Darryn's Music Picks

Darryn's Music Picks

These are some great artists and songs I found during the year - the ones that stayed in my head, that I listened to repeatedly. (They were not necessarily produced during that same year.)

2008 - The Year of Wilco

Song	Artist	Album
Hang Them All	Tapes 'n Tapes	Walk It Off
Secret Meeting	The National	Alligator
Waiting For An Invitation	Benji Hughes	A Love Extreme
Ghost Under Rocks	Ra Ra Riot	The Rhumb Line
Halfway Home	TV On The Radio	Dear Science
Flume	Bon Iver	For Emma, Forever Ago
Sun It Rises	Fleet Foxes	Fleet Foxes
Fiery Crash	Andrew Bird	Armchair Apocrypha
Dry The Rain	The Beta Band	The Three EPs
Shine A Light	Wolf Parade	Apologies To The Queen Mary
To Cure A Weakling Child & Boy/Girl Song	Adem	Takes
Run Away	Rocketship Park	Off And Away
Melting (Into Corners)	Hoax Funeral	Pour Away The Ocean
Serotonin	Simple Kid	2
L.E.S. Artistes	Santogold	Santogold
Lilacs	Matt Costa	Unfamiliar Faces
One Thing	Griffin House	Flying Upside Down
Evil Urges	My Morning Jacket	Evil Urges
Lazy Eye	Silversun Pickups	Carnavas
Side With The Seeds	Wilco	Sky Blue Sky

Jen and I caught up with Wilco at the Koka Booth Amphitheater (Cary NC), a great outdoor concert set among the pine trees - a nice surprise was the opening by Bon Iver. Also saw an excellent performance by Griffin House (Charlotte NC) at the Neighborhood Theater with our friends Jason and Sara.

2007 - The Year of Arcade Fire

Song	Artist	Album
(Antichrist Television Blues)	Arcade Fire	Neon Bible
Intervention	Arcade Fire	Neon Bible
No Cars Go	Arcade Fire	Neon Bible
Windowsill	Arcade Fire	Neon Bible
Sleeping Lessons	The Shins	Wincing the Night Away
Sea Legs	The Shins	Wincing the Night Away
Panic Open String	Calexico	Garden Ruin
A Winner Needs a Wand	Sufjan Stevens	A Sun Came!
Roscoe	Midlake	The Trials of Van Occupanther
Beehive	Bottom of the Hudson	Fantastic Hawk
Cold December	Matt Costa	Songs We Sing
For Reverend Green	Animal Collective	Strawberry Jam
Words You Used to Say	Dean & Britta	Back Numbers
High Times	Elliott Smith	New Moon
Take It Easy (Love Nothing)	Bright Eyes	Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
Eskimo	Damien Rice	O
Hamoa Beach	Gomez	How We Operate
Holland, 1945	Neutral Milk Hotel	In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Either Way	Wilco	Sky Blue Sky
Seven Nation Army	The White Stripes	Elephant

Jen and I saw two awesome concerts in 2007: Arcade Fire's Neon Bible tour (Asheville NC) with our friends Anne and Jason (opening by The National which was also awesome), and I caught Silversun Pickups at Amos' (Charlotte NC) with Anne. I missed Wilco's Sky Blue Sky tour, but I'll catch them next time.

2006 - Tribute to Elliott Smith

Song	Artist	Album
Bottle Up and Explode!	Elliott Smith	XO
Junk Bond Trader	Elliott Smith	Figure 8
A Distorted Reality Is Now a Necessity To Be Free	Elliott Smith	From a Basement on the Hill
Pretty (Ugly Before)	Elliott Smith	From a Basement on the Hill
No Name #1	Elliott Smith	Roman Candle
There There	Radiohead	Hail to the Thief
Subterranean Homesick Alien	Radiohead	OK Computer
11:11	Rufus Wainwright	Want One
Go Or Go Ahead	Rufus Wainwright	Want One
Neighborhood #2 (Laika)	Arcade Fire	Funeral
Old Flame	Arcade Fire	Arcade Fire (EP)
Everybody's Stalking	Badly Drawn Boy	The Hour of Bewilderbeast
Strange Apparition	Beck	The Information
Cellphone's Dead	Beck	The Information
New Slang	The Shins	Garden State (Soundtrack)
Kamikaze	PJ Harvey	Stories from the Cty, Stories from the Sea
Are You a Hypnotist??	The Flaming Lips	Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Italian Leather Sofa	Cake	Fashion Nugget
Radiation Vibe	Fountains of Wayne	Fountains of Wayne
'Til I Whisper U Something	Sinéad O'Connor	Faith and Courage

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