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100. The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage (2009)
99. Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends (2007)
98. Bat for Lashes - Fur and Gold (2006)
97. Beck - Modern Guilt (2008)
96. Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice (2007)
95. Melvins - (A) Senile Animal (2006)
94. Radiohead - Amnesiac (2001)
93. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell (2003)
92. Young Widows - Old Wounds (2008)
91. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing (2008)

90. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (2008)
89. Enon - High Society (2002)
88. The Avalanches - Since I Left You (2000)
87. High Places - High Places (2008)
86. The Mae Shi - HLLLYH (2008)
85. The Tough Alliance - The New School (2005)
84. The Long Blondes - Couples (2008)
83. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs (2004)
82. The Thermals - Now We Can See (2009)
81. Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals (2007)

80. Boris - Pink (2005)
79. CocoRosie - The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn (2007)
78. The Magnetic Fields - i (2004)
77. The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic (2000)
76. Band of Horses - Cease to Begin (2007)
75. Off Minor - Some Blood (2008)
74. Sigur Rós - Takk... (2005)
73. HEALTH - Get Color (2009)
72. Cut Copy - In Ghoust Colours (2007)
71. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat (2004)

70. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forevor Ago (2008)
69. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You (2001)
68. Beach House - Devotion (2008)
67. Primal Scream - XTMNTR (2000)
66. The National - Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers (2003)
65. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House (2006)
64. Animal Collective - Feels (2005)
63. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (2006)
62. 31knots - The Days and Night of Everything Anywhere (2007)
61. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise (2005)

60. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
59. Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow (2003)
58. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America (2006)
57. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity (2007)
56. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine (2004)
55. TV on the Radio - Dear Science (2008)
54. The Mars Volta - Bedlam in Goliath (2008)
53. Converge - No Heroes (2006)
52. Magik Markers - Boss (2007)
51. Dirty Projectors - Bitter Orca (2009)

50. Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position (2007)
49. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)
48. The Angels of Light - We are Him (2007)
47. Panda Bear - Person Pitch (2007)
46. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park (2008)
45. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight (2002)
44. Liars - Drum's not Dead (2006)
43. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna (2008)
42. Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (2008)
41. Fennesz - Endless Summer (2001)

40. No Age - Nouns (2008)
39. dälek - Absence (2005)
38. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)
37. Black Lips - Good Bad not Evil (2007)
36. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (2008)
35. WHY? - Alopecia (2008)
34. The Strokes - Is This It (2001)
33. Holy Fuck - LP (2007)
32. Sonic Youth - Murray Street (2002)
31. M83 - Saturdays = Youth (2008)

30. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light (2009)
29. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife (2006)
28. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells (2001)
27. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (2007)
26. Brian Wilson - SMiLE (2004)
25. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (2002)
24. of Montreal - Hissing fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (2007)
23. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (2009)
22. Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane (2008)
21. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)

20. Fugazi - The Argument (2001)
19. The National - Alligator (2005)
18. Mount Eerie, Julie Doiron, Fred Squire - Lost Wisdom (2008)
17.Xiu Xiu- Fabulous Muscles (2004)
16. David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything that Happens will Happen Today (2008)
15. Woven Hand - Ten Stones (2008)
14. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003)
13. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (2002)
12. Atlas Sound - Logos (2009)
11. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans (2004)

10. Deerhunter - Microcastle (2008)
9. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command (2000)
8. The Knife - Silen Shout (2006)
7. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)
6. Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
5. Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (2008)
4.Arcade Fire- Funeral (2004)
3. Shellac - 1000 Hurts (2000)
2. The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2 (2001)
1. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (2007)

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.

First, make a list of your top-20 artists overall. Then, for each of these artists, add the 8 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, count up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 8 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 160 represents an extremely varied one.

