Issue four of Fabrik hit the newstands today. They don't have their digital edition up yet, but those folks with a burning desire to peruse the flip book and find my work can ceetainly do so by clicking the link above.
I'm leaving on Monday morning and am still tying together loose ends, etc while Paul visits with his family in Racine. I'm enjoying a break from work, but will need to get back to it immediately after landing in Berlin where I'm covering the film festival for a British pub.
Leaving California is (sort of) bitter sweet, but suprisingly easy. I'm looking forward to seasons again and living in a city that is both walkable and bikable. Plus, I'm looking forward to all of the traveling we'll be doing this year. Fears? Latin! A just told me recently that Latin is a requirement for our grad school applications, so not only will we be cramming for the German as a foreign language test (me ore so than M or A), but I'll be revisiting Latin, something I haven't studied since the 6th grade! Ah, What the hell...it'll increase my vocabulary.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Dazed and Confused
The February issue of Dazed and Confused is on newstands now. Pick up a copy at a newstand near you and open to p.177 to read prose penned by yours truly.
Monday, January 19, 2009
synchronicity
did all of the art writers in la (myself included) wake up one day and think: "i'm going to write a piece about chinatown galleries in december? this is the second piece, not including my own, that i've seen about the contemporary art spaces on chung king road. mind meld!
Sunday, January 18, 2009
addendum
paul thomas' recent interview with the grafitti artist MONK was just published in Whitehot Magazine. Check it out.
continuing adventures of the infinite pack
I write this post from bed, where I have been wallowing for the past two days feeling sorry for myself. The weather outside is divine, but i can only appreciate it through the sliding glass doors of our bedroom which Paul claims I have contaminated with "old man sick smell."
I couldn't have gotten ill at a worse time. Our move is barely two weeks away, we still haven't gotten our things to the port in Long Beach and I have mounting deadline pressure from three publications. I'm not stressed out.....yet. I'm hoping that we'll be able to take care of everything quickly and efficiently. We attempted to access Dad's storage facility yesterday to see how many boxes we were really dealing with, but weren't able to get in (long story). Looks like all business on the storage front has been postponed until next week.
I couldn't have gotten ill at a worse time. Our move is barely two weeks away, we still haven't gotten our things to the port in Long Beach and I have mounting deadline pressure from three publications. I'm not stressed out.....yet. I'm hoping that we'll be able to take care of everything quickly and efficiently. We attempted to access Dad's storage facility yesterday to see how many boxes we were really dealing with, but weren't able to get in (long story). Looks like all business on the storage front has been postponed until next week.
Friday, January 16, 2009
holy shit!
Calif. Taxpayers Due Refunds May Get IOUs
By Patrick Healy
NBCBayArea.com
updated 2:48 p.m. PT, Mon., Jan. 5, 2009
If you expect you'll be getting a refund from California when you file your 2008 state income tax return, be prepared: you may instead receive a "registered warrant." Translation: an IOU.
California is rapidly running out of money. Blame it on the state budget deficit that continues to bleed billions of dollars from California's reserves. Facing inadequate credit to make up the difference, California's Controller John Chiang warns that by the end of February, the nation's most populous state may not be able to pay some of its debts, and instead be reduced to issuing those creditors IOUs.
"My office has projected that, in approximately 60 days, there will be insufficient cash available to meet all expenditures reflected in the 2008-09 Budget Act," stated a Tuesday letter from Controller Chiang to the directors of all state agencies. "To ensure that the State can meet its obligations to schools, debt service, and others entitled to payment under the State Constitution, federal law, or court order. California may begin, as early as February 1, 2009, issuing registered warrants...commonly referred to as IOUs...to individuals and entities in lieu of regular payments."
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By Patrick Healy
NBCBayArea.com
updated 2:48 p.m. PT, Mon., Jan. 5, 2009
If you expect you'll be getting a refund from California when you file your 2008 state income tax return, be prepared: you may instead receive a "registered warrant." Translation: an IOU.
California is rapidly running out of money. Blame it on the state budget deficit that continues to bleed billions of dollars from California's reserves. Facing inadequate credit to make up the difference, California's Controller John Chiang warns that by the end of February, the nation's most populous state may not be able to pay some of its debts, and instead be reduced to issuing those creditors IOUs.
"My office has projected that, in approximately 60 days, there will be insufficient cash available to meet all expenditures reflected in the 2008-09 Budget Act," stated a Tuesday letter from Controller Chiang to the directors of all state agencies. "To ensure that the State can meet its obligations to schools, debt service, and others entitled to payment under the State Constitution, federal law, or court order. California may begin, as early as February 1, 2009, issuing registered warrants...commonly referred to as IOUs...to individuals and entities in lieu of regular payments."
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rip patrick mcgoohan
Patrick McGoohan, star of British television show The Prisoner, died at age 80. I'm totally bummed about it.
NY Times Obit
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Failing up
originally published in the January issue of whitehot
Failing Up: Or, vergangenheitsbewältingung
Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective
MOCA
By Jesi Khadivi
The Problem Perspective, Martin Kippenberger’s first retrospective in the United States, is a lot to take in. The artist worked in an exhaustive array of media including sculpture, drawing, painting, photography, and book art. Kippenberger built complex relational webs encompassing the role of the artist within cultural production, issues of authorship, Germaneness, shame, and guilt--all filtered through a caustically irreverent sensibility. Curator Ann Goldstein presents the breadth and depth of the artist’s extensive oeuvre, showcasing favorites like the photorealistic series of paintings Lieber maler, male mirseries (Dear Painter, Paint for me, ) and the sprawling installation The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s Amerika (1994), in addition to lesser known works. Kippenberger was nothing if not brash. For better or worse, his braggadocio deemed everything he touched a work of art, from paintings (sometimes painted by Kippenberger, sometimes others) to doodles on hotel stationary. His post-humous popularity is due in equal parts to his emphasis on the conceptual aspects of art and his fecund creative impulse. His extreme self-consciousness about his role as an artist (played out in his innumerable self-portraits) and his consistent exploration of art and value (the series Preis is perhaps the most succinct articulation of this impulse), have been hot topics for contemporary artists. Still, some of most compelling works in the exhibition are deeply rooted in the political history of his motherland, Germany.
Words are constructed like trains in the German language, strung one after the other to form compound words that elicit meaning so precise that they virtually deny translation. The well known word-train, Vergangenheitsbewältingung, or “coming to terms with the past,” was a highly loaded concept in Germany following World War II and the fall of the Berlin wall. Many Germans grappled with how to retain an understanding of their country’s exceptionally violent and traumatic recent history while building a new future. Though it doesn’t exclusively inform his sprawling, multi-faceted practice, shame, embarrassment, and failure of vergangenheitsbewältingung is a central theme in much of Kippenberger’s work. He pursues these tangled threads in works like Ich kann bei besten Willen kein Hackenkreuz entdecken (With the Best Will in the World, I Can’t See a Swastika, 1984), an abstract painting of fractured lines that allude to a fragmented swastika (the work was made during a time that depictions of swastikas were verboten). Put Your Freedom in the Corner and Save it for a Rainy Day (1990) is a direct response to the decision to tear down most of the Berlin wall upon the reunification of Germany. Equating the wall’s removal with an act of historical erasure, the sculpture consists of a broken vase shoddily glued back together displayedin front of a replica of a segmentof the Berlin Wall covered in Robert Gober’s wall-paper Sleeping Man/Hanged Man. Martin, ab in die Ecke und Schäm dich (Martin, Into the Corner, You Should Be Ashamed Of Yourself), a life-size sculptural self-portrait of a man facing a corner wearing the artist’s clothing, is a more generalized depiction of shame and repentance. A gentle poke at history, as well as the artist’s well known drinking and carousing.
