1. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (148 points)
2. TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain (131 points)
3. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (122 points)
4. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife (105 points)
5. M.Ward - Post-War (83 points)
6. The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America (81 points)
7. Built to Spill - You In Reverse (80 points)
8. Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time (76 points)
9. Drive By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse (62 points)
10. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies (58 points)
11. Cat Power - The Greatest (57 points)
12. Liars - Drum's Not Dead (54 points)
13. The Brother Kite - Waiting For The Time To Be Right (53 points)
14. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (52 points)
15. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country (50 points)
16. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye (48 points)
16. thom yorke - the eraser (48 points)
18. The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth (47 points)
19. Silversun Pickups - Carnavas (46 points)
19. The Format - Dog Problems (46 points)
19. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine (46 points)
22. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped (45 points)
23. Hot Chip - The Warning (43 points)
24. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (42 points)
24. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury (42 points)
26. Mogwai - Mr. Beast (41 points)
27. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale (39 points)
27. Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Fur Coat (39 points)
29. Asobi Seksu - Citrus (36 points)
30. Josh Ritter - The Animal Years (34 points)
31. Girl Talk - Night Ripper (33 points)
32. Frank Black - Fast Man/Raider Man (32 points)
32. The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed (32 points)
34. Joanna Newsom - Ys (31 points)
35. Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block (30 points)
35. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (30 points)
37. Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowards (29 points)
37. Tapes n Tapes - The Loon (29 points)
37. The Knife - Silent Shout (29 points)
37. Wolfmother - Wolfmother (29 points)
41. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House (28 points)
41. My Morning Jacket - Okonokos: Live (28 points)
43. Bob Dylan - Modern Times (26 points)
43. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go (26 points)
43. Lily Allen - Alright, Still... (26 points)
43. Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That (26 points)
47. Lucero - Rebels, Rogues & Sworn Brothers (25 points)
47. The Black Angels - Passover (25 points)
49. Califone - Roots & Crowns (24 points)
49. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones (24 points)
51. Calexico - Garden Ruin (23 points)
51. The Black Keys - Magic Potion (23 points)
53. Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther (22 points)
54. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (21 points)
54. Gomez - How We Operate (21 points)
54. Mastodon - Blood Mountain (21 points)
54. The Twilight Singers - Powder Burns (21 points)
58. La Rocca - The Truth (20 points)
58. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards (20 points)
60. Boris - Pink (19 points)
60. The Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics (19 points)
62. Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo (18 points)
62. the minus 5 - the minus 5 (18 points)
64. Loose Fur - Born Again In The U.S.A. (17 points)
64. Man Man - Six Demon Bag (17 points)
66. Eric Bachmann - To the Races (16 points)
66. Howe Gelb - 'Sno Angel Like You (16 points)
66. Subtle - For Hero: For Fool (16 points)
66. Viva Voce - Get Yr Blood Sucked Out (16 points)
70. Beck - The Information (15 points)
70. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam (15 points)
70. Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops (15 points)
70. T.I. - King (15 points)
70. The Sword - Age of Winters (15 points)
75. Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis (14 points)
75. Mission of Burma - The Obliterati (14 points)
