1. Destroyer - Rubies
2. Sloan - Never Hear The End Of It
3. The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed
4. Frank Black - Fast Man Raider Man
5. Loose Fur - Born Again in the USA
6. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
7. Robert Pollard - From a Compound Eye
8. Bobby Bare, Jr.'s Young Criminals Starvation League - The Longest Meow
9. The Minus 5 - The Gun Album
10. The Black Keys - Magic Potion
11. Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
12. Pernice Brothers - Live a Little
13. Ron Sexsmith - Time Being
14. The Gourds - Heavy Ornamentals
15. David Bazan - Fewer Moving Parts
16. The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls in America
17. Jim Noir - Tower of Love
18. Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
19. Sound Team - Movie Monster
20. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
21. French Kicks - Two Thousand
22. Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
23. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
24. M. Ward - Post-War
25. LaRocca - The Truth
26. Eagles of Death Metal - Death by Sexy
27. Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse
28. Robert Pollard - Normal Happiness
29. Radio 4 - Enemies Like This
30. Solomon Burke - Nashville
31. Starlight Mints - drowaton
32. Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint - The River in Reverse
33. Ben Kweller - Ben Kweller
34. Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - All the Roadrunning
35. Keene Brothers - Blues and Boogie Shoes
36. Centro-Matic - Fort Recovery
37. Josh Rouse - Subtitulo
38. The M's - Future Women
39. Glossary - For What I Don't Become
40. Donald Fagen - Morph The Cat
41. Lucero - Rogues, Rebels and Sworn Brothers
42. Calexico - Garden Ruin
43. Saturday Looks Good To Me - Sound on Sound
44. The Drams - Jubilee Dive
--------------------------------------------------------I GENUINELY LIKE EVERYTHING ABOVE THIS LINE
45. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
46. Tom Petty - Highway Companion
47. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
48. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
49. Tommy Keene - Crashing the Ether
50. The Futureheads - News and Tributes
51. Scott H. Biram - Graveyard Shift
52. Portastatic - Be Still Please
53. Ronnie Spector - The Last of the Rock Stars
54. Cheap Trick - Rockford
55. Mates of State - bring it back
56. Cat Power - The Greatest
57. The Who - Endless Wire
58. Beck - The Information
59. Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah
60. Grant Lee Phillips - nineteeneighties
61. Damien Jurado - Now That I'm In Your Shadow
62. Shearwater - Palo Santo
63. Pete Yorn - Nightcrawler
64. Paul Simon - Surprise
65. Zero 7 - The Garden
66. Built to Spill - You In Reverse
67. The Format - Dog Problems
68. The Black Angels - Passover
69. Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome The Seeger Sessions
70. Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
71. Rhett Miller - The Believer
--------------------------------------------------------I FIND AT LEAST SOME REDEEMING QUALITY ABOVE THIS LINE
72. Neil Young - Living With War
73. David Gilmour - On an Island
74. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Seas
75. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Elan Vital
76. Eric Bachmann - To the Races
77. A Whisper in the Noise - As the Bluebird Sings
78. Richard Ashcroft - Keys to the World

Oh, sure. You just HAD TO BE THE OVERACHIEVER HERE, HUH BOB?!!!


edit: The new Who album over Beck? Heresy.


double edit: FUUUUUCCCCK! I forgot about that great French Kicks album.


DO OVER. DO OVER. DO OVER.

Most nourishing, stick-to-your-ribs list so far... but be careful of the trans-fat. (Simon redeemed, Young not...humph).

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE Neil. But I find the rage here to be too orchestrated and lacking even a hint of subtlety.

Asking Neil to be subtle, is like asking a beach break at Zuma to be subtle... it's not in the cards, not in the same universe. Good list nonetheless... I completely forgot Loose Fur and other solid American Bands (coming to your town, they're gonna party down...).

But Destroyer as your #1 totally doesn't make sense ... you like hamburger and he's cocaine.

I've listened to the Silversun Pickups album sent to me courtesy of Timis. That has a chance of worming its way into my top 20. They were good live.

Man, that David Bazan is that good? He kind of lost me with Achilles Heell but shit...everyone seems to like this solo ep of his. I've barely heard a lick of it.

damn, I slept on this one...I need to track this down, probably not gonna change my list though

I've been baffled by Bob's take on this all damn year. I actually like the record but...yeah... hamburger, cocaine.

1. Yeah, Neil's never completely subtle, but compare "Rockin' in the Free World" with anything off Living With War, and you'll catch the drift of the distinction I'm trying to make here. Used to be, he didn't have to hammer you over the head with a title like "Let's Impeach The President." Simply throwing in a "thousand points of light" reference would suffice. Am I splitting hairs? Damn right. And they're those stringy, gray and greasy ones on the top of Neil's head. Just the same way Bloor and LooGAR were discussing how they give their favorite artists added weight when considering them at the end of the year for best-of lists, the other side of that coin is I have extremely high expectations of my favorite artists, so I tend to be pissed when they fall short. Such is the case here.

2. Nothing wrong with snorting a line between Triple Whoppers every now and then, is there?

Yeah, Achilles' Heel sucked ass, especially on the "heels" of the PERFECT Control. But Fewer Moving Parts is great, and the version I got has the five new tracks performed in the studio, as well as live acoustic versions of each. So, I tend to consider it more of a "double EP." I think you'd really dig it, Kit.

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