Best music of 2009

I never hasve enough time to listen to music. I buy more than I can consume. However, I still managed to hear some great stuff this year.

In my ongoing efforts to cram more music on my list every year, for 2009 I divided my favorites up in 3 groups.

1 Stuff other folks turned me on to
2 Stuff I liked
3 Stuff that everybody seemed to agree on

YOURS
worriedaboutsatan
avett brothers
wooden shjips
elvis perkins
falty dl
biblio
department of eagles
atlas sound
crystal antlers
antlers

MINE
phantom band
fuck buttons
big pink
twilight sad
volcano choir
wild beasts
neon indian
girls
nodzzz
yacht

OURS
phoenix
passion pit
animal collective
pains of being pure at heart
grizzly bear
yo la tengo
bill callahan
camera obscura
cass mccombs
flaming lips

Why Law of the Junglerock?

I needed a user name. I needed one that wasn't jetboy1999 or rocky123. So I picked Junglerock as my gmail address because I wanted something simple and vaguely cool that nobody else was using. Junglerock worked. It has pretty much become my user name for just about everything. Junglerock is an old song originally released in 1958 by Hank Mizell.



I first heard it as a Replacements b-side that is almost remarkable in how unremarkable it is. It was buried on a 1987 German double 12' single. The song was also covered by Tav Falco's Panther Burns and The Fall among others.

Law of the Junglerock is just a lame pun. Hmmmm....

What will I write about? Music, rants, comics, books, the usual narcissistic playground of the prepetually disgruntled.

Here goes nothing. Seriously, nothing.