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Well the year is almost over again and everyone is making lists of albums of 2009 so I'm going to too. This year I'm going do a top ten of My Albums which are the ones which I've went out and bought the real thing that you can hold in your hands. No downloads here if I couldn't be bother to find the CD it's not really here in front of me now so call me old fashioned. Also I'm going to do My Wishlist of this year which is CD's I haven't got but if someone needs a Christmas present or ten. Plus a few other things which I think I'll start with now.

TRACK OF THE YEAR:
The Drones
Suicide is Painless
I've been waiting for this for a long time now. I don't know how many times I've watched the video for this song on JTV, it's a Triple J radio's Like A Version cover song. Volume five has just come out and I went out and got the CD just for this track, is that mad? It's got some of the most bleak and depressing lyrics ever written but The Drones members are laughing at them throughout the song which kind-off juxtaposed it. I've written a whole journal about this track earlier so have a look in my older posts if you want to know more.

EP OF THE YEAR:
Magic Dirt
White Boy EP
This EP was released after the passing away of Dean Turner which is the saddest news of the year because he was so young still, only 37. Dean was a founding member, bass player and their producer. Recording these last tracks which ended up being his last before he passed away Friday August 21st, 2009 and a statement from band said: "For nine years, Dean battled an extremely rare form of soft tissue cancer called dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP)... Being a very private man, Dean chose to fight the cancer in a quiet and dignified manner. He displayed great courage and incredible stoicism. And above all else he had an unshakeable positive attitude throughout his long ordeal. White Boy is from their last album. Two duets: Summer High (featuring Rowland S. Howard) and Love Is The Armour (featuring Gareth Liddiard), deep in a net of red, valley of the rose plus the epic ten minute last song Future Fuck.

REISSUE OF THE YEAR:
Beasts of Bourbon
Box Set with the first three albums: The Axemans Jazz, Sour Mash and Black Milk
Finally you can get these albums on CD, they were deleted forever and these three albums are their best by far. The original line-up of Kim Salmon and Spencer P. Jones on guitars, James Baker on drums, Boris Sujdovic on bass and Tex Perkins on vocals. The little booklet that comes with the box is very cool too with a lot old photos which I haven't seen before and liner notes by all the band members, not some music critics talking wank.

DVD OF THE YEAR:
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Your Funeral... My Trial (2009 Digital Remaster) Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 4) by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard
I really hate music documentary DVDs most of the time and just can't sit through them most of the time. But these talking heads and how it's filmed and edited together is really, really, really cool. Warren Ellis also says this is his favourite Bad Seeds album and I have to agree with him. To have a new copy of it is great is wicked too because my old one is totally falling apart so beaten up.

SOUNDTRACK OF THE YEAR:
Various Artists
Palermo Shooting
A new film by Wim Wenders which I haven't seen. It's got new Grinderman, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney, Sibylle Baier tracks. Original score by Irmin Schmidt plus tracks by Portishead, Iron & Wine, Calexico, Velvet Underground, Beirut, Beth Gibbons & Rustin' Man and more, well, 21 tracks in total. Wim Wender has written the liner notes as an A to Z thing with just over 30 pages.

LIVE ACT OF THE YEAR:
The Drones
Seeing them twice this year as a full band and then seeing Gareth Liddiard and Dan Luscombe playing acoustic too. These where unbelievable shows and I can't wait for the next time they come to town. Havilah winning my 2008 album of the year and now if you buy it you get a bonus disc of Live At The Hi-Fi which I downloaded because I wasn't going to buy the same CD twice but it a great live album so I do wish I had the real thing. The Drones are already starting to working on a new album.

MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR:
David McComb & The Triffids
Edited by Chris Coughran & Niall Lucy
A truly great book about one of the best Australian singer-songwriters and rock groups with all sorts of different writing styles, old color and black & white photos, drawings by Martyn P. Casey, and more all on beautiful gloss paper. This would have to be by far the best music book of the year. Nothing would be close to this and could be one of the best music books ever really. Check it out here: http://www.fremantlepress.com.au/books/currentaffairs_culture_social_history/1104


RE-RECORDING OF THE YEAR:
Warren Fahey
Australia Folk Songs and Bush Verse: Bushrangers, Bolters and Other Wild Colonials
Well I think I have to explain this one a bit. This is new recording of very, very old traditional Aussie tracks. There are more themed discs in this series, or you can get two box sets of all of them but this is the only one I got, if you want more info have a look here: http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/product.asp?productid=304626&SearchID=2382722&SearchRefineID=4902015 I think re-recording is the best thing to call this album plus he hasn't gone too far from the old arangements of how these songs would have been played two or one hundred years ago.

WISHLIST OF THE YEAR:
TEN
Warren Fahey
Australia Folk Songs and Bush Verse: Rare Convict Ballads and Broadsides
The other album I would like from the above series.
NINE
The Blackeyed Susans
Reveal Yourself
Three CDs and DVD box set from a great but mostly forgotten Aussie band.
EIGHT
Rihanna
Rated R
The best pop album of the year.
SEVEN
Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
The best album cover of the year and the music is pretty wicked too.
SIX
Kasabian
West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
The best British rock group of the year.
FIVE
The Flaming Lips
Embryonic
The best American rock group of the year.
FOUR
Tinariwen
Imidiwan
The best African rock group or World music of the year.
THREE
Beak>
Beak>
The best side project band comes from Geoff Barrow of the legendary Portishead.
TWO
Fever Ray
Fever Ray
The best electronic artist of the year. The best Nick Cave cover with Stranger Than Kindness which is on the updated version of the album from early this year but I have yet to see it.
ONE
Rowland S. Howard
Pop Crimes
Rowland S. Howard first album in ten years so I really should have this already. Early this month, Howard admitted that he has had liver cancer for awhile and is now awaiting a transplant so wishing you to get well soon Rowland.

VIDEO CLIP OF THE YEAR:
Bob Dylan
Must Be Santa
It's the week of Christmas but this is so funny, Bob in silly hats and a wig, dancing a polka, standing next to Santa Claus at the end and he re-names the reindeers after Presidents of the United States if you listen carefully. This is the best track on the album, maybe The Christmas Blues is the other cool one or should I say the song I like best. It's directed by an Aussie guy called Nash Edgerton.


