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I'm just curious what would be your Top 10, Top 25, Top 50, or, um, Top 3-5 (for those who didn't have many favorites).

― James Morris (HorrayJames), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Snarm "Rivet Cut"
2. Jumbo Cox "Bullets Cut Like Butter Knives"
3. T.C. Wylde Beast "U Build My Skyskraper"
4. Flubberina "Flour Sack Seamstress"
5. Jus Me "Pacino Flat Screen"
6. the Digits "Down The Hatch"
7. Banana "Topsy Curvy"
8. MC Manhole & DJ Cover "101010nan"
9. Jim Ray Foosh "Gingham Gol' Dang"
10. Melanie Pollen "Ballad For When The Wee Won"

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought we just listened to mp3 playlists now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

You made those up, didn't you?

(xpost)

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, I'll go....just so someone can say how ridiculously predictable and rockist and ass-headed I am.

1. Killing Joke 2003 by Killing Joke
2. Psychopharmacology by Firewater
3. DeStijl by the White Stripes
4. Obtanium by Skeleton Key
5. Veni Vidi Vicious by the Hives

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG I totally knew that list was jack cole halfway thru #1

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

xpost -- me make something up? ";-)", to quote the Raggett.

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
the shins - chutes too narrow
fountains of wayne - welcome interstate managers
beck - sea change
flaming lips - yoshimi vs. the pink robots
cat power - you are free
yeah yeah yeahs - s/t
bob dylan - love and theft
manitoba - up in flames
outkast = speakerboxxx/the love below

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Psychopharmacology is pretty great!

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

where's rufus wainwright in your list, strongo?

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

how ridiculing the consensus is supposed to be less zzzz than the consensus, I have no idea.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

b-b-b-but he's serious, man

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

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― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's my favourites right now (and thanks for asking):

The Bees "Sunshine Hit Me"
Mouse on Mars "Niun Niggung"
Mum "Yesterday Was Dramatic..."
Badawi "Clones and False Prophets"
HIM "Many in High Places are Not Well"
Broken Social Scene "You Forgot It In People"
Broadcast "Noise Made By People"
Circle "Sunrise"
Outhud "STREETDAD"
Polmo Polpo "Like Hearts Swelling"
Stereolab "Sound Dust"

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 27 February 2004 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

doesn't someone start this thread every two months? Oh well, I'm so eager to procrastinate right now that I'll bite:

1. One Beat -- Sleater-Kinney
2. Lucy Ford -- Atmosphere
3. Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea -- PJ Harvey
4. Marshall Mathers LP -- Eminem
5. Stankonia -- Outkast
6. “Love & Theft” -- Bob Dylan
7. Satellite Rides -- Old 97s
8. Kish Kash -- Basement Jaxx
9. Decoration Day -- Drive-By Truckers
10. Original Pirate Material -- The Streets
11. Specialist in All Styles -- Orchestra Baobob
12. White Blood Cells -- White Stripes
13. AOI: Bionix (or is it Mosaic Thump? -- the second one; I get the titles confused) -- De La Soul
14. The Friends of Rachel Worth -- The Go-Betweens
15. Boy In Da Corner -- Dizzee Rascal
16. Party Music -- The Coup
17. Rooty -- Basement Jaxx
18. Fever to Tell -- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
19. Vol 3: Life and Times of S. Carter -- Jay-Z
20. Time Bomb High School -- Reigning Sound

― chris herrington (chris herrington), Friday, 27 February 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Unranked:
Primal Scream -- XTRMNTR
Broken Social Scene -- You Forgot it in People
Plastikman -- Closer
GYBE -- Lift Yr Skinny etc.
Hollowphonic -- Majestic
Fluxion -- Vibrant Forms II
Tindersticks -- Waiting for the Moon
Spiritualized -- Let It Come Down
Labradford -- Fixed:Context
Yo La Tengo -- And Then Nothing ...

