The Best Singles Of 2009

Top 50

1. Help I’m Alive - METRIC
2. So Fine - TELEPATHE
3. Daniel - BAT FOR LASHES
4. Zero - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
5. Sacred Trickster - SONIC YOUTH
6. Young Adult Friction - THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
7. Ambling Alp - YEASAYER
8. Seven - FEVER RAY
9. My Girls - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
10. Die Slow - HEALTH
11. In Your Heart - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
12. Dominoes - THE BIG PINK
13. Stillness Is the Move - DIRTY PROJECTORS
14. I Was Born - HIGH PLACES
15. Islands - THE XX
16. Disco - HTRK
17. Hang You From The Heavens - THE DEAD WEATHER
18. Death Bells - SOULSAVERS
19. Black Hearted Love - P.J. HARVEY & JOHN PARISH
20. Ulysses - FRANZ FERDINAND
21. 1901 - PHOENIX
22. First Communion - GANG GANG DANCE
23. I’m Confused - HANDSOME FURS
24. Troubles Like Mine - GUN OUTFIT
25. Over It - DINOSAUR JR.
26. Sea Within A Sea - THE HORRORS
27. Departure - CRYSTAL STILTS
28. Feel Like Taking You Home - BRENDAN BENSON
29. People Got A Lotta Nerve - NEKO CASE
30. French Navy - CAMERA OBSCURA
31. Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) - FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE
32. Digital Hearts - HOWLING BELLS
33. Got Nuffin - SPOON
34. The Rake's Song - THE DECEMBERISTS
35. Something Is Squeezing My Skull - MORRISSEY
36. Angela - JARVIS COCKER
37. Panic Switch - SILVERSUN PICKUPS
38. House Of Flying Daggers - RAEKWON (feat. GHOSTFACE KILLAH, INSPECTAH DECK, METHOD MAN)
39. Life In Marvelous Times - MOS DEF
40. Ecstasy - JJ
41. Frost - SALEM
42. Wolf Cub - BURIAL & FOUR TET
43. These Are My Twisted Words - RADIOHEAD
44. Bye Bye Bayou - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
45. Dancing Choose - TV ON THE RADIO
46. Walkabout - ATLAS SOUND (feat. NOAH LENNOX)
47. The End Is Near - THE FIERY FURNACES
48. Mykonos - FLEET FOXES
49. Cornerstone - ARCTIC MONKEYS
50. 11th Dimension - JULIAN CASABLANCAS

The Best Singles Of 2008

Top 50

1. Idle Hands - THE GUTTER TWINS
2. The Step And The Walk - THE DUKE SPIRIT
3. To Fix The Gash In Your Head - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
4. Courtship Dating - CRYSTAL CASTLES
5. Machine Gun - PORTISHEAD
6. Devil’s Trident - TELEPATHE
7. Swords Of Truth - THESE NEW PURITANS
8. Cheap And Cheerful - THE KILLS
9. Paper Planes - M.I.A.
10. Time To Pretend - MGMT
11. Salute Your Solution - THE RACONTEURS
12. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
13. Cassius - FOALS
14. Can't Go Back - PRIMAL SCREAM
15. Jigsaw Falling Into Place - RADIOHEAD
16. Nothing Ever Happened - DEERHUNTER
17. Hit The Wall - BRENDAN CANNING
18. Rat Is Dead (Rage) - C.S.S.
19. L.E.S. Artistes - SANTOGOLD
20. 88 - THE COOL KIDS
21. Knickerbocker - FUJIYA & MIYAGI
22. Mercury - BLOC PARTY
23. I Will Possess Your Heart - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
24. Sequestered In Memphis - THE HOLD STEADY
25. You Lie You Cheat - SPIRITUALIZED
26. You Bring Me Down - BLOOD RED SHOES
27. A-Punk - VAMPIRE WEEKEND
28. In A Cave - TOKYO POLICE CLUB
29. Something Is Not Right With Me - COLD WAR KIDS
30. Hang Them All - TAPES ‘N TAPES
31. Golden Age - TV ON THE RADIO
32. Sex On Fire - KINGS OF LEON
33. White Winter Hymnal - FLEET FOXES
34. Hurricane Jane - BLACK KIDS
35. The Witch (Made To Measure) - CLINIC
36. Puzzle - DAS WANDERLUST
37. Teen Creeps - NO AGE
38. Souled Out!!! - CONOR OBERST
39. Man Sized Wreath - R.E.M.
40. Love Is Noise - THE VERVE
41. The Age Of The Understatement - THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS
42. Half In Love With Elizabeth - MYSTERY JETS
43. The Devil - P.J. HARVEY
44. Gamma Ray - BECK
45. Runaway - LADYTRON
46. Half Asleep - SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS
47. Lovely Allen - HOLY FUCK
48. Council Estate - TRICKY
49. Ready For The Floor - HOT CHIP
50. Jump In The Pool - FRIENDLY FIRES

The Best Singles Of 2007

Top 50

1. The Prayer - BLOC PARTY
2. Four Winds - BRIGHT EYES
3. Is Is EP- YEAH YEAH YEAHS
4. Reformation - THE FALL
5. Icky Thump - THE WHITE STRIPES
6. No Cars Go - ARCADE FIRE
7. The Heinrich Maneuver - INTERPOL
8. Hang Me Up To Dry - COLD WAR KIDS
9. Dashboard - MODEST MOUSE
10. Fledermaus Can't Get It - VON SUDENFED
11. No Pussy Blues - GRINDERMAN
12. Brianstorm - ARCTIC MONKEYS
13. It's Getting Boring By The Sea - BLOOD RED SHOES
14. 23 - BLONDE REDHEAD
15. Mistaken For Strangers - THE NATIONAL
16. Weapon Of Choice - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE
17. Chips Ahoy - THE HOLD STEADY
18. What Would Wolves Do? - LES SAVY FAV
19. What's A Girl To Do? - BAT FOR LASHES
20. Grip Like A Vice - THE GO! TEAM
21. North American Scum - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
22. Golden Skans - KLAXONS
23. Men’s Needs - THE CRIBS
24. Charmer - KINGS OF LEON
25. Threshold Apprehension - BLACK FRANCIS
26. Been There All The Time - DINOSAUR JR.
27. 3's & 7's - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
28. 2080 - YEASAYER
29. To The East - ELECTRELANE
30. I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You - BLACK KIDS
31. Plaster Casts Of Everything - LIARS
32. In Shock - KRISTIN HERSH
33. Low Happening - HOWLING BELLS
34. Speak To Me Bones - LAND OF TALK
35. Pace Or The Patience - LOVE OF DIAGRAMS
36. Mathletics - FOALS
37. If You Could Read Your Mind - CLINIC
38. Satan Said Dance - CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH
39. Diamond Dancer - BILL CALLAHAN
40. Phantom Limb - THE SHINS
41. Elephant Gun - BEIRUT
42. Kid Gloves - VOXTROT
43. Charming The Flames - FIELDS
44. The World Was A Mess But His Hair Was Perfect - THE RAKES
45. Your English Is Good - TOKYO POLICE CLUB
46. 1234 - FEIST
47. The Piano - P.J. HARVEY
48. Into A Swan - SIOUXSIE
49. Ice Cream - NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB
50. Hustler - SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO

The Best Singles of 2006

Top 50
 

1. Wolf Like Me - TV ON THE RADIO
2. Steady As She Goes - THE RACONTEURS
3. Turn Into - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
4. The Greatest - CAT POWER
5. Rise Up With Fists!! - JENNY LEWIS WITH THE WATSON TWINS
6. A Stitch In Time EP - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS
7. Alala - CSS
8. Pull Shapes - THE PIPETTES
9. Chosen One - THE CONCRETES
10. O Valencia! - THE DECEMBERISTS
11. Goin' Against Your Mind - BUILT TO SPILL
12. Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys EP - ARCTIC MONKEYS
13. You Only Live Once - THE STROKES
14. When You Were Young - THE KILLERS
15. Get Myself Into It - THE RAPTURE
16. Standing In The Way Of Control - GOSSIP
17. Never Learn To Cry - THE ROGERS SISTERS
18. Monster Hospital - METRIC
19. Eleanor Put Your Boots On - FRANZ FERDINAND
20. Solar Throw-Away - STEREOLAB
21. You Did It! - YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE!
22. Over And Over - HOT CHIP
23. Sweet Talk - SPANK ROCK
24. Don’t Feel Right - THE ROOTS
25. Cowbell - TAPES ‘N TAPES
26. Cherry Lips - ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT
27. Fraud In The 80’s - MATES OF THE STATES
28. You Have Killed Me - MORRISSEY
29. Incinerate - SONIC YOUTH
30. World Wide Suicide - PEARL JAM
31. Ghost In The Sky - SPARKLEHORSE
32. In This Home On Ice - CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH
33. It Fit When I Was A Kid - LIARS
34. We Share Our Mothers’ Health - THE KNIFE
35. Not Clean - GHOSTIGITAL
36. Boys Wanna Be Her - PEACHES
37. Back Like That - GHOSTFACE KILLAH
38. Oh Mandy - THE SPINTO BAND
39. Whites Only Party - THE DEARS
40. Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken - CAMERA OBSCURA
41. Born In The UK - BADLY DRAWN BOY
42. Young Folks - PETER BJORN & JOHN
43. Blessed Night - HOWLING BELLS
44. Roscoe - MIDLAKE
45. Become The Enemy - THE LEMONHEADS
46. Lightning Blue Eyes - SECRET MACHINES
47. Backstabber - THE DRESDEN DOLLS
48. Hot Pink, Distorted - 50 FOOT WAVE
49. Adventure - BE YOUR OWN PET
50. The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song - THE FLAMING LIPS

The Best Singles of 2005

Top 50

1. Neighborhood # 2 (Laika) - ARCADE FIRE
2. Here Comes A City - THE GO-BETWEENS
3. The Good Ones - THE KILLS
4. Juicebox - THE STROKES
5. Sister Jack - SPOON
6. Soul Meets Body - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
7. Daft Punk Is Playing At My House - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
8. Ageless Beauty - STARS
9. Love In A Trashcan - THE RAVEONETTES
10. Portions For Foxes - RILO KILEY
11. Love Is An Unfamiliar Name - THE DUKE SPIRIT
12. Hey Scenesters! - THE CRIBS
13. I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor - ARCTIC MONKEYS
14. Little Sister - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
15. Blue Orchid - THE WHITE STRIPES
16. Jumpers - SLEATER-KINNEY
17. C’mere - INTERPOL
18. Munich - EDITORS
19. Two More Years - BLOC PARTY
20. Walk Away - FRANZ FERDINAND
21. I Feel Just Like A Child - DEVENDRA BANHART
22. California - LOW
23. Black And White Town - DOVES
24. Get Ready For Love - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
25. I Can Hear The Grass Grow / Clasp Hands - THE FALL
26. Blood On Our Hands - DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979
27. Apply Some Pressure - MAXIMO PARK
28. Goodnight Goodnight - HOT HOT HEAT
29. Tied Up Too Tight - HARD-FI
30. Just Let Go - FISCHERSPOONER
31. Sugar - LADYTRON
32. I Need Some Fine Wine And You, You Need To Be Nicer - THE CARDIGANS
33. 16 Military Wives - THE DECEMBERISTS
34. Galaxies - LAURA VEIRS
35. First Day Of My Life - BRIGHT EYES
36. Hope There’s Someone - ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS
37. Forever Lost - THE MAGIC NUMBERS
38. Oh My God - KAISER CHIEFS
39. Work, Work, Work (Pub, Club, Sleep) - THE RAKES
40. An Honest Mistake - THE BRAVERY
41. Hey Man (Now You’re Really Living) - EELS
42. Don't Save Us From The Flames - M83
43. Krafty - NEW ORDER
44. Diamonds From Sierra Leone - KANYE WEST
45. Bucky Done Gun - M.I.A.
46. One Life To Leave - OUT HUD
47. The Great Escape - WE ARE SCIENTISTS
48. Spit It Out - BRENDAN BENSON
49. Ain’t No Easy Way - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
50. Across Yer Ocean - MERCURY REV

The Best Singles of 2004

Top 50

1. Float On - MODEST MOUSE
2. The Rat - THE WALKMEN
3. Staring At The Sun - TV ON THE RADIO
4. Take Me Out - FRANZ FERDINAND
5. Slow Hands - INTERPOL
6. C’mon C’mon - THE VON BONDIES
7. Theme From Sparta FC #2 - THE FALL
8. Mono - COURTNEY LOVE
9. Somebody Told Me - THE KILLERS
10. Lost In The Plot - THE DEARS
11. Equus - BLONDE REDHEAD
12. An Open Letter To NYC - BEASTIE BOYS
13. Irish Blood, English Heart - MORRISSEY
14. Nature Boy - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
15. Reptilia - THE STROKES
16. Mister Mental - THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER
17. Johnny Cash - SONS AND DAUGHTERS
18. Single Again - THE FIERY FURNACES
19. The Letter - PJ HARVEY
20. Beat Your Heart Out - THE DISTILLERS
21. American Idiot - GREEN DAY
22. Good Reason - SEAFOOD
23. You Can’t Hurry Love - THE CONCRETES
24. This Deed - ELECTRELANE
25. Meantime - THE FUTUREHEADS
26. She’s Hearing Voices - BLOC PARTY
27. Hello? Is This Thing On? - !!!
28. Absolute Affirmation - RADIO 4
29. Ladyflash - THE GO TEAM
30. Come To This - THE SLEEPY JACKSON
31. Everybody Come Down - THE DELGADOS
32. Big Time - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES
33. Two-Timing Touch And Broken Bones - THE HIVES
34. Ride - THE VINES
35. I Disappear - THE FAINT
36. Stand Up Tall - DIZZEE RASCAL
37. Jesus Walks - KANYE WEST
38. I Don't Care - THE ROOTS
39. Rocket Ride - FELIX DA HOUSECAT
40. Professional Distortion - MISS KITTIN
41. Followed The Waves - AUF DER MAUR
42. We Fenced Other Gardens With The Bones Of Our Own - LIARS
43. Hit The City - MARK LANEGAN BAND
44. Why Don't You Do It For Me? - 22-20s
45. This Mystic Decade - HOT SNAKES
46. TKO - LE TIGRE
47. Hot Gossip - BLUES EXPLOSION
48. Morning Wonder - THE EARLIES
49. Bam Thwok - PIXIES
50. Can’t Stand Me Now - THE LIBERTINES

