Full Version: SOMB Top 100 Albums of 2006
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yo, Doc, can you up the complete list of everything that was voted for?
The Onion AV Section used a great term to describe all the Braff-endorsed/Shins/Jenny Lewis/Ben Gibbard type music: yindie. I'm so using that from now on.
it really bums me out to see everyone lauding night ripper for, you know, biggie over elton! jeezy over nirvana! phil collins is funky! (admittedly its glaring, much-dissected calling card), because its real gem is in its, no shit, strong songwriting. that's why i love this album so much: i can't place many of the samples, but it's apparent that gillis tackles each track with an ear for palpable momentum. he builds each one very methodically, surprising listeners not only with pop shock values, or however else the wikipedia nerds kareem refers to can codify the album's many beloved clips, but with each's effective placement. i've listened to this album dozens of times now, enough to the point where i don't get thrilled by the prospect of verve sample on the horizon, or at least, i'm not distracted by each piece of songs i love; now, as is gillis' intention, it ebbs and flows together, aided usually by brash hip hop drums and a steady vocal plate-- there's a reason he uses so much rap: he can sample long blocks safely with the knowledge of that rappers' flows and cadences are as varied and nuanced as the instrumentation he throws undernearth-- that allows the music to drift in and out, intertwining with melody instead of obscuring it, as i fear happens to nearly all of night ripper's supposedly huge fans. this might piss off a small, sanguinary somb contingent, but this album reminds me of television, this year's model, the dplan at their finest, and most of the dope postcard stuff: because there's a strong enough melody throughout, the "band" is free to fuck with the music underneath, refusing to adhere to boring, heavy chords and predictable rhythms, but still retaining its core harmonic elements. and this is what girl talk loses in the live show: because gillis has to maintain the same ecstatic peak for 45 minutes, he's reduced to throwing samples together in the most immediate, visceral fashion; i was hardly surprised when he looped nmh for nearly two minutes, almost like he's scrambling to find the next, or trying to preserve, the crowd's fascination, rather than exploring the nuance of the album. please, listen again, and humor me: reduce this album to rock songs (i know, the un-conceit of night ripper!) and tell me you can't find genuine climaxes and, dare i say it, verses.
ps mv, i got the josie and the pussycats album! it's so good!
ps mv, i got the josie and the pussycats album! it's so good!
QUOTE(cpl-593h @ Jan 4 2007, 11:28 PM) [snapback]281694[/snapback]
it really bums me out to see everyone lauding night ripper for, you know, biggie over elton! jeezy over nirvana! phil collins is funky! (admittedly its glaring, much-dissected calling card), because its real gem is in its, no shit, strong songwriting. that's why i love this album so much: i can't place many of the samples, but it's apparent that gillis tackles each track with an ear for palpable momentum. he builds each one very methodically, surprising listeners not only with pop shock values, or however else the wikipedia nerds kareem refers to can codify the album's many beloved clips, but with each's effective placement. i've listened to this album dozens of times now, enough to the point where i don't get thrilled by the prospect of verve sample on the horizon, or at least, i'm not distracted by each piece of songs i love; now, as is gillis' intention, it ebbs and flows together, aided usually by brash hip hop drums and a steady vocal plate-- there's a reason he uses so much rap: he can sample long blocks safely with the knowledge of that rappers' flows and cadences are as varied and nuanced as the instrumentation he throws undernearth-- that allows the music to drift in and out, intertwining with melody instead of obscuring it, as i fear happens to nearly all of night ripper's supposedly huge fans. this might piss off a small, sanguinary somb contingent, but this album reminds me of television, this year's model, the dplan at their finest, and most of the dope postcard stuff: because there's a strong enough melody throughout, the "band" is free to fuck with the music underneath, refusing to adhere to boring, heavy chords and predictable rhythms, but still retaining its core harmonic elements. and this is what girl talk loses in the live show: because gillis has to maintain the same ecstatic peak for 45 minutes, he's reduced to throwing samples together in the most immediate, visceral fashion; i was hardly surprised when he looped nmh for nearly two minutes, almost like he's scrambling to find the next, or trying to preserve, the crowd's fascination, rather than exploring the nuance of the album. please, listen again, and humor me: reduce this album to rock songs (i know, the un-conceit of night ripper!) and tell me you can't find genuine climaxes and, dare i say it, verses.
ps mv, i got the josie and the pussycats album! it's so good!
While I feel this post may be hyperbolic, it's good to see someone coming to Night Ripper's defense. My argument for the album has always been that the actual "songs" are pretty amazing. The finale of the album is one of the best album closers of the year.
Post made me want to check out Night Ripper again. I (perhaps unfairly) dismissed it as gimmick/style-over-substance first time round.
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While I feel this post may be hyperbolic, it's good to see someone coming to Night Ripper's defense. My argument for the album has always been that the actual "songs" are pretty amazing. The finale of the album is one of the best album closers of the year.
"HEY! WE WANT SOME PUUUSSSAAAY!!!" could be the best closer for any album
what page of the thread is the final list on?
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QUOTE(killerparties @ Jan 5 2007, 01:58 AM) [snapback]281740[/snapback]
While I feel this post may be hyperbolic, it's good to see someone coming to Night Ripper's defense. My argument for the album has always been that the actual "songs" are pretty amazing. The finale of the album is one of the best album closers of the year.
"HEY! WE WANT SOME PUUUSSSAAAY!!!" could be the best closer for any album
Yep, I was thinking about this particular line when I wrote that.
eh the trillville sample is better
Man, Trillville could have been huge. Dude dropped the ball. Same with Lil Scrappy. That joint album they put out is one of the best LPs of the 00s. Lil Jon was killing it.
When is the singles list due?
When is the singles list due?
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When is the singles list due?
It's done.
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Agreed. However, I posit that the only reason they're popular at all is because of their physical attributes.
Neko isn't that much of a babe, her talent makes her more attractive. BTW, your comment is absurb. Number one reason for liking Neko is the voice.
Never heard her sing. I'm just wondering though, if she, or Britney, or Newsom sounded just like they do now and looked like this, would people be as much into them?
Phoebe aneg.
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QUOTE(killerparties @ Jan 5 2007, 01:58 AM) [snapback]281740[/snapback]
While I feel this post may be hyperbolic, it's good to see someone coming to Night Ripper's defense. My argument for the album has always been that the actual "songs" are pretty amazing. The finale of the album is one of the best album closers of the year.
"HEY! WE WANT SOME PUUUSSSAAAY!!!" could be the best closer for any album
agreed. he's sneaky like that.
