I just update my list when I'm bored. Which is pretty often...

I am more and more impressed with "April" after every listen, has a good chance of slipping into the top five for me.

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Originally posted by CleverName84:
Personally, i find the point.decimal scale a bit bizzare myself........blah, blah, blah

That's a really long post for someone complaining about too much detail being given to album ratings.

Maybe he feels more passionate about essays than he does about lists... now I kinda wish he would have made a list explaining his numerous reasons for why lists suck. O, the irony!

Reminds me of that poll I once saw asking if people liked polls or not. It turns out 100% of people like polls - well, 100% of those that answered the poll, of course. Everyone else hates polls...

Which reminds me of that joke that there's two kinds of people. Those that like lists and...

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Reminds me of that poll I once saw asking if people liked polls or not. It turns out 100% of people like polls - well, 100% of those that answered the poll, of course. Everyone else hates polls...

Which reminds me of that joke that there's two kinds of people. Those that like lists and...

Which reminds me of a recent poll with a highly ironic finding. When asked if President Bush is a uniter or divider, 50% said uniter and 50% said divider.

1. Nick Cave - Dig Lazarus, Dig!!
2. Drive By Truckers – Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
3. Hanne Huckelberg – Rykestraffe 68
4. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah
5. Hercules and Love Affair – s/t
6. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
7. Shelby Lynne – Just A Little Lovin
8. Fleet Foxes – Sun Giant
9. The Ruby Suns – The Sea Lion
10. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
11. Magnetic Fields – Distortion
12. Kaki King – Dreaming Of Revenge
13. Jason Collett – Here’s To Being Here
14. The Gutter Twins – Saturnalia
15. Hot Chip – Made In The Dark
16. Why? – Alopecia
17. Los Campesinos! – Hold On Now, Youngster
18. Fuck Buttons – Street Horsssing
19. Raheem DeVaughn – Love Behind The Melody
20. Cloud Cult – Feel Good Ghosts

Is anyone really bothered that badly about detail being given to lists? Nobody really cares about lists. Nobody who reads a list of best albums of the year actually thinks "Wow. So that album IS the best of the year! Now I'm set straight!" They're just a fun thing to do in your spare time to sort out your thoughts about your hobby, and hear what other people think.

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Is anyone really bothered that badly about detail being given to lists? Nobody really cares about lists. Nobody who reads a list of best albums of the year actually thinks "Wow. So that album IS the best of the year! Now I'm set straight!" They're just a fun thing to do in your spare time to sort out your thoughts about your hobby, and hear what other people think.

Agreed. Lists are just fun to read, to see what other people are thinking and enjoying. We really shouldn't even be arguing about it.

By the way, nice palindrome.

A top 10. A solid top 3 and some records that are just "good" at no 9 and 10

10 – Autechre - Quaristice
9 – Taxi Nouveau – Taxi Nouveau
8 – British Sea Power – Do you like rock music?
7 - Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles
6 – Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing
5 – Miss Kittin - Batbox
4 – Atlas Sound – let the blind lead those who can see but cannot feel
3 – Mountain Goats – Heretic Pride
2 – The Field – sound of light EP
1- M83 – saturdays = youth

01. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
02. *Islands - Arm's Way
03. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
04. *Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
05. Wolf Tickets - Milk Moon
06. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
07. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
08. Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
09. *Girls In Hawaii - Plan Your Escape
10. Black Keys - Attack & Release
11. *The Tallest Man On Earth - Shallow Grave
12. Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts
13. Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams
14. Samamidon - All Is Well
15. Magnetic Fields - Distortion
16. Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
17. Merz - Moi Et Mon Camion
18. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
19. Misophone - Where Has It Gone...
20. *The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me

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Update:

01. Street Horrrsing, Fuck Buttons
02. Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel, Atlas Sound
03. Crystal Castles, Crystal Castles
04. Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend
05. Sound of Light [EP], The Field
06. Heartcore, Shameboy
07. Velocifero, Ladytron *
08. In Ghost Colours, Cut Copy
09. HLLLYH, The Mae Shi
10. Consolers of the Lonely, The Raconteurs
11. Hercules and Love Affair, Hercules and Love Affair
12. Saturdays=Youth, M83

Not much has really changed with my list. Two more albums may make their debut after they get more listens.

I haven't crafted one of these in a long time.

1 No Age ~ Nouns

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Bon Iver ~ For Emma, Forever Ago
Cut Copy ~ In Ghost Colours
The Dodos ~ Visiter
Fleet Foxes ~ Sun Giant [EP]/Fleet Foxes
High Places ~ 03/07 - 09/07
Los Campesinos! ~ Hold On Now, Youngster...
The Microphones ~ The Glow Pt.2 [Reissue]
The Notwist ~ The Devil, You + Me
The Ruby Suns ~ Sea Lion
Sun Kil Moon ~ April
Titus Andronicus ~ The Airing Of Grievances
Vampire Weekend ~ Vampire Weekend

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Atlas Sound ~ Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
Blood Red Shoes ~ Box Of Secrets
Fuck Buttons ~ Street Horrrsing
Hercules And Love Affair ~ Hercules And Love Affair
The Kills ~ Midnight Boom
M83 ~ Saturdays = Youth
The Magnetic Fields ~ Distortion
Mahjongg ~ Kontpab
Plants And Animals ~ Parc Avenue
{{{Sunset}}} ~ Bright Blue Dream
Times New Viking ~ Rip It Off

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That time of the month. Any questions regarding albums direct to me or google.

