Monday, December 22, 2008

El Oso's 6th Annual Best Records of the Year

It's that time again. Our good friend Bill aka El Oso has put out his best records of 2008.

1. Frightened Rabbit – Midnight Organ Fight
2. Royal Bangs – We Breed Champions
3. Hush Arbors – Hush Arbors
4. American Princes – Other People
5. Dr Dog – Fate
6. Blitzen Trapper – Furr
7. The Broken West - Now Or Heaven
8. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
9. Jay Reatard – Matador Singles '08
10. No Age - Nouns
11. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
12. Wolf Parade – At Mount Zoomer
13. The Uglysuit – The Uglysuit
14. Brendan Canning – Something For All of Us
15. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
16. James Blackshaw – Litany of Echoes
17.Foals – Antidotes
18. All The Saints – Fire on Corridor X
19. We Were Promised Jetpacks – 3
20. Glasvegas – Glasvegas

21. Jack Rose – Dr Ragtime And His Pals
22. Nomo – Ghost Rock
23. Popular Workshop – We're Alive And We're Not Alone
24. Santogold – Santogold
25. Fennesz – Black Sea
26. The Dodos – Visiter
27. Parts and Labor – Receivers
28. Sun Kil Moon – April
29. The Gaslight Anthem – The ’59 Sound
30. Cheap Time – Cheap Time
31. The Dutchess and The Duke - She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke
32. Bill Frisell – History, Mystery
33. Quinn Walker – Laughter's An Asshole / Lion Land
34. El Guincho - Alegranza
35. The Sea and Cake - Car Alarm
36. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
37. The Constantines – Kensington Heights
38. Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele
39. Bound Stems – The Family Afloat
40. Koushik - Out My Window
41.Wavves – self-released cassette
42. Plants and Animals – Parc Avenue
43. Box Elders – Hole In My Head
44. Young Knives – Superabundance
45. Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Graves
46. White Denim - Workout Holiday
47. The Ruby Suns – Sea Lion
48. Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
49. Love is All – A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night
50 Endless Boogie - Focus Level
51. Parsley Flakes – Dead Living
52. Deerhunter – Microcastle
53. Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
54. Quiet Village - Silent Movie
55. Allá – Es Tiempo
56. Sloan - Parallel Play
57. Paul Westerberg – 49:00
58. Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
59. Neon Neon – Stainless Style
60. The M's – Real Close Ones
61. Jolie Holland – Living and the Dead
62. Catfish Haven – Devastator
63. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
64. The Rural Alberta Advantage – Hometowns
65. Boris – Smile
66. Tall Firs – Too Old To Die
67. Dan Friel – Ghost Town
68. Amadou & Mariam - Welcome to Mali
69. Suicide Note - Empty Rooms
70. Ratatat – LP3
71. Torche – Meanderthal
72. Joan Of Arc – Boo Human
73. The Week That Was
74. Hayden - In Field and Town
75. Shugo Tokumaru – Exit
76. Oxford Collapse - Bits
77. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrsing
78. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
79. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
80. Times New Viking – Rip It Off
81. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
82. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
83. Mystery Jets - Twenty One
84. Beck - Modern Guilt
85. The Walkmen - You & Me
86. High Places - High Places
87. Helios – Ceasura
88. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
89. Crooked Fingers – Forfeit / Fortune
90. Calexico - Carried to Dust
91. Hercules and Love Affair
92. Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
93. Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
94. Titus Andronicus – The Airing of Grievances
95. The Futureheads - This Is Not the World
96. She & Him - Volume One
97. Mudhoney - The Lucky Ones
98. Metallica - Death Magnetic
99. REM – Accelerate
100. Mercury Rev – Snowflake Midnight
101. Guns and Roses – Chinese Democracy

What's your top albums of 2008? Feel free to leave a comment whether you agree or disagree?

-Baroke Randy
currently listening to the citizens of chicago screaming their lungs out because the Bears just won an amazing game!

Sunday, December 21, 2008

I Want to Be at This Party

Seriously...sick commercial by Adidas



I did some research on the song because it's a jam. It's a remix of a old school song by Frankie Valli and the Four Season called Beggin'. The remix is by Pilooski, a French DJ.

Want the song? Here. Thanks to the blog Mashup Town for that one.

On the subject of commercials, our friend Tim was telling me how he has the Bulls 3 peats on cassette tapes at home. He then reminded me of a certain commercial. How many people remember Neon Deion?