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 27 February 2004 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Bersuit Vergabarat, Hijos del Culo
El Gran Silencio, Chuntaros Radio Poder, Super Riddim Internacional, Vol. 1
Allison Moorer, The Duel, Miss Fortune
Common, Electric Circus
Robi Draco Rosa, Mad Love
Super Furry Animals, Phantom Power
Tift Merritt, Bramble Rose
Caetano Veloso, Noites do Norte
Stella Chiweshe, Talking Mbira
Pepito, Migrante, Everything Changes
Celso Pina, Barrio Bravo
Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives, Country Music
Jaguar Wright, Denials, Delusions, and Decisions
Buffalo Daughter, I
T.I., Trap Muzik

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 27 February 2004 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Original Pirate Material
Phantom Planet, The Guest
Think Tank
Cardigans, Long Gone before Daylight
Welcome Interstate Managers, but only in the way that Al Pacino got the Oscar for "Scent of a Woman"

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 27 February 2004 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Radiohead - Kid A
The Strokes - Room on Fire
Beck - Sea Change
The Postal Service - Give Up
Daft Punk - Discovery
Aphex Twin - Drukqs
The White Stripes - De Stijl
Kid 606 - GQ on the EQ
Sigur Ros - ()
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
Radiohead - Hail To The Theif
The Chemical Brothers - Come With Us
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World
DJ Shadow - Private Press
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Grandaddy - Sumday
The Polyphonic Spree - The Beginning Stages of...
Spiritualized - Let it Come Down
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
The Strokes - Is This It?
The White Stripes - Elephant
Enon - Hocus Pocus
Max Tundra - Mastered By Guy at the Exchange
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
Beta Band - Hot Shots 2
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Stereolab - Margerine Eclipse
Blur - Think Tank
The Darkness - Permission to Land
Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Bjork - Vespertine
Kid Koala - Some of my Best Friends are DJ's
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Kid 606 - Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Air - Talkie Walkie
The New Porographers - Electric Version
Ozma - Rock & Roll Pt. 3
The Rapture - Echoes
Kid Koala - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Kings of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
Phoenix - United
Electric Six - Fire
The (International) Noise Conspiracy - First Conspiracy
The Vines - Highly Evolved

Thers my Top 50 in no particular order

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Friday, 27 February 2004 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Boy in Da Corner, Original Pirate Material, Franz Ferdinand, Echoes, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and The Decline of British Sea Power.

― bbc6 personality (bbc6 personality), Friday, 27 February 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Wire-Send
2. Guided By Voices-Isolation Drills
3. Teenage Fanclub-Howdy!
4. The Strokes-Is This It
5. Elbow-Cast Of Thousands
6. Moloko-Things To Make And Do
7. Radio 4-Gotham!
8. New Order-Get Ready
9. Queens Of The Stone Age-R
10.Mercury Rev-All Is Dream

― André, Friday, 27 February 2004 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Aaliyah, Aaliyah
Sleater-Kinney, One Beat
Gillian Welch, Time (The Revelator)
Girls Aloud, Sound Of The Underground
Missy Elliott, Miss E... So Addictive
Princess Superstar, Princess Superstar Is
Françoiz Breut, Vingt À Trente Mille Jours
Christina Aguilera, Stripped
Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP
Dizzee Rascal, Boy In Da Corner
Katy Carr, Screwing Lies
Tom Waits, Blood Money
Courtney Love, America's Sweetheart
Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia, Indian Ink
Basement Jaxx, Kish Kash

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 27 February 2004 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
the shins - chutes too narrow
fountains of wayne - welcome interstate managers
beck - sea change
flaming lips - yoshimi vs. the pink robots
the strokes - is this it
cat power - you are free
yeah yeah yeahs - s/t
bob dylan - love and theft
outkast - stankonia

― Andy K (Andy K), Saturday, 28 February 2004 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish
2. Good Charlotte - The Young And The Hopeless
3. LeTigre - LeTigre
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
5. Fugazi - The Argument
6. Electric Six - Fire
7. Kelly Osbourne - Shut Up!
8. Rocket From The Crypt - Group Sounds
9. Twilight Singers - Twilight As Performed By The Twilight Singers
10. Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 28 February 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Voodoo
Dear Catastrophe Waitress
My Love I Love
Original Pirate Material

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 28 February 2004 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Idiology
Endless Summer
Rooty & Kish Kash
Girls Can Tell
Wonderful Rainbow
I Get Wet

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 28 February 2004 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

My list is very official. But it's not in any order.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 28 February 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

cee-lo green and his perfect imperfections
lovage: music to make love to your old lady by
medeski martin and wood - uninvisible
fantomas - the director's cut
wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
the roots - phrenology
princess superstar is
radiohead - kid a
system of a down - toxicity
tom waits - mule variations
talib kweli - quality

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Saturday, 28 February 2004 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)

whoops and Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow for real

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Saturday, 28 February 2004 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Avalanches

