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Sunday, January 03, 2010

The Best of 2009!

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For many of us, 2009 sucked. We‘re in a recession. The economy is in the toilet. A lot of us are unemployed, underemployed or some combination thereof. We’re all forced to tighten our belts or cut back on superfluous crap in one way or another.

In that spirit, we decided to cut back here at Imageyenation and deliver a more “economical” edition of our annual year-end list. What that means is that we're foregoing all the individual “best album,” “best song,” “best movie,” “best beard” and “best person” awards and just doing a big “best of” albums list.

We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed listening to all the music on it.

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Monday, January 12, 2009

IMAGEYENATION.COM Presents: The Best of 2008!

Posted by Imageyenation Collective

2008 ended eleven days ago. But it took us an extra week and change to decompress and gather our thoughts on the outgoing year and all it contained.

As usual we compiled an exhaustive list of music we dug last year. And we all gave our take on the music, movies, people and beards that made 2008 what it was.

Enjoy reading it on the toilet.

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Saturday, February 16, 2008

Imageyenation Presents: The Best of 2007!

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We know, we know... We're mad late with this thing this year. We usually have it in the bag right around New Years, but this year it got pushed back to Jan. 5th, then Jan. 15th, and finally Feb. 14th (replacing the "Top 10 Film/Television Crushes" list El Keter intended to orchestrate for Valentines Day), which somehow translates into this year's "Best of..." list being posted today, February 16th.

Should we give you the old standbys about how "anything good" is "worth waiting for," or shit being "better late than never?" Should we make a lot of excuses about how hectic and busy things have been? Or should we try to sell you a load of bullshit about how 2007 was just so dope that it took us mad long to compile this thing?

Well, we're not gonna do any of those things. We're just going to present to you the newest entry in our annual year-end re-caps and hope that we're a little more punctual next time.

Enjoy...

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Friday, January 05, 2007

Imageyenation presents the Best of 2006!

Posted by Imageyenation Collective

Last year the compilation of our "Best Of" list was a lot of work, but it came together surprisingly easy. This year on the other hand, despite putting a lot of effort into making the process easy for everybody, getting finished ballots from everybody seemed near impossible at times. I don't know why. There was a helluva lot of good music released this year. And a bunch of great flicks. It was also a banner year for both public personalities and beards. So I'm surprised this list isn't longer than it actually is, and that there wasn't more enthusiasm to talk about how great everything was. Maybe it was the fact that 2006 as a year actually sucked? I dunno.

All I know is that this is our "year in review" post. It's pretty comprehensive, but as usual it still feels like we're missing stuff. I know there's a lot of records we just didn't hear for whatever reason. There's others we forgot. And still others that we probably thought sucked and just decided to leave off for whatever reason. Regardless, there's a lot of stuff that we love ( and a lot of stuff from Sweden ) on this list. And there's probably some stuff that you love on it too. More importantly, there's probably stuff you didn't know about at all. And hopefully it'll make you go check that shit out before you get too overwhelmed with all the dope shit that's gonna come out in 2007.

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Friday, December 30, 2005

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Imageyenation and the Urban Alternatives Crew are proud to present our First Annual Best of 2005 wrap-up!

You might be suprised to learn that though this is being billed as our first annual "best of" list we've actually attempted compiling these suckers every year for the last three years. We always start listing our favorite albums and try whittling them down to the best of the best. But the job has just proven far too big in years past and the whole thing has wound up languishing on our computer desktops rather than winding up posted on the site.

This year was different though. This year we all buckled down, and all the crew members ( El Keter ben Tzadik, Emeyesi, Empress, Cereffusion, Miss Behavin', DJ 12XU and even new contributor Add-Mmm ) submitted songs for our relatively comprehensive "best of" list and provided personal picks for certain categories. You'll see their lists below. You'll also find a little commentary from some of us, and a running commentary on many of the albums ( and why they "rule" ) on the long-list courtesy of Emeyesi and El Keter ben Tzadik.

As long as the list is, it's nowhere near complete in our eyes though. So we may add to it over the next couple of weeks. Or, we may not.

You may also notice that there are a number of releases on the list that carried over from 2004. If you're wondering why, it's because sometimes a record just has that kind of shelf-life, or maybe we didn't catch on to it until this year. Either way, it was still rocking our headphones, car stereos, iPods and computer speakers throughout 2005, so it deserves to be on the list. If you find that confusing just take a look at Cereffusion's commentary on the year in review, he breaks it down perfectly.

Since it's already been three years in the making, and that's far too long to make you wait, let's just cut the jibber-jabber short right here and find out who and what the "best of 2005" really was.

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Wednesday, February 04, 2004

Imageyenation/Urban Alternatives Best Of 2003

Posted by El Keter ben Tzadik

Okay, so me and M.I.C. have been agonizing over this for a long time. We were monitoring releases right up to the last days of 2003 and we wound up pondering things well into the new year.

