Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Tue. #5/Dirty Mind


Dirty Mind by Prince
Released: October 8, 1980

Rating: 81%

1. Dirty Mind*
2. When You Were Mine*
3. Do It All Night
4. Gotta Broken Heart Again
5. Uptown*
6. Head
7. Sister
8. Partyup*

Monday, January 30, 2012

Born to Die


Born to Die by Lana Del Rey
Released: January 27, 2012

Rating: 67%

1. Born to Die*
2. Off to the Races
3. Blue Jeans*
4. Video Games*
5. Diet Mountain Dew
6. National Anthem*
7. Dark Paradise
8. Radio
9. Carmen
10. Million Dollar Man
11. Summertime Sadness*
12. This is What Makes Us Girls

Mon. #5/Monkeytown


Monkeytown by Modeselektor
Released: October 11, 2011

Rating: 80%

1. Blue Clouds*
2. Pretentious People
3. Shipwreck
4. Evil Twin*
5. German Clap*
6. Berlin*
7. Grillwalker
8. Green Light Go
9. Humanized*
10. This
11. War Cry

Mon. #5/Happy Birthday!


Happy Birthday! by Modeselektor
Released: September 10, 2007

Rating: 76%

1. Happy Birthday
2. Godspeed
3. 2000007*
4. Let Your Love Grow*
5. Em Ocean
6. Sucker Pin
7. Edgar
8. Hyper Hyper*
9. BMI
10. The Dark Side of the Frog
11. The Dark Side of the Sun*
12. Deboutonner
13. The Black Block
14. The First Re-Birth
15. The White Flash*
16. Late Check-Out
17. The Wedding Toccata Theme
18. (I Can't Sleep) Without Music

Mon. #5/Hello Mom!


Hello Mom! by Modeselektor
Released: October 11, 2005

Rating: 81%

1. Dancingbox
2. Die Clubnummer*
3. Tetrispack
4. The Rapanthem
5. Kill Bill Vol. 4*
6. Ziq Zaq
7. Vote or Die
8. Earth (UPS Edit)
9. Fake Emotion*
10. In Loving Memory
11. Hasir*
12. Silikon
13. I Love You*

Mon. #5/Nehru Jackets


Nehru Jackets mixtape by Himanshu
Released: January 2012

Rating: 69%

1. Thug Handles
2. Bad, Bad, Bad
3. Allen Gonzalez*
4. Nehru Jackets Interlude
5. Choorhay Late
6. SWAYE*
7. NYC Cops
8. You Have to Ride the Wave
9. Mike Finito Raps Too
10. Womyn
11. Bangles
12. Ravi Shankar PSA
13. It's the Drugs I'm Needing*
14. Coca Cola Freestyle
15. Chakklo
16. Jason Bourne
17. Desi Shoegaze Taiko
18. I Want It Bad (Liquid Heart)
19. Juveniles Detained at Guatanamo Bay
20. Kate Boosh*
21. What Do I Do When I'm Alone
22. Computers
23. Yo What's Good from New York
24. Womyn 2*
25. Tu Nach

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Sun. #5/If'n


If'n by fIREHOSE
Released: 1987

Rating: 83%

1. Sometimes*
2. Hear Me
3. Honey, Please*
4. Backroads
5. From One Cums One
6. Make the Freeway*
7. Anger
8. For the Singer of R.E.M.*
9. Operation: Solitaire
10. Windmilling
11. Me, You, Remembering*
12. In Memory of Elizabeth Cotton
13. Soon
14. Thunder Child

Sun. #5/Sleep Through the Static


Sleep Through the Static by Jack Johnson
Released: February 1, 2008

Rating: 77%

1. All at Once
2. Sleep Through the Static*
3. Hope
4. Angel
5. Enemy*
6. If I Had Eyes*
7. Same Girl
8, What You Thought You Need
9. A Drift
10. Go On*
11. They Do, They Don't*
12. While We Wait
13. Monsoon
14. Losing Keys

