Dec 21, 2011

The Best Albums Of 2010

Top 50













  1. Your future our clutter - THE FALL
  2. Ring - GLASSER
  3. High violet - THE NATIONAL
  4. I will be - DUM DUM GIRLS
  5. Treats - SLEIGH BELLS
  6. Everything in between - NO AGE
  7. Expo 86 - WOLF PARADE
  8. The suburbs - ARCADE FIRE
  9. Teen dream - BEACH HOUSE
  10. King night - SALEM
  11. Crystal Castles (II) - CRYSTAL CASTLES
  12. Sisterworld - LIARS
  13. Grinderman 2 - GRINDERMAN
  14. Transference - SPOON
  15. The fool - WARPAINT
  16. High Places Vs Mankind - HIGH PLACES
  17. Hidden - THESE NEW PURITANS
  18. Nerve up - LONELADY
  19. Gemini - WILD NOTHING
  20. Forgiveness rock record - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
  21. Root for ruin - LES SAVY FAV
  22. Wilderness heart - BLACK MOUNTAIN
  23. Crazy for you - BEST COAST
  24. Contra - VAMPIRE WEEKEND
  25. Total life forever - FOALS
  26. The flexible entertainer - PIT ER PAT
  27. Sea of cowards - THE DEAD WEATHER
  28. Majesty shredding - SUPERCHUNK
  29. The Soft Pack - THE SOFT PACK
  30. Sleep forever - CROCODILES
  31. Penny sparkle - BLONDE REDHEAD
  32. Interpol - INTERPOL
  33. Disconnect from desire - SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS
  34. Cosmogramma - FLYING LOTUS
  35. MAYA - M.I.A.
  36. Brothers - THE BLACK KEYS
  37. Coconut - ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT
  38. Congratulations - MGMT
  39. Innerspeaker - TAME IMPALA
  40. Halcyon digest - DEERHUNTER
  41. Forget - TWIN SHADOW
  42. The Drums - THE DRUMS
  43. Avi Buffalo - AVI BUFFALO
  44. 1000 years - THE CORIN TUCKER BAND
  45. The Soft Moon - THE SOFT MOON
  46. The monitor - TITUS ANDRONICUS
  47. XXXX - YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE!
  48. The optimist - NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB
  49. Relayted - GAYNGS
  50. Swim - CARIBOU
Also recommended:

Latin - HOLY FUCK, The inevitable past is the future forgotten - THREE MILE PILOT, Cloak and cipher - LAND OF TALK, Phosphene dream - THE BLACK ANGELS, This is happening - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, My beautiful dark twisted fantasy - KANYE WEST, The Hundred In The Hands - THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS, Black noise - PANTHA DU PRINCE, My father will guide me up a rope to the sky - SWANS, Absolute dissent - KILLING JOKE, Fire like this - BLOOD RED SHOES, Transit transit - AUTOLUX, The age of adz - SUFJAN STEVENS, There is love in you - FOUR TET, How I got over - THE ROOTS, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The son of Chico Dusty - BIG BOI, Stridulum II - ZOLA JESUS, Broken Bells - BROKEN BELLS, The courage of others - MIDLAKE, Northern aggression - STEVE WYNN &THE MIRACLE 3, Blurry blue mountain - GIANT SAND, Together - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, I'm having fun now - JENNY AND JOHNNY, The five ghosts - STARS, Amsterdam throwdown King Street showdown! - SOLEX VS. CRISTINA MARTINEZ + JON SPENCER, Romance is boring - LOS CAMPESINOS!, Beat the devil's tattoo - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, The golden archipelago - SHEARWATER, Have one on me - JOANNA NEWSOM, 2 - RETRIBUTION GOSPEL CHOIR, Lisbon - THE WALKMEN, Possession sound - GUN OUTFIT, Nothing hurts - MALE BONDING, Mines - MENOMENA, Odd blood - YEASAYER, Strange weather, isn't it? - !!!, Where did the night fall - UNKLE, Plastic beach - GORILLAZ, Before today - ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI, Here’s to taking it easy - PHOSPHORESCENT, The trip - LAETITIA SADIER, Grey oceans - COCOROSIE, Totaled - INDIAN JEWELRY, No 2: Abyss in B minor - SERENA MANEESH, Champ - TOKYO POLICE CLUB, Heaven is whenever - THE HOLD STEADY, Infinite arms - BAND OF HORSES, Personal life - THE THERMALS, Hippies - HARLEM, First four EPs - OFF!, Untitled - FACTORY FLOOR, JJ No3 - JJ, Dagger paths - FOREST SWORDS, American gong - QUASI, Nobody's daughter - HOLE, Come around sundown - KINGS OF LEON, Surfing the void - KLAXONS, One life stand - HOT CHIP, Mixed race - TRICKY, False priest - OF MONTREAL, Modern celibacy - BERLIN BRIDES, Planet earth about to be recycled - LAKE R▲DIO, Splazsh - ACTRESS, Anika - ANIKA, The waves - TAMARYN, = Sentridoh III - LOU BARLOW + THE MISSINGMEN, NonStopErotik - BLACK FRANCIS, Play it strange - THE FRESH & ONLYS, King of the beach - WAVVES, Sports - WEEKEND, Astro coast - SURFER BLOOD, Sex dreams and denim jeans - UFFIE, Rhizomes - EFFI BRIEST, Secret blood - SHANNON WRIGHT, Through low light and trees - SMOKE FAIRIES, The Besnard Lakes are the roaring night - THE BESNARD LAKES, Hawk - ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN, Sex with an X - THE VASELINES, Shadows - TEENAGE FANCLUB, Bubblegum - CLINIC, In and out and back again - WOVEN BONES, Two thousand and ten injuries - LOVE IS ALL, Clinging to a scheme - THE RADIO DEPT., Tomorrow morning - EELS, Heaven's alright - PARAMOUNT STYLES, O. Children - O. CHILDREN, The grime and the glow - CHELSEA WOLFE, Vexations - GET WELL SOON, Our inventions - LALI PUNA, The way out - BOOKS, Lucky shiner - GOLD PANDA, Does it look like I'm here? - EMERALDS, Hard pop for blue trees - IT SOUND, All great events - MY WET CALVIN, Into the great wide yonder - TRENTEMOLLER, The ArchAndroid - JANELLE MONÁE, Heligoland - MASSIVE ATTACK, I'm new here - GIL SCOTT-HERON, A Sufi and a killer - GONJASUFI, North - DARKSTAR, Unicorn - CHEW LIPS, Bliss release - CLOUD CONTROL, K-X-P - K-X-P, What it means to be left-handed - MICE PARADE, Queen of Denmark - JOHN GRANT, Realism - THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, Who killed Sgt. Pepper? - THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, Last day of summer - WHITE DENIM, We all got out of the army - ROBERT POLLARD, Our cubehouse still rocks - BOSTON SPACESHIPS, Give me walls - COLD IN BERLIN, No name no color - MIDDLE CLASS RUT, Here in the golden rays - HAIGHT ASHBURY, The chaos - THE FUTUREHEADS, Frankie Rose And The Outs - FRANKIE ROSE AND THE OUTS, IRM - CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG, Maximum Balloon - MAXIMUM BALLOON, Voice of seven thunders - VOICE OF SEVEN THUNDERS, The threshingfloor - WOVENHAND, Warm slime - THEE OH SEES, The brutalist bricks - TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS, The big to-do - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, American slang - THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM, **** - GREENHORNES, Blood and fire - EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER, Marnie Stern - MARNIE STERN, The calcination of Scout Niblett - SCOUT NIBLETT, The big black and the blue - FIRST AID KIT, I speak because I can - LAURA MARLING, Big echo - THE MORNING BENDERS, The winter of mixed drinks - FRIGHTENED RABBIT, Boys outside - STEVE MASON, Goodbye, killer - PERNICE BROTHERS, Permalight - ROGUE WAVE, Heartland - OWEN PALLETT, The ghost who walks - KAREN ELSON, Outlaster - NINA NASTASIA, And the pioneer saboteurs - MICAH P. HINSON, Land and fixed - BLANK DOGS, Crush - ABE VIGODA, Rocket fire - CEREMONY, Rush to relax - EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING, Age of denial - SENNEN, We were exploding anyway - 65DAYSOFSTATIC, Turning on - CLOUD NOTHINGS, New chain - SMALL BLACK, Eyelid movies - PHANTOGRAM, The wants - THE PHANTOM BAND, Allo Darlin' - ALLO DARLIN', Serotonin - MYSTERY JETS, Man alive - EVERYTHING EVERYTHING, Pulled Apart By Horses - PULLED APART BY HORSES, Happy Birthday - HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Measure - FIELD MUSIC, The family jewels - MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS, Love remains - HOW TO DRESS WELL, Down there - AVEY TARE, Becoming a jackal - VILLAGERS, Learning - PERFUME GENIUS, Fever - SLEEPY SUN, Thing - TRANS AM, On the ones and threes - VERSUS, Omni - MINUS THE BEAR, Gambling with God - MAGNETA LANE, Out of our minds - MELISSA AUF DER MAUR, She was coloured in - SOLAR BEARS, Oversteps - AUTECHRE, Further - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, Barking - UNDERWORLD, LP4 - RATATAT, Butterfly house - THE CORAL, Losing sleep - EDWYN COLLINS, Wake up the nation - PAUL WELLER, National ransom - ELVIS COSTELLO, Something for everybody - DEVO, Mastermind - MONSTER MAGNET, True love cast out all evil - ROKY ERICKSON / OKKERVIL RIVER, Le noise - NEIL YOUNG, Scratch my back - PETER GABRIEL, Homeland - LAURIE ANDERSON, Swanlights - ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS, Belle And Sebastian write about love - BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, Postcards from a young man - MANIC STREET PREACHERS, Who we touch - THE CHARLATANS, Recovery - EMINEM, Sit down, man - DAS RACIST, Man on the moon II: The legend of Mr. Rager - KID CUDI, Crooks and lovers - MOUNT KIMBIE, Returnal - ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER, Subiza - DELOREAN, Magnetic Man - MAGNETIC MAN, Symbiosis - DEMDIKE STARE, Black earth that made me - WHITE RING, Fevers - DREAM BOAT, oOoOO - oOoOO, The cold world melts - SOFT METALS, Escape - MOON DUO, Not music - STEREOLAB, Disco 2 - HEALTH, No singles - JAPANDROIDS, Vol.2 - WOODEN SHJIPS.