75. Willie Nile - Streets of New York (14 points)
78. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (13 points)
78. Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope (13 points)
78. The Roots - Game Theory (13 points)
81. Annuals - Be He Me (12 points)
81. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar (12 points)
81. Bobby Bare, Jr. - The Longest Meow (12 points)
81. Comets on Fire - Avatar (12 points)
81. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex / LoveSounds (12 points)
81. Muse - Black Holes & Revelations (12 points)
81. Norman and Nancy Blake - Back Home in Sulphur Springs (12 points)
81. Robert Pollard - From A Compound Eye (12 points)
81. Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain (12 points)
81. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming (12 points)
81. Swan Lake - Beast Moans (12 points)
81. The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea (12 points)
81. The Killers - Sam's Town (12 points)
81. Tool - 10,000 Days (12 points)
81. Voxtrot - Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives EP (12 points)
96. Ben Kweller - Ben Kweller (11 points)
96. Benoit Pioulard - Precis (11 points)
96. Jon Auer - Songs From The Year Of Our Demise (11 points)
96. Lambchop - Damaged (11 points)
96. Love Is All - Nine Times That Same Song (11 points)
96. M.Craft - Silver & Fire (11 points)
96. You Am I - Convicts (11 points)
103. Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light (10 points)
103. Islands - Return To The Sea (10 points)
103. Juana Molina - Son (10 points)
103. Pernice Brothers - Live A Little (10 points)
103. Sloan - Never Hear The End Of It (10 points)
103. The Bon Savants - Post-Rock Defends The Nation (10 points)
103. The Church - Uninvited, Like the Clouds (10 points)
103. The Lemonheads - The Lemonheads (10 points)
103. The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes (10 points)
103. The Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off (10 points)
113. Beach House - Beach House (9 points)
113. Danielson - Ships (9 points)
113. Deadboy and the Elephantmen - We Are Night Sky (9 points)
113. Jerry Lee Lewis - Last Man Standing (9 points)
113. Neil Young - Living with War (9 points)
113. nina nastasia - on leaving (9 points)
113. Ray LaMontagne - Till The Sun Turns Black (9 points)
113. Scott Walker - The Drift (9 points)
113. The Grates - Gravity Won't Get You High (9 points)
113. Vetiver - To Find Me Gone (9 points)
113. Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams (9 points)
124. Cheap Trick - Rockford (8 points)
124. Dirty On Purpose - Hallelujah Sirens (8 points)
124. El Perro del Mar - El Perro del Mar (8 points)
124. Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things (8 points)
124. Josh Rouse - Subtitulo (8 points)
124. Mates of State - Bring It Back (8 points)
124. Neil Young - Live at the Fillmore East (8 points)
124. Six Organs Of Admittance - Sun Awakens (8 points)
124. Sound Team - Movie Monster (8 points)
124. The Streets - The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living (8 points)
134. Alejandro Escovedo - The Boxing Mirror (7 points)
134. Burial - Burial (7 points)
134. Daedelus - Denies the Day's Demise (7 points)
134. Damien Rice - 9 (7 points)
134. dan sartain - join dan sartain (7 points)
134. Dead To Me - Cuban Ballerina (7 points)
134. Deadstring Brothers - Starving Winter Report (7 points)
134. Essex Green - Cannibal Sea (7 points)
134. Guster - Ganging Up on the Sun (7 points)
134. Guy Clark - Workbench Songs (7 points)
134. Isobel Campbell/Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas (7 points)
134. J Dilla - Donuts (7 points)
134. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (7 points)
134. Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - The Dust of Retreat (7 points)
134. Nikki Sudden - The Truth Doesn't Matter (7 points)
134. Snowden - Anti-Anti (7 points)
134. Solomon Burke - Nashville (7 points)
134. The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes (7 points)
134. The Game - Doctor's Advocate (7 points)
134. The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely (7 points)
134. The Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love (7 points)
134. Tom Zé - Estuando O Pagode (7 points)