ALBUMS OF THE YEAR:
TEN
Bob Dylan
Together Through Life
Coming at the tail end of my top ten this is the other Dylan album and not his Christmas one. Really not as good as his three previous ones but those are some of his best ever albums so it would be hard follow them. Most of it was written with Robert Hunter. The best track is This Dream of You is Bob's only "solo" song on this album but the whole thing is not bad for a 68 year old.
NINE
Marianne Faithfull
Easy Come Easy Go
I love a good cover songs album. Who else but Marianne Faithfull could get Cat Power, Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright and Keith Richards to sing backing vocals. She sings two real duets with Antony on Ooh Baby Baby and Somewhere with Jarvis Cocker. My favourite track is the classic Neko Case song Hold On Hold On but this cover has Warren Ellis playing an epic electric violin solo at the end.
EIGHT
Various Artists
The Rockwiz Duets Volume 3
Another great cover album full of duets this time from the Aussie TV show. With tracks like Adalita & Gareth Liddiard doing The Saints' Messin' With The Kid, Amanda Brown & Glenn Richards doing Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood's Some Velvet Morning, Patience Hodgson & Broderick Smith doing MGMT's Time To Pretend, Eve Von Bibra & Jed Kurzel doing The Bee Gees' To Love Somebody, Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson doing Kylie Minogue's Can't Get You Out of My Head, Sophie Koh & Steve Kilbey doing The Go-Betweens' Streets Of Your Town and so many more.
SEVEN
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
White Lunar
I love Nick Cave & Warren Ellis but one disc of new stuff, another disc of tracks I've already got. And now The Road soundtrack which is coming soon or you can download now. They are really pushing it at the moment and Cave publishing his very silly dirty jokes book this year too. Dirty Three are touring soon and still hoping for a new Dirty Three album but it sounds like it's going to be a new Grinderman one. All the bitching to one side the second disc is some of the best music they have both done and by far the best thing Cave has done this year.
SIX
Titus Andronicus
The Airing Of Grievances
The best newcomer of the year goes to these guys and this is the best debut album in a long time. This was recorded in 2008 but not released here in Australia until the beginning of year. With The Monitor, the band's follow-up to The Airing of Grievances, will be out on March 9 which I hope that is here too and I don't have wait a year or something. According to singer Patrick Stickles in a press release, the LP is "sort of" a concept album about the Civil War: "It doesn't take place in olden times, nor does it necessarily feature any characters that participated in that conflict. Really, it is a record about how the conflicts that led our nation into that great calamity remain unresolved, and the effect that this ongoing division has on our personal relationships and our behavior and how they're all out to get us (or maybe not?) and yadda yadda yadda."
FIVE
Laughing Clowns
Laughing Clowns Live
I love a great live album and this is the second one here, the first was the Rockwiz album. This is the seventh volume in the new prince melon bootleg series. If you didn't know Prince Melon is a nickname Ken West gave Laughing Clowns back in the late 70's and early 80's when they were around the first time, this is a reunion tour album. Ken West is now one of the men who runs something called The Big Day Out tour but his first job in the music business was manager, door man, lighting guy and all rounder for Laughing Clowns. It's a pity they're not on this years line-up and it's more of a pity that they're not coming over to Perth, but the best reunion band of the year is Laughing Clowns.
FOUR
The Mess Hall
For The Birds
This band has always been in the shadow of The White Stripes like the Aussie version but with this album and latter turning into a very pricey DVD side project and one of the many novelty for Jack White. After The Mess Hall winning a lot of award money from their last album Devils Elbow which payed for time and space to do this one which is even better and by far the best thing they have done and taking the two piece band format above and beyond anything that has been done before and others will now have to keep up with these guys, the best band of the year.
THREE
Bill Callahan
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Bill Callahan was called Smog for years and years but went "solo" a couple of years ago and now has painted his masterpiece on his 13th album. From the beginning to the end this is one of the most beautiful and wonderful albums. Him adding the strings is a great addition, so my male artist of 2009 is Bill Callahan.
TWO
Sarah Blasko
As Day Follows Night
What can I possibly say about Sarah Blasko's As Day Follows Night album that has not been said before now. More perfect that her last and grows more and more with each listen. She has painted her masterpiece on this only her 3rd album. From the beginning to the end is totally breathless record, so my female artist of 2009 is Sarah Blasko.
ONE
Tom Waits
Glitter And Doom Live
I don't know if anyone else would name a live album as their album of the year but it's Tom Waits. Maybe he wins by default because this is the last album I bought. Anyway the reason is I would love to see him live and I have no hope of him coming here. This is brilliant and wicked so it would be unbelievable to see him live and this is most likely the closest I'll ever get. Better that his two other live albums 1988's Big Time and 1975's Nighthawks at the Diner and with Tom Tales a 1/2 an hour long track as a bonus disc which is classic in it's own right, he could be the best stand-up of the year. So my album of the year is Tom Waits' Glitter And Doom Live.


P.S. I don't know if you heard this but someone called Michael Jackson died this year too.

Well, to start with on Saturday night (3rd of October) the new season which is the seventh season of RockWiz starts. The first episode begins with Andrew Stockdale (Wolfmother) & Holiday Sidewinder (Bridezilla) which could be hit or miss which is what happens with this show. If you don't know it, RockWiz is an Aussie TV show on SBS channel. You can find it online and here is all the past guests you can click on names or numbers to see all the clips go here: http://www.sbs.com.au/rockwiz/browse/artist

What I mean by hit or miss is how and who are on together. What happens is two "Singers" who are from mainly Aussie bands are matched up against each other with two crowd members each who are quizzed with music related questions. The show is filmed in a pub in Melbourne and sometimes the guests are a bit drunk too. At the end of the show both sing a duet together which can be train wrecks or masterpieces. I've picked out my personal favorites but only five songs from six previous seasons. All these clips below are on youtube but some others I love are not there. Check out Neko Case & Josh Pyke, Jen Cloher & Ron Peno, Taasha Coates & Gareth Liddiard to start with if you go to the RockWiz website, I would recommend them to you.


