Daily Jam - Firesky

I am now officially off work until next year.  So many things i could do with myself over the next two weeks, but realistically, i'm just going to eat to much, drink to much, love on my kids, and try not to let the stress of the holidays get to me too much.  But i'll be here everyday with a song.  Here's "Firesky" from The Boo Radleys, our Daily Jam.

Friday Horror Trailer - Night of the Demon

 

Daily Jam - Silence, Sea and Sky

Here's a short track from UK band The Chameleons that i've always thought is tranquil and pretty.  Listen to "Silence, Sea and Sky" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Vasoline

This song still rips.  I know.  I've done the research.  Listen to "Vasoline" by Stone Temple Pilots below, our Daily Jam.

20 Favorite Movies of 2021 that Didn't Come out in 2021

Much like last year, i spent a whole lot of time in 2021 watching a whole lot of movies.  I checked out a lot of the usual insanity i feast upon every year, but also worked on knocking off a lot of egregious blind spots in my cinematic viewing history.  I saw monsters, femme fatales, maniacs, double-crosses, and more decapitated heads than you can shake a stick at.  Here are 20 of my favorite first viewings presented in alphabetical order.  Check 'em out.

1. The Astrologer (1976)

2. Beyond the Door III (1989)

3. Cemetery of Terror (1985)

4. Crimes of Passion (1984)

5. Dark Waters (1993)

6. Django (1966)

7. Klute (1971)

8. The Last Seduction (1994)

9. The Long Good Friday (1980)

10. Massacre at Central High (1976)

11. Night Moves (1975)

12. On the Silver Globe (1988)

13. The Parallax View (1974)

14. Queen of Black Magic (1981)

15. Roadgames (1981)

16. Rolling Thunder (1977)

17. Scissors (1991)

18. The Seventh Curse (1986)

19. Strange Days (1995)

20. To Live and Die in LA (1985)

I could keep going.  I can always keep going.  Anyway, check back in two weeks for my favorite movies of 2021 that DID come out in 2021.

Garden Gate

Over the last few years, i've come across and heard so many albums that are the supposed soundtracks to lost or forgotten films, that it's becoming increasingly difficult to to ascertain the validity of it all.  I'm pretty sure it's all bullshit and that these artists just having fun making fake film scores.  I can dig that.  It is fun.  Keep doing what you do.  Like Garden Gate, and their "score" for the "Blood Mansion."  It's a spooky mix of synth and psych folk to soundtrack your studies of the occult or next seance.  Check out "Title Sequence - Natasha's Motorbike" below and get the album here from Library of The Occult.

Daily Jam - Grass

I don't nearly give these guys the attention that i used to, but i still dig on that weird old stuff.  Check out Animal Collective's "Grass" below, our Daily Jam.

20 Favorite Songs of 2021 that Didn't Come Out in 2021

I say this every year, but i discovered so much music this year that may not be new to the masses out there, but was new to me.  Awesome tracks ranging from everything from '60s Japanese pop, jazz-infused soul, library music, and Italo disco to folky soft rock, shoegaze, goth, and Brazilian psych filled my ears this year.  The sounds came from all over the world.  The songs came from every era spanning the last 60 years.  I've assembled my favorite 20 old songs of the year into something resembling a playlist below.  Check them out.

1. Romi Yamada - Tabako no Kemuri

2. Vittorio Paltrinieri - Mist and Smoke

3. Terry Callier - Dancing Girl

4. Brute Force and His Drum - Weird and Wonderful

5. Achab - White Summer Lights

6. Autumn Dust - Spend Another Day

7. Bob Mould - Black Sheets of Rain

I'm actually a little embarrassed it took me this long to check this one out.  I've been familiar with Mould's work in Husker Du and Sugar for a long time, but never really sought out his solo work.  I'm remedying that now.

8. Ozean - Scenic

9. Carola Baer - Nothing Left to Say

10. Lycia - Ionia

11. Falcons - Perdido en el Universo

12. The Electric Connection - Groovy

13. Andromeda - Andromeda

14. Claudio Natili - Il Miele del Diavolo

This one is from Lucio Fulci's film "The Devil's Honey," and is actually a cover of Franck Pourcel's "Morir de Amor," but done in a soft rock/yacht rock vein with plenty of sax...sax that does things in the movie that you may or may not be prepared for.

15. Mouth & MacNeal - Land of Milk and Honey

16. Moon Birds - Baby Moon

17. The Charlottes - Love in the Emptiness

18. Francois Bernheim - Tom

19. Mary Saxton - Is It Better to Live or Die

20. Milton Nascimento & Lo Borges - The entirety of Clube Da Esquina

Cheating here just a little bit as i couldn't force myself to pick just one song off of this 1972 masterpiece.  If this were a new album, it would be my favorite of the year.  Check the whole thing out (all 21 tracks) below.

Be back tomorrow for a whole bunch of movies i saw for the first time that didn't come out this year either.

Daily Jam - Party

Austin had a pretty vibrant punk rock scene in the '70s and '80s, encapsulated on the compilation album "Metal Moo Cow" from 1984.  Check out the weird and trippy closer "Party" from the band Meat Joy below, our Daily Jam.

