on Nov. 17th no less. Let the bitching begin.......



Uncut Albums of the Year

1. Brian Wilson - Smile
2. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
3. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
4. Richmond Fontaine - Post To Wire
5. Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live 1964 Concert At Philharmonic Hall
6. Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum
7. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
8. Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill
9. American Music Club - Love Songs For Patriots
10. Franz Ferdinand
11. Tom Waits - Real Gone
12. Kanye West - The College Dropout
13. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
14. Ray Lamontagne - Trouble
15. Junior Boys - Last Exit
16. R.E.M. - Around The Sun
17. Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather
18. N*E*R*D - Fly Or Die
19. Todd Rundgren - Liars
20. Lambchop - Aw Cmon/No You Cmon
21. Scissor Sistors
22. The Libertines
23. Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South
24. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
25. Dizzee Rascal - Showtime
26. Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands
27. The Blue Nile - High
28. Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier
29. Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts Now
30. Micah P. Hinson & The Gospel Of Progress
31. Jesse Malin - The Heat
32. The Dears - No Cities Left
33. Blanche - If We Can't Trust The Doctors...
34. Elvis Costello & The Imposters - The Delivery Man
35. U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
36. TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
37. Jim White - Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See
38. The Czars - Goodbye
39. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
40. Interpol - Antics
41. Bjork - Medulla
42. Giant Sand - Is All Over...The Map
43. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Greatest Palace Music
44. Jonathan Richman - Not So Much To be Loved As To Love
45. Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
46. Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere
47. The Cure
48. Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
49. Andrew Morgan - Misadventures In Radiology
50. Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue
51. Ella Guru - The First Album
52. Kevin Tihista's Red Terror - Wake Up Captain
53. Paul Westerberg - Folker
54. Marianne Faithful - Before The Poison
55. Ed Harcourt - Strangers
56. The Thrills - Let's Bottle Bohemia
57. Lewis Taylor - The Lost Album
58. Air - Talkie Walkie
59. The Killers - Hot Fuss
60. Polly Paulusma - Scissors in My Pocket
61. The Delays - Faded Seaside Glamour
62. Fennesz - Venice
63. Phoenix - Alphabetical
64. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
65. Iron & Wine - My Endless Numbered Days
66. David Byrne - Grown Backwards
67. Felix Da Housecat - Devin Dazzle And The Neon Fever
68. Ariel Pink - The Doldrums
69. The Concretes
70. A Girl Called Eddy

5 hours later, Iron & Wine is still too low.

There are about 11 albums there that have a shot at my year end list.

Steve

there are still some albums to be released this year, no?

Yeh... but November and December always suck. Anyone know of anything coming out in the next six weeks that's worth it?

Great, now I have puke breath. List sucks.

Hmmm....maybe I should hold off that next SK release for January 4th.

shins "chutes" = 2003, no "import" confusion about it

couple on this list that doit for me

Yes, but, Billz, truthfully, is there ANY list you will be satisfied with other than your own?

Steve

I see 7 that will probably make my top 20.

Uncut is a British magazine. Chutes was released in UK until this year.

I'm not crazy about the list but I'm guessing that Magnet et al will come up with even worse lists this year.

Near-sure albums for my top 20:



i plan on buying:

35. U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

And this list reminded me about blue nile (and blue states).

i don't think that's too bad of a list. i see at least 10 that will be in my top 20.

Sure. My visceral reaction was at the sheer timidness of the list. Every pick was "safe" and the entire list is dull, dull, dull.

I'm not that far out there, yet only one or two of the albums I consider to be the best of the year are even on here.

Brian Wilson, Loretta Lynne, and Wilco as the top three make this no better than Spin, Rolling Stone, or Tiger Beat.

I see 8 or 9 that will probably make my top 20.

except that wilco truly is the best album this year.

Its UNCUT, Billze, a magazine that pics a new act to canonize each month, and be consistently counted on to shit itself over whatever alt.country is hot at the moment...

I have no problems with this list, and am intrigued by some of the stuff I haven't heard.

Somedays I forget how big a bunch of haters most of us here are...thanks to everyone for reminding me.

All of the "8 or 10 of these will be on my list" posts should have a ps of "but I've got some WAAAAY hipper choices, too, cuz ME SO INDIE!"

I'm not a hater, per se. I'm just a Ole Cranky Bastard.

Don't analyze, criticize!

You're such an anti-indie-ite.

edit: Being anti-indie is the new indie.

I like all of those alot, and if I had listened to enough albums this year to make a list, most of them would be on there.

These will most certainly be in my top 20. There are at least 10 others that I haven't heard yet that I would expect would have a good chance as well.

Seven (eight at most) will make my Top Twenty.

There's virtually nothing on that list that you could scare your parents with and the Top 20 is duller than brickwork. Only two of my picks reside there.

"a ghost is born" has yet to grow on me.
i like all the songs in live form, but the album bores me. seems thin or something.

Leonard Cohen put out a record..? Oh yeah...

A Ghost is Born is way up there on my list of favorite albums, period.

KPH

Richmond Fontaine - Post To Wire

i think this is the first ive heard of this record. you people let me down.