This belongs in here
And Ben needs to update this
http://www.palewire.com/somb/polls/
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http://www.soundopinions.com/forum/index.p...ndpost&p=288216
500 (+44) When Your Heart Stops Beating 50 1
499 Jay-Z Kingdom Come 51 3
498 Skygreen Leopards Disciples of California 51 2
497 Ronnie Spector The Last of the Rock Stars 51 2
496 Kayo Dot Kowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue 51 2
495 Kaito One Million Light Years 51 2
494 And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead So Divided 51 2
493 Dirty on Purpose Hallelujah Sirens 52 3
492 Van She Van She EP 52 2
491 Extra Golden OK-Oyot System 52 2
490 DJ Shadow The Outsider 53 4
489 Johan Johansson IBM 1401, a User's Manual 53 2
488 Irving Death in the Garden, Blood on the Flowers 53 2
487 Dragonforce Inhuman Rampage 53 2
486 Buzzcocks Flat-Pack Philosophy 53 2
485 Whitehouse Asceticists 53 1
484 Theater Fire Everybody Has a Dark Side 53 1
483 Ten Falls Forth Excuse Me…I Believe That's My Ride 53 1
482 Snowglobe Oxytocin 53 1
481 Portugal. The Man Waiter: "You Vultures!" 53 1
480 Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs Under the Covers, Vol. 1 53 1
479 Les Tetes Raides Fragile 53 1
478 Holden Chevrotine 53 1
477 Ewan Pearson Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi_01 53 1
476 Ed Harcourt The Beautiful Life 53 1
475 Dan Sartain Join Dan Sartain 53 1
474 Carrie Rodriguez Seven Angels on a Bicycle 53 1
473 Amusement Parks on Fire Out of the Angeles 54 2
472 Nachtmystium Instinct: Decay 55 3
471 Billy Talent Billy Talent II 55 2
470 Goslings Grandeur of Hair 56 2
469 Damnwells Air Stereo 56 2
468 Tap Tap Lanzafame 57 3
467 Mikkel Metal Victimizer 57 2
466 Bobby Bare, Jr. The Longest Meow 57 2
465 Portastatic Be Still Please 58 3
464 Various Artists The World is Gone 58 2
463 Tokyo Jihen Adult 58 2
462 Rick Ross Port of Miami 58 2
461 Om Conference of the Birds 58 2
460 Embrace This New Day 58 2
459 Eef Barzelay Bitter Honey 58 2
458 Richard Ashcroft Keys to the World 59 3
457 Jolie Holland Springtime Can Kill You 59 3
456 Forecast In the Shadow of Two Gunmen 59 2
455 Rock Central Plaza Are We Not Horses? 60 2
454 Darkel Darkel 60 2
453 Sufjan Stevens Holiday Box Set 60 1 1
452 Soledad Brothers The Hardest Walk 60 1 1
451 Rainer Maria Catastrophe Keeps Us Together 60 1 1
450 Nightmares on Wax In a Space Outta Sound 60 1 1
449 Ghost of the Russian Empire With Fiercest Determination 60 1 1
448 Dulcesky Lands 60 1 1
447 Amy Diamond Still Here Still Now 60 1 1
446 Smoosh Free to Stay 61 2
445 Roman Candle The Wee Hours Revue 61 2
444 P.O.S. Audition 61 2
443 Minders It's a Bright Guilty World 61 2
442 Klaxons Xan Valleys EP 61 2
441 Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint The River in Reverse 61 2
440 Xasthur Subliminal Genocide 62 3
439 South Adventures in the Underground 62 2
438 Parenthetical Girls Safe as Houses 62 2
437 Prince 3121 64 6
436 Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime II 64 2
435 New York Dolls One Day it Will Please Us To Remember Even This 64 2
434 Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris All the Roadrunning 64 2
433 Kelis Kelis Was Here 64 2
432 Jim Jones Hustler's P.O.M.E. 64 2
431 Dresden Dolls Yes, Virginia… 64 2
430 Archie Bronson Outfit Derdang Derdang 64 2
429 Anathallo Floating World 64 2
428 AFX Chosen Lords 64 2
427 Gossip Standing in the Way of Control 65 4
426 Shearwater Palo Santo 65 3
425 Koop Koop Islands 65 3
424 Snoop Dogg The Blue Carpet Treatment 65 2
423 Pants Yell Recent Drama 65 2
422 Johnny Boy Johnny Boy 65 2
421 Editors The Back Room 65 2
420 Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltzin Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltzin 66 2
419 Quasi When the Going Gets Dark 66 2
418 Adam Green Jacket Full of Danger 66 2
417 Pink Mountaintops Axis of Evol 67 3
416 Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra Boulevard de L'Independence 67 2
415 Jose Gonzales Veneer 67 2
414 Hylozoists La Fin Du Monde 67 2
413 Howlin' Rain Howlin' Rain 67 2
412 Hem Funnel Cloud 68 2
411 Eleventh Dream Day Zeroes and Ones 68 2
410 Alex Smoke Paradolla 68 2
409 Luomo Paper Tigers 69 4
408 Daylights for the Birds Trouble Everywhere 69 2
407 Charles Lloyd Sangum 69 2
406 AZ The Format 69 2
405 Acid Casuals Omni 69 2
404 Stereolab Fab Four Suture 70 5
403 Khylst Chaos is My Name 70 3
402 Svarte Grenier Knive 70 2
401 SCSI-9 The Line of Nine 70 2
400 Bertine Zelitz My Italian Greyhound 70 2
399 Young Knives Voices of Animals and Men 71 2
398 Wovenhand Mosaic 71 2
397 Ambulance Ltd. New English EP 71 2
396 Josh Rosue Sobtitulo 72 3
395 Submarine Races The Submarine Races 72 2
394 Duels The Bright Lights and What I Should Have Learned 72 2
393 Caetano Veloso Ce 72 2
392 Amy Milian Honey From the Tombs 72 2
391 Mouse on Mars Varcharz 73 3
390 Boris Vein 73 3
389 Burst Origo 73 2
388 Daughters Hell Songs 74 4
387 Tod Dockstader Aerial #3 74 2
386 Robbie Williams RUDEBOX 74 2
385 Coral Sea Volcano and Heart 74 2
384 Suburban Kids with Biblical Names #3 75 2
383 Matthew Friedburger Winter Woman / Holy Ghost Language School 75 2
382 Euros Childs Chops 75 2
381 Beyonce B'Day 75 2
380 An Albatross Blessphemy (Of the Peace-Beast Feastgiver and the Bear Warp Kumite) 76 4
379 Pelle Carlberg Everything, Now! 76 2
378 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti House Arrest 76 2
377 Spank Rock Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo 77 3
376 Lucero Rebels, Rogue and Sworn Brothers 77 3
375 Los Lobos The Town and the City 78 3
374 Asunder Works Will Come Undone 78 2
373 Ali Farka Toure Savame 78 2
372 Albert Hammond, Jr. Yours to Keep 79 4
371 E-40 My Ghetto Report Card 79 3
370 Clinic Visitations 79 3
369 MV and EE with the Bummer Road Mother of Thousands 79 2
368 Joi Tennessee Slim is the Bomb 79 2
367 Deadboy and the Elephantmen We are Night Sky 79 2
366 Evangelicals So Gone 80 4
365 My Brightest Diamond Bring Me the Workhorse 80 2
364 Maximo Park Missing Songs 80 2
363 Joakim Monsters & Silly Songs 80 2
362 Old Crow Medicine Show Big Iron World 81 4
361 Mudhoney Under a Billion Stars 81 4
360 Snowden Anti Anti 81 3
359 Pitbull El Mariel 81 3
358 Subways Youth for Eternity 81 2
357 Stills Without Feathers 81 2
356 Chin Up Chin Up This Harness Can't Ride Anything 81 2
355 Peeping Tom Peeping Tom 82 3
354 Broadcast The Future Crayon 82 3
353 Damien Rice 9 82 2
352 Tom Ze Estodundo o Pagone 83 3
351 Tokyo Police Club Lesson in Crime 83 3
350 Various Artists Congotronics 2 83 2
349 DC Snipers Missile Sunset 83 2
348 Elected Sun, Sun, Sun 84 3
347 Dub Trio New Heavy 84 3
346 Laura Gibson If You Come to Great Me 84 2
345 Current 93 Black Ships Ate the Sky 84 2
344 Alice Smith For Lovers, Dreamers and Me 84 2
343 Adem Love and Other Planets 84 2
342 Cornelius Sensuous 85 4
341 Essex Green Cannibal Sea 85 3
340 Tim O'Reagan Tim O'Reagan 85 2
339 Pet Shop Boys Fundamental 85 2
338 Jay Reatard Blood Visions 85 2
337 Napalm Death Smear Campaign 86 3
336 Diableros You Can't Break the Stings in Our Olympic Hearts 86 3
