Rogue Gallery was/is an amazing comp...I posted a thread about it somewhere on here. I was conflicted about adding it to my top list due to it not being an "album" proper by one artist. By far though, my favorite comp of the year.

The Liars. *sigh* I bought this when it first came out, and listened to it quite a bit. Then I just stopped. I probably haven't even picked it up in 3 mos. Sometime next yr I'll get the hankering to listen to it again, and not believe I left it off my list.

List updated below as I've thought about it more while consuming holiday beverages.
1. Various Artists - Rogue's Gallery
2. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
3. Scott Walker - The Drift
4. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
5. Robyn Hitchcock - Ole Tarantula
6. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
7. Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing And A Curse
8. Joanna Newsom - Ys
9. Liars - Drum's Not Dead
10. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
11. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
12. Jerry Lee Lewis - Last Man Standing
13. Solomon Burke - Nashville
14. The Church - Univited, Like The Clouds
15. Eels - Live At Town Hall
16. Frank Black - Fast Man, Raider Man
17. Richard Butler - Richard Butler
18. Lambchop - Damaged
19. Th' Legendary Shack Shakers - Pandelerium
20. Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea

Tom Waits - 55
Scott Walker - 64 (January 9)
Johnny Cash - 71 (deceased)
Robyn Hitchcock - 53
Bob Dylan - 65
Jerry Lee Lewis - 71
Solomon Burke - 66
Richard Butler - 50
Frank Black - 41
Kurt Wagner (Lambchop) - 48
average age Kilbey, Willson-Piper, Koppes: 51

Old farts done well this year

Oh frig. I got like 10 cds for Christmas, all of which had been on wishlists.

So, uh, maybe this is why I shouldn't make a list until at least January 2.

Sorry, shmoo. I'll wait and submit a finalized list a little before the deadline.

Just a heads-up that DBT is on there twice. Sorry if it's already been mentioned. Use the first entry.

Also (The) Black Heart Procession is there twice as both "The Black Heart Procession" and "Black Heart Procession".

Whoops, that one's might fault. I'll ask Haq to fix that and the DBT one.

Here's my final, it got tweaked after I bumped The Hold Steady.

1. The Tragically Hip - World Container
2. Neil Young – Live at the Fillmore, 1970
3. The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America
4. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
5. Lucero – Rebels, Rogues and Sworn Brothers
6. Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing and A Curse
7. The Strokes - First Impression of Earth
8. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
9. Sloan - Never Hear the End of It
10. Jerry Lee Lewis - Last Man Standing
11. My Morning Jacket – Okonokos
12. Frank Black – Fastman/Raiderman
13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
14. Ronnie Spector - Last of the Rock Stars
15. La Rocca – The Truth
16. The Streets - Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living
17. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
18. Butch Walker and the Go out Tonites - The Rise and Fall of…
19. Neil Young – Living with War
20. The Roots - Game Theory

1. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
2. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
3. the minus 5 - the minus 5
4. Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Fur Coat
5. Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
6. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
7. The Format - Dog Problems
8. Essex Green - Cannibal Sea
9. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
10. Calexico - Garden Ruin
11. Tapes n Tapes - The Loon
12. White Rose Movement - Kick
13. The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
14. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
15. M.Ward - Post-War
16. Jason Collett - Idols Of Exile
17. Youth Group - Casino Twilight Dogs
18. thom yorke - the eraser
19. Josh Rouse - Subtitulo
20. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Elan Vital

Belle & Sebastian---The Life Pursuit
Destroyer---Destroyer's Rubies
M. Ward---Post War
TV On The Radio---Return To Cookie Mountain
Decemberists---The Crane Wife
The Brother Kite---Waiting For The Time To Be Right
Neko Case---Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
Midlake---Trials of Von Occupanther
Yo La Tengo---I Am Not Afraid of You And I Will Beat Your ###
Built To Spill---You In Reverse
Liars---Drums Not Dead
Annuals---Be He Me
Band of Horses---Everything All The Time
Stone Jack Jones---Bluefolk
Asobi Seksu---Citrus
The Format---Dog Problems
Hot Chip---The Warning
Califone---Roots & Crowns
The Long Winters---Putting The Days To Bed
Camera Obscura---Let's Get Out Of This Country

Only slightly adjusted from my Hip-D list.

