Annual Lists

Jason Sullivan91 said:Man, I don't get it—why is nobody mentioning the absolute best local albums? Surely some gems have surfaced over the years...

Like a total idiot, I’m going to toss one more name onto this list.
mister no.

Wait, did someone actually release that?
If they did, I honestly can't wrap my head around why they would choose to do that. 😈

Did someone actually leak this?

Yeah, they did. Why would anyone even bother?
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Oh, come on... honestly, once you sit down and listen to Mister No, it’s pure gold. I can already see myself in the front row at their next show, belting this out at the top of my lungs:

....That day I tasted the Hoffman trip
And I liked this one guy
Cool hair, an oxter walk
I’d love to take him home
He says it's Wednesday
That a friend's train arrives today
I want to be up front
Can I be up front?
The whole damn city is against us
When I'm holding your hand
When I touch your lips
I get beat up
I’d ask all those people
If I could just have a little bit
A chance to believe in Bog
The last time we were picking flowers
You told me you wouldn't
The last time we were picking flowers
I was throwing up all day long
I was throwing up and thinking of you
And dreaming of you
Of you
A dollop of cream on me
It turns me on so much
They want the rain to spray all day
He's got the key
Capuccino, the real deal
While he combs my hair, I relax
While he does those things for me
I forget about her
Before I die, I want to
Make our dreams come true
I want to kiss you...

There is just so much (admittedly accidental) self-deprecation here..
Mister No is basically like some weird mashup of an American Zappa, Weird Al Yankovic, and whoever else you can think of. Probably.

trash 😈

Nettlice, come on, admit it—you went for a little cosmetic surgery on your attitude, didn't you? You pumped up one side with sarcasm, the other with cynicism, and then used irony as your anesthetic.😁

'Well, you try, you do, you really try
But you just err, baby, you do, you error'

And here I was, thinking you were actually joking when you said "I'm your fan."😛

👋

pyglet, I honestly have no idea what you're trying to say here.

don't wanna be ya, wake up!! because your head's on fire. interesting mind, though.

i appreciate the analysis—(nonsense isn't exactly new to me)—but i know my own head, i know my own feet. and my boobs. that was 🙂, you notorious p.y.g., not even remotely kinky 😉.

me? i can't even decide who i want to be. if something is actually worth losing, then it must be worth something.

Man, you just don't get it, do you? I literally tailored this specifically for you.😉
"Her breast was small and warm in my palm" 😁
You seriously don't want to be in my shoes!??
"Don't you like my shoes? I kept them warm."

True, I don't know what's going on in your head, and I don't know where you stand, but from where I'm sitting, it looks like you're writing with nothing but pure instinct.😍 Isn't that sweet?
A little spark that you dip and sink, deep into my ink-stained brain.

And just like that, we dance, we drift, heading straight into that "mood indigo."😢

Kings of Convenience — Riot on an Empty Street
Kings of Convenience
Arcade Fire, The Funeral
Fiery Furnaces, The Blueberry Boat
Danger Mouse - Your Blues
Danger Mouse – The Grey Album
Faint, The - Wet from Birth
The Books - Faking the Books
Team, maybe the Thunder Lightning strike was actually worth it. I guess.
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes by Desperate Youth. I guess it’s worth a listen if you're into that kind of thing.
Sonic Youth - Panopticon
65 Days of Static - The Fall of Maths
Futureheads
Sonic Youth, maybe? Or just some Sonic Nurse stuff. I can't really tell anymore.
Walkmen, The Bows and Arrows
The Bows and Arrows Air Talkie Walkie
Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans
Blood Brothers – Crimes
Comets on Fire - Blue Cathedral
Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
Madvillain!!!
Chik Chik Chik - Louden Up Now
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand, Modest Mouse. Maybe some people just get it.
Modest Mouse – Good News for People Who Like Bad News
Modest Mouse, Fuckin' A
Plastic Constellations – Let It Die
Plastic Constellations
Plastic Constellations. Mazatlan.
Liars - WE Move Through The Weather
Lambchop – Aw C'Mon
Lambchop

Nick Cave - Lyra of Orpheus, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Morrissey, The States—not that the order really matters.

It's a little clearer now, I guess. Though, honestly, I still don't really get it. It's not like this kind of stuff happens to me every day. 🙂

How intriguing.

Kinky +4.

Mean and wicked.

Suspicious as hell.

But smooth, baby 😉. Woof woof. If you play your cards right, maybe I'll name one of my vibrators after you—actually, I think I'm just adapting to you at this point, basically losing myself, which is pretty cute.

The whole thing feels psychotically cute. A couple of messages and you're already talking about my tits and boobs 😉. Uh. Charming, perverted psychopaths 😉—definitely the worst kind.

