Another pointless list of the month aka the things I’ve loved during the month. I didn’t really think about the order. I enjoeyd all of them. As you can see, I went a little “reissue crazy” and pick up a lot of stuff from the Rev-Ola and Now Sounds catalogs. Mostly sunshine pop / soft pop / psych pop stuff. And this isn’t the end of it. There’s more reissues like Dotti Holmberg, Love Generation, Jimmy Campbell’s solo stuff, Tommy Roe and The Rationals already coming my way. This is actually one of the reasons I haven’t updated this blog lately. I’ve spent all of my spare time searching music like this. I think the only new albums I bought were Monsters Of Folk and Kings Of Convenience. Both sound good, but I haven’t spent enough time with them yet.

TOP ALBUMS:

1. Big Star: Keep an Eye On The Sky (Box Set)
2. Curt Boettcher: Chicken Little Was Right
3. Tee and Cara: As They Are
4. Rockin’ Horse: Yes It Is
5. The Peppermint Trolley Company: Beautiful Sun
6. The Blades Of Grass: Are Smoking
7. The Lemon Pipers: Love Beads and Meditation
8. The Long Ryders: The Best Of The Long Ryders
9. Sandy Salisbury: Sandy
10. The Canterbury Music Festival: Rain & Shine
11. October Country: October Country
12. The Parade: Sunshine Girl: The Complete Recordings
13. The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band: Part One
14. The Family Tree: Miss Butters
15. The Gordian Knot: The Gordian Knot
16. The Deep Six: The Deep Six
17. Bobby Jameson: Color Him In
18. Chris Lucey: Songs of Protest and Anti-Protest
19. Lee Mallory: That’s The Way It’s Gonna Be
20. Where The Action Is? Los Angeles Nuggets (Box Set)

TOP SONGS:

1. The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band: If You Want This Love
2. Tee and Cara: Waiting List
3. The Lemon Pipers: Rice Is Nice
4. The Canterbury Music Festival: First Spring Rain
5. Curt Boettcher: Out Of The Dark Of The Night
6. The Blades Of Grass: The Way You’ll Never Be
7. The Deep Six: Paint It Black
8. October Country: End Of The Line
9. The Parade: Sunshine Girl
10. Rockin’ Horse: The Biggest Gossip In Town

Time for the pointless list of the month aka things I loved during september. I hope I didn’t forget anything extremely important.

Top albums:

1. The Avett Brothers: I and Love and You
2. The Micragirls: Wild Girl Walk
3. Janne Laurila: Kultaisia pisteitä
4. Mark Eric: A Midnight Summer’s Dream
5. Richmond Fontaine: We Used To Think The Freeway…
6. Shaun Harris: Shaun Harris
7. Rogriguez: Coming From Reality
8. Langhorne Slim: Be Set Free
9. John Hartford: Looks at Life / Earthwords & Music
10. Gene Parsons: Kindling

Top 5 songs:

1. The Micragirls: Summer’s Gone
2. The Avett Brothers: January Wedding
3. Richmond Fontaine: Maybe We Were Both Born Blue
4. Mark Eric: Move With The Dawn
5. Janne Laurila: Kultaisia pisteitä

Oh.. and I know this review thingy has gotten a bit out of hand lately. But I suppose it’s funny that at least for once the problem is that I write too much stuff and not the fact that I don’t write anything at all for months. I just had this ludicrous idea to review everything I’ve bought during the year and there’s a lot of that stuff. Am I even halfway through yet. I hope I am. I’m also well aware that I haven’t reviewed many finnish albums. I care too much about them, so it’s much more stressful and time consuming to review them. But I will do them eventually. I can fully recommend reviewing for everyone though. My extremely poor reviews aren’t very detailed and have an information value of zero, but writing them still meant that I actually had to listen to the records and pay attention. Yeah, the fact I haven’t even listened to all of them that well beforehand sounds stupid, because I do buy 97% of the music I review and don’t get piles of heavy or rap promos that I’m not that interested about. I know that actually listening to records and not just collecting them is a sick idea, but sometimes it’s worthwhile and reviewing is a good way to force oneself to actually listen to the albums he/she buys..

Too lazy to do the week things so maybe these month lists are pointless enough:

TOP ALBUMS:

1. The Duke & The King: Nothing Gold Can Stay
2. Brendan Benson: My Old, Familiar Friend
3. Emitt Rhodes: The Emitt Rhodes Recordings
4. Kaspar: Kaspar
5. Magnolia Electric Co.: Josephine
6. The Jayhawks Anthology
7. Astrid Swan: Better Than Wages
8. Haruko: Wild Geese
9. Rhett Miller: Rhett Miller
10. The Shazam: Meteor

TOP SONGS:

1. The Duke & The King: One More American Song
2. The Duke & The King: If You Ever Get Famous
3. The Duke & The King: Union Street
4. The Duke & The King: Water Spider
5. Brendan Benson: A Whole Lot Better