shameful? come on now... i realize you're only 16, and i know Post-War wouldn't appeal to me when i was 16, but still...

what could you honestly see topping the list that wouldn't annoy a ton people? on here, pretty much nothing.


exactly.

pretty sure he was talking about THS

nice new av, btx

I'd rather listen to Chrono fart in my face than listen to Hold Steady.

oh

spose that makes more sense, cuz i was like "M. Ward has SOME critical praise, but not a ton..."

and thanks... i'm such a nerd... i saw it for $9.99 today and had to buy it. the speakers in the headphones blow, but eh, whatev

what did the 'Fork give M. Ward, anyway? Is the love here disproportional to other places?

8.2, so still not bad

for a potential EOY frontrunner, I'd say that's pretty low. Way to buck trends, SOMB.

If I remember correctly, "Dreamt for Light Years" had a higher score than that.

the love here for M. Ward does seem a bit skewed

I like it ok. I have nothing against him, I just don't find him to be all that special. Most people I know don't really care much about him, but I don't know a lot of bloggers/people that post on message boards, other than myself, so maybe I'm just hanging with the wrong demographic.

i think more people would be happy to see him win the SOMB poll than say Sufjan, that's for sure

honestly though, even as a long time fan of Matt's, as much as i love his music, i'm kinda surprised at how much love he's getting on here this year too. i was telling Montana, that i think the reason he's doing so well is that he appeals to the oldster crowd along with the indie/blogger types some too.

if i had to guess who'd win prior, i woulda said TV On The Radio, Decemberists, or Hold Steady

1) Spearhead - Yell Fire

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- After almost two decades of writing amazingly personal and tragic political protest songs, it was no surprise, in 2004, when he decided to visit the Middle East. Not the safe, remote areas that the embedded reporters report from, instead going to the red zones of Baghdad and the war torn areas of the West Bank and the Gaza strip to uncover the human cost of war, protected only by his guitar and video cameras. What he returned with is not only one of the years best documentaries, "I Know I'm Not Alone", but possibly his strongest album to date, "Yell Fire!". Certainly the most danceable statement about the war in Iraq, Franti puts bubbling funk, reggae, R&B and rock into a melting pot, and consistantly pulls out upbeat and uplifting tunes, at once weighted down by the wrongs in the world, yet always celebratory in the knowledge that things can get better.


2) Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom
3) Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
4) Mates Of State - Bring It Back
5) Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
6) Black Keys - Chulahoma

7) Matisyahu - Youth
8) Calexico - Garden Ruin

9) Nomo - New Tones
10) Black Keys - Magic Potion

11) Citizen Cope - Every Waking Moment
12) Loose Fur - Born Again In The USA

13) Dub Trio - New Heavy
14) Beck - The Information

15) Charlie Hunter - Copperopolis
16) Coup - Pick A Bigger Weapon
17) Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
18) Spencer Dickinson - The Man Who Lives For Love
19) Ben Harper - Both Sides Of The Gun
20) G. Love & Special Sauce - Lemonade

21) Four Tet - Remixes
22) Girl Talk - Night Ripper
23) MSTRKRFT - The Looks

24) Roots Tonic - Meets Bill Laswell
25) Ben Folds Five - Supersunnyspeedgraphic
26) Golden Smog - How We Operate
27) God Is An Astronaut - A Moment Of Stillness
28) Sufjan Stevens - Avalanche

29) Album Leaf - Into The Blue Again
30) Drive By Truckers - A Blessing And a Curse
31) Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
32) What Four - What Four
33) Badly Drawn Boy - Born In The U.K.
34) DJ Shadow - The Outsider

35) Ima Robot - Monument To The Masses
36) Audioslave - Revelations
37) Streets - The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living
38) Film School - Film School
39) Centro-Matic - Fort Recovery
40) OOIOO - Taiga
41) Little Willies - Little Willies
42) Refugee All-Stars - Living Like a Refugee
43) Jeff Tweedy - Sunken Treasure (so low because I'm not sure it counts, and no one else is voting for it anyway.
44) I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - Fear Is On Our Side
(cause all I've heard is THE OWL (saw the video) and I'm in love with it.)

edit: I am a complete loser for not remembering to put it in reverse order, but I'm too tired to care.

i really want to support him, because frankly, "the grind" is really exciting. it's just hard to put money towards production notes and stuff. i think this dude may get some of my x-mas money.

