December 2011
8 posts
top albums of 2011
Darryl Zero’s Top Albums Of 2011
This year evaporated. For real. It seems like yesterday I was freaking out over the Yuck album—which is good, I suppose, in that it actually did have some sticking power.
I also suppose this is one year in which there isn’t really much of a surprise at what’s on the list. It’s completely fair if you dismiss this as the rantings of a complete homer—wrong, but...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
The Vandals (29)
The Jackson 5 (17)
Flying Lotus (15)
Ramones (11)
Nirvana (10)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
Oddisee (8)
My Bloody Valentine (6)
Goo Goo Dolls (6)
The Rentals (6)
Mariah Carey (6)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
Vernon Reid (77)
Sepultura (47)
Slayer (3)
Trash Talk (3)
Handsome Boy Modeling School (2)
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“I have to be very careful here not to cast everyone who uses 15+ mics on a kit...”
– John Vanderslice.
“Darryl, ‘innocence’ isn’t one of your defining...”
– Steven Dowd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
Dead Kennedys (11)
Dizzee Rascal (7)
Arctic Monkeys (4)
Terence Trent D’Arby (4)
John Vanderslice (3)
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Why am I grown so cold?: TROLLIN' TEACHER. →
THIS MUST BE READ BY EVERY LIVING SOUL. *LOVE*
freak-of-literature:
For orchestra, we have to play a segment of Tchaikovsky’s 4th symphony where everyone is playing pizzicato, which in the music world is (in)famously known as Scherzo: Pizzicato Ostinato, Allegro (Fast-moving song: Brisk, Repetitive Plucking).
So I’m in my groove and getting every single note (in…