"Grandfather" from "Human Voices" on Anthology's Top 50 songs for 2009

Our "Human Voices" reissue album continues to find its way into some "Best of 2009" lists. "Grandfather" from "Human Voices" is listed as the number 8 song in Anthology Recordings Top 50 Songs for 2009. When we originally recorded this album in 1984 and released just 300 limited edition cassettes in Eugene, Oregon, we knew we had some of our best work completed, but didn't know if very many people would ever hear it.
Now 25 years later, some people are hearing it, thanks to the Guerssen Records CD and vinyl reissues. We love those nice surprises that life can sometimes bring!


posted 12/22/2009 3:19:01 PM
Anthology's Top 50 Songs for 2009
by stormchild

As we near the completion of a great year here at Anthology, we'd like to share with you some of our favorite tracks from reissues we've released throughout the 2009 year. It was extremely difficult to only pick 50 gems from our 300+ releases from this year, but we sure had a blast making this list and we hope you enjoy! Be sure to check us out in the new year for more reissues and rarities...

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM ANTHOLOGY!!!


50. Jon Hassell - Vernal Equinox
"Toucan Ocean"

49. Perry Leopold - Experiment In Metaphysics
"And Then The Snow Came"

48. Ray Camacho And The Teardrops - The Best Of Ray Camacho And The Teardops
"It's Time For Me To Love You"

47. Collage - s/t
"1-2-3"

46. Linval Thompson - Whip Them King Tubby!
"Everybody's Got To Be Free"

45. Big Boy Pete - The Margetson Demos
"My Love Is Like A Spaceship"

44. Marc Mundy - s/t
"How Can I Marry This Language"

43. Loop - Fade Out
"Black Sun"

42. Wasted Youth - Memorialize
"Wildlife"

41. Marine Girls - Lazy Ways / Beach Party
"In Love"

40 Horses - s/t
"Birdie In A Cage"

39. Ruthann Friedman - Hurried Life: Lost Recordings 1965-1971
"Windy"

38. Colin Newman - Commercial Suicide
"I'm Still Here"

37. Bob Lind - Since There Were Circles
"City Scenes"

36. Cooley Munson - In Debt
"Sightly Sue"

35. Traffic Sound - s/t
"Yesterday's Game"

34. The Factory - Path Through the Forest
"Try A Little Sunshine"

33. Dave Bixby - Ode To Quetzalcoatl
"Drug Song"

32. Van Duren - Are You Serious?
"Grow Yourself Up"

31. VA - Wheedle's Groove: Seattle's Finest In Funk And Soul 1965-1975
Robbie Hill's Family Affair - "I Just Want To Be (Like Myself)"

30. Stack - Above All
"Do It"

29. Space Art - Trip In The Center Head
"Speedway"

28. Luie Luie - Touchy
"El Touchy"

27. Jack Blanchard And Misty Morgan - Life And Death (And Almost Everything Else)
"Yellow Bellied Sapsucker"

26. Charlie Tweddle - Fantastic Greatest Hits
"Untitled-2"

25. Andy Goldner - Infinity
"All Those Lives"

24. VA - Tape #1
Mofungo - "Speed"

23. La Sonora de Lucho Macedo - Vol. 1 - King on Mambos, Guarachas, Descargas And Cumbias
"Fue En La Playa"

22. Rodriguez - Cold Fact
"Rich Folks Hoax"

21. Thomas Mapfumo And The Blacks Unlimited - Gwindingwi Rine Shumba
"Shumba"

20. Sandy Bull - Still Valentines Day, 1969, Live At The Matrix, San Francisco
"No Deposit No Return Blues"

19. Warlus - Songs
"Girl Like You"

18. Bruce Haack - Haackula
"Party Machine"

17. Exmagma - Exmagma And Goldball
"Habits"

16. Fifty Foot Hose - Live In San Francisco: March 16, 2003
"If Not This Time"

15. Pau Riba - Pau Riba / Pau I Jordi
"Taxista"

14. Fox - s/t
"The Juggler"

13. Malvina Reynolds - s/t
"The Albatross"

12. Indestructible Beat - The Broad Church Of The Indestructible Beat
"When The Oil Runs Out"

11. Simon Finn - Pass The Distance
"Jerusalem"

10. Prefab Messiahs - Devolver
"The 16th Track"

9. The Newtown Neurotics - Live At Brunel University, England
"Airstrip One"

8. Tree People - Human Voices
"Grandfather"

7. Bill Quick - Maravillosa Gente
"Beautiful People"

6. Archaia - s/t
"Sur Les Trances Du Vieux Roy"

5. Househunters - Feeding Frenzy
"Don't Look Back"

4. Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
"Chimacum Rain"

3. Connie Converse - How Sad, How Lovely
"Playboy Of The Western World"

2. Simply Saucer - Saucerland
"Clearly Invisible - 1975"

1. Telegraph Avenue - Volume 2
"Tookie Tookie"

Tree People "Human Voices" reissue on top 50 list, Delire Musical, CFLX- FM Quebec

Below is the Tree People "Human Voices" reissue album in a top 50 list in Canada.
Maybe one day a Tree People tour in Canada is in order!