J.U.F.
Kultur Shock
Balkan Beat Box
DeVotchKa x2
Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra/artist]
Fanfare Ciocărlia
Jason Wbley x2
The World/Inferno Friendship Society
Los Tres
[artist]De Saloon/artist]
Teleradio Donoso
Primavera de Paraga
Los Prisioneros x2
Lucybell x2
Difuntos Correa
Fother Muckers
Soda Stereo
Cerati / Melero
Babasónicos
Charly García
Fito Páez
Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas
Luis Alberto Spinetta
Pescado Rabioso
Los Marty
Le Baron
Pastilla x2
Los Concorde x3
Eufemia
La Gusana Ciega x6
Los Dynamite x2
Thermo
A Hawk and a Hacksaw x2
Beirut
Gogol Bordello
Firewater
Andrew Bird x2
Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire
The Decemberists
Pink Floyd
Kaleidoscope
Jefferson Airplane
Rick Wright
13th Floor Elevators
David Gilmour
Roger Waters
The Velvet Underground
Porter x2
Fobia x3
Kinky
Bengala x2
Jumbo x4
Chetes
John Lennon x2
Julian Lennon
thenewno2
Paul McCartney x2
George Harrison x2
Albert Hammond Jr.
Rufus Wainwright
Ben Kweller
Sufjan Stevens
Grizzly Bear
Bon Iver
Fleet Foxes
The Dodos
Devendra Banhart
Kaiser Chiefs
Dirty Pretty Things
The Pigeon Detectives
Franz Ferdinand
Arctic Monkeys
The Wombats
The Kooks
The Zutons
Caifanes x2
Maldita Vecindad
Liquits x2
Zoé x4
Plastilina Mosh x2
Ringo Starr
Paul McCartney & Wings
Wings
The Who
Paul & Linda McCartney
William Shatner
William Shatner & Leonard Nimoy
DarkMateria
Warp 11
Brent Spiner
Alexander Courage
Dennis McCarthy
Jonathan Coulton
Gustavo Cerati
Emmanuel Horvilleur
Café Tacuba
Los Auténticos Decadentes
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
Dave Gahan
Martin L. Gore
Recoil
Camouflage
De/Vision
And One
Erasure
Mesh
Tin Machine
Roxy Music
Lou Reed
T. Rex
Iggy Pop
Mott the Hoople
Bryan Ferry
The Rolling Stones
La Lupita
Los Bunkers
Pettinellis
Chancho en Piedra
Los Jaivas
Angel Parra Trio
Sinergia
Camera Obscura
God Help The Girl
The Magnetic Fields
Jens Lekman
of Montreal
Architecture in Helsinki
The Boy Least Likely To
The Gentle Waves
Zurdok
Vaquero
Niña

132/160
Mmm... supongo que no está tan mal :/

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven



The Magnetic Fields - i



Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards



Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not



Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights



Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out



Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus



The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow



Blonde Redhead - Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons



Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand



The Coral - The Coral



Tindersticks - Waiting For The Moon



of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?




Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum



The Knife - Silent Shout



The Durutti Column - Rebellion



Rowland S Howard Teenage Snuff Film



The New Year - Newness Ends



The Cure - Bloodflowers



Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future



Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part



Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga



Wild Beasts - Two Dancers



Antony & The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now



LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver



Zita Swoon - Life = A Sexy Sanctuary



Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született



Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People



of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins



The Trashcan Sinatras - Weightlifting


Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Love



Interpol - Antics


Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy



Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha



Xiu Xiu - Knife Play



Spiritualized - Amazing Grace



The Faint - Danse Macabre



The Strokes - Is This It?



A Whisper in the Noise - As The Bluebird Sings



The Horrors - Primary Colours



Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea



Mojave 3 - Spoon And Rafter



Crystal Stilts - Alight Of Night



Rufus Wainwright - Poses



The Sound of Animals Fighting - Tiger And The Duke



Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs

The best new track tonight was a newie by Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears, 'Imitation Of The Sky.' Taken from one of the maddest albums I've heard in a long time, I'd suggest you check this out if you've ever liked Of Montreal, The New Pornographers or any late psych/early prog. Sooo catchy!



The best oldie was an old indiepop classic, 'Velocity Girl' by Primal Scream. Come on, it's tiny and perfect. A flawless gem!

This is what you heard:

King Cannibal - Flower Of Flesh And Blood
The Insecurities - Run Run Baby
Kam Moye - Stars (Feat. John Robinson)
The Mary Onettes - Symmetry
Fruit Bats - The Ruminant Band
Matmos - Lipostudio .... and so on
Rehasher - Turn Around
Masta Ace & Edo G - Reminds Me (Prod. By DJ Supreme One)
C-Mon & Kypski - China
GusGus - Hateful
William Cooper - Bring It Back Feat. 9th Prince & Nature
Surrogate - A Constitution
Luke Envoy - M.U.G.E.N
Raised Fist - They Can't Keep Us Down
Sivert Hoyem - What You Doiní With Him
Apathy - Shoot First
The Bloody Beetroots - Awesome
Moss - The comfort
Pelican - An Inch Above Sand
Cambatta - Black Boy Lost
Say Hi to Your Mom - Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh
Clark - New Year Storm
Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)
Oc & Ag - Think About It
Middle Distance Runner - The Fury
Loser Life - Idiot
2562 - like a dream
The Paper Merchants - The Kids At The Club
Felt - I Will Die With My Head In Flames
Converge - Cutter
Vitalic - Flashmob
Souls of Mischief - You Got It
Tes La Rok - Darkness Falls Upon Us
Maybeshewill - How to Have Sex With a Ghost
The Dorktones - Three's A Crowd
Wale - Mirrors Ft. Bun B
Fugazi - Full Disclosure
Neil Landstrumm - Dead Neighbours (Neil Landstrumm Vs Ebola)
Coehn&Foehrb - Ende vom Anfang
Your Twenties - Caught Wheel
ghosts on tape - Straight From Cassette
Ghettosocks - Role Models
[ingenting] - Tack.
Paul White - Wait For Me
unquiet - wir sind angepisst
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - 1999
Noah D & No Thing - unknown suspect
Swollen Members - Red Dragon
Comanechi - Naked
Music Go Music - Thousand Crazy Nights
Primal Scream - Velocity Girl
McCarthy - Write To Your Mp Today
Vitalic - Terminateur Benelux
Shyheim - The Bottom
Distance - Twilight
We Came As Romans - Intentions
Arise Horror - The Descent
Bryan Scary & the Shredding Tears - Imitation of the Sky
Scorcher - London Boy (Prod. By Danny Weed)
The Radio Dept. - The Worst Taste in Music
Altered Images - Happy Birthday
The Answering Machine - Obviously Cold
The Magnetic Fields - Famous
xx - Islands
Rufus Wainwright - Cigarettes & Chocolate Milk

awkardsolution's top albums (overall) 1. The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2 (182) 2. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs, Vol. 1 (180) 3. The Replacements - Tim (166) 4. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (141) 5. Husker Du - Zen Arcade (120) 6. Hop Along, Queen Ansleis - Freshman Year (109) 7. Kylesa - Static Tensions (107) 8. Laura Stevenson and The Cans - Laura Stevenson: A Record (101) 9. Husker Du - everything falls apart... (91) 10. Alkaline Trio - From Here To Infirmary (89) 11. Elliott Smith - Either Or (85) 12. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree (83) 13. Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon (82) 14. Alkaline Trio - Alkaline Trio (79) 15. Brand New - Deja Entendu (77) 16. Lifetime - Jersey's Best Dancers (76) 17. The Good Life - Album of the Year (73) 18. Lemuria - The First Collection (73) 19. The Used - The Used (72) 20. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst (70) 21. Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors (69) 22. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (68) 23. Brand New - Daisy (67) 24. The Microphones - It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water (67) 25. Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith (66)

First, the best of the decade, which was every bit as difficult to compile as I'd imagined, and leaves out a lot of great albums ..... For me, the albums that tracks 1 to 14 have been taken from, are all at #2. Track 15 however, is from what I consider to be the #1 album of the last decade. A friend persuaded me, some 9 years ago, to go see this band live .... and I did , even though at that point I was someone who only liked music that had words with it ..... and I was absolutely bowled over by them.





art by MrJack


Antennas To Heaven - The Best Of The Zero Years (2000-2009)



1. Arctic Monkeys - From The Ritz To The Rubble
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
2. Franz Ferdinand - Come On Home
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
3. The Shins - Turn a Square
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
4. The Magnetic Fields - I Die
The Magnetic Fields - i
5. Blonde Redhead - This Is Not
Blonde Redhead - Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons
6. Interpol - Leif Erikson
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
7. Yo La Tengo - Our Way To Fall
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
8. The Knife - Forest Families
The Knife - Silent Shout
9. The Coral - Goodbye
The Coral - The Coral
10. Tom Waits - Little Drop Of Poison
Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
11. of Montreal - A Sentence Of Sorts In Kongsvinger
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
12. Mark Lanegan Band - Morning Glory Wine
Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum
13. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Breathless
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
14. Tindersticks - Running Wild
Tindersticks - Waiting For The Moon
15. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Gathering Storm / "Welcome To Barco Am/Pm..." / Cancer Towers On Holy Road Hi-Way
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven


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The Best Music Of 2009


1. Broken Records - Thoughts On A Picture (In A Paper, January 2009)
Broken Records - Until The Earth Begins To Part
2. Victoire - Like A Miracle
Victoire - A Door Into The Dark EP
3. David Sylvian - 125 Spheres
David Sylvian - Manafon
4. Violens - Spectator & Pupil
Violens - Violens EP
5. All India Radio - Lucky
All India Radio - A Low High
6. Patrick Wolf - Theseus
Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor
7. Lost Valentinos -Dark That I Love
Lost Valentinos - Cities Of Gold
8. M. Ward - Rave On (Featuring Zooey Deschanel)
M. Ward - Hold Time
9. Charles Spearin - Ondine
Charles Spearin - The Happiness Project
10. Pet Shop Boys - Pandemonium
Pet Shop Boys - Yes
11. A Shoreline Dream - Hypermode (feat. Ulrich Schnauss)
A Shoreline Dream - Recollections of Memory
12. Wooden Shjips - For So Long
Wooden Shjips - Dos
13. Miike Snow - Sans Soleil
Miike Snow - Miike Snow
14. Wild Beasts -All The King's Men
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers



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The obligatory end of the year journal with my favorite albums and all that.

