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My Best of 2011 PART TWO. My FAVORITES

weasleyaholic — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:19:06 GMT

This year was the hardest list I've had to write thus far. But next year already sounds like hearbreak. New albums expected fromJukebox the Ghost, The Avett Brothers and a Ben Folds Five reunion album?! SERIOUSLY, no one could get it done in time for 2011? My three favorite bands shouldn't be allowed to release albums in the same year. And now I bring you 1-30! Except in the reverse order!

30. GIVERS – In Light

Up Up Up with Givers! This band from New Orleans is making a name for itself; this record is a folkier version of Matt & Kim or Mates of State. I am glad to hear Up Up Up in public (my bar even plays it) and the indie stations have all caught on to its extreme amount of catchiness. Up Up Up is just the beginning. The album is full of other great songs including, but not limited to; Saw You First and Go Out All Night. A theme this year seems to be ten track records, In Light is one of the longest ten trackers, there’s not a single song that runs less than four minutes on the whole album. That’s because the instrumentation is allowed its own time to develop and the lyrics glide along it. The stories get the time they deserve. Saw You First utilizes some great builds, and has an awesome bridge that lasts almost a minute. Go Out At Night turns more into a jam than earlier tracks, and is just as successful as the last.
CHECK OUT: Up Up Up
Go Out All Night
Saw You First

29. CAKE – Showroom of Compassion

This band has no pressure at this point. They will churn out records when they want to, tour when they want to, and skip the use of an opening band, if they want to. Showroom of Compassion is exactly what a CAKE record should be. John McCrea (of CAKE y’all) knows exactly what he’s doing. And frankly, doesn’t give an F if you don’t like it. The discography of CAKE is full of catchy alternative pop songs, with their signature sound and McCrea’s signature speak-singing. Lyrically one of the smartest bands out there, the word play throughout their catalogue is unparallel. Every song on this record has a place in the CAKE library, however, there’s nothing new going on here either. CAKE doesn’t care that I don’t think they’ve broken any ground recently, and honestly, I’m very fond of CAKE the way they are, just not much space in the top of the list. CAKE’s last release, 2004’s Pressure Chief was a long time ago, and McCrea has been quoted to say that this record sounds very different. I beg to differ, sir, but I’m not upset by the fact.
CHECK OUT: Sick of You
Federal Funding
Bound Away

28. CITY & COLOUR – Little Hell

What a beautiful voice. In the era of falsettos, Dallas Green’s ranks amongst the best. He also ranks amongst best Canadians, right up there with William Shatner. It does not come as a surprise that Little Hell topped the Canadian charts, rightly so. Glad to see it get as high as 28^th in America, where the music runs a bit on the dull side. Green has such a handle on how to craft a ballad. It is hard to remember sometimes that City and Colour is a sideproject. Little Hell is Green’s finest work yet as it wins your heart. The combination of Northern Wind and O’Sister back to back is heart wrenching. O’Sister may be 2011’s saddest songs; anyone who has sisters and has seen them in their darkest days knows what Green is talking about.
CHECK OUT: O’Sister
Northern Wind
Fragile Bird

27. MARITIME – Human Hearts

Got to give the local guys some love, and they deserve it. With Human Hearts Maritime has finally figured out who they are and what they sound like. The band members are a little older, a little more mature and pull together the great things of their previous efforts to put out a great record. Hearts is in every aspect their strongest and smartest record to date, a hidden gem. Paraphernalia ranks as one of Maritime’s all time best, alongside Annihilation Eyes. Between those and Apple of My Irony Davey von Bohlen has hit his stride. Irony is one of 2011’s strongest written songs. Lyrically, musically, dynamically, you name it, it’s got it.
CHECK OUT: Apple of My Irony
Annihilation Eyes
Paraphernalia

26. THE CIVIL WARS – Barton Hollow

The world of folk music is getting so full. It probably always has been, but each year more and more is brought to prominence. The Civil Wars’ Barton Hollow is a bandwagon I jumped on a little late, and we’re still getting familiar. With tracks like I’ve Got this Friend it’s hard to not imagine being longtime friends. Vocally John Paul White and Joy Williams are meant for each other. Their voices blend so incredibly well we are lucky they met each other. The great drive on the title track is something everyone should be able to stomp along to. Every time a band like this rolls around, I can easily hear my parents’ influence on my taste in music, songs like Forget Me Not remind me of an older era of music, and are just so artfully done, how could you not fall in love?
CHECK OUT: Barton Hollow
Forget Me Not
I’ve Got this Friend

25. TV ON THE RADIO – Nine Types of Light

This album keeps getting pushed down the list. It’s unfortunate that so much great music came out this year, in the best kind of unfortunate that can be. Nine Types of Light rocks and grooves the way you expect out of the experts behind TV on the Radio. The band is full of professionals. They fuse so many types of music from rock to jazz to a cappella to punk to soul to psychedelic the band surely has something for everybody. The strangely named Second Song opens the album right. The single of Will Do is so well done that it’s frightening. Keep Your Heart, Killer Crane and You also standout. Killer Crane is Nine Types of Light’s longest track, but it also creates one of the best arenas of sound on the record. Dynamically speaking it brings you up and fills you with a great horn section with perfectly executed vocals, and hell, adds a banjo – which is unexpected from TVotR – near the end of the song. Could be a Sufjan Stevens song, but is so certainly still a TV on the Radio song. TV on the Radio continually puts out great records, and trust in the fact that they will continue to do so.
CHECK OUT: Will Do
Keep Your Heart
Killer Crane

24. WYE OAK – Civilian

This folk-rock band has a hint of dream pop in its DNA. Bridging some of the genre lines make Civilian one of 2011’s best. Wonderful vocals and skilled musicianship keep you listening. The record is on the mellow side but still is able to maintain a strong guitar line through most tracks, and even have you on the edge of your seat. Holy Holy may be one of the greatest songs in 2011. It brings in folk and shoegaze, and I’m sure other bands do this too, but Holy Holy does it so extremely well that this is the song that defines Civilian. The song explodes, so much that you can even hear the monitor clip in the bridge. The builds and falls throughout the song are artfully crafted, and knows how to just give you enough. Follow up track Dogs Eyes is a perfect answer to Holy Holy, brings in a heavier guitar, thinner drumming, sparser music as a whole, and just lets the music speak for itself. Album closer Doubt has one of the best mixes on the album, the levels on the vocals and on the guitar are perfect, Jenn Wasner’s voice flies and her guitar flies right along side it.
CHECK OUT: Holy Holy
Dogs Eyes
Doubt

23. COLD WAR KIDS – Mine Is Yours

This is not a popular record. I will not apologize for my love of it. The record is catchy as hell. After a stunning debut in 2006 with Robbers & Cowards I have been waiting for a record from Cold War Kids that embodied the same feel. Mine is Yours is a return to form. Coming out in January Yours has had a lot of time to win its way into the brain radio of listeners. Maybe the critics are expecting something different from the band, but tracks like Sensitive Kid, Royal Blue and Skip the Charades, should have anyone singing praises for this band. Perhaps there is a too strong vibe of commerciality on Mine is Yours, and indie snobs tend to reject that. (See Regina Spektor’s Far). Nathan Willett’s voice is something that gives the band such a unique identity, it’s been described as a yelp before (Hang Me Up to Dry) but on Yours Willett finds that his voice can sing too. On Blue Willett allows his voice to go to places it hasn’t before, and it comes out on top. This is an album that is easy to listen to over and over again; each song has a great hook and, sure, has a touch of commerciality. But since when is being radio friendly a problem, if it does not impact your sound? Willett’s voice is most similar on Kid to earlier tracks like Up to Dry and Something Is Not Right With Me. Vocally more “yelpy” and is a bit more sparse in the instrumentation department. The storytelling in Kid is a great track for anyone who has gone through their parents divorcing. Charades is a perfect recounting of a relationship on the fritz, while no one confronts the issue. Every song has lyrics that weave their way into your mind and will catch up with you weeks later, and refuse to leave. CHECK OUT: Skip the Charades
Sensitive Kid
Royal Blue
Mine Is Yours

22. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

Maybe it’s not fair to put out a two disc set. Maybe it’s great. The set runs just shy of an hour and a half, but they are great counter parts for each other. Starting out strong with Intro and 1.2 hours later ending, a bit strangely with Outro. Midnight City is a song that personifies M83, crazy synthesizers, spacey lyrics and the ability to make you dance where you are standing. Disc two’s standout track is OK Pal which embodies the same spirit as Midnight City. Raconte-Moi Une Histoire has a great voice over from a child, in fact, it’s got such honest beauty in it in only a way M83 has been able to do, record to record to record.
CHECK OUT: OK Pal
Raconte-Moi Une Histoire
Midnight City
Intro

21. ELBOW – Build a Rocket Boys!

2008’s The Seldom Seen Kid set the standard high. Build a Rocket Boys! met those expectations, this Britpop band has not gone off their rocker and try to go American (see Muse), staying true to form and writing wonderful lyrics will keep spurring one of the best bands you love without knowing it throughout the years. Someone once called them the ultimate sleeper band, and they were ultimately correct. The Night Will Always Win is an excellent four minutes of music. Great ambiance and wonderful lyrics spur this to the album’s highlight; perfectly placed smack in the middle of the record gives you something to head towards and come down off of. “I miss your stupid face / I miss your bad advice / I tried to clothe your bones with scratches / Super 8s, exaggerated stories and old tunes/ But never by the moon / But not the state I'm in / The night will always win.” The band is a pro at knowing how to use album dynamics, picking you up from the heartbreak of Always Win you are suddenly spurred into High Ideals which has a lot more sound and is another triumph. They’ve done it before, on the same record, even. From mellow Lippy Kids into sing-along With Love flowing while simultaneously changing mentality on harder rocking Neat Little Rows Elbow knows what they are doing, and will continue to do so.
CHECK OUT: The Night Will Always Win
High Ideals
With Love
Neat Little Rows

20. HOTEL LIGHTS – Girl Graffiti

So I’m biased. Every single list is. The writer has their own taste. Hotel Lights is one of my favorite bands. Headed by one of my favorite people in the world; Darren Jessee. Given Girl Graffiti’s predecessor Firecracker People selected as record of the year in 2008, coming in at number 20 is a considerable downfall. Jessee takes a bit more of a step down path to the folk world since the much more electronic beginnings in the self titled debut. Girl Graffiti is good; it just needs one more song with some pushing power, and some better mixing. Jessee’s vocals get lost in the mix. Shimmering lights of greatness come on the poppy Dave Sharkey to the Dance Floor and the snarky Ben Folds Five era All My Asshole Friends. The honest truth is that this record doesn’t have the staying power Firecracker People had so much of, but, it is still a great record. When the record first came out it was in constant rotation, but since then it’s fallen off once again. Maybe the bar is too high for Darren to possibly be able to jump? Being on a pedestal sucks, man.
CHECK OUT: All My Asshole Friends
Dave Sharkey to the Dance Floor
Into the Blue
Headboard and Asprin

19. FLORENCE + THE MACHINE – Ceremonials

Florence Welch. That seems like enough. This sophomore release isn’t Lungs, but it sure is fantastic too. This is Welch a bit more orchestral than her debut, and her voice is a bit more restrained. It still is one of the best voices around; the album is more symphonic than pop. Unfortunately, Ceremonials is a bit top heavy. The record begins with the two catchiest tracks the entire album long; Only if For a Night and Shake it Out. Heartlines is also a stand out. The album does not have a song less than four minutes. There are some bonus tracks on certain editions of the record, and Bedroom Hymns (the only song associated with the release less than four minutes) deserved to be on the regular record, one of Welch’s best from 2011, certainly spring for the Deluxe Edition. Great to see her do more, but Ceremonials doesn’t weave its way into your brain as well as Lungs did, outside of Shake it Out and Only if For a Night.
CHECK OUT: Shake it Out
Heartlines
Only if For a Night
Bedroom Hymns

18. EISLEY – The Valley

This side of Eisley is angry, sarcastic, biting. Yet characteristically they sound sound so pleasantly sweet. (I do not love the reason’s they ended up so upset.) These ladies (and sisters) know how to get right back up on the horse after it has bucked you off. That is inspiring. Ambulance might be one of the year’s best break up songs. Smarter is a tour de force when it comes to “I’m better off without you” songs. “Even though I miss you / I’m thankful / it’s obvious that this run was futile / so put your hands together and clap for the things, the choice you made / cause it’s right / I’m smarter than you.” All with one of the best guitar lines of the year. What human being cannot empathize? Please, Oxygen Mask, and Sad are also notable tracks. This family can rock with the best of them, working as a better female fronted rock band than most. The DuPree family has been through divorces, cheating husbands, breaking up with the label, and weddings in the years between records. The DuPree family knows how to turn life into a song. Sherri and Stacy write some of the most honest lyrics around today, and they put them out there in some of the sweetest packaging.
CHECK OUT: Smarter
Ambulance
Sad
Please
Oxygen Mask

17. PORTUGAL. THE MAN – In the Mountain in the Cloud

There’s always a worry when an indie band moves up in the world of labels. People worried about The Avett Brothers and I and Love and You, people worried about Portugal. The Man with In the Mountain in the Cloud. People really should stop worrying. From time to time it goes askew, but, when a band knows who they are so certainly like the aforementioned, all a bigger label means is better quality sound, and a better budget. Mountain is just that, a better sounding Portugal record. So American is a fantastic way to open up a record. The lyrics these guys write are just spot on. Social commentary has a place in pop music. Whoever said it doesn’t is just clueless. If you cannot identify with the ideas behind Sleep Forever, you have not had a job that has worn you out properly. It would be remiss to not mention the great falsetto vocals that this band has perfected, in a completely different sense than Justin Vernon or Alec Ounsworth. The beats throughout this record are why this record is in my top 20. Honestly this year is far too stacked to have a fair list. This record really is a top 10 sounding record. There are just more than 10 records that are. Artwork also gets a shout out.
CHECK OUT: So American
All Your Light (Times Like These)
Sleep Forever