Now, who remembers this commercial?



Recognize the actor? It's Mighty Mos. Filmed in '96 this was before his rapping career took off and bigger acting roles.

That's all.

Oh yeah... its negative 5 right now in Chicago, and Baroke David is in Florida. Send him hate e-mails.

Good Day

-Baroke Daniel
listening to Poolski...c'mon, obviously

Monday, December 15, 2008

I Dream of Summer... ALREADY!!!

So, much of the Baroke team has recently finished up another semester of schooling, and have collectively inched towards the day when we each will enter real life. Besides continuing on with Baroke and design goodness, I will be *fingers crossed* entering grad school for urban planning. I recently completed a paper that involved a lot of bike planning and in my research I found streetfilms.org, a site that deals with urban street design and use.

There are tons of films here, displaying innovative street use around the globe, and I found some awesome examples of how to use streets more efficiently while providing a more egalitarian setting (rather than making way for SUVs and placing token bike lanes along the parking margins, Chicago).

We here at Baroke aren't restricted to clothing when it comes to design. Good design helps to improve quality of life in whatever field you may find yourself in. The built environment is perhaps the design exerting the most significant impact on each and every one of us. Still, entire towns are constructed haphazardly with little regard for individuals who live a way of life that either refuses or cannot afford the luxuries of seclusion that American ideals call for today. Streets in America are the most prevalent form of public space, yet they reflect our inability to provide for the common good in that they provide for the luxury of the automobile over the safety, accessibility and diversity of all individuals who may care to use them.

I thought it would be cool to list a few of the videos that I found most interesting and insightful:











-Baroke David
Listening to: M83 - before the dawn heals us

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Baroke Head

I just received a few dope pictures pictures that I want to share with you kids.




Big shout out to Kevin from Chicago. Now thats how you bring your fixed gear to another level.

If any of you have creative Baroke pictures, please feel free to send them in to me. Show us love and we will show you some love.


stay icy,
Baroke Randy
currently listening to jayz - brooklyn

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Take a Second to be Emo

As always during our downtime at Baroke, we surf the net. My surfing last night led me to an article on Yahoo which discusses how horrible some band names are. Included in that article is a link to a Emo Band Name creator. My band name is "Sunnyday Helicopter Drug." I need a bassist, drummer, and teen angst, who's in? Your time spent on that site depends on how many friends you can think of.

That made me remember a certain video from a couple years back. My friend Christina had shown me a video on how to be emo. It's 21 minute mock-umentary, on how to make the change. Well worth the time.



A simple google search brought me to this site. Hopefully, it's a joke.

It is a serious subject.

The scene should be dead soon, so make sure to laugh before it's over. Until then we will have to deal with the new King of Emo.



-baroke daniel
currently listening to: Something Happy

Monday, December 1, 2008

Broken ankles and Dance-y Songs

I had two separate things I wanted to post, but I decided to do one mega post.

Randy and I were talking about Derrick Rose and his cross over on Andre Miller.

Watch here...



Then anger yourself by reading the mindless comments people write.

We will end with this...Click Here

Common featuring Pharell on the new track Universal Mind Control. I didn't know Hype Williams had skills with lazers and robots. Any who, the song is sick.



Youtube won't allow embedding on this song. Friggin' Geffen.

Common's new cd comes out in a little over a week. The album has been done since summer but Common is a movie star and was filming so it wasn't released. There is also a commercial on his site in which Afrika Bambaataa and Common discuss influences for the song.

I think the Zulu Nation needs a web designer.

out.

ps I play songs like these on this RADIO SHOW. Tuesdays 10am-12pm. UICradio.org

-baroke daniel
listening to: Common (as one would guess)

Er?

I was looking through one of my daily inspiration blogs and stumbled upon this image.



Could this truly be a place where dreamers such as I could live out a fantasy of becoming a superhero? Or is this just a sick joke that shatters children's dreams? (Not inferring that I am a child but rather that I seem to have childlike tendencies)

Please chime in and leave a comment if you know more information about this place. If you are in the Brooklyn area, can you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE shine some light upon this mysterious yet delightfully fantastical establishment.

Be COOL, buy shirts.


happy december,
-Baroke Randy
currently listening to Grizzly Bear(Another fantastic Brooklyn creation) - Two Weeks