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1)WHY? - Alopecia
2)Deerhunter - Microcastle
3)Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
4)M83 - Saturdays = Youth
5)Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
6)Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
7)Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
8)No Age - Nouns
9)The Walkmen - You & Me
10)of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
11)Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts
12)Dodos - Visiter
13)Born Ruffians - Red/Yellow & Blue
14)Errors - It's not something, but it's like Whatever
15)Cut Copy - In Ghosts Colors
16)Foals - Antidote
17)TV On the Radio - Dear Science
18)Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
19)Portishead - Third
20)Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
21)Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
22)The Stills - Oceans Will Rise
23)Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
24)The Bug - London Zoo
25)The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
26)Shearwater - Rook
27)Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
28)Ratatat - LP3
29)Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08
30)Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
31)Beach House - Devotion
32)Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
33)Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
34)The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
35)Islands - Arm's Way
36)Vampre Weekend - Vampire Weekend
37)The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
38)Mates of State - ReArrange Us
39)The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
40)Evangelicals - The Evening Descends
41)Rings - Black Habit
42)Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
43)Beck - Modern Guilt
44)The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
45)Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV
46)She & Him - Volume One
47)Annuals - Such Fun
48)My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
49)Neon Neon - Stainless Style
50)Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
51)Sun Kil Moon - April

Best EP:
Maps & Atlases - You and Me and the Mountain
The Radio Dept - Freddie and the Trojan Horse
Animal Collective - Water Curses

Best Albums I'm not counting:
Flight of the Conchords (basically just a re-release of old songs)
MGMT - put it on top albums of 2007 list

Most overrated albums:
Vampire Weekend
Santogold

Most underrated albums:
The Walkmen - You & Me
Errors - It's not Something but it's like Whatever
Why - Alopecia

Worst EP to LP:
Black Kids

I made a Top 40 lists a while back which can be found here

Not many changes, most stood the test of repeat listen after repeat listen. I know MGMT is now loved and adored by 15 year olds all around the world and it won't give me any "indie cred" to list it so high, but start to finish it is an unbelievably solid album and my favorite track on it has changed several times since it hit the internet last year.

You will notice however "In Rainbows" fell completely out of my Top 10, I just grew tired of the album I guess. I rarely listen to it now.

1)MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
2)Kevin Drew - Spirit If...
3)LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
4)Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
5)Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
6)Deerhunter - Cryptograms
7)Panda Bear - Person Pitch
8)of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
9)Mice Parade - Mice Parade
10)Le Loup - The Throne Of The Third Heaven Of The Nations' Millennium General Assembly

I made a top 100 lists a while back, which can be found here. These are songs that have held up even 8-19 months later.

1)Panda Bear - Carrots
2)Deerhunter - Spring Hall Convert
3)MGMT – Of Moons, Birds & Monsters
4)Beirut - Guyamas Sonora
3)LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends
4)Animal Collective - Fireworks
5)Kevin Drew - Gang Bang Suicide
6)Yeasayer – Wait for the Summer (Live Version)
8)Battles - Atlas
9)Low - Hatchet
10)Mice Parade – Sneaky Red

1) There Will Be Blood
2) No Country For Old Men
3) Once
4) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
5) Superbad
6) Knocked Up
7) The Darjeeling Limited
8) 3:10 To Yuma
9) Michael Clayton
10) Juno

And I don't even normally like Westerns!


*have not seen Atonement or The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Just like the album list, not a huge concern in order. Many albums you could just as easy swap any song in depending on my mood

