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Presented in alphabetical order, because with this many tracks it's impossible to rank them.

1. Juanes - A Dios Le Pido
If you're a Spanish teacher, this song is great for teaching the subjunctive. It's also Juanes' best song.

2. Kaki King - Air And Kilometers
Kaki King manages to wring an incredible amount of emotion out of her guitar. The breakdown about a minute in is great.

3. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
Surprisingly, the repetition of the keyboard line for 7 minutes doesn't get tiring, but just adds to the melancholic punch of the lyrics: "You spent the first five years trying to get with the plan, and the next five years trying to be with your friends again."

4. Yeasayer - Ambling Alp
It's got a great hook and appealing vocals, but it's the complexity of this song that brings it up a notch: the intricate bassline, the synth run at the end, the drums that anchor the rhythm.

5. Thom Yorke - Analyse
Deceptively simple and terribly affecting.

6. Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize
Porcupine Tree's best song. Really, each of its three sections could be a separate song and they'd all be great.

7. Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl
Emily Haines' vocals steal the scene, and I didn't really notice how great the instrumentals are until I listened to the instrumental version of this song, Pitter Patter Goes My Heart.

8. Regina Spektor - Après Moi
Sadly, I think this is the only track where Regina Spektor sings in Russian. She should do it more often.

9. Islands - The Arm
I'm in the minority in preferring Arm's Way to Return to the Sea. The entire album is deliciously complex and unrelentingly intense, and this is its best track. The violins are especially good.

10. Battles - Atlas
If this list were ordered, this song would definitely be in the top 5. Battles are one of the most precise and technically skilled math rock bands around, but what sets them apart is their sense of whimsy, which is never more apparent than on this track, which is probably the most fun song of the decade.

11. Do Make Say Think - Auberge le Mouton Noir
As a genre, post-rock is often labelled as being formulaic and repetitive, but the compositional complexity of this song shows that creative post-rock is still being produced. The bit starting at 3:30ish is wonderful.

12. Late of the Pier - The Bears Are Coming
Another song with a great sense of fun. The combination of an infectious beat with a dance-punk aesthetic is what makes this song.

13. Crystal Castles - Black Panther
When you listen to Crystal Castles' debut album, you start to think that you've heard these songs before. The melodies are so basic, so inevitable, that it's hard to believe that nobody's come up with them before.

14. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Yes, this song is about a blueberry boat being attacked by pirates. The "doom chords" (if you know this song, you probably know what I'm talking about) are sheer awesomeness.

15. Kyte - Boundaries
I'm surprised at how little attention these guys get. Their debut album was a completely original sound, and this song is complete bliss.

16. Pure Reason Revolution - The Bright Ambassadors of Morning
The last four minutes of this song are one of the most epic things you'll ever hear.

17. Panda Bear - Bros
For a 12-minute song built around one chord, this is pretty damn awesome.

18. Animal Collective - Brother Sport
This is my most listened-to song ever, according to iTunes. It deserves the spot, too.

19. Pure Reason Revolution - Bullitts Dominæ
Yet another PRR song. The Dark Third was one of the best debuts of the last few years, despite the nonsensicality of the lyrics ("And as I ask them inside everlasting the inosphere's collided, everyone's falling, sun-suicide's optimal").

20. This Will Destroy You - Burial on the Presidio Banks
This song destroys me. One of the most explosive climaxes in post-rock.

21. Wolf Parade - California Dreamer
The best chorus Wolf Parade has ever written, probably.

22. Vampire Weekend - Campus
This song is so light and breezy, and any song with the line "spilled kefir on your keffiyah" is good in my books.

23. Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
The saddest song written about cancer before The Antlers released Hospice.

24. Muse - Citizen Erased
I always have a hard time choosing my favourite Muse song, but this song has their best riff (and they're a very much riff-based band) and their best solo.

25. Porcupine Tree - Collapse the Light Into Earth
The piano is kind of reminiscent of Coldplay's "The Scientist," but this song is much more affecting. It'd be a good song to play at your funeral.

26. Joanna Newsom - Colleen
I can't help but break out into a grin whenever she does the "yip" between verses.

27. Metric - Combat Baby
On their tour this year, Metric ended their concerts with a sing-along acoustic rendition of this song. That it actually worked testifies to their melodic genius.

28. Sufjan Stevens - Come on! Feel the Illinoise!
I could put this song on the list just for the title.

29. Mew - Comforting Sounds
That's funny, I didn't know Mew was a post-rock band. Listen to this song on full volume and you'll be blown away.

30. Joanna Newsom - Cosmia
This is the shortest track on Ys, but it still has more depth than 90% of the songs out there.

31. José González - Cycling Trivialities
Simple but beautiful. It's 8 minutes long but it feels more like 3.

32. Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
The fact that this is the only dance song that made the list says something about how great it is.

33. The Mars Volta - Day of the Baphomets
The section that starts with "I am the reason for your missing child" is so intense. Actually, this entire song is intense.

34. Wolf Parade - Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts
Spencer Krug can basically do no wrong, but nowhere is his songwriting stronger than on Apologies to the Queen Mary.

35. Under Byen - Den Her Sang Handler Om At Få Det Bedste Ud Af Det
This is possibly the most underappreciated song ever. It used to be my favourite song, and it's still in my top 5. The climax and piano coda are incredible.

