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Some Favorites

While (mistakenly) organizing my collection for Apple's new Ping service, thinking it would be used in my profile, I happened to rate all my music I've been enjoying so far this year. Here is a list of some of my favorites in no particular order:

• Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin — Let It Sway
• Four Tet — There Is Love In You
• Frightened Rabbit — Winter of Mixed Drinks
• The National — High Violet
• Sleigh Bells — Treats
• Yeasayer — Odd Blood
• Best Coast — Crazy for You
• LCD Soundsystem — This is Happening
• Major Lazer — Lazers Never Die EP
• Minature Tigers — F O R T R E S S
• Quasi — American Gong
• Robyn — Body Talk Pt 1
• She & Him — Volume Two
• Ted Leo and the Pharmacists — The Brutalist Bricks
• Titus Andronicus — The Monitor

Tough!

This project is starting to drive me crazy. I am used to going on jags listening to one band, especially something I'm familiar with and diving into bootlegs or an album of theirs I never really got into. Or finally listening to a band I never paid attention to and going through their whole catalog. But this is a different animal.

Spoon for example. Everyone tells me I should listen to Spoon. I got their new album, I tried quite a few times but it didn't work for me. Someone told me I really had to listen to their old stuff to understand them, and well, I can't. But I don't think I should have to, so I think I'm done with Spoon.

Now I know there's a new album by Ted Leo coming but I can't get it until March and the one song I did hear was actually pretty good, so I'm happy about that. But right now I'm growing bored of Massive Attack and Four Tet.

Plus work has been pretty brutal and I haven't had the time to really listen to all the suggestions I've been getting. I will set aside some time this weekend and grab a few albums. I expect to have some stuff on Monday.

Last Week's Music

This week was a pretty good one. A lot of Four Tet, a lot of Massive Attack and two great recommendations of Phantogram and Beach House. I also tried Hot Chip and Midlake for a bit but I think it was just a bad time as I couldn't get into it.

I'm still listening to Surfer Blood. And I found out this weekend Ted Leo & The Pharmacists have a new album coming in March so that's good.

So far I'm pretty happy with what I've got, but on the weekends Mark (my son) is less than enthusiastic about the electronic music. He wants some more full on rock and roll and I need to spend this week finding him some.

Friday Wrap-Up — Music Blogs

I listened to a lot of "SLEIGH BELLS" this week followed by some Jay Reatard and the ridiculously named "The Pains of Being Pure at Heart" and some other random 2009 stuff. As February 1 gets closer I have started keeping track of new releases by reading music blogs.

MBV Music is a great super-blog put together by Catbirdseat, Large Hearted Boy, Said the Gramaphone, Chromewaves, and Fluxblog.

Other music blog suggestions would be appreciated.