Best Albums of 2008

Chad's 2008 Top 25 Albums

1. TV on The Radio - Dear Science
2. Black Keys - Attack & Release
3. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
4. Dr. Dog - Fate
5. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
6. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
7. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
8. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
9. Man Man - Rabbit Habits
10. Kate Nash - Made of Bricks
11. Ryan Adams - Cardinology
12. Beck - Modern Guilt
13. Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
14. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
15. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
16. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
17. Portugal The Man - Censored Colors
18. Dodos - The Visiter
19. Eagles of Death Metal - Heart On
20. Mason Jennings - In The Ever
21. Ben Folds -
22. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
23. Mike Doughty - Golden Delicious
24. Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts
25. Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
26. Weezer - The Red Album

Cooper Sand-Diving at the beach

Findley!

You go boy!

Places I have been

1. Paris, France


2. Naples, Italy


3. Porto, Portugal


4. Castries, St. Lucia


5. Cruz Bay, St. John


6. Christiansted, St. Croix


7. Key West, FL, USA

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Books I have read

Shelfari has added this cool blog tool that enables you to display your bookshelf. Below is mine. I have read all this books. I think you need the most recent version of Flash to view it though.

Best Albums of 2006

Here are my top 16 albums (plus some extras):

1 Drams - Jubilee Drive
2 Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
3 Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
4 M. Ward - Post War
5 Decemberists - Crane Wife
6 TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
7 Sunset Rubdown - Shutup I am Dreaming
8 Bottle Rockets - Zoysia
9 The Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
10 Wussy - Funeral Dress
11 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
12 Wolfmother - Wolfmother
13 Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers
14 Drive by Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse
15 Pink Mountaintops - Axis of Evol
16 Golden Smog - Another Fine Day

Best Live Album:
1 My Morning Jacket - Okonokos
2 Wilco - Kicking Television - Live in Chicago
3 Bright Eyes - Motion Sickness

Best EP:
Okkervil River - Overboard & Down EP

Best Album Title:
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and Will Beat Your Ass

Best of the Rest (alpha order):
Amos Lee - Supply and Demand
Annuals - Be He Me
Beck - The Information
Ben Harper - Both Sides of the Gun
Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
Eef Barzelay - Bitter Honey
Gomez - How we Operate
Loose Fur - Born Again in the USA
Mason Jennings - Boneclouds
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Oh No! Oh My! - Oh No! Oh My!
Panic! At the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
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Shawn Mullins - 9th Ward Pickin' Parlor
The Killers - Sam's Town
The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed
The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
The Rapture - Pieces of People we Love
The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
The Zutons - Tired of Hanging Around

Edit 12/29/2006:
The Cold War Kids and Oakley Hall should be added to the lists above.

US Virgin Island Photos

Here is a link to view our US Virgin Island photos (I just threw them all out there). There are quite a few and it may take a little while to load, so be patient. The first part of the pictures are from St. Croix, then onto St. John, and finally at our resort in St. Thomas.

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Top 50 Music Albums of 2005

Yes, I know you all have been waiting for this, so here it is, a few days early. Post some feedback and let me know what you love/hate and what I missed. I was too lazy to link each of the albums to amazon or to the band site. Too much effort.

1 Bright Eyes -- I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
2 Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah -- Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah
3 My Morning Jacket -- Z
4 Mike Doughty -- Haughty Melodic
5 Spoon -- Gimme Friction
6 Kings of Leon -- Aha Shake Heartbreak
7 Black Mountain -- Black Mountain
8 Martha Wainwright -- Martha Wainwright
9 Sons and Daughters -- The Love Cup
10 Clem Snide -- End of Love
11 The White Stripes -- Get Behind Me Satan
12 The Sun -- Blame it on the Youth
13 The New Pornographers -- Twin Cinema
14 The Magic Numbers -- The Magic Numbers
15 Mountain Goats -- The Sunset Tree
16 Tim Booth -- Bone
17 Wolf Parade -- Apologies to the Queen Mary
18 The Ponys -- Celebration Castle
19 The Decemberists -- Picaresque
20 Beck -- Guero
21 Kaiser Chiefs -- Employment
22 Ok Go -- Oh No
23 Deathray Davies -- The Kick and the Snare
24 The Silver Jews -- Tanglewood Numbers
25 Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation -- Mighty Rearranger
26 Ben Folds -- Songs For Silverman
27 The Eels -- Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
28 Dios (Malos) -- Dios (Malos)
29 Supergrass -- Road to Rouen
30 The Hold Steady -- Separation Sunday
31 Radar Brothers -- The Fallen Leaf Pages
32 Deadly Snakes -- Porcella
33 Bright Eyes -- Digital Ash, Digital Urn
34 Bruce Springsteen -- Devils and Dust
35 Franz Ferdinand -- You Could Have it So Much Better
36 Bloc Party -- Silent Alarm
37 Art Brut -- Bang Bang Rock and Roll
38 Richard Buckner & Jon Langford -- Sir Dark Invader vs the Fanglord
39 Okkervil River -- Black Sheep Boy
40 Death Cab For Cutie -- Plans
41 Dressy Bessy -- Electrified
42 Oasis -- Don't Believe the Truth
43 Langhorne Slim -- When The Sun's Gone Down
44 Louis XIV -- The Best Little Secrets are Kept
45 Nic Armstrong -- The Greatest White Liar
46 Caesars -- Paper Tigers
47 Paul McCartney -- Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
48 Moby -- Hotel
49 Raveonettes -- Pretty In Black
50 Son Volt -- Okemah and the Melody of Riot