16. OKKERVIL RIVER – I Am Very Far

Album opener The Valley is driving. Okkervil River is driving along the road of their careers, and Will Sheff knows where he’s heading, willing to let us hitchhike. I Am Very Far features some of the best orchestral moments we’ve heard from Okkervil River. The evolution of this band has been wonderful to listen to. I Am Very Far blends some of their best sounds into one cohesive record. It is not, perhaps, the best record to introduce a new person to the band through, however for fans around the world it is a welcome inclusion in the discography. Track after track they continue to excel, and perhaps become a bit more abstract as the record goes along. Your Past Life is a Blast should remind fans of some of Okkervil River’s older work. Show Yourself is one of Sheff’s best sung songs. The third track Rider could be the album’s best, it combines the pop sensibilities of 2007’s The Stage Names, the orchestral builds and dark underlings of 2005’s Black Sheep Boy. I Am Very Far is a record of continuance. It’s a record that keeps Okkervil River as forerunners in indie music today. They are an essential inclusion in anyone’s music library. This record, admittedly, is a bit of a sleeper, but it is a sleeper that reminds you why you selected it each time you listen.
CHECK OUT: Rider, Show Yourself
The Valley
Your Past Life is a Blast

15. ST. VINCENT – Strange Mercy

Annie Clark knows how to rock. There is something about how her voice is just so sweet over that fuzz bass. It’s what makes St Vincent so enticing. The juxtaposition of almost too-sweet vocals with an experimental surrounding is what makes St Vincent so good. Cheerleader is a perfect example. Clark’s lyrics are meaningful and vocally smooth as butter, and accompanied by a buzzing drumbeat and fuzzed to hell guitar. Strange Mercy is much more of an album one must listen through start to finish. Each track lays the ground for listener to be ready for the next track. Cruel has one of the greatest beats of the year. Clark hits being a woman in love on the nail with Neutered Fruit, which highlights some of Strange Mercy’s best sounds and best lyrics. Surgeon is just full of some of the coolest sounding guitar pedals that they’re essentially irresistible, every pass Clark changes it up. This album is much better as a whole than a series of singles, which is becoming rarer in today’s music world.
CHECK OUT; Cheerleader
Neutered Fruit
Cruel
Surgeon

14. THE ANTLERS – Burst Apart

Surprise find of the year. Opener I Don’t Want Love is so strong that it made me stop what I was doing the first time I heard it (thanks whoever it was on Turntable). Burst Apart is so well crafted as a whole. There is such a great use of falsetto on the record that people may even think there is a woman in the band (see Parentheses). There isn’t. The two strongest tracks on the record may be the bookends, but only by a margin. Each track has its own feel, its own story, and does it incredibly well. The final track of Putting the Dog to Sleep is the closest thing to a power ballad of the 80s in today’s music; it also may house some of the saddest lyrics of the year. The guts of the album, including major highlight of Rolled Together remind the listener of Radiohead to Arcade Fire to Sigur Ros while maintaining its own identity.
CHECK OUT: I Don’t Want Love
Rolled Together
Putting the Dog to Sleep
Corsicana

13. THE ROSEBUDS – Loud Planes Fly Low

Loud Planes Fly Low will keep you company in your lonesomeness because it’s lonely too. Album opener Go Ahead set the tone for a record that grows in your heart, it doesn’t have to hit you over the head, it comes to you as it is. Each song is built to lead you into the next. Utilizing both band members’ vocals Kelly Crisp and Ivan Howard is one of the band’s strong points. Kelly’s strongest work comes with Come Visit Me. Ivan’s most heartfelt music comes from Worthwhile an actual letter he wrote to his estranged wife, and band mate, while separated. The album’s rockiest track Woods wins them into anyone’s soul, and deserves so much more attention. The record encompasses the divorce of Ivan and Kelly. The whole situation must be strange. Their divorce, while most likely awful for them, gave the band what it needed to make their best record. Hopefully Ivan and Kelly can maintain their friendship with each other enough to continue to tour and make beautiful music together.
CHECK OUT: Woods
Worthwhile
Go Ahead
Come Visit Me

12. GIRLS – Father, Son, Holy Ghost

2009’s Album was a masterpiece, and 2011’s Father, Son, Holy Ghost is a welcomed follow up. Album opener Honey Bunny let’s you know what you’re in for; an album that is a love song to the music of 60s and the 70s. Honey Bunny has such a Beach Boys feel to it, if the Beach Boys had grown up in a cult like lead vocalist Christopher Owens did. Beach Boys plus Pink Floyd seems to equal out to Girls. There’s nothing wrong with that. Girls cover their bases when it comes to great tracks; Alex is a great love song, Die is a great rock song (great, great opening guitar riff), but all are eclipsed by the stellar Love Like a River. River calls upon The Beatles’ classic Oh Darling more than anything, and is so wonderfully executed. It also calls upon 60s soul with its back up vocals – piano and vocals alike, even the lyrics are reminiscent of that time. The album works as a great cohesive unit, and it continues to impress on each listen.
CHECK OUT: Love Like a River
Alex
Honey Bunny
Die

11. BLITZEN TRAPPER – American Goldwing

The opening four tracks are outstanding. The following seven are also as fantastic. You can hear the John Prine influence all over American Goldwing, or the sheer fact that this genre has more than a few forefathers, but if you can’t hear Prine in Fletcher you’re listening. Lyrically and the execution both seem like a song that could have come out mid-70s. Love the Way You Walk Away may be one of the band’s all-time best, it’s got fantastic drums, beautiful harmonies and a perfect banjo part throughout, they bring in a beautiful harmonica as the song dies down, right before it blows up in finale. Blitzen Trapper’s take on rock-folk is one of the best out there right now. They made a name for themselves with Wild Mountain Nation, and American Goldwing will keep their place in the forefront.
CHECK OUT: Love the Way You Walk Away
Fletcher
Might Find It Cheap
Taking it Easy Too Long

10. MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA – Simple Math

Andy Hull. Hull has seemingly figured it out that his voice is what sells this band, in the same vein as Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Ben Bridwell (Band of Horses), and hell, Florence Welch. This band has grown up. Mean Everything to Nothing was fantastic, and put them on the map with I’ve Got Friends. Simple Math picks up where Everything leaves off, and adds a more developed sound, more contemplative lyrics, and a better blend. Speaking of blend, one of the best things about this band is the blend between heartfelt sung lyrics and diving right into rock anthems, see Pensacola. The album’s closer Leaky Breaks is a seven minute rock triumph. Hull’s lyrics, when at their best, are autobiographical, Breaks, reeks of authenticity; “Yelled about a bunch of things that if you looked / you'd never see for our eternities / and I blamed you for not being / someone you could not be, someone you'll never be”. It is also one of the albums slowest tempo songs, reminding you that Manchester Orchestra is more than just any old alternative rock band, and that good things are still to come.
CHECK OUT: Simple Math
Pensacola
Deer
Leaky Breaks

09. THE DECEMBERISTS – The King is Dead

Colin Meloy is a pro. There isn’t much more that can be said outside of that. On The King is Dead you can tell that Meloy’s songwriting has hit a sweet spot. Dead is a beautiful mix of the musicality of 2009’s Hazards of Love had and the pop sensibilities of 2005’s Picaresque, in short, it’s The Decemberists at their best. The record is smoothly run from Don’t Carry It All through Dear Avery. The one downfall of the record is the lack of length. However after Hazards there’s a beauty in the simplicity. Track after track is certain to remind you, and me, of why you fell in love with The Decemberists all those years ago. Halfway through the album is standout January Hymn. January may be one of Meloy’s finest songs; his voice soars over the plucked guitars and backing vocals. January is one of 2011’s best songs, hands down, in clocking in at a shockingly short three minutes and thirteen seconds, January holds some of Meloy’s best intonation to date. The record makes 2011’s top ten for that reason alone.
CHECK OUT: January Hymn
Calamity Song
Don't Carry It All
This Is Why We Fight

08. DAWES – Nothing Is Wrong

From the get go this album has your attention. Their blend of Americana/folk is timeless. Taylor Goldsmith’s voice has such a beautiful feel to it. The lyrics are straight to your heart, and the music lends itself to its ageless feel. From track one, Time Spent in Los Angeles to closer A Little Bit of Everything Dawes created a fantastic follow up record to 2009’s North Hills. Once again a family band (the two vocalists are Goldsmiths), therefore born into what should be easier harmonizing, uses it to a huge advantage. This record is a long lost friend. Everything has some of the most heart wrenching lyrics. It’s fantastic piece of storytelling that explains the heartache of a boy attempting to jump and a police man attempting to talk him down; the story of a homeless man who’s in a food line and recounting his life having passed him by; And a story of an engaged couple who the man is clueless into why the woman is putting in all this work into their future. Everything about this record is a step up from that already great debut record. Every song is a masterpiece. Now that they’ve topped one record, will they be able to top this one? The stakes are frighteningly high. If Girls’ Father, Son, Holy Ghost is a 60s album, Nothing Is Wrong has much more 70s to it.
CHECK OUT: A Little Bit of Everything
Time Spent in Los Angeles
Coming Back to a Man
If I Needed Someone

07. MY MORNING JACKET – Circuital

Circuital is also another phenomenal record from such a prolific band. Track after track is so meticulously thought out and executed. Album opener Victory Dance is such a wonderful title and beginning mindset of a record that is, in fact, a victory. Holding on to Black Metal has some of the best, and strangest, child choir parts to date. Jim James’ voice is spot on in Wonderful (The Way I Feel). Outta My System is perhaps the most honest song around about life and drugs and the way being a young 20 something impacts your judgment. The 45 minute, ten track, album may not be the longest My Morning Jacket record to date, or have the best artwork, but it could easily be the best crafted. My Morning Jacket is on a roll, knows how to rock and will continue to slay fans wherever this journey takes them. Psychedelic rock plus enough alt-country and their energizing live performances translates so well onto this record that fans off Off the Record and Highly Suspicious should both be pleased (and those of us that love both).
CHECK OUT: Wonderful (The Way I Feel)
Holding On to Black Metal
Outta My System
Victory Dance

06. FLEET FOXES – Helplessness Blues

Robin Pecknold and Justin Vernon should call a truce, and not release records in the same year. Two of this generation’s most soaring and beautiful voices should not have to compete with each other. Helplessness Blues is a great continuance from 2008’s debut Fleet Foxes and the same year’s EP Sun Giant. Helplessness deserves the Grammy nomination for best folk record of the year. The harmonies Fleet Foxes made their name on are still here. The orchestral sounds are still here. Helplessness is just simply chapter two in the story of Fleet Foxes. Helplessness sounds familiar from the very first listen, song after song flows one into another in this fifty minute adventure. Every track is wonderful, but Helplessness Blues is a quintessential Fleet Foxes track, alongside Montezuma. Pecknold’s lyrics are incredibly identifiable; “I was raised up believing I was somehow unique / like a snowflake distinct amongst snowflakes unique in each way you can see / and now after some thinking / I say I’d rather be a functioning cog in some great machinery serving something beyond me / but I don’t, I don’t know what that will be / I’ll get back to you someday soon, you will see” The album’s title track is a masterpiece in of itself.
CHECK OUT: Helplessness Blues
Montezuma, Battery Kinzie
Someone You’d Admire
The Shrine / An Argument

05. IRON & WINE – Kiss Each Other Clean

Sam Beam. Sam Beam with a full blown horn section. Back up singers. A confident voice. Previous Iron & Wine efforts have been phenomenal. It is hard to imagine Beam putting out a record that was not at this point. Each album in the discography has a distinct feel, Kiss Each Other Clean says that Beam can convince you instead of compel you, and that he is a master at each. Track after track is artfully filled out. Me & Lazarus has such a great beat, which is a crazy thing to say given who the artist is. Beam maintains his artful, and storytelling, lyrics throughout, he just packs a harder punch vocally here. Tree By the River utilizes some of Beam’s smoothest vocals on the album. The harmonies throughout are just gorgeous. Rabbit Will Run holds some of Beam’s strangest lyrics “she blew me a kiss / when they caught me the cuffs got the blood from my wrist/ cause a rabbit will run and a pig has to lay in its piss”, Monkeys Uptown gives it a run for its money “no one likes a beggar slightly over dressed/ trouble comes in funky clothes/ you can always find a razor lying in the road/ and it’s looking like you’d better do what they say / those monkeys uptown told you not to fuck around”. Both are highly successful. Your Fake Name Is Good Enough For Me is one of Beam’s grooviest songs to date, on a fairly bass heavy, for Iron & Wine, record. Another Creek Drank the Cradle would have been good, but Clean proves that music is an ever growing process. Beam gets to show us another side of him. Even the album’s artwork is in a different style than previous efforts. Beam is not scared to take leaps in to uncharted territory. We cannot be scared to follow him. Everything thus far has been completely positive.
CHECK OUT: Me & Lazarus
Tree By the River
Rabbit Will Run
Monkeys Uptown
Your Fake Name Is Good Enough For Me

