These are all the
albums, EPs, demos, singles, etc that I listened to in the month of September
2012. I’ll be the first to admit, this one is pretty mediocre. At the end are
my notes and a list of all the live music I saw during the month.
9/3/12
Everclear – “So Much
For The Afterglow”
9/4/12
Dashboard Confessional –
“The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most”
Boy Hits Car – S/T
Tiger Army – S/T
9/5/12
Devo – “New
Traditionalists”
OFF! – S/T
Death Hymn Number 9 – “Smokestack
Frightening” EP
White Buffalo – “Prepare
For Black & Blue” EP
V/A – Jones Soda
Valentine’s Day 2006 sampler CD
Two Door Cinema Club – “Beacon”
Albert Mangelsdorff –“Shake,
Shuttle, and Blow”
Coldplay – “Viva la
Vida or Death and All His Friends”
Electric Guest – “Mondo
The Vibrators – “Pure Mania”
The Vibrators – “Pure Mania”
Seedless – “Twisted
Roots”
9/6/12
V/A – “Pssst!” Filter
Magazine Spring 2005 sampler CD
Eels – “Beautiful Freak”
TobyMac –“Eye On It”
Motion City Soundtrack –
“Go”
Sodom – “In The Sign Of
Evil” EP
The Shins – “Port of
Morrow”
Moebius – “Tonspuren”
Mishka – “Above the
Bones”
MDC – “Millions of Dead
Cops”
V/A – “Cinema Beer
Buddy”
Bush – “Sixteen Stone”
Tamia – “Beautiful
Surprise”
No Doubt – “Tragic
Kingdom”
9/7/12
Sonny Rollins – “Saxophone
Colossus”
Filter – “Title of
Record”
Massgrav – “Napalm Over
Stureplan”
Lawrence Arms – “Oh!
Calcutta!”
Plan B – “ill Manors”
OST
Vanna – “The Search
Party Never Came” EP
Weatherbox – “Follow
the Rattle of the Afghan Guitar” EP
Santigold – S/T
9/8/12
Kid Rock – “Devil
Without A Cause”
The Orb – “U.F. Off:
The Best Of”
Korn – “Follow The
Leader”
Minus The Bear – “Infinity
Overhead”
Sugar Ray – “Floored”
Ground Up – 2008 demo
Avicii – “The Singles”
9/10/12
The Smiths – “Strangeways,
Here We Come”
V/A – “KnuckleTracks 90”
Sunny Day Real Estate –
“Diary”
9/11/12
The Gravitys – “Bring
You Down”
9/18/12
Dean Blunt & Inga
Copeland – “Black is Beautiful”
I Never Knew You – “End
of Seasons” EP
V/A – “Spawn” OST
Animal Lover – S/T EP
Alanis Morissette – “Jagged
Little Pill”
Motherboy – “Not Punk
Session” tape
9/19/12
Manufactured Superstars
– “Freak On You”
Semisonic – “Feeling Strangely
Fine”
Limerent Dance Machine –
“Dream A Reason Why”
Foo Fighters – “The Colour
and the Shape”
Circa Survive – “Violent
Waves”
Crass – “Stations of
the Crass”
9/20/12
William Kapell – “performing
Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3”
Subhumans – “The Day
The Country Died”
Midtown – “Save The
Day, Lose The Girl”
Rudimentary Peni – “The
EPs of RP”
2 Chainz – “Based on a
T.R.U. Story”
Guns N Roses – “Appetite
for Destruction”
9/21/12
The Last Years – “Get
Rad!!!” EP
War From A Harlots
Mouth – “Transmetropolitan”
Axwell – “Heart is King”
single
PsyOpus – “Odd Senses”
Santana – “Abraxas”
Bad Brains – S/T
9/22/12
The Ramones – “Leave
Home”
9/25/12
Swans – “The Seer”
Between The Buried And
Me – “Colors”
Mazzy Star – “So
Tonight That I Might See”
9/26/12
Sledding With Tigers – “Being
Nice is Still Cool” EP
Butthole Surfers – “Electriclarryland”
Strawberry Alarm Clock –
“Incense & Peppermints”
Andy Williams – “The
Very Best Of”
V/A – “The Matrix:
Music From The Original Picture”
Haruka – 2012 mini-disc
demo
9/27/12
Yuppicide – “Shinebox”
Slaughterhouse – “Welcome
To: Our House”
Agression – “Don’t Be
Mistaken”
9/28/12
The Fugs – “First Album”
David Gray – “White
Ladder”
9/29/12
Cannibal Corpse – “Butchered
at Birth”
Metric – “Old World
Underground, Where Are You Now?”
Kindness – “World, You
Need a Change Of Heart”
Stone Temple Pilots – “Purple”
9/30/12
NASA Space Universe – “Beyond
Ice” EP
Fuel – “Natural Selection”
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I decided to actively listen to stuff that I was
into back in my pre-middle school/punk days and see how they fared. Most of it didn’t do
so well (see: Dashboard, Boy Hits Car, Filter, David Gray) That said, I won’t
apologize for Everclear or Alanis. You can go your own way.
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OFF! Is cool and everything, but the similarity
to Black Flag is just too obvious and forced…I don’t know
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My rubric for what music I will listen to in a
given month really turned up some garbage this month that I can’t say that I’m
proud for having listened to (see: TobyMac, Tamia, 2 Chainz)
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For as badass as other Sodom albums are, “In the
Sign of Evil” is one of the goddamn shittiest metal albums I’ve ever listened
to…Just plain bad
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The Shins have a new album. Who cares.
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Mishka has got to be the most boring ‘reggae’-‘rock’
act I have ever heard…it takes being laid back to a totally unnecessary level
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“The Search Party Never Came” is a classic of
its genre, few of those as there are
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I don’t see what’s so great about Santigold
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Manufactured Superstars are okay when its just
beats, fucking TERRIBLE with vocals
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More than a decade after its release, “Bawitdaba”
is still the most gloriously ignorant song ever released unto the public
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You saw that right, in one day I listened to
full albums by Kid Rock, Korn, and Sugar Ray. COME AT ME BRO.
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The soundtrack CDs for the late-90’s motion
picture adaptation of the comic book “Spawn,” and to a lesser extent, “the
Matrix” predicted the current wave of dubstep-infused quasi-metal and told us “NO!”….WE
DIDN’T LISTEN.
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“Appetite for Destruction” is one of those few ubiquitous
mega-smash hits that is totally deserves that distinction…classic
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“Leave Home” is vastly underrated even amongst
Ramones fans…It’s the best summation of what they were about
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The new Swans album is long as hell, dark and
gloomy, and somewhat taxing to listen to because of moments of trudging
repetition…but in the end its worth it in the way a good piece of art should be…a
very deep album for sure
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I <3 “Colors”
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Folk-punk just isn’t really my thing
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The lineup of Sledding With Tigers, Butthole
Surfers, and Strawberry Alarm Clock on 9/26 makes it look like I listen exclusively
to bands with ridiculous names
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R.I.P. Andy Williams
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Yuppicide isn’t as good as I remember them being
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“Don’t Be Mistaken” = greatest skate punk album
ever. Nuff said.
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I hate to admit it but “Purple” is a pretty
solid album for what it is
I also saw Warpaint, James Blake,
Quicksand, M83, Refused, The Allah-La’s, Maria Bamford, Papa, Nick Waterhouse,
Joyce Manor, Garfunkel & Oates, Benden Walsh, Brent Weinbach, David Cross, King Khan & The
Shrines, Aesop Rock, Against Me!, Lightning Bolt, Dinosaur Jr., Desaparecidos,
HEALTH, Yeasayer, American Nightmare, Bloom (R.I.P.), Mouthful Of Snow (twice),
Being As An Ocean, Weatherbox, My Iron Lung (twice), Beanvian Stalks Guava (twice),
north Americans, No Paws, Rapid Youth, Naomi Punk, Limerent Dance Machine (twice), Light Light, Providence, Scarlett Avenue, Welcome To Now, A Push For Clarity, Crisis Arm, Till I
Fall, Locked In Silence, Dead End Alaska, Aukerman, Sledding With Tigers, Logan
Greene Electric, Hello Penelope, Slimmy Heart Project, Taurus Scott, B.
Lewis, Motherboy, Animal Lover, and The Coltranes perform live.
