No over-thinking, no spreadsheets, no calculations, just hit me with a top 3 for each topic on instinct alone.
Belle & Sebastian - Dog On Wheels
Arctic Monkeys - Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?
Radiohead - My Iron Lung
Honourable Mentions:
Los Campesinos! - Sticking Fingers Into Sockets
The Strokes - The Modern Age
Kings Of Leon - Holy Roller Novocaine
Buzzcocks - Spiral Scratch
And yes hahaha Bleach is an ep hahaha. Do better.
Blackhaine - Armour II
James Blake - CMYK
TV On The Radio - Young Liars
sugar - beaster
e40 - the mail man
bone thugs n harmony - creepin on ah come up
hon mentions
ice cube - kill at will
yeah yeah yeahs - yeah yeah yeahs
nofx - the decline
Ride – Today Forever
Cave In – Tides of Tomorrow
The Bronx – La Muerte Vita!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Yeah Yeah Yeahs (master)
Who the fuck are arctic monkeys
GYBE - Slow riot for new zero kanada
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Hey, a double EP! Your Mother Should Know! I Am The Walrus! The Fool On The Hill! Excellent stuff.
The Chalets - Nightrock
Bit of an odd one, this. The Chalets only put out one album, some singles, and this one EP. This EP is my favourite thing they released and something I still listen to a lot twenty years later. David Boring in particular is this moody, brooding track which was the best part of their live repertoire.
Malcolm Middleton - Girl Songs
Yer boy Malcolm covering The Saturdays, Girls Aloud, Ladyhawke, and Joan Osborne. Just him and an acoustic guitar taking on these big lavishly produced pop hits.
Honourable mention to that early Alabama Shakes EP, though I think all those songs ended up on the first album
Grandaddy - Excerpts from the Diary of Todd Zilla
Mountain Man - Ruminations
Janelle Monáe - Metropolis: The Chase Suite
Fuck. Yes.
Cursive - Burst & Bloom
Everything But The Girl - Didn’t Know I Was Looking For Love
The National - The Virginia EP
R.E.M. - Chronic Town
Belle & Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane
Pulp - The Sisters EP
Honourable Mentions:
Cocteau Twins - Sunburst And Snowblind
Stereolab - The Groop Played Spaceage Bachelor Pad Music
Spacemen 3 - Transparent Radiation
Burial - Rival Dealer
Idlewild - Captain
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Mogwai - EP
Sigur Rós – Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do
Efterklang – One Sided LP
Grouper – Vessel
HM:
Daughter – The Wild Youth
amiina – Animamina
Today it is:
Hope of the States - Blood Meridian EP
Frightened Rabbit - A Frightened Rabbit EP
Explosions In The Sky - The Rescue
Cocteau Twins - Love’s Easy Tears
Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out In The Country
My Bloody Valentine - Tremolo
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim
TV on the Radio - Young Liars
Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out in the Country
Belle and Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane
Mogwai - EP (the one with Stanley Kubrick on it)
Boygenius - Boygenius EP
Honourable mention to Editors Recommendation by Half Man Half Biscuit.
Honorable Mention that someone should say but just in case they dont:
Gravenhurst - Black Holes In The Sand
Gybe - Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Robyn - The Rakamonie EP
Ooberman - Shorley Wall
Honorable mentions to The Beta Band, Low, Fugazi, Pixies, Strokes, and Boards Of Canada, too
Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out in the Country
Burial - Kindred
Drug Church - Swell