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1. Tori Amos, "Scarlet's Walk" (2002)
2. Gillian Welch, "Time (The Revelator)" (2001)
3. Brooke Waggoner, "Heal for the Honey" (2008)
4. Arcade Fire, "Funeral" (2004)
5. Dixie Chicks, "Home" (2002)
6. The Innocence Mission, "Befriended" (2003)
7. Björk, "Vespertine" (2001)
8. Tori Amos, "American Doll Posse" (2007)
9. Bright Eyes, "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" (2005)
10. Sufjan Stevens, "Seven Swans" (2004)
11. Laura Veirs, "Saltbreakers" (2007)
12. Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris, "All the Roadrunning" (2006)
13. Regina Spektor, "Begin to Hope" (2006)
14. The Acorn, "Glory Hope Mountain" (2007)
15. The Swell Season, "Once (Music from the Motion Picture)" (2007)
16. Bic Runga, "Beautiful Collision" (2002)
17. Tori Amos, "The Beekeeper" (2005)
18. Midlake, "The Trials Of Van Occupanther" (2006)
19. The Shins, "Chutes Too Narrow" (2003)
20. Woodpigeon, "Treasury Library Canada" (2008)
21. Frightened Rabbit, "The Midnight Organ Fight" (2008)
22. Alanis Morissette, "Flavors of Entanglement" (2008)
23. The Swell Season, "Strict Joy" (2009)
24. Mates of State, "Re-Arrange Us" (2008)
25. Tori Amos, "Abnormally Attracted To Sin" (2009)
26. Dan Bern, "New American Language" (2001)
27. Dixie Chicks, "Taking The Long Way" (2006)
28. Sam Phillips, "A Boot and a Shoe" (2004)
29. Joanna Newsom, "The Milk-Eyed Mender" (2004)
30. Joan as Police Woman, "Real Life" (2006)
31. Sufjan Stevens, "Come On! Feel The Illinoise!" (2005)
32. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, "Raising Sand" (2007)
33. Anaïs Mitchell, "The Brightness" (2007)
34. Coldplay, "A Rush Of Blood To The Head" (2002)
35. Horse Feathers, "House With No Home" (2008)
36. Neil Young, "Silver & Gold" (2000)
37. Loretta Lynn, "Van Lear Rose" (2004)
38. Tori Amos, "Strange Little Girls" (2001)
39. Kate Bush, "Aerial" (2005)
40. Vienna Teng, "Warm Strangers, (2003)
41. Aimee Mann, "@#%&*! Smilers" (2008)
42. Rufus Wainwright, "Poses" (2001)
43. Cat Power, "You Are Free" (2003)
44. Laura Veirs, "Year of Meteors" (2005)
45. Ron Sexsmith, "Retriever" (2004)
46. Antony and the Johnsons, "I Am a Bird Now" (2005)
47. Martha Wainwright, "Martha Wainwright" (2005)
48. Ani DiFranco, "Revelling/Reckoning" (2001)
49. The Innocence Mission, "We Walked In Song" (2007)
50. Kate Tucker & the Sons of Sweden, "Kate Tucker & the Sons of Sweden" (2007)

1: Chutes Too Narrow, The Shins
2: Picaresque, The Decemberists
3: White Blood Cells, The White Stripes
4: Origin Of Symmetry, Muse
5: More Adventurous, Rilo Kiley
6: Good News for People Who Love Bad News, Modest Mouse
7: Thunder, Lightning, Strike, The Go! Team
8: Funeral, Arcade Fire
9: No Cities Left, The Dears
10: Howling Bells, Howling Bells
11: The Casket Letters, Monkey Swallows the Universe
12: Broken Social Scene, Broken Social Scene
13: Sound Of Silver, LCD Soundsystem
14: Lapalco, Brendan Benson
15: Let It Die, Feist
16: Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea, PJ Harvey
17: Two Suns, Bat for Lashes
18: Carbon Glacier, Laura Veirs
19: Ys, Joanna Newsom
20: The Bairns, Rachel Unthank and the Winterset