Nov 24, 2011

The Best Singles of 1988

Top 50













  1. Teenage Riot - SONIC YOUTH
  2. The Mercy Seat - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
  3. Freak Scene - DINOSAUR JR.
  4. You Made Me Realise - MY BLOODY VALENTINE
  5. Bring the Noise - PUBLIC ENEMY
  6. Coldsweat - THE SUGARCUBES
  7. Gigantic - PIXIES
  8. Christine - THE HOUSE OF LOVE
  9. Streets of Your Town - THE GO-BETWEENS
  10. Wrote for Luck - HAPPY MONDAYS
  11. Sidewalkin' - THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN
  12. Feed Me with Your Kiss - MY BLOODY VALENTINE
  13. Destroy the Heart - THE HOUSE OF LOVE
  14. Victoria - THE FALL
  15. Touch Me I'm Sick - MUDHONEY
  16. Love Buzz - NIRVANA
  17. Revolution - SPACEMEN 3
  18. Orange Crush - R.E.M.
  19. Everyday Is Like Sunday - MORRISSEY
  20. Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now? - THE WEDDING PRESENT
  21. Deus - THE SUGARCUBES
  22. Red Sun EP - THIN WHITE ROPE
  23. Mountain Song - JANE'S ADDICTION
  24. Silver Rocket - SONIC YOUTH
  25. Deanna - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
  26. Biting My Nails - RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE
  27. Follow the Leader - ERIC B &RAKIM
  28. My Philosophy - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS
  29. Colors - ICE-T
  30. Blind - TALKING HEADS
  31. Sometimes, Almost Always EP - fIREHOSE
  32. 2541 - GRANT HART
  33. Finest Worksong - R.E.M.
  34. Talkin' All That Jazz - STETSASONIC
  35. Strictly Business - E.P.M.D.
  36. Elephant Stone - THE STONE ROSES
  37. Crash - THE PRIMITIVES
  38. Dying for It / Molly's Lips - THE VASELINES
  39. Nobody's Twisting Your Arm - THE WEDDING PRESENT
  40. Suedehead - MORRISSEY
  41. What's the Matter Here - 10,000 MANIACS
  42. Fisherman's Blues - THE WATERBOYS
  43. Plane Crash EP - INSPIRAL CARPETS
  44. Give Give Give Me More More More - THE WONDER STUFF
  45. Def Con One - POP WILL EAT ITSELF
  46. Kidney Bingos - WIRE
  47. 'Cause I Said So - THE GODFATHERS
  48. Headin' South - THE NEW CHRISTS
  49. Punk Rock Girl - THE DEAD MILKMEN
  50. Clear Blue Sky / Distant Relatives - MEGA CITY FOUR

1988 Singles by ody on Grooveshark

Oct 30, 2011

The Best Singles of 1987

Top 50













  1. Rebel Without A Pause - PUBLIC ENEMY
  2. Shine On - THE HOUSE OF LOVE
  3. The One I Love - R.E.M.
  4. Hit The North - THE FALL
  5. Paid In Full - ERIC B & RAKIM
  6. Birthday - THE SUGARCUBES
  7. Chains Changed EP - THROWING MUSES
  8. Headache EP - BIG BLACK
  9. Blessing and Curse EP - BAND OF SUSANS
  10. My Favourite Dress - THE WEDDING PRESENT
  11. Could You Be the One? - HÜSKER DÜ
  12. Crawl Babies - THE PASTELS
  13. Right Here - THE GO-BETWEENS
  14. Big Decision - THAT PETROL EMOTION
  15. Sign 'O' The Times - PRINCE
  16. Pump Up The Volume - M/A/R/R/S
  17. True Faith - NEW ORDER
  18. Just Like Heaven - THE CURE
  19. Girlfriend In A Coma - THE SMITHS
  20. Bury Me Deep In Love - THE TRIFFIDS
  21. Lollita EP - A.R. KANE
  22. Son Of A Gun - THE VASELINES
  23. April Skies - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
  24. You're Gonna Get Yours - PUBLIC ENEMY
  25. I Wanna Live - RAMONES
  26. Alex Chilton - THE REPLACEMENTS
  27. New Mind - SWANS
  28. There’s A Ghost In My House - THE FALL
  29. Preposterous Tales - I, LUDICROUS
  30. Anyone Can Make a Mistake - THE WEDDING PRESENT
  31. Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before - THE SMITHS
  32. I Know You Got Soul - ERIC B & RAKIM
  33. Poetry - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS
  34. Never And Always - THE THREE JOHNS
  35. Sally Cinnamon - THE STONE ROSES
  36. Big Hollow Man - DANIELLE DAX
  37. Trampolene - JULIAN COPE
  38. Birth School Work Death - THE GODFATHERS
  39. Where the Streets Have No Name - U2
  40. Clarkesville - GREEN ON RED
  41. My Favourite Room - LIME SPIDERS
  42. Night of the Many Deaths - THE TRILOBITES
  43. My Pal - GOD
  44. No Sleep Till Brooklyn - BEASTIE BOYS
  45. Push It - SALT 'N' PEPA
  46. Happy Birthday (Yet Another) - THE BAMBI SLAM
  47. Unbearable - THE WONDER STUFF
  48. 24 Hour Party People - HAPPY MONDAYS
  49. Sheila Take a Bow - THE SMITHS
  50. It Didn't Matter - THE STYLE COUNCIL

