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#981 torrance

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Posted 21 December 2008 - 05:39 AM

prolly late, definitely knocked off on a whim but; 1. Do You Like Rock Music? | British Sea Power 2. Alas I Cannot Swim | Laura Marling 3. Stainless Style | Neon Neon 4. Dig Lazarus Dig! | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 5. Quaristice | Autechre 6. 808's & Heartbreak | Kanye West 7. Songs in A & E | Spiritualized 8. Luna | The Aliens 9. Out Of Control | Girls Aloud 10. Made In The Dark | Hot Chip 11. Third | Portishead 12. Feed The Animals | Girl Talk 13. Saint Dymphna | Gang Gang Dance 14. Ephemeral Exhibits | Starkey 15. Mega Breakfast | The Chap 16. The Week That Was | The Week That Was 17. I've Got My Eye On You | Syclops 18. Fleet Foxes | Fleet Foxes 19. Everything Is Borrowed | The Streets 20. Everything That Happens Will Happen Today | David Byrne & Brian Eno 21. Imperial Wax Solvent | The Fall 22. Dear Science | TV On The Radio 23. The Cool | Lupe Fiasco (08 in the uk, but if its ineligible just knock it off) 24. Day & Age | The Killers 25. Just A Souvenir | Squarepusher 26. Why Can't We Be Like Us? | Bruno Pronsato 27. Los Angeles | Flying Lotus (this should be higher but i only heard it last night!) 28. Modern Guilt | Modern Guilt 29. Microcastle | Deerhunter 30. No Age | Nouns 31. Youth Novels | Lykke Li 32. Guillemots | Red 33. Road To Till The Casket Drops | Clipse 34. Saturdays = Youth | M83 (i've heavily fecked up the order :lol: ) 35. Sea From Shore | School Of Language 36. Elbow | The Seldom Seen Kid 37. Slime & Reason | Roots Manuva 38. Turning Dragon | Clark 39. Treny | Jacaszek 40. Where I Go You Go Too | Lindstrom 41. Zomby Ep | Zomby 42. 21 | Mystery Jets 43. Sunday At The Devil Dirt | Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan 44. Smile | Boris 45. Something For All Of Us | Brendan Canning 46. Goldfrapp | Seventh Tree 47. Parallax Error Beheads you | Max Tundra 48. Hercules & Love Affair | Hercules & Love Affair 49. Jukebox | Cat Power 50. London Zoo | The Bug there's about 3 or 4 more but a top 54 would be darft. only the top 1o is semi accurate, it seems there's been loads of reccuds this year that i like just about on a level with each other, but in totally different ways

#982 Mitchell

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Posted 21 December 2008 - 05:48 AM

4 That Was The Week - That Was The Week

not to get too aspie...
but i'm googling the albums i am unfamiliar with, and it looks like you've got this title all gnarled up


I have a habit of doing it, in reference to the pre-Monty Python show That Was The Week That Was. I've stupidly made the error on my EOY s/sheet and already copied it onto my EOY list in several places.

Also lol@ Aspie.
Nice bowl of Crunchy Nut you got here, pretty expensive as I recall.

#983 Mitchell

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Posted 21 December 2008 - 05:55 AM

25 Albums on this list, please divide points equally

how awesome is that?


Probably not so much for Paul.

(I'd add all the points 1-25, divide them by 25 and give them all the same)
Nice bowl of Crunchy Nut you got here, pretty expensive as I recall.

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Posted 21 December 2008 - 07:04 AM

Probably late but I need to get this out there regardless....not quite satisfied with this and I'm sure some will swap places in my mind the second I click 'add reply' but meh... 1) Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours 2) M83 - Saturdays = Youth 3) Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid 4) Sun Kil Moon - April 5) Spiritualized - Songs in A&E 6) Fennesz - Black Sea 7) Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw 8) Benoit Pioulard - Temper 9) Deerhunter - Microcastle 10) Shearwater - Rook 11) Boris - Smile 12) Lights out Asia - Eyes Like Brontide 13) Constantines - Kensington Heights 14) Kaki King - Dreaming of Revenge 15) Beach House - Devotion 16) TV on the Radio - Dear Science, 17) Portishead - Third 18) Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna 19) Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim 20) Flying Lotus - Los Angeles 21) Crystal Castles - s/t 22) Stereolab - Chemical Chords 23) Rachael Yamagata - Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart 24) Hercules & Love Affair - s/t 25) Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul 26) Fleet Foxes - s/t 27) British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? 28) Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust 29) The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement 30) Vivian Girls - s/t

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Posted 21 December 2008 - 07:36 AM

Probably late but I need to get this out there regardless....not quite satisfied with this and I'm sure some will swap places in my mind the second I click 'add reply' but meh...

1) Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
2) M83 - Saturdays = Youth
3) Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
4) Sun Kil Moon - April
5) Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
6) Fennesz - Black Sea
7) Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw
8) Benoit Pioulard - Temper
9) Deerhunter - Microcastle
10) Shearwater - Rook
11) Boris - Smile
12) Lights out Asia - Eyes Like Brontide
13) Constantines - Kensington Heights
14) Kaki King - Dreaming of Revenge
15) Beach House - Devotion
16) TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
17) Portishead - Third
18) Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
19) Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim
20) Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
21) Crystal Castles - s/t
22) Stereolab - Chemical Chords
23) Rachael Yamagata - Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart
24) Hercules & Love Affair - s/t
25) Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
26) Fleet Foxes - s/t
27) British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
28) Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
29) The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
30) Vivian Girls - s/t


I'll tack on my honorable mentions:

Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
R.E.M. - Accelerate
Joan as Policewoman - To Survive
No Age - Nouns
Aimee Mann - @#%&*! Smilers
Ryan Adams - Cardinology
The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave
Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
Primal Scream - Beautiful Future

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Posted 21 December 2008 - 09:13 AM

1. Midnight Organ Fight. Frightened Rabbit. 2. Dear Science. TV on the Radio. 3. Crystal Castles. Crystal Castles. 4. For Emma, Forever Ago. Bon Iver. 5. Tha Carter III. Lil Wayne. 6. Viva La Vida. Coldplay. 7. Feed the Animals. Girl Talk. 8. Soft Airplane. Chad VanGaalen. 9. Visiter. The Dodos. 10. The Stand-Ins. Okkervil River. 11. Vampire Weekend. Vampire Weekend. 12. Where You Go I Go Too. Lindstrom. 13. Get Awkward. Be Your Own Pet. 14. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson. 15. Rook. Shearwater. 16. Brighter Than Creation’s Dark. Drive-By Truckers. 17. Receivers. Parts and Labor. 18. Re-Arrange Us. Mates of State. 19. Stay Positive. The Hold Steady. 20. Youth Novel. Lykke Li. 21. Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea. Silver Jews. 22. Arm’s Way. Islands. 23. The Chemistry of Common Life. Fucked Up. 24. This Gift. Sons & Daughters. 25. Saturdays=Youth. M83. 26. Only By the Night. Kings of Leon. 27. Santogold. Santogold. 28. Nouns. No Age. 29. We Appreciate You. Plastic Constellations. 30. 808s and Heartbreaks. Kanye West. 31. At Mount Zoomer. Wolf Parade. 32. Made in the Dark. Hot Chip. 33. High Places. High Places. 34. We Brave Bee Stings and All. Thao Nguyen. 35. Kleerup. Kleerup.
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Posted 21 December 2008 - 09:13 AM

2. Make Model - Products Of Kin


I would have had this in my top 10 probably. Unfortunately it never got released and maybe never will. :(


This also would have been high on my list... same with Paul Steele. Shame...

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Posted 21 December 2008 - 09:26 AM

Probably late but I need to get this out there regardless....not quite satisfied with this and I'm sure some will swap places in my mind the second I click 'add reply' but meh...

3) Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
4) Sun Kil Moon - April
5) Spiritualized - Songs in A&E

19) Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim

22) Stereolab - Chemical Chords

27) British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?


I'll tack on my honorable mentions:

Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling


I don't know, man, I'd be pretty satisfied...

#989 jjh

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Posted 21 December 2008 - 09:36 AM

25 Albums on this list, please divide points equally

how awesome is that?


Probably not so much for Paul.

(I'd add all the points 1-25, divide them by 25 and give them all the same)


Using Mitchell's formula the answer = 13

#990 Mitchell

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Posted 21 December 2008 - 09:42 AM

Nah it would be 67.4 each.
Nice bowl of Crunchy Nut you got here, pretty expensive as I recall.

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Posted 21 December 2008 - 09:46 AM

am i the only one who liked the Ray Davies disc?
Sail Away: The Songs of Randy Newman -7.5/10
Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis 8.5/10
Buddy & Julie Miller - Written in Chalk wow, first listen, but great great record! 9.3/10
Justin Townes Earle - Midnight at the Moviessurprisingly great, never picked up his past releases, but this one's knocking my socks off right away, 8.7/10
M. Ward - Hold Time 8.0/10
Neko Case -Middle Cyclone her best I've heard is my initial impression, but too soon to rate, haven't had a really good listen yet 7.8/10

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Posted 21 December 2008 - 09:50 AM

am i the only one who liked the Ray Davies disc?



Had it on my expanded list. Morphine Song & You're Asking Me are classics. Voodoo Walk and Imaginary Man are also quite good.

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Posted 21 December 2008 - 10:04 AM

am i the only one who liked the Ray Davies disc?



Had it on my expanded list. Morphine Song & You're Asking Me are classics. Voodoo Walk and Imaginary Man are also quite good.

Something similar for me. Probably would have made my top 40, if I had gone out a bit further with my count.

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Posted 21 December 2008 - 10:55 AM

am i the only one who liked the Ray Davies disc?



Had it on my expanded list. Morphine Song & You're Asking Me are classics. Voodoo Walk and Imaginary Man are also quite good.

Something similar for me. Probably would have made my top 40, if I had gone out a bit further with my count.

On my list of albums that I somehow managed not to hear, but still want to.
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Posted 21 December 2008 - 10:57 AM

1. sun kil moon - april 2. stereolab - chemical chords 3. no age - nouns 4. portishead - third 5. r.e.m. - accelerate

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Posted 21 December 2008 - 11:09 AM

Polls = closed. I am going to finish tabbing now. Album blurbs might come tonight.

#997 Mitchell

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Posted 21 December 2008 - 11:25 AM

YEAH!
Nice bowl of Crunchy Nut you got here, pretty expensive as I recall.

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Posted 21 December 2008 - 11:27 AM

1. sun kil moon - april


good first post, and just in the nick of time LOL

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Posted 21 December 2008 - 12:05 PM

5. The Plastic Constellations-We Appreciate You
6. Little Jackie-The Stoop

28. The Knux-Remind Me in 3 Days...

35. Yo Majesty-Futuristically Speaking...Never Be Afraid


Nice to see some love for Yo Majesty. The other three I haven't listened to. I know about The Knux, just never checked them out. What type of hip-hop is it?

The other two just sound really appealing so I think I will track them down solely because of their names.
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Posted 21 December 2008 - 12:30 PM

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Nice bowl of Crunchy Nut you got here, pretty expensive as I recall.