04. THE BLACK KEYS – El Camino

The Black Keys are incapable of creating bad records. They’re incapable of creating half-assed albums. Each and every album is excellent. El Camino picks up right where Brothers dropped us off and feels like songs you loved on records all the way back to The Big Come Up. Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney are two incredible musicians, impressing how much noise these two guys make so damn well. It’s a short record, almost twenty minutes shorter than Brothers, but that doesn’t make it less of a record by any means. The record has only been out for a few weeks and it’s hard to not be completely enamored with it. The guitar riff in Lonely Boy, Gold on the Ceiling has one of my favorite sounds on the record, Dead and Gone may be the singalong-ist, the dynamics on Little Black Submarines (and the break down, OH THE BREAK DOWN), the absolute Black Keys purity of Money Maker, is just the first five tracks. Everything about it screams great record. Everything about it puts it up amongst the years’ bests, though; expect to see it on 2012 lists left and right. Most year end lists were written before the album was even dropped.
CHECK OUT: Money Maker
Lonely Boy
Little Black Submarines
Gold on the Ceiling
Dead and Gone

03. KEVIN DEVINE – Between the Concrete and Clouds

Words cannot describe this record. Kevin Devine is more than a fantastic musician, he’s a fantastic artist. Lyrically and musically and production on this record are just ahead of the game. Every track is better than the last. Record after record this man out does himself. Between the Concrete and Clouds houses some of Devine’s most haunting vocals to date. This is saying something, Devine’s voice and lyrics are what set him apart from his friends of Jesse Lacey and Andy Hull. Everything is much more thought through. Everything is believed just a bit more. Devine as a solo set is much more believed, much more honest, and more brutal in the social commentary aspect. Devine lets his voice raise the standard through The First Hit. 11-17 features a great guitar riff, as Devine moves more and more into electronic guitar (see the title track from 2009’s Brother’s Blood) he continues to develop and continues to excel. Devine is a real songwriter. A true songwriter, which is missing so much in today’s day and age. A songwriter who knows that one isn’t constrained to just plucking out a few songs on the guitar to get there. Devine’s influences are great ones, and the listener can hear it; from Neutral Milk Hotel, to Nirvana, to Elliott Smith, Devine has great taste, and makes great albums.
CHECK OUT; 11-17
Sleepwalking Through My Life
Awake in the Dirt
The First Hit
I Used To Be Someone

02. THE HEAD AND THE HEART – The Head and the Heart

We can argue about the date this record was really released, but did any of us in the Midwest know who this band was before 2011? Don’t think so. Easily the best new artist to the collection of 2011, and there are some good ones out there this year. Also, if the national debut of The Head and the Heart had come without Rivers and Roads the album would likely not rank nearly as high, being the only track added to the label debut. Rivers and Roads is what music is about. It has the dynamics we all crave, the end of the song is jaw dropping 30 listens later. The vocals give you the goose bumps, and it is surrounded by beautiful track after beautiful track. On first listen Rivers and Roads will sell you into this band and the tracks Lost in My Mind, Down in the Valley, Heaven Go Easy on Me and Sounds Like Hallelujah will cement you into loving this record. (That being said, they all will.) The blend between the voices of Josiah Johnson, Jonathan Russell and Charity Rose Thielen is special. Charity’s voice gives a certain texture to the vocals, and Josiah and Jonathan’s voices blend so extremely well together, while maintaining personality and dynamics. In fact, The Head and The Heart work best when all three are singing, each voice can lead a song and each voice is also a great harmonizer. A short record, coming in just shy of 40 minutes, these ten songs will win their way into your heart, their blend of folk just on the verge of Americana and great vocals should appeal to anyone. This is a record that everyone should include in their collection.
CHECK OUT: Rivers and Roads
Lost in My Mind
Sounds Like Hallelujah
Down in the Valley
Ghosts

01. BON IVER – Bon Iver

2008(7, held the self release)’s For Emma, Forever Ago has a remarkable tale and won over the hearts of millions across the globe, including Kanye West and those guys over at Pitchfork. It is hard not to list Bon Iver as the year’s best record. In fact, it is impossible imagine any other record up on top. This collection of songs is very different then those of the debut. Bon Iver’s ten tracks have a fuller sound. It will punch you square in the gut if you’re not paying attention. Resounding drums, horn sections, and the defining vocals all come along on this sophomore record. Vernon was clearly trying to show yet another side of his musicianship. Opening track Perth starts, most assuredly with the six quietest seconds imaginable, and builds into a great song filled with the aforementioned drums that are unfamiliar. Vernon isn’t playing around, Bon Iver sounds completely different for a reason. Minnesota, WI starts with Vernon’s vocal register starting low and flying into his now famous falsetto. Lyrically speaking, half the time you cannot understand what Vernon is saying; this is clearly on purpose. Half the time when you can hear what he is singing you don’t even follow the story, but the music of it all, the music of the notes coming out of his mouth, create such an emotion that the story doesn’t matter. It is the feeling for each and every one of us that is important here, what it means to Vernon is not necessarily what it means to you or me. Grammy nominated Holocene is maybe one of the best understood Bon Iver tracks, it is also the album’s longest. It swells and compels repeated listens. With all the signature lack of sound on Emma; Bon Iver will still be able to bring you to those tears Skinny Love, Wolves and RE: Stacks got us with a few years ago. Towers contains one of the biggest uses of auto-tune. It is not auto-tune to fix that voice, it’s there to distort, to add texture, and Towers has plenty of texture. The dynamics that Vernon brings to the table with Bon Iver are unparallel. The man is a master at his craft, and listeners cannot wait for the next step, the next show, the next EP. Hinnom, TX might contain some of the album’s best harmonies showcased with; “All this time with your heart in mine, didn’t you edit.” Calgary may be the defining song of Bon Iver, Bon Iver; Vernon’s voice used the most as the thread throughout, it allows for a great pedal infused voice and gorgeous vocals “there’s really nothing to the sound” and then it brings the listener right back down as soon as it has really started going. Vernon keeps everything in check and stays immensely true to himself. Flowing right into the album’s shortest Lisbon, OH which is almost around to say that Bon Iver is more than just a voice. No vocals at all in that minute and a half. It flows seamlessly into Beth / Rest. One could not ask for a better song to close your album out. The most use of vocal distortion on the record opens the track. The horn section is phenomenal. The electric guitar is phenomenal. Some of the highest reaches of Vernon’s voice come near the end of this beautiful song and album. It just has an everlasting feel. Personally, I hope he goes out there and wins the pants off of all the fellow nominated Grammy bands. He deserves it, his musicianship is outstanding.
CHECK OUT: Calgary
Minnesota, WI
Hinnom, TX
Holocene
Perth

Five Years on Last.Fm

weasleyaholic — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:28:34 GMT

SO here's some factoids for me (and you if you want)

1 Ben Folds 3,699 - no fucking surprise here
2 Ben Folds Five 3,274 - or here
3 The Avett Brothers 3,098 - five years ago I had no idea who these guys were.
4 Elliott Smith 2,121
5 Jukebox the Ghost 2,118 -also, only been around for half my last life
6 Hotel Lights 1,846
7 Kevin Devine 1,733
8 Cloud Cult 1,651
9 Snuzz 1,615
10 Ben Kweller 1,216
11 Band of Horses 1,180
12 of Montreal 1,147
13 The Dresden Dolls 1,090
14 The Old Ceremony 1,054
15 Andrew Bird 1,015
16 The Beatles 935 - should probably be much higher
17 Kate Miller-Heidke 930 - new addition
18 The Polyphonic Spree 860
19 Regina Spektor 789
20 Rilo Kiley 780
21 Sufjan Stevens 768
22 Eels 758
23 The Mountain Goats 750
24 Bon Iver 720
25 The Flaming Lips 715
26 The Decemberists 712
27 Amanda Palmer 705
28 Eef Barzelay 692
29 Clem Snide 686
30 My Morning Jacket 660
31 Eisley 639 - this is gonna spike with The Valley
32 CAKE 580
33 Okkervil River 566
34 Wilco 563
35 They Might Be Giants 541
36 Ben Lee 538
37 Oh No Oh My 528
38 Animal Collective 519
39 Jenny Owen Youngs 515
40 The Alternate Routes 509
41 Built to Spill 505
42 The New Pornographers 496
43 Mates of State 468
44 Midlake 461
45 Mute Math 459
46 Death Cab for Cutie 449
47 Bishop Allen 443
48 Belle and Sebastian 442
49 Guillemots 438
50 Architecture in Helsinki 427
51 Stars 424
51 The Postal Service 424
53 Rhett Miller 404
54 Big Bang Boom 400
55 Passion Pit 387 - I really don't know how they got to near 400 plays. I blame Lolla 09
56 Radiohead 379
57 The National 360
58 Tapes 'n Tapes 358
59 Andrew Lloyd Webber 357 - if we're honest, this should be top 50. easy.
60 We The Living 355
61 Cold War Kids 349
62 Manchester Orchestra 337
63 International Orange 326
64 Modest Mouse 319
65 William Shatner 312 - THREE HUNDRED AND TWELVE. Holy shit!
65 Jennifer O'Connor 312
67 Arcade Fire 307
68 Jeff Buckley 302
69 Gomez 299
70 MGMT 292
71 Skybox 288
72 Django Haskins 280
73 Imogen Heap 279
74 Elton John 276
75 Chuck Folds Five 270
76 Iron & Wine 269
77 The Deadly Syndrome 264
78 The Good Life 263
79 The Black Keys 262 - relatively new to break in the top 100
79 Au Revoir Simone 262
81 Neutral Milk Hotel 255
82 Ted Leo and The Pharmacists 254
83 The Shins 253
83 The Fratellis 253
85 R.E.M. 250
86 Blitzen Trapper 246
87 Bright Eyes 244
87 Shout Out Louds 244
89 Yeah Yeah Yeahs 243
90 The Elected 242
91 Weird Al Yankovic 238
91 Tegan and Sara 238
93 Corn Mo 235
94 The Bens 234
95 The Divine Comedy 231
95 OK Go 231 - really? I did have a bit of an attachment to WTF?
97 Josh Ritter 227
98 Ohtis 225 - should be higher. damn having only one album and some B-sides.
99 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 223
100 Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin 222

1 The Avett Brothers 1,590 - duh
2 Jukebox the Ghost 1,286 - double duh. (actually a little interested to know which one was one and two)
3 Ben Folds 700 - look at that drop in plays!
4 Kate Miller-Heidke 454
5 Band of Horses 402
6 Ben Folds Five 377
7 Sufjan Stevens 275
8 of Montreal 242
9 The National 193
10 Lady Danville 175
11 Elliott Smith 167 - okay. i'm slacking.
12 The Beatles 155
13 Kevin Devine 137
14 The Old Ceremony 132
15 Cloud Cult 128
16 Hotel Lights 125
17 Snuzz 112
18 Skybox 108
19 The Black Keys 98
20 Elizabeth & The Catapult 97
21 The Mountain Goats 94
21 Amanda Palmer 94
23 My Morning Jacket 79
24 Big Bang Boom 77
25 Elvis Costello 75
26 Broken Bells 70
27 The New Pornographers 67
28 Rilo Kiley 66
29 CAKE 64
30 Old Crow Medicine Show 59
31 Jimmy Buffett 55 - i blame keaton harrington.
31 Miniature Tigers 55
33 Drive-By Truckers 51
33 MGMT 51
35 The Alternate Routes 50
36 Eels 46
37 Weezer 45
37 Maritime 45 - I need to listen more. Only was introduced in October.
37 Jennifer O'Connor 45
40 Clem Snide 43
40 Regina Spektor 43
42 Andrew Bird 42 - SHAME.
43 Eef Barzelay 41
44 Andrew Jackson Jihad 40
45 Broken Social Scene 39
45 Cold War Kids 39
47 Jenny Owen Youngs 38
48 Azure Ray 37
48 Hockey 37
48 Arcade Fire 37
48 Iron & Wine 37
52 Manchester Orchestra 36 - Shit, wow. My binge on Everything All the Time was over 12 months ago?
52 Bad Books 36
52 Jenny and Johnny 36
55 KaiserCartel 35
56 William Shatner 34
57 The Deadly Syndrome 33
58 Radiohead 32 - naughty.
58 Townes Van Zandt 32
58 The Album Leaf 32
58 The Decemberists 32
62 Sparklehorse 31
62 Blitzen Trapper 31
64 Josh Ritter 30
64 The Thermals 30
64 Land of Talk 30
67 Wilco 29
67 John Prine 29
67 Dr. Dog 29
70 Pearl Jam 28
70 Spoon 28
70 She & Him 28
73 BoDeans 27
73 Alan Menken & Howard Ashman 27
73 DeYarmond Edison 27
73 Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band 27
77 Lambchop 26
77 Ted Leo and The Pharmacists 26
77 Andrew Lloyd Webber 26
77 Animal Collective 26
77 Deerhunter 26
77 Ohtis 26
77 Neon Indian 26
84 Ben Kweller 25 - TWENTY FIVE? put out a new record, DUDE
84 Ra Ra Riot 25
84 Passion Pit 25
87 Stars 24
87 The Good Life 24
87 Sara Watkins 24 -all off of one tribute record?
87 Justin Townes Earle 24 - see above (AH! Lambchop suddenly makes sense)
91 They Might Be Giants 23
91 Quasi 23
91 Tegan and Sara 23
91 The Dead Weather 23
95 Death Cab for Cutie 22
95 Belle and Sebastian 22
95 Frightened Rabbit 22
95 The Bird and The Bee 22
99 Vampire Weekend21
99 The Dresden Dolls 21

