Help me find some stuff that'd interest me. I want YOUR musical tastes to influence me. I don't care when the album's from. Throw some stuff out for me to check out. Maybe this'll help others too...

My 06 top 20:

1. The Long Blondes- Someone to Drive You Home
2. Hold Steady- Boys & Girls in America
3. Rapture- Pieces of the People We Love
4. Mew- And The Glass Handed Kites
5. Belle & Sebastian- The Life Pursuit
6. Peter Bjorn and John- Writer’s Block
7. Clipse- Hell Hath No Fury
8. TV on the Radio- Return to Cookie Mountain
9. Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins- Rabbit Fur Coat
10. David Thomas Broughton- A Complete Guide to Insufficiency
11. Yo La Tengo- I Am Not Afraid of You…
12. Final Fantasy- He Poos Clouds
13. Destroyer- Destroyer’s Rubies
14. Ghostface Killah- Fishscale
15. The Knife- Silent Shout
16. Espers- Espers 2
17. M Ward- Post-War
18. Ellen Allien & Apparat – Orchestra of Bubbles
19. Joanna Newsom- Y’s
20. Girl Talk- Night Ripper

Rather Ripped, Sonic Nurse, Murray Street by Sonic Youth
Tigermilk by Belle and Sebastian
The Mysterious Production of Eggs by Andrew Bird
The Swimming Hour by Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire
Let It Be and Tim by the Replacements
Homegenic by Björk
Mutations by Beck
Food and Liquor by Lupe Fiasco
Since I Left You by the Avalanches
Mighty Joe Moon by Grant Lee Buffalo
Psychocandy by the Jesus and Mary Chain

Hopefully, there'll be a couple you haven't heard. I really tried to come up with an appropriate list.

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Originally posted by mark f:
Rather Ripped, Sonic Nurse, Murray Street by Sonic Youth
Tigermilk by Belle and Sebastian
The Mysterious Production of Eggs by Andrew Bird
The Swimming Hour by Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire
Let It Be and Tim by the Replacements
Homegenic by Björk
Mutations by Beck
Food and Liquor by Lupe Fiasco
Since I Left You by the Avalanches
Mighty Joe Moon by Grant Lee Buffalo
Psychocandy by the Jesus and Mary Chain

Thank you sir. There are a few I've been meaning to check out, some that I haven't heard of and some I like a lot (I love me some sinic youth... and sonic urse is one of my fav albums). I can't wait to pick up the others!

From this year:
Muse- Black Holes and Revelations
Neko Case- Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
The Decemberists- The Crane Wife
Islands- Return to the Sea
From previous years:
TV on the Radio – Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Dizzee Rascal – Boy in Da Corner
My Morning Jacket – Z
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – S/T
Bright Eyes – Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
And if you haven’t heard them yet, any of the three New Pornographers albums: Mass Romantic, Electric Version, and/or Twin Cinema

Hopefully, there are some on here that you haven't heard that are similar to your tastes. Since you have a decent amount of rap/hip-hop on your list you will love the Dizzee Rascal album, it is utterly brilliant.

Thanks bro. Like I said to Mark, a lot of those I've been meaning to check out but had forgotten about or I already love.

It's amazing how well some can recommend when you only give em 20 albums to work with.

I'll def be checking out the dizzee rascal album, haven't listened to any of his stuff.

some of these im sure you have or heard but they are what are on my current rotation so let me know if i did you good, ha.


sunny day realestate ~ how it feels to be something on
people in planes ~ as far as the eye can see
q and not u ~ different damage
minus the bear ~ highly refined pirates
forward, russia! ~ give me a wall
the strokes ~room on fire
stars ~ set yourself on fire
regina spektor ~ begin to hope
oh no! oh my! ~ s/t

Primal Scream- Screamadelica & XTRMNTR
Beck- Sea Change
Sleater-Kinney- Call The Doctor & Dig Me Out
J Dilla- Donuts
Pulp- Different Class
Massive Attack- Mezzanine & Blue Lines
Neutral Milk Hotel- On Avery Island & In the Aeroplane Over The Sea
X- Los Angeles & Wild Gift
Wire- Pink Flag, Chairs Missing & 154
Talking Heads- Fear of Music
Brian Eno- Another Green World

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Originally posted by mark f:
Let It Be and Tim by the Replacements

I second these choices if you really like the Hold Steady, and I'd also add Pleased to Meet Me.