TOP 100
SINGLES
2009
My 100 favourite officially released singles of 2009

001 Bat for Lashes Daniel
002 Fleet Foxes Your Protector
003 Pet Shop Boys Love Etc.
004 Ladytron Tomorrow
005 Röyksopp featuring Robyn The Girl And The Robot
006 Fleet Foxes Mykonos
007 Metric Help, I'm Alive
008 La Roux In For The Kill
009 Little Boots Remedy
010 Patrick Wolf Vulture

011 The Raveonettes Last Dance/Bang!
012 White Lies Farewell To The Fairground
013 Morrissey I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris
014 Depeche Mode Peace
015 The Veils The Letter
016 White Lies To Lose My Life
017 Little Boots Earthquake
018 Julian Casablancas 11th Dimension
019 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Zero
020 La Roux Bulletproof

021 Polarkreis 18 Allein Allein
022 Keane Better Than This
023 The Cribs We Share The Same Skies
024 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Heads Will Roll
025 Coldplay Life In Technicolor II
026 Bloc Party One More Chance
027 Empire of the Sun Walking On A Dream
028 Malcolm Middleton Red Travellin' Socks
029 Telepathe So Fine
030 La Roux I'm Not Your Toy

031 Florence + The Machine Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
032 Fever Ray If I Had A Heart
033 Phoenix Lisztomania
034 A Place to Bury Strangers In Your Heart
035 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Higher Than The Stars
036 Lady GaGa Pokerface
037 Patrick Wolf Hard Times
038 Marina & the Diamonds I Am Not A Robot
039 Editors Papillon
040 Bloc Party One Month Off

041 The Horrors Who Can Say
042 Patrick Wolf Damaris
043 Basement Jaxx featuring Sam Sparro Feeling's Gone
044 Delphic Counterpoint
045 The Temper Trap Sweet Disposition
046 The Gossip Heavy Cross
047 Jack Penate Tonight's Today
048 Fever Ray Triangle Walks
049 Music Go Music Warm In The Shadows
050 Dan Black Symphonies

051 Mika We Are Golden
052 Lady GaGa Paparazzi
053 Maps I Dream Of Crystal
054 The Faint Mirror Error
055 Madonna Celebration
056 Pet Shop Boys Did You See Me Coming?
057 The Stills Being Here
058 Ou Est Le Swimming Pool Dance The Way I Feel
059 Kap Bambino Batcaves
060 Maxïmo Park The Kids Are Sick Again

061 The Rifles Fall To Sorrow
062 Oasis Falling Down
063 The Von Bondies Pale Bride
064 New Rhodes The Joys Of Finding And Losing That Girl
065 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Young Adult Friction
066 A Place to Bury Strangers Missing You
067 The Joy Formidable Whirring
068 John & Jehn Oh My Love
069 Bloc Party Signs
070 Simian Mobile Disco Audacity Of Huge

071 KASMs Bone You
072 Peaches Lose You
073 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Come Saturday
074 Starsailor Tell Me It's Not Over
075 Wavves So Bored
076 Freemasons featuring Sophie Ellis-Bextor Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer)
077 Music Go Music Just Me
078 Cocknbullkid I'm Not Sorry
079 Keane Perfect Symmetry
080 teenagersintokyo Isabella/Long Walk Home

081 Fryars featuring Dave Gahan Visitors
082 Malcolm Middleton Zero
083 Theoretical Girl Rivals
084 autoKratz Always More
085 Bat for Lashes Pearl's Dream
086 Cass McCombs featuring Karen Black Dreams-Come-True-Girl
087 Ash Joy Kicks Darkness
088 O. Children Dead Disco Dancer
089 Delphic This Momentary
090 The Rifles The General/Romeo And Julie

091 The Horrors Whole New Way
092 Calvin Harris I'm Not Alone
093 Pony Pony Run Run Hey You
094 Poppy And The Jezebels Rhubarb And Custard
095 The Joy Formidable Cradle
096 Annie Anthonio
097 Bad Lieutenant Sink Or Swim
098 The Drums Let's Go Surfing
099 Tiga Shoes
100 Kid Cudi vs. Crookers Day 'N' Nite