1 Jukebox the Ghost – Let Live and Let Ghosts 1,127 (tada!)
2 The Avett Brothers – I And Love And You 1,098
3 Jukebox the Ghost – Everything Under The Sun 949
4 The Avett Brothers – Emotionalism 836 (hahahahah back and forth. this is overall, too, remember!)
5 Ben Folds Five – Ben Folds Five 806 (ben breaks in the top 5. good)
6 Ben Folds Five – Whatever and Ever Amen 724
7 Kate Miller-Heidke – Curiouser 644
8 Hotel Lights – Hotel Lights 640
9 Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago 531
10 Hotel Lights – Firecracker People 516 (two jtg, two avett, two bf5 and to hl in my top 10)
11 Kevin Devine – Put Your Ghost To Rest 491
12 Cloud Cult – The Meaning of 8 484
13 Elliott Smith – Either/Or 470
14 Band of Horses – Cease to Begin 434
15 Ben Folds Five – The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner 428 (annnnddd all three bf5 records make it in before a solo)
16 The Dresden Dolls – Yes, Virginia... 421
17 Ben Folds – Rockin' The Suburbs 410
18 of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping 398
19 Cloud Cult – Advice From the Happy Hippopotamus 391
20 of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? 390
21 Kevin Devine – Brother's Blood 386
22 The Avett Brothers – Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions 384
23 Band of Horses – Everything All the Time 368
24 Amanda Palmer – Who Killed Amanda Palmer? 363
25 Midlake – The Trials Of Van Occupanther 360
26 The Dresden Dolls – The Dresden Dolls 358
27 My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges 342
28 Clem Snide – End Of Love 337
29 Jenny Owen Youngs – Batten The Hatches 335
30 Elliott Smith – Figure 8 333
31 The Alternate Routes – Good and Reckless and True 330
32 Rilo Kiley – Under The Blacklight 316
33 Eef Barzelay – Lose Big 314
34 Ben Kweller – Ben Kweller 310
34 The Old Ceremony – Our one Mistake 310
36 Eef Barzelay – Bitter Honey 307
37 We The Living – Heights of the Heavens 297
38 Elliott Smith – From a Basement on the Hill 296
39 Ben Folds – Lonely Avenue 295 (ahahhahaahha lonely avenue is already beating normal)
40 Ben Folds – Way To Normal 287
41 William Shatner – Has Been 284
42 Ben Kweller – Sha Sha 279
43 The Postal Service – Give Up 275
44 Manchester Orchestra – Mean Everything To Nothing 274
45 Cloud Cult – Feel Good Ghosts 268
46 Tapes 'n Tapes – The Loon 262
47 Mute Math – Mute Math 261
48 Oh No! Oh My! – Oh No! Oh My! 259
49 Jennifer O'Connor – Here With Me 255
50 MGMT – Oracular Spectacular 253 (a surprise!)

1 Jukebox the Ghost – Everything Under The Sun 949 - no shock
2 The Avett Brothers – Emotionalism 489
3 The Avett Brothers – I And Love And You 426 - a bit surprised Emotionalisim beat IALAU
4 Jukebox the Ghost – Let Live and Let Ghosts 316
5 Ben Folds – Lonely Avenue 295
6 Kate Miller-Heidke – Curiouser 279
7 Band of Horses – Infinite Arms 248
8 Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz 245
9 The Avett Brothers – Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions 232
10 Ben Folds Five – Whatever and Ever Amen 229
11 The National – High Violet 173
12 Lady Danville – lady danville tour ep 148
13 Ben Folds – Rockin' The Suburbs 145
14 Hotel Lights – Firecracker People 104
15 Ben Folds Five – Ben Folds Five 99
16 The Avett Brothers – Live, Volume 3 95
17 Elizabeth & The Catapult – The Other Side Of Zero 90
18 Ben Folds – Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella! 85 - I blame The Sing Off
18 Kate Miller-Heidke – Live at the HI-FI 85
18 The Black Keys – Brothers 85
21 The Avett Brothers – The Second Gleam 84 - that's a lot of listens for a EP
21 of Montreal – False Priest 84
23 of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping 77
24 Band of Horses – Cease to Begin 76
25 Kevin Devine – Put Your Ghost To Rest 74
26 Broken Bells – Broken Bells 70
27 Skybox – Morning After Cuts 67
28 Kate Miller-Heidke – Little Eve 66
29 of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? 60
29 The New Pornographers – Together 60
29 CAKE – Showroom of Compassion 60
32 Big Bang Boom – Songs Your Mom Will Like 59
33 Band of Horses – Everything All the Time 57
34 Ben Folds – Supersunnyspeedgraphic, The LP 54
35 Ben Folds – Ben Folds Live 53
35 The Avett Brothers – The Gleam 53
37 The Avett Brothers – 2010-03-06 The Riverside Theatre, Milwaukee WI 49
38 The Avett Brothers – Mignonette 45 -holy avett city. and lols at the bootleg
38 Jennifer O'Connor – Here With Me 45
40 Ben Folds – Stems and Seeds 44
41 My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges 42
41 The Old Ceremony – Tender Age 42
43 The Old Ceremony – Our one Mistake 41
44 Andrew Jackson Jihad – Can't Maintain 40
45 Amanda Palmer – Who Killed Amanda Palmer? 39
45 Snuzz – Carving Pumpkins EP 39
47 Cloud Cult – Advice From the Happy Hippopotamus 37
47 Hockey – Mind Chaos 37
49 The Beatles – Rubber Soul 36
49 Rilo Kiley – Under The Blacklight 36

1 Snuzz – Carving Pumpkins 172 - ah, the song that always is perfect
2 Jukebox the Ghost – Empire 131
3 The Avett Brothers – I And Love And You 125
4 Ben Folds Five – The Last Polka 120 - maybe i should change my "favorite" song
5 Kate Miller-Heidke – Politics In Space 119
6 Jukebox the Ghost – Hold It In 117
7 Ben Folds Five – Underground 116
8 Jukebox the Ghost – Static To The Heart 114
9 Skybox – In a Dream 109
10 The Avett Brothers – Laundry Room 107
11 Jukebox the Ghost – Good Day 106
11 The Avett Brothers – Kick Drum Heart 106
13 Kevin Devine – Just Stay 103
13 Hotel Lights – Blue Always Finds Me 103
15 Kevin Devine – The Burning City Smoking 101
16 Ben Folds Five – Battle of Who Could Care Less 100
16 Band of Horses – No One's Gonna Love You 100
18 The Avett Brothers – Shame 98
19 Jennifer O'Connor – Here With Me 97 - there seems to be a lot of tracks from a certain playlist i have on this list
19 The Avett Brothers – Slight Figure Of Speech 97
21 Jukebox the Ghost – Where Are All The Scientists Now? 94
22 Ben Folds Five – Missing The War 93
22 Elliott Smith – Say Yes 93
22 The Avett Brothers – Die Die Die 93
22 Jukebox the Ghost – Victoria 93

1 Jukebox the Ghost – Empire 131 (LOLS)
2 Jukebox the Ghost – Schizophrenia 79 (can't tell what record came out last year at all)
3 Jukebox the Ghost – So Let Us Create 77
3 Jukebox the Ghost – Half Crazy 77
5 Jukebox the Ghost – Carrying 74
5 Jukebox the Ghost – The Stars 74
7 Jukebox the Ghost – The Sun 73
7 Jukebox the Ghost – Summer Sun 73
9 Jukebox the Ghost – Mistletoe 72
9 Jukebox the Ghost – The Popular Thing 72
9 Jukebox the Ghost – The Sun (Interlude) 72
12 Jukebox the Ghost – Nobody 71 (so i've listened to record straight through 71 times probably)
13 Kate Miller-Heidke – Politics In Space 56
14 The Avett Brothers – Talk On Indolence 52
15 The Avett Brothers – Kick Drum Heart 44
15 Skybox – In a Dream 44
17 The Avett Brothers – Shame 43
18 The Avett Brothers – The Ballad Of Love And Hate 42
18 The Avett Brothers – I And Love And You 42
20 The Avett Brothers – Tin Man 41
21 Ben Folds – Picture Window 39 (oh, hi ben!)
21 Band of Horses – Blue Beard 39 (random)
23 The Avett Brothers – Paranoia in B Major 38
23 The Avett Brothers – The Perfect Space 38
25 Jukebox the Ghost – Good Day 37

well. that was interesting for me.

in other news, i got a GetGlue. We'll see how that goes. So far it's been fun to learn a new social networking site.
http://getglue.com/chudleycannons

Just cause I got my last.fm about 4 years ago.

weasleyaholic — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:31:43 GMT

for giggles my 12 month chart;

1 The Avett Brothers 1,382 (whooooops)
2 Kevin Devine 929
3 Ben Folds Five 566
4 Jukebox the Ghost 536
5 Ben Folds 521
6 Kate Miller-Heidke 476
7 Elliott Smith 444
8 of Montreal 396
9 The Beatles 377
10 Snuzz 366
11 Cloud Cult 360
12 Passion Pit 356
13 Band of Horses 326
14 Regina Spektor 394
15 Manchester Orchestra 286
16 The Old Ceremony 238
17 Bon Iver 234
18 Hotel Lights 216
19 The Mountain Goats 201
20 Rilo Kiley 192
21 Skybox 180
22 The Flaming Lips 177
23 My Morning Jacket 175
24 Andrew Bird 171
24 Ben Kweller 171
26 Clem Snide 166
27 The Dresden Dolls 153
28 Eels 142
29 Eef Barzelay 141
30 Andrew Lloyd Webber 140
31 The Decemberists 137
32 Amplify This 136
33 John Prine 134
34 Wilco 132
35 Jennifer O'Connor 127
36 Claude-Michel Schönberg 125
37 Jenny Owen Youngs 124
38 Mitch Hedberg 120
39 Metric 110
40 Mates of State 107
41 The Alternate Routes 106
41 The Polyphonic Spree 106
43 Mute Math 99
44 Built to Spill 96
45 Animal Collective 93
45 Eisley 93
45 Miniature Tigers 93
48 Okkervil River 91
48 Sufjan Stevens 91
50 Rhett Miller 90

numbers in () are average plays per year - though some/a good fair few have not been around for all four years.

1 Ben Folds 2,999 (748.75)
2 Ben Folds Five 2,897 (724.25)
3 Elliott Smith 1,956 (489)
4 Hotel Lights 1,721 (430.25)
5 Kevin Devine 1,617 (404.25)
6 The Avett Brothers 1,562 (390.5)
7 Cloud Cult 1,523 (380.75)
8 Snuzz 1,503 (375.75)
9 Ben Kweller 1,191 (297.75)
10 The Dresden Dolls 1,069 (267.25)
11 Andrew Bird 973 (243.25)
12 The Old Ceremony 922 (230.5)
13 of Montreal 905 (226.25)
14 The Polyphonic Spree 852 (213)
15 Jukebox the Ghost 832 (208)
16 The Beatles 780 (195)
17 Band of Horses 778 (194.5)
18 Regina Spektor 746 (186.5)
19 Rilo Kiley 714 (178.5)
20 Eels 712 (178)
21 The Flaming Lips 703
22 Bon Iver 699
23 The Decemberists 680
24 The Mountain Goats 656
25 Eef Barzelay 651
26 Clem Snide 643
27 Eisley 625
28 Amanda Palmer 611
29 My Morning Jacket 581
30 Okkervil River 562
31 Ben Lee 538
32 Wilco 534
33 They Might Be Giants 518
34 CAKE 516
35 Oh No Oh My 510
36 Built to Spill 500
37 Animal Collective 493
37 Sufjan Stevens 493
39 Jenny Owen Youngs 477
40 Kate Miller-Heidke 476
41 Mates of State 463
42 The Alternate Routes 459
43 Mute Math 456
44 Midlake 451
45 Bishop Allen 439
46 Guillemots 434
47 The New Pornographers 429
48 Death Cab for Cutie 427
49 Belle and Sebastian 420
49 The Postal Service 420

1 The Avett Brothers – I And Love And You full 84
2 The Avett Brothers – Laundry Room 74
3 Kevin Devine – The Burning City Smoking 72
4 Passion Pit – Better Things 67
5 Skybox – In A Dream 66
5 Jukebox the Ghost – Static To The Heart 66
7 The Avett Brothers – Slight Figure Of Speech 64
8 Kate Miller-Heidke – Politics In Space 63
8 The Avett Brothers – Kick Drum Heart 63
10 Snuzz – Carving Pumpkins 60
11 Kevin Devine – Just Stay 55
12 Kate Miller-Heidke – Supergirl 54
13 Jukebox the Ghost – Hold It In 52
13 The Avett Brothers – And It Spread 52
13 The Avett Brothers – Tin Man 52
16 The Avett Brothers – Ten Thousand Words 50
16 Amplify This – Same Damn Thing 50
18 Ben Folds Five – The Last Polka 49
18 The Avett Brothers – January Wedding 49
18 The Avett Brothers – The Perfect Space 49
21 The Avett Brothers – Ill With Want 48
21 Manchester Orchestra – I've Got Friends 48
23 The Avett Brothers – It Goes On And On 47
23 Jennifer O'Connor – Here With Me 47
25 The Avett Brothers – Incomplete And Insecure 46
25 Passion Pit – Sleepyhead 46
27 Jukebox the Ghost – Where Are All The Scientists Now? 45
27 Jukebox the Ghost – Victoria 45
27 The Avett Brothers – Distraction #74 45
30 Jukebox the Ghost – Good Day 44
30 Kevin Devine – Another Bag of Bones 44
30 The Avett Brothers – Will You Return? 44
30 Band of Horses – Ode to LRC 44
34 Jukebox the Ghost – A Matter of Time 43
35 The Mountain Goats – Dance Music 42
35 The Avett Brothers – Head Full of Doubt, Road Full of Promise 42
37 Jukebox the Ghost – My Heart's The Same 41
37 of Montreal – Gronlandic Edit 41
39 The Avett Brothers – Shame 40
39 Kevin Devine – I Could Be With Anyone 40
39 Jukebox the Ghost – Under My Skin 40
39 Jukebox the Ghost – Lighting Myself On Fire 40
43 Kevin Devine – Murphy's Song 39
43 Jukebox the Ghost – Fire In The Sky 39
43 Rilo Kiley – Silver Lining 39
43 Clem Snide – Jews For Jesus Blues 39
47 Kate Miller-Heidke – God's Gift To Women 38
47 The Avett Brothers – The Weight of Lies 38
49 The Avett Brothers – Murder in the City 37
49 Jukebox the Ghost – Beady Eyes On The Horizon 37
49 My Morning Jacket – Highly Suspicious 37
49 DeYarmond Edison – Heroin(e) 37
49 Kate Miller-Heidke – I Like You Better When You're Not Around 37
49 The Avett Brothers – Die Die Die 37
49 Kevin Devine – Tomorrow's Just Too Late 37

2009 Releases of Note

weasleyaholic — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:10:19 GMT

Last year in late November I asked everyone to tell me what CDs they listened to that year. And then got overloaded by trying to catch up with them all. Nor did only having one month with them and everything else new I got in December really treat them fairly. I mean, December last year I did not have a love affair with Jukebox the Ghost yet, and if I had I would have definitely put them in my top albums of last year list. There's stuff on that list from '08 that I don't think I've listened to since. Though, I basically stand by my top 10 - I'd have to put Let Live and Let Ghost in there somewhere, but that's past.

