The 11 Best Songs By The Raveonettes

Fun Fact:  The Raveonettes last album, Observator, was inspired by a three day drug binge at Venice Beach by lead singer Sune Rose Wagner. Here are the 11 Best Songs By The Raveonettes:

1. Observations (Observator)
2. Breaking Into Cars (In And Out Of Control)
3. Do You Believe Her (Whip It On)
4. Heartbreak Stroll (Chain Gang Of Love)
5. That Great Love Sound (Chain Gang Of Love)
6. War In Heaven (Raven In The Grave)
7. Sleepwalking (Pretty In Black)
8. Gone Forever (In And Out Of Control)
9. Somewhere In Texas (Pretty In Black)
10. Evil Seeds (Raven In The Grave)
11. Heart Of Stone (In And Out Of Control)

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The Best Albums of 2012 (12-22)

Merry Christmas to all.

Sometimes Christmas surprises you.  For years I've grown complacent with Christmas presents.  Not for others.  For others I go all out spending most of the year trying to figure out exactly what they want.  What I'm referring to is what is given to me.  I'm not bitching about peoples' generosity, everyone around me is very generous but sometimes their presents miss the mark and I spend most of the day smiling and thanking people for something I'm figuring out how I'm going to return.  This year something different happened.  I'm a huge Smashing Pumpkins fan...if you haven't noticed in my Billy Corgan manlove.  I've purchased all the reissues thus far.The Pumpkins reissues have been one of the best remaster/editions to come out in years.  Though it comes close to the "wall of sound" disaster that ruined Nevermind...it toes close enough to the line to respectfully keep the original sound intact.  Naturally, I admired the Mellon Collie box set from afar.  I thought the Pisces price tag of $40 was steep...but the Mellon Collie set weighs in at over $100.  Granted you get 5 discs worth of material...plus a DVD.  It was still far above what I could handle paying.  I joked with my brother about getting it for me...knowing fair well that he would never cough up the dough for it.  My brother would rather spend $100 on polishing the tires on his Maserati than ever think about doing something like this.  Granted, his tires do get dirty very easily.  I had begun plotting how I might be able to download the bonus tracks though the availability of them was very slim.  I had resigned the fact that this one would be the box set that would just get away.  Then, Christmas morning I unwrapped it.  The last present under the tree happened to be the one thing I wanted that I never thought I'd have.  Though it wasn't from my brother...it was a bit of a Christmas miracle.

A post about this SP set will be coming shortly...

Here are the Best Albums of 2012 (12-22):

12.  Jeff The Brotherhood - Hypnotic Nights 
13.  Chiddy Bang - Breakfast 
14.  Of Monsters and Men - My Head Is An Animal 
15.  Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
16.  The Raveonettes - Observator 
17.  Crystal Castles - III
18.  Craig Finn - Clear Heart Full Eyes 
19.  Japandroids - Celebration Rock 
20.  Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth 
21.  The Lumineers - The Lumineers 
22.  Kendrick Lamar - good kid, maad city (Bonus Track)

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The 11 Best Songs By The Raveonettes

I don't know how many time I have to talk about this.  Why does the music industry constantly cock their weapon and shoot themselves deliberately in the foot...then while they writhe around on the ground in pain, they blame illegally downloading for making them do it?

Two weeks ago I ordered the new Soundgarden on CD.  I ordered it from the band's website because it came with a bonus EP.  I'm a sucker for the bonus EP.  I ordered it on March 24th.  It didn't get processed until March 29th.  It was supposed to reach me in 5-8 business days.  I've now been waiting two weeks.  If you want to keep people  buying music...STOP MAKING IT SO HARD FOR US TO DO IT. I never order CDs online for this exact reason.  It takes two freaking weeks to get my music.  How in the world is this better than a music store?  

A new Raveonettes is out this week...what that has to do with Soundgarden...well, isn't it obvious?

Here are the 11 Best Songs By The Raveonettes:

1.  Sleepwalking (Pretty in Black)

2.  The Great Love Sound (Chain Gang Of Love)

3.  Breaking Into Cars (In and Out Of Control)

4.  Somewhere in Texas (Pretty in Black)

5.  Do You Believer Her (Whip It On)

6.  Gone Forever (In and Out Of Control) 

7.  Lust (Lust Lust Lust) 

8.  Let's Rave On (Chain Gang Of Love) 

9.  Echoes (In and Out Of Control) 

10.  You Want The Candy (Lust Lust Lust) 

11.  New York Was Great (Chain Gang Of Love)

Buy the Raveonettes new album, Raven in the Grave ...now!!!