All right, so we'll be counting this one down first this year. By now most of you should know the deal--you vote for as many as 50 or as few as five 2006 albums, which will be measured using the traditional voting system. Albums include:

1. LPs of all-new material
2. Live albums (not ones being re-issued or of all old material)
3. Label compilations (of recent stuff, that is--things like Total 7)
4. Artist remix/b-sides/unreleased compilations of all or mostly 2006 material

2005 vs. 2006 eligibility is broken down as follows--if you can make a case for it being 2006, you can vote for it. So that includes albums released in your country for the first time in 2006, albums that didn't receive wide exposure until 2006, or albums that were released in Dec. 2005 and didn't have enough time to sink in before voting last year.

HOWEVER--and this is a big however--you absolutely can not, under any circumstances, vote for an album that made our top 100 last year. I don't care what the extenuating circumstances are, this role is non-negotiable. So you know, these 100 albums are:

100 Iron & Wine Woman King
99 Sons & Daughters The Repulsion Box
98 Nada Surf The Weight is a Gift
97 The Constantines Tournament of Hearts
96 Sunn 0))) Back One
95 The Editors The Back Room
94 Saint Etienne Tales from Turnpike House
93 Serena Manesh Serena Manesh
92 The Books Lost and Safe
91 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Howl
90 Supergrass Road to Rouen
89 Shout Out Louds Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
88 The Fiery Furnaces EP
87 Boy Least Likely To The Best Party Ever
86 Depeche Mode Playing the Angel
85 Ryan Adams Jacksonville City Nights
84 Elbow Leaders of the Free World
83 Super Furry Animals Love Kraft
82 Richard Hawley Cole's Corner
81 Engineers Engineers
80 Tom Vek We Have Sound
79 New Order Waiting for the Sirens' Call
78 Devin Davis Lonely People of the World, Unite!
77 Isolee Wearemonster
76 Kaiser Chiefs Employment
75 The Raveonettes Pretty in Black
74 Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase
73 Deerhoof Long Runners Four
72 The Pernice Brothers Discover a Lovelier You
71 Smog A River Ain't Too Much Love
70 The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree
69 Stars Set Yourself on Fire
68 Jamie Lidell Multiply
67 The Juan MacLean Less Than Human
66 Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain
65 Hood Outside Closer
64 Iron & Wine / Calexico In the Reins
63 Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze
62 DangerDoom The Man and the Mask
61 Caribou The Milk of Human Kindnesss
60 Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak
59 Dungen Ta Det Lungt
58 System of a Down Mesmerize
57 Konono No. 1 Congotronics
56 Vitalic OK Cowboy
55 The Magic Numbers The Magic Numbers
54 Garrett Kriston George Takei's Rock & Roll Primer
53 Rachel Stevens Come and Get It
52 Ryan Adams Cold Roses
51 Devandra Banhart Cripple Crow
50 The Russian Futurists Our Thickness
49 Low The Great Destroyer
48 Common Be
47 Fischerspooner Odyssey
46 British Sea Power Open Season
45 Of Montreal The Sunlandic Twins
44 The Clientele Strange Geometry
43 Silver Jews Tanglewood Numbers
42 Akron / Family Akron / Family
41 Opeth Ghost Reveries
40 Stephen Malkmus Face the Truth
39 M Ward Transistor Radio
38 Broadcast Tender Buttons
37 Edan The Beauty and the Beat
36 Architecture in Helsinki In Case We Die
35 Art Brut Bang Bang Rock and Roll
34 Coldplay X & Y
33 Antony + the Johnsons I Am a Bird Now
32 The Hold Steady Separation Sunday
31 M.I.A. Arular
30 Ladytron The Witching Hour
29 Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine
28 Rogue Wave Descended Like Vultures
27 Beck Guero
26 The Decemberists Picaresque
25 Animal Collective Feels
24 Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
23 The Go! Team Thunder Lightning Strike
22 Maximo Park A Certain Trigger
21 Doves Some Cities
20 Out Hud Let Us Never Speak of It Again
19 Sigur Ros Takk
18 Kanye West Late Registration
17 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
16 The National Alligator
15 Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy
14 My Morning Jacket Z
13 Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene
12 Gorillaz Demon Days
11 Franz Ferdinand You Could Have it So Much Better
10 Sleater-Kinney The Woods
9 The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan
8 M83 Before the Dawn Heals Us
7 LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem
6 Spoon Gimme Fiction
5 Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production of Eggs
4 Bloc Party Silent Alarm
3 The New Pornographers Twin Cinema
2 Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary
1 Sufjan Stevens Illinois

don't vote for these. Just don't.

