The first step is just HAVING a goal. I generally don't, so when I actually come up with a one I all ready feel as though I've accomplished something.

1. My Morning Jacket - Z
2. The Ike Reilly Assasination - Junkie Faithful
3. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
4. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
5. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
6. Calexico/Iron & Wine - In The Reins
7. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
8. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better...
9. Robbers on High Street - Tree City
10. The Deathray Davies - The Kick and The Snare
11. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
12. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
13. Iron & Wine - Woman King
14. Dwight Yoakam - Blame The Vain
15. Doves - Some Cities
16. South San Gabriel - The Carlton Chronicles
17. Babyshambles - Down In Albion
18. Marah - If You Didn't Laugh, You'd Cry
19. Supergrass - Road to Rouen
20. Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth

Jeez. Now that's interesting.

But it's a very good list. Sometimes you read the lists and you can't get the sense of what a person listens for, for what pleases them. This list seems to make a kind of basic sense.

see pg. 7

I'm going down to the wire this year. I did pull out everything that I bought or burned from 2005 today and its a larger list than I thought.

Here are the candidates in the groupings of relative likelihoods:

Virtual Locks:

Espers "The Weed Tree"
Max de Castro "Max de Castro"
Nacao Zumbi "Futura"
Ry Cooder "Chavez Ravine"
Oliver Mtukudzi "Nhava"
Salif Keita "M'Bemba"
South San Gabriel "The Carlton Chronicles"
Maximilian Hecker "Lady Sleep"
And You'll Know Us By the Trail of the Dead "Worlds Apart"
Archer Prewitt "Wilderness"
Richard Thompson "Front Parlour Ballads"
Greg Dulli "Amber Headlights"
Antony and the Johnsons "I'm A Bird Now"

On the bubble but would likely make it today:

Vashti Banyan "Lookaftering"
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings "Naturally"
The Saints "Nothing is Straight in My House"
Bettye Lavette "I've Got My Own Hell To Raise"
Marianne Faithfull "Before the Poison"
The Pernice Brothers "Discover A Lovelier You"
Magnolia Electric Co. "What Comes After the Blues"

On the bubble but wouldn't likely make it today:

Bantu (featuring Ayuba) "Fuji Satisfactions: Soundclash in Lagos"
Amadou e Miriam "Damanche a Bamako"
Free Joseph "Speaking In Tongues"
Chango Spasiuk "Tarefero de Mis Pagos"
Laura Cantrell "Humming By the Flowered Vine"
Sam Prekop "Who's Your New Professor"
Brian Eno "Another Day on Earth"
Solomon Burke "Make Do With What You Got"

Have on order and hope to receive in time to consider:

N'Dongo Lo "Aduna"
Son Volt "Okemah And The Melody Of Riot"
Banda Uniao Black "Banda Uniao Black"
Joe Bataan "Call My Name"
Mary Gauthier "Mercy Now"

Like somewhat and will give at least one more listen prior to voting but extreme longshots at this point:

Micah P. Hinson "Micah P. Hinson & the Gospel of Progress"
Dwight Trible & The Life Force Trio "Love Is The Answer"
Echo & the Bunnymen "Siberia"
Josh Rouse "Nashville"
Teenage Fanclub "Man-made"
The Wedding Present "Take Fountain"
The Coral "Invisible Invasion"
Damien Jurado "On My Way to Absence"
Glen Phillips "Winter Pays for Summer"
Bob Mould "Body of Song"
The Deathray Davies "The Kick and the Snare"
Al Green "Everything's OK"
Spoon "Gimme Fiction"

Pretty much eliminated from consideration:

Devin Davis "Lonely People of the World, Unite!"
My Morning Jacket "Z"
Frank Black "Honeycomb"
Seu Jorge "The Life Aquatic Sessions"
Ryan Adams "Cold Roses"
The Decemberists "Picaresque"
Queens of the Stone Age "Lullabies to Paralyze"
Angels of Light "Other People"
Andrew Bird "The Mysterious Production of Eggs

Just submitted my list. not that I remember what order everything was in...

I swear, if I didn't already know that you're a moron, I'd think you were always drunk.

Great minds think alike.

Oh, I'm a moron all right. A moron with a mexican dinosaur on his chest. but regardless, I have a general idea of what my list was, but I fidgeted around with it a bit at the last minute.

You don't have to be subtle with me, sweetie. I'm pretty easy.

if this is subtle about anything, i'm in for more trouble than I thought.

Holy shit.

That is too funny. It looks like a mexican kangaroo.


By the way, the photo would've been much more satisfying with a nipple shot in there. Get it right next time.

i was afraid to click it and this probably confirmed it....not work safe, eh?

No, it's safe for work. It just looks like Cotton had a few too many one night...and ended up with a "Mexican dinosaur on his chest".

It looks like Gary Larson drew it.

Unless you work with Latino archaeologists, you're probably cool.

so FT emails the results?
oh man this has already changed in my brain.


1. Langhorne Slim - When The Sun
2. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
3. Edan - Beauty and the Beat
4. Malcolm Middleton - Into the Woods
5. The Fall - Fall Heads Roll
6. Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
7. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
8. Sigur Ros - Takk...
9. Richard Hawley - Cole
10. The Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers
11. Bright Eyes - I
12. The Juan Maclean - Less Than Human
13. Heartless Bastards - Stairs and Elevators
14. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
15. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
16. The National - Alligator
17. Constantines - Tournament of Hearts
18. Micah P. Hinson - Micah P. Hinson and the Gospel of Progress
19. Dangerdoom - The Mouse and the Mask
20. The Spinto Band - Nice and Nicely Done

and Chris, don't ever say I don't do nice things for you.

Now we're talkin'.

FT? They should be emailed to you after you submit.

so this is good? I probly need to pick it up.



Wow. I tried pretty hard with this one , but I'm gonna have to say my overall rating is CRAP.

This is, obviously, I'm Wide Awake It's Morning. Something is screwy with the code. Haq's working on it.

oops, i was thinking it was that live album.

they were. I think my email said the results were from FT.

quote marks in a table string value need to be dereferenced, like "I''m wide awake, it''s morning"

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