100 Favorite Songs of 2021

This list could just go on and on, but to keep things relatively brief, here are my 100 favorite songs in no kind of order from 2021, a year that was hard for all of us.  Check 'em out!

1. Squid - Narrator

2. Xiu Xiu and Chelsea Wolfe - One Hundred Years

3. Viagra Boys - In Spite of Ourselves

4. Molly Burch - Emotion

5. Poison Ruin - Carrion

6. Bobby Lee - Fire Medicine Man

7. Small Black - Duplex

8. Fawning - All I Have

9. Tomahawk - Sidewinder

10. Nightshift - Make Kin

11. Writhing Squares - Rogue Moon

12. Boyhood - Don't You Dare

13. Divide & Dissolve - Oblique

14. Nun Gun - On Neurath's Boat

15. Hooveriii - Control

16. Nana Yamato - Under the Cherry Moon

17. The Pink Noise - Out of Step

18. Anika Pyle - Emerald City

19. Andrew W.K. - Babalon

20. Stomp Talk Modstone - Linger

21. Beachy Head - Destroy Us

22. Bloodslide - Pica

23. Yoo Doo Right - Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose

24. Adrian Younge - Light on the Horizon

25. Rudimentary Peni - Anthem for Doomed Youth

26. Perturbator - Lustful Sacraments

27. Foam and Sand - Circle 11

28. Krallice - Resistant Strains

29. THROTH - Dead Eyes

30. Whitney K. - Maryland

31. Iceage - Vendetta

32. Lost Girls - Menneskekollektivet

33. 36 & Awakened Souls - Guide Me Home (Shoegaze Version)

34. Clouds Taste Satanic - Sleeping on the Roof

35. Tele Novella - Crystal Witch

36. Kele - Smalltown Boy

37. SPC ECO - All I See

38. Damon Albarn - Darkness to Light

39. Calvin Love - Sailin' On

40. Electric Youth and Pilotpriest - Modern Fears

41. Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth - Remember We Were Lovers

42. Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen - Like I Used To

43. Exum - Dark Kept Secret

44. Renee Reed - I Saw a Ghost

45. Lovelorn - Sickness Reward

46. Khruangbin - Right

47. Charles - Remember Blushing

48. Liars - Sekwar

49. Kataan - Abyss

50. Pictureplane - Avalanche

51. The Gabbard Brothers - Sell Your Gun, Buy a Guitar

52. Ivan the Tolerable - Gold Hat

53. The Body and Big/Brave - Oh Sinner

54. HEALTH and Nine Inch Nails - Isn't Everyone

55. Flying Lotus and Thundercat - Black Gold

56. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime

57. The Lost Days - In the Fade

58. Amigo the Devil - Small Stone

59. Whatitdo Archive Group - La Pietra

60. Conway the Machine and Big Ghost LTD - Kill All Rats

61. Soup - Burning Bridges

62. Failure - Headstand

63. EggS - Old Fashioned Virtue

64. Noveller - Laura Palmer's Theme

65. The Diasonics - Gurami

66. Holy Hive - Deadly Valentine

67. Cindy - To Be True

68. Flowertown - Time Trials

69. Mega Bog - Maybe You Died

70. BADBADNOTGOOD - Signal from the Noise

71. Ty Segall - Whisper

72. Cass McCombs and Karen Black - I Wish I Knew the Man I Thought You Were

73. Parquet Courts - Walking at at Downtown Pace

74. Jarvis Cocker - Aline

75. Aeon Station - Leaves

76. Converge and Chelsea Wolfe - Blood Moon

77. Nothing - La La Mean I Love You

78. Julia Shapiro - Death (XIII)

79. Sugar Horse - Dadcore World Cup

80. IDLES - The Beachland Ballroom

81. Curses featuring CICI - Gina Lollobrigida

82. Pink Milk - Terminator 2 Theme

83. Men I Trust - Before Dawn

84. Maria Davidson - Persona

85. Psychic Mirrors - You Remind Me

86. Leonie Pernet - Mon Amour Tu Bois Trop

87. S Y Z Y G Y X - Light You on Fire

88. Daniel O'Sullivan - Perpetual Ascension

89. Natural Yogurt Band - 57 Lashes of the Mallet

90. Mouth Painter - Tropicale Moon

91. Herbal Tea - Front Seat Painting

92. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and The London Symphonic Orchestra - Movement 6

93. White Ring - Light Hours Linger

94. Badwan/Coxon - Boiling Point

95. Supreme Joy - Julie

96. Wolves in the Throne Room - Masters of Rain and Storm

97. Grouper - Kelso (Blue Sky)

98. Zetra - Care

99. Cory Hanson - Paper Fog

100. Magdalena Bay - Chaeri

That's what i've got.  I really thought about including Fucked Up's "Year of the Horse," but as it takes up the duration of a double LP, maybe it's an album instead.  Who can say?  Anyway, check these out and know that i left plenty of great stuff off of there.  And like every other year, i'm sure i'll hear something new in the next couple of weeks that should also be on this list.

Be back tomorrow for a bunch of older songs i just heard for the first time this year.