1. New Buffalo - The Last Beautiful Day
2. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
3. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
4. Dirty Three - Cinder
5. Sarah Blasko - The Overture & The Underscore
6. Broadcast - Tender Buttons
7. Bonnie "Prince" Billy & Matt Sweeney - Superwolf
8. Doves - Some Cities
9. My Morning Jacket - Z
10. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - The Proposition OST
11. The Game - The Documentary
12. Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth
13. New Order - Waiting for the Sirens' Call
14. Animal Collective - Feels
15. Kanye West - Late Registration
16. Bit By Bats - Let's Go Romeo
17. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
18. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
19. Ladytron - witching hour
20. Common - Be

update:

1. Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow
2. Kate Bush - Aerial
3. (Smog) - A River Ain't Too Much To Love
4. Crooked Fingers - Dignity And Shame
5. Marah - If You Didn't Laugh, You'd Probably Cry
6. Half Man Half Biscuit - Achtung Bono
7. Danny Cohen - We're All Gunna Die
8. Kate Rusby - The Girl Who Couldn't Fly
9. Richard Thompson - Front Parlour Ballads
10. The Hope Blister - Underarms & Sideways
11. Bruce Cockburn - Speechless
12. A Northern Chorus - Bitter Hands Resign
13. Adrian Belew - Side Two
14. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
15. Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
16. Sigur Ros - Takk...
17. Pernice Brothers - Discover A Lovelier You
18. The Decemberists - Picaresque
19. Antony And The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
20. Spoon - Gimme Fiction

Just ordered a copy of that David Sylvian rec a few days ago myself after some glowing comments from Dusty and others. Sounds like it must be a very good one. Guess it's gonna be released in the US at the end of the month but seems the UK import can be had for around normal price. At least mine was only about $11 new. Really love that sound. He's pretty unique and is almost always surrounded by a group of first class musicians.

I decided I was taking the relative rankings too seriously and just quickly filled it out.

Here's my submitted list:

1. Joe Bataan "Call My Name"
2. Archer Prewitt "Wilderness"
3. Antony & the Johnsons "I'm A Bird Now"
4. Ry Cooder "Chavez Ravine"
5. Nacao Zumbi "Futura"
6. Vashti Banyan "Lookaftering"
7. Maximilian Hecker "Lady Sleep"
8. Richard Thompson "Front Parlour Ballads"
9. Banda Uniao Black "Banda Uniao Black"
10. Salif Kieta "M'Bemba"
11. And You'll Know Us By the Trail of the Dead "Worlds Apart"
12. Marianne Faithfull "Before the Poison"
13. Curumin "Achados E Perdidos"
14. Oliver Mtukudzi "Nhava"
15. Greg Dulli "Amber Headlights"
16. The Pernice Brothers "Discover a Lovelier You"
17. Espers "The Weed Tree"
18. South San Gabriel "The Carlton Chronicles"
19. Max de Castro "Max de Castro"
20. Laura Cantrell "Humming by the Flowered Vine"

1. Voyager One - Dissolver
2. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
3. The National - Alligator
4. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
5. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
6. The Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers
7. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
8. Richmond Fontaine - The Fitzgerald
9. Micah P. Hinson - Micah P. Hinson and the Gospel of Progress
10. My Morning Jacket - Z
11. British Sea Power - Open Season
12. Harold Budd - Avalon Sutra
13. The Decemberists - Picaresque
14. Black Mountain - Black Mountain
15. Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now
16. The Lucksmiths - Warmer Corners
17. Editors - The Back Room
18. Electrelane - Axes
19. Archer Prewitt - Wilderness
20. Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die

That's what I do every year.

