Happy holidays and happy new year. Now leave us alone.
Love, The Chunklet Staff
Henry H. Owings
Shipping News-One Less Heart To Fear (Karate Body)
Grinderman-2 (Anti-)
Slices-Cruising (Iron Lung)
Twin Stumps-Seedbed (Fan Death)
Endless Boogie-Full House Head (No Quarter)
Disappears-LUX (Kranky)
Nails-Unsilent Death (Southern Lord)
Woven Bones-In And Out And Back Again (Hozac)
Drunk Driver-Self Titled (self released)
White Shit-Sculpted Beef (PPM)
Honorable Mentions:
Black Helicopter-Don’t Fuck With The Apocalypse (Ecstatic Peace!/Limited Appeal)
Ocean-Pantheon of the Lesser (Important)
The Limiñanas-self titled (Trouble In Mind)
Dum Dum Girls-I Will Be (Sub Pop)
Swans-My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky (Young God)
Grids-White Walls (Ink Blot) & Kansas (Made In Kansas)
Major Stars-Return to Form (Drag City)
Black Bug-self titled (FDH)
Tre Orsi-Devices and Emblems (Works Progress)
The Young-Voyagers of Legend (Mexican Summer)
Hank IV-III (Siltbreeze)
Double Negative-Daydreamnation (Sorry State)
The Intelligence-Males (In The Red)
Tyvek-Nothing Fits (In The Red)
Bardo Pond – s/t (Fire UK)
Purling Hiss – Hissteria (Richie)
Other odds and ends (12" EPs and 7"s):
Dead Meat-Early Recordings (Flingco)
Neon Blud-B Girls (Drugged Conscience)
Black Congress-Davidians (label unknown)
all the 7"s on Trouble In Mind, Captured Tracks and HoZac (which never disappoint)
Box set/reissues:
Floor-Below And Beyond (Robotic Empire)
Jon Wayne-Texas Funeral (Third Man)
Syl Johnson-discography (Numero Group)
A Frames-3 (SS)
Top Ten Live Performances:
The Stooges, Toronto, NXNE
Liturgy, Atlanta, EARL
Dead C, Bardo Pond, The Ex & Flowers/Corsano Duo, Minehead, UK
The Jesus Lizard, Chicago, Metro
Disappears, Atlanta, EARL
Unrest (3 different sets), WDC, Black Cat
Twin Stumps/Kim Phuc/Bukkake Boys, Atlanta, Club 529
Floor (all 3 line ups), Atlanta, EARL
Urinals (and most of the rest of the Mess-Around weekend), Atlanta, Club 529/EARL
Neon Blud, Atlanta, Drunken Unicorn
Billy
The Weakerthans – "Live at the Burton Cummings Theatre+DVD" (Anti)
**DVD is 109 minutes & for 109 minutes in 2010 I knew great joy.**
Tite Crown – "Lines On Both Sides" 7" (Clear Metal)
The Station Pills – "Trunk’d" 7" (Strict)
OFF! – "First Four EPs" (Vice)
Freeman Glory – "Viperventilated" 7" (Torrence High)
String, Strang, Strung – "Diane Keaton" 7" (Cured Phobia)
Privy Council – "Set Standard" 7" (Sheet Back)
Gil Scott-Heron – "I’m Here Now" (XL)
Reverse Maverick – "Just Me & My View" 7" (Your Trophy)
Bald Grip – "Buckled Beams" 7" (Oscar Wilde Never Did This)
Ben Johnson
Rock Albums
Heavy Times – "Dead" (Rotted Tooth Recordings)
Personal & the Pizzas – Raw Pie (1-2-3-4 Go! Records)
Ty Segall – Melted (Goner Records)
Idle Times – s/t (HoZac Records)
Scorpion Violente – Uberschleiss (Avant! Records)
Bare Wires – Seeking Love (Castleface)
Moonhearts – s/t (Tic Tac Totally)
Puffy Areolas – In The Army 1981 (Siltbreeze)
Tyvek – Nothing Fits (In The Red)
Purling Hiss – Hissteria (Richie Records)
Obligatorily Included Music by Black People That I’m Including To Prove I’m Not Racist Even Though I Really Thought It Was Very Much Not A Great Year For Hip Hop or R&B:
1. That Whole Medicine Show Thing With The 12 Albums – Madlib (Probably Stone’s Throw, Full Disclosure: I Haven’t Listened To All Of Them But He Gets A Genius Pass)
2. Ghostface Killah – Apollo Kids (Not Even Out Yet, Haven’t Even Heard It, Will Definitely Like It Way More Than The Rest Of This List)