TOP 50
ALBUMS
2009
My 50 favourite officially released albums of 2009

01 Fever Ray Fever Ray
02 White Lies To Lose My Life
03 Metric Fantasies
04 The Horrors Primary Colours
05 Little Boots Hands
06 La Roux La Roux
07 The Mary Onettes Islands
08 Pet Shop Boys Yes
09 Patrick Wolf The Bachelor
10 The Raveonettes In And Out Of Control

11 Röyksopp Junior
12 Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz
13 Mew No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry, They Washed Away
14 Julian Casablancas Phrazes For The Young
15 Julian Plenti Is... Skyscraper
16 Morrissey Years Of Refusal
17 IAMX Kingdom Of Welcome Addiction
18 Tiga Ciao!
19 Malcolm Middleton Waxing Gibbous
20 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

21 The Veils Sun Gangs
22 Bat for Lashes Two Suns
23 Editors In This Light And On This Evening
24 Music Go Music Expressions
25 A Place to Bury Strangers Exploding Head
26 Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
27 Maps Turning The Mind
28 Great Lake Swimmers Lost Channels
29 The Rifles The Great Escape
30 Fryars Dark Young Hearts

31 Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
32 Mt. Sims Happily Ever After
33 Depeche Mode Sounds Of The Universe
34 Vitalic Flashmob
35 Fischerspooner Entertainment
36 Telepathe Dance Mother
37 Miike Snow Miike Snow
38 Filthy Dukes Nonsense In The Dark
39 a-ha Foot Of The Mountain
40 The Cribs Ignore The Ignorant

41 Hell Teufelswerk
42 JJ jj n° 2
43 Basement Jaxx Scars
44 Krause No Guts No Glory
45 The Bravery Stir The Blood
46 The Temper Trap Conditions
47 Placebo Battle For The Sun
48 Silversun Pickups Swoon
49 Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
50 Dogs Die in Hot Cars Pop Nonsense



TOP 100
UNRELEASED SINGLES
2009
My 100 favourite songs which should have been singles in 2009

001 White Rose Movement The Stairs
002 The Raveonettes Gone Forever
003 Pet Shop Boys Pandemonium
004 White Lies E.S.T.
005 Metric Waves
006 Röyksopp This Must Be It featuring Karin Dreijer Andersson
007 Tiga Speak, Memory
008 White Lies A Place To Hide
009 Metric Gimme Sympathy
010 White Lies From The Stars

011 Wolf Gang Night Flying
012 Franz Ferdinand Twilight Omens
013 Julian Casablancas Out Of The Blue
014 Wolf Gang Pieces Of You
015 The Mary Onettes Symmetry
016 Marina & the Diamonds Seventeen
017 The Horrors Primary Colours
018 Fever Ray Keep The Streets Empty For Me
019 John & Jehn 20L07
020 Steel Harmony Transmission

021 AC Newman Take On Me
022 Metric Stadium Love
023 Tiga Turn The Night On
024 Marina & the Diamonds Obsessions
025 Editors In This Light And On This Evening
026 The Mary Onettes Bricks
027 The Horrors Sea Within A Sea
028 The Raveonettes Breaking Into Cars
029 Julian Plenti Only If You Run
030 hurts Wonderful Life

031 Fever Ray Dry And Dusty
032 Girls Morning Light
033 stellastarr* Robot
034 Vitalic Your Disco Song
035 Vive la Fête Ce Que Tu Penses De Moi
036 Great Lake Swimmers Still
037 Patrick Wolf The Sun Is Often Out
038 IAMX featuring Imogen Heap My Secret Friend
039 Röyksopp Röyksopp Forever
040 The Mary Onettes Puzzles

041 The Mary Onettes Dare
042 IAMX The Great Shipwreck Of Life
043 O. Children Ezekielrsquos Son
044 Passion Pit I've Got Your Number
045 Fryars Lakehouse
046 New Young Pony Club Lost A Girl
047 They Live by Night Endless Summer
048 Mew Sometimes Life Isn't Easy
049 Julian Casablancas Left & Right In The Dark
050 Vive la Fête Amour Physique