Failing Up: Or, vergangenheitsbewältingung
Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective
MOCA
By Jesi Khadivi
The Problem Perspective, Martin Kippenberger’s first retrospective in the United States, is a lot to take in. The artist worked in an exhaustive array of media including sculpture, drawing, painting, photography, and book art. Kippenberger built complex relational webs encompassing the role of the artist within cultural production, issues of authorship, Germaneness, shame, and guilt--all filtered through a caustically irreverent sensibility. Curator Ann Goldstein presents the breadth and depth of the artist’s extensive oeuvre, showcasing favorites like the photorealistic series of paintings Lieber maler, male mirseries (Dear Painter, Paint for me, ) and the sprawling installation The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s Amerika (1994), in addition to lesser known works. Kippenberger was nothing if not brash. For better or worse, his braggadocio deemed everything he touched a work of art, from paintings (sometimes painted by Kippenberger, sometimes others) to doodles on hotel stationary. His post-humous popularity is due in equal parts to his emphasis on the conceptual aspects of art and his fecund creative impulse. His extreme self-consciousness about his role as an artist (played out in his innumerable self-portraits) and his consistent exploration of art and value (the series Preis is perhaps the most succinct articulation of this impulse), have been hot topics for contemporary artists. Still, some of most compelling works in the exhibition are deeply rooted in the political history of his motherland, Germany.
Words are constructed like trains in the German language, strung one after the other to form compound words that elicit meaning so precise that they virtually deny translation. The well known word-train, Vergangenheitsbewältingung, or “coming to terms with the past,” was a highly loaded concept in Germany following World War II and the fall of the Berlin wall. Many Germans grappled with how to retain an understanding of their country’s exceptionally violent and traumatic recent history while building a new future. Though it doesn’t exclusively inform his sprawling, multi-faceted practice, shame, embarrassment, and failure of vergangenheitsbewältingung is a central theme in much of Kippenberger’s work. He pursues these tangled threads in works like Ich kann bei besten Willen kein Hackenkreuz entdecken (With the Best Will in the World, I Can’t See a Swastika, 1984), an abstract painting of fractured lines that allude to a fragmented swastika (the work was made during a time that depictions of swastikas were verboten). Put Your Freedom in the Corner and Save it for a Rainy Day (1990) is a direct response to the decision to tear down most of the Berlin wall upon the reunification of Germany. Equating the wall’s removal with an act of historical erasure, the sculpture consists of a broken vase shoddily glued back together displayedin front of a replica of a segmentof the Berlin Wall covered in Robert Gober’s wall-paper Sleeping Man/Hanged Man. Martin, ab in die Ecke und Schäm dich (Martin, Into the Corner, You Should Be Ashamed Of Yourself), a life-size sculptural self-portrait of a man facing a corner wearing the artist’s clothing, is a more generalized depiction of shame and repentance. A gentle poke at history, as well as the artist’s well known drinking and carousing.
33 1/3 long list
My friend Ben and I both reponded to the 33 1/3 book series open call for proposals at the end of 2008. They've just posted their longlist of proposals, which tops out at 597! I've included it below...it was really interesting to see the albums people are thinking about. Sadly, I was not the only Donovan proposal, nor was Ben the only Girltalk.
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As you'll see below, we received quite a few proposals this time around. 597 by my count. (OK, by my computer's count - I can't actually go that high.) I haven't even started reading these yet, but it's tremendously exciting. A very big Thank You to everyone who sent in a proposal. Current thinking is that we'll put together a 'shortlist' of sorts, a few weeks from now, which will maybe consist of the 100 or so proposals that are still in the running. But of course this could all change as I start reading...
Make what you will of this list - a snapshot of the interests of contemporary music critics? Some cunning ploys to get a book published? Or is it just utterly random? Feel free to leave comments below, as well as ever so subtle anonymous hints that we should select your proposal :) My only comment at this stage is to note the relatively small number of proposals on albums by artists already covered in the series: I was really expecting a deluge of Dylan, Pink Floyd, Velvets, Smiths, Stones and Radiohead pitches. Instead, we get Slint, Ween, and Britney - hurrah!
Oh, and apologies if the alphabetization isn't perfect...
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2 Live Crew – As Live As They Wanna Be
10CC – Sheet Music
AC/DC – Back in Black
AC/DC – Back in Black
AC/DC – For Those About To Rock
AC/DC – Highway to Hell
Against Me! – Reinventing Axl Rose
Agnostic Front – Cause for Alarm
Aimee Mann – I’m With Stupid
Air – Moon Safari
Alejandro Escovedo – More Miles Than Money
Alexander “Skip” Spence – Oar
The All-American Rejects – All-American Rejects
Allman Brothers Band – At Fillmore East
Amy Grant – Lead Me On
Animal Collective – FEELS
Annie: Anniemal
Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Aphrodite’s Child – 666
Arcade Fire – Funeral
Arcade Fire – Funeral
Arcade Fire – The Neon Bible
Archers of Loaf – Vee Vee
Aretha Franklin – Amazing Grace
Arthur Russell – World of Echo
Arthur Russell – World of Echo
At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command
The B-52s – Wild Planet
The B-52s – B-52s
Bachman Turner Overdrive – Not Fragile
Bad Religion – Suffer
The Beach Boys – Smile
Beat Happening – Beat Happening
The Beatles – Beatles for Sale
The Beatles – The Beatles
The Beatles – The Beatles
Beck – Mutations
Beck – Odelay
Beck – Sea Change
Beck – Sea Change
The Bee Gees – Bee Gees 1st
The Bee Gees – Best of the Bee Gees, Volume 1
Ben Folds Five – The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
Ben Folds Five – Whatever and Ever Amen
Ben Folds – Songs for Silverman
Betty Davis – Nasty Gal
Beulah – Yoko
Big Black – Atomizer
Big Country – The Crossing
Bill Fox – Transit Byzantium
Billy Bragg and Wilco – Mermaid Avenue
Billy Bragg – Workers Playtime
Black Oak Arkansas – The Definitive Rock Collection
Black Sabbath – Heaven and Hell
Black Star – Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star
Black Uhuru – Showcase
Blue Oyster Cult – Secret Treaties
The Blues Project – Projections
Blur – 13
Bob Dylan – Saved
Bob Dylan – Self Portrait
Bob Dylan – Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan – Time Out of Mind
Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet
Bright Eyes – Fevers and Mirrors
Britney Spears – Blackout
Britney Spears – Blackout
Britney Spears – Blackout
Broadcast – Haha Sound
Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It in People
Bruce Cockburn – Humans
Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the Edge of Town
Camper Van Beethoven – Key Lime Pie
Camper Van Beethoven – Key Lime Pie
Carole King – Tapestry
The Cars – The Cars
The Cars – The Cars
Cat Stevens – Tea for the Tillerman
The Chills – Submarine Bells
The Church – Priest = Aura
The Clash – Sandinista!
