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This is my current opinion, and also those selected songs are those which I like most right now. There are lot of my favorite bands missing: for example Avenged Sevenfold, Linkin Park, Megadeth, Bullet For My Valentine, Take Notice, Pinhead Gunpowder, Mae and Firevision. It's just because lately I've been listening to many pop punk bands.

And because this is my current opinion, I'm pretty sure this list would look totally different 2 months later. Lets see then. xD

Relient K
1. If You Believe Me
2. This Week The Trend
3. Candlelight
4. The Vinyl Countdown
5. In Love With the 80's (Pink Tux to the Prom)

Rise Against
1. The Approaching Curve
2. Swing Life Away
3. Hero of War
4. The Strenght To Go On
5. Savior

The Click Five
1. Good Day
2. Catch Your Wave
3. Friday Night
4. Just the Girl
5. Resign

Boys Like Girls
1. The Shot Heard 'Round The World
2. Me, You and My Medication
3. Up Against the Wall
4. Holiday
5. Heels Over Head

Bad Religion
1. You
2. American Jesus
3. Victory
4. Struck a Nerve
5. The Streets of America

Allister
1. Westbound
2. Camouflage
3. Racecars
4. D2
5. Waiting For You

51koodia
1. Aavelaulajatar
2. Hyvästi, Näkemiin
3. Viimeinen satama (ottakaa se pois)
4. Puolet
5. Risti Kaulassa Helvettiin

Sublime
1. Wrong Way
2. Doin' Time
3. Same In The End
4. Date Rape
5. Saw Red

Hellogoodbye
1. All Time Lows
2. Call n' Return
3. I Saw It on Your Keyboard
4. Touchdown Turnaround (Don't Give Up on Me)
5. Bonnie Taylor Shakedown... 2K1

Brand New
1. Guernica
2. Failure by Design
3. Jude Law and a Semester Abroad
4. Sudden Death in Carolina
5. Play Crack the Sky

Simple Plan
1. God Must Hate Me (Live)
2. American Jesus (live)
3. Take My Hand
4. Grow Up
5. The Worst Day Ever

Sum 41
1. My Direction
2. Nothing on My Back
3. Motivation
4. All Messed Up
5. The Hell Song

I wasn't going to do one of these at all, but I got really quite annoyed reading a review of 3OH!3's album in last weeks NME. It reminded me exactly why I stopped reading the magazine, there is just no attempt at reviewing anymore. It's either incessant praise or they just brutalise every single thing about an album.

So on with the chart. (As far as criteria goes, it has to have been something that was released in the UK this year (or the US if the album hasn't been released over here)

10. Emery - In Shallow Seas We Sail

9. Atreyu - Congregation of the Damned

8. Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen (This album gets a special mention as it really is a fantastic piece of work. Every song is wonderful and it flows really well as an album. The only reason it isn't higher is because I haven't listened to it as much as the others)

7. Mr Hudson - Straight No Chaser

6. Aiden - Knives

NOW, on to the big boys.

5. Brand New - Daisy
I'm pretty much a sucker for whatever Brand New do, and Daisy is ace. Very eclectic sound with the first evidence of Jesse screaming throughout, but it works really well. Can't wait to see them next month at Wembley.

4. The Veronicas - Hook Me Up
I love this album. In a weaker year this album would have come top easily. Full of amazingly catchy pop songs, each with really good lyrics. Two very talented girls. Looking forward to the in progress third album.

3. The Airborne Toxic Event - The Airborne Toxic Event
This album is another that had needless attacks from a review site. In this case I think it was Pitchfork giving it 1.6 out of 10 or something. As far as lyrics go, this is my favourite album of the year, and it has my favourite song of the year, Innocence, on it as well.

2. 3OH!3 - Want
I bought this album after I heard Don't Trust Me on the radio a couple of times, it was easy to get hooked in. I Spotify-ed the album for a while then took the plunge and bought it. Haven't regretted it and it easily became my second most played album of the year. The album only got better when Katy Perry added vocals and a new bridge to Starstrukk. Also, [track artist=3oh!3]Colorado Sunrise[/album] from this album is my second favourite song of the year.

1. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
Anyone who has spoken to me about music this year will know that this band came into my life from nowhere and have totally dominated my music taste this year. I have listened to them far and above any other band this year, and they have zoomed up to become my second most played artist since records began (Jun 2006).

That is all for this year. Here's to a 2010 full of great music!

01 12 02 Hot Chip - Take It In



02 02 04 JJ - ecstasy
03 01 05 Zoot Woman - Saturation
04 05 05 Brand New - At The Bottom
05 04 07 ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Isis Unveiled
06 07 03 Empire of the Sun - Without You
07 15 02 The Hot Melts - Edith
08 03 06 One eskimO - Givin' up (Don Diablo Remix)
09 43 06 The Drums- Let's Go Surfing
10 39 04 The Temper Trap- Science Of Fear

11 14 03 Naive New Beaters - Get Love
12 16 04 Official Secrets Act - Bloodsport
13 11 06 Miike Snow - Burial
14 08 05 White Rabbits - Percussion Gun
15 13 06 (We Are) Performance - Let's Start
16 17 03 Manchester Orchestra - I've Got Friends
17 09 05 The Twilight Sad - Reflection of the Television
18 10 05 Three days grace - break
18 18 08 THIEVES LIKE US – Really Like To See You Again
19 17 07 Alice In Chains - Check My Brain
20 33 03 MEW - Introducing palace players

21 28 02 She Wants Revenge - All Wound Up
22 21 08 Third Eye Blind - Bonfire
23 25 06 Filthy Dukes - This Rhythm
24 19 07 Sonic Youth - What We Know
25 20 03 Peter Bjorn and John - Up Against The Wall
26 NE Two Door Cinema Club - I Can Talk
27 26 06 Nurses - Caterpillar Playground
27 NE Your Twenties - Caught Wheel
28 36 03 Skunk Anansie - Tear The Place Up
29 06 09 Passion Pit – To Kingdom Come
30 27 03 Phoenix - fences

31 29 08 YACHT - Psychic City
32 22 07 Dan Black - U + Me =
33 40 02 Matt & Kim - Daylight
34 41 02 Hatcham Social - Murder In The Dark
35 31 04 Collective Soul - Welcome All Again
36 23 03 La Roux - I'm Not Your Toy
37 24 12 THE LIGHTNING SEEDS - Don't walk on by
38 NE The Raveonettes - Last Dance
39 27 10 The Twang - Barney Rubble
40 46 02 Athlete - Summer Sun

41 34 07 Vampire Hands - Statuette
42 NE Lostprophets- It's Not The End Of The World But I Can See It From Here
43 NE stellastarr* – graffiti eyes
44 30 06 Maxïmo Park – Questing, Not Coasting
45 47 03 Portugal. The Man - The Sun
46 35 02 The Weather Machine - Last Stop
47 NE Breaking Benjamin - I Will Not Bow
48 50 02 Fool's Gold - Surprise Hotel
49 NE Saosin- Changing
50 NE The Wombats - My Circuitboard City




Wypadli

XoXO - The Dissociative Fugue
Oh, Atoms - Sugar Mouse
Ou Est Le Swimming Pool - Dance The Way I Feel
The Bravery - Slow Poison
30 Seconds To Mars - Kings And Queens
The Teenagers - Make It Happen
Mute Math - Backfire
HEALTH – Die Slow