The Best Singles of 2003

Top 50

1. Such Great Heights - THE POSTAL SERVICE
2. She Kissed Me (It Felt Like A Hit) - SPIRITUALIZED
3. Drain The Blood - THE DISTILLERS
4. Crawl Home - DESERT SESSIONS
5. This Is Our Emergency - PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES
6. He War - CAT POWER
7. Say Hello To The Angles - INTERPOL
8. Seven Nation Army - THE WHITE STRIPES
9. Maps - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
10. Stop - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
11. First It Giveth - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
12. The Seed 2.0 - THE ROOTS (ft. CODY CHESNUTT)
13. Darts Of Pleasure - FRANZ FERDINAND
14. 12:51 - THE STROKES
15. My Kind Of Soldier - GUIDED BY VOICES
16. Bandages - HOT HOT HEAT
17. Fight Test EP - THE FLAMING LIPS
18. Dark Wave - STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS
19. Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS
20. Just Because - JANE’S ADDICTION
21. Way Out West - VERBENA
22. Molly’s Chambers - KINGS OF LEON
23. Kick It - PEACHES (ft. IGGY POP)
24. Hey Ya! - OUTKAST
25. Bad Day - R.E.M.
26. You Were The Last High - THE DANDY WARHOLS
27. (We Wish) You A Protein Christmas - THE FALL
28. Heartbreak Stroll - THE RAVONETTES
29. Bring It On - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
30. Pendulum EP - BROADCAST
31. Out Of Time - BLUR
32. Pass It On - THE CORAL
33. Now It’s On - GRANDADDY
34. We Drink On The Job - EARLIMART
35. Stop My Head - EVAN DANDO
36. Jenny - STELLASTAR*
37. Arctic Snow - BURNING BRIDES
38. Low - FOO FIGHTERS
39. The Bitter End - PLACEBO
40. There There - RADIOHEAD
41. The Shy Retirer - ARAB STRAP
42. Good Dancers - THE SLEEPY JACKSON
43. Mission Bells - THE AISLERS SET
44. Cause = Time - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
45. Bigger Cages, Longer Chains EP - THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY
46. Saturday Morning - EELS
47. Are You Gonna Be My Girl - JET
48. Take It Off - THE DONNAS
49. EZ Pass - HAR MAR SUPERSTAR
50. In Da Club - 50 CENT

The Best Singles of 2002

Top 50

1. Hands Around My Throat - DEATH IN VEGAS
2. Miss Lucifer - PRIMAL SCREAM
3. Losing My Edge - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
4. PDA - INTERPOL
5. Everywhere With Helicopter - GUIDED BY VOICES
6. Black Rooster EP - THE KILLS
7. Fell In Love With A Girl - THE WHITE STRIPES
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
9. Emerge - FISCHERSPOONER
10. Speakers Push The Air - PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES
11. Relative Ways - AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD
12. No One Knows - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
13. Sister Surround - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES
14. Love Burns - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
15. Do You Realize?? - THE FLAMING LIPS
16. You Know You’re Right - NIRVANA
17. Someday - THE STROKES
18. Get Free - THE VINES
19. Hate To Say I Told You So - THE HIVES
20. Morning Has Broken - THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER
21. Walking With Thee - CLINIC
22. House Of Jealous Lovers - THE RAPTURE
23. Dance To the Underground - RADIO 4
24. Ghetto Mom - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
25. Come On - THE D4
26. Jonathon Fisk - SPOON
27. Used For Glue - RIVAL SCHOOLS
28. All My Life - FOO FIGHTERS
29. You Held The World In Your Arms - IDLEWILD
30. Let's Push Things Forward - THE STREETS
31. I Against I - MASSIVE ATTACK & MOS DEF
32. Huffer - THE BREEDERS
33. Attack Of The Ghost Riders - THE RAVEONETTES
34. We Laugh Indoors - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
35. Ears Ring EP - RAINER MARIA
36. Fins To Make Us More Fish-Like EP - LIARS
37. Jailhouse - THE BEATINGS
38. Rudd - IKARA COLT
39. Fire On The Moon - THE BELLRAYS
40. Troubled Mind - WILD BILLY CHILDISH & THE BUFF MEDWAYS
41. I.O.U. Love - SIX BY SEVEN
42. Seventeen - LADYTRON
43. I Want To Be The President - ELECTRELANE
44. Lessons Learned From Rocky I To Rocky III - CORNERSHOP
45. You Were Right - BADLY DRAWN BOY
46. Coming In From the Cold - THE DELGADOS
47. Canada - LOW
48. Do It All Over Again - SPIRITUALIZED
49. What A Waster - THE LIBERTINES
50. Grace - SUPERGRASS

 

The Best Singles of 2001

Top 50

1. Glad girls - GUIDED BY VOICES
2. Whatever happened to my rock 'n' roll (punk song) - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
3. Hard to explain - THE STROKES
4. Hotel Yorba - WHITE STRIPES
5. Street gang - A.R.E. WEAPONS
6. Who's got the crack - THE MOLDY PEACHES
7. Souljacker pt.1 - EELS
8. Piano fire - SPARKLEHORSE
9. Capitalism stole my virginity - THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY
10. Discretion grove - STEPHEN MALKMUS
11. Love detective - ARAB STRAP
12. As I sat sadly by her side - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
13. Last nite - THE STROKES
14. Splinter - SEAFOOD
15. Imitation of life - R.E.M.
16. Crystal - NEW ORDER
17. Clint Eastwood - GORILLAZ
18. Nite and fog - MERCURY REV
19. Out of sight - SPIRITUALIZED
20. Hashpipe - WEEZER
21. Song yet to be sung - PERRY FARRELL
22. Uzi - WU-TANG CLAN
23. Androgyny - GARBAGE
24. Grace / Beefheart - RUBY
25. The way that I found you - LADYTRON
26. Bang bang you're dead - EXPERIMENTAL POP BAND
27. Any day now - ELBOW
28. A place called home - P.J. HARVEY
29. Everything hits at once - SPOON
30. New York, New York - RYAN ADAMS
31. 7:30 - PERNICE BROTHERS
32. Proclaim your joy - MARK EITZEL
33. 15 feet of pure white snow - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
34. Your dirty answer - KRISTIN HERSH
35. Jo Jo's jacket - STEPHEN MALKMUS
36. Sink Venice - IKARA COLT
37. Furniture - FUGAZI
38. Invalid litter department - AT THE DRIVE-IN
39. Strange / Instrumental #2 - BUILT TO SPILL
40. The crystal frontier - CALEXICO
41. Tennessee - SILVER JEWS
42. These are the days - LIFT TO EXPERIENCE
43. Falling Away - PRESTON SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY
44. Captain Easychord - STEREOLAB
45. Pilot - THE NOTWIST
46. Witness (1 hope) - ROOTS MANUVA
47. Lapdance - N.E.R.D.
48. My red hot car - SQUAREPUSHER
49. Hot, hotter, hottest - ZITA SWOON
50. Johnny Appleseed - JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS

The Best Singles of 2000

Top 50

1. Good Fortune - P.J. HARVEY
2. Going Blind - THE GO-BETWEENS
3. All Hands On The Bad One - SLEATER-KINNEY
4. Little Discourage - IDLEWILD
5. Kill All Hippies - PRIMAL SCREAM
6. Mistakes And Regrets - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD
7. One Armed Scissor - AT THE DRIVE-IN
8. The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
9. Bohemian Like You - THE DANDY WARHOLS
10. Whiteout - BOSS HOG
11. Work It Out - BRASSY
12. Hip Hop - DEAD PREZ
13. Kaltes Klares Wassser - CHICKS ON SPEED
14. Lovertits - PEACHES
15. Uneasy - LAIKA
16. The Crystal Lake - GRANDADDY
17. Up With People - LAMBCHOP
18. Son Of Sam - ELLIOTT SMITH
19. Melodie Citronique EP - BLONDE REDHEAD
20. Radio Video EP - ROYAL TRUX
21. Aisha - DEATH IN VEGAS
22. Idioteque - RADIOHEAD
23. B.O.B. - OUTKAST
24. Gravel Pit - WU-TANG CLAN
25. A Song For The Lovers - RICHARD ASHCROFT
26. Ballad Of Cable Hogue - CALEXICO
27. Disillusion - BADLY DRAWN BOY
28. You Can Have It All - YO LA TENGO
29. I Quit - MEAT PUPPETS
30. Forbidden Love EP - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
31. Mr. E’s Beautiful Blues - EELS
32. The Coney Island Of Your Mind - THE WISDOM OF HARRY
33. Plug Me In - ADD N TO (X)
34. The Real Slim Shady - EMINEM
35. Music Is My Radar - BLUR
36. I Need Direction - TEENAGE FANCLUB
37. Hot Lips, Wet Pants - LOLITA STORM
38. Mad Dog - ELASTICA
39. Kit & Holly - ECHOBOY
40. Eat Junk Become Junk - SIX BY SEVEN
41. Born In The 80s - NASH KATO
42. Poodle Rockin’ GORKY’S ZYGOTIC MYNCI
43. I’m Not A Model - RUSSELL SIMMINS
44. Some Kind Of Kink - RED SNAPPER
45. Mission Accomplished - TRICKY
46. Return Of Evil Bill - CLINIC
47. Easy Path - SEAFOOD
48. They Shoot Horse, Don’t They - QUICKSPACE
49. Come on let's go - BROADCAST
50. Taste In Men - PLACEBO

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.

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.

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

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

The Best Albums Of 2006

Top 50

1. Return to cookie mountain - TV ON THE RADIO
2. Whatever people say I am, that's what I am not - ARCTIC MONKEYS
3. Cansei De Ser Sexy - CSS
4. Show your bones - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
5. Be Your Own Pet - BE YOUR OWN PET
6. Derdang derdang - ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT
7. The crane wife - THE DECEMBERISTS
8. First impressions of earth - THE STROKES
9. You in reverse - BUILT TO SPILL
10. Rather ripped - SONIC YOUTH
11. Boys and girls in America - THE HOLD STEADY
12. Pieces of the people we love - THE RAPTURE
13. Fishscale - GHOSTFACE KILLAH
14. Yoyoyoyoyo - SPANK ROCK
15. Standing in the way of control - GOSSIP
16. Ringleader of the tormentors - MORRISSEY
17. I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass - YO LA TENGO
18. Rabbit fur coat - JENNY LEWIS WITH THE WATSON TWINS
19. Robbers & cowards - COLD WAR KIDS
20. Hit the floor! - YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE!
21. Sam’s town - THE KILLERS
22. The Lemonheads - THE LEMONHEADS
23. The Bronx - THE BRONX
24. The invisible deck - THE ROGERS SISTERS
25. The body the blood the machine - THE THERMALS
26. Drum's not dead - LIARS
27. Impeach my bush - PEACHES
28. The greatest - CAT POWER
29. Broken boy soldiers - THE RACONTEURS
30. Avatar - COMETS ON FIRE
31. Powder burns - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS
32. In colour - THE CONCRETES
33. Someone to drive you home - THE LONG BLONDES
34. Bottoms of barrels - TILLY AND THE WALL
35. Gulag Orkestar - BEIRUT
36. Putting the days to bed - THE LONG WINTERS
37. The loon - TAPES 'N TAPES
38. A hundred miles off - THE WALKMEN
39. Zeroes and ones - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY
40. Everything all the time - BAND OF HORSES
41. Howling Bells - HOWLING BELLS
42. Make love to the judges with your eyes - PONY UP!
43. We are The Pipettes - THE PIPETTES
44. Bring it back - MATES OF STATE
45. Gang of losers - THE DEARS
46. Let’s get out of this country - CAMERA OBSCURA
47. Fox confessor brings the flood - NEKO CASE
48. Pearl Jam - PEARL JAM
49. Under a billion suns - MUDHONEY
50. Hell hath no fury - CLIPSE

Also recommended:

Transparent things - FUJIYA AND MIYAGI, The warning - HOT CHIP, Yes, Virginia… - THE DRESDEN DOLLS, Knives don't have your back - EMILY HAINES & THE SOFT SKELETON, The life pursuit - BELLE & SEBASTIAN, Balled of broken seas - ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN, The trials of Van Occupanther - MIDLAKE, Happy new year - ONEIDA, At war with the mystics - THE FLAMING LIPS, The information - BECK, Food & liquor - LUPE FIASCO, Silent shout - THE KNIFE, Fab four suture - STEREOLAB, Carnavas - SILVERSUN PICKUPS, News and tributes - THE FUTUREHEADS, Remember the night parties - OXFORD COLLAPSE, Nightlife - ERASE ERRATA, Nine times that same song - LOVE IS ALL, Dancing with daggers - MAGNETA LANE, Elan Vital - PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES, Just like the fambly cat - GRANDADDY, 'Sno angel like you - HOWE GELB, Brightblack Morning Light - BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT, Dreamt for light years in the belly of a mountain - SPARKLEHORSE, The spell - THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION, The letting go - BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY, Damaged - LAMBCHOP, The avalanche - SUFJAN STEVENS, Serena-Maneesh - SERENA-MANEESH, So this is goodbye - JUNIOR BOYS, A lesson in crime - TOKYO POLICE CLUB, The Obliterati - MISSION OF BURMA, Zodiac zoo - MADE IN MEXICO, Happy Hollow - CURSIVE, Enemies like this - RADIO 4, Ten silver drops - SECRET MACHINES, Fear is on our side - I LOVE YOU BUT I'VE CHOSEN DARKNESS, Passover - THE BLACK ANGELS, Visitations - CLINIC, Born in the UK - BADLY DRAWN BOY, Personality (one was a spider, one was a bird) - THE SLEEPY JACKSON, Idlewild - OUTKAST, Game theory - THE ROOTS, Doctor’s advocate - THE GAME, Meds - PLACEBO, So divided - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, Without feathers - THE STILLS, Over the mountain, across the valley, and back to the stars - JENNIFER O’CONNOR, Garden ruin - CALEXICO, From a compound eye - ROBERT POLLARD, Greg Dulli's Amber headlights - GREG DULLI, Film school - FILM SCHOOL, Cannibal sea - THE ESSEX GREEN, This hungry life - TANYA DONELLY, Fading trails - MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO., Types of wood - WHIRLWIND HEAT, Bitter tea - THE FIERY FURNACES, Coal - DEVASTATIONS, Silver - JESU, Vessel states - WILDERNESS, Stadium Arcadium - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, Vision valley - THE VINES, Inside in / Inside out - THE KOOKS, Look at who you’re talking to - HUMAN TELEVISION, Fantastic success - MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA, Yellow house - GRIZZLY BEAR, Live a little - PERNICE BROTHERS, The eraser - THOM YORKE, St. Elsewhere - GNARLS BARKLEY, Varcharz - MOUSE ON MARS, Writer's block - PETER BJORN AND JOHN, Skelliconnection - CHAD VANGAALEN, Let's build a fire - +/-, Post-war - M. WARD, Begin to hope - REGINA SPEKTOR, Real life - JOAN AS POLICEWOMAN, Drowaton - STARLIGHT MINTS, Catastrophe keeps us together - RAINER MARIA, Give me a wall- !FORWARD RUSSIA!, Voices of animals and men - THE YOUNG KNIVES, Those the brokes - THE MAGIC NUMBERS, White bread, black beer - SCRITTI POLITTI, Orphans: Brawlers, bawlers and bastards - TOM WAITS, Living with war - NEIL YOUNG, Modern times - BOB DYLAN, Espers II - ESPERS, To find me gone - VETIVER, Ys - JOANNA NEWSOM, Micah P Hinson and the Opera Circuit - MICAH P HINSON, A blessing and a curse - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, Human animal - WOLF EYES, Easter - THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES, The hardest walk - SOLEDAD BROTHERS, Magic potion - THE BLACK KEYS, In the city of sleep - THE FEVER, Yours to keep - ALBERT HAMMOND JR., Into the blue again - THE ALBUM LEAF, Tell me - CATFISH HAVEN, Black holes & revelations - MUSE, Empire - KASABIAN, Riot city blues - PRIMAL SCREAM, Waterloo to anywhere - DIRTY PRETTY THINGS, Razorlight - RAZORLIGHT, A call and response - THE LONGCUT, Not accepted anywhere - THE AUTOMATIC, Raise the alarm - THE SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND, Making dens - MYSTERY JETS, Through the window pain - GUILLEMOTS, Jarvis - JARVIS COCKER, Chronicles of a bohemian teenager - GET CAPE. WEAR CAPE. FLY, Civilian - BOY KILL BOY, The only thing I ever wanted - PSAPP, The beatific visions - BRAKES, Mr Beast - MOGWAI, 10,000 Days - TOOL, Blood mountain - MASTODON, Wolfmother - WOLFMOTHER, Six demon bag - MAN MAN, What the toll tells - TWO GALLANTS, Zeno beach - RADIO BIRDMAN, My dark places - TELEVISION PERSONALITIES, Olé! Tarantula - ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE VENUS 3, When the going gets dark - QUASI, Shut up I am dreaming - SUNSET RUBDOWN, The rose has teeth in the mouth of a beast - MATMOS, Night ripper - GIRL TALK, The audience's listening - CUT CHEMIST, Live and learn - MEKALEK, King - T.I., Public warning - LADY SOVEREIGN, Pick a bigger weapon - THE COUP, Murray's revenge - MURS, Burial - BURIAL, The outsider - DJ SHADOW, Sound mirrors - COLDCUT, The hardest way to make an easy living - THE STREETS, Back to black - AMY WINEHOUSE, It’s never been like that - PHOENIX, Collisions - CALLA, Ships - DANIELSON, Roots & crowns - CALIFONE, Tragic treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events - GOTHIC ARCHES, Destroyer's rubies - DESTROYER, Dits from the commuter belt - BROMHEADS JACKET, The last temptation of... the Low Frequency in Stereo - THE LOW FREQUENCY IN STEREO, Threes - SPARTA, Seven from the village - FIELDS, Singles & sessions 1979 - 81 - DELTA 5, McLuskyism - McLUSKY, Echoes of the past - DEAD MOON, And I feel fine…The best of the IRS years 1982-1987 - R.E.M., The Peel Sessions 1991 - 2004 - PJ HARVEY, The destroyed room B-sides and rarities - SONIC YOUTH

The Best Albums Of 2005

Top 50

1. Silent alarm - BLOC PARTY
2. LCD Soundsystem - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
3. Gimme fiction - SPOON
4. Picaresque - THE DECEMBERISTS
5. Fall heads roll - THE FALL
6. Golden ocean - 50 FOOT WAVE
7. No wow - THE KILLS
8. You could have it so much better - FRANZ FERDINAND
9. I'm wide awake, it's morning / Digital ash in a digital urn - BRIGHT EYES
10. Illinois - SUFJAN STEVENS
11. Cuts across the land - THE DUKE SPIRIT
12. Lullabies to paralyze - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
13. The great destroyer - LOW
14. Broken Social Scene - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
15. Everything ecstatic - FOUR TET
16. Let us never speak of it again - OUT HUD
17. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH
18. The woods - SLEATER-KINNEY
19. Witching hour - LADYTRON
20. Set yourself on fire - STARS
21. Pretty in black - THE RAVEONETTES
22. Twin cinema - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
23. The secret migration - MERCURY REV
24. Plans - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
25. Ex hex - MARY TIMONY
26. Face the truth - STEPHEN MALKMUS
27. Late registration - KANYE WEST
28. Get behind me Satan - THE WHITE STRIPES
29. Cripple crow - DEVENDRA BANHART
30. The mouse and the mask - DANGER DOOM
31. Apologies to the Queen Mary - WOLF PARADE
32. Live it out - METRIC
33. Grab that gun - THE ORGAN
34. The back room - EDITORS
35. Absence - DALEK
36. Wilderness - WILDERNESS
37. Elevator - HOT HOT HEAT
38. Employment - KAISER CHIEFS
39. Stars of CCTV - HARD-FI
40. Capture / Release - THE RAKES
41. A certain trigger - MAXIMO PARK
42. Tree city - ROBBERS ON HIGH STREET
43. The Bravery - THE BRAVERY
44. Arular - M.I.A.
45. We have sound - TOM VEK
46. Feels - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
47. Tournament of hearts - CONSTANTINES
48. The alternative to love - BRENDAN BENSON
49. Man-made - TEENAGE FANCLUB
50. Oceans apart - THE GO-BETWEENS

Also recommended:

