Favorite Albums & Mixtapes in 2010....

These are not all albums that came out in 2010, but they are albums and mix-tapes that i have rocked the hell out of this past year. I listen to a lot of music and buy a lot, these are a list of albums i highly recommend everyone picking up. I have a lot more music i purchased or was given to me in the past year, but these are all albums i can make strong recommendation.

I can list singles, but at the same time, thats what has gotten us into the mess we are in right now with the recording industry. Everyone wants ish for free, but when it comes time to pony up cash for shows, or even at the least $10 for an entire album which you own for ever, yall get shy. Ten bucks to own some art that is yours forever is really cheap, and helps keep new artists coming up.

I am a huge supporter of the arts & especially music. I'm even taking the time to link you to where to download the mix-tapes, and in me doing so, when you hear that they are in your town, or you hear they are dropping something on iTunes, do them and yourself a huge favor.

Buy there art. By putting our money where our complaining mouths are, we will start to see a change in music production. Because if we fans don't start taking responsibility for the music we want to hear in a monetary fashion and keep supporting wackness when a video comes on and bootlegging art you continue to be the problem.

The radio has never had balance, and it still doesn't, nor will it ever. The only thing you can do is control the art you consume, and to be honest, I've never been one for the Radio. Most of the things i listen to aren't really played on the local airwaves. Never-the-less here is my music list of this year. also, in no particular order.

P.S. Guess what, you can find the other 9 non-free LP's on itunes, $90 well spent i say!



The Roots-How I Got Over

N*E*R*D-Nothing

Hey Champ!-Star

Vampire Weekend-Vampire Weekend (c)2008

Curren$y-Pilot Talk II

Steely Dan-Aja (c)1977

Curren$y-Pilot Talk

System Of A Down-Toxicity (c)2001

Vandalyzm-Megatron Majors Redux



Curren$y-Smokee Robinson *mixtape*

http://www.2dopeboyz.com/2010/02/07/curreny-smokee-robinson-mixtape/

Vandalyzm-Vandalyzm Is Not The Father *Mixtape*

http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2010/01/download-vandalyzm-vandalyzm-is-not-the-father

Sean Falyon-Sean Falyon Be Everywhere *Mixtape*

http://www.2dopeboyz.com/2010/04/05/sean-falyon-be-everywhere-mixtape/

The Paxtons-Manhattan Project *Mixtape*

http://thepaxtons.bandcamp.com/

DJ Trackstar-From Marcy To Madison St *Mixtape*

http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2010/03/trackstar-the-dj-from-marcy-to-madison-st-jay-z-vs-lupe-fiasco

Rockwell Knuckles-Choose Your Own Adventure *Mixtape*

http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2010/03/download-rockwell-knuckles-choose-your-own-adventure

Black Spade-Build & Destroy *Mixtape*

http://www.okayplayer.com/news/Black-Spade-Build-Destroy-Mixtape-.html

The Year of the Tick & The Life of a Grasshopper.

I would love to have some words of wisdom for this year’s end, but I would really like to write a nasty and mean spirited note. I've wanted to say a whole lot of go eff yourselves to a large number of people this past year more than ever recorded in my personal history.

The one common thread amongst all of those people is that they are Ticks. Ticks have a way of attaching themselves to you. You don't mind so much because it seems insignificant because they are so small and only 1.

After a time you notice that you have 3 then 9 then 11 then 35, yet you don't mind because you pull them off with tweezers. Then you finally notice that you have 77 Ticks on you, you rid yourself of them, you initially feel better, but that fades after three days. Then you notice after that third day that you are extremely ill, and the people you once considered friends, are no longer there.

You end up realizing that with the one, two and third tick it was not much, but it wasn't until after they drained you that it became serious. I've dealt with so many Ticks in the past year to date, that I have had to learn a valuable lesson. I'm staying out of certain forests.

The Tropical Rain Forest looks great on video, pictures and print. Yet in reality, it’s the Ticks and alike that will kill you. No big monsters in the Tropical Rain Forest, yet everyone who is in that forest is all infected by the same bug, that is no longer for I.

I’ve been wanting Ticks stop being Ticks, but alas. A Tick shall be nothing more than a Tick, and I am a fool for thinking that it should be something more, because it is not possible. If you’re a Tick, be the best tick possible. If you’re a Grasshopper, be the best Grasshopper possible.

Me, I need to stop being naive and accept what I see, and then move on from there. We all can’t be grasshoppers, and I should stop assuming that Ticks would want to aspire to be more than that, because someone out there would love for me to be a Tarantula, and all I can be is a Grasshopper.