That sounds sketchy.



I can get behind this, however.

1. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
2. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
3. Joanna Newsom - Ys
4. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
5. Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope
6. Smoosh - Free To Stay
7. Robert Pollard - From A Compound Eye
8. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine
9. Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death
10. DC Snipers - Missile Sunset
11. Portastatic - Be Still Please
12. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
13. YLT - I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
14. Keene Brothers - Blues and Boogie Shoes
15. Eleventh Dream Day - Zeroes And Ones
16. Boris - Pink
17. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
18. Danielson - Ships
19. The Blow - Paper Television
20. The Minders - It's A Bright Guilty World

Final Pimpin for this
Tally Hall - Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum


released on November 22nd 2005, on the Quack! label and rereleased September 12, 2006.
-thanks to ParticleHustler for tuning me in

This may still work:
hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/ux6d63



Tim Hecker -- Harmony in Ultraviolet

I apologize if I missed it, but what's the cut off for this, Bill?

Like others, I'd like to spend more time with some stuff.

terrific albums. were they released outside of canada?

Malajube came out in the US last month. Final Fantasy has grown on me nicely, what a kooky little album. Though the artwork creeps me out, I have to keep the CD buried another CD, it's like those stupid eyes follow me. It won't be anywhere near my top 30, but Pallett's Polaris victory was certainly well-deserved.

I have to say, I honestly wasn't all that into Silver. In fact, I wasn't as into the first Jesu record as I really should have been. That album was a strange one, wasn't it? It could have passed as one of those nice little shoegazey doom records, but there was just so much Swans-ish grinding guitar noise! I felt torn between the two sides of the record's sound, you know? If I tried to hear it as some sort of apocalyptic steamroller of death, I was distracted by how sissyish it sounded. And if I tried to hear it as "nice-metal," well, the not so nice elements were kind of off-putting. And as P-fork pointed out in their review, Silver sounds like Jawbreaker. Not that there's anything wrong with Jawbreaker. Eh???

I'd like to submit a list for this year, but I have the same problem as last year. There's plenty of records on my "to-do" list that I haven't gotten to and even if I downloaded or bought them all tomorrow, would they really have time to sink in? I've had Ys for a while and I can't think of a day where I was in the mood to hear it. I've probably sat down and listened to the whole thing twice and it didn't blow me away. But Milk-Eyed Mender annoyed me and a year later, I really liked a lot of it. I haven't heard the entire albums put out by Liars and Sunset Rubdown, but I gave them a listen when Iw as at record stores. Do I blame those records for not being immediate enough or do I dismiss them for not sinking their teeth into me? I'm just now catching up to Scott Walker and Swan Lake and I'm checking out the MySpace pages for bands like The Annuals to decide whether or not I want to hear more from them. IT'S TOO MUCH PRESSURE I'M GONNA STAY UP ALL NITE TONIGHT LISTENING TO RECORDS I GOT SOME PILLS TO HELP ME STAY UP LATE I'M SOOOOOO EXCITED...I'M SOOOOOO EXCITED....I'M SO....SCARED

I bit the bullet today and bought 4 CDs. And that's it. No more this year. Forget it.

Yeah I think it might be the worst cover of the year. That I've seen anyway. Almost frightening.

re: Melted Cheese

Do I really have to defend myself to someone with a whole 34 posts???

anyway I heard the whole album on a drive with a friend who never has anything decent to listen to

I hated it ok. I give everything a fair chance. How many times have you heard White Pony all the way thru??? if the answer is 0 well those in glass houses...

some artists I love who aren't exactly classically trained singers

Tom Waits
Neutral Milk Hotel
(Antony) and the Johnsons
Decemberists

I don't know if White Pony is the best album of the last 10 years, I know they're not for everyone. Just like Joanna Newsome.

But after having 3 fucking Radiohead albums top our poll (I voted for 1 of em) I really can't stomache the idea of Ms Newsome topping our list.

I myself am pulling for Band of Horses or the Decemberists, I am not naive enough to think Deftones Saturday Night Wrist will place but I will vote for it.

post of the year

For your consideration:





Please download this album and give it a listen. I really shouldn't be the only one voting for it.

For your consideration:





Please download this album and give it a listen. I really shouldn't be the only one voting for it.