335 Sam Roberts Chemical City 86 2
334 Ray Davies Other People's Lives 86 2
333 Mary J. Blige The Breakthrough 86 2
332 Johnny Cash American V: A Hundred Highways 87 4
331 Boxcutter Oneiric 87 3
330 Babyshambles Down in Albion 87 2
329 Tragically Hip World Container 88 2
328 Tender Trap 6 Billion People 88 2 1
327 Nomo New Tones 88 2
326 Horse Feathers Words are Dead 88 2
325 Fergie The Dutchess 88 2
324 Joseph Arthur Nuclear Daydream 89 5
323 Aethenor Deep in Ocean Sunk the Lamp of Light 89 4
322 Evens Get Evens 89 2 1
321 Ballet Mattachine! 89 2
320 Pernice Brothers Live a Little 90 4
319 Uusitalo Tulenkantaja 90 3
318 Ms. John Soda Notes and the Like 90 3
317 Tally Hall Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum 90 2
316 Magnolia Electric Co. Fading Trails 91 6
315 Pretty Girls Make Graves Elan Vital 91 2
314 Corinne Bailey Rae Corinne Bailey Rae 91 2
313 MSTRKRFT The Looks 92 4
312 Catfish Heaven Tell Me 92 4
311 Tha Dogg Pound Cali Iz Active 92 2
310 Windy and Carl Dreamhouse 93 3
309 Keane Under the Oron Sea 93 3
308 Young Jeezy The Inspiration: Thug Motivation 102 93 2 1
307 White Magic Dat Rosa Mel Apibus 94 3
306 Amy Winehouse Back to Black 94 2 1
305 Holy Smokes Talk to Your Kids About Gangs 95 4
304 Zero 7 The Garden 96 4
303 Jeremy Enigk World Wants 96 3
302 Guster Ganging Up on the Sun 96 3
301 Derek Trucks Band Songlines 96 3
300 Changes Today is Tonight 96 3
299 Lo-Fi-Fnk Boylife 96 2
298 Taking Back Sunday Louder Now 97 4
297 Forward Russia Give Me a Wall 98 3
296 Muse Black Holes and Revelations 99 3
295 Math and Physics Club Math and Physics Club 99 3
294 Lady Sovereign Public Warning 101 4 1
293 Richard Buckner Meadow 101 3
292 Heartless Bastards All This Time 102 4
291 Across Tundras Dark Songs of the Prairie 102 3
290 Mars Volta Amputechture 102 2 1
289 Barbara Morgenstern The Grass is Always Greener 103 3
288 American Princes Less and Less 103 3
287 Emperor Machine Vertical Tones & Horizontal Noise 104 4
286 What Four What Four 105 3 1
285 As Fast As Open Letter to the Damned 105 3
284 Sean Lennon Friendly Fire 106 4
283 Dixie Chicks Taking the Long Way 106 4
282 Lansing-Dreiden The Dividing Island 107 6
281 Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice Gypsy Freedom 107 3
280 Ben Harper Both Sides of the Gun 108 4
279 Badly Drawn Boy Born in the U.K. 108 4
278 Nice Boys Nice Boys 108 3
277 Black Heart Procession The Spell 110 4
276 Mosquitos Mosquitos III 110 3
275 Alejandro Escovedo The Boxing Mirror 111 5
274 Drones Gala Mill 111 3
273 Brakes The Beatific Visions 112 3
272 Red Krayola Introduction 113 2 1
271 Appleseed Cast Peregrine 114 5
270 Aloha Some Echoes 114 4
269 Mystery Jets Making Dens 114 3
268 Bellrays Have a Litlte Faith 114 3
267 Venetian Snares Cavlacade of Glee & Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Pom 115 5
266 Indian Jewelry Invasive Exotics 115 4
265 These Arms are Snakes Easter 115 3
264 In Flames Come Clarity 115 3
263 Loscil Plume 116 4
262 Lemonheads The Lemonheads 116 4
261 Matthew Ryan From a Late Night High Rise 116 3
260 Consequences Consequences 116 3
259 Cut Chemist The Audience's Listening 117 5
258 Marit Larsen Under the Surface 117 3
257 Taylor Duepree Northern 118 3
256 Ghostland Observatory Paparazzi Lightning 118 3
255 Diddy Press Play 120 3
254 Chad VanGaalen Skelliconnection 120 3
253 Trae Restless 121 4
252 Delays You See Colours 121 4
251 Plan B Who Needs Actions When You Got Words 121 3
250 J Dilla The Shining 121 3
249 Dosh The Lost Take 125 5
248 Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan Ballad of Broken Seas 125 4
247 Pete Yorn Nightcrawler 126 4
246 Spearhead Yell Fire 126 3 1
245 Matisyahu Youth 126 3 1
244 Goldfrapp Super Nature 127 5
243 Andrew W.K. Close Calls With Brick Walls 128 4
242 Octagon Man Magneton 130 6
241 What Made Milwaukee Famous Trying to Never Catch Up 130 4
240 Fucked Up Hidden World 131 4
239 Slip Eisenhower 132 5
238 Eric Bachman To the Races 133 6
237 Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium 133 4
236 Beach House Beach House 134 6
235 Whitest Boy Alive Dreams 134 4
234 Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death 134 4
233 I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness Fear is On Our Side 135 6
232 My My Songs for the Gentle 135 3
231 Dredg Live at the Fillmore 135 3 1
230 Mojave 3 Puzzles Like You 139 5
229 Nellie McKay Pretty Little Head 139 4 1
228 William Elliot Whitmore Song of the Blackbird 141 4
227 Lovely Feathers Hind Hind Legs 142 5
226 Killer Mike I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind 142 4 1
225 Album Leaf Into the Blue Again 142 4
224 Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton Knives Don't Have Your Back 143 5
223 Tom Petty Highway Companion 143 4
222 Jon Auer Songs From Our Demise 143 4
221 Martime We, the Vehciles 146 3 1
220 Machinefabriek Marijn 147 4
219 Celtic Frost Monotheist 148 3
218 Mylo Destroy Rock and Roll 149 4
217 John Mayer Continuumm 149 4
216 Drudkh Blood in Our Wells 151 4
215 Squarepusher Hello Everything 152 4
214 Shout Out Out Out Out Not Saying / Just Saying 156 5
213 Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 Ole! Tarantula 159 6
212 Sufjan Stevens The Avalanche 159 5
211 Weird Al Yankovic Straight Outta Lynwood 159 4
210 Nelly Furtado Loose 160 6
209 Wolf Eyes Human Animal 161 6
208 Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Etiquette 161 5
207 My Morning Jacket Okonokos 162 4
206 Vetiver To Find Me Gone 163 6
205 Foundry Field Recordings Prompts/Miscues 164 8
204 Dears Gang of Losers 164 5
203 Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain 166 4
202 Nouvelle Vague Bande a Part 167 7
201 OOIOO Taiga 167 6
200 Camille Le Fil 167 4
199 Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Living Like a Refugee 169 5 1
198 Ray LaMontagne Til the Sun Turns Black 169 5
197 Espers Espers II 172 4
196 Tilly and the Wall Bottoms of Barrels 174 6
195 Cursive Happy Hollow 174 6
194 Sondre Lerche Duper Sessions 176 5
193 Robert Pollard From a Compound Eye 179 5
192 Rhett Miller The Believer 180 5
191 We are Scientists With Love and Squalor 182 6
190 120 Days 120 Days 182 6
189 Frightened Rabbit Sing the Greys 184 8 1
188 Basement Jaxx Crazy Itch Radio 185 5
187 Format Dog Problems 187 5
186 Mono You are There 188 5
185 Sparks Hello Young Lovers 192 6
184 Under Byen Samme Stof Som Stof 193 5
183 Sound Team Movie Monster 195 7
182 Howe Gelb Sno Angel Like You 197 6
181 Bat for Lashes Fur and Gold 200 5 1
180 Isis In the Absence of Truth 201 6
179 Kooks Inside In / Inside Out 204 7
178 Shogun Kunitoki Tasankokaiku 205 7
177 Ben Kweller Ben Kweller 205 7
176 Tool 10000 Days 207 8
175 Coup Pick a Bigger Weapon 207 5
174 Snow Patrol Eyes Open 210 7 1
173 Keene Brothers Blues and Boogie Shoes 210 5
172 Clearlake Amber 211 6 1
171 Black Keys Magic Potion 212 7
170 Golden Smog Another Fine Day 215 8
169 Giddy Motors Do Easy 216 6
168 French Kicks Two Thousand 217 6 1
167 Brightback Morning Light Brightback Morning Light 221 8
166 Eagles of Death Metal Death by Sexy 223 12
