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oximoronx's top albums (6 months) 1. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (96) 2. Wire - Pink Flag (84) 3. Lotus Plaza - The Floodlight Collective (83) 4. Swell Maps - A Trip To Marineville (80) 5. Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology (76) 6. Pixies - Trompe le Monde (76) 7. The Stooges - The Stooges (69) 8. The Monochrome Set - The Strange Boutique (69) 9. Theoretical Girls - Theoretical Girls (68) 10. Orange Juice - The Glasgow School (67) 11. Wire - Chairs Missing (66) 12. George Harrison - Wonderwall Music (65) 13. Arcade Fire - Funeral (64) 14. Deerhunter - Weird Era Cont. (63) 15. Faust - The Faust Tapes (63) 16. Lucky Dragons - Dream Island Laughing Language (62) 17. The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace (60) 18. The Chameleons - Dali's Picture (60) 19. Joy Division - Substance (60) 20. fIREHOSE - Flyin' the Flannel (59) 21. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (59) 22. Pixies - Surfer Rosa (59) 23. The Clash - London Calling (59) 24. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (57) 25. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium (57) 26. Josef K - Entomology (57) 27. Ciccone Youth - The Whitey Album (54) 28. Cocteau Twins - BBC Sessions (53) 29. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (51) 30. Wire - 154 (49) 31. The Fall - Grotesque (After The Gramme) (49) 32. HEALTH - HEALTH (48) 33. Lydia Lunch - Queen of Siam (48) 34. Disco Inferno - In Debt (48) 35. Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop (47) 36. The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow (47) 37. Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade (47) 38. Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange (46) 39. Brian Eno - Music For Films (46) 40. High Places - High Places (46) 41. Pixies - Doolittle (46) 42. Cocteau Twins - Lullabies To Violaine (45) 43. Yo La Tengo - Electr-o-pura (45) 44. David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (45) 45. Liars - Liars (44) 46. Bauhaus - In the Flat Field (44) 47. David Bowie - Low (44) 48. Television - Marquee Moon (44) 49. Cluster - Zuckerzeit (44) 50. Sebadoh - Bakesale (43)

these are in a rough order

52. Stored Up Wonder (Supernatural Force) - Sebadoh
51. I Talk To The Wind - King Crimson
50. Rock 'N' Roll Star - Oasis
49. 6060-842 - The B-52's
48. Split Myself In Two - Meat Puppets
47. Breather - Chapterhouse
46. In The Flowers - Animal Collective
45. Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
44. See Emily Play - Pink Floyd
43. 25 O'Clock - The Dukes of Stratosphear
42. Bennett Cerf - Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
41. Up Front - Wipers
40. Lowdown - Wire
39. Birdhouse In Your Soul - They Might Be Giants
38. Hanging Around - Stranglers
37. Brave Captain - fIREHOSE
36. Soul Kitchen - The Doors
35. The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen
34. Superfly - Curtis Mayfield
33. Jack's Shadow - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
32. Your Protector - Fleet Foxes
31. Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
30. The Wicker Man - Iron Maiden
29. That's When I Reach For My Revolver - Mission of Burma
28. Hateful - The Clash
27. Inside Me - The Jesus and Mary Chain
26. She's So High - Blur
25. Step On - Happy Mondays
24. Going Away To College - blink-182
23. IfWhiteAmericaToldTheTruthForOneDayIt'sWorldWouldFallApart - Manic Street Preachers
22. Dig For Fire - Pixies
21. Soul Love - David Bowie
20. Slip Inside This House - Primal Scream
19. Beginning - The Durutti Column
18. Aneurysm - Nirvana
17. It Girl - Brian Jonestown Massacre
16. Young Hearts Spark Fire - Japandroids
15. What Do I Get? - Buzzcocks
14. Off Duty Trip - The Raincoats
13. She Bathed Herself In A Bath of Bleach - Manic Street Preachers
12. Is She Weird - Pixies
11. 50ft Queenie - PJ Harvey
10. At Home He's A Tourist - Gang of Four
09. Spend, Spend, Spend - The Slits
08. Cold Hands - Black Lips
07. Elevation - Television
06. Geek U.S.A. - Smashing Pumpkins
05. Sugar Kane - Sonic Youth
04. Metal Mickey - Suede
03. Die In The Summertime - Manic Street Preachers
02. Words Fail Me - The Sound
01. Aladdin Sane - DAVID BOWIE


