Friday, November 4, 2011

Playlist for September 2011

This is a list of all the albums, EPs, demos, etc that I listened to in the month of September 2011. At the end are my reflections and a list of live performances I saw as well.


9/1/11
Mouthpiece – “What Was Said”
Strife – “Angermeans”
Dungen – “Tio Bitar”
Phobia – “Enslaved” EP

9/2/11
Green Day – “Nimrod”
Touche Amore – “Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me”
Kyuss – “Blues for the Red Sea”
Twin Sister – “Vampires With Dreaming Kids” EP
Cass McCombs – “Catacombs”

9/4/11
The Walkmen – “You & Me”
Casino Madrid – “For Kings & Queens” EP
Amebix – “Monolith”

9/5/11
Funkadelic – “Free Your Mind, and Your Ass Will Follow”
Stars – “In Your Bedroom After the War”
Too $hort – “Born Ta Mack”
Rubix – demo CD
The Starting Line – “Say It Like You Mean It”

9/6/11
Anti-Hund Mina – B-Sound EP
Donny Hathaway – S/T
Judas Priest – “Hell Bent For Leather”
Valiant – “The All-Seeing Eye” EP
TSOL – “Disappear”
Headcleaners – “Disinfection” EP
Headcleaners – “The Infection Grows” EP
Fear – “American Beer”

9/7/11
Dag Nasty – “Can I Say?”
Overkill – “Feel the Fire”
V/A – “Springman to the Rescue” sampler CD

9/8/11
Shadow Shadow Shade – S/T
Miracle Parade – “Hark and Other Lost Transmissions”
Dev – “The Night the Sun Came Up”
Young L – “L-E-N” mixtape
Krisiun – “Black Force Domain”
Morbid Angel – “Heretic”

9/9/11
HEALTH – S/T
Boom Bip – “Seed to Sun”
Strange Birds – S/T EP
Rooney – S/T
Nocando – “Bay Area Blood, Los Angeles Heart”
Carlos Nino & Friends – “High With a Little Help From”                                   

9/10/11
The Cheiftains – “The Best Of”
The Libertines – “Up the Bracket”

9/14/11
Blackbird Blackbird – “Summer Heart”
AFI – “Black Sails in the Sunset”
Strife – “In This Defiance”
So Many Wizards – “Inner City/Best Friend” 7”
Truman Peyote/Many Mansions – “Peaced Together” split
We Still Dream – summer 2011 sampler CD
The Last Stand – S/T demo CD
One Choice – “Last One Down” EP

9/15/11
Vacation Dad – S/T
Cut Copy – “Bright Like Neon Love”
Chimaira – “Resurrection”
Foster The People – “Torches”
Nobody – “Soulmates”

9/16/11
Bam – “The Heatwave Vol. 1” mixtape, mixed by DJ Juan Ramirez

9/18/11
The Gaslamp Killer – “It’s a Rocky Road Vol. 1” mixtape
Chemotherapy – S/T EP

9/19/11
Professor Calculus – “Chare” EP
The (International) Noise Conspiracy – “The Cross of My Calling”
French Quarter – S/T
Emperor X – “Tectonic Membrane/Thin Strip on an Edgeless Platform”

9/20/11
Bon Iver – “For Emma, Forever Ago”
Lil B – “Everything Based” mixtape, mixed by DJ Spinz
Peter Tosh – “Legalize It”
Tokimonsta – “Midnight Menu”
V/A – “Punk Rock Strike”

9/21/11
Kendrick Lamar – “Section 80” mixtape
Death – “Spiritual Healing”
Name Taken – “Hold On”

9/22/11
Sunny Levine – “Love Rhino” EP
Mia Doi Todd – “Manzanita”
Turbonegro – “Scandinavian Leather”
Joyce Manor – “Constant Headache” EP
Laidback Luke – “Electronic Satisfaction”
Blind Guardian – “Tales From the Twilight World”

