Lunchtime Flashback

Favorite Songs Of 2009

Here it is my first end of the year post for 2009. I guess this year I was feeling more poppy and dance oriented stuff form the phoenix's 1901 to The Yeah Yeah Yeahs more synthesised sounds. If I had to guess I would say this had to do with a more positve outlook based on the end of the Bush years and election of Obama.

1) Phoenix - 1901

2) Animal Collective - My Girls

3) Bat For Lashes - Daniel

4) The Big Pink - Dominoes

5) Girls - Hellhole Ratrace

6) Grizzly Bear Two Weeks

7) The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Young Adult Friction

8) The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero

9) Passion Pit - The Reeling

10) The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea

11) Mos Def - The Ecstatic

12) Metric - Help I'm Alive

13) Dinosaur Jr. Over It

14) We Were Promised Jetpacks - Ships With Holes Will Sink

15) The Decemberists - The Rake Song

16) Atlas Sound (with Noah Lennox) - Walkabout

17) Manic Street Preachers - Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

18) Raekwon - House Of Flying Daggers

19) The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Deathbridge At Lethbridge

20) The Thermals - Now We Can See

The Importance Of SST Records

Founded by Greg Ginn in 1978 SST went on to be the most important record label of the 80's. Originally called Solid State Transmitters Ginn shortened the name to SST when he went from selling electrical equipment to selling records by his band Black Flag. During it's heyday the label released classic albums by Husker Du, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Black Flag, The Descendants, The Minutemen and the Meat Puppets. What made SST's roster so great was the diversity of the records that were coming out. Although all the bands could loosely be placed under "Punk" they sounded very different from each other. Black Flag created a sped up version of punk that would be known as Hardcore. Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. featured two of the most innovative guitarists in music with Thurston Moore and J. Mascis. The Descendents balanced classic pop and punks raw aggression while The Meat Puppets mixed punk with the psychedelic sounds of the 60's. Meanwhile Husker Du and The Minutemen both went on to release classic double albums, a risky move from a genre that started in response to the lengthy prog-rock albums of the 70's. Eventually SST's bands would leave the label or break up causing Ginn to sign and release lesser talent. Still you can put the labels early releases up against any other label before or since.

New Dinosaur Jr. Video "Over It"

Looking at this video it seems that what the men Dinosaur Jr are over is the animosity and hurt feeling that plagued them in their early days. Now days their just kicking it around town on their BMX bikes and Jay's custom old school skateboard.

New Dinosaur Jr. Album Art

Dinosaur Jr. will release their second album since reuniting this June on Jagjaguar.