Yearly Lists

Table of Contents

2020s:

2024 || 2023 || 2022 || 2021 || 2020

2010s:

2019 || 2018 || 2017 || 2016 || 2015 || 2014 || 2013 || 2012 || 2011 || 2010

2000s:

2009 || 2008 || 2007 || 2006 || 2005 || 2003*

1990s:

1999* || 1998*

1980s:

1987*

1970s:

1974*

* Revisionist list


The Twenties

2024: The Year Things Happened

Songs playlist on Spotify

Albums playlist on Spotify


Haps

  1. Willow: Empathogen

  2. 070 Shake: Petrichor

  3. ROSÉ: Rosie

  4. Shakes & Les: Funk Series

  5. Sexyy Red: In Sexyy We Trust

  6. Shakira: Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran

  7. d.silvestre: D.Silvestre

  8. Confidence Man: 3AM (LA LA LA)

  9. Dj Anderson do Paraiso: Queridão

  10. Sisso & Maiko: Singeli Ya Maajabu

  11. Zee Nxumalo: Inja Ye Game

  12. Caxtrinho: Queda Livre

  13. Saya Gray: QWERTY II

  14. Polo Perks, AyooLii, FearDorian: A Dog’s Chance

  15. Amy Allen: s/t

  16. Marina Satti: P.O.P.

  17. Mabe Fratti: Sentir Que No Sabes

  18. AKRIILA: Epistolares

  19. Mary Timony: Untame the Tiger

  20. Nicki Nicole: NAIKI

Happenin’

Avalanche Kaito: Talitakum
Ekko Astral: Pink Balloons
Glorygirl2950: Queen of the Land
Mary Halverson: Cloudward
Kaytranada: Timeless
Maude Latour: Sugar Water

Nídia & Valentina: Estradas
Rosali: Bite Down
Salute: True Magic
Luísa Sonza: Escândolo Íntimo


Happening

Bamba Pana: Poaa
beabadoobee: This Is How Tomorrow Moves
Bktherula: LVL5 P2
Frances Chang: Psychedelic Anxiety
Coals: Sanatorium
Charley Crockett: $10 Cowboy
Charli XCX: Brat
d.silvestre: O inimigo Agora É Outro, Vol. 2
Dame Area: Toda la Verdad Sobre Dame Area
De Schuurman: Bubbling Forever
Deejay Veiga: Tudo é no Guetto
DJ Lag: The Rebellion
DJ Nigga Fox: Chá Preto
DJ Wesley Gonzaga: Rastro Sônico
DJ Ws da Igrejinha: Made in Igrejinha, Vol. 1
Dolphin Hyperspace: What Is My Porpoise?
Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft
Empress Of: For Your Consideration
Fake Fruit: Mucho Mistrust
Angélica Garcia: Gemelo
Sam Gendel, Benny Bock, Hans P. Kjorstad: Dream Trio
Hook: Castle
Brittany Howard: What Now
LL Cool J: The Force
Moonshine: Noir Fever Présente Moonshine & La Fédération Internationale du Bruit
Musical Jazz: eightEEn
Os Gemeos da Putaria: De Outro Planeta
Pom Pom Squad: Mirror Starts Moving Without Me
Reyna Tropical: Malegría
Nadine Shah: Filthy Underneath
Saicobab: NRTYA
The Soundcarriers: Through Other Reflections
Brit Taylor: Kentucky Bluegrassed
TisaKorean: Mumu 8818
Tropa do Bruxo: Baile do Bruxo [2023]
Rosie Tucker: Utopia Now!
Kali Uchis: Orquíedas
Westside Gunn & DJ Drama: Still Praying


It Happens

Les Amazones d'Afrique: Musow Danse
Camila Cabello: C,XOXO
Dai Burger: Dai Dreamin’ [EP]
DellaXOZ: Dellairium [EP]
DJ Kolt: Verdadeiro [EP]
Julia Holter: Something in the Room She Moves
Nathalie Joachim: Ki moun ou ye
Salt Cathedral: Before It’s Gone
Taylor Swift: Tortured Poets Department
TWICE: With You-th [EP]
X: Smoke & Fiction
Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad: Jazz Is Dead 021
V/A: Aluku Records Various Compilation SA Edition Pt. 4
V/A: Back to the Bakery Vol. 1 [Sony Music Thailand]


The Happening (Shyamalan, 2008)

Ariana Grande: Eternal Sunshine
Peggy Gou: I Hear You


Already Happened [disqualified]

DJ Znobia: Inventor VOL 2
Sanam: Aykathani Malakon [2023]


2023: The Year Things Were Looking Up

Albums playlist on Spotify
Songs playlist on Spotify

Up Up Up

  1. Kesha: Gag Order

  2. Núria Graham: Cyclamen

  3. Felo Le Tee x Mellow & Sleazy: The III Wise Men

  4. Paramore: This Is Why

  5. NewJeans: Get Up [EP]

  6. Screaming Females: Desire Pathway

  7. Corinne Bailey Rae: Black Rainbows

  8. Nídia: 95 Mindjeres

  9. Mellow & Sleazy: Midnight in Sunnyside 2

  10. DJ K: Panico No Submundo

  11. Snõõper: Super Snõõper

  12. Octo Octa: Dreams of a Dancefloor [EP]

  13. Skrillex: Quest for Fire

  14. Ice Spice: Like..? [EP]

  15. Yaeji: With a Hammer

  16. Marta & Tricky: When It’s Going Wrong

  17. Aunty Razor: Viral Wreckage

  18. Capsule: メトロパルス [Metro Pulse] [Dec 2022]

  19. Cornelius: Dream in Dream

  20. RXK Nephew & DJ Rude One: The ONEderful Nephew

  21. Cécile McLordin Salvant: Mélusine

  22. Kate NV: WOW

  23. Liturgy: 93696

  24. Popstar Benny: University!

  25. Genevieve Artadi: Forever Forever

Uppers [bubbling under]

Altin Gün: Aşk
Bokanté: History
Ken Carson: A Great Chaos
Davido: Timeless
Deerhoof: Miracle-Level
Feist: Multitudes
Ginebras: ¿Quién es Billie Max?
Overmono: Good Lies
Pale Blue: Maria
Sweeping Promises: Good Living Is Coming For You
Tinariwen: Amatssou

Up

Acid Arab: ٣ (Trois)
Tonny Allen & Adrian Younge: Tony Allen JID018
Aly and AJ: With Love From
Babyface Ray: Summer’s Mine
BabyTron: Bin Reaper 3: New Testament
Jon Batiste: World Music Radio
Blondshell: Salad
Danny Brown & JPEGMAFIA: Scaring the Hoes
Eddie Chacon: Sundown
Lana Del Rey: Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
Fever Ray: Radical Romantics
Gorillaz: Cracker Island
Shuta Hasunuma: Postpone
HiTech: DÉTWAT
Kabza De Small x Stakev: REKERE
Mari Kalkun: Stories of Stonia
Lindstrøm: Everyone Else Is a Stranger
Aya Nakamura: DNK
Meshell Ndegeocello: The Omnichord Real Book
Palehound: Eye on the Bat
Pigeon: Backslider
Margo Price: Strays
Rae Sremmurd: Sremm 4 Life
RXK Nephew: Till I’m Dead
Salami Rose Joe Louis: Akousmatikous
Teskti-TV 666: Vapauden tasavalta
TisaKorean: Let Me Update My Status
Towa Tei: Zoundtracks
Tre Oh Fire: Jook & Vibe Instrumentals, Vol. 4
Kali Uchis: Red Moon in Venus
Vigro Deep: My House My Rules
Pabllo Vittar: Noitada
Wau Wau Collectif: Marriage [Nov 2022]
Weval: Remember
Young Fathers: Heavy Heavy

Rocks

100 gecs: 10,000 gecs
Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, & Shahzad Ismaily: Love in Exile
Meg Baird: Furling
Belle and Sebastian: Late Developers
Miley Cyrus: Endless Summer Vacation
Declaime & Madlib: In the Beginning (Vol 3)
Dengue Fever: Ting Mong
Elisape: Inuktitut
Killer Mike: Michael
Mahalia: IRL
Dina Ogon: Oas
Pauline Oliveros: The Well & the Gentle
Erlend Øye: Winter Companion
The Psychotic Monks: Pink Colour Surgery
RAYE: My 21st Century Blues
Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood: Jarak Qaribak
Ezase Thupa: Class of 2023, Term 1
YoungBoy Never Broke Again: I Rest My Case

Down

Major Lazer: Piano Republik

Adirectional [disqualified]

DJ Znobia: Inventor Vol. 1
Kate Fagan: I Don’t Wanna Be Too Cool [1981-ish]


2022: The Year That I Wasn’t Around

Albums playlist on Spotify

Songs playlist on Spotify

Gonest

  1. Willow: Coping Mechanism

  2. Hook: From Hook

  3. Shygirl: Nymph

  4. Oren Ambarchi: Shebang

  5. Black Dresses: Forget Your Own Face

  6. Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn: Pigments

  7. Hatchie: Giving the World Away

  8. Lyrical School: L.S.

  9. Mona Evie: Cho Ngoi Day Gieng

  10. DJ MT7: Pior e Nada

  11. Babes Wodumo: Crown

  12. Isabella Lovestory: Amor Hardcore

  13. Wet Leg: s/t

  14. SASAMI: Squeeze

  15. Ecko Bazz: Mmaso

  16. Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul: Topical Dancer

  17. Automatic: Excess

  18. Horsegirl: Versions of Modern Performance

  19. Goat: Oh Death

  20. Arif Mirbaghi: Love Songs of the Fertile Plains

Leaving [bubbling under]