165 Burial Burial 224 6 1
164 Max Richter Songs from Before 226 6
163 Clockcleaner Nevermind 226 6 1
162 Slayer Christ Illusion 227 9
161 Six Organs of Admittance The Sun Awakens 229 7
160 sleepy Jackson Personality 231 7
159 Game Doctor's Advocate 231 7
158 Benoit Pioulard Precis 231 7
157 Brand New The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me 234 7 1
156 Divine Comedy Victory for the Comic Muse 236 7 2
155 White Whale WWI 237 7
154 Lambchop Damaged 237 7
153 Film School Film School 239 9
152 Lindstrom It's a Feedelity Affair 243 7
151 Loose Fur Born Again in America 245 9
150 Ark State of the Ark 251 7 1
149 Margo & the Nuclear So & So's The Dust of Retreat 255 7
148 Placebo Meds 257 9
147 Dirty Pretty Things Waterloo to Anywhere 257 8
146 Enslaved Ruun 260 7
145 Keith Fullerton Whitman Lisbon 262 7
144 Sloan Never Hear the End of It 265 8 1
143 Gomez How We Operate 268 8 1
142 Roseanne Cash Black Cadillac 276 7 1
141 Oxford Collapse Remember the Night Parties 277 12
140 Lilys Everything Wrong is Imaginary 277 8 1
139 My Chemical Romance The Black Parade 279 10
138 Mew And the Glass-Held Kites 279 8
137 Deftones Saturday Night Wrist 282 10 1
136 Josh Ritter The Animal Years 283 8
135 Ratatat Classics 287 12
134 Long Blondes Someone to Drive You Home 287 9 1
133 Mountain Goats Get Lonely 290 9
132 El Parro del Mar El Parro del Mar 300 12
131 Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth 306 11
130 Juana Molina Son 315 10
129 Walkmen A Hundred Miles Off 316 11
128 Akron Family Meek Warrior 322 12
127 Van Hunt On the Jungle Floor 333 12 1
126 J Dilla Donuts 337 9 1
125 Malajube` Trompe L'Oeil 341 11
124 Bound Stems Appreciation Night 341 10
123 Gil Mantera's Party Dream Bloodsongs 341 8 2
122 Cold War Kids Robbers & Cowards 343 14
121 Lindsay Buckingham Under the Skin 354 12
120 Rhymefest Blue Collar 355 12
119 Blow Paper Television 355 11 1
118 Mammatus Mammatus 358 10
117 Xiu Xiu The Airforce 359 12
116 I'm from Barcelona Let Me Introduce My Friends 374 14
115 Clark Body Riddle 375 12 1
114 Graham Coxon Love Travels at Illegal Speeds 377 13
113 Converge No Heroes 386 10 1
112 M's Future Women 387 11
111 Subtle for hero: for fool 389 17
110 Herbert Scale 389 14
109 Voxtrot Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, Wives EP 389 9
108 Scott Walker The Drift 389 9 2
107 Centromatic Ft. Recovery 391 13
106 Sword Age of Winters 396 11 1
105 Twilight Singers Powder Burns 398 13 2
104 Streets The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living 399 18
103 Tom Waits Orphans 399 9 2
102 Jim Noir Tower of Love 402 12
101 Slowlands Never Was There a Town 408 11
100 Sunn 0))))/Boris Altar 415 12 1
99 Mates of State Bring it Back 424 14
98 Figurines Skeleton 425 13 2
97 Fujiya & Miyagi Transparent Things 435 14
96 Final Fantasy He Poos Clouds 437 14 1
95 Mission of Burma The Obliterati 438 15
94 Long Winters Putting the Days to Bed 438 15
93 Wolfmother Wolfmother 446 13
92 Pearl Jam Pearl Jam 449 14
91 Matmos The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of the Beast 449 14
90 Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars 450 13
89 Helios Eingya 475 14
88 Jesu Silver 481 16
87 Morrissey Ringleader of the Tormentors 486 15
86 Booka Shade Movements 490 15 1
85 Drive-By Truckers A Blessing and a Curse 507 15
84 Jarvis Cocker Jarvis 517 15
83 Cansei de Ser Sexy Cansei de Ser Sexy 519 15 1
82 Neil Young Living With War 519 13 3
81 Black Angels Passover 523 15
80 Rapture Pieces of the People We Love 528 23
79 Mogwai Mr. Beast 535 18
78 Annuals Be He Me 535 18
77 Futureheads News and Tributes 536 20 1
76 Bonnie "Prince" Billy The Letting Go 536 18
75 Scissor Sisters Ta-Dah 538 16
74 Fiery Furnaces Bitter Tea 541 17
73 Ricardo Villalobos Achso 546 15
72 Sparklehorse Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain 563 19 1
71 Man Man Six Demon Bag 573 19
70 Melvins (A) Senile Animal 581 16 3
69 Be Your Own Pet Be Your Own Pet 585 19
68 Comets on Fire Avatar 613 18 1
67 Calexico Garden Ruin 616 18 1
66 Danielson Ships 624 21
65 Grandaddy Just Like the Fambly Cat 629 19
64 Regina Spektor Begin to Hope 631 17 2
63 Swan Lake Beast Moans 641 19 1
62 Love is All Nine Times That Same Song 656 18
61 Antennas Sins 664 17
60 Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome 676 19
59 Killers Sam's Town 698 20
58 Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine 708 21 1
57 Strokes First Impressions of Earth 709 25
56 T.I. King 739 22
55 Roots Game Theory 740 28
54 Islands Return of the Sea 750 21
53 Charlotte Gainsbourg 5:55 761 22
52 Ellen Allien & Apparat Orchestra of Bubbles 788 23 3
51 Thom Yorke The Eraser 791 32
50 Camera Obscura Let's Get Out of This Country 817 26
49 Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers 825 25 1
48 Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds 828 30 1
47 Boris Pink 857 27
46 Guillemots Through the Windowpane 862 23
45 Tapes n Tapes The Loon 877 25
44 Flaming Lips At War With the Mystics 879 28 1
43 Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor 911 31 1
42 Brother Kite Waiting for the Time to be Right 921 24 1
41 Mastodon Blood Mountain 927 23 5
40 LCD Soundsystem Original Run 930 30
39 Peter Bjorn and John Writer's Block 957 27
38 Silversun Pickups Canvas 1001 27
37 Cat Power The Greatest 1010 33
36 Califone Roots and Crowns 1071 29 4
35 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones 1078 31 1
34 Asobi Sesku Citrus 1084 32 2
33 Phoenix It's Never Been Like That 1110 30 3
32 Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet 1124 29 4
31 Lily Allien Alright, Still 1139 34
30 Beck The Information 1147 34 1
29 Beirut Gulag Orkestar 1151 37 1
28 Midlake The Trials of Van Occupanther 1179 35
27 Secret Machines Ten Silver Drops 1190 32 2
26 Bob Dylan Modern Times 1197 34
25 Built to Spill You in Reverse 1246 34
24 Grizzly Bear Yellow House 1269 33 3
23 Junior Boys So This is Goodbye 1284 39
22 Ghostface Fishscale 1304 36 1
21 Pipettes We are the Pipettes 1311 40
20 Knife Silent Shout 1345 39 2
19 Sunset Rubdown Shut Up I Am Dreaming 1356 35 5
18 Liars Drum's Not Dead 1376 37 1
17 Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 1411 41 1
16 Joanna Newsom Ys 1453 35 10
15 Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 1458 43
14 Clipse Hell Hath No Fury 1517 40 4
13 Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass 1521 46
12 Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere 1529 47 1
11 Girl Talk Night Ripper 1728 47 1
10 Hot Chip The Warning 1799 51 1
9 Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat 1934 48 5
8 Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies 2094 52 6
7 Decemberists The Crane Wife 2136 58 2
6 Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America 2183 52 6
5 Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings the Flood 2275 62 3
4 Band of Horses Everything All the Time 2307 63 3
3 Belle & Sebastian The Life Pursuit 2390 66 4
2 TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain 2612 73 1
1 M. Ward Post-War 2741 71 6
