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1 The Microphones 1,383
2 Animal Collective 1,332
3 Radiohead 1,322
4 Neil Young 1,009
5 Thanksgiving 902
6 Mount Eerie 817
7 Do Make Say Think 812
8 Boards of Canada 742
9 Elliott Smith 722
10 The Books 698
11 The Beatles 669
12 Tom Waits 656
13 Cat Stevens 628
14 Built to Spill 623
15 Why? 553
16 Joanna Newsom 531
17 of Montreal 509
18 Aphex Twin 479
19 Pavement 448
20 Caribou 434
21 Adrian Orange & Her Band 410
22 Talk Talk 404
23 The American Analog Set 391
24 The Velvet Underground 387
25 Guided by Voices 385
26 Modest Mouse 377
27 Mississippi John Hurt 376
28 The Olivia Tremor Control 363
28 The Fun Years 363
30 Björk 362
30 Polmo Polpo 362
32 Songs: Ohia 357
33 Grizzly Bear 355
34 Miles Davis 353
35 Brian Eno 343
35 Nick Drake 343
37 Frank Zappa 333
38 Jeremy Enigk 331
39 Sunny Day Real Estate 325
40 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 323
40 Pixies 323
42 Leonard Cohen 322
42 Sonic Youth 322
44 Broken Social Scene 321
45 José González 321
46 Tortoise 319
47 Wilco 317
48 Grateful Dead 314
48 Silver Jews 314
50 The Tallest Man on Earth 310

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

Atículo en castellano e inglés


Article in spanish and english



Tras mucho investigar e indagar por varias páginas de la red que tratan sobre música, recompilé la información necesaria para encontrar los mejores grupos y solistas de la historia de la música.

Todo el mundo sabe que la mejor música siempre será la música clásica pero para los que no están aún preparados ante tal maestría y talento se puede acceder a música más "fácil" de escuchar como lo es el Rock o similar.

A pesar de no ser música tan grandiosa como Mozart, Beethoven, Bach o compañia, se puede encontrar verdaderas preciosidades dignas de ser escuchadas para el oído entrenado o la mente abierta.

Repito, he indagado mucho para encontrar, al fín, la lista de los verdaderamente mejores músicos de los ultimos tiempos. Son para degustar delicadamente por esas personas que de verdad sepan apreciarlos. Abtenerse los necios.



After much investigate on several pages of the net about music, I re-compiled the necessary information to find the best groups and soloists of the history of music.

The whole world knows that the best music always will be the classic music, but for those who are not prepared such mastery and talent, one can accede to "easier" music to listen like it is the Rock or similar.

In spite of not being a music so grand as Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or company, it is possible to find real preciousness worth being listened for the trained ear or the opened mind.

I repeat, I have investigated very much to find the list of really better musicians of last times. They are for these persons with delicately taste and who indeed can estimate them. Don't for fools.



La lista/the list:


- A Tribe Called Quest

- AC/DC

- Agalloch

- Al Green

- Albert Ayler

- Alice Cooper

- Andrew Hill

- Arcturus

- Aretha Franklin

- Art Blakey

- Arvo Pärt

- Big Star

- Bill Evans

- Bill Hicks

- Billie Holiday

- Björk

- Black Sabbath

- Blind Guardian

- Bob Dylan

- Bob Marley

- Boogie Down Productions

- Boredoms

- Brian Eno

- Bruce Springsteen

- Caetano Veloso

- Camel

- Can

- Candlemass

- Captain Beefheart

- Carcass

- Cecil Taylor

- Cocteau Twins

- Coil

- Creedence Clearwater Revival

- Current 93

- Curtis Mayfield

- Charles Mingus

- Danny Elfman

- David Bowie

- Dead Can Dance

- Death

- Deep Purple

- De La Soul

- Depeche Mode

- Devin Townsend

- Dream Theater

- Duke Ellington

- Elvis Costello

- Elvis Presley

- Ella Fitzgerald

- Elliott Smith

- Emperor

- Ennio Morricone

- Eric B. & Rakim

- Eric Dolphy

- Fairport Convention

- Faust

- Fleetwood Mac

- Frank Sinatra

- Frank Zappa

- Fugazi

- Funkadelic

- Gal Costa

- Gene Clark

- Genesis

- Gentle Giant

- Glenn Gould

- Godspeed You! Black Emperor

- Gong

- Grateful Dead

- Guided by Voices

- Herbie Hancock

- Howard Shore

- Howlin' Wolf

- Hüsker Dü

- Ice Cube

- Iron Maiden

- Isis

- Jackie McLean

- James Brown

- Jay-Z

- Jethro Tull

- Jimi Hendrix

- John Coltrane

- John Fahey

- John Lennon

- John Williams

- John Zorn

- Johnny Cash

- Joni Mitchell

- Jorge Ben

- Joy Division

- Judas Priest

- Judee Sill

- Kate Bush

- Keith Jarrett

- King Crimson

- Klaus Schulze

- Kraftwerk

- Kreator

- Led Zeppelin

- Leonard Cohen

- Los Hermanos

- Lou Reed

- Magma

- Marillion

- Marvin Gaye

- maudlin of the Well

- Melvins

- Mercyful Fate

- Metallica

- Miles Davis

- Modest Mouse

- Motörhead

- Neil Young

- Neu!

- Neurosis

- Nevermore

- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

- Nick Drake

- Nico

- Nirvana

- Nobuo Uematsu

- Opeth

- Ornette Coleman

- Os Mutantes

- Otis Redding

- OutKast

- Pain of Salvation

- Parliament

- Paul Simon

- Pavement

- Pearl Jam

- Pere Ubu

- Peter Gabriel

- Philip Glass

- Pink Floyd

- Pixies

- PJ Harvey

- Porcupine Tree

- Portishead

- Premiata Forneria Marconi

- Prince

- Public Enemy

- R.E.M.

- Radiohead

- Rahsaan Roland Kirk

- Rainbow

- Ramones

- Randy Newman

- Red House Painters

- Richard & Linda Thompson

- Robert Wyatt

- Roxy Music

- Rush

- Sam Rivers

- Santana

- Sepultura

- Serge Gainsbourg

- Simon and Garfunkel

- Skinny Puppy

- Slayer

- Sly and the Family Stone

- Smashing Pumpkins

- Soft Machine

- Sonic Youth

- Sonny Rollins

- Sparks

- Steely Dan

- Steve Reich

- Stevie Ray Vaughan

- Stevie Wonder

- Sun Ra

- Swans

- T. Rex

- Talk Talk

- Talking Heads

- Tangerine Dream

- The Allman Brothers Band

- The Band

- The Beach Boys

- The Beatles

- The Byrds

- The Clash

- The Cure

- The Chameleons

- The Doors

- The Fall

- The Flaming Lips

- The Gathering

- The Jam

- The Kinks

- The Misfits

- The Mothers of Invention

- The Olivia Tremor Control

- The Pogues

- The Replacements

- The Rolling Stones

- The Smiths

- The Stooges

- The Velvet Underground

- The Who

- Thelonious Monk

- Tim Buckley

- Tindersticks

- Todd Rundgren

- Tom Waits

- Tool

- Townes Van Zandt

- U2

- Ulver

- Van der Graaf Generator

- Van Morrison

- Wayne Shorter

- Ween

- Weezer

- Wes Montgomery

- Wilco

- Willie Nelson

- Wire

- XTC

- Yasunori Mitsuda

- Yes




Todos estos artistas han logrado cambiar la música de su momento de alguna u otra manera o grabaron discos dignos de ser joyas preciosas de las mejores colecciones.

Si entiendes de música sabrás apreciar a todos ellos, si no, te pierdes la vida chico/a y no puedes llamarte a tí mismo amante con mayusculas de la música. Dejad de perder el tiempo y dedicarselo a lo que de verdad vale, hay mucho alrededor y solo el que sabe buscar encuentra. ¿eres uno de ellos?

Repito, deja de perder el tiempo y sé más exigente, sube un nivel y escucha algo de esto, te aseguró que en un futuro te darás cuenta de como esos grupos que idolatrabas no expresaban nada.


Siento que mi esfuerzo a merecido la pena y he logrado al fín la lista de la mejor música actual definitiva dentro del siglo XX y XXI.



All these artists change the music of his moment or they recorded discs worth being precious jewels for the best collections.

