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I am a super list top-100 geek
So, it's a slow one. I've been making a list, I've checked it about 88 times, so here it is. 100 records, in order of BEST to WORST, according to my ears only. Taketh the pith, pleaseth.
TOP 100
1) Saul Williams ‘Saul Williams’ (WICHITA)
2) Wives ‘Erect The Youth Problem’ (SWEET NOTHING)
3) Sufjan Stevens ‘Illinois’ (ROUGH TRADE)
4) Adam Gnade ‘Run, Hide, Retreat, Surrender’ (LOUD + CLEAR)
5) 31Knots ‘Talk Like Blood’ (POLYVINYL)
6) Why? ‘Elephant Eyelash’ (ANTICON)
7) Deerhoof ‘The Runners Four' (ATP RECORDS)
8) Bullet Union ‘Ruins Domino’ (JEALOUS)
9) Sigur Ròs ‘Takk’ (EMI)
10) Constantines ‘Tournament Of Hearts’ (SUB POP)
11) Broken Social Scene ‘Broken Social Scene’ (ARTS & CRAFTS/CITY SLANG)
12) dälek ‘Absence’ (IPECAC)
13) Sage Francis ‘A Healthy Distrust’ (EPITAPH)
14) Sleater-Kinney ‘The Woods’ (SUB POP)
15) Jesu ‘Jesu’ (HYDRAHEAD)
16) Hanne Hukkelberg ‘Little Things’ (LEAF)
17) This Aint Vegas ‘The Night Don Benito Saved My Life’ (JEALOUS)
18) Malcolm Middleton ‘Into The Woods’ (CHEMIKAL UNDERGROUND)
19) Under Byen 'Det Er Mig Der Holder Traerne Sammen' (HONEYMILK)
20) Wolf Parade ‘ Apologies To The Queen Mary’ (SUB POP)
21) Transistor Transistor ‘Erase All Name Or Likeness’ (LEVEL PLANE)
22) The Village Orchestra ‘Et In Arcadia Ego’ (HIGHPOINT LOWLIFE)
23) Lightning Bolt 'Hypermagic Mountain' (LOAD)
24) The Silent Type ‘Of Writing/Of Violence’ (LIMEKILN)
25) Death From Above 1979 ‘You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine’ (679)
26) Angels Of Light ‘Sing Other People’ (YOUNG GOD)
27) Charlottefield 'How Long Are You Staying?' (JONSON FAMILY)
28) Since By Man ‘Pictures From The Hotel Apocalypse’ (REVELATION)
29) Robyn G Shiels ‘A Lifetime Of Midnights (NO DANCING)
30) Make Believe ‘Shock Of Being’ (FLAMESHOVEL)
31) 65daysofstatic ‘One Time For All Time’ (MONOTREME)
32) Reigns 'We Lowered A Microphone Into The Ground' (JONSON FAMILY)
33) Espers ‘Espers’ (WICHITA)
34) Esmerine ‘Aurora’ (MADRONA)
35) Bright Eyes 'Digital Ash In A Digital Urn' (SADDLE CREEK)
36) Bear Vs Shark 'Terrorhawk' (EQUAL VISION)
37) Neon Blonde ‘Chandeliers In The Savannah’ (DIMMAK)
38) Wilco ‘Kicking Television’ (NONESUCH)
39) Tristeza ‘A Colores’ (BETTER LOOKING)
40) Keith Fullerton Whitman ‘Multiples’ (KRANKY)
41) Eels ‘Blinking Lights And Other Revelations’ (VAGRANT)
42) Fantomas ‘Suspended Animation’ (IPECAC)
43) Viva Voce ‘The Heat Can Melt Your Brain’ (FULL TIME HOBBY)
44) Smog ‘A River Ain’t Too Much To Love’ (DOMINO)
45) …Trail Of Dead 'Worlds Apart' (INTERSCOPE)
46) The Mars Volta 'Frances The Mute' (UNIVERSAL)
47) Iron & Wine/Calexico 'In The Reins' (TOUCH & GO)
48) The Chalets 'Check In' (SETANTA)
49) Six Organs Of Admittance 'School Of The Flower' (DRAG CITY)
50) Pelican 'The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw' (HYDRA HEAD)
51) Spoon 'Gimme Fiction' (MATADOR)
52) Holly Throsby ‘On Night’ (WOO ME!)