Sep 30, 2011

The Best Singles of 1986

Top 50













  1. Mr Pharmacist - THE FALL
  2. World Shut Your Mouth - JULIAN COPE
  3. Wide Open Road - THE TRIFFIDS
  4. Into the Groovey - CICCONE YOUTH
  5. Bigmouth Strikes Again - THE SMITHS
  6. I Want You - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
  7. Fall on Me - R.E.M.
  8. Take the Skinheads Bowling - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN
  9. Saturday Night - SCHOOLLY D
  10. Panic - THE SMITHS
  11. Some Candy Talking - JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
  12. Flower - SONIC YOUTH
  13. Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely - HUSKER DU
  14. Spring Rain - THE GO-BETWEENS
  15. River Of Love - THE SPIKES
  16. Walk This Way - RUN DMC
  17. (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) - BEASTIE BOYS
  18. Bizarre Love Triangle - NEW ORDER
  19. Truck Train Tractor - THE PASTELS
  20. Tokyo Storm Warning - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
  21. Once More - THE WEDDING PRESENT
  22. I Love My Leather Jacket - THE CHILLS
  23. If You Were A Priest - ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE EGYPTIANS
  24. Bad News Travel Fast - THE FUZZTONES
  25. Living To Late - THE FALL
  26. Starpower - SONIC YOUTH
  27. Brave Captain - fIREHOSE
  28. Somebody Put Something in My Drink - RAMONES
  29. 51st State - NEW MODEL ARMY
  30. Born Out of Time - THE NEW CHRISTS
  31. This Damn Nation - THE GODFATHERS
  32. Like an Angel - THE MIGHTY LEMON DROPS
  33. Infected - THE THE
  34. Kaw-Liga - THE RESIDENTS
  35. Mind At The End Of The Tether - TACKHEAD
  36. South Bronx - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS
  37. Kiss - PRINCE
  38. Word Up - CAMEO
  39. Eric B. Is President - ERIC B. & RAKIM
  40. Bassline - MANTRONIX
  41. Kiss - AGE OF CHANCE
  42. A Screw - SWANS
  43. 1936: The Spanish Revolution - THE EX
  44. Therese - THE BODINES
  45. Almost Prayed - THE WEATHER PROPHETS
  46. Driving Away from Home (Jim's Tune) - IT'S IMMATERIAL
  47. Sledgehammer - PETER GABRIEL
  48. Graceland - PAUL SIMON
  49. Greetings to the New Brunette - BILLY BRAGG
  50. Don't Get Me Wrong - THE PRETENDERS


Aug 31, 2011

The Best Singles of 1985

Top 50













  1. How Soon Is Now? - THE SMITHS
  2. Cruiser's Creek / L.A. - THE FALL
  3. Tupelo - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
  4. Never Understand - THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN
  5. The Perfect Kiss - NEW ORDER
  6. Walls Come Tumbling Down - THE STYLE COUNCIL
  7. Fields Of Glass EP - THE TRIFFIDS
  8. Love & Desperation - JEFFREY LEE PIERCE
  9. Looking For Lewis and Clark - THE LONG RYDERS
  10. Makes No Sense At All - HUSKER DU
  11. Yu Gung - EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
  12. King of Rock - RUN DMC
  13. Cities in Dust - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
  14. Driver 8 - R.E.M.
  15. Heaven - ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE EGYPTIANS
  16. In Between Days - THE CURE
  17. Just Like Honey - THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN
  18. Chance - RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY
  19. Death of the European - THE THREE JOHNS
  20. Up The Hill and Down the Slope - THE LOFT
  21. The Boy with the Thorn in His Side - THE SMITHS
  22. You Trip Me Up - THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN
  23. Kick Over the Statues! - REDSKINS
  24. Like A Curse - THE NEW CHRISTS
  25. She's Wicked - THE FUZZTONES
  26. V2 - THAT PETROL EMOTION
  27. America - PRINCE
  28. Road to Nowhere - TALKING HEADS
  29. Bring on the Dancing Horses - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
  30. Rollin' Dany / Couldn't Get Ahead - THE FALL
  31. Go Out and Get 'Em Boy! - THE WEDDING PRESENT
  32. No Rest - NEW MODEL ARMY
  33. Salad Days - MINOR THREAT
  34. Out of Control - LIME SPIDERS
  35. Date with a Vampyre - THE SCREAMING TRIBESMEN
  36. Time Ain't Nothing - GREEN ON RED
  37. Between the Wars - BILLY BRAGG
  38. Sunspots - JULIAN COPE
  39. Move Me - THE WOODENTOPS
  40. Raspberry Beret - PRINCE
  41. Rock the Bells - LL COOL J
  42. Needle to the Groove - MANTRONIX
  43. I Want You - CABARET VOLTAIRE
  44. No Time to Cry - THE SISTERS OF MERCY
  45. When All's Well - EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL
  46. The Whole of the Moon - THE WATERBOYS
  47. Don't You (Forget About Me) - SIMPLE MINDS
  48. She Sells Sanctuary - THE CULT
  49. Sequenz - XMAL DEUTSCHLAND
  50. All Fall Down - PRIMAL SCREAM



Jul 28, 2011

The Best Singles of 1984

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  1. Upside Down - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
  2. Death Valley '69 - SONIC YOUTH
  3. What Difference Does It Make? - THE SMITHS
  4. Dirty - HARD CORPS
  5. Do The Square Thing - THE THREE JOHNS
  6. Oh! Brother - THE FALL
  7. Pink Frost - THE CHILLS
  8. Racer-X - BIG BLACK
  9. C.R.E.E.P. - THE FALL
  10. The Killing Moon - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
  11. Our Darkness - ANNE CLARK
  12. Shout To The Top - THE STYLE COUNCIL
  13. Still Ill - THE SMITHS
  14. Pretty Persuasion - R.E.M.
  15. Slave Girl - LIME SPIDERS
  16. Psycho - BEASTS OF BOURBON
  17. Eight Miles High - HUSKER DU
  18. Eighties - KILLING JOKE
  19. Call For Escape Route EP - THE FALL
  20. World Destruction - TIME ZONE
  21. Middle of the Road - PRETENDERS
  22. The Greatness and Perfection of Love - JULIAN COPE
  23. Walk Into The Sun - THE MARCH VIOLETS
  24. Pearly Dewdrops' Drops - COCTEAU TWINS
  25. Close (To The Edit) - THE ART OF NOISE
  26. Calamity Crush - FOETUS-ART-TERRORISM
  27. Sensoria - CABARET VOLTAIRE
  28. Keep On Keeping On - THE REDSKINS
  29. I Will Dare - THE REPLACEMENTS
  30. Celebrated Summer / New Day Rising - HUSKER DU
  31. Bad News Travels Fast - THE FUZZTONES
  32. Change Is Gonna Come - DROOGS
  33. Medicine Show - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
  34. Like a Curse - THE NEW CHRISTS
  35. Walk Away / Poison Door - THE SISTERS OF MERCY
  36. Thieves Like Us - NEW ORDER
  37. I Wanna Be Loved - ELVIS COSTELLO
  38. When Doves Cry - PRINCE
  39. Dancing In The Dark - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
  40. I Want You Back - HOODOO GURUS
  41. In The Ghetto - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
  42. Fell From The Sun - KENDRA SMITH & DAVID ROBACK & KEITH MITCHEL
  43. Come Back - THE MIGHTY WAH!
  44. Let's Go Crazy - PRINCE
  45. Rock Box - RUN-D.M.C.
  46. Unity - AFRIKA BAMBAATAA & JAMES BROWN
  47. The Lebanon - THE HUMAN LEAGUE
  48. Michael Caine - MADNESS
  49. You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want) - JOE JACKSON
  50. Bachelor Kisses - THE GO-BETWEENS


      Jun 24, 2011

      The Best Singles of 1983

      Top 50

      1. Blue Monday - NEW ORDER
      2. Hand in glove - THE SMITHS
      3. She's in parties - BAUHAUS
      4. Gone daddy gone - VIOLENT FEMMES
      5. Cattle and cane - THE GO-BETWEENS
      6. This charming man - THE SMITHS
      7. The man whose head expanded - THE FALL
      8. A.W.O.L. - THE THREE JOHNS
      9. Temple of love - SISTERS OF MERCY
      10. Oblivious - AZTEC CAMERA
      11. The cutter - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
      12. Let's all go (to the fire dances) - KILLING JOKE
      13. Mutiny EP - BIRTHDAY PARTY
      14. Kicker conspiracy - THE FALL
      15. Burning down the house - TALKING HEADS
      16. Money-Go-Round (Parts 1+2) - THE STYLE COUNCIL
      17. Every day I write the book - ELVIS COSTELLO
      18. New Year’s Day - U2
      19. Looking for the perfect beat - AFRIKA BAMBAATAA & THE SOUL SONIC FORCE
      20. This is not a love song - P.I.L.
      21. The walk - THE CURE
      22. Just fascination - CABARET VOLTAIRE
      23. Snake dance - THE MARCH VIOLETS
      24. I want to help you Ann - LYRES
      25. Another state of mind - SOCIAL DISTORTION
      26. Bad seed EP - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
      27. Marquis cha-cha - THE FALL
      28. Lean on me - THE REDSKINS
      29. Great expectations - NEW MODEL ARMY
      30. Mexican radio - WALL OF VOODOO
      31. Tomorrow's (just another day) - MADNESS
      32. Palm of my hand - THE PALE FOUNTAINS
      33. Talk about the passion - R.E.M.
      34. Sunday bloody Sunday - U2
      35. Waterfront - SIMPLE MINDS
      36. Let them all talk - ELVIS COSTELLO
      37. Speak like a child - THE STYLE COUNCIL
      38. Beat box - THE ART OF NOISE
      39. White lines (Don't don't do it) - GRANDMASTER FLASH & MELLE MEL
      40. It's like that - RUN-D.M.C.
      41. Hip-Hop-Bommi-Bop - THE INCREADIBLE T.H. SCRATCHERS STARRING FREDDY LOVE
      42. Long hot summer - THE STYLE COUNCIL
      43. Sugar hiccup - COCTEAU TWINS
      44. Song to the siren - THIS MORTAL COIL
      45. Dear prudence - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
      46. The crackdown - CABARET VOLTAIRE
      47. October (love song) - CHRIS AND COSEY
      48. Change - TEARS FOR FEARS
      49. Relax - FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
      50. New gold dream (81-82-83-84) - SIMPLE MINDS

