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i was wondering when this was going to be, i will need to think LONG and HARD.

1) Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up Til It Was Light
2) Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
3) The Acorn - Glory Hope Moutain
4) Sun Kil Moon - April
5) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

I'm new so be nice eh
1 Bon Iver - For Emma, Long Ago
2 TV on The Radio - Dear Science
3 Peter Broderick - Home
4 Belle & Sebastian - At The BBC (but only the two disc version)
5 Beck - Modern Guilt (even though it's more a danger mouse record)

1. Sigur Rós - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
2. Lykke Li - Youth Novels
3. Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
4. The Notwist - The Devil, You & Me
5. Kyte - Kyte

1: Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
2: Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
3: of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
4: Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
5: Maths/Throats - Split

Sun Kil Moon
Frightened Rabbit
Bon Iver
Tindersticks
Shearwater

1)Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
2)Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
3)Metronomy - Nights Out
4)TV On The Radio - Dear Science
5)of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping

1. Boris - Smile
2. Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
3. Earth - The Bees...
4. Nadja - Radiance of Shadows
5. Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker - Fantasmie Parastasie

1) Deerhunter - Microcastles
2) No Age - Nouns
3) M83 - Saturday = Youth
4) Times New Viking - Rip It Off
5) Why? - Alopecia

1. Frightened Rabbit
2. Johnny Foreigner
3. Elle Milano
4. British Sea Power
5. Sons and Daughters

1. TV On The Radio – Dear Science
2. Deerhunter – Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
3. KanYe West -808s & Heartbreak
4. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
5. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours

Was hard to get rid of TV on the Radio, Mogwai, Frank Turner, Polar Bear Club, Okkervil River & especially Sigur Rós. But anyway:

1. Why? - Alopecia
2. Maybeshewill - Not For Want of Trying
3. Errors - It's Not Something, But it is Like Whatever
4. The American Dollar - A Memory Stream
5. God Is An Astronaut - God Is An Astronaut

surely noone will agree with my selections, but I don't care.

1. Bloc Party - Intimacy
2. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
3. Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun
4. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster
5. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping

1. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrising
2. No Age - Nouns
3. Mogwai - Hawk is Howling
4. Dananananakroyd - Sissy Hits E.P
5. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
Okkervile River – The Stand Ins
Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
Duffy – Rockferry
Belle & Sebastian - The BBC Sessions
Make fun of me all you want but that is what I have listened to the most this year.

grouper dragging a dead dear up a hill
conor oberst st
bon iver for emma forever ago
beach house devotion

1. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
2. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
3. James Yorkston - When The Haar Rolls In
4. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
5. Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins

The Walkmen - You & Me
Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
The Young Knives - Superabundance

2.) Deerhunter - Microcastle
3.) El Guincho - Alegranza
4.) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
5.) Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing

1. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
2. The Long Blondes - Couples
3. Lupe Fiasco - The Cool
4. Foals - Antidotes
5. This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You

1//Minilogue - Animals
2//The Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain
3//Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
4//Vessels - White Fields and Open Devices
5//Foals - Antidotes

1. Harvey Milk - Life...The Best Game In Town
2. Melvins - Nude w/boots
3. Astral Social Club - Model Town in a Field Of Mud
4. Who's Your Favorite Son, God - Out Of Body Diva
5. Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull

y'know, probably. Lots of good. I really like the Times New Viking & Burning Star Core again & Benga & a load of other/old stuff too

but from what I've heard:

Tenniscoats - Tan-Tan Therepy
Why? - Alopecia
Deerhunter - Microcastles/Weird Era Cont.
Glass Candy - Deep Gems
Errors-Its Not Something But It Is Like Whatever

1. Mystery Jets - Twenty One
2. Neon Neon - Stainless Style
3. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
4. 2562 - Aerial
5. Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke

1) The Indelicates - American Demo
2) David Cronenberg's Wife - Bluebeard's Room
3) Eugene McGuinness - Eugene McGuinness
4) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig
5) Tim Ten Yen - Everything Beautiful Reminds Me of You
5)

Why? - Alopecia
These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower and Dove
Parenthetical Girls - Entanglements
JoFo - Waited Up...
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing

Blitzen Trapper - Furr
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
High Places - High Places
Micah P. Hinson - Micah P. Hinson and the Red Empire Orchestra
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer

1. TV on the Radio
2. Bon Iver
3. Sigur Ros
4. Cut/Copy
5. M83

this one always comes out with the most interesting results.

1 Why? - Alopecia
2 Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up Til It Was Light
3 The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
4 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
5 The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride

1. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
2. Thao With The Get Down Stay Down - We Brave Bee Stings And All
3. Fennesz - Black Sea
4. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
5. French Kicks - Swimming

and then a lot of other albums I also like lots. But with that in mind I'm going to go with:

1. Johnny Foreigner- Waited Up Til It Was Light
2. Cats In Paris- Courtcase 2000
3. Eagle and Talon- Thracian
4. Max Tundra- Parallax Error Beheads You
5. Hawnay Troof- Islands Of Ayle

HIP PRIEST

1)Why?- Alopecia
2)Grouper- Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill
3)The Notwist- The Devil You + Me
4)Tv on the Radio- Dear Science
5)Hauschka- Ferndorf

Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Modern Life
These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower and Dove
Boris - Smile
Earth - Bees Made Honey in the Lions Skull
Torche - Meanderthal

1) Why? - Alopecia
2) Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
3) Portishead - Third
4) The Bug - London Zoo
5) El Guincho - Alegranza!
Next five would have been parts & labor, titus andronicus, 2562, grouper and vessels.

1.Deerhunter - Microcastles/Weird Era Continued
2.Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
3.TV on the Radio - Dear Science
4.Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
5. The Mae Shi - HLLLYH

1. The Walkmen - You&Me
2. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
3. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
4. Max Tundra- Parallax Error Beheads You
5. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight

1. nick cave - dig lazarus dig
2. xiu xiu - women as lovers
3. why? - alopecia
4. clinic - do it!
5. los campesinos - we are beautiful, we are doomed

I / Times New Viking / Rip It Off.
I I / Hauschka / Ferndorf.
I I I / The Kills / Midnight B o o m .
I V / Flying Lotus / Los Angeles.
V / Grouper / Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill.
V I / The Walkmen / You & Me.
V I I / H E A L T H / D I S C O .
V I I I / Atlas Sound / Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel.
I X / No Age / Nouns.
X / Crystal Castles / Crystal Castles.

1]Deerhunter - Microcastle
2]Gang Gang Dance - St. Dymphna
3]The Walkmen - You & Me
4]Volcano! - Paperwork
5]Amadou & Mariam - Welcome to Mali

1. frightened rabbit - midnight organ fight
2. friendly fires - friendly fires
3. bon ivor - for emma, forever ago
4. chairlift - does it inspire you
5. laura marling - alas i cannot swim

1. TV On The Radio
2. Of Montreal
3. Girl Talk
4. Fleet Foxes
5. Vampire Weekend

1. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
2. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrsing
3. TV On The Radio - Dear Science,
4. Youthmovies - Good Nature
5. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now Youngster...

1)Harvey Milk - Life...The Best Game in Town
2)Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
3)Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
4)Times New Viking - Rip It Off
5)The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia

1) MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
2) Dodos - Visiter
3) Crystal Casltes - Crystal Castles
4) Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
5) Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing

I know it's only half an album, but I simply cannot believe MGMT have been shunned they way they have over there. They have been possibly the most-played band on Australian airwaves this year. Someone please enlighten me!

