M83 - Saturdays = Youth (my fav record of this year)

You, appearing - 9
Kim and Jessy - 8 / 8.5
Skin of the night - 9
Graveyard girl - 8
Couleurs - first half 8, second half 9
UP! - 8
We own the sky - 9
Highway of endless dreams - 8
Too late - 9
Dark Moves of love - 8
Midnight souls still remain - 9

David Bowie's Low

1. "Sound and Vision"
2. "Always Crashing in the Same Car"
3. "Be My Wife"
4. "A New Career in a New Town"
5. "Warszawa"
6. "Breaking Glass"
7. "Weeping Well"
8. "Subterraneans"
9. "What in the World"
10. "Speed of Life"
10. "Art Decade"

Obviously I'm quite partial to the first side of the album. The instrumental stuff is good, but tends to drag a bit. Still, the album is phenomenal as a whole.

I'll do OK Computer for now.

1. Exit Music (For A Film) 10+

2. Paranoid Android 10
3. Let Down 10
4. No Surprises 10
5. Karma Police 10

6. Electioneering 9

7. Subterranean Homesick Alien 7.5
8. Lucky 7.5
9. The Tourist 7.5
10. Airbag 7.5

11. Climbing Up The Walls 5

Not sure about ranking Fitter Happier, though. If I should, I'd put it between Electioneering and Subterranean Homesick Alien, I think.

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11. Climbing Up The Walls 5

Damn, a 5? "Climbing up the Walls" is one of the best tracks on that record. I'd put it right up there with your top five as the "great" tracks on it.

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Originally posted by sans_success:
David Bowie's Low

1. "Sound and Vision"
2. "Always Crashing in the Same Car"
3. "Be My Wife"
4. "A New Career in a New Town"
5. "Warszawa"
6. "Breaking Glass"
7. "Weeping Well"
8. "Subterraneans"
9. "What in the World"
10. "Speed of Life"
10. "Art Decade"

Obviously I'm quite partial to the first side of the album. The instrumental stuff is good, but tends to drag a bit. Still, the album is phenomenal as a whole.

Nice list, although I'd put "A New Career In a New Town" at the top. Other than that, I really have no complaints.

And "Climbing Up the Walls" a 5? Hopefully you forgot to put a 9 and a decimal point in front of that score.

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11. Climbing Up The Walls 5

Damn, a 5? "Climbing up the Walls" is one of the best tracks on that record. I'd put it right up there with your top five as the "great" tracks on it.

I knew that it would be controversial, but I can't help but disliking that song. I find it boring, I feel that it doesn't go anywhere, and it doesn't do much for me aside that it feels ominous.

To each their own, I suppose.

New day, new album. Absolution by Muse:

1. hysteria 10

2. blackout 9
3. thoughts of a dying atheist 9
4. butterflies and hurricanes 9
5. the small print 9
6. time is running out 9
7. stockholm syndrome 9

8. endlessly 8
9. sing for absolution 7.5

10. falling away with you 7
11. ruled by secrecy 7
12. apocalypse please 6.5

While I'm at it, I'll also do Life's Rich Pageant by R.E.M.

1. fall on me 10+
2. I believe 10+

3. cuyahoga 9.5
4. flowers of guatemala 9.5

5. swan swan h 9
6. these days 9
8. underneath the bunker 8.5
7. begin the begin 8

9. hyena 7
10. superman 7
11. what if we give it away? 7

12. just a touch 6

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I made a few lists of my own, didn't see these ones mentioned.

Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix

1. Don't Look Back (10)
2. Going Places (10)
3. Neil Jung (10)
4. Discolite (10)
5. Sparky's Dream (10)
6. Tears (10)
7. About You (9)
8. I'll Make It Clear (9)
9. Hardcore/Ballad (9)
10. Mellow Doubt (9)
11. Say No (9)
12. I Gotta Know (9)
13. Verisimilitude (9)

I totally agree with the ranking, but i'll replace your 10s by 9s and your 9s by 8s and some 7s (Versimilitude and I gotta know).

...i'll do Bandwagonesque:

Alcoholiday - 9
Is this music? - 9
The Concept - 8
What you do to me - 8
I don't know - 8
Sidewinder - 8
Guiding star - 8
Metal Baby - 8
Star sign - 7.5/8
Satan - 7.5
December - 7
Pet rock - 7

Did anyone heard their latest album Man-Made?