1)Panda Bear - Carrots
2)Beirut - Guyamas Sonora
3)Battles - Atlas
4)Animal Collective - Fireworks
5)Kevin Drew - Gang Bang Suicide
6)MGMT – Kids
7)Sunset Rubdown – Taming of the Hands That Came Back To Life
8)LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends
9)Wilco – You Are My Face
10)Mice Parade – Sneaky Red
11)Le Loup – Planes Like Vultures
12)!!! - Yadnus
13)Low - Hatchet
14)Panda Bear - Bros
15)Animal Collective - Derek
16)Deerhunter - Spring Hall Convert
17)of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal
18)Radiohead – 15 Step
19)Black Kids - Hit The Heartbrakes
20)Do Make Say Think - Bound To Be That Way
21)Arcade Fire - Keep The Car Running
22)Spoon - The Underdog
23)Jens Lekman - A Postcard to Nina
24)of Montreal – Cato as a Pun
25)MGMT - The Handshake
26)Burial - UK
27)Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling Into Place
28)Le Loup – We Are Gods! We Are Wolves!
29)Simian Mobile Disco - I BELIEVE
30)LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
31)Architecture in Helsinki – Heart It Races
32)Sea Wolf – You’re a Wolf
33)Animal Collective – Chores
34)Muscles – My friend Richard
35)The Clientele - Bookshop Casanova
36)Menomena – Wet & Rusting
37)Boys Noize – Let’s buy happiness
38)Elliott Smith – High Times
39)The National – Racing Like A Pro
40)Yeasayer - 2080
41)!!! - Heart of Hearts
42)HEALTH – Heaven
43)Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
44)Glen Hansard – When your Mind’s Made Up
45)Blonde Redhead - Spring And Summer By Fall
46)Interpol – Pace Is The Trick
47)Low - Breaker
48)Deer Tick - Ashamed
49)Beirut - Elephant Gun
50)Radiohead - All I Need
51)Spoon - Don’t You Evah
52)Wooden Wand – The Pushers
53)Caribou - Irene
54)White Williams – The Shadow
55)Kevin Drew – Bohdi Sappy Weekend
56)M83 – Into The Void
57)Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe
58)Mice Parade – The Last Ten Homes
59)Wilco – Impossible Germany
60)Beirut – Nantes
61)Letters Letters – Everyone’s afraid of Fear
62)Liars - Plaster Casts Of Everything
63)M.I.A. - Paper Planes
64)Sea Wolf – Leaves in a River
65)Band of Horses – Marry Song
66)Justice - DVNO
67)WHY? – [track artist=Why?The Hollows[/track]
68)Burial - [track artist=Burial]Archangel[/track]
69)Blonde Redhead - [track artist=Blonde Redhead]23[/track]
70)The Field - [track artist=The Field]A Paw in My Face[/track]
71)Andrew Bird – [track artist=Andrew Bird]Plasticities[/track]
72)RJD2 – [track artist=RJD2]Work it Out[/track]
73)BARR - [track artist=BARR]The Song Is the Single[/track]
74)Menomena - [track artist=Menomena]Muscle 'n Flo[/track]
75)Air – [track artist=Air]One Hell of a Party[/track]
76)Elliott Smith – [track artist=Elliott Smith]Angel in the Snow[/track]
77)Caribou – [track artist=Caribou]Melody Day[/track]
78)Klaxons – [track artist=Klaxons]Golden Skans[/track]
79)MGMT – [track artist=MGMT]Electric Feel[/track]
80)The Shins – [track artist=The Shins]Phantom Limb [/track]
81)Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - [track artist=Ted Leo & the Pharmacists]La Costa Brava[/track]
82)Chromatics - [track artist=Chromatics]In the City[/track]
83)The National - [track artist=The National]Mistaken for Strangers[/track]
84)Handsome Furs – [track artist=Handsome Furs]Snakes on a Ladder[/track]
85)Des Ark - [track artist=Des Ark]If by "Gay" You Mean "Totally Freaking Awesome," Then Yeah, I Guess it's Pretty Gay[/track]
86)Black Dice – [track artist=Black Dice]Kokomo[/track]
87)Justice – [track artist=Justice]Phantom Pt 2[/track]
88)Wilco – [track artist=Wilco]Hate It Here[/track]
89)Kevin Drew - [track artist=Kevin Drew]Tbtf[/track]
90)Dethklok – [track artist=Dethklok]Murmaider[/track]
91)The Tough Alliance – [track artist=The Tough Alliance]Silly Crimes[/track]
92)Arcade Fire – [track artist=Arcade Fire]My Body Is A Cage[/track]
93)Tegan and Sara – [track artist=Tegan and Sara]Knife Going In[/track]
94)Deerhoof – [track artist=Deerhoof]The Perfect Me[/track]
95)Magik Markers - [track artist=Magik Markers]Taste[/track]
96)Interpol – [track artist=Interpol]The Lighthouse[/track]
97)Bright Eyes – [track artist=Bright Eyes]Four Winds[/track]
98)Voxtrot - [track artist=Voxtrot]Stephen[/track]
99)Dan Deacon - [track artist=Dan Deacon]Wham City[/track]
100)Kings of Leon – [track artist=Kings of Leon]Knocked Up[/track]

last.fm needs to update their album listings for artists, some of these aren't even registered under the artists

