A significant shuffle of priorities has long delayed me from finishing my project to document every single album I bought in 2008 (for example, real life and things on cats). But always the completist, I will bring this to a close…a quarter of the way through 2009.
Andrew Daly – Nine Sweaters There was a funny [...]
April 6, 2009
Categories: JG's Year in Albums, Jerry Grit's Canon, album reviews, compulsive behavior, futile ambition . Tags: 808s & Heartbreak, A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night, Acid Tongue, Alopecia, Alpinisms, Andrew Daly, Blue Giant, Camera Obscura, Clouded Staircase, Cold Fact, David Byrne & Brian Eno, Dr. Dog, Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, Fascination, Fate, Fucked Up, Ground Trouble Jaw, Grouper, Hercules And Love Affair, Hlllyh, Hometowns, Isobel Campbell, Jenny Lewis, Kanye West, Love Is All, Marching Band, Nine Sweaters, Richard Swift, Rodriguez, School Of Seven Bells, Sparks Large, Starling Electric, Sunday At Devil Dirt, Target Heart, The '59 Sound, The Chemistry Of Common Life, The Delgados, The Faint, The Gaslight Anthem, The Great Eastern, The Mae Shi, The Rural Alberta Advantage, Underachievers Please Try Harder, Why?, Women . Author: jerrygrit . Comments: 1 Comment
“Rocktober”? More like “You-bought-too-many-damn-albums-again-Eric-Jerry-tober.”
Here we go, in no particular order…
Lambchop – OH (ohio)I’m sure there are states less deserving of a Lambchop album associated with them, but you could probably count them on your fingers. I can’t imagine this unsurprisingly excellent collection of mellow and interesting orchestrations supporting wry and wise observational lyrics will get [...]
November 3, 2008
Categories: JG's Year in Albums, Jerry Grit's Canon . Tags: Add new tag, Blitzen Trapper, Bound Stems, Bright Ideas, Brightblack Morning Light, Caught In The Trees, Chemical Chords, clem snide, Colleen, Damien Jurado, Department of Eagles, End Of Love, Flight of the Conchords, Fred Squire, Furr, High Places, Horse Feathers, House With No Home, Ice Cream Spiritual, In Ear Park, Juana Molina, Julie Doiron, Lambchop, Les Ondes Silencieuses, Lost Wisdom, LP3, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Motion To Rejoin, Mount Eerie, Of Montreal, OH (ohio), Ponytail, Portastatic, Ratatat, Skeletal Lamping, Stereolab, The Family Afloat, Un Dia, Vivian Girls, What Another Man Spills . Author: jerrygrit . Comments: 6 Comments
So I pretty much blew my self-imposed deadline to document all the albums I have bought through July by the end of July. Maybe that had a little something to do with getting the band ready to open for freaking Eef Barzelay this past Thursday, which turned out to be totally awesome…but for my tuner going out [...]
August 14, 2008
Categories: JG's Year in Albums, Jerry Grit's Canon, album reviews . Tags: A Certain Feeling, All We Could Do Was Sing, American Gangster, Autumn of the Seraphs, Bodies Of Water, Bowie in Labyrinth, Directions To See A Ghost, Eef Barzelay, Heavy International, Jay-Z, Lose Big, Midnight Boom, Parc Avenue, Pinback, Plants and Animals, Port O'Brien, Portishead, praying Beyonce, Rook, Shearwater, The Black Angels, The Eternals, The Kills, Third . Author: jerrygrit . Comments: 2 Comments
I’m so near the halfway point in my documentation of every album I buy this year. Appropriate time as any to rechristen this project the “Year in Albums”, since I’m finding a hard time limiting myself to download purchases. I’m still buying CDs, can you believe?
Silver Jews – Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea Somewhere along the [...]
July 26, 2008
Categories: JG's Year in Albums, Jerry Grit's Canon, album reviews . Tags: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, At Mount Zoomer, Fleet Foxes, Lookout Mountain Lookout Sea, Sarabeth Tucek, Sea Lion, Silver Jews, The Dodos, The Ruby Suns, Underground, Visiter, Wolf Parade . Author: jerrygrit . Comments: 2 Comments
No question vast and ambiguous forces conspire against me today. Not only have the unrepentant thieves at another “blog” stolen my project and format, but ipod #5 is giving me that mocking “you’re fucked” sad face when i try to start it. Bullets are flying but I am not going down. I’m like the invincible [...]
July 13, 2008
Categories: JG's Year in Albums, Jerry Grit's Canon, album reviews, compulsive behavior, futile ambition, good ideas turning out not-so . Tags: Au, Boris, Dreamgirls, Earlimart, Evil Urges, Hymn and Her, Lou Reed, My Morning Jacket, Santogold, Shoot'Em Up, Smile, Transformer, Verbs . Author: jerrygrit . Comments: 1 Comment
Here they are, most of the albums that were officially inducted* into Jerry Grit’s set of sacred recordings in 2007**.
Soft Pow’r by Little Wings
What if Will Oldham did a sexmedown album and it actually turned out well? It would be like this. It’s a rare album that gets instant canonization, but here you go.
Rock, Rot & [...]
February 25, 2008
Categories: Jerry Grit's Canon, album reviews . Tags: Cap'n Jazz, eMusic, Little Wings, Music Reviews, Of Montreal, Okkervil River, Scharpling & Wurster, Scout Niblett, Spoon, Ted Leo, The 1900's, The Besnard Lakes, The Best Show, The Celebration, The National . Author: jerrygrit . Comments: 4 Comments
Wandering Rocks