Beabadoobee: Beatopia
Beyonce: Renaissance
Bjork: Fossora
Katie Dey: Forever Music
Drake: Honestly, Nevermind
Empath: Visitor
Gwenno: Tresor
Ibeyi: Spell 31
Carly Rae Jepsen: The Loneliest Time
Kokoroko: Could We Be More
Miranda Lambert: Palomino
Avril Lavigne: Love Sux
Macabre Plaza: Out with the Old in with the Taboo
Orbital: 30 Something Years
Pale Waves: Unwanted
Phelimuncasi: Ama Gogela
Ada Rook: UGLY DEATH NO REDEMPTION ANGEL CURSE I LOVE YOU
Soul Glo: Diaspora Problems
Sudan Archives: Natural Brown Prom Queen
Superorganism: World Wide Pop
Sylvan Esso: No Rules Sandy
Nilufer Yanya: Painless

Goner

Horace Andy: Midnight Scorchers
Anteloper: Pink Dolphins
Beach Bunny: Emotional Creature
Mykki Blanco: Stay Close to Music
Lucrecia Dalt: Ay!
Deep Tan: Diamond Horsetail
Florist: s/t
Ginger Root: Nisemono EP
Marina Herlop: Pripyat
JID: Forever Story
King Hannah: I’m Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me
Piotr Kurek: World Speaks
Hoang Thy Linh: Link
Lady Aicha & Pisko Cranes Original Fulu Mziki of Kinsasha: N'Djila Wa Mudjimu
Nduduzo Makhathini: In the Spirit of Ntu
Malamute: Una Gran Decepcion
Amber Mark: Three Dimensions Deep
MIA: MATA
Phelimuncasi: Ama Gogela
PiXXiE: BLOOM
Pool Kids: Music to Practice Safe Sex To
Salamanda: ashbalkum
Santigold: Spirituals
Sopa de Pedra: Do Claro Ao Breu
Spoon: Lucifer on the Sofa
Harry Styles: Harry’s House
Taylor Swift: Midnights [3AM mix + Target vinyl-only exclusive track wtf]
Hagop Tchaparian: Bolts
Tegan and Sara: Crybaby
Teno Afrika: Where You Are
They Hate Change: Finally, New
Toro y Moi: Mahal
Robin Trower: No More Worlds to Conquer
KT Tunstall: Nut
The Unthanks: Sorrows Away
Hikaru Utada: BAD
Viagra Boys: Cave World
Water Damage: Repeater
WeFreeStrings: Love in the Form of Sacred Outrage
Remi Wolf: Juno
Yelawolf & Shooter Jennings: Sometimes Y
Yung Lean: Stardust
μ-ziq: Magic Pony Ride

Gone

4s4ki: Here or Hell
Afrorack: The Afrorack
Al-Mutreb Abul-Loul: The Very Best and Last of Al-Mutreb (2012-2022) Retirement LP
Asa: V
Yaya Bey: Remember Your North Star
Bitchin Bajas: Bajascillators
Black Rave Culture: Vol. 2
Boldy James & Nicholas Craven: Fair Exchange No Robbery
Cat Power: Covers
Kelly Clarkson: Kellyoke
Charley Crockett: The Man from Waco
Danger Mouse & Black Thought: Cheat Codes
Dazegxd: vKiSS
Alabaster DePlume: Gold - Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love
Divino Nino: Last Spa on Earth
DJ Travella: Mr. Mixondo
DR. GABBA: Planet Piano
El Khat: Albat Alawi Op. 99
Flume: Palaces
Miya Folick: 2007
Geo Rip: s/t EP
Sam Gendel & Antonia Cytrynowicz: Live a Little
Saya Gray: 19 Masters
Jenny Hval: Classic Objects
Jock Strap: I Love You Jennifer B
Kamaiyah: Divine Timing
Let’s Eat Grandma: Two Ribbons
Tove Lo: Dirt Femme
Loop: Sonancy
Mall Grab: What I Breathe
Matmos: Regards
Tumi Mogorosi: Group Theory: Black Music
Moor Mother: Jazz Codes
Mura Masa: Demon TIme
Qasim Naqvi & Wadada Leo Smith: Two Centuries
Nnamdi: Please Have a Seat
Nova Twins: Supernova
Obongjayar: Some Nights I Dream of Doors
Hinako Omori: a journey…
The Orielles: Tableau
Otoboke Beaver: Super Champon
Pantha du Prince: Garden Gaia
Pugilist: Static
The Routes: The Twang Machine
Casper Sage: s/t
The Smile: A Light for Attracting Attention
Stromae: Multitude
Sun’s Signature: s/t
Tirzah: Highgrade
Vieux Farka Toure: Ali
Sofi Tukker: Wet Tennis
The Soft Pink Truth: Was It Ever Real?
Jack White: Fear of the Dawn
Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann: Perform the Compositions of…
Wu-Lu: Loggerhead
Years & Years: Night Call
Your Old Droog: Yodney Dangerfield

Still Here [disqualified]

Magdalena Bay: Mercurial World (Deluxe)
Kylie Minogue: Infinite Disco
Pink Pantheress: to hell with it (remixes)
Tonstartssbandht: Petunia [Oct 2021]


2021: The Year That Everyone Peeked Out of the Window

Albums playlist on Spotify

Songs on Spotify

A Miasma of Incandescent Plasma

  1. Pale Waves: Who Am I?

  2. Playboi Carti: Whole Lotta Red

  3. Park Hye Jin: Before I Die

  4. Low: Hey What

  5. Billie Eilish: Happier Than Ever

  6. IU : LILAC

  7. Sleigh Bells: Texis

  8. Tinashe: 333

  9. Lily Konigsberg: Lily We Need to Talk Now

  10. Slant: 1집

  11. Tune-Yards: sketchy.

  12. Bfb Da Packman: Fat Niggas Need Love Too

  13. Natalie Hemby: Pins and Needles

  14. Lorde: Solar Power

  15. Uniique: Bitches Is Outside Vol. 1

  16. Semi Tee x MDU aka TRP: Tales of the 2 peers

  17. Fake Fruit: s/t

  18. Liz Phair: Soberish

  19. Poppy: Flux

  20. Leslie Jordan: Company’s Comin’

  21. Jayda G: DJ-Kicks

  22. Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Young f. Gary Bartz: Jazz Is Dead 6 (Gary Bartz)

A Mass of Incandescent Gas [bubbling under]

ALLBLACK: TY4FWM
Amaarae: The Angel You Don’t Know [2020]
Baby Keem: The Melodic Blue
clipping.: Wriggle
Cochise: Benbow Crescent
Alicai Harley: The Red Room Intro (Yard Gyal Inna Britain)
Tom Jones: Surrounded by Time
Kings of Convenience: Peace Or Love
Iglooghost: Lei Line Eon Imperial Broads: Counterpart
Madlib: Sound Ancestors
Morgenshtern: Million Dollar Happiness
ooes: Moi (Tvoi) Tyomnye Zhelanya
TEKE::TEKE: Shirushi
WILLOW: lately i feel EVERYTHING
V/A: Bills & Aches & Blues: 40 Years of 4AD [4 EPs] V/A: Italians Do It Better [20 Madonna Covers]
V/A: Rec. 118 - 20/21

Indirect Sunlight

((( O ))): ((( 3 )))
Baby Queen: The Yearbook
The Bamboos: Hard Up
Matt Berry: The Blue Elephant
Boys Noize: +/-
BRS Kash - Kash Only
Conway the Machine: La Maquina
Erika de Casier: Sensational
The Crossing & Donald Nally: The Tower and the Garden
Dr. Lonnie Smith: Breathe
Jaz Elise: The Golden Hour
Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders: Promises
Garbage: No Gods No Masters
Debbie Gibson: The Body Remembers
Miho Hitori: Between Isekai and Slice of Life
HyunA: I’m Not Cool [EP]
Iamdoechii: Oh the Places You’ll Go [EP]
Lyrical School: Wonderland
Megan Thee Stallion: Good News [2020]
Miranda!: Souvenir
Mr. Jazzi Q: Party with the English
Kano Mphela: Nkulunkulu [EP]
Kylie Minogue - DISCO [2020]
Ashley Monroe: Rosegold
The Orielles: La Vita Olistica
Rosali: No Medium
SAULT: Nine
Sons of Kemet: Black to the Future
Stunna Girl: Stunna This Stunna That
Young Dolph & Key Glock: Dum and Dummer 2
ZULI: All Caps
V/A: Club Coco
V/A: F9 OST

Silver Lining

Dry Cleaning: New Long Leg
Dawn Richard: Second Line
Olivia Rodrigo: Sour
Saweetie: Pretty Summer Playlist: Season 1
Jazmine Sullivan: Heaux Tales

You Make Me Want to Jump (Jump) Out the Window

AJR: OK Orchestra

Solar Charging [processing]

The Armed: Ultrapop
Bird Furniture: Pour People
Lil Yachty: Michigan Boy Boat

Sunless [disqualified]

4 Mars: Super Somali Sounds from the Gulf of Tadjoura
Nancy Sinatra: Start Walkin’ 1965-1976
Stereolab: Electrically Possessed (Switched On Volume 4)

Sun from the Before Times
capsule: MORE! MORE! MORE! [2008]
Hayley Georgia: Loneestar mixtape [2019]


2020: The Year That…Oh God

Top 10 List at Uproxx
Albums playlist on Spotify
Songs on Spotify

Oh God…Oh God

  1. V/A: Birds of Prey OST

  2. Semi Tee: I’m Only Tweentyone

  3. Nina Simone: Fodder on My Wings [reissue]

  4. Poppy: I Disagree

  5. t.A.T.u.: Truth: Live in St. Petersburg [reissue]