And yes i realise that by putting it at number one, i'm saying that the first half of Oracular Spectacular is better than any other album this year. That's my contention, and i'm sticking with it!

1) Cut Copy - in Ghost Colours
2) Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
3) Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
4) Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
5) Metronomy - Nights Out

1) Alphabeat - this is alphabeat
2) Micha P Hinson - Micah P Hinson and the Red Empire Orchestra
3) Laura Marling - Alas I cannot swim
4) Los Campesinos! - We are beautiful, we are doomed
5) Beach House - Beach House

2} Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
3} The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
4} Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
5} Shugo Tokumaru - Exit

Missing out these was tough:
Portishead - Third
The Mae Shi - HLLLYH
The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean & The Sun
God Is An Astronaut - S/T
Vessels - White Fields & Open Devices
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
Johann Johannson - Fordlandia

2 - Vampire Weekend
3 - No Age/Nouns
4 - Crystal Castles
5 - Why?/Alopecia

Los Campesinos, Marnie Stern, Portishead and Amadou & Mariam all up there too..

1. Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Flight
2. Johnny Foreigner - Waited...
3. Fuck Buttons - Street Horssing
4. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
5. Bloc Party - Intimacy

Not really the most exciting of lists!

1) Dig!!! Lazurus, Dig!!! - Nick Cave et al
2) Waited Up til It Was Light - Johnny Foreigner
3) Hold On Now Youngster - Los Campesinos!

Erm...I can't think of any others that I've REALLY enjoyed, but I can't really remember. I might come back later with my other two votes.

= Oxford Collapse – Bits
= No Age – Nouns
= Los Campesinos! – We Are Beautiful We Are Doomed
= Deerhunter – Microcastle/Weird Era Cont
= Dodos – Visiter

Really glad you’re doing this again JohnM. Seeing other people’s lists reminds me of all the various stuff I kept forgetting to check out, and the results are always interesting.

1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
2. Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
3. Guillemots - Red
4. Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto
5. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

I'll no doubt think this list is bollocks next week, but hey, I've not really dug that much of this years output...

1 / Cut Copy / In Ghost Colours
2 / Portishead / Third
3 / Neon Neon / Stainless Style
4 / The Chap / Mega Breakfast
5 / Boris / Smile

Cheers for doing this. Should be good reading as ever...

1. Down I Go - Tyrant
2. Adebisi Shank - This is an album of a band called Adebisi Shank
3. The Night Marchers - See You In Magic
4. Take A Worm For A Walk Week - The Monroe Transfer
5. Rocket From The Crypt - All Systems Go Vol. 3

5) Deerhunter - Microcastles
4) A Larum - Johnny Flynn
3) The Stills - Oceans will Rise
2) Lightspeed Champion - Falling off Lavender Bridge
1) Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

First time i've ever agreed with the Mercury winner....

1) Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim
2) Portishead - Third
3) That Was The Week That Was The Week
4) Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid
5) Late of The Pier Fantasy Black Channel

1) Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
2) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
3) Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
4) The Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain
5) Beach House - Devotion

1. Frightened Rabbit- Midnight Organ Fight
2. Johnny Foreigner- Waited Up Till it Was Light
3. Bon Iver- For Emma, forever ago
4. TV On the Radio- Dear Science
5. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- Dig! Lazarus, Dig!

1. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltisin - Pershing
2. The Steal - Bright Grey
3. Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
4. Bon Iver - For Emma, Foever Ago
5. Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea

this top 5 does not include the likes of Portishead / cut copy / atlas sound / fuck buttons / fleet foxes / clinic, because I've not heard their albums in their entirety - I should get a fucking move on eh?:

1) Wild Beasts (just pipping vessels - if live performance was a factor - then it would be a different story altogether)
2) Vessels
3) Deerhunter
4) Elbow
5) Errors

1) Dig Lazarus Dig!!! - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
2) Dear Science - Tv on the Radio
3) Waited Up til it was Light - Johnny Foreigner
4) Love Ire and Song - Frank Turner

I don't have a 5, regretfully I've not heard Alopecia or Bon Iver and feel silly for this.

1. Why? - Alopecia
2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
3. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
4. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
5. Land of Talk - Some Are Lakes

1. elbow-the seldom seen kid
2. this town needs guns-animals
3. youthmovies-good nature
4. foal-antidotes
5. why?-alopecia

of montreal - skeletal lamping
tv on the radio - dear science
the notwist - the devil, you and me
brett anderson - wilderness

and, you reminded me so i'll vote for
the gutter twins - saturnalia
too...that was quite early in the year wasn't it? wonderful record anyway...

1 Matt Elliott – Howling Songs (Ici D’alliers)
2 Wildbirds and Peacedrums – The Snake (Caprice)
3 Peter Broderick – Home (Type)
4 The Week That Was (Memphis Industries)
5 Windy and Carl – Songs for the Broken Hearted (Kranky)

1) Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
2) Why? - Alopecia
3) Magnetic Fields - Distortion
4) The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
5) Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak

1) Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
2) Why? - Alopecia
3) Magnetic Fields - Distortion
4) The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
5) Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak

1. Vampire Weekend, S/T
2. Johnny Foreigner, Waited Up 'Til It Was Light
3. Conor Oberst, S/T
4. Los Campesinos!, Hold On Now, Youngster...
5. Bon Iver, For Emma, For Ever Ago

1. mt eerie with julie doiron & fred squire - lost wisdom
2. marnie stern - this is it and i am it and you are it and so is that and he is it and she is it and it is it and that ss that
3. parenthetical girls - entanglements
4. harvey milk - life... the best game in town
5. xiu xiu - women as lovers

havent really fallen in love with any albums this year though at all.

2.Mystry Jets-21
3.Los campesinos! Hold on now
4.Vampire weekend
5.laura marling- alas i cannnot

1. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
2. 2562 - Aerial
3. The Bug - London Zoo
4. Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker - Fantasma Parastasie
5. The Gaslamp Killer - I Spit On Your Grave (technically a mixtape, but it's the shit)

though, to be honest, I've been so busy discovering older stuff I haven't had a chance to listen to as much new music. There have been some good reissues/retrospectives out this year - Basic Channel, Spy Versus Spy and Steinski spring to mind, but I'm sure there are others.

Not that it's got a hope in hell but anyway..

1. Opeth - Watershed
2. 2562 - Aerial
3. Shortwave Set - Replica Sun Machine
4. Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
5. Dusk + Blackdown - Margins Music

1) Portishead - Third
2) TV on the Radio - Dear Science
3) Santogold - Santogold
4) Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
5) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig! Lazuras Dig!!!

1) Bon Iver - For Emma
2) TVOTR - Dear Science
3) DJ/Rupture - Uproot
4) Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up..
5) No Age - Nouns

1) Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
2) Polysics - We Ate The Machine
3) Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
4) Agaskodo Teliverek - Psycho Goulash
5) Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping

Just missing out -

Rolo Tomassi - Hysterics
TV On The Radio - Dear Science
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna

1. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
2. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
3. Portishead - Third
4. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
5. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark

but really, five is not enough. honorable mentions: tv on the radio, wire, bauhaus, these new puritains, late of the pier, simon bookish, the bug, saul williams, neon neon, deerhunter, etc.....

1) TV on the Radio - Dear Science
2) Deerhunter - Microcastle
3) Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
4) No Age - Nouns
5) Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing

Bubbling under: Mogwai, The Mars Volta, Wild Beasts, Portishead, Beck, Foals, Mystery Jets, Cut Copy & Frightened Rabbit

1) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
2) Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
3) No Age - Nouns
4) Trouble books - United colours of
5) Foals - Antidotes

1.Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up 'Til It Was Light
2.Johnny Flynn - A Larum
3.Foals - Antidotes
4.Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now Youngster
5.Frank Turner - Love, Ire and Song

1) Los Campesinos! - Hold on now youngster
2) No Age - Nouns
3) Johnny Foreigner - Waited up til it was light
4) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
5) Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
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Missing out only just are Foals, TV on the Radio and Why?