Also, a new rule for this year: there will now no-longer be any official/unofficial list-labeling. If you post a list in this thread--unless it's clearly just a list of suggestions and is not presented in countdown form--it will be counted. If someone wants to present me with a convincing argument as to why this should not be the case, feel free, but know this rule will almost definitely stand. I'm sick of tabbing lists only to find out that they're unofficial, or people not telling me that their lists have been officialized and having their votes go uncounted. So feel free to post your unofficial lists in any thread but this one, but if you're posting a list in this thread, you better be damn sure that it's final.

That should be all. Start with the questions, voting and YSIing whenever.

also, I'm not sure when voting will end or when results will be posted quite yet--most likely sometime three-four weeks from now. Stay tuned for further updates.

i suppose than both isolee - western store and roman flugel - la forza del destino aren't legible for the album's list. these are compilations of 12" and such but some of the tracks date back to 1999.

if more than half of the albums are from 2006, it belongs here. If not, it belongs in the comp thread.

i'll have to check.
thanks

Just out of curiosity, why did you decide to limit the number albums we can vote for to 50 down from 100?

And dammit, that Saint Etienne album didn't get a US release until this year. So unfair.

So I can vote for Black 1?

I like this, Bill.

Ah yes, the proverbial question of when to play your cards.
This years lineup includes Plan B, Lily Allen and Guillemots.

also: fuyija & miyagi, long blondes, and jarvis cocker

official

1. Knife: Silent Shout
2. Hold Steady: Boys and Girls in America
3. Belle and Sebastian: The Life Pursuit
4. Clipse: Hell Hath No Fury
5. Liars: Drums Not Dead
6. Lily Allen: Alright, Still
7. Long Blondes: Someone to Drive You Home
8. Phoenix: It’s Never Been Like That
9. Junior Boys: So This Is Goodbye
10. LCD Soundsystem: 45:33
11. Man Man: Six Demon Bag
12. Beach House: Beach House
13. Camera Obscura: Let’s Get Out of This Country
14. Lindstrom: It’s a Feedelity Affair
15. Fujiya & Miyagi: Transparent Things
16. Guillemots: Through the Windowpane
17. Tim Hecker: Harmony in Ultraviolet
18. Booka Shade: Movements
19. Morrissey: Ringleader of the Tormentors
20. TV on the Radio: Return to Cookie Mountain
21. CSS: CSS
22. Pipettes: We Are the Pipettes
23. Various: The World Is Gone
24. M.Ward: Post-War
25. Hot Chip: The Warning
26. Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am…
27. Thermals: The Body, The Blood, The Machine
28. Sunset Rubdown: Shut Up I Am Dreaming
29. Klaxons: Xan Valleys EP
30. Ellen Allien/Apparat: Orchestra of Bubbles
31. Rapture: Pictures of the People We Love
32. Ghostface Killah: Fischscale
33. Boris: Pink
34. El Perro del Mar: El Perro del Mar
35. Decemberists: The Crane Wife
36. Joanna Newsom: Ys
37. T.I.: King
38. Michael Mayer: Immer 2
39. Peter Bjorn and John: Writer’s Block
40. Herbert: Scale
41. Lupe Fiasco: Food n Liquor
42. Frightened Rabbit: Sing the Greys
43. Band of Horses: Everything All the Time
44. DJ Drama & Lil Wayne: Dedication 2
45. Devastations: Coal
46. Nathan Fake: Drowning in a Sea of Love
47. Roots: Game Theory
48. Yo La Tengo: I Am Not Afraid of You…
49. Lansing-Dreiden: The Dividing Island
50. Subtle: for hero: for fool

awww

Read the first post. This line is what bill will have a problem with.