  6. Haiku Hands: s/t

  7. Open Mike Eagle: Anime, Trauma, and Divorce

  8. SAULT: Untitled (Rise)

  9. Everything Everything: Re-animator

  10. Run the Jewels: RTJ4

  11. Amtrac: Oddyssey

  12. The Anxiety & Willow: The Anxiety

  13. Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters

  14. City Girls: City on Lock

  15. X: Alphabetland

  16. Hayley Williams: Petals for Armor

  17. V/A: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga OST

  18. Flo Milli: Ho, Why Is You Here?

  19. The Strokes: The New Abnormal

  20. LightSkinKeisha: Talk That Talk

Oh God-Like (Bubbling Under)
Caribou: Suddenly
Vanessa Carlton: Love Is an Art
Delanila: Overloaded
Four Tet: Sixteen Oceans
Diante Hitchcock: BETTER
Pantha du Prince: Conference of Trees

Oh God

Ashnikko: Hi, It’s Me EP
Bbymutha: Muthaleficent
Chloe x Halle: Ungodly Hour
Selena Gomez: Rare
Gilberto Gil & BaianaSystem: Gil Baiana ao Vivo em Salvador
Gil-Scott Heron & Makaya McCraven: We’re New Again
Ariana Grande: Positions
Kate NV: Room for the Moon
Little Dragon: New Me, Same Us
Moor Mother: Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes
The Orielles: Disco Volador
Princess Nokia: Everything Is Beautiful / Everything Sucks [double album]
Rina Sawayama: Sawayama
SAULT: Untitled (Black Is…)
Shamir: s/t
Tricky: Fall to Pieces
Trouble: Thug Luv
Lucinda Williams: Good Souls Better Angels

God…

070 Shake: Modus Vivendi
Bad Bunny: YHLQMDLG
Empress Of: I’m Your Empress Of
Angelica Garcia: Cha Cha Palace
The Gregory Brothers: Handwash Sesh: Lofi Chill Beats for Your Quarantine
Jojo: Good to Know
Kamaiyah: Got It Made
keiyaA: Forever, Ya Girl
Logan Ledger: s/t
Megan Thee Stallion: Suga
The Orb: Abolition of the Royal Familia
Penelope: Polvos Magicos
Chelsea Peretti: Foam and Flotsam
Salt Cathedral: Carisma
Harry Styles: Fine Line
Tennis: Swimmer

No, God

Dua Lipa: Future Nostalgia

Godless [disqualified]

Basement Jaxx: Lost Dubs (1999-2009)
Nina Simone: Fodder on My Wings

God Left These Behind

Lali Puna: Two Windows [2017]


The Tens

2019: The Year Everybody Went Away

Albums playlist on Spotify

Songs on Spotify

Ongoing YouTube Playlist

Gone

1. Mahawam: Is an Island
2. Inna: Yo
3. YBN Cordae: The Lost Boy
4. Rosalia: El Mal Querer [2018]
5. 100 gecs: 1000 gecs
6. Matmos: Plastic Anniversary
7. LightSkinKeisha: ACT UP SZN mixtape
8. Taylor Swift: Lover
9. Rapsody: Eve
10. BigKlit: 2028
11. Mustard: Perfect Ten
12. Katie Dey: Solipsisters
13. Flying Lotus: Flamagra
14. Rico Nasty: Anger Management [EP]
15. Kitty: Rose Gold
16. Peggy Gou: DJ-Kicks
17. Holly Herndon: PROTO
18. The Coathangers: The Devil You Know
19. Lolo Zouai: High Highs to Low Lows
20. The Chemical Brothers: No Geography

Going Going

Kevin Abstract: Arizona Baby
Anemone: Beat My Distance
Louis Cole: Live Sesh and Xtra Songs
Deerhunter: Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?
Dido: Still on My Mind
Stella Donnelly: Beware of the Dogs
Dreezy: Big Dreez
Du Monde: Lung Bread for Daddy
Marvin Gaye: You’re the Man
Tommy Genesis: s/t [2018]
Ibibio Sound Machine: Doko Mien
Interpol: A Fine Mess
Carly Rae Jepsen: Dedicated
Jax Jones: Snacks
Norah Jones: Begin Again
Chaka Khan: Hello Happiness
Koffee: Rapture [EP]
Latifah: Van Een Meisjie Naar Een Vrouw
Little Simz: Grey Area
Jackie Mendoza: LuvHz
Havaiah Mighty: 13th Floor
Stephen Malkmus: Groove Denied
Lee “Scratch” Perry: Rainford
Pi Ja Ma: Pixies, Sylphs, and Fairies
Poppy: Am I a Girl?
Emily Reo: Only You Can See It
SASAMI: s/t
Sleepy Tom: Amateurs
Snotty Nose Rez Kids: Trapline
Sweet William: Jasmine Instrumentals
Joy Williams: Front Porch
Jenny Wilson: Trauma
Winnetka Bowling League: Cloudy with a Chance of Sun

Stalling

BigKlit: Klitorious B.I.G.
Charli XCX: Charli
Billie Eilish: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Ariana Grande: thank u, next
Hatchie: Keepsake


Staying

AJR: Neotheater

Should I Stay or Should I Go? [processing]

Burna Boy: African Giant
Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell
Jay Som: Anak Ko
Kelsey Lu: Blood
Purple Mountains: s/t

Technically Not a Leaf

Beyonce: Homecoming
Floating Points: Late Night Tales mix
V/A: Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental, and New Age Music 1980-1990


2018: The Year That Everybody Was Doing Too Much

Albums playlist on Spotify

Doing the Most

1. Daphne & Celeste: Save the World
2. Kylie Minogue: Golden
3. Tierra Whack: Whack World
4. Superorganism: s/t
5. Nellie McKay: Sister Orchid
6. Low: Double Negative
7. Jenny WIlson: EXORCISM
8. Bhad Bhabie: 15
9. Kate Nash: Yesterday Was Forever
10. Wednesday Campanella: Galapagos
11. Mitski: Be the Cowboy
12. Charlie Puth: Voicenotes
13. Noname: Room 25
14. Kacey Musgraves: Golden Hour
15. Meshell Ndegeocello: Ventriloquism
16. Yo La Tengo: There’s a Riot Going On
17. Fischerspooner: Sir
18. 6ix9ine: Day69: Graduation
19. Lil Wayne: The Carter V
20. Loma: s/t

Doing Too Much (Bubbling Under)

Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet: Landfall
Breeders: All Nerve
Toni Braxton: Sex & Cigarettes
Dungen & Woods: Myths 003
Gwenno: Le Tov
Nils Frahm: All Melody
J. Cole: KOD
Kimbra: Primal Heart
La Luz: Floating Features
Nightmares on Wax: Shape the Future
Panthurr: Adventures, Vol. 1
Sasha Go Hard: No Problems
Travis Scott: ASTROWORLD
Soulwax: Essential
Tove Styrke: Sway
Superchunk: What a Time to Be Alive
U.S. Girls: In a Poem Unlimited
V/A: Black Panther OST


Much Doing, Too

Aly & AJ: Ten Years
Beach Bunny: Prom Queen EP
Camila Cabello: Camila
Brandi Carlile: By the Way, I Forgive You
Hollie Cook: Vessel of Love
Decembrists: I’ll Be Your Girl
Doja Cat: Amala
Felicita: Hej!
Alice Merton: No Roots EP
MØ: Forever Neverland
Nao: Saturn
The Orielles: Silver Dollar Moment
RP Boo: I’ll Tell You What!
Brigid Mae Power: The Two Worlds
Saweetie: High Maintenance
Skee Mask: Compro
Wyke Oak: The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs


Doing
MGMT: Little Dark Age
Rhye: Blood
Troye Sivan: Bloom
Tune-Yards: I can feel you creep into my private life

Done Too Much (Overlooked 2017)

K. Michelle: The People I Used to Know
V/A: MOVES: The Sound of UK Afrobeats


2017: The Year That Went and Made Everything So Complicated

Albums playlist on Spotify

Uh Huh

1. 21 Savage: Issa Album
2. Natalie Hemby: Puxico
3. Michelle Branch: Hopeless Romantic
4. Kehlani: SweetSexySavage
5. Mura Masa - s/t
6. Hanni El Khatib: Savage Times
7. Jay-Z: 4:44
8. Japanese Breakfast: Soft Sounds from Another Planet
9. Chloe x Halle: The Two of Us
10. Luke Vibert: Presents UK Garave Vol. 1
11. V/A: The Bob’s Burgers Music Album OST
12. tqd: ukg
13. Soulwax: FROM DEEWEE
14. 2 Chainz: Pretty Girls Like Trap
15. Lee Ann Womack: The Lonely, the Lonesome, & the Gone
16. Billboard: Memories
17. Waxahatchee: Out in the Storm
18. Taylor Girlz: Who Are Those Girlz?!
19. Yasiin Bey: December 99th
20. Tei Shi: Crawl Space

Life’s Like This (bubbling under)

Arcade Fire: Everything Now
Drake: More Life
Silvana Estrada: Lo Sagrado
Hey Violet: From the Outside
Jesca Hoop: Memories Are Now
Aimee Mann: Mental Illness
Amy O: Elastic
Paramore: After Laughter
Pissed Jeans: Why Love Now
Margo Price: All American Made
Shamir: Hope
Sleigh Bells: Kid Kruschev
Zeal & Ardor: Devil Is Fine
V/A: Insecure: Music from the HBO Original Series
V/A: Allergy Season + Discwoman: Physically Sick

That’s the Way It Is (knocked outta bubbling)

Kasey Chambers: Dragonfly
Maya Jane Coles: Take Flight
Deerhoof: Mountain Moves
Dev: I Only Wanna See You When I’m Dreamin’
Diet Cig: Swear I’m Good at This
Goldfrapp: Silver Eye
Kesha: Rainbow
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: The Kid
Ty Dolla $ign: Beach House 3