500 (+44) When Your Heart Stops Beating 50 1
499 Jay-Z Kingdom Come 51 3
498 Skygreen Leopards Disciples of California 51 2
497 Ronnie Spector The Last of the Rock Stars 51 2
496 Kayo Dot Kowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue 51 2
495 Kaito One Million Light Years 51 2
494 And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead So Divided 51 2
493 Dirty on Purpose Hallelujah Sirens 52 3
492 Van She Van She EP 52 2
491 Extra Golden OK-Oyot System 52 2
490 DJ Shadow The Outsider 53 4
489 Johan Johansson IBM 1401, a User's Manual 53 2
488 Irving Death in the Garden, Blood on the Flowers 53 2
487 Dragonforce Inhuman Rampage 53 2
486 Buzzcocks Flat-Pack Philosophy 53 2
485 Whitehouse Asceticists 53 1
484 Theater Fire Everybody Has a Dark Side 53 1
483 Ten Falls Forth Excuse Me…I Believe That's My Ride 53 1
482 Snowglobe Oxytocin 53 1
481 Portugal. The Man Waiter: "You Vultures!" 53 1
480 Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs Under the Covers, Vol. 1 53 1
479 Les Tetes Raides Fragile 53 1
478 Holden Chevrotine 53 1
477 Ewan Pearson Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi_01 53 1
476 Ed Harcourt The Beautiful Life 53 1
475 Dan Sartain Join Dan Sartain 53 1
474 Carrie Rodriguez Seven Angels on a Bicycle 53 1
473 Amusement Parks on Fire Out of the Angeles 54 2
472 Nachtmystium Instinct: Decay 55 3
471 Billy Talent Billy Talent II 55 2
470 Goslings Grandeur of Hair 56 2
469 Damnwells Air Stereo 56 2
468 Tap Tap Lanzafame 57 3
467 Mikkel Metal Victimizer 57 2
466 Bobby Bare, Jr. The Longest Meow 57 2
465 Portastatic Be Still Please 58 3
464 Various Artists The World is Gone 58 2
463 Tokyo Jihen Adult 58 2
462 Rick Ross Port of Miami 58 2
461 Om Conference of the Birds 58 2
460 Embrace This New Day 58 2
459 Eef Barzelay Bitter Honey 58 2
458 Richard Ashcroft Keys to the World 59 3
457 Jolie Holland Springtime Can Kill You 59 3
456 Forecast In the Shadow of Two Gunmen 59 2
455 Rock Central Plaza Are We Not Horses? 60 2
454 Darkel Darkel 60 2
453 Sufjan Stevens Holiday Box Set 60 1 1
452 Soledad Brothers The Hardest Walk 60 1 1
451 Rainer Maria Catastrophe Keeps Us Together 60 1 1
450 Nightmares on Wax In a Space Outta Sound 60 1 1
449 Ghost of the Russian Empire With Fiercest Determination 60 1 1
448 Dulcesky Lands 60 1 1
447 Amy Diamond Still Here Still Now 60 1 1
446 Smoosh Free to Stay 61 2
445 Roman Candle The Wee Hours Revue 61 2
444 P.O.S. Audition 61 2
443 Minders It's a Bright Guilty World 61 2
442 Klaxons Xan Valleys EP 61 2
441 Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint The River in Reverse 61 2
440 Xasthur Subliminal Genocide 62 3
439 South Adventures in the Underground 62 2
438 Parenthetical Girls Safe as Houses 62 2
437 Prince 3121 64 6
436 Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime II 64 2
435 New York Dolls One Day it Will Please Us To Remember Even This 64 2
434 Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris All the Roadrunning 64 2
433 Kelis Kelis Was Here 64 2
432 Jim Jones Hustler's P.O.M.E. 64 2
431 Dresden Dolls Yes, Virginia… 64 2
430 Archie Bronson Outfit Derdang Derdang 64 2
429 Anathallo Floating World 64 2
428 AFX Chosen Lords 64 2
427 Gossip Standing in the Way of Control 65 4
426 Shearwater Palo Santo 65 3
425 Koop Koop Islands 65 3
424 Snoop Dogg The Blue Carpet Treatment 65 2
423 Pants Yell Recent Drama 65 2
422 Johnny Boy Johnny Boy 65 2
421 Editors The Back Room 65 2
420 Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltzin Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltzin 66 2
419 Quasi When the Going Gets Dark 66 2
418 Adam Green Jacket Full of Danger 66 2
417 Pink Mountaintops Axis of Evol 67 3
416 Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra Boulevard de L'Independence 67 2
415 Jose Gonzales Veneer 67 2
414 Hylozoists La Fin Du Monde 67 2
413 Howlin' Rain Howlin' Rain 67 2
412 Hem Funnel Cloud 68 2
411 Eleventh Dream Day Zeroes and Ones 68 2
410 Alex Smoke Paradolla 68 2
409 Luomo Paper Tigers 69 4
408 Daylights for the Birds Trouble Everywhere 69 2
407 Charles Lloyd Sangum 69 2
406 AZ The Format 69 2
405 Acid Casuals Omni 69 2
404 Stereolab Fab Four Suture 70 5
403 Khylst Chaos is My Name 70 3
402 Svarte Grenier Knive 70 2
401 SCSI-9 The Line of Nine 70 2
400 Bertine Zelitz My Italian Greyhound 70 2
399 Young Knives Voices of Animals and Men 71 2
398 Wovenhand Mosaic 71 2
397 Ambulance Ltd. New English EP 71 2
396 Josh Rosue Sobtitulo 72 3
395 Submarine Races The Submarine Races 72 2
394 Duels The Bright Lights and What I Should Have Learned 72 2
393 Caetano Veloso Ce 72 2
392 Amy Milian Honey From the Tombs 72 2
391 Mouse on Mars Varcharz 73 3
390 Boris Vein 73 3
389 Burst Origo 73 2
388 Daughters Hell Songs 74 4
387 Tod Dockstader Aerial #3 74 2
386 Robbie Williams RUDEBOX 74 2
385 Coral Sea Volcano and Heart 74 2
384 Suburban Kids with Biblical Names #3 75 2
383 Matthew Friedburger Winter Woman / Holy Ghost Language School 75 2
382 Euros Childs Chops 75 2
381 Beyonce B'Day 75 2
380 An Albatross Blessphemy (Of the Peace-Beast Feastgiver and the Bear Warp Kumite) 76 4
379 Pelle Carlberg Everything, Now! 76 2
378 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti House Arrest 76 2
377 Spank Rock Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo 77 3
376 Lucero Rebels, Rogue and Sworn Brothers 77 3
375 Los Lobos The Town and the City 78 3
374 Asunder Works Will Come Undone 78 2
373 Ali Farka Toure Savame 78 2
372 Albert Hammond, Jr. Yours to Keep 79 4
371 E-40 My Ghetto Report Card 79 3
370 Clinic Visitations 79 3
369 MV and EE with the Bummer Road Mother of Thousands 79 2
368 Joi Tennessee Slim is the Bomb 79 2
367 Deadboy and the Elephantmen We are Night Sky 79 2
366 Evangelicals So Gone 80 4
365 My Brightest Diamond Bring Me the Workhorse 80 2
364 Maximo Park Missing Songs 80 2
363 Joakim Monsters & Silly Songs 80 2
362 Old Crow Medicine Show Big Iron World 81 4
361 Mudhoney Under a Billion Stars 81 4
360 Snowden Anti Anti 81 3
359 Pitbull El Mariel 81 3
358 Subways Youth for Eternity 81 2
357 Stills Without Feathers 81 2
356 Chin Up Chin Up This Harness Can't Ride Anything 81 2
355 Peeping Tom Peeping Tom 82 3
354 Broadcast The Future Crayon 82 3
353 Damien Rice 9 82 2
352 Tom Ze Estodundo o Pagone 83 3
351 Tokyo Police Club Lesson in Crime 83 3
350 Various Artists Congotronics 2 83 2
349 DC Snipers Missile Sunset 83 2
348 Elected Sun, Sun, Sun 84 3
347 Dub Trio New Heavy 84 3
346 Laura Gibson If You Come to Great Me 84 2
345 Current 93 Black Ships Ate the Sky 84 2
344 Alice Smith For Lovers, Dreamers and Me 84 2
343 Adem Love and Other Planets 84 2
342 Cornelius Sensuous 85 4
341 Essex Green Cannibal Sea 85 3
340 Tim O'Reagan Tim O'Reagan 85 2
339 Pet Shop Boys Fundamental 85 2
338 Jay Reatard Blood Visions 85 2
337 Napalm Death Smear Campaign 86 3
336 Diableros You Can't Break the Stings in Our Olympic Hearts 86 3
335 Sam Roberts Chemical City 86 2
334 Ray Davies Other People's Lives 86 2
333 Mary J. Blige The Breakthrough 86 2
332 Johnny Cash American V: A Hundred Highways 87 4
331 Boxcutter Oneiric 87 3