Sun. #5/On and On


On and On by Jack Johnson
Released: May 6, 2003

Rating: 83%

1. Times Like These*
2. The Horizon Has Been Defeated
3. Traffic in the Sky
4. Taylor*
5. Gone*
6. Cupid
7. Wasting Time
8. Holes to Heaven
9. Dreams Be Dreams
10. Tomorrow Morning*
11. Fall Line*
12. Cookie Jar
13. Rodeo Clowns
14. Cocoon
15. Mediocre Bad Guys
16. Symbol in My Driveway

Sun. #5/Brushfire Fairytales


Brushfire Fairytales by Jack Johnson
Released: February 1, 2001

Rating: 80%

1. Inaudible Melodies
2. Middle Man*
3. Posters
4. Sexy Plexi
5. Flake*
6. Bubble Toes
7. Fortune Fool
8. The News*
9. Drink the Water*
10. Mudfootball (for Moe Lemer)
11. F-Stop Blues
12. Losing Hope
13. It's All Understood*

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Thu. #4/The Rip Tide


The Rip Tide by Beirut
Released: August 2, 2011

Rating: 81%

1. A Candle's Fire*
2. Santa Fe*
3. East Harlem
4. Goshen*
5. Payne's Bay*
6. The Rip Tide
7. Vagabond
8. The Peacock
9. Port of Call

Thu. #4/The Flying Club Cup


The Flying Club Cup by Beirut
Released: October 9, 2007

Rating: 80%

1. A Call to Arms
2. Nantes*
3. A Sunday Smile
4. Guyamas Sonora*
5. La Banlieue
6. Cliquot*
7. The Penalty
8. Forks and Knives (La Fête)
9. In the Mausoleum*
10. Un Dernier Verre (Pour la Route)
11. Cherbourg*
12. St. Apollonia
13. The Flying Club Cup

Thu. #4/Vodka & Ayahuasca


Vodka & Ayahuasca by Gangrene
Released: January 24, 2012

Rating: 75%

1. Intro (The Mixings)
2. Gladiator Music*
3. Flame Throwers
4. Drink It Up
5. Auralac Bags
6. Vodka & Ayahuasca
7. Dump Trucks*
8. Due Work*
9. Odds Cracked
10. Top Instructors
11. Dark Shades*
12. The Groove
13. Livers for Sale
14. Outro (The Downsides)

Thu. #4/5: Five Years of Hyperdub


5: Five Years of Hyperdub by Various Artists
Released: October 5, 2009
"Unreleased and influential collection of the Hyperdub label"

Rating: 84%

Disc one
1. Meltdown - King Midas Sound
2. Time Patrol - Kode9 & Spaceape*
3. Aidy Girl's a Computer - Darkstar
4. Roller Skates* - Samiyam
5. Disco Balls* - Flying Lotus
6. Purple Smoke - Black Chow
7. Fostercare - Burial
8. Weekend Fly - Cooly G
9. Tarantula - Zomby
10. Mega Drive Generation - Martyn
11. Turn Away - LV*
12. Level Nine - Mala
13. Shake It - LD
14. Bleeps from Outerspace - Quarta 330
15. Sahara Michael - Ikonika
16. Stash* - Joker & Ginz

Disc two
1. 9 Samurai - Kode9
2. South London Boroughs* - Burial
3. Bad - Kode 9 & LD
4. Money Honey (Remix) - The Bug
5. Globetrotting (Erol Bellot) - LV
6. Distant Lights* - Burial
7. Ghost Town - Kode9 & Spaceape
8. Fukkaz - Kode9 & Spaceape
9. Return* - Samiyam
10. Need You* - Darkstar
11. Spliff Dub - Zomby
12. Please - Ikonika
13. Kaliko - Zomby
14. You Don't Know What Love Is - 2000F & J Kamata
15. Digidesign* - Joker
16. 9 Samurai (Quarta 330 Remix) - Kode9