If you deal on music you will be able to estimate all of them, if not, you get lost the life dude and cannot be call you lover with capital letters of the music. Stop losing the time and devoting it what indeed costs, it is very much around and only the one that can search finds. Are you one of them?

I repeat, stop losing the time and be more demanding, raise a level and listen to something of this, assured you that in a future you will realize since these groups that you were adoring they were not expressing anything.


I feel that my effort to been worth it and I have achieved the list of the best current definitive music inside the 20th and the 21st century.

Rating 1 stars - Hatred (I really do not like this):

Aaskereia, Abandoned Grave, Aborym, Absurd, Ahab, Chainsaw Dissection, Circle of Dead Children, Clitoridus Invaginatus, No Age, The Darkness.
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Rating 2 stars - Annoying (Please switch this off):

Aardvarks, Abomination, Abscess, Adam Beebe-Infanticide, Adventure Time, Agalloch, Agathodaimon, Agonoize, Air, Alec Empire, Alex Metric, Alternative Control, Andreas Tilliander, Brutal Truth, Burial, Cartridge, dalt wisney, Deconformity, Dissection, Eddie Sender, Fuck...I'm Dead, GORESHIT, Guttural Decay, Headhunter, Hellsaw, Hercules and Love Affair, Inherit Disease, Inkvisition, Internal Bleeding, Moondog, Morbid Angel, Mourning Beloveth, Negator, No Anchor, Ophiolatry, St. Germain, The Bloody Beetroots, The Blue Nile, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Hacker, The Police, Thornesbreed, Thou Art Lord, Ufomammut, Villages, Virgin Prunes, Void Settler, Zombie Nation.
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Rating 3 stars - Dull (This is boring, isn't there something better)

A Hawk and a Hacksaw, A Place to Bury Strangers, A Secret Society, ABBA, Above, Absurd Minds, Accept, Ace of Base, Acylum, Æther, Afrika Bambaataa, Afro Celt Sound System, Agnes, Aïboforcen, Aim, Akon, Alien Sex Fiend, Alkonost, Alpha & Omega, Alva Noto, Amesoeurs, Amiina, Animal Collective, Arms and Sleepers, Bat for Lashes, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Bohren & der Club of Gore, Boom Bip, Broadcast, C-Lekktor, Congorock, Dead Combo, DilemN, Disease, DJ Muggs, DragonForce, Drumcorps, Dual Core, Editors, Electro Hippies, Element, Fila Brazillia, GAM, Genesis, God Is an Astronaut, Graveworm, Gwynbleidd, Impure Wilhelmina, Insect Warfare, Interlace, Intuit, Ladytron, Lali Puna, Leighton Meester, Lesbians on Ecstasy, Liechtenstein, Love Unlimited Orchestra, Mamiffer, Mortician, Mount Sims, My Bloody Valentine, Panic Lift, Peaches, Pitbull, Planet Funk, Portishead, PQM, Primordial, Realms and Evolution, Ronario, Ryan Farish, Saafi Brothers, Samsas Traum, Sebus Veutgiryn, Septic Flesh, Signum, Síol Na Gréine, Soft Machine, Soulja Boy, Standeg, Tagged, Telefon Tel Aviv, The J.B.'s, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Shadows, The Smiths, Thieves Like Us, Tiga, Varathron, Wolves in the Throne Room, Yppah.
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Rating 4 stars - Poor (I will listen to, but is it really worth it)

Aaron Carter, Abinet Agonafir, Abyssinia Infinite, Ace, Adversus, Age of Jets, Airlock, Al Martino, Alabama, Albert Hammond, Alesana, Alithia, All The Cold, Alphabeat, Amália Rodrigues, Arnej, Asriel, Beauty's Confusion, Black Lips, Black Widow, Blue Sky Black Death, Branford Marsalis, Charlie Feathers, ChipHydra, Cougar, Damien Rice, Daughtry, Day26, Digitalism, Donna Lewis, Einherjer, Faster Pussycat, GirlJoy, Grasstowne, Happoradio, Helen Trevillion, Illnath, Infinity, Innerpartysystem, Karmacoda, Kitchens of Distinction, Madina Lake, Massive Attack, Max, Mechanical Apfelsine, Mihai Edrisch, MSTRKRFT, múm, Narkotiki, Noisia, Pain Of Salvatio, ROUND TABLE featuring Nino, Sally Shapiro, Scientist, Steve Angello, Stone Gods, Strand & NonGenetic, Suga Shikao, Teräsbetoni, The Ambition, The Halloween Singers, The Presets, Tool, Transatlantic, U2, Ulver, Wanda Jackson, Warrant, Wye Oak.
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Rating 5 stars - OK (I have no real opinion on this band)