Cocteau Twins – Pink Opaque
Counting Crows – August and Everything After
The Cramps – Songs the Lord Taught Us
Crass – Christ the Album
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Chronicle Vol 1
Crowded House – Together Alone
The Cure - Pornography
Cyndi Lauper – She’s So Unusual
Cypress Hill – Black Sunday
Daft Punk – Discovery
Daft Punk – Homework
Dag Nasty – Can I Say
D’Angelo – Voodoo
Daniel Johnston – Yip/Jump Music
Danzig – Danzig
David Bowie – Diamond Dogs
David Bowie – Let’s Dance
David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Thomas and Two Pale Boys – 18 Monkeys on a Dead Man’s Back
De La Soul – 3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul – Buhloone Mindstate
De La Soul – De La Soul Is Dead
De La Soul – De La Soul Is Dead
Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Death Cab for Cutie – Plans
Deerhoof – Milk Man
Dennis Wilson – Pacific Ocean Blue
Dennis Wilson – Pacific Ocean Blue
The Deviants – Ptoof!
Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Digital Underground – Sex Packets
Dinosaur Jr. – You’re Living All Over Me
Dinosaur Jr. – You’re Living All Over Me
Dinosaur Jr. – You’re Living All Over Me
Dinosaur Jr. – You’re Living All Over Me
Dismemberment Plan – Emergency & I
Donovan – Gift From a Flower to a Garden
Donovan – Sunshine Superman
Doug Walker – Fear Together
Down – Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow
Dr. Dre – The Chronic
The Dream Syndicate – Days of Wine and Roses
Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera
Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera
Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera
The Drones – Gala Mill
Duran Duran – Rio
Duran Duran – Rio
Duran Duran – Rio
Duran Duran – Rio
The Eagles – Greatest Hits
The Eagles – Greatest Hits
The Eagles – Hotel California
Earth – Earth 2
Earth – Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions
Eels – Electro-Shock Blues
ELO – Out of the Blue
Electric Prunes – Mass in F Minor
Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elvis Costello – Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Costello – Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Presley – Elvis Presley (1956)
Emmylou Harris – Pieces of the Sky
Ennio Morricone – The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Brian Eno and David Byrne – My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Erykah Badu – Mama’s Gun
Explosions in the Sky – The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
Fairport Convention – Liege and Lief
Fairport Convention – Liege and Lief
Faith No More – Angel Dust
Faith No More – Angel Dust
The Fall – Hex Enduction Hour
The Fall – This Nation’s Saving Grace
The Fall – This Nation’s Saving Grace
Fall Out Boy – From Under the Cork Tree
Fennesz – Endless Summer
The Fire Show – Saint the Fire Show
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters
Frank Zappa – We’re Only In It for the Money
Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
Fugazi – 13 Songs
Fugazi – In On the Kill Taker
Fugazi – In On the Kill Taker
Fugazi – The Argument
The Fugees – The Score
The Fugs – It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest
Galaxie 500 – Today
Gang of Four – Entertainment!
Gang of Four – Hard
Gang of Four – Solid Gold
Garth Brooks – (in…) The Life of Chris Gaines
Gary Numan and Tubeway Army – Replicas
Gary Numan and Tubeway Army – Replicas
Gary Numan – The Pleasure Principle
Gary Wilson – You Think You Really Know Me
Gene Clark – No Other
Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
George Harrison – All Things Must Pass
George Michael – Faith
George Michael – Older
Giant Sand – Chore of Enchantment
Gillian Welch – Time (The Revelator)
Girl Talk – Feed the Animals
Girl Talk – Night Ripper
Glasvegas – Glasvegas
Graham Parker and the Rumour – Squeezing Out Sparks
Grateful Dead – Anthem of the Sun
Grateful Dead – Anthem of the Sun
Grateful Dead – The Closing of Winterland
Grateful Dead – Europe ‘72
Green Day – Dookie
Green Day – Insomniac
The GZA – Liquid Swords
Half Japanese – Sing No Evil
Hall and Oates – Rock ‘n’ Soul Part One
Henry Cow – Western Culture
Herb Alpert – Whipped Cream and Other Delights
The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday
The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday
The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday
The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America
Husker Du – Zen Arcade
Husker Du – Zen Arcade
Husker Du – Zen Arcade
Ice Cube – Death Certificate
Iggy and the Stooges – Raw Power
Iggy and the Stooges – Raw Power
Iggy Pop – TV Eye (1977 Live)
The Incredible String Band – The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter
The Incredible String Band – The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter
The Incredible String Band – Wee Tam and the Big Huge
Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden
J. Geils Band – Monkey Island
J Dilla – Donuts
J Dilla – Donuts
Jack Bruce – Harmony Row
The Jam – All Mod Cons
Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking
Jane’s Addiction – Ritual de lo Habitual
Jason and the Scorchers – Lost & Found
Jawbreaker – 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
Jawbreaker – Dear You
Jawbreaker – Dear You
Jay-Z – The Blueprint
Jefferson Airplane – Crown of Creation
Jefferson Starship – Blows Against the Empire
Jeffrey Lewis – 12 Crass Songs
Jellyfish – Spilt Milk
Jerry Lee Lewis – Live at the Star Club, Hamburg
Jethro Tull – Songs from the Wood
Jimmy Buffett – Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Jimmy Cliff – The Harder They Come
Jimmy Eat World – Clarity
Joanna Newsom – Ys
Joe Jackson – Night and Day
John Cale – Paris 1919
John Fahey – America
John Frusciante – Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-shirt
John Frusciante – Shadows Collide with People
John Lennon – Live in New York City
John Mayer – Heavier Things
John Mayer – Room for Squares
John Phillips – John the Wolfking of L.A.
Johnny Cash – American Recordings
Johnny Cash – American Recordings
Jon Brion – Meaningless
Jon Carter – Live at the Social
Joni Mitchell – Hejira
Judee Sill – Heart Food
Kanye West – 808 & Heartbreak
Kanye West – The College Dropout
Kanye West – The College Dropout
Karen Dalton – In My Own Time
Kate and Anna McGarrigle – Kate and Anna McGarrigle
King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
Kiss – Destroyer
Kiss – Kiss Alive!
