Go Fuck A Robot 2012

Please to enjoy this ten track playlist, curated by me, for all of your robot seduction and digital romance needs:

 

Go Fuck A Robot 2012 from jeff.nielsen1 on 8tracks Radio.

Top Eleven Of 2011

After much consideration, here are my top eleven albums (which is not to say songs) of the year, and YES, i AM aware how WHITE i am:

1. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy





2. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming



3. Destroyer - Kaputt




4. Washed Out - Within And Without


5. Bon Iver - Bon Iver



6. Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams



7. Real Estate - Days



8. Tune-Yards - Whokill



9. Tom Waits - Bad As Me



10. Tennis - Cape Dory



11. now here is where i cheat, because i don't understand how to choose between Wye Oak's Civilian and Atlas Sound's Parallax and White Denim's D and James Blake's self titled album and i STILL haven't even listened to PJ Harvey's Let England Shake.

so:

here's the video for the runaway song of the summer 2011 and let's just pretend all of the above albums shared that 11 spot.

10 Great Boring Things

1. Moby Dick (1851)



2. Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)



3. The Byzantine Empire (ca. 324 - 1453 C.E.)

4. Gustav Mahler's 5th Symphony (1904)



5. The Paintings of Mark Rothko

6. Vanilla



7. Helvetica

8.  Paradise Lost (1667)



9. Antarctica



10. Bread

Top Ten of Aught Ten

1. Janelle Monae The Archandroid

Janelle Monae "Tightrope" (from Letterman)

2. Arcade Fire The Suburbs

Arcade Fire "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)"

3. Kanye West My Beautiful Dark twisted Fantasy

Kanye West "Power"

4. Beach House Teen Dream

Beach House "Walk in the Park" (from Pitchfork)

5. The National High Violet

The National "England" (from the Brooklyn Academy of Music)

6. Vampire Weekend Contra

Vampire Weekend "Giving Up the Gun"

7. Joanna Newsom Have One On Me

Joanna Newsom "Soft as Chalk" (on Fallon)

8. Wild Nothing Gemini

Wild Nothing "Chinatown"

9. Sleigh Bells Treats

Sleigh Bells "Rill Rill"

10. Twin Shadow Forget

Twin Shadow "Slow" (from 4AD)

And, Honorable Mention (because I am bad at editing or counting or both):

The Black Keys Brothers

The Black Keys "Tighten Up" (from Letterman)

My Favorite Albums of 2009

1. Grizzly Bear Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear "Ready, Able" (from Letterman)

2. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective "My Girls"

3. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Phoenix "1901"

4. The XX xx

The XX "VCR"

5. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors "Stillness is the Move"

6. Neon Indian Psychic Chasms

Neon Indian "6669 (I Don't Know If You Know)" (unofficial video)

7. Washed Out Life of Leisure

Washed Out "Feel it All Around" (unofficial video)

8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Zero" (from Letterman)

9. jj No. 2

jj "From Africa to Malaga" (no video available)

10. Neko Case Middle Cyclone

Neko Case "People Got a Lotta Nerve"

And, because I always have one I feel guilty for leaving off, my 2009 alternate:

Yo La Tengo Popular Songs

Yo La Tengo "Sugarcube" and "Periodically Double or Triple" (from La Blogotheque)

Top 5 Albums of 2008

1. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago


2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes/Sun Giant EP


3. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend


4. TV on the Radio - Dear Science


5. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer

The War for Best Album of 2008 begins (in Paris)

#93.6 BON IVER - Skinny Love
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