So, I'm trying to be proactive this year and get two months of time with those CDs, and maybe not force it so much. Last year I put myself, in December of a ONLY 2008 release playlist - and despite having what are some of my favorite albums of EVER (WKAP, FP) and I'm not really sure if 2009 has given me as many albums that I would take on a deserted island. There are a few, but not as many as last year. And I wonder if that's just cause I haven't heard it yet!

So here's this year's list of albums I have already. (Did not include Soundtracks, Compilations, EPs, Folds things - Ben & Chuck) Tell me what you think I should listen to, that I haven't yet. Please?

1990s - Kicks
AA Bondy - When the Devil's Loose
AC Newman - Get Guilty
Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
Alec Ounsworth - Mo Beauty
Alessi's Ark - Notes from the Treehouse
Alternate Routes, The - A Sucker's Dream
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Can't Maintain
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Annabel - Each and Everyone
Antony & the Johnsons - The Crying Light
Atlas Sound - Logos
Au Revoir Simone - Still Night, Still Light
Avett Brothers, The - I and Love and You
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
BellX1 - Blue Lights on the Runway
Ben Kweller - Changing Horses
Ben Lee - The Rebirth of Venus
Ben's Brother - Battling Giants
Bird and the Bee, The - Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future
Bishop Allen - GRRR…
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beware
Bowerbirds - Upper Air
Boy Least Likely To, The - The Law of the Playground
Brand New - Daisy
Built to Spill - There is No Enemy
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
Carbon Leaf - Nothing Rhymes with Woman
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - VS Children
Castanets - Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beats
Clem Snide - Hungry Bird
Coconut Records - Davy
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Outer South
Cribs, The - Ignore the Ignorant
Crystal Antlers - Tentacles
Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
Dan Auerbach - Keep it Hid
Dappled Cities - Zounds
Dawes - North Hills
dd/mm/yyyy - Black Square
Dead Weather, The - Horehound
Decemberists, The - The Hazards of Love
Dent May - The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele
Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe
Doves - Kingdom of Rust
Duckworth Lewis Method, The - The Duckworth Lewis Method
Editors - In this Light and on this Evening
Eels - Hombre Lobo
Elvis Perkins in Dearland - Elvis Perkins in Dearland
Emmy the Great - First Love
Fiction Family - Fiction Family
Flaming Lips, The - Embryonic
Flight of the Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky
God Help the Girl - God Help the Girl
Golden Boots - Winter of Our Discotheque
Gomez - A New Tide
Grand Archives - Keep in Mind Frankenstein
Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
Great Northern - Remind Me Where the Light Is
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Handsome Furs - Face Control
Headlights - Wildfire
Here we Go Magic - Here We Go Magic
Hockey - Mind Chaos
Homecomings - Homecomings
Howling Bells - Radio Wars
Immaculate Machine - High on Jackson Hill
Imogen Heap - Ellipse
Iran - Dissolver
Islands - Vapours
J. Tillman - Vacilando Territory Blues
Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter
Jenny Owen Youngs - Transmitter Failure
John Parish and PJ Harvey - A Woman A Man Walked By
Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care
Kevin Devine - Brother's Blood
Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence
Landon Pigg - The Boy Who Never
Little Hands of Asphalt, The - Leap Years
Loney, Dear - Dear John
M. Ward - Hold Time
Magneta Lane - Gambling with God
Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing
Mason Jennings - Blood of Man
Metric - Fantasies
Modern Skirts - All of Us in Our Night
Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
Mum - Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
MuteMath - Armistice
My Sad Captians - Here and Elsewhere
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring
Noise Addict - It Was Never About the Audience
Oh No Ono - Eggs
Old Ceremony, The - Walk on Thin Air
Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Passion Pit - Manners
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson - Break Up
Peter Bjorn and John - Living Thing
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Pilot Speed - Wooden Bones
Portugal. The Man - The Satanit Satanist
Pronto - All is Golden
Regina Spektor - Far
Rhett Miller - Rhett Miller
Roman Candle - Oh Tall Tree in the Ear
Sarah Blasko - As Day Follows Night
Sea Wolf - White Water, White Bloom
Sometimes Why - Your Heart is a Glorious Machine
Son Volt - American Central Dust
Sondre Lerche - Heartbeat Raido
St Vincent - Actor
Sufjan Stevens - The BQE
SUNBEARS! - Dream Happy Dreams
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
Swan Lake - Enemy Mine
Telekinesis - Telekinesis!
The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come
Thermals, The - Now We Can See
Throw Me the Statue - Creaturesque
Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted to Sin
Viva Voce - Rose City
Volcano Choir - Unmap
We Shot the Moon - A Silver Lining
Why? - Eskimo Snow
Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
YACHT - See Mystery Lights
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

Albums I've added since writing this list:

Air - Love 2
Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears - Tell 'Em What Your Name Is
Brendan Benson - My Old, Familiar Friend
Chris Garneau - El Radio
Dan Deacon - Bromst
Daniel Johnston - Is and Always Was
Dodos, The - Time to Die
Freelance Whales - Weathervanes
fun. - Aim and Ignite
J. Tillman - Year in the Kingdom
James Husband - A Parallax I
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon
Le Loup - Family
Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer (not really sure how I didn't have this.)
Tegan and Sara - Sainthood
They Might Be Giants - Here Comes Science (kids record)
Zero 7 - Yeah Ghost

Even LATER additions (end of NOV)
Buddy and Julie Miller - Written in Chalk
Dave Rawlings Machine - A Friend of a Friend
Swell Season, The - Strict Joy
Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be
Lyle Lovett - Natural Forces
Susan Enan - Plainsong
Zee Avi - Selftitled
Noisettes - Wild Young Hearts
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
Port O'Brien - Threadbare
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
David Bazan - Curse Your Branches
Circulatory System - Signal Morning
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
Sarah Jarosz - Song Up in her Head
Lisa Hannigan - Sea Sew
Vetiver - Tight Knit
Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
Eleni Mandell - Artificial Fire
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orea
White Rabbits - It's Frightening.
Brandi Carlile - Give Up the Ghost
Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do
Moby - Wait for Me
Low Anthem, The - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Alela Diane - To Be Still
Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
Mew - No More Stories...
Snow Club - Yeah, So
Girls - Album
US Christmas - Eat the Low Dogs

Soundtracks&Compilations that I'm not including:
Ben Folds Presents - University A Capella!
Ben Gibbard & Jay Farrar - One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur
Karen O and the Kids - Where the Wild Things Are
Osso/Sufjan Stevensish - Run, Rabbit, Run!
Various Artists - Dark Was the Night Compilation
Various Artists - New Moon (Twilight Soundtrack)
Various Artists - Save Paste Compilation (not to mention every magazine has a compilation)
Various Artists - Score! 20 Years of Merge Records The Covers!

My music collection!