Far too many good albums this year I found.

Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up Til It Was Light
Deerhunter - Microcastle
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
No Age - Nouns
Dananananaykroyd - Sissy Hits EP(if that's allowed)

1. Cut Copy In Ghost Colours (Modular)
2. Crystal Castles Crystal Castles (Last Gang)
3. M83 Saturdays = Youth (Mute)
4. The Stills Oceans Will Rise (Arts & Crafts)
5. Friendly Fires Friendly Fires (XL)

surprised more of you didn't comment on this http://drownedinsound.com/news/4135904

1) The Walkmen - You & Me
2) Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
3) Islands - Arm's Way
4) Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
5) REM - Accelerate

1. Foals - Antidotes
2. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
3. Mystery Jets - 21
4. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
5. Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel

Just missing out: Bloc Party, Gang Gang Dance, Cut Copy, M83

Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
Shearwater - Rook
No Age - Nouns

1. Windsor for the Derby - How We Lost
2. The War on Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues
3. Peter Broderick - Home
4. Stereolab - Chemical Chords
5. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

1. Bon Iver : For Emma, Forever Ago
2. TV On The Radio : Dear Science
3. Fleet Foxes : Fleet Foxes
4. Shearwater : Rook
5. Elbow : The Seldom Seen Kid

1. The Walkmen - You & Me
2. Deerhunter - Microcastle
3. Portishead - Third
4. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
5. Crystal Castles - s/t

Deerhunter - Microcrastle
Why? - Alopecia
Parenthetical Girls - Entanglements
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever ago

1) Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
2) No Age - Nouns
3) Why? - Alopecia
4) British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
5) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

because some things have been good, but most seem too immediate to stand the test of time. Plus, I've not listened to 'everything' yet and probably wont in time anyway. and there are always albums that i never knew about that i listen to after the event that would make the list (Menomene friend and foe)
Anyway - In no order for fairness:

Fleet Foxes
Black Mountain
Mercury Rev
Hold Steady
Vampire Weekend

honourable mentions to Flying Lotus, subtle and Q Tip.
Earth and Mogwai were great when I saw them but i never got the albums and i want them a lot. Only heard tv on the radio for the first time tonight and I left my copy of Why? in a mates house and haven't recovered it yet.
Sorry this was long and banal.
like the Wolf Parade album.

1) Fuck Buttons: Street Horrrsing
2) Gang Gang Dance: Saint Dymphna
3) Zombie Zombie: A Land For Renegades
4) Why: Alopecia
5) Portishead: Third

1)Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up Til It Was Light
2)Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins
3)Rolo Tomassi - Hysterics
4)Deerhoof _ Offend Maggie
5)Midnight Juggernauts - Dystopia

1. Deerhunter - Microcastle
2. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
3. No Age - Nouns
4. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
5. of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping

1. Foals – Antidotes
2. Pyramids – Pyramids
3. Wild Beasts - Limbo Panto
4. Times New Viking – Rip It Off
5. This Town Needs Guns – Animals

1. youthmovies - good nature (only one other person chose this ? WTF ?!?)
2. vessels - white fields & open devices
3. maybeshewill - not for want of trying
4. frightened rabbit - the midnight organ fight
5. errors - its not something but it is like whatever

cant beleive youthmoves doesnt feature on more ppl's list, its brilliant

craigx

1. Late of the Pier- Fantasy Black Channel
2. KOL- Only By The Night
3. Blood red Shoes- Box of Secrets
4. Friendly fires - Friendly Fires
5. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

There's so many more great albums that i could list!!

1. MGMT - Ortacular Spectacular
2. Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim
3. Sigur Ros - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
4. Sennen - Before the Light Gets In
5. The Streets - Everything is Borrowed

1) flying lotus - los angeles
2) abe vigoda - skeleton
3) mogwai - the hawk is howling
4) the wave pictures - instant coffee baby
5) aidan john moffat - i can hear your heart

Bon Iver
Silver Mt Zion
TV on the Radio
Nick Cave
Fuck Buttons
Black Angels
Flying Lotus
James Yorkston
Silver Jews

2.Johnny Foreigner
3.Los Campesinos (WABWAD)
4.Dananananaykroyd (If it counts)
5.Late of the Pier

1. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
2. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
3. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
4. Errors - It's Not Something....
5. Hot Chip - Made In The Dark

Apologies to Remember Remember and Lykke Li

1. Los Campesinos - Hold on now, youngsta
2. Los Campesinos - We are beautiful, we are doomed
3. Johnny Foreigner - waited up
4. The Wave pictures - instant coffee baby
5. Lightspeed champion - lavender bridge

Lightspeed deserves soo much more cred for this album, its so good.

1. Women - Women
2. Josh Goldberg - Double Murder Suicide
3. Leila - Blood, Looms and Blooms
4. The Features - Some Kind of Salvation
5. Videotape - My Favourite Thing

1. Why? - Alopecia
2. Bon Iver - For Emma...
3. Torche - Meanderthal

I'll come back for the other two. Not sure.

1 Fleet foxes - s/t
2 Okkervil river - stand ins
3 The hold steady - stay positive
4 Death cab - narrow stairs
5 bon iver - for emma, forever ago

Though, had I bought the titus andronicus album sooner and given it more time, it may have got in.

1. Smile by Boris -both mixes- : ) + : ) = : )

I picked Smile for it's beauty, ferocity and freedom. Boris knows who they are and what they want to say. This thing is so raw and pure and honest that it is unstoppable in my ears. I was completely open to some other band to displace this as my number one pick but it just didn't happen.

2. Meanderthal by Torche

Meanderthal is nearly as glorious as Jane's Addiction's Nothings Shocking but in a much less pretentious manner (perry can't help it, I forgive him and I forgive douchebag for taking a medium umbrage to that statement which I have rethought because of said umbrage and it was a silly thing for me to say but still; Meanderthal does remind me of Jane's Addiction. Hard not to give Melvins this position, I almost did cause they were sooooooooo much better live than Torche was. But the night I saw Torche they were opening for Boris and there were three backlines set and everything was very rushed- gotta give them the benefit of the doubt. Meanderthal is perfect!!

3. Nude With Boots by Melvins

What can I say these guys shit awesomeness.

4. Doomsdayer's Holiday by Grails

This one sneaked under the wire (still time for more of that I suppose) and it is so wonderful. It is mercurial and hard to pin down, discribe, classify. All I can say is don't judge it by the title cause you will get caught going "what the fuck?". Haha- pick this up today!

*also Doomsdayer's Holiday get's my vote for best Artwork of 2008.

5. Street Horrrsing by Fuck Buttons

Ode To Joy 2. Beethoven would have loved this by candelight over his grouchy bachelor supper meal. I love it with everything- tried it while driving in a blizzard last night- maybe fuck buttons and iceskating this week END. No skating, sleeping mostly.

6. DØMKIRKE by sunn O))) (exclusively vinyl)

This SHOULD win on artistic merit alone but I feel that I gotta subtract points from sunn O))) cause they don't play by the same rules as these other bands. Through no fault of their own they intrinsically have more freedom to create than do the other bands I've mentioned. Artistic merit aside DØMKIRKE is everything church should be: Inspiring, Uplifting, Galvanizing and no sanctimonious bullshit- just good clean WORSHIP!!!