330 Babyshambles Down in Albion 87 2
329 Tragically Hip World Container 88 2
328 Tender Trap 6 Billion People 88 2 1
327 Nomo New Tones 88 2
326 Horse Feathers Words are Dead 88 2
325 Fergie The Dutchess 88 2
324 Joseph Arthur Nuclear Daydream 89 5
323 Aethenor Deep in Ocean Sunk the Lamp of Light 89 4
322 Evens Get Evens 89 2 1
321 Ballet Mattachine! 89 2
320 Pernice Brothers Live a Little 90 4
319 Uusitalo Tulenkantaja 90 3
318 Ms. John Soda Notes and the Like 90 3
317 Tally Hall Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum 90 2
316 Magnolia Electric Co. Fading Trails 91 6
315 Pretty Girls Make Graves Elan Vital 91 2
314 Corinne Bailey Rae Corinne Bailey Rae 91 2
313 MSTRKRFT The Looks 92 4
312 Catfish Heaven Tell Me 92 4
311 Tha Dogg Pound Cali Iz Active 92 2
310 Windy and Carl Dreamhouse 93 3
309 Keane Under the Oron Sea 93 3
308 Young Jeezy The Inspiration: Thug Motivation 102 93 2 1
307 White Magic Dat Rosa Mel Apibus 94 3
306 Amy Winehouse Back to Black 94 2 1
305 Holy Smokes Talk to Your Kids About Gangs 95 4
304 Zero 7 The Garden 96 4
303 Jeremy Enigk World Wants 96 3
302 Guster Ganging Up on the Sun 96 3
301 Derek Trucks Band Songlines 96 3
300 Changes Today is Tonight 96 3
299 Lo-Fi-Fnk Boylife 96 2
298 Taking Back Sunday Louder Now 97 4
297 Forward Russia Give Me a Wall 98 3
296 Muse Black Holes and Revelations 99 3
295 Math and Physics Club Math and Physics Club 99 3
294 Lady Sovereign Public Warning 101 4 1
293 Richard Buckner Meadow 101 3
292 Heartless Bastards All This Time 102 4
291 Across Tundras Dark Songs of the Prairie 102 3
290 Mars Volta Amputechture 102 2 1
289 Barbara Morgenstern The Grass is Always Greener 103 3
288 American Princes Less and Less 103 3
287 Emperor Machine Vertical Tones & Horizontal Noise 104 4
286 What Four What Four 105 3 1
285 As Fast As Open Letter to the Damned 105 3
284 Sean Lennon Friendly Fire 106 4
283 Dixie Chicks Taking the Long Way 106 4
282 Lansing-Dreiden The Dividing Island 107 6
281 Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice Gypsy Freedom 107 3
280 Ben Harper Both Sides of the Gun 108 4
279 Badly Drawn Boy Born in the U.K. 108 4
278 Nice Boys Nice Boys 108 3
277 Black Heart Procession The Spell 110 4
276 Mosquitos Mosquitos III 110 3
275 Alejandro Escovedo The Boxing Mirror 111 5
274 Drones Gala Mill 111 3
273 Brakes The Beatific Visions 112 3
272 Red Krayola Introduction 113 2 1
271 Appleseed Cast Peregrine 114 5
270 Aloha Some Echoes 114 4
269 Mystery Jets Making Dens 114 3
268 Bellrays Have a Litlte Faith 114 3
267 Venetian Snares Cavlacade of Glee & Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Pom 115 5
266 Indian Jewelry Invasive Exotics 115 4
265 These Arms are Snakes Easter 115 3
264 In Flames Come Clarity 115 3
263 Loscil Plume 116 4
262 Lemonheads The Lemonheads 116 4
261 Matthew Ryan From a Late Night High Rise 116 3
260 Consequences Consequences 116 3
259 Cut Chemist The Audience's Listening 117 5
258 Marit Larsen Under the Surface 117 3
257 Taylor Duepree Northern 118 3
256 Ghostland Observatory Paparazzi Lightning 118 3
255 Diddy Press Play 120 3
254 Chad VanGaalen Skelliconnection 120 3
253 Trae Restless 121 4
252 Delays You See Colours 121 4
251 Plan B Who Needs Actions When You Got Words 121 3
250 J Dilla The Shining 121 3
249 Dosh The Lost Take 125 5
248 Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan Ballad of Broken Seas 125 4
247 Pete Yorn Nightcrawler 126 4
246 Spearhead Yell Fire 126 3 1
245 Matisyahu Youth 126 3 1
244 Goldfrapp Super Nature 127 5
243 Andrew W.K. Close Calls With Brick Walls 128 4
242 Octagon Man Magneton 130 6
241 What Made Milwaukee Famous Trying to Never Catch Up 130 4
240 Fucked Up Hidden World 131 4
239 Slip Eisenhower 132 5
238 Eric Bachman To the Races 133 6
237 Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium 133 4
236 Beach House Beach House 134 6
235 Whitest Boy Alive Dreams 134 4
234 Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death 134 4
233 I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness Fear is On Our Side 135 6
232 My My Songs for the Gentle 135 3
231 Dredg Live at the Fillmore 135 3 1
230 Mojave 3 Puzzles Like You 139 5
229 Nellie McKay Pretty Little Head 139 4 1
228 William Elliot Whitmore Song of the Blackbird 141 4
227 Lovely Feathers Hind Hind Legs 142 5
226 Killer Mike I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind 142 4 1
225 Album Leaf Into the Blue Again 142 4
224 Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton Knives Don't Have Your Back 143 5
223 Tom Petty Highway Companion 143 4
222 Jon Auer Songs From Our Demise 143 4
221 Martime We, the Vehciles 146 3 1
220 Machinefabriek Marijn 147 4
219 Celtic Frost Monotheist 148 3
218 Mylo Destroy Rock and Roll 149 4
217 John Mayer Continuumm 149 4
216 Drudkh Blood in Our Wells 151 4
215 Squarepusher Hello Everything 152 4
214 Shout Out Out Out Out Not Saying / Just Saying 156 5
213 Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 Ole! Tarantula 159 6
212 Sufjan Stevens The Avalanche 159 5
211 Weird Al Yankovic Straight Outta Lynwood 159 4
210 Nelly Furtado Loose 160 6
209 Wolf Eyes Human Animal 161 6
208 Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Etiquette 161 5
207 My Morning Jacket Okonokos 162 4
206 Vetiver To Find Me Gone 163 6
205 Foundry Field Recordings Prompts/Miscues 164 8
204 Dears Gang of Losers 164 5
203 Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain 166 4
202 Nouvelle Vague Bande a Part 167 7
201 OOIOO Taiga 167 6
200 Camille Le Fil 167 4
199 Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Living Like a Refugee 169 5 1
198 Ray LaMontagne Til the Sun Turns Black 169 5
197 Espers Espers II 172 4
196 Tilly and the Wall Bottoms of Barrels 174 6
195 Cursive Happy Hollow 174 6
194 Sondre Lerche Duper Sessions 176 5
193 Robert Pollard From a Compound Eye 179 5
192 Rhett Miller The Believer 180 5
191 We are Scientists With Love and Squalor 182 6
190 120 Days 120 Days 182 6
189 Frightened Rabbit Sing the Greys 184 8 1
188 Basement Jaxx Crazy Itch Radio 185 5
187 Format Dog Problems 187 5
186 Mono You are There 188 5
185 Sparks Hello Young Lovers 192 6
184 Under Byen Samme Stof Som Stof 193 5
183 Sound Team Movie Monster 195 7
182 Howe Gelb Sno Angel Like You 197 6
181 Bat for Lashes Fur and Gold 200 5 1
180 Isis In the Absence of Truth 201 6
179 Kooks Inside In / Inside Out 204 7
178 Shogun Kunitoki Tasankokaiku 205 7
177 Ben Kweller Ben Kweller 205 7
176 Tool 10000 Days 207 8
175 Coup Pick a Bigger Weapon 207 5
174 Snow Patrol Eyes Open 210 7 1
173 Keene Brothers Blues and Boogie Shoes 210 5
172 Clearlake Amber 211 6 1
171 Black Keys Magic Potion 212 7
170 Golden Smog Another Fine Day 215 8
169 Giddy Motors Do Easy 216 6
168 French Kicks Two Thousand 217 6 1
167 Brightback Morning Light Brightback Morning Light 221 8
166 Eagles of Death Metal Death by Sexy 223 12
165 Burial Burial 224 6 1
164 Max Richter Songs from Before 226 6
163 Clockcleaner Nevermind 226 6 1
162 Slayer Christ Illusion 227 9
161 Six Organs of Admittance The Sun Awakens 229 7
