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Tom Waits Orphans I give an honorary #1, like a lifetime acheivement award, or one of those silver oscars they give the people when they are on the verge of death. I just didn't feel right including it in the top 50. Sadies get #1 live album, followed by that Centro-matic ACL fest set on iTunes.

 

1. Scott Walker - The Drift

2. Califone - Roots and Crowns

3. Calexico - Garden Ruin

4. Decemberists - Crane Wife

5. Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat

6. Howe Gelb - 'Sno Angel

7. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - the Letting Go

8. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

9. Detholz! - Cast Out Devils

10. Magnolia Electric Company - Fading Trails/ Jason Molina - Let Me Go Let Me Go Let Me Go

11. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar

12. Loose Fur - Born Again in the USA

13. M. Ward - Post War

14. Centro-matic - Fort Recovery

15. Joanna Newsom - Ys

16. Catfish Haven - Please Come Back/Tell Me

17. Islands - Return to the Sea

18. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies

19. Midlake - Trials of Van Occupanther

20. Sparks - Hello Young Lovers\

21. Pernice Brothers - Live a Little

22. Vetiver - To Find Me Gone

23. The Elected- Sun Sun Sun

24. Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope

25. Danielson - Ships

26. Alejandro Escovedo - Boxing Mirror

27. My Brightest Diamond - Bring Me the Workhorse

28. Tim O'Reagan - s/t

29. Willie Nelson - Songbird

30. Tilly & The Wall - Bottoms of Barrels

31. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America

32. Supersystem - A Million Microphones

33. Brightblack Morning Light -s/t

34. Six Organs of Admittance - The Sun Awakens

35. Damien Jurado - And Now That I'm In Your Shadow

36. Richard Buckner - Meadow

37. Josh Ritter - Animal Years

38. Scissor Sisters - Tah-Dah!

39. Jason Collett - Idols of Exile

40. White Magic - Dat Rosa

41. Pink Mountaintops - Axis of Evol

42. Johnny Cash - American V

43. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Broom

44. Gnarls Barkley - Saint Elsewhere

45. Bobby Bare Jr. - Longest Meow

46. TV On the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain

47. Beck - the Information

48. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever You Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

49. Matthew Sweet/ Susanna Hoffs - Under the Covers

50. Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control

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27. My Brightest Diamond - Bring Me the Workhorse

 

All right! Finally, a top 50 list with My Brightest Diamond. That album is totally awesome in my opinion. I saw her at 7th Entry in Nov and First Ave 2 weeks later.. totally great shows.

 

My only complaint is, you should move it up your list a bit :)

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Wow, really? I saw them open for The Hold Steady a few weeks ago and I wasn't too impressed.

 

 

I really love 'em, and I know a lot of people are more "meh" about them. I have known them for a while, so it could be a subconscious nepotism thing as well.

 

Jenny Lewis... I dunno, I just really really fucking love that record.

 

My Brightest Diamond might have been a bit higher, but I didn't get to listen to it all that much.

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y'know i think i only listened to that My Brightest Diamond record once or twice, which is silly cuz i LOVED Shara opening for Sufjan in '04. First and only female to give me "Jeff Buckley chills" ;)

 

thanks for reminding me to check it out more

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No love for the new Sloan, Sam? I guess, technically, it hasn't been released yet (in the US) on Yep Roc. It's all over the place, but I really love the "Jay songs" and "Fading Into Obscurity."

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Me too, I was bored to tears with her album. Just didn't do it for me the way a Rilo Kiley album does it for me, you know what I mean?

 

 

To further confuse things I like the Elected, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, and Postal Service and hate Rilo Kiley and Death Cab For Cutie.

 

 

Judy - I ADORE the Sloan record, but I am going to count that for 2007, and I'm pretty sure in the Top 10.

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To further confuse things I like the Elected, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, and Postal Service and hate Rilo Kiley and Death Cab For Cutie.

Me, I love Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins and like Rilo Kiley, but hate Postal Service and Death Cab. I'm also baffled by this.

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Here's my list, Sam.

 

1. M Ward Post-War

2. Band of Horses Everything All the Time

3. Joanna Newsom Ys

4. Califone Roots & Crowns

5. Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings The Flood

6. The Theater Fire Everybody Has A Dark Side

7. Oakley Hall Second Guessing

8.. Two Gallants What the Toll Tells

9. Current Leaves Pastense

10. Neil Young Living With War

 

Honorable Mentions:

Eric Bachmann To The Races

Ladyhawk Ladyhawk

Beirut Gulag Orkestar

Brothers and Sisters Brothers and Sisters

The M’s Future Women

Centro-matic Fort Recovery

 

Notable Re-issues/Live Albums/Compilations:

Willie Nelson The Complete Atlantic Sessions

Aretha Franklin Live at Fillmore West

The Sadies In Concert, Vol. 1

My Morning Jacket Okonokos

Soul Sides, Vol. 1

Gram Parsons The Complete Reprise Sessions

Johnny Cash At San Quentin

Johnny Cash Personal File

Merle Haggard Hag / Someday We’ll Look Back

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