Take What You Get

Chuck Berry: CHUCK
Brand New: Science Fiction
Kelly Clarkson: Meaning of Life
Cuban Doll: Cuban Link
Beth Ditto: Fake Sugar
Dua Lipa: s/t
Rhiannon Giddens: Freedom Highway
Cherry Glazerr: Apocalipstick
Grandaddy: Last Place
HAIM: Something to Tell You
Hurray for the Riff Raff: The Navigator
Ibibio Sound Machine: Uyai
Imelda May: Life Love Flesh Blood
Palehound: A Place I’ll Always Go
Priests: Nothing Feels Natural
Zara McFarlane: Arise
NAV: s/t
Randy Newman: Dark Matter
Ed Sheeran: [Divide]
Stormzy: Gang Signs & Prayer
Sunny Sweeney: Trophy
Swet Shop Boyz: Sufi La EP
SZA: CTRL
The Weather Station: s/t
Xiu Xiu: Forget

Gets Me Frustrated

Beck: Colors
Chainsmokers: Memories….DO NOT OPEN THIS BOX MOM
Fergie: Double Dutchess
Kendrick Lamar: Damn.
Little Big Town: The Breaker
Migos: Culture
Spoon: Hot Thoughts
The xx: I See You

No, No, No

Clap Your Hands Say NO (get it): The Tourist

It’s All Been Done Before (Overlooked in 2016)

Lion Babe: Begin [2016]
Kodie Shane: Zero Gravity EP


2016: The Year That Everyone Had Something to Say

Albums playlist on Spotify

Real Talk

1. Rihanna: ANTI
2. Tkay Maidza: Tkay
3. Baauer: Aa
4. V/A: Calentura: Global Bassment
5. Crayon Pop: Evolution Pop 01
6. Gold Panda: Good Luck and Do Your Best
7. Aaron Neville: Apache
8. Beyonce: Lemonade
9. Rob Zombie: The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser
10. King: We Are King
11. Angel Olsen: My Woman
12. Katie Dey: Flood Network
13. Junglepussy: Pregnant with Success [2015]
14. Erykah Badu: But You Cain’t Use My Phone mixtape [2015]
15. School of Seven Bells: SVIIB
16. Hinds: Leave Me Alone
17. Abra: Princess
18. TT the Artist: Queen of the Beat
19. Africaine 808: Basar
20. Bibio: A Mineral Love

Babbling Under

Deerhoof: The Magic
Kari Faux: Lost En Los Angeles
Kamaiyah: A Good Night in the Ghetto
Miranda Lambert: The Weight of These Wings
M.I.A.: AIM
NAO: For All We Know
Tiwa Savage: R.E.D
Solange: A Seat at the Table
Britney Spears: Glory
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down: A Man Alive
Tribe Called Quest: We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service
Tribe Called Red: We Are the Halluci Nation
Warpaint: Heads Up
Weezer: Weezer [White Album]

Babble

Chance the Rapper: Coloring Book
Frankie Cosmos: Next Thing
Hot Hot Heat: s/t
Kaytranada: 99.9%
Mamamoo: Melting
Rosali: Out of Love
Joey Purp: iiiDrops mixtape
Radiohead: A Moon-Shaped Pool
Tiwa Savage: R.E.D
Snow Tha Product: Half Way There…Pt. 1 EP
V/A: OWSLA Spring Compilation 2015 [2015]

Bibble

Azealia Banks: Slay-Z EP
Jon Benjamin: Well, I Should Have Learned How to Play Piano
Cross Record: Wabi-Sabi
Deep Sea Diver: Secrets
Aby Ngana Diop: Liital
Domo Genesis: Genesis
Dreezy: No Hard Feelings
Hooverphonic: In Wonderland
Junior Boys: Big Black Coat
Marit Larsen: Joni Was Right
Let’s Eat Grandma: I, Gemini
Lil Uzi Vert: Lil Uzi Vert vs. the World mixtape
Nothing but Thieves: s/t [2015]
Onuka: Vidlik EP
Anderson .Paak: Malibu
Pantha du Prince: The Triad
Red Foo: Party Rock Mansion
Rufus Du Sol: Bloom
Xiu Xiu: Plays Music from Twin Peaks
YG: Still Brazy

Babel (the movie)

The 1975: Terrible Long Title
DJ Khaled: Major Key
DJ Shadow: The Mountain Will Fall
Flume: Skin
Kid Cudi: Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven
Kanye West: The Life of Pablo 3.1

Got Talked Over in 2015

Crazy P: Walk Dance Talk Sing
Harrison: Colors
Nena: Oldschool
Romare: Projections


2015: The Year That Everyone Took a Step


Albums playlist on Spotify

Foot Foot

1. Zedd: True Colors
2. Colleen Green: I Want to Grow Up
3. Floating Points: Elaenia
4. Bomba Estereo: Amanecer
5. Jamie xx: In Colour
6. Aphex Twin: Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 EP
7. Janet Jackson: Unbreakable
8. Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly
9. Selena Gomez: Revival
10. Carly Rae Jepsen: E•MO•TION
11. Grimes: Art Angels
12. Allie X: CollXtion I
13. Dev: Bittersweet July pt. 1 and 2 EPs
14. Jana Kramer: Thirty One
15. John Grant: Grey Tickles, Black Pressures
16. MNEK: Small Talk EP
17. Girlpool: Before the World Was Big
18. Courtney Barnett: Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit
19. Veruca Salt: Ghost Notes
20. Hot Chip: Make Sense

Big Foot (Bubbling Under)

Bully: Feels Like
D.R.A.M.: #1EpicEP
DJ Koze: DJ-Kicks
FFS: FFS
Lil Wayne: No Ceilings 2
Little Boots: Working Girl
Maddie & Tae: Start Here
Rae Sremmurd: SremmLife
Roisin Murphy: Hairless Toys
Pinkshinyultrablast: Everything Else Matters
Jazmine Sullivan: Reality Show
The Very Best: Makes a King

Right Foot

BabyMetal: s/t
Bjork: Vulnicura
Fifth Harmony: Reflection
Rhiannon Giddens: Tomorrow Is My Turn
The Go! Team: The Scene Between
Ibeyi: Ibeyi
Toby Keith: 35 MPH Town
Demi Lovato: Confident
Nellie McKay: My Weekly Reader
Bonnie McKee: Bombastic EP
The Prodigy: The Day Is My Enemy
Purity Ring: Another Eternity
Dawn Richard: Blackheart
Vince Staples: Summertime ‘06
Young Thug: Barter 6

Left Foot

Adamski: Revolt
Belle and Sebastian: Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
Will Butler: Policy
Ciara: Jackie
Dam-Funk: Invite the Light
Dan Deacon: Gliss Riffer
The Do: Shake Shook Shaken
Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment: Surf
Fall Out Boy: American Beauty/American Psycho
Fetty Wap: s/t
Madonna: Rebel Heart
Marilyn Manson: The Pale Emperor
Marina and the Diamonds: Froot
Modest Mouse: Strangers to Ourselves
Giorgio Moroder: Deja vu
Ne-Yo: Non-Fiction
Joanna Newsom: Divers
Kacey Musgraves: Pageant Material
Natalie Prass: s/t
Sleater-Kinney: No Cities to Love
Tuxedo: Tuxedo
The Unthanks: Mount the Air
Zun Zun Eagle: Shackles Gift

Wrong Foot

Mark Ronson and Friends: Uptown Special
Meghan Trainor: Title

Footing ‘14

Kutiman: ThruYou Too
Bettye LaVette: Worthy
Kate Tempest: Everybody Down


2014: The Year That Everyone Was Really Tired But Pretty Happy Overall I Guess


Albums playlist on Spotify

Top Whatever
1. Charli XCX - Sucker
2. D’Angelo - Black Messiah
3. Angel Olsen: Burn Your Fire for No Witness
4. Got a Girl: I Love You but I Must Drive Off This Cliff Now
5. One Direction - Four
6. Cibo Matto: Hotel Valentine
7. YG: My Krazy Life
8. Taylor Swift - 1989
9. Azealia Banks: Broke with Expensive Taste
10. After School: Dress to Kill
11. Miranda Lambert: Platinum
12. Stromae - Racine Carree
13. Big Freedia: Just Be Free
14. Duck Sauce: Quack
15. Pitbull - Globalization
16. Katy B: Little Red (continuous mix)
17. Nick Cannon: White People Party Music
18. Apollo Brown: Thirty Eight
19. f(x): Red Light
20. Weird Al” Yankovic - Mandatory Fun


Bubbling Under
Lily Allen: Sheezus
Aphex Twin: Syro
Clean Bandit: New Eyes
Deerhoof: La Isla Bonita
Flying Lotus: You’re Dead!
RAC: Strangers Pt. 1 and 2
Sunny Sweeney: Provoked
Robin Thicke: Paula
Tinashe: Aquarius
Twin Peaks: Wild Onion
Warpaint: Warpaint


Tempur-Pedic
15&: Sugar
Damon Albarn: Everyday Robots
Beck: Morning Phase
Booka Shade: Eve
Company Freak: Le Disco Social
Dreezy: Schizo mixtape 
Dum Dum Girls: Too True 
Gilberto Gil: Gilbertos Samba
Ibibio Sound Machine: s/t
Joan as Police Woman: The Classic
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings: Give the People What They Want
Kid Cudi: Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon
The Roots: …and then you shoot your cousin
Angaleena Presley: American Middle Class
Silversun Pickups: The Singles Collection
Sunny Sweeney: Provoked
Todd Terje: It’s Album Time
Tinariwen: Emmaar
V/A: Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton


Sealy Posturepedic
2NE1: Crush
7 Days of Funk: 7 Days of Funk
Bombay Bicycle Club: So Long, See You Tomorrow
Eternal Summers: The Drop Beneath
Hard Working Americans: Hard Working Americans
Holychild: Mindspeak
Hospitality: Trouble
Kelis: Food
Little Dragon: Nabuma Rubberband
Metronomy: Love Letters
Kylie Minogue: Kiss Me Once
Royksopp & Robyn: Do It Again
Skrillex: Recess
Snowbird: Moon
Spoon: They Want My Soul
tUnEyArDs: Nikki-Nack
Ty Dolla Sign: Beach House EP


IKEA Sultan
Angel Haze: Dirty Gold
Les Claypool’s Duo De Twang: Four Foot Shack
Mogwai: Rave Tapes
Nina Persson: Animal Heart


Air Mattress
Sophie Ellis-Bextor: Wanderlust
Ida Maria: Accidental Happiness EP


Overlooked 2013
Audio Push: Come As You Are mixtape
IU: Modern Times
Stromae: Racine Carrée


2013: The Year That Everyone Tapped Their Index Fingers Impatiently


ALBUMS - Listen

SONGS - Listen


1. One Direction - Midnight Memories
2. will.i.am - #willpower
3. Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer, Different Park
4. Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob
5. Flume - s/t
6. Cast of Nashville - The Music of Nashville Season One
7. DJ Mustard - Ketchup
8. Lissie - Back to Forever
9. Kate Nash - Girl Power
10. Dirtbombs - Ooey Gooey Chew Ka-Blooey
11. Brandy Clark - 12 Songs
12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
13. Kitty - D.A.I.S.Y. Rage
14. Tricky - False Idols
15. CSS - Planta
16. Elvis Costello and the Roots - Wise Up Ghost
17. Paul McCartney - New
18. Sleigh Bells - Bitter Rivals
19. Yo La Tengo - Fade
20. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience



Bubbling Under
!!! - Thr!!!er
Adrian Younge & the Delfonics - Adrian Young Presents the Delfonics
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Bangladesh - Ponzi Scheme
Mykki Blanco - Betty Rubble: The Initiation
Body Language - Grammar
Danielle Bradbery - s/t
Cassie - RockaByeBaby
Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
Deltron 3030 - Event 2
DJ Rashad - Double Cup
Disclosure - Settle
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
Lee Hyori - Monochrome
Skylar Grey - Don’t Look Down
The Joy Formidable - Wolf’s Law
Kyarypamyupamyu - Nanda Collection
Le1f - Fly Zone
Lorde - Pure Heroine
M.I.A. - Matangi
Mazzy Star - Seasons of Your Day
Melt-Banana - Fetch
Ashley Monroe - Like a Rose
My Bloody Valentine - mbv
Pistol Annies - Annie Up
Rudimental - Home
Britney Spears - Britney Jean
STRFKR - Miracle Mile
Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt


Enthusiastic Finger-Tapping [tap-tap-tap]
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Bleeding Rainbow - Yeah Right
Camera Obscura - Desire Lines
Charles Bradley and Menahan Street - Victim of Love
Courtyard Hounds - Amelita
Miley Cyrus - Bangerz
Deerhunter - Monomania
DJ Koze - Amygdala
Eve - Lip Lock
Fantasia - Side Effects of You
Fifth Harmony - Better Together EP
Ghostface - Twelve Reasons to Die
A Giant Dog - Bone
Selena Gomez - Stars Dance
Har Mar Superstar - Bye Bye 17
Kitten - Cut It Out EP
Lusine - The Waiting Room
Steve Martin and Edie Brickell - Love Has Come for You
Mavericks - In Time
Mindless Behavior - All Around the World
Pantha du Prince & the Bell Lab - Elements of Light
Britta Persson - If I Was a Band My Name Would Be Forevers
Pissed Jeans - Honeys
Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana
Quadron - Avalanche
Relatives - The Electric Word
Dawn Richard - Goldenheart
Ulrich Schnauss - A Long Way to Fall
Marnie Stern - Chronicles of Marnia
Shugo Tokumaru - In Focus?
The Spinto Band - Cool Cocoon
Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines
Vali - Kiss the Sky EP
Kanye West - Yeezus
Betty Who - The Movement EP

Nervous Finger-Tapping [tap. tap.]
Atoms for Peace - LOL SUPERGROUP
Brown Bird - Fits of Reason
Ciara - Ciara
Jamie Lidell - s/t
Lisa Loeb - No Fairy Tale
Demi Lovato - Demi
The-Dream - IV Play
The Uncluded - Hokey Fright
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
V/A - Night Slugs Allstars Vol. 2

Imagining this spot on the table is actually your stupid FACE [TAP.]

Untapped [?]
V/A - Essential Love Songs of Burt Bacharach
Yo Ma Ma - Symptomology
Matias Aguayo - The Visitor

Other stuff
Joker - Drive 9 (SEGA)
Darkside - Random Access Memories Memories
Musicophilia - The Gold and Silver Dream (1971-1982): A Tribute to Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories
L’ordre - Random Access Memories (Vanderlay edit)


2012: The Year Everything Stayed the Same


1. Farrah Abraham - My Teenage Dream Ended
2. Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror
3. Norah Jones - Little Broken Hearts
4. Ke$ha - Warrior
5. School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
6. Serebro - Mama Lover
7. Orange Caramel - First album
8. Carly Rae Jepsen - Kiss
9. Jimmy Cliff - Rebirth
10. Taylor Swift - Red
11. Cat Power - Sun
12. Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Americana
13. After School - Playgirlz
14. Nicki Minaj - Roman Reloaded
15. Jessie Ware - Devotion
16. Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
17. Daughn Gibson - All Hell
18. Santigold - Master of My Make Believe
19. Angel Haze - Reservation mixtape
20. Justin Bieber - Believe

Kindling for the Sames

Busdriver - Beaus$eros
Ani DiFranco - Which Side Are You On?
Escort - s/t
Grimes - Visions P!nk - The Truth About Love
Prinzhorn Dance School - Clay Class
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Leaving Eden
Kellie Pickler - 100 Proof
Dawn Richard - Armor On EP
T-Ara - Jewelry Box


Sameless (Seven going on Eight)
2 Chainz - Based on a T.R.U. Story Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel
Cherri Bomb - This Is the End of Control
Neneh Cherry & The Thing - The Cherry Thing
Estelle - All of Me
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Kreayshawn - Somethin ‘Bout Kreay
Nina Kraviz - Nina Kraviz
Melanie Fiona - The MF Life
Nneka - Soul Is Heavy
Lee Ranaldo - Between the Times and the Tides
Rick Ross - Rich Forever mixtape Elle Varner - Conversational Lush mixtape
Rufus Wainwright - Out of the Game
Jack White - Blunderbuss
Rye Rye - Go! Pop! Bang!
V/A - Shake It Up: Live 2 Dance OST
Samey (Six going on Seven)
Azealia Banks - 1991 EP Future - Pluto
Graffiti6 - Colours
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange Rich Kidz - Everybody Eat Bread
T-Pain - rEVOLVEr
Usher - Looking 4 Myself
Yo Gotti - Live from the Kitchen

Same (Six going on Six)
Air - Le voyage dans la lune
Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral
Marina and the Diamonds - Electra Heart

Unsamely (Five and Under)
Dirty Projectors - Barf Bucket
spielgusher - s/t


Sames Like I Never Even Listened to Them Even Though I’m Pretty Sure I Did (Gone, Forgotten)
Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur
Adam Lambert - The Second One
Scissor Sisters - Magic Hour

Same the Sham (These Don’t Count)
Any number of informal K-pop compilations
Any number of informal omnibus Tumblr compilations
Any number of mixtapes wot were given to friends
Any Major Dude’s History of Country
V/A - United Cube
Hercules and Love Affair - DJ-Kicks

Unequaled
Cassie - Ventura Blvd.
The Beaties - SHGR N UR SYSTM
Blue Ivy Carter - Pampered
Rihanna - Another Album She Made in a Weekend
Taylor Swift - Vampires and Shit
Willow Smith - Will2k12ow


2011: The Year Everyone Came Back for More

S’Mores
1. Dev - The Night the Sun Came Up
2. Sunny Sweeney - Concrete
3. Nadia Oh - Colours
4. Anthony Hamilton - Back to Love
5. Cher Lloyd - Sticks & Stones
6. V/A - Mr. Collipark Presents Can I Have the Club Back Please? mixtape
7. Miranda Lambert - Four the Record
8. Alexandra Stan - Saxobeats
9. Justin Bieber - Under the Mistletoe
10. Grace Jones - Hurricane
11. Teddybears - Devil’s Music
12. Pistol Annies - Hell on Heels
13. Pitbull - Planet Pit
14. Selena Gomez and the Scene - When the Sun Goes Down
15. Emily Osment - Fight or Flight (2010)
16. Katy B - On a Mission
17. Feist - Metals
18. Britney Spears - Femme Fatale
19. Nicola Roberts - Cinderella’s Eyes
20. Low - C’mon

Mores [7]
Adele - Rolling in the Deep
Araabmuzik - Electronic Dream
Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See
Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2
Bedroom Problems - Six Songs EP
Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow
CocknBullKid - Adulthood
Das Racist - Relax
Dirtbombs - Party Store
DJ Quik - Book of David
DJ Shadow - The Less You Know, the Better
The Dø - Slippery Slope
Sky Ferriera - As If! EP
Foster the People - Torches
Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Holy Ghost! - s/t
Wanda Jackson - The Party Ain’t Over
Joker - The Vision
Keak da Sneak - Tonite Show
Lil’ Wayne - The Carter IV
Little Dragon - Ritual Union
David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time
M.I.A. - Vicki Leekx mixtape
Metronomy - The English Riviera
Panic! At the Disco - Vices & Virtues
R.E.M. - Collapse into Now
Omar S - High School Graffiti
Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin’
Paul Simon - So Beautiful or So What
Soulja Boy - 1Up mixtape
TMBG - Join Us
Poly Styrene - Generation Indigo
tUnEyArDs - wHoKiLl
Widowspeak - s/t
Wild Flag - s/t
Wiz Khalifa - Rolling Papers
Yelle - Safari Disco Club