Waiting room

KASMs - Male Bonding
The White Tie Affair - Allow me to introduce myself...Mr. Right
The Floor Is Made Of Lava - Told Her I'm from Compton
A Sound Mind - The Power to Dream
The Trews - Paranoid Freak
Men - Make It Reverse
The Golden Filter - Solid Gold
Renaissance Man - Rythym
Chew Lips - Solo / Play Together
Funeral For A Friend - Wrench
Dananananaykroyd - Some Dresses
Fightstar - Never Change
The XX - Basic Space
Jack Penate - Pull My Heart Away
Inward Eye - Day After Day
Say Anything - Hate Everyone
Monty Are I - One In A Million
BLACK LIPS - Drugs
Megafaun - The Fade
The Kissaway Trail - 61
Noisettes – Never Forget You
The Foxes – LOVER, KILLER
The Script - Before the Worst
Ra Ra Riot - Dying Is Fine
Bye Bye Bicycle - Navigation
Meese - Next In Line
Five Finger Death Punch - Hard To See
Just Jack – The Day I Died
Plastic Passion - It's Been Done
Fight Like Apes - Tie Me Up With Jackets
Dreamdate - Have I Told You?
Buildings Breeding - Pitter Patter
million billion - Inhuman
Please Quiet Ourselves - Color Chart
The Medic Droid - Keeping Up With The Joneses
Modest Mouse - Satellite Skin
Darla Farmer - History
Monsters Of Folk - Say Please
Adelitas Way - Invincible
The Supervillains - Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
K'Naan - Wavin' Flag
Endless Hallway - Cell
Billy Boy On Poison - On My Way
Spinnerette - Baptized By Fire
Senate - You Got It All
All That Remains - Forever In Your Hands
Florence and The Machine – Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
Mostly Bears - The Digital Divide
Lifters - Alibi
Zebrahead - All For None And None For All
ZAZA - Sooner or Later
Modwheelmood - Sunday Morning
Spriewald - It Ain’t Over
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - 15 to 20
Tunng - Bullets / Take / Spoons
Eugene McGuinness - Monsters Under The Bed / Fonz
Dear Reader - Dearheart / Never Goes
Harlem Shakes - Strictly Game
Rumspringa - Minds Awake
Miami Horror - Don't Be On With He
Melody Fall - I'm So Me
Futurecop! - As seen on TV
Anoraak - Nightdrive with you
Marilyn Manson - Arma-Goddamn-Motherfuckin-Geddon
Bag Raiders - Fun Punch
College - Teenage Color
Manicure - Another Girl
Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
AFI - Medicate
Manchester Orchestra - Shake It Out
Pilot Speed - Bluff
The Glamour Manifesto - Digital Behavior
The Ghost Frequency - Never Before Have I See A Man That Looks So Exactly Like A Skeleton
The Boxer Rebellion - Semi Automatic
The View - 5 Rebecca's
Chew Lips - Salt Air
The Static Jacks - My Parents Lied
Big Rock Candy Mountain - Rocketship
The Woodlands - Summerland
The Bleachers - Ice On The Equator
The Big Pink - Velvet
The Goldroom - Broken or Missing
Anoraak – Never Ending Romance Disaster
SKUNK ANANSIE - Because Of You
Slaraffenland - Polaroids
The New CIties - Dead End Countdown
Akron-Family - Everyone Is Guilty
Akissforjersey - Leave That Man Be
GOLDEN SILVERS - True Romance (True No. 9 Blues)
Gold Teeth - Tasty
311 - Golden Sunlight
The Do - On My Shoulders
Until June - The World Ends Tonight
Lacrosse - My Stop
Pomegranates - Tesseract
Barcelona - The Takers
Murmansk - Silver Heel
Computerclub - Reykjavik
The Raveonettes - Last Dance
The Cribs - You Were Always The One
Superpose - The Queen of the Night
Paper Tongues – Ride To California
A Day To Remember - The Downfall Of Us All
Moderat - Rusty Nails
Obliq - Among the crowd
Emery - A Sin To Hold On To
Sugar Crisis - We Are Here to Save You
Taking Back Sunday - Where My Mouth Is
Kill Paradise - All For You
Foo Fighters – Wheels
Them Crooked Vultures – Mind Eraser, No CHASER
Mumford & Sons – Little Lion Man
Girls - Hellhole Ratrace