Klaus Nomi – Klaus Nomi
The Knack – Get the Knack
Korn – Korn
Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express
Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express
Laurie Anderson – Big Science
Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Leon Russell – Carney
Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man
Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen – Various Positions
Lil’ Wayne – Da Drought 3
Lil’ Wayne – Da Drought 3
Little Feat – Sailin’ Shoes
Little Feat – Sailin’ Shoes
Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville
Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville
Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville
Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville
Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville
Lou Reed – Berlin
Lou Reed – Metal Machine Music
Lou Reed – Metal Machine Music
Low – The Great Destroyer
Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Lungfish – Sound in Time
Madonna – Ray of Light
Main Source – Breaking Atoms
Manu Chao – Clandestino
Marianne Faithfull – Broken English
Mark Farina –United DJs of America Vol 9
Marlo Thomas and Friends – Free To Be You and Me
Marshall Crenshaw – Marshall Crenshaw
Mary Margaret O’Hara – Miss America
Massive Attack – Blue Lines
Massive Attack – Blue Lines
Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell
The Meat Puppets – Meat Puppets II
The Mekons – Fear and Whiskey
The Mekons – Fear and Whiskey
The Melvins – Lysol
The Melvins – Bullhead
The Melvins – Houdini
Meshell Ndegeocello – Bitter
Metallica – Metallica
Metallica – Metallica
Metallica – Master of Puppets
Metallica – Master of Puppets
Metallica – Master of Puppets
The Meters – Rejuvenation
The Meters – The Meters
M.I.A. – Kala
Michael Jackson –Thriller
Michael W. Smith – Go West Young Man
Mick Ronson – Slaughter on 10th Avenue
The Microphones – The Glow Pt. 2
Midnight Oil – Diesel and Dust
Mike Ness – Cheating at Solitaire
The Millennium – Begin
Mobb Deep – The Infamous
Moby Grape – Moby Grape
Moby – Play
Modern Lovers – Modern Lovers
Modest Mouse – Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Modest Mouse – The Lonesome Crowded West
Mogwai – Young Team
The Monkees – Head
The Monkees – Pisces Aquarius Capricorn and Jones Ltd
Morrissey – Ringleader of the Tormentors
Morrissey – Viva Hate
The Mother Hips – Back to the Grotto
Mothers of Invention – Freak Out!
Mott the Hoople – Mott
The Mountain Goats – All Hail West Texas
The Mountain Goats – Tallahassee
The Mountain Goats – The Sunset Tree
The Mountain Goats – We Shall All Be Healed
Murder City Devils – Empty Bottles Broken Hearts
Naked City – Naked City
Namco – Katamari Fortissimo Damacy
The Nation of Ulysses – Plays Pretty for Baby
Neil Diamond – Hot August Night
Neil Young – Tonight’s the Night
The Nihilist Spasm Band – No Record
New Order – Power, Corruption and Lies
New Order – Power, Corruption and Lies
New Order – Power, Corruption and Lies
New York Dolls – New York Dolls
New York Dolls – New York Dolls
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Tender Prey
Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
NWA – Straight Outta Compton
The Oblivians – Soul Food
The O’Jays – Back Stabbers
Ol’ Dirty Bastard – Return to the 36 Chambers
Olivia Tremor Control – Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle
Operation Ivy – Energy
Operation Ivy – Energy
Ottmar Liebert – The Scent of Light
Ozzy Osbourne – Tribute
Paul Simon – Graceland
Paul Westerberg – Stereo/Mono
Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted
Pearl Jam – Ten
Pearl Jam – Vitalogy
Pearl Jam – Vitalogy
Pearl Jam - Vs
The People’s Temple Choir – He’s Able
Pere Ubu – Dub Housing
The Persuasions – Chirpin’
Pet Shop Boys – Very
Peter Hammill – Over
Pharcyde – Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
Phil Ochs – Rehearsals for Retirement
Phil Spector – Back to Mono (1958-69)
Phish – 03/01/2003
Phish – Junta
Phish – Rift
Pink Floyd – The Wall
Poe – Haunted
The Police - Synchronicity
Portishead – Dummy
The Postal Service – Give Up
The Postal Service – Give Up
The Postal Service – Give Up
Prefab Sprout – Steve McQueen
Prefab Sprout – Steve McQueen
Primal Scream – Screamadelica
The Promise Ring – Nothing Feels Good
Public Image Limited – Metal Box
Public Image Limited – Metal Box
Pulp – Different Class
Pulp – Different Class
Pulp – This Is Hardcore
Pulp – This Is Hardcore
Pulp – This Is Hardcore
Pussy Galore – Exile on Main Street
Queen – Queen II
Queensryche – Operation Mindcrime
Quiet Riot – Quiet Riot II
Radiohead – Kid A
Radiohead – Kid A
Radiohead – Kid A
Rage Against the Macine – Evil Empire
Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine
The Raincoats – The Raincoats
Randy Newman – Born Again
Randy Newman – Good Old Boys
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red House Painters – Songs for a Blue Guitar
REM – Automatic for the People
REM – Fables of the Reconstruction
REM – Monster
The Residents – Meet the Residents
The Residents – Commercial Album
Richard Buckner – The Hill
Richard Hell and the Voidoids – Blank Generation
Ride – Nowhere
Robert Calvert – Captain Lockheed
Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom
Robyn Hitchcock – I Often Dream of Trains
Rocket from the Crypt – Circa: Now
The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed
The Rolling Stones – Some Girls
The Rolling Stones – Some Girls
Royal Trux – Cats and Dogs
Royal Trux – Cats and Dogs
Rudimentary Peni – Cacophony
Run D.M.C. – Raising Hell
Rush – 2112
Rush – Moving Pictures
Rush – Moving Pictures
Rush – Vapor Trails
Sandy Denny – Sandy
Say Anything - …is a Real Boy
Scott Walker – The Drift
Scott Walker – The Drift
The Screaming Trees – Dust
Sebadoh – Bakesale
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Next
Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire de Melody Nelson
Severed Heads – Since the Accident
Shania Twain – Come On Over
The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
Silver Jews – The Natural Bridge
Silver Jews – American Water
Simon and Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Gospel Train
Slapp Happy – Slapp Happy
Sleater-Kinney – One Beat
Slint – Spiderland
Slint – Spiderland
Slint – Spiderland
Slint – Spiderland
Slint – Spiderland
Slint – Spiderland
Slint – Spiderland
Sloan – Twice Removed
Sloan – Twice Removed
Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
The Smiths – The Smiths
Smog – Julius Caesar
Snoop Doggy Dogg – Doggystyle
Songs Ohia – Magnolia Electric Co
Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger
Soundgarden – Superunknown
Sparklehorse – Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
The Specials - Specials
Spoon – Kill the Moonlight
Steppenwolf – Live
Steve Reich – Music for 18 Musicians
The Stooges – Fun House
The Strokes – Is This It
The Strokes – Is This It
Styx – Greatest Hits
Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans
Suicide – Suicide
Super Furry Animals – Phantom Power
Supertramp – Crime of the Century
Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden
Talking Heads – Fear of Music
Talking Heads – Fear of Music
Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food
Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food
Talking Heads – Remain in Light
Talking Heads – Remain in Light
Talking Heads – Remain in Light
Talking Heads – Remain in Light
Tears for Fears – Songs from the Big Chair
Television – Marquee Moon
Television – Marquee Moon
Thee Iran Contras – The Murderbirds
They Might Be Giants – Flood
They Might Be Giants – Flood
They Might Be Giants – Flood
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
Tim Barry – Manchester
Tindersticks – The Second Tindersticks Album
Todd Rundgren – Something/Anything
Todd Rundgren – Something/Anything
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Damn the Torpedoes
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Greatest Hits
Tom Waits – Mule Variations
Tool – Ænima
Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Townes Van Zandt – Townes Van Zandt
Tupac (Makaveli) – The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
U2 – All That You Can’t Leave Behind
U2 – Pop
U2 - Zooropa
Uncle Tupelo – Anodyne
Uncle Tupelo – March 16-20, 1992
Uncle Tupelo – March 16-20, 1992
Underworld – Second Toughest in the Infants
Unrest – Imperial F.F.R.R.