¡Forward, Russia!, A, A Bunny's Caravan, Aaron Zigman, ABC, AC/DC, Adamo, Aerosmith, Afflicted, After School, Afterlife, Agents, Akercocke, Al Bowlly, Al Dexter & His Troopers, Al Jarreau, Alabama 3, Alabama Thunderpussy, Alan Vega, Alèmayèhu Eshèté, Alex Gopher, Alexander Rybak, Alexandre Desplat / Aaron Zigman, Ali Farka Touré, Alice in Videoland, Alison Krauss, All Shall Perish, Alma Cogan, Aloha, Altered Images, Amadou & Mariam, Amber Pacific, Andrea True Connection, Angus & Julia Stone, Artwood, Attack! Attack!, Aventura, Avskum, Benjamin Bear, Bersuit Vergarabat, Blackfoot, Blood Red Shoe, Bracket, Cemetary, Chicks on Speed, Client, Cradle of Filth, Dark Princess, Disclose, Forever the Sickest Kids, Goldfrapp, Groove Armada, Hot Bitch Arsenal, Hyper Crush, Jahn Teigen, Jez Lowe, Kickback, Lesley Gore, Lights, Malfunkshun, Mariana Aydar, Mediæval Bæbes, Megurine Luka, Miss Kittin, Moke, Morcheeba, Morning Musume., Niels Frevert, No Relax, Nosferatu, Oasis, Old & In the Way, OLIVIA, Once, Patricia Vonne, Rebellion, Sabaton, Sonic Youth, Soulsavers, Tenacious D, Terminal Choice, The Attery Squash, The Dubliners, The Flaming Lips, The Long Winters, The Meters, The Script, The Sonics, The Strokes, The Thrills, Time Was, Tommy Sparks, xAFBx, Yelle, Zion I.
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Rating 6 stars - Reasonable (I will choose to listen to, I may buy an album by them at the right price)

3 Inches of Blood, 3OH!3, A Case of Grenada, A Day Called Desire, a mafia, A Plea For Purging, Abacaxi, Abbey Lincoln, Abdullah Ibrahim, Abuso Sonoro, Adam and the Ants, Afghan Whigs, After the Burial, Agency, Agent Blue, AI, Aiden, Aja Addy, Al Cohn, Al Green, Al King, Al Pancho, Alan Howarth, Alannah Myles, Albert Hammond, Jr., Albert Washington, Alestorm, Alex Chilton, All That Remains, All Time Low, Aly & AJ, Amadou Balake, Amebix, America, Ania Dąbrowska, Art Blakey, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Beach Mercer, Big Youth, Black Diamond Heavies, Blanche, Blutengel, Bob Dylan, Bomb & Scary, Born of Osiris, Broadway Calls, Bryan Scary, Bush, Cage the Elephant, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, Cat Power, Converge, Crazy Town, Cruachan, Dananananaykroyd, Delirium Tremens, Dion & The Belmonts, Drop Dead, Gorgeous, Dub War, Dusty Springfield, Eek-A-Mouse, Electrocute, Eric Von Schmidt, Every New Day, Felix da Housecat, Funeral for a Friend, Gama Bomb, Gang of Four, God Help The Girl, Goldfinger, Guns N' Roses, Havana 3 A.M., I Monster, I See Stars, Icke & Er, Igor Stravinsky, Jason Mraz, John Carpenter, John Otway, Jon Spencer, Kafeína, King Tubby, Korpiklaani, La Roux, Little Boots, Lucky Fonz III, Lush, Mad Cobra, Mims, My Baby wants to eat your pussy, Nachtgeschrei, Nine Inch Nails, R.E.M., Radio Birdman, Robots in Disguise, Rory Gallagher, Rossington Collins Band, Run Toto Run, Satyricon, Scary Chicken, SDI, Shaznay Lewis, Shena Ringo, Spinnerette, Split Habit, Starfucker, Stevie Nicks, Stoneman, Styles P, Television, The Be Good Tanyas, The Beautiful Girls, The Bones, The Boomtown Rats, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, The Doors, The DSC Project, The Filmscore Orchestra, The Haunted, The Hellacopters, The Herd, The Home Guard, The Innocence Mission, The Maine, The Monsters, The Rogers Sisters, The Sleeping, The Trashmen, The Tremeloes, The Unicorns, Tricky, U-Roy, Vive la Fête, Warface, Weird Al Yankovic, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zaunpfahl, Zeromancer, Zootsings, ZZ Top.
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Rating 7 stars - Good (I will choose to listen to, I will buy an album by them)