NEW ENTRIES:

Southeast Engine - Black Gold
Spoon - Got Nuffin
Midnight Juggernauts - This New Technology
Kids Of 88 - My House
Everything Everything - My Keys, Your Boyfriend
Washed Out - Get Up
The Cribs - Cheat On Me
Elizabeth Fraser - Moses
New Villager - Rich Doors
Vampire Weekend - Horchata
Marina & The Diamonds - Mowgli's Road
My Robot Friend - Robot High School
The Hot Press - LNY
Yuksek - Tonight.
Death Cab for Cutie – Meet Me On the Equinox
Sylvan - Follow Me
Mayday Parade - The Silence
Swanton Bombs - Shock

Song of the week:

Two Door Cinema Club - I Can Talk

I Can Talk

20. Isis -- Wavering Radiant




19. Mos Def -- The Ecstatic




18. Poison the Well -- The Tropic Rot




17. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart -- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart




16. Rx Bandits -- Mandala




15. Kid Cudi -- Man On The Moon: The End Of Day




14. The Mars Volta -- Octahedron




13. Portugal. The Man -- The Satanic Satanist




12. Mastodon -- Crack The Skye




11. The xx -- The xx




10. As Tall as Lions -- You Can't Take It With You




9. The Antlers -- Hospice




8. The Dear Hunter -- Act III: Life and Death




7. Taking Back Sunday -- New Again




6. Brand New -- Daisy




5. The Bravery -- Stir The Blood




4. Converge -- Axe To Fall




3. Baroness -- Blue Record




2. Thrice -- Beggars




1. Closure In Moscow -- First Temple

I always have a hard time making lists. Don't like this one, sue me.

Bueno, de nuevo con la lista de lo mejor del año, siento que repito mis palabras al decir que fue buen año musicalmente hablando, me atrevo a decir que mejor que el 2008, tenemos algunas bandas que tuve en mis conteos anteriores lo cual siempre es bueno así que aquí vamos:


10.- Disidente - Lobo
Habiendo tomado el lugar número 2 del 2007, regresa Disidente con un EP de 6 canciones muy recomendable siguen expandiendo su sonido y cada vez se despegan más de su sonido anterior para dejarte queriendo saber qué sigue. La única razon por la que no quedó más arriba en la lista es por el corto número de canciones.
Canciones Recomendadas: El rock ha muerto, Ningún lugar, Tarde


9.- The Lonely Island - Incredibad
Álbum debút del grupo The Lonely Island reconocidos por el (ahora malísimo) programa de SNL, está lleno de canciones cómicas e invitados especiales, hubiera conseguido un puesto más alto en la lista si no hubiera utilizado canciones recicladas del programa (muy buenas de todas formas) y hubiera sido 100% nuevo material.
Canciones Recomendadas: Jizz in My Pants, Dick In A Box, Natalie's Rap


8.- Mew - No More Stories
Primer disco estudio que lanzan desde 2005, y es exactamente lo que uno esperaría: melodías impresionantes, ritmos creativos y riffs originales. Saben hacer bella música.
Canciones Recomendadas: Introducing Palace Players, New Terrain, Sometimes Life Isn't Easy


7.- Brand New - Daisy
Empezando como una banda pop-punk, Brand New se ha convertido en una banda bastante compleja y experimental, incluso agregando un guitarrista extra para su album anterior The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me (2006) y ahora como miembro oficial de la banda. Nos muestran cada vez un lado más oscuro de ellos mismos, tal vez no tanto como en el disco pasado en esta ocasión pero igual de bueno.
Canciones Recomendadas: Vices, At The Bottom, Bed


6.- Placebo - Battle For The Sun
Después de haber perdido a Perico Padilla... ehm... Steve Hewitt de baterista, la nueva presentación de Placebo suena revitalizada, los nuevos ritmos son inmejorables y me atrevo a decir que hay partes hasta bailables. Lo mejor son los coros en español en "Mi Corazón de Cenicero".
Canciones Recomendadas: Ashtray Heart, Battle For The Sun, For What It's Worth


