Okay, there's gonna be a thread about this at some point, so I thought I may as well start it.
Have to say I think they redeemed themselves a little after last week. A few inclusions (Aesop Rock, Max Tundra, Notwist...) that I really wasn't expecting, but it was fantastic to see. And when all's said and done, I can't disagree with their collective choice for the top spot.
Still don't get the fuss with Jay-Z though...

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On reflection, the other one wasn't all that bad either. You're rather stick for choice when trying to think of good singles. I don't really understand why everyone likes annie yet, but I dont think i've listened enough for it to seep into my sub-conscious.
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Contradiction in terms.
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Contradiction in terms.'
Good call.
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The Unicorns - 'Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?'
Keith Fullerton Whitman - 'Playthroughs'
Prefuse 73 - 'Vocal Studies & Uprock Narratives'
The Wrens - 'The Meadowlands'
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts'
Deerhoof - 'Reveille'
The Shins - 'Oh, Inverted World'
Sonic Youth - 'Murray Street'
Spoon - 'Girls Can Tell'
The Postal Service - 'Give Up'
Prefuse 73 - 'One Word Extinguisher' and 'Extinguished'
Lightning Bolt - 'Wonderful Rainbow'
The Shins - 'Chutes Too Narrow'
The Arcade Fire - 'Funeral'
Mclusky - 'Mclusky Do Dallas'
Manitoba - 'Up In Flames'
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - 'Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven'
The Fiery Furnaces - 'Blueberry Boat'
Radiohead - 'Hail to the Thief'
The Rapture - 'Echoes'
The Streets - 'A Grand Don't Come For Free'
Sufjan Stevens - 'Greetings From Michigan The Great Lake State'
The Flaming Lips - 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots'
Broken Social Scene - 'You Forgot it in People'
Fennesz - 'Endless Summer'
Boards of Canada - 'Geogaddi'
The Notwist - 'Neon Golden'
The Microphones - 'The Glow, Pt. 2'
Radiohead - 'Amnesiac'
Devendra Banhart - 'Rejoicing in the Hands'
Wilco - 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot'
The Streets - 'Original Pirate Material'
Modest Mouse - 'The Moon & Antarctica'
Sigur Rós - 'Ágaetis Byrjun'
Radiohead - 'Kid A'
How many is that? Hmm.....35. Not a bad haul.
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089: Franz Ferdinand
071: The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
048: ...Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
029: Fugazi - The Argument
027: Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
007: Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
and a dozen or so others that either my bro or housemates have...and a whole bunch where i own stuff by the artist that isnt that album
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Maybe they could scrap the weekly one and replace it with an advert...
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but lots of Radiohead so i forgive them.
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They had Clipse on the album list and they recognised the genious of "grindin" but they didn't have N.E.R.D. "in search of"?It is much better than half of Jay-Z discography.
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Not sure I agree with number 1, but I can forgive that.