Uh, I think you're friends with my brother. Alan is it? I can tell by your tastes he listed off. If so, damn I'm good. If not, well fuckit.

Nice. I completely forgot about this album when it came time to make my list.

That's too bad, I think I saw it on 2 people lists, and I think it was supposed to be things need 4 to make it?



45) Kleptones - 24 hours.


Let's see what else I end up remembering.....

OTM.

yeah as much as I hate hold steady I would have guessed them or TVOTR over M.Ward

I see M.ward as comfy, NPR music to not offend.

just simply what it is and thusly popular
same way I see Neko

You know, I would have said the same thing about Seperation Sunday. However, Boys and Girls in America really grew on me. I haven't listened to Seperation Sunday in a long time though. All I'm saying is... maybe give it another shot?

1. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
2. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
3. Cat Power – The Greatest
4. Lily Allen – Still, Alright
5. Black Angels – Passover
6. Beck – The Information
7. Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
8. M. Ward – Post-War
9. Voxtrot – Mothers, Daughters, Sisters & Wives (ep)
10. TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
11. Flaming Lips – At War with the Mystics
12. Built to Spill – You in Reverse
13. Destroyer – Rubies
14. Camera Obscura – Let’s Get out of this Country
15. Bruce Springsteen – Seeger Sessions
16. Silversun Pickups – Carnavas
17. Calexico – Garden Ruin
18. Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
19. Junior Boys – So This is Goodbye
20. Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint – River in Reverse
21. Thom Yorke – The Eraser
22. Yeah yeah yeahs – Show Your Bones
23. Morrissey – Ringleader of the Tormentors
24. Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
25. Spearhead – Yell Fire!
26. Beirut –The Gulag Orkestar
27. The Long Winters – Putting the Days to Bed
28. Asobi Seksu – Citrus
29. Mastodon – Blood Mountain
30. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I am…
31. The Rapture – Pieces of the People We Love
32. Wolfmother – s/t
33. Boris – Pink
34. Tapes -n- Tapes – The Loon
35. The Islands – Return to the Sea
36. Sunset Rubdown – Shut Up I am Dreaming
37. Jurassic 5 – Feedback
38. Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped
39. Mission of Burma – The Obliterati
40. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House

O-Fish-al (hahaha, I'm so clever, has anyone else thought of that in the past 74 pages? I haven't read this whole thread). Finally decided to not be so damn lazy and actually contribute to the poll this year:

01) DESTROYER: DESTROYER’S RUBIES
02) ED HARCOURT: THE BEAUTIFUL LIE
03) GOMEZ: HOW WE OPERATE
04) BELLE AND SEBASTIAN: THE LIFE PURSUIT
05) ARCTIC MONKEYS: WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM, THAT’S WHAT I’M NOT
06) EMILY HAINES & THE SOFT SKELETON: KNIVES DON’T HAVE YOUR BACK
07) M. WARD: POST-WAR
08) BAND OF HORSES: EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME
09) GRANDADDY: JUST LIKE THE FAMBLY CAT
10) GUILLEMOTS: THROUGH THE WINDOWPANE
11) THE M’S: FUTURE WOMEN
12) SONDRE LERCHE AND THE FACES DOWN QUARTET: DUPER SESSIONS
13) THE KOOKS: INSIDE IN/INSIDE OUT
14) FIGURINES: SKELETON
15) GRAHAM COXON: LOVE TRAVELS AT ILLEGAL SPEEDS
16) THE FUTUREHEADS: NEWS AND TRIBUTES
17) DIRTY PRETTY THINGS: WATERLOO TO ANYWHERE
18) ANTENNAS: SINS
19) GRIZZLY BEAR: YELLOW HOUSE
20) BEIRUT: GULAG ORKESTAR
21) I’M FROM BARCELONA: LET ME INTRODUCE MY FRIENDS
22) JARVIS COCKER: JARVIS
23) SILVERSUN PICKUPS: CARNAVAS
24) BOB DYLAN: MODERN TIMES
25) YEAH YEAH YEAHS: SHOW YOUR BONES
26) SECRET MACHINES: TEN SILVER DROPS
27) BUILT TO SPILL: YOU IN REVERSE
28) THE STROKES: FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF EARTH
29) SWAN LAKE: BEAST MOANS
30) WE ARE SCIENTISTS: WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR
31) THE WALKMEN: A HUNDRED MILES OFF
32) DELAYS: YOU SEE COLORS
33) THE PIPETTES: WE ARE THE PIPETTES
34) THE RACONTEURS: BROKEN BOY SOLDIERS
35) BADLY DRAWN BOY: BORN IN THE U.K.
36) DANIELSON: SHIPS
37) THOM YORKE: THE ERASER
38) PETE YORN: NIGHTCRAWLER
39) …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD: SO DIVIDED
40) THE RAPTURE: PIECES OF THE PEOPLE WE LOVE

Yeah, but still...!

The Pfork influence is still there, not that I can say that their influence hasn't had some effect on me a bit. Still, their inflated 9.4's (three damn fifths from perfection?! Seriously.) for Newsom and her irritating voice and the Hold Steady with their kinda good for a local bar-band sound, having just shown up within the last month or so on their site seems to have had quite an influence on the independently minded SOMBies here.
And as far as the M. Ward love, I adored Transfiguration, but since then, it just hasn't been the same for me. Similarly, I was addicted to Neko as she belted out "Letter From an Occupant", but the country gal on her own isn't quite the same. And Lilly Allen?! Cute, but c'mon! And you'll all regret your Silversun infatuation before February comes. On top of that, you have the token votes for the oh-but-I-also-have-room-on-my-list-for-rap-and-altcountry-and-ambient-boredom-and-a-touch-of-black-metal-and-even-freakin-JustinTimberlake factoring in. Maybe a lurker like me shouldn't criticize, because afterall, it's a matter of taste, but I want to put my word in before the final tallies come in and then people start crying, "Bullshit!" That being said, my taste still lies with the bulk of you's peoples than with groups congregated pretty much anywhere else, even if you can endure the vocal strains of that milk-eyed mender.

If this had only been intentional, it would've been the greatest subtle reference to the lowest common denominator ever.

Please add these to my list, GDB:



34 Cornelius ~ Sensual
35 Melvins ~ (A) Senile Animal
36 Rodrigo y Gabriela ~ Rodrigo y Gabriela

1. Hot Chip - The Warning
2. The Knife - Silent Shout
3. Ricardo Villalobos - Achso
4. Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet
5. My My - Songs For The Gentle
6. Subtle - For Hero, For Fool
7. Bodycode - The Conservation of Electric Charge
8. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
9. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
10. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33
11. Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55
12. Nathan Fake - Drowning In A Sea Of Love
13. V/A - Kompakt Total 7
14. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
15. V/A - Congotronics 2: Buzz 'n' Rumble From The Urb 'n' Jungle
16. The Flashbulb - Flexing Habitual
17. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
18. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
19. TBA Empty - Stupid Rotation
20. Lindstrom - It’s a Feedelity Affair
21. Various Production - The World Is Gone
22. Matmos - A Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast
23. Utada Hikaru - Ultra Blue
24. Kaito - Hundred Million Light Years
25. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
26. Venetian Snares - Cavalcade Of Glee And Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms
27. Yo La Tengo - I'm Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
28. Booka Shade - Movements
29. Flying Lotus - 1983
30. Caural - Mirrors For Eyes
31. Helios - Enigya
32. Holy Smokes - Talk To Your Kids About Gangs
33. Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light
34. The Emperor Machine - Vertical Tones & Horizontal Noise
35. Glenn Kotche - Mobile
36. Æthenor - Deep in Ocean Sunk the Lamp of Light
37. The Octagon Man - Magneton
38. Clark - Body Riddle
39. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
40. Cornelius - Sensuous
41. Herbert - Scale
42. Joe Beats - Indie Rock Blues
43. TRS-80 - Mystery Crash
44. The Roots - Game Theory
45. Mr. Lif - Mo' Mega
46. Tokyo Jihen - Adult
47. Placebo - Meds
48. Working For A Nuclear Free City - Working For A Nuclear Free City
49. A Cloud Mireya - Singular
50. Beth Orton - Comfort Of Strangers

