list as of 12/23

my list will come from this group, oley wants to collect everything from the year for the fiesta so if you have something that needs to be added please do so in comments:

Abe Vigoda -- Skeleton
Air France -- No Way Down
Alla -- Es Tiempo
Ane Brun -- Changing Of The Seasons
Atlas Sound -- Let the Blind…
Beach House -- Devotion
Beck -- Modern Guilt
Black Mountain -- In The Future
Blood On The Wall -- Liferz
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy -- Lie Down In The Light
Born Ruffians -- Red, Yellow & Blue
Bug -- London Zoo
Cadence Weapon -- Afterparty Babies
Coldplay -- Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Crystal Castles -- Crystal Castles
Crystal Stilts -- Alight of Night
Cut Copy -- In Ghost Colours
Darker My Love -- 2
David Byrne & Brian Eno -- Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Deerhunter -- Microcastle / Weird Era Cont
Department of Eagles -- In Ear Park
Destroyer -- Trouble In Dreams
DJ /rupture -- Uproot
DJ Yoda -- Fabriclive 39
Erykah Badu -- New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Evangelicals -- The Evening Descends
Fennesz -- Black Sea
Fleet Foxes / Sun Giant EP -- Fleet Foxes
Flying Lotus -- Los Angeles
Frightened Rabbit -- The Midnight Organ Fight
Fuck Buttons -- Street Horrrsing
Fucked Up -- The Chemistry of Common Life
Gang Gang Dance -- Saint Dymphna
Girl Talk -- Feed The Animals
Grouper -- Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill
Harvey Milk -- Life... The Best Game In Town
Head Of Femur -- Great Plains
Health -- HEALTH//DISCO
Hercules and Love Affair -- Hercules and Love Affair
High Places -- 03/07 - 09/07
Hot Chip -- Made in the Dark
Jay Reatard -- Blood Visions
Jean Grae -- Jeanius
Kanye West -- 808's & Heartbreak
Kasai Allstars -- In The 7th Moon, The Chief Turned Into A Swimming Fish And A
Kelley Polar -- I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling
Kleerup -- Kleerup
Lil' Wayne -- Tha Carter III
Los Campesinos! -- Hold On Now, Youngster
Lykke Li -- Youth Novels
M83 -- Saturdays = Youth
Marnie Stern -- This Is It…
Max Tundra -- Parallax Error Beheads You
Mount Eerie , Julie Doiron , Fred Squire -- Lost Wisdom
Neon Neon -- Stainless Style
No Age -- Nouns
Paavoharju -- Laulu Laakson Kukista
Parts & Labor -- Receivers
Poni Hoax -- Images Of Sigrid
Portishead -- Third
Q-Tip -- The Renaissance
Ruby Suns -- Sea Lion
Santogold -- Santogold
She & Him -- Volume One
Shearwater -- Rook
Sigur Rós -- Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Silver Jews -- Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
Snoop Dogg -- Ego Trippin
Spiritualized -- Songs in A&E
Steinski -- What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective
Stephen Malkmus -- Real Emotional Trash
Stereolab -- Chemical Chords
Studio -- Yearbook 2
Sybris -- Into the Trees
The Apples In Stereo -- Electronic Projects For Musicians
The Hold Steady -- Stay Positive
The Knux -- Remind Me In 3 Days…
The Mae Shi -- Hlllyh
The Notwist -- The Devil You And Me
The Streets -- Everything Is Borrowed
The Tallest Man On Earth -- Shallow grave
The Ting Tings -- We Started Nothing
The Walkmen -- You & Me
The Week That Was -- The Week That Was
Times New Viking -- Rip It Off
Titus Andronicus -- The Airing Of Grievances
Tom Carter -- From the Great American Songbook
Truckasauras -- Tea Parties, Guns & Valor
TV on the Radio -- Dear Science,
Vampire Weekend -- Vampire Weekend
Vivian Girls -- Vivian Girls
Wale -- The Mixtape About Nothing
Why? -- Alopecia

smoke daddy

slow cooked food has featured steadily at the main event with chili and carnitas being memorable examples. and sure as shootin clancy's provided excellent nosh for the steady stream of visitors throughout. this year i'll add the suggestion that we arrange for smoke daddy to cater. it is some of the best bbq in the city and it would be easy to pick it up beforehand. that of course would not rule out home cookin, so chime in with thoughts, comments.

Date set for BIX - February 7, 2009

The next installment of Burn It is scheduled for Saturday February 7, 2009.

GRRRRRRAGHGHAHAHAHA

Just stumbled across this show recently and found it to be the perfect bit of LMAO with plenty of head-banging to boot. Set your DVR's cause it's generally on late. I only wish I would have had a dvd of this for the recent Wisco weekend.

It's For John

Over the weekend I was informed that my music taste is "eclectic" and not in a good way. Couldn't I play something recognizable, please? Sure, my iPod gets a big workout every week as I churn through the latest and greatest (and some styx too) that pops up in my various playlists. But apparently I've gone off the deep end and can no longer be trusted to play familiar music. So, for my friend John I'd like to collaborate on a mix of music he will know and like. The goal will be to fill a CD-R with mp3 formated files, should be about 100 tracks maybe a bit more. Also, ideally we can avoid repeating bands (though I could be persuaded to include an artist who guested on another's track). John's boat is the most likely place he'll play this mix and a family friendly mix is a must.

I'd like to collaborate on this; put suggestions in comments and as we vet them then I'll add to the master list which I will start with the suggestions:

Artist --- Track
Carole King --- Feel the Earth Move
Christopher Cross --- Sailing
CCR --- Down on the Corner

see i knew this would happen...

pitchfork has announced more new bands and one of the Friday bands is going to give djfs a reason to reconsider his 2 day pass. Mission of Burma playing Vs! Also, add Ghostface, Jarvis Cocker, Dinosaur Jr and Apples in Stereo to an already stellar line-up. color me impressed...

Got My Ducat

Just picked up my 3 day pass, and an extra for my bro-hams who might just still be visiting. Fingers crossed there as it was great to have him along for last year's fest.

So, I got my Animal Collective wish. They top Saturday night's bill and hoping that holds out as it will mean a longer set. The other two big acts Public Enemy playing It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back on Friday and Spiritualized fronting their forthcoming album Songs in A&E will close out Sunday.

More info here

Pitchfork Music Festival

From the interview between DeRogatis and Ryan Pitchfork it looks to be July 18-20. I had thought I was going to miss again due to a planned trip to NYC in June.

Either keep tabs with pitchfork or watch this space and I will post updates here.

Short list of who I'd like to see in no particular order or timeslot:

Neko Case
Animal Collective
Les Savy Fav
Ghostface Killah
St Vincent
Justice
Common
Caribou

Exceptions to the Rule

Destroyer are playing at the Logan Square Auditorium on Thursday April 17th and I am going to make an exception to the weeknight show embargo. Whether he plays acoustic, electric or both, I need to be there, anyone want to join me?

I was hoping Dan would hang around Chicago to play with the New Pornographers on Sunday April 20th but no dice, his tour continues on and he plays Montreal that night. I already have tickets for the NP show, another school night I guess so I am breaking this rule left and right, but for these bands it will be worth it. the New Pornographers play the Riv that night so BBQ at my place if anyone is interested. Oh, and I have tickets to the Fire game that afternoon at 2p as well. Maybe I need that Monday off?

BI9 Video Comp

OK, I complied a bunch of videos from our 2007 top 20. If the actual track was available (in a half-way decent video), it was included. Overall, there is at least one video for each of the 20 artists represented here. If you've never watched Jason Murphy of LCD Soundsystem live, I suggest you start there. It's straight from EMI and plugged into the sound board. Enjoy. Oh, and by the way, I had to change the template so the player would fit. Hope you're all cool wit' dat. Did I also mention Annie Clark is my new girlfriend?

BI9 Track List and Songs

Here are the goods everyone. Please contact me if you have any trouble with the files. I did not modify the tags on the original song files. You will need to create your own play list to match the spreadsheet order. If anybody knows of a better way I could have done this, I'm open to suggestions. The zip is rather large so be patient (I may edit this to be one track at a time - or offer both). The total run time is 78:58 so it will fit on a CD. Enjoy.

BI9 Best of 2007 Comp Track List (Spread Sheet)

BI9 Best of 2007 Comp Songs (Zip)

state of the biz

In the Guardian today a pretty thorough article on the state of the music business.

It does not cease to amaze me how rapacious the industry has been in the past, not sure if that justifies theft but I do feel better that the artists seem to be gaining more control over their business affairs as the major labels struggle.

BI 9 Video Comp Idea

Hey fellas - One idea bouncing around in my head is to compile a post of a video for each song on the 2007 comp. You can cut and paste the Embed HTML from YouTube right into the post (as I have done for this one). I know we have other odds and ends to clean-up first but I think this could be cool.