7. And The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull by Earth (vinyl)

It was me getting this on vinyl that made me do this- when you get yours you'll know what I mean. Dylan Carlson's honest themes make him the Aaron Copeland of Drone Metal.

8. Let The Blind Lead Those Who Cannot See But Cannot Feel by Atlas Sound
double lp w/ another bedroom ep (vinyl)

I loved cryptograms therefore I gotta love this.

9. Nouns by No Age

Randy and Dean keep the wierdoness coming!

10. Board Up The House by Genghis Tron

This was hard to love but I made it. (I wish they would get a real drummer)

Like I said I have only heard a paltrey amount of new music (still haven't heard Micro Castles or Weird Era Cont.). I am sure there is stuff out there that will blow the crap I mentioned out of the water- there always is.

Honourably Mentioned: The Slip by Trent, Wolves In The Throneroom, Ascend, Oren Ambarchi, Jarboe, The Magnetic Fields, Ministry, Secret Machines, Velvet Cacoon, Interpol (live in london), Wolftron, The Bug, Liars Demo Zip File, and Satan's ipod by Chris and Riley (my Son's collection of Garage Band throwaways- awesome)

1) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
2) Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
3) Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
4) Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up Til It Was Light
5) Okkervil River - The Stand Ins

1. In Ghost Colours--Cut Copy
2. Apocalypso--The Presets
3. Crystal Castles--Crystal Castles
4. Glass Candy
5. The Morning Benders--Talking Through Tin Cans
6. Palaces--Bart Davenport
7. 2--Darker My Love
8. Old Home Movies--The Botticellis
9. Little Joy
10. The Reaction SF

(1)No Age -Nouns
(2)Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
(3)TV on the Radio - Dear Science
(4)Foals - Antidotes
(5)Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
(6)why? - Alopecia
(7)Mystery Jets - 21
(8)volcano! - Paperwork
(9)Times New Viking - Rip it Up
(10)HEALTH//DISCO

no age
why?
mgmt
crystal castles
benga

1)Los Campesinos - Hold On Now, Youngster...
2)Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
3)Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
4)Metronomy - Nights Out
5)Yelle - Pop Up

I think :S

Gang Gang Dance - St Dymphna
Mystery Jet - Twenty One
Why - Alopecia
Pivot - O Soundtrack My Heart
Minilogue - Animals

Portishead - Third
The Week That Was - The Week That Was
Marnie Stern - This Is Is...
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig

1. Pete and the Pirates - Little Death
2. Blood Red Shoes - Box of Secrets
3. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
4. Portishead - Third
5. Youthmovies - Good Nature

1. She & Him - Volume 1
2. Portishead - Third
3. Aimee Mann - @#%&*! Smilers
4. Sigur Ros - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
5. Beach House - Devotion

No Age - Nouns
Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
TV On The Radio - Dear Science
The Walkmen - You & Me

1) TV on the Radio- Dear Science
2) Foals- Antidotes
3) Los Campesinos!- Hold On Now, Youngster...
4) Fuck Buttons- Street Horrrsing
5) of Montreal- Skeletal Lamping

1. Tv on the Radio - Dear Science,
2. El Guincho - Alegranza
3. The Mae Shi - Hlllyh
4. Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
5. The Dø - A Mouthful

1. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
2. Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid
3. Portishead - Third
4. The Acorn - Hope Glory Mountain
5. Long Blondes - Couples

1. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
2. Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
3. Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season
4. The Bronx - The Bronx III
5. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles

1. mystery jets
2. dananananaykroyd
3. wild beasts
4. metronomy
5. vampire weekend

In no real order:
Vampire Weekend
TV on the Radio
No Age
Benga
Why?

Algernon Cadwallader- Some Kind of Cadwallader
Johnny Foreigner- Waited Up Til It Was Light
Shield Your Eyes- Shield Your Eyes

I can't think of any more but one of them stands a decent chance and it wouldn't surprise me if no-one has voted for the other two...

1. Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
2. The Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby
3. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
4. The Week That Was - The Week That Was
5. Vessels - White Fields and Open Devices

1. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
2. God is an Astronaut - S/T
3. The Mars Volta - The Goliath in Bedlam
4. Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC + Start - Embers
5. NIN - Ghosts I-IV

1) Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
2) Wedding Present - El Rey
3) Neon Neon - Stainless Style
4) TV on the Radio - Dear Science
5) Amorphous Androgynous - The Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness

1) Beach House - Devotion
2) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
3) British Sea Power - Do you like Rock music
4) Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
5) Rome - Masse Mensch Material

Honourable mentions:
Guillemots, Vampire Weekend, MGMT, Bon Iver, Bright Eyes, the Dears

Blood Red Shoes - Box of Secrets
Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
Los Campesinos - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up ‘til It Was Light
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

1) lovvers - think
2) no age - nouns
3) foals - antidotes
4) conor oberst - conor oberst
5) mae shi - hllyh

1. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
2. Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV
3. Foals - Antidotes
4. Mystery Jets - Twenty One
5. Matt Elliott - Howling Songs

1) TV On The Radio - Dear Science
2) Fleet Foxes - S/T
3) Portishead - Third
4) AmpLive - Rainydayz Remixes
5) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

2.Deerhunter-Microcastke;/Weird Era cont.
3.Mogwai-The Hawk is Howling
4.Flying Lotus-Los Angeles
5.Frightened Rabbit-The midnight organ Fight

headlights – some racing, some stopping

envelopes - here comes the wind

okkervil river – the stand ins

tokyo police club – elephant shell

the all new adventures of us - best loved goodnight tales

1.Dear Science - TVOTR
2.Oracular Spectacular - MGMT
3.Elephant Shell - Tokyo Police Club
4.Intimacy - Bloc Party
5.Fantasy Black Channel - Late of The Pier

No order because that is just too much....
SMZ-13 Moons etc
Fuck Buttons-Street Horrrrrrrrrsing
Elbow-Seldom Seen Kid
Bon Iver-For Emma Forever Ago
Dodos-Visiter

1) Why? - Alopecia
2) Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
3) No Age - Nouns
5) Nisennenmondai - Destination Tokyo
5) iTAL tEK - Cyclical

Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful We Are Doomed
Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
Johnny Foreigner Waited Up Til It Was Light
Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
Blood Red Shoes - Box Of Secrets

Honourable Mentions go to:
Ladyhawke, Ladytron - Velocifero, LC! - Hold On Now Youngster

1. The Walkmen - You and Me
2. Deerhunter - Microcastle
3. Why? - Alopecia
4. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
5. Dodos - Visiter

1. bon iver - forever ago
2. the ruby suns - sea lion
3. neon neon - stainless style
4. mgmt - oracular spectacular
5. hot chip - made in the dark

bon iver and ruby suns are the only ones i am 100% sure about though. on another day beck, 2562, elbow, and cut copy could have got in the list

but just the albums I enjoyed the most.

In no particular order:

Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off The Lavender Bridge
TV On The Radio - Dear Science
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Deerhunter - Microcastle/ Weird Era Cont.
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Flight

1) Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
2) Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby
3) Portishead - Third
4) Why? - Alopecia
5) Nick Cave - Dig! Lazarus! Dig!

Looking back at it this seems like a massively 'conservative' list for me, if I'd done it yesterday it would've been full of Nadja and Burning Star Core, but today I'm in a pop mood.

