Three consecutive nights of sauna and ice-swimming back home in Finland over the Christmas holidays helped me clear my head about the year in music. 2008 was by no means a great year and some of the current fads leave me utterly cold. Even so, plenty of pretty good stuff found its way to my ears. I count having listened to 109 albums released this year. Here's my top 30 from that bunch. (The order
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The Diodes, formed in Toronto in 1976, started out as a power-poppy punk band and were moving in the direction of new wave at the time of their demise in 1982. They released the albums Diodes (1977), Released (1978), and Action-Reaction (1980). An album of new material recorded in London in 1981 with a new rhythm section remains unreleased, and Survivors (1982) is a collection of out-takes and dem
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Following the pack: http://mog.com/Anna/blog/265992I'm Pekka, and my last name is even more Finnish than my first. I started MOGging in Sept. 2006 as an ideal way for a music geek who works at home a lot to procrastinate. I'm an academic whose writing flows much better at home than in the campus office. Substituting cigarette breaks with MOGging also helped me quit smoking. I've been very quiet on
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No, not a one-night stand gone horribly wrong -- just an infectious and fun cover of "Don't Let Him Come Back" by Jay Reatard to kick off your Sunday morning. The original is by The Go-Betweens, one of the greatest Australian pop bands. It was the B-side of their second 7" single, "People Say" (1979); these days it can be found as a crackly vinyl rip on The Lost Album 78 'til 79, a collection of e
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Fucked Up (w/ Let's Wrestle, Geoffrey Oi!cutt) Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK (18 Nov 2008)I've been mightily impressed by Fucked Up's new full-length The Chemistry Of Common Life. A worthy follow-up to Hidden World, it keeps taking hardcore just where it should be heading: towards increasing ambition in songwriting, arrangement, melody, and nuance, yet with a sturdy backbone of three guitars (t
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Amidst digging the hell out of Fucked Up's The Chemistry of Common Life and expecting their Nov. 18 Leeds gig, I ran across another slab of fiercely impressive post-hardcore: Ladyslipper from Minneapolis and their 2007 debut The Time, Not The Weather. There are natural reference points, such as Mission of Burma (listen to "Devils on Horseback" and then go back to Vs.) and Fugazi, but after a few l
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