Here's mine:

1. Crooked Fingers - Dignity And Shame
2. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
3. Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens
4. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
5. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
6. Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration
7. Black Mountain - Black Mountain
8. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
9. Architecture In Helsinki - In Case We Die
10. Wilco - Kicking Television: Live In Chicago
11. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
12. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
13. Magnolia Electric Co. - Trials & Errors
14. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
15. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
16. Bjork - Music From Drawing Restraint 9
17. Magnolia Electric Co. - What Comes After The Blues
18. Greg Dulli - Amber Headlights
19. Beck - Guero
20. Grandaddy - Excerpts From The Diary Of Todd Zilla

Son Volt - okemah and the melody of riot
Marah - if you didn't laugh, you'd cry
Spoon - gimme fiction
Devin Davis - lonely people of the world, unite !
Chris Mills - the wall to wall sessions
M Ward - transistor radio
Peter Bruntnell - ghost in a spitfire
Richmond Fontaine - the fitzgerald
Eels - blinking lights and other revelations
Black Mountain - black mountain
New Pornographers - twin cinema
Babyshambles - down in albion
Michael Penn - mr hollywood jr. 1947
Pernice Brothers - discover a lovelier you
Teenage Fanclub - man-made
Archer Prewitt - wilderness
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - howl
Low - the great destroyer
Of Montreal - the sunlandic twins
Julien Neto - le fumeur de ciel

I made it final:

1. Animal Collective - Feels
2. Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
3. Earth - Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method
4. Konono No. 1 - Congotronics
5. Six Organs Of Admittance - School Of The Flower
6. Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering
7. Broadcast - Tender Buttons
8. Esmerine - Aurora
9. Harris Newman - Accidents With Nature and Each Other
10. Jaga Jazzist - What We Must
11. Antony And The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
12. Mouthus - Slow Globes
13. Dreamcatcher - Nimbus
14. Various Artists - Congotronics 2
15. Micah P. Hinson - Micah P. Hinson and the Gospel of Progress
16. Marissa Nadler - The Saga of Mayflower May
17. Goa! - Crystal Damage
18. Excepter - Throne
19. TTC - Batards sensibles
20. Autechre - Untitled

All three of Animal Collective, Caribou and Earth deserve that first spot. I couldn't really decide, and never will.

Only 17 because anything else I heard I either didn't listen to enough times or like enough to rank. Kind of a boring/safe list, but whatever.

1. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
2. Jeff Hanson - Jeff Hanson
3. Animal Collective - Feels
4. Constantines - Tournament of Hearts
5. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
6. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
7. The Decemberists - Picaresque
8. Jose Gonzalez - Veneer
9. Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
10. Sigur Ros - Takk...
11. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
12. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
13. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
14. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses
15. Doleful Lions - Shaded Lodge and Mausoleum
16. Antony And The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
17. Edan - Beauty and the Beat

How does this album compare to their previous work?

That was one of a handful I was hoping to hear before making my list but didn't get around to. I take it its a good one. How does it compare to his last two?

Top shelf:

Super/System, Always Never Again
Matt Elliott, Drinking Songs
Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom, The Days of Mars
Foetus, Love
Nine Horses, Snow Borne Sorrow

Second Tier:

Ulver, Blood Inside
Black Mountain
Rob Dickinson, Fresh Wine for the Horses
Tiefschwarz, Eat Books
John Vanderslice, Pixel Revolt

Third Tier:

Ivy, In The Clear
Mars Volta, Frances the Mute
New Model Army, Carnival
Porcupine Tree, DeadWing
Tori Amos, Beekeeper

Fourth Tier:

Jesu
Antimatter, Planetary Confinement
Nine Inch Nails, With Teeth
Venetian Snares, Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
Red Sparrowes, At The Soundless Dawn

Hey, Davey -- you and JC seem to really like that National record -- you think I'd like it? You usually have me pegged pretty accurately.

EDIT: I had to add about half my votes. Most of mine are going to be down in the 137-way-tie-for-last, second-to-last, third-to-last, etc.

I like it better than Out Like a Lamb - it brings back some of the hookiness and morbid quirks of The Rats are Coming - but it does have a few tracks I could do without.

Your love of Spoon is semi perplexing. I find the second half of Gimme tedious. I can send you Lucero and White Stripes to make good on the monger if you want.



Never heard of this? JAIL>?