      May 20, 2011

      The Best Singles of 1982

      Top 50













      1. Town called malice - THE JAM
      2. Slowdive - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
      3. The message - GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE
      4. Planet rock - AFRIKA BAMBAATAA & THE SOUL SONIC FORCE
      5. Let's go to bed - THE CURE
      6. Temptation - NEW ORDER
      7. I melt with you - MODERN ENGLISH
      8. Love my way - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
      9. Alice - THE SISTERS OF MERCY
      10. I love a man in uniform - GANG OF FOUR
      11. Know your rights - THE CLASH
      12. Back on the chain gang - PRETENDERS
      13. The back of love - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
      14. Melt! - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
      15. The hanging garden - THE CURE
      16. Life in the gladhouse - MODERN ENGLISH
      17. Look, know - THE FALL
      18. Fire of love - THE GUN CLUB
      19. Rolling moon - THE CHILLS
      20. Senses working overtime - XTC
      21. Beat surrender - THE JAM
      22. Never say never - ROMEO VOID
      23. ESG Says Dance to the Beat of Moody - ESG
      24. Knife slits water - A CERTAIN RATIO
      25. Empire song - KILLING JOKE
      26. Ziggy Stardust - BAUHAUS
      27. Mad world - TEARS FOR FEARS
      28. Come on Eileen - DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
      29. Our house - MADNESS
      30. Annie get your gun - SQUEEZE
      31. Pillar to post - AZTEC CAMERA
      32. The story of the blues - WAH!
      33. Shipbuilding - ROBERT WYATT
      34. Man out of time - ELVIS COSTELLO
      35. Blue spark - X
      36. In a free land - HUSKER DU
      37. 1945 - SOCIAL DISTORTION
      38. Bleed for me - DEAD KENNEDYS
      39. Incubus Succubus - XMAL DEUTSCHLAND
      40. Dancing / True love - ZOUNDS
      41. Rock the Casbah - THE CLASH
      42. Shock the monkey - PETER GABRIEL
      43. Promised you a miracle - SIMPLE MINDS
      44. In shreds - THE CHAMELEONS
      45. Felicity - ORANGE JUICE
      46. Steppin' out - JOE JACKSON
      47. Situation - YAZOO
      48. Let me go! - HEAVEN 17
      49. Poison arrow - ABC
      50. Buffalo gals - MALCOLM MCLAREN

      Apr 25, 2011

      The Best Singles of 1981

      Top 50













      1. Sex beat / Ghost on the highway - THE GUN CLUB
      2. Spellbound - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
      3. Once in a lifetime - TALKING HEADS
      4. That's entertainment - THE JAM
      5. Ghost town - THE SPECIALS
      6. Radio free Europe - R.E.M.
      7. Goo Goo muck - THE CRAMPS
      8. Romeo - WIPERS
      9. Lie dream of a casino soul - THE FALL
      10. What we all want - GANG OF FOUR
      11. Ceremony - NEW ORDER
      12. Reward - THE TEARDROP EXPLODES
      13. Don't you want me - THE HUMAN LEAGUE
      14. The Jezebel spirit - BRIAN ENO & DAVID BYRNE
      15. Flowers of romance - P.I.L.
      16. Primary - THE CURE
      17. Kick in the eye - BAUHAUS
      18. Follow the leaders - KILLING JOKE
      19. Too drunk to fuck - THE DEAD KENNEDYS
      20. Release the bats - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
      21. Demystification - ZOUNDS
      22. You're no good - ESG
      23. Things that go boom in the night - BUSH TETRAS
      24. Pretty in pink - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
      25. Love song - SIMPLE MINDS
      26. Tainted love - SOFT CELL
      27. Rapture - BLONDIE
      28. We want the airwaves - RAMONES
      29. The magnificent seven - THE CLASH
      30. Inconvenience - THE AU PAIRS
      31. The art of parties - JAPAN
      32. The gospel comes to New Guinea - 23 SKIDOO
      33. Computer love / The Model - KRAFTWERK
      34. Der Mussolini - DAF
      35. (We don't need this) Fascist groove thang - HEAVEN 17
      36. O Superman - LAURIE ANDERSON
      37. Papa's got a brand new Pigbag - PIGBAG
      38. It must be love - MADNESS
      39. One in ten - UB40
      40. From a whisper to a scream - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
      41. Only the stones remain - THE SOFT BOYS
      42. The river - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
      43. Gloria - U2
      44. Respectable street - XTC
      45. A promise - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
      46. Your turn, my turn - THE GO-BETWEENS
      47. Calcutta - THE NAMES
      48. The fish needs a bike - BLURT
      49. Sex bomb - FLIPPER
      50. Six pack - BLACK FLAG


      1981 Singles by ody on Grooveshark

      Mar 12, 2011

      The Best Singles of 1980

      Top 50













      1. Going underground - THE JAM
      2. Love will tear us apart - JOY DIVISION
      3. Totally wired - THE FALL
      4. A forest - THE CURE
      5. Rescue - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
      6. Treason - TEARDROP EXPLODES
      7. Mr. Jones - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
      8. Garbageman - THE CRAMPS
      9. Seven minutes to midnight - WAH! HEAT
      10. Christine - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
      11. It’s obvious - THE AU PAIRS
      12. Holiday in Cambodia - DEAD KENNEDYS
      13. Alien boy - WIPERS
      14. Wardance - KILLING JOKE
      15. How I wrote 'Elastic Man' - THE FALL
      16. The great curve - TALKING HEADS
      17. Start! - THE JAM
      18. Precious - PRETENDERS
      19. Atomic - BLONDIE
      20. Too many creeps - BUSH TETRAS
      21. Israel - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
      22. Atmosphere - JOY DIVISION
      23. The puppet - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
      24. Gathering dust - MODERN ENGLISH
      25. Mr. Clarinet - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
      26. Dark entries - BAUHAUS
      27. Let's build a car - SWELL MAPS
      28. I wanna destroy you - THE SOFT BOYS
      29. Bankrobber - THE CLASH
      30. Call me - BLONDIE
      31. Ashes to ashes - DAVID BOWIE
      32. Whip it - DEVO
      33. My girl - MADNESS
      34. Another nail in my heart - SQUEEZE
      35. Shack up - A CERTAIN RATIO
      36. Changeling - SIMPLE MINDS
      37. Enola Gay - ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK
      38. Private Idaho - THE B-52's
      39. You - DELTA 5
      40. Final day - YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS
      41. A song from under the floorboards - MAGAZINE
      42. I can't stand up for falling down - ELVIS COSTELLO
      43. White girl - X
      44. Ha ha ha - FLIPPER
      45. Amoeba - ADOLESCENTS
      46. I wanna be sedated - RAMONES
      47. I will follow - U2
      48. Too much too young - THE SPECIALS
      49. Geno - DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
      50. Dog eat dog - ADAM AND THE ANTS