156. Ali Farka Toure - Savane (6 points)
156. Citay - Citay (6 points)
156. Grandaddy - Just Like The Fambly Cat (6 points)
156. Growing - Color Wheel (6 points)
156. Jason Collett - Idols Of Exile (6 points)
156. Keane - Under The Iron Sea (6 points)
156. Ladyhawk - Ladyhawk (6 points)
156. Los Lobos - The Town and the City (6 points)
156. Maritime - We, The Vehicles (6 points)
156. Oneida - Happy New Year (6 points)
156. Prince - 3121 (6 points)
156. Sam Roberts Band - Chemical City (6 points)
156. Stuart A. Staples - Leaving Songs (6 points)
156. The Blow - Paper Television (6 points)
156. The M's - Future Women (6 points)
156. The Paper Chase - Now You Are One of Us (6 points)
156. The Tragically Hip - World Container (6 points)
173. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - So Divided (5 points)
173. Brand New - the devil and god are raging inside me (5 points)
173. Charalambides - A Vintage Burden (5 points)
173. Cibelle - The Shine Of Dried Electric Leaves (5 points)
173. David Bazan - Fewer Moving Parts (5 points)
173. Herbert - Scale (5 points)
173. Jeremy Enigk - World Waits (5 points)
173. Juvenile - Reality Check (5 points)
173. Magnolia Electric Co. - Fading Trails (5 points)
173. Malajube - Trompe L'Oeil (5 points)
173. Math & Physics Club - Math & Physics Club (5 points)
173. Mono - You Are There (5 points)
173. Nelly Furtado - Loose (5 points)
173. Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah (5 points)
173. Scott H. Biram - Graveyard Shift (5 points)
173. Shack - standing on the corner of miles and gil (5 points)
173. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open (5 points)
173. Super Numeri - The Welcome Table (5 points)
173. Th' Legendary Shack Shakers - Pandelerium (5 points)
173. The Futureheads - news and tributes (5 points)
173. The Kooks - Inside In Inside Out (5 points)
173. Tom Petty - Highway Companion (5 points)
173. USAISAMONSTER - Sunset At the End of the Industrial Age (5 points)
196. Arab Strap - The Last Romance (4 points)
196. Aterciopelados - OYE (4 points)
196. Bill Frisell - Bill Frisell/Ron Carter/Paul Motian (4 points)
196. Bluebottle Kiss - Doubt Seeds (4 points)
196. Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome (4 points)
196. Caetano Veloso - Ce (4 points)
196. Captain Ahab - After The Rain My Heart Still Dreams (4 points)
196. Cars Can Be Blue - All The Stuff We Do (4 points)
196. Chumbawamba - A Singsong and a Scrap (4 points)
196. Coup - Pick A Bigger Weapon (4 points)
196. Eagles of Death Metal - Death By Sexy (4 points)
196. Eef Barzelay - Bitter Honey (4 points)
196. Eels - Live At Town Hall (4 points)
196. Elf Power - Back To The Web (4 points)
196. Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles (4 points)
196. Elvis Costello/Allen Toussaint - The River in Reverse (4 points)
196. Envy - Insomniac Daze (4 points)
196. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (4 points)
196. Glenn Kotche - Mobile (4 points)
196. Grand Mal - Love Is The Best Con In Town (4 points)
196. Grant Lee Phillips - nineteeneighties (4 points)
196. Gustavo Cerati - Ahi Vamos (4 points)
196. Handsome Family - Last Days Of Wonder (4 points)
196. Hellwood - Chainsaw of Life (4 points)
196. howlin' rain - s/t (4 points)
196. Hunchback - Ugly On The Outside (4 points)
196. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - Fear Is On Our Side (4 points)
196. Jason Molina - Let Me Go Let Me Go Let Me Go (4 points)
196. Jim Noir - Tower Of Love (4 points)
196. Joseph Arthur - Nuclear Daydream (4 points)
196. Kid Koala - Your Mom's Favorite DJ (4 points)
196. Killer Mike - I Pledge Allegiance To The Grind (4 points)
196. King Biscuit Time - Black Gold (4 points)
196. Kris Kristofferson - This Old Road (4 points)
196. Lansing-Dreiden - The Dividing Island (4 points)
196. Lesser Birds of Paradise - Space Between (4 points)
196. Lilys - Everything Wrong is Imaginary (4 points)
196. Little Ones - Sing Song (EP) (4 points)
196. Lloyd Cole - Anti Depressant (4 points)
196. Madlib - Beat Konducta Vol. 1-2 (4 points)
196. Major Stars - Syntoptikon (4 points)
196. Max de Castro - Balanco das Horas (4 points)
196. Maximilian Hecker - I'll Be A Virgin I'll Be A Mountain (4 points)
196. Micah P. Hinson - Micah P. Hinson and the Opera Circuit (4 points)
