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The person who filled this out before me had really pathetic taste in music... Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus. o.o

1. How did you get into 29? (Arctic Monkeys)
-It was quite a while ago, so I'm not really sure. I must have been at least 12 or 13.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? (The Killers)
-Somebody Told Me. Am had it on some mixed CD, whenever it was that the song came out. Were we like 14?

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? (Rilo Kiley)
-"You say I choose sadness, that it never once has chosen me. Maybe you're right."

4. How did you get into 49? (Hollywood Undead)
-I asked my ex what he'd like on his mixed CD that I was making him, and he said a whole bunch of Hollywood Undead. We had both only heard Undead at that point. So I guess my ex got me into them?

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? (The Magnetic Fields)
-Well, I have their entire discography... on my laptop. :p

6. What is your favorite song by 50? (Three Days Grace)
-Animal I Have Become.

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? (Keane)
-Oh, plenty. Especially We Might As Well Be Strangers.

8. What is your favorite song by 15? (Deerhoof)
-I really have no idea. I usually listen to them as a whole... if that makes any sense.

9. What is your favorite song by 5? (Tegan and Sara)
-I suppose My Number and This Is Everything have always been my favorites. But recently I've been enjoying Hello and Hell.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin)
-Oregon Girl. AKA Oregon Boy. :p

11. What is the worst song by 40? (Imogen Heap)
-Getting Scared.

12. What is your favorite song by 10? (Islands)
-Switched On, Devout, Heartbeat, aaand Creeper. As if I could pick. :3

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? (Everclear)
-My hun. :)

14. What is your favorite song by 38? (Jack's Mannequin)
-I'm thinking Spinning. :)

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? (Björk)
-Very doubtful. I enjoy the songs, but they don't suddenly make me happy.

16. Is there a song by 25 that makes you sad? (Shiny Toy Guns)
-I don't believe so. I think these last two questions need to be swapped. :p

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? (Gregory and the Hawk)
-I'm not entirely sure, but I do believe it might have been Boats and Birds.

18. What's your favorite lyric by 11? (The Sounds)
-I'm not really sure, since I don't pay complete attention to their lyrics. How about "We'll be the same tomorrow, 'cause we've all been Painted by Numbers." ;)

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? (Death Cab for Cutie)
- -fangirl scream- Benjamin Gibbard!!!! !!!! !!! ! ! !!!!

20. Is there a song by 14 that makes you happy? (Shakira)
-Hips Don't Lie. Of course. :p

21. What is a good memory involving 27? (Mirah)
-Mm. Sleepless nights. And yes, that is a good memory. :) <3

22. What is your favorite song by 16? (Immaculate Machine ((they're only number 16...?)))
-C'mon Sea Legs, hands down.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? (Alive In Wild Paint)
-I can't remember. :\

24. What is your favorite album by 18? (Coconut Records)
-Davy.

25. What is your favorite song by 21? (Jason Mraz)
-Clockwatching.

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (Disturbed)
- -eye roll at self- Probably Ten Thousand Fists.

27. What is your favorite album by 3? (Akeboshi)
-Roundabout.

28. What is you favorite song by 2? (Cake)
-Jolene or Comfort Eagle. And every other song by them...

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? (The Honorary Title)
-I'm not really sure, but I think it was probably Frame by Frame, since I was introduced to the band by Amber, and that's her favorite song by them. Idk. Maybe she'd remember. :p

30. What is you favorite song by 8? (The Shins)
-New Slang. Mmm. Memories. <3 :)

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? (The Postal Service)
-Never, haha. And I most likely never will, considering they're like. Nonexistent now. :p There's always DCFC. XP

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? (Starfucker)
-Haaaha. Just their name makes me happy. :p

33. How did you get into 12? (Tokyo Police Club)
-How did I get into them? All by myself, that's how! Haha. Actually I really can't remember. It was about three or four years ago.

34. What is the worst song by 45? (Say Hi to Your Mom)
-I'm not sure. I haven't listened to them much recently. Also, I like mostly all their songs, soooo. XP

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? (Sea Wolf)
-I can't remember at all, unfortunately.

36. What is the first song you ever heard by 48? (Socratic)
-May I Bum A Smoke.

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? (Beck)
-Never, and I don't plan on ever seeing them live.

38. What is you favorite song by 36? (Pedro the Lion)
-When They Really Get to Know You They Will Run.

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? (The Offspring)
-I really have no idea. That would have been a long time ago. o:

40. What is you favorite album by 7? (The New Pornographers)
-Challengers of course.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? (System of a Down)
-Just about every single one of their songs. :)

42. What is your favorite album by 41? (Sondre Lerche)
-Phantom Punch. o:

43. What is your favorite song by 24? (Throw Me the Statue)
Waving At The Shore. :D

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? (Jem)
-None that come to mind on the spot.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? (Serj Tankian)
-Sky Is Over or Lie Lie Lie.

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? (Eminem)
-The Kids. Kehe. And Without Me. And. Well. Most of his songs. :p

47. What is your favorite album by 4? (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
-You are impossible.

48. Who is a favorite member of 37? (Weezer)
-Rivers Cuomo. He was just in an accident, actually. D:

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? (Bishop Allen)
-Not sure. You know, this survey would be a million times better if you gave different questions rather than just repeating the same five or so.

50. What is your favorite song by 20? (Page France)
-Ribs.

fadeway's top albums (overall) 1. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (192) 2. Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree (180) 3. The National - Alligator (152) 4. The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead (151) 5. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup (145) 6. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns (131) 7. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time (123) 8. Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City (116) 9. DeVotchKa - How It Ends (112) 10. Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts (112) 11. Hayden - Elk-Lake Serenade (111) 12. Placebo - Black Market Music (106) 13. M83 - Saturdays=Youth (105) 14. Radiohead - In Rainbows (100) 15. Guster - Keep It Together (99) 16. Joy Division - Substance (98) 17. The Killers - Sam's Town (97) 18. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica (96) 19. Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild (94) 20. Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites (91) 21. The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms (90) 22. Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret (90) 23. Interpol - Antics (89) 24. Editors - An End Has a Start (86) 25. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (85) 26. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans (82) 27. Fever Ray - Fever Ray (81) 28. Radiohead - Kid A (80) 29. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges (78) 30. Nada Surf - Lucky (77) 31. Indochine - Alice et June (77) 32. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (77) 33. The Knife - Deep Cuts (76) 34. Kings of Convenience - Declaration Of Dependence (76) 35. Bat for Lashes - Fur And Gold (76) 36. Calexico - Feast of Wire (75) 37. R.E.M. - Around the Sun (73) 38. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire (72) 39. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (71) 40. Coeur de Pirate - Coeur De Pirate (69) 41. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife (69) 42. Don't Mess with Texas - Los Dias De Junio (68) 43. The Killers - Sawdust (67) 44. The Kills - No Wow (67) 45. Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope (66) 46. !!! - Myth Takes (65) 47. White Lies - To Lose My Life (64) 48. Mandalay - Empathy (64) 49. The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs (63) 50. Hot Chip - Made In The Dark (63)

101. Muse - Map Of Your Head
Impressively, this is one of two Muse B-sides on the list, showing the depth of their catalogue.

102. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
This was released back in 2003 and it still feels fresh.

103. Death Cab for Cutie - Marching Bands of Manhattan
Okay, the lyrics are mostly cringe-worthy (except for the part about living like a hermit in your own head), but it's a great tune.

104. Oceansize - Massive Bereavement
Oceansize is probably the most underrated band of our time. The climax of this song is mind-blowing.

105. Slow Club - Me and You
"I've got a feeling someone else is reading the letters I wrote to you."
"Well my pet's illiterate and I live alone, so it's someone in betwixt of me and you."