Mo’ Nuff [6]
Battles - Gloss Drop
Beyonce - 4
Cut Copy - Zonoscope
Destroyer - Kaputt
Digitalism - I Love You, Dude
The Feelies - Here Before
David Guetta - Nothing but the Beat
Junior Boys - It’s All True
Kreayshawn - Kittys and Choppas mixtape
Lady Gaga - Born This Way
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
Lloyd - King of Hearts
Demi Lovato - Unbroken
Frank Ocean - Nostalgia/Ultra
Parallel Dance Ensemble - Possessions and Obsessions
Radiohead - King of Limbs
The Rapture - In the Grace of Your Love
The Strokes - Angles
Robin Thicke - Love After War
Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs

Mo-Hum [5]
B.o.B - No Genre mixtape
Cake - Showroom of Compassion
Chipmunk - Transition
Cults - s/t
Danger Mouse and Daniele Lippi - Rome
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
LMFAO - Sorry for Party Rocking
Jennifer Lopez - Love?
Natalia Kills - Perfectionist
Nicole Scherzinger - Killer Love
TVOTR - 9 Varieties of Worms
Wiley - 100% Publishing
Jamie Woon - Night Moves

Less
Avril Lavigne - Goodbye Lullaby
Gorillaz - The Fall

Not comparable, relatively speaking [disqualified]
Neil Diamond - The Bang Years 1966 - 1968
Diddy Dirty Money - Love Love vs. Hate Love mixtape
Emily Osment - Captain EO: The Best of Emily Osment

Unmoored
Cassie - Fearless
Yo Gotti - Live from the Kitchen

Moh No! Overlooked in 2010
Daddy Yankee - Mundial
Care Bears on Fire - Girls Like It Loud EP


2010: The Year Everyone Ate More Fruit


1. Kelis - Flesh Tone
2. Ke$ha - Animal + Cannibal (Deluxe Edition)
3. Marina and the Diamonds - The Family Jewels
4. Jamey Johnson - The Guitar Song
5. Rick Ross - Teflon Don
6. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
7. Goldfrapp - Head First
8. Mose Allison - The Way of the World
9. Diddy Dirty Money - Last Train to Paris
10. Trey Songz - Passion, Pain, and Pleasure
11. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
12. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah, Pt. 2: Return of the Ankh
13. Far East Movement - Free Wired
14. I Blame Coco - The Constant
15. The-Dream - Love King
16. Waka Flocka Flame - Flockaveli
17. Warpaint - The Fool
18. Yelawolf- Trunk Muzik 0-60
19. Spoon - Transference
20. Maximum Balloon - s/t

SINGLES [FINAL P&J]

1. Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart
2. Far East Movement - Like a G6
3. Justin Bieber f. Ludacris - Baby
4. Sade - Soldier of Love
5. DJ Zinc f. Ms. Dynamite - Wile Out
6. Kylie Minogue - Get Outta My Way
7. Nas f. Damian Marley - As We Enter
8. Waka Flocka Flame - Hard in Da Paint
9. Wiley and Chew Fu - Take That
10. YG - Toot It and Boot It


Hardcore (Bananas) [7ish-8] [A-/B+] [Three monkey poos]
Laurie Anderson - Homeland
Aloe Blacc - Good Things
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Leftfoot, Son of Chico Dusty
Delorean - Subiza
Fefe Dobson - Joy
E-40 - Revenue Retrievin’ - Day Shift
E.via - Via Polar EP
Girlicious - Rebuilt
Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
HEALTH - DISCO2
Hole - Nobody’s Daughter
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - I Learned the Hard Way
Lil’ Wayne - I Am Not a Human Being
Lil’ Wayne - Rebirth
M.I.A. - /\/\/\Y/\
Massive Attack - Heligoland
Kylie Minogue - Aphrodite
Liz Phair - Funstyle
Princesa - Mas Fuego
Sade - Soldier of Love
Gil Scott-Heron - I’m New Here
UNKLE - Where Did the Night Fall
Vampire Weekend - Contra
Wallpaper. - Doodoo Face

Mediumcore (Ananas) [6ish-7] [B] [Two monkey poos]
!!! - Strange Weather, Isn’t It?
Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart
Celph Titled & Buckwild - Nineteen Ninety Now
Chemical Brothers - Further
Court Yard Hounds - s/t
Das Racist - Shut Up, Dude mixtape
Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards
The Drums - s/t
Electric Six - Zodiac
Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back
Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
Holy Ghost! - Static on the Wire EP
Juan Maclean - DJ-Kicks
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
Ted Leo - The Brutalist Bricks
Lindstrom & Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool
Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Tychozorente
Love Is All - Two Thousand & Ten Injuries
Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
Javiera Mena - Mena
Nneka - Concrete Jungle
Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
Mike Patton - Mondo Cane
Quasi - American Gong
Robyn - Bodytalk
Jazmine Sullivan - Love Me Back
Taylor Swift - Speak Now
Young Money - We Are Young Money

Softcore (Mehs) [5ish-6] [B-/C+] [One monkey poo]
Apples in Stereo - Travellers in Space and Time
Justin Bieber - My World 2.0
Black Eyed Peas - The Beginning
B.o.B - Presents the Adventures of Bobby Ray
Cee-Lo Green - Ladykiller
Chromeo - Business Casual
Ciara - Basic Instinct
Fantasia - Back to Me
Ellie Goulding - Lights
Hot Chip - One Life Stand
jj - no3
The Knux - Fuck You EP
Lady Antebellum - Need You Now
Lali Puna - Our Inventions
Jerry Lee Lewis - Mean Old Man
Les Savy Fav - Root for Ruin
Jamie Lidell - Compass
Lloyd - The Young Goldie EP [2009]
Ida Maria - Katla
Maroon 5 - Hands All Over
Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops and Hooligans
Katie Melua - This House
Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder
Method Man, Ghostface, Raekwon - Wu Massacre
Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday
Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
My Chemical Romance - Danger Days
Kate Nash - My Best Friend Is You
Ne-Yo - Libra Scale
Owen Pallett - Heartland
Pipettes - Earth vs. the Pipettes
Rihanna - Loud
Mark Ronson and Business Internat’l - Record Collection
Jay Sean - All or Nothing [2009]
Shabazz Palaces - EPs
Sia - We Are Born
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz
Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
KT Tunstall - Tiger Suit
Twista - The Perfect Storm
Walkmen - Lisbon

Nocore Whatsoever (Nahs) [C/D/F] [Zero monkey poos]
Broken Bells - s/t
Nadine Coyle - Insatiable
Simon Curtis - 8-Bit Heart
Daft Punk - Tron Legacy OST
Drake - Thank Me Later
Eminem - Recovery
Futureheads - The Chaos
Girl Talk - All Day
Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
The Knife - Tomorrow, In a Year
Liars - Sisterworld
Lil’ Jon - Crunk Rock
Lillix - Tigerlily
Little Big Town - The Reason Why
Katharine McPhee - Unbroken
OK Go - Of the Blue Colour of the Sky
Omarion - Ollusion
The Pipettes - Earth vs. the Pipettes
The Roots - How I Got Over
Scissor Sisters - Night Work
Scouting for Girls - Everybody Wants to Be on TV
Weezer - Hurley
Yeasayer - Odd Blood

Technically not a fruit (Disqualified)
A-Trak - Dirty South Dance 2
Sunny Sweeney - Heartbreakers Hall of Fame [2008]
Vistoso Bosses - The World Would Suck Without Girls mixtape

Processing
Mariah Carey - Merry Christmas II You
Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me

Un-cored
Elizabeth Cook - Welder
Patty Griffin - Downtown Church
Marion Raven - Nevermore (LOL)
Blake Shelton - Hillbilly Bone & [Other EP, forget the title]
Sunny Sweeney - Fearless

COR, OVERLOOKED IN 2009
Dam-Funk - Toeachizown


The Aughts

2009: The Year Everything Was Different

Drops
1. The-Dream - Love vs. Money
2. Shakira - She-Wolf
3. Rihanna - Rated R
4. Taylor Swift - Fearless
5. Lily Allen - It’s Not Me, It’s You
6. Kutiman - ThruYou
7. Electrik Red - How to Be a Lady Vol. 1
8. Crazy Cousinz - UK Funk House Vol. 1 
9. The Lonely Island - Incredibad
10. VV Brown - Traveling Like the Light
11. Ida Maria - Fortress Round My Heart
12. UGK - UGK 4 Life
13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz!
14. Les Cousins Dangereaux - Enema of the State
15. Lovers Electric - Whatever You Want
16. New Boyz - Skinny Jeans and a Mic
17. Nellie McKay - Normal as Blueberry Pie
18. Pill - 4180 The Prescription mixtape
19. The Bird and the Bee - Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future
20. Gorilla Zoe - Don’t Feed Da Animals

