All Time Favourites
Albums that I 1. value most and 2. have played most over the past few years.
Tool: Lateralus
Burial: Untrue
Burial: Burial
Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not
Talking Heads: Remain in Light
Radiohead: Hail to the Thief
Radiohead: Amnesiac
Massive Attack: Mezzanine
Underworld: Second Toughest in the Infants
Brian Eno & David Byrne: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Depeche Mode: The Singles 86 – 98
The Velvet Underground and Nico: The Velvet Underground and Nico
U2: Achtung Baby
PJ Harvey: Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
2046 Soundtrack
Tricky: Maxinquaye
The Dust Brothers: Fight Club Soundtrack
LCD Soundsystem: LCD Soundsystem
Breakbeat Era: Ultra Obscene
Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Shackleton and Appleblim: Soundboy's Gravestone Gets Desecrated by Vandals
Lou Reed & John Cale: Songs for Drella
The Red Hot Chilli Peppers: Californication
REM: Green
REM: Automatic for the People
Clint Mansell: Requiem for a Dream Soundtrack
Frank Zappa: Hot rats
Album of the Year 2009
Some of the year's most notable albums.
1. Kronos Quartet: Floodplain
2. The XX: XX
3. Patrick Watson: Wooden Arms
4. Fever Ray: Fever Ray
5. Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sports
6. Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest
7. Mi Ami: Watersports
8. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
9. Bat for Lashes: Two Suns
10. Sun O))): Monoliths & Dimensions
11. White Denim: Fits
12. Health: Get Color
Album of the Year 2008
An excellent year for music or perhaps I'm trying out more albums and therefore discovering and yes, buying, more.
1. Abe Vigoda: Skeleton
2. Amadou and Mariam: Welcome to Mali
3. Shackleton and Appleblim: Soundboy's Gravestone Gets Desecrated by Vandals
4. White Denim: Workout Holiday
5. Santogold: Santogold
6. Anja Schneider: Beyond the Valley
7. TV on the Radio: Dear Science
8. Calexico: Carried to Dust
9. Portishead: Third
10. Hercules and Love Affair: Hercules and Love Affair
11. Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
12. Health: Health
13. The Last Shadow Puppets: The Age of the Understatement
14. Tricky: Knowle West Boy
15. Poni Hoax: Images of Sigrid
Album of the Year 2007
A good year for music.
1. Burial: Untrue
2. Yeasayer: All Hour Cymbals
3. Radiohead: In Rainbows
4. The Arctic Monkeys: Favourite Worst Nighmare
5. Julia Kent: Delay
6. The Klaxons: Myths of the Near Future
7. Onur Özer: Kasmir
8. Grinderman: Grinderman
9. Interpol: Our Love to Admire
10. The Shins: Wincing the Night Away
11. MIA: Kala
12. Roisin Murphy: Overpowered
13. !!!: Myth Takes
14. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
Album of the Year 2006
1. The Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
2. Burial: Burial
3. Thom Yorke: The Eraser
4. The Rifles: No Love Lost
5. The Knife: Silent Shout
Album of the Year 2005
Nothing much to get overly excited about this year. But in a few years I may discover all the albums that I overlooked and the album by LCD Soundsystem is classic.
1. LCD Soundsystem: LCD Soundsystem
2. Bloc Party: Silent Alarm
3. Franz Ferdinand: You Could Have It So Much Better
4. System of a Down: Mezmerize
5. Antony and the Johnsons: I am a Bird Now