The Hold Steady are heavily influenced the '80s Minneapolis scene. In addition to the Replacements, I'd also recommend you check out Soul Asylum. Their big hit album Grave Dancers Union is a pretty good place to start, but I also really like their earlier stuff on Twin/Tone Records. Check out Closer to the Stars: The Best of the Twin/Tone Years.

I'll also give you a somewhat obscure recommendation in Dramarama's Cinema Verite, which works for a few of the artists on your list.

Ya'll are doin me real good, keep em comin!

The Drones- Gala Mill
Comets on Fire- Avatar
Minutemen- Double Nickels on The Dime
A Trible Called Quest- Low End Theory & Midnight Marauders
Public Enemy- It Takes A Nation of Millions...
Television- Marquee Moon
The Magnetic Fields- 69 Love Songs
Explosions in the Sky- The Earth is Not A Cold, Dead Place
Sonic Youth- Washing Machine
T. Rex- Electric Warrior
Everything by Tom Waits (Closing Time, Small Change, Bone Machine, Real Gone, Orphans, Blood Money, Alice, Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs).
The Flaming Lips- Yoshimi & The Soft Bulletin
Pixies- Surfer Rosa & Come on Pilgrim (Don't forget Doolittle)

3 more recent albums...

Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures
The Format - Dog Problems

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Originally posted by ericg75:

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Originally posted by mark f:
Let It Be and Tim by the Replacements

I second these choices if you really like the Hold Steady, and I'd also add Pleased to Meet Me.

The Hold Steady are heavily influenced the '80s Minneapolis scene. In addition to the Replacements, I'd also recommend you check out Soul Asylum. Their big hit album Grave Dancers Union is a pretty good place to start, but I also really like their earlier stuff on Twin/Tone Records. Check out Closer to the Stars: The Best of the Twin/Tone Years.

I'll also give you a somewhat obscure recommendation in Dramarama's Cinema Verite, which works for a few of the artists on your list.

P.S. I grew up on soul asylum! My mom spun them constantly haha.

I've d/l'ed the ones I didn't already have (I plan on buying them if I like 'em... esp. since the bitrate's on the maj. are terrible! Like 192 kbps). Thank you all for your (what I'm sure will be) excellent reccomendations. Why is it that you all are so much more nice than the maj. of other communities? Oh yeah, because this one's about the music, not about the scene.

The Replacements remind me of the Violent Femmes... except with numerous good albums. Haha.

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Originally posted by FragileKidA: Muse- Black Holes and Revelations

Everyone in the entire world should have bought this album. Seriously. b0arder753, purchase a copy immediately; if you don't enjoy it, there's no hope for you in the world.

Also, TV On The Radio buffs will want the Young Liars EP, which is really quite amazing. Probably better than Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes.

Already got it haha... I've been on TVotR for a bit. I can say that, atleast.

I'm really diggin' andrew bird. A lot. It's really good.

Anyone know anything about harlem shakes? They're playing w/ deerhoof (and the busdriver... odd combo, I don't see how they mesh other than they both have albums coming out in 07 that I've already gotten the leaks of... I haven't been impressed w/ busdriver in years..)

Dramarama's Femme Fstale cover is real good.

You guys have been so kind.

Seeing as how you listed Clipse and Ghostface I will tell you what I have in rotation right now.

Cannibal Ox-The Cold Vein
Talib Kweli-Quality
Wu-Tang Clan-Iron Flag along with the classics, 36 Chambers in particular.
J Dilla-The Shining (Instrumentals) & Donuts
Buck 65-This Right Here is Buck 65
Dr. Octagon-Dr. Octagonecologyst
Gza / Genius-Liquid Swords

And check out Ghostface's Supreme Clientele and Aesop Rock's Daylight

A tribe called quest-People's instictive travels and the paths of rhythm

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I'll check out Buck 65 and Cannibal Ox... I've got the others, which means that I should enjoy those....

Forgot to mention Camp Lo, Sadat X, and cLOUDDEAD