1) This Town Needs Guns - Animals
2) YouthMovies - Good Nature
3) Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
4) Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
5) Why? - Alopecia

Didn't like leaving out: JoFo, Crystal Castles, TNP etc

1) Times New Viking – Rip It Off
2) Micah P. Hinson - Micah P. Hinson and the Red Empire Orchestra
3) The Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby
4) Of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping
5) Pit Er Pat - High Time

...I think

1. Marnie Stern – This Is It etc.
2. Abe Vigoda – Skeleton
3. Cryptacize – Dig That Treasure
4. Ponytail – Ice Cream Spiritual
5. No Kids – Come Into My House

Close:
Why? – Alopecia
Rings – Black Habit
Mount Eerie & Julie Doiron - Lost Wisdom

Disclaimer – I have these but haven’t listened to them properly yet: Rolo Tomassi, Deerhoof, Zach Hill, TV On The Radio, Frightened Rabbit, Gang Gang Dance, Flying Lotus, School of Seven Bells.

2. Frightened Rabbit "The Midnight Organ Fight"
3. Mountain Goats "Heretic Pride
4. Melvins "Nude With Boots"
5. The Mae Shi "HLLLYH"

1) TV On The Radio - Dear Science
2) Youthmovies - Good Nature
3) Rolo Tomassi - Hysterics
4) maybeshewill - Not For The Want Of Trying
5) Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man - The Lay Of the Land; The Turn Of The Tide

It was hard to leave out:

Vessels - White Fields And Open Devices
Her Name Is Calla - Heritage EP

I'd love to add the volcano! album but I really didn't think it was anywhere near as good as Beautiful Siezure, hopefully it'll get better with further listens. I also have a feeling I've forgotten something really good.

2. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
3. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
4. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
5. Deerhunter - Microcastle/ Weird Era Cont.

1. Shield your Eyes
2. Youthmovies - Good Nature
3. Jeremy Warmsley - How We Became
4. Cats In Paris - Courtcase202020202020
5. Los Camp - Hold On

1. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
2. Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
3. Abe Vigoda - Skeleton
4. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
5. Au - Verbs

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6. Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls
7. MGMT - Orracular Spectacular
8. Lykke Li - Youth Novels
9. High Places - High Places
10. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping

I also really liked the new Love Is All album, but decided not to include it because its just so pissing generic. I personally like what it is generic of - doesn't make it a great album.

1)Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
2)Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes/Sun Giant EP
3)Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
4)TV on the Radio - Dear Science
5)British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?

#1 Portishead - Third
#2 M83 - Saturdays=Youth
#3 Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
#4 Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
#5 Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree

1. The Kills - Midnight Boom
2. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
3. Ladyhawke -Ladyhawke
4. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
5. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping

1. Elbow 'The Seldom Seen Kid'
2. Chumbawamba 'The Boybands Have Won'
3. Gutter Twins 'Saturnalia'
4. Tapes 'n Tapes 'Walk It Off'
5. The Futureheads 'This Is Not The World'

Fuck it!

1) Frightened Rabbit -- Midnight Organ Fight
2) The Dandy Warhols -- Earth to the Dandy Warhols (I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK! IT'S A GREAT RECORD!!)
3) Crystal Stilts -- Alight of Night
4) Nine Inch Nails -- The Slip
5) Portishead -- Third

And the list goes on:
6) Ladytron -- Velocifero
7) The Presets -- Apocalypso
8) No Age -- Nouns
9) Deerhunter -- Microcastle
10) Cut Copy -- In Ghost Colours
11) Beck -- Modern Guilt

(It felt wrong to leave Beck off when it was a hair's breadth that separated him from Cut Copy)

1) M83 - Saturdays = Youth
2) Jamie Lidell - Jim
3) Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
4) Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
5) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

I won't bother listing what I left off, it's unbearable.

1) Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It And So Is That And He Is It And She Is It And It Is It And That Is That
2) El Guincho - Alegranza
3) Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up Til It Was Light
4) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
5) Los Campesinos - Hold On Now Youngster

TV on the Radio/Dear Science
Titus Andronicus/The Airing of Grievances
Fuck Buttons/Street Horrrsing
Why?/Alopecia
Neon Neon/Stainless Style

be your own pet - get awkward
cadence weapon - afterparty babies
johnny foreigner - waited up till it was light
los campesinos! - we are beautiful, we are doomed
ponytail - ice cream spiritual

1. Why? - Alopecia
2. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
3. The Mae Shi - Hllyh
4. Islands - Arm's Way
5. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair

1. Vessels - White fields & open devices
2. Wild Beasts - Limbo Panto
3. The Duke Spirit - Neptune
4. Errors - It's not something but it's like whatever
5. Elbow - The seldom seen kid

1. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
2. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
3. Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
4. Bon Iver - For Emma
5. Coldplay - Viva La Vida

1) Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
2) Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
3) Noah and the Whale - Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down
4) Future of the Left - Curses
5) Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

(even though I listened to number 5 too much and got sick of it's catchiness, it's still up there!)

1. Pocahaunted - Island Diamonds
2. Astral Social Club - Model Town in a Field of Mud
3. Raccoo-oo-oon - s/t
4. Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
5. Sic Alps - A Long Way Around to a Shortcut

i dunno. that looks about right for the moment. honourable mentions to Robedoor, Prurient, Dan Friel, Shit & Shine, The Caretaker, Nadja, Kemialliset Ystavat, Jasper TX, Burning Star Core, Skullflower, Sun Araw, The Hospitals, Melvins, Black Pus, Ben Reynolds, Bulbs, Ty Segall....

1. enablers - tundra
2. nick cave & the bad seeds - dig, lazarus, dig
3. john & Jehn - John & Jehn
4. amadou & mariam - welcome to mali
5. spiritualized - songs in a & e

1. Charlottefield - What Are Friends For
2. Deerhunter - Microcastles
3. Frightened Rabbit - the Midnight Organ Fight
4. Lemuria - Get Better
5. Why? - Alopecia

2)Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
3)Firekites - The Bowery
4)Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby
5)Shoreline - Time Well Spent

Sigur Ros- "Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust"
Ten Kens- "Ten Kens"
Late of The Pier- "Fantasy Black Channel"
British Sea Power- "Do You Like Rock Music?"
White Denim- "Workout Holiday"

1. Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
2. Death Cab For Cutie: Narrow Stairs
3. The Gutter Twins: Saturnalia
4. Crystal Castles: Crystal Castles
5. Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago

1. Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up 'Til It Was Light
2. Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
3. Parenthetical Girls - Entanglements
4. No Age - Nouns
5. Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off The Lavender Bridge.

I'll probably change my mind when I press Post Reply though.

1. Forest Fire "Survival"
2. Quiet Village "Silent Movie"
3. Eddy Current Suppression Ring "Primary Colours"
4. Titus Andronicus "The Airing of Grievances"
5. Deerhunter "microcastle"

1. Abe Vigoda - Skeleton
2. Boris - Smile
3. Sunn o))) - Domkirke
4. Half Man Half Biscuit - CSI: Ambleside
5. Mogwai - Hawk Is Howling
6. Zach Hill - Astrological Straits
7. Sun Kil Moon - April
8. Bonnie Prince Billy - Is It The Sea
9. Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull
10. Don Caballero - Punkgasm

Close contenders Nick Cave, Torche, Jesu, The Hospitals....