051 Silversun Pickups Growing Old Is Getting Old
052 Patrick Wolf Theseus
053 Editors Brick And Mortar
054 The Raveonettes Break Up Girls!
055 Pet Shop Boys All Over The World
056 Great Lake Swimmers She Comes To Me In Dreams
057 Mt. Sims Grave
058 La Roux Growing Pains
059 Lovers Love Haters Dead End Trail
060 Bad Lieutenant Twist Of Fate

061 Tiga Love Don't Dance Here Anymore
062 The Raveonettes Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed)
063 I Kissed Charles Let's French Tonight
064 Patrick Wolf Who Will
065 Lola Kite Everything's Better
066 storm is right featuring Hey Nikita! Try To Learn
067 The Veils Killed By The Boom
068 Broken Bells The High Road
069 Dogs Die in Hot Cars Beauty US
070 Filthy Dukes featuring Fryars Poison The Ivy

071 Patrick Wolf Battle
072 DJ Hell U Can Dance featuring Bryan Ferry
073 Lola Kite Rainbow At Night
074 Krause Life Of My Story
075 Bad Lieutenant Summer Days On Holiday
076 Everything Everything My Keys, Your Boyfriend
077 Vitalic One Above One
078 Maxïmo Park A Cloud Of Mystery
079 Daggers Better Than Love
080 Miike Snow Sans Soleil

081 Simian Mobile Disco Cruel Intentions featuring Beth Ditto
082 Röyksopp Tricky Tricky featuring Karin Dreijer Andersson
083 Lovers Love Haters Stop Me
084 The Hundreds in the Hands Dressed In Dresden
085 Roísín Murphy Orally Fixated
086 AC Berkheimer Tobago
087 Franz Ferdinand Live Alone
088 Rosie & The Goldbug War Of The Roses
089 Dead Kids Arm
090 (We Are) Performance Treptow

091 The Mayfair Set Already Warm
092 Thieves Like Us Really Like to See You Again
093 A Place to Bury Strangers Smile When You Smile
094 (We Are) Performance Reptile
095 Miike Snow A Horse Is Not A Home
096 The Mayfair Set Desert Fun
097 Cass McCombs You Saved My Life
098 The Sound of Arrows Into The Clouds
099 Howling Bells Treasure Hunt
100 Editors The Boxer



TOP 25
CONCERTS
2009
My 30 most cherished concerts out of the 66 I attended in 2009

01 Fever Ray, 2009-04-10, Rotterdam, Schouwburg
02 Metric, 2009-05-07, Amsterdam, Desmet
03 Morrissey, 2009-06-06, Rotterdam, Watt
04 Pet Shop Boys, 2009-06-22, Amsterdam, Heineken Music Hall
05 Metric, 2009-05-06, Amsterdam, Melkweg
06 White Lies, 2009-03-10, Amsterdam, Melkweg
07 Metronomy, 2009-05-21, Liverpool, Alma de Cuba
08 Fischerspooner, 2009-06-18, Amsterdam, Paradiso
09 Lady GaGa, 2009-07-25, Amsterdam, Paradiso
10 Patrick Wolf, 2009-09-28, Amsterdam, Paradiso

11 Lola Kite, 2009-12-19, Den Haag, Binck36
12 Robert Owens, 2009-06-21, Amsterdam, Paradiso
13 of Montreal, 2009-01-21, Amsterdam, Paradiso
14 Marina and the Diamonds, 2009-05-01, Amsterdam, Paradiso
15 Black Box Recorder, 2009-02-18, Londen, The Luminaire
16 Crystal Castles, 2009-07-18, Amsterdam, Melkweg
17 The Horrors, 2009-11-03, Amsterdam, Melkweg
18 Noisettes, 2009-05-01, Amsterdam, Paradiso
19 Shameboy, 2009-01-30, Den Haag, Paard van Troje
20 Maxïmo Park, 2009-04-02, Den Haag, Paard van Troje