106. The Mars Volta - Meccamputechture
They manage to make a saxophone sound menacing, which is an accomplishment in itself.

107. Oceansize - Meredith
The first Oceansize song I really loved. Apparently this was on The O.C.?

108. The National - Mistaken for Strangers
It's hard for The National to make a really bad song, because Matt Berninger's voice is so awesome, but the songwriting on this one stands out.

109. Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper
An overwhelmingly good track.

110. Joanna Newsom - Monkey & Bear
Lyrically, this is Joanna Newsom's most cohesive song. It tells an interesting story, which unlike most of her songs is fairly easy to follow.

111. Animal Collective - My Girls
Animal Collective: it's not just for hipsters anymore!

112. Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
I can't decide whether this or White Winter Hymnal is their best song. This is the more complex of the two, though.

113. The New Pornographers - Myriad Harbour
The vocals on this song are just bursting with joy. It's hard not to smile when you listen to it.

114. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Youthful idealism tinged with sorrow in the form of a song.

115. Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows
That riff!

116. Radiohead - Nude
I'm just glad that when I google this I don't get pictures of Thom Yorke naked.
("You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking...")

117. The Decemberists - O Valencia!
Colin Meloy's voice is always kind of flat, but it's got a certain charm, especially on this song.

118. Grizzly Bear - On a Neck, On a Spit
These guys sure can write songs. Everything on this song is put together perfectly, but the drumming stands out.

119. Regina Spektor - On the Radio
This song reminds me how great "November Rain" is. Also, it's got some of Regina Spektor's most touching lyrics.

120. Oceansize - One Day All This Could Be Yours
Chilling.

121. Joanna Newsom - Only Skin
The best song on the best album of the decade. I can't possibly say enough good things about it.

122. Oceansize - Ornament/the Last Wrongs
If you only listen to one Oceansize song, make it this one. But really, you should listen to everything they've ever recorded.

123. Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe
Yet again, Will Sheff's impassioned vocals make this song.

124. Audioslave - Out Of Exile
Awesome solo.

125. Hot Chip - Over And Over
The joy of repetition.

126. Björk - Pagan Poetry
One of the best videos of the decade, for one of the best tracks.

127. of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal
Too many good lyrics to list. The 12 minutes go by like 4.

128. Regina Spektor - Pavlov's Daughter
The best of her early songs, on which her quirkiness really comes through.

129. Joanna Newsom - Peach, Plum, Pear
Best harpsichord solo since The Art of the Fugue?

130. The Shins - Phantom Limb
Well, The Shins didn't change my life, but this is a great song.

131. Muse - Plug In Baby
Sure, it's just an arpeggio, but I bet you've never come up with a riff this good.

132. Coldplay - Politik
This is from when Coldplay used to write good songs. Ah, those were the days.

133. Explosions in the Sky - A Poor Man's Memory
A lot of EITS songs leave me cold, but I really like this (and Have You Passed Through This Night?).

134. Ludovico Einaudi - Primavera
This is the only classical song on my list - I mean, the 21st century isn't exactly known for its classical music. Einaudi obviously takes a cue from Vivaldi, because you can hear the influence of the cascading strings from the last movement of Summer (not Spring, ironically) on this track.

135. Animal Collective - The Purple Bottle
Animal Collective's lyrics are somehow obtuse and direct at the same time, especially in their love songs: "Sometimes I'm naked and thank God sometimes you're naked, well hello." The last couple minutes of this song are incredible.

136. The Fiery Furnaces - Quay Cur
This is the first Fiery Furnaces song I heard, and I was hooked after about 30 seconds.

137. Carla Bruni - Quelqu'un m'a dit
I'm willing to bet that Michelle Obama couldn't write a song this good.

138. Bon Iver - Re: Stacks
"This is not the sound of a new man or a crispy realization"

139. Regina Spektor - Real Love
I don't listen to many covers, and this is the only one on my list. But damn, the crescendo at the end is soulful.