196. Micheal Franti & Spearhead - Yell Fire (4 points)
196. Nathan Fake - Drowning In A Sea Of Love (4 points)
196. Oakley Hall - Gypsum Strings (4 points)
196. Ojos de Brujo - Techari (4 points)
196. Paper Airplane Pilots - Western Automatic Music (4 points)
196. Pat Metheny & Brad Mehldau - Metheny Mehldau (4 points)
196. Pink Nasty - Mold the Gold (4 points)
196. Robyn Hitchcock - Ole Tarantula (4 points)
196. Snowman - Snowman (4 points)
196. Some Girls - Crushing Love (4 points)
196. Stephen Yerkey - Metaneonatureboy (4 points)
196. STNNNG - Fake Fake (4 points)
196. Supraluxe - Supraluxe (4 points)
196. The Be Good Tanyas - Hello Love (4 points)
196. The Beige - 01 (4 points)
196. The Black Heart Procession - The Spell (4 points)
196. The Bronx - S/T (4 points)
196. The Capitol Years - Dance Away the Terror (4 points)
196. The Delays - You See Colours (4 points)
196. The Drones - Gala Mill (4 points)
196. The Editors - The Back Room (4 points)
196. The Evens - Get Evens (4 points)
196. The Fratellis - Costello Music (4 points)
196. The Gourds - Heavy Ornamentals (4 points)
196. The Kamikaze Hearts - Oneida Road (4 points)
196. The Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home (4 points)
196. The Marked Men - Fix My Brain (4 points)
196. The Melvins - (A) Senile Animal (4 points)
196. The Polyphonic Spree - Wait [EP] (4 points)
196. The Sleepy Jackson - Personality (One Was a Spider, One Was a Bird) (4 points)
196. The Zutons - Tired Of Hanging Around (4 points)
196. Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet (4 points)
196. Toys That Kill - Shanked (4 points)
196. Various Artists - Rogue's Gallery (4 points)
196. what made milwaukee famous - trying to never catch up (4 points)
196. Willie Nelson - You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker (4 points)
196. Wolves In The Throne Room - Diadem Of 12 Stars (4 points)
196. Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice - Gipsy Freedom (4 points)
196. Xiu Xiu - The Air Force (4 points)
196. Zeigenbock Kopf - Fuck You To Dust (4 points)
280. +/- - Let's Build A Fire (3 points)
280. 120 Days - 120 Days (3 points)
280. Akron/Family - Meek Warrior (3 points)
280. Albert Hammond Jr. - Yours To Keep (3 points)
280. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black (3 points)
280. AZ - The Format (3 points)
280. Babyshambles - The Blinding (3 points)
280. Bardo Pond - Ticket Crystals (3 points)
280. Booka Shade - Movements (3 points)
280. Brookville - Life in the Shade (3 points)
280. Cansei de Ser Sexy - Cansei de Ser Sexy (3 points)
280. Celtic Frost - Monotheist (3 points)
280. Converge - No Heroes (3 points)
280. Courtney Tidwell - Courtney Tidwell (3 points)
280. Dabrye - Two/Three (3 points)
280. Def Leppard - Yeah! (3 points)
280. Electric President - Electric President (3 points)
280. Embrace - This New Day (3 points)
280. Heartless Bastards - All This Time (3 points)
280. Helios - Eingya (3 points)
280. Hell Is For Heroes - Transmit Disrupt (3 points)
280. Hi-Tek - Hi-Teknology Vol. 2: The Chip (3 points)
280. Home Video - No Certain Night or Morning (3 points)
280. Human Television - Look At Who You're Talking To (3 points)
280. James Figurine - Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake (3 points)
280. Jane Birkin - Fictions (3 points)
280. Jeffrey Foucault - Ghost Repeater (3 points)
280. Jules Shear - Dreams Don't Count (3 points)
280. Keene Brothers - Blues & Boogie Shoes (3 points)
280. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor (3 points)
280. Marisa Monte - Universo Ao Meu Redor (3 points)
280. Matt & Kim - Matt & Kim (3 points)
280. Matt Keating - Summer Tonight (3 points)
280. Maximo Park - Missing Songs (3 points)
280. Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You (3 points)
280. Mombojo - Homem Espuma (3 points)
280. MuteMath - MuteMath (3 points)
280. Nachtmystium - Instinct: Decay (3 points)
280. Obie Trice - Second Round's On Me (3 points)
280. Om - Conference of the Birds (3 points)
280. Paul Burch - East To West (3 points)
280. Paul Simon - Surprise (3 points)
280. Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom (3 points)
280. Rose Melberg - Cast Away The Clouds (3 points)
280. Say Hi To Your Mom - Impeccable Blahs (3 points)