21 The Raveonettes, 2009-12-09, Amsterdam, Melkweg
22 AC Berkheimer, 2009-05-22, Rotterdam, Worm
23 The Routines, 2009-10-17, Den Haag, Paard van Troje
24 Delphic, 2009-05-01, Amsterdam, Paradiso
25 Melomanics, 2009-10-10, Utrecht, Tivoli



FUTURE 40
ALBUMS
2010
The 40 albums due in 2010 I look forward to most

01 Joanna Newsom
02 The Shins
03 White Rose Movement
04 Interpol
05 Figurines
06 Patrick Wolf
07 The Ark
08 hurts
09 Marina and the Diamonds
10 AC Berkheimer

11 Arcade Fire
12 Blonde Redhead
13 New Young Pony Club
14 (We Are) Performance
15 Late of the Pier
16 Klaxons
17 LCD Soundsystem
18 Crystal Castles
19 Lola Kite
20 Broken Bells

21 Fleet Foxes
22 MGMT
23 Justice
24 Delays
25 Mirrors
26 Delphic
27 Midnight Juggernauts
28 Röyksopp
29 The Mayfair Set
30 Roísín Murphy

31 Madame Ray
32 Goldfrapp
33 The National
34 Midlake
35 Xiu Xiu
36 Tokyo Police Club
37 Rogue Wave
38 Blood Red Shoes
39 These New Puritans
40 The Magnetic Fields



TOP 10
MOVIES
2009
My favourite 10 movies, released or first screened in the Netherlands in
2009

01 ROOM AND A HALF
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/3570013/room_and_a_half_trailer/
02 SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIzbwV7on6Q
03 NORTH http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsER3grBTew
04 COCO AVANT CHANEL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvDFPjx-uBU
05 DE HELAASHEID DER DINGEN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q5yH0P5oZw
06 LET THE RIGHT ONE IN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZJUgsZ56vQ
07 500 DAYS OF SUMMER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsD0NpFSADM
08 TELSTAR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4UAgR_ds2w
09 GIGANTE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RZeCRvJjkk
10 SERVICE (SERBIS) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksnh9k1MG9g



P.S.

My CHARTbeat in 2008 http://www.yourprivatedesigner.nl/top2008/top2008.html
My CHARTbeat in 2007 http://www.schitterdisko.nl/top2007/top2007.html
My CHARTbeat in 2006 http://www.schitterdisko.nl/top2006/top2006.html
My CHARTbeat in 2005 http://www.schitterdisko.nl/top2005/

Top 50 Artists as of January 1st, 2010:

1 The Microphones 1,407
2 Animal Collective 1,339
3 Radiohead 1,322
4 Thanksgiving 1,040
5 Neil Young 1,009
6 Mount Eerie 846
7 Do Make Say Think 812
8 Boards of Canada 746
9 Elliott Smith 743
10 The Books 711
11 The Beatles 669
12 Tom Waits 656
13 Built to Spill 634
14 Cat Stevens 628
15 Why? 553
16 Joanna Newsom 531
17 of Montreal 510
18 Aphex Twin 480
19 Pavement 448
20 Caribou 434
21 Adrian Orange & Her Band 410
22 Talk Talk 404
23 The Fun Years 402
24 Songs: Ohia 398
25 Modest Mouse 392
26 The American Analog Set 391
27 The Velvet Underground 387
28 Guided by Voices 385
29 Mississippi John Hurt 376
30 Grizzly Bear 365
30 Brian Eno 365
32 Polmo Polpo 363
32 The Olivia Tremor Control 363
34 Björk 362
35 Miles Davis 353
36 José González 345
37 Nick Drake 343
38 Frank Zappa 333
39 Tortoise 332
40 Jeremy Enigk 331
41 Silver Jews 326
41 Sunny Day Real Estate 326
43 Leonard Cohen 323
43 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 323
43 Pixies 323
46 Sonic Youth 322
47 Broken Social Scene 321
48 The Tallest Man on Earth 320
49 Wilco 317
50 Grateful Dead 315

Top 50 Artists of 2009:

1 The Fun Years 402
2 Songs: Ohia 291
3 Red House Painters 203
4 The Tallest Man on Earth 184
5 Juana Molina 178
6 Stars of the Lid 176
7 Deerhunter 175
8 Animal Collective 174
9 Mount Eerie 170
10 Sun Kil Moon 161
11 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 158
12 Beck 157
13 New Found Glory 156
14 José González 155
15 Radiohead 154
16 Jeremy Enigk 153
16 Ryan Adams 153
18 Thanksgiving 150
19 Tim Hecker 148
20 Mission of Burma 147
21 Silver Jews 145
22 Timber Timbre 144
22 Cat Stevens 144
24 Animal Hospital 134
25 Palace Music 133
26 The Replacements 132
27 Built to Spill 125
27 Weezer 125
29 Aphex Twin 123
29 Akron/Family 123
31 Magnolia Electric Co. 121
32 Mississippi John Hurt 120
33 Jon Hassell 119
34 The Microphones 115
34 A.A. Bondy 115
36 Fennesz 114
37 Spoon 109
38 Polmo Polpo 108
39 Do Make Say Think 107
40 The Get Up Kids 104
41 Colleen 102
42 Grouper 100
43 Kreng 99
43 Grizzly Bear 99
45 Erik Satie 98
46 1900 97
47 Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros 92
47 Phosphorescent 92
49 Natural Snow Buildings 89
50 Johnny Flynn 88

Please ignore. I have nothing better to do with my time and tracking my listening habits excites me more than it probably should. (Also, I know the year isn't quite over yet but I doubt the numbers are going to change enough to make a difference in those last few hours.)

First up, top fifty artists with play counts and position changes from last year's list (bolded artists were not within last year's fifty; underlined are artists I hadn't listened to extensively before this year).

1. Mew (763 plays)
2. The Decemberists (681 plays)
3. Neko Case (621 plays)
4. Jeniferever (572 plays)
5. Grammatics (514 plays)
5. 1997 (514 plays) UP 4
7. Beach House (509 plays)
8. Margot & the Nuclear So and So's (490 plays) UP 36
9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs (482 plays) UP 20
10. Los Campesinos! (441 plays) DOWN 7
11. Tegan and Sara (436 plays) UP 13
12. Rilo Kiley (391 plays) DOWN 10
13. Now It's Overhead (384 plays) DOWN 9
13. Mandy Moore (384 plays)
15. Asobi Seksu (359 plays) UP 7
16. Deas Vail (351 plays)
17. Lydia (345 plays) DOWN 16
18. Maria Taylor (340 plays) UP 29
19. Bright Eyes (314 plays) UP 9
20. Shannon Wright (298 plays) UP 12
21. Copeland (292 plays) DOWN 9
22. Meg & Dia (291 plays)
23. St. Vincent (263 plays)
24. No Doubt (260 plays) DOWN 3
25. Andrew Bird (244 plays)
26. Tori Amos (242 plays) DOWN 3
27. Stars (241 plays) DOWN 13
28. Regina Spektor (237 plays)
29. Imogen Heap (234 plays)
30. Lightning Dust (225 plays)
31. The Dresden Dolls (224 plays) DOWN 24
32. Mates of State (210 plays) DOWN 24
33. She & Him (197 plays) DOWN 15
34. Metric (187 plays)
34. Joanna Newsom (187 plays)
36. Lady GaGa (186 plays)
37. Tilly and the Wall (181 plays) DOWN 31
38. Okkervil River (178 plays) DOWN 29
39. Eisley (173 plays) DOWN 19
40. Camera Obscura (171 plays)
41. Sleater-Kinney (169 plays) DOWN 25
42. Anchor & Braille (167 plays)
43. The Elected (162 plays) DOWN 1
44. My Brightest Diamond (161 plays) DOWN 19
44. Sarah Slean (161 plays) DOWN 28
46. The Narrative (160 plays)
46. Fiona Apple (160 plays) DOWN 2
48. A Camp (154 plays)
49. The Anniversary (149 plays) DOWN 44
50. Amanda Palmer (144 plays) DOWN 37

Next, top fifty tracks with play counts.

1. Jeniferever – St. Gallen (78 plays)
2. Grammatics – New Franchise (57 plays)
2. The Decemberists – The Engine Driver (57 plays)
4. Grammatics – Polar Swelling (56 plays)
5. 1997 – #3 (54 plays)
6. Grammatics – Time Capsules & The Greater Truth (46 plays)
7. Meg & Dia – Fighting For Nothing (45 plays)
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Hysteric (44 plays)
8. Neko Case – Magpie to the Morning (44 plays)
10. Imogen Heap – Canvas (42 plays)
10. Mandy Moore – Nothing Everything (42 plays)
10. Mew – The Zookeeper's Boy (42 plays)
10. Lightning Dust – Never Seen (42 plays)
10. Grammatics – Cruel Tricks of the Light (42 plays)
15. Jeniferever – The Hourglass (41 plays)
16. 1997 – Wolf + Sheep (40 plays)
16. Maria Taylor – It's Time (40 plays)
16. Joanna Newsom – Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie (40 plays)
16. Deas Vail – Shoreline (40 plays)
20. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Little Shadow (39 plays)
20. 1997 – Falling Down (39 plays)
22. Beach House – Turtle Island (38 plays)
22. Neko Case – This Tornado Loves You (38 plays)
22. 1997 – Sympathy For The Living (38 plays)
22. Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Bashers – Ballad of a Thin Man (38 plays)
26. Neko Case – Prison Girls (37 plays)
26. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Dull Life (37 plays)
26. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Runaway (37 plays)
26. Mandy Moore – Indian Summer (37 plays)
30. Neko Case – Vengeance Is Sleeping (36 plays)
30. Neko Case – People Got a Lotta Nerve (36 plays)
32. Grammatics – The Vague Archive (35 plays)
32. Jeniferever – Nangijala (35 plays)
32. Mandy Moore – Fern Dell (35 plays)
35. Jeniferever – Ring Out the Grief (34 plays)
35. 1997 – #1 (34 plays)
35. Jeniferever – Swimming Eyes (34 plays)
35. Grammatics – Relentless Fours (34 plays)
39. The Decemberists – The Bagman's Gambit (33 plays)
39. Margot & the Nuclear So and So's – Broadripple Is Burning (33 plays)
39. Mew – Vaccine (33 plays)
42. My Brightest Diamond – Gone Away (32 plays)
42. Los Campesinos! – The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future (32 plays)
42. The Narrative – Tautou (32 plays)
42. Mew – Introducing Palace Players (32 plays)
42. 1997 – A Fruitless Year (32 plays)
42. Maria Taylor – Time Lapse Lifeline (32 plays)
48. 1997 – Pagan Melodies (31 plays)
48. Tegan and Sara – Night Watch (31 plays)
48. Grammatics – Inkjet Lakes (31 plays)

As if that wasn't enough, I wanted to see what my top tracks would look like without repeated artists. It gets a bit random near the bottom because I don't actually play tracks over and over very often.

