Boards

Meursault - Pissing On Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues
Withered Hand - Good News
The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead
Adam Stafford - Build A Harbour Immediately
Rob St. John - Weald (he's English but lived in Scotland & is on a Scottish label, so I'm saying it counts)

the delgados - the great eastern
mogwai - young team
frightened rabbit - midnight organ fight
phantom band - checkmate savage
malcolm middleton - into the woods

it's a big place....

1) Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
2) The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
3) Stapleton - Hug The Coast
4) Biffy Clyro - The Vertigo of Bliss
5) Mogwai - Come On Die Young

Erm...

Idlewild - 100 broken windows
Arab Strap - Philophobia
Mogwai - Young team
Phantom Band - The wants
The Delgados - Hate

This leaves out lots of records I really like mind.

1. Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey's Dead
2. Mogwai - Young Team
3. Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
4. Primal Scream - XTMNTR
5. The Beta Band - The Three EPs (cheating, but I don't care)

Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right to Children
Aereogramme - Sleep & Release
Mogwai - Young Team/Happy Songs/CODY...
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns...

Albums from Errors, Rustie, The Delgados, De Rosa, Frightened Rabbit and so many others that could squeeze in there.

1. Aereogramme - A Story In White
2. Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
3. There Will Be Fireworks - There Will Be Fireworks
4. Mogwai - Young Team
5. The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters

Kuedo - Severant
Kode9 & The Spaceape - Memories of the Future
Rustie - Glass Sword
Knox-Om-Pax - Display Copy

Dunno... something from Boards of Canada...

1. The Delgados – The Great Eastern
2. Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
3. Teenage Fanclub – grand prix
4. Simple Minds – Empires and Dance
5. The Blue Nile – A walk across the rooftops

1. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
2. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
3. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
4. Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
5. Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever

1. The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
2. Mogwai - Young Team
3. The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops
4. Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells - Everything's Getting Older
5. Errors - Come Down With Me

I'm sure there are many things I've forgotten..

1. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
2. Mogwai - Young Team
3. Arab Strap - The Weekend Never Starts Around Here
4. Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
5. Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk

and in no particular order...
We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
Twilight Sad - 14 Autumns and 15 Winters
Malcolm Middleton - Sleight of Heart

so much great stuff missed there though (Meursault, Withered Hand, early Biffy, Aerogramme to name a few!)

2. Arab Strap - Monday At the Hug & Pint
3. James Yorkston - When the Haar Rolls
4. Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
5. Belle & Sebastian - If Your Feeling Sinister

Please, nobody include Talking Heads.

You're all doing it terribly, terribly wrong

2. The Shamen - Drop
3. Goodbye Mr McKenzie - Five
4. Found - Factorycraft
5. Malcolm middleton - A Brighter Beat

Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Country Teasers - Satan Is Real Again
Arab Strap - Philophobia

2. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
3. Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
4. Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Flight
5. Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land

Scotland really punches above its weight, when I think about favourite albums and bands a disproportionate number are Scottish. Some great choices above, but I think a top 5 is far too limited, especially looking at any period of time or genre.

Fire Engines - Fond (technically a compilation but whatever)
Josef K - The Only Fun in Town
JAMC - Psychocandy
BOC - Music

can't think of any other scottish bands I like

1. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
2. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
3. Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
4. Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
5. Idlewild - The Remote Part

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
Mogwai - Young Team
Beta Band - The Three EPs

1) Blue Nile - Walk Across The Rooftops
2) Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
3) Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
4) Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
5) Camera Obscura - Lets Get Out Of This Country

1.) Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch
2.) Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
3.) The Beta Band - Three EPs
4.) Meursault - All Creatures Will Make Merry...
5.) Mogwai - Rock Action

- Teenage Fanclub: Bandwagonesque
- Arab Strap: Philophobia
- Mogwai: Come On Die Young
- Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
- Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands

honourable mentions to:
- Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
- The Delgados - Peloton
- The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters

2. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
3. Belle & Sebastian - If Youre Feeling Sinister
4.Stealers Wheel - Stealers Wheel
5. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children

XTRMNTR - Primal Scream
Psychocandy - Jesus and Mary Chain
Arab Strap - Week Never Starts Round Here
Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Something folky: Hamish Imlach or The Corries in concert.

Weirdly missing out what is probably my favourite Scottish band in Mogwai.

1. Life Without Buildings - Any Other City (Scottish? If so why has no one else mentioned it?)
2. James Yorkston and the Athletes - Moving up Country
3. Primal Scream - Xtrmntr
4. Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
5. Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns... (had to be there for the accent alone)

2. Biffy Clyro - Infity Land
3. The Phantom Band - The Wants
4. Dananananaykroyd - Hey Everyone!
5. Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows

1. Big Country- The Crossing
2. Twilight Sad- Fourtee Autumns & Fifteen Winters
3. Biffy Clyro- Infinity Land
4. Cocteau Twins- Heaven or Las Vegas
5. Frightened Rabbit- Midnight Organ Fight

The Rob St John and Adam Stafford albums are really excellent.

Mine would be:

Withered Hand - Good News
Kid Canaveral - Shouting at Wildlife
Sparrow and the Workshop - Crystals Fall
Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
Biffy Clyro - Vertigo of Bliss

but there could easily be a place for Mogwai, BoC, arab Strap, Rob St John, Meursault, Take a Worm for a Walk Week and Hudmo.

1.JAMC - Psychocandy
2.Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
3.Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children
4.Primal Scream - Screamadelica
5.The Vaselines - The way of the vaselines

One of them is English but they formed in Scotland.

1. King Creosote - Flick the Vs
2. Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
3. Jesus and Mark Chain - Psychocandy
4. Mogwai - Young Team
5. Arab Strap - The Week Never Starts Around Here

I've tried to replace everything with The Beta Band's 3EPs but I can't take anything out.

Blue Nile - Hats
Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
Teenage Fanclub - Songs from Northern Britain
JAMC - Psychocandy
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career

Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
Meursault - All Creatures Will Make Merry
Ambulances - The Future That Was
Errors - Have Some Faith in Magic

So many to choose from though. Could easily have included stuff by Idlewild, Tango in the Attic, Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat, King Creosote, Orange Juice, Arab Strap YADDA YADDA BLAH BLAH ETC ETC.

Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever

Meursault - Pissing On Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
Biffy Clyro - The Vertigo of Bliss
Idlewild - The Remote Part (only just ahead of 100 BW)
Phantom Band - The Wants

King Creosote would easily be in my top 5 artists but don't think he's put together one faultless album yet