The List: (I didn't put a ton of time into the actual order, just listed the best)
1)Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
2)Panda Bear - Person Pitch
3)Kevin Drew - Spirit If...
4)MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
5)Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
6)Radiohead - In Rainbows
7)LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
8)Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
9)of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
10)Sea Wolf - Leaves In The River
11)M83 - Digital Shades Vol. 1
12)Mice Parade - Mice Parade
13)Le Loup - The Throne Of The Third Heaven Of The Nations' Millennium General Assembly
14)Justice - Cross
15)Caribou - Andorra
16)Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
17)Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
18)Low - Drums And Guns
19)Battles - Mirrored
20)Deerhunter - Cryptograms
21)Interpol - Our Love To Admire
22)The National - Boxer
23)!!! - Myth Takes
24)Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
25)Deer Tick - War Elephant
26)Muscles - Guns, Babes & Lemonade
27)Elliott Smith - New Moon
28)Air - Pocket Symphony
29)Do Make Say Think - You, You're A History In Rust
30)Wooden Wand - James and the Quiet
31)The Field - From Here We Go To Sublime
32)White Williams - Smoke
33)Menomena - Friend and Foe
34)Boys NoizeOi Oi Oi
35)The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
36) Blonde Redhead - 23
37)Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
38)Burial - Untrue
39)Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
40)Kings of Leon - Because of the Times

Honorable mentions:
HEALTH - HEALTH
Tegan and Sara - The Con
Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
The New Pornographers -- Challengers
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Handsome Furs -- Plague Park

Notable EPs:
Black Kids - Wizard Of Ahhs
Annuals - Frelen Mas EP
WHY? - The Hollows EP


Worst transition from EP to LP
Voxtrot - Voxtrot

Most overrated albums/bands:
Tokyo Police Club - A Lesson In Crime
M.I.A. - Kala
The Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army

Best album from a genre I don't like:
Dethklok - Dethalbum

This band used to be good album:
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

Most disappointing albums:
Architecture in Helsinki - Places Like This
Bright Eyes - Cassadaga

Albums I didn't count:
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
Peter Bjorn & John - Writer's Block (technically an 06 release)
08 Releases (as far as I know... no "beach house" or "why?" LP)

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I'm sure I'm forgetting at least half a dozen albums I loved.

Fri 2 Nov – of Montreal, Grand Buffet, MGMT

Was a pretty small turnout actually. Place was virtually empty during MGMT (who had a really long set). Grand Buffet was hilariously amazing, as usual, and was really the reason I decided to even go to a retarded day show.

The crowd was really young which was both awesome and lame. Awesome because the line at every bar was non-existent. Longest it took me to get a drink was probably two minutes, which led to me getting lots of drinks... and being really trashed by the time of Montreal came on. Which is really the best way to see them, in a totally care-free mood. We jumped and danced around for the majority of the show. We ducked out early because two of us had already seen them multiple times and the other person with us had never heard of them. The new stuff sounds good for sure.

Really wish Grand Buffet's set was longer and the stage was a little more lit like they usually have it, but their budget for their show seems to have increased (perhaps from outback steakhouse?), as the two story set-up they had and blinking light display was new to me and added more options to Barnes' high energy, which was superb~

1. The Wrens
First Song Heard: The House That Guilt Built
Fell in Love with: She Sends Kisses
Current Favorite: The entire "The Meadowlands" album

2. of Montreal
First Song Heard: Doing Nothing
Fell in Love with: Disconnect the Dots
Current Favorite: Cato as a Pun

3. Built to Spill
First Song Heard: Randy Described Eternity
Fell in Love with: I Would Hurt a Fly
Current Favorite: Saturday

4. Elliott Smith
First Song Heard: Sweet Adeline
Fell in Love with: Waltz #2
Current Favorite: High Times

5. The Mars Volta
First Song Heard: Inertiatic ESP
Fell in Love with: Inertiatic ESP
Current Favorite: back to Cicatriz ESP

6. Death Cab for Cutie
First Song Heard: Title Track
Fell in Love with: Transatlanticism
Current Favorite: Marching Bands of Manhattan

7. The Decemberists
First Song Heard: Leslie Anne Levine
Fell in Love with: Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect
Current Favorite: basically the Castaways and Cutouts still

8. Animal Collective
First Song Heard: Hey Light
Fell in Love with: Leaf House
Current Favorite: Fireworks

9. M83
First Song Heard: 0078h
Fell in Love with: 0078h
Current Favorite: Facing That

10. Phoenix
First Song Heard: Too Young
Fell in Love with: Too Young
Current Favorite: One Time Too Many

11. Broken Social Scene
First Song Heard: KC Accidental
Fell in Love with: Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl
Current Favorite: Guilty Cubicles

12. The Album Leaf
First Song Heard: Window
Fell in Love with: Over the Pond
Current Favorite: fear of flying

13. Interpol
First Song Heard: Untitled
Fell in Love with: NYC
Current Favorite: back to NYC

14. Nine Inch Nails
First Song Heard: Head Like A Hole
Fell in Love with: Head Like A Hole
Current Favorite: The Day The World Went Away

15.Annuals
First Song Heard: Dry Clothes
Fell in Love with: Complete or Completing
Current Favorite: Brother