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MIXTAPE FOR MARCH 2009 - THE YEARS MIX



artwork by LiskinReloaded


Eccentric And Influential .... And Some Music That You Can Dance To


1. Neu! - Isi 1975
2. Sparks - Music That You Can Dance To 1986
3. Grace Jones - Art Groupie 1981
4. Richard Davis - Common Sense 2005
5. Telefon Tel Aviv - Helen Of Troy 2009
6. The Magnetic Fields - The Man Amplifier (Young Marble Giants) 1995
7. The Legendary Pink Dots - When Lenny Meets Lorca 2000
8. Luke Haines - Going Off My Rocker At The Art School Bop 2006
9. Jah Wobble - Il Jevedro Il Oblacno 1998
10. The Residents - Loss: Neediness 2002
11. Mercy Arms - Kept Low (Cut Copy Remix) 2007
12. Klaus Nomi - Lightning Strikes 1985
13. The KLF - Last Train To Trancetral 1992
14. Van She - Kelly 2008


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MIXTAPE FOR APRIL 2009 - THE PICTURE MIX



photograph by euristis
http://euristis.deviantart.com/


Songs for a Plumed Rebel

1. Suicide - Dream Baby Dream (Single Edit)
2. From Monument to Masses - Old Robes (Antimc Remix)
3. Blondie - Atomic
4. Disco Inferno - New Clothes For The New World
5. Gene - Olympian
6. The Smiths - Sheila Take A Bow
7. Momus - Girlish Boy
8. Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Dancerama
9. Arthur Russell - All-Boy All-Girl
10. David Bowie - Rebel, Rebel (2003 Mix)
11. Antony & The Johnsons - Blue Angel
12. The Durutti Column - Spasmic Fairy
13. Patti Smith - Because The Night


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MIXTAPE FOR MAY 2009 - THE SHOPPING LIST MIX




artwork by palm_art



The Shopping List


1. Buffy Sainte-Marie - Poppies
2. My Life Story - Claret
3. Morrissey - Glamorous Glue
4. Black Box Recorder - Factory Radio
5. The Birthday Party - Kewpie Doll
6. Pulp - Lipgloss
7. Geneva - Fall Apart Button
8. Magnapop - Piece Of Cake
9. The Autumns - Apple
10. Cabaret Voltaire - Black Mask
11. The Chameleons - Paper Tigers
12. Lloyd Cole - Famous Blue Raincoat (Leonard Cohen)
13. The Dandy Warhols - The Coffee Tea and Wrecks
14. The Replacements - Little Mascara
15. The Sisters of Mercy - Ribbons


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MIXTAPE FOR JUNE 2009 - DANCING NAKED



art Dancing Water by Nevery


Dancing Naked

1. Grafton Primary - All There Is
2. Rational Youth - Cité Phosphore
3. Fiat Lux - Blue Emotion (Extended Version)
4. PNAU with Ladyhawke - Embrace
5. Silver Jews - Punks In The Beerlight
6. Kylie Minogue - Can't Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head (Bootleg With New Order)
7. Silicon Teens - Yesterday Man
8. Chris & Cosey - October (Love Song) (Five Mix)
9. Sin Fang Bous - We Belong
10. Papas Fritas - Another Day
11. Erasure - Take Me On A Highway
12. Marsheaux - Regret (New Order)
13. Elegant Machinery - Move


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MIXTAPE FOR JULY 2009 - QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS






A TELEPHONE CONVERSATION GONE AWRY......

1. Frank Zappa- Telephone Conversation
2. Epic Soundtracks- Can You Keep A Secret?
3. The Smiths- Well I Wonder
4. Momus- Is It Because I'm A Pirate?
5. Mick Harvey- I Don't Want You On My Mind
6. Genesis P-Orridge with "Splinter Test"- Does "MIND" Leave?
7. John Cale- I Keep A Close Watch
8. Pet Shop Boys-How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously?
9. XTC- Don't Lose Your Temper
10. Tindersticks- Can We Start Again?
11. The Fall- Oh! Brother



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MIXTAPE FOR AUGUST 2009 - SPACE MIX




Space Walk

1. Brian Eno- Sky Saw
2. Pink Floyd- Astronomy Domine
3. Momus-Spacewalk (Deja Vu Remix)
4. Television-Venus
5. Crime & the City Solution- The Sun Before the Darkness
6. Biosphere- Chromosphere
7. The Cure- Jupiter Crash
8. The Ocean Blue- Mercury
9. Suede- My Dark Star
10. The Patti Smith Group- Space Monkey
11.Bel Canto- Picnic on the Moon
12. Xiu Xiu- Saturn
13. The Wedding Present- Mars Sparkles Down On Me
14. Disco Inferno- Starbound: All Burnt Out And Nowhere To Go


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My top 10 albums of each decade since the 1960s.

