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


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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
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