5.- Morrissey - Years of Refusal
Definitivamente el disco más rockero de Moz, por fin se cumple la promesa que viene haciendo desde You Are The Quarry (que sin ser tan rockeros los dos discos anteriores, siguen siendo obras maestras).
Canciones Recomendadas: That's How People Grow Up, All You Need Is Me, I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris


4.- NOFX - Coaster & Cokie The Clown
Ganaron el número 7 en el año 2007, este año NOFX se ganó un lugar con dos discos, ya que uno es simplemente un EP de 5 canciones, una de las cuales es una versión acústica de una canción en Coaster. A decir la verdad, me gusta su anterior disco de estudio Wolves In Wolves' Clothing pero no lo considero una continuación decente a The War on Errorism mientras que Coaster retoma mucho mejor el camino, aunque aún creo que no han superado War on Errorism desde entonces.
Canciones Recomendadas: My Oprhan Year (acoustic), We Called It America, Eddie, Bruce and Paul


3.- AFI - Crash Love
Está abierto a debate pero creo que es lo mejor que ha hecho AFI y vaya que me gusta bastante la banda desde Answer That and Stay Fashionable hasta DECEMBERUNDERGROUND. Se olvidaron de gritos y depresiones y éste fue el resultado.
Canciones Recomendadas: I'm Trying Very Hard to Be Here, Darling, I Want To Destroy You, Veronica Sawyer Smokes, Medicate


2.- Coheed and Cambria - Neverender
Parece que no pudieran faltar, primer lugar en el 2007, mención honorífica para el disco de solista del guitarrista Travis Stever en el 2008 y ahora quedaron en segundo lugar este año y sólo porque se trata de un disco en vivo sin material nuevo. Es una presentación de 4 noches en Nueva York con sus fallas y errores pero entregado en una de las maneras más perfectas (disculpen el término) que he conocido.
Canciones Recomendadas: The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut (Live), IRO-Bot (Live), Everything Evil/The Trooper/Devil In Jersey City Medley, Welcome Home (live)


1.- Weezer - Raditude
En tercer lugar el año pasado, rápidamente Weezer grabó otro excelente disco, estoy seguro que con tan sólo la primera canción del disco se lleva los demás discos de la lista, lo siento. PD: También, no lo he escuchado pero estoy seguro que es bueno, este año salió Not Alone.
Canciones Recomendadas: (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To, Can't Stop Partying, I'm Your Daddy, I Don't Want To Let You Go

Menciones Honoríficas:
(Son muchas así que evitare las imágenes)
Chris Cornell - Scream
Un cambio radical para uno de mis vocalistas favoritos, pero aún así creo que le queda muy bien, me gustó el proyecto pero simplemente no combate con los 10 discos que escogí para el top.

Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe
Lamentablemente nada más he escuchado el sencillo Wrong, que me gustó bastante y estoy seguro que si tuviera la oportunidad de escuchar el disco se merecía un lugar en el top 10.

Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
He escuchado tan sólo algunas canciones y se siente el poder, me gustaría escucharlo completo para poderlo situar en la lista, espero que Dio se mejore.

Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
No lo he escuchado aún, pero Dream Theater no me ha dado razones para desconfiarles.

Billy Talent - III
Escuché el sencillo Rusted From The Rain y Turn Your Back, y tengo que decir que suenan bastante bien, pero al igual que los discos anteriores no he tenido la oportunidad de escucharlo completo.

Muse - The Resistance
He escuchado algunas canciones del disco y suena bastante bien, pero habrá que escucharlo completo.

Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Sólo escuché The Fixer pero confío en Pearl Jam y luego escucharé el disco.

Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Me lo han recomendado mucho y su anterior disco fue buenísimo.

