Top Ten Lists are dumb, but righteous!

hey you mothers...another blast from the past (2000) but if yr looking to flesh out that collection and some of these are not yet in yr sweaty hands yet then thank me in the usual fashion, that is, send the unemployed guy some frigging cigars!! peace, jmo

Jeff Monk’s TOP TEN OF 2K
I don’t claim to have heard everything of worth this year. It’s just too damn expensive keeping your life running on course without the nagging pull of the record store. Suffice to say that I received what I was meant to and everything else is a gift, right?

1. The Big Bang! The Best Of The MC5 (Rhino): A big fat slobbery wet one to the fine folks at Rhino for having the collective nuts to release a record by a group that exists more as a legend than anything else. Maybe some new youngsters had their heads twisted around correctly by this necessary set. You need this disc.
2. Patti Smith/Gung Ho (Arista): Every female artist in rock must bow down to Ms. Smith. She may be a fame hog at this point in her career, but hey, at least she ain’t Cher. Still very relevant.
3. Neil Young/Silver and Gold (Reprise): Powerful in his idiosyncrasies, Young never stays in one musical groove long enough for critics to completely write him off. Fill in your own favorite aging well analogy here.
4. The Rendezvous Band/ Live at the Magic Stick September 11, 1999 (Real O Mind): File under unjustly under-appreciated. Graying Detroit rawk gods prove once again that it doesn’t have to be lightning fast to tear your head off. Morgan? Asheton? Tek? Fucking awes0me.
5. Mojo Magazine Maximum ‘65 Sampler: It came with the magazine that digs so deep into the past glories of rock it’s frightening. There’s even a band from Winnipeg on this incredible 20 track exposé of the year rock began.
6. The Makers/Rock Star God (Sub Pop): Never heard it right? If you were musically inclined in the 1970’s (these guys were not) this true-to-best-form concept album brings back all the aural glories of the time. A career defining chunk of gold.
7. Be A Caveman/The Best of the Voxx Garage Revival (Voxx/Bomp): Twenty seven uncut jewels. This music is so snotty you need a box’o’tissues at the ready while you shake and wiggle. Watch for further updates. Boss plus!
8. The Swingin’ Neckbreakers/The Return of Rock (Telstar): When someone starts raving about about some weakass shoegazer band and how necessary they are I mentally play One Potato Two Potato in my head while they blather and then they go away. To be played at loudest volume possible.
9. Twilight Circus Dub Sound System/Dub Voyage (M Records): White guy-black music, white guy-black music. Ryan Moore you are the shit man! File under ORGASMIC!
10. Forbidden Dimension/A Coffinful of Crows (Fuzzwarp/Reanimator): Jackson Phibes call home. Twenty tracks of fuzz burned, trash horror felch. Ghosts, bad girls, skeletons, Mars and bloody graves. Fuck the Blair Witch. Gack!

Honorable Mentions from the Electrophonic Tonic Playlist:

1. The Searchers/The Pye Anthology (Castle)
2. The Pets/Love & War (Independant)
3. The Datsons/See! (Stomp/Tyrant)
4. The Superfine Dandelion/The Superfine Dandelion (Sundazed)