How Can Even The Stones Remain Silent: Archive

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Favorite Albums of 2011 ~ 20-1

[Tier 1] 1. Bon Iver ~ Bon Iver 2. Let England Shake ~ PJ Harvey 3. Helplessness Blues ~ Fleet Foxes 4. Strange Mercy ~ St. Vincent 5. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming ~ M83 [Tier 2] 6. James Blake ~ James Blake 7. Father, Son, Holy Ghost ~ Girls 8. Nine Types of Light ~ TV On the Radio 9. Angles ~ The Strokes 10. Cults ~ Cults 11. Nothing Is Wrong ~ Dawes 12. The Year of...

Dec 31st

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Favorite Albums of 2011 ~ 40-21

21. The Whole Love ~ Wilco 22. The King of Limbs ~ Radiohead 23. 21 ~ Adele 24. Codes and Keys ~ Death Cab for Cutie 25. All Eternals Deck ~ The Mountain Goats 26. Belong ~ The Pains of Being Pure At Heart 27. Undun ~ The Roots 28. 100 Lovers ~ Devotchka 29. Kaputt ~ Destroyer 30. Only In Dreams ~ Dum Dum Girls 31. Parallax ~ Atlas Sound 32. Tomboy ~ Panda...

Dec 31st

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Favorite Songs of the Year ~ 25-1

1. Helplessness Blues ~ Fleet Foxes 2. Michicant ~ Bon Iver 3. Intro / Midnight City ~ M83 4. 17 ~ Youth Lagoon 5. Cruel ~ St. Vincent 6. The Wilhelm Scream / Limit To Your Love ~ James Blake 7. Give Up The Ghost ~ Radiohead 8. Under Cover of Darkness ~ The Strokes 9. The Glorious Land ~ PJ Harvey 10. Battery Kinzie ~ Fleet Foxes 11. Calamity Song / Don’t Carry It...

Dec 29th

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Favorite Songs of the Year ~ 50-26

26. Believer ~ John Maus 27. Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall ~ Coldplay 28. Out Scorpion Squadron ~ The Mountain Goats 29. Anxiety / All That We Are ~ Angels and Airwaves 30. Video Games ~ Lana Del Ray 31. You Are A Tourist ~ Death Cab For Cutie 32. Lonely Boy / Little Black Submarines ~ The Black Keys 33. Better Off Without You ~ Summer Camp 34. Rolling In The Deep ~ Adele 35. Culture...

Dec 29th

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Favorite Songs of the Year ~ 75-51

51. Damn These Vampires / Birth Of Serpants ~ The Mountain Goats 52. A Candle’s Fire / Santa Fe ~ Beirut 53. The One Thing I Can’t Have ~ John Glenn 54. Belispeak ~ Purty Ring 55. Lesson No. 7 ~ Clock Opera 56. Home ~ Daughter 57. Gangsta ~ Tune-Yards 58. I Don’t Want Love / Corsicana ~ The Antlers 59. Crystal Ball Broken ~ Coma Cinema 60. Slow Motion...

Dec 27th

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Favorite Songs of the Year ~ Part 1 - 100-76

Favorite Songs of the Year (100-76) 76. Family ~ Satellite Stories 77. Saying I Love You ~ Girls 78. Bedroom Eyes / Caught In One ~ Dum Dum Girls 79. Bay Of Pigs (Detail) / Savage Night At The Opera ~ Destroyer 80. Paradise ~ Coldplay 81. (All I Wanted Was) Danger ~ The Milk 82. We Bros ~ Wu Lyf 83. Working On A Dream ~ Wintercoats 84. Vice Verse ~ Switchfoot 85. Make That Money...

Dec 26th

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Favorite Films of 2011

Besides for 2011 being a year that I enabled myself to dive into the unending ocean of noise. I was also able to take in many more films of greater quality. I subjected myself to many more foreign films and non-hollywood blockbusters in an attempt to find what I thought was lacking from my film watching experiences of late. In the end, I immensely enjoyed my film watching experience this year. It...

Dec 23rd

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Favorite Songs of the Year ~ Honorable Mentions

I would have to say that the year of 2011 in music was definitely a deep one. Part of it could be myself putting more time into listening but I also believe that it was also just exceptionally good. While attempting to weave together some sort of ‘best of’ list, I definitely benefited from all the music that I was able to take in. This list in particular would be the songs/artists who...

Dec 22nd

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Favorite Covers of 2011

I have found it extremely enjoyable over the years to hear how other music artists interpret songs that they appreciate by other artists. You can sometimes find that the song will not change too much besides the new vocals driving it. Other times you can hear the original song but with a new style of play to it. Or you may even fortunate enough to find that the song has been completely reinvented...

Dec 22nd

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Dec 22nd

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Reservoir Of Tears

“In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York was in heavy boots. And when...

Dec 21st

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Dec 21st

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Dec 16th

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Dec 16th

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There was no “Mission Accomplished” banner. No victory parade down the center of this capital scarred and rearranged by nearly nine years of war. No crowds of cheering Iraqis grateful for liberation from Saddam Hussein. Instead, the U.S. military officially declared an end to its mission in Iraq on Thursday with a businesslike closing ceremony behind blast walls in a fortified compound...

Dec 15th

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