      Feb 9, 2011

      The Best Albums Of The '00s

      Top 100

      1. Stories from the city, stories from the sea - P.J. HARVEY
      2. Is this it - THE STROKES
      3. Turn on the bright lights - INTERPOL
      4. Return to cookie mountain - TV ON THE RADIO
      5. Songs for the deaf - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
      6. Elephant - THE WHITE STRIPES
      7. Fever to tell - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
      8. Exterminator - PRIMAL SCREAM
      9. The unutterable - THE FALL
      10. Dig!!! Lazarus, dig!!! - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
      11. Let’s stay friends - LES SAVY FAV
      12. Franz Ferdinand - FRANZ FERDINAND
      13. Whatever people say I am, that's what I am not - ARCTIC MONKEYS
      14. Good news for people who love bad news - MODEST MOUSE
      15. Silent alarm - BLOC PARTY
      16. LCD Soundsystem - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
      17. Dance mother - TELEPATHE
      18. Source tags and codes - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD
      19. Throwing Muses - THROWING MUSES
      20. 23 - BLONDE REDHEAD
      21. Funeral - ARCADE FIRE
      22. Yoshimi battles the pink robots - THE FLAMING LIPS
      23. The eternal - SONIC YOUTH
      24. Gimme fiction - SPOON
      25. One beat - SLEATER-KINNEY
      26. Coral fang - THE DISTILLERS
      27. Group sounds - ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT
      28. Isolation drills - GUIDED BY VOICES
      29. Take them on, on your own - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
      30. Exploding head - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
      31. Abattoir blues / The lyre of Orpheus - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
      32. Picaresque - THE DECEMBERISTS
      33. All is dream - MERCURY REV
      34. Let it come down - SPIRITUALIZED
      35. Fall heads roll - THE FALL
      36. Dear science - TV ON THE RADIO
      37. R - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
      38. Relationship of command - AT THE DRIVE-IN
      39. All hands on the bad one - SLEATER-KINNEY
      40. The friends of Rachel Worth - THE GO-BETWEENS
      41. You are free - CAT POWER
      42. The moon and Antarctica - MODEST MOUSE
      43. Icky thump - THE WHITE STRIPES
      44. Grinderman - GRINDERMAN
      45. Cansei De Ser Sexy - CSS
      46. Show your bones - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
      47. Louden up now - !!!
      48. Echoes - THE RAPTURE
      49. Room on fire - THE STROKES
      50. You are the quarry - MORRISSEY
      51. The sophtware slump - GRANDADDY
      52. Stephen Malkmus - STEPHEN MALKMUS
      53. White blood cells - THE WHITE STRIPES
      54. Black rebel motorcycle club - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
      55. The argument - FUGAZI
      56. Golden ocean - 50 FOOT WAVE
      57. No wow - THE KILLS
      58. Pawn shoppe heart - THE VON BONDIES
      59. Antics - INTERPOL
      60. Sonic nurse - SONIC YOUTH
      61. Desperate youth, blood thirsty babes - TV ON THE RADIO
      62. We were dead before the ship even sank - MODEST MOUSE
      63. Favourite worst nightmare - ARCTIC MONKEYS
      64. You could have it so much better - FRANZ FERDINAND
      65. I'm wide awake, it's morning - BRIGHT EYES
      66. Illinois - SUFJAN STEVENS
      67. Fantasies - METRIC
      68. Two suns - BAT FOR LASHES
      69. Merriweather post pavilion - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
      70. Antidotes - FOALS
      71. Neptune - THE DUKE SPIRIT
      72. Crystal Castles - CRYSTAL CASTLES
      73. To the 5 boroughs - BEASTIE BOYS
      74. It's blitz! - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
      75. Midnight boom - THE KILLS
      76. Be Your Own Pet - BE YOUR OWN PET
      77. Derdang derdang - ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT
      78. The crane wife - THE DECEMBERISTS
      79. Neon bible - ARCADE FIRE
      80. Ancient melodies of the future - BUILT TO SPILL
      81. Boys and girls in America - THE HOLD STEADY
      82. Consolers of the lonely - THE RACONTEURS
      83. Saturnalia - THE GUTTER TWINS
      84. Third - PORTISHEAD
      85. Fever Ray - FEVER RAY
      86. The teaches of Peaches - PEACHES
      87. The W - WU-TANG CLAN
      88. Evil heat - PRIMAL SCREAM
      89. A weekend in the city - BLOC PARTY
      90. 100 broken windows - IDLEWILD
      91. Highly evolved - THE VINES
      92. Original pirate material - THE STREETS
      93. You can't fight what you can't see - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
      94. Title TK - BREEDERS
      95. They threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top - LIARS
      96. The new romance - PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES
      97. The real new Fall LP (formerly ‘Country On The Click’) - THE FALL
      98. Send - WIRE
      99. You forgot it in people - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
      100. Stankonia - OUTKAST
      The next hundred:

      First impressions of earth - THE STROKES, Our love to admire - INTERPOL, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - SPOON, Horehound - THE DEAD WEATHER, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART, Beat pyramid - THESE NEW PURITANS, Give up - THE POSTAL SERVICE, Fantastic damage - EL-P, Tromatic reflexxions - VON SUDENFED, Gotham! - RADIO 4, Murray street - SONIC YOUTH, Misery is a butterfly - BLONDE REDHEAD, Automatic midnight - HOT SNAKES, Bubblegum - MARK LANEGAN BAND, The great destroyer - LOW, You in reverse - BUILT TO SPILL, No cities left - THE DEARS, Old world underground, where are you now? - METRIC, Lovers - THE SLEEPY JACKSON, Digital ash in a digital urn - BRIGHT EYES, Hot fuss - THE KILLERS, Cuts across the land - THE DUKE SPIRIT, Rather ripped - SONIC YOUTH, Beyond - DINOSAUR JR., Baby 81 - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, Lullabies to paralyze - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, Fishscale - GHOSTFACE KILLAH, I’ll sleep when you're dead - EL-P, Yoyoyoyoyo - SPANK ROCK, Sound of silver - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, Proof of youth - THE GO! TEAM, Cassadaga - BRIGHT EYES, Because of the times - KINGS OF LEON, Wincing the night away - THE SHINS, In rainbows - RADIOHEAD, Sumday - GRANDADDY, Oracular spectacular - MGMT, Keep on your mean side - THE KILLS, Fatherfucker - PEACHES, A brief history of love - THE BIG PINK, Get color - HEALTH, Only built 4 Cuban linx… pt. II - RAEKWON, Iron flag - WU-TANG CLAN, Are you are missing winner - THE FALL, No more shall we part - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, Ease down the road - BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, It’s a wonderful life - SPARKLEHORSE, Embryonic - THE FLAMING LIPS, Broken Social Scene - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, Everything ecstatic - FOUR TET, Get ready - NEW ORDER, 604 - LADYTRON, Souljacker - EELS, The power out - ELECTRELANE, Bows + arrows - THE WALKMEN, More light - J MASCIS + THE FOG, Good news for modern man - GRANT HART, God says no - MONSTER MAGNET, Thirteen tales from urban bohemia - THE DANDY WARHOLS, Boxer - THE NATIONAL, Golden lies - MEAT PUPPETS, Change - THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN, You're a woman, I’m a machine - DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979, Tyrannosaurus Hives - THE HIVES, Behind the music - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES, A certain feeling - BODIES OF WATER, Songs in A&E - SPIRITUALIZED, Uh huh her - PJ HARVEY, Rock N Roll - RYAN ADAMS, Blackberry belle - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH, The woods - SLEATER-KINNEY, Set yourself on fire - STARS, More adventurous - RILO KILEY, Pretty in black - THE RAVEONETTES, Plastic fang - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION, Kill the moonlight - SPOON, Loyalty to loyalty - COLD WAR KIDS, Vampire Weekend - VAMPIRE WEEKEND, Box of secrets - BLOOD RED SHOES, Chat and business - IKARA COLT, Walking with thee - CLINIC, Phrenology - THE ROOTS, The cold vein - CANNIBAL OX, #1 - FISCHERSPOONER, Sound-dust - STEREOLAB, Got it made - BRASSY, Will save us all! - CHICKS ON SPEED, Dongs of sevotion - SMOG, And then nothing turned itself inside-out - YO LA TENGO, 1000 hurts - SHELLAC, Pound for pound - ROYAL TRUX, Strays - JANE'S ADDICTION, Electric version - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, Chore of enchantment - GIANT SAND, The photo album - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, I'm going away - THE FIERY FURNACES, Let us never speak of it again - OUT HUD, The college dropout - KANYE WEST, Arular - M.I.A.