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Wed. #4/Humbug


Humbug by Arctic Monkeys
Released: August 19, 2006

Rating: 72%

1. My Propellers
2. Crying Lightning
3. Dangerous Animals
4. Secret Door
5. Potion Approaching
6. Fire and Thud*
7. Cornerstone*
8. Dance Little Liar*
9. Pretty Visitors*
10. The Jeweller's Hands

Wed. #4/Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not


Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not by Arctic Monkeys
Released: January 23, 2006

Rating: 78%

1. The View from the Afternoon*
2. I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor*
3. Fake Tales of San Francisco
4. Dancing Shoes
5. You Probably Couldn't See for the Lights but You Were Staring Straights at Me
6. Still Take You Home
7. Riot Van*
8. Red Light Indicates Doors are Secured
9. Mardy Bum*
10. Perhaps Vampire is a Bit Strong But...
11. When the Sun Goes Down*
12. From the Ritz to the Bubble
13. A Certain Romance

Wed. #4/Something


Something by Chairlift
Released: January 24, 2012

Rating: 85%

1. Sidewalk Safari
2. Wrong Opinion
3. I Belong in Your Arms*
4. Take It Out on Me*
5. Ghost Tonight
6. Cool as Fire
7. Amanaemonesia*
8. Met Before*
9. Frigid Spring
10. Turning
11. Guilty as Charge

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Tue. #4/Dark Was the Night


Dark Was the Night by Various Artists
Released: February 16, 2009
"Compilation release for the benefit of the Red  Hot Organization."

Rating: 83%

This disc
1. Knotty Pine - Dirty Projectors & David Byrne
2. Cello Song - The Books
3. Train Song* - Feist & Ben Gibbard
4. Bracket, WI* - Bon Iver
5. Deep Blue Sea - Grizzly Bear
6. So Far Around the Bend* - The National
7. Tightrope - Yeasayer
8. Feeling Good* - My Brighest Diamond
9. Dark Was the Night - Kronos Quartet
10. I Was Young When I Left Home - Antony with Bryce Descener
11. Big Red Machine - Justin Vernon & Aaron Dessner
12. Sleepless - The Decemberists
13. Stolen Houses (Die) - Iron & Wine
14. Service Bell - Grizzly Bear & Feist
15. You are the Blood* - Sufjan Stevens

That disc
1. Well-Alright - Spoon
2. Lenin - Arcade Fire
3. Mimizan* - Beirut
4. El Corporal - My Morning Jacket
5. Inspiration Information - Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
6. With a Girl Like You* - Dave Sitek
7. Blood, Pt. 2 - Buck 65
8. Hey, Snow White* - The New Pornographers
9. Gentle Hour - Yo La Tengo
10. Another Saturday - Stuart Murdoch
11. Happiness - Riceboy Sleeps
12. Amazing Grace - Cat Power & Dirty Delta Blues
13. The Giant of Illinois* - Andrew Bird
14. Lua - Conor Oberst & Gillian Welch
15. When the Road Runs Out - Blonde Redhead  & Devastations
16. Love vs Porn - Kevin Drew

Tue. #4/Sawblade


Sawblade EP by Gangrene
Released: November 2, 2010

Rating: 74%

1. The Sickness*
2. Operation Room*
3. Freshest Rhymes
4. Overdose
5. The Sickness (Instrumental)
6. Operation Room (Insturmental)
7. Freshest Rhymes (Instrumental)
8. Overdose (Instrumental)

Tue. #4/Attack on Memory


Attack on Memory by Cloud Nothings
Released: January 24, 2012

Rating: 86%

1. No Future/No Past*
2. Wasted Days*
3. Fall In*
4. Stay Useless*
5. Separation
6. No Sentiment
7. Our Plans
8. Cut You

Monday, January 23, 2012

Mon. #3/Night Drive


Night Drive by Chromatics
Released: 2007

Rating: 76%

1. The Telephone Call
2. Night Drive*
3. I Want Your Love
4. Running Up That Hill
5. The Killing Spree*
6. Healer*
7. Mask
8. Tomorrow is So Far Away
9. Let's Make This a Moment to Remember*
10. Tick of the Clock*