I already do



I like Boys and Girls in America though.

Seeings as I love/voted for half of the albums on your list I shall exercise some prudence and track down the ones I haven't heard.
Im particularly drawn to theseIm already feeling the benefit of your Flashbulb recommendation and it would definitely make my list if I redid today.

Great list. I forgot to put this one in my list, unfortunately. I prefer his stuff as Portable but this album is still a really good listen.

I love you. i think we are the same

This board had plenty of Hold Steady fans before BAGIA was released. If anything, Pitchfork's praise of it has turned some people off and turned boarders who weren't already into them away.
Newsom isn't even on a lot of lists, as far as I've seen. The people who like it really like it is the thing.

As for the year-end poll, regardless of whether I like the artist or not - I'd rather see a love-it-or-hate-it record/artist top a list than someone who a lot of people see as being "alright".

Undo's list is a real winner. Shit.

yeah, i'd kinda prefer Matt's record to come in at like #3-5 honestly, if only cuz if it ends up #1 like i think it might, will be some resentment/backlash.

but with the amount of top 10 votes Matt has gotten so far, it's obvious that plenty of people enjoy it as much or more than i do, and it's simply more than just "alright" for a lot of people.

Don't Belive The Thruth is 2005. No argument about that.

I'm hoping that with each album listed Andrew puts the MetaCritic score and the Pitchfork mark on for reference.

Jesus, let's not spend the whole time bitching about pitchfork.

This year kinda sucked.

1) Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere
2) Mates of State - Bring it Back
3) Tom Waits - Orphans
4) Beck - The Information
5) Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
6) Calexico - Garden Ruin
7) Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say...
8) Belle & Sebastian - Life Persuit
9) The Format - Dog Problems
10) The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls in America
11) Spearhead - Yell Fire
12) Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
13) Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics
14) Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards
15) Stevenson Ranch Davidians - Psalms, Hymns, & Spiritual Songs

They gave the Eraser a bad review so there are some unhappy people.




Worst list yet.

Where is undo's list?
Or is there a new member name?

Just look for the synthesizers. Or the Cool Blue etc. thing.

couple things...though it didn't place in my top 50..nice call on Spearhead.

Your number 26 is not right...either it's Gomez or Golden Smog.

This is a pretty quickly made list, but just want to give some of my favorites a little boost in this thing.

1. Tom Waits - Orphans
2. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
3. The Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
4. Voxtrot - Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives (EP)
5. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming
6. Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
7. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
8. Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
9. I'm From Barcelona - Let Me Introduce My Friends
10. Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
11. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
12. The Brother Kite - Waiting for the Time to Be Right
13. The Format - Dog Problems
14. The Roots - Game Theory
15. Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
16. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
17. Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes
18. Comets on Fire - Avatar
19. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
20. Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon

great list

Crap, I probably meant to put them both there (I like them both about equally).

Ummmm....Bill, could you put Gomez - How We Operate there?

You can stick Golden Smog at the bottom, but at 47 or whatever, it probably doesn't really matter.

