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Another year, another smattering of good albums. There were plenty of shitty albums released this year, too, but you won’t find any of them here
In years past, I’ve written a thing or two about each album and how it left an impression on me. Due to the sheer volume of good [...]

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I thought that 2006 was stellar year for music. My list of favourite albums for this year is the longest one since I started posting my annual list 4 years ago. It’s interesting to note the genres represented in each of my lists. Where last year’s contained many subdued electronic albums, this year’s [...]

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This year, I was all about different sounds. 2005 might as well go down as the year that UK indie bands that sound like the 80’s Brit Invasion bands (XTC, Squeeze, Talk Talk, Joy Division, etc) took over. I wasn’t really into it since I heard it all before in the basement of [...]

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Here’s the moment that you’ve all been waiting for. Like I do every December, here’s the annual list of my favourite albums from the year that was. It was an excellent year for good music. I mean c’mon, I never thought I’d be able to have Nirvana and Pavement on the same [...]

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Well, folks, here it is. It’s what you’ve all been waiting for. Here’s my annual list of favourite albums that were released this year. Once again, you won’t find any shlock that’s sandwiched between commercials on “new rock” radio stations and music video channels. This is pretentiousness at its finest [...]

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Happy 2K3, folks!
Dena and I are back from our holidays. Yup, no code for ten days. It was a nice break, but became horrendously boring towards the end of my holidays. Most of my time was spent shoveling snow (which I don’t get to do in Kitchener), watching hockey/football with my dad, [...]

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