Mon. #4/Physical Graffiti


Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin
Released: February 24, 1975

Rating: 88%

Disc one

1. Custard Pie*
2. The Rover
3. In My Time of Dying
4. Houses of the Holy*
5. Trampled Under Foot
6. Kashmir*

Disc two
1. In the Light*
2. Bron-Yr-Aur
3. Down by the Seaside
4. Ten Years Gone*
5. Night Flight*
6. The Wanton Song
7. Boogie with Lu
8. Black Country Woman
9. Sick Again

Mon. #4/A Very She & Him Christmas


A Very She & Him Christmas by She & Him
Released: October 24, 2011

Rating: 58%

1. The Christmas Waltz
2. Christmas Day
3. Have Yourself a Merry Christmas
4. I'll Be Home for Christmas
5. Christmas Wish
6. Sleigh Ride
7. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
8. Silver Bells
9. Baby, It's Cold Outside
10. Blue Christmas
11. Little Saint Nick
12. The Christmas Song

Mon. #4/The Dreamer/The Believer


The Dreamer/The Believer by Common
Released: December 20, 2011

Rating: 86%

1. The Dreamer*
2. Ghetto Dreams*
3. Blue Sky
4. Sweet*
5. Gold
6. Lovin' I Lost
7. Raw (How You Like It)*
8. Cloth
9. Celebrate
10. Windows*
11. The Believer
12. Pops Belief

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Sun. #4/Gulag Orkestar


Gulag Orkestar by Beirut
Released: May 9, 2006

Rating: 85%

1. The Gulag Orkestar
2. Prenzlauerberg*
3. Brandenburg*
4. Postcards from Italy*
5. Mount Wroclai (Idle Days)
6. Rhineland (Heartland)
7. Scenic World*
8. Bratislava
9. The Bunker
10. The Canals of Our City
11. After the Curtain

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Sat. #3/El Camino


El Camino by The Black Keys
Released: December 6, 2011

Rating: 77%

1. Lonely Boy*
2. Dead and Gone*
3. Gold on the Ceiling
4. Little Black Submarines*
5. Money Maker*
6. Run Right Back
7. Sister
8. Hell of a Season
9. Stop Stop
10. Nova Baby
11. Mind Eraser*

Sat. #3/Magic Potion


Magic Potion by The Black Keys
Released: September 12, 2006

Rating: 70%

1. Just Got to Be
2. Your Touch
3. You're the One
4. Just a Little Heat*
5. Give Your Heart Away*
6. Strange Desire
7. Modern Times*
8. The Flame*
9. Goodbye Babylon
10. Black Door
11. Elevator

Sat. #3/Rubber Factory


Rubber Factory by The Black Keys
Released: September 7, 2004

Rating: 77%

1. When the Lights Go Out
2. 10 A.M. Automatic
3. Just Couldn't Tie Me Down*
4. All Hands Against His Own*
5. The Desperate Man
6. Girl is on My Mind*
7. The Lengths
8. Grown So Ugly
9. Stack Shot Bully*
10. Act Nice and Gentle*
11. Aeroplane Blues
12. Keep Me
13. Till I Get My Way

Sat. #3/Thickfreakness


Thickfreakness by The Black Keys
Released: April 8, 2003

Rating: 75%

1. Thickfreakness
2. Hard Row
3. Set You Free*
4. Midnight in Her Eyes*
5. Hard Love Will Travel
6. Hurt Like Mine
7. Everywhere I Go*
8. No Trust
9. If You See Me*
10. Hold Me in Your Arms
11. I Cry Alone

Sat. #3/The Big Come Up


The Big Come Up by The Black Keys
Released: May 20, 2002

Rating: 73%

1. Busted*
2. Do the Rump
3. I'll Be Your Man*
4. Countdown
5. The Breaks
6. Run Me Down
7. Leavin' Trunk*
8. Heavy Soul
9. She Said, She Said*
10. Them Eyes
11. Yearnin'
12. Brooklyn Bound*
13. 240 Years Before Your Time