1960s

1. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
2. Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates of Dawn
3. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
4. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
5. 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
6. The Stooges - The Stooges
7. James Brown - Live at the Apollo
8. Love - Forever Changes
9. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
10. The United States of America - The United States of America

1970s

1. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
2. David Bowie - Low
3. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
4. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
5. The Clash - London Calling
6. Television - Marquee Moon
7. Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
8. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
9. Pink Floyd - Animals
10. Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express

1980s

1. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
2. Joy Division - Closer
3. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
4. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
5. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
6. Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
7. Paul Simon - Graceland
8. Operation Ivy - Energy
9. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
10. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

1990s

1. Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
2. Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
3. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
4. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
5. Green Day - Dookie
6. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
7. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
8. Radiohead - OK Computer
9. At the Drive-In - Acrobatic Tenement
10. Reatards - Teenage Hate

2000s

1. M.I.A. - Kala
2. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
3. Radiohead - Kid A
4. Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
5. Portishead - Third
6. OutKast - Stankonia
7. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
8. Andrew Jackson Jihad - People Who Can Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World
9. Arcade Fire - Funeral
10. The Ergs! - Dorkrockcorkrod

crazycaz123's top albums (3 months)
1. Slowdive - Souvlaki (141) 2. Nirvana - Incesticide (115) 3. Fever Ray - Fever Ray (93) 4. Hole - Live Through This (93) 5. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (92) 6. X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents (75) 7. Joy Division - Closer (71) 8. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (70) 9. Blonde Redhead - Fake Can Be Just as Good (60) 10. The Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits - Rotten Apples (57) 11. Television - Marquee Moon (54) 12. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (54) 13. The Stooges - Raw Power (52) 14. Vaselines - The Way Of The Vaselines: A Complete History (49) 15. Nirvana - In Utero (48) 16. L7 - The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum (48) 17. Pixies - Doolittle (45) 18. Pixies - Death To The Pixies (Disc 1) (43) 19. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (42) 20. Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual (42) 21. The Smashing Pumpkins - Gish (41) 22. Gang of Four - Entertainment! + Yellow EP (37) 23. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (37) 24. B.B. King - His Definitive Greatest Hits Disc 1 (36) 25. L7 - Bricks Are Heavy (34) 26. Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77 (34) 27. The Knife - Silent Shout (34) 28. Kitty Daisy & Lewis - Kitty, Daisy and Lewis (32) 29. The Jam - Snap! (Disc 2) (32) 30. The Cure - Greatest Hits (CD1) (32) 31. The Clash - The Essential (32) 32. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (31) 33. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (31) 34. Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures (28) 35. PENS - Hey Friend! What You Doing (28) 36. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kaleidoscope (27) 37. The Smiths - The Sound Of The Smiths (27) 38. Huggy Bear - Weaponry Listens to Love (27) 39. The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore (27) 40. Broadcast - Tender Buttons (26) 41. Leonard Cohen - The Essential Leonard Cohen Disc 2 (26) 42. Gang of Four - Entertainment! (25) 43. Telepathe - Dance Mother (24) 44. Hole - Celebrity Skin (24) 45. The Jesus and Mary Chain - The Sound Of Speed (24) 46. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything (23) 47. Sonic Youth - Washing Machine (22) 48. The Doors - The Very Best of The Doors (22) 49. L7 - Smell the Magic (21) 50. Jefferson Airplane - Platinum & Gold Collection (20)

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October 28, 2009

1. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
2. Silver Starling - This Is Not A Dream
3. Electric Tickle Machine - Something Else
4. Von Sudenfed - The Rhinohead
5. Soulwax - NY Excuse
6. The Horrors - Whole New Way
7. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Born On A Day The Sun Didn't Rise
8. U.S.E. - We The People
9. XTC - Making Plans For Nigel
10. Metric - Hustle Rose
11. The Temper Trap - Science Of Fear
12. Bear In Heaven - Lovesick Teenager
13. Free Energy - Free Energy
14. Paper Zoo - Laughing Legba
15. The Receiver - Castles In The Air
16. The Clash - Rudie Can't Fail
17. No Friends - Material Addiction
18. The Flaming Lips - Convinced Of The Hex
19. Alberta Cross - Leave Us And Forgive Us
20. Television - Venus
21. The Authors - In The City
22. Manic Street Preachers - She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach
23. Sonic Youth - Silver Rocket
24. Russian Circles - Malko
25. A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
26. Sufjan Stevens - Jacksonville
27. Pissed Jeans - False Jesii, Pt. 2
28. Fanfarlo - Luna
29. The New Pornographers - Letter From An Occupant
30. The Rifles - The Great Escape
31. Vivian Girls - I'm Not Asleep
32. New York City Smoke - Not Me
33. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Summer Of '91
34. Atlas Sound - Walkabout
35. Turbo Fruits - Trouble!
36. Bloc Party - Little Thoughts
37. Morrissey - That's How People Grow Up
38. Stereolab - French Disko
39. LCD Soundsystem - New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down

this is volume 3 of my top 100 albums list -- not a best of all time, just a personal selection -- compiled in october of 2009.

you can also check out a pdf of the list with album art and one song from each of the albums, while they last, on my blog.

