIGHT -- want one (Dreamworks) ELBOW -- cast of thousands (V2) THE WHITE STRIPES -- elephant (XL) THE BUG -- pressure (Klein) RHYTHM & SOUND -- the artists/the versions (Burial Mix) RADIOHEAD -- hail to the thief (Parlophone) ROBERT WYATT -- cuckooland (Hannibal) AEREOGRAMME -- sleep and release (Chemikal Underground) SENSATIONAL -- natural shine (Wordsound)

...10 personal favourites from 2002
    BRIGHT EYES -- Lifted, or the story is in the soil, keep your ear to the ground (Wichita) ...AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD -- Source tags and codes (Interscope) SONIC YOUTH -- Murray Street (Geffen) LOW -- Trust (Rough Trade) COLDPLAY -- A rush of blood to the head (EMI) QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE -- Songs for the deaf (Interscope) EL P -- Fantastic damage (Definitive Jux) FENNESZ -- Field recordings 1995-2002 (Touch) MASTODON -- Remission (Relapse) AKUFEN -- My way (Force Inc)

...10 personal favourites from 2001
    SPIRITUALIZED -- Let It Come Down (Arista/BMG) BJÖRK -- Vespertine (One Little Indian/Polydor) GILLIAN WELCH -- Time (The Revelator) (Acony) CANNIBAL OX -- The Cold Vein (Def Jux/Zomba) MERCURY REV -- All Is Dream (V2/Zomba) TECHNO ANIMAL -- The Brotherhood Of The Bomb (Matador/Zomba) PAN SONIC -- Aaltopiiri (Mute) TOOL -- Lateralus (Volcano/Zomba) RADIOHEAD -- Amnesiac (Parlophone/EMI) CLICKS & CUTS 2 -- Compilation (Mille Plateaux/EFA)

...all-time highs
    THE SMITHS -- The Queen Is Dead THE BEACH BOYS -- Pet Sounds THE CLASH -- London Calling MY BLOODY VALENTINE -- Loveless BJÖRK -- Homogenic BUCKETHEAD -- Giant Robot SLAYER -- Reign In Blood LOVE -- Forever Changes NIRVANA -- In Utero SIGUR RÓS -- Agætis Byrjun PORTISHEAD -- Dummy THE BEATLES -- Revolver COCTEAU TWINS -- Heaven Or Las Vegas APHEX TWIN -- Selected Ambient Works Vol. II

My Blog

Maximo Park concert @ Radio Fritz (1.Feb.08)

In the (privileged) life of a music editor, one gets to listen to a lot of music and meet a lot of musicians. But it is rare that the people behind the music can touch you in ways that leave a lastin...
Posted by ::: Adi ::: on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:43:00 PST

Muse @ Wembley Stadium 16.6.2007

Visiting Muse at Wembley is my first personal visit to the stadium since its renovation and refurbishing - it's said to have cost 800 Million Pounds to do this.  For us non-mathematicians, this w...
Posted by ::: Adi ::: on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:23:00 PST