280. Sickoakes - Seawards (3 points)
280. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Broom (3 points)
280. Submarines - Declare a New State! (3 points)
280. Team Stray - Popular Mechanics (3 points)
280. The Drams - Jubilee Dive (3 points)
280. The Elected - Sun Sun Sun (3 points)
280. The Ergs! - Jersey's Best Prancers (3 points)
280. The Handsome Family - Last Days of Wonder (3 points)
280. The Hidden Cameras - Awoo (3 points)
280. The Keene Brothers - Blues and Boogie Shoes (3 points)
280. The Radio Dept - Pet Grief (3 points)
280. The Slip - Eisenhower (3 points)
280. The Stills - Without Feathers (3 points)
280. The Wailin' Jennys - Firecracker (3 points)
280. Third Sight - Symbionese Liberation (3 points)
280. Two Gallants - What The Toll Tells (3 points)
280. Warren Zanes - People That I'm Wrong For (3 points)
280. Willardd Grant Conspiracy - Let It Roll (3 points)
280. William Elliott Whitmore - Song Of The Blackbird (3 points)
280. Wizzardz - Hidden City of Taurmond (3 points)
280. Wolf Eyes - Human Animal (3 points)
280. Working For a Nuclear Free City - Working For a Nuclear Free City (3 points)
280. Wovenhand - Mosaic (3 points)
280. Young and Sexy - Panic When You Find It (3 points)
280. Young People - All at Once (3 points)
350. +44 - When Your Heart Stops Beating (2 points)
350. Aberfeldy - Do Whatever Turns You On (2 points)
350. Alexi Murdoch - Time Without Consequence (2 points)
350. Alexisonfire - Crisis (2 points)
350. Amel Larrieux - Morning (2 points)
350. American Princes - Less And Less (2 points)
350. Arthur Russell - First Thought Best Thought (2 points)
350. Augie March - Moo, You Bloody Choir (2 points)
350. Badly Drawn Boy - Born In The UK (2 points)
350. Basement Jaxx - Crazy Itch Radio (2 points)
350. Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet (2 points)
350. Belong - October Language (2 points)
350. Beth Orton - Comfort Of Strangers (2 points)
350. Boduf Songs - Lion Devours the Sun (2 points)
350. Bright Light Fever - The Evening Owl (2 points)
350. Broadcast - Future Crayon (2 points)
350. Buckcherry - 15 (2 points)
350. Busta Rhymes - Big Bang (2 points)
350. Centro-matic - Fort Recovery (2 points)
350. Cesaria Evora - Rogamar (2 points)
350. Chico Buarque - Carioca (2 points)
350. Chris Smither - Leave The Light On (2 points)
350. Chris Thile - How To Grow A Woman From The Ground (2 points)
350. Christians & Lions - More Songs For Dreamsleepers & The Very Awake (2 points)
350. Clark - Body Riddle (2 points)
350. Clearlake - Amber (2 points)
350. Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist (2 points)
350. Ed Harcourt - The Beautiful Lie (2 points)
350. Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday (2 points)
350. Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton - Knives Don't Have Your Back (2 points)
350. Envelopes - Demon (2 points)
350. Gob Iron - Death Songs For the Living (2 points)
350. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius (2 points)
350. Hawksley Workman - Treeful Of Starling (2 points)
350. Head Like A Kite - Random Portraits of the Home Movie (2 points)
350. I Farm - IV (2 points)
350. I'm From Barcelona - Let Me Introduce My Friends (2 points)
350. Jesu - Silver (2 points)
350. John Mayer - Continuum (2 points)
350. Karl Blau - Beneath Waves (2 points)
350. Klanguage - Klanguage (2 points)
350. Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs - Under The Covers (2 points)
350. Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors (2 points)
350. Murder By Death - In Bocca Al Lupo (2 points)
350. My My - Songs For the Gentle (2 points)
350. Natacha Atlas - Mish Maoul (2 points)
350. Nicholas Makelberge - Dying In Africa (2 points)
350. Night Rally - Preston Family Crest (2 points)
350. Off With Their Heads - Hospitals (2 points)
350. One Second Brdige - One Second Bridge (2 points)
350. OOIOO - Taiga (2 points)
350. Owusu & Hannibal - Living With Owusu & Hannibal (2 points)
350. Pilate - Sell Control For Life's Speed (2 points)
350. Radio Birdman - Zeno Beach (2 points)
350. Razorlight - Razorlight (2 points)
350. Rhett Miller - The Believer (2 points)
350. Robert Pollard - Normal Happiness (2 points)
350. Roddy Frame - Western Skies (2 points)
350. Ron Sexsmith - Time Being (2 points)