160 sleepy Jackson Personality 231 7
159 Game Doctor's Advocate 231 7
158 Benoit Pioulard Precis 231 7
157 Brand New The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me 234 7 1
156 Divine Comedy Victory for the Comic Muse 236 7 2
155 White Whale WWI 237 7
154 Lambchop Damaged 237 7
153 Film School Film School 239 9
152 Lindstrom It's a Feedelity Affair 243 7
151 Loose Fur Born Again in America 245 9
150 Ark State of the Ark 251 7 1
149 Margo & the Nuclear So & So's The Dust of Retreat 255 7
148 Placebo Meds 257 9
147 Dirty Pretty Things Waterloo to Anywhere 257 8
146 Enslaved Ruun 260 7
145 Keith Fullerton Whitman Lisbon 262 7
144 Sloan Never Hear the End of It 265 8 1
143 Gomez How We Operate 268 8 1
142 Roseanne Cash Black Cadillac 276 7 1
141 Oxford Collapse Remember the Night Parties 277 12
140 Lilys Everything Wrong is Imaginary 277 8 1
139 My Chemical Romance The Black Parade 279 10
138 Mew And the Glass-Held Kites 279 8
137 Deftones Saturday Night Wrist 282 10 1
136 Josh Ritter The Animal Years 283 8
135 Ratatat Classics 287 12
134 Long Blondes Someone to Drive You Home 287 9 1
133 Mountain Goats Get Lonely 290 9
132 El Parro del Mar El Parro del Mar 300 12
131 Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth 306 11
130 Juana Molina Son 315 10
129 Walkmen A Hundred Miles Off 316 11
128 Akron Family Meek Warrior 322 12
127 Van Hunt On the Jungle Floor 333 12 1
126 J Dilla Donuts 337 9 1
125 Malajube` Trompe L'Oeil 341 11
124 Bound Stems Appreciation Night 341 10
123 Gil Mantera's Party Dream Bloodsongs 341 8 2
122 Cold War Kids Robbers & Cowards 343 14
121 Lindsay Buckingham Under the Skin 354 12
120 Rhymefest Blue Collar 355 12
119 Blow Paper Television 355 11 1
118 Mammatus Mammatus 358 10
117 Xiu Xiu The Airforce 359 12
116 I'm from Barcelona Let Me Introduce My Friends 374 14
115 Clark Body Riddle 375 12 1
114 Graham Coxon Love Travels at Illegal Speeds 377 13
113 Converge No Heroes 386 10 1
112 M's Future Women 387 11
111 Subtle for hero: for fool 389 17
110 Herbert Scale 389 14
109 Voxtrot Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, Wives EP 389 9
108 Scott Walker The Drift 389 9 2
107 Centromatic Ft. Recovery 391 13
106 Sword Age of Winters 396 11 1
105 Twilight Singers Powder Burns 398 13 2
104 Streets The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living 399 18
103 Tom Waits Orphans 399 9 2
102 Jim Noir Tower of Love 402 12
101 Slowlands Never Was There a Town 408 11
100 Sunn 0))))/Boris Altar 415 12 1
99 Mates of State Bring it Back 424 14
98 Figurines Skeleton 425 13 2
97 Fujiya & Miyagi Transparent Things 435 14
96 Final Fantasy He Poos Clouds 437 14 1
95 Mission of Burma The Obliterati 438 15
94 Long Winters Putting the Days to Bed 438 15
93 Wolfmother Wolfmother 446 13
92 Pearl Jam Pearl Jam 449 14
91 Matmos The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of the Beast 449 14
90 Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars 450 13
89 Helios Eingya 475 14
88 Jesu Silver 481 16
87 Morrissey Ringleader of the Tormentors 486 15
86 Booka Shade Movements 490 15 1
85 Drive-By Truckers A Blessing and a Curse 507 15
84 Jarvis Cocker Jarvis 517 15
83 Cansei de Ser Sexy Cansei de Ser Sexy 519 15 1
82 Neil Young Living With War 519 13 3
81 Black Angels Passover 523 15
80 Rapture Pieces of the People We Love 528 23
79 Mogwai Mr. Beast 535 18
78 Annuals Be He Me 535 18
77 Futureheads News and Tributes 536 20 1
76 Bonnie "Prince" Billy The Letting Go 536 18
75 Scissor Sisters Ta-Dah 538 16
74 Fiery Furnaces Bitter Tea 541 17
73 Ricardo Villalobos Achso 546 15
72 Sparklehorse Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain 563 19 1
71 Man Man Six Demon Bag 573 19
70 Melvins (A) Senile Animal 581 16 3
69 Be Your Own Pet Be Your Own Pet 585 19
68 Comets on Fire Avatar 613 18 1
67 Calexico Garden Ruin 616 18 1
66 Danielson Ships 624 21
65 Grandaddy Just Like the Fambly Cat 629 19
64 Regina Spektor Begin to Hope 631 17 2
63 Swan Lake Beast Moans 641 19 1
62 Love is All Nine Times That Same Song 656 18
61 Antennas Sins 664 17
60 Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome 676 19
59 Killers Sam's Town 698 20
58 Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine 708 21 1
57 Strokes First Impressions of Earth 709 25
56 T.I. King 739 22
55 Roots Game Theory 740 28
54 Islands Return of the Sea 750 21
53 Charlotte Gainsbourg 5:55 761 22
52 Ellen Allien & Apparat Orchestra of Bubbles 788 23 3
51 Thom Yorke The Eraser 791 32
50 Camera Obscura Let's Get Out of This Country 817 26
49 Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers 825 25 1
48 Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds 828 30 1
47 Boris Pink 857 27
46 Guillemots Through the Windowpane 862 23
45 Tapes n Tapes The Loon 877 25
44 Flaming Lips At War With the Mystics 879 28 1
43 Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor 911 31 1
42 Brother Kite Waiting for the Time to be Right 921 24 1
41 Mastodon Blood Mountain 927 23 5
40 LCD Soundsystem Original Run 930 30
39 Peter Bjorn and John Writer's Block 957 27
38 Silversun Pickups Canvas 1001 27
37 Cat Power The Greatest 1010 33
36 Califone Roots and Crowns 1071 29 4
35 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones 1078 31 1
34 Asobi Sesku Citrus 1084 32 2
33 Phoenix It's Never Been Like That 1110 30 3
32 Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet 1124 29 4
31 Lily Allien Alright, Still 1139 34
30 Beck The Information 1147 34 1
29 Beirut Gulag Orkestar 1151 37 1
28 Midlake The Trials of Van Occupanther 1179 35
27 Secret Machines Ten Silver Drops 1190 32 2
26 Bob Dylan Modern Times 1197 34
25 Built to Spill You in Reverse 1246 34
24 Grizzly Bear Yellow House 1269 33 3
23 Junior Boys So This is Goodbye 1284 39
22 Ghostface Fishscale 1304 36 1
21 Pipettes We are the Pipettes 1311 40
20 Knife Silent Shout 1345 39 2
19 Sunset Rubdown Shut Up I Am Dreaming 1356 35 5
18 Liars Drum's Not Dead 1376 37 1
17 Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 1411 41 1
16 Joanna Newsom Ys 1453 35 10
15 Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 1458 43
14 Clipse Hell Hath No Fury 1517 40 4
13 Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass 1521 46
12 Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere 1529 47 1
11 Girl Talk Night Ripper 1728 47 1
10 Hot Chip The Warning 1799 51 1
9 Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat 1934 48 5
8 Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies 2094 52 6
7 Decemberists The Crane Wife 2136 58 2
6 Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America 2183 52 6
5 Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings the Flood 2275 62 3
4 Band of Horses Everything All the Time 2307 63 3
3 Belle & Sebastian The Life Pursuit 2390 66 4
2 TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain 2612 73 1
1 M. Ward Post-War 2741 71 6
And Ben needs to update this
http://www.palewire.com/somb/polls/
QUOTE(worrywort @ Feb 7 2007, 11:51 PM) [snapback]307852[/snapback]
I gave him the 2003 polls but he never put those up, I think he's done with that project.
