Don't Call It A Comeback

I'm back.  With power power?  No.  Just back.  Where have I been?  I've been hustlin'?  No, I've been busying graduating (Can I graduate?! Yes....yes I can) and looking for jobs (um.....no snarky songs to quote here) and looking for a new apartment.  Yes, I felt being a 20 something unemployed blogger wasn't cliched enough so I'm moving to Brooklyn, hopefully in a few weeks.  

But now that the horror/whore that was capping is over with, I can re-focus some attention here.  

So for my triumphant return, a list.  Mainly because I don't really have an videos or photos to post as of yet.  Shush.  Don't hate.

So a list.  What manner of list?  Well, it was going to be a Top X Albums.  But then, that's so arbitrary and limiting.    So I'm going to pick a method just as arbitrary but more suitable for my use.  So, without further ado, here is my Top 10 Favorite Arbitrary Collections of Music...

10 - Arcade Fire - Funeral > cause it's the best album of the 00's.  

9 - Animal Collective - an album consisting of 3 songs each from Sung Tongs, Feels, and Strawberry Jam > because AC singles - atmospheric filler = perfection

8 - Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Broom > cause I love the last 30 seconds of "Gwyneth"more than I should.

7 - Pixies - first 6 songs from Surfer Rosa > lets be honest, it goes downhill steeply after that....but the first 6 songs were their best.

6 - Ra Ra Riot - not their debut album but an album of my own creation featuring, in this order, A Manner To Act, Each Year, Can You Tell, Suspended in Gaffa, St. Peter's Day Festival, Oh La, Everest, Too Too Too Fast, Run My Mouth Off, Ghost Under Rocks, Dying Is Fine.  

5 (tie) Tokyo Police Club - Tesselate > where Dave Monks sings "running barefoot, you and I"

Yeasayer - 2080 Live on Conan O'Brian > when they do the "YEAH YEAH" chant towards the end of the song

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The entire first album is underrated and over hated.  It's crazy pop music sung by a crazy bob dylan impersonator and I adore it.

4- The Beatles - Abbey Road, side two > if I have to explain this then you don't love music.

3 - Mission Of Burma - An album that is mostly Signals Calls and Marches but also with Peking Spring, Max Ernst, Academy Fight Song, The Ballad of Johnny Burma, and That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate

2 - Neural Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea > As is because it's completely perfect as it is.

1 - The National -  Alligator + Boxer (but more realistically, most of Alligator but plus Fake Empire, Slow Show, Apartment Story, Squalor Victoria, and Mistaken For Strangers)