Not a Best of 2008 part one

Greetings and thanks for being involved this past year! Please keep coming back to listen and to recommend tracks in 2009!!

All songs this week are from bands that shined this past year. It is in no way intended to be a "best of" for the year.

Here's a direct shot to download the PODcast: http://forthazel.com/millions.mp3

Department of Eagles - "In Ear Park" from the album In Ear Park
the Silver Jews - "My Pillow is a Threshold" from the album Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
Crystal Antlers - "A Thousand Eyes" from the self-titled EP
NightWounds - "Ghana" from the Nail in the Coffin split LP with AIDS Wolf
Landed - "Times I Despise" from the album How Little Will it Take
Tim and Eric - "Cops and Robbers" from the collection of songs off of "Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!"
Thomas Function - "Lights Down Low" from the album Celebration
Dead Western - "My Old Home" from the album Soften Your Screams Into Sings
Chad VanGaalen - "City of Electric Light" from the album Soft Airplane
Parenthetical Girls - "Song for Ellie Greenwich" from the album Entanglements
Fleet Foxes - "Mykonos" from the EP Sun Giant
Crystal Stilts - "Converging in the Quiet" from the self-titled LP
Sic Alps - "Mater" from the album U.S. Ez
Sparks - "Operation" from the album Exotic Creatures of the Deep
Abe Vigoda - "Endless Sleepers" from the album Skeleton
AIDS Wolf - "Now Yr Gonna Lose It" from the Nail in the Coffin split LP with NightWounds

Also great this year were incredible albums by Deerhunter, Lowbelly, Torche, Two Prong, Panther, Valet, Ratatat, Dan Friel, Radiohead, Pattern is Movement, Pyramids, Parts and Labor, the OhSees, No Age, Dr. Dog, Dan Giberman, the Mayyors, Jay Reatard, etc. It would have been foolish of me to attempt a truly "best of" for this past year. It reminds me of the theory that the quality of art and artists thrive during times of oppression and war. While many of us may not have felt oppressed, we have had some policies in place that may have encouraged some great art!! Thank you to the exiting administration for all of the good music that you helped to inspire by pissing many people off!! If there's any truth to the theory that art and government are inversely related, I hope the next eight years suck for music and art.

Love,
Jeremy

Pining for the 80s again! "Pretty in Pink"

Psychedelic Furs take the prize and are back this week! I messed up and forgot to include Caribou's "Melody Day" in the poll even though we did play it, so it's back again as well.

Here's a direct stab at the new show:
Http://forthazel.com/millions.mp3

Have a great week!!

Last week's results:

Radiohead - Bodysnatchers * one vote
Jay Reatard - My Family *** three votes
Curtis Mayfield - Move on Up ** two votes
Silver Jews - Suffering Jukebox * one vote
Flaming Lips - With You zero votes
Deerhoof - +81 ** two votes
Strokes - Soma zero votes
Pit er Pat - Underwater Wave Game ** two votes
Toots & the Maytals - Pressure Drop ** two votes
The Planet The - Look of a Woman *** three votes
Hawnay Troof - White Men in Suits ** two votes
Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink **** four votes
Unwound - Demolished ** two votes
Shorty - Fresh Breath * one vote
My Bloody Valentine - You Never Should * one vote
Traveling Wilburys - Handle With Care * one vote

June 1st show poll results

Die! Die! Die! - Sideways Here We Come ------------- 2 votes

*joesepi* - Dear Jessica ----------------- 1 vote

Silver Jews - The Frontier Index ------------ 1 vote

Comets On Fire - Jaybird ------------------ 3 votes

Icy Demons - Miami Ice ------------------ 3 votes

No Kids - For Halloween ----------------- 0 votes

Ral Partha Vogelbacher - Cheap Vodka Nights ----------- 0 votes