1. Lucero - Rebels, Rogues & Sworn Brothers
2. Scott H. Biram - Graveyard Shift
3. Neil Young - Live at the Fillmore East
4. Norman and Nancy Blake - Back Home in Sulphur Springs
5. Kris Kristofferson - This Old Road
6. T.I. - King
7. Willie Nile - Streets of New York
8. Drive By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse
9. The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth
10. Juvenile - Reality Check
11. The Drams - Jubilee Dive
12. Willie Nelson - Songbird
13. Eric Bachmann - To the Races
14. Willie Nelson - You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
15. Deadboy and the Elephantmen - We Are Night Sky
16. The Black Keys - Magic Potion
17. Calexico - Garden Ruin
18. Howe Gelb - 'Sno Angel Like You
19. Centro-matic - Fort Recovery
20. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - So Divided

Damnation if I'd known that my contributing to hip D could have lead to this album making the hipD top 20 I might have just been willing to do it.

Many nice picks btw...might be the best list (other than mine) that i've seen so far.

prelim shmoo poll ranking (I have a feeling I might be changing this around a bit):

1. Hot Chip - The Warning
2. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
3. The Twilight Singers - Powder Burns
4. La Rocca - The Truth
5. Lily Allen - Alright, Still...
6. Maximilian Hecker - I'll Be A Virgin I'll Be A Mountain
7. Josh Rouse - Subtitulo
8. Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
9. Brookville - Life in the Shade
10. Drive By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse
11. Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah
12. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33
13. Sound Team - Movie Monster
14. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
15. Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
16. Talkdemonic - Beat Romantic
17. The High Violets - To Where You Are
18. The Delays - You See Colours
19. Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
20. The Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics

1. Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
2. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
3. Dirty On Purpose - Hallelujah Sirens
4. M.Ward - Post-War
5. Lily Allen - Alright, Still...
6. Damien Rice - 9
7. Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time
8. The Black Keys - Magic Potion
9. Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Fur Coat
10. Built to Spill - You In Reverse
11. Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday
12. Submarines - Declare a New State!
13. Mates of State - Bring It Back
14. TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
15. Alexi Murdoch - Time Without Consequence
16. The Elected - Sun Sun Sun
17. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
18. Rhett Miller - The Believer
19. Drive By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse
20. Ray LaMontagne - Till The Sun Turns Black

bon savants is on there twice, with and without "the".

anyway, got mine in but i don't think that it's going to resonate very hard.

That would be your own fault, my friend.

But good to see you liked the album so much.

it's my fault that the bon savs are listed as two choices, or that my list sucks?

The former. You added them when I had already put them in previously.

ah. maybe i should have put more attention into this.

No matter, I've made a note of it so it shouldn't be a problem in the tabulation.

I felt like it was a good year, but didn't think there was anything that stood out enough to be #1 or even #2. Anyway, here's my list:

1. The Thermals - The Body, the Blood, the Machine
2. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Moutain
3. Neil Young - Living with War
4. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
5. The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
6. Celtic Frost - Monotheist
7. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
8. Nachtmystium - Instinct: Decay
9. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
10. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
11. Heartless Bastards - All This Time
12. Built to Spill - You in Reverse
13. The Sword - Age of Winters
14. Boris - Pink
15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
16. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
17. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
18. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
19. The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
20. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale

A little metal heavy, and I'm sure some of you will think my #3-5 odd. But so be it.

Lots of good releases that didn't make it on: Yo La Tengo, Decembrists, Liars, Girl Talk, Gnarls Barkley, Comets on Fire, Daughters, Lucero, Walkmen, Tool, Regina Spektor, Isis, In Flames, Destroyer, etc.

Still a bunch of shit I'd like to buy, too, but I can't keep up anymore.

01. The Knife - Silent Shout
02. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
03. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
04. Love is All - Nine Times That Same Song
05. The Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off
06. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
07. Mikkel Metal - Victimizer
08. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
09. Peter & The Wolf - Lightness
10. Pissed Jeans - Shallow

something like that....

You gotta submit to the poll if you want your votes to be counted.

This is the shmoo poll edit i will be sending. Viva Voce came soooo close and might end up the overall #19 in a couple weeks, but i couldn't say as much right now.

I'm in it to win it. Can't believe I had to add records so late in the game, though...