I should be able to fish some stuff from tomorrow but until then if you want to beat me at my own game or slsk it up I recommend;

Who Needs Actions When You Got Words - Plan B
Through The Window Pane - The Guillemots
Love Travels at Illegal Speeds - Graham Coxon
The Corner of Mills & Gill - Shack
Voices of Animals and Men - The Young Knives
Making Dens - Mystery Jets
Give Me A Wall - ¡Forward, Russia!
Someone To Drive You Home - The Long Blondes
The Bright Lights And What I Should Have Learned - Duels
Fur and Gold - Bat For Lashes
Derdang Derdang - Archie Bronson Outfit
Howling Bells - s/t
Pet Grief - The Radio Dept.

Man, it's going to be a heavy week's music listening.

Uploading the Jesu now.

Jesu - Silver

http://www.sendspace.com/file/4v7i9d

Haha. Alright first of all people need to separate themselves from this mentality that "number of posts on this board = value of person's opinion". I mean I've been browsing around here enough (a phat 4 days) to know that there are morons with thousands of posts and interesting opinions coming from noobs and vice versa. And I'm guessing (just guessing) that there are people who have never even posted once on this board who know way more about music than anyone on here... so get over yourself.

Second of all, you clearly have decent taste in music as per the name-dropping of Neutral Milk Hotel, Band of Horses, Tom Waits, Decemberists.. (I still can't figure out if I like Antony and the Johnsons... sometimes I love that album and some days I find it unlistenable).

But you can't grant me one barb at your ranking of White Pony as the top album of 1995-2004? I mean you tell me that my favorite album of 2006 flat-out "sucks", and I don't get to dish out anything in return? Just seems unfair.

Guess I should have looked at your number of posts and backed away slowly with my tail between my legs. Obviously your opinoins are, uh, well... they've been well documented on this board anyway! And for that you should be very proud.

And I wouldn't have said anything about White Pony had I not listened to it... that would make no sense. Actually, when listened to in the right mood, that album is pretty sweet. Definitey among the better examples of hard rock circa late 90s/early aughts. I went through a period where Change (In the House of Flies) was near the top of my playlist for awhile actually, though I won't claim to be a Deftones expert or have become intimately associated with that album in any way... I'm just saying I could ramble off about 100 other albums that have been released in the past 10 years that are like exponentially better/more interesting on a number of levels (um, yes, including all three of those radiohead albums).

I don't really see the connection between the three radiohead albums at the top and Newsom at the top... other than that you seem to dislike both of them for some reason.

All right, here it comes, the post where I post my albums and then get an enormous amount of shit for it. Here we go.....

1) Post-War- M. Ward
2) Rabbit Fur Coat- Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins
3) Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not- The Arctic Monkeys
4) The Greatest- Cat Power
5) St. Elsewhere- Gnarls Barkley
6) The Eraser- Thom Yorke
7) Everything All The Time- Band Of Horses
8) Boys And Girls In America by The Hold Steady
9) Begin To Hope- Regina Spektor
10) Fishscale- Ghostface Killah
11) American V: A Hundred Highways- Johnny Cash
12) At War With The Mystics- The Flaming Lips
13) Return To Cookie Mountain- TV On The Radio
14) The Body, The Blood, The Machine- The Thermals
15) Pearl Jam- Pearl Jam
16) Shut Up I Am Dreaming- Sunset Rubdown
17) Fox Confessor Brings The Flood- Neko Case
18) 5:55- Charlotte Gainsbourg
19) Ta Da!- The Scissor Sisters
20) Show Your Bones- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
21) Ben Kweller- Ben Kweller
22) Robbers & Cowards- Cold War Kids
23) Modern Times- Bob Dylan
24) I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass- Yo La Tengo
25) Hell Hath No Fury- The Clipse
26) Night Ripper- Girl Talk
27) YS- Joanna Newsom
28) You In Reverse- Built To Spill
29) The Information- Beck
30) Be He Me- The Annuals
31) Whatever Happened To The Fambly Cat?- Grandaddy
32) Game Theory- The Roots
33) Living With War- Neil Young
34) Future/Sexy/Love/Sounds- Justin Timberlake
35) Be Your Own Pet- Be Your Own Pet
36) Pretty Little Head- Nellie McKay
37) The Warning- Hot Chip
38) Sing The Greys- Frightened Rabbit
39) The Crane Wife- The Decemberists
40) Death By Sexy- Eagles Of Death Metal
41) Dusk & Summer- Dashboard Confessional
42) First Impressions Of Earth- The Strokes
43) Louder Now- Taking Back Sunday
44) The Lemonheads- The Lemonheads
45) Cansei De Ser Sexxy- CSS
46) The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living- The Streets
47) The Air Force- Xiu Xiu
48) Food & Liquor- Lupe Fiasco
49) Declare A New State- The Submarines
50) Gulag Orkestar- Beirut


Hit me with your best shot, bitches.