USA for Africa – We Are the World
Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
Van Halen – MCMLXXXIV
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
Various Artists – American Primitive Vol 1
Various Artists – Artificial Intelligence
Various Artists – Dave Godin’s Deep Soul Treasures Vol 1
Various Artists – Let Them Eat Jellybeans
Various Artists – Maranatha! Music: The Everlastin’ Living Jesus Music Concert
Various Artists – Now That’s What I Call Music Vol 26
Various Artists – O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack
Various Artists – Pebbles, Vol 1
Various Artists – Pulp Fiction: Music from the Motion Picture
Various Artists – Queer to the Core
Various Artists – Repo Man soundtrack
Various Artists – Reservoir Dogs soundtrack
Various Artists – Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
Various Artists – Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
Various Artists – Singles soundtrack
The Velvet Underground – Third Album
The Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes
The Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes
Warren Zevon – Warren Zevon
Waylon Jennings – Honky Tonk Heroes
The Wedding Present – Seamonsters
Ween – Chocolate and Cheese
Ween – Chocolate and Cheese
Ween – Chocolate and Cheese
Ween – The Mollusk
Ween – The Pod
The White Stripes – Elephant
The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
The Who – Quadrophenia
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
Wilco – Being There
Wilco – Forthcoming 2009 Album
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Willie Nelson – Stardust
Woody Guthrie – Dust Bowl Ballads
The Wrens – Meadowlands
Xiu Xiu – Fabulous Muscles
X-Ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents
X-Ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents
X – Live at the Whiskey a Go Go
X – Los Angeles
X – Los Angeles
X – More Fun in the New World
XTC – English Settlement
XTC – Skylarking
XTC – Wasp Star (Apple Venus Vol 2)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Yellow Magic Orchestra
Yes – Close to the Edge
Yes – Fragile
Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Yoko Ono – Plastic Ono Band
Young Jeezy – Let’s Get It
Young Marble Giants – Colossal Youth
The Zombies – Odessey and Oracle
The Zombies – Odessey and Oracle
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As you'll see below, we received quite a few proposals this time around. 597 by my count. (OK, by my computer's count - I can't actually go that high.) I haven't even started reading these yet, but it's tremendously exciting. A very big Thank You to everyone who sent in a proposal. Current thinking is that we'll put together a 'shortlist' of sorts, a few weeks from now, which will maybe consist of the 100 or so proposals that are still in the running. But of course this could all change as I start reading...
Make what you will of this list - a snapshot of the interests of contemporary music critics? Some cunning ploys to get a book published? Or is it just utterly random? Feel free to leave comments below, as well as ever so subtle anonymous hints that we should select your proposal :) My only comment at this stage is to note the relatively small number of proposals on albums by artists already covered in the series: I was really expecting a deluge of Dylan, Pink Floyd, Velvets, Smiths, Stones and Radiohead pitches. Instead, we get Slint, Ween, and Britney - hurrah!
Oh, and apologies if the alphabetization isn't perfect...
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2 Live Crew – As Live As They Wanna Be
10CC – Sheet Music
AC/DC – Back in Black
AC/DC – Back in Black
AC/DC – For Those About To Rock
AC/DC – Highway to Hell
Against Me! – Reinventing Axl Rose
Agnostic Front – Cause for Alarm
Aimee Mann – I’m With Stupid
Air – Moon Safari
Alejandro Escovedo – More Miles Than Money
Alexander “Skip” Spence – Oar
The All-American Rejects – All-American Rejects
Allman Brothers Band – At Fillmore East
Amy Grant – Lead Me On
Animal Collective – FEELS
Annie: Anniemal
Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Aphrodite’s Child – 666
Arcade Fire – Funeral
Arcade Fire – Funeral
Arcade Fire – The Neon Bible
Archers of Loaf – Vee Vee
Aretha Franklin – Amazing Grace
Arthur Russell – World of Echo
Arthur Russell – World of Echo
At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command
The B-52s – Wild Planet
The B-52s – B-52s
Bachman Turner Overdrive – Not Fragile
Bad Religion – Suffer
The Beach Boys – Smile
Beat Happening – Beat Happening
The Beatles – Beatles for Sale
The Beatles – The Beatles
The Beatles – The Beatles
Beck – Mutations
Beck – Odelay
Beck – Sea Change
Beck – Sea Change
The Bee Gees – Bee Gees 1st
The Bee Gees – Best of the Bee Gees, Volume 1
Ben Folds Five – The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
Ben Folds Five – Whatever and Ever Amen
Ben Folds – Songs for Silverman
Betty Davis – Nasty Gal
Beulah – Yoko
Big Black – Atomizer
Big Country – The Crossing
Bill Fox – Transit Byzantium
Billy Bragg and Wilco – Mermaid Avenue
Billy Bragg – Workers Playtime
Black Oak Arkansas – The Definitive Rock Collection
Black Sabbath – Heaven and Hell
Black Star – Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star
Black Uhuru – Showcase
Blue Oyster Cult – Secret Treaties
The Blues Project – Projections
Blur – 13
Bob Dylan – Saved
Bob Dylan – Self Portrait
Bob Dylan – Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan – Time Out of Mind
Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet
Bright Eyes – Fevers and Mirrors
Britney Spears – Blackout
Britney Spears – Blackout
Britney Spears – Blackout
Broadcast – Haha Sound
Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It in People
Bruce Cockburn – Humans
Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the Edge of Town
Camper Van Beethoven – Key Lime Pie
Camper Van Beethoven – Key Lime Pie
Carole King – Tapestry
The Cars – The Cars
The Cars – The Cars
Cat Stevens – Tea for the Tillerman
The Chills – Submarine Bells
The Church – Priest = Aura
The Clash – Sandinista!
Cocteau Twins – Pink Opaque
Counting Crows – August and Everything After
The Cramps – Songs the Lord Taught Us
Crass – Christ the Album
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Chronicle Vol 1
Crowded House – Together Alone
The Cure - Pornography
Cyndi Lauper – She’s So Unusual
Cypress Hill – Black Sunday
Daft Punk – Discovery
Daft Punk – Homework
Dag Nasty – Can I Say
D’Angelo – Voodoo
Daniel Johnston – Yip/Jump Music
Danzig – Danzig
David Bowie – Diamond Dogs
David Bowie – Let’s Dance
David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Thomas and Two Pale Boys – 18 Monkeys on a Dead Man’s Back
De La Soul – 3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul – Buhloone Mindstate
De La Soul – De La Soul Is Dead
De La Soul – De La Soul Is Dead
Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Death Cab for Cutie – Plans
Deerhoof – Milk Man
Dennis Wilson – Pacific Ocean Blue
Dennis Wilson – Pacific Ocean Blue
The Deviants – Ptoof!
Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Digital Underground – Sex Packets
Dinosaur Jr. – You’re Living All Over Me
Dinosaur Jr. – You’re Living All Over Me
Dinosaur Jr. – You’re Living All Over Me
Dinosaur Jr. – You’re Living All Over Me
Dismemberment Plan – Emergency & I
Donovan – Gift From a Flower to a Garden
Donovan – Sunshine Superman
Doug Walker – Fear Together
Down – Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow
Dr. Dre – The Chronic
The Dream Syndicate – Days of Wine and Roses
Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera
Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera
Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera
The Drones – Gala Mill
Duran Duran – Rio
Duran Duran – Rio
Duran Duran – Rio
Duran Duran – Rio
The Eagles – Greatest Hits
The Eagles – Greatest Hits
The Eagles – Hotel California
Earth – Earth 2
Earth – Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions
Eels – Electro-Shock Blues
ELO – Out of the Blue
Electric Prunes – Mass in F Minor
Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elvis Costello – Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Costello – Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Presley – Elvis Presley (1956)
Emmylou Harris – Pieces of the Sky
Ennio Morricone – The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Brian Eno and David Byrne – My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Erykah Badu – Mama’s Gun
Explosions in the Sky – The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
Fairport Convention – Liege and Lief
Fairport Convention – Liege and Lief
Faith No More – Angel Dust
Faith No More – Angel Dust
The Fall – Hex Enduction Hour
The Fall – This Nation’s Saving Grace
The Fall – This Nation’s Saving Grace
Fall Out Boy – From Under the Cork Tree
Fennesz – Endless Summer
The Fire Show – Saint the Fire Show
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters
Frank Zappa – We’re Only In It for the Money
Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
Fugazi – 13 Songs
Fugazi – In On the Kill Taker
Fugazi – In On the Kill Taker
Fugazi – The Argument
The Fugees – The Score
The Fugs – It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest
Galaxie 500 – Today
Gang of Four – Entertainment!
Gang of Four – Hard
Gang of Four – Solid Gold
Garth Brooks – (in…) The Life of Chris Gaines
Gary Numan and Tubeway Army – Replicas
Gary Numan and Tubeway Army – Replicas
Gary Numan – The Pleasure Principle
Gary Wilson – You Think You Really Know Me
Gene Clark – No Other
Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
George Harrison – All Things Must Pass
George Michael – Faith
George Michael – Older
Giant Sand – Chore of Enchantment
Gillian Welch – Time (The Revelator)
Girl Talk – Feed the Animals
Girl Talk – Night Ripper
Glasvegas – Glasvegas
Graham Parker and the Rumour – Squeezing Out Sparks
Grateful Dead – Anthem of the Sun
Grateful Dead – Anthem of the Sun
Grateful Dead – The Closing of Winterland
Grateful Dead – Europe ‘72
Green Day – Dookie
Green Day – Insomniac
The GZA – Liquid Swords
Half Japanese – Sing No Evil
Hall and Oates – Rock ‘n’ Soul Part One
Henry Cow – Western Culture
Herb Alpert – Whipped Cream and Other Delights
The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday
The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday
The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday
The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America
Husker Du – Zen Arcade
Husker Du – Zen Arcade
Husker Du – Zen Arcade
Ice Cube – Death Certificate
Iggy and the Stooges – Raw Power
Iggy and the Stooges – Raw Power
Iggy Pop – TV Eye (1977 Live)
The Incredible String Band – The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter
The Incredible String Band – The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter
The Incredible String Band – Wee Tam and the Big Huge
Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden
J. Geils Band – Monkey Island
J Dilla – Donuts
J Dilla – Donuts
Jack Bruce – Harmony Row
The Jam – All Mod Cons
Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking
Jane’s Addiction – Ritual de lo Habitual
Jason and the Scorchers – Lost & Found
Jawbreaker – 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
Jawbreaker – Dear You
Jawbreaker – Dear You
Jay-Z – The Blueprint
Jefferson Airplane – Crown of Creation
Jefferson Starship – Blows Against the Empire
Jeffrey Lewis – 12 Crass Songs
Jellyfish – Spilt Milk
Jerry Lee Lewis – Live at the Star Club, Hamburg
Jethro Tull – Songs from the Wood
Jimmy Buffett – Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Jimmy Cliff – The Harder They Come
Jimmy Eat World – Clarity
Joanna Newsom – Ys
Joe Jackson – Night and Day
John Cale – Paris 1919
John Fahey – America
John Frusciante – Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-shirt
John Frusciante – Shadows Collide with People
John Lennon – Live in New York City
John Mayer – Heavier Things
John Mayer – Room for Squares
John Phillips – John the Wolfking of L.A.
Johnny Cash – American Recordings
Johnny Cash – American Recordings
Jon Brion – Meaningless
Jon Carter – Live at the Social
Joni Mitchell – Hejira
Judee Sill – Heart Food
Kanye West – 808 & Heartbreak
Kanye West – The College Dropout
Kanye West – The College Dropout
Karen Dalton – In My Own Time
Kate and Anna McGarrigle – Kate and Anna McGarrigle
King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
Kiss – Destroyer
Kiss – Kiss Alive!
Klaus Nomi – Klaus Nomi
The Knack – Get the Knack
Korn – Korn
Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express
Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express
Laurie Anderson – Big Science
Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Leon Russell – Carney
Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man
Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen – Various Positions
Lil’ Wayne – Da Drought 3
Lil’ Wayne – Da Drought 3
Little Feat – Sailin’ Shoes
Little Feat – Sailin’ Shoes
Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville
Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville
Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville
Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville
Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville
Lou Reed – Berlin
Lou Reed – Metal Machine Music
Lou Reed – Metal Machine Music
Low – The Great Destroyer
Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Lungfish – Sound in Time
Madonna – Ray of Light
Main Source – Breaking Atoms
Manu Chao – Clandestino
Marianne Faithfull – Broken English
Mark Farina –United DJs of America Vol 9
Marlo Thomas and Friends – Free To Be You and Me
Marshall Crenshaw – Marshall Crenshaw
Mary Margaret O’Hara – Miss America
Massive Attack – Blue Lines
Massive Attack – Blue Lines
Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell
The Meat Puppets – Meat Puppets II
The Mekons – Fear and Whiskey
The Mekons – Fear and Whiskey
The Melvins – Lysol
The Melvins – Bullhead
The Melvins – Houdini
Meshell Ndegeocello – Bitter
Metallica – Metallica
Metallica – Metallica
Metallica – Master of Puppets
Metallica – Master of Puppets
Metallica – Master of Puppets
The Meters – Rejuvenation
The Meters – The Meters
M.I.A. – Kala
Michael Jackson –Thriller
Michael W. Smith – Go West Young Man
Mick Ronson – Slaughter on 10th Avenue
The Microphones – The Glow Pt. 2
Midnight Oil – Diesel and Dust
Mike Ness – Cheating at Solitaire
The Millennium – Begin
Mobb Deep – The Infamous
Moby Grape – Moby Grape
Moby – Play
Modern Lovers – Modern Lovers
Modest Mouse – Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Modest Mouse – The Lonesome Crowded West
Mogwai – Young Team
The Monkees – Head
The Monkees – Pisces Aquarius Capricorn and Jones Ltd
Morrissey – Ringleader of the Tormentors
Morrissey – Viva Hate
The Mother Hips – Back to the Grotto
Mothers of Invention – Freak Out!
