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Joe’s Hiplist Vol.8
Yet another probably unsuccessful attempt to force myself to label each passing year in my mind…
[Purple Mountains, The National, Death Cab For Cutie, Sharon Van Etten, Aldous Harding…]
Joe’s Hiplist Vol.7
The last bloody one from Liquid Songs series. Interesting moment to start it with Mr. Steven…
[Morrisey, Conor Oberst, The Drums, Sufjan Stevens, Ryan Adams…]
Joe’s Hiplist Vol.6
It turns out that tears are mostly ’80s thing.
[Ultravox, The English Beat, Mr. Mister, INXS, The Stranglers…]
David Bowie: Clareville Grove Demos
The biggest concern I had writing this article was should it be placed in Play or Rewind category. Although majority of these six songs are heard by now in other releases, atmosphere that they are revealing sorted together on “Clareville Grove Demos” shed more light on Bowie’s work to me.
Joe’s Hiplist Vol.5
Some waters are still and some are not… Pretty straightforward list ’bout it.
[Meat Puppets, Ocean Colour Scene, Band Of Horses, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith…]
Fruit Bats: Gold Past Life
Summer eventually came, as we were all concerned for it during the rainy half of June, and even though I was hopping that the new Broken Bells album will be out by now to get me in the summer mood, ultimately I am rewarded with “Gold Past Life” from Fruit Bats…
Purple Mountains: Darkness and Cold
David Berman, former Silver Jews member, released second single from upcoming album of his new project Purple Mountains…
Nick Cave: The Boatman’s Call
I’ve been wondering for a while which records should I choose to write about here on hiplister, for the very beginning of this little project, and the only reasonable choice was to go back to when it all started for me…
Joe’s Hiplist Vol.4
There’s no difference between ocean and see, since the other shore you can’t see…
[Johnny Cash, Ezra Furman, Tom Waits, The Velvet Underground, The Lumineers…]