Very interesting list, dude. I'm beginning to think that Band of Horses is going to have a great showing on this list. There doesn't seem to be much "anti-band of horses-ism" from anyone. Definitely a solid album, but it seems a bit overrated by most people, seeing how despite its goodness it's still a pretty conventional rock album.

Nice to see the massively underrated new strokes album finally get a vote. I left it off my list, but I don't really understand why there was so much backlash against this disc.

01 Neko Case - Fox confessor brings the flood
02 Joanna Newsom - Ys
03 Tim Hecker - Harmony in ultraviolet
04 Destroyer's rubies
05 Pink Mountaintops - Axis of evol
06 Burial - s/t
07 Six Organs Of Admittance - The sun awakens
08 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - the letting go
09 Clinic - Visitations
10 Liars - Drums not dead
11 Euros Childs - Chops
12 Matmos - The rose has teeth in the mouth of a beast
13 Tom Verlaine - Songs & other things
14 Barbara Morganstern - The grass is always greener
15 Cathal Coughlan - Foburg
16 Sparks - Hello young lovers
17 Grizzly Bear - Yellow house

It doesn't feel like a great a year for albums.

helmet's list is pretty banging.

so is everyone else's.

Yeah, if you're you.

Nothing flash here, but I'll do my best (I'm still catching up on the past few years). Will stick to 10 though;

1) The Life Pursuit - Belle & Sebastian
2) Under the Covers Vol. 1 - Matthew Sweet & Susannah Hoffs
3) Under the Skin - Lindsey Buckingham
4) We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions - Bruce Springsteen
5) Gala Mill - The Drones
6) St. Elsewhere - Gnarls Barkley
7) Nashville - Solomon Burke
8) One Day it Will Please Us to Remember Even This - New York Dolls
9) Modern Times - Bob Dylan
10) Open Letter to the Damned - As Fast As

Except about half the board.

Excellent... perhaps I haven't looked in the right places... bring it on! F Band of Horses!

Um, rocks and blows, by the way... its pretty difficult to overestimate the sweetness of your avatar

Exactlly, I'm sure after reading post after post you would be upset if 3 deftones albums placed 1,2 and 3. Hell even I would. I like Radiohead but I know I'm not the only one who thought them placing in the top 3 spots was anti-climatic. I also feel that Joanna Newsomes record is gonna place more because of the right place at the right time. Meaning it is a newer record so people are in LOVE with it at this moment. They've burnt themselves out on Band of Horses and Decemberists etc so those albums which I feel are better are sliding down in peoples polls due to the fact they don't seem new anymore.

anyone have a fish for Sunset Rubdown?? if its that good I'd like to hear it before my vote

I tried my best to like that one. But the guys voice and the weepy crying/singing of lyrics like:



Can I lift my dress up for you?
Can I lift it in the
night?
White undersides of my thighs look much betterIn
the dark light
There’s a kid in there
And he’s big,
and dumb,
And he’s… kinda scared"


Some very cool, lively guitar work though. I just couldn't get around the histrionics of the lead singer and the lyrics. A bit too try-hard.

Wow it's not even December. Oh well, why not get into the holiday spirit!

1. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming
2. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
3. M. Ward - Post-War
4. The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
5. Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast
6. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I will Beat Your Ass
7. Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
8. Annuals - Be He Me
9. TV On The Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
10. Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
11. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
12. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
13. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
14. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
15. Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton - Knives Don't Have Your Back
16. Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
17. Oh No! Oh My! - s/t
18. Eric Bachman - To The Races
19. Shearwater - Palo Santo
20. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
21. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
22. Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
23. Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
24. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
25. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
26. Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars - Living Like a Refugee
27. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Etiquette

Two tracks from Coaxial's self titled ( my 4th best pick of the year. Hip hop with interesting soundscapes):




It's Not My Voice
Illusion

hzzp://www.rogepost.com/dn/a5eg

Parenthetical Girls - Safe As Houses

I've been pimpin' this for awhile, but i think now is as good time as ever to really push it. Quite simply, if you like Xiu Xiu, give this a try. Extremely dark, experimental pop music. One of the year's best, in my opinion.

Sampler:
Love Connection, Pt. II

The Main Course:

too bad I forgot about the Clinic album, I'd probably like it. Good band.

Dunno; when's the deadline?

I am a firm believer in waiting, anyway. I'm just doing an AOTY2005 list on my blog. Perspective rules.


I don't agree with that.

Then again, I don't agree with the usage of 'shoegaze' as a valid genre moniker, either (it's really a diss, see).


Shit, is that sarcasm, or a fact I was unaware of? That GLS debut was fucking marvellous.

I've listened to Silver many a time, and this Jawbreaker comparison is the least-fitting thing ever. At its worst, it sounds like Filter though.

Currently #18 on my list. Have a few left that I'm still deciding on, but I expect that this will definately stay fairly close to that. Underrated nice little guitar pop album that got absolutely no love over here in the States. People should check it out.

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I also feel that Joanna Newsomes record is gonna place more because of the right place at the right time. Meaning it is a newer record so people are in LOVE with it at this moment. They've burnt themselves out on Band of Horses and Decemberists etc so those albums which I feel are better are sliding down in peoples polls due to the fact they don't seem new anymore.
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One of the many factors that could potentially make these lists innacurate. I've seen some people argue that albums that have had more time to 'sink in' have more of an advantage, though.

Considering that my two favorite albums this year (by a very wide margin over anything else) are Ys and Return to Cookie Mountain, one of which I've been listening to virtually nonstop for two weeks and the other of which I've listened to like... infinity times over the course of the past several months, I feel like the quality of the album outweighs any other factors. I'm just guessing it's probably like that for most other people as well. Most people on this board seem to be knowledgeable enough and serious enough about music that they're not gonna get wrapped up in the excitement of an album's 'newness' and overlook something that they equally or more excited about a couple months ago.

Everything All the Time and Crane Wife also have the handicap of not being as good as Ys, which may set them back a bit (though actually considering all the anti-newsomites around here, I would expect both of those albums to place higher than Ys).

In this post, you're basically calling everyone stupid.

No. Just people who actually like that crappy Joanna Newsome album.

I've burnt myself out completely on my #1 album, but it's still my #1 album. I didn't forget that moment as it was drawing to a close where I thought "wow, this is a fucking great piece of music."

I'm looking forward to being a part of this. I wasn't around last year, so this will be my first SOMB list.

But I'll be waiting until near the last minute to make my list. I have a rough top five in my head, but it's all jumbled as far as positions... two of the records came out within the last month (one of them this week), so I'm still soaking them in.

Woebot and Silverdollar are smarter than you.

i was going to put this off for awhile, but then i realized for the most part nothing else is coming out that I want to hear, and if anything comes out of nowhere, chances are it won't have enough time for me to feel comfortable placing it anyway. so here it goes.

1) TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
2) Midlake - Trials of Van Occupanther
3) Band of Horses - Everything all the Time
4) Yo la Tengo - I’m not afraid of you and I Will Beat Your Ass
5) Destroyer - Destroyer’s Rubies
6) Matthew Ryan - From a Late Night High Rise
7) The Decembrists - The Crane Wife
8) Phoenix - It’s Never Been Like That
9) Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
10) Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
11) Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
12) Subtle - For Hero: For Fool
13) Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go
14) The Futureheads - News and Tributes
15) Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
16) Nikoas Makelberge - Dying in Africa
17) Liars - Drum’s not Dead
18) Helios - Enigya
19) Drive by Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse
20) Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultra-violet
21) The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
22) Neko Case - The Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
23) Tom Ze - Estodundo o Pagode
24) Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
25) Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People say I Am, That's What I am Not
26) Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
27) Appleseed Cast - Peregrine
28) Justin Timberlake - Futuresex/lovesounds
29) Pernice Brothers - Live a Little
30) Akron Family - Meek Warrior

Why do you prefer The Futureheads to the Arctic Monkeys by that large a margin?

I'm kind of surprised not to see the Islands LP on more lists. I wasn't around when it came out, whats the board's general opinion on it?

I thought the Islands album was terrible bar two good tracks but that's probably just me, I think it's almost certain to place in the top 50 overall.

otm

Number 5 on my list. 100 plays of Swans makes me always remember it. There are probably a couple of reasons people wouldn't like it:

1.) They liked The Unicorns better
2.) It didn't age well - and they simply forgot about it. That happened with me and Figurines, but I'm putting them back up where they belong.