Mott the Hoople – Mott
The Mountain Goats – All Hail West Texas
The Mountain Goats – Tallahassee
The Mountain Goats – The Sunset Tree
The Mountain Goats – We Shall All Be Healed
Murder City Devils – Empty Bottles Broken Hearts
Naked City – Naked City
Namco – Katamari Fortissimo Damacy
The Nation of Ulysses – Plays Pretty for Baby
Neil Diamond – Hot August Night
Neil Young – Tonight’s the Night
The Nihilist Spasm Band – No Record
New Order – Power, Corruption and Lies
New Order – Power, Corruption and Lies
New Order – Power, Corruption and Lies
New York Dolls – New York Dolls
New York Dolls – New York Dolls
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Tender Prey
Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
NWA – Straight Outta Compton
The Oblivians – Soul Food
The O’Jays – Back Stabbers
Ol’ Dirty Bastard – Return to the 36 Chambers
Olivia Tremor Control – Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle
Operation Ivy – Energy
Operation Ivy – Energy
Ottmar Liebert – The Scent of Light
Ozzy Osbourne – Tribute
Paul Simon – Graceland
Paul Westerberg – Stereo/Mono
Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted
Pearl Jam – Ten
Pearl Jam – Vitalogy
Pearl Jam – Vitalogy
Pearl Jam - Vs
The People’s Temple Choir – He’s Able
Pere Ubu – Dub Housing
The Persuasions – Chirpin’
Pet Shop Boys – Very
Peter Hammill – Over
Pharcyde – Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
Phil Ochs – Rehearsals for Retirement
Phil Spector – Back to Mono (1958-69)
Phish – 03/01/2003
Phish – Junta
Phish – Rift
Pink Floyd – The Wall
Poe – Haunted
The Police - Synchronicity
Portishead – Dummy
The Postal Service – Give Up
The Postal Service – Give Up
The Postal Service – Give Up
Prefab Sprout – Steve McQueen
Prefab Sprout – Steve McQueen
Primal Scream – Screamadelica
The Promise Ring – Nothing Feels Good
Public Image Limited – Metal Box
Public Image Limited – Metal Box
Pulp – Different Class
Pulp – Different Class
Pulp – This Is Hardcore
Pulp – This Is Hardcore
Pulp – This Is Hardcore
Pussy Galore – Exile on Main Street
Queen – Queen II
Queensryche – Operation Mindcrime
Quiet Riot – Quiet Riot II
Radiohead – Kid A
Radiohead – Kid A
Radiohead – Kid A
Rage Against the Macine – Evil Empire
Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine
The Raincoats – The Raincoats
Randy Newman – Born Again
Randy Newman – Good Old Boys
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red House Painters – Songs for a Blue Guitar
REM – Automatic for the People
REM – Fables of the Reconstruction
REM – Monster
The Residents – Meet the Residents
The Residents – Commercial Album
Richard Buckner – The Hill
Richard Hell and the Voidoids – Blank Generation
Ride – Nowhere
Robert Calvert – Captain Lockheed
Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom
Robyn Hitchcock – I Often Dream of Trains
Rocket from the Crypt – Circa: Now
The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed
The Rolling Stones – Some Girls
The Rolling Stones – Some Girls
Royal Trux – Cats and Dogs
Royal Trux – Cats and Dogs
Rudimentary Peni – Cacophony
Run D.M.C. – Raising Hell
Rush – 2112
Rush – Moving Pictures
Rush – Moving Pictures
Rush – Vapor Trails
Sandy Denny – Sandy
Say Anything - …is a Real Boy
Scott Walker – The Drift
Scott Walker – The Drift
The Screaming Trees – Dust
Sebadoh – Bakesale
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Next
Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire de Melody Nelson
Severed Heads – Since the Accident
Shania Twain – Come On Over
The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
Silver Jews – The Natural Bridge
Silver Jews – American Water
Simon and Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Gospel Train
Slapp Happy – Slapp Happy
Sleater-Kinney – One Beat
Slint – Spiderland
Slint – Spiderland
Slint – Spiderland
Slint – Spiderland
Slint – Spiderland
Slint – Spiderland
Slint – Spiderland
Sloan – Twice Removed
Sloan – Twice Removed
Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
The Smiths – The Smiths
Smog – Julius Caesar
Snoop Doggy Dogg – Doggystyle
Songs Ohia – Magnolia Electric Co
Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger
Soundgarden – Superunknown
Sparklehorse – Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
The Specials - Specials
Spoon – Kill the Moonlight
Steppenwolf – Live
Steve Reich – Music for 18 Musicians
The Stooges – Fun House
The Strokes – Is This It
The Strokes – Is This It
Styx – Greatest Hits
Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans
Suicide – Suicide
Super Furry Animals – Phantom Power
Supertramp – Crime of the Century
Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden
Talking Heads – Fear of Music
Talking Heads – Fear of Music
Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food
Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food
Talking Heads – Remain in Light
Talking Heads – Remain in Light
Talking Heads – Remain in Light
Talking Heads – Remain in Light
Tears for Fears – Songs from the Big Chair
Television – Marquee Moon
Television – Marquee Moon
Thee Iran Contras – The Murderbirds
They Might Be Giants – Flood
They Might Be Giants – Flood
They Might Be Giants – Flood
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
Tim Barry – Manchester
Tindersticks – The Second Tindersticks Album
Todd Rundgren – Something/Anything
Todd Rundgren – Something/Anything
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Damn the Torpedoes
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Greatest Hits
Tom Waits – Mule Variations
Tool – Ænima
Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Townes Van Zandt – Townes Van Zandt
Tupac (Makaveli) – The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
U2 – All That You Can’t Leave Behind
U2 – Pop
U2 - Zooropa
Uncle Tupelo – Anodyne
Uncle Tupelo – March 16-20, 1992
Uncle Tupelo – March 16-20, 1992
Underworld – Second Toughest in the Infants
Unrest – Imperial F.F.R.R.