Friday, January 20, 2012

Fri! #3/The Head and the Heart


The Head and the Heart by The Head and the Heart
Released: April 19, 2011

Rating: 68%

1. Cats and Dogs
2. Coeur D'Alene*
3. Ghosts*
4. Down in the Valley
5. Rivers and Roads*
6. Honey Come Home
7. Lost in My Mind
8. Winter Song
9. Sounds Like Hallelujah*
10. Heaven Go Easy on Me

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Thu. #3/All Things Must Pass


All Things Must Pass by George Harrison
Released: November 27, 1970

Rating: 93%

Disc one
1. I'd Have You Anytime
2. My Sweet Lord*
3. Wah-Wah
4. Isn't It a Pity (Version One)*
5. What is Life*
6. If Not for You
7. Behind that Locked Door
8. Let It Down*
9. Run of the Mill

Disc two
1. Beware of Darkness*
2. Apple Scruffs
3. Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)
4. Awaiting on You All*
5. All Things Must Pass*
6. I Dig Love
7. Art of Dying*
8. Isn't It a Pity (Version Two)
9. Hear Me Lord

Disc three (Apple Jam)
1. Out of the Blue*
2. It's Johnny's Birthday
3. Plug Me In*
4. I Remember Jeep
5. Thanks for the Pepperoni

Habits & Contradictions


Habits & Contradictions by ScHoolboy Q
Released: January 14, 2012

Rating: 82%


1. Sacrilegious
2. There He Go*
3. Hands on the Wheel*
4. Sex Drive
5. Oxy Music
6. My Hatin' Joint*
7. Tookie Knows (Interlude)
8. Raymond 1969
9. Sexting
10. Grooveline Pt. 1*
11. Gangsta in Designer (Concept)
12. How We Feeling
13. Druggys with Hoes Again*
14. Nightmare on Fig St.
15. My Homie
16. Blessed
17. niggaHs.already.know.davers.flow

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Wed. #1600/Gimme Fiction


Gimme Fiction by Spoon
Released: May 10, 2005

Rating: 76%

1. The Beast and Dragon, Adored
2. The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine*
3. I Turn My Camera On
4. My Mathematical Mind*
5. The Delicate Place
6. Sister Jack*
7. I Summon You*
8. The Infinite Pet
9. Was It You?
10. They Never Got You
11. Merchants of Soul

Wed. #3/Girls Can Tell


Girls Can Tell by Spoon
Released: February 20, 2001

Rating: 78%

1. Everything Hits at Once*
2. Believing is Art
3. Me and the Bean
4. Lines in the Suit*
5. The Fitted Shirt*
6. Anything You Want
7. Take a Walk
8. 10:20 AM
9. Take the Fifth*
10. This Book is a Movie
11. Chicago at Night

Wed. #3/A Series of Sneaks


A Series of Sneaks by Spoon
Released: 1998

Rating: 73%

1. Utilitarian
2. The Minor Tough*
3. The Guestlist/The Execution
4. Reservations*
5. 30 Gallon Tank
6. Car Radio*
7. Metal Detektor
8. June's Foreign Spell
9. Chloroform*
10. Metal School
11. Staring at the Board
12. No You're Not
13. Quincy Punk Episode
14. Advance Cassette*

Wed. #3/Telephono


Telephono by Spoon
Released: 1996

Rating: 73%

1. Don't Buy the Realistic
2. Not Turning Off
3. All the Negatives Have Been Destroyed
4. Cvantez
5. Nefarious*
6. Claws Tracking
7. Dismember*
8. Idiot Driver*
9. Towner
10. Wanted to Be You
11. Theme to Wendel Stivers
12. Primary
13. The Govenment Darling*
14. Plastic Mylar*