2009-12-22
Le Top 50 des musiques éclectiques 2009 de DM / DM's 2009 Eclectic Top 50
Libellés : Délire Musical, Délire Musical - Top 50, Délire Musical - Top 50 - 2009

[English & list lower]


Sherbrooke, le 22 décembre 2009 — L’émission radiophonique éclectique Délire Musical (CFLX-FM, Sherbrooke, Québec) annonce aujourd’hui la liste des 50 disques retenus par son équipe pour son émission de fin d’année. Cette liste regroupe 50 titres aussi variés qu’étonnants, dans des genres disparates comme le folk, le post-rock, le rock progressif, la chanson, les musiques du monde, l’électronique et bien plus.

Délire Musical s’intéresse à toutes les musiques créatives mais accessibles, tout ce qui sort des sentiers battus ou qui fait preuve de qualité et de sensibilité. « Évidemment, nous ne prétendons pas avoir tout entendu ce qui s’est fait en 2009!, souligne François Couture, coréalisateur de l’émission. Ce ne sont pas LES 50 meilleurs disques de l’année, mais bien NOS 50 meilleurs! » « Et 2009 a été particulièrement relevée; plusieurs de nos artistes favoris ont publié cette année », renchérit Daniel Ouellette, l’autre coréalisateur.

Une édition spéciale de trois heures de Délire Musical sera diffusée ce soir (22 décembre), de 19 h à 22 h (heure de l’Est), sur les ondes de CFLX. Messieurs Couture et Ouellette y improviseront une sélection musicale à partir des 50 disques en question, dont la liste est publiée ce matin sur le blogue Monsieur Délire (blog.monsieurdelire.com). On peut syntoniser CFLX au 95,5 FM dans la région de Sherbrooke ou sur le web au www.cflx.qc.ca.


Sherbrooke, December 22, 2009 — The eclectic music radio show Délire Musical (CFLX-FM, Sherbrooke, Quebec) unveiled today the list of the 50 albums selected by its team for its special year-end show. This list culls 50 highly diverse albums in genres as widely spread as folk, post-rock, progressive rock, singer-songwriter, world music, electronica, and much more.

Délire Musical focuses on all forms of creative yet accessible music, everything off the commercial paths or valuing quality and sensitivity. “Of course, we’re not saying we’ve heard everything released in 2009! These are not THE best 50 albums this year, but OUR best 50!”, explains François Couture, co-producer of the show. “And 2009 proved to be a stand-out year, with several of our personal favorite artists releasing albums this year”, adds his colleague Daniel Ouellette.

A special three-hour edition of Délire Musical will be broadcast tonight (December 22), from 7 pm to 10 pm (EST), on CFLX. Couture and Oueillette will be improvising a playlist from the 50 albums selected, a list of which was posted this morning on the French/English blog Monsieur Délire (blog.monsieurdelire.com). You can tune in to CFLX at 95.5 FM in the Sherbrooke area, or anywhere over the web at www.cflx.qc.ca.


Les 50 meilleurs disques de l’année 2009 selon Délire Musical

Délire Musical's 2009 Eclectic Music Top 50

Format des notices : Artiste Titre Étiquette

Nouveautés et rééditions combinées. Présentation par ordre alphabétique.

Reference format: Artist Title Label

New releases and new reissues combined. Alphabetical order.

Artistes variés/Various artists An Outbreak of Twangin’ Psychic Circle

Artistes variés/Various artists Dante’s Inferno (The Divine Comedy - Part I) Musea

Artistes variés/Various artists Music for Mentalists: Unexpected Sounds for the Connoisseur Psychic Circle

Anthony & The Johnsons The Crying Light Secretely Canadian

Balmorhea All is Wild, All is Silent Western Vinyl

Beat Circus Boy from Black Mountain Cuneiform

Bird, Andrew Noble Beast Fat Possum Records

The Black Heart Procession Six Temporary Residence

Chance:Risiko Sleep Talking altrOck

Cordâme Migration Malasartes Musique

Do Make Say Think Other Truths Constellation

Dial M for Murder! Fiction of Her Dreams Tapete Records

Earth Explorer, The TEE Musea/Poseidon

Embassadors, The Coptic Dub Nonplace

Falaise, Bernard - Frank Martel À l’école du ara Monsieur Fauteux m’entendez-vous?

Finn. The Best Low-Priced Heartbreakers You Can Own Erased Tapes

Flippers, Los Pronto viviremos un mundo mucho mejor Guerssen

God is an Astronaut God is an Astronaut Revive Records

Gong 2032 G-Wave

Hammill, Peter Thin Air Fie!