I'm looking to hear Asobi Seksu and Blood Brothers if anyone wouldn't mind helping me out. Thanks

Wrong

right.

I meant he'll have a problem with the "unofficial" list.

didn't limit it, it's never been more than 50 for the album EOY

Clipse @ 4 is the hot shit. Good list overall; I like a lot of those albums. I still need to hear that Klaxons EP.

What is the traditional voting system? Forgive me, I'm a noob.

1. He Poos Clouds. Final Fantasy.
2. Words Are Dead. Horse Feathers.
3. The Crane Wife. The Decemberists.
4. El Perro Del Mar. El Perro Del Mar.
5. It’s Never Been Like That. Phoenix.
6. Everything All the Time. Band of Horses.
7. Fishscale. Ghostface Killah.
8. Writer’s Block. Peter Bjorn and John.
9. Return to the Sea. Islands.
10. Trompe L’Oeil. Malajube.

11. Hell Hath No Fury. Clipse.
12. The Life Pursuit. Belle and Sebastian.
13. King. T.I.
14. Damaged. Lambchop.
15. Ships. Danielson.
16. The Air Force. Xiu Xiu.
17. The Warning. Hot Chip.
18. ‘Sno Angel Like You. Howe Gelb.
19. The Loon. Tapes ‘N Tapes.
20. Night Ripper. Girl Talk.

21. Return to Cookie Mountain. TV on the Radio.
22. Post-War. M. Ward.
23. Roots and Crowns. Califone.
24. Game Theory. The Roots.
25. Modern Times. Bob Dylan.
26. Alright, Still. Lily Allen.
27. Fox Confessor Brings the Flood. Neko Case.
28. The Eraser. Thom Yorke.
29. For Hero : For Fool. Subtle.
30. Citrus. Asobi Seksu.

was going to do a 50, but after reading the arguments for the new points methods, realized that i'm not invested in my final 20 enough to give them the dozens of points they'd receive.

1. Joanna Newsom - Ys
2. TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
3. Sunset Rubdown – Shut up I am Dreaming
4. Liars – Drums not Dead
5. Destroyer – Destroyer’s Rubies
6. Ghostface - Fishscale
7. Yo La Tengo – I am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
8. Califone – Roots and Crowns
9. The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America
10. Beirut – Gulag Orkestar
11. Danielson – Ships
12. The Knife – Silent Shout
13. The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
14. Girl Talk – Night Ripper
15. Shogun Kunitoki – Tasankokaiku
16. Grizzly Bear – Yellow House
17. Love is All – Nine Times that Same Song
18. Junior Boys – So this is Goodbye
19. Belle and Sebastian – The Life Pursuit
20. Band of Horses – Everything All the Time
21. Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
22. Swan Lake – Beast Moans
23. Fujiya and Miyagi – Transparent Things
24. The Thermals – The Body, The Blood, The Machine
25. Tapes ‘n Tapes – The Loon
26. Rhymefest – Blue Collar
27. Malajube – Trompe L’oeil
28. Camera Obscura – Lets Get out of this Country
29. Asobi Seksu – Citrus
30. M. Ward – Post War
31. I’m From Barcelona – Let me Introduce My Friends
32. T.I. – King
33. Futureheads – News and Tributes
34. Bruce Springsteen – We Shall Overcome
35. Justin Timberlake – FutureSex/LoveSounds
36. Lupe Fiasco – Food and Liquor
37. LCD Soundsystem – 45:33
38. Islands – Return to the Sea
39. Phoenix – It’s Never Been Like That
40. Lansing Dreiden – The Dividing Island
41. Pipettes – We are the Pipettes
42. The Roots – Game Theory
43. Mew – And the Glass-Hand Kites
44. Xiu Xiu – The Air Force
45. Sparklehorse – Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
46. Oxford Collapse – Remember the Night Parties
47. Boris – Pink
48. Subtle – for hero: for fool
49. Tap Tap – Lanzafame
50. Figurines – Skeleton

Tapes 'n' Tapes is a 2005 release, guys. Although I guess if it didn't make the cut on last year's SOMB countdown - it's fair game? Which means trouble because that thing has an unfair head-start advantage vs. everything else. I've had about a year with that thing and I've since grown to love that band and that album.

I'm really hoping to see this do well. I still think that a LOT of the board would really dig this but there's really no way to sell anyone here on it that doesn't already like it.


Seems like late '05/early '06 albums lose most of their momentum by this time of year and have faded from all but the diehard fans' memories and off of everyone else's radar.

01. Joanna Newsom - Ys
02. Liars - Drum's Not Dead
03. Islands - Return to the Sea
04. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
05. Love is All - Nine Times That Same Song
06. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
07. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
08. Belle & Sebastion - The Life Pursuit
09. Danielson - Ships
10. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale

11. Man Man - Six Demon Bag
12. Figurines - Skeleton
13. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
14. M. Ward - Post-War
15. Boris - Pink
16. Comets on Fire - Avatar
17. Tapes n' Tapes - The Loon
18. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
19. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Etiquette
20. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House

21. The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
22. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
23. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
24. Asobi Seksu - Citrus
25. Evangelicals - So Gone
26. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I am Dreaming
27. T.I. - King
28. The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
29. The Foundry Field Recordings - Prompts/Miscues
30. Cursive - Happy Hollow

In my top ten pretty much.

Can I vote for the Jesu EP?

does it fit the guidelines?

Shocked at how many people have submitted lists already. You guys are fucking on the ball.

Looks like Ys and Liars are off to a pretty good start. I should probably hear them before voting.

Four tracks, about half an hour long. It's not an official full length but I'll be voting for it if I can.

And yeah, should have pimping threads before voting, imo. I won't be voting for a while.

half-hour = album

oh and voting system=

#1 = 60
#2 = 53
#3 = 50
#4 = 47
#5 = 46

...

#50 = 1

Officiale...

1. Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins- Rabbit Fur Coat
2. Bob Dylan – Modern Times
3. Guillemots- Through The Window Pane
4. Bobby Bare Jr. – The Longest Meow
5. Grizzly Bear – Yellow House
6. The Decemberists- The Crane Wife
7. M Ward – Post-War
8. Lindsey Buckingham – Under The Skin
9. Midlake – The Trials Of Van Occupanther
10. Built To Spill – You In Reverse

11. Belle and Sebastian – The Life Pursuit
12. The Derek Trucks Band – Songlines
13. John Mayer – Continuum
14. Grandaddy – Just Like The Fambly Cat
15. Neko Case- Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
16. Sunset Rubdown – Shut Up I Am Dreaming
17. Arctic Monkeys- What People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
18. Band Of Horses – Everything All The Time
19. Lily Allen – Alright Still
20. Neil Young – Living With War

21. Camera Obscura – Let’s Get Out Of This Country
22. Pelle Carlberg – Everything, Now!
23. Old Crow Medicine Show – Big Iron World
24. The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
25. Thom Yorke – The Eraser
26. Tom Waits – Orphans
27. Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome
28. Tilly And The Wall – Bottoms Of Barrels
29. Destroyer – Rubies
30. New York Dolls – One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This

31. Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
32. Morrissey – Ringleader Of The Tormentors
33. Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped
34. Ronnie Spector – The Last Of The Rock Stars
35. Mojave 3 – Puzzles Like You
36. Keane – Under The Oron Sea
37. Chris Knight – Enough Rope
38. Brother Kite – Waiting For The Time To Be Right
39. Cat Power – The Greatest
40. Girl Talk – Night Ripper

41. The Killers – Sam’s Town
42. The Pernice Brothers – Live A Little
43. Viva Voce – Get Yr Blood Sucked Out
44. Widespread Panic – Earth To America
45. Van Hunt – On The Jungle Floor
46. Comets On Fire – Avatar
47. Jack Johnson – Curious George
48. Los Lobos - The Town And The City
49. Joanna Newsom – Ys
50. Jim Noir – Tower Of Love

Or ejaculating prematurely.

I'ma wait as long as possible, and it's nothing to do with 'me got fish, so year is over'. It's all about dem sound settlin in for me.