140. Mates of State - The Re-Arranger
Again, how am I the only one who really loves Re-Arrange Us?

141. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
The best song on the album, and it's an amazing album.

142. Muse - Recess
Most bands would kill to have a bassline like this on an A-side or an album track, let alone a B-side.

143. Radiohead - Reckoner
Thom Yorke singing "Because we separate like ripples on a blank shore..." gives me goosebumps every time.

144. The Strokes - Reptilia
Incredibly catchy. This is the song that made me pay attention to the Strokes.

145. Portishead - The Rip
Haunting. The keyboards and general droniness at the end combine perfectly with Beth Gibbons' vocals.

146. Akron/Family - River
What an uplifting song. It's even more awesome live, like every Akron/Family song. (Seriously, their live show is like a big party.)

147. Bright Eyes - Road to Joy
Okay, it's pretty lazy to use Ode to Joy as the basis for a song, but Conor Oberst does magical things with it.

148. Islands - Rough Gem
This is what cotton candy would be like in the form of music.

149. The Mars Volta - Roulette Dares (The Haunt of)
Surprisingly, since De-Loused in the Comatorium is my favourite Mars Volta album, this is the only song from it on my list. The "exoskeletal junction at the railroad delayed" refrain is stunning.

150. Au - RR vs. D
This sounds like the kind of song WHY? would write, and that's a good thing. It also has pretty much the best use of handclaps in an indie song I've heard.

51. Gang Gang Dance - First Communion
First of all, Liz Bougatsos has an impossibly cool voice. Second of all, this song is impossibly awesome.

52. Morrissey - First of the Gang to Die
Proof that Morrissey's still got major songwriting chops.

53. Coldplay - Fix You
Frankly, I wouldn't want my bones to be ignited, even by Chris Martin, but this song is still a great anthem.

54. Sigur Rós - Fljótavík
I like to sing along to this song as a sort of release for all the emotion in it, but just as it reaches its peak, it switches into Hopelandic so I can't sing along, and the emotions just build up. It's rather powerful.

55. Okkervil River - For Real
Wow, this is a dynamic song. Highlights are the punchy guitar bits that start about :40 in and Will Sheff singing "You caaaaan't hide..."

56. Animal Collective - For Reverend Green
Avey Tare's vocals on this song are incredible.

57. Antony and the Johnsons - For Today I Am a Boy
Even if you're not a wannabe transsexual, you can't help but identify with Antony Hegarty here, because this song is just so stunning.

58. Mates of State - Get Better
Frankly, I'm mystified as to why Re-Arrange Us got panned by the critics. Every track is a gem of a pop song, and this is the best of them.

59. Sigur Rós - Gobbledigook
This sounds like Sigur Rós covering Animal Collective. Also, the video is brilliant. This song is perfect to run around naked to (I assume...).

60. Panda Bear - Good Girl/Carrots
If this song was a food, I bet it would be something tasty.

61. Wolf Parade - Grounds for Divorce
Part of the trifecta of great 4-minute songs from Apologies to the Queen Mary, along with I'll Believe in Anything and Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts. This is the most joyful of them.

62. TV on the Radio - Halfway Home
I don't know what makes this song so great, but it is. Must be the handclaps.

63. Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
No list would be complete without this song. Somehow, they manage to make one of the catchiest songs ever out of one of the most unmelodious melodies ever.

64. Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill
Brilliant piano, haunting vocals. Yorke's solo work is peculiarly neglected, considering how huge Radiohead is.

65. Maybeshewill - He Films The Clouds, Pt. 2
Gotta love when instrumental post-rock bands randomly sing on one track. The vocals complement the piano line in the second half beautifully.

66. Frightened Rabbit - Head Rolls Off
The most cheerful song about mortality I've heard. "It's not morbid at all, just when nature's had enough of you."