weasleyaholic — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:57:58 GMT

(continually updated. last= 2009.05.12)
New things in BOLD

Alpha By Artist

A. A. Bondy
- American Hearts
- Daytrotter Sessions
A.C. Newman
- Get Guilty
- The Slow Wonder
a.P.A.t.T.
- Black and White Mass
Absentee
- Victory Shorts
A Capella Groups
- Ben Folds Covers (not featured on the forthcoming record)
Akron/Family
- Akron/Family
- Love is Simple
- Set 'em Wild, Set 'em Free
- Split EP (with Angels of Light)
Alan Menken and Howard Ashman
- Little Shop of Horrors (2003)
Albert Hammond, Jr.
- Como Te Llama?
Alessi's Ark
- Notes from the Treehouse
Alice Russell
- Pot of Gold
All-Time Quarterback
- All-Time Quarterback
The Alternate Routes
- Good and Reckless and True
- A Sucker's Dream
- Watershed EP
Amanda Palmer
- Non-Album Tracks
- Who Killed Amanda Palmer
- Who Killed Amanda Palmer [Alternate Takes]
- Who Killed Amanda Palmer? (yes, all three are different)
- 2009-02-01 BBC 6 Music Session
Ambulance LTD
- LP
- New English EP
American Music Club
- Golden Age
Amsterband
- Beatchen
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
- ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
Andrew Bird
- Daytrotter Session
- Armchair Apocrypha
- Fingerlings
- Fingerlings 2
- Fingerlings 3
- Music From and inspired by My Name Is a Blackbird
- Music of Hair
- The Mysterious Production of Eggs
- Noble Beast
- Non-Album Tracks
- Soldier On EP
- Useless Creatures
- Weather Systems
Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire
- Oh! The Grandeur
- The Swimming Hour
- Thrills
Andrew Jackson Jihad
- People That Can Eat People Are The Luckiest People in the World
Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Jesus Christ Superstar (Both Discs) 1973
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat
- Phantom of the Opera (Both Discs)
Angels of Light
- Split EP with Akron/Family
Animal Collective
- Campfire Songs
- Feels
- Here Comes the Indian
- Hollinndagain
- Merriweather Post Pavillion
- Peacebone
- People
- Strawberry Jam
- Sung Tongs
- Weather Curses EP
- Prospect Hummer (w/ Vashti Bunyan)
Anna Nalick
- Shine EP
Annabel
- Each and Everyone
Antony & The Johnsons
- The Crying Light
Apples in Stereo
- Fun Trick Noisemaker
- Velocity of Sound
Aqualung
- Memory Man
- Strange and Beautiful
- Words and Music
Arab Strap
- Monday at the Hug and Pint
Arcade Fire
- Arcade Fire
- Funeral
- Neon Bible
Archers of Loaf
- All The Nation's Airports
- Icky Mettle
Architecture in Helsinki
- Fingers Crossed
- In Case We Die
- Like it or Not EP
- Places Like This
- That Beep - Single
Ari Herstand
- Baby Eyes
- Whispering Endearments
AshleyRobinson
- Why Have You Gone Mad?
Astronaut Pushers
- Astronaut Pushers
Athenaeum
- Athenaeum
- Hourglass
- Radiance
Atlas Sound
- Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
Au Revoir Simone
- The Bird of Music
- Still Night, Still Light
- Verses of Comfort, Assurance, and Salvation
The Avett Brothers
- Carolina Jubilee
- Emotionalism
- Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions
- The Second Gleam
Avey Tare
- Various Tracks
Azure Ray
- Azure Ray
- Burn and Shiver
- The Drinks We Drank Last Night EP
- Hold On Love
- New Resolution EP
- November
Azzido da Bass
- Lonely By Your Side - Single
Badly Drawn Boy
- About a Boy Soundtrack
- Born in the UK
- Have You Fed the Fish?
- The Hour of the Bewilderbeast
- One Plus One is One
Band of Horses
- Cease to Begin
- Everything All the Time
- Tour EP
Barack Obama
- Inaugural Address
Barenaked Ladies
- Gordon
- Stunt
Basia Bulat
- Oh, My Darling
Bat for Lashes
- Fur and Gold
- Two Suns
Battles
- Mirrored
Beach House
- Beach House
- Devotion
The Beatles
- Abbey Road
- Beatles 1
- Beatles Box Set
- A Hard Day's Night
- Help!
- Let It Be
- Magical Mystery Tour
- Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
- White Album
Beck
- Guero
- Mellow Gold
- Modern Guilt
- Odelay
- KCRW Session (with the Flaming Lips)
Beirut
- The Flying Club Cup
Bell X1
- Blue Lights on the Runway
- Flock
Belle and Sebastian
- The Boy with the Arab Strap
- Dear Catastrophe Waitress
- Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
- If You're Feeling Sinister
- Juno Soundtrack
- The Life Pursuit
- Push Barman to Open Old Wounds
- Storytelling
- Tigermilk
Ben's Brother
- Battling Giants
- Beta Male Fairytales
Ben Folds (Not all bootlegs are complete)
- Ben Folds and NSO
- Ben Folds File (Only Black Glasses)
- Ben Folds Live
- Ben Folds Live in Bonner Springs, KS
- Ben Folds Presents: University A Capella
- Bizarre Christmas Incident Single
- Brixton October 5, 2002 (with The Divine Comedy)
- Bullshit from the Internet (fake "Way to Normal")
- Hiroshima (B B B Benny Hit His Head) Single
- I Made It Up On Stage
- iTunes Originals
- Live @ Dutch Radio 3
- Live @ Hammersmith Apollo, London
- Live at Bonnaroo 2006
- Live at Bonnaroo 2008
- Live at Foellinger Auditorium
- Live at Langerado March 8, 2008
- Live at Molson Amphitheater
- Live at Murray State 2008.04.07
- Live at My Space
- Live at Oakdale, 10 July 04
- Live at Enmore Theater, Sydney
- Live at The Gothic in Denver, CO
- Live at the Mountain Winery
- Live at Tower Records EP
- Live at Wakarusa Music & Camping Festival
- Live at Ziggy's December 13, 2001
- Live in Berlin June 4, 2005
- Live in Boston, MA 2008.09.26
- Live in Duluth, MN 2008.04.20
- Live in Iowa City March 2, 2008
- Live in Nashville, TN December 19, 2007
- Live in Providence, RI 09.2008
- Live in St Peter, MN 2008.04.19
- Live November 13 2008
- March 11, 2006 - Orpheum Theater Madison, WI
- Rare Songs (massive)
- Rhapsody Originals
- Rockin' The Suburbs
- Rockin' the Suburbs pt 2
- Solo Demos
- Songs for Goldfish
- Songs for Silverman
- Speed Graphic
- Stems and Seeds
- Sunny 16
- Super D
- SuperSunnySpeedGraphic, The LP
- Way to Normal
- Way to Normal (Fan Remixes)
- 1990 Demo
- With MSO 23.9.06
- Central Park Summerstage (Fair w/ Guster)
- Live at the Jonathan Ross Show (with Neil Hannon)
- With WASO Live in Perth
Ben Folds Five
- The Beginnings
- The Beginnings 2
- Ben Folds Five
- Ben Folds Five B-Sides
- Ben Folds Five Freaking Out
- BF5 Rare Songs
- Complete Sessions at West 54th
- Demos
- Demos and Beginnings Remastered
- DOMO! Ben-Chan Desu! (Disc 1 and 2)
- Front to Back Reunion Webcast
- Live 11/11/1997
- Live in Irving, NY April 28, 1997
- Live at the Supper Club 11-6-1997 (favorite recording of Underground)
- Naked Baby Photos
- Truth and Rumors with Ben Folds Five
- The Truth about Cats and Dogs (Bad Idea)
- The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
- Underground 1
- Underground 2
- Whatever and Ever, Amen
Ben Gibbard
- Kurt Cobain About a Son Soundtrack
- Misc
- READ: Interpretting Bjork
- Home, Vol 5
Ben Kweller
- Ben Kweller
- Ben Kweller Alternates
- Ben Kweller Live at ACL 07
- Bromeo EP
- Changing Horses
- Daytrotter Sessions
- EP Phone Home
- Freak Out, It's Ben Kweller
- How Ya Lookin' Southbound?
- Live at Lollapalooza 2006
- On My Way
- Rare BK
- Sha Sha
- Tylenol - Single
- 2008-07-04 Stonewall Music Hall
Ben Lee
- Awake is the New Sleep
- BL Live Tracks (Includes Float On cover)
- Breathing Tornados
- Hey You, Yes You
- iTunes Originals
- The Rebirth of Venus
- Ripe
- Something to Remember Me By
Ben Thornewill
- The Beauty of Absolutes (not complete)
The Bens
- Tour Ep
- The Bens - Live
- The Bens Live at the Wireless
- The Bens Live, Again
- Live in Sydney
- Wig in a Box (Wicked Little Town)
- 2003-03-24 Melbourne
Bette Midler
- Bathhouse Betty (only her cover of Boxing)
Between the Trees
- The Story and the Song
Beulah
- When Your Heartstrings Break
- Yoko
Big Bang Boom
- B3
- Upcoming
The Bird and the Bee
- The Bird and the Bee
- Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future
Bishop Allen
- August
- The Broken String
- Charm School
- February
- GRR...
- January
- July
- June
- March
- May
- September
Bitter:Sweet
- Drama
- The Mating Game
The Black Keys
- Attack and Release
- The Big Come Up
- Magic Potion
- Rubber Factory
- Thickfreakness
Black Kids
- Partie Traumatic
Black Mountain
- Black Mountain
Blind Pilot
- 3 Rounds and a Sound
Blitzen Trapper
- Blitzen Trapper
- Furr
- Various Assorted Tracks
- Wild Mountain Nation
Bloc Party
- Silent Alarm
- A Weekend in the City
Blonde Redhead
- Misery is a Butterfly
- 23
The Blow
- Bonus Album
- The Concussive Caress, Or, Casey Caught Her Mom Singing Along
- Everyday Examples of Humans Facing Straight Into
- Paper Television
- Poor Aim: Love Songs
Boards of Canada
- The Campfire Headphase
Bon Iver
- Blood Bank EP
- For Emma, Forever Ago
- Live in Milwaukee 2008.08.14
- Myspace Transmissions
- Non-Album Tracks
- Daytrotter Sessions
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
- Beware
- Lie Down in the Light
Born Ruffians
- Red, Yellow and Blue
Bowerbirds
- Hymns for a Dark Horse
The Boy Least Likely To
- The Law of the Playground
Bright Eyes
- Cassadaga
- Fevers and Mirrors
- First Day of My Life
- I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
- Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
- Non- Album Tracks
British Sea Power
- Do You Like Rock Music?
Broken Social Scene
- Bee Hives
- Broken Social Scene
- To Be You and Me EP
The Builders and Butchers
- The Builders and Butchers
Built to Spill
- Ancient Melodies of the Future
- Keep it Like a Secret
- The Normal Years
- Perfect From Now On
- There's Nothing Wrong With Love
- Ultimate Alternative Wavers
- You in Reverse
Bus Stop
- Bus Stop
- A Little Faster
- Miracle Time
- No Parking
CAKE
- Comfort Eagle
- Fashion Nugget
- Motorcade of Generosity
- Pressure Chief
- Prolonging the Magic
Calexio
- Carried to Dust
Camera Obscura
- Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi
- French Navy EP
- Let's Get Out of This Country
- My Maudlin Career
Carbon Leaf
- Life Less Ordinary Single
Carla Bruni
- Quelqu'un m'a Dit
Cary Brothers
- All the Rage EP
- Waiting For Your Letter EP
- Who You Are
Casiotone For the Painfully Alone
- Advance Base Battery Life
- Answering Machine Music
- Etiquette
- Pocket Symphonies for Lonely Subway Cars
- Twinkle Echo
- Vs. Children
Castanets
- In the Vines
Casting Crowns
- Casting Crowns
Cat Power
- You Are Free
Chairlift
- Does You Inspire You
Chris Walla
- Field Manual
Christie DuPree
- GhettoFabulous
Chuck Folds Five
- Amplify This (Derby Days)
- Chuck Folds Five
The Cinematics
- A Strange Education
- Transporter 2
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
- Some Loud Thunder
The Clash
- London Calling
Clash of the Titans
- Ben Folds vs Elton John (a Burbian's gig. Their RtS is greatness)
Claude-Michel Schonberg
- Miss Siagon (Original London Cast)
- 10th Anniversary Les Miserables
Clem Snide
- Beautiful EP
- End of Love
- The Ghost of Fashion
- Have a Good Night
- Hungry Bird
- A Moment in the Sun
- Soft Spot
- You Were A Diamond
- Your Favorite Music
- 3/16/05 Dallas, TX (Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Your Greviance, live)
Cloud Cult
- Advice from the Happy Hippopotamous
- Aurora Borealis
- Cloud Cult Rare Tracks (Includes My Son is watching)
- Feel Good Ghosts
- The Meaning of 8
- The Meaning of 8 B-Sides
- They Live on the Sun
- Who Killed Puck?
Coconut Records
- Davy
- Nighttiming
Cold War Kids
- Loyalty to Loyalty
- The Mulberry Street EP
- Myspace Transmissions
- Robbers & Cowards
Colin Meloy
- Sings Live!
- Sings Morriseey
- Sings Shirley Collins
- 'Gum Drop
Collapsis
- Dirty Wake
The Comfies
- Close to Me
- Christmas
- Demos
Conor Oberst
- Conor Oberst
- Outer South
Corn Mo
- I Hope You Win
- Live Tracks
- The Magic Is You
- W/ .357 Lover
Counting Crows
- Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
The Cribs
- Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatver
The Crimea
- Secrets of the Witching Hour
Crooked Fingers
- Dignity and Shame
Crystal Antlers
- Tentacles
Crystal Castles
- Crystal Castles
Crystal Stilts
- Alight of Night
Cursive
- The Difference Between Houses and Homes
- Domestica
- 'Gum Drop
- Happy Hollow (and Bonus)
- Mama, I'm Swollen
- The Ugly Organ
Cut Copy
- Bright Like Neon Love
- In Ghost Colours
Cymbals Eat Guitars
- Why There Are Mountains
Damien Rice
- O
- 9
The Damnwells
- Bastards of the Beat
- One Last Century
Dan Deacon
- Spiderman of the Rings
Dan Auerbach
- Keep it Hid
Dan Wallace
- Neon and Gold
The Dandy Warhols
- Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
Daniel Johnston
- Yip Jump Music
Dappled Cities (Fly)
- Granddance
Darren Jessee
- Live at the Knitting Factory
- New York Night
- Songs By Our Friends
Dawn Landes
- Fireproof
- 234
dc Talk
- Intermission: The Greatest Hits
- Jesus Freak
dd/mm/yyyy
- Black Square
The Deadly Syndrome
- The Ortolan
Dear and the Headlights
- Drunk Like Bible Times
- Small Steps, Heavy Hooves
Death Cab for Cutie
- Death Cab for $5
- Daytrotter Session
- Forbidden Love
- Narrow Stairs
- The Open Door EP
- The Photo Album
- Plans