      Jan 28, 2011

      The Best Albums Of 2009

      Top 50


      1. Dance mother - TELEPATHE
      2. Exploding head - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
      3. The eternal - SONIC YOUTH
      4. Fantasies - METRIC
      5. Two suns - BAT FOR LASHES
      6. It's blitz! - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
      7. Merriweather Post Pavilion - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
      8. Fever Ray - FEVER RAY
      9. Horehound - THE DEAD WEATHER
      10. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
      11. A brief history of love - THE BIG PINK
      12. Get color - HEALTH
      13. Only built 4 Cuban linx… pt. II - RAEKWON
      14. Embryonic - THE FLAMING LIPS
      15. I'm going away - THE FIERY FURNACES
      16. Marry me tonight - HTRK
      17. Face control - HANDSOME FURS
      18. Post-Nothing - JAPANDROIDS
      19. Fits - WHITE DENIM
      20. Popular songs - YO LA TENGO
      21. Rated O - ONEIDA
      22. Futuro - THE LOW FREQUENCY IN STEREO
      23. Dragonslayer - SUNSET RUBDOWN
      24. Six - THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION
      25. Farm - DINOSAUR JR.
      26. Dim light - GUN OUTFIT
      27. Everything goes wrong - VIVIAN GIRLS
      28. Rose city - VIVA VOCE
      29. XX - THE XX
      30. Tonight: Franz Ferdinand - FRANZ FERDINAND
      31. Humbug - ARCTIC MONKEYS
      32. There is no enemy - BUILT TO SPILL
      33. Dos - WOODEN SHJIPS
      34. Primary colours - THE HORRORS
      35. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - PHOENIX
      36. Lungs - FLORENCE + THE MACHINE
      37. Radio wars - HOWLING BELLS
      38. Years of refusal - MORRISSEY
      39. The ecstatic - MOS DEF
      40. Dark night of the soul - DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE
      41. Balf quarry - MAGIK MARKERS
      42. Sewn together - MEAT PUPPETS
      43. Broken - SOULSAVERS
      44. Monsters Of Folk - MONSTERS OF FOLK
      45. Outer south - CONOR OBERST AND THE MYSTIC VALLEY BAND
      46. Wilco (The album) - WILCO
      47. The hazards of love - THE DECEMBERISTS
      48. My old familiar friend - BRENDAN BENSON
      49. Middle cyclone - NEKO CASE
      50. Sometimes I wish we were an eagle - BILL CALLAHAN
        Also recommended:

        Actor - ST. VINCENT, Big sexy noise - BIG SEXY NOISE, I blame you - OBITS, King of jeans - PISSED JEANS, Tarot sport - FUCK BUTTONS, Love comes close - COLD CAVE, Phrazes for the young - JULIAN CASABLANCAS, Them Crooked Vultures - THEM CROOKED VULTURES, Swoon - SILVERSUN PICKUPS, In and out of control - THE RAVEONETTES, Bitte orca - DIRTY PROJECTORS, Logos - ATLAS SOUND, My maudlin career - CAMERA OBSCURA, Broken side of time - ALBERTA CROSS, Hot wax - GRANT HART, Now we can see - THE THERMALS, Spinnerette - SPINNERETTE, Til the casket drops - CLIPSE, Further complications - JARVIS COCKER, Kingdom of rust - DOVES, Baby darling doll face honey - BAND OF SKULLS, Infinite light - LIGHTNING DUST, A woman a man walked by - P.J. HARVEY & JOHN PARISH, Beware - BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, Petits fours - GRAND DUCHY, Backspacer - PEARL JAM, The century of self - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, 200 million thousand - BLACK LIPS, Travels with myself and another - FUTURE OF THE LEFT, Art Brut vs. Satan - ART BRUT, Ignore the ignorant - THE CRIBS, In this light and on this evening - EDITORS, Julian Plenti is… skyscraper - JULIAN PLENTI, Love hate and then there's you - THE VON BONDIES, Yours truly, the commuter - JASON LYTLE, Goodnight unknown - LOU BARLOW, Varshons - THE LEMONHEADS, The spirit of Apollo - N.A.S.A., I feel cream - PEACHES, Music for men - GOSSIP, Hush - ASOBI SEKSU, Dear John - LONEY DEAR, Two dancers - WILD BEASTS, Bird-brains - TUNE-YARDS, The airing of grievances - TITUS ANDRONICUS, Why there are mountains - CYMBALS EAT GUITARS, Love on an oil rig - THE VICTORIAN ENGLISH GENTLEMENS CLUB, Tentacles - CRYSTAL ANTLERS, Grace/Wastelands - PETER DOHERTY, Expressions - MUSIC GO MUSIC, Jewellery - MICACHU & THE SHAPES, All aboard future - THESE ARE POWERS, Nowhere forever - LOVE OF DIAGRAMS, Nests - SHE KEEPS BEES, After robots - BLK JKS, Hospice - THE ANTLERS, What will we be - DEVENDRA BANHART, Psychic chasms - NEON INDIAN, Dark days/Light years - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, Checkmate savage - PHANTOM BAND, Armonico hewa - OOIOO, Album - GIRLS, Veckatimest - GRIZZLY BEAR, Seek magic - MEMORY TAPES, Outside love - THE PINK MOUNTAINTOPS, Romanian names - JOHN VANDERSLICE, A balloon called moaning - THE JOY FORMIDABLE, Under and under - BLANK DOGS, Kingstonlogic 2.0 - TERRY LYNN, Guns don't kill people…Lazers do - MAJOR LAZER, Three EPs - SHACKLETON, Ambivalence Avenue - BIBIO, SyMptoMs - MORDANT MUSIC, Cassette city - LUSHLIFE, Gutter tactics - DALEK, Born like this - DOOM, The blueprint 3 - JAY-Z, BlaQKout - DJ QUIK & KURUPT, Blackroc - BLACKROC, Temporary pleasure - SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO, Begone dull care - JUNIOR BOYS, Manners - PASSION PIT, Walking on a dream - EMPIRE OF THE SUN, Rain Machine - RAIN MACHINE, Gorilla manor - LOCAL NATIVES, Harum scarum - JOE GIDEON AND THE SHARK, The sound the speed the light - MISSION OF BURMA, Trapped animal - THE SLITS, Down with liberty...Up with chains! - CHAIN AND THE GANG, Pine/Cross Dover - MASTERS OF REALITY, Goodnight Oslo - ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE VENUS 3, Life and times - BOB MOULD, The real feel - SPIRAL STAIRS, Mo beauty - ALEC OUNSWORTH, The BQE - SUFJAN STEVENS, Noble beast - ANDREW BIRD, Through the devil softly - HOPE SANDOVAL & THE WARM INVENTIONS, Sun gangs - THE VEILS, Oh my God, Charlie Darwin - THE LOW ANTHEM, Dead Man’s Bones - DEAD MAN’S BONES, Bromst - DAN DEACON, Watch me fall - JAY REATARD, Post electric blues - IDLEWILD, Ashes grammar - A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW, 200 tons of bad luck - CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX, Earthly delights - LIGHTNING BOLT, Monoliths & dimensions - SUNN O))), Crack the skye - MASTADON, Dracula boots - KID CONGO AND THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS, The visitor - JIM O'ROURKE, Monster head room - GANGLIANS, To be still - ALELA DIANE, The life of the world to come - MOUNTAIN GOATS, Songs of shame - WOODS, The Smith Westerns - THE SMITH WESTERNS, Real Estate - REAL ESTATE, It’s frightening - WHITE RABBITS, Turning the mind - MAPS, Junior - ROYKSOPP, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum - KASABIAN, Only revolutions - BIFFY CLYRO, Wall of arms - THE MACCABEES, Tale to tell - MUMMERS, Kings & Queens - JAMIE T, Truelove's gutter - RICHARD HAWLEY, Far - REGINA SPECTOR, The crying light - ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS, One fast move or I’m gone: Music from Kerouac’s Big Sur - JAY FARRAR & BENJAMIN GIBBARD, Journal for plague lovers - MANIC STREET PREACHERS, Klang - THE RAKES, Grey Britain - GALLOWS, I had the blues but I shook them loose - BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB, Quicken the heart - MAXIMO PARK, The resistance - MUSE, No line on the horizon - U2, Working on a dream - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Together through life - BOB DYLAN, Welcome to Mali - AMADOU & MARIAM, Imidiwan: Companions - TINARIWEN, Warm heart of Africa - THE VERY BEST, JJ no2 - JJ, Summertime! - THE DRUMS, No one's first and you're next - MODEST MOUSE, Enter The Vaselines - THE VASELINES.

