[sonicl]

1 Beirut - Gulang Orkestar
2 Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
3 CSS - Cansei De Ser Sexy
4 Lily Allen - Alright, Still
5 Brakes - The Beatific Visions
6 Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
7 Hot Chip - The Warning
8 Isobell Campbell And Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas
9 The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes
10 Vetiver - To Find Me Gone
11 The Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home
12 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
13 Ali Farka Toure - Savane
14 Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther
15 The Lemonheads - The Lemonheads
16 Tom Waits - Orphans
17 TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
18 Erase Errata - Nightlife
19 Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
20 Bromheads Jacket - Dits From The Commuter Belt
21 Barry Adamson - Stranger On The Sofa
22 Peter, Bjorn And John - Writer's Block
23 Cat Power - The Greatest
24 Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet
25 Various (Production) - The World Is Gone
26 Beck - The Information
27 Loney, Dear - Sologne
28 Trentemoller - The Last Resort
29 Belle And Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
30 120 days - 120 days
31 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
32 Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go
33 Calexico - Garden Ruin
34 El Perro Del Mar - El Perro Del Mar
35 Nathan Fake - Drowning In A Sea Of Love
36 Gotan Project - Lunatico
37 Guillemots - Through The Window Pane
38 i'm From Barcelona - Let Me Introduce My Friends
39 Love Is All - 9 Times That Same Song
40 Joanna Newsom - Ys
41 Scritti Politti - White Bread, Black Beer
42 Spank Rock - Yoyoyoyoyo
43 Sufjan Stevens - Songs For Christmas
44 Superthriller - The Blank Album
45 Sebastian Tellier - Universe
46 The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
47 OM - Conference Of The Birds
48 The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
49 The Rapture - Pieces Of The People We Love
50 Tunng - Comments Of The Inner Chorus
51 Thom Yorke - The Eraser
52 The Broken Family Band - Balls
53 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
54 Micah P Hinson - Micah P Hinson And The Opera Circuit
55 Built To Spill - You In Reverse
56 Tapes 'n' Tapes - The Loon
57 Bat For Lashes - Fur And Gold
58 Ray Lamontagne - Till The Sun Turns Black
59 Todd - Comes To Your House
60 Treecreeper - Grain
61 Datarock - Datarock
62 M Ward - Post-War
63 Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
64 The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America
65 Bob Dylan - Modern Times
66 Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast
67 Fujiya And Miyagi - Transparent Things
68 Metronomy - Pip Paine (Pay The 5000 You Owe)
69 Bert Jansch - The Black Swan
70 Burial - Burial
71 Rekid - Made In Menorca
72 Lambchop - Damaged
73 Susanna And The Magical Orchestra - Melody Mountain
74 Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country
75 Jolie Holland - Springtime Can Kill You
76 Mstrkrft - The Looks
77 Sparklehorse - Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
78 Archie Bronson Outfit - Derdang Derdang
79 Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55
80 Cut Chemist - The Audience's Listening
81 Rhythm And Sound - See Mi Yah Remixes
82 Adem - Love And Other Planets
83 Calla - Collisions
84 Coldcut - Sound Mirrors
85 Dustin's Bar Mitzvah - Dial M For Mitzvah
86 In Flagranti - Wronger Than Anyone Else
87 M Craft - Silver And Fire
88 Monkey Swallows The Universe - The Bright Carvings
89 Peaches - Impeach My Bush
90 Psapp - The Only Thing I Ever Wanted
91 Semifinalists - Semifinalists
92 Cold War Kids - Robbers And Cowards
93 The Black Keys - Magic Potion
94 The Concretes - The Concretes In Colour
95 The Czars - Sorry I Made You Cry
96 The Emperor Machine - Vertical Tone And Horizontal Noise
97 The Knife - Silent Shout
98 The Mules - Save Your Face
99 The Spinto Band - Nice And Nicely Done
100 The Young Knives - Voices Of Animals And Men

[Danny Himself]

Lilly Allen?

For fucks sake..

[pulsar]

Awesome bad list.

[Tokolosh]

I thought Scritti Politti was dead and gone. Terrible!
Can't imagine it been any good...

[sonicl]

Another end of year list, but I can't be bothered to post any more than a link: Other Music record shop, NYC

[nicfit]

Originally Posted by Danny Himself

Lilly Allen?

For fucks sake..

I'll forgive you coz you're still a young boy....

[nicfit]

Well, actually it's not a great list, there are just a few electronic things and most of those are so-called "indie records" noone will remember a couple years (moths?) from now...or am I wrong?

[sonicl]

Yes, there's a hell of a lot of poor indie in there. The sixth-formers and the university students will like it.

There's some good recommendations in the Other Music one though.

[nicfit]

I'll check it right now... At least Rough Trade put there Burial (am I the only one on this board that loves that album?), Calla (i LOVE them ), Cut chemist, The Knife, Various (Production) and some other good ones among all the "indie-fuffa"...but it was a "top selling titles of the year" thing or a proper "best of" list?

[sonicl]

I'm not sure - it doesn't really make it clear.

[nicfit]

"LILY ALLEN "Alright Still" (Regal Import)
In a parallel universe, this album has just gone quadruple platinum and Lily Allen stickers, posters and screen savers are on the notebooks, walls and PCs of millions of young teenage girls. For us, she is a promising vocalist who released a near flawless album of hook-heavy reggae/dancehall-tinged pop that was heard by too few people. If MIA or Lady Sov could sing, they'd kill to sound like Lily. One of the sleepers of the year, and it shoulda been huge in these parts."


Now we're talking!
The othermusic list is waaaay better with nice and interesting picks (special mention for Lucio Battisti), thanks for the link sonicl !

[porkmarras]

Originally Posted by nicfit

"LILY ALLEN "Alright Still" (Regal Import)

Now we're talking!
The othermusic list is waaaay better with nice and interesting picks (special mention for Lucio Battisti), thanks for the link sonicl !

Isn't that bizarre that Battisti(whose output is prolific to say the least) gets the re-issue treatment rather than De Andre' who i find better for many reasons and didn't release as many albums?Battiato?

[Pookie]

Originally Posted by Danny Himself

Lilly Allen?

For fucks sake..

Indeed.

[nicfit]

Originally Posted by porkmarras

Isn't that bizarre that Battisti(whose output is prolific to say the least) gets the re-issue treatment rather than De Andre' who i find better for many reasons and didn't release as many albums?Battiato?

Dunno, De Andrè's lyrics are more deep and difficult to understand if you don't know italian pretty well, and his music is less "poppish"..Battisti has definitely a more melodic/international appeal, and you can "enjoy" his music even without understanding a single word, and it's much more easy to translate his lyrics in the more pop tunes ( it's an almost impossible thing to do with De Andrè's albums, since words are by far more important than the music in his work, even if his musical research towards the "roots" of popular traditions and songwriting is really interesting and, to an extent, enjoyable...)...Battiato? Well, he's still alive, you know how those things works.... he he.

[lucyrulesok]

Originally Posted by sonicl

Yes, there's a hell of a lot of poor indie in there. The sixth-formers and the university students will like it.

*takes offence*

[Danny Himself]

Meh, I'm not even IN sixth form yet..

[Savage Clone]

A fucking Sufjan Stephens Christmas album beats out Bert Jansch?


What the hell is wrong with this world???

[compulsive diarrhea, jico]

datarock is from 2005 and it's well known as a piece of shit.

[Kyohan]

Originally Posted by Sn@ke

Burial! hehe...

The Burial album is great - was put off for a while by the hype myself, but I love it now.