Here is my list. You can count it or not, either way works for me:



50. Pearls and Brass - the Indian Tower
49. In Cod We Trust - Ghostigital
48. The Greatest - Cat Power
47. Lantern - Clogs
46. Silent Shout - the Knife
45. Sancho Panza - Mountain Con
44. Kowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue - Kayo Dot
43. Kindermusic - Tom Thumb and the Latter Day Saints
42. Project Polaroid - TOMC3
41. Radio Swan is Down - Laura




40. Two/Three - Dabrye
39. Passover - the Black Angels
38. #03 - the Linn Youki Project
37. The Trials of Van Occupanther - Midlake
36. In Concert Volume 1 - the Sadies
35. Happy New Year - Oneida
34. Yellow House - Grizzly Bear
33. For Here: For Fool - Subtle
32. Seis - Larsen
31. Do the Awesome - Bling Kong



30. Monkey Versus Shark - Thee More Shallows
29. Another Fine Day - Golden Smog
28. Under the Skin - Lindsey Buckingham
27. Ft. Recovery - Centromatic
26. Bring it Back - Mates of State
25. Gypsy Freedom - Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice
24. Symptomatic of a Greater Ill - Darc Mind
23. Seawards - Sickoakes
22. Meek Warrior - Akron Family
21. Death Songs For the Living - Iron Gob
20. The Sun Awakens - Six Organs of Admittance





19. Things Go Better With RJ and AL- Soul Position
18. A Blessing and a Curse - the Drive By Truckers
17. Giggles In the Dark - Lesbians on Ecstasy
16. Bitter Tea - Fiery Furnaces
15. The Mighty Ocean and Nine Dark Theaters - Astronautilis
14. Mother of Thousands - MV and EE with the Bummer Road
13. Rabbit Fur Coat - Jenny Lewis
12. Disciples of California - The Skygreen Leopards
11. Just Like the Fambly Cat - Grandaddy




10.Tim O'Reagan - Tim O'Reagan
9.Transitive Verses - Brookhaven
8. Floating World - Anathallo
7. Espers II - Espers
6. Fox Confessor Brings the Flood - Neko Case
5. Saturday Looks Good to Me - Sound on Sound
4. Coaxial - Coaxial
3. You Are There - Mono
2. Everything All the Time - Band of Horses
1. Dreamt For Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain - Sparklehorse





Worst albums and biggest dissapointments of 2006:

On an Island - David Gilmour
the Eraser - Thom Yorke
At War With the Mystics - the Flaming Lips


An interesting note about my #1. The guy behind Sparklehorse (Mark Linkous) pretty much gave up on music after the genius album "It's a Wonderful Life". There is an interesting article up on Pitchfork about how he got back into the mix:

http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/...ew_Sparklehorse

Dangermouse worked on a few of the tracks too, and they have a new project called " Dangerhorse". I guess Dangermouse is a huge Sparklehorse fan, and when Mark found out they hooked up.

I'm glad this dude is back making music. He really is a musical genuis in the vein of Wilson and Barrett IMHO. His new album isn't the best Sparklehorse album , but it's still damn good.

Wait, is there an option not to count Montana's list?

sadly no, but at least he got it out of the way early

ah...you like my list and you know it.