I've fretted over this thing the whole year - I keep a running tally as the year waxes and wanes - torn it down and rebuilt it twice, and I'm sure, given another year, it would be torn down and rebuilt again. For now, though, I'm done with it and feel real solid-like about my top 30 or so. What it is:

1. The Drift (Scott Walker)
2. Orphans (Tom Waits)
3. Drum's Not Dead (Liars)
4. If You Come to Greet Me (Laura Gibson)
5. Sam's Town (The Killers)
6. Return to Cookie Mountain (TV on the Radio)
7. Fishscale (Ghostface Killah)
8. Sensuous (Cornelius)
9. Harmony in Ultraviolet (Tim Hecker)
10. 45:33 (LCD Soundsystem)

11. Hell Hath No Fury (Clipse)
12. The Body the Blood the Machine (The Thermals)
13. Citrus (Asobi Seksu)
14. Roots & Crowns (Califone)
15. Boys and Girls in America (The Hold Steady)
16. Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor (Lupe Fiasco)
17. Destroyer's Rubies (Destroyer)
18. Night Ripper (Girl Talk)
19. Carnavas (Silversun Pickups)
20. Taiga (OOIOO)

21. Never Hear the End of It (Sloan)
22. Post-War (M. Ward)
23. Writer's Block (Peter Bjorn & John)
24. The Letting Go (Bonnie 'Prince' Billy)
25. Shut Up I Am Dreaming (Sunset Rubdown)
26. Ships (Danielson)
27. Transparent Things (Fujiya & Miyagi)
28. Futuresex/Lovesounds (Justin Timberlake)
29. Rather Ripped (Sonic Youth)
30. The Obliterati (Mission of Burma)

31. The Trials of Van Occupanther (Midlake)
32. We Are the Pipettes (The Pipettes)
33. Blue Collar (Rhymefest)
34. Boulevard de l'independence (Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra)
35. Scale (Herbert)
36. Six Demon Bag (Man Man)
37. So This is Goodbye (Junior Boys)
38. Through the Windowpane (Guillemots)
39. Ys (Joanna Newsom)

40. Bloodsongs (Gil Mantera's Party Dream)
41. Powder Burns (The Twilight Singers)
42. The Crane Wife (The Decemberists)
43. He Poos Clouds (Final Fantasy)

01 . sunnO))) & Boris ~ Altar
02 . Wolf Eyes ~ Human Animal
03 . Boris ~ Pink
04 . Tool ~ 10,000 Days
05 . Genghis Tron ~ Dead Mountain Mouth
06 . Be Your Own Pet ~ Be Your Own Pet
07 . Kayo Dot ~ Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
08 . Boards Of Canada ~ Trans-Canada Highway EP
09 . Mars Volta ~ Amputechture
10 . The Bronx ~ II
11 . 120 Days ~ 120 Days
12 . These Arms Are Snakes ~ Easter
13 . Gnarls Barkley ~ St. Elsewhere
14 . Boris ~ Dronevil Final
15 . Jazkamer ~ Metal Music Machine
16 . Herbert ~ Scales
17 . Jesu ~ Silver
18 . Liars ~ Drum's Not Dead
19 . (the) Melvins ~ (a) Senile Animal
20 . Across Tundras ~ Dark Songs of the Prairie
21 . Charlotte Gainsbourg ~ 05:55
22 . October Fall ~ A Season in Hell
23 . Clark ~ Body Riddle
24 . Sleepy Brown ~ Mr. Brown
25 . Dub Trio ~ New Heavy
26 . Ellen Allien & Apparat ~ Orchestra Of Bubbles
27 . The Emperor Machine ~ Vertical Tones and Horizontal Noise
28 . Killer Mike ~ I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind
29 . Comets On Fire ~ Avatar
30 . Devics ~ Push The Heart
31 . Beirut ~ Gulag Orkestar
32 . Mastodon ~ Blood Mountain
33 . Boxcutter ~ Oneiric
34 . The Knife ~ Silent Shout
35 . Twilight Singers ~ Powder Burns
36 . An Albatross ~ Blessphemy (Of the Peace Beast Feastgiver and the Bear Warp Kumite)
37 . Mogwai ~ Mr Beast
38 . Napalm Death ~ Smear Campaign
39 . Hawthorne Heights ~ If Only You Were Lonely
40 . Brand New ~ The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
41 . Burial ~ Burial
42 . Nomeansno ~ All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt
43 . Ghostface Killah ~ Fishscale
44 . The Octagon Man ~ Magneton
45 . Tomasz Stanko ~ Lontano
46 . Peeping Tom ~ Peeping Tom
47 . Killing Joke ~ Hosannas from the Basement of Hell
48 . Fucked Up ~ Hidden World
49 . Venetian Snares ~ Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms
50 . Eagles Of Death Metal ~ Death By Sexy