20 Bulls Each, 3Dbs Down, 45 Grave, 59 Times the Pain, A Wilhelm Scream, Abbi Walker, Abby Travis, abingdon boys school, Abnormal Sunday, Above the Law, Absent Mindead, ACID HEAD, Adele, Adema, Adrenalin O.D., Aesop Rock, After Forever, Afterhours, Aggression, Airhead, Akala, Alanis Morissette, Albert Ammons, Alesha Dixon, Alexander Scriabin, Alexei Lubimov, Alexisonfire, Alien Ant Farm, All About Eve, All Saints, Alpha Boy School, Alternative TV, Alton Ellis, Amen, Anti-Product, Argue Damnation, As I Lay Dying, Asian Dub Foundation, Banda Bassotti, Bauchklang, Béla Bartók, Bessie Smith, Big in Japan, Black Grape, Blood Duster, bluekilla, Boyz Too Sick, Buffalo Tom, Cannae, Capleton, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Charlie Brown Gets a Valentine, Chillerton, Chris Cornell, Chuck Ragan, Chumbawamba, Civilized Animal, Cledus T. Judd, co.uk, Cocoa Tea, Commonplace, Crazy Arm, Credit to the Nation, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Cyco Miko, D.I., Damone, Danny Elfman, Datura, Deacon Blue, Dead Letter Dept., Del Amitri, DevilDriver, Dilated Peoples, Doom, Dragster, Echobelly, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Elastica, Ellen and the Escapades, Epica, Eye for an Eye, Five Horse Johnson, FM2000, Foo Fighters, Frau Doktor, Gigolo Aunts, God Forbid, Gov't Mule, Grandmaster Flash, Green Jellÿ, Habakuk, Hot Water Music, imadethismistake, Imperial Vipers, In Flames, Insolence, Inspiral Carpets, Joell Ortiz, Kaiser Chiefs, Killa Kela, Lady Sovereign, Latterman, Living Colour, M.O.P., Madness, Magic System, Manic Street Preachers, Mary Hopkin, Modern Life Is War, Mr. Bones, Muff Potter, Murder by Death, My Passion, N.O.R.E., Nasum, Natas, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Nightrage, Norma Jean, Oh, Sleeper, Operator Please, Over It, Painstake, Paul Weller, Pearl Jam, Perry Como, Planlos, Pleymo, Pop Will Eat Itself, Psychopathic Rydas, Queens of the Stone Age, Racine, Raging Speedhorn, Rammstein, Recon, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Resident Weirdo, Righteous Jams, Roots Manuva, Rudi, Sack Trick, Saliva, Scanners, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Scout Niblett, Sheer Terror, Sizzla, Skindred, Skinlab, Slapstick, Smash Mouth, Snoop Dogg, Spellbound, Stan Getz, Steve Marriott, Synchromystickz, Tanita Tikaram, Tanto Metro, Tard, Tearjerkers, Terrorvision, That Handsome Devil, That Petrol Emotion, The Androids, The Arcade Version, The Bottrops, The Butlers, The Chariot, The Coral, The Cranberries, The Cumshots, The Fat Cats, The Forgotten, The Goats, The Hitchers, The J. Geils Band, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Know How, The Paper Chase, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Presidents of the United States of America, The Quireboys, The Saints, The Slapstickers, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Wonder Stuff, Them Crooked Vultures, Thrice, Transvision Vamp, Vacant Stare, Vagiant, Void, Wack Trucks, Weapons, Will Smith, Wolfpack Unleashed, Your Highness Electric, Zealous1, Zee Avi, Zero Boys.
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Rating 8 stars - Very Good (Music that gives me a good feeling, I will own their back catalogue as eventually)

