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The Self-Hating Hipster’s Top 50 Albums of 2013

Two years ago (and change) I compiled a list of the Top 11 Albums of 2011. Last year I put together the Top 12 Albums of 2012. Both articles were compiled of selections culled from lists of approximately 40 albums respectively. After not publishing an article in six months I decided that those once dedicated SHH readers deserved something much more comprehensive for 2013. Instead of publishing a predictably titled Self-Hating Hipster’s Top 13 Albums of 2013 three weeks into January of 2014 I would, as I am wont to do, aim way too high and likely disappoint myself–a Top 50!

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Newman, Alice in Chains, all-girl, Always Let U Down, amazon.uk, American Specialties, American Weekend, Americana Punk, Andrew Bird, Andrew Savage, anxiety, Arthur Ashin, As Plantas Que Curam, Ashley Monroe, Atlas Sound, Autre Ne Vuet, Avalanche, award, Ba Da Bing Records, banjo, baroque, battle of the bands, Because, Belle and Sebastian, Best Country Album, Best Folk Album, Big Boi, Big Dada, Bilinda Butcher, Billy Joel, black metal, Black Sabbath, Blood Orange, Blurred Lines, Bob Dylan, Bobby Krlic, Boogarins, Bradford Cox, Brian Eno, Britney Spears, Brooklyn, Bryan Gysin, Build Me Up From Bones, Camera Obscura, Caroline Polachek, Caster of Worthless Spells, Cerulean Salt, Chairlift, Charli XCX, Cherrytree Records, Cindi Mayweather, Clipped On, Coastal Grooves, Coco O., Columbia, conscious rap, Contact, Contra, Copenhagen, Cupid Deluxe, cut & fold, Daft Punk, Dagger Paths, Daniel Avery, Daniel Lopatin, Danny & the Darleans, Danny and the Darleans, Danny Kroha, DARKSIDE, Dave Harrington, David Longstreth, Dead Oceans Records, Deafheaven, Deathwish Records, deep house, Deerhunter, Def Jam, Demons, Desire Lines, Dessner, Detroit, Devendorf, Devo, Digital Lion, Dirty Projectors, Disclosure, Dolly Parton, Domino, Don Giovanni, Doris, Downtown, Drag City, Drone Logic, dubstep, Dull Tools, Earl Sweatshirt, Ecstasy, EDM, Eleanor Friedberger, electro, electronica, Elephant 6, Elias Bender, Ellis Ludwig-Leone, Endless Endless, Engravings, Erykah Badu, Excavation, Exile in Guyville, falsetto, Fat Possum, feedback, Flying Buddha, folk, Forest Swords, Foxygen, Frank Ocean, Free Earl, Friend You Will Never Learn, Fugazi, future soul, garage rock, Gathering, George Clarke, Get Lucky, Giorgio Moroder, Girls, glam, Glasgow, glide guitar, Golden Arrow, Grab Her!, Grammy, Grammys, Greek Light, Guided by Voices, Guy Lawrence, Guy Picciotto, HAIM, Halcyon Digest, Hally Laessig, Hannah Reid, Haunt Me, Help Me Lose My Mind, Here's to Taking it Easy, Hiatus Kaiyote, hipster, Horses, house, Howard Lawrence, Husbands, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, Ian MacKaye, Iceage, IDM, import, Instant Crush, Interscope, Isn't Anything, Jagjaguwar, James Blake, Janelle Monáe, Jason Isbell, Jehnny Beth, Jess Wolfe, Joanna Newsom, John Legend, Joni Mitchell, Jordan Lee, Julia Holter, Kacey Musgraves, Kanye West, Katie Crutchfield, Katy Perry, KDD, Kelly Hogan, Kevin Shields, King DD, Kraftwerk, Kranky, Kurt Vile, Last Summer, Laura Marling, Laura Veirs, Light Up Gold, Like a Rose, list, Liz Phair, Lockett Pundt, London Grammar, Lose Yourself to Dance, Lotus Plaza, Loud City Song, Love in the Future, Love's Crushing Diamond, Loveless, Lucius, m b v, Magic Trix, Marshall Teller, Matador, Matt Berninger, Matthew Barnes, Matthew Houck, MC II, MC5, Mercury, Merge, metal, Metal Blade, Mexican Summer, Michael Jackson, Mikal Cronin, Mind Control, Mind Crawler, Minor Threat, Miste, Mobius Streak, Modern Vampires of the City, Monomania, Muchacho, Muchacho's Theme, Mutual Benefit, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, My Bloody Valentine, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, My Time, MySpace, N Dakota, Nai Palm, Nakamara, Nashville Star, Nathaniel Smith, Neil Young, Neko Case, Nero's Neptune, new you, Nicolas Jaar, Night Time, No Joy, nominee, nothing is, Odd Future, Of Montreal, Omanko, On Sight, On the Line, Once I Was An Eagle, Oneohtrix Point Never, Onward, Os Mutantes, Other Music Recording Company, Out of Vie, Overgrown, P.S. 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The First Quarter of 2013 in Music