350. Ronnie Spector - Last of the Rock Stars (2 points)
350. Scott Carney & Heavy Things - Black & Endless Night (2 points)
350. Shogun Kunitoki - Tasankokaiku (2 points)
350. Shooting At Unarmed Men - Yes! Tinnitus (2 points)
350. Sightings - End Times (2 points)
350. Slayer - Christ Illusion (2 points)
350. Stone Jack Jones - Bluefolk (2 points)
350. Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar (2 points)
350. Tap Tap - Lanzafame (2 points)
350. The Changes - Today is Tonight (2 points)
350. The Cinders - Up From The Ashes (2 points)
350. The Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia (2 points)
350. The Horrors - The Horrors (EP) (2 points)
350. The Oohlas - Best Stop Pop (2 points)
350. The Riverboat Gamblers - To The Confusion of Our Enemies (2 points)
350. The Rosewood Thieves - From the Decker House (2 points)
350. The Steinways - Missed The Boat (2 points)
350. The Watson Twins - Southern Manners (2 points)
350. This Moment In Black History - It Takes A Nation Of Assholes To Hold Us Back (2 points)
350. Tycho - Past is Prologue (2 points)
350. Uzi & Ari - It Is Freezing Out (2 points)
350. Whispertown 2000 - Livin' In A Dream (2 points)
350. White Rose Movement - Kick (2 points)
350. Willie Nelson - Songbird (2 points)
350. Yasushi Yoshida - Secret Figure (2 points)
434. Acoustic Ladyland - Skinny Grin (1 points)
434. Aereogramme - Seclusion (EP) (1 points)
434. AFX - Chosen Lords (1 points)
434. Alan Sparhawk - Solo Guitar (1 points)
434. Aloe Blacc - Shine Through (1 points)
434. Arborea - Wayfaring Summer (1 points)
434. Bound Stems - Appreciation Night (1 points)
434. Butch Walker & The Let's-Go-Out-Tonites - Rise & Fall of Butch Walker & The Let's-Go-Out-Tonites (1 points)
434. Cougars - Pillow Talk (1 points)
434. Cut Chemist - The Audience's Listening (1 points)
434. Donald Fagen - Morph The Cat (1 points)
434. Film School - Film School (1 points)
434. Giddy Motors - Do Easy (1 points)
434. Gregor Samsa - 55:12 (1 points)
434. Guy Davis - Skunkmelo (1 points)
434. Hem - Funnel Cloud (1 points)
434. Hot Snakes - Thunder Down Under (1 points)
434. Kupek - Before The Beginning & After The End (1 points)
434. Ladytron - Extended Play (1 points)
434. Land of Talk - Applause Cheer Boo Hiss (1 points)
434. Loka - Fire Shepherds (1 points)
434. Luke Haines - Off My Rocker at the Art School Bop (1 points)
434. Magneta Lane - Dancing with Daggers (1 points)
434. Manta Ray - Torres de Electricidad (1 points)
434. Matthew Friedberger - Winter Woman/Holy Ghost Language (1 points)
434. Mr. Lif - Mo' Mega (1 points)
434. My Brightest Diamond - Bring Me the Workhorse (1 points)
434. Mystery Jets - Making Dens (1 points)
434. Nas - Hip Hop Is Dead (1 points)
434. Nelly McKay - Pretty Little Head (1 points)
434. NOFX - Never Trust A Hippy - EP (1 points)
434. NOMO - New Tones (1 points)
434. Oakley Hall - Second Guessing (1 points)
434. Old Crow Medicine Show - Big Iron World (1 points)
434. Pete Yorn - Nghtcrawler (1 points)
434. Plan B - Who Needs Actions When You Got Words (1 points)
434. Plastic Little - She's Mature (1 points)
434. Ramblin' Jack Elliot - I Stand Alone (1 points)
434. Richard Buckner - Meadow (1 points)
434. Richard Butler - Richard Butler (1 points)
434. Sarah Blasko - What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have (1 points)
434. Shearwater - Palo Santo (1 points)
434. Talkdemonic - Beat Romantic (1 points)
434. Tanakh - Ardent Fevers (1 points)
434. The Awkward Stage - Heaven Is For Easy Girls (1 points)
434. The Bottle Rockets - Zoysia (1 points)
434. The Capes - Hello (1 points)
434. The Gothic Archies - A Tragic Treasury (1 points)
434. The High Violets - To Where You Are (1 points)
434. The Most Serene Republic - Phages (1 points)
434. Tim Easton - Ammunition (1 points)
434. Todd Snider - The Devil You Know (1 points)
434. Tokyo Jihen - Adult (1 points)
434. Tokyo Police Club - A Lesson in Crime (1 points)
434. Tortoise - A Lazarus Taxon (1 points)
434. Tunng - Comments Of The Inner Chorus (1 points)
434. Vague Angels - Let's Duke It Out at Kilkenny Katz (1 points)
434. Weird Al Yankovic - Straight Outta Lynnwood (1 points)
434. Why Make Clocks - Midwestern Film (1 points)
434. Witch - Witch (1 points)
434. Youth Group - Casino Twilight Dogs (1 points)