As it stands the list is dumb-long and I still feel it's incomplete, so don't be surprised if as time goes by I throw up another revised list. But January is hell'n'gone godammit, so without further ado, here's the Imageyenation & Urban Alternatives Crew's picks for the Best Of 2003...

Song of the year: Outkast "Hey Ya"

Record/single of the year: RSL "Wesley Music"

Albums of the year ( in no order ):

Lifesavas 'Spirit In Stone'
M.F. Doom as Viktor Vaughn 'Vaudeville Villain'
Serengeti 'Dirty Flamingo'
Murs 'The End Of The Beginning'
Wildchild 'Secondary Protocol'
Brother Ali 'Shadows On The Sun'
Cunninlynguists 'Southern Underground'
9th Wonder 'God's Stepson'
M.F. Doom as King Geedorah 'Take Me To Your Leader'
Nephlim Modulation Systems 'Woe To Thee O Land...'
Science Fiction 'Walls Don't Exist'
Aesop Rock 'Bazooka Tooth'
Outkast 'Speakerboxxx/The Love Below'
Amy Winehouse 'Frank'
Danger Mouse & Jemini 'Ghetto Pop Life'
Radiohead 'Hail To The Thief'
Blur 'Think Tank'
Metric 'Old World Underground...'
Stiffed 'Sex Sells'
The Postal Service 'Give Up'
The White Stripes 'Elephant'
Non-Prophets 'Hope'
Immortal Technique 'Revolutionary Vol. 2'
Jaylib 'Champion Sound'
Babbletron 'Mechanical Royalty'
The Mars Volta 'De-Loused At The Comatorium'
Jay-Z 'The Black Album'
Nedelle 'Republic Of Two'
Woven '8 Bit Monk'
Grandaddy 'Sumday'
A Band Of Bees 'Sunshine Hit Me'
Break Reform 'Fractures'
Jonathan Toth From Hoth 'Brainwashing'
Kelis 'Tasty'
Ben Lee 'Hey You, Yes You'
Clue To Kalo 'Come Here When You Sleepwalk'
Erlend Oye 'Unrest'
Why? 'Oaklandazulasylum'
The Incredible Moses Leroy 'Become The Soft Lightes'
Styrofoam 'I'm What's There To Show That Something's Missing'
Pulseprogramming 'Tulsa For One Second'
Elbow 'Cast Of Thousands'
The Rapture 'Echoes'
Fred Avril 'That Horse Must Be Starving'
April March 'Triggers'
Mountaineers 'Mountaineers'
Mountaineers 'Messy Century'
DJ Me DJ You 'Can You See The Music'
Lyrics Born 'Later That Day...'
Aspera 'Oh Fantastica'
Ilya 'Revelation EP'
London Elektricity 'Billion Dollar Gravy'
Cody Chesnutt 'The Headphone Masterpiece'
Moonraker 'Moonraker'
Ms. Dynamite 'A Little Deeper'
Peven Everett 'Studio Confessions'
Dwele 'Subject'
MC Honky 'I Am The Messiah'
Fischerspooner '1'
Via Tania 'Under A Different Sky'
Cold Duck Complex 'Figureheads'
Ugly Duckling 'Taste The Secret'
Tommy Guerrero 'Soul Food Taqueria'
Ani Difranco 'Evolve'
Donnie 'The Colored Section' *
Various Artists 'Startime International Presents: Super-Cuts'
Suki Tawdry 'Night Of Joy'
Bourbon Princess 'Black Feather Wings'
Spymob 'Sitting Around Keeping Score'
Junior Senior 'D-D-Don't Stop The Beat'
White Mud Freeway 'Last Year's Junk'
The Systematics 'Full Circle'
Audio Bullys 'Ego War'
Schneider TM '6 Peace EP'
Fannypack 'So Stylistic'
Kenna 'New Sacred Cow' *
Thicke 'A Beautiful World' *
Beth Gibbons & Rustin' Man 'Out Of Season' *
Brendon Benson 'Metarie EP'
Ima Robot 'Public Access EP'
Sister Sonny 'The Bandit Lab'
Fourtet 'Rounds'
Manitoba 'Up In Flames'
Peaches 'Fatherfucker'
Rufus Wainright 'Want One'
Various Artists 'Kill Bill OST'
The Strokes 'Room On Fire'
Nelly Furtado 'Folk Lore'
Jay Dee 'Ruff Draft EP'
Ben Harper 'Diamonds On The Inside'
Hella 'Total Bugs Bunny On Wild Bass'
Damien Rice 'O'
Erykah Badu 'Worldwide Underground'
Chevelle 'Wonder What's Next'
Jet 'Get Born'
Basement Jaxx 'Kish Kash'
Atmosphere 'Seven's Travels'
C-Rayz Walz 'Ravipops'

* Indicates an album that was also on our best of 2002 list, which recieved a re-release or a wider release in 2003.

Anway, we're currently in the process of compiling a list of the best singles and random album tracks of the year as well. So look out for an Imageyenation & Urban Alternatives Crew's Choice Joints Of 2003 list coming soon.

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