I have slightly over 20 I like even if I expect that I won't be recommending them to anyone in a couple of years. I still like 'em much more than the other stuff I see people praising so I have no problems voting for them.




If polls closed today, this would be my number one too.

It's wonderful, innit? This by far was the cd I continually went back to all year.

1. Animal Collective - Feels
2. Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
3. Serena Maneesh - Serena Maneesh
4. Black Dice - Broken Ear Record
5. The Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers
6. Akron/Family & Angels Of Light - Akron/Family & Angels Of Light
7. The Decemberists - Picaresque
8. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
9. Akron Family - Akron Family
10. Gang Gang Dance - God's Money
11. The Fiery Furnaces - E.P.
12. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
13. The Books - Lost And Safe
14. The Kallikak Family - May 23rd 2007
15. Gorillaz - Demon Days
16. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
17. Black Mountain - Black Mountain
18. Wilco - Kicking Television: Live In Chicago
19. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
20. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute

I'm waiting on Max's list and then I am going to check out every disc on it. We seem to have really similar tastes.

I am a huge VM fan, and I thought this was one his weakest ever. I am a huge KB fan... should I really get this?

Or should we not play this game in this thread...

1. Common - Be
2. M.I.A. - Arular
3. Markus Guentner - 1981
4. Kanye West - Late Registration
5. Platinum Pied Pipers - Triple P
6. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
7. Coldplay - X & Y
8. MED - Push Comes to Shove
9. Steve Spacek - Space Shift
10. 50 Cent - The Massacre
11. Jamie Lidell - Multiply
12. 13 & God - 13 & God
13. Cage - Hell's Winter
14. The Game - The Documentary
15. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
16. Imogen Heap - Speak for Yourself
17. DJ Quik - Trauma
18. Original Soundtrack - Get Rich or Die Tryin'
19. Gorillaz - Demon Days
20. Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel

1. Crooked Fingers - Dignity and Shame
2. Calexico/Iron and Wine - In the Reins
3. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
4. The National - Alligator
5. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
6. The Decemberists - Picaresque
7. Richmond Fontaine - The Fitzgerald
8. Son Volt - Okemah and the Melody of Riot
9. Iron and Wine - Woman King
10. Antony and the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now
11. The Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart
12. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
13. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - JCN
14. Ryan Adams and The Cardinals - Cold Roses
15. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
16. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
17. Lucero - Nobody's Darlings
18. M. Ward - Transistor Radio
19. Josh Rouse - Nashville
20. Bloc Party - Silent Alam

Yeah it is pretty great. Even better than Three. I think its his song structures that really draw me to him.

np: Ultra Vivid Scene "Joy: 1967-1990"

DJ Quik is still alive?

Unless I get a shit-ton of recent tunes for stinkmas, I don't think I have a big enough sample to participate. But I will watch the results closely.

i only heard about 25 new albums this year...makes it easy to rank.

by the way, looking at these lists, what the fuck happened to the british music scene?

Right now it's being taught what's cool by the Americans, so it can turn around and sell it back with a more stylish haircut.

Not sure how I'll feel about Magic Time in a few years. It's better than his skiffle albums, but certainly no Astral Weeks. Right now I like it quite a bit (only had it a couple of weeks), but that might just be sentiment toward the Van. It's certainly not a #1 and I could have put 15 or so other releases in its place.

The Kate Bush one is sedate and reflective, more a texture suite on domestic life than anything theatrical. The first half is song-based, the second is concept, somewhat the way Hounds Of Love was. It's rewarding to pay attention to, but there are spots more about tone than "song" and a few seem important to her but might leave listeners saying things like "why are you laughing at birds in this song, again?"

It's insular in context and content but performed in a joyously expansive manner. It's the mark of someone who hasn't had much worry about music industry expectations for a good deal of time.

Some tracks I like better than others. "Sunset" for instance. Much of Aerial is reflective, but there's the occasional Dreaming-style oddity like "Mrs. Bartolozzi."

"Sunset" (I'll YSi a couple other tracks later)

There's nothing on the album that isn't steeped in pleasantry, though. There's no "Violin" or "Get Out Of My House, or "Wedding List" or "James & The Cold Gun" anger. Some people might think the album's boring. I just find her all grown up and rather enjoy that she's capable of writing pretty songs about tiny things.

Yay for Mike Doughty. And this entire fine looking list.

i filled mine out, but i don't really remember the order past #12, someone help me out here.

So, Mary wasn't pregnant, she just had a yeast infection?

Prolly wasn't a virgin, in that case, either.

UK Bands In My Top Twenty

2003: 8

2004: 11

2005: 10

There are plenty good bands in the UK but the opportunities for them to get any recognition are steadly contracting. John Peel was enormously importance and now he's gone.

The weekly music papers are all dead now except the NME which has had to adopt only the most bland commercial music to survive.

Basically there's no one to get the word out anymore and where as Brits are always keeping a close eye on the US (you could list loads of US bands that took off in the UK before they were successful at home), I don't really think the reverse of that is true.

Hmm, that's a good point. What's the point? Just post your list so people can see, and vote only for those that will place in the standings?

I've only heard 21 full albums from this year so this list was no problem. I just didn't include Bright Eyes' postal service album.

I did have to add six albums to the charts, though. That was a pain.


alongdrive's list

1. Eels – Blinking Lights And Other Revelations
2. Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine
3. Antony And The Johnsons – I Am A Bird Now
4. The Boy Least Likely To – The Best Party Ever
5. Petra Haden – Sings: The Who Sell Out
6. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
7. Iron & Wine – Woman King [EP]
8. Final Fantasy – Has A Good Home
9. The Weekend – Beatbox My Heartbeat
10. Broken Social Scene – s/t
11. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
12. The Most Serene Republic – Underwater Cinematographer
13. Joel Plaskett – La De Da
14. Hot Hot Heat – Elevator
15. Jason Collett – Idols of Exile
16. Sun Kil Moon – Tiny Cities
17. Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir – The High Cost of Low Living
18. Madonna – Confessions On A Dance Floor
19. Beck – Guero
20. Grandaddy – Excerpts From The Diary of Todd Zilla

yeah, part of the fun is getting to see what other people are liking and being able to explore more music.

And, if need be, use Sen. Loogar's OPEN GARBAGE as a placeholder in the slots you can't fill.

Eels I almost put on the list.

Really liked the Petra Haden when I borrowed it. I should buy it.

1. Why? - Elephant Eyelash
2. Jesu - Jesu
3. Jack Rose - Kensington Blues
4. Sunn 0))) - Black One
5. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Jacksonville City Nights
6. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
7. Animal Collective - Feels
8. Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter 2
9. Slim Thug - Already Platinum
10. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
11. Common - Be
12. XXL - Ciautastico
13. Sigur Ros - Takk...
14. Birchville Cat Motel - Chi Vampires
15. Dalek - Absence
16. M.Ward - Transistor Radio
17. Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees
18. Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
19. Brazilian Girls - Brazilian Girls
20. Sam Prekop - Who's Your New Professor

1. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
2. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
3. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
4. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
5. Doves - Some Cities
6. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
7. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
8. Josh Rouse - Nashville
9. My Morning Jacket - Z
10. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
11. M.I.A. - Arular
12. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
13. Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
14. Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust
15. The Rosebuds - Birds Make Good Neighbors
16. Low - The Great Destroyer
17. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
18. Brazilian Girls - Brazilian Girls
19. Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
20. Coldplay - X & Y