My memory = rubbish, so I've missed off some I know, but I couldn't narrow it down :(

1. Blank Dogs - Year one
2. Nodzzz - Nodzzz
3. Wavves - Wavves
4. Grouper - Dragging a dead deer up a hill
5. Tickley Feather - Tickley Feather

Others that I can remember
Nobunny - Love visions, Cheveu - Cheveu,Inca Ore - Birthday of bless you, Eat Skull - sick to death, U.S. Girls - Introducing, Library Tapes - A summer beneath the trees, Geneva Jacuzzi - Kooze control, Melissa St. Pierre - Specimens, Peter Broderick - Float, Fabulous Diamonds - Fabulous Diamonds

1. Portishead - Third
2. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
3. Vessels - White Fields and Open Devices
4. volcano! - Paperwork
5. Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Heartcore

ok in order

1.School Of Language- Sea From Sure
2.Late Of The Pier- Fantasy Black Channel
3.TV On The Radio- Dear Science
4.Bon Iver- For Emma, forever ago
5.Flight Of the Conchords

1 Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
2 Sigur Rós - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
3 Erykah Badu - New World Amerykah (Part One)
4 Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
5 M83 - Saturdays = Youth

1) Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
2) Portishead - Third
3) Why? - Alopecia
4) Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
5) Boris - Smile.

1) Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
2) Foals - Antidotes
3) Los Campesinos! - Hold on Now Youngster
4) M83 - Saturdays=Youth
5) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

because I haven't heard the new Deerhunter album yet (hoping to get it for Xmas) ... but currently I'd vote as follows:
1) Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
2) White Denim - Workout Holiday
3) Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
4) The Walkmen - You & Me
5) Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing

what a year its been
1)bon iver for emma forever ago
2)tv on the radio dear science
3)fleet foxes fleet foxes
4)deerhunter microcastle
5)shearwater rook

it'd probably go something like
1.Deerhunter - Microcastle
2.No Age - Nouns
3.Charlottefield - What Friends Are For?
4.The Mae Shi - HLLLYH
5.Rolo Tomassi - Hysterics

1. of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
2. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
3. Women - Women (and I reserve my right to vote for it next year after the UK release)
4. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
5. Parts & Labor - Receivers

is fast going TVOTR's way

1. Charlottefield - What Are Friends For
2. True Swamp Neglect - Cloud Cloud Cloud
3. They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - We Are All in the Gutter But Some of us Are Looking At...
4. Los Campesinos - Hold On Now Youngster
5. Johnny Foriegner - Waited Up Till It Was Light

1. Portishead - Third
2. Torche - Meanderthal
3. Rolo Tomassi - Hysterics
4. The Night Marchers - See You In Magic
5. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles

(1) Bonnie Prince Billy- Lie Down in the Light
(2) Of Montreal- Skeletal Lamping
(3) The Week That Was- The Week That Was
(4) Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
(5) Lindstrom- Where You Go I Go Too

what a year its been
1)bon iver for emma forever ago
1)the killers day and age
2)tv on the radio dear science
3)fleet foxes fleet foxes
4)santogold santogld
5)shearwater rook

1) Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
2) Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago
3) Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins
4) Johnny Foreigner - WUTIWL
5) Van She - V

1. Flying Lotus – Los Angeles (Warp)
2. 2562 – Aerial (Tectonic)
3. Starkey – Ephemeral Exhibits (Planet Mu)
4. Polar Bear – Polar Bear (Tin Angel)
5. Deerhunter – Microcastle / Weird Era Cont. (4AD)

Then just for fun have a crap load more...

6. Eero Johannes – Eero Johannes (Planet Mu)
7. Atlas Sound – Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (Kranky)
8. Trim – Soulfood Vol.3 (Self Released)
9. Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna (Warp)
10. The Bug – London Zoo (Ninja Tunes)

11. Distance – Repercussions (Planet Mu)
12. Minilouge – Animals (Cocoon)
13. Adebisi Shank – This Is An Album By The Band Adebisi Shank (The Richter Collective)
14. Rolo Tomassi – Hysterics (Hassle)
15. DJ/Rupture – Uproot (The Agriculture)
16. Trouble Books – The United Colours Of Trouble Books (MIE)
17. Dusk + Blackdown – Margins Music (Keysound)
18. Down I Go – Tyrant (Undergroove)
19. No Age – Nouns (Sub Pop)
20. Dot Rotten – R.I.P. Young Dot (Rotten Riddims)

That was a mission I have been going thruogh loads of them and making a list for ages now.

but as ever, none of my choices will make it into the top 50 :(

Titus Andronicus - The Airing Of Greivances
Torche - Meandarthal
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Roots Manuva - Slime and Reason
Thomas Function - Celebration

Crystal Antlers would be in there if it wasn't an ep and all

01. Get Well Soon "Rest Now Weary Head You Will Get Well Soon"
02. Wintersleep "Welcome To The Night Sky"
03. The Rural Alberta Advantage "Hometowns"
04. Okkervil River "The Stand Ins"
05. War On Drugs "Wagonwheel Blues"

Bon Iver "For Emma, Forever Ago"
Chad VanGaalen "Soft Airplane"
Titus Andronicus "The Airing Of Grievances"
The Walkmen "You + Me"
Elliott Brood "Mountain Meadows"
The Notwist "The Devil, You + Me"
Sigur Ros "Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalast"
No Age "Nouns"
Deerhunter "Microcastle"
The Moondoggies "Don't Be A Stranger"
Mogwai "The Hawk Is Howling Ltd"
Dr Dog "Fate"
Rock Plaza Central "We Are Not Horses"
Black Mountain "In The Future"
The Stills "Oceans Will Rise"
Division Of Laura Lee "Violence Is Timeless"
Fleet Foxes "Ragged Wood"
Matt Mays + El Torpedo "Terminal Romance"
Deer Tick "War Elephant"
Shearwater "Rook"
Crystal Stilts "Alright Of Night"
Army Navy "Army Navy"
Frightened Rabbit "The Midnight Organ Fight"
Kathleen Edwards "Asking For Flowers"
The Whigs "Mission Control"
The Pigeon Detectives "Emergency"
Sleepercar "West Texas"
Wolf Parade "At Mount Zoomer"

I'm gonna give the growers some more time before i decide on them, but until that time comes I've got,
1.Deerhunter-Microcastle/Wierd Era Cont.
2.Portishead-Third
3.No Age-Nouns
4.El Guincho-Alegranza!
5.Flying Lotus-Los Angeles
5.

TV On The Radio - Dear Science
Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster
No Age - Nouns
Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst

1. Why? - Alopecia
2. Johnny Flynn - A Larum
3. Errors - It's Not Something But It Is Like Whatever
4. volcano! - Paperwork
5. Abe Vigoda - Skeleton

1. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
2. Portishead - Third
3. Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid
4. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
5. Vampire Weekend - Vampire weekend

Please.

1. Duchess Says - Anthologie Des 3 Perchoirs
2. The Indelicates - American Demo
3. Super Baby Face
4. Vampire Weekend
5. Autodrone - Strike A Match

1 Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont
2 Portishead - Third
3 Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
4 Women - Women
5 No Age - Nouns

1-Shoes and socks off - from the muddy banks of mehlitzer
2-johnny foreigner - waited up til it was light
3-thomas newman - wall-e OST
4-bon iver - for emma, forever ago
5-grouper - dragging a dead deer up a hill

1) Meshuggah - Obzen
2) Fuck Buttons - Street Horssing
3) Rolo Tomassi - Hysterics
4) Portishead - Third
5) TVOTR - Dear Science

...I think...

1. Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up Til It Was Light
2. Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
3. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

TVOTR- Dear Science
No Age- Nouns
Fuck Buttons-Street Horrrsing
Los Campesinos!- Hold On Now Youngster
Mystery Jets- 21

1. Black Mountain - In The Future
2. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
3. Glen Campbell - Meet ...
4. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
5. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

1. Portishead - Third
2. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
3. No Age - Nouns
4. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
5. Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who See But Cannot Feel

...and mentions to the following because picking spot 5 got damn difficult: Subtle's Exiting Arm, Sigur Ros's Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust, Portugal. The Man's Censored Colors, Make Believe's Going to the Bone Church, Astronautalis's Pomegranates, and Son Lux's At War with Walls and Mazes

1 - Frightened Rabbit "Midnight Organ Fight"
2 - Why? "Alopecia"
3 - Wintersleep "Welcome To The Night Sky"
4 - Elbow "Seldom Seen Kid"
5 - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds "Dig!!! Lazurus Dig!!!"

1. Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
2. Why? - Alopecia
3. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
4. Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up Til It Was Light
5. The Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby

1.Girls Aloud - Out of Control
2.The Week That Was - The Week That Was
3.Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke
4.She & Him - Vol.1
5.Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

1.) Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing
2.) Los Campesinos – We Are Beautiful We Are Doomed
3.) Portishead – Third
4.) Xiu Xiu – Women as Lovers
5.) Aidan John Moffat - I Can Hear Your Heart
...
And in the also ran camp:
6. why? – Alopecia
7. Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who See But Cannot Feel
8. Marnie Stern - This Is Is ….
9. Wave pictures - Instant Coffee Baby
10.Department of Eagles - In Ear Park

1. algernon cadwallader - some kind of cadwallader
2. this town needs guns - animals
3. lemuria - get better
4. bon iver - for emma, forever ago
5. the steal - bright grey

other mentions: blakfish - see you in another city, johnny foreigner -waited til.., rolo tomassi - hysetrics, why? - alopecia,

1. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
2. Russian Circles - Station
3. Foals - Antidotes
4. Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line
5. Dallas Green - Bring Me Your Love

Sigur Ros
Foals
British Sea Power
Vampire Weekend
Johnny Foreigner

1. Earth - 'The Bees Made Honey...'
2. GAS - 'Nah und Fern'
3. Grouper - 'Dragging a Dead...'
4. Torche - 'Meanderthal'
5. Lindstrom - 'Where You Go...'

Burning Witch reissue came out in January this year.

Would that count as an album of 2008?

If so can I swap for Torche?

01: Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster...
02: Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
03: Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
04: Beach House - Devotion
05: Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours

1. Hold on Now Youngster... (Los Campesinos!)
2. For Emma, Forever Ago (Bon Iver)
3. Third (Portishead)
4. The Midnight Organ Fight (Frightened Rabbit)
5. The Chemistry of Common Life (Fucked Up)

1. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
2. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
3. Beach House - Devotion
4. Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
5. Dodos - Visiter

1. Portishead - Third
2. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
3. Shearwater - Rook
4. Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
5. Vessels - White Fields and Open Devices

1. The Walkmen - You & Me
2. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns (Excellent unsigned band w/echoes of NMH. Check em out at http://theraa.com/ and watch them in 2009.)
3. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig !!!
5. The Bug - London Zoo
6. Man Man - Rabbit Habits
7. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
8. Sons & Daughters - This Gift
9. TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
10.Immortal Technique - The 3rd World

1) islands - arm's way
2) wolf parade - at mt zoomer
3) tv on the radio - dear science
4) el guincho - alegranza
5) of montreal - skeletal lamping

1) Anne McCue - East Of Electric
2) Matt Bauer - The Island Moved In The Storm
3) Amelia White - Amelia White
4) The Floorbirds - Field Recordings
5) Chatham County Line - Live In Caroline

I also saw some of these bands live this year and was blown away.

1. Vampire Weekend
2. Deerhunter- Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
3. M83- Saturdays=Youth
4. TV On The Radio- Dear Science
5. The Walkmen- You & Me

1. Stay Positive - The Hold Steady
2. Speaking in Cursive - Two Cow Garage
3. með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust - Sigur Ros
4. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
5. For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver

1) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
2) Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
3) Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
4) Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up Til It Was Light
5) Okkervil River - The Stand Ins

1) Extrawelt - Schoene Neue Extrawelt
2) Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
3) Kelley Polar - I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling
4) Girls Aloud - Out Of Control
5) Mahjongg - Kontpab

Bringing up the rear;

SCSI-9 - Easy As Down
Secondo - A Matter Of Scale
Tussle - Cream Cuts
Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
Dengue Fever - Venus On Earth
Crystal Castles - S/T
Booka Shade - The Sun And The Moon
Friendly Fires - S/T
Ladytron - Velocifero
The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
Ellen Allien - Sool

1) Parenthetical Girls - Entanglements
2) Portishead - Third
3) Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up Til It Was Light
4) Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
5) Stereolab - Chemical Chords

1. The Walkmen - You & Me
2. El Guincho - Alegranza
3. Midnight Juggerauts - Dystopia
4. Albert Hammond Jr. - Como Te Llama?
5. The Black Keys - Attack & Release

1.tv on the radio - dear science
2.johnny foreigner - waited up til it was light
3.times new viking - rip it off
4.foals - antidotes
5.vampire weekend - vampire weekend

Why? - Alopecia
Islands - Arm's Way
Ten Kens - Ten Kens
The War on Drugs - The War on Drugs

Are EPs allowed ? if yes :
Crystal Antlers - Crystal Antlers

if no:
No Age - Nouns

1) Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
2) Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
3) Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
4) Hercules and Love Affair - s/t
5) Crystal Castles - s/t

honourable mentions: Bon Iver, Times New Viking, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Elbow, Johnny Foreigner

1) David Holmes - The Holy Pictures
2) 2562 - Aerial
3) The Mae Shi - HLLLYH
4) Jape - Ritual
5) Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling

Rest of my top ten in no order
Oppenheimer - Take the Whole Midrange and Boost It
Deerhunter - Microcastle
SZ - Autumn Leaves Latin Comes
Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing
Fighting With Wire - Man Vs Monster

1) Why? - Alopecia
2) Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
3) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
4) Glasvegas - Glasvegas
5) Sigur Ros - Inni mer....

Best track: Township funk - Mujava
Honorable mention: Tapes n Tapes, Vampire Weekend, Gang gang dance

2) High Places - High Places
3) The Mae Shi - Hllllyh
4) Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
5) Los Campesinos! - Hold on Now Youngster

1. The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace
2. Fabulous Diamonds - Fabulous Diamonds
3. Dan Melchior und Das Menace - Christmas for the Crows
4. Emeralds - Solar Bridge
5. Times New Viking - Rip It Off

1. Why? / Alopecia
2. M83 / Saturdays=Youth
3. Bon Iver / For Emma, Forever...
4. LC! / WAB, WAD
5. Sigur Rós / Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust

1. Johnny Truant - No Tears For The Creatures
2. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
3. Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up 'Til It Was Light
4. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
5. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

1. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
2. Simon Bookish - Everything/Everything
3. Beach House - Devotion
4. Cats In Paris - Courtcase 2000
5. Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those...

6=
Marnie Stern - This is It...
Hammock - Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow
Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
Parenthetical Girls - Entanglements
John & Jehn
The Acorn - Hope Glory Mountain
Fleet Foxes

I might as well add my two cents :

1 - Rip it Off by Times New Viking
2 - Vampire Weekend by Vampire Weekend
3 - Dear Science by TV On The Radio
4 - Waited Up Til It Was Light by Johnny Foreigner
5 - Self In Fiction by William

1.Beach House - Devotion
2.Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
3.Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
4.Women - Women
5.The Dodos - Visiter

also:
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Portishead - Third
Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreaks
Final Fantasy - Spectrum, 14th Century
Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

i STILL JAVENT DECIEDED!

