[1] Nada Surf - Let Go.

Released 2002 Barsuk Records

[2] Harvey Danger - King James Version

Released 2000 London Sire

[3] Matthew Good - Avalanche

Released 2003 Universal Music Canada

[4] Matthew Good - Vancouver

Released 2009 Universal Music Canada

[5] The Stills - Oceans Will Rise

Released 2008 Arts&Crafts

[6] The Dismemberment Plan - Change

Released 2001 Desoto Records

[7] The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead

Released 2008 Sub Pop Records

[8] The Killers - Day and Age

Released 2008 Universal Music

[9] Maritime - We The Vehicles

Released 2006 on Flameshovel Records

My Top Ten Favorite Albums of the Last Decade,2000-2009, #45-#10

I am going to post in the near future about my favorite albums of 2010, and figured I should give some background to my musical tastes. If you have any suggestions for albums from this year let me know so I can give it a listen if I haven't already. As I was making this list I realized there are ton of albums I really like that I had to even keep out of my preliminary sort through, just because I knew they wouldn't end up making it to my top ten of the decade. I ended up with 41 albums, that I needed to narrow down to just ten. Well instead of narrowing it down completely I am going to only write descriptions for the top then and give you my top 45 of the aughts.


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45. Interpol - Antics
44. Matthew Good - Hospital Music
43. The Dears - No Cities Left(Canadian Version)
42. Limblifter - I/O
41. Weezer - Weezer(Green)
40. Harvey Danger - Dead Sea Scrolls
     Available for free at HarveyDanger.com
39. Modest Mouse- The Moon and Antartica
38. The Long Winters- The Worst You Can Do Is Harm
37. Saves the Day - Under the Boards
36. Maritime - Hersey and the Hotel Choir
35. Hot Hot Heat - Makeup the Breakdown
34. Motion City Soundtrack - I am the Movie
33. Sparta - Wiretap Scars
32. Limblifter - Bellaclava
31. Electric Six - Senor Smoke
30. Matthew Good - White Light Rock and Roll Review
29. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
28. Thunderbirds are Now! - Justamustache
27. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
26. Troubled Hubble - Making Bed in a Burning House
25. Temper Trap - Conditions
24. Starlight Mints - Change Remains
23. Built to Spill - Ancient Melodies of the Future
22. Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary
21. The Might Mighty BossTones - Pay Attention
20. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
19. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
18. Panic at the Disco - Pretty Odd
17. The Long Winters - When I Pretend to Fall
16. Ryan Dahle - Irrational Anthems
15. Interpol - Our Love to Admire
14. The Presidents of the United States of America- These are Good Times People
13. Guster - Ganging up on the Sun
12. Matthew Good Band - The Audio of Being
11. Bounds Stems - The Family Afloat

10. The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed

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This is one of my favorite bands, and I found out about them because Harvey Danger broke up. When this occurred Sean Nelson, lead singer of Harvey Danger, began singing back-up and playing keyboards for this band. While both bands have distinctly different sounds, they are both two of my favorite bands. This album was released in 2006, and I must of listened to it everyday for about 7 months straight. The whole album is great from beginning to end. 

Favorite Songs Include: Fire Island,AK / Honest / Seven

Number Nine is coming tomorrow. Maybe I will think of more to write about it.

Dynamints

I am sure most of you have had tic-tacs. I do not buy them anymore namely because I buy them and eat the whole container in about 3.64 seconds. The orange ones lower that average considerably, I think I down them in about 0.978 seconds. I do the same thing with Mentos and Jones Soda Carbonated Candy. Well courtesy of the internet I found out about these awesome things called Dynamints.



Wow SIX SECONDS, I can't wait that long I would have the whole packaged devoured by then. I am inventing a time machine there is so much stuff that I want to try from the past. I will speak about them in a future post. I am hungry now, I am going to go devour 8 boxes of different flavoured tic-tacs. By the way I am spelling flavoured like a Canadian, because I am ready for some hockey.

Vrrrrooom.

One Thing I have loved since being able to drive is cars. They move you places faster than walking. My fascination with cars has never been about speed though, it's always about design. And ugly design at that, well at least my first dream car was. The Pontiac Aztek. One of the reasons I liked this car was I got to help design it. Pontiac sent out CD-Roms where you got to design the Aztek, it was all pretty much finalized at this point, but it was a fun little thing anyways. I think the biggest thing it ended up doing was picking the final colors, which like the car itself, had some uglies.

Now if you don't recall what an Aztek looks like let me refresh your memory.

As you can see this thing is not very nice looking, but for some reason I wanted one bad, and still do for that matter. I think it's ugly duckling syndrome or something, I just feel bad for it, and want to take care of it. 

The real bad thing about this beast, is that it could have been a much better styled vehicle if they would of stuck with the concept styling as seen below.

That is a seriously good looking SUV, especially for something designed in the late 1990's. Actually I want to morph through my computer monitor, and hotwire this thing and drive it back to the future. I will also be bring the sea-doo.

Some other dream cars of mine have been 2000s Pontiac Grand Am GT, Pontiac Grand Prix GXP, and a Pontiac G8 GXP. As you can likely see I really like the Pontiacs, and I am sad to have seen them go. Right before Pontiac went extinct, it had released concept for the G8 ST. ST stands for sport truck, and you maybe thinking well, isn't the G8 a badass sedan, and the answer is of course yes, but you need to think even more badass El Camino here.

Yeah, that is awesome, I know. I was really hoping GM would bring it over to Chevrolet, but alas they did not. 

I am currently driving a 2009 Pontiac Vibe GT which is a pretty sweet little hatchback, but you always need a dream car in reserve I say. Since I fell in love with my Vibe, I knew I would likely fall for another hatchback, and GMC brought the coolest hatchback concept ever out this past January, in the GMC Granite.

I really love the styling on this car, it looks pretty futuristic, but in a gaudy way that I love. As I was searching the interwebs today to see if they have green-lighted this for production I come across this...

Oh yeah that's right the most awesome vehicle ever conceived. I have no doubt, if this is made this is my next car. One thing I liked alot about the Aztek was that the hatch could be lifted up and you could put a tent in it...

The back end of the GMC Granite CPU, CPU standing for Compact Pickup, fold out and down for an extra two feet to lay stuff down on. Not only does it have that extra space, but it has taillights built in to make it street legal. 

From here the bottom folds out and you have a good amount of extra space this is awesome engineering and makes this the current car of my dreams.