14 Jun

Almost exactly three months ago I posted this article with a list of twenty albums in alphabetical order which I had purchased in the first quarter of 2013. The intent was to have the article out by mid-April. In classic SHH fashion I decided that it would be better to do a review of twenty albums Continue reading →

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The Self-Hating Hipster’s Top 52 Tracks of 2012

8 Feb

You may notice that this list is all over the place. I could have picked two or three songs off of each album on my Top 12 Albums of 2012, but that would have taken up over half of the list. So it became my intention to spread the love and highlight as many album peaks as possible. Continue reading →

Tags: 2, 2012, a-ha, Aaron Pfenning, Action Bronson, Adrian Toubro, Alabama Shakes, Alexis Kraus, Alt-J, Among the Leaves, An Awesome Wave, Andrew in Drag, Andy Stott, Angel Haze, Angels, Animal Collective, Annie Clark, Ariel Pink, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Astro Colombo, Attack On Memory, Backstreet Freestyle, Beach House, Beams, best, Black Tambourine, Bloom, Blue Chips, Bon Iver, Boys & Girls, Breakbot, Breezeblocks, Brian Eno, By Your Side, Caroline Polacheck, Cat Power, Celebration Rock, Centipede Hz, Chairlift, Cheap Girls, Chromatics, Cleopatra, Cloud Nothings, Coexist, Confess, Cooking Up Something Good, Cool Daddio, Copenhagen, Craver, Crush, Daft Punk, Daniel Lopatin, Dave Maclean, David Bowie, David Byrne, Death Grips, Depeche Mode, Destiny, Dinosaur Jr, Django Django, Does You Inspire Your, Dum Dum Girls, Dusty Rhodes, Dylan Baldi, Ekstasis, electropop, Emmylou, End of Daze, Faarooq, Feels Like We Only Go Backwards, fIN, Fineshrine, Fiona Apple, Firewater, First Aid Kit, Fleetwood Mac, Flood's New Light, Foo Fighters, Frank Ocean, frotteurism, garage rock, George Lewis, Ghost, Ghostface Killah, Giant Orange, Give Out, Go Away, Goddess Eyes II, Golden Light, Gone All Summer, good kid, Gram Parsons, Grimes, Grizzley Bear, Grunge, Hall & Oates, Headcage, hipster, Honeycomb, I Belong In Your Arms, Iggy Pop, Into the Black, Intrusions, Irfane, Jaill, Janis Joplin, Japandroids, Jeff Buckley, Jessie Ware, Joan Jett, John Dwyer, John Lennon, John Mayer, John Talabot, Johnathan, Johnny Cash, Jukebox, Julia Holter, June Carter, Kathleen Edwards, Kendrick Lamar, Kevin Barnes, Kill For Love, Killer Mike, Lady, lo-fi, Lock Your Doors, Lonerism, Lotus Plaza, Love at the Bottom of the Sea, Love This Giant, Lower, Luxury Problems, m.A.A.d. city, Mac DeMarco, Manhattan, Marc Bolan, Mariah Carey, Mark Kozelek, Martin Luther King, Matthew Dear, Mature Themes, Michael Gira, Michael Jackson, minor key, Mouse on Mars, Neil Young, No Future, NO LOVE DEEP WEB, No Past, NPR, Oblivion, Of Montreal, One Out of Two, Oneohtrix Point Never, Only In My Dreams, Open Your Heart, Paralytic Stalks, Parastrophics, Party Supplies, Paul McCartney, Perfect Ten, Phil Collins, Phil Oakey, Pional, Prince, Purity