Five By Five: Year End Favorites, Part 2

I put out the call to some friends for a simple list of five favorites from the year...anything: events, concerts, recordings, personal moments, whatever. The title is in honor of the first responder, Andrew Loog Oldham, being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. A big congratulations to him! And also a special shout out to my favorite fashion illustrator, Jennifer Lilya. She's got a book deal! This is the second of three installments. 

 
Robbie Dupree - Top 5 Best films of this Century:

No Country For Old Men

Inglorious Bastards

Hugo

Vicki Christina Barcelona

There Will Be Blood 

 

 

Jennifer Lilya - Top 5 for 2013:

1. Icon Inspiration: The triumphant return of Kathleen Hanna: The Punk Singer movie, the release of 
The Riot Grrrl Collection & The Julie Ruin album and tour.

2. Art Book: Bold, Beautiful & Damned. Classic 80s fashion illustration by the late Tony Viramontes. Delicious, perfect, traditional art.

3. Love & Beauty: Laurie Anderson's perfectly written obituary for Lou Reed. Pure magic in loss.

4. Live Music: Billy Idol at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester. Front row, of course. 58 years old and hotter than ever.

5. Personal Achievement: Getting a book deal & subsequently working virtually non-stop all year long. My step-by-step fashion illustration book and instructional videos will be released in Fall 2014 by North Light Books. Yay!

Tony Fletcher - Top 5 Books I Read in 2013:

Run Wild by Boff Whalley

Scream If You Want To Go Faster by Russ Litten

Present Shock by Douglas Rushkoff

Red Army Faction Blues by Ada Wilson

The Love Song of Jonny Valentine by Teddy Wayne

 








Dan Selzer - Top 6 most played songs added to iTunes within the last year:

1. Clio - Faces

2. Fleetwood Mac - Albatross

3. Holden - The Caterpillar's Intervention

4. Alex Fergusson - Stay With Me Tonight

5. Laughing Clowns - Eternally Yours

6. Sensational Creed - Nocturnal Operations

 
Jason Gross - Top 6 things that I hate about "Inside Llewyn Davis":

1. The person it's modeled after, Dave Von Ronk, is infinitely more interesting that the title character.

2. The title character himself is such a self-righteous, empty, blasé wretch that he dishonors Von Ronk's memory

3. Little in the film shows you what an interesting, vibrant scene that was going on in Greenwich Village at the time

4. Even though the musical movement was very political, you'd never know that from the movie

5. What's probably the worst Coen Brothers movie is also their mostly highly praised one that's already getting Oscar talk

6. The most interesting character is a cat. The people who you'd want to know more about (the driver and the club owner) get shafted for screen time.

Acute's first vinyl release, Drums Over London by The Disco Zombies

Our pals over at Acute Records are releasing their (surprisingly) first ever vinyl release - "Drums Over London" by the obscuro 70's punk band, The Disco Zombies. Since we always have time for anything Acute-related I wanted to pass the news on to you...

The Disco Zombies existed from 1977 to 1980 or so (like all good punk bands!). They played extremely catchy and witty and occasionally topical pop songs, whether during their earlier energetic punk phase or later artier drum machine phase. The LP compiles their 3 rare and collectible 7" singles, including the classic "Drums Over London", as well as 7 additional never before released songs taken from acetates to singles that almost were.

If that wasn't enough…the LP comes with a download code to be able to get digital versions of all the songs, PLUS an additional 7 songs, all recorded live in 1980 including yet 5 more unreleased songs, along with covers of Eno and Faust. All of this plus a 12 page booklet…truly an embarrassment of riches.

• Here Come the Buts single listed as “favorite of their three spectacular singles” by Johan Kugelberg on his canon-defining Top 100 DIY Records for Ugly Things magazine.
• Includes 12 page booklet with liner notes from Disco Zombies singer/influential journalist Dave Henderson (Sounds/Mojo).
• Guitarist/songwriter Andy Ross discovered Blur.
• Acute Records’ first vinyl release!

Release date:
September 27, 2011