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 28 February 2004 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Five off the top of my head that have each spent at least a month as "the only thing I've been listening to"

Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Delgados - Hate
Firewater - Psychopharmacology
White Pepper - Ween
Grandaddy - Sumday

― martin m. (mushrush), Saturday, 28 February 2004 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight
Vaz - Demonstrations in Micronesia
Fugazi - The Argument
The Sultans - Ghost Ship
Radiohead - Kid A
The Capitol Years - Meet Yr Acres
Silver Jews - Bright Flight
Silkworm - Italian Platinum
Frank Black & the Catholics - Dog in the Sand
Oneida - Anthem of the Moon

― Famous Athlete, Saturday, 28 February 2004 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, definitely agree with these:

The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Bjork - Vespertine
Broadcast - Noise Made By People
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
The Strokes - Is This It?
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Le Tigre - Le Tigre

Plus, in no particular order:

Oval - Ovalprocess
Tujiko Noriko - Hard Ni Sasete (Make Me Hard)
The Clientele - Suburban Light
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Venetian Snares - Songs About My Cats
Lambchop - Nixon
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Clinic - Internal Wrangler
Farben - Textstar
Young People - Young People
Scratch Pet Land - Solo Soli iiiii
Peaches - The Teaches of...

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 28 February 2004 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

It's amazing the giant rocks some people make themselves live under.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 28 February 2004 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, and it feels quite comfortable. I pick dEUS' In A Bar Under The Sea. The rest is filler in my collection.

― nathalie (nathalie), Saturday, 28 February 2004 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's mine:

1. White Stripes, De Stijl
2. Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3. David Banner, Mississipi: The Screwed & Chopped Album
4. Drive-By Truckers, Southern Rock Opera
5. Radiohead Kid A/Amnesiac
6. Bob Dylan, Love and Theft (the Bush-allusion stuff is amazing when you listen to it now)
7. Built to Spill, Live
8. Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP
9. Andrew WK, I Get Wet
10. Jay-Z, The Blueprint

― Chris O., Saturday, 28 February 2004 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually forgot a few albums on mine, so here's a big ol' (ok, a minor) redux - plus LeTigre was '99.

1. Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish
2. Good Charlotte - The Young And The Hopeless
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
4. White Stripes - DeStijl
5. Fugazi - The Argument
6. Distillers - Sing Sing Death House
7. Electric Six - Fire
8. Kelly Osbourne - Shut Up!
9. Rocket From The Crypt - Group Sounds
10. Twilight Singers - Twilight As Performed By The Twilight Singers

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 28 February 2004 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

why is andy k's the same as strongo's (probly fake) one?

― Sym (shmuel), Saturday, 28 February 2004 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

haha yeah just probably

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 28 February 2004 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not the same!

― Andy K (Andy K), Saturday, 28 February 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

it's very close

― Sym (shmuel), Saturday, 28 February 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

oi fine, for real then (with feeling):

1. Beta Band - Hot Shots II
2. Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
3. M. Mayer - Fabric 13/Immer
4. Daft Punk - Discovery
5. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
6. The Clientele - Suburban Light
7. V/A - The Best Garage Anthems In The World...Ever
8. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
9. Pulp - We Love Life
10. Missy Elliot - Miss E...So Addictive
11. Luomo - Vocalcity
12. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
13. V/A - Garage Rap
14. Tool - Lateralus
15. Metro Area - Metro Area
16. Avalanches - Since I Left You
17. Recloose - Cardiology
18. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Hearts of OakThe
19. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
20. DJ/rupture - Gold Teeth Theif
21. Fennesz - Endless Summer
22. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
23. Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers
24. So Solid Crew - F**k It
25. Horsepower Productions - In Fine Style
26. Clipse - Lord Willin
27. V/A - Superlongevity
28. Radiohead - Kid A
29. Kaito - Special Life
30. Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance
31. Jackie-O Motherfucker - Liberation
32. Mike Ladd - Welcome To The Afterfuture
33. Rapture - Echoes
34. Nelly - Country Grammar
35. Triple R - Friends
36. Matt Herbert - Let's All Make Mistakes
37. V/A - This Is Tech-Pop
38. Anti-Pop Consortium - Tragic Epilogue
39. High On Fire - The Art of Self-Defense
40. V/A - Soleside's Greatest Bumps

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 28 February 2004 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

14. Tool - Lateralus

good to know!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 28 February 2004 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

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