53) Antony And The Johnsons 'I Am A Bird Now' (ROUGH TRADE)
54) Part Chimp ‘I Am Come’ (ROCK ACTION)
55) Itch ‘Well Well Well Three Holes In The Ground’ (BIG SCARY MONSTERS)
56) Hey Colossus ‘II’ (JONSON FAMILY)
57) Dead Meadow ‘Feathers’ (MATADOR)
58) Akron/Family ‘Akron/Family’ (YOUNG GOD)
59) Red Sparrowes ‘At The Soundless Dawn’ (NEUROT)
60) …Bender ‘…Bender’ (TV)
61) Buck 65 'Secret House Against The World' (WARNERS)
62) Martha Wainwright ‘Martha Wainwright’ (DROWNED IN SOUND)
63) Statistics 'Often Lie' (JADE TREE)
64) Test Icicles ‘For Screening Purposes Only’ (DOMINO)
65) High On Fire ‘Blessed Black Wings’ (RELAPSE)
66) Beecher ‘This Elegy, His Autopsy’ (EARACHE)
67) Panthers ‘Things Are Strange’ (FACIAL)
68) Picastro ‘Metal Cares’ (MONOTREME)
69) XBXRX ‘Sixth in Sixes’ (POLYVINYL)
70) Messer Chups ‘Crazy Price’ (IPECAC)
71) Minus The Bear ‘Menos El Oso’ (UNDERGROOVE)
72) Bloc Party 'Silent Alarm' (WICHITA)
73) Soeza 'Why Do You Do?' (GRINGO)
74) Twinkie 'Twinkie' (AVEBURY)
75) William Elliott Whitmore 'Ashes To Dust' (SOUTHERN)
76) Darediablo 'Twenty Paces' (SOUTHERN)
77) Autolux ‘Future Perfect’ (FULL TIME HOBBY)
78) Mi and L'au 'Mi and L'au' (YOUNG GOD)
79) Maria Taylor '11:11' (SADDLE CREEK)
80) Early Man 'Closing In' (MATADOR)
81) Knut 'Terraformer' (HYDRA HEAD)
82) Bell Orchestre ‘Recording A Tape The Colour Of The Light’ (ROUGH TRADE)
83) Prefuse 73 'Surrounded By Silence' (WARP)
84) Animal Collective 'Feels' (FAT CAT)
85) Redjetson ‘New General Catalogue’ (DROWNED IN SOUND)
86) Numbers ‘We’re Animals’ (KILL ROCK STARS)
87) Four Tet 'Everything Ecstatic' (DOMINO)
88) The Apes 'Baba's Mountain' (BIRDMAN)
89) Team Sleep ‘Team Sleep’ (MAVERICK)
90) OCS '3&4' (NARNACK)
91) Cave In 'Perfect Pitch Black' (HYDRA HEAD)
92) An Emergency 'We Are The Octagonists' (CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY)
93) Rogue Wave 'Descended Like Vultures' (SUB POP)
94) The Mountain Goats 'The Sunset Tree' (4AD)
95) Devendra Banhart 'Cripple Crow' (XL)
96) Like A Stuntman 'Fresh Air Is Not The Worst Thing In Town' (HIGHPOINT LOWLIFE)
97) Mayday 'Bushido Karaoke' (SADDLE CREEK)
98) Scout Niblett 'Kidnapped By Neptune' (SECRETLY CANADIAN)
99) TEAM ‘The Line From A-B’ (CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY)
100) Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 'Summer In The South East' (SEA NOTE)