999, 100 Demons, 25 ta Life, A Billion Ernies, A Day to Remember, A Global Threat, A Static Lullaby, Accustomed to Nothing, Acoustic Front of Resistance, Across Five Aprils, Adam Linder, Adequate Seven, Against Me!, Agallah "The Don Bishop", Agent Orange, Agression, Akrobatik, Albert Collins, Albert King, Alejandro Escovedo, Alice Cooper, alice in chain, Alice Russell, Alicia Keys, Alisha's Attic, Alison Moyet, All, All Out War, Angel Cage, Angelic Upstarts, Anthony B, Atreyu, Audioslave, Aynsley Lister, Babar Luck, Backfire!, Banane Metalik, Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, Barcode, Batmobile, Beastie Boys, Big D and the Kids Table, Bionic Jive, Black Friday '29, Black My Heart, Bloodhound Gang, Bloodsimple, Bob Marley, Bobaflex, Born From Pain, Boss Hog, Brotha Lynch, Buck-O-Nine, Bun Dem Out, Butt Trumpet, Calabrese, Cancer Bats, Captain Dan & The Scurvy Crew, Casey Jones, Choking Susan, Choking Victim, Civet, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Dead End Cruisers, Dead Hearts, Demented Are Go!, Descendents, Deviate, Die Happy, Die So Fluid, Diesel Park West, Dillinger Four, Distemper, Dog Eat Dog, Down by Law, Dr. Dre, Drongos For Europe, Dropkick Murphys, Dry Kill Logic, Dust Junkys, DYS, Eazy-E, Edna's Goldfish, Embraced by Hatred, Eminem, Evergreen Terrace, Faith No More, Final Prayer, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Turner, Furious Styles, Godless Wicked Creeps, Goldblade, Government Issue, Gravediggaz, Guano Apes, Gutter Demons, Hadouken!, Harry Chapin, Haste the Day, Hoods, Howlin' Wolf, Ian McNabb, Ice Cube, Ill Bill, In Blood We Trust, Insane Clown Posse, Insane Poetry, It Dies Today, J.J. Fad, Jamie Madrox, Janis Joplin, Jesse Dangerously, Jimmy Reed, Joanne Shaw Taylor, John Lee Hooker, Kid Dynamite, Kill Your Idols, Klingonz, Knuckledust, KoЯn, Lady Saw, Less Than Jake, Levellers, Lightnin' Hopkins, Lone Ranger, Looking Up, Loudon Wainwright III, Lower Class Brats, Maceo Parker, Machine Head, Mad Caddies, Mad Sin, MC Frontalot, Menstrual Tramps, Mishkin, Miss Li, Mr. Hyde, MxPx, My Ruin, N.A.S.T.Y., Nirvana, No Doubt, No Sports, Ocean Colour Scene, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Olias Fall, Once Over, One Minute Silence, Os Catalépticos, OS101, Otis Rush, OutKast, Papa Roach, Path Of Resistance, Period Pains, Plan B, Primus, Propagandhi, Public Enemy, Pura Vida, Raised Fist, Ramones, Reach the Sky, Ready Steady Go!, Refused, Rise Against, Riz Mc, Rob Zombie, Robert Johnson, Sa-Ra Creative Partners, Sarah Blackwood, Scars of Tomorrow, Scary Bitches, Scribe, Seasick Steve, Senser, Sepultura, Settle the Score, Shadows Fall, Shark Attack, Shattered Realm, Sinai Beach, Skaos, Slayer, Snapcase, Snot, Soldiers, Sonny Boy Williamson, Stellar Corpses, Still Remains, Stretch Arm Strong, Strung Out, Sugarland Slim, System of a Down, Tech N9ne, Temple of the Dog, The 57th Dynasty, The Alchemist, The B Sharps, The Babylon Whackers, The Banner, The Beautiful South, The Boys, The B-Sharps, The Busters, The Code, The Creepshow, The Damned, The Dictators, The Godfathers, The Grit, The Icicle Works, The Knife, The Mitchell Brothers, The Offspring, The Planet Smashers, The Porkers, The Selecter, The Spook, The Vandals, The Vibrators, The Warriors, This Is Hell, Thunder, Tiger Army, To Kill, Total Chaos, Toxic Narcotic, Van Morrison, Voice of the Beehive, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Wayne County & The Electric Chairs, Whiskey Rebels, Wiley, Wiley aka Eskiboy, Wisdom in Chains, Wu-Tang Clan, X-Ray Spex, xTyrantx, Your Demise.
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Rating 9 stars - Great (Really good music, I will own their back catalogue as soon as possible)

