#56

Here’s an attempt of 10, trying to steer it towards albums I still listen to fairly frequently instead of ones that define a particular period. But I’m still missing brilliant albums from The Divine Comedy, Babybird, Eels, Mercury Rev, dEUS, Grandaddy, Wilco, Jens Lekman and more…

The Delgados - The Great Eastern (2000)
Sigur Rós – Ágætis Byrjun (2000)
Clem Snide - Your Favorite People (2001)
The Notwist - Neon Golden (2002)
Hood - Outside Closer (2005)
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005)
Jong Pang - Love (2009)
Soap & Skin - Lovetune For Vacuum (2009)
Efterklang - Magic Chairs (2010)
Old Amica - For A Second EP (2011)

This list would in no way be the same if I had to do it again.

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#57

Ahh Hood were criminally underrated

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#58

I’m more of fugazi man, but great shout. Picked up the early years bootleg box set recently and the marquee gig from '82 with the early versions of the songs from the script album are great. All together now … “so here I am once more …”

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#59

Preferred Clutching At Straws, that’s got some real bangers on it…

#61

Oh yes, Your Favourite Music! Not sure what caused me to type People there.

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#62

Only time will tell but

Dirty Projector - Dirty Projectors
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.

could well make my top 10

#64

Wasn’t it?

#66

This is actually my list… but swap the grunge record for Rumours :smirk:

#67

A Radiohead album, a Liz Phair album, a Fiona Apple album, a Smashing Pumpkins album, a Danny Brown album, a Smiths album, a Jane’s Addiction album, a Pavement album, a Babybird album, and a Grandaddy album.

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#68

Nailed it

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#69

My ten are below, not much recent stuff in there…I suppose these are my desert island discs?

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991)
Swirlies - They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in The Glittering World of the Salons (1996)
Verve - Storm in Heaven (1993)
Yo La Tengo - Electr-o-pura (1995)
New Kingdom - Paradise Don’t Come Cheap (1996)
Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet (2006)
Seefeel - Quique (1993)
Rozi Plain - Joined Sometimes Unjoined (2012)
Panda Riot - Northern Automatic Music (2013)
Tom Waits - Bone Machine (1992)

Panda Riot and Rozi Plain knocked Siamese Dream and Patashnik (Biosphere) off. Just. Might change my mind.

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#70

Panic On is great too. Slightly more polished but with plenty of character and charm too…Its in my top 30!

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#71

In answer to your question yes! At this moment anyway!

Tame impala - Currents (2015)
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus (2009)
The Knife - Silent shout (2006)
Pulp - Different Class (1995)
The Strokes - is this it (2001)
The Avalanches - since I left you (2000)
Soulwax - Nite Versions (2005)
Daft Punk - Homework (1997)
The twilight sad - nobody wants to be here… (2015)
Brainwaltzera - Poly-ana (2017)

#72

Listened to this a lot on release then kinda forgot about it. Revisited on Friday when Bleep did their top 10 of the year - dead good and I should spend more time with it.

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#73

list: whatever vinceadultman posted though he forgot the carly rae jepsen ‘just good pop’ inclusion

don’t think i’ve hear an album this year

#75

I appear to be having some sort of existential crisis in trying to narrow down my list. How are folk qualifying albums for their top ten? There’s plenty of albums I couldn’t live without, even though I’ve not listened to them in ages. White Blood Cells, Electro-Shock Blues, The Great Eastern, Super Discount, Brighten The Corners… All would be on there. Also struggling trying to pick between multiple albums by some of my absolute favourite artists.

Anyway, these five should probably be on there:

Avalanches - Since I Left You
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Eluvium - Talk Amongst The Trees
Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments
The Roots - Things Fall Apart

#76

Absolutely! Was tempted to swap Jimi out for In a Silent Way to tick the jazz box for a clean sweep.

#77

In no particular order…

Los Campesinos! - We are Beautiful, We are Doomed
WHY? - Alopecia
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Brain Eno - Music for Airports
Marielle V. Jakobsons - Star Core
Sparklehorse - It’s A Wonderful Life
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
Nosferatu D2 - We’re Gonna Walk Around with Headphones on to Block Out All the Noise
Bikini Kill - Pussy Whipped
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

Well, nothing from this year but have something from last year, ‘Star Core’ by Marielle V. Jakobsons which I absolutely adore and play all the time. I think it is the best relaxed midnight album ever. A lot of my choices are from the 21st century, which I hope doesn’t make me a terrible philistine. Although it probably does.

#78

This to Marielle V Jakobsons, what an album…

#79

List time!

Postal Service- Give Up
Sufjan Stevens- Illinois
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Rocket from the Crypt - Scream, Dracula, Scream!
The Levellers - Levelling the Land
Notwist - Neon Golden
Longpigs - The Sun is Often Out
Mogwai - Young Team
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Rilo Kiley - Take Offs and Landings