9/23/11
Teebs – “Ardour”
Incantation – “Blasphemous Cremation” EP
Arctic Monkeys – “Favorite Worst Nightmares”

9/24/11
Chemical Brothers – “We Are The Night”
Moby – “18”

9/26/11
Animal Farm – S/T
Massgrav – “Hatfylld Och Pisserand” EP
The Scorpions – “Rockers N Ballads: The Best Of”
My Dying Bride – “The Angel and the Dark River”
Burn – S/T EP
Tricky – “Nearly God”

9/27/11
Van Halen – “Diver Down”
Trash Talk – S/T LP

9/28/11
S.O.B. – “Leave Me Alone” EP
Expatriate – S/T EP
Voodoo Glow Skulls – “Firme”
Destroy The Runner – “Saints”

9/29/11
Iceburn – “Hephaestus”

9/30/11
Warbeast – “Krush the Enemy”
Wisdom In Chains – “Die Young”
Forever Ends Now – “Restless” EP
Exmortus – “In Hatreds Flame” EP
New Lows – “Harvest of the Carcass”
Bloody Roar – 3-song demo CD
Gepopel – “Paracide” EP
Rings Of Saturn – “Embryonic Anomaly”
Nisennenmondai – “Tori” EP

NOTES:
-          -I listened to a bunch of dope music this month
-          -I still really like the first 5 Green Day albums, before “Warning”
-          -I regret not seeing Twin Sister at FYF but they played so damn early! They seem like a nighttime band.
-          Cass McCombs was pretty boring at FYF I could only stand like 2 songs
-          -Words of wisdom from Funkadelic
-          -The Valiant listed is not the band from Temecula, it’s a hardcore band from Illinois. And they’re dope.
-          -Headcleaners: If your first EP is called “Disinfection,” shouldn’t you’re 2nd EP not be “The Infection Grows”? I mean what did you disinfect?
-          -Dev and Young L fucking suck.
-          -Rooney: talk about forgettable.
-          -Carlos Nino’s music is very good
-          -“Black Sails in the Sunset” is without a doubt the best AFI album
-          -Strife and Iceburn are fucking dope. New Lows is pretty cool.
-           - One X Choice.
-          -Nobody.
-          -Chemotherapy is one of the worst bands I have ever heard in all my days.
-          -Lil B and Kendrick Lamar are both dope but entirely overrated by entirely different sections of the hip hop community
-          -It had been way too long since I had listened to a full Death album
-          -The first time I listened to “We Are the Night” I hated it, except the fish song. Now I don’t think that song is so funny and the rest of the album is much better.
-         - “Dancing In the Streets” is 100% the worst Van Halen song. Its just terrible.
-          -Trash Talk…come on.
-          -Of all the anonymous old-school hardcore bands I listened to this month, Expatriate was probably the best
-          -Destroy The Runner sounds EXACTLY like Darkest Hour…except, you know, Christian.
-          -If the singer from Warbeast isn’t the same guy from GWAR, then you can slap my ass and call me Charlie because it’s a spitting image, audibly.
-          -Wisdom In Chains is one of the best hardcore bands I’ve heard in awhile
-          -Rings Of Saturn are amongst the dopest metal bands in the world today, for sure. For sure.

I also saw Avi Buffalo, Title Fight, Cass McCombs, Smith Westerns, Cults, The Weakerthans, Kid Dynamite, Broken Social Scene, Guided By Voices, Glass Candy, Descendents, Dead Milkmen, Death From Above 1979, Gatsbysfiddle, Valiant, North Americans, One X Choice, Downpresser, Strife, Bam, We Da West Camp, Aaron Evans, One B Lo, Ready Steady Go, The Coltranes, The Junk, and TSOL perform live.

The Weakerthans played my favorite song by them, "Confessions of a Futon Revolutionist" and I nearly fainted when the Descendents came out. They were great from beginning to end, one of the best punk shows I've ever seen. It was awesome to see Strife too, that was a really fun hardcore show.

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