(hed) Planet Earth, 4FT Fingers, Adolescents, AFI, Against All Authority, Alkaline Trio, All For Nothing, B.B. King, Babyboom, Bad Religion, Bane, Billy Talent, Black Flag, Blood for Blood, Brainless Wanker, Buddy Guy, Cheap Sex, Clawfinger, Comeback Kid, Crime in Stereo, Cynical Smile, Cypress Hill, Danny Diablo, Dead Kennedys, Death Before Dishonor, Die Hunns, Discipline, Dizzee Rascal, Eastfield, Elmore Jame, Eric Clapton, First Blood, Funkoars, Gorilla Biscuits, Hazen Street, HorrorPops, Icepick, Imperial Leisure, Jesse James, Justin Sane, Kelly Kemp, Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, Metallica, Minor Threat, N.W.A, No Allegiance, NoComply, NOFX, Oxymoron, Pitchshifter, Pulkas, Queen, Reagan Youth, Roger Miret and the Disasters, Schaffer The Darklord, Slipknot, Social Distortion, Soundgarden, Suicide Bid, Terror, The Dead Pets, The Exploited, The Forces of Evil, The Jam, The JB Conspiracy, The Peacocks, The Skints, The Suffrajets, The Unseen, Thick As Blood, Tim Armstrong, Walls of Jericho, Xzibit, Youth of Today.
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Rating 10 stars - Love It (I have to listen to this band as much as possible)

Agnostic Front, Anti-Flag, Capdown, Frank Zappa, Gallows, Gash, Green Day, H2O, Hatebreed, King Prawn, Madball, PJ Harvey, Rage Against the Machine, Rancid, Random Hand, Sick of It All, Sonic Boom Six, Subhumans, The Clash, The Filaments, The King Blues, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, They Might Be Giants.
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This is my personal taste and not a criticism of anybodies music, or taste. I set this up so that all the new bands I have found I can easily know what I think of them

'First, make a list of your overall top-20 artists. Then, for each of these artists, add the 8 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, add 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 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 160 represents an extremely varied one.

1. of Montreal
2. Radiohead
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4. Animal Collective
5. Modest Mouse
6. The Dresden Dolls
7. Metric
8. Interpol
9. Pixies
10. Architecture in Helsinki
11. Nine Inch Nails
12. The New Pornographers
13. Foo Fighters
14. Rilo Kiley
15. Sufjan Stevens
16. The Smashing Pumpkins
17. The Strokes
18. Gorillaz
19. MGMT
20. Regina Spektor