- Prove My Hypothesis Single
- Something About Airplanes
- Sub Pop Singles Club Single
- Transatlanticism
- We Have the Facts, And We're Voting Yes
- We Laugh Indoors EP
- You Can Play These Songs With Chords
The Decemberists
- Always the Bridesmaid Vol 1
- Always the Bridesmaid Vol 2
- Always the Bridesmaid Vol 3
- B-Sides and Demos
- Castaways and Cutouts
- Connect Sets EP
- The Crane Wife
- Crane Wife Extra Songs
- Hazards of Love
- Her Majesty
- Picaresque
- Picaresqueities
- Rake's Song Single
- READ: Interpreting Bjork
- The Tain
- 5 Songs
Deerhoof
- Apple O'
Deerhunter
- Microcastle
Defiance, Ohio
- The Great Depression
Dent May
- The Good Feeling Music of Dent May and His Magnificent Ukulele
Department of Eagles
- In Ear Park
Depeche Mode
- Black Celebration
- Sounds of the Universe
- Wrong - Single
Destroyer
- Trouble in Dreams
Devendra Banhart
- Heard Somebody Say - Single
- Nino Rojo
DeVotchKa
- How it Ends
- A Mad and Faithfull Telling
- Supermelodrama
DeYarmond Edison
- Silent Signs
Dillon Fence
- Christmas
- Daylight
- Dillon Fence
- Living Room Scene
- Outside In
- Rosemary
The Divine Comedy
- Absent Friends
- Brixton October 5 2002 (w/ Ben Folds)
- Casanova
- Fanfare for the Comic Muse
- Liberation
- Regeneration
- A Secret History
- Vicory for the Comic Muse
Django Haskins
- Folding Stars
- Non-Album Tracks
- overEasySmokeMachine
Django Reinhardt
- The Best of
The Dodos
- Visiter
Dosh
- Wolves and Wishes
Doves
- Kingdom of Rust
Dr Dog
- Covers
- Easy Beat
- Fate
- Toothbrush
- Daytrotter Sessions
The Dresden Dolls
- Demos, Covers, Rarities
- The Dresden Dolls
- A Is for Accident
- No, Virginia
- San Fran 2008-05-18
- Yes, Virginia
- 5 Song Demo
Duke Special
- I Never Thought This Day Would Come
- Songs from the Deep Forest
- When the Bear Bytes
E
- Broken Toy Shop
- A Man Called (E)
- Non-Album Tracks
The Eagles
- The Very Best of the Eagles
Eastern Conference Champions
- Ameritown
Editors
- The Back Room
- An End Has A Start
Eef Barzelay
- Bitter Honey
- Daytrotter Session
- Live at Murray State 4.7.08
- Lose Big
- Rocket Science Soundtrack
- Winter 2008
Eels
- Beautiful Freak
- Daisies of the Galaxy
- Electro-Shock Blues
- 'Gum Drop
- Hombre Lobo (only the one)
- Manchester 2005 EP
- Rotten World Blues Ep
- Shootenanny!
- Souljacker
- Useless Trinkets
- With Strings: Live at Town Hall
Efterklang
- Tripper
Eisley
- Combinations
- Head Against the Sky
- Like the Actors
- Room Noises
Elbow
- The Seldom Seen Kid
The Elected
- Me First
- Sun, Sun, Sun
Elf Power
- In a Cave
Elk City
- New Believers
Elliott Smith
- Basement Demos
- Confusion: Live Unreleased Songs
- Division Day/No Name #6
- Either/Or
- Elliott Smith
- Figure 8
- From a Basement on the Hill
- Good Will Hunting
- Gran Mal: Studio Rareties
- KCRW -- Morning Becomes Eclectic
- L'Europeeen, Paris, 06.11.1998
- Live at Largo
- New Moon
- Roman Candle
- Smith Rare Tracks
- XO
- 09/19/2003 - Salt Lake City, UT
Elton John
- The Captain and the Kid
- Elton John's Greatest Hits
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Madman Across the Water
- Peach Tree Road
- Something About the Way You Look Tonight - Single
- AIDA (w/ Tim Rice)
Elvis Costello
- Armed Forces (and bonus disc)
- Cruel Smile
- My Aim Is True (Dual disc)
- This Years Model (and bonus disc)
- When I Was Cruel
Emma Pollock
- Watch the Fireworks
Emmy the Great
- First Love
Estradeasphere
- Quadropus
Eugene McGuinness
- The Early Learnings Of..
- Eugene McGuinness
- Non-Album Tracks
Evan Olson
- All You Desire
- One Room
- Take the World
Evelyn Evelyn
- Elephant Elephant
The Explorers Club
- Freedom Wind
Explosions in the Sky
- All Of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
- Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
The Faint
- Faciinatiion
Fear of Pop
- Volume 1
Feist
- Let it Die
- The Reminder
Ferraby Lionheart
- Catch the Brass Ring
Fiction Family
- Fiction Family
Fields
- Everything Last Winter
Fiona Apple
- Extraordinary Machine
- Tidal
Fionn Regan
- The End of History
The Flaming Lips
- At War with the Mystics
- Christmas On Mars
- Clouds Taste Metallic
- Hear it Is
- Hit to Death in the Future Head
- In a Priest Driven Ambulance
- Oh My Gawd!!! ...
- Shambolic Birth and Early Life Of
- The Soft Bulletin
- Spiderman 3
- Telepathic Surgery
- Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
- Zaireeka Discs 1 - 4
Fleet Foxes
- Fleet Foxes LP
- Fleet Foxes EP
- Sun Giant EP
Fleming & John
- Delusions of Grandeur
- Wrong "Single"
Flight of the Chonchords
- The Distant Future
- Fight of the Conchords (bonus tracks)
- Folk the World Tour
Foals
- Antidotes
Foo Fighters
- Keep the Car Running (Arcade Fire Cover)
Frally
- Frally
- Non-Album Tracks
Frank Loesser
- Guys and Dolls (1992 Cast)
The Fratellis
- Costello Music
- Here We Stand
Frightened Rabbit
- The Midnight Organ Fight
Frog Eyes
- The Folded Palm
Frou Frou
- Details
The Gaslight Anthem
- The '59 Sound
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.
- The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager
- D.A.N.C.E. cover
- Searching for the Hows and Whys
Glasvegas
- Glasvegas
Gogol Bordello
- Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike
- Super Taranta!
Golden Boots
- Winter of our Discotheque
Goldfrapp
- Seventh Tree
- We Are Glitter
Goldspot
- Tally of the Yes Men
- Non-Album Tracks (Cover of Float On)
Gomez
- Bring it On
- How We Operate
- A New Tide
The Good Life
- Album of the Year
- Help Wanted Nights
Grand Archives
- The Grand Archives
Great Lake Swimmers
- Bodies and Minds
- Great Lake Swimmers
- 'Gum Drop
- Live EP
- Lost Channels
- See You on the Moon! - Single
Great Northern
- Remind Me Where the Light Is
- Trading Twilight for Daylight
Gregory & the Hawk
- Moenie and Kitchi
Granddaddy
- Just Like the Fambly Cat
Grizzly Bear
- Friend EP
- Sorry for the Delay
- Veckatimest
- Yellow House
Gruff Rhys
- Candylion
The Guggenheim Grotto
- Happy the Man
- A Tear Isn't Such a Bad Thing -Single
- ...Waltzing Alone
Guillemots
- Annie, Let's Not Wait
- From the Cliffs
- Get Over It
- I Saw Such Things in My Sleep EP
- Made UP Lovesong #43 - Single
- Non-Album Tracks
- Of the Night EP
- Red
- Thorugh the Windowpane
- Trains to Brazil - Single
Guster
- Ganging Up on the Sun
- Goldfly
- Parachute
Ha Ha Tonka
- Buckle in the Bible Belt
Handsome Furs
- Face Control
Happy Schnapps Combo
- Bears Still Suck - Single
Heatmiser
- Cop and Speeder
- Dead Air
- Mic City Sons
Hedwig and the Angry Itch
- Soundtrack
Her Space Holiday
- Young Machines
Here We Go Magic
- Here We Go Magic
The Hold Steady
- Stay Positive
Homecomings
- Homecomings
The Honorary Title
- Anything Else But the Truth
- Scream and Light Up the Sky
Hot Chip
- Made in the Dark
Hotel Lights
- Firecracker People
- GoodNightGoodMorning EP
- Hotel Lights
- Hotel Lights Album Release Live 2008.08.16
I'm From Barcelona
- Let Me Introduce My Friends
Immaculate Machine
- Fables
- High On Jackson Hill
- Ones and Zeros
Imogen Heap
- iMegaphone
- Non-Album Tracks
- Speak for Yourself
Innaway
- Innaway
International Orange
- IO: Unreleased
- IO: Demos
- Spoon Box EP
Iran
- Dissolver
Iron & Wine
- Around the Well
- The Creek Drank the Cradle
- Our Endless Numbered Days
- Non-Album Tracks
- Norfolk
- The Shepherd's Dog
- Woman King
The Iry
- Beladona
- Demo
Islands
- Arm's Way
- Return to the Sea
J. Tillman
- Vacilando Territory Blues
Jack's Mannequin
- The Glass Passenger
Jamie Cullum
- Twentysomething
Jamie Lidell
- Multiply
Jarvis Cocker
- Jarvis
Jason Lytle
- Yours Truly, The Commuter
Jason Webley
- Against the Night
- Only Just Beginning
Jeff Buckley
- Grace (plus Legacy Edition bonus disc)
- Live At Sine
- Mystery White Boy
- Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
Jennifer O'Connor
- Daytrotter Session
- Here With Me
- Over the Mountain, Across the Valley and Back to the Stars
Jenny Lewis
- Acid Tongue
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins
- Rabbit Fur Coat
Jenny Owen Youngs
- Batten the Hatches
- Take Off All Your Clothes EP
- Things We Don't Need Anymore Single
- Transmitter Failure
Jens Lekman
- Night Falls Over Kortedala
- Oh You're So Silent Jens
- When I Said I wanted to Be Your Dog
Jeremy Warmsley
- The Art of Fiction
Jim Noir
- Key of C Single
Joanna Newsom
- Ys
John Parish & PJ Harvey
- A Woman A Man Walked By
Johnny Flynn
- A Larum
Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit
- The Epic Tale of Tom and Sue
- Non-Album Tracks
- Ode to a Mare Trod a Ditch
Jonathan Larson
- RENT (Original Broadway Cast)
Jose Gonzalez
- In Our Nature
Josh Fix
- 68 Mix EP
Josh Groban
- Who's Behind the Mask (one leaked track, features Ben Folds)
Josh Ritter
- The Animal Years
- The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
Jukebox the Ghost
- Let Live and Let Ghosts
Junior Boys
- Begone Dull Care
- The Dead Horse EP
- Last Exit
- So This is Goodbye
JUSTICE
- Cross
Justin Vernon
- Hazeltons
- Self-Titled
Kaiser Chiefs
- Employment
- Off With Their Heads
- Telling Me to Go - Single
- Yours Truly, Angry Mob
Kaki King
- Dreaming of Revenge
- Everybody Loves You
- Legs to Make Us Longer
Kanye West
- Graduation
Katie Todd
- Changing Faces
Katie Todd Band
- Live
- Make Some Time For Wasting
Kevin Devine
- Another Bag of Bones - Single
- Brother's Blood
- Buried By the Buzzz - Single
- Circle Gets the Square
- I Could Be With Anyone EP
- KD Non-Album Tracks
- KD Daytrotter Session
- KD Daytrotter Encore Session
- Make the Clocks Move
- Put Your Ghost to Rest
- Split the Country, Split the Street
- Tour EP
- ...Travelling the EU
Kid, You'll Move Mountains
- Loomings
Kimya Dawson
- Remember That I Love You
Kings of Convenience
- Riot on An Empty Street
Kings of Leon
- Aha Shake Heartbreak
- Because of the Times
- Only By the Night
Klaxons
- Myths of the Near Future
The Knife
- The Knife
The Kooks
- Cover of MGMT
Kunek
- Flight of the Flynns
Ladytron
- Velocifero
- Witching Hour
Lambchop
- OH (Ohio) (and bonus disc)
Land of Talk
- Some Are Lakes
- Applause Cheer Boo Hiss
Landon Pigg
- Can't Let Go - Single
The Last Town Chorus
- The Last Town Chorus
- Wire Waltz
Late of the Peir
- Fantasy Black Channel
Laura Marling
- Alas, I Cannot Swim
Lavender Diamond
- The Cavalry of Light EP
- Imagine Our Love
LCD Soundsystem
- LCD Soundsystem (both discs)
- Sound of Silver
Le Loup
- The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly
Legendary Pink Dots
- Plutonium Blonde
Lenka
- Lenka
Lightspeed Champion
- Falling Off the Lavender Bridge
- Galaxy of the Lost
- Midnight Surprise
- Patrick Wolf EP
- Tell Me What It's Worth
- X-Tras
Limbeck
- Hi, Everything's Great
- Let Me Come Home
Lisa "Kyoko" Isobe
- Early Tracks with Ben Folds
Little Joy
- Little Joy
Liz Phair
- Whip-Smart
Loney, Dear
- Citadel Band LP
- Dear John
- The Year of the River Fontana
Los Campesinos!
- We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
The Lost and Found
- Love, The Lost and Found
Love is All
- A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night
Low Vs Diamond
- Low vs Diamond
Lykke Li
- Youth Novel
M. Ward
- Hold time
- Post-War
- Transfiguration of Vincent
M.I.A.
- Kala
- Paper Planes
M83
- Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts
- Saturdays = Youth
mae
- Destination: Beautiful
- The Everglow
- Singularity
The Magic Numbers
- Those the Brokes
The Magnetic Fields
- Distortion
Majosha
- Shut Up and Listen To...
- Five Songs About Jesus
Man Man
- The Man in a Blue Turban with a Face
- Six Demon Bag
Manchester Orchestra
- Fourteen Years of Excellence
- I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child
- Mean Everything to Nothing
Maple Bee
- Home
Margot & The Nuclear So and So's
- The Dust of Retreat
Maria Taylor
- Lady Luck
- Lynn Teeter Flower
- 11:11
Mason Jennings
- Boneclouds
- In the Ever (with Bonus tracks)
Mason Proper
- Olly Oxen Free
Mates of State
- Bring It Back
- My Solo Project
- Our Constant Concern
- Re-Arrange Us
- Team Boo
Matt & Kim
- Grand
- Matt & Kim
matt pond PA
- The Freeep
- Last Light
Menomena
- Friend and Foe
- Happiness Is Shouting Bingo!
- I Am the Fun Blame Monster
Mercury Rev
- All Is Dream
- Deserter's Songs
- The Secret Migration
Metric
- Fantasies
- Live it Out
- Rare Metric
Mew
- And the Glass Handed Kites
MGMT
- Oracular Spectacular
Micah P. Hinson
- Micah P. Hinson and the Opera Circuit
Midlake
- Bamnan and Silvercork
- The Trials of Van Occupanther
Millard Powers
- Millard Powers
Miniature Tigers
- Black Magic EP
- Tell it to the Volcano
- White Magic EP
- Daytrotter Sessions
Minus the Bear
- The Make Beer Commercials Like This
Missy Higgins
- On a Clear Night
Mitch Hedberg
- Mitch All Together
- Strategic Grill Locations
Modern Skirts
- All Of Us In Our Night
Modest Mouse
- Building Nothing Out of Something
- Good News For People Who Love Bad News
- The Lonesome Crowded West
- The Moon and Antartica
- This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
