[^Liquor Store, breakin' shit.]
I was pretty sure that I was just going to not post on this blog anymore, but face it, I'm a sucker for a good list.
I'll try to have my "Best Albums of 2011" list up sometime next week.
Enjoy.
[Note / EDIT: a few careless omissions have this up to 52 songs and growing. And even though I really like the new Metallica EP, none of those songs are on here because I need to listen to it a few more times to sort all of the riffs out. Don't worry, I doubt Lars is losing any sleep due to being left off this list.]
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1.) Liquor Store - "Proud to Be an American Man"
Liquor Store, a/k/a "the only NYC-area band that actually matters now that Parts and Labor are done," have been using this song as the raucous closer to their gloriously slovenly live sets for literally years now. And although Liquor Store's debut album, Yeah Buddy, ranks high on my year-end best-of album list (should have that up sometime this week), the album version of "...American Man" is kinda flat, not gonna lie. So instead, here's the best version that I could find, from their July 31, 2011 show at Shea Stadium in Brooklyn. Enjoy. [Listen closely for some mangled Stevie Wonder.]
[Also, you can listen to the entire set from which this song was drawn in Shea Stadium's live recordings archive, here.]
Proud to Be an American Man by Tuddd
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2.) Parts and Labor - "Hurricane"
Parts and Labor - "Hurricane" by Tuddd
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3.) BOAT - "Bite My Lips"
BOAT - "Bite My Lips" by Tuddd
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4.) Dum Dum Girls - "Bedroom Eyes"
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5.) Cheeseburger - "Roll Like That"
Cheeseburger - "Roll Like That" by Tuddd
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6.) The Raveonettes - "Apparitions"
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7.) Cheeseburger - "Winner"
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8.) The Raveonettes - "Recharge and Revolt"
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9.) Boston Spaceships - "No Steamboats"
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10.) Radiohead - "Codex"
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11.) Liquor Store - "Banned from the Block"
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12.) Parts and Labor - "Skin and Bones"
Parts and Labor - "Skin And Bones" by Tuddd
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13.) Russian Circles - "Mladek"
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14.) Mogwai - "Hound of Winter"
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15.) Cheeseburger - "Jelly Bean"
[Again, I'm sort of cheating here... this version of Jelly Bean is from an EP they recorded to accompany a Vice-sponsored tour a couple years ago.]
Cheeseburger - "Jelly Bean" by Tuddd
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16.) Parts and Labor - "A Thousand Roads"
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17.) The Raveonettes - "Oh Stranger"
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18.) Mogwai - "Death Rays"
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19.) BOAT - "Forever in Armitron"
BOAT - "Forever in Armitron" by Tuddd
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20.) Kurt Vile - "Baby's Arms"
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21.) White Denim - "At the Farm"
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22.) Danava - "The Last Goodbye"
Danava - "The Last Goodbye" by Tuddd
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23.) Tapes 'N Tapes - "Badaboom"
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24.) Liturgy - "Generation"
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25.) The People's Temple - "Sons of Stone
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26.) Gang Gang Dance - "Mindkilla"
27.) Battles - "Ice Cream"
28.) Liquor Store - "Commando"
29.) Big Business - "Always Never Know When to Quit"
30.) Surfer Blood - "Voyager Reprise"
31.) The Raveonettes - "Evil Seeds"
32.) Gang Gang Dance - "Through and Through"
33.) The Raveonettes - "War in Heaven"
34.) John Maus - "Believer"
35.) White Denim - "Street Joy"
36.) Tapes N' Tapes - "The People You Know"
37.) Washed Out - "Amor Fati"
38.) Colin Stetson - "Red Horse (Judges II)"
39.) The Raveonettes - "Evil Seeds"
40.) Tapes N' Tapes - "Freak Out"
41.) Gang Gang Dance - "Glass Jar"
42.) Radiohead - "Supercollider"
43.) The Raveonettes - "Summer Moon"
44.) Liquor Store - "Showdown at Wookie Lake"
45.) Surfer Blood - Miranda
46.) Radiohead - "Lotus Flower"
47.) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "Even in Dreams"
48.) Kurt Vile - "The Runner Ups"
49.) Parts and Labor - "Fake Names"
50.) Mogwai - "Drunk and Crazy"
51.) Mark Sultan - "Keep 'em Satisfied pt. 2"
52.) Beastie Boys - "Say It"