1. Jens Lekman – When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog
2. Modest Mouse – Good News for People Who Like Bad News
3. Xiu Xiu – Fabulous Muscles
4. Fennesz - Venice
5. American Music Club – Lovesongs for Patriots
6. Standard – Wire Post to Wire
7. Arcade Fire – Funeral
8. CLOUDDEAD - Ten
9. Mclusky – The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire
10. The Ex – Turn
11. Adem – Homesongs
12. Liars – WE Move Through The Weather
13. Thee Silver Mountain Reveries – Pretty Little Lightning Paw
14. Hot Snakes – Audit in Progress
15. Iron & Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days
16. Green Day – American Idiot
17. Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans
18. Mission of Burma - Onoffon
19. Les Savy Fav - Inches
20. !!! – Louden Up Now
21. TV on the Radio – Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
22. Sonic Youth – Sonic Nurse
23. Pinback – Summer in Abaddon
24. Q and Not U – Power
25. Mirah – C'mon Miracle
26. Magnetic Fields - I
27. 90 Day Men – Panda Park
28. Futureheads – Futureheads
29. Blood Brothers – Crimes
30. Faint – Wet From Birth

...and I'm sure I missed a few 🤔 but oh well—it was a pretty great year 😎

restlesseagle15 said:uh. Charming, perverse psychopaths😉—the absolute worst kind.

"I see 'Sir' that I have your attention"😉

I'll whisper the lies of dozen goodbye's
Secrets of worst, that follow with thirst
Ones of which your thoughts are hung
But those you can not reach by tongue

You say that it's sick n' charming
The way my echoes are alarming

Those of Your

I can cut you open with a feather
bleed n' dress for you in leather
Tear your milk white armored skin
Fill your swollen sultry lips with sin

But in the end we'll leave it all to rest
Heart is what lies beneath the breast
And blood running steadfast n' warm
Words go crazy, without even warn

You rapidly move in my mind's eye
As dream to catch in desperate try
Wonder do you like the psycho boy
Or you prefer, your nameless toy 😛

*to a
Tart with a Heart
😁

THAT IS SO SWEET
AND I’D LOVE TO LICK YOUR FEET
EAT YOUR SHIT
AND BE YOUR MEAT

BUT SUGARBOY😉, DEAR,
(I REALLY HATE DOING THIS)
- I AM TIED TO SOMETHING ELSE
AND I HAVE TO PASS - 🙂

IF MY POINT ISN'T CLEAR ENOUGH
I DO FEEL YOU LURKING SOMEWHERE NEARBY
BUT I HAVE TO WATCH MY BACK.

Trust me on this—it’s just not a good idea.
I’m right. You’re moving way too fast, getting ahead of yourself, and missing the point entirely.

Yours truly,
Idiot bitch.

P.S. I’M NO Tart
YOU JUST BRING THAT SIDE OUT🙂
HAPPENS WITH A FEW

"If you're gonna dine with 'em cannibals... " 😉

In taint sweetness she wallows
Whilst bringin’ it to gallows
Never knew quite how to express
Palpitations of a lady in distress

Hear that logic in your heartbeat
Like knives playing with a meat
Blade makes it’s cold intrusion
Giving out the butchery illusion

Tied breath with such precision
Chance under wheels of decision
And music of it, silent as a dew
Least you made me one of the few

Your points are tired of glowing
Could I ever see by not knowing
Knowing you, or that rear dear
Naked legs of your sexy lil’ fear

In days of travel of ‘too far ahead’
You would never decorate my bed
Why should I make you my Ligea
When we can fuck even with idea! 😍

*To a charmed speedy Dart
rushing for my crooked lil’ heart

1. Lyra of Orpheus - Nick Cave & Bad Seeds
2. i am singing to you from my room - Michael Gira
3. morphosa harmonia - Thomas Wydler & Toby Dammit
4. playtime - Les Hommes Sauvages
5. lifeblood - Manic Street Preachers
6. the blue album - Orbital
7. unshattered - Peter Murphy
8. perpetuum mobile - Einstürzende Neubauten
9. liberation - Trans Am
10. immortal memory - Lisa Gerrard & Patrick Cassidy

Ahaaa. So I finally catch this post.

ˇJust who’s the predator and who’s the plaything?ˇ

It’s cute how you try to stake your claim,
acting like you actually run the show,
which is exactly why you’ll end up dangling from some dead tree
if you ask me.

I honestly hope a scavenger finds you eventually
and tears you apart.

I feel for you, really—since you’ve already hit rock bottom
and fully grasp how much of a mess this is.
And here’s the kicker:
I’m just some easy target for you to pocket,
but I’m certainly not part of your inner circle.

So, call it my paranoia if you want, but I'm not buying into your delusions.
You act like you don't trust anyone, but I saw it coming from mile one:
I was never going to be the one you truly cared for.

It isn't anyone's fault,
it’s just that the scales aren't even.
Our timing would have been a disaster anyway.

And this clown
is just looking for a cozy little bubble to hide in.

So, don't bother trusting me.

****
Don't think I'm untouched by this.
I'll probably always be wondering—
if that twitchy stranger passing me on the street is somehow linked to you.
*****

Catch you later, by the way. 🙂.

No problem. Just like Alicia Keys said—you don't even know my name. ;D

Neal Morse - One (especially that track Author of Confusion)
Pain of Salvation - BE (specifically Iter Impius)
Threshold - Subsurface