- We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
The Moldy Peaches
- The Moldy Peaches
- Juno
Monk and Neagle
- Dancing with the Angels - Single
The Moog
- Sold for Tomorrow
Morrissey
- You Are the Quarry
The Mountain Goats
- All Hail West Texas
- Come, Come to the Sunset Tree
- The Coroner's Gambit
- Full Force Galesburg
- Get Lonely
- Hail and Farewell, Gothenburg
- Heretic Pride
- Hot Garden Stomp
- The Hound Chronicles
- Moon Colony Bloodbath
- Mountain Goats Rare Tracks
- Nothing For Juice
- Protein Source of the Future
- Satanic Messiah EP
- The Sunset Tree
- Sweeden
- Taboo VI - The Homecoming
- Tallahassee
- We Shall All Be Healed
- Zopilote Machine
- 2008-10-14 The Pabst Theater
The Mountain Goats and Kaki King
- Black Pear Tree EP
Mum
- Go Go Spear the Poison Ivy
Muford & Sons
- Love Your Ground
Mute Math
- Mute Math
- Reset EP
- Spotlight EP
My Brightest Diamond
- Bring Me the Workhorse
- 'Gum Drop
- A Thousand Shark's Teeth
My Morning Jacket
- Celebracion De La Ciudad Natal
- Chapter 1 The Sandworm cometh
- Does Xmas Fiasco Style EP
- Evil Urges
- It Still Moves
- Off the Record EP
- Z
Nada Surf
- High/Low
- Let Go
- Lucky
- The Weight is a Gift
The National
- Alligator
- Boxer
- Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
Neil Young
- Living with War
Neko Case
- Furnace Room Lyllaby
- Middle Cyclone
Nellie McKay
- Get Away From Me (Dual Disc)
- Pretty Little Head
Neutral Milk HOtel
- Accordian Peas
- Beauty
- Everything Is
- Hype City
- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
- Invent Yourself a Shortcake
- On Avery Island
Neva Dinova
- Daytrotter Session
- The Hate Yourself Change
- Neva Dinova
- You May Already Be Dreaming
The New Pornographers
- Challengers
- Electric Version
- Mass Romantic
- Twin Cinema
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Nick Drake
- Bryter Layter
- Five Leaves Left
- Pink Moon
Nickel Creek
- This Side - Single
No Age
- Nouns
Noah and the Whale
- Noah and the Whale
- Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down
Noisettes
- Scratch Your Name - Single
Now It's Overhead
- Dark Light Daybreak
O.A.R.
- In Between Now and Then
- Non-Album Tracks
of Montreal
- Aldhis Arboretum
- The Bird Who Continues To Eat The Rabbit's Flower
- Bonus Covers EP
- Cherry Peel
- the Gay Parade
- Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
- If He is Protecting Our Nation, Then Who Will Protecting Big Oil, Our Children?
- Non-Album Tracks
- Satanic Panic in the Attic
- Satanic Twins
- Skeletal Lamping
- The Sunlandic Twins
- Daytrotter Sessions
Oh No! Oh My!
- Between the Devil and the Sea EP
- Dmitrij Dimitrij EP
- Oh No! Oh My!
- Daytrotter Sessions
Oh No Ono
- Eggs
Ohtis
- B-Sides
- Daytrotter Sessions
- If This Country Had a Heart, That's Where I Was Born
OK Go
- Oh No
- OK Go
- Non-Album Tracks
Okkervil River
- Black Sheep Boy
- Black Sheep Boy Appendix
- Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See
- Down the River of Golden Dreams
- For Real (There's Nothing Quite Like The Blinding Light)
- Golden Opportunities Mixtape
- Daytrotter Sessions
- Julie Dorion/Okkervil River Split EP
- Overboard & Down
- Sham Wedding/Hoax Funeral (Split ep with Shearwater)
- Sleep and Wake-Up Songs
- The Stage Names
- The Stand Ins
- Stars Too Small To Use
- Non-Album Tracks
Old 97's
- Blame it on Gravity
- Drag it Up
The Old Ceremony
- Non-Album Tracks
- The Old Ceremony
- Our One Mistake
- Walk on Thin Air
Operator Please
- Cement Cement
- On the Prowl
- Yes Yes Vindictive
"Original Soundtrack"
- Stubbs the Zombie
- Over the Hedge
- Shrek
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Page France
- ...And the Family Telephone
Panda Bear
- Person Pitch
- Young Prayer
Passion Pit
- Chunk of Change EP
- Manners
Pavement
- Slanted & Enchanted
- Stuff Up the Cracks
Pedro the Lion
- Winners Never Quit
Pela
- Anytown Graffiti
Pete and the Pirates
- Little Death
Peter, Bjorn and John
- Falling Out
- Living Thing
- Writer's Block
Phil Ochs
- Louder than the Guns: The Essential Phil Ochs
Pilot Speed
- Barely Listening - Single
- Wooden Bones
Pinback
- Autumn of the Seraphs
- Blue Screen Life
- Nautical Antiques
- Offcell EP
- Pinback
- Summer in Abaddon
Pixes
- Wave of Mutilation
PJ Harvey
- To Bring You My Love
The Polyphonic Spree
- The Beginning Stages Of..
- Christmas Concert
- The Fragile Army
- Together We're Heavy
- Wait EP
Portishead
- Third
The Postal Service
- The District Sleeps Alone Tonight EP
- Give Up
- Remixes & B-Sides
- Such Great Heights EP
- We Will Become Silhouettes
Pronto
- All is Golden
Q-Tip
- The Renaissance
Quasi
- Hot Shit
- The Sword of God
- When the Going Gets Dark
Queen
- Greatest Hits
R.E.M.
- Accelerate
- Automatic for the People
- Green
- Monster
- Murmur
- Out of Time
- Reveal
- Stereogum Presents Drive XV
- Unplugged (1991)
- Up
Ra Ra Riot
- Daytrotter Session
- Ra Ra Riot
The Racounters
- Broken Boy Soldiers
- Consolers of the Lonely
Radiohead
- Amnesiac
- The Bends
- Hail to the Theif
- In Rainbows
- Kid A
- OK Computer
- Pablo Honey
Radish
- Discount Fireworks
- Restraining Bolt
Raining Jane
- Diamond Lane
- Raining Jane
The Rapture
- Echoes
- Music from Grand Theft Auto IV
- Pieces of People We Love
Ratatat
- Classics
- Ratatat
Ray Charles
- Genius Loves compnay
- The Very Best of Ray Charles
Red House Painters
- Early Demos 1&2
Regina Spektor
- Begin to Hope (w/ Bonus Disc)
- Demos & Live
- Live at ACL 2007
- Live at Borders in Chicago, IL
- Marry Ann Meets the Gravedigger
- Songs
- Soviet Kitsch
- 11:11
- 2003-05-11 Brooklyn, NY
Repent or Forever Be Damned
- Painless, Blameless and Peaceful
The Republic Tigers
- Keep Color
Rhett Miller
- The Believer
- The Instigator
Rilo Kiley
- Execution of All Things
- Initial Friend EP
- More Adventurous
- Non-Album Tracks
- Take Offs and Landings
- Under the Black Light
Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx
- Avenue Q
The Rocket Summer
- Do You Feel
Roger Miller
- Big River
Rogue Wave
- Asleep at Heaven's Gate
- Daytrotter Session
- Descend Like Vultures
- Out of the Shadow
Rufus Wainwright
- Poses
- Release the Stars
- Rufus Wainwright
- Want 1
- Want 2
Santogold
- Santogold
- Trouble Andrew Remix
Sara Bareilles
- Little Voice
Sarah Blasko
- The Overture and the Underscore
Saturday Looks Good to Me
- Green Mansions
Say Anything
- ...Is a Real Boy
- ...Was a Real Boy
Say Hi
- 'Gum Drop
- Impeccable Blahs
Scissors for Lefty
- Underhanded Romance
Scouting for Girls
- Scouting for Girls
The Sea and Cake
- The Biz
Sea Wolf
- Leaves in the River
- Demo Tracks
Seabear
- The Ghost that Carried Us Away
Secret Machines
- Secret Machines
Serge Gainsbourg
- Historie de Melody Nelson
The Shaky Hands
- Lunglight
She & Him
- Volume One
Shearwater
- Palo Santo
- Rook
- Sham Wedding/Hoax Funeral (split EP with Okkervil River)
Sherman Edwards
- 1776
Sherwood
- A Different Light
The Shins
- Chutes too Narrow
- Non-Album Tracks
- Oh, Inverted World
- Wincing the Night Away
Shiny Toy Guns
- Season of Poison
- We are Pilots
Shout Out Louds
- Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
- Our Ill Wills
- Tonight I Have to Leave It EP
Sia
- Some People Have Real Problesm
Sigur Ros
- Agaetis Burjun
- Hvarf / Heim
- Meu Suo I Eyrum Vio Spilum Endalaust
- Takk
The Silent Years
- The Globe
The Smiths
- The Queen is Dead
Smog
- A River Ain't Too Much to Love
Snuzz
- Big Potatoes
- Harper
- One Piece Band
- Snuzz
- Snuzz "Collection" (non-album tracks)
- 1990 Demo (aka Pots & Pans)
- 1996 Demo
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
- Broom
- Daytrotter Session
- Pershing
- Someone Still Loves You Michael Holt: A Scrapbook For You (one track)
Sometymes Why
- Your Heart is a Glorious Machine
Son, Ambulance
- Someone Else's Deja Vu
Son Volt
- American Central Dust
Sondre Lerche
- Don't Be Shallow
- Faces Down
- Phantom Punch
- Two Way Monologue
Songs:Ohia
- The Magnoila Electric Co.
Soul Coughing
- El Oso
Sparklehorse
- Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
- Good Morning Spider
Spoon
- Daytrotter Session
- Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
- Gimme Fiction
- Girls Can Tell
- Kill the Moonlight
Squirrel Nut Zippers
- The Inevitable
St. Vincent
- Actor
- Marry me
Stacy DuPree
- Eyes Like Mine
Starflyer 59
- Everybody Makes Mistakes
Stars
- The Comeback EP
- Dead Child Stars
- Do You Trust Your Friends?
- Heart
- In Our Bedroom After the War
- A Lot of Little Lies for the sake of One Big Truth
- Nightsongs
- Petite Mort 7"
- Sad Robot EP
- Set Yourself on Fire
- Tour EP
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
- Pig Lib (and bonus)
Steve Williard
- Acoustic
The Stills
- Oceans Will Rise
- Without Feathers
The Streets
- Everything is Borrowed
The Submarines
- Declare a New State!
Sufjan Stevens
- Achoo! An Asthmatic Kitty Sampler (1 track)
- The Avalanche
- Ding Dong! Christmas
- Enjoy Your Rabbit
- Greetings from Michigan The Great Lakes State
- Hark! Noel! Christmas
- Hark Songs for Christmas
- Illinoise
- Joy! Christmas
- Peace! Christmas
- Seven Swans
- Songs for Christmas Vol 8
- A Sun Came
- To Spirit Back the Mews (1 Track)
Sun Kil Moon
- April
- Ghosts of the Great Highway
- Tiny Cities
SUNBEARS!
- Dream Happy Dreams
Sunset Rubdown
- Random Spirit Lover
- Shut Up I Am Dreaming
Super Furry Animals
- Love Kraft
- Dark Days/Light Years
Swan Lake
- Beast Moans
- Enemy Mine
The Tallest Man on Earth
- Shallow Graves
The Tallywood String Quartet
- Tribute to Elliott Smith
Tap Tap
- Lanzafame
Tapes 'n Tapes
- The Loon
- Walk it Off
team 9 vs Stereogum
- Presents.... (BF meets TI)
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
- Living with the Living
- Shake the Streets
Tegan and Sara
- The Con
- If It Was You
- So Jealous
- The Business of Art
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down
- We Brave Bee Stings and All
Themselves
- The No Music
- Them
The Thermals
- Now We Can See
They Might Be Giants
- The Else
- Factory Showroom
- Flood
- Lincoln
- No!
- The Spine
- They Got Lost
- They Might Be Giants
Thievery Corporation
- Versions (In Love)
Thirteen Sense
- The Invitation
Throw Me the Statue
- Moonbeams
Tilly and the Wall
- O
The Ting Tings
- Great DJ EP
- We Started Nothing
Titus Andronicus
- The Airing of Grievances
Tori Amos
- Abnormally Attracted to Sin
- American Doll Posse
- Boys for Pele
- Live Tracks
Toxic Popsickle
- The Beginnings 2
- Friends of Zid
Travis
- Good Feeling
- Singles
Tripping Daisy
- I Am an Elastic Firecracker
- Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb
- Tripping Daisy
TV on the Radio
- Dear Science
- Read Silence
- Return to Cookie Mountain
Two Gallants
- Two Gallants
Uh Huh Her
- Common Reaction
Vampire Weekend
- Vampire Weekend
Various Artists
- Christmas Catasrophe 2007 (only 4 tracks)
- Dark Was the Night (1 and 2 discks)
- Ear Snacks: The Ocho
- Hello Radio - Songs of They Might Be Giants
- Juno Sountrack
- The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered
- Score! 20 Years of Merge Records
- The Bird Has Flown (only 2 tracks)
- To: Elliott, From: Portland
- Wig in a Box Compilation
Veda
- The Weight of an Empty Room
Vermillion Lies
- Separated By Birth
- What's in the Box?
The Virgins
- The Virgins
Vivian Girls
- Vivian Girls
Voxtrot
- Raised By Wolves EP
- Trepanation Party - Single
- Voxtrot
- Your Biggest Fan
The Wandering Goose
- Live on Do Not Disconnect
The Watson Twins
- Fire Songs
- Southern Manners
We Are Scientists
- Brain Thrust Mastery
We Shot the Moon
- Fear and Love
- The Polar Bear & Cougar EP
We the Living
- Heights of the Heavens
- Pre-Depths Downloads
The Weakerthans
- Fallow
- Left and Leaving
- Reconstruction Site
- Reunion Tour
The Weepies
- Hideway
Weird Al Yankovic
- Even Worse
- In 3D
- Poodle Hat
- Running with Scissors
- Straight Outta Lynwood
The Welcome Wagon
- Welcome to the Welcome Wagon
The Whigs
- Mission Control
The White Stripes
- Icky Thump
WHY?
- Alopecia
Wilco
- AM
- Being There (Disc 1 and 2)
- A Ghost is Born
- Kicking Television: Live in Chicago
- Sky Blue Sky
- Summer Teeth
- Vote (single w/ Fleet Foxes)
- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
William Fitzsimmons
- Goodnight
- The Sparrow and the Crow
- Until When We Are Ghosts
William Shatner
- Has Been
- Spaced Out: The Best of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner
Wolf Parade
- Apologies to the Queen Mary
- At Mount Zoomer
X-Wife
- Are You Ready for the Blackout?
YACHT
- I Believe in You. Your Magic is Real.
Yann Tiersen
- Tout Est Calme
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Fever to Tell
- It's Blitz! (w/ Bonus)
- Show Your Bones
- Zero (Animal Collective Remix)
Yeasayer
- All Hour Cymbals
Yo La Tengo
- I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
- Nuclear War
You, Me And Everyone We Know
- Party for the Grown and Sexy EP
Zoe Keating
- One Cello x 16: Natoma
The Zombies
- Odessy & Oracle
Zutons
- Who Killed the Zutons
1990s
- Cookies
- Kicks