This is a list of all the albums, EPs, demos, and singles that I listened to in their entirety during the month of January 2016, along with lists of the things I watched, things I read, and things I saw live during the same time period. Notes regarding all follow afterwards.
MUSIC
1/1/16
Megadeth - "Fatal Illusion" Japanese CD single
Hello Penelope - "Winona Ryder" b/w "Mother Mary" digital single
Blonde Redhead - "23"
1/3/16
The Ghost Inside - "Dear Youth"
CoolSide - "Freedom" digital single
Gorilla Biscuits - "Start Today"
1/4/16
Kendrick Lamar - "To Pimp A Butterfly"
1/5/16
Surfaced - "Shrines"
Counterblast - "Nothingness"
1349 - "Tornado" single-sided 7"
Joann Falletta & The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra - "The Mystic Trumpeter: Orchestral Fantasy After Walt Whitman" / "Forever Ten Million" / "Endymion's Narrative"
Willie Mitchell - "That Driving Beat" b/w "Secret Home" 7"
Cowboy Junkies - "The Caution Horses"
Set Your Goals - "This Will Be The Death Of Us"
1/6/16
Merchandise - "Children Of Desire"
The Flaming Lips - "At War With The Mystics"
Maw - "Uber Nano" digital single
Deftones - S/T
Lifetime - "Tinnitus" EP
Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band - "Outer South"
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - "Global-a-Go-Go"
Sixx:a.m. - "The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack"
Rachel Platten - "Wildfire"
Spacemen 3 - "The Perfect Prescription"
1/7/16
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Freaky Styley"
Bullet For My Valentine - "The Poison"
Escape The Fate - "There's No Sympathy For The Dead" EP
Tiger Army - "The Early Years" EP
The Nothing - "Scream n Cry" b/w "Uniformz" 7"
Foo Fighters - "There Is Nothing Left To Lose"
Beastie Boys - "Hello Nasty"
The Spores - "Meat Biproduct" EP
E. Town Concrete - "Time 2 Shine"
Taake - "Kulde"
Limerent Dance Machine - "Dream A Reason Why"
Nodes Of Ranvier - S/T
Snobb Slakt - "Anti-Disco" cassette
No Red Alice - "Ebony & Ivory" EP
Fetty Wap - S/T
1/8/16
Blonde Redhead - "Misery is a Butterfly"
Grimes - "Art Angels"
NOFX - "Punk in Drublic"
Alligatoah - "Musik Ist Keine Losung"
Blink 182 - "Cheshire Cat"
Dragonforce - "Maximum Overload"
Gossimer - "Across That White Plain (Remixes)"
Four Minute Mile - "Self Depriving // Cast Away" EP
Flag Of Democracy - "Love Songs" EP
Bayside - "The Walking Wounded"
At The Drive-In - "In/Casino/Out"
1/9/16
see through buildings - "applebee the cat & friends"
Converge - "You Fail Me"
Armored Saint - "Delirious Nomad"
Cannibal Corpse - "Butchered At Birth"
Agent Fresco - "Destrier"
The Carrier - "No Love Can Save Me" EP
Counting Days - "Liberated Sounds"
John Newman - "Revolve"
1/10/16
Rat Boy - "Sign On" b/w "Left 4 Dead" 7"
Seizure - "All Hail The Fucking System" EP
Crossfaith - "Xeno"
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - "Mini Album Thingy Wingy"
M A T H - "face up" digital single
Lifetime - "Background"
The Chili Banditos/Hit Me, Harold! - "Taco Cat" split EP
Bogsey & The Argonauts - "Skinned Knees"
Rammstein - "Reise Reise"
Lost Cause - "The World Is Yours" demo
Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova - "One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels" split EP
Seaons - "April Fool's" digital single
1/11/16
David Bowie - "Best Of Bowie"
Soul Power - Demo
Major Lazer - "Peace is the Mission"
1/13/16
Simon & Garfunkle - "The Essential"
Revision - Demo 2014
Logan Greene Electric - "Dead Formats" EP
Cruelty Code - "No Light" digital single
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - "A Joyful Noise" EP
Proletariat Youth - "Chin Check" EP
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Uplift Mofo Party Plan"
1/14/16
Aura Noir - "Black Thrash Attack"
Colombian Necktie - "Twilight Upon Us"
E. Town Concrete - "The Second Coming"
1/15/16
Gene Krupa & Buddy Rich - "Krupa and Rich"
The Vision Bleak - "Witching Hour"
1/16/16
Death Comes In 3s - Demo CD
Van der Graaf Generator - "Pawn Hearts"
Pollution People - "Future Trash" EP
Midnight Parade - "Living Room" demo
Snobb Slakt - S/T EP
Dark Haven - "Your Darkest Hour" EP
Odesza - "Summer's Gone"
Reel Biog Fish - "Turn The Radio Off"
Mumford & Sons - "Wilder Mind"
1/18/16
The Twilight Singers - "Twilight as Played by The Twilight Singers"
Suicide Machines - "A Match & Some Gasoline"
Skunk Anansie - "Anarchytecture"
Blood Has Been Shed - "Novella of Uriel"
Life Or Death - 2-song promo CD
Mudvayne - "Lost and Found"
Ghost Noise - "This Is The Next Part Of Your Dream"
Astral Projection - "Dancing Galaxy"
Killswitch Engage - "As Daylight Dies"
1/19/16
Youth Of Today - "Can't Close My Eyes" EP
Deeds Of Flesh - "Gradually Melted" EP
Suicidal Tendencies - "The Art Of Rebellion"
1/20/16
Morphine - "Cure For Pain"
Best Coast - "California Nights"
The Toy Dolls - "Dig That Groove Baby"
Capitol Punishment - 1982 Demo
Northlane - "Singularity"
Heaven Shall Burn - "AntiGone"
1/21/16
The Pocket Rockets - S/T EP
Appollonia - "Dull Parade"
Enslaved - "Eld"
Saosin - "Translating The Name" EP
1/22/16
Akira Takasaki - "Ki"
Shojo Winter - "Somewhere Else" EP
1/23/16
Mogwai - "Rock Action"
Adriatique - "Playground" EP
1/24/16
Gai - "Extermination" EP
Obituary - "Cause Of Death"
1/25/16
The Buzzcocks - "Singles Going Steady"
Set Your Anchor - "Regret" digital single
Fort Hope - "Courage"
Parov Stelar - "The Demon Diaries"
Slaves - "Hey" EP
Eagles Of Death Metal - "Heart On"
Motive - "Demigodz present: Mo-Linium: The Takeover Begins"
The Black Angels - "Passover"
Trial (SF) - S/T EP
Wreckage - "This Cunt Fucked My Late Husband" EP
1/26/16
Korn - "Follow The Leader"
Jamie xx - "In Colour"
CoolSide - "Own The Zone" EP
The Avalanches - "Since I Left You"
Stevie Wonder - "Innervisions"
The Chainsmokers - "Bouquet" EP
1/27/16
The Commodores - "Anthology" Disc 2
Merit - "The End Of Everything" EP
OCD - "OCD2" EP
Bassnectar - "Cozza Frenzy"
1/28/15
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "Requiem in D Minor"
Bliksem - "Face The Evil"
Deeds Of Flesh - "Trading Pieces"
Capitol Punishment - S/T EP
Pete Seeger - "If I Had A Hammer: Songs Of Hope and Struggle"
1/29/16
Negative Approach - S/T EP
The Hurt Process - "Drive By Monologue"
Mogwai - "Happy Music For Happy People"
Vanna - "Curses"
1/30/16
Avi Zahner - Summer 2009 CD-R
Atreyu - "A Death-Grip On Yesterday"
Dying Regret - 2-song demo CD
Slayer - "Divine Intervention"
Bloodhound Gang - "Hooray For Boobies!"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
Ground Up - 4-song 2008 demo
1/31/16
Roni Size/Reprazent - "New Forms" Disc 1
The Mars Volta - "Live" EP
The Oculist - "Principles"
Calavera - "Resurrect The Dead, Celebrate The Living: The First 10 Years 1996-2006"
Corp D - 4-song demo CD
MUSIC NOTES
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Surfaced, Fetty Wap, Agent Fresco, Proletariat Youth, Appollonia, Akira Takasaki, OCD
- Holy shit I forgot how much of a fuckin banger "Hello Nasty" is from start to finish
- "My [homies] make their money just to spend it, cuz when you die you cannot take it with you."