Sonata Arctica - The Days of Grays
Una de mis bandas favoritas de Power Metal, no lo he escuchado.

The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
No lo he escuchado completo, pero suena bastante bien.

John Frusciante - The Empyrean
Me lo han recomendado mucho también y siendo un músico con una voz tan melodiosa y una creatividad tan extensa como Frusciante, no dudo para nada en este disco, aparte por ahí escuché que tiene una colaboración con Johnny Marr

01 Brand New “Daisy”
02 Kevin Devine“Brother's Blood”
03 Manchester Orchestra“Mean Everything to Nothing”
04 ROBBERS“Flesh EP”
05 MSTRKRFT “Fist of God”
06 mewithoutYou “It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright”
07 Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band“Outer South”
08 Mew “No More Stories Are Told Today...”
09 Dan Auerbach “Keep It Hid”
10 Thrice “Beggars”

11 St Vincent “Actor”
12 PJ Harvey & John Parish“A Woman A Man Walked By”
13 Sonic Youth“The Eternal”
14 John Mayer“Battle Studies”
15 Dan Deacon “Bromst”
16 Iron And Wine “Around The Well”
17 Clark “Totems Flair”
18 Casiotone for the Painfully Alone “Vs Children”
19 Bloc Party “Intimacy Remixed”
20 Black Moth Super Rainbow“Eating Us”

21 Arctic Monkeys”Humbug”
22 Clues “Clues”
23 BLK JKS “Mystery EP”
24 Taking Back Sunday “New Again”
25 Die On Planes “Altitude Sickness”
26 Portugal. The Man “The Satanic Satanist”
27 The Dear Hunter “Act III: Life and Death”
28 The Mars Volta “Octahedron”
29 Dinosaur Jr “Farm”
30 Dethklok “The Dethalbum II”

31 The Dodos “Time To Die”
32 NOFX “Coaster”
33 Isis “Wavering Radiant”
34 Mono “Hymn To The Immortal Wind”
35 The Flaming Lips“Embryonic”
36 Wilco “Wilco”
37 Grizzly Bear “Veckatimest”
38 Au Revoir Simone“Still Night Still Light”
39 Animal Collective “Merriweather Post Pavilion”
40 Telekinesis! “Telekinesis!”

41 Regina Spektor “Far”
42 Sunset Rubdown “Dragonslayer”
43 Tyondai Braxton “Central Market”
44 Tortoise “Beacons Of Ancestorship”
45 White Rabbits “It's Frightening”
46 Vetiver “Tight Knit”
47 Yeah Yeah Yeah's “It's Blitz!”
48 Bat for Lashes “Two Suns”
49 Bell Orchestre”As Seen Through Windows”
50 Thom Yorke“Live at Latitude 2009”

Yes, my list fell out of order as soon as I left the top ten, but I put numbers next to everything for the sake of neatness. I actually rate Tyondai Braxton a lot higher and Taking Back Sunday a bit lower, but I'm not changing it for now. It was enough effort just typing the damn list up!

After months of deliberation, here it is folks, what you've all been waiting for, my top 100 albums of the 00's! If the tenties (that's what i'm calling the next decade) are anywhere near as good as this one was then we're in for a good un'!

The first 75 are from numbers 100-26 and are sorted alphabetically ( I couldn't be bothered putting them all in order.)

Animal Collective - Feels
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Annie - Anniemal
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock And Roll
At the Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
Bat for Lashes - Fur And Gold
Battles - Mirrored
Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land
Björk - Volta
The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
The Bronx - The Bronx II
The Bug - London Zoo
Camera Obscura - Let's Get out of This Country
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Daft Punk- Discovery
Deerhunter - Microcastle
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
Finch - Say Hello to Sunshine
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
Future of the Left - Curses
Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America
Holy Fuck - LP
Hot Chip - The Warning
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Iron & Wine - The Shepherd’s Dog
Islands - Return to the Sea
Justice - †
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
Liars - Liars
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
M.I.A. - Kala
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
The Mae Shi - HLLLYH
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
mclusky - mclusky Do Dallas
Modeselektor - Hello Mom!
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
The National - Boxer
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Portishead - Third
The Postal Service - Give Up
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Radiohead - Amnesiac
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Sigur Rós - ( )
The Strokes - Is This It?
The Thermals - The Body The Blood and The Machine
The Tough Alliance - New Chance
Trentemøller - The Last Resort
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
The Walkmen - Bows + Arrows
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Yourcodenameis:milo - All Roads To Fault