Near-Drops
Amadou & Mariam - Welcome to Mali
Amanda Blank - I Love You
Mariah Carey - Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
Cascada - Evacuate the Dancefloor
Chino/Federation/Big Ship - The Formula mixtape
Ciara - Fantasy Ride
Chris Cornell - Scream
Dead Weather - Horehound
Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe
DJ Quik & Kurupt - BlaQKout
Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Florence and the Machine - Lungs
Future of the Left - Travels with Myself and Another
Selena Gomez and the Scene - Kiss & Tell
Gucci Mane - Murder Was the Case
Hot Leg - Red Light Fever
Mike Jones - The Voice
Kid Sister - Ultraviolet
Adam Lambert - For Your Entertainment
Ryan Leslie - s/t / Transition
Lady Sovereign - Jigsaw
Miranda Lambert - Revolution
Lil’ Wayne - No Ceilings Mixtape
Demi Lovato - Here We Go Again
M.O.P. - Foundation
Marilyn Manson - The High End of Low
Mario - DNA
Meanderthals - Desire Lines
Meg and Dia - Here, Here, and Here
Modest Mouse - No One’s First, and You’re Next
Morrissey - Years of Refusal
Music Go Music - Expressions
Omar-S - Fabric 45
Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love
Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans
Platinum Pied Pipers - Abundance
Iggy Pop - Preliminaires
Rick Ross - Deeper Than Rap
Royksopp - Junior
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
Otis Taylor - Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs
Andrew WK - Japan Covers
YACHT - See Mystery Lights

Droplets
Lily Allen - The Fear
Annie - Anthonio
Boy Better Know - Too Many Man
Boys Like Girls - Love Drunk
Champion DJ - Baako
Chipmunk - Chip Diddy Chip
Ciara f. Chris Brown - Turntables
Cold Flamez - Miss Me Kiss Me Likk Me
Keyshia Cole - Thought You Should Know
Das Racist - Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (Wallpaper remix)
Deadmau5 f. Kaskade - I Remember
Electrik Red - So Good
Kenza Farah f. Nina Sky - Celle Qu’il Te Faut
Jamie Foxx f. T-Pain - Blame It
The Future of the Left - Arming Eritrea
G-Spot Boyz - Da Stanky Legg
Maia Hirasawa - South Again
K.I.G. - Head, Shoulders, Kneez N Toez
Kerli - Walking on Air
Lady GaGa - Paparazzi
Lady Sovereign - I Got You Dancing
Little Boots - New in Town
Lonely Island f. T-Pain - I’m on a Boat
Demi Lovato - Don’t Forget; Behind Enemy Lines
Lovers Electric - You Got It
The Mae Shi - R U Professional
Veronica Maggio - Stopp
Magic System f. Cheb Khaled - Meme Pas Fatigue
Marilyn Manson - Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin’-geddon
Make the Girl Dance - Baby Baby Baby
Medina - Kun For Mig
Meleka - Go (Crazy Cousinz Remix)
Miss Bank$ - P-U-S-S-Y
Ms. Dynamite & Sticky - Bad Gyal
New Boyz - “You’re a Jerk”
Pogo - Expialodocious
Polarkreis 18 - The Colour of Snow
Rihanna f. Akon Renea (a.k.a. PriPri) f. Acorn - Emergency Room
Rob Roy - Fur in My Cap
Richgirl - He Ain Wit Me Now (Tho)
Rick Ross - Mafia Music; Maybach Music 2
Olivia Ruiz - Elle Panique
Soulja Boy f. Sammie - Kiss Me Thru the Phone
Tommy Sparks - She’s Got Me Dancing
Taylor Swift - You Belong with Me
T.I. - Shit Popped Off
The-Dream f. Kanye West - Walking on the Moon
Robin Thicke - Dreamworld; Sidestep
Emiliana Torrini - Jungle Drum
Bobby Valentino - Beep
VV Brown - Shark in the Water
Kanye West - Welcome to Heartbreak
West End Girls - Little Black Dress
Wonder Girls - Nobody
YTMND - Sex School

Not Water, Strictly Speaking
A-Trak - Infinity + 1
Erykah Badu - Live
Leonard Cohen - Live in London
De La Soul - “Are You In?” Nike mix
Diplo - Decent Work for Decent Pay
Gucci Mane - Gucci the Glacier mixtape
Sant-eye-gold - Southerngold mixtape
Sugarland - Live on the Inside
Team Teamwork - The Ocarina of Rhyme
V/A - Protected: Massive Samples

Drips
Big Mike & DJ Neptune - R&B Kings Pt. 2
Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.
Ce’cile - Worth It
Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted
Kristinia DeBarge - Exposed
DJ Drama/R. Kelly - The Demo Tape mixtape
Drake - So Far Gone mixtape
Major Lazer - Guns Don’t Kill People…Lazers Do
Maxwell - Blacksummers’night
Melinda Doolittle - Coming Back to You
Metric - Fantasies
Eminem - Relapse
Extra Golden - Thank You Very Quickly
Fever Ray - s/t
Jamie Foxx - Intuition
The Gossip - Music for Men
Hank - The Luck of the Singers
Keri Hilson - In a Perfect World
Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
Jonas Brothers - Lines, Vines, Trying Times
The Juan MacLean - The Future Will Come
K’naan - Troubadour
KSM - Read Between the Lines
Lil’ Boosie - Superbad mixtape
Little Boots - Hands
Maxwell - Blacksummers’ Night
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Teedra Moses - Lionhearted mixtape
Vieux Farka Toure - Fondo
Trey Songz - Anticipation
Nite Jewel - Good Evening
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Asobi Seksu - Hush
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Soulja Boy - iSouljaboyTellem.com
Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream
Candi Staton - Who’s Hurting Now
Cortney Tidwell - Boys
Ashley Tisdale - Guilty Pleasure
Elliott Yamin - Fight for Love

Gone but Not Forgotten [note to self — connect category to water]
A.C. Newman - Get Guilty
A-Trak - Fabriclive 45
Alcazar - Disco Defenders
Bibio - Vignetting the Compost
Busta Rhymes - Back on My B.S.
BWO - Big Science
Carolina Liar - Coming to Terms
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Cave - Psychic Summer
Chipmunk - I Am Chipmunk
Condo Fucks - Fuckbook
Graham Coxon - The Spinning Top
Del Marquis - Character Assassination EP
Dent May - The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele
DJ Koze - Reincarnations
John Doe - Country Club
Donae’o - Party Hard
Doom - Born Like This
Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
FTSK - Underdog Alma Mater
God Help the Girl - s/t
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Lil’ Boosie - Thug Passion mixtape
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II
Malajube - Labyrinthines
Chrisette Michelle - Epiphany
Mirah - Aspera
Willie Nelson - Willie and the Wheel
Pet Shop Boys - Yes
Pleasure P - Introduction of Marcus Cooper
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
Themselves - theFREEhoudini
Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini [2008]
Keith Urban - Defying Gravity
Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
V/A - Milky Disco 2

Dropped
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
Akron/Family - Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
AZ - Legendary
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
Antipop Consortium - Fluorescent Black
Bishop Allen - Grrr…
Art Brut - Art Brut vs. Satan
Cam’ron - Crime Pays
Chester French - Jacques Jams mixtape
Cobra Starship - Hot Mess
Cool Kids - Gone Fishing mixtape
Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane, and Sugarcane
Dalek - Gutter Tactics
Danananananaykroyd - Hey Everyone
Dan Deacon - Bromst
Datarock - Red
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Alesha Dixon - The Alesha Show
Eels - Hombre Loco
Fabolous - Loso’s Way
Felix Da Housecat - He Was King
Fiery Furnaces - I’m Going Away
Fight Like Apes - And the Mystery of the Golden Medallion
Fischerspooner - Entertainment
Flo Rida - R.O.O.T.S.
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight
Freezepop - Form Activity Motion EP
PJ Harvey and John Parish - A Woman a Man Walked By
HEALTH - Get Color
Brooke Hogan - The Redemption
J. Holiday - Round 2
Alison Iraheta - Just Like You
Jadakiss - The Last Kiss
Jessie James - s/t
Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care
Lil’ Wayne - Hottest Nigga Under the Sun mixtape
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Maximo Park - Quicken the Heart
Mims - Guilt
Mandy Moore - Amanda Leigh
Moby - Wait for Me
MSTRKRFT - Fist of God
Peter Bjorn and John - Living Thing
Razorlight - Slipway Fires
Asher Roth - Asleep in the Bread Aisle
Lesley Roy - Unbeautiful
Jordin Sparks - Battlefield
Superdrag - Industry Giants
Tinted Windows - s/t
John Vanderslice - Romanian Names
Paul Wall - Fast Life
Charlie Wilson - Uncle Charlie
Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor
V/A - Bandslam OST
V/A - Snoozy Kitsune Tabloid Mix w/ Lisztomania remix thingy on it…

Still Soaking
Air - Love 2

Dropping Soon?
Aly and AJ - Fearless? Um, No.
The Beaties - What I Do 4 U/What U Need 4om Me (double album)
Cassie - Connecticut’s for Fearless Funking
Del Marquis - Fearless
Missy Elliott - Block Party
Priscilla Renea - Jukebox
The Sex Cassettes - Fearless
Wallpaper - Doodoo Face
West End Girls - Shoplifting

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Overlooked in ‘08:
Anthony Hamilton - The Point of It All (second tier)
Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
Demi Lovato - Don’t Forget (first tier)
The-Dream - Love/Hate (first tier)
Duke Spirit - Neptune (third tier)
Nicki Minaj - Sucka Free mixtape
MF Doom - Doomed mixtape
Willie Nelson - Moments of Forever (second tier)
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms (second tier)
Scooter - Jumping All Over the World (first tier)
Taylor Swift - Fearless (first tier)
Robin Thicke - (first tier)

[first tier: top twenty; second tier: 20+, third tier: out of competition]


