NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION: CLEAN UP STACKS AND STACKS OF RECORDS

I hate to just make a list like this but I'm cleaning out a cabinet stuffed with well over 200 official CD releases (well, a lot of them are official CDR releases) that all came out in the last two or three years. This is where I put stuff that I listened to at least once and found intriguing, or outright excellent, but had yet to do enough research or be hit by the right inspiration to write up an actual review. However, I'm listing them here because they are all good enough to have a copy registered, for posterity, in the Library of Blastitude, as of today. (In other words, I'm not going to try to trade them in at Reckless.) I know that to you, the reader, it may just be another list you'll skim over, big deal, but I thought these records should at least get some props -- you should see how many more went in the 'sell or throw away' pile. I won't name those.

So, before these all get filed and dispersed into the impersonality of the collection-at-large, here's what was stuffed in that cabinet, in the order they were stacked after approximately 3 years of on-and-mostly-off use:

BASS TONE TRAP: Trapping (MUSIC A LA COQUE)
BILL BROVOLD AND LARVAL: Surviving Death/Alive Why? (CUNEIFORM)
JEREMIAH CYMERMAN: Big Exploitation (SOLPONTICELLO)
KING DARVES: Linkling Piratical (?) (SELF-RELEASED)
MIGHTY VITAMINS: Take-Out (PUBLIC EYESORE)
PRURIENT: Black Vase (LOAD)
JACK WRIGHT: As Is (SPRING GARDEN MUSIC maybe)
YUMA NORA: 2003-2004 Best of Portland Live + Still (SELF-RELEASED)
THE NEW FLESH: Filth & Degradation Volume One (IMVATED/MT6)
SHELF LIFE: Ductworks (PUBLIC EYESORE)
UNIVERSITY OF ERRORS: Jet Propelled Photographs (CUNEIFORM)
RODENT SQUEALS: High Pitch Distress Cries (APOP)
JAZZFINGER: Listen And Vanish (CUT HANDS)
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Deeded To Itself: Athens Southernoise (THOR'S RUBBER HAMMER)
LAKE OF DRACULA: Skeletal Remains (SAVAGE LAND)
CHRIS FORSYTH & NATE WOOLEY: The Duchess of Oysterville (CREATIVE SOURCES)
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Singing At The Moon (SINGING KNIVES)
CLOCKCLEAN ER: Babylon Rules (LOAD)
MAGICAL, BEAUTIFUL: Obscure Love (I HEAR A NEW WORLD)
COUGHS: Secret Passage CD (LOAD)
THE JAGUAR: Bag of Jag (WILD TANGENT)
DEAD MACHINES/SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION OF DESPAIR split (KITTY PLAY)
VENISON WHIRLED: Venison World (SISTER SKULL)
KATHLEEN BAIRD: Lullaby For Strangers (SECRET EYE)
PETER WRIGHT: Pariahs Sing Om (LAST VISIBLE DOG)
CABINET OF NATURAL CURIOSITIES: Glass Vs. Grass (SELF-RELEASED)
CABINET OF NATURAL CURIOSITIES: Vineland (SELF-RELEASED)
TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A. 2: The 300 Dollar Silk Shirt CD (X+Z=0/UGEXPLODE)
HAT CITY INTUITIVE/LA OTRACINA/BIG NURSE: The World Will End Yesterday (COLOUR SOUNDS)
KING DARVES: Do Don't (SELF-RELEASED)
PHANTOM LIMB & BISON s/t (EXPLODING EAR)
MATTIN: Proletarian Of Noise (HIBARI)
CARDBOARD: Live At Jimmy's Chicken Shack (CARSONA)
VOLE: Vole Radio 1 (SELF-RELEASED)
RADIO SHOCK: Burn Down Radio EP (ROGER)
ALEC K. REDFEARN AND THE EYESORES: The Blind Spot (CUNEIFORM)
WEASEL WALTER: Early Recordings 1988-1991 (SAVAGE LAND)
MISS ALEX WHITE & THE RED ORCHESTRA: Space & Time (IN THE RED)
SLOW SIX: Nor'easter CD (NEW ALBION)
THE FLAT CAN CO. s/t (STAB)
ROSS HAMMOND TRIO: Gauche (PRESCOTT)
JOHN HEGRE: Colors Don't Clash (DEKORDER)
NO-NECK BLUES BAND: Live At Ken's Electric Lake reissue (LOCUST)
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Flat Gettin' It (SCENERY AUDIO ARCHIVE)
DAVID KHAN: Music For Piano & Voice (kRkRkRk)
WOODEN SHJIPS s/t (HOLY MOUNTAIN)
ARGUMENTIX & GHOST TO FALCO: Widow Masters (BELOW PDX)
KEVIN FRENETTE 4: Connections (FULLER STREET MUSIC)
ZELIENOPLE: His/Hers (TYPE)
HAUNTED GEORGE: Pile O' Meat (HOOK OR CROOK)
WHITE MICE: Blassstphlegmeice (LOAD)
FRIDAY GROUP: Crystal Eunuch Reversal (SELF-RELEASED)
VIKI s/t (ANIMAL DISGUISE)
MY CAT IS AN ALIEN: The Cosmological Eye Trilogy (LAST VISIBLE DOG)
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Zum Audio Volume 3 (ZUM)
MEN'S RECOVERY PROJECT: The Very Best Of... (5 RUE CHRISTINE)
MATHS BALANCE VOLUMES: Cattle Skulls And Railroad Tracks (CHOCOLATE MONK)
MATHS BALANCE VOLUMES: I Tried To Make Heaven My Home (MISCEGENY)
NAI HTAW PAING ENSEMBLE: Mon Music Of Burma (FIRE MUSEUM)
COMET III: Astral Voyager (FIRE MUSEUM)
KRAKEN FURY: Burn In Earth (RAMPART)
ANLA COURTIS: Fractal Albur Solenoide 3" (23 PRODUCTIONS)
R.O.T. 3" CDR (VEGLIA)
GOAT/SIXES/XOME: Deluxe Incinerator 3x3" (C.I.P.)
FESTERING FAWN: Belgium Demo 3" (BREAKING WORLD)
THREE LEGGED RACE/CABOLADIES split (MOUNTAAIN)
BJERGA/IVERSEN: Shortest Way To The Moon (HARHA-ASKEL)
MICHAEL HENRITZI: Keith Rowe Serves Imperialism (W.M.O/R)
WOMEN IN TRAGEDY: Constellations (CUT HANDS)
HENRY JAMES GLOVER: Queen Freq (SELF-RELEASED)
CRAPPY NIGHTMAREVILLE: Shadow Garden (SELF-RELEASED)
NEON TEMPAL s/t (RAYON)
CARS s/t (RAYON)
REALICIDE: Narcissism Is The Enemy (OUTFALL CHANNEL)
THE MAGICKAL FOLK OF THE FARAWAY TREE: The Mildew Leaf (DESERTED VILLAGE)
BRIMSTONE HOWL: Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! (SPEED NEBRASKA)

If anyone wants to give, or ask for, any more information on any of these records, or just say "hey I like that one too," you are welcome to leave a comment. Thanks and a sincere Happy Blastitew Year to all readers!

Actual "2008 in review" list and actual new issue coming before January is over, I swear....