Cool, i hope you like them.

They recorded a live session for WFMU that'll be broadcast on 12 December. Labels are starting to show interest and they have a few singles dropping pretty soon (one "fan club" edition with some new demos and a GG cover, another on Siltbreeze with their cover of the Breeders' "Divine Hammer").

Top 20 update for 12/19/2006:


01 "the life pursuit" belle & sebastian
02 "the crane wife" the decemberists
03 the minus 5
04 "rabbit fur coat" jenny lewis with the watson twins
05 "the animal years" josh ritter
06 "fox confessor brings the flood" neko case
07 "dog problems" the format
08 "cannibal sea" the essex green
09 "fishscale" ghostface killah
10 "garden ruin" calexico

11 "the loon" tapes 'n tapes
12 "kick" white rose movement
13 "get lonely" the mountain goats
14 "night ripper" girl talk
15 "post-war" m.ward
16 "idols of exile" jason collett
17 "casino twilight dogs" youth group
18 "the eraser" thom yorke
19 "subtitulo" josh rouse
20 "elan vital" pretty girls make graves

21 "return to the sea" islands
22 "movie monster" sound team
23 ben kweller
24 "born again in the usa" loose fur
25 "2006 pitchfork music festival sampler" various artists
26 "pick a bigger weapon" the coup
27 "i am not afraid of you and i will beat your ass" yo la tengo
28 "st. elsewhere" gnarls barkley
29 "let's get out of this country" camera obscura
30 "the warning" hot chip

31 "get yr blood sucked out" viva voce
32 "cansei de ser sexy" css
33 "writer's block" peter bjorn and john
34 "war of the wakening phantoms" the high dials
35 "ringleader of the tormentors" morissey
36 "game theory" the roots
37 "show your bones" yeah yeah yeahs
38 "for hero: for fool" subtle
39 "black holes & revelations" muse
40 "those the brokes" the magic numbers

interesting that my first ranking of 5-or-more albums way back on february 12th holds 3 of my current top 4 in the feb12th top 4 -- life pursuit (now #1), the minus 5 (now #3) and jenny lewis (now #4). also, the rest of this top 7 is nowhere near my current top 20.

So here's 50. Not the 50 best, but the 50 albums I bought that I've listened to enough to rank. Before the year's over, I'll probably be selecting my top 20 from a pool of 60-70 albums that I've spent a decent amount of time with.

1. Man Man - Six Demon Bag
2. Califone - Roots & Crowns
3. Liars - Drum's Not Dead
4. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
5. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
6. Subtle - For Hero: For Fool
7. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go
8. M. Ward - Post-War
9. Danielson - Ships
10. Wolf Eyes - Human Animal
11. Jason Molina - Let Me Go Let Me Go Let Me Go
12. Vetiver - To Find Me Gone
13. Joanna Newsom - Ys
14. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
15. Beach House - s/t
16. Akron/Family - Meek Warrior
17. Sightings - End Times
18. Asobi Seksu - Citrus
19. NOMO - New Tones
20. Six Organs of Admittance - The Sun Awakens
21. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
22. Super Numeri - The Welcome Table
23. Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice - Gipsy Freedom
24. Uzeda - Stella
25. Ali Farka Touré - Savane
26. Growing - Color Wheel
27. Calexico - Garden Ruin
28. Mission of Burma - The Obliterati
29. Magnolia Electric Co. - Fading Trails
30. Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
31. Mouse on Mars - Varcharz
32. OOIOO - Taiga
33. Comets on Fire - Avatar
34. Boris - Pink
35. M. Craft - Silver & Fire
36. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
37. The Black Angels - Passover
38. Wilderness - Vessel States
39. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
40. Islands - Return to the Sea
41. Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo
42. Black Heart Procession - The Spell
43. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
44. Cat Power - The Greatest
45. Beans - Only
46. The Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics
47. Scott Walker - The Drift
48. Jesu - Silver
49. Excepter - Alternation
50. Terrestrial Tones - Dead Drunk

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i could post mine but that kinda ruins the effect of my big list thing that im working on

Decided on doing a top 30:

1. Trentemoller, Last Resort
2. Black Angels, Passover
3. Josh Ritter, Animal Years
4. Mystery Jets, Making Dens
5. M Craft, Silver and Fire
6. Greenmachine, Archives of Rotten Blues
7. Asobi Seksu, Citrus
8. Benoît Pioulard, Précis
9. Ryan Teague, Coins and Crosses
10. Catfish Haven, Please Come Back EP

11. Belong, October Language
12. Alex Smoke, Paradolia
13. Gojira, From Mars to Sirius
14. Journey Into Paradise: The Larry Levan Story
15. Augie March, Moo, You Bloody Choir
16. Xela, The Dead Sea
17. Mellowdrone, Box
18. Little Ones, Sing Song EP
19. Drive-By Truckers, A Blessing and a Curse
20. Isis, In the Absence of Truth

21. Comets On Fire, Avatar
22. Man Man, Six Demon Bag
23. Phelan Sheppard, Harps Old Master
24. Shearwater, Palo Santo
25. Fucked Up, Hidden World
26. Loka, Fire Shepherds
27. Nathan Fake, Drowning In the Sea of Love
28. Jeffrey Foucault, Ghost Repeater
29. Aereogramme, My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go
30. The Sword, Age of Winters

I can thank this board (and largely Dalen) for bringing several of these to my attention!

Pretty cool list Cosmic Bus. I love that Trentemoller record, but god I wish it was cut down to a single disc instead. It's just like 20-30 minutes too long for me.

Well, the second disc is [amazing] remixes and other stuff, not really part of the actual album. It's like the LCD Soundsystem pair from last year: just a little something to sweeten the pot.

yeah i guess you're right but 77 minutes is still too much for me to handle.

1 stephen yerkey METANEONATUREBOY
2 m. craft SILVER AND FIRE
3 m. ward POST WAR
4 jarvis cocker JARVIS
5 neko case FOX CONFESSOR BRINGS THE FLOOD
6 belle & sebastian THE LIFE PURSUIT
7 nathan fake DROWNING IN A SEA OF LOVE
8 jenny lewis & the watson twins RABBIT FUR COAT
9 peter, bjorn and john WRITERS BLOCK
10 cortney tidwell CORTNEY TIDWELL
11 sonic youth RATHER RIPPED
12 mogwai MR BEAST
13 nina nastasia ON LEAVING
14 roddy frame WESTERN SKIES
15 two gallants WHAT THE TOLL TELLS
16 isobel campbell & mark lanegan BALLAD OF THE BROKEN SEAS
17 camera obscura LET’S GET OUT THIS COUNTRY
18 the strokes FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF EARTH
19 vetiver TO FIND ME GONE
20 acoustic ladyland SKINNY GRIN


Latest Top 20. Only really have four more albums to mark before I have my Official 2006 Top 20. Espers and perhaps Yeah Yeah Yeahs have a chance from outside the Top 20. If they don't make it but Acoustic LadyLand slip down The Late Chord would go up to 20th. The Jarvis Cocker album also has to be given a final mark.