Ring, Putrifiers, Pyramids, R. Stevie Moore, R.A.P. Music, Reign of Terror, Replicas, Reservation, Robert Fripp, Ron Simmons, Ruth Radelet, Season in Hell, Self-Hating Hipster, Sharon Van Etten, SHH, shoe gaze, Shrines, Slaughterhouse, Sleeping Ute, Sleigh Bells, Soderberg, Software, Something, songs, Spiteful Intervention, Spooky Action at a Distance, St. Vincent, Stefan Burnett, Stephen Merritt, Stephin Merritt, Sun, Sun Kil Moon, Swans, synth, T.I., Take On Me, Talking Heads, Tame Impala, Teachers, Tender Opposites, The Beatles, The Byrds, the dB's, The Greatest, The Hours, The Idler Wheel, The Lion's Roar, The Magnetic Fields, The Men, The Money Store, The Nights of Wine and Roses, The Oh Sees, The Seer Returns, The Vaselines, The xx, They Know Your Name, Tim Hecker, Tim Heidecker, Top 50, Top Tracks, TOPS, tracks, Tramp, Traps, Trent Reznor, Turn Your Love Around, Twin Shadow, Twins, Ty Segall, Ty Segall and White Fence, Ty Segall Band, Ungirthed, Victoria Legrand, Vincent Neff, Visions, Walk On Heads, Wang Chung, Werewolf, Werkin' Girls, Who, Wildest Moments, Would You Be My Love, You Ain't Alone, You're Living All Over Me

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The Self-Hating Hipster’s Top 51 Tracks of 2011

22 Jan

As promised, below you will find the Self-Hating Hipster’s T0p 51 Tracks of 2011 thanks to a scramble at my lake house, indirectly motivated by six girls working on their Masters theses. I actually mistakenly published the article about a week ago but quickly made it “Private” so as not to give you readers a glimpse of the SHH in his article underpants. I didn’t realize (stoopit!) what a massive undertaking this article would prove to be as a solo project. I know it’s too late, but I’m hoping that you don’t find it to be too little. I’ve been really busy with my job lately, and in the words of Garth Marenghi, “I’m not Jesus Christ…I’ve come to accept that now.”

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51. Fucked Up – “Queen of Hearts”

David Comes to Life

Fucked Up adds a cute, poppy flare to post-hardcore as evidenced by “Queen of Hearts.”

“Hello, my name is David!” Hi, David. “Let’s be together! Let’s fall in love!”

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The Self-Hating Hipster’s Top 11 Albums of 2011

2 Jan

This year in music has been a bit lackluster, but that doesn’t mean that there weren’t a few diamonds in the rough. 2011 seems to have been the year of dubstep/chillwave and indie rock rehashes of the past four decades in music. Some did it better than others.

Due to the fact that I drag-assed on this article which was supposed to be released in 2011 (i.e. two days ago) but instead finds itself released on January, 2nd 2012 and because there were a few albums that were almost too close to call, the Top 11 has become the Top 12. Consider it either a late penalty or a bonus. Continue reading →

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