Favorite albums of 2009

1. Isis - Wavering Radiant (my favorite so far)
2. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
3. maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
4. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
5. OM - God Is Good
6. Drudkh - Microcosmos
7. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

Other albums I liked a lot

8. Emilie Simon - The Big Machine
9. dälek - Gutter Tactics
10. Kylesa - Static Tensions
11. 10-20 - 10-20
12. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
13. Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
14. Alamaailman Vasarat - Huuro Kolkko
15. Epica - The Classical Conspiracy / Design Your Universe
16. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
17. Cobalt - Gin
18. Silversun Pickups - Swoon
19. Marilyn Roxie - New Limerent Object
20. SND - Atavism
21. Katharsis - Fourth Reich
22. Mountains - Etching
23. The Bronzed Chorus - I'm the Spring
24. Orthodox - Sentencia
25. Metric - Fantasies
26. Supersilent - 9
27. Indukti - Idmen
28. 椎名林檎 - 三文ゴシップ
29. Thy Catafalque - Róka Hasa Rádió
30. Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
31. Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders
32. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns

and a few others, got tired of listing them.

Best musical discoveries this year

1. Negative Approach, my new favorite band.
2. Infest, my other new favorite band.
3. OM, a name that I've read many times and never paid attention to, now I regret I didn't listen to them before
4. Can
5. Cannibal Ox
6. Kamelot, decided to listen to them after many years of hearing how good they are, it's the only power metal band that I can listen to without being bored after five or six songs.
7. Леонид Фёдоров, another new favorite.
8. Belle and Sebastian
9. The Magnetic Fields
10. Einstürzende Neubauten
11. The Fall, another band I finally listened to, after a couple of years of many people recommending them to me.

Other releases that caught my attention..

Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings, I think this is slightly better than Systematic Chaos, which means it's still bad, but I wasn't expecting anything from them so it was bit of a surprise. Still, I wish they went back to do demos before going in the studio, maybe get an outside producer, and please don't let Portnoy sing anymore.

Nightwish - Made in Hong Kong... this has to get the award for the most pointless release this year, a live album with only new songs and an audio quality that sounds like a badly recorded bootleg, the band's performance isn't very impressive either. Don't see why anyone would buy this.

Slayer - World Painted Blood, a bit of a surprise I suppose, this album is not very special, but it should've been much worse than it is, not only is not completely bad, but it also has some good songs (Psycopathy Red, Unit 731). Sure it's more of the same, but it'd be foolish to expect otherwise from Slayer.

Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars. I have mixed feelings about this one, this was my first non-Industrial Blut aus Nord album, I like it and I think it's very well done, but I still prefer their weird industrial/dark/creepy sounds from The Work Which Transforms God or Odinist.

Inferi - The End of an Era. This is a good album from a genre that I don't like very much, that's why I don't include it among my favorites, however I have to recommend this one to any melodic death metal fan.

Sonata Arctica - The Days of Gray. Didn't like it, I understand that they'd want to change or evolve their sound, (they don't seem to be taking many risks but whatever) I respect that, but this new "Prog" sound is boring, I think the world doesn't need more Power/Prog metal bands. So unless they go back to the cheesy/repetitive/Stratovarius-like sound of the first albums (which I doubt) I won't be listening to any new releases from them.

Ken Snyder - By Request Only. I'm both happy and sad that this album leaked, it's nice to finally be able to listen to it, but now it's lost some of the legendary status it had. However, the album is quite good and Modern Religion is great song.

Delain - April Rain, this was fun to listen to for a while, the music's good and Charlotte's voice is very nice, don't know when or if I'll listen to this again, but it is a good album, and better than the first one in my opinion.

The Agonist - Lullabies for the Dormant Mind. This was a big improvement from their previous album, it is a bit generic and I wouldn't call it good, but if they keep improving like this I imagine that by their fourth or fifth release they could become a very good band.

Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You, silly, catchy pop music with nice hooks, don't know if I should like it, but I do.

Immortal - All Shall Fall. left me indifferent, it's not bad but I find it a bit lifeless, maybe it's my fault for expecting something else from them (as a rule I try to listen to an album without expectations of how should it sound), maybe it needs a couple more spins, but so far I don't like it much.

This year releases from Obscura, Hiroshima Will Burn, Trepalium, Black Sun Aeon, Hieronymus Bosch, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Ignominious Incarceration, Centaurus-A and Ulcerate, they all sounded the same to me, I'm not the biggest death metal fan, but it's starting to sound very boring, just an opinion, I don't consider those albums bad and I liked Centaurus-A and Ulcerate's releases, but I'm losing interest in the genre.

That's it for this year, I think.... there are a couple of albums I didn't get the chance to listen to, but overall I think it was a good year.