36. 65daysofstatic - The Distant & Mechanised Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties
Frankly, I don't see how anyone could dislike this song.

37. Do Make Say Think - do
Like "Auberge Le Mouton Noir," a beautifully complex post-rock song. It's hard to decide which one is their best.

38. Architecture in Helsinki - Do The Whirlwind
Such unadulterated joy.

39. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Down Boy
I used to think that nobody could top Jim Morrison when it comes to yelps, but Karen O certainly comes close in this song.

40. Sunset Rubdown - Dragon's Lair
This is Spencer Krug's best post-Apologies to the Queen Mary song, especially the guitars at the end.

41. Patrick Watson - Drifters
The delicate piano intro and the wall-of-sound climax couldn't be more different, but they fit together seamlessly.

42. 65daysofstatic - Drove Through Ghosts to Get Here
Usually when I'm walking and listening to music, I involuntarily step to the tempo of the music. If I did that for this song, I'd be running by the end.

43. Joanna Newsom - Emily
This song contains Newsom's worst lyrics ("peonies nod in the breeze and while they wetly bow with hydrocephalitic listlessness, ants mop up their brow"), but also some of her best ("I dreamed you were skipping little stones across the surface of the water, frowning at the angle where they were lost and slipped under forever, in a mud-cloud, mica-spangled, like the sky'd been breathing on a mirror" and "the ties that bind, they are barbed and spined and hold us close forever"). I could go on about this song, but I won't.

44. At the Drive-In - Enfilade
The amount of energy in this song is remarkable.

45. Cloud Cult - Everybody Here Is a Cloud
Making lyrics about mortality fun!

46. Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place
This is a rarity, a song that grabs you from the very first note, and keeps your attention until the end.

47. The National - Fake Empire
There's an entire group on last.fm dedicated to this song, and not without reason.

48. Andrew Bird - Fake Palindromes
This is one of the few tracks that I never skip when it comes up. The lyrics at the beginning give it a momentum that carries through to the end: "my dewy-eyed Disney bride, what has tried swapping your blood with formaldehyde? Monsters? Whiskey-plied voices cried fratricide, Jesus, don't you know that you could've died, you should've died?"

49. TV on the Radio - Family Tree
Such a tender song. It's hard to believe that this is the same band that made DLZ.

50. Animal Collective - Fireworks
This song is the ultimate jam when they play it live. It starts strong with a driving, train-like beat and doesn't let up.

1.How did you get into 29? (Schoolyard Heroes)
I was randomly flipping through my cousins CD collection and it was a band I hadn't heard of at the time so I decided to give them a listen.

2. What's the first song you ever heard by 22? (The Reason )
I'm pretty sure it was a song off of Ravenna

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? (Lady GaGa)
"Isn't it a shame, shame, baby? A shame shame, in it for the fame, fame baby"

4. How did you get into 49? (Joan Jett and the Blackhearts)
By hanging out with my cousin, mostly.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? (Emilie Autumn)
Two.

6. What is your favorite song by 50? (Karen O and the Kids)
Worried Shoes

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? (Alexisonfire)
in all honesty, non of their songs make me sad.

8. What is your favorite song by 15? (Uh Huh Her )
Common Reaction

9. What is your favorite song by 5? (OLIVIA)
A Little Pain

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (Avril Lavigne)
Not really


11. What is the worst song by 40? (Now, Now Every Children)
I've yet to encounter a song of theirs that I dislike.

12. What is your favorite song by 10? (Against Me!)
Don't Lose Touch

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? (An Horse)
Summer days of lazing around drinking lemonade and attempting to get my guitar tuning right.

14. What is your favorite song by 38? (The Dresden Dolls)
Mrs. O

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? (Paramore)
None that I can think of

16. Is there a song by 25 that makes you sad? (Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton)
The Last Page

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? (Kaki King)
Jessica

18. What's your favorite lyric by 11? (Metric)
"there’s spring in the air
they’re sweeping the streets
wind is a breeze
the sun becomes her, he agrees
what’s holding up her face?
nothing but blue skies
passage ways to windows
that don’t close"

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? (Tegan and Sara)
I love them all!
Tegan, Sara, Ted, Johnny, Shaun.....EVERYONE!

20. Is there a song by 14 that makes you happy? (Sleater-Kinney)
All Hands on the Bad One, as weird as that may sound.

21. What is a good memory involving 27? (City and Colour)
Singing along to his songs with my best friend.

22. What is your favorite song by 16? (Florence + The Machine)
Cosmic Love

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? (The Cliks)
Misery

24. What is your favourite album by 18? (The Organ)
Grab That Gun

25. What is your favorite song by 21? (Guano Apes)
Dick

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (土屋アンナ)
Lucy

27. What is your favorite album by 3? (The Ropes)
What They Do For Fun

28. What is you favorite song by 2? (Regina Spektor)
Chemo Limo

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? (Elliott Smith)
Wouldn't Mama Be Proud?

30. What is you favorite song by 8? (Lady Sovereign)
Pennies

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? (Foxy Shazam)
Once

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? (From First to Last)
Don't have one from them.


33. How did you get into 12? (Sonny)
Through a friend.

34. What is the worst song by 45? (A Perfect Circle)
The Noose

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? (M.I.A.)
Shoot, I don't even remember.