2008: It’s 2008, Diabitches


Songs of Joy:
Addictive f. T2 - Gonna Be Mine
Annie - I Know Your Girlfriend Hates Me
Brandy - Right Here (Departed)
Cassie - Is It You; Turn the Lights Off
Cupid - 369
Taio Cruz - Come On Girl
Cut Copy - Lights and Music
Miley Cyrus - Fly on the Wall
Maria Daniela Y Su Sonido Lasser - Dame Mas
Danity Kane - Pretty Boy; Bad Girl
DJ Drama f. Many People - 5,000 Ones
Duffy - Mercy
Missy Elliott - Best Best
Hercules and Love Affair - Blind
Van Hunt - Turn My TV On
The Feeling - I Thought It Was Over
Filly - Sweat (The Drip Drop Song)
Flo Rida - Low
Goldfrapp - A&E
Wynter Gordon - Surveillance
Kenna - Say Goodbye to Love [2007]
Sean Kingston - Take You There
Solange Knowles - Sandcastle Disco
Marit Larsen - If a Song Could Get Me You
Ryan Leslie - Diamond Girl
Lex - You Came [2007]
Lykke Li - I’m Good I’m Gone; Little Bit
Lil’ Mama - L.I.F.E.
Lil’ Wayne - A Milli
Lindsay Lohan - Bossy
Krystal Meyers - Make Some Noise; Beautiful Tonight
MGMT - Time to Pretend
Allison Moorer - Mockingbird
Ne-Yo - Closer
Karina Pasian - Baby Baby, 16 at War
Dolly Parton - Jesus and Gravity
The Presets - Yippiyo-Ay
Jordan Pruitt - I’m Gone
R. Kelly - Son of a Bitch
Ray J f. Yung Berg - Sexy Can I
Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes, Lights Out
Scooter - The Question Is What Is the Question
September - Cry for You
Ashlee Simpson - Outta My Head
Snoop Dogg f. Robyn - Sexual Eruption (remix)
Soulja Boy - YAHHH TRICK YAHHHH
Jordin Sparks f. Chris Brown - No Air
Jazmine Sullivan - Fear; Bust Your Windows
Supergrass - Bad Blood
Teyana Taylor - Google Me
Max Tundra - Which Song
Tying Tiffany - I Wanna Be Your mp3
Vanilla Hudge - First Bad Habit
VIC - Wobble
VIC f. Soulja Boy - Get Silly
Kanye West - Flashing Lights
Wiley - Wearing My Rolex

Feeling of LIKE-LIKE
1. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
2. Dolly Parton - Backwoods Barbie
3. Randy Newman - Harps and Angels
4. Marit Larsen - The Chase
5. CSS - Donkey
6. Ashlee Simpson - Bittersweet World
7. Danity Kane - Welcome to the Dollhouse
8. Jazmine Sullivan - Fearless
9. Veronicas - Hook Me Up [2007 AUS]
10. Krystal Meyers - Make Some Noise
11. The Very Best - Very Best Mixtape
12. Solange - Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams
13. The Do - A Mouthful
14. Lil’ Mama - VYP: Voice of the Young People
15. Studio - Yearbook 2
16. Joan as Police Woman - To Survive
17. Leona Lewis - Spirit
18. Lil’ Wayne - The Carter 3 
19. Black Mountain - In the Future
20. Britta Persson - Kill Hollywood Me

Eyeing 20
B-52s - Funplex
Booka Shade - The Sun and the Neon Light
Mariah Carey - E=MC2
Taio Cruz - Departure
Maria Daniela Y Su Sonido Lasser - Jeventud En Extasis
Destroyer - Trouble in Dreams
Dungen - 4
Efdemin - s/t
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
Hercules and Love Affair - s/t
K’naan - Dusty Foot Philosopher
Karina - First Love
The Knux - Remind Me in Three Days
Alex Moulton - Exodus
Conor Oberst - s/t
R. Kelly - 12 Play Fourth Quarter
The Roots - Rising Down
September - s/t [US 2008]
Sam Sparro - s/t
Britney Spears - Circus
Marnie Stern - This Is It and Etc.
Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha
Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
The Week That Was - s/t
Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreak
Wiley - Grime Wave
VIC - Beast

Disqualified for Sanity
Beyonce - I Am…Sasha Fierce [first disc]
Digitalism - Kitsune Tabloid mix
Diplo/Santogold - Top Ranking
Rex the Dog - The Rex the Dog Show
Taylor Swift - Live from Soho + all live appearances
Steinski - What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006
V/A - Step Up 2 OST

Feeling of like, “like”:
A-Trak - Running Man
Annie - Don’t Stop
David Banner - The Greatest Story Ever Told
Brandy - Human
Breeders - Mountain Battles
Nick Cave - Dig Lazarus Dig
No Age - Nouns
Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded
dj/rupture - Uproot
Duffy - Rockferry
El Guincho - Alegranza
The Feeling - Join with Us
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
Al Green - Lay It Down
Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood OST
Van Hunt - Popular
Jesus H. Christ and the Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse - Happier Than You
Keak da Sneak - Deified
Kenna - Make Sure They See My Face [2007]
Sonya Kitchell - This Storm
Kleerup - s/t
Lady Gaga - The Fame
The Last Shadow Puppets - Age of the Understatement
Lykke Li - Youth Novels
Jamie Lidell - Jim
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
Little Jackie - The Stoop
Lloyd - Lessons in Love
Magnetic Fields - Distortion
Allison Moorer - Mockingbird
Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
Ne-Yo - Year of the Gentleman
Panic! At the Disco - Pretty. Odd.
The Presets - Apocalypso
Jordan Pruitt - Permission to Fly
Santogold - s/t
Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
Taylor Swift - Fearless
Gym Class Heroes - The Quilt
Shugo Tokumaru - Exit
Torche - Meanderthal
TVOTR - Dear Science Guy
Vivan Girls - s/t
Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing
Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals
YMCK - Family Genesis
Tata Young - One Love

Feeling of [undecided]:
The Bug - London Zoo
Clinic - Do It
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrsing
Ratatat - LP3

Feeling of [file missing]
Alphabeat - s/t
Andre 3000 - Alter Ego mixtape
BYOP - Get Awkward
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Blog 27 - Before We Die
Cadence Weapon - Afterparty Babies
Constantines - Kensington Heights
Cheri Dennis - In and Out of Love
Miley Cyrus - Breakout
Daedelus - Love to Make Music To
Devotchka - A Mad and Faithful Telling
The Dodos - Visiter
Eminelton - Eminem and Elton John
Fleet Foxes - s/t
Glass Candy - Beatbox
Girlicious - s/t
Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
Janet Jackson - Discipline
Jeremy Jay - A Place Where We Could Go
Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head
Killers - Day & Age
Los Campesinos - Hold On Now Youngster
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
The Music Tapes - For Clouds and Tornadoes
Notwist - The Devil, You + Me
Katy Perry - Catchy (Kill Yourself)
Kelley Polar - I Need You to Hold on while the Sky Is Falling
Prima J - s/t
R.E.M. - Accelerate
RZA - Digi Snacks
She and Him - Vol. 1
Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
Stereolab - Chemical Chords
Subtle - ExitingARM
Sugababes - Catfights and Spotlights
Thalisha - Ear Candy
The-Dream - Love/Hate
Times New Viking - Rip It Off
Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
Vampire Weekend - s/t
Vanilla Hudge - Identified
The Verve - Forth
The Walkmen - You and Me
Why? - Alopecia
Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun

Feeling of processing:
Brittini Black - Good Happens
Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
t.A.T.u. - Happy Smiles
V/A - Steppas’ Delight

Soon to be Feeling?:
The Beaties - Ride the Pump
Cassie - Connecticut Waitress
Janelle Monae - Metropolis Pt. Whatever
Sara Paxton - The Ups and Downs

OVERLOOKED IN 2007?!?!?!?! (w/ tier status)
Ciara - The Evolution (1st tier)
Gym Class Heroes - As Cruel as Schoolchildren (2nd tier)
Sean Kingston - s/t (2nd tier)
Ne-Yo - Because of You (3rd tier+)
Kelly Rowland - Ms. Kelly (3rd tier+)
Stooges - The Weirdness (3rd tier+)
Robin Thicke - The Evolution of… (2nd tier)


2007: The Year of Wheat


2007 Final List

Wheaties:
50 Cent - “I Get Money”
Aly and AJ - “Potential Break-Up Song”; “Bullseye”
Amerie - “Gotta Work”
Sophie Ellis Bextor - “Catch You”
Natasha Bedingfield - “I Want to Have Your Babies”
Black Eyed Peas - “My Humps (New World Mix)”
Chromeo - “Bonafied Lovin’”
Ciara - “Like a Boy”
Kelly Clarkson - “Never Again”
Miley Cyrus - “East Northumberland High” & “See You Again”
Craig David - “Let’s Dance”
Dollyrots - “Because I’m Awesome”
D.B.’z - “Stewy”
Dude ‘N Nem - “Watch My Feet”
Eve - “Tambourine”
Grinderman - “No Pussy Blues”
Petra Haden - “Don’t Stop Believin’”
Hilary Duff - “Happy” & “Burned”
Justice - “D.A.N.C.E.”
Keak da Sneak - “That Go”
R. Kelly - “Same Girl” & “Real Talk”
Marit Larsen - “Solid Ground”
Avril Lavigne - “Girlfriend” (Lil’ Mama remix)
Lil’ Mama - “Lip Gloss”
Lil’ Wayne - “I Feel Like Dying”
M.I.A. - “Jimmy” & “Paper Planes”
Katharine McPhee - “Open Toes”
Alexa Melo - “Girlfriend”
Mims - “This Is Why I’m Hot”
Kylie Minogue - “2 Hearts”
Janelle Monae - “Violet Stars Happy Hunting!”
Heidi Montag - “Body Language”
Roisin Murphy - “Overpowered”
My Chemical Romance - “Teenagers”
Natasha - “Hey Hey Hey”
Natasha ft. