and now from the home office...

when I commenced this enterprise, it was mainly with the intent of opining wildly and wilfully on the merits of the music i love. you see music is my thing, i just haven't managed to parlay it into a livelihood (yet). admittedly at that early point i did concede that i had things to say and the world either needed to be unaware i was saying them or choose to ignore them. my prescience has been proven unnervingly and unfortunately accurate. nonetheless, unperturbed and completely unmoved by the necessity to be contemporaneous, i present to you my top 10 albums of 2004. not having a blog last year i was unable to afflict the results of my agonising list-making upon the ignorant masses and as this blog proves ignorance is bliss. today is the first day of the advent calendar, and this list shall be succeeded by my top 10 for 2005 (i know, quelle horreur, shockingly approaching relevance there) as well as assorted editorialising along the way. so if you know a holier-than-thou indie, hispster kid (read obsessive music geek), i suggest any of the following as christmas gifts...

Jason Forrest
The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash
[Sonig; 2004]

one time disco queen donna summer whose previous album had been issued by the kid606 affiliated violent turd reappeared this year under a name more recognisable to his mother and released a mash-up? certainly, those who encountered it would have no hesitation in labelling it as art but this goes no way toward its understanding. the least listenable entry on this list, wfmu dj jason forrest has created a dissonant piece ap(h)exing with 10 amazing years, an epic 6 minute wig-out appropriating in its course both the who and the beatles. These sounds often threaten to bump in a big-beat breakdown, but veer away from potential party-pleasers to become the perfect gift for your friends who think radiohead is fucked-up. they're not. this is