Separation Sunday - THE HOLD STEADY, Black forest - A FRAMES, The repulsion box - SONS AND DAUGHTERS, Waiting for the sirens' call - NEW ORDER, Odyssey - FISCHERSPOONER, The documentary - THE GAME, Surrounded by silence - PREFUSE 73, The new fellas - THE CRIBS, Tanglewood numbers - SILVER JEWS, A river ain't too much to love - SMOG, Take fountain - THE WEDDING PRESENT, Menos El Oso - MINUS THE BEAR, Birds make good neighbors - THE ROSEBUDS, Descended like vultures - ROGUE WAVE, The invisible invasion - THE CORAL, The Magic Numbers - THE MAGIC NUMBERS, Some cities - DOVES, Black Mountain - BLACK MOUNTAIN, Z - MY MORNING JACKET, Demon days - GORILLAZ, Guero - BECK, Lost and safe - THE BOOKS, Noah's ark - COCOROSIE, Year of meteors - LAURA VEIRS, Pixel revolt - JOHN VANDERSLICE, Discover a lovelier you - PERNICE BROTHERS, …Tick…Tick…Tick - STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3, Worlds apart - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, Howl - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, Hearts and unicorns - GIANT DRAG, Nice and nicely done - SPINTO BAND, Underwater cinematographer - MOST SERENE REPUBLIC, Duel at dawn - MOMMY AND DADDY, With love and squalor - WE ARE SCIENTISTS, Weight is a gift - NADA SURF, Down in Albion - BABYSHAMBLES, Black rays defense - THE BEAT UP, The Others - THE OTHERS, Harmonies for the haunted - STELLASTARR*, Odditorium or Warlords of Mars - THE DANDY WARHOLS, Push the button - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, Before the dawn heals us - M83, In the clear - IVY, Open season - BRITISH SEA POWER, Oh no - OK GO, Gimmie trouble - ADULT., Home sweet home - KANO, You can't imagine how much fun we're having - ATMOSPHERE, In your honor - FOO FIGHTERS, Warnings / Promises - IDLEWILD, Laughter's fifth - LOVE AS LAUGHTER, Emoh - LOU BARLOW, Infiniheart - CHAD VANGAALEN, Blinking lights and other revelations - EELS, Cold roses / Jacksonville city nights - RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS, 29 - RYAN ADAMS, Rehearsing my choir / EP - THE FIERY FURNACES, Everything is - NINE BLACK ALPS, For screening purposes only - TEST ICICLES, The Dead 60's - THE DEAD 60'S, Axes - ELECTRELANE, Bleed like me - GARBAGE, Frances the mute - THE MARS VOLTA, What comes after the blues - MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO, Trials & errors - MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO, Loose in the air - THE DOUBLE, Pony Up! - PONY UP!, Matson Jones - MATSON JONES, The wedding - ONEIDA, I am a bird now - ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS, Andrew Bird & the mysterious production of eggs - ANDREW BIRD, Somebody’s miracle - LIZ PHAIR, Be - COMMON, Black dialogue - PERCEPTIONISTS, In case we die - ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI, Black sheep boy - OKKERVIL RIVER, All harm ends here - EARLY DAY MINERS, Howl howl gaff gaff - SHOUT OUT LOUDS, Flex time - THE DIALS, The runners four - DEERHOOF, Tender buttons - BROADCAST, The best party ever - THE BOY LEAST LIKELY TO, Superwolf  - MATT SWEENEY AND BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, Takk - SIGUR ROS, Bang bang rock and roll - ART BRUT, Give blood - BRAKES, Heat - COLDER, Awfully deep - ROOTS MANUVA, Grandmasters - DJ MUGGS VS. GZA/GENIUS, New whirl odor - PUBLIC ENEMY, My machine - PRINCESS SUPERSTAR, Purple haze - CAM'RON,  Beauty and the beat - EDAN, Out of breach (Manchester's revenge) - MU, Extraordinary machine - FIONA APPLE, Aerial - KATE BUSH, As is now - PAUL WELLER, Devils and dust - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Honeycomb - FRANK BLACK, Body of song - BOB MOULD, TheFutureEmbrace - BILLY CORGAN, Made in China - JULIANA HATFIELD, Pocket revolution - dEUS, Fires in distant buildings - GRAVENHURST, The lighthouse - ANA DA SILVA, Knuckle down - ANI DIFRANCO, Awake is the new sleep - BEN LEE, Nashville - JOSH ROUSE, Transistor radio - M WARD, On my way to absence - DAMIEN JURADO, Dignity and shame - CROOKED FINGERS, The view from the floor - SLOW DAZZLE, At the national grid - THE BATS, Spelled in bones - FRUIT BATS, More deep cuts - THEE MORE SHALLOWS, Alpine static - KINSKI, Mezmerize / Hypnotize - SYSTEM OF A DOWN, With teeth - NINE INCH NAILS, Out of my head - THE D4, Such triumph - NARRATOR, I was born at night - MENEGUAR, Black comet - THE HEAVENLY STATES, Hurricane bar - MANDO DIAO, Celebration - CELEBRATION, Aw come aw wry - PHOSPHORESCENT, Quit +/or fight - HOLOPAW, The color and the light - JENNIFER O'CONNOR, Okemah and the melody of riot - SON VOLT, Engineers - ENGINEERS, Field Music - FIELD MUSIC, Road to Rouen - SUPERGRASS, Here come The Tears - THE TEARS, Super extra gravity - THE CARDIGANS, Alligator - THE NATIONAL, OK cowboy - VITALIC, Jesu - JESU, Gypsy punks: Underdog world strike - GOGOL BORDELLO, The best little secrets are kept - LOUIS XIV, Easy beat - DR. DOG, The last romance - ARAB STRAP, Lucky dog recordings 03-04 - STUART A STAPLES, Strange geometry - THE CLIENTELE, Let it die - FEIST, The baby and the satellite - MICAH P HINSON, Tiger, my friend - PSAPP, God's money - GANG GANG DANCE, Woman king - IRON AND WINE, In the reins - CALEXICO / IRON AND WINE, Excerpts from the diary of Todd Zilla - GRANDADDY, Oscillons from the anti-sun - STEREOLAB, Prisoners of love - YO LA TENGO, The complete Peel Sessions 1978 - 2004 - THE FALL, B-sides & rarities - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS

The Best Albums Of 2004

Top 50

1. Franz Ferdinand - FRANZ FERDINAND
2. Abattoir blues / The lyre of Orpheus - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
3. Good news for people who love bad news - MODEST MOUSE
4. Louden up now - !!!
5. Desperate youth, blood thirsty babes - TV ON THE RADIO
6. Pawn shoppe heart - THE VON BONDIES
7. Antics - INTERPOL
8. You are the quarry - MORRISSEY
9. Funeral - THE ARCADE FIRE
10. Sonic nurse - SONIC YOUTH
11. Misery is a butterfly - BLONDE REDHEAD
12. Bubblegum - MARK LANEGAN BAND
13. No cities left - THE DEARS
14. To the 5 boroughs - BEASTIE BOYS
15. Hot fuss - THE KILLERS
16. The power out - ELECTRELANE
17. Bows + arrows - THE WALKMEN
18. You're a woman, I’m a machine - DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979
19. Tyrannosaurus Hives - THE HIVES
20. Uh huh her - PJ HARVEY
21. More adventurous - RILO KILEY
22. The Concretes - THE CONCRETES
23. Thunder, lightning, strike - THE GO! TEAM
24. The Futureheads - THE FUTUREHEADS
25. The royal society - THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER
26. Audit in progress - HOT SNAKES
27. This island - LE TIGRE
28. The college dropout - KANYE WEST
29. American idiot - GREEN DAY
30. Shake the sheets - TED LEO + THE PHARMACISTS
31. Damage - BLUES EXPLOSION
32. Auf Der Maur - AUF DER MAUR
33. Cellar door - JOHN VANDERSLICE
34. Our endless numbered days - IRON AND WINE
35. The dirty south - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
36. Love songs for patriots - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB
37. Is all over the map - GIANT SAND
38. Universal audio - THE DELGADOS
39. LP - AMBULANCE LTD
40. They were wrong, so we drowned - LIARS
41. Sur les traces de black eskimo - LES GEORGES LENINGRAD
42. 76/77 - COBRA KILLER
43. Stealing of a nation - RADIO 4
44. Margerine eclipse - STEREOLAB
45. La maison de mon reve - COCOROSIE
46. Love and distance - THE HELIO SEQUENCE
47. Almost killed me - THE HOLD STEADY
48. Fuckin A - THE THERMALS
49. The Libertines - THE LIBERTINES
50. Showtime - DIZZEE RASCAL