So i read most of this again.
When are we having the Sickpup method debate this year to determine how many points Neon Bible wins by?
When are we having the Sickpup method debate this year to determine how many points Neon Bible wins by?
my god that top ten is a nightmare
what was your top 10 GDB, just outta curiosity?
No wonder you disappeared for 4 months.
This thread actually gave me a headache.
QUOTE(MitchellStirling @ Jun 27 2007, 05:25 PM) [snapback]403224[/snapback]
When are we having the Sickpup method debate this year to determine how many points Neon Bible wins by?
And Modest Mouse and W*lco and probably other horrible stuff all in the same year. Wonderful.
QUOTE(Bruegel @ Jan 14 2007, 02:57 AM) [snapback]288216[/snapback]
338 Jay Reatard Blood Visions 85 2
Where would this go now?
It'd be about -453.
lol @ LIFE PURSUIT #3
forgot about that one.
forgot about that one.
This poll could use the 'ol mid-year correction.
i've heard only 1 cd that i'd add to my 2006 list after i've made it. however, i'd also get rid of a couple of albums from that top too.
QUOTE(Slackmo @ Jun 28 2007, 12:44 PM) [snapback]403742[/snapback]
This poll could use the 'ol mid-year correction.
Couldn't agree more. My ballot would certainly be different...like, by a lot.
I'm not sure I heard 10 albums in 2006
Time to post all my 'lolquotes' from this thread.
Not a chance. Insistor is the only song on that album that isn't completely vanilla.
QUOTE(Chrono @ Dec 23 2006, 02:46 PM) [snapback]274240[/snapback]
Some of us were too busy listening to twee-indie-pop-grapefruit music to give time to Drive By Truckers.
QUOTE(Chrono @ Dec 24 2006, 12:35 PM) [snapback]274501[/snapback]
Great start. The Rapture have the best musical moment of the year, with the screaming in The Devil, and Brother and Dry Clothes make me go aSAdasdasJHJKHKHKHKDshkdhkhkasd
QUOTE(Chrono @ Dec 25 2006, 03:31 PM) [snapback]274941[/snapback]
Whatever I like should be higher imo
QUOTE(Chrono @ Dec 25 2006, 05:31 PM) [snapback]274978[/snapback]
QUOTE(solace @ Dec 25 2006, 07:13 PM) [snapback]274977[/snapback]
Just Drums > Insistor
Not a chance. Insistor is the only song on that album that isn't completely vanilla.
QUOTE(Chrono)
QUOTE(Montana @ Dec 26 2006, 08:06 PM) [snapback]275609[/snapback]
Have you ever experimented with hallucinogens? Your perspective would change in a second.
Just mail me over some shrooms and I'll get started with the Flaming Lips love.
QUOTE(Chrono @ Dec 26 2006, 06:18 PM) [snapback]275625[/snapback]
QUOTE(cantstopwontstop @ Dec 26 2006, 08:13 PM) [snapback]275620[/snapback]
stop ruining this thread with stupid arguments about terrible bands.
Go back to your fucking drum circle.
QUOTE(Chrono @ Dec 26 2006, 09:38 PM) [snapback]275713[/snapback]
Chrono and Montana have come to agreement about people who cry every time there's any sign of debate in favor of "it's all about personal taste" hands off scrotum-suckling.
QUOTE(Chrono @ Dec 27 2006, 12:19 PM) [snapback]275949[/snapback]
Phoenix is so boring.
QUOTE(Chrono @ Dec 29 2006, 12:41 PM) [snapback]277304[/snapback]
Yeah, but it doesn't make you sound as cool as if you're "PIMPING THE HOT UNDERGROUND SHIT"
QUOTE(Chrono @ Dec 29 2006, 03:49 PM) [snapback]277553[/snapback]
Ghostface over Junior Boys is a joke.
QUOTE(Chrono @ Dec 29 2006, 06:25 PM) [snapback]277640[/snapback]
Last Exit has some weaker tracks that So This is Goodbye doesn't. Don't even trip.
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EDIT: Your girlfriend is totally awesome to take out to a nice dinner too. Nice catch.
EDIT 2: awesome to take out to a nice dinner substituted for fuckable
EDIT 2: awesome to take out to a nice dinner substituted for fuckable
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The "Orchestra of Bubbles" was a really nice record. I won't argue against it. However, the state of electronica and especially, ambient electronica, saw so many brilliant records this year that the majority haven't heard.
That's because a majority of electronica doesn't bridge the gap between directionless ambient music and the indie-crowd, things that Orchestra of Bubbles, LCD Soundsystem, Junior Boys, etc. do.
And the kicker!
Probably the height of my awesomeness with regards to boarding. I've been downhill ever since.
This has been a very self-absorbed experience.
Rereading 70+ pages of this thread makes me beg this question: Has anyone listened to Return to Cookie Mountain recently?
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Chrono is more to blame than anyone else for the turn this thread took.
Probably the height of my awesomeness with regards to boarding. I've been downhill ever since.
This has been a very self-absorbed experience.
Rereading 70+ pages of this thread makes me beg this question: Has anyone listened to Return to Cookie Mountain recently?
Chrono you're a good guy but you listen to shitty music, I mean let's not pull punches here
Yeah, that's true, but this is December where I thought I was hot shit.
Which punches in particular?
Which punches in particular?
Two albums that would make my top ten of 2006 now:
"Ys"(probably #2), "Boys and Girls in America".
"Ys"(probably #2), "Boys and Girls in America".
Now that's exciting.
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Now that's exciting.
Glad you liked it.
Easy question for me:
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
Didn't make my list at all because I didn't hear it till February. Prly be 2 or 3 behind my number one of Fox Confessor, still no touching that album.
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
Didn't make my list at all because I didn't hear it till February. Prly be 2 or 3 behind my number one of Fox Confessor, still no touching that album.
Chrono, no-one wanted to read what you said the first time.
Anyways, I think another crack at this list would be a good idea especially because there won't be as many first-time posters or ballot-stuffers to water the list down. Just saying.
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Chrono, no-one wanted to read what you said the first time.
I masturbate to my own posts.
Wow, cool cover.
What record is that? I haven't seen it around here.
Maybe an upload?
What record is that? I haven't seen it around here.
Maybe an upload?
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