494 albums total

billy g- feel free to point out my mistakes.

Everyone else- feel free to complain away.

I gotta get that Hem album

Total Points: 973

Holy shit, I AM the shmoopoll. Sorry about that.

I turns out that its not bloor's fault after all.

Pleasantly surprised to see that Norman & Nancy Blake made the top 100 and finished with as many points as Muse and Opa's beloved Beruit.

Interesting to see how low Beck and Flaming Lips turned out. While it's obviously true that more Obnish hearing the album obviously helps it's ranking, the album still has to actually be good.

81. Comets on Fire - Avatar (12 pts)
103. Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light (10)
173. Super Numeri - The Welcome Table (5)
196. Major Stars - Syntoptikon (4)
124. Six Organs Of Admittance - Sun Awakens (8)
196. howlin' rain - s/t (4)
2. TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain (131)
62. Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo (18)
173. Charalambides - A Vintage Burden (5)
280. Bardo Pond - Ticket Crystals (3)
156. Growing - Color Wheel (6)
350. Arthur Russell - First Thought Best Thought (2)
34. Joanna Newsom - Ys (31)
173. USAISAMONSTER - Sunset At the End of the Industrial Age (5)
280. Om - Conference of the Birds (3)
434. Alan Sparhawk - Solo Guitar (1)
58. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards (20)
113. Scott Walker - The Drift (9)
134. Daedelus - Denies the Day's Demise (7)
434. Loka - Fire Shepherds (1)

= 285 points
-> My taste sucks.

Thanks, shmoo, Dranky, and fellow blurbers, voters.

Mine:

81. Norman and Nancy Blake - Back Home in Sulphur Springs (12 points)
196. Caetano Veloso - Ce (4 points)
196. Lloyd Cole - Anti Depressant (4 points)
196. Max de Castro - Balanco das Horas (4 points)
32. Frank Black - Fast Man/Raider Man (32 points)
280. Matt Keating - Summer Tonight (3 points)
280. Jules Shear - Dreams Don't Count (3 points)
280. Warren Zanes - People That I'm Wrong For (3 points)
280. Jane Birkin - Fictions (3 points)
280. Marisa Monte - Universo Ao Meu Redor (3 points)
66. Howe Gelb - 'Sno Angel Like You (16 points)
350. Chico Buarque - Carioca (2 points)
9. Drive By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse (62 points)
134. Guy Clark - Workbench Songs (7 points)
350. Cesaria Evora - Rogamar (2 points)
196. Ojos de Brujo - Techari (4 points)
434. Luke Haines - Off My Rocker at the Art School Bop (1 points)
196. Maximilian Hecker - I'll Be A Virgin I'll Be A Mountain (4 points)
196. Robyn Hitchcock - Ole Tarantula (4 points)
11. Cat Power - The Greatest (57 points)

edit: combined 226 pts.

and thanks shmoo & drinky & haq

Total = 725

1. The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely (134 / 7 points)
2. The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America (6 / 81 points)
3. Captain Ahab - After The Rain My Heart Still Dreams (196 / 4 points)
4. The Blow - Paper Television (156 / 6 points)
5. Silversun Pickups – Carnavas (19 / 46 points)
6. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex / LoveSounds (81 / 12 points)
7. The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed (32 / 32 points)
8. James Figurine - Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake (280 / 3 points)
9. Spank Rock – YoYoYoYoYo (62 / 18 points)
10. The Paper Chase - Now You Are One of Us (156 / 6 points)
11. Cat Power - The Greatest (11 / 57 points)
12. Hot Chip - The Warning (23 / 43 points)
13. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury (24 / 42 points)
14. Oakley Hall - Gypsum Strings (196 / 4 points)
15. Wizzardz - Hidden City of Taurmond (280 / 3 points)
16. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine (19 / 46 points)
17. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies (10 / 58 points)
18. Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope (78 / 13 points)
19. Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things (124 / 8 points)
20. Vague Angels - Let's Duke It Out at Kilkenny Katz (434 / 1 point)

avg. poll position: 116
average # of points: 24.5 (490 total)
# of releases gaining at least 1/4 of their total points from my vote: 45% of my list
Shmoo poll 2007: priceless

Top surprises after seeing poll results: no one else liking the James Figurine album enough to put it in their top 20, 7 total points for my Mountain Goats, my massive love/disloved swing on the poll, and the fact that I ended up having so many "points"...

I totally ended up part of the shady "Oblete" that "ruined" this poll...

total points - 346

Wait, what?

677 points - that may be my, er, "best" showing ever in a Shmoople.

196. Paper Airplane Pilots - Western Automatic Music (4 points)
196. The Editors - The Back Room (4 points)
134. Nikki Sudden - The Truth Doesn't Matter (7 points)
196. Supraluxe - Supraluxe (4 points)
173. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open (5 points)
22. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped (45 points)
7. Built to Spill - You In Reverse (80 points)
18. The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth (47 points)
35. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (30 points)
37. Tapes n Tapes - The Loon (29 points)
19. Silversun Pickups - Carnavas (46 points)
350. Head Like A Kite - Random Portraits of the Home Movie (2 points)
81. The Killers - Sam's Town (12 points)
173. Tom Petty - Highway Companion (5 points)
19. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine (46 points)
75. Willie Nile - Streets of New York (14 points)
2. TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain (131 points)
5. M.Ward - Post-War (83 points)
280. Heartless Bastards - All This Time (3 points)
13. The Brother Kite - Waiting For The Time To Be Right (53 points)

= 650 points, and 3 of my top 5 only received votes from me.

