This was quite succesful last year so I thought I'd do it again. Here's the drill:
List your top five albums of the year. Put them in order if you're that way inclined and #1 will score 5 points, #2 will score 4 points etc. If you can't/won't put them in order they'll all score 3 points. At the end of the year I'll total up all the points to find the DiSers top 50 albums of the year. Feel free to list more than five albums but note only the first five you list will score points.
I know Sean has already started a similar thread to this so for those of you who put your top 20 albums in order in that thread I can use that if you can't be bothered to retype the top 5. Of course you may have changed your mind since then so here's your chance to recast your votes.
If you want to see what made last year's top 50 it can be found here:
http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/601634
And to remind yourself of what you voted for last year go here:
http://www.drownedinsound.com/content/view/510505
I'll start us off:
1) Return to Cookie Mountain - TV on the Radio
2) Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun - Red Sparowes
3) Drum's Not Dead - Liars
4) Comments of the Inner Chorus - Tunng
5) Drowning in a Sea of Love - Nathan Fake
I'd like to do a different list
than I posted in that thread because I've changed my mind. I'll do it shortly.
Mine
1. Secondsmile - Walk into the light and reach for the sky
2. The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes
3. Hundred Reasons - Kill your own
4. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
5. Mogwai - Mr Beast
Apart from possibly 4 and 5, i think the rest are all underdogs. Id like to think im wrong but somehow I doubt it.
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1. Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
2.Islands - Return to the Sea
3. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Etiquette
4. Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
5. The Knife - Silent Shout
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1) Howling Bells - Howling Bells
2) Someone To Drive You Home - Long Blondes
3) Empire - Kasabian
4) Whatever People Say I am... - Arctic Monkeys
5) CSS - CSS
pins and needles
Your choices make me vomit blood.
And it will fall
a mighty distance from your high horse
hush
I own three of them and two are decidely average. I just don't like the way it reads like an "NME guide to Virgin Megastores indie purchases to make this year". It's all very well following the crowd but I wouldn't post about it. And besides, the high horse I ride has a comfortable seat and I get to listen to better music?
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Let me guess things about you:
-You're really ugly. Lanky, spots, shit hair, glasses.
-You don't have many friends and don't get out often.
-When you went to university, you found you didn't fit in at the clubs where the attractive boys went, so instead, you found somewhere that played terrible music. You liked this place because it was full of people who looked and acted just like you.
-You began telling yourself that the only reason everyone prefers going to the clubs that play 'nme music' is that they're all beneath you and your musical preferences.
-You've been telling yourself this for so long, you're finally starting to believe it.
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This just about fits me!! Although I don't where glasses
hmm.
(1) Joanna Newsom - Ys
(2) Volcano! - Beautiful Seizure
(3) Black Bear - The Cinnamon Phase
(4) Jeremy Warmsley - The Art of Fiction
(5) Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
Actually.
Ignore Beirut.
Add Grizzly Bear.
If it's not too late.
That album really is better.
mine
1. Secondsmile - Walk into the light and reach for the sky
2. The Sunshine Underground - Raise the Alarm
3. The Young Knivies - Voices Of Animals And Men
can't remember any others...
Yay!
Someone else loves Secondsmile :)
1. liars - drum's not dead
2. volcano! - beautiful seizure
3. ooioo - taiga
4. deathset - to ep
5. islands - return to the sea
1. Peter Bjorn And John - Writer's Block
2. God Is An Astronaut - All Is Violent, All Is Bright
3. Brakes - The Beatific Visions
4. Forward Russia - Give Me A Wall
5. New Rhodes - Songs From The Lodge
okay!
1. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
2. Joanna Newsom - Ys
3. Scott Walker - The Drift
4. Liars - Drums Not Dead
5. Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
Nice (and predictably)
1. Joann Newsom - Ys
2. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
3. Beirut - Gulag Orkestra
4. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t
5. Mission of Burma - The Obliterati
are you offering a prize?
i think you should. illegal copies of the top 66?
brilliant, thanks for doing this again
1) Get Cape Wear Cape Fly - The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager
2) Islands - Return To The Sea
3) Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
4) The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes
5) Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
mine. repost, etc...
1. Jeniferever - Choose a Bright Morning (Drowned in Sound)
2. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (Atlantic)
3. Metric - Live it Out (Drowned in Sound)
4. Cat Power - The Greatest (Matador)
5. Howling Bells - Howling Bells (Bella Union)
Um..
1. Joanna Newsom - Ys
2. The Knife - Silent Shout
3. Burial - Burial
4. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
5. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
Probably.
...
1. Kashmir - No Balance Palace
2. Forward Russia - Give Me A Wall
3. Subtle - For Hero: For Fool
4. Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
5. Pajo - 1968
this was good.
1.Jeniferever- Choose A Bright Morning
2.Beirut-Gulag Orkestar/Lon Gisland Ep
3.Tv On The Radio- Return To Cookie Mountain
4.65daysofstatic-One Time For All Time
5.Casiotone For The Painfully Alone-Etiquette
boo yeh!
shit.