        Jan 19, 2011

        The Best Albums Of 2008

        Top 50


        1. Dig!!! Lazarus dig!!! - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
        2. Dear science - TV ON THE RADIO
        3. Antidotes - FOALS
        4. Neptune - THE DUKE SPIRIT
        5. Crystal Castles - CRYSTAL CASTLES
        6. Midnight boom - THE KILLS
        7. Consolers of the lonely - THE RACONTEURS
        8. Saturnalia - THE GUTTER TWINS
        9. Third - PORTISHEAD
        10. Beat pyramid - THESE NEW PURITANS
        11. Oracular spectacular - MGMT
        12. A certain feeling - BODIES OF WATER
        13. Songs in A&E - SPIRITUALIZED
        14. Loyalty to loyalty - COLD WAR KIDS
        15. Stay positive - THE HOLD STEADY
        16. Box of secrets - BLOOD RED SHOES
        17. Vampire Weekend - VAMPIRE WEEKEND
        18. Conor Oberst - CONOR OBERST
        19. Intimacy - BLOC PARTY
        20. Santogold - SANTOGOLD
        21. Velocifero - LADYTRON
        22. Re-arrange us - MATES OF STATE
        23. Imperial wax solvent - THE FALL
        24. Beautiful future - PRIMAL SCREAM
        25. Saint Dymphna - GANG GANG DANCE
        26. Donkey - CSS
        27. Partie traumatic - BLACK KIDS
        28. The bake sale - THE COOL KIDS
        29. Narrow stairs - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
        30. Lookout mountain, lookout sea - SILVER JEWS
        31. Fleet Foxes - FLEET FOXES
        32. Only by the night - KINGS OF LEON
        33. Accelerate - R.E.M.
        34. Microcastle / Weird era continued - DEERHUNTER
        35. Alpinisms - SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS
        36. Something for all of us… - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE PRESENTS: BRENDAN CANNING
        37. Object 47 - WIRE
        38. Walk it off - TAPES 'N TAPES
        39. The chemistry of common life - FUCKED UP
        40. In the future - BLACK MOUNTAIN
        41. The lucky ones - MUDHONEY
        42. Provisions - GIANT SAND
        43. Keep your eyes ahead - THE HELIO SEQUENCE
        44. The age of the understatement - THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS
        45. Elephant shell - TOKYO POLICE CLUB
        46. Lightbulbs - FUJIYA & MIYAGI
        47. London zoo - THE BUG
        48. Modern guilt - BECK
        49. Real emotional trash - STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS
        50. Alight of night - CRYSTAL STILTS
        Also recommended:

        Take it personally - THE STARLITE DESPERATION, Workout holiday - WHITE DENIM, Secret Machines - SECRET MACHINES, Evil urges - MY MORNING JACKET, Skeletal lamping - OF MONTREAL, Jukebox - CAT POWER, Acid tongue - JENNY LEWIS, Chemical chords - STEREOLAB, At Mount Zoomer - WOLF PARADE, The stand ins - OKKERVIL RIVER, O - TILLY AND THE WALL, Some are lakes - LAND OF TALK, Get awkward - BE YOUR OWN PET, Nouns - NO AGE, Bits - OXFORD COLLAPSE, Vivian Girls - VIVIAN GIRLS, Fortress ’round my heart - IDA MARIA, Alopecia - WHY?, Free gold! - INDIAN JEWELRY, High Places - HIGH PLACES, The Week That Was - THE WEEK THAT WAS, Twenty one - MYSTERY JETS, Friendly Fires - FRIENDLY FIRES, Forth - THE VERVE, Snowflake midnight - MERCURY REV, Directions to see a ghost - THE BLACK ANGELS, Attack and release - THE BLACK KEYS, This gift - SONS AND DAUGHTERS, Glasvegas - GLASVEGAS, The golden age - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB, Lie down in the light - BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY, Carried to dust - CALEXICO, The golden hour - FIREWATER, Missiles - THE DEARS, District line - BOB MOULD, This is not the world - THE FUTUREHEADS, Mega breakfast - THE CHAP, Does you inspire you - CHAIRLIFT, Youth novels - LYKKE LI, Oh (Ohio) - LAMBCHOP, Sunday at Devil Dirt - ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN, Knowle West boy - TRICKY, Tha Carter III - LIL WAYNE, Made in the dark - HOT CHIP. Como te llama? - ALBERT HAMMOND JR., You & me - THE WALKMEN, Mountain battles - THE BREEDERS, Inherit - FREE KITTEN, Retribution Gospel Choir - RETRIBUTION GOSPEL CHOIR, Svn fngrs - BLACK FRANCIS, Do it! - CLINIC, Kensington Heights - CONSTANTINES, The evangelist - ROBERT FORSTER, Crossing Dragon Bridge - STEVE WYNN, Do you like rock music? - BRITISH SEA POWER, Off with their heads - KAISER CHIEFS, Day and age - THE KILLERS, Rascalize - THE RASCALS, Motion to rejoin - BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT, For Emma, forever ago - BON IVER, Los Angeles - FLYING LOTUS, Pro tools - GZA, The Bronx (III) - THE BRONX, Delayer - THE HEAVENLY STATES, Promises, promises - DIE! DIE! DIE!, Ladyhawke - LADYHAWKE, Red, yellow and blue - BORN RUFFIANS, Upbeat love - THREATMANTICS, Εl Rey - WEDDING PRESENT, 22 dreams - PAUL WELLER, Brighter than creation's dark - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, The '59 sound - THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM, Xs on your eyes - +/-, Street horrrsing - FUCK BUTTONS, In ghost colours - CUT COPY, Feed the animals - GIRL TALK, LP3 - RATATAT, The holy pictures - DAVID HOLMES, Dig out your soul - OASIS, You cross my path - THE CHARLATANS, The hungry saw - TINDERSTICKS, Couples - THE LONG BLONDES, The way we ride - FULTON LIGHTS, Ringer - FOUR TET, Fantasy black channel - LATE OF THE PIER, Cage The Elephant - CAGE THE ELEPHANT, We are beautiful, we are doomed - LOS CAMPESINOS!, Burnt out landscapes - THE MANHATTAN LOVE SUICIDES, A hundred things that keep me up at night - LOVE IS ALL, Waited up 'til it was light - JOHNNY FOREIGNER, Stainless style - NEON NEON, Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust - SIGUR ROS, 13 blues for thirteen moons - SILVER MT. ZION MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA AND TRA-LA-LA BAND, The hawk is howling - MOGWAI, Little death - PETE AND THE PIRATES, Falling off the Lavender Bridge - LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION, Alas I cannot swim - LAURA MARLING, No way down - AIR FRANCE, Rising down - THE ROOTS, When life gives you lemons, you paint that shit gold - ATMOSPHERE, Rabbit hats - MAN MAN, Swimming - FRENCH KICKS, Black sheep - JULIAN COPE, How to walk away - JULIANA HATFIELD, Hymn & her - EARLIMART, Morning tide - THE LITTLE ONES, Moonwink - THE SPINTO BAND, Soft airplane - CHAD VANGAALEN, Forfeit / Fortune - CROOKED FINGERS, Preteen weaponry - ONEIDA, The rhumb line - RA RA RIOT, Bluebeard's rooms - DAVID CRONENBERG'S WIFE, The midnight organ fight - FRIGHTENED RABBIT, Now or heaven - THE BROKEN WEST, Cardinology - RYAN ADAMS AND THE CARDINALS, Everything that happens will happen today - BRIAN ENO & DAVID BYRNE, 4:13 Dream - THE CURE, The seldom seen kid - ELBOW, Luna - THE ALIENS, Disco - HEALTH, A land for renegades - ZOMBIE ZOMBIE, Repercussions - DISTANCE, The renaissance - Q-TIP, 808s and heartbreak - KANYE WEST, Hercules And Love Affair - HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR, Odd couple - GNARLS BARKLEY, Alegranza - EL GUINCHO, Nights out - METRONOMY, Saturdays = Youth - M83, Volume one - SHE & HIM, Furr - BLITZEN TRAPPER, Distortion - MAGNETIC FIELDS, Offend Maggie - DEERHOOF, Visiter - THE DODOS, Rook - SHEARWATER, Here with me - JENNIFER O'CONNOR, Oceans will rise - THE STILLS, Earth to The Dandy Warhols - THE DANDY WARHOLS, Sea lion - RUBY SUNS, Rest now, weary head! You will get well soon - GET WELL SOON, Avatar - MONIKA, Remember - THE FIERY FURNACES, Christmas on Mars - THE FLAMING LIPS

