the truth is in the details

This post from 2006 details my music interests until that point in time. It's fairly detailed and, if I can be less than modest for a moment, fairly well written. So what's happened since?

In 2007, I went to teacher's college. While I had still had lots of time to searching through music blogs, I was doing less and less. Then there was the year after that were I did a whole lot of random things. Groups like the Pipettes, the Sadies, Fucked Up, Nick Cave's albums / Ginderman (might be a bit later) and . I did try electronic music (like everyone else) but it wasn't my thing. Never has been. But LCD Soundsystem was good.

Started working at the bookstore from 2008 to 2011, and this started the more low-key music. Had to find things I could play in the store for eight hours a day. I got into the Stax box set, the I'm Not There 2-disc soundtrack, The Hold Steady, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, all the Kanye West (not store appropriate), Robyn, and the Rural Alberta Advantage.

Since then leaving the bookstore, music is still awesome but it doesn't consume my life anymore. Really I just don't have a lengthy commune anymore. As I walk to work I'm listening to podcasts. At work I don't really have the opportunity because there are always people around, always asking questions. When I'm at home, there's no place to sit and listen without getting in my girlfriend's way. Every year there's at least one or two albums that I enjoy. Zen Arcade, for example, was something I discovered fairly recently and I can't get enough.

So this list is reflection of what I still like today, what I remember really enjoying at the time, and what I'm not embarrassed by.

2006 - Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
2007 - Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
2008 - The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
2009 - Propagandhi - Supporting Caste
2010 - Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2011 - Fucked Up - David Comes to Life (this year a little strange because I wasn't listen to much "new" music)
2012 - (tie) Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music / Kendrick Lamar - good kid, M.A.A.D. city