1. Low - The Great Destroyer
2. The Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers
3. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
4. John Vanderslice - Pixel Revolt
5. Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth
6. Love As Laughter - Laughter's Fifth
7. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
8. My Morning Jacket - Z
9. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
10. 13 & God - 13 & God
11. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
12. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
13. (Smog) - A River Ain't Too Much To Love
14. Salim Nourallah - Beautiful Noise
15. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
16. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
17. Akron Family - Akron Family
18. Richmond Fontaine - The Fitzgerald
19. Josh Rouse - Nashville
20. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree

yeah, this little banter here piqued my interest as well. i found their website and took a listen to gore veil, and found it to be pretty bad.

Is that DaveyJones singing?

I like this is in a weird way.

I'm not sure why "Gore Veil" would be the track anybody'd pick as representative of the Deadly Snakes - it's probably my least favorite on the reckid. And, to answer Loogs, yes jail. Stuff like "Sissy Blues", "Debt Collection", "So Young And So Cruel", and "Let It All Go" are like a garage band mix of Nick Cave and Beggar's Banquet - and I suppose there's a bit of a problem with that, 'cuz if you're a Stones fan there's not enough swagger, and if you prefer the melodrama of Nick Cave this'll sound too restrained. But fuckit, you shouldn't be listening to a Deadly Snakes album to hear the Stones or Nick Cave anyway.

I bought a bunch of shit from these lists on BMG - they have some good deals right now. Thanks for the lists. All of these, incl. shipping for around 80 bucks.

BoDeans
Homebrew Live From The Pabst

British Sea Power
Open Season

Franz Ferdinand
You Could Have It So Much Better

The Redwalls
De Nova

Eels
Blinking Lights & Other Revelations

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Howl

Mary Gauthier
Mercy Now

LCD Soundsystem
LCD Soundsystem

Kings of Leon
Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kanye West
Late Registration/College Dropout - 2 Pack (Special Promotion)

1. Kent - Du & Jag Doden
2. Iron & Wine - Woman King
3. Graham Cousens - Living Room Sessions
4. Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
5. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
6. Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
7. Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift
8. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
9. The High Dials - War Of The Wakening Phantoms
10. Heartless Bastards - Stairs and Elevators
11. Brendan Benson - The Alternative to Love
12. The Sun - Blame It On The Youth
13. Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
14. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
15. Coldplay - X & Y
16. stellastarr* - Harmonies for the Haunted
17. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
18. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
19. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
20. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm


Aaaaand scene.

The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
The Hard Lessons - Gasoline
M.I.A. - Arular
The Raveonettes - Pretty In Black
Josh Rouse - Nashville
LCD Soundsystem - s/t
My Morning Jacket - Z
Kany West - Late Registration
Broken Social Scene - s/t
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Marah - If You Didn't Laugh, You'd Probably Cry
Common - Be
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
Shout Out Louds - Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
Quasimoto - The Further Adventures of Lord Quas
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute

It makes me happy to see this on people's lists, but I feel like it should have been on way more. It's a pretty underappreciated record, just like Supper was.

top 25 for me. i bumped it all around all year. the truth is that it might be my favorite record by callahan, just because it is just slightly brighter than the rest.

This is what I submitted. I'm pretty sure I'm happy with it.

01. Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic
02. Archer Prewitt - Wilderness
03. Iron & Wine - Woman King
04. Sigur Ros - Takk...
05. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
06. Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures
07. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
08. Graham Cousens - Living Room Sessions
09. Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
10. The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
11. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
12. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
13. Winterpills - Winterpills
14. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
15. Brendan Benson - The Alternative to Love
16. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
17. Dios (Malos) - Dios (Malos)
18. Redwalls - de nova
19. Black Mountain - Black Mountain
20. Tim Fite - Gone Ain't Gone

Damn, I missed the deadline. I thought it was the 14th today.
Oh well here is my list.

Flotation toy Warning - Bluffer's Guide To The Flight Deck
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Moonbabies - War On Sound
Deadly Snakes - Porcella
Andrew Bird - And The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
Calla - Collisions
The Most Serene Republic - Underwater Cinematographer
Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
The Deathray Davies - The Kick and The Snare
Detroit Cobras - Baby
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Shout Out Louds - Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
Portastatic - Bright Ideas
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
John Vanderslkice - Pixel Revolt
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
Great Lake Swimmers - Bodies And Minds
Falconhawk - Hot Mouth
The 88 - Over And Over
The Fiery Furnaces - E.P.