singles later when I’m not totally busted at work

c’mon Matt, the real excitement lies between 21 and 30 as any fule know.

sigh, i can never decide whether to include mix cds as albums, i have no idea how to do these lists

i have managed to narrow down my top 10 singles to 200

stevem knows his lists.

that’s insane

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no it’s not enrique, not when you like dance AND pop AND hip-hop AND r&b and in fact are open to all genres ever except one

oh dont get me started on 21–30, that list is PURE GOLD

yeah yeah

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i don’t like to include mix CDs.

i’m doing a combined albums and tracks list tho (as last year). will stick on the general ilxors lists thread when ready.

still subject to change but:

11 cassie, cassie

12 clipse, hell hath no fury

13 nelly furtado, loose

14 lupe fiasco, food & liquor

15 amel larrieux, morning

16 joanna newsom, ys

17 rasheeda, ga peach

18 scott walker, the drift

19 my my, songs for the gentle

20 e40, my ghetto report card

(for ref, top 10 = ellen allien & apparat, paris hilton, the knife, ciara, junior boys, justin timberlake, beyoncé, booka shade, ti, fuckpony) (mixes not included)

Lex will probably find the 50–41 section of my list the most alluring (except perhaps number 41 itself).

i’ve read your list marcello...can’t remember what exactly is where but yes it appeared to be the wrong way round, ace stuff in the lower half and a rather bemusing top 20 full of dull canadian indie

OH SHIT

i forgot fergie!

put her at 14, under nelly f

sorry e40, some brilliant stuff on the album but it’s wearying by the end

ok, if fergie is at 14, i really can discount 196 of your choices.

get your list out for the lads enrique

i can guarantee there would be no fergie, if such a list existed, even it it was 200 long. i never made lists even when i listened to music though!

freak

i rediscovered my lists from ten years ago the other day. how the interweb has managed without them all this time i have no idea.

11. The Knife—Silent Shout

12. Ellen Allien and Apparat—Orchestra of Bubbles

13. Belle and Sebastian—The Life Pursuit

14. Phoenix—It’s Never Been Like That

15. Justin Timberlake—FutureSex/LoveSounds

16. The Changes—Today is Tonight

17. Booka Shade—Movements

18. LCD Soundsystem—45:33

19. The Rapture—Pieces of the People We Love

20. Luomo—Paper Tigers

i liked *reading* lists just because it’s quite easy to miss stuff. in fact the old nme/mm lists would often, with non-indie music, say “this was blowing up all over 1995” in the EOYL, but they hadn’t necessarily made much of it at the time. something like ‘clubbed to death’ which i don’t think charted and maybe got second single of the week etc, and didn’t get much radio 1 airplay. anyway, if lex has some gems of that calibre in his top 13, i would like to see ’em.

and a rather bemusing top 20 full of dull canadian indie

LEX MUST DIE

i notice you used the past tense re ‘listened to music’ tho—so why care about Lex’s or anyone’s lists still?

Subject to change at any given moment due to needing more time to listen to certain records.

11. Too Short—Blow The Whistle

12. Ghostface Killah—Fishscale

13. DJ Quik—Live At The House Of Blues

14. Andy Montanez—“Salsaton” Salsa Con Reggaeton

15. Clipse—Hell Hath No Fury

16. The Game—Doctor’s Advocate

17. Nore Y La Familia—Ya Tu Sabe

18. Cansei De Ser Sexy

19. Diddy—Press Play

20. Pitbull—El Mariel

our top 20s did share one album marcello! (and fiona apple made my top 20 last year.)

did i somehow escape you liking broken social scene, final fantasy, sloan and jenny lewis over the past few years though? also i like cat power fine but the greatest is not that great. also arctic monkeys, that placing was a joke, right?

xp oh SHIT i forgot pitbull and haven’t heard p diddy yet. or janet. gah.

That Pitbull album is kind of dodgy. I wish I had a better #20.

i just noticed the extent to which my favourite r&b kicked most of my favourite hip-hop out of my top 10 this year! hurrah for girls

11.Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins- Rabbit Fur Coat (More Bobbie Gentry impressions, less Conor Oberst)

12.Sway- This Is My Demo (more Ludacris impressions, less songs that sound they charted at 63 back in 1998)

13.Tanya Morgan- Moonlighting (Little Brother only not shit)

14.Planningtorock- Have It All (This is the kind of music I am not going to listen to in 2007)

15.Caparezza- Habeaus Capa (lol i-ties)

16.Me First and the Gimme Gimmes- Love Their Country (veterans put out best album to date)

17.Belle and Sebastian- The Life Pursuit (veterans put out second worst album to date)

18.Morningwood- Morningwood (Chris Griffin speaks truth: “BOOBIES”)

19.The Ditty Bops- Under A Moonlit Highway (Dorothy Parkour)

20.Bubba Sparxxx- The Charm (Remember when this came out any everyone loved it for about 11 seconds?)

re. “Clubbed To Death” I note that mine was the ONLY list anywhere in 2003 to include the Rob Dougan album. Another lost classic... :-(

“Less Conor Oberst” is a good idea generally I think.

