The Second Millenium Goes to Middle School

UGH! So much dust! DUST EVERYWHERE. Man, how long has it been since I touched this thing? I think a few animals have made their home in this blog in the many months it has been since I have last updated this thing. Whatevs. Ain't nothin' a dust buster and cyanide can't handle.

So I was having a gander at the old interwebs and noticed that all of the hipster, twee, and snooty blogs have been making their first half of 2011 lists. The best of MOVIES! MUSIC! SPORTS GAMES! IRONIC DISNEY PICTURES! All of them dealing with stuff that came out from last January to the present.

I'll get back to these lists in just a moment. When I first saw these blogs I thought I had gone through a land of both shadow and substance, but then it dawned on me that, indeed, the eleventh year of this millennium is half over... uh... half started.

As many of you know about me and this blog, I'm a trendfollower. I once was a trendsetter... but my trends got people killed. That was probably my least favorite year of second grade. I'd rather not talk about it.
It is in the spirit of trendfollowing that I offer my lists of the past six months for your intrigue, followed by surprise, followed by disgusted scrutiny.

Here are the albums that have come out this year that I would highly recommend. In honor of the year, they are arranged as my top 11.

11) Bon Iver: Bon Iver
10) Foo Fighters: Wasting Light
9) Panda Bear: Tomboy
8) Flaming Lips (and others): Dark Side of the Moon
7) My Morning Jacket: Circuital
6) Tune-Yards: WHOKILL
5) Iron and Wine: Kiss Each Other Clean
4) T.V. on the Radio: Nine Types of Light
3) Paul Simon: So Beautiful or So What
2) Beastie Boys: Hot Sauce Committee Part II
1) Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues

Honorable Mention:
1)Danger Mouse and Daniele Lupi: Rome
2)Radiohead: The King of Limbs (Radiohead rules, and no one more than myself would want to put them at the top... but at just over half an hour and with Lotus Flower being heads and shoulders above the rest of the ho-hum collection... I have to say this album kinda broke my heart. An ache that was cured by listening to in Rainbows again. And again.)

The overrated so far:
1) Adele: 21 (Although I will admit that Rolling in the Deep is probably song of the year material.)
2) Cults (Someone should have told them that the glockenspiel should be used sparingly. Am I the only one that thinks this band's sound is... well... obnoxious?)
3) Tyler, the Creator: Goblin (Wait... people like this? When Tyler's silly references and stories lose their novelty his supporters will realize that his beats suck. You heard me. Wanna fight about it?)

Those are some of my thoughts about this year in music. Let's see if some of these picks make it on my end of the year list.


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WHOA! I was in the middle of a story! Immortal and Bored part 2 coming up!