December CD Release

We Sure Are Hot For Two Cold People; There's a Fire in My Snow Pants

This month's compilation is filled with obscure little gems and may, again like last month's, not have a clear favorite. Thee More Shallows' song, Night at the Knight School, may however have a good chance of rising above. The strength of most of this month's songs are found in their lyrics, "polly pocket shoots off her head," "I'd like to pay some other girl to just walk up to her and hit her," and the lyrics that inspired this month's title, "we sure are cute for two ugly people" and "there's a fire in my jeans" (we must keep the fire burning, whether it's in the taco bell or in someone's pants).

Tracklist:

1. Anyone Else But You - The Moldy Peaches
2. Night at the Knight School - Thee More Shallows
3. I Will Wander - The Features
4. When You Were a Millionaire - The Eames Era
5. Jacket - David Vendervelde
6. Polly Pocket Says Goodbye - Miranda Gjerstad
7. If You Find Love - Naked and the Boys
8. Ghetto Ways - Scissors for Lefty
9. Saving Myself - Identity #1
10. Pushing the Shine - Lovedrug
11. She's a Rejector - Of Montreal
12. Little People - The Grates
13. Absorb the Lip Gloss - The Hood Internet
14. Tonight Party - Trabant
15. Madelin - frYars
16. Fake Your Death - Orion Domisse
17. Creepy Addicts - Coal Beautiere
18. Plus Ones - Okkervil River
19. Electric Bird - Sia
20. Let the Burden Be Mine - Coyote Bones

Bonus Tracks
21. Pink High Heels - Melanie Horsnell
22. Bonafied Lovin' (Chromeo Remix) - The Teenagers

January CD Release: January 30th

December 2007

I Have Taste In Music Ballot

results:

Anyone Else But You - Moldy Peaches = 1 vote

Night at the Knight School - Thee More Shallows = 1 vote

I Will Wander - The Features = 1 vote

Polly Pocket Says Goodbye - Miranda Gjerstad = 3 votes

If You Find Love - Naked and the Boys = 1 vote

Ghetto Ways - Scissors For Lefty = 1 vote

She's a Rejector - Of Montreal = 2 votes

Absorb the Lipgloss - The Hood Internet = 1 vote

ChipperDemon's Got the Ear and CD Release Delay

Robin Hilton, producer of NPR's All Songs Considered, compiled a top 10 list of, "Musicians whose remarkable recordings went largely overlooked in 2007." While ChipperDemon will not be announcing Le Loup, Fear Not (September ChipperDemon release) from Le Loup's 2007 album, Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly, as the number one song of the year, Robin Hilton named it the number one unknown album.

In addition, included in the running for best album of year for the Plug Independent Music Awards is Band of Horses - Cease to Begin (October), Beirut - The Flying Club Cup (July), Justice - † (September), Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (Will be appearing in December's compilation), and Radiohead - In Rainbows (October). 5 out of the 12 albums being considered for the award have been featured by ChipperDemon's monthly compilations. 3 of the 12 being considered for the New Artist of the Year awards are Justice (September), Los Campesinos (November), and Vampire Weekend (November).

New York Times rated M.I.A.'s Paper Planes (September) as a top song of the year. They also placed Radiohead's In Rainbows as the top album of the year, followed by Feist's Reminder (July) as number 2 and Iron and Wine's The Shepherd's Dog (September) at number 4. Where as in Rolling Stones' award list, M.I.A. made the number one album of the year and Radiohead came in 6th, Rilo Kiley in 8th (August), White Stripes in 17th (September), Kings of Leon 31st(August), Feist in 35th, Of Montreal in 41st, Band of Horses in 47th and an honorable mention to Britney Spears making the 50th place in Rolling Stones' top 50 albums of the year.

Overall, ChipperDemon is proud that it's got a good ear. In one way it could be seen that ChipperDemon is just as susceptible to mass music influence while at the same time, ChipperDemon still has many songs and artists that were not mentioned on any mega list. Soko, for instance, will certainly not even make it to NPR's greatly overlooked artists.

Also, the December Compilation shall be released Monday the 31st due to the Holidays along with ChipperDemon's best of 2007 CD that will feature songs from the whole year and not just the past 6 months.

Record Voter Turnout and Books

The ChipperDemon for the first time has reached five votes in the October poll.

Soon, ChipperDemon will take on a new medium to add to the monthly tradition and on every second Wednesday of the month a new book will be chosen to be read and then discussed the following second Wednesday of the month. The first book chosen to be read and completed for discussion will be No Country For Old Men for January 9th. The ChipperDemon is very excited about this new addition and is looking forward to the broadening of popular mediums featured.