SHIT

Something like

WHy
JOFO
O MOntrreal
LOS CAMP
YOOOFMOVIESSS

and so on

1. TV on the Radio- Dear Science
2. Bloc Party- Intimacy
3. Ten Kens- Ten Kens
4. David Holmes- Holy Picture
5. Deerhunter- Microcatle

My top 5 were totally unexpected and i wasn't anticipating any of these at the start of 2008!

Other stuff I've played contantly this year has been:

City and Colour
Valient Thorr!!
Duke Special
CAncer Bats
Dodo's
Fighting with Wire
Kings of Leon
Born Ruffians
Glasvegas
Brigade
M83
Elbow
and
Metallica!!

the helio sequence
late of the pier
fleet foxes
the stills
mgmt

1. Breathe Owl Breathe- Ghost Glacier
2. Hjaltalín- Sleepdrunk Seasons
3. Get Well Soon- Rest Now, Weary Head, You Will Get Well Soon
4. The Notwist- The Devil, You + Me
5. Why?- Alopecia

6. Shearwater- Rook
7. Chad VanGaalen- Soft Airplane
8. Angil + Hddntracks- Oulipo Saliva
9. Dark Dark Dark- The Snow Magic
10. Choir Of Young Believers- This Is For The White In Your Eyes
11. The Ruby Suns- Sea Lion
12. Bodies Of Water- A Certain Feeling
13. Okay- Huggable Dust
14. Shoreline- Time Well Spent
15. A Weather- Cove
16. Au- Verbs
17. Sigur Ros- Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
18. Jong Pang- Bright White Light
19. The Acorn- Glory Hope Mountain
20. Lost In The Trees- All Alone In An Empty House
21. The Nurses- Apple's Acre
22. Finn.- The Best Low-Priced Heartbreakers You Can Own
23. The Accidental- There Were Wolves
24. Paavoharju- Laulu Laakson Kukista
25. Port O'Brien- All We Could Do Was Sing
26. Cloud Cult- Feel Good Ghosts
27. Department Of Eagles- In Ear Park
28. Simon Bookish- Everything/Everything
29. Anni Rossi- Afton
30. Sons Of Noel And Adrian- Sons Of Noel And Adrian
31. I'm From Barcelona- Who Killed Harry Houdini?
32. Johann Johannsson- Fordlandia
33. dEUS- Vantage Point
34. Adrian Crowley- Long Distance Swimmer
35. Between The Pine- Friends, Foes, Kith and Kin
36. Trouble Books- The United Colours Of Trouble Books
37. Roommate- We Were Enchanted
38. The Miserable Rich- Twelve Ways To Count
39. Throw Me The Statue- Moonbeams
40. Psapp- The Camel's Back
41. Benni Hemm Hemm- Murta St. Calunga
42. Welcome Wagon- Welcome To The Welcome Wagon
43. Detektivbyrån- Wermland
44. Stars And Sons- The Goat Show
45. Laish Quartet- Laish Quartet
46. Chris T-T- Capital
47. Jacaszek -Treny
48. Antarctica Takes It!- The Penguin League
49. Elbow- The Seldom Seen Kid
50. Boduf Songs- How Shadows Chase The Balance
51. Misophone- Be Glad You Are Only Human
52. Syd Matters- Ghost Days
53. Erik Enocksson- With Its Dark Tail Curled 'Round The Garage
54. Eleanoora Rosenholm- Älä kysy kuolleilta, he sanoivat
55. Adem- Takes
56. Francois Virot- Yes Or No
57. Pattern Is Movement- All Together
58. Mechanical Bride- Part II - Eps
59. Hospital Ships- Oh, Ramona
60. Hauschka- Ferndorf
61. Calexico- Carried To Dust
62. Final Fantasy- Plays To Please
63. Final Fantasy- Spectrum, 14th Century
64. Mercury Rev- Snowflake Midnight
65. Gentleman Auction House- Alphabet Graveyard
66. Grouper- Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill
67. Yasushi Yoshida- Little Grace
68. Tim And Sam's Tim And The Sam Band With Tim And Sam- Put Your Slippers On
69. Slaraffenland- Sunshine
70. Electric President- Sleep Well
71. The Rural Alberta Advantage- Hometowns
72. Jocari- In The Healing Hands Of Time
73. The Declining Winter- Goodbye Minnesota
74. Smile Down Upon Us- Smile Down Upon Us
75. Fujiya & Miyagi-Lightbulbs

1. Intronaut - Prehistoricisms
2. These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower & Dove
3. Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier
4. Russian Circles - Station
5. Exotic Animal Petting Zoo - I Have Made My Bed In Darkness

The other 5 of my top 10...

6. Genghis Tron - Board Up the House
7. Ocean - Pantheon Of the Lesser
8. Boris - Smile (Japanese version)
9. Ascend - Ample Fire Within
10. Ehnahre - The Man Closing Up

1. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
2. Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull
3. Charlottefield - What Are FriendS For
4. Mirror Mirror - The Society For The Advancement Of Inflammatory Conciousness
5. Growing - All The Way

just missing out:

Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
No Age - Nouns
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Portishead - Third
d_rradio - d_rradio

or does no-one really care anymore...

or are the results being processed and its all a bit exciting!?!

01. Paavoharju – Laulu Laakson Kukista
(Fonal)
02. Late Of The Pier – Fantasy Black Channel
(Parlophone)
03. Brown Jenkins – Angel Eyes
(Moribund)
04. CaÏna – Temporary Antennae
(Profound Lore)
05. Rudi Arapahoe - Echoes From One To Another
(Symbolic Interaction)

2, Grouper - Dragging a dead deer up a hill
3, The Death Set- Worldwide
4, The Indelicates- American Demo
5, Neon Neon- Stainless Style

1. Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
2. Lindstrom - Where I go You go too
3. The Sleeping Years - We're Becoming Islands One by One
4. Ricardo Villalobos - Vasco EP
5. Sons of Noel & Adrian - Sons of Noel & Adrian

1. Foals-Antidotes
2. Bring me the horizon-Suicide Season
3. Fuck Buttons-Street Horrrsing
4. Crystal Castles-S/T
5. Fucked Up-The Chemistry of common life

Just looking at my last.fm plays / my personal opinion I would say:
1. Bloc Party – Intimacy
2. Foals - Antidotes
3. The Killers – Day & Age
4. Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
5. Metronomy - Nights Out

1. Los Campesinos! – Hold On Now, Youngster…
2. Johnny Foreigner – Waited Up Til It Was Light
3. Lil’ Wayne – Tha Carter III
4. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Pershing
5. Los Campesinos! – We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed

1) High Places: 03/07-09/07
2) The Dodos: Visiter
3) Crystal Castles: Crystal Castles
4) Lyke Li: Youth Novels
5) Portishead: Third

So that puts these just over the cut-off.
6) No Age: Nouns
7) Ida Maria: Fortress Round My Heart
8) Santogold: Santogold

And Fleet Foxes, Torche, Fuck Buttons, and MGMT on the honourable mention list.

1) The Drift - Memory Drawings
2) F**k Buttons - Street Horrrsing
3) Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
4) Meshuggah - ObZen
5) This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You

Let's have it before 2009 consumes us body and soul

Drive by Truckers?

:(

1. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
2. Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death and All His Friends
3. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
4. Adele - 19
5. Portishead - Third

I think this is Adele's first vote?

1. WHY? - Alopecia
2. Santogold - s/t
3. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
4. Flight of the Conchords - s/t
5. Panic at the Disco - Pretty.Odd.

Of course, if we can count The Sound of The Smiths, then that wins hands-down for me :)