36. What was the first song you ever heard by 48? (The Distillers)
I don't remember

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? (The Getaway Plan)
none

38. What is you favorite song by 36? (Girl in a Coma)
Ven Cerca

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? (Killola)
don't remember

40. What is you favorite album by 7? (Matt & Kim)
Grand

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? (Leftöver Crack)
no

42. What is your favorite album by 41? (Be Your Own Pet)
The self titled.

43. What is your favorite song by 24? (Showbread)
The Jesus Lizard

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? (artist]Andrew Jackson Jihad)
Blaring them on the 4th of July.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? (Gregory and the Hawk)
Oats We Sow

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
Heads Will Roll

47. What is your favorite album by 4? (Lykke Li)
Youth Novels

48. Who is your favorite member of 37? (Ladytron)
Don't make me pick faves :(

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? (Muse)
Don't remember

50. What is your favorite song by 20? (Tilly and the Wall)
Fell Down The Stairs

Alright, as we near the end of this first Y2K decade, it's time to take a look back at all the best Albums that have been released in the last 40+ years.

I'll start off this extensive research with 2000, up until 2009. I'll then go back to 1980, all the way up to 1999, to then wrap things up with the 70s and before.

I'll be choosing my Top 25 Albums for each year; an ordered Top 10, and ~15 others worth mentioning. I'm also considering the live albums and EPs (~5), but they have their own section since songs on these have usually been released on official releases. The final result will be a Top 1000 for Official Albums, and Top ~250 for Live/EP albums.

These are general rankings of how I see them today, and based on my Last.FM songs playcounts (2005-now) put through the formula:

Total Sum of each Album's Song's (running time X playcount)
DIVIDED BY
Album's Total Running Time

Thanks to MediaMonkey and its amazing scripting abilities, that formula gives an Album's REAL playcount, taking into consideration every song's lenght & playcount in relation to the overall album's lenght and # of songs on it.
You'll see the result (# of times I've really listened to an album since 2005) besides each, along with my 10* Rating. (x/x)
Besides each Year, you get the Total of all Albums' Playcounts and the average of all Albums' Ratings. (x / %)

Note that I haven't necessarily discovered and enjoyed all these albums on their released years, some I discovered years later. So these are also based on how important (to me) some of these albums were at the time.

(**) are the complete albums I was into at that time;
(*) are albums that contained only a few song(s) I was into or listened to at that time;
and those without (*) are albums I discovered years later.

=======================
Favorite albums (1970-1979)
Favorite albums (1980-1989)
Favorite albums (1990-1999)
=======================

2000 (~140 / 81%)



1) Furnished Souls for Rent (48/10) (**)
2) The Screen Behind The Mirror (9/9) (**)
3) Universe (6/9) (**)
4) Dead Soul Men (6/9)
5) undefined (1/9)
6) A New Day Yesterday (1/9)
7) CAB (4/9)
8) Another Spin Around The Sun (5/8) (*)
9) Origin (9/8)
10) Stiff Upper Lip (1/8)

Live/EP:

-) S&M (-/10)
-) Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live (-/10)
-) Half the World Is Watching Me (-/9)
-) Earth, Sky and Everything in Between (-/9)
-) Spirit of Live (-/8)
-) Not Enough Shouting (-/8)

worth mentioning:

-) Awake (3/8)
-) The Perfect Element, Part I (1/8)
-) SMPTe (3/8) (*)
-) Don't Give Me Names (1/8)
-) if_then_else (2/8)
-) You Go Now (6/8)
-) Rated R (6/8)
-) Outbound (1/8)
-) Brave New World (1/8)
-) Flamenco.A.Go.Go (1/8)
-) The Sickness (4/7)
-) Lightbulb Sun (3/7)
-) Shuttlecock (2/7)
-) Mer De Noms (3/7) (*)
-) My Favorite Headache (2/7)
-) Crush (9/7) (*)
-) Ice Cycles (2/7) (*)
-) Crack a Smile... and More (1994 album w/ Blues Saraceno) (1/7)




2001 (~100 / 84%)



1) Leitmotif (23/10)
2) Alive in an Ultra World (8/10) (**)
3) The Pleasure and the Greed (10/10) (**)
4) Amélie (3/10)
5) Huron Street (6/9)
6) Toxicity (3/9)
7) Contact (2/9)
8) Emalgamation (1/9)
9) Days of the New III (4/9)
10) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2/9) (**)

Live:

-) Live Scenes From New York (-/10) (**)
-) One Wild Night (-/10) (*)
-) Half Life (-/9)
-) Live at the Baked Potato (-/9)
-) The Deep End (-/8)
-) Pyramidion (-/8)
-) Live Frogs (-/7)

worth mentioning:

-) Lateralus (7/8)
-) Everyday (2/8)
-) Inertia (6/8) (*)
-) Manic Moonlight (1/8)
-) Feeding the Wheel (3/8) (*)
-) Bridge Across Forever (1/8)
-) Origin Of Symmetry (3/8)
-) Tantric (1/8)
-) Almost Heathen (3/8)
-) Invincible (1/8)
-) Unleashed Memories (1/8)
-) 2 (2/8) (*)
-) 10 000 Hz Legend (1/8)
-) The Interzone Mantras (1/7)
-) The Idiot King (2/7)
-) Buck Fever (1/7)
-) Book M (1/7)