...and the top 25 are:

25. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven


24. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House


23. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica


22. Burial - Untrue


21. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R


20. Björk - Vespertine


19. Modeselektor - Happy Birthday!


18. Radiohead - In Rainbows


17. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump


16. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois


15. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People


14. of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?


13. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief



12. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam


11. The National - Alligator


TOP 10

10. Sigur Rós - Agaetis Byrjun



9. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender



8. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain



7. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion



6. Arcade Fire - Funeral



5. Panda Bear - Person Pitch



4. The Knife - Silent Shout



3. Joanna Newsom - Ys



2. Liars - Drum's Not Dead



1. Radiohead - Kid A

Outstanding:

Kylesa - Static Tensions
(two very effective drummers, two great shouters, awesome guitar work = my favourite "metal" release in a long time)
Soap & Skin - Lovetune for Vacuum
(Hauting debut between piano & electronic, deserves all the hype it gets and more!)
Isis - Wavering Radiant
(Not quite as good as Panopticon or Oceanic, overall better than In the Absence of truth and still miles ahead of almost every band in that area...)
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Fall of Efrafa - Inlé
Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist


Also great this Year:

Celeste - misantrope(s)
(Darkest music of the year, almost painful to listen to...in a good way)
Converge - Axe to Fall
(The first 4 tracks are unbelievable, the rest is the most diverse record from them yet)
Balmorhea - All is wild, all is silent
(Folk + Post Rock = pure beauty)
Sunn O))) - Monliths & Dimensions
From Monument to Masses - On little known Frequencies
(the record i hoped maybeshewill could pull of after their debut...)
August Burns Red - Constellations
Baroness - Blue Record
Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
Kickback - No Surrender
(Finally Kickback get a production that matches their sonic fury...as hateful as it gets)
Long Distance Calling - Avoid the Light
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
A Storm of Light - Forgive us our Trespasses
Everlovely Lightningheart - Sien Weal Tallion Rue



Still good:

Graf Orlock - Destination Time Today
Heirs - Alchera
Jeniferever - Spring Tides
Loom - Selva Molhalda
Minsk - With Echoes In The Movement Of Stone
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
Punch - Punch
The Gossip - Music for Men
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade


Disappointing:

dredg - The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion
(I'm fine with pop, but most of the songs get old really fast or even really annoying)
Pelican - What we all come to need
The Fall of Troy - In the unlikely Event
Alexisonfire - Old Crows/ Young Cardinals
Callisto - Providence
(In Session is great, but the rest often sounds like Khoma with more monotonous songwriting)
Neaera - Omnicide - Creation Unleashed
Porcupine Tree - The incident
(For some reason I just can't get into this, although everyone praises it)
The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate


Still not really sure, if I like it or should be disappointed:

Maybeshewill - Sing the Word Hope in Four Part Harmony
(Sadly misses the diversity of the debut)
Brand New - Daisy
Evergreen Terrace - Almost Home
Captain Planet - Inselwissen


Other great Stuff this Year :

Defeater - Lost Ground EP
Bon Iver - Blood Bank EP
Nadja - When I see the Sun always shines on TV
Kodiak / Nadja - Split
Pyramids with Nadja - Pyramids with Nadja
Clint Mansell - Moon Soundtrack

Best Concerts:

- Fall of Efrafa
- Soap & Skin
- Joshua Radin
- Isis