1.Jeniferever- Choose A Bright Morning
2.Beirut-Gulag Orkestar/Lon Gisland Ep
3.Tv On The Radio- Return To Cookie Mountain
4.Casiotone For The Painfully Alone-Etiquette
5.final fantasy-he poos clouds.
like it'll make any difference
1. Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
2. Jeremy Warmsley - the art of fiction
3. Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins - Rabbit Furcoat
4. Albert Hammond Jnr - Yours to Keep
5. Cold War Kids - With Our Wallets Full
This
1. Joanna Newsom - Ys
2. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming
3. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine
4. Man Man - Six Demon Bag
5. Islands - Return to the Sea
1) Return to Cookie Mountain- Tv on the radio
2) Young Machetes- Blood Brothers
3) Blood Mountain- Mastodon
4) In The Absence of Truth- Isis
5) Live It Out- Metric
...........
1) Joanna Newsom - Ys
2) Mastodon - Blood Mountain
3) Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
4) TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
5) The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
I live in the comfortable space between Indie smash hitters and Electronic nonsense.
1) Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
2) The Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home
3) Metronomy - Pip Paine (Pay The £5000 You Owe)
4) The Knife - Silent Shout
5) 120 Days - 120 Days
Isn't
DND 2005? Or am I wrong?
Mine...
1)Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
2)Russian Circles - Enter
3)Venetian Snares - Cavalcade of glee and daidist happy hardcore pom poms
4)Battles - EPC/BEP
5)Red Sparowes - Every red heart shines toward the red sun
you're wrong
well Ok then
It'll probably top my list. The CD say Copyright 2005 and I stole of t'internet ages before so I wasn't sure.
1) Tom Waits - Orphans
2) Islands - Return to the sea
3) Tv on the radio - return...
4) Burial - Burial
5) Lee Hazelwood - cake or death
1. My Latest Novel - Wolves
2. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Elan Vital
3. Fionn Regan - The End of History
4. Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
5. Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
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1) Joanna Newsom - Ys
2) Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
3) Scott Walker - The Drift
4) Tom Waits - Orphans
5) My Latest Novel - Wolves
this year,
1)Semifinalists - Semifinalists
2) Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet
3) TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
4)CSS - Cansei De Ser Sexy
5) Albert Hammond Jr - Yours to keep
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1. The Blood Arm - Lie Lover Lie
2. Morningwood - Morningwood
3. Battle Of Mice - A Day Of Nights
4. The Grates- Gravity Won't Get You Down
5. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
...
1. cursive - happy hollow
2. deftones - saturday night wrist
3. ian love - ian love
4. tv on the radio - return to cookie mountain
5. guillemots - through the windowpane
woo
1. Lansing-Dreiden - The Dividing Island
2. Mekon - Something Came Up
3. The Longcut - A Call & Response
4. Liars - Drum's Not Dead
5. Alex Smoke - Paradolia
what is that Longcut
album like? I meant to get it, then i couldn't find it, and it kinda dropped out of my head. :(
I like it
although thats sort of obvious.
I am shit at descriptions... epic post-punk? They remind me of Les Savy Fav a bit, if they were a bunch of grumpy Mancs. It's not consistently brilliant but the 5 or 6 best tracks are immense.
I was Mr Typical last time
wasn't I?
I bet I won't be this year.
1. iLiKETRAiNS - Progres/Reform
2. Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
3. Joanna Newsom - Ys
4. Yo La Tengo - I'm Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
5. Scott Walker - The Drift
good for you sir
DiS should pay you.
1)Ys - Joanna Newsom
2)Progress Reform - iLiKETRAiNS
3)Return to Cookie Mountain - TV on the Radio
4)Drum's Not Dead - Liars
5)Someone to Drive You Home - Long Blondes
shit!
forgot My Latest Novel - Wolves. That instead of Long Blondes, please.
heres mine
1. return to cookie mountain - tv on the radio
2. apple or a gun - volcano!
3. the art of fiction - jeremy warmsley
4. for hero:for fool - subtle
5. the eraser - thom yorke
you must REALLY
love the volcano ! album...
:P
fucking hell...
need... sleep...
BEAUTIFUL SEIZURE - volcano!
it is the stand out track though...
or easy does it
yeah.
but it's not really about tracks is it...
or red and white bells
or fire fire
or pulling my face....
hence my second favourite album of the year. Hurrah
mine
Joanna Newsom - Ys
MV&EE/Bummer Road - Green Blues
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
Knife - Silent Shout
Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things
i forgot it was supposed to be in order
1.Grizzly Bear
2.Joanna Newsom
3.Fujiya & Miyagi
4.MV&EE
5.Knife
......
1)Broken social scene- Broken Social Scene
2)Return to Cookie Mountain- Tv On the Radio
3)The Eraser- Thom Yorke
4)At War With the Mystics- The Flaming Lips
5)Gulag Orkestar- Beirut
Mine
1. Cult Of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway
2. Isis - In The Absence Of Truth
3. Six Organs - The Sun Awakens
4. Serena Maneesh - s/t
5. Uzi & Ari - It Is Freezing Out
This'll probably change tomorrow.