1. The Apples in Stereo
2. The Olivia Tremor Control
3. The Unicorns
4. Beulah
5. Islands
6. Elf Power
7. The Fiery Furnaces
8. Thom Yorke
9. Jonny Greenwood
10. Muse
11. Sigur Rós
12. Coldplay
13. Placebo
14. Blur
15. The Kills
16. Be Your Own Pet
17. The Gossip
18. Blood Red Shoes
19. Franz Ferdinand
20. Panda Bear
21. Black Dice
22. Grizzly Bear
23. Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan
24. Avey Tare
25. Deerhunter
26. El Guincho
27. Dan Deacon
28. Ugly Casanova
29. Built to Spill
30. Wolf Parade
31. Neutral Milk Hotel
32. The Flaming Lips
33.The Shins
34. Death Cab for Cutie
35. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
36. Amanda Palmer
37. Vermillion Lies
38. Pretty Balanced
39. HUMANWINE
40. Katzenjammer Kabarett
41. Rasputina
42. Harlequin Jones
43. Jill Tracy
44. Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton
45. Emily Haines
46. Stars
47. Broken Social Scene
48. Tegan and Sara
49. Land of Talk
50. Editors
51. She Wants Revenge
52. Elefant
53. The National
54. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
55. stellastarr*
56. White Lies
57. The Breeders
58. Frank Black
59. Sonic Youth
60. Black Francis
61. Frank Black and the Catholics
62. Dinosaur Jr.
63. Pavement
64. Violent Femmes
65. Los Campesinos!
66. I'm From Barcelona
67. The Boy Least Likely To
68. Tilly and the Wall
69. Mates of State
70. Modwheelmood
71. Trent Reznor
72. Halo33
73. Tweaker
74. Marilyn Manson
75. Puscifer
76. Black Light Burns
78. Dirty Scarab
79. A.C. Newman
80. Immaculate Machine
81. Destroyer
82. The Decemberists
83. Spoon
84. Swan Lake
85. Audioslave
86. Incubus
87. Nirvana
88. Soundgarden
89. Puddle of Mud
90. Queens of the Stone Age
91. Stone Temple Pilots
92.Pearl Jam
93. Jenny Lewis
94. Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins
95. The Elected
96. She & Him
97. Whispertown2000
98. Eisley
99. Johnathan Rice
100. Andrew Bird
101. Iron & Wine
102. Beirut
103. Bon Iver
104. Fleet Foxes
105. Anathallo
106. Denison Witmer
107. Zwan
108. Billy Corgan
109. James Iha
110. Auf der Maur
111. Silverchair
112. Albert Hammond, Jr.
113. Arctic Monkeys
114. Little Joy
115. The Libertines
116. Albert Hammond Jr.
117. The Last Shadow Puppets
118. Kings of Leon
119. The Killers
120. The Good, The Bad & The Queen
121. Daft Punk
122. Space Monkeyz vs. Gorillaz
123. Fatboy Slim
124. Beck
125. The White Stripes
126. The Chemical Brothers
127. The Management
128. Vampire Weekend
129. Klaxons
130. Black Kids
131. Empire of the Sun
132. Passion Pit
133. The Kooks
134. Late of the Pier
135. Fiona Apple
136. Jenny Owen Youngs
137. Kate Nash
138. Rachael Yamagata
139. Ingrid Michaelson
140. St. Vincent
141. Tori Amos

Holy shit, that was exhausting... Much higher score than anticipated though.

Hey folks,

Taking a break at work between meetings. Thankfully, today we're having end-of-the-year brunch, and a retirement party later. Freegan day! Sort of.


Things that Are Square 6-18-09

(*) = New release

Jonathan Richman - I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar - I, Jonathan Richman

(*) Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard - Broken Broken Broken Heart - 'Em Are I
Devendra Banhart - Lover - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
Beat Happening - Bury the Hammer - You Turn Me On
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

(*) Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is the Move - Bitte Orca
Nas - One Mic (Andrew Broder Remix) - Modern Hits
Edan - Fumbling Over Words that Rhyme - Beauty and the Beat
OOIOO - UMO - Taiga

(*) The Phenomenal Handclap Band - 15 to 20 - The Phenomenal Handclap Band
Fujiya & Miyagi - Collarbone - Transparent Things
!!! - Bend Over Beethoven - Myth Takes

(*) Mochipet - Do Geese See God? - Bunnies & Muffins
(*) EAR PWR - Super Animal Bros. III - Super Animal Brothers III
Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes - Merriweather Post Pavilion
(*) Akron/Family - Everyone Is Guilty - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'EM Free

(*) Sunset Rubdown - Idiot Heart - Dragonslayer
The Blood Brothers - Crimes - Crimes
Death From Above 1979 - Do It! (Live) - Heads Up
Galaxie 500 - When Will You Come Home - Peel Sessions

Why? - The Vowels Pt. 2 - Alopecia
The Olivia Tremor Control - I Have Been Floated - Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Pussy Head Man from Outer Space - Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under the Stars

Hope to see you guys next week, and every week, Thursdays 6-8pm PST on KUCI 88.9FM in Irvine, and worldwide online at KUCI.ORG, the public radio presets of iTunes, and the public radio app on your iPhones.

<3,
Kyle

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