Helmet's Lucky 52 of 2006




1. Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
2. Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars
3. Burial - Burial
4. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon
5. Isis - In The Absence of Truth
6. Drudkh - Blood in Our Wells
7. Benoit Pioulard - Precis
8. Max Richter - Songs From Before
9. Tod Dockstader - Aerial #3
10. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
11. Venetian Snares - Cavalcade of Glee & Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Pom
12. Machinefabriek - Marijn
13. The North Sea & Rameses III - Night of the Ankou
14. Under Byen - Samme Stof Som Stof
15. Mono and World's End Girlfriend - Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain
16. Helios - Eingya
17. Liars - Drum's Not Dead
18. AFX - Chosen Lords
19. Giddy Motors - Do Easy
20. Taylor Deupree - Northern
21. Svarte Greiner - Knive
22. Jesu - Silver
23. Final - 3
24. Gengis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth
25. Mikkel Metal - Victimizer
26. Om - Conference of the Birds
27. Daughters - Hell Songs
28. These Arms Are Snakes - Easter
29. Ensemble - Ensemble
30. Biosphere - Dropsonde
31. Clark - Body Riddle
32. Skullflower - Tribulations
33. Califone - Roots and Crowns
34. Nachtmystium - Instinct: Decay
35. Boris - Pink
36. Broadcast - The Future Crayon
37. Xela - The Dead Sea
38. Talk Demonic - Beat Romantic
39. Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide
40. Mouse on Mars - Varcharz
41. Ricardo Villalobos - Achso
42. Christopher Bissonette - Periphery
43. Gregor Samsa - 55:12
44. Loscil - Plume
45. Wolf Eyes - Human Animal
46. Eluvium - When I Live By The Garden and The Sea
47. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
48. Khylst - Chaos is My Name
49. Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
50. Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Red Sun
51. Chihei Hatakeyama - Minima Moralia
52. Shogun Kunitoki - Tasankokaiku

What a nice, non-SOMBie-ish pick.



One of the worst albums of the year, and I like his other stuff.

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12. The Derek Trucks Band – Songlines
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What a nice, non-SOMBie-ish pick.


yep, and we need more such voters...ha ha

Nice list. Unfortunately I forgot about the Neil Young. I enjoyed it for like a week, then never picked it up again.

And Jenny Lewis is pretty damn good. Fantastic voice. Video from Rabbit Fur Coat:


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2005 and #87 on our list last year.

If I was going to promote one album on my list that no one will vote for and should it'd be the Bobby Bare Jr. release



damn...let me fix

fixed...replaced with Los Lobos...now there' two similar discs...ha

Auf-ish-yule

1. Red Krayola--Introduction (I swear it isn't a comp)
2. Mission of Burma--The Obliterati
3. TV on the Radio--Return to Cookie Mountain
4. Yo La Tengo--I Am not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
5. The Flaming Lips--At War with the Mystics
6. Pere Ubu--Why I Hate Women
7. Lambchop--Damaged
8. Slayer--Christ Illusion
9. Belle and Sebastian--The Life Persuit
10. Beck--The Information

had to make a quick edit. sorry.

Who was the lady at the start of that? She's dreamy.

I think she is a comedian of some sort.

I was planning on voting for this in the compilations thread.

When is the cut off?

Anathallo - Dokkoise House live ( from Floating World):


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Drive By Truckers - Space City live (from A Blessing and a Curse):

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Grandaddy - Rear View Mirror ( from Fambly Cat):

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Mono - The Flames Beyond Cold Mountain live ( from You Are There).

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Uh... Sarah Silverman? Come on people! (or was that sarcasm that I'm not picking up on?)

If it wasn't sarcastic, then go rent 'Jesus is Magic'? I guess it's not really that good but there's some seriously funny bits. Basically a standard stand-up comedy concert type movie with skits thrown in, but worth the 90 minutes.

Its probably a bit late to start pimping this, what with people already posting their lists, but I’m only just starting to realise its full brilliance so here it is anyway

Its fuzzy,analogue synths ago go for some bongo-laced, retro-space-funk

The Emperor Machine – Vertical Tones and Horizontal Noise

Track Listings:

01. Who You
02. Yes No Egg
03. Roller Daddy
04. Avalution Of Eight
05. Lift Up Chong And See
06. Monkey Overbite
07. No Sale No I.D.
08. Bodilizer Bodilsizer
09. Rimramramrim
10. Fear Of Woman
11. Seka Wants Your VCS3
12. Something From The Cox-Doree Institute
13. Tropical Waste
14. Avalution Of Seven

Here is a one track taster to see if it’s your bag
The Emperor Machine - Rimramramrim

and here is the whole thing. Split in two because it’s a biggie
Part 1

Part 2

Sorry dude. The only TV I watch is Lost , Cubs or Bears games (and the Lost episodes I download via torrent). Anything else is clips from Youtube.

Well, I saw him open for the FLips (b-b-b-b-boring) in 2003, so he didn't take THAT long of a break.

I never said he was great live. There aren't too many bands that are.

Please don't count his list yet. I need to send him something first.