1. Jeniferever – St. Gallen (78 plays)
2. Grammatics – New Franchise (57 plays)
2. The Decemberists – The Engine Driver (57 plays)
4. 1997 – #3 (54 plays)
5. Meg & Dia – Fighting For Nothing (45 plays)
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Hysteric (44 plays)
6. Neko Case – Magpie to the Morning (44 plays)
8. Imogen Heap – Canvas (42 plays)
8. Mandy Moore – Nothing Everything (42 plays)
8. Mew – The Zookeeper's Boy (42 plays)
8. Lightning Dust – Never Seen (42 plays)
12. Maria Taylor – It's Time (40 plays)
12. Joanna Newsom – Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie (40 plays)
12. Deas Vail – Shoreline (40 plays)
15. Beach House – Turtle Island (38 plays)
15. Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Bashers – Ballad of a Thin Man (38 plays)
17. Margot & the Nuclear So and So's – Broadripple Is Burning (33 plays)
18. My Brightest Diamond – Gone Away (32 plays)
18. Los Campesinos! – The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future (32 plays)
18. The Narrative – Tautou (32 plays)
21. Tegan and Sara – Night Watch (31 plays)
21. Lydia – Always Move Fast (31 plays)
23. St. Vincent – Actor Out of Work (30 plays)
24. Metric – Blindness (29 plays)
24. Lady GaGa – Alejandro (29 plays)
24. Now It's Overhead – Wonderful Scar (29 plays)
27. Anchor & Braille – Wedding/Funeral (28 plays)
27. No Doubt – Excuse Me Mr. (28 plays)
27. Copeland – Kite (28 plays)
27. She & Him – I Put A Spell On You (28 plays)
31. Asobi Seksu – Blind Little Rain (27 plays)
32. Eisley – Away We Go (Garage Band Demo) (25 plays)
33. Rilo Kiley – Pictures of Success (24 plays)
34. Okkervil River – The Latest Toughs (23 plays)
35. Bright Eyes – Devil in the Details (21 plays)
35. Jenny Lewis – Trying My Best to Love You (21 plays)
37. The Soldier Thread – Cannons (20 plays)
38. Dirty Projectors – Stillness Is the Move (19 plays)
38. Shannon Wright – You Hurry Wonder (19 plays)
38. Amanda Palmer – Runs in the Family (19 plays)
41. Tori Amos – Northern Lad (18 plays)
41. Final Fantasy – The Butcher (18 plays)
41. Feist and Ben Gibbard – Train Song (18 plays)
41. Orenda Fink – High Ground (18 plays)
41. The Whispertown 2000 – Erase The Lines (18 plays)
46. Andrew Bird – Armchairs (17 plays)
46. A Camp – Golden Teeth and Silver Medals (17 plays)
46. Camera Obscura – Away With Murder (17 plays)
46. Agent Ribbons – Your Love Is The Smallest Doll (17 plays)
50. Regina Spektor – Blue Lips (16 plays)

Shut up about my total lack of a life. I'm already well aware.

...Into which I put little to no thought, providing no critical commentary, and using seemingly significant, but ultimately arbitrary ordering. And in which the same artists appear a ridiculous number of times. Simply because I like lists.

If an album is not on here, I have either enjoyed it, not enjoyed it, been bored by it, despised it or not had it grace my ears.

So:


15. Lord T & Eloise - Chairmen Of The Bored


14. Why? - Alopecia


13. Peter and the Wolf - Mellow Owl


12. Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress


11. French Quarter - French Quarter


10. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday


9. Pants Yell! - Recent Drama


8. The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me


7. Fosca - On Earth to Make the Numbers Up


6. The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America


5. Joanna Newsom - Ys


4. The Mountain Goats - The Coroner's Gambit


3. Lifter Puller - Fiestas and Fiascos


2. Pants Yell! - Alison Statton


1. Fishboy - Albatross: How We Failed to Save the Lone Star State With the Power of Rock and Roll


I am saving 85% of the Mountain Goats discography for better/worse/different days.

10) Liars - They Were Wrong So We Drowned
9) Aereogramme - Seclusion
8) The Arcade Fire - Funeral
7) The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
6) The Walkmen - Bows + Arrows
5) Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
4) Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land
3) Sluts of Trust - We Are All Sluts of Trust
2) Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
1) The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?

It wasn't until the magazine I write for asked for my three favorite records of the decade that I realized that the zeros are going to end soon. I can hardly believe ten years have passed since the millennium bug failed to show up at New Year's Eve.

So much has happened in between. Many good things and some bad things, but always there was music. Great music.
For the magazine I had to limit myself to three records, but here I'd like to list twelve records that for me personally capture the decade between 2000 and 2010, musically. These are not necessarily what I consider the best records of the decade, but they are the ones that I love most.

In alphabetical order:



The Decemberists - Picaresque (2005)
Kathleen Edwards - Failer (2003)
Laïs - Douce Victime (2004)
Matchbox Twenty - Mad Season (2000)
Jason Mraz - Waiting for My Rocket to Come (2002)
Joanna Newsom - Ys (2006)
Beth Orton - Daybreaker (2002)
Josh Rouse - Nashville (2005)
Ron Sexsmith - Cobblestone Runway (2002)
Rosie Thomas - These Friends of Mine (2007)
Emiliana Torrini - Fisherman’s Woman (2005)
Train - My Private Nation (2004)