Off on hols now. Gran Canaria, here I come!

I listened to some albums this year.

The bottom three would be higher if I had time to listen to them more, probably.

20. Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
19. Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist (huge fucking LOL @ "Pink Cellophane," though)
18. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
17. Subtle - For Hero: For Fool
16. Shout Out Out Out Out - Not Saying / Just Saying
15. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
14. The Annuals - Be He Me
13. The Brother Kite - Waiting for the Time to Be Right
12. The Knife - Silent Shout
11. Love is All - Nine Times That Same Song

10. The Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
9. Lilys - Everything Wrong is Imaginary
8. Asobi Seksu - Citrus
7. Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
6. Burial - Burial
5. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
4. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
3. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33
2. Hot Chip - The Warning
1. Booka Shade - Movements

I appreciate the parting gift...surely Altar will make the list now. Have a nice one you lucky bastard.

THRSLVR's and Bill's lists are both really good.

Mars Volta notwithstanding.

01. Neil Young - Living With War
02. The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America (GAH!)
03. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock and Roll
04. The Brother Kite - Waiting For The Time To Be Right
05. Van Hunt - On The Jungle Floor
06. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever You Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
07. The Subways - Young For Eternity
08. Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time
09. M. Ward - Post-War
10. Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther

11. Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
12. The Thermals - The Body the Blood the Machine
13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
14. Lily Allen - Alright Still
15. IV Thieves - If We Can't Escape, My Pretty
16. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
17. Silversun Pickups - Carnivas
18. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
19. Jose Gonzalez - Hand On Your Heart EP
20. Twilight Singers - Powder Burns

21. Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
22. Calexico - Garden Ruin
23. Cat Power - The Greatest
24. The Avett Bros. - Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsdale Sessions
25. Aloe Blacc - Shine Through
26. The Little Ones - Sing Song EP
27. William Elliott Whitmore
28. Golden Smog - Another Fine Day
29. The Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off
30. Voxtrot - Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, and Wives EP

31. Centro-Matic - Fort Recovery
32. Catfish Haven - Please Come Back EP
33. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
34. Birdmonster - No Midnight
35. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
36. Dan Kelly & the Alpha Males - Drowning In The Fountain Of Youth
37. Brett Dennen - So Much More
38. Josh Rouse - Subtitulo
39. Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
40. Foundry Field Recordings - Promts/Miscues

41. Bears - s/t
42. Jolie Holland - Springtime Can Kill You
43. Kelly Stoltz - Below The Branches
44. Radio 4 - Enemies Like This
45. Tim Easton - Ammunition
46. Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
47. Dirty On Purpose - Hallelujah Sirens
48. The Roots - Game Theory
49. TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
50. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife

uh, you mean Boys and Girls for that #2, right?

I wasn't taking a shot at M. Ward. I bought Post-War and I like it alright. If my list had been a bit longer, I would have had it on my list. I just think records are more interesting when it gets that love-it-or-hate-it response. Even totally populist stuff like Thriller or Coldplay have their detractors, so no matter what is #1, there will be a few people saying "What the hell, that's #1?".



Dammit, Sufjan's gonna win this poll, isn't he?