Please tell me that this means all our blurbs won't be posted....

Man I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO gonna get flamed.

F**K....its sticked at the top of the forum.


I'm gonna run and hide now.

1. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak (27/38 pts)
2. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary (6/95 pts)
3. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (17/55 pts)
4. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (2/119 pts)
5. My Morning Jacket - Z (3/108 pts)
6. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene (11/69 pts)
7. Marah - If You Didn't Laugh You'd Cry (23/41 pts)
8. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses (22/47 pts)
9. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (7/91 pts)
10. Neil Young - Prairie Wind (177/6 pts)
11. Babyshambles - Down In Albion (65/17 pts)
12. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze (63/18 pts)
13. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment (100/13 pts)
14. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better(28/37 pts)
15. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs (4/107 pts)
16. Spoon - Gimme Fiction (1/146 pts)
17. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods (14/60 pts)
18. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Jacksonville City Nights (47/25 pts)
19. Shooter Jennings - Let's Put the 'O' in Country (456/1 point)
20. The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang (136/9 pts)

Grant Total = 995

1. Badgerlore-Stories For Owls (152/7)
2. Jack Rose-Kensington BLues (129/9)
3. Animal Collective-Feels (13/60)
4. Sunburned Hand of the Man-Complexion (181/6)
5. Jackie O’ Motherfucker-Flags of the Sacred Harp (110/11)
6.Deerhoof-The Runners Four (39/29)
7. Akron/Family and Angels of Light (88/14)
8. Six Organs of Admittance-School of the Flower (77/16)
9. No Neck Blues Band-Qvaris (313/3)
10. Matt Valentine and Erika Elder Medicine Show-Moon Jook (308/3)
11. Vibracathedral Orchestra-Tuning to the Rooster (400/2)
12. Fursaxa-Lepidoptera (360/2)
13. Double Leopards-A Hole Is True (354/2)
14. Wooden Wand-Harem of the Sundrumm and the Witness Figg (268/4)
15. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti-Worn Copy (340/2)
16. Akron/Family-Akron/Family (57/19)
17. Colleen-Golden Morning Breaks (189/5)
18. Davenport-Rabbit's Foot Propeller (420/1)
19. Islaja-Palaa Aurinkoon (436/1)
20. Black Dice-Broken Ear Record (101/12)

208 pts. total.

I need to listen to better music I suppose.

Best electronic album of the year.

Mike, chill out. Read the sticky. It's cool to dis what everybody else likes.


1. Low - The Great Destroyer (32)
2. Antony & the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now (53)
3. Sigur Ros - Takk... (66)
4. Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain (16)
5. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (55)
6. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods (60)
7. God Is An Astronaut - All is Violent, All Is Bright (7)
8. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (91)
9. Danger Doom - The Mouse and The Mask (16)
10. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs (107)
11. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart (14)
12. Josh Rouse - Nashville (49)
13. Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep (8) <----- FUCK THIS SMILEY!!!!!
14. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (57)
15. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney - Superwolf (22)
16. Eels - Blinking Lights... (15)
17. Richard Hawley - Coles Corner (6)
18. The Perceptionists - Black Dialogue (2)
19. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday (30)
20. Akron/Family - Akron/Family (19)

725 points, with a disclaimer that Spoon, New Pornos, MMJ, and Sufjan made my top 30.

Josh Rouse one point outside the top 20, so my surprise at his absences was somewhat justified. Also interesting to note Trail of Dead's drop from #3 in '02 to #96 this year. I guess it would be a similar for me on a final best-of-decade list.

in conclusion, as individuals most of us have good taste, but as a whole, we blow big chunks. It only takes a couple of weak links in the chain to ruin it for EVERYONE.

Also, i don't wanna point fingers or nuthin', but who the shit voted for KAISER CHIEFS?! Come on, out with it! Identify yourselves!

You missed the thing about Ctrl+F, didn't you?

1. The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang 9
2. Young Jeezy - Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 8
3. Josh Rouse - Nashville 49
4. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy 87
5. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses 47
6. The National - Alligator 50
7. The Deathray Davies - The Kick and The Snare 25
8. Love As Laughter - Laughter's Fifth 19
9. Ike Reillu - Junkie Faithful 32
10. Devin Davis - Lonely People Of The World, Unite! 25
11. Kanye West - Late Registration 27
12. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better... 37
13. Lucero - Nobody's Darlings 6
14. Babyshambles - Down In Albion 17
15. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Jacksonville City Nights 25
16. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs 107
17. My Morning Jacket - Z 108
18. The Paddingtons - First Comes First 4
19. Senator Loogar - OPEN GARBAGE 1
20. Johnny Taint & The Cans of Piss - Lappin' It Up 1


684

I'm confused -- why are people taking credit for others' points? How does that work, again?

Because it shows quantatively how much your personal tastes reflect the consensus.

so i guess i'm captain consensus. i hope everyone can agree to that.

I did. You see, I heard the album and enjoyed it enough that when I compiled a year end list I found that, relative to my own tastes of course, it ranked within the Top 20.

Not to make a redundant statement, as this was discussed previouly, but I've never understood the bile that this band seems raise amongst the folks around here. It's Britpop from the same vein as The Jam, or other newer groups like The Futureheads or Dogs Die in Hot Cars. Yet for some reason, the latter two groups aren't held up as the ruination of all things like the Kaiser Chiefs. It's just odd.

Yeah, I'll defend it, too. It didn't make my top 20, but I still liked it.

I'm surprised this year's poll didn't generate more discussion. I guess I don't have anything to add either but still...kind of anticlimatic.

1. The National - Alligator (50)
2. My Morning Jacket - Z (108)
3. Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees (15)
4. Brian McBride - When the Detail Lost Its Freedom (4)
5. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene (69)
6. Sigur Ros - Takk... (66)
7. Dalek - Absence (17)
8. Black Dice - Broken Ear Record (12)
9. Langhorne Slim - When The Sun's Gone Down (14)
10. The Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers (36)
11. Spoon - Gimme Fiction (146)
12. Animal Collective - Feels (60)
13. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Jacksonville City Nights (25)
14. P:ano - Brigadoon (3)
15. Windy & Carl - The Dream House (2)
16. Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain (16)
17. Serena Maneesh - Serena Maneesh (10)
18. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (119)
19. Pelican - The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw (9)
20. Excepter - Throne (2)

774 = A mix of big hitters plus a few where I was only one of maybe 2 people who voted for the album.

tommy, given your list i'm a little surprised okkervil river wasn't on it. just didn't do anything for you?

Nope. Probably my biggest disappointment of the year. Loved the last record (prob in my 2nd tier the year it came out), but really disliked BSB. In fact, I haven't listened to it in about 8 months. 1 or 2 standouts and the rest were so uninspired to me.

have you tried the appendix?

I heard one song that Dalen posted, but that's it. I did like that one song, though.

the whole thing's great. if you're on colin's... wood, i'd love to swap it for some brigadoon...

Runner up.

How is that Haq? And how does BSB stack up against the previous records in your opinion?

I fucking loved BSB, and it was a serious contender for #1 for a while. So, should be running out buying everyting they've made?

senator, if you liked BSB that much, there's no way you won't like the appendix. amazingly, the songs are every bit as good and any of them would have been right at home on the record.

i think you'd probably also like "down the river of golden dreams," which many people (tommy, case in point) like even better than bsb, and which is pretty similar in style. "don't fall in love with everyone you see" (one of my favorite titles ever) is definitely weaker overall, but has some devastating songs (red, lady liberty, westfall) and would not be a bad buy/download for a fan of bsb either.

I got 861.