Dec. 18, 2011 at 9:35am with 43 notes
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Best new music and reissues of 2011 (via: Rick Webb)

rickwebb:

Well, there went a whole Saturday afternoon.

All links are Spotify unless it’s not there. Then it’s iTunes or Amazon. Playlists for both list are up on spotify. Some of the reissues are to their non-remastered versions up there, but what can you do? Also, apologies to RDIO. I am making the switch soon, I promise…

Oh hey Tumblr I made you a version of this with links to Rdio. Links first, summary of the experience after.

1. Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials

2. Low - C’mon

3. Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps

4. Mogwai - Hardcore will Never Die But You Will

5. Feist - Metals

6. Cold Cave - Cherish the Light Years

7. Ringo Deathstarr - Sparkler

8. M83 - Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

9. Crooked Fingers - Breaks in the Armor

10. Wild Flag - Self Titled

11. The Drums - Portamento

12. Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts

13. The Sea and Cake - The Moonlight Butterfly (unavailable)

14. Tom Waits - Bad as Me (Preview Only)

15. Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow

16. Wilco - The Whole Love

17. HTRK - Work (Work, Work)

18. Whomadewho - Knee Deep (unavailable)

19. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

20. Loney Dear - Hall Music

21. Damon & Naomi - False Beats and True Hearts (unavailable)

22. Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo

23. Various - Mute Vorwärts (unavailable)

24. Ladytron - Gravity the Seducer

25. Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer

26. The Vaccines - What Did you Expect from the Vaccines?

27. Explosions in the Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care

28. Elbow - Build a Rocket, Boys!

29. Bon Iver - Bon Iver

Honorable Mentions:

Cut Copy - Zonoscope

Bill Callahan - Apocalypse (unavailable)

Watch the Throne

Atlas Sound - Parallax

Fucked Up - David Comes to Life

Cults

Asobi Seksu - Fluorescence

So, how’d it go? Rdio had all but two of the albums that Spotify did from Rick’s list (the other two were on neither, so he pointed to ITMS). That’s an ok performance, but not a win if you’re an Rdio partisan (which I am). Additionally, missing a Sea and Cake album feels like an unforced error - there must be a licensing reason why no Sea and Cake material from the last 3+ years is on Rdio but the remainder of the catalog is.

Also, I didn’t do the reissues links yet. Mostly because I didn’t have time. Anyone want to write a quick and dirty script to convert Spotify urls as Rdio links?

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    Haha awesome. Freitas made a list of my top music with RDIO links. Just the thing I need to settle in and make the...
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    Oh hey Tumblr I made you...Rdio. Links first, summary of
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