Aesop Rock - Labor Days

1. The Yes and The Ya'll
2. Daylight
3. Bent Life
4. Flashflood
5. 9-5er's Anthem
6. Battery
7. Save Yourself
8. The Tugboat Complex, Part III
9. Boombox
10. Shovel
11. Coma
12. Labor
13. One Brick
14. No Regrets

Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover

This was difficult considering I genuinely love every song on the album...

1. "Winged/Wicked Things"
2. "The Mending of the Gown"
3. "Up on Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days"
4. "The Taming of the Hands That Came Back to Life"
5. "For the Pier (and Dead Shimmering)"
6. "Child-Heart Losers"
7. "Setting vs. Rising"
8. "Trumpet, Trumpet, Toot! Toot!"
9. "Colt Stands Up, Grows Horns"
10. "Stallion"
11. "Magic vs. Midas"
12. "The Courtesan Has Sung"

Damn, The Courtesan Has Sung is easily my favorite song on the entire album.

Granted that's because I don't like 3/4 of the album...

My first post on MC forums. (Although, been reading for quite a while.) Here are a few.

My favorite Animal Collective album: "Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished". Sorry if its an obscure choice.

1. Alvin Row - 10+
2. Chocolate Girl - 10+
3. (tie) Bat You'll Fly - 10+
3. (tie) La Rapet - 10+
5. Someday I'll Grow to be as Tall as a Giant - 10
6. April and the Phantom - 9
7. Spirt They've Vanished - 9
8. Everyone Whistling - 8
9. Track 3 - 7
10. Penny Dreadfuls - 6

I'll do my Kid A since it got some love above.

1. Everything in its Right Place - 10+
2. Idioteque - 10+
3. National Anthem - 10+
4. How to Disappear Completely - 10
5. Morning Bell - 10
6. Motion Picture Soundtrack - 9
7. Kid A -9
8. In Limbo - 8
9. Treefingers - 8
10. Optimistc - 8

That wasn't easy.

And Loveless by MBV

1. To Here Knows When - 10
2. When You Sleep - 10
3. Only Shallow - 10
4. I Only Said - 10
5. Loomer - 10
6. Come in Alone - 9
7. Soon -9
8. Blown A Wish -8
9. Sometimes - 8
10. What You Want - 7
11. Touched - 5

Simply because everyone will hate me, I'm going to do a couple Tears for Fears albums, which I treasure:
Everybody Loves a Happy Ending (2004)
Call Me Mellow - 10
Who Killed Tangerine? - 10
The Devil - 10
Last Days on Earth - 10
Closest Thing to Heaven - 10
Everybody Loves a Happy Ending - 10
The Quiet Ones - 9
Secret World - 9
Size of Sorrow - 9
Who You Are - 9
Killing With Kindness - 7
Ladybird - 7

Elemental (1993)
Break It Down Again - 10
Goodnight Song - 10
Elemental - 10
Fish Out of Water - 10
Cold - 10
Brian Wilson Said - 9
Mr. Pessimist - 9
Dog's A Best Friend's Dog - 9
Power - 8
Gas Giants - 5

The Seeds of Love (1989)
Famous Last Words - 10
Standing on the Corner of the Third World - 10
Sowing the Seeds of Love - 10
Swords and Knives - 9
Woman in Chains - 8
Advice for the Young at Heart - 7
Year of the Knife - 7
Bad Man's Song - 7

Green Day "American Idiot"
I cannot separate the opening six songs, they are powerful and set the tone for the album (American Idot, Jesus of Suburbia, and City of the Damned, I Don't Care, Dearly Beloved, Tales of Another Broken Home)
7. Holiday
8. She's A Rebel
9. Are We the Waiting
10. St. Jimmy
11. Boulevard of Broken Dreams
12. Give Me Novacaine
13-17 The Next Five are good but pale in comparison to the angst, inner pain, and driving rock of the first twelve. Even the ballads Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Give Me Novacaine are far from syrupy and are rich in imagery. It is great to find an album with the opening songs so good the remaining songs sound weak when they are not. They could stand as great songs on an any other album.
I left "When September Ends" as the last, but only because of its content in relation to the totality of the album. It is a beautiful ballad of loss and grief. It seems to stand alone. It is a great piece of work.
13. When September Ends

Peter Gabriel - "So"
(don't see his name mentioned much around these parts... Where's the love???)

1. Mercy Street
2. Big Time
3. Red Rain
4. Sledgehammer
5. That Voice Again
6. This is the Picture (excellent birds)
7. In Your Eyes
8. Don't Give Up
9. We Do What We're Told (milgrams 37)

Weee!!! This is fun!!