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Wet from birth - THE FAINT, Future perfect - AUTOLUX, Midnight Movies - MIDNIGHT MOVIES, Out of the shadow - ROGUE WAVE, These were The Earlies - THE EARLIES, Origin vol. 1 - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES, Sex, love and rock 'n' roll - SOCIAL DISTORTION, Half smiles of the decomposed - GUIDED BY VOICES, A-ha shake heart break - KINGS OF LEON, 22-20s - 22-20s, Rubber factory - THE BLACK KEYS, Madvillainy - MADVILLAIN, Murs 3:16 the 9th edition - MURS, The tipping point - THE ROOTS, Faking the books - LALI PUNA, The new danger - MOS DEF, White people - HANDSOME BOY MODELING SCHOOL, Devin Dazzle & The Neon Fever - FELIX DA HOUSECAT, I com - MISS KITTIN, A grand don't come for free - THE STREETS, Winchester cathedral - CLINIC, Monolithic baby! - MONSTER MAGNET, Now here is nowhere - SECRET MACHINES, Lesser matters - THE RADIO DEPT., Around the sun - R.E.M., A ghost is born - WILCO, From a basement on the hill - ELLIOTT SMITH, She loves you - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS, America’s sweetheart - COURTNEY LOVE, Baby - THE DETROIT COBRAS, Three fingers - THE ROGERS SISTERS, Thunder + lightning - MODEY LEMON, Street’s disciple - NAS, The grey album - DANGER MOUSE, Das not compute - DIVISION OF LAURA LEE, Leave no ashes - BURNING BRIDES, Winning days - THE VINES, Up all night - RAZORLIGHT, Modern apprentice - IKARA COLT, Blueberry boat - THE FIERY FURNACES, 50 foot wave - 50 FOOT WAVE, Love the cup - SONS AND DAUGHTERS, All songs written by: Human Television - HUMAN TELEVISION, Awcmon Noyoucmon - LAMBCHOP, Monsoon - PRESTON SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY, Onoffon - MISSION OF BURMA, Porcelain - SPARTA, Secret wars - ONEIDA, Penance soiree - THE ICARUS LINE, 04 - SIX BY SEVEN, Heroes to zeros - THE BETA BAND, In exile deo - JULIANA HATFIELD, Whiskey tango ghosts - TANYA DONELLY, Tasty - KELIS, Revolutionary but gangsta - DEAD PREZ, Tical 0: the prequel - METHOD MAN, In a safe place - THE ALBUM LEAF, As the cry flows - SEAFOOD, Armed love - THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY, Fur - ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT, Wild like children - TILLY AND THE WALL, One plus one is one - BADLY DRAWN BOY, Achilles heel - PEDRO THE LION, Panda park - 90 DAY MEN, The Dresden Dolls - THE DRESDEN DOLLS, Treble and tremble - EARLIMART, Folker - PAUL WESTERBERG, Together we’re heavy - THE POLYPHONIC SPREE, The laughing stock of indie rock - SOLEX, Rejoicing in the hands / Nino rojo - DEVANDRA BANHART, The delivery man - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE IMPOSTERS, New roman times - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN, Fine lines - ROBBERS ON HIGH STREET, Radios burn faster - READ YELLOW, Yes to everything - THE WASHDOWN, Red bedroom - THE FEVER, School of etiquette - BOYSKOUT, Girls of war - DIE MONITR BATSS, No wicked heart shall prosper - SELFISH C*NT, Radical connector - MOUSE ON MARS, Ten - CLOUDDEAD, The handler - HAR MAR SUPERSTAR, The Pretty Toney album - GHOSTFACE, Encore - EMINEM, The beautiful struggle - TALIB KWELI, Cee-Lo Green is the soul machine - CEE-LO, Talkie walkie - AIR, Medulla - BJORK, Blue cathedral - COMETS ON FIRE, Burned mind - WOLF EYES, Summer in Abaddon - PINBACK, Trial of the century - FRENCH KICKS, Fontaine Toups - FONTAINE TOUPS, The difference between you and me is that I’m not on fire - McLUSKY, Kiss and tell - SAHARA HOTNIGHTS, Gold medal - THE DONNAS, Winged life - SHEARWATER, The lost riots - HOPE OF THE STATES, Over the counter culture - THE ORDINARY BOYS, Phantom Planet - PHANTOM PLANET, Drill a hole in that substrate & tell me what you see - JIM WHITE, Seven swans - SUFJAN STEVENS, Micah P Hinson and The Gospel Of Progress - MICAH P HINSON AND THE GOSPEL OF PROGRESS, Real gone - TOM WAITS, Where the humans eat - WILLY MASON, Post to wire - RICHMOND FONTAINE, The heat - JESSE MALIN, Soviet kitsch - REGINA SPEKTOR, Satan’s circus - DEATH IN VEGAS, Always outnumbered, never outgunned - THE PRODIGY, Any minute now - SOULWAX, C.aarme - C.AARME, Power - Q AND NOT U, Purity pledge - TODD, Named and shamed - THE FLAMING STARS, i - THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, Alphabetical - PHOENIX, Scissor Sisters - SCISSOR SISTERS, How to dismantle an atomic bomb - U2, Trampin’ - PATTI SMITH, Educated guess - ANI DIFRANCO, The milk-eyed mender - JOANNA NEWSOM, Spooked - ROBYN HITCHCOCK, Van Lear Rose - LORETTA LYNN, Rendezvous - LUNA, No more songs about sleep and fire - POSTER CHILDREN, Those are not my bongos - FUCK, Pyramid Electric Co. - JASON MOLINA, Bangers vs. fuckers - COACHWHIPS, Get saved - PILOT TO GUNNER, Moratoria - BIKINI ATOLL, Inches - LES SAVY FAV, Interim - THE FALL

The Best Albums Of 2003

Top 50

1. Coral fang - THE DISTILLERS
2. Elephant - THE WHITE STRIPES
3. Throwing Muses - THROWING MUSES
4. Fever to tell - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
5. Take them on, on your own - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
6. Echoes - THE RAPTURE
7. Room on fire - THE STROKES
8. You are free - CAT POWER
9. The new romance - PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES
10. The real new Fall LP (formerly ‘Country On The Click’) - THE FALL
11. Send - WIRE
12. Sumday - GRANDADDY
13. Keep on your mean side - THE KILLS
14. Fatherfucker - PEACHES
15. Give up - THE POSTAL SERVICE
16. You forgot it in people - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
17. Old world underground, where are you now? - METRIC
18. Lovers - THE SLEEPY JACKSON
19. Rock N Roll - RYAN ADAMS
20. Blackberry belle - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS
21. Strays - JANE'S ADDICTION
22. La musica negra - VERBENA
23. Electric version - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
24. Logic will break your heart - THE STILLS
25. The Bronx - THE BRONX
26. Rounds - FOUR TET
27. Speakerboxxx / The love below - OUTKAST
28. Hail to the thief - RADIOHEAD
29. The New Folk Implosion - FOLK IMPLOSION
30. This is the glamorous - NEW WET KOJAK
31. Nocturama - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
32. Feast of wire - CALEXICO
33. Youth and young manhood - KINGS OF LEON
34. Gallowsbird’s bark - THE FIERY FURNACES
35. 99 Cents - CHICKS ON SPEED
36. Wherever I am I am what is missing - LAIKA
37. The instinct - DENALI
38. Please believe it - THE PARTY OF HELICOPTERS
39. Long knives drawn - RAINER MARIA
40. Earthquake glue - GUIDED BY VOICES
41. De-loused in the comatorium - THE MARS VOLTA
42. Killing Joke - KILLING JOKE
43. Baby I'm bored - EVAN DANDO
44. Magic and medicine - THE CORAL
45. Think tank - BLUR
46. Stellastarr* - STELLASTARR*
47. Bazooka!!! - THE STAR SPANGLES
48. Hocus - pocus - ENON
49. Alter - PLEASURE FOREVER
50. Mary star of the sea - ZWAN