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1. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager
2. The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America
3. Luxembourg - Front
4. Jeremy Warmsley - The Art Of Fiction
5. Belle And Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
I am rubbish at picking an order but here goes:
1. Radio Dept - Pet Grief
2. Copy - Mobius Beard
3. Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles
4. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
5. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
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1.Ampere/Sinaloa ~ Split
2.Owen ~ At Home With
3.Max Richter ~ Songs From before
4.Wooden Wand and the Sky High Band ~ Second Attention
5.F.S. Blumm ~ Summer Kling
1 - Tom Waits - Orphans
2 - TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
3 - Scott Walker - The Drift
4 - Joanna Newsom - Ys
5 - Tool - 10,000 Days
However, I havent managed to get hold of the Oneida or Mates Of State albums yet... they might sneak in. Also, is The Crane Wife by The Decemberists actually released this year or next? I bought it last month but I think it might have been on import...
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1.Joanna Newsom - Ys
2. The Elected - Sun, Sun, Sun
3. Jenny Lewis w/ Watson Twins - Rabbit Furcoat
4. Pinetop Seven - Beneath Confederate Lake
5. Tilly & The Wall - Bottoms Of Barrels
after struggling to remember what came when...
1. Hot Chip - The Warning
2. The Knife - Silent Shout
3. iLiKETRAiNS - Progress/Reform
4. Johnny Cash - A Hundred Highways
5. Sparklehorse - Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly of A Mountain
get cape. wear cape. fly, my latest novel and tv on the radio might have sneaked in on another day.
justice-waters of nazareth ep also, but that might've been last year; same for malcolm middleton - into the woods.
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1. Joanna Newsom - Ys
2. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
3. Beirut - Gulag Orkestra
4.65daysofstatic-One Time For All Time
5. Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
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1. joanna newsom - ys
2. beirut - gulag orkestar
3. muse - black holes and revelations
4. casiotone for the painfully alone - etiquette
5. arctic monkeys - whatever people say i am..
mine:
1. Antarctica Takes It!-The Penguin League
2. Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
3. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
4. Jeremy Warmsley - The Art of Fiction
5. Matt & Kim - Self-titled
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1. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
2. Joanna Newsom - Ys
3. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
4. Jeremy Warmsley - The Art of Fiction
5. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - S/T
Sorry to comment
but having a quick scanny through it looks like Get Cape Wear Cape Fly will arrive higher than Arctic Monkeys.
If that happens, you should all die. And if I was gonner joke about it I'd say your mums should die as well.
mine:
1. volcano - beautiful seizure
2.iLiKETRAiNS - progress reform
3. Jeniferever - Choose a bright morning
4. TV on the radio - Return to cookie mountain
5. Jonquil - Sunny Casinos
I think the Arctic Monkeys
record is infintely better than anything GCWCF is even capable of making. But since neither come near my top 5 it's irellevent.
So don't be so mean :(
Mainly big name artists
1) Hot Chip - The Warning
2) Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say...
3) The Rifles
ooops pressed 'post reply too soon'
that was meant to read:
1) Hot Chip - The Warning
2) Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say...
3) The Rifles - No Love Lost
4) Larrikin Love - The Freedom Spark
5) Nightmares on Wax - In a Space Outta Sound
Take 5
1) volcano! - beautiful seizure
2) joanna newsom - ys
3) broken social scene - s/t
4) a hawk and a hacksaw - the way the wind blows
5) liars - drums not dead
Right
1) Return to Cookie Mountain - TVOTR
2) Awoo - The Hidden Cameras
3) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - S/T
4) Nice and Nicely Done - The Spinto Band
5) The Loon - Tapes'n'Tapes
...
1) Jeniferever - Choose A Bright Morning
2) Thom Yorke - The Eraser
3) Amusement Parks On Fire - Out Of The Angeles
4) Amplifier - Insider
5) Semifinalists - S/t
today i'm saying
1 - 'bitter tea' by fiery furnaces
2 - 'elan vital' by pretty girls make graves
3 - 'ys' by joanna newsom
4 - 'kurt kobaya y g.r.o.x. man odia nirvana' by grabba grabba tape
5 - 'post war' by m. ward
Hmm, not as good as last year
1 - 'Everything All The Time' - Band of Horses
2 - 'Roots & Crowns' - Califone
3 - 'Return To The Sea' - Islands
4 - 'Semi-finalists' - Semi-finalists
5 - 'The Loon' - Tapes 'n Tapes
Special mentions to Grizzly Bear, Beirut, M Ward, Joanna Newsom, Jeniferever.
In no order
Broken Social Scene - s/t
Destroyer's Rubies
Islands - Return to the Sea
Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea of Love
Working for a Nuclear Free City - s/t
They need to be in order!
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"If you can't/won't put them in order they'll all score 3 points"
So,
everyone else has managed to do an order. It's only a bit of fun, they won't hold you to them this time next year.
you don't really have to put them in order
i'm just being picky.
Okay
In that order then
Okey dokey
1) Radio Dept - Pet Grief
2) TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
3) Mogwai - Mr Beast
4) Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
5) The Knife - Silent Shout
Still too soon to know what to make of Ys for me I think.