The ground rules? Only one song per band (side projects excluded). The song should have been released during the calendar year, though I've bent the rules where some self-published or import albums from last year are concerned. I'd love to see some other lists popping up on here. Steez? Jeffrey? BJ? Melissa? Buzz? Andrea? Mom?
My 75 in descending order:
1 Grizzly Bear – While You Wait for the Others (Live on KCRW)
2 Fleet Foxes –
3 Wolf Parade – The Grey Estates
4 Love Is All – Give It Back
5 Bottomless Pit – Fish Eyes
6 Department of Eagles – Waves of
7 Beach House – Home Again
8 Bon Iver – Skinny Love
9 Horse Feathers – Curs in the Weeds
10 Sera Cahoone – Only as the Day is Long
11 Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson – Buriedfed
12 Blitzen Trapper – Furr
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14 Deerhoof – Chandelier Searchlight
15 White Denim – Sitting
16 Man Man – Harpoon Fever (Queequeg’s Playhouse)
17 Frightened Rabbit – Good Arms vs Bad Arms
18 Sigur Ros – Gobbledigook
19 The Walkmen – In the New Year
20 Andrew Bird – Oh No
21 Thao – Yes, So On and So On
22 Mirah – Don’t
23 The Dodos – Fools
24 TV on the Radio – Love Dog
25 Cat Power –
26 Giant Sand – Belly Full of Fire
27 Scout Niblett (f. Will
28 Richard Swift – Would You?
29 Karl Blau – Mockingbird Diet
30 Mount Eerie and Julie Doiron – Voice in Headphones
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32 Sun Kil Moon – Tonight the Sky
33 Women – Group Transport Hall
34 Marnie Stern – The Package is Wrapped
35 Jay Reatard – Night of Broken Glass
36 Ted Leo & the Pharmacists – Paranoia (Never Enough)
37 Destroyer – Leopard of Honor
38 Dungen – Det Tar Did
39 Bound Stems – Happens to Us All Otherwise
40 Crooked Fingers – Cannibals
41 Port O’Brien – I Woke Up Today
42 The Shaky Hands – Show Me Your Life
43 Fanfarlo – Harold T. Wilkins
44 King Khan and the Shrines – Welfare Bread
45 She & Him – I Was Made for You
46 Sunset – When Perfect Flames Expire
47 The Magnetic Fields – Old Fools
48 Grouper – Heavy Water / I’d Rather Be Sleeping
49 Marissa Nadler –
50 Grand Archives – Orange Juice
51 Soltero – Out at the Wall
52 White Rabbits –
53 The Fiery Furnaces – Duplexes of the Dead
54 Gnarls Barkley – Run
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56 MGMT – Electric Feel
57 Dosh – If You Want To, You Have To
58 Ratatat – Falcon Jab
59 Q-Tip – Move
60 The Roots – Rising Down
61 Chairlift – Bruises
62 Vivian Girls – Never See Me Again
63 Tape – Beams
64 Laura Gibson – Freight Train
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66 Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Glue Girls
67 The Raveonettes – Dead Sound
68 No Age – Things I Did When I Was Dead
69 The Rosebuds – Life Like
70 Shearwater – The Hunter’s Star
71 Calexico – Two Silver Trees
72 Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Cold Son
73 Spoon – All I Got Is Me
74 Tapes ‘n Tapes – Hang Them All
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It's a little strange to see the songs lined up like this; it shows me that I've been listening to a preponderance of pop and folk and less of the noise stuff that benefits from live performance. Maybe this is what happens when you live in a city with no music venues.
Anyway, if there is interest, I'll continue posting mp3s. And if anyone wants to e-mail or text me their list, I'll post it, and will add the music where I have it.
