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Best of 2010 (In My Humble Opinion)

This is a mix of my favorite songs of 2010. 

Featuring: End of a Year, Aloha, Sun Kil Moon, Das Racist, mOck, Blunt Mechanic, Bonnie “Prince” Billy and the Cairo Gang, Euphone, Communipaw, The Drums, Japandroids, Love of Everything, Beach House, Birthmark, and more.

Peep that shit here:

http://8tracks.com/thebrownshaun/best-of-2010-in-my-humble-opinion

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How many songs total: 32,895

How many hours or days of music: 117 days, 19 hours, 16 minutes, and 43 seconds

First Song: Sam Zurick/People Dick, “A”

Last Song: Pelican, “-“

Longest Song: Liars, “The Dust That Makes the Mud”

(There are songs that are longer but I don’t know if they count since they are either comedy shows, Tim Kinsella spoken word, or last songs on the album that have a 20 minute gap in between the song and the secret track.)

Shortest Song: Danny Elfman, “What’s This” from the Beetlejuice soundtrack

Last Album: Neil Young - Zuma

First Album: Cass McCombs - A

(not sure how to count albums that start with numbers so I just excluded them.)

First Song That Comes Up On Shuffle: The Walkmen - “That’s the Punch Line”

Top Five Most Played Songs:

  1. The Ergs - “Kind of Like Smitten” (41)
  2. Ryan Adams - “Two Hearts” (35)
  3. Sun Kil Moon - “Lost Verses” (24)
  4. Kid Dynamite - “Bookworm (23)
  5. Ida - “My Fair, My Dark” (22)

(iTunes only counts complete listens so I would say that this is inaccurate. According to my last.fm, my top 5 songs are all Aloha and Owen ones.)


Search The Following & State How Many Songs Come Up:

Death - 329 songs

Life - 698 songs

Love - 1,535 Songs

Hate - 150 songs

You - 3,720 songs

Sex - 149 songs

(reblogged from funkyfest)

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notnadia:

The Weakerthans - Aside

and i’m leaning on this broken fence
between past and present tense
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fleetfootedfox:

inthefade:

This site is really neat.

It looks at your last.fm charts and calculates patterns in the keys of your favorite songs.

awesome.  no idea what it means.  still awesome.

I always knew I was a fan of major keys but 88%?!?! damnnnnn

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Videos of Little Kids Playing Music (and They're Probably Better Than You)

7-year-old kid drumming to System of a Down, 12-year-old girl playing Rush, and more

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Hit shuffle on your iPod or mp3 player and write down the first 25 songs. No cheating or skipping songs that are shameful.

1. Lemuria - “Get Some Sleep”

2. Sebadoh - “Careful”

3. …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - “… And You Will Know Them”

4. Nada Surf - “Inside of Love”

5. The Miracle of 86 - “A Less Important Place”

6. Fucked Up - “Black Albino Bones”

7. Superchunk - “Cursed Mirror”

8. Braid - “Ornamental”

9. Phil Ochs - “Love Me, I’m a Liberal”

10. Zookeeper - “On High”

11. Archers of Loaf - “Nevermind the Enemy”

12. Jens Lekman - “Rocky Dennis’ Farewell Song”

13. American Football - “Never Meant” (Live)

14. Deftones - “Dai the Flue”

15. Cursive - “In the Now”

16. Karate - “This, Plus Slow Song”

17. Boys Night Out - “The Anatomy of a Journey”

18. Voxtrot - “Trouble”

19. Mick Turner - “Window” (Kath Bloom cover)

20. The Smiths - “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now”

21. Interpol - “PDA”

22. Owen - “Put Your Hands on Me, My Love”

23. Morrissey - “I’d Love To”

24. The Lemonheads - “Frank Mills”

25. MXPX - “First Class Mail”

yeah…just a few embarrassing ones…

(via redsuspenders)

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hipstertracks:

Japandroids - Wet Hair

I kind of don’t want to like this since it’s just a watered down version of music I already like, but fuck it — this song is good. The singer’s voice reminds me a lot of Chris Broach, but with less “YEAH!”s.

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I haven’t listened to Xiu Xiu in quite awhile. I’m not too familiar with his more recent stuff, but Fabulous Muscles was flawless and “Crank Heart” is definitely in my top 50 of best opening tracks. This is an awesome live version of that song.

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Rapid Cities - “Space is Infinite” and “Most of the Time”

This is from our record release show (part two) at the Charleston in Williamsburg on 6/5/2009. I have a few more videos I’ll be tumblin’ the rest of the week, but if you wanna check them out sooner, click here.

For some reason, we endearingly botched the same part in “Most of the Time” at both record release shows (you’ll notice it), but we managed to save it. We’re total professionals.

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Hey Mercedes is playing at the Double Door in Chicago, 9/19

Damn you, Bob Nanna! Why does it have to be in Chicago and NOT over a long weekend?! I’m still considering going out there though. Anyone else considering going to this? Tickets go on sale June 5.

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