67. !!! - Heart of Hearts
Dance-punk at its best.

68. of Montreal - Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse
Depressing lyrics and happy music: a winning combination.

69. Andrew Bird - Heretics
Whatever Andrew Bird has for breakfast, I want some.

70. OutKast - Hey Ya!
Hey, a token hip-hop song! But this is too good not to include. Hell, it was even on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.

71. Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
"Mm, what'd you say? Mm, that you only meant well? Well of course you did." Somehow the harmonizer makes the lyrics better.

72. Antony and the Johnsons - Hope There's Someone
The beginning is good, but it's the coda that really makes this song.

73. Sigur Rós - Hoppípolla
Whoa.

74. Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely
There's a moment near the end of this song where the swirling dissonance fades away and Thom Yorke's vocals can be heard as clear as crystal. It's spine-tingling.

75. The Fray - How To Save A Life
See, I listen to radio music too!

76. Wolf Parade - I'll Believe in Anything
Probably the best song Spencer Krug has ever written, which is saying a lot.

77. Yndi Halda - Illuminate My Heart, My Darling!
I listen to a lot of post-rock, and this song is by a large margin the best post-rock song I've ever heard. If you haven't heard it, go out and get a copy right now.

78. Sigur Rós - Inní mér syngur vitleysingur
Soooo happy.

79. Arcade Fire - Intervention
The organ might be overdoing it a bit, but this is still a great track.

80. The Decemberists - The Island
The Decemberists + proggy synth runs = awesomeness

81. Broken Social Scene - It's All Gonna Break
The way Kevin Drew sings "it's all gonna break!" on this track is so great. Almost as great as the trumpet outro.

82. MGMT - Kids
Oracular Spectacular wasn't a great album, but it had a few great songs, this one among them.

83. Wolf Parade - Kissing the Beehive
Damn, this is epic.

84. Grizzly Bear - Knife
It's really hard to pin down what's so appealing about this song. It's something about the atmosphere.

85. La Oreja de Van Gogh - La Playa
I guess this should be alphabetized under P, really. When Amaia Montero sings "Te voy a escribir la canción más bonita del mundo," I have a feeling she's referring to this song.

86. Shakira - La Tortura
Shakira has a knack for dramatic male-female duets (see also: Hips Don't Lie).

87. The Strokes - Last Nite
A damn good song, if you ask me!

88. The Wombats - Let's Dance To Joy Division
The lyrics of this song are priceless: "So let the love tear us apart, I found the cure for a broken heart."

89. The New Pornographers - Letter From an Occupant
There's enough material in this song to make three or four good songs, I think.

90. Radiohead - Life In A Glasshouse
This is rather jazzy and unlike anything else Radiohead's recorded, but still wonderful, especially the way Thom Yorke sings "Only, only, only..."

91. Radiohead - Like Spinning Plates
The backing track on this song is amazing.

92. Phoenix - Lisztomania
The best pop song of 2009, in my reckoning.

93. Biffy Clyro - Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies
A lot of people hate the intro, but I think it sets the song up nicely. The choral vocals are a nice touch too.

94. Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines
One of those songs that's impossible not to sing along to, especially when it gets to the "La la, la la la la..." section.

95. Holy Fuck - Lovely Allen
Holy fuck!

96. Vetiver - Luna Sea
A very underappreciated track, one of the most tuneful songs out there.

97. Belinda - Luz Sin Gravedad
I don't know how the video is supposed to relate to the lyrics, but whatever. Belinda really deserves to be better known outside of Mexico.

98. The Mars Volta - L'Via L'Viaquez
The part starting with "Sólo tengo una hora..." is really intense.

99. Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
This song puts me in the magic position, whatever that means.

100. Final Fantasy - Many Lives -> 49 MP
According to the shoutbox for this song, it's "One of the best songs ever fucking created, fucking ever." I'm inclined to agree.

jimthething's top albums (overall) 1. Feist - Let It Die (74) 2. The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic (73) 3. Final Fantasy - Has a Good Home (70) 4. Pixies - Doolittle (64) 5. Field Music - Tones Of Town (61) 6. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (59) 7. Elliott Smith - XO (59) 8. Field Music - Field Music (58) 9. Nick Drake - Pink Moon (57) 10. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (55)

In alpha order so I don't have to mess with it much when I update.

Commentary: The big winners don't surprise me at all. There are a few surprises that are on the list all together. Some how low they are, and some that are simply just counted. A few days of listening of things from my past are in here. :)

Last Update: December 8, 2009.

Amanda Palmer 4
Andrew Bird 2
Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire 1
Andrew Lloyd Webber 1
Animal Collective 1
Au Revoir Simone 1
Band of Horses 2
Belle and Sebastian 2
Ben Folds 16
Ben Folds Five 16
Ben Kweller 1
Ben Lee 2
Big Bang Boom 1
Billy Joel 1
Bishop Allen 3
Blitzen Trapper 1
Bloc Party 1
Bon Iver 1
Breaking Benjamin 1
Built to Spill 4
Cake 1
Claude-Michel Schonberg 1
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone 1
Cloud Cult 3
Colin Meloy 1
Corn Mo 1
DeYarmond Edison 1
Eef Barzelay 3
Eels 4
Eisley 1
Elliott Smith 10
Elton John 1
Green Day 1
Gomez 3
Hotel Lights 7
Immaculate Machine 1
International Orange 2
Jeff Buckley 1
Jenny Owen Youngs 1
Jukebox the Ghost 5
Kate Miller-Heidke 1
Kevin Devine 8
Manchester Orchestra 1
Maria Taylor 1
Mates of State 1
Menomena 1
Modest Mouse 1
Mitch Hedberg 1
Mute Math 1
My Morning Jacket 1
of Montreal 5
Oh No Oh My 1
Okkervil River 1
OK Go 1
Passion Pit 1
Radiohead 1
Regina Spektor 2
Rilo Kiley 3
Shout Out Louds 2
Sigur Ros 1
Snuzz 5
Squirrel Nut Zippers 1
Stars 1
Steven Curtis Chapman 1
Sufjan Stevens 2
Tapes 'n Tapes 1
The Avett Brothers 5
The Beatles 3
The Decemberists 1
The Dresden Dolls 4
The Flaming Lips 2
The Good Life 1
The Honorary Title 1
The Mountain Goats 3
The New Pornographers 2
The Old Ceremony 1
The Polyphonic Spree 4
They Might Be Giants 1
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists 1
William Fitzsimmons 1

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

Here it is: 2005. The year I've been mildly not looking forward to. How people who have 50+ albums a year can manage to compile any sort of "Best of ___" list is beyond me. This year saw 31 albums for me! That is a personal best. 2005 was just a good year for me personally, too, if but for a short while. Maybe that had something to do with it? Anyway, with over 30 albums I have to list fifteen albums here, and sometimes the ranking is a little sketchy. Pretty sure on the first seven though:


1. Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites


2. Foo Fighters - In Your Honor


3. My Morning Jacket - Z


4. Doves - Some Cities


5. Giant Drag - Hearts And Unicorns


6. Starflyer 59 - Talking Voice vs. Singing Voice


7. Maria Taylor - 11:11


8. Nada Surf - The Weight Is a Gift


9. Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn


10. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema


11. The Like - Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?


12. dredg - Catch Without Arms


13. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois


14. Cave In - Perfect Pitch Black


15. The Life and Times- Suburban Hymns

Hmm, four of these artists still haven't released follow-ups. And thus, the tide of the recording industry begins to change. . .

Or does it? Both Maria Taylor and Starflyer 59 have released two albums each in the same span. What the--?