The Hylozoists L’île de Sept Villes Outside Music

IQ Frequency InsideOut

Jono El Grande Neo Dada Rune Grammofon

KTU Quiver 7d Media

Late Call, The Leaving Notes Tapete Records

Magma Ëmëhntëtt-Rê Seventh Records

Matthews, Iain & Searing Quartet Joy Mining Fledg’ling

Minimum Vital Capitaines Musea

Mindflower Little enchanted void Musea

Miriodor Avanti! Cuneiform

Moraine Manifest Density Moonjune

Múm Sing Along to Songs You Don’t Know Euphono Records

Neuburg, Amy X & The Cello ChiXtet The Secret Language of Subways Min Max Music

OSI Blood InsideOut

Ozric Tentacles The Yumyum Tree Snapper

Roshi feat. Pars Radio The Sky and the Caspian Sea Geo Records

Rotfront Emigrantski Raggamuffin Essay

Sebkha-Chott De la persistance de la mythologie chotienne en ??? vélos Musea Parallele

Sharcüt Sharcüt ind.

SimakDialog Demi Masa Moonjune

Sinier, Raoul Tremens Industry Ad Noiseam

Sloche Stadaconé ProgQuébec

Spevack, Ysanne - Philip Clemo Soundzero ind.

Susanna and the Magical Orchestra 3 Rune Grammofon

Tinariwen Imidiwan: Companion Outside Music

Tree People, The Human Voices Guerssen

Trembling Bells Carbeth Honest Jons Records

Vialka Succès planétaire international Vialka

Watson, Patrick Wooden Arms Secret City

Wilson, Steven Insurgentes kscope

Publié par Monsieur Délire à 7:59 AM

The Tree People's "Human Voices" on New Yorker writer Sasha Frere-Jones' Best of 2009 list!

Here is our reissue album, Human Voices, at number #34 on the New Yorker magazine music writer Sasha Frere-Jones' Best of 2009 album list. We love the New Yorker, it is one of our favorite magazines, and we are honored to be on their music writer's list. (Note: we have been on and off this list, which changes daily, for the last few weeks, but we were definitely on the list for awhile (see list below)and that is a good thing. We hope Sasha from the New Yorker will be listening to our new album when it is released in 2010.)

BEST OF 2009, Sasha Frere-Jones, December 7, 2009

ALBUMS
1. Sleigh Bells
2. Dirty Projectors “Bitte Orca” (Domino)
3. The-Dream “Love vs. Money” (Def Jam)
4. Neko Case “Middle Cyclone” (Anti-)
5. Mastodon “Crack The Skye” (Reprise)
6. Annie “Don’t Stop” (Totally/Smalltown Supersound)
7. Micachu & The Shapes “Jewellery” (Rough Trade)
8. Lily Allen “It’s Not Me, It’s You” (EMI/Capitol)
9. Sunn O))) “Monoliths & Dimensions” (Southern Lord)
10. Grizzly Bear “Veckatimest” (Warp)
11. Little Dragon “Machine Dreams” (Peacefrog)
12. Edan “Echo Party” (Five Day Weekend)
13. DJ Sega “Live at The Bowery Ballroom”
14. Mr. Chop “For Pete’s Sake” (5DW/Now Again)
15. Fever Ray (Rabid/Mute)
16. Raekwon “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt. 2” (Ice H20)
17. Sonic Youth “The Eternal” (Matador)
18. Lil Wayne “No Ceilings” (Young Money)
19. Harmonia & Eno ’76 “Tracks & Traces” (Grönland)
20. Freddie Gibbs “midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik”
21. Prefuse 73 “Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian” (Warp)
22. Lady Gaga “The Fame” (Interscope)
23. Joker “Purple Wow Sound”
24. Yeah Yeah Yeahs “It’s Blitz!” (Interscope)
25. Black To Comm “Alphabet 1968” (Type)
26. Eugene McGuinness (Domino)
27. Mokira “Persona” (Type)
28. “Freedom, Rhythm and Sound: Revolutionary Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement 1963-82” (Soul Jazz)
29. Brad Paisley “American Saturday Night” (Arista)
30. Vowels “The Pattern Prism” (LOAF)
31. Here We Go Magic (Western Vinyl)
32. The Phenomenal Handclap Band (Friendly Fire)
33. N-Type “Rinse: 09” (Rinse FM)
34. The Tree People “Human Voices” (Guerssen)
35. Air “Love 2” (Aircheology/Astralwerks)
36. Erin McCarley “Love, Save The Empty” (Universal Republic)
37. Vladislav Delay “Tummaa” (Leaf)
38. The Arch Cupcake “Box of Bees” (Patriarch)
39. Dude ’N Nem “Tinted Incubators” (TVT)
40. Thee Oh Sees “Help” (In The Red)
41. “Sensacional Soul Vol. 2: 32 Groovy Spanish Soul & Funk Stompers 1965/1972” (Vampisoul)