1. Silver Jews- The Natural Bridge
2. Pixies- Doolittle
3. Pavement- Wowee Zowee
4. The Flaming Lips- The Soft Bulletin
5. Captain Beefheart- Trout Mask Replica
6. Fiona Apple- When the Pawn
7. The Beatles- Abbey Road
8. Brian Eno- Here Come the Warm Jets
9. Destroyer- Destroyer’s Rubies
10. Smog- Knock Knock
11. Joanna Newsom- The Milk-Eyed Mender
12. Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci- The Blue Trees
13. The Halo Benders- God Don’t Make No Junk
14. David Bowie- The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
15. Built to Spill- There’s Nothing Wrong with Love
16. Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited
17. Sparklehorse- It’s A Wonderful Life
18. Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
19. Ugly Casanova- Sharpen Your Teeth
20. Guided by Voices – Bee Thousand
21. Frank Black- Teenager of the Year
22. Neil Young- After the Gold Rush
23. Led Zeppelin- IV
24. Holopaw- Holopaw
25. Modest Mouse- Lonesome Crowded West
26. Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes
27. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
28. Radiohead- Amnesiac
29. Nick Drake- Pink Moon
30. Beck- Sea Change
31. The National- Alligator
32. Sufjan Stevens- Seven Swans
33. Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation
34. Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
35. Blonde Redhead- Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
36. At the Drive-In- Vaya
37. Talking Heads- Stop Making Sense [Special Edition]
38. Soltero- Defrocked And Kicking The Habit
39. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks- Pig Lib
40. Television - Marquee Moon
41. Ted Leo and The Pharmacists- Hearts of Oak
42. Mercury Rev- All Is Dream
43. Badly Drawn Boy- The Hour of Bewilderbeast
44. Blur- Blur
45. Arcade Fire- Funeral
46. Mothers of Invention- We’re Only in it for the Money
47. Wilco- A Ghost Is Born
48. The Kinks- The Village Green Preservation Society
49. East River Pipe - The Gasoline Age
50. The Olivia Tremor Control- Black Foliage- Animation Music Vol. 1
51. Lou Reed - Transformer
52. The Mountain Goats- We Shall All Be Healed
53. Black Heart Procession - Amore Del Tropico
54. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
55. Syd Barrett – The Madcap Laughs
56. Air- Moon Safari
57. Robyn Hitchcock – I Often Dream of Trains
58. Frank Zappa- Hot Rats
59. Cat Power- Moon Pix
60. Belle and Sebastian- Dear Catastrophe Waitress
61. Nine Inch Nails- The Downward Spiral
62. Bat for Lashes – Fur And Gold
63. Frog Eyes – Golden River
64. Black Sabbath- Paranoid
65. The Presidents of the United States of America- The Presidents of the United States of America
66. Spoon- Girls Can Tell
67. Soul Coughing- Ruby Vroom
68. El Guapo- Super/System
69. Dinosaur Jr. - BUG
70. Sunset Rubdown- Shut Up I Am Dreaming
71. Hayden – Elk Lake Serenade
72. Sam Prekop – Who’s Your New Professor
73. The Cure- Disintegration
74. Wolf Parade- Apologies to the Queen Mary
75. Slint- Spiderland
76. Archer Prewitt – Wilderness
77. The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers
78. Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
79. Gary Higgins – Red Hash
80. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney- Superwolf
81. Pedro the Lion- Control
82. Jens Lekman – Oh You’re So Silent Jens
83. The Rolling Stones- Sticky Fingers
84. The Grateful Dead- American Beauty
85. Meat Puppets – II
86. Jens Carelius – The First Songs
87. Jimi Hendrix- Electric Ladyland
88. The Eels- Souljacker
89. Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
90. Nirvana- In Utero
91. of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
92. Nada Surf- Let Go
93. The Doors – The Doors
94. Kurt Vile – Constant Hitmaker
95. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
96. Dr. Octagon – Dr. Octagonecologyst
97. Fredrik – Na Na Ni
98. The Decemberists – The Tain
99. Primus- The Brown Album
100. Andre Ethier – On Blue Fog