Were we going for a low score, or a high one?

I only wish I had heard that Rodrigo y Gabriella disc before the list was made. The Brother Kite would have been off, because the more I hear that, the more it bores me.

156. The M's - Future Women (6 points)
54. Gomez - How We Operate (21 points)
66. Eric Bachmann - To the Races (16 points)
37. Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowards (29 points)
5. M.Ward - Post-War (83 points)
13. The Brother Kite - Waiting For The Time To Be Right (53 points)
3. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (122 points)
113. Deadboy and the Elephantmen - We Are Night Sky (9 points)
2. TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain (131 points)
124. Sound Team - Movie Monster (8 points)
1. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (148 points)
4. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife (105 points)
10. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies (58 points)
51. Calexico - Garden Ruin (23 points)
43. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go (26 points)
113. Ray LaMontagne - Till The Sun Turns Black (9 points)
103. Islands - Return To The Sea (10 points)
34. Joanna Newsom - Ys (31 points)
19. The Format - Dog Problems (46 points)
30. Josh Ritter - The Animal Years (34 points)

Total: 968 points

Damn, mutty, you beat me by 5.

you're just full of questions, aren't you?

Also, I really wish I'd heard these:


And a little proof that we suck:

I seek answers.

34th place isn't terrible considering how much shit was given for liking her.

The Pipettes were outright robbed, though. I co-blame SP and ayah for its low, low rank.


And I wound up with 351 points. The only ones on my list that wound up on many other lists were the Belle, Cat Power, Joanna, and Jenny.

58. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards (20 points)
196. Various Artists - Rogue's Gallery (4 points)
113. Scott Walker - The Drift (9 points)
134. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (7 points)
173. Cibelle - The Shine Of Dried Electric Leaves (4 points)
34. Joanna Newsom - Ys (31 points)
196. Robyn Hitchcock - Ole Tarantula (4 points)
43. Bob Dylan - Modern Times (46 points)
4. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife (105 points)
96. Lambchop - Damaged (11 points)
12. Liars - Drum's Not Dead (54 points)
9. Drive By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse (62 points)
1. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (148 points)
350. Natacha Atlas - Mish Maoul (2 points)
81. The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea (12 points)
434. Richard Butler - Richard Butler (1 point)
32. Frank Black - Fast Man/Raider Man (32 points)
103. The Church - Uninvited, Like the Clouds (10 points)
196. Eels - Live At Town Hall (4 points)
20. Jerry Lee Lewis - Last Man Standing (9 points)

575 total points

30. Josh Ritter - The Animal Years (34)
26. Mogwai - Mr. Beast (41)
124. Dirty On Purpose - Hallelujah Sirens (8)
5. M.Ward - Post-War (83)
43. Lily Allen - Alright, Still... (26)
134. Damien Rice - 9 (7)
8. Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time (76)
51. The Black Keys - Magic Potion (23)
27. Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Fur Coat (39)
7. Built to Spill - You In Reverse (80)
350. Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday (2)
280. Submarines - Declare a New State! (3)
124. Mates of State - Bring It Back (8)
2. TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain (131)
350. Alexi Murdoch - Time Without Consequence (2)
280. The Elected - Sun Sun Sun (3)
16. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye (48)
350. Rhett Miller - The Believer (2)
9. Drive By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse (62)
113. Ray LaMontagne - Till The Sun Turns Black (9)


= 687

I take responsibility. I forgot to rank them.

2. TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain (131 points)
24. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury (42 points)
41. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House (28 points)
78. The Roots - Game Theory (13 points)
22. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped (45 points)
60. Boris - Pink (19 points)
70. Beck - The Information (15 points)
280. Hell Is For Heroes - Transmit Disrupt (3 points)
280. Embrace - This New Day (3 points)
49. Califone - Roots & Crowns (24 points)
350. Alexisonfire - Crisis (2 points)
173. Mono - You Are There (5 points)
19. Silversun Pickups - Carnavas (46 points)
7. Built to Spill - You In Reverse (80 points)
350. Pilate - Sell Control For Life's Speed (2 points)
434. Plan B - Who Needs Actions When You Got Words (1 points)
173. Shack - standing on the corner of miles and gil (5 points)
434. AFX - Chosen Lords (1 points)
16. thom yorke - the eraser (48 points)
6. The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America (81 points)
= 591 points

i seem to have gone way of the board on some of these. i count six that werent on anyone elses list.

434