That said, here is the Radiohead Scotch Mist video I was telling you guys about.

Radiohead: "Scotch Mist"

Burn-It IX Best of 2007

1 Deerhunter - Cryptograms / Florescent Grey EP
2 Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
3 Panda Bear - Person Pitch
4 Radiohead In - Rainbows
5 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
6 St. Vincent - Marry Me
7 Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
8 The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns, Fifteen Winters
9 Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
10 Pelican - City of Echoes
11 Kanye West - Graduation
12 Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
13 Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
14 Field, The - From Here We Go Sublime
15 Battles - Mirrored
16 The National - Boxer
17 Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
18 Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
19 Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
20 Feist - The Reminder

New Rule for this year's list: Any album that was not ranked by more than one person was eliminated from the list.

roster

3:30p - 4p     uptownb

4p - 4:30p 

4:30p - 5p

5p  - 5:30p   oley

5:30 - 6p

6p - 6:30

6:30 -   ?   bi ix 

last night a dj...

In the past, we've just gone with a freeform free-for-all when deciding what gets played at the party.  Any interest in blocking out time for each of us?  Either 30 min or 1 hour slots?  I also have a bleary recollection of bringing this idea up during the Gloggfest going so far as to offer a slot to an outsider (Jeffrey).  I still think the idea works, each person has the "decks" so to speak for a time and can focus on playing stuff that they want to be considered for the comp.  If we do 2 x 30 minutes then this focus on compilation songs could be shifted to the 2nd block with the first block being more freeform?  In the end its an idea to give everyone a crack at highlighting their favs from the year, thoughts?  

Also, probably a good time to remind everyone to bring clean copies of their top 20.

Missed it in '06

I was just thinking about the whole PB&J thing from last year and how NONE us had it on our lists - anywhere. Oops. I will admit it's lost a bit of its luster with the rampant commercial use - regardless it's still pretty damn good. I was just curios as to what other albums from 2006 you guys either missed or just never got to that would have made your lists? For me, besides PB&J, it was also Fujiya & Miyagi, Transparent Things. I love this album. Such a groovy, head-boppin', smooth-flowin' album. Never heard it until Ankle Injuries hit up on random one day...the rest is history. This leads to the inevitable question: what would the missed picks have bumped? For me: Flaming Lips and either TVOTR or Camera Obscura would have to go.

BI VIII - Best of 2006 Spread Sheet

Testing 1,2,3...This is the link to the best of 2006 Burn-It spread sheet.

Burn-It VIII, Best of 2006 Spread Sheet

Thanks for the Air FukStein Picture

I was hoping that pic got lost or otherwise destroyed. But it does highlight my recent infusion of metal into the BI mix...

a note on votes

We've not had any thorough discussion of the method this year because it is remaining the same, by and large.  Just rank the top 20 albums of 2007.  Anything released in the calendar year or reviewed for the first time on Pitchforkmedia.com, but discounting any re-release or back catalogue material; it should be a new release.  I suppose the only wrinkle this year comes in the form of EP's. 

I cannot recall in any prior year having both albums and EP's from any band that caused concern.  This year though, both Deerhunter and Of Montreal each released both an album and EP that are good enough to make a bit of a stir.  My thought on how to handle this for ranking purposes is that we can go one of two ways.  Either we all agree ahead of time that the items are to be treated as one release or separate releases, or we each rank as we see fit and then use whatever method was most popular.  For example if Deerhunter appears on 4 lists and 3 have combined album/EP for one slot then the points for the fourth persons votes for the two works would be added together.  In the event of an even split then those with the higher ranking would determine method.  Confused?

Again the goal is to have 20-ish songs for a compilation, do we want 2 from the same band?  Doubtful, but we  should be in agreement on how to rank the albums so that we get the choice of songs we want for the comp.

BI 9 Dinner

Greetings. I have agreed to bring the main course on 2/2. I'm thinking a slow-cooked meat of some kind: braised beef, pork shoulder, stew, chicken chili, etc. If you have any ideas or preferences please respond. Peace...

Mike

Number Nine

Hey there hi there.

If you are reading this it might be of interest to know that the next installment of Burnit will be Saturday February 2nd.   Clancy has again agreed to host any time after 3:30.  

For my part I haven't ranked a thing, but ideas are starting to form.

Cheers,

Brian