The 55 Best Albums of 2013 (12-22)

Part 4 of our countdown.  We still your picks for best albums of 2013.  Send them in via email or put them in the comment section below.  Send in your top 20…if you can’t think of 20…any number will do.

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Here are the 55 Best Albums of 2013 (12-22):

12.  Sky Ferreira – Night Time My Time
13.  Jim James – Regions of Light
14.  Phoenix – Bankrupt!
15.  Franz Ferdinand – Right Thoughts Right Words Right Action
16.  A$AP Rocky – Long. Live. A$AP
17.  Midlake – Antiphon
18.  Late Night Alumni – The Beat Becomes A Sound
19.  Capital Cities – In A Tidal Wave Of Mystery
20.  Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of The City
21.  Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP2
22.  When Saints Go Machine – Infinity Pool

Buy these and more albums of 2013…now!!

The 11 Best Songs By Franz Ferdinand

Sexuality is a gift not a right.  Just because you wear something skimpy and get a stage all to yourself, doesn’t mean that you can do anything you want and still win over a crowd.  Sexuality is about subtle confidence.  It’s about teasing your audience with just enough ammunition that their imaginations run wild.  There’s grace to being sexual.  There’s charisma.  There’s even brains.  What Mylie Cyrus did at the VMAs was not sexual, it was shock and awful.  I’m sure this is what happened, Mylie and her friends were sitting around dropping E or Mollie and they came up with some brilliant idea to have her she’s dress up like a gross little rat (lame Disney reference) while surrounded by teddy bears (Hannah Montana reference).  The problem is that idea is only brilliant when you’re fucking high.  It was like watching someone else’s bad drug trip while being sober.  And what do high people look like to sober people? That’s right:  fucking idiots.  This will be a lesson to Mylie.  Watch a Madonna video…see how it’s done.  Elvis wore a suit when he gyrated on stage and he had millions of screaming women wanting him.  Mylie had millions of people screaming…for her to go away.

Here are the 11 Best Songs By Franz Ferdinand:

  1. Take Me Out (Franz Ferdinand)
  2. Well That Was Easy (You Could Have It So Much Better)
  3. No You Girls (Tonight)
  4. Dark of the Matinee (Franz Ferdinand)
  5. You’re The Reason I’m Leaving (You Could Have It So Much Better)
  6. Live Alone (Tonight)
  7. 40′ (Franz Ferdinand)
  8. You Could Have It So Much Better (You Could Have It So Much Better)
  9. Twilight Omens (Tonight)
  10. This Fire (Franz Ferdinand)
  11. All My Friends (All My Friends EP)

Buy Franz Ferdinand’s new album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Actions…now!

The 11 Best Albums of 2009: 23-33 (Part 3)

 
As each step of this list is being unveiled, I have to say…there was a lot of music this year I really enjoyed.  Whether it was scrounging to find the unreleased Beck cover album…or the return of Franz Ferdninand…or the underrated ben gibbard/farrar duet, there was a bunch of music out there to get excited about.  Two newcomers to watch…Cut Off Your Hands and Cage The Elephant…I have a feeling they will be on these lists for years to come.

 
Here are the 11 Best Albums of 2009: 23-33 (Part 3):
23.  Cut Off Your HandsYou And I  (Turn Cold)
24.  JJJJ No 2
25.  WolfmotherCosmic Egg
26.  Franz FerdinandTonight 
27.  Cage The ElephantCage the Elephant (Ain’t No Rest)
28.  M. WardHold Time
29.  BeckVelvet Underground & Nico  (I’ll Be Your Mirror)
30.  Jay-ZThe Blueprint 3.0
31.  Steel PantherFeel The Steel
32.  Bruce SpringsteenWorking On A Dream
33.  Ben Gibbard & Jay FarrarOne Fast Move Or I’m Gone