1. Alas I Cannot Swim - Laura Marling
2. To Serve with Love - Black Spade
3. Moi et Mon Camion - Merz
4. For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver
5. Fleets Foxes - Fleet Foxes

6. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
7. Heretic Pride - The Mountain Goats
8. Visitor - The Dodos
9. Brighter Then Creation’s Dark - Drive-By Truckers
10. April - Sun Kil Moon

11. Dairy of an Afro Warrior - Benga
12. Changing of the Seas - Ane Brun
13. All is Well - Samamidon
14. Kontpab - Mahjongg
15. Plan Your Escape - Girls In Hawaii

16. I Need You to Hold on While the Sky is Falling - Kelley Polar
17. Swimming - French Kicks
18. Trouble In Dreams - Destroyer
19. ExitingARM - Subtle
20. Santogold - Santogold

21. Box of Secrets - Blood Red Shoes
22. Too Old To Die Young - Tall Firs
23. When Life Gives You A Lemon, You Paint That Shit Gold - Atmosphere
24. Long Gone and Nearly There - Julie Ocean
25. The Devil, You & Me - Notwist

26. The Evening Descends - Evangelicals
27. New Amerykah Part One - Erykah Badu
28. Rising Down - The Roots
29. Bright Blue Dream - {{{Sunset}}}
30. Sool - Ellen Allien

31. Clin d’oeil - Jazz Liberators
32. A Mad And Faithful Telling - DeVotchka
33. Midnight Boom - The Kills
34. Cove - A Weather
35. Arm’s Way - The Islands

36. After party Babies - Cadence Weapon
37. Alopecia - Why?
38. Mono In VCF - Mono In VCF
39. Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants - Metaform
40. Los Angeles - Flying Lotus

41. Retribution Gospel Choir - Retribution Gospel Choir
42. We Brave Bee Stings And All - Thao Nguyen and the Get Down Stay Down

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4. For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver

I thought it was a 2007 release...

We are allowed to count it as a '08 album by the highier powers.

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4. For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver

I thought it was a 2007 release...

It got it's offical wide release on Jagjaguar in 2008.

My list up-to-date.
1. Dodos (Visiter)
2. *Wolf Parade (At Mount Zoomer)
3. Man Man (Rabbit Habits)
4. Bon Iver (For Emma, Forever Ago)
5. Ruby Suns (Sea Lion)
6. *Dosh (Wolves and Wishes)
7. Raconteurs (Consolers of the Lonely)
8. Annuals/Sunfold (Wet Zoo)
9. Sun Kil Moon (April)
10. Why? (Alopecia)
11. Mountain Goats (Heretic Pride)
12. Fleet Foxes (Sun Giant)
13. Vampire Weekend (S/T)
14. *Fleet Foxes (S/T)

note to self: Robyn's self-titled having come out this year only here (even though i've had it for the past three years), it'll top my year-end list no matter what

I just got the new Wolf Parade and I'm so stoked to hear it!

I've been to (by my standards, anyway) quite a few concerts in the last month, and have mostly listened to music by those artists as a result. So, not too many additions this time...gotta start catching up, which shouldn't be hard now that school is out and my apartment's swimming pool is open. About to go smoke a j and rock the ipod right now, actually...

1: Born Ruffians "Red, Yellow and Blue"
2: The Black Keys "Attack and Release"
3: The Kills "Midnight Boom"
4: Vampire Weekend "S/T"
5: Beach House "Devotion"
6: Bon Iver "For Emma, Forever Ago"
7: Times New Viking "Rip it Off"
8: The Mountain Goats "Heretic Pride"
9: MGMT "Oracular Spectacular"
10: Evangelicals "The Evening Descends"
11: Hercules and Love Affair "S/T"
12: Fleet Foxes "Ragged Wood"
13: Low Lows "Shining Violence"
14: Atlas Sound "Let the Blind Lead..."
15: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds "Dig, Lazarus, Dig"
16: The Long Blondes "Couples"
17: Los Campesinos! "Hold On Now, Youngster"
18: Blood on the Wall "Liferz"
19: Magnetic Fields "Distortion"
20: Neon Neon "Stainless Style"
21: She & Him "Volume One"
22: Tapes n Tapes "Walk it Off"
23: Sons and Daughters "This Gift"
24: Stephen Malkmus "Real Emotional Trash"
25: Why? "Alopecia"
26: The Raconteurs "Consolers of the Lonely"
27: Black Mountain "In the Future"
28: Destroyer "Trouble in Dreams"
29: Xiu Xiu "Women as Lovers"
30: Jason Collett "Here's to Being Here"
31: Be Your Own Pet "Get Awkward"
32: The Whigs "Mission Control"
33: The Duke Spirit "Neptune"
34: British Sea Power "Do You Like Rock Music?"
35: Hot Chip "Made in the Dark"
36: Helio Sequence "Keep Your Eyes Ahead"
37: Cut Copy "In Ghost Colours"
38: Drive By Truckers "Brighter than Creation's Dark"

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I've been to (by my standards, anyway) quite a few concerts in the last month, and have mostly listened to music by those artists as a result. So, not too many additions this time...gotta start catching up, which shouldn't be hard now that school is out and my apartment's swimming pool is open. About to go smoke a j and rock the ipod right now, actually...

Do you go to UNC Chapel Hill?

Finally hunkered down and put together a top 15...


01. Trifonic - Emergence
02. Mono In VCF - Mono In VCF
03. Ready Fire Aim - This Changes Nothing
04. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colors
05. Jamie Lidell - Jim
06. Adam Singer - Lifeforce
07. The Presets - Apocalypso
08. System 7 - Phoenix
09. Lange - Better Late Than Never
10. Morcheeba - Dive Deep
11. DJ Orkidea - Metaverse
12. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
13. AmpLive - Rainydayz Remixes
14. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
15. Siriusmo - Diskoding