Colin
the man-machine
My top 15 of 2012
1 DIVINE FITS – A Thing Called Divine Fits
2 LADYHAWK - No Can Do
3 JAPANDROIDS – Celebration Rock
4 DIRTY PROJECTORS – Swing Lo Magellan
5 CHROMATICS – Kill For Love
6 MIKE O'NEILL – Wild Lines
7 THE MEN – Open Your Heart
8 MAC DEMARCO – Rock And Roll Night Club
9 CLOUD NOTHINGS – Attack On Memory
10 NITE JEWEL – One Second Of Love
11 JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD – Hypnotic Nights
12 CHAIRLIFT – Something
13 GUIDED BY VOICES – The Bears For Lunch
14 PETER BRODERICK – http://www.itstartshear.com
15 THE LUYAS – Animator
My top 15 reissues of 2012
1 MAGGIE & TERRE ROCHE – Seductive Reasoning
2 LAURIE SPIEGEL – The Expanding Universe
3 SUGAR – Copper Blue
4 MOE TUCKER – I Feel So Far Away: Anthology 1974-1998
5 CAN – The Lost Tapes
6 TRONICS – Love Backed By Force
7 SHADOWY MEN ON A SHADOWY PLANET - Savvy Show Stoppers
8 DONNIE & JOE EMERSON – Dreamin' Wild
9 VA - Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984
10 CODEINE – When I See the Sun
11 VA – Buttons: From Champaign to Chicago
12 TIA BLAKE AND HER FOLK GROUP - Folksongs & Ballads
13 THE SOUND – Jeopardy
14 THE MOUNTAIN GOATS - The Hound Chronicles/Hot Garden Stomp
15 ARCHERS OF LOAF – Vee Vee
My favourite artists are: Ramones, Constantines, Brian Eno, Neil Young, John Cale, Kraftwerk, Eric's Trip
My all-time favourite album is: ERIC'S TRIP - Love Tara
The first album I ever bought was: WEEZER - The Blue Album
On Saturday nights, I throw down to: Motëm
On Sunday mornings, I recover to: ARTHUR RUSSELL - Love Is Overtaking Me
The show that made me fall in love with/believe all over again in music was: Julie Doiron with Shotgun & Jaybird at the Velvet Elvis
So far, my favourite records of 2013 are: YO LA TENGO - Fade, MY BLOODY VALENTINE - mbv, FEAR OF MEN - Early Fragments, CALIFORNIA X - s/t, WAXAHATCHEE - Cerulean Salt, RHYE - Woman, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE - The 20/20 Experience, COLLEEN GREEN - Sock It To Me, PEACH KELLI POP - Peach Kelli Pop II, MARNIE STERN - The Chronicles of Marnia, BORED NOTHING - Bored Nothing, JIM GUTHRIE - Takes Time, DAFT PUNK - Random Access Memories, MAJICAL CLOUDZ - Impersonator, SEAN NICHOLAS SAVAGE - Other Life
The best shows I've seen so far this year is: Cold Warps at Stereophonic 10, Patti Smith at the AGO, Yo La Tengo at the Phoenix, Cousins at Parts & Labour, Jennifer Castle/Wyrd Visions at the Music Gallery
The band that should come out of retirement is: No one at the moment.