#1. Glenn Richards & Amanda Brown's Some Velvet Morning is the most ambitious duet ever on the show. To me it's unbelievable and I would say it's better than any of the other Some Velvet Morning covers, maybe even the original by Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood. There are a lot of covers but it always seems like it doesn't work and just a bit pointless because the song is already so great that it never comes out right until this one below, did I already say it's unbelievable?

Glenn Richards is from Augie March and Amanda Brown is from The Go-Betweens.

#2. Clare Bowditch & Ed Kuepper's Summer Wine is such a beautiful version of another Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood song Summer Wine. This I think is also better than the original, and a close second but the Some Velvet Morning arrangement is just insane. It seems Summer Wine is Nancy & Lee's top track on last.fm too.

Clare Bowditch plays under her own name but plays with her band Clare Bowditch and The Feeding Set too. Ed Kuepper plays under his name too but has been in and reformed The Saints and Laughing Clowns lately.

#3. Sarah Blasko & Mick Harvey's Sundown, Sundown is a beautiful version of yet again another Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood's Sundown, Sundown. Maybe I just like all the Nancy & Lee covers on this show. I don't know these three are the only ones but they are all great songs and these are very beautiful duet covers but this one has to be under the first two.

Sarah Blasko has just released her third solo album. Mick Harvey has just left Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

#4. Jodi Phillis & Kim Salmon's It Takes Two is a Motown classic by Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston. It Takes Two recorded in late 1966 and a hit in in January of 1967. Later turned into a soft drink ad by two horrible people but forget about that and watch this.

Jodi Phillis was the co-frontwoman of The Clouds and has gone solo since. Kim Salmon has been in or is in Scientists, Beasts of Bourbon, Kim Salmon & the Surrealists, Kim Salmon And The Business, Antenna, Darling Downs and Salmon.


#5. Adalita & Gareth Liddiard's Messin' With The Kid is written by Ed Kuepper and Chris Bailey, from The Saints album (I'm) Stranded album from 1976. Its youtube clip has the last round of questions so the song starts at about 3:30 mark but you'll get the idea of the show from this anyway if you've never seen it before but the duet cover is amazing so wait for it.

Adalita is from Magic Dirt and Gareth Liddiard is from The Drones.

"The Beat Goes On: Duets Volume 3" album is due out in November. I hope my favorites make it on the album. Two past volumes of duets are available too.

Have you got a favorite for RockWiz duet??? Who should be on RockWiz in the new season??? Or just what do you think about the show??? Or have you even heard about it before???

CD # 2: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

That is an Emmylou Harris record that isn't even represented on this list. Why? Because I laugh in the face of your rules! Ha!

Anyhow...

1. "Long Monday," John Prine

Prine is seriously underrated. I'd call him the poor man's Dylan but that would be unfair to both of them.

As a sidenote, as I notice that more and more of my lists are populated with songs Jillian Wormington exposed me to, I think I have to say that she was my favorite girlfriend ever. That probably speaks more to my own incalculable selfishness than anything else.

2. "Howlin' at the Wolf," Hank Williams

If you can get over your pretensions and allow yourself to get into serious country music and thus open yourself up to the Hank Williams experience you will be a better person and 2 or 3 steps closer to God.

3. "Can't Let Go," Lucinda Williams




4. "Look at Miss Ohio," Gillian Welch



Public Radio International-- Look at Miss Ohio

5. "I'm Alive," Shelby Lynne

I am completely obsessed with Lynne's 2003 album Identity Crisis and this is my favorite song off that disc. It might just be my favorite song ever. The understated but superbly executed Hammond Organ and steel guitar fills (I think I am right about the instruments but who knows) push it over the top for me.





I could (and have) stared at that picture for hours.

6. "Condi, Condi," Steve Earle

A country reggae tune about having the hots for Condoleeza Rice should not be good. But this is pretty wonderful.