USA for Africa – We Are the World
Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
Van Halen – MCMLXXXIV
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
Various Artists – American Primitive Vol 1
Various Artists – Artificial Intelligence
Various Artists – Dave Godin’s Deep Soul Treasures Vol 1
Various Artists – Let Them Eat Jellybeans
Various Artists – Maranatha! Music: The Everlastin’ Living Jesus Music Concert
Various Artists – Now That’s What I Call Music Vol 26
Various Artists – O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack
Various Artists – Pebbles, Vol 1
Various Artists – Pulp Fiction: Music from the Motion Picture
Various Artists – Queer to the Core
Various Artists – Repo Man soundtrack
Various Artists – Reservoir Dogs soundtrack
Various Artists – Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
Various Artists – Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
Various Artists – Singles soundtrack
The Velvet Underground – Third Album
The Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes
The Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes
Warren Zevon – Warren Zevon
Waylon Jennings – Honky Tonk Heroes
The Wedding Present – Seamonsters
Ween – Chocolate and Cheese
Ween – Chocolate and Cheese
Ween – Chocolate and Cheese
Ween – The Mollusk
Ween – The Pod
The White Stripes – Elephant
The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
The Who – Quadrophenia
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
Wilco – Being There
Wilco – Forthcoming 2009 Album
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Willie Nelson – Stardust
Woody Guthrie – Dust Bowl Ballads
The Wrens – Meadowlands
Xiu Xiu – Fabulous Muscles
X-Ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents
X-Ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents
X – Live at the Whiskey a Go Go
X – Los Angeles
X – Los Angeles
X – More Fun in the New World
XTC – English Settlement
XTC – Skylarking
XTC – Wasp Star (Apple Venus Vol 2)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Yellow Magic Orchestra
Yes – Close to the Edge
Yes – Fragile
Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Yoko Ono – Plastic Ono Band
Young Jeezy – Let’s Get It
Young Marble Giants – Colossal Youth
The Zombies – Odessey and Oracle
The Zombies – Odessey and Oracle
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Article:
http://33third.blogspot.com/2009/01/longlist.html
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Culture Jam
Culture Jam
By Jesi Khadivi
Originally published in artnet
Two months ago, undeterred by the flailing economy, art dealer Charlie James and curator Dane Johnson teamed up to open the Charlie James Gallery in Chinatown in Los Angeles. Their first exhibition, with the straightforward title "Western Front: Inaugural Group Show," featured works by three Bay Area artists from the Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco -- Packard Jennings, Ray Beldner and Kara Maria.
Despite current market woes, or perhaps because of them, "Western Front" delighted in cold, hard cash. The suggestive political and economic undertones in the exhibition (some more subtle than others), succinctly articulate the gallery’s post-pop conceptual focus, which mixes agit-prop, conceptual high jinks and bawdy imagery.
Packard Jennings, a collaborator with the Yes Men on last month’s New York Times spoof, contributes several bitingly acerbic culture jams, including his Anarchist Action Figure, the Molotov-cocktail-wielding toy-sized sculpture that has already gotten a certain amount of critical attention. Another standout is his Business Reply Pamphlet, which provides step-by-step pictorial instructions on how to refashion a soul-sucking corporate office space into a nudist utopia, a work that was originally designed to be "shopdropped" in junk-mail sorting centers. The action figure is $2,800, while the pamphlet is $850, framed.
Ray Beldner, a Bay Area sculptor and installation artist (who also shows with New York dealer Caren Golden) offers a sly exegesis of the intersection of art, commerce and appropriation in his "Counterfeit" series, recreations of contemporary blue chip artworks made out of dollar bills. His hanging quilt, Golden Rule (Hollywood -- After Ruscha) (2003), is a version of Ed Ruscha’s Hollywood Sign made out of sewn U.S. currency, while his 6 Squares of Cash (after Carl Andre) (2002) is an Andre floor piece redone in flattened singles.
Beldner’s work fuses the appropriational impulse of Sherrie Levine -- among her first works were presidential portraits taken from coins -- with the obsessive, craftiness of contemporary collagists like Jonathan Herder and Mark Wagner. Prices range from $950 to $12,000.
Like her colleagues here, Kara Maria could be called a political pop artist. Her work explores the popular, well-trodden symbology surrounding U.S. engagement in the Middle East in a series of paintings devoted to the obscene links between petro-commerce and war. In The Muddiness of Right and Wrong, a towering skull wearing camouflage and RayBans gives a toothy grin while two scantily clad women vamp in the foreground.
One figure, naked except for her hijab, throws a seductive glance over her shoulder while the BP petroleum logo encroaches upon her bare ass. The work is available for $8,500. While the relationship between pornography and violence is fertile ground and the cultural context of violence warrants discussion, Walker’s powerful paintings run the risk of inspiring the very "war fatigue" that she seeks to combat.
"Western Front: Inaugural Group Show: Ray Beldner, Packard Jennings, and Kara Maria," Nov. 15, 2008-Jan. 3, 2009, at Charlie James Gallery, 975 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, Ca. 90012.
JESI KHADIVI is an art and film critic based in Los Angeles and Berlin.
By Jesi Khadivi
Originally published in artnet
Two months ago, undeterred by the flailing economy, art dealer Charlie James and curator Dane Johnson teamed up to open the Charlie James Gallery in Chinatown in Los Angeles. Their first exhibition, with the straightforward title "Western Front: Inaugural Group Show," featured works by three Bay Area artists from the Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco -- Packard Jennings, Ray Beldner and Kara Maria.
Despite current market woes, or perhaps because of them, "Western Front" delighted in cold, hard cash. The suggestive political and economic undertones in the exhibition (some more subtle than others), succinctly articulate the gallery’s post-pop conceptual focus, which mixes agit-prop, conceptual high jinks and bawdy imagery.
Packard Jennings, a collaborator with the Yes Men on last month’s New York Times spoof, contributes several bitingly acerbic culture jams, including his Anarchist Action Figure, the Molotov-cocktail-wielding toy-sized sculpture that has already gotten a certain amount of critical attention. Another standout is his Business Reply Pamphlet, which provides step-by-step pictorial instructions on how to refashion a soul-sucking corporate office space into a nudist utopia, a work that was originally designed to be "shopdropped" in junk-mail sorting centers. The action figure is $2,800, while the pamphlet is $850, framed.
Ray Beldner, a Bay Area sculptor and installation artist (who also shows with New York dealer Caren Golden) offers a sly exegesis of the intersection of art, commerce and appropriation in his "Counterfeit" series, recreations of contemporary blue chip artworks made out of dollar bills. His hanging quilt, Golden Rule (Hollywood -- After Ruscha) (2003), is a version of Ed Ruscha’s Hollywood Sign made out of sewn U.S. currency, while his 6 Squares of Cash (after Carl Andre) (2002) is an Andre floor piece redone in flattened singles.
Beldner’s work fuses the appropriational impulse of Sherrie Levine -- among her first works were presidential portraits taken from coins -- with the obsessive, craftiness of contemporary collagists like Jonathan Herder and Mark Wagner. Prices range from $950 to $12,000.
Like her colleagues here, Kara Maria could be called a political pop artist. Her work explores the popular, well-trodden symbology surrounding U.S. engagement in the Middle East in a series of paintings devoted to the obscene links between petro-commerce and war. In The Muddiness of Right and Wrong, a towering skull wearing camouflage and RayBans gives a toothy grin while two scantily clad women vamp in the foreground.
One figure, naked except for her hijab, throws a seductive glance over her shoulder while the BP petroleum logo encroaches upon her bare ass. The work is available for $8,500. While the relationship between pornography and violence is fertile ground and the cultural context of violence warrants discussion, Walker’s powerful paintings run the risk of inspiring the very "war fatigue" that she seeks to combat.
"Western Front: Inaugural Group Show: Ray Beldner, Packard Jennings, and Kara Maria," Nov. 15, 2008-Jan. 3, 2009, at Charlie James Gallery, 975 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, Ca. 90012.
JESI KHADIVI is an art and film critic based in Los Angeles and Berlin.
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Happy New Year to all the friends, family, and stalkers
who read my blog. P and I have begun phase
one of our farewell to California tour: Zabrikie Point hot springs!
Photos coming soon...
Happy New Year to all the friends, family, and stalkers
who read my blog. P and I have begun phase
one of our farewell to California tour: Zabrikie Point hot springs!
Photos coming soon...
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