2002 (~270 / 85%)



1) Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (25/10) (**)
2) Population 1 (36/10) (**)
3) Moon Babies (15/10) (**)
4) Songs For The Deaf (21/9)
5) 67 (28/9) (**)
6) Move (12/9)
7) In Absentia (11/9) (*)
8) Freak Guitar (3/9)
9) Saturate (25/9)
10) El Cielo (13/9)

Live/EP:

-) Live From Oz (-/10) (*)
-) Stolen Babies EP (-/9)
-) And All That Could Have Been (-/9)
-) Not for Your Ears (-/8)
-) Boozed, Broozed & Broken-Boned (-/7)

worth mentioning:

-) Bounce (4/9) (*)
-) X (13/8) (**)
-) By the Way (2/8) (*)
-) Exit Elvis (11/8) (**)
-) Weight of the World (3/8)
-) Steal This Album! (3/8)
-) So, It's Like That (1/8)
-) Remedy Lane (2/8)
-) Diorama (4/8)
-) Audioslave (6/8) (*)
-) Vapor Trails (7/8) (*)
-) From One (4/8)
-) Dead Soul Tribe (1/8)
-) The End of the Beginning (1/8)
-) Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones (3/7) (**)
-) Independent (3/7)
-) Believe (4/7)




2003 (~240 / 90%)



1) Train of Thought (41/10) (**)
2) The Quicksilver Meat Dream (35/10) (**)
3) Office of Strategic Influence (38/10) (*)
4) Frengers (24/10)
5) The Moon is Falling (3/10)
6) Robot Monster (10/10) (**)
7) Re-Foc (12/9)
8) Summercamp Nightmare (2/9)
9) Good Bye Lenin! (1/9)
10) Absolution (14/9) (*)

Live:

-) Live at the Astoria (-/10) (**)
-) Rush in Rio (-/10) (**)
-) This Left Feels Right (-/8) (*)
-) 10 anos ao vivo (-/8)
-) Spatial/Design (-/8)
-) Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People (-/7)

worth mentioning:

-) Faceless (4/8)
-) Souvenirs (2/8)
-) Black Utopia (4/8)
-) In Lake 'ch (2/8)
-) Black Like Sunday (1/8)
-) Blues Deluxe (8) (*)
-) Little Worlds (1/8)
-) Jeff (1/8)
-) A Murder of Crows (1/8)
-) Walking on a Thin Line (1/8)
-) A Natural Disaster (2/8)
-) Fallen (21/8) (*)
-) St Anger (7/7) (*)
-) Quadropus (1/7)
-) Emergent (1/7)
-) Voyageur (4/7)
-) Thirteenth Step (2/7)




2004 (~160 / 83%)



1) We Are Not Alone (33/10)
2) Come Again (24/9) (**)
3) Mythology (10/9)
4) Live Manchester And Dublin (16/9)
5) Wake Pig (4/9)
6) Dreamcatcher (3/9)
7) The Big Eyeball in the Sky (1/8)
8) Time (1/8)
9) Rhythm of Time (2/8)
10) Fraktal (1/8)

Live/EP:

-) Live At Budokan (-/10) (**)
-) Hallucino-Genetics (-/10) (**)
-) Cloon Demo (29/9)
-) Live In Hyde Park (-/9)
-) Live All Over the Place (-/9)
-) 12:5 (-/9)
-) Anywhere But Home (-/9) (*)
-) Sessions From Room 4 (23/8) (**)
-) The Other Side (-/8)
-) Sleepy Buildings (-/8)
-) Southside Double-Wide: Acoustic Live (-/8)
-) Feedback (1/7)

worth mentioning:

-) The January Tree (1/8)
-) Wheel of Life (1/8)
-) Kallocain (3/8)
-) After We Go (2/8)
-) Legs to Make Us Longer (2/8) (*)
-) Seven Circles (2/8)
-) One Day Remains (3/8)
-) Talkie Walkie (3/8)
-) Blackfield (1/8)
-) Had to Cry Today (1/8)
-) Is There Love in Space? (1/8)
-) Passion for Life (1/8)
-) Amplifier (1/8)
-) Out of Myself (3/7)
-) Graveyard Mountain Home (3/7)
-) This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In) (4/7)
-) Perpetual (3/7)




2005 (~310 / 84%)



1) Love (76/10) (**)
2) Octavarium (62/10) (**)
3) Panzerballett (7/10)
4) Deadwing (30/9) (*)
5) Freak Guitar: The Road Less Traveled (7/9) (*)
6) Suspended Animation (17/9) (**)
7) Real Illusions: Reflections (11/8) (*)
8) Mesmerize (17/9) (*) & Hypnotize (1/8)
9) S.U.S.A.R. (8/8)
10) Catch Without Arms (9/8)

Live:

-) R30 (*) (-/10)
-) Montreal (-/9)
-) Jagged Little Pill Acoustic (-/9)
-) Gluttons for Punishment: Live in '05 (-/8)
-) Over the Years and Through the Woods (-/8)

worth mentioning:

-) Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (8/8) (**)
-) Art of Motion (3/8)
-) Organic (2/8)
-) 44 (2/8)
-) The Art of Navigating by the Stars (1/8)
-) And The Glass Handed Kites (6/8)
-) riddle (1/8)
-) Ten Thousand Fists (7/8)
-) Second Life Syndrome (1/8)
-) Leva-me P'ra casa (17/8) (*)
-) Ogre Tones (1/8)
-) Stand Up (1/8)
-) Elements of Persuasion (6/8) (*)
-) Lullabies To Paralyze (2/8) (*)
-) Octane (1/8)
-) Duality (2/7)
-) Out of Exile (5/7) (*)
-) World Play (1/7)




2006 (~200 / 84%)



1) Rodrigo Y Gabriela (34/10) (**)
2) Free (59/10) (**)
3) A Posteriori (22/9) (**)
4) The Lost Book Of Malchus (1/9)
5) Revelations (7/9) (*)
6) Development (5/9)
7) Black Holes and Revelations (9/9) (*)
8) The Butcher's Ballroom (2/8)
9) 10,000 Days (8/8) (*)
10) Leaving Lotus (1/8)

Live/EP:

-) Score (-/10) (**)
-) Cloon EP (11/10) (**)
-) Live At The Fillmore (-/9)
-) Raw (-/8)
-) Home (-/8)
-) Two Nights In North America (1/8)
-) Tour EP (1/8)
-) Yeah! (2/7) (*)

worth mentioning:

-) Phobia (12/8) (*)
-) The Hidden Land (1/8)
-) Erotic Cakes (1/8)
-) IV (2/8)
-) The Open Door (4/8) (*)
-) Upside Down (1/8)
-) There Be Squabbles Ahead (1/8)
-) Blood of the Snake (6/8) (*)
-) Home (1/8)
-) Milliontown (1/8)
-) BE (1/8)
-) The Dark Third (3/8)
-) Stadium Arcadium (1/8)
-) You and Me (1/8)
-) Palace Of Mirrors (1/7)
-) Karmacode (1/7)
-) Insider (1/7)




2007 (~160 / 90%)



1) Snakes and Arrows (16/10) (*)
2) Systematic Chaos (30/9) (**)
3) Quantum (14/9) (**)
4) Sound Theories Vol. I & II (4/9) (*)
5) Ultra Payloaded (21/9) (**)
6) The End is Begun (9/9) (*)
7) Fear of a Blank Planet (22/9) (*)
8) The Gates of Gnomeria (2/8)
9) Art Metal (1/8)
10) Blackbird (2/8) (*)

Live:

-) The String Quartet Tribute to Dream Theater (-/10)
-) Made In Australia (2/9) (*)
-) MTV Unplugged (-/9)

worth mentioning:

-) Spontaneous Combustion (2/8) (*)
-) Clinophobia (2/8)
-) Spot De Rue (2/8)
-) Sloe Gin (1/8)
-) Scarsick (1/8)
-) Fates (5/8) (*)
-) Who Did It to Michelle Waters? (1/8) & Creepy Tales for Freaky Children (1/8)
-) Rapid Eye Movement (4/8) (*)
-) Libertad (1/8) (*)
-) A Lullaby for the Devil (1/8)
-) Era Vulgaris (3/8) (*)
-) Young Modern (2/8) (*)
-) Into the Presence (1/8)
-) Pocket Symphony (1/8)
-) Blackfield II (1/8)
-) Into the Wild (2/8)
-) Acid Test (1/8)




2008 (~120 / 83%)



1) Saudades de Rock (44/10) (**)
2) Death Magnetic (16/9) (**)
3) Seven Lives Many Faces (7/9) (**)
4) Existence (5/9) (**)
5) Starke Stücke (4/9)
6) The Cosmic Year (2/9)
7) Songs From The Sparkle Lounge (10/8) (**)
8) XV (3/8) (*)
9) Black Ice (1/8)
10) Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow (8/8) (**)

Live:

-) Snakes & Arrows Live (-/10) (**)
-) Chaos In Motion (-/10) (**)
-) Live in Japan (-/10) (**)
-) Live At Mile High Music Festival (-/10)
-) Smart People (-/10) (*)
-) Playgrounds (-/9)
-) The Thing That Came From Somewhere (-/9) (*)
-) Reality Dream (-/8)
-) Hindsight (-/8)
-) Il Grande Silenzio (-/7) (*)

worth mentioning:

-) The End Begins (2/8) (**)
-) Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock (1/8)
-) Diffusion (1/8)
-) The Garden (1/8)
-) Experiments in Mass Appeal (1/8)
-) The Atomized Dream (1/8)
-) Sleeping In Traffic: Part Two (2/8)
-) Equilibrium (1/8)
-) Who's The Boss In The Factory? (1/8)
-) Chinese Democracy (1/8)
-) God Is An Astronaut (1/8)
-) Orquid (1/8)
-) Palmystery (1/8)
-) Black Sun (1/8)
-) Hope (1/7)
-) Cheat The Gallows (1/7)
-) Indestructible (*) (2/7)




2009 (~80 / 92%)



1) Black Clouds & Silver Linings (18/10)
2) Blood (19/10)
3) 11:11 (5/10)
4) Land of the Freaks (1/10)
5) Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious (3/9)
6) Idmen (1/9)
7) Street Sweeper Social Club (1/9)
8) Molecular Heinosity (6/9)
9) Them Crooked Vultures (1/9)
10) The Incident (3/9)

Live:

-) Where The Wild Things Are (-/10)
-) Liquid Tension Experiment (-/10)
-) Ilosaarirock (-/10)
-) Revisions (-/8)
-) When The Keyboard Breaks: Live In Chicago (-/7)

worth mentioning:

-) Hart Genossen (1/9)
-) Big Whiskey And The Groogrux King (1/9)
-) Chickenfoot (1/9)
-) No More Stories (1/9)
-) Amor Vincit Omnia (4/9)
-) The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion (2/8)
-) Tiny Pictures (4/8)
-) Sol Eye Sea I (1/8)
-) Don't Panic (1/8)
-) Anno Domini High Definition (1/8)
-) The Whirlwind (1/8)
-) The Ballad Of John Henry (1/8)
-) Of Fungi and Foe (1/8)
-) Mind Control (1/8)
-) The Resistence (1/8)
-) Chapters (1/8)
-) Dear Agony (1/8)
-) Magnified (1/7)




Coming up next: 1980s



Artists

3, 7for4, A Perfect Circle, AC/DC, Air, Alanis Morissette, Alter Bridge, Amplifier, Anathema, Andy McKee, Anekdoten, Antoine Dufour, Attention Deficit, Audioslave, Baby Animals, BeardFish, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Bigelf, Big Wreck, Black Label Society, Blackfield, Blues Saraceno, Bon Jovi, Breaking Benjamin, CAB, Canvas Solaris, Caspian, Chevelle, Chickenfoot, Chroma Key, Cloon, Collective Soul, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, Cosmics, Cosmosquad, Counter-World Experience, Dave Matthews Band, Days of the New, Deadsoul Tribe, Def Leppard, Derek Sherinian, Devil's Slingshot, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Disturbed, Don Ross, Don Ross & Andy McKee, Dr Sin, DramaGods, Dream Theater, dredg, Eddie Vedder, Edwin, Enigma, Erik Mongrain, Estradasphere, Evanescence, Extreme, Flesh, Freak Kitchen, Frost, Gambale Donati Fierabracci, Geddy Lee, God Is an Astronaut, Godsmack, Gordian Knot, Gov't Mule, Guano Apes, Guns 'N Roses, Guthrie Govan, Hammer of the Gods, Harem Scarem, I Mother Earth, Indukti, Interférence Sardines, Into The Presence, Irepress, Iron Maiden, James LaBrie, Jeff Beck, Jesse Cook, Joe Bonamassa, Joe Satriani, Joel Hoekstra, John Petrucci, John Williams, Jon Gomm, Jonas Hellborg, Jordan Rudess, Kaki King, Karma to Burn, Karmakanic, King's X, Kingdom Come, Korn, Lacuna Coil, Les Claypool, Liquid Limbs, Liquid Tension Experiment, Liquid Trio Experiment, Lucia Moniz, Mattias IA Eklundh, Mechanical Poet, Metallica, Mew, Michael Jackson, Mourning Widows, MullMuzzler, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Nuno Bettencourt, OSI, Ozric Tentacles, Paatos, Pain of Salvation, Panzerballett, Perry Farrell's Satellite Party, Pink Floyd, Planet X, Platypus, Poison, Population 1, Porcupine Tree, Primus, Pure Reason Revolution, Queens of the Stone Age, Ra, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Riverside, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Rush, Sam Aliano, Secret Chiefs 3, Sevendust, Sieges Even, Silverchair, Soul SirkUS, Spock's Beard, Street Sweeper Social Club, Steve Stevens, Steve Vai, Stolen Babies, Super TransAtlantic, System of a Down, Tantric, The Gathering, The Les Claypool Frog Brigade, The Mayan Factor, The Tea Party, Them Crooked Vultures, Thomas Leeb, Thornley, Tool, Transatlantic, Tribe of Judah, Unitopia, Velvet Revolver, Victor Wooten, Wolfstone, Yann Tiersen.

Holy shit like 200 scrobbles in two days, i'm really loving her <3



































Kaki King

I don't even have to ask for album recommendations from you thanks to the power of the google

Stu_L_Tissimus's top albums (overall)
1. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (226) 2. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (217) 3. Asobi Seksu - Citrus (178) 4. Yann Tiersen - Rue des cascades (172) 5. Tally Hall - Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum Remaster (155) 6. The Virgins - The Virgins (154) 7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (151) 8. Discovery - LP (151) 9. Metric - Fantasies (142) 10. Radiohead - The Bends (140) 11. Comet Gain - Broken Record Prayers (140) 12. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (138) 13. Arcade Fire - Funeral (137) 14. Yelle - Pop-up (135) 15. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (132) 16. Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (131) 17. Seu Jorge - The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions (130) 18. Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line (128) 19. Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon: The End Of Day (124) 20. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (124) 21. Eisley - Room Noises (122) 22. of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic (121) 23. Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb (120) 24. Hartfield - True Color, True Lie (119) 25. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor (118) 26. The Kooks - Inside in Inside Out (113) 27. Bitter:Sweet - The Mating Game (109) 28. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (107) 29. M83 - Saturdays = Youth (107) 30. Metric - Live It Out (106) 31. Daft Punk - Discovery (104) 32. Radiohead - OK Computer (100) 33. Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous (98) 34. Ratatat - LP3 (98) 35. Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords (97) 36. Capsule - MORE! MORE! MORE! (96) 37. Girls - Album (96) 38. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders (95) 39. Passion Pit - Manners (95) 40. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (94) 41. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (93) 42. Lady GaGa - The Fame (93) 43. Kaki King - Dreaming of Revenge (91) 44. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me (89) 45. M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us (88) 46. The Strokes - Is This It (88) 47. The Lonely Island - Incredibad (86) 48. Wavvves - Wavvves (85) 49. Bomb the Music Industry! - Scrambles (85) 50. Justice - Cross (85)







mqazi12's top albums (overall)
1. Radiohead - In Rainbows (123) 2. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (113) 3. Radiohead - The Bends (101) 4. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (81) 5. Radiohead - OK Computer (77) 6. Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003) [Disc 1] (75) 7. Radiohead - Kid A (70) 8. Radiohead - Pablo Honey (60) 9. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans (52) 10. Radiohead - Amnesiac (50) 11. Muse - Absolution (41) 12. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak (39) 13. Incubus - Make Yourself (38) 14. Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003) [Disc 2] (36) 15. Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind (35) 16. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (33) 17. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (28) 18. James Blunt - Back To Bedlam [UK] (26) 19. Green Day - American Idiot (23) 20. OutKast - Stankonia (22) 21. System of a Down - Toxicity (20) 22. Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek - Single (17) 23. 30 Seconds to Mars - A Beautiful Lie (16) 24. Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor (16) 25. Thom Yorke - The Eraser (16) 26. Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV: Volume 1 (16) 27. Kanye West - The College Dropout (15) 28. Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (14) 29. T.I. - Paper Trail (13) 30. Nas (featuring AZ) - Stillmatic (12) 31. Lupe Fiasco - The Cool (12) 32. Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head (12) 33. Eminem - Encore (12) 34. Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me (11) 35. Frou Frou - Garden State Original Soundtrack (11) 36. Tool - Ænima (11) 37. Eminem - 8 Mile-Soundtrack(Disc 1) (11) 38. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (11) 39. Kanye West - Late Registration (10) 40. Incubus - Morning View (10) 41. Kanye West - Graduation (10) 42. Sick Puppies - Dressed Up As Life (10) 43. Dido - No Angel (10) 44. Incubus - A Crow Left of the Murder... (10) 45. The Verve - Urban Hymns (9) 46. The Cranberries - No Need To Argue (7) 47. Kanye West/Lil Wayne - 808s & Heartbreak (7) 48. Foo Fighters - One by One (6) 49. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (6) 50. Tool - Lateralus (5)










beefigursk's top albums (overall)
1. The Hives - The Black and White album (431) 2. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (407) 3. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into (402) 4. Rise Against - Appeal To Reason (361) 5. The Fratellis - Costello Music (336) 6. A Day to Remember - Homesick (334) 7. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (326) 8. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (294) 9. Pixies - Doolittle (291) 10. The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives (271) 11. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze (241) 12. Mastodon - Blood Mountain (240) 13. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better (239) 14. The Killers - Sam's Town (235) 15. Rise Against - The Sufferer and the Witness (232) 16. Flobots - Fight With Tools (229) 17. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare (228) 18. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (226) 19. Wolfmother - Wolfmother (225) 20. The Killers - Hot Fuss (225) 21. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf (224) 22. Muse - Black Holes & Revelations (223) 23. The Killers - Day and Age (222) 24. The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me (204) 25. Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris (202) 26. The Hives - Barely Legal (201) 27. Clutch - Blast Tyrant (198) 28. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug (197) 29. The Hives - Veni, Vidi, Vicious (196) 30. Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards (195) 31. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81 (194) 32. Mastodon - Crack The Skye (186) 33. Authority Zero - 12:34 (183) 34. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R (183) 35. Nirvana - Nevermind (179) 36. The New Pornographers - Electric Version (176) 37. Faith No More - Angel Dust (175) 38. The White Stripes - Icky Thump (175) 39. That Handsome Devil - A City Dressed in Dynamite (174) 40. Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (174) 41. The Magnetic Fields - Holiday (173) 42. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely (171) 43. Locksley - Don't Make Me Wait (170) 44. Gallows - Orchestra Of Wolves (170) 45. The Police - The Police (169) 46. Incubus - Morning View (166) 47. Boston - Boston (166) 48. A Day to Remember - For Those Who Have Heart (164) 49. Maxïmo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures (163) 50. Muse - Absolution (160)













fjosjd's top albums (overall)
1. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (366) 2. Stars of the Lid - and Their Refinement of the Decline (331) 3. Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes (293) 4. Alexander "Skip" Spence - Oar (269) 5. Gram Parsons - GP & Grievous Angel (239) 6. Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds Of (231) 7. Lee Hazlewood - Cowboy in Sweden (221) 8. The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (213) 9. The 6ths - Wasps' Nests (208) 10. The Magnetic Fields - Get Lost (205) 11. Galaxie 500 - On Fire (199) 12. The Magnetic Fields - The Wayward Bus/Distant Plastic Trees (176) 13. The Magnetic Fields - The Charm of the Highway Strip (169) 14. Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand (167) 15. The Millennium - Begin (Plus) (167) 16. The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace Of Sin (166) 17. The Magnetic Fields - i (164) 18. Sibylle Baier - Colour Green (163) 19. Amanaz - Africa (162) 20. Belle and Sebastian - Push Barman To Open Old Wounds (158) 21. Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline (149) 22. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush (143) 23. Jim Ford - The Sounds Of Our Time (138) 24. Dillard & Clark - The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark (129) 25. The Magnetic Fields - Holiday (126) 26. Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run The Game (126) 27. Gothic Archies - The Tragic Treasury: Songs from a Series of Unfortunate Events (116) 28. Zombies - Odessey & Oracle (115) 29. Gene Clark - No Other (113) 30. The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo (112) 31. John Terrill - Frowny Frown (111) 32. Galaxie 500 - Today (110) 33. The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society [Special Deluxe Edition] Disc 1 (109) 34. Sebadoh - The Freed Man (108) 35. Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day (107) 36. The Magnetic Fields - House of Tomorrow (105) 37. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen (104) 38. Max Richter - 24 Postcards In Full Colour (103) 39. The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2 (102) 40. Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom (101) 41. Slowdive - Souvlaki (98) 42. Galaxie 500 - This Is Our Music (98) 43. Country Teasers - Destroy All Human Life (95) 44. John Phillips - John Phillips (John, The Wolf King of L.A.) (94) 45. Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet (94) 46. Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill (93) 47. Country Teasers - 'Satan Is Real Again', or: 'Feeling Good About Bad Thoughts' (91) 48. Stars of the Lid - The Ballasted Orchestra (89) 49. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - The Doldrums (88) 50. One Be Lo - S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M. (88)

just something i did for fun

1. Cult of Luna – Somewhere Along The Highway
2. Have a Nice Life – Deathconsciousness
3. The Angelic Process – Weighing Souls With Sand
4. Mar de Grises – Draining The Waterheart
5. Drudkh – Blood In Our Wells
6. Between the Buried and Me – Colors
7. Wolves in the Throne Room– Two Hunters
8. Ne Obliviscaris – The Aurora Veil
9. Sleepmakeswaves - In Today Already Walks Tomorrow
10. Circle Takes the Square – As The Roots Undo
11. Sunn O))) – Black One
12. Krallice– Krallice
13. Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre Monde
14. .crrust - You Came For The Everest - You'll Find Your Way Dead
15. Opeth – Blackwater Park
16. Jesu - Jesu
17. Mar De Grises– The Tatterdemalion Express
18. Desire - Locus Horrendus - The Night Cries Of A Sullen Soul...
19. Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing
20. Eleventh He Reaches London - The Good Fight For Harmony
21. Cult Of Luna – Salvation
22. Drudkh – The Swan Road
23. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
24. Poison the Well – Versions
25. Loma Prieta – Last City
26. Nadja – Touched
27. Crippled Black Phoenix – A Love Of Shared Disasters
28. Cloudkicker - The Discovery
29. Amesoeurs - Ruines Humaines
30. A Silver Mt Zion – Horses In The Sky
31. Oceansize - Everyone Into Position
32. Katatonia – Last Fair Deal Gone Down
33. José González - Veneer
34. Hands – The Sounds Of Earth
35. Drudkh – Forgotten Legends
36. Cult Of Luna – Eternal Kingdom
37. A Silver Mt Zion – 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons
38. Q -Tip – The Renaissance
39. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
40. Kaki King – Dreaming Of Revenge
41. Battle of Mice – A Day Of Nights
42. J Dilla – The Shining
43. The Pax Cecilia – Blessed Are The Bonds
44. Laura – Radio Swan Is Down
45. Tool – Lateralus
46. Suffocate For Fuck Sake - Blazing Fires And Helicopters On The Frontpage Of The Newspaper. There´s A War Going On And I´m Marching In Heavy Boots
47. A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step
48. The Butterfly Effect – Begins Here
49. Esoteric – The Maniacal Vale
50. Hands – Creator

So many that could have been in there, and ones that i've probably forgotten, but thats my list for now. Will do a 90s one soon

niakxxx's top albums (overall)
1. Kaki King - Dreaming of Revenge (186) 2. Mal Momento - Mal Momento (184) 3. Mal Momento - Fin De Fiesta (149) 4. Kaki King - Everybody Loves You (149) 5. Amoeba - Tumba Tu Tumba (140) 6. Loquero - Sucida futbol club (132) 7. Black Flag - In My Head (128) 8. Ramones - We're Outta Here (122) 9. Fugazi - End Hits (119) 10. Wire - Pink Flag (116)

Just got the new Tegan and Sara CD Sainthood. I have been listening to it on repeat for 2 days straight. All of the songs are great. There is a definite progression in their music from album to album. It seems to follow a logical path from acoustic folksy rock to a more produced pop/rock electronic sound. The most appealing part of Tegan and Sara to me is their chemistry and personality. When I first heard of them (through listening and learning about Kaki King) I did not like their sound. It was too poppy. But then I saw them perform live on youtube and fell in love with them as people. I realized that they are true musicians and that their songs may sound like pop songs, but they are very serious and full of meaning. They are a true credit to the indie music scene.