The 11 Best Songs By Ty Segall of 2012

While Ryan Adams was sleeping, Ty Segall decided to fill our stocking with three full length albums this year.  Maybe Ty made Green Day jealous.  In all fairness to Ryan, he did put out a 15-disc live vinyl box set.  Yeah, he did.

While some people have embraced Ty's proliferation, many people are criticizing him for putting out too much sub par material.  While not everything is great...there was still a lot of awesome songs stuffed into the three albums.  Enough songs that I could have done 22 top songs...and it still would have been a quality list.  I've always found it a strange how critics lament about the length of time an album took.  I understand the "rushed" feeling...but Beck made a slew of albums all recorded in a day.  And all of them sound fresh.  It should matter if an album took 1 year or 10 years to make...it should only matter on the quality of the product.  And there are many albums that take years to make...and they're still loaded with filler songs.

Here are Ty Segall's 11 Best Songs from 2012:

1. You're The Doctor (Twins)
2. Thank God For Sinners (Twins)
3. The Black Glove/Rag (Hair)
4. The Hill (Twins)
5. Tell Me What's Inside Your Heart (Slaughterhouse)
6. Crybaby (Hair)
7. The Tongue (Slaughterhouse)
8. Diddy Wah Diddy (Slaughterhouse)
9. Easy Ryder (Hair)
10. There Is No Tomorrow (Twins)
11. Scissor People (Hair)

Buy Ty Segall's albums, Twins, Slaughterhouse, and Hair...now!!

Free Music Fridays: Wax Unwound Compilation

Yesterday, one of my favorite used record stores had a huge sale. 20%-50% off all used merchandise.  I thought I would stop in for a few minutes, maybe pick up an item or two.  I was wrong.  I was blown away by the throngs of people.  There were dozens of audiophiles packed in the aisles.  You could barely move from the King Crimson section to the John Lennon section without shoving at least three people out of the way.  My quick browse turned into a stretched out hour of of music spelunking...and trust me, if I had a little metal miner's hat with a light on top, it would have been incredibly helpful.  After finally finding the music, I spent another 15 minutes in line.  There were at least 30 people in line.  What was going on?  People buying music?  This is unheard of.  Or not.  Yet, just more proof that the music industry isn't dead...it just thinks it is.

Here is a free compilation compliments of Exploding in Sound called Wax Unwound.  It features some great tracks by Pulled Apart By Horses, Black Mountain, Grandfather, Ty Segall, and the Twilight Singers.  And it's free!

http://explodinginsound.bandcamp.com/