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Amazing grace - SPIRITUALIZED, Bright yellow bright orange - THE GO-BETWEENS, Come feel me tremble - PAUL WESTERBERG, Chutes too narrow - THE SHINS, Vulnerable - TRICKY, Liz Phair - LIZ PHAIR, A.R.E. Weapons - A.R.E. WEAPONS, Gettin wise - BRASSY, Down for whatever - VUE, Shine a light - CONSTANTINES, Motherfuckers be trippin' - SUPERSUCKERS, Static transmission - STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3, Yours, mine & ours - PERNICE BROTHERS, Whenever you're ready - SWELL, Supper - SMOG, Magnolia electric co. - SONGS: OHIA, It still moves - MY MORNING JACKET, Transatlanticism - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, One word extinguisher - PREFUSE 73, Revolutionary Vol. 2 - IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE, The black album - JAY-Z, Chain gang of love - THE RAVEONETTES, Everyone down here - EARLIMART, Yoko - BEULAH, The Desert Sessions 9 & 10 - DESERT SESSIONS, The red, white & black - THE BELLRAYS, Dangerous magical noise - THE DIRTBOMBS, Voice of treason - SOLEDAD BROTHERS, Pig lib - STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS, Summer sun - YO LA TENGO, How I learned to write backwards - THE AISLERS SET, At crystal palace - ERASE ERRATA, Purely evil - THE ROGERS SISTERS, Anxiety always - ADULT., Do rabbits wonder? - WHIRLWIND HEAT, Kill them with kindness - THE JEALOUS SOUND, One bedroom - THE SEA AND CAKE, Heart - STARS, Monday at the Hug & Pint - ARAB STRAP, Shootenanny! - EELS, Show me your tears - FRANK BLACK AND THE CATHOLICS, Sleeping with ghosts - PLACEBO, Welcome to the monkey house - THE DANDY WARHOLS, Haha sound - BROADCAST, Bad timing - GRAND MAL, The listener - HOWE HOME, Still lookin' good to me - THE BAND OF…BLACKY RANCHETTE, Master and everyone - BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY, The grotto - KRISTIN HERSH, Regard the end - WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY, Waiting for the moon - TINDERSTICKS, Hot shit - QUASI, Decoration day - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, The ugly organ - CURSIVE, The decline of British Sea Power - BRITISH SEA POWER, Shades of black - EASTERN LANE, Torch division - THE WISDOM OF HARRY, Airs above your station - KINSKI, Young liars - TV ON THE RADIO, The secret of Elena’s tomb - AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, Here comes that weird chill - MARK LANEGAN BAND, Love is hell pt.1 / pt.2 - RYAN ADAMS, Seven easy pieces - THE DETROIT COBRAS, Instant 0 in the universe - STEREOLAB, Roll, spirit, roll - THE DUKE SPIRIT, Hidden between sleeves - IMMENSE, Boy in da corner - DIZZEE RASCAL, Get rich or die tryin' - 50 CENT, Get born - JET, 39 minutes of bliss (in an otherwise meaningless world) - CAESARS, Thickfreakness - THE BLACK KEYS, Hearts of oak - TED LEO/PHARMACISTS, Two conversations - THE APPLESEED CAST, Built on squares - STARLIGHT MINTS, Movement - THE GOSSIP, Team boo - MATES OF STATE, Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State - SUFJAN STEVENS, Her Majesty the Decemberists - THE DECEMBERISTS, Dressy Bessy - DRESSY BESSY, Triggers - APRIL MARCH, Don’t try this at home - LAPTOP, Afro finger & gel - MU, Ghetto pop life - DANGER MOUSE AND JEMINI, Bazooka tooth - AESOP ROCK, Birth of a prince - RZA, This is not a test - MISSY ELLIOTT, The ownerz - GANG STARR, Seven’s travels - ATMOSPHERE, Take me to your leader - KING GEEDORAH, Vaudeville Villain - VIKTOR VAUGHN, Wallpaper for the soul - TAHITI 80, Black cherry - GOLDFRAPP, Radio blackout - T. RAUMSCHMIERE, Again - COLDER, Dead cities, red seas & lost ghosts - M83, Deux hot dogs moutarde chou - LES GEORGES LENINGRAD, Youth controllerzz - DIE MONITR BATSS, MNML - S PRCSS, Ima Robot - IMA ROBOT, Cedars - CLEARLAKE, View of an orbiting man - TENKI, Phoenix - WARLOCKS, The meadowlands - WRENS, The summer of the shark - PORTASTATIC, You are here - +/-, The black babies - DEVENDRA BANHART, The transient - DAVID DONDERO, Ghosts of the great highway - SUN KIL MOON, Per second, per second, per second… every second - WHEAT, 3 - SLUMBER PARTY, From the attic - DAMONE, Highly refined pirates - MINUS THE BEAR, The smell of our own - THE HIDDEN CAMERAS, Never never land - UNKLE, 100th window - MASSIVE ATTACK, The lemon of pink - THE BOOKS, Berlinette - ELLEN ALLIEN, Evolve - ANI DIFRANCO, A mark, a mission, a brand, a scar - DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, Loses control - HEY MERCEDES, Kick up the fire and let the flames break loose - COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE, So much for the city - THE THRILLS, Cast of thousands - ELBOW, Phantom power - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, Dear catastrophe waitress - BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, Underachievers please try harder - CAMERA OBSCURA, Happy songs for happy people - MOGWAI, Promise of love - THE AMERICAN ANALOG SET, Fiends on dope island - THE CRAMPS, Sleep and release - AEREOGRAMME, The Concretes - THE CONCRETES, Want one - RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, 1972 - JOSH ROUSE, Run to ruin - NINA NASTASIA, The ugly American - MARK EITZEL, Red devil dawn - CROOKED FINGERS, From every sphere - ED HARCOURT, Day I forgot - PETE YORN, Absolution - MUSE, Silence is easy - STARSAILOR, Welcome interstate managers - FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE, Midnight at the black nail polish factory - THE DEATHRAY DAVIES, Panic movement - THE HISS, The strangest things - LONGWAVE, War all the time - THURSDAY, The artist in the ambulance - THRICE, Antenna - CAVE IN, Sing the sorrow - AFI, Slow motion daydream - EVERCLEAR, Lost dogs - PEARL JAM, Cool as - INSPIRAL CARPETS, Wig in a Box - Songs from & inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch - VARIOUS ARTISTS