Wed. #3/Rich Forever


Rich Forever mixtape by Rick Ross
Released: January 6, 2012

Rating: 82%

1. Holy Ghost
2. High Definition
3. MMG Untouchable*
4. Yellow Diamonds
5. Fuck Em*
6. London Skit
7. Rich Forever
8. Triple Beam Dreams*
9. Mine Games
10. New Bugatti
11. Keys to the Crib
12. Last Breath
13. I Swear to God
14. Off the Boat*
15. King of Diamonds
16. Ring Ring
17. MMG The World is Ours
18. Party Heart*
19. Stay Schemin'*

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Tue. #3/How Strange, Innocence


How Strange, Innocence by Explosions in the Sky
Released: January 17, 2000

Rating: 82%

1. A Song for Our Fathers*
2. Snow and Lights
3. Magic Hour*
4. Look into the Air
5. Glittering Blackness*
6. Time Stops
7. Remember Me as a Time of Day

Monday, January 16, 2012

Mon. #3/The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo


The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
Released: December 9, 2011

Rating: 68%

Disc one
1. Immigrant Song
2. She Reminds Me of You
3. People Lie All the Time
4. Pinned and Mounted
5. Perihelion
6. What If We Could?
7. With the Flies
8. Hidden in the Snow
9. A Thousand Details
10. One Particular Moment
11. I Can't Take It Anymore
12. How Brittle the Bones
13. Please Take Your Hand Away

Disc two
1. Cut Into Pieces
2. The Splinter
3. An Itch
4. Hypomania
5. Under the Midnight Sun
6. Aphelion
7. You're Here
8. The Same as Others
9. A Pause for Reflection
10. While Waiting
11. The Seconds Drag
12. Later into the Night
13. Parallel Timeline with Alternate Outcome

Disc three
1. Another Way of Caring
2. A Viable Construct
3. Revealed in the Thaw
4. Millennia
5. We Could Wait Forever
6. Oraculum
7. Great Bird of Prey
8. The Heretics
9. A Pair of Doves
10. Infiltrator
11. The Sound of Forgetting
12. Of Secrets
13. Is Your Love Strong Enough?

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Sun. #3/#1 Record


#1 Record by Big Star
Released: April 1972

Rating: 87%

1. Feel*
2. The Ballad of El Guocho
3. In the Street*
4. Thirteen*
5. Don't Lie to Me
6. The India Song
7. When My Baby's Beside Me
8. My Life is Right*
9. Give Me Another Chance
10. Try Again
11. Watch the Sunrise
12. ST 100/6

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Sun. #2/There's a Riot Goin' On


There's a Riot Goin' On by Sly & The Family Stone
Released: November 20, 1971

Rating: 92%

1. Luv'n Height*
2. Just Like a Baby
3. Poet*
4. Family Affair
5. Africa Talks to You ("The Asphalt Jungle")*
6. There's a Riot Goin' On
7. Brave & Strong*
8. (You Caught Me) Smilin'*
9. Time
10. Spaced Cowboy
11. Runnin' Away
12. Thank You for Talkin' to Me Africa

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Tue. #1/Unexpected Victory


Unexpected Victory mixtape by Raekwon
Released: January 2nd, 2012

Rating: 75%

1. Intro
2. Just a Toast*
3. The Brewery
4. Goodfellas
5. Silk*
6. That Good Good
7. Luxury Rap*
8. Chinese Marines
9. This Shit Hard
10. Soldier Story
11. MTV Cribs
12. A Few Good Men
13. Chupa Cabra
14. Facetime
15. Gangsta Cazals*
16. Black Dust*

Monday, January 2, 2012

Mon. #1/Coming on Strong


Coming on Strong by Hot Chip
Released: May 24, 2004

Rating: 85%

1. Take Care
2. The Beach Party*
3. Keep Fallin'*
4. Playboy
5. Crapt Kraft Dinner*
6. Down with Prince*
7. Bad Luck
8. You Ride, We Ride in My Ride
9. Shining Escalade
10. Baby Said
11. One One One