3. Big Boi – The Something Something Story of Luscious Jackson (MGM?)
4. Curren$y – Pilot Talk (Or Maybe It’s Pilot Talk – Curren$y, I Don’t Know)
5. Janelle Montae – That One Where She Looks Like Metropolis (Warner Brothers)
6. J.C. Brooks – I Have Met Ben Johnson A Couple of Times (He’s Not Quite A Friend)
7. Kanye West – I Am Into Brian Eno Now (Warner Brothers)
8. Wale – More Nothing (Self-Released?)
9. Tyvek – Nothing Fits (In The Red)
10. Various Artists – Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal (Numero Group)
Singles, EP’s, reissues, things I will include in order to make you think I’m awesome:
1. Rayon Beach – Memory Teeth (HoZac)
2. Stephan Eicher – Spielt Noise Boys (Born Bad Records)
3. Nerve City – Sleepwalker EP (Sacred Bones)
4. Moon Duo – Catch As Catch Can b/w Set It On Fire 7" (Agitated Records)
5. Radar Eyes – Shakes b/w Not You Again 7" (HoZac Records)
6. Liquid Liquid – Anthology (Mo Wax Again)
7. Kitchens Floor – Loneliness Is A Dirty Mattress (R.I.P. Society)
8. Eno – Finally Some Reissues (With The Japanese Obi Strips)
9. Motherfucking Roku Box – Everything On It (To Watch)
10. Permanent Records – The Fucking Amazing Collection They Bought And Put In The Used Records Section All Year Long (70% Of My Income Was Still Not Enough)
11. Acid Archives – 2nd Edition Book
Biggest Disappointments/Rip-Offs:
1. Record Store Day – "Limited" Anything
2. Joy Division – $200 Box Set for the Most Reissued Band of All Time That Somehow Manages Not To Include "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (Technically A Part Of Record Store Day But Such A Rip-Off It Deserves Its Own Entry)
3. Thee Oh Sees – A-Side Time Waste Portion of "Warm Slime" (Somebody Had To Say It)
4. Moon Duo Live – Not Loud Enough To Destroy Me Like I’d Hoped (And Rambly Enough For My Mind To Wander About Things Like "Does Anybody Else Think He’s Going To Shave His Beard And Turn Out To Be Ian Williams?")
5. HoZac Hookup Klub – Charging $70 Per Subscription Then Issuing a Cheap Comp LP (See Also: Most Hilarious)
6. Wave of Acid Archives Cash-In 180 Gram Reissues – $26 (Those Things Are All On Blogs For Free, Which I Realize Sounds Like A Lazy Asshole Who Hates Vinyl, But For These Things The 180 Gram Vinyl Reissue Sound Quality Is Not Always That Much Better Than Those Vinyl-Rip MP3’s, And Anyway, Most Of These Albums Kind of Suck)
7. 2009-2010 Numero Group Vinyl Subscription – Because $100 for 5 Double LPs Including Some Thrown Together Folk Thing But Not The Pisces LP Is Somehow A Good Deal (Should Have Been Called "Numero Group Catalog Dumping Ground For Suckers")
8. Chicago Sales Tax
9. Mad Men Season 4
10. Once Again, Being A Regular Person Consumer – Not Some Kind of Insider Who Gets Free Copies of Everything (It Sucks, You Guys)
Gordon Lamb
Walter Gibbons-Jungle Music (Strut Records)
Tunabunny-S/T (HHBTM)
V/A-Lagos Disco Inferno (Academy LPs)
Burzum-Belus (Byelobog Productions)
Chew Lips -Unicorn (Indie Europe/Zoom)
Brian Eno-Small Craft on a Milk Sea (Warp Records)
The Gary-Logan (Cedar Fever Records)
Kevin Dunn-No Great Lost: Songs 1979-1985 (Casa Nueva Records)
The Dream Scene-Christmas (Party Party Partners) (Technically came out December 2009)
Aaron Turney
Ty Segall – Melted (Goner)
No Age – Everything in Between (Sub Pop)
Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest (4AD)
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today (4AD)
Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon II: Legend of Mr. Rager (GOOD/Universal Motown)
Grinderman – Grinderman 2 (ANTI-)
Les Savy Fav – Root For Ruin (Frenchkiss)
Black Keys – Brothers (Nonesuch)
Aloe Blacc – Good Things (Stones Throw)
Black Angels – Phosphene Dream (Blue Horizon Ventures)
And I’ll be damned if I couldn’t get these two outta my head:
Hollows – Hollows (Addenda)
Real Estate – 7" Out of Tune b/w Reservoir (True Panther Sounds)
Best thing I saw all year:
Watching Bob Pollard swig tequila at the Southgate House in Newport, Kentucky to the biggest group of die hard Guided By Voices fans I’ve ever seen.
Jens Lekman – Empty Bottle, Chicago
Woven Bones – Empty Bottle, Chicago
John Spencer Blues Explosion – Pitchfork Fest, Chicago
Conan O’Brien – Austin Music Hall
Louis CK – Bass Hall, Fort Worth
Avett Brothers – Ryman Auditorium, Nashville
Will Johnson/Anders Parker – House show, Chicago
Michael Faloon
Black Wine – Black Wine (Don Giovanni)
The Measure [SA] – Notes (No Idea)
Mind Spiders – Worlds Destroyed EP (Dirtnap)
Night Birds, Prognosis – Negative 7” (Grave Mistake)
Safes/Lexington Arrows – split 7” (Merrifield)
Shannon & the Clams, “Paddy’s Birthday” b/w “Diary, Jimmy” 7" (Southpaw)
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings – I Learned the Hard Way (Daptone)
Skipper – In Italy 10" (Bachelor)
Splinters – “Blood On My Hands” b/w “Hot Hands” 7” (Southpaw)
Superchunk – Majesty Shredding (Merge)