        Jan 7, 2011

        The Best Albums Of 2007

        Top 50


        1. Let’s stay friends - LES SAVY FAV
        2. 23 - BLONDE REDHEAD
        3. Icky thump - THE WHITE STRIPES
        4. Grinderman - GRINDERMAN
        5. We were dead before the ship even sank - MODEST MOUSE
        6. Favourite worst nightmare - ARCTIC MONKEYS
        7. A weekend in the city - BLOC PARTY
        8. Neon bible - ARCADE FIRE
        9. Our love to admire - INTERPOL
        10. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - SPOON
        11. Tromatic reflexxions - VON SUDENFED
        12. Baby 81 - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
        13. Beyond - DINOSAUR JR.
        14. I’ll sleep when you're dead - EL-P
        15. Sound of silver - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
        16. Proof of youth - THE GO! TEAM
        17. Cassadaga - BRIGHT EYES
        18. Because of the times - KINGS OF LEON
        19. Wincing the night away - THE SHINS
        20. In rainbows - RADIOHEAD
        21. Boxer - THE NATIONAL
        22. Under the blacklight - RILO KILEY
        23. Boss - MAGIK MARKERS
        24. Curses - FUTURE OF THE LEFT
        25. LP - HOLY FUCK
        26. Myth takes - !!!
        27. Spirit if… - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE PRESENTS: KEVIN DREW
        28. Mosaic - LOVE OF DIAGRAMS
        29. Lose all time - YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE!
        30. A Place To Bury Strangers - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
        31. Era vulgaris - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
        32. The black and white album - THE HIVES
        33. Voxtrot - VOXTROT
        34. All hour cymbals - YEASAYER
        35. The shepherd's dog - IRON AND WINE
        36. Learn to sing like a star - KRISTIN HERSH
        37. The shapes we make - MARY TIMONY BAND
        38. No shouts no calls - ELECTRELANE
        39. Everything last winter - FIELDS
        40. Plague park - HANDSOME FURS
        41. Liars - LIARS
        42. Hissing fauna, are you the destroyer? - OF MONTREAL
        43. The flying club cup - BEIRUT
        44. Fur and gold - BAT FOR LASHES
        45. White chalk - P.J. HARVEY
        46. Bluefinger - BLACK FRANCIS
        47. Excellent Italian greyhound - SHELLAC
        48. Reformation post TLC - THE FALL
        49. Widow city - THE FIERY FURNACES
        50. Men's needs, women's needs, whatever - THE CRIBS
        Also recommended:

        Myths of the near future - KLAXONS, Fantastic playroom - NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB, Kala - M.I.A., None shall pass - AESOP ROCK, 8 diagrams - WU TANG CLAN, The big doe rehab - GHOSTFACE KILLAH, Good bad not evil - THE BLACK LIPS, Lust lust lust - THE RAVEONETTES, Grand animals - ROBBERS ON HIGH STREET, Cease to begin - BAND OF HORSES, In our bedroom after the war - STARS, Lion the girl - MIDNIGHT MOVIES, Friend and foe - MENOMENA, Challengers - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, Turn the lights out - THE PONYS, Pre-emptive false rapture - CHROME HOOF, Strawberry jam - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, Trees outside the academy - THURSTON MOORE, Woke on a whaleheart - BILL CALLAHAN, A brighter beat - MALCOLM MIDDLETON, Prinzhorn Dance School - PRINZHORN DANCE SCHOOL, It's a bit complicated - ART BRUT, Yours truly, angry mob - KAISER CHIEFS, An end has a start - EDITORS, Ten new messages - THE RAKES, War stories - UNKLE, Random spirit lover - SUNSET RUBDOWN, Some loud thunder - CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH, Wooden Shjips - WOODEN SHJIPS, Drums and guns - LOW, Rise to your knees - MEAT PUPPETS, Smokey rolls down thunder canyon - DEVENDRA BANHART, Shotter's nation - BABYSHAMBLES, Our earthly pleasures - MAXIMO PARK, Friend opportunity - DEERHOOF, Read & burn 03 - WIRE, Mantaray - SIOUXSIE, Let in the light - SHANNON WRIGHT, The adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn - COCOROSIE, The Good, The Bad & The Queen - THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN, Make another world - IDLEWILD, Yes yes vindictive - OPERATOR PLEASE, The Blakes - THE BLAKES, Strange house - THE HORRORS, Attack decay sustain release - SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO, Person pitch - PANDA BEAR, Mirrored - BATTLES, We can create - MAPS, Ash Wednesday - ELVIS PERKINS, The western lands - GRAVENHURST, Tied & true - THE DETROIT COBRAS, What’s the time Mr. Wolf? - NOISETTES, Happiness Ltd. - HOT HOT HEAT, Once upon a time in the west - HARD-FI, Easy tiger - RYAN ADAMS, Sky blue sky - WILCO, The stage names - OKKERVIL RIVER, The reminder - FEIST, Untrue - BURIAL, Graduation - KANYE WEST, American gangster - JAY-Z, New wave - AGAINST ME!, Cast iron soul - DANNY AND DUSTY, Three easy pieces - BUFFALO TOM, Zeitgeist - SMASHING PUMPKINS, Echoes, silence, patience and grace - FOO FIGHTERS, The sun and the moon - THE BRAVERY, Sex change - TRANS AM, Emerald city - JOHN VANDERSLICE, The inevitable rise and liberation of NiggyTardust! - SAUL WILLIAMS, Hope for men - PISSED JEANS, Weirdo rippers - NO AGE, Cryptograms - DEERHUNTER, Oblivion with bells - UNDERWORLD, Night of the furies - THE ROSEBUDS, Asleep at heaven's gate - ROGUE WAVE, Living with the living - TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS, In the garden - EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER, Little amber bottles - BLANCHE, Armchair apocrypha - ANDREW BIRD, Saltbreakers - LAURA VEIRS, Astronomy for dogs - THE ALIENS, Roots and echoes - THE CORAL, Hey trouble - THE CONCRETES, Applause cheer boo hiss - LAND OF TALK, The modern tribe - CELEBRATION, Why bother - ADULT., † - JUSTICE, Andorra - CARIBOU, Finding forever - COMMON, Maths & English - DIZZEE RASCAL, Back to bizznizz - LETHAL BIZZLE, Datarock - DATAROCK, Love/Hate - NINE BLACK ALPS, Cookies - 1990s, Volta - BJORK, The enemy chorus - THE EARLIES, Puzzle - BIFFY CLYRO, Magic - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Chrome dreams II - NEIL YOUNG, Comicopera - ROBERT WYATT, Washington square serenade - STEVE EARLE, West - LUCINDA WILLIAMS, You follow me - NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE, 12 Crass songs - JEFFREY LEWIS, Watch the fireworks - EMMA POLLOCK, Besnard Lakes are the dark horse - BESNARD LAKES, Panic prevention - JAMIE T, New magnetic wonder - THE APPLES IN STEREO, Going way out with Heavy Trash - HEAVY TRASH, Candylion - GRUFF RHYS, Western Xterminator - RTX, If the ocean gets rough - WILLY MASON, Book of bad breaks - THEE MORE SHALLOWS, Ode to ochrasy - MANDO DIAO, All that to the wall - THE NARRATOR, God save the Clientele - THE CLIENTELE, Release the stars - RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, Forts - THE BOGGS, Abandoned language - DALEK, Dumb luck - DNTEL, Sticking fingers into sockets - LOS CAMPESINOS!, In camera - ARTHUR AND YU, It's not how far you fall, it's the way you land - SOULSAVERS, New seasons - THE SADIES, Fourteen autumns and fifteen winters - TWILIGHT SAD, With lasers - BONDE DO ROLE, Orchestra of wolves - GALLOWS, Bad football - THE TAKEOVERS, Best friends in love - BANG LIME, Super taranta! - GOGOL BORDELLO, We are the night - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, From here we go sublime - THE FIELD, Twilight of the innocents - ASH, Control - GOODBOOKS, Girls and weather - RUMBLE STRIPS, We'll live and die in these towns - THE ENEMY, Teenager - THE THRILLS, The hair the TV the baby and the band - IMPERIAL TEEN, Anytown graffiti - PELA, Country mouse city house - JOSH ROUSE, Lady's bridge - RICHARD HAWLEY, Made of bricks - KATE NASH, Elegies to lessons learnt - ILIKETRAINS, Hvarf / Heim - SIGUR ROS, 4 way diablo - MONSTER MAGNET, Hideout - FILM SCHOOL, Our ill wills - SHOUT OUT LOUDS, Autumn of the seraphs - PINBACK, Transnormal skiperoo - JIM WHITE, I can't go on I’ll go on - THE BROKEN WEST, Love is simple - AKRON/FAMILY, Fort nightly - WHITE RABBITS, Shelter from the ash - SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE, Kingdom of fear - SHITDISCO, Pilgrimage - OM, Down below it’s chaos - KINSKI, Close to paradise - PATRICK WATSON, Yes U - DEVASTATIONS, Manhattan Love Suicides - MANHATTAN LOVE SUICIDES, Voice Of The Seven Woods - VOICE OF THE SEVEN WOODS, Population - THE MOST SERENE REPUBLIC, Sawdust - THE KILLERS