Happy New Year Everyone

Here is my personal favorite albums TOP10 of 2000-2009
(This list excludes all the great music I discovered in the last ten years that was made in the previous century):

1. Elliott Smith – Figure 8
2. The Kills – Midnight Boom
3. The Strokes – Is This It
4. Rufus Wainwright – Poses
5. Anthony & The Johnsons – I am a Bird Now
6. Kate Bush – Aerial
7. The Rollstons – Doing Time
8. The White Stripes – Elephant
9. The Dears – Gang on Losers
10. Joanna Newsom –Ys

There were tens and tens of other albums I wanted to put on this list, but this is it for today.
I tried to choose ones that I know all the lyrics to, as that's a pretty good indication to how much I listened to an album. It saddens me to see how few women ended up on this top10. the reality is that I spent most of my 2000s listening to music from the 1960s, 70s and 80s and there were a lot of women in that bunch!

Happy New Year and thank you for reading this! I'll be back next year!

/A

Good Wishes

The January issue of Rolling Stone (Germany) lists Better Than Wages on the critics' list of the month. There it is (my name) where you see a little bit of red on the left side of the picture!!!
(CLICK ON THE PIC TO MAKE IT BIG)
This puts me on a good mood, I might open one of the Christmas chocolate boxes already...

U Magazine also has Better Than Wages as a hot tip for January 2010 describing the album as exciting and fresh. Better Than Wages is released in Germany, Austria & Switzerland in January 2010 with Benelux countries following in March.

Meteli.net has the album as one of the records of 2009 on their end of year list and Vertigo has a short interview with Astrid about Christmas.

After I thought that the rest of the Drunk Lovers are too
drunk to remeber what happened in this soon-to-be-gone
decade, Coma (the original) saved the situation.

comas top ten:

kg
Snus
Japan
Australia
The studio
Stockholm
wine
food
FIFA
BB King

that felt very strange..

Have a nice christmas! / Coma

Today I begin with my version of the end-of-the-decade listomania!
I have followed with mixed emotions the endless album of the
decade lists sprouting up on the pages of magazines and blogs
(and in conversations with friends). Our public and private need to
reflect back on very recent history seems to have sped up
in this last decade even more. My problem is that when I am asked to
name my favorite album or event, or color even, I go blank.
But I asked all of the old and new Drunk Lovers to send me their
TOP10's of 2000-2009! This is a way for us all to get to know
these people a little better. They were allowed to choose what
they are listing about, so it's not just music.

Today I am posting Niko Votkin's (drums) and Jukka Salminen's
(guitar)TOP10 of the decade LISTS.
Please, send your own Best of the Decade Lists in, as well!


NIKO VOTKIN TOP10 2000–2009

1. Friends, Relationships and Bands
2. Old records and history of music.
3. Drinking and smoking (K-Klubi)
4. Hats
5. Travelling in South America & India
6. Vintage instruments
7. Bicycling and Jogging
8. Berlin & Touring in Europe
9. Biker Boots
10. The Kills

Cheers,
Niko Votkula Lihamestari Votkin


 TOP10 of 2000-2009 JUKKA SALMINEN

 1.      Eeva, Eelis, Niilo
 2.      No. 63 @ Thai & Laos, Tampere
 3.      Eterna Musima Deluxe II
 4.      Dungen
 5.      Touring in Germany, Japan, UK, US, Finland
 6.      Internet
 7.      Vinyl
 8.      Doris / Telakka / Klubi
 9.      Canon EOS 5D Mark II
 10.     KIAD 2002-2005

 That's about it.
J

ON THE ROAD -single available from online stores

Posted by Astrid Swan at 10:30 AM 0 comments

Last show of the decade

Posted by Astrid Swan at 2:12 AM

Astrid Swanin uusi albumi julkaistaan Keski-Euroopassa

Group Portraits

Posted by Astrid Swan at 6:34 AM

Astrid Swan and the Drunk Lovers hit Dynamo in Turku tonight (20th Nov.) Read about it on Peppar