dan

secret manager

staff picks...

My top 15 of 2007

1 THE HIGH LLAMAS - Can Cladders
2 SANDRO PERRI - Tiny Mirrors
3 THE OLD SOUL - Gold
4 PANDA BEAR - Person Pitch
5 ANDRE ETHIER - On Blue Fog
6 BLACK MILK - Popular Demand
7 ALASDAIR ROBERTS - Amber Gathers
8 ANGELS OF LIGHT - We Are Him
9 WOODEN SHJIPS - Wooden Shjips
10 THE BEES - Octopus
11 VOICE OF THE SEVEN WOODS - Voice Of The Seven Woods
12 THE SADIES - New Seasons
13 JENS LEKMAN - When Night Falls Over Kortedela
14 A TASTE OF RA - Morning of My life
15 MADLIB - Beat Konducta Vol. 3 & 4

My top 15 reissues of 2007

1 BREAD - Bread
2 JORGE BEN - Forca Bruta
3 CHUBBY CHECKER - Chubby Checker 71
4 DALE HAWKINS - L.A., Memphis, and Tyler, Texas
5 BIM SHERMAN - Tribulation
6 SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE - Small Talk
7 LEE MOSES - Time & Place
8 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Rebel Music Vol.2
9 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Cherrystones Word
10 JIM FORD - Sounds Of Our Time
11 RELATIVELY CLEAN RIVERS - Relatively Clean Rivers
12 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Larry Banks Family Soul
13 MALVINA REYNOLDS - Malvina Reynolds
14 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Keb Darge & Cut Chemist Present: Lost and Found Rockabilly
15 JOHN STEWART - California Bloodlines

My favourite artists are: The Kinks, Townes Van Zandt, Sir Douglas Quintet

My all-time favourite album is: THE KINKS - Are The Village Green Preservation Society

The first album I ever bought was: LL COOL J - Radio (cassette)

On Saturday nights, I throw down to: anything by THE FACES

On Sunday mornings, I recover to: BILL WITHERS - Live at Carnegie Hall

The show that made me fall in love with/believe all over again in music was: Legends of Ska weekend at the Palais Royale

My favourite album so far this year is: HIGH LLAMAS - Can Cladders

The best show I've seen so far this year is: Steamboat at the Dakota

The band that should come out of retirement is: The Ramones