OTM about Sway (yes “Little Derek,” yes “Pretty Ugly Husband,” no to the quarter-arsed Jay-Z impressions elsewhere).

I just noticed my only having two rap albums in my top ten, (and one is reggaeton, and thus may not count) so my 11–20 is, like, overcompensation.

Only three hip hop albums in my list. I’ll probably regret not putting in Fishscale but with the J Dilla album it’s sort of in there anyway.

it’s because most hip-hop albums are still too long! apart from the clipse, which is...just not as good as cassie. but marvellous nevertheless.

i forgot to hear fishscale. i also have a suspicion that donuts would not get half the plaudits it’s received if j dilla hadn’t died.

Donuts is the kind of album that’s interesting in theory but has no entertainment value whatsoever.

I really like “Workinonit” and so I was excited to hear Donuts in its entirety. I think I’ve put it on a grand total of twice.

fuck, forgot kelis in my list—that would def be in my top 20. am gonna have to redo. fuck.

Donuts is the kind of album that’s interesting in theory but has no entertainment value whatsoever.

Oh, so it’s like Night Ripper then?

No, Night Ripper is great, and anyone who would place Donuts over it as far as sample collages go is a miserable bastard.

11. T.I.—King

12. TV on the Radio—Return to Cookie Mountain

13. DJ Drama & Lil’ Wayne—Dedication 2

14. Love Is All—9 Times That Same Song

15. AZ—The Format

16. Mastodon—Blood Mountain

17. Ray Cash—Cash on Delivery

18. Killer Mike—I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind

19. Girl Talk—Night Ripper

20. The Futureheads—News & Tributes

I really want to put Joe Budden’s Mood Muzik 2 there, since I listened to it a lot this year and didn’t put it on any lists last year. But it came out in December ’05, I think. If I can include it, it takes the 11 spot and pushes off the Futureheads.

11. Axolotl Way Blank Psych-o-Path

12. Coachwhips Double Death Narnack

13. Diskaholics Live In Japan Vol. 1 Load

14. Tam Tam Ecstatic Peace

15. Psalm One The Death of Frequent Flyer Rhymesayers

16. Be Your Own Pet Be Your Own Pet Ecstatic Peace!/Universal

17. Mission of Burma The Obliterati Matador

18. Stereolab Fab Four Suture Too Pure/Beggars

19. Matmos The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast Matador

20. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti House Arrest Paw Tracks

I’ve not heard Night Ripper since it hasn’t yet been released in Britain. I’d like to though.

“released”

Meaning?

Meaning that technically, yes, it was released in the U.S. on a (renegade) label, and you can buy it in (some independent) stores, but it’s just funny to be concerned about legally purchasing a record that’s constructed from hundreds of unquestionably illegal samples.

And I’m not even a huge advocate for downloading or anything, it’s just that if the only thing that’s preventing you from hearing this record is your inability to purchase it in a store, then I think you can feel okay about getting this one for free.

Sometimes I wonder why I bother.

Not sure what that means. But I guess also what I’m saying is that I’d be surprised if Night Ripper was ever “released” (i.e., commercially) in Britain.

i hope it stays that way, it sounds like the most disgusting album ever. get that filthy indie away from lovely aaliyah, &c

Oh go and mangle a washerwoman in Finchley will you?

Lex, but don’t you think that the recontextualization of indie into soundbites framed by a hip-hop beat is a very pop thing to do? I’d have thought the disposability of it would be something that would appeal to you. Or do you just really hate the sound of guitars that much?

He’s a sensitive soul. Their serrated edge frightens him.

11. Grizzly Bear—Yellow House

12. Ocrilim—Anoint

13. P.O.S.—Audition

14. Tim Hecker—Harmony In Ultraviolet

15. Liars – Drum’s Not Dead

16. Made Out Of Babies—Coward

17. Man Man—Six Demon Bag

18. Various Artists—Invaders

19. Lupe Fiasco—Food And Liquor

20. Clipse—Hell Hath No Fury

I think my 21–30 list is more interesting actually!

21. Nachtmystium—Instinct: Decay

22. Gnarls Barkley—St. Elsewhere

23. Asunder—Works Will Come Undone

24. The Roots—Game Theory

25. J Dilla—Donuts

26. Youngbloodz – Ev’rybody Know Me

27. E-40—My Ghetto Report Card

28. Fucked Up—Hidden World

29. Rick Ross—Port Of Miami

30. Trentemoller—The Last Resort