7. "Two More Bottles of Wine," Emmylou Harris

8. "Sin Wagon," Dixie Chicks

9. "Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key," Billy Bragg & Wilco

For those that don't know, this is from a project wherein Bragg & Wilco recorded songs from lyrics left behind by Woody Guthrie.



10. "Shotgun Willie," Willie Nelson

11. "A Little Blues," The Be Good Tanyas

Frazey Ford's lead vocals are simply amazing. You must do yourself a favor and check this band out--even if Americana is not your thing.

12. "Little Boy Blue," Will Oldham

aka Bonnie "Prince" Billy



13. "Wagon Wheel," Old Crow Medicine Show



14. "The Race is On," George Jones

15. "Little Boxes," Malvina Reynolds

This song is most famous nowadays for being the original theme song for the Showtime series Weeds.

16. "Return of the Grievous Angel," Gram Parsons

Won't you scratch my itch, sweet Annie Rich?

17. "Fist City," Loretta Lynn

Far from a mere song about a cat fight, this is an invitation to a flat ass beat down. Stay away from Loretta's man!

18. "In Spite of Ourselves" John Prine & Iris DeMent

19. "All I Want Is You," The Moldy Peaches

You know this from the opening of Juno.

20. "Big Red Balloon," Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra

21. "Come Pick Me Up," Ryan Adams

I used to think this guy was a bit of a joke. However, I have took the time to listen to his music and it is quite good. This is probably my favorite.

22. "I Am Weary, Let Me Rest" The Cox Family

This is on the O Brother Where Art Thou? sountrack

23. "One More Cup of Coffee," Bob Dylan

24. "Let Him Fly," Patty Griffin

The Dixie Chicks do a cover of this song.

Every year, I make some CDs for my friend Erin and they generally turn out to be the best mixes I ever make. This year, in my not so humble opinion, is not an exception. Since these mixes were a birthday present, they had the formidable task of standing up to the gift of a Growing Pains DVD a few years back.

CD #1: 2008

Note that I don't think any of these songs are from 2008. Whenever I try to make those types of list, they are usually substandard and I wind up throwing them away. I gave it the name of 2008 simply because it was for her birthday in 2008.

1. "Goin' to Acapulco," by Jim James & Calexico

I finally watched Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There a week or so ago and I think it's absolutely incredible and required viewing for any Dylanologist. Just don't think you're going to be watching a straight ahead documentary (the characters are part of the Dylan pathos and mythology not Dylan himself).

Since I already included the incredible scene of this song from the movie in an earlier post, I thought I'd post a full live version of what I am assuming is My Morning Jacket--but I have no clue

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtbNuL-3aSU&feature=related[/youtube]

2. "The Devil" PJ Harvey

This song is completely haunting and if you don't find yourself going full force into the climax and shaking upon shifting into its' denouement, then I feel sorry for you.



3. "I Never Loved a Man (The Way That I Love You)," Aretha Franklin

4. "Summersend," Misha

Free Download
Misha--Summersend mp3

5. "Roscoe," Midlake

I think this is one of the best songs I have ever heard. Bar none. This group is from Denton, TX.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDL9bXlwbM4&feature=related[/youtube]

6. "Stuck Between Stations," The Hold Steady

I know, I know. Why not pick a song off of Stay Positive since it's from 2008? Well, I have to be deliberately defiant. Plus, this is my favorite Hold Steady song (other than "Hot Fries" which is already on prior Erin compilations).

7. "Hopscotch Willie," Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks

Finally one from this year! This makes the list because Erin and I were jamming to it on the long road trip between through the deserts between the Holbrook and Flagstaff, AZ.

Malkmus's latest offering, incidentally, is simply fucking powerful and the best guitar record to come out in some time.

8. "I Thought I Saw Your Face Today," She & Him

2 in a row from 2008! For those of you that still don't know, this is actress Zooey Deschanel and full-time musician M. Ward.

Deschanel's voice is like thick honey and she could pour it over me any time she wished!

This is really on here as an excuse for me to look at pictures of Deschanel.





9. "Inflammatory Writ," Joanna Newsom

This is just weird enough to be perfect.

10. "Sweet Lady Genevieve," The Kinks

I think the Kinks are the most underrated band of all time.

11. "Duluth," Mason Jennings

Jennings voice is the real weapon in all of his songs, and I think it's what separates him from the generic crap that he is sometimes compared to (i.e. Jack Johnson). I bet you that Jack Johnson would be a great guy to hang out with, but his music is insufferably boring. John Mayer is a guy that should be ran over repeatedly. Some blues noodling while making yourself look like a circus freak achieving an orgasm does not redeem the endless piles of crap that guy churns out.

But I digress...

12. "Smelling Cigarettes," Fiery Furnances

13. "Just Like a Woman," Charlotte Gainsbourg & Calexico

Gainsbourg's performance in I'm Not There was simply outstanding. So is this rendition of an all time Dylan classic.

14. "Books Written for Girls," Camera Obscura



15. "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" The Velvet Underground

16. "Some Velvet Morning," Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra



17. "Hope There's Someone," Antony and the Johnsons

18. "Ballerina," Van Morrison

100 Great Pop albums as compiled at Music Advice Centre. Pop means different things to different people, and has meant different things in recent musical history. Pop origially referred to simply "popular" music. Which is why we have the likes of The Beatles and Fleetwod Mac here. Now, "popular" music has become indie and hip-hop, and pop has evolved into a sound, with artists such as Girls Aloud (who have 3 albums on the list) leading the way in the 21st Century.

Leave a comment with your thoughts!

List compiled at

Aaliyah - One In A Million
ABBA - Arrival
Alice in Videoland - Outrageous
Alphabeat - This Is Alphabeat
Annie - Anniemal
Annie Lennox - Diva
Aqua - Aquarius
Bananarama - WOW!
The Bangles - Different Light
The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
The Beatles - Revolver
Bertine Zetlitz - Rollerskating
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Britney Spears - Blackout
Britney Spears - In The Zone
Buddy Holly - Buddy Holly
Capsule - L.D.K. Lounge Designers Killer
The Carpenters - Close To You
Carole King - Tapestry
Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat
Chris Isaak - Forever Blue
Christina Aguilera - Christina Aguilera
Cyndi Lauper - Bring Ya To The Brink
Cyndi Lauper - She's so Unusual
Dannii Minogue - Neon Nights
Dido - No Angel
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Duran Duran - Rio
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Eurythmics - Touch
Faye Wong - Chang You / Scenic Tour
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Fleetwood Mac - Tango In The Night
France Gall - Baby Pop
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Girls Aloud - Chemistry
Girls Aloud - Tangled Up
Girls Aloud - What Will The Neighbours Say?
Goldfrapp - Supernature
Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape
Hanson - Middle of Nowhere
Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement
Holly Valance - State Of Mind
The Human League - Hysteria
Jacques Dutronc - Les Playboys
Janet Jackson - Control
Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
Kelly Osbourne - Sleeping In The Nothing
Kylie Minogue - Fever
Kylie Minogue - X
Lio - Lio
Lobo - Of a Simple Man
M People - Elegant Slumming
Macy Gray - On How Life Is
Madonna - Like a Prayer
Madonna - Ray Of Light
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Michelle Branch - Hotel Paper
Mika - Life in Cartoon Motion
Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop
Mylène Farmer - L'autre...
Nancy Sinatra - How Does That Grab You?
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Nancy & Lee
Neil Diamond - Hot August Night
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Paul Simon - Graceland
Perfume - Complete Best
Pet Shop Boys - Very
Peter Gabriel - So
Pizzicato Five - Bossa Nova 2001
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
Prince - Sign o' the Times
Rachel Stevens - Come And Get It
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Richard X - Presents his X-Factor
Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad
Robbie Williams - Life Thru A Lens
Robyn - Robyn
Róisín Murphy - Overpowered
Roxette - Look Sharp!
Sade - Lovers Rock
Sam Sparro - Sam Sparro
Sara Berg - When I Was A Young Child I Used To Feel Pleasure From Playing With Others
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
Shania Twain - Come On Over
Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra
Siobhan Donaghy - Ghosts
Slow Children - Slow Children
Spice Girls - Spice
Squeeze - Argybargy
Sugababes - Angels With Dirty Faces
Sugababes - Three
Take That - Patience
Texas - The Hush
UnkleJam - UnkleJam
Utada Hikaru - Heart Station
Whitney Houston - Whitney
The Wonder Stuff - Never Loved Elvis

Thanks to all at The Pop Music Desk at Music Advice Centre.

Listen at http://radiozilla.muxtape.com

Chen Guanyuu and the Hohak Band (陳冠宇與好客樂隊): The Gambler's God (炸神明)
Future Bible Heroes: Hopeless (remix)
Drowsy: Bright Dawn
Betelnut Brothers (檳榔兄弟): Cikur An (蕃薯寮)
Bao Meisheng (蕃薯寮): Ｗoodcutter's Song (樵歌)
Hearts of Soul: Waterman
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood: Sand
Yao Li (姚莉): Blue Mood (藍色的悠思)
Yma Sumac: Huayno
The Battle of Land and Sea: The Beautiful Ones
T.C. Yang (楊祖珺): Orphan of Asia (亞細亞的孤兒)
Iron & Wine With Calexico: He Lays in the Reins

i can't remember what order everything went in or all of what was played:

The Coup - ShoYoAss - Pick a Bigger Weapon
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood - Friday's Child
Sun Ra - Lanquidity - Lanquidity
Clara Rockmore - Song of Grusia - The Moogs Present...
ゆらゆら帝国 - 3x3x3 - 3x3x3
Sun City Girls - Space Prophet Dogon - Torch of the Mystics
Magma - Da Zeuhl Wortz Mekanik - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
Neu! - Weissensee - Neu!
Moondog - Oo Debut - The Viking of Sixth Avenue
Kemialliset Ystavat - Superhimmeli - Kemialliset Ystavat
Cluster - Caramel - Zuckerzeit
Panda Bear - Good Girl / Carrots - Person Pitch
Cul de Sac - K - Crashes To Light Minutes To It's Fall
John Fahey - Poor Boy - The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
Soft Machine - Hope for Happiness - The Soft Machine
Korekyojinn - Four Holes In The Sky - Korekyojinn
Bardo Pond - Two Planes - Dilate
Burning Star Core - I Wanna Make a Supersonic Woman of You - Amelia

This was written last Wednesday and left that way until now. Because of the tardy charts, I was forced to wait for the weekly charts album quilt, which never actually came. Oh well. Here we go...

37,000th song: Amy Winehouse - Rehab... Somehow appropriate. :P

Previsions for next week: Nancy Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Evanescence, The Dresden Dolls...

[1]. (82) Alanis Morissette: Love her. Anyway...

[2]. (73) Nancy Sinatra: I'm on the road to rediscovery... of an artist, that is.

[3]. (67) Weezer: I really like some of their songs, most notably Buddy Holly. :)

[4]. (49) Amy Winehouse: She's #11 in the overall Track Top on Last.fm because Nine Inch Nails have released new material. Figures. But still! Amy's got my vote every single week.

[5]. (42) Fall Out Boy: Dost my eyes deceiveth me? Is my faux-Medieval English that bad? Oh, yeah, and FOB's back in the charts. Blah blah blah whine whine...

[6]. (34) Morrissey: I need to maybe listen to more than just one song from him, although it is a mighty fine song.

[7]. (27) Kylie Minogue: I'M GONNA SEE HER IN MAY OMG!!!

[8]. (27) Nightwish: So... Need to find my old CDs.

[9]. (25) Kubb: Uh, there was this song I kinda sorta liked, so yeah.

[10]. (21) The Sounds: Still a favourite, though I might have to kill my roomie if she makes one more nasty, uncalled-for, remark about them.

My brain still has to adjust with the notion that there's a new Nine Inch Nails album out there and I have only just found out about it.

Anyway...