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lithiumzzz's top albums (overall)
1. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (219) 2. Dashboard Confessional - The Shade of Poison Trees (170) 3. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs (163) 4. Blue Scholars - Blue Scholars (158) 5. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans (137) 6. The Postal Service - Give Up (133) 7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (133) 8. Anberlin - Cities (129) 9. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (129) 10. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Greatest Hits (123) 11. Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album (122) 12. Metro Station - Metro Station (119) 13. Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell (116) 14. Asobi Seksu - Citrus (110) 15. Regina Spektor - Far (108) 16. Common Market - Common Market (106) 17. Daphne Loves Derby - On the Strength of All Convinced (102) 18. Owl City - Maybe I'm Dreaming (102) 19. Angels & Airwaves - I-Empire (99) 20. Daphne Loves Derby - Good Night, Witness Light (97) 21. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (95) 22. Death Cab for Cutie - The Open Door EP (95) 23. Jack's Mannequin - Everything in Transit (92) 24. Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs (91) 25. Dropkick Murphys - Blackout (88) 26. Coldplay - Prospekt's March (86) 27. Muse - Absolution (85) 28. The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed (83) 29. Death Cab for Cutie - Forbidden Love EP (82) 30. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals (80) 31. Death Cab for Cutie - Something About Airplanes (79) 32. Passion Pit - Manners (79) 33. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (78) 34. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (78) 35. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (72) 36. Ben Folds - Way to Normal (72) 37. The Subways - All or Nothing (71) 38. Incubus - Light Grenades (70) 39. Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line (69) 40. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away (68) 41. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (67) 42. Beck - Modern Guilt (66) 43. Rogue Wave - Asleep At Heaven's Gate (66) 44. Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger (64) 45. Big Japan - Music For Dummies (63) 46. Billy Talent - Billy Talent II (62) 47. Owl City - Of June (62) 48. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (61) 49. Mae - The Everglow (60) 50. Muse - Dead Star/In Your World (59)

Fleet Foxes White Winter Hymnal (2008)

from the album Fleet Foxes

It goes: "and Michael you will fall and turn the white snow red like strawberries on summertime"

Owned:

Air - Moon Safari
Air - The Virgin Suicides
The Appleseed Cast - Sagarmatha
Arab Strap - Elephant Shoe
Arab Strap - The Red Thread
Atlas Sound - Logos
Barzin - Barzin
Barzin - My Life in Rooms
Beach House - Beach House
Beach House - Devotion
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles - Revolver
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
Beirut - Lon Gisland EP
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk
Billy Corgan - The Future Embrace
The Black Heart Procession - Six
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Bram Stadhouders - The Ship Comes
Brian Eno - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder
Camera Obscura - Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi
Camera Obscura - Let's Get out of This Country
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
Catherine Wheel - Chrome
Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
Club 8 - Club 8
Club 8 - Nouvelle
Club 8 - Spring Came, Rain Fell
Coastal - Halfway to You
Cocteau Twins - Four-Calendar Café
Cocteau Twins - Milk & Kisses
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Cocteau Twins - Peppermint Pig Ep
Cocteau Twins - Lullabies EP
Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Con Dolore - Sailor's Warning
Con Dolore - This Sad Movie
Copeland - In Motion
The Cure - Faith
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
The Cure - Disintegration
Dave Matthews Band - Everyday
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
David Sylvian - Secrets Of The Beehive
Daydream Nation - Bella Vendetta
Daydream Nation - Daydream Nation
The Daysleepers - Drowned In a Sea of Sound
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Death Cab for Cutie - The Open Door EP
Deerhunter - Microcastle
Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP
Delays - Faded Seaside Glamour
Delays - You See Colours
Delays - Everything's The Rush
dEUS - Vantage Point
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Doves - Lost Souls
Doves - Lost Sides
Doves - Some Cities
Doves - The Last Broadcast
Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild
Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
Embrace - Out of Nothing
Embrace - Fireworks
Engineers - Three Fact Fader
Feeder - Polythene
Feeder - Swim
Feeder - Yesterday Went Too Soon
Feeder - Echo Park
Feeder - Comfort in Sound
Feeder - Pushing the Senses
Feeder - Silent Cry
Feist - The Reminder
Fiel Garvie - Caught Laughing
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
For Against - Coalesced
For Against - Shade Side Sunny Side
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Garbage - Garbage
The High Violets - To Where You Are
The Horrors - Primary Colours
The House of Love - The House of Love
Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
Idlewild - The Remote Part
Idlewild - Warnings/Promises
Idlewild - Make Another World
Idlewild - Post Electric Blues
Imogen Heap - Ellipse
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Interpol - Antics
Interpol - Our Love To Admire
Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti is...Skyscraper
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Joy Devision - Unknown Pleasures
Kill Hannah - For Never & Ever
Kill Hannah - Until There's Nothing Left Of Us
Lifehouse - Stanley Climbfall
The Long Winters - When I Pretend to Fall
The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed
Lorna - Writing Down Things To Say
Lush - Split
Lush - Spooky
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
The Magic Numbers - Those the broken
Magic Bullets - a Child but in life yet a DOCTOR in love
The Meeting Places - Numbered Days
The Meeting Places - Find Yourself Along the Way
Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today I’m Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories The World Is Grey I’m Tired Let’s Wash Away
Mojave 3 - Ask Me Tomorrow
Mojave 3 - Out of Tune
Mojave 3 - Excuses For Travellers
Mojave 3 - Spoon & Rafter
Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You
Muse - Sing for absolution EP
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Nada Surf - Let Go
Nada Surf - Lucky
Neil Halstead - Sleeping On Roads
Nirvana - Incesticide
Nirvana - Nevermind
Nirvana - In Utero
Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
Noah and the Whale - The First Days Of Spring
Oceansize - Everyone Into Position
Oceansize - Home & Minor EP
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher Than The Stars EP
Pete Yorn - musicforthemorningafter
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Where Here
Placebo - Placebo
Placebo - Black Market Music
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts
Placebo - Meds
Placebo - Battle For The Sun
Placebo - Once More With Feeling
Pulp - Different Class
Pulp - This Is Hardcore
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - My Iron Lung
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
R.E.M. - Out Of Time
Ride - Nowhere
Ride - Birdman EP
Ride - Leave them all behind EP
Ride - Twisterella EP
Saybia - Eyes On The Highway
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Should - Feed Like Fishes
Sigur Rós - ( )
Sigur Rós - Takk...
Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
Sigur Rós - Hvarf - Heim
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Slowdive - Just For A Day
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Slowdive - Catch the Breeze
Slowdive - Pygmalion
Slowdive - Pygmalion Outtakes
The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins - Machina/The Machines of God
The Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
The Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Sonic Youth - Goo
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Soul Whirling Somewhere - Please Sennd Help
Starrfadu - A Narrow Road to Silence
Starrfadu - And Yes... Our Thoughts Were Elsewhere
Starsailor - Love Is Here
Starsailor - Silence Is Easy
Starsailor - All The Plans
The Stone Roses - Turns Into Stone
Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
Suede - Coming Up
The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
Syd Barret - The Madcap Laughs
Syd Barret - Barret
Tegan and Sara - The Con
The Thrills - Teenager
Thirteen Senses - Contact
Tim Christensen - Honeyburst
Travis - The Invisible Band
Travis - The Man Who
Travis - 12 Memories
The Upper Room - Other People's Problems
U2 - No Line On The Horizon
U2 - The Best Of 1980 - 1990
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground - The Best Of The Velvet Underground
The Verve - Urban Hymns
The Vines - Winning Days

Wanted:

Airiel - The Battle Of Sealand
The Album Leaf - One Day I'll Be on Time
The Appleseed Cast - Two Conversations
Adorable - Against Perfection
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Carissa's Wierd - Songs about Leaving
The Clientele - Strange Geometry
Club 8 - The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming
Club 8 - Strangely Beautiful
City & Colour - Sometimes
Cranes - Forever
The Daysleepers - Hide Your Eyes EP
The Daysleepers - The Soft Attack
Eisley - Room Noises
Eisley - Combinations
Edward Shearmur - K-Pax: Original Motion Picture
Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees
Explosions in the Sky - The Rescue
Fosca - The Painted Side Of The Rocket
Hammock - Raising Your Voice...Trying to Stop an Echo
Idaho - Hearts of Palm
Kurt Vile - Constant Hitmaker
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy
The Mary Onettes - The Mary Onettes
The Mary Onettes - Islands
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief
The Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters
Sway - The Millia Pink and Green EP
Sway - winter heart ep

My 60 Favourite Records of the 2000s are:

Air – The Virgin Suicides [Original Motion Picture Score] (2000)
PJ Harvey – Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (2000)
Queens of the Stone Age – Rated (2000)
Radiohead – Kid A (2000)
Radiohead – Amnesiac (2001)
Low – Things We Lost in the Fire (2001)
Millionaire – Outside The Simian Flock (2001)
The Shins – Oh, Inverted World (2001)
The Strokes – Is This It? (2001)
Super Furry Animals – Rings Around the World (2001)
The White Stripes – White Blood Cells (2001)
Zita Swoon – Life = A Sexy Sanctuary (2001)
2 Many DJ's – As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Pt. 2 (2002)
Beck – Sea Change (2002)
Blackalicious – Blazing Arrow (2002)
Johnny Cash – American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002)
The Chemical Brothers – Come With Us (2002)
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster – Hörse of the dög (2002)
The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)
Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)
Milwaukee Wildmen – Psychosomatic (2002)
Queens of the Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf (2002)
Stuurbaard Bakkebaard – Chuck (2002)
Supergrass – Life on Other Planets (2002)
Tom Waits – Alice (2002)
Tom Waits – Blood Money (2002)
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
Blur – Think Tank (2003)
Calexico – Feast of Wire (2003)
Radiohead – Hail To The Thief (2003)
The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
Tindersticks – Waiting for the Moon (2003)
Drive-By Truckers – The Dirty South (2004)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)
Kings of Convenience – Riot On An Empty Street (2004)
Tom Waits – Real Gone (2004)
Antony & The Johnsons –I Am a Bird Now (2005)
The Arcade Fire – Funeral (2005*)
Calexico / Iron & Wine – In The Reins [EP] (2005)
dEUS – Pocket Revolution (2005)
Eels - Blinking Lights And Other Revelations (2005)
My Morning Jacket – Z (2005)
Ian Siegal – Meat & Potatoes (2005)
Sufjan Stevens – Come Feel The Illinoise! (2005)
Belle & Sebastian – The Life Persuit (2006)
The Knife – Silent Shout (2006)
Mastodon – Blood Mountain (2006)
The Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (2007)
LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver (2007)
M.I.A. – Kala (2007)
The National – Boxer (2007)
Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007)
Radiohead – In Rainbows (2007)
Feist – The Reminder (2007)
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (2008^)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! (2008)
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (2008)
Hercules and Love Affair – Hercules And Love Affair (2008)
TV on the Radio – Dear Science (2008)
The Flaming Lips – Embryonic (2009)

*) 2004 in Canada & U.S.
^) 2007 in U.S.

I've made a lot of decadelists, like most musicnerds. Top 10 follows in december! Yeah!

Andrew Bird
Apostle of Hustle
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
Atmosphere
Battles
Beck
Ben Folds
Black Joe Lewis
Bloc Party
The Black & White Years
City and Colour
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah x 2
The Cribs
Damien Rice
Death Cab for Cutie
The Decemberists
Deerhoof
DeVotchKa
Eagles of Death Metal
Explosions in the Sky
Final Fantasy x 2
Fleet Foxes
Franz Ferdinand
Frightened Rabbit
Ghostland Observatory
Gogol Bordello x 3
Grizzly Bear
Heartless Bastards
Here We Go Magic
Hollywood Gossip
Icy Demons
Islands
Jaguar Love x2
Jamie Lidell
Jenny Lewis
Kaiser Chiefs
The Killers
The Kills
Larkin Grimm
Living Things
Minus the Bear
The Mountain Goats
Muse
The National
The New Pornographers
of Montreal x 2
Okkervil River x 2
Patrick Wolf x 2
Plasticines x 2
The Raconteurs
Regina Spektor
Ringo Deathstarr
sharon jones & the dap kings
Sondre Lerche
Spoon
St. Vincent
Stars
The Strokes
The Swell Season
Thomas Dybdahl
Vampire Weekend
Voxtrot
We Are Scientists
Willy Mason
Yeasayer
Yellow Fever

I'm not quite sure what just happened. I bought a ticket for myself and Allie to J. Tillman for her birthday. I've heard some Fleet Foxes, but never got into them, but I know that they are really talented and was expecting a good show. Still, he fucking blew my mind. We got there just as the first song began. He looks just like Matt Embree. He was accompanied by a drummer, an electric guitarist, a bassist and a slide guitarist. The show began with him playing acoustic, supported basically by the bass and percussion, with the two guitarists playing bright harmonious melodies. Eventually, the songs got louder. It got to a point where the end of one song was basically a southern version of Sonic Youth. The slide guitarist was going crazy with the vibrato, Tillman was smashing a gong, the bassist was just dancing, and everyone was going crazy. It stayed as such for a while, sometimes with the entire band playing a disjointed symphony of various cymbals. It slowed down towards the end. The encore was three acoustic songs. He has such a soothing voice, yet is absolutely hilarious between songs, making jokes about the turnout of the show (only five presales?????) and crystal meth. After the show finished, we stood there for five minutes just absorbing what happened. We saw him come out to the floor after most of the crowd had left, and we met him. The lady before us traced his hand on an autograph book, and asked him to sign. Instead, he spent a minute drawing some really cool symbol/flower/idon'tknow. He was very chill speaking to us, and we took a picture. Everything about this show was perfect. Oh man. I got Year In The Kingdom on vinyl for only 10 dollars? Love it.

Put your iTunes/Winamp/Windows Media Player/whatever on Shuffle and list the next thirty songs that come up. No cheating to make yourself look cool!


1. Videotape // Radiohead
2. Je Veux Te Voir // Yelle
3. Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl // Broken Social Scene
4. Oh What a World // Rufus Wainwright
5. Service Bell // Grizzly Bear + Feist
6. K-Hole // CocoRosie
7. The Henney Buggy Band // Sufjan Stevens
8. Piazza, New York Catcher // belle & sebastien
9. Anyone Else But You // The Moldy Peaches
10. Elephant Gun // Beirut
11. Every Night I Die at Miyagis // Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
12. Two Weeks // Grizzly Bear
13. Red Apples // Cat Power
14. Doctor Blind // Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton
15. Steak For Chicken // The Moldy Peaches
16. Dramamine // Modest Mouse
17. Kim & Jessie // M83
18. Peach, Plum, Pear // Joanna Newsom
19. Dark Undercoat // Emily Jane White
20. Casimir Pulaski Day // Sufjan Stevens
21. The Great Salt Lake // Band of Horses
22. White Winter Hymnal // Fleet Foxes
23. Imitosis // Andrew Bird
24. Saeglopur // Sigur Ros
25. Clam Crab Cockle Cowrie // Joanna Newsom
26. People as Places as People // Modest Mouse
27. Cato as a Pun // of Montreal
28. Blue Ridge Mountains // Fleet Foxes
29. Creep // Radiohead
30. Reckoner // Radiohead

QUESTIONS:

1. Which song do you prefer, ..1 or ..30?
+ 30. Videotape is a good song but Reckoner is like "cream your pants and then pass out" good.

2. Have you ever listened to ..12 continuously on repeat?
+ Yes.

3. What album is ..26 from?
+ "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank". I might've got the wording wrong.

4. What do you think about the artist who did ..15?
+ They make good happy time music.

5. Is ..19 one of your favorite songs?
+ It was last year. Now whenever I listen to it, it reminds me of Christmas in Ohio. I think that's what prevents it from continuing to be one of my favorite songs.

6. Who does ..28 remind you of?
+ Nobody, really.

7. Does ..20 have better lyrics or music?
+ Lyrics. If that songs doesn't make you want to cry, you are a communist.

8. Do any of your friends like ..3?
+ Uh, I'm not sure. I'll have to go ask them, because they definitely exist shut up who says they don't.

9. Is ..23 from a movie soundtrack?
+ Nope don't think so.

10. Is ..18 overplayed on the radio?
+ Probably not.

11. What does ..21 remind you of?
+ Mormons. God they're everywhere.

12. Which do you prefer, ..5 or ..22?
+ Damn that's a hard call. At the moment I'd say 5 but it's close.

13. What album is ..17 from?
+ Saturdays = Youth.

14. When did you first hear ..19?
+ Last winter. Right before I went to spend Christmas in Cleveland. Oh that was a jolly time.

15. What genre is ..8?
+ Indie, I guess.

16. What is your favourite lyric from ...3?
+ "Used to be one of the rotten ones and I liked you for that"

17. What colour does ..4 remind you of?
+ Sepia. In a good way.

18. Have you ever blasted ..11 on your stereo?
+ Hell yes. There's no better way to show people how cool you are than to blast a song that features a guy yelling about placentas and dirty vaginas.

19. What genre is ..7?
+ I think Sufjan Stevens is his own genre.

20. Can you play ..13 on any instrument?
+ Definitely. I love to jam out on my cereal box prize kazoo.

21. What is your favorite lyric from ..30?
+ I'm not sure if that song even has lyrics. Actually that's not true I'm just too lazy to go look up what Thom Yorke is actually saying.

22. What is your favorite lyric from ..23?
+"As he went home at the end of the day
In this nature show that rages every day
It was then he heard his intuition say
We were all basically alone
Despite what all his studies had shown
That what's mistaken for closeness
Is just a case of mitosis"

23. Would you recommend ..24 to your friends?
+ Yes.

24. Is ..2 a good song to dance to?
+ Probably, if you're a person who is capable of and enjoys dancing.

25. Do you ever hear ..16 on the radio?
+ Nope.

26. Is ..22 more of a nighttime or daytime song?
+ Daytime. But only in fall or winter. Otherwise, night.

27. Does ..16 have any special meaning to you?
+ It's the song I would always put on before I threw up my last meal. Oh, the memories.

28. Do any of your friends like ..1?
+ Yes.

29. Is ..25 a fast or slow song?
+ Slow, mostly.

30. Is ..5 a happy or sad song?
+ Hm. Sort of more on the sad-ish side, I guess? But it makes me happy.

31. What is one of your favorite lyrics from ..9?
+ "Up up down down left right left right B A start
Just because we use cheats doesn't mean we're not smart"

32. Is ..14 better to listen to alone or with friends?
+ Alone. In the dark. While drinking profusely.

33. When did you first hear ..27?
+ Hm I don't know. Whenever the Hissing Fauna album came out.

34. Name 3 other songs by the artist who did ..29?
+ Sit Down Stand Up, There There, Karma Police

35. Do you know all the words to ..6?
+ Nope, I don't.

36. Does ..28 have better lyrics or music?
+ I think they're pretty evenly matched. Maybe slightly favored toward lyrics.

37. What album is ..10 from?
+ The Lon Gisland EP.

Illat ovat iltoja muiden joukossa.
Tulen kotiin, laitan takin naulakkoon, avaan koneen.
Ehkä syön jotain, käyn suihkussa ja luen uutiset.
Väsyttää.

Kunnes
päädymme etsimään vinkkejä pikkuiselle sympaattiselle robotille,
teemme kortteja erinäisille ihmisille ja tapauksille,
mietimme mitä Dharma tekisi (ja katsomme neuvoja),
kierrämme ympäri maailman googlen satelliitilla (Jäämeri, Mumbain slummit, pyramidit, Kiinan muuri, Niagaran putoukset, Venezuela...)
ja suunnittelemme tekevämme parannuksen elämässä.


Fleet Foxes