This is a list of all the full-length albums, EPs, demos, splits, and singles that I listened to in their entirety during the month of November 2014. Afterwards are lists of movies I watched and things I read during that timespan, with notes on all. This was the first month in a long time in which I didn't go to a single show. What the hell is going on with me?
11/1/14
Red House Painters - "Songs For A Blue Guitar"
Static-X - "Wisconsin Death Trip"
11/2/14
Protest The Hero - "Fortress"
Meshuggah - "obZen"
Cephalotripsy - "Uterovaginal Insertion of Extirpated Anomalies"
11/3/14
Cradle Of Filth - "From The Cradle To Enslave" EP
11/3-11/5/14
Miranda Lambert - "Platinum"
11/5/14
Delay - "Circle Change"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
11/6/14
Districts/Regret, The Informer - split 12"
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - "This Is Somewhere"
Legion Of The Damned - "Ravenous Plague"
11/7/14
Killwhitneydead - "Hell To Pay"
11/8/14
Michael Endres - "Arnold Bax: Complete Piano Sonatas" Disc 1
11/9/14
Run The Jewels - "2"
Exalt - "No Son" digital single
Ghostlimb/Fischer - split 10"
Green Day - "Dookie"
Bootsy Collins - "Back in the Day: The Best Of Bootsy"
Augustines - S/T
11/11/14
88 Fingers Louie - "Behind Bars"
11/12/14
Erskine Hawkins - "Tippin' In"
11/13/14
Beck - "Morning Phase"
11/14/14
Hollow Earth - "Silent Graves" EP
Colossus Fall - "Sempervirens" EP
Calle 13 - "Multi_Viral"
Mushroom Attack - "The Fight Goes On" compilation CD
Samhain - "November Coming Fire"
11/14-11/15/14
Lauralyn Kolb - "Fanny Mendelssohn: Lieder"
11/15/14
Pink Floyd - "The Endless River"
Run With The Hunted - "The Sieve and The Sand"
Humanifesto - "A Declaration Of Intent"
11/16/14
The Gravitys - "Bring You Down"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
Robert Plant - "Band Of Joy"
Chiodos - "Devil"
Dystopia - "The Aftermath"
11/17/14
Grethe Kausland - "A Taste Of..."
Julie Byrne - "Rooms With Walls And Windows"
Arison Cain - "The Love and The Volume"
La Luna - S/T EP
11/18/14
The Velvet Underground - "Gold" Disc 1
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - "Pinata"
Otep - "Sevas Tra"
11/19/14
Eugene Ormandy - "Classical Juke Box Vol. 1"
Anastacia - "Resurrection"
Sanctuary - "Into The Mirror Black"
Monoliths/Wounded Knee - split 7"
Clean Bandit - "New Eyes"
11/20/14
Heart - "Bad Animals"
Pavel Bobek - "Buh Ma Me Rad"
The War On Drugs - "Lost in the Dream"
end of the summer - "Second" EP
11/24/14
Oceans - Winter Demo 2012
Canyons/Mons Wolff - split 7"
Descendents - "All"
Air Dubai - "Be Calm"
Scott Joplin - "The Entertainer"
11/25/14
Azealia Banks - "Broke With Expensive Taste"
Lint Vaccine - S/T EP
Polina/Bonehouse/Kaddish/Todos Caeran - 4-way split
Alestorm - "Sunset on the Golden Age"
The Cure - "Greatest Hits" Bonus Disc - 'Acoustic Hits'
Chico Hamilton Quintet - "The Complete Pacific Jazz Recordings" Disc 4
11/26/14
Aphex Twin - "Syro"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
11/27/14
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
My Chemical Romance - "Thee Cheers For Sweet Revenge"
11/28/14
Zoccola - "Wet Nurse" digital single
Sanctions - "No Land"
88 Fingers Louie - "Back On The Streets"
The Kooks - "Listen"
Chicago Baroque Ensemble/Patrice Michaels Bedi - "The World Of Lully: Music Of Jean-Baptiste Lully"
Angel Olsen - "Burn Your Fire For No Witness"
Ocean Hands - "Dreamcatcher"
Animal Faces - "Half Asleep" EP
Jamie Cullum - "Interlude"
11/29/14
Eddie Money - "Sound Of Money: Greatest Hits"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
Radiohead - "Pablo Honey"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
The Gravitys - "Unplugged at The Dial" EP
11/30/14
Pixies - "Bossanova"
Tabu Ley Rocherau - "The Voice Of Lightness" Disc 1, 1961-1971
Sharon Van Etten - "Are We There"
Transporting Planets - S/T EP
The Banner - "Frailty"
Simple Minds - "Big Music"
Paul Bowles - "Baptism Of Solitude"
MUSIC NOTES
- Every time I listen to "Songs For A Blue Guitar" I get even more depressed than I am naturally. One of the best albums ever recorded.
- R.I.P. Wayne Static
- Cephalotripsy kinda sucks but you gotta hand it to'em, from their name to their album's name to their lyrics, they are probably the most disgustingly offensive gore band ever, displacing even Cannibal Corpse and Dying Fetus...A high task, no doubt
- Man Cradle Of Filth is so much cheesier than I remembered
- It took me 3 fucking days to finish that Miranda Lambert album, not because it just totally sucks, but something about the production on modern pop-country, I can only take like 3 or 4 songs at a time before passing out
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Delay, Districts, Regret The Informer, Erskine Hawkins, Colossus Fall, Grethe Kausland, Julie Byrne, La Luna, Sanctuary, Monoliths, Wounded Knee, Pavel Bobek, Azealia Banks, Bonehouse, Chico Hamilton Quintet, Sanctions, Angel Olsen, Animal Faces, Tabu Ley Rochereau, Transporting Planets, Paul Bowles
- My band The Gravitys finally released our new album "Nutrition" onto the interwebs on Thanksgiving. Check it out. www.thegravitys.bandcamp.com
- On a somewhat related note, John from the band Ghost Noise hit me up mid-month to tell me that he had listened to "Bring You Down" again and really enjoyed it...that was a nice message to receive. Thanks for listening.
- Why do I keep giving Grace Potter & The Nocturnals and Otep a chance? I've never liked it before why do I think I will upon a second listen?
- As far as mediocre metal bands go, Legion Of The Damned and Alestorm are pretty damn mediocre
- Goddamn the new Run The Jewels and Freddie Gibbs albums are straight-up badass
- They're different types of punk entirely but in both cases I forgot about how good 88 Fingers Louie and Mushroom Attack were
- Beck just gets more boring with each passing year
- "November Coming Fire" is the best Samhain album
- Just the notion of a new Pink Floyd album was awesome to hear about, but the fact that its possibly their most beautiful album as well just blows me away..."It's What We Do"
- I listened to a substantially greater amount of classical music this month than probably any other month of my entire life
- The new Run With The Hunted kills. So does the new Sharon Van Etten.
- I just don't get the appeal of Chiodos
- That had better be the worst album Heart ever made because if there's something worse I'd be flabbergasted
- The War On Drugs doesn't deserve as much hate as Mark Kozelek has been sending their way but they do sound a bit too much like The Arcade Fire to not raise an eyebrow on my end
- I was actually pleasantly surprised by that Azealia Banks album, especially the last couple songs
- "Take me home tonight, I don't wanna let you go until the feeling's right"
- "Pablo Honey" is hella underrated
- "Bossanova" is the best Pixies album and you're wrong if you disagree
- Tabu Ley Rochereau wrote over 3,000 songs and released over 250 albums during the course of his career...Thats some impressive shit right there
- That Paul Bowles album is some deep, deep shit...Haunting
Zines:
Finished 11/8/14: NiteGuide Magazine Issue 5: May 2010
Finished 11/24/14: UC Irvine Magazine Summer/Fall 2014
Zine Notes:
- Not only is that NiteGuide Magazine from 2010 hella outdated but it's also probably the worst-written magazine I've ever read in my entire life.
- It's bullshit that Barack Obama did the commencement speech for 2014 UCI grads and not for mine
Movies
11/27/14: "Horrible Bosses"