- New albums by Fetty Wap, Grimes, Gossimer, Merit
- Man I forgot how badass "In/Casino/Out" was...absolute gold
- I did a review for that see through buildings album that was ambivalent at best, and the dude Ben who makes the music for the project decided to use my text as the cover art for his album, which is both flabbergasting and flattering...check it out here http://youshouldneverhaveopenedthatdoor.blogspot.com/2016/01/album-review-see-through-buildings.html
- Worst of the month: John Newman
- Rest In Peace David Bowie
- "Pretty girls, pretty boys, have you ever heard your mother say, Noise Annoys?"
- Yeesh that Bloodhound Gang album is atrocious
LIVE
1/2/16: The Coltranes/Pilgrims/Shojo Winter/(The Gravitys) @ The Dial
1/9/16: Little George @ Luke's
Old Skool Rocks @ Public House
1/11/16: Lost Cause/New Gods/Misery Ritual @ The Dial
1/30/16: Shojo Winter/M A T H/Cruelty Code/Wreckage & Black Cat @ The Dial
LIVE NOTES
- That was a great way to start the year, even if it was a fairly sloppy set even by Gravitys standards..."May all acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind"....
- Both those cover bands we saw in Old Town on the 9th played "Sweet Child O Mine" and neither of the singers came even close to hitting that ending wail "sweet chiieyieyieyiehald of miiiyeeiian"
- Interviews with Lost Cause, Misery Ritual, Wreckage, and Black Cat all coming soon
MOVIES/SHOWS
1/5/16: "Dead Hands Dig Deep"
1/7/16: "Ant-Man"
1/9/16: "Dead Hands Dig Deep"
1/13/16: "sex, lies, and videotape"
1/18/16: "Lord of the Flies"
1/25/16: FINISHED "24 Hour Party People"
1/26/16: "The Last House On The Left"
1/28/16: FINISHED "Metropolis"
1/29/16: "Ted 2"
1/30/16: "Stevie Nicks Live At Red Rocks"
1/31/16: "Irrational Man"
MOVIE/SHOW NOTES
- I thought "Ant-Man" was gonna be ridiculous in the worst way possible but it was actually ridiculous in a very cool way; Very enjoyable.
- I wrote a retrospective about my late friend Dustin because of how "24 Hour Party People" depicted Ian Curtis...check it out here if you want. Not fun stuff. http://youshouldneverhaveopenedthatdoor.blogspot.com/2016/01/good-show-reflections-on-dustin-marine.html
- Wow "Metropolis" truly is a work of art, a silent movie more interesting all the way through than half of the more entertainment pieces I watch
- "Ted 2" is like an extended commercial for a bunch of shitty media products and it's like not even funny
- That Stevie Nicks live performance LOOKS like cocaine
- I'm gonna have to re-watch "Irrational Man" cuz I fell asleep towards the end and then woke back up during the final scene so its all kind-of a blur
BOOKS
1/20/16: J.G. Ballard: Conversations edited by V. Vale
BOOK NOTES
- Maybe J.G. Ballard's thoughts were forward-thinking in the 70s or something but they are laughably, almost offensively behind the times now. Fool doesn't understand the Internet and multiple times basically defends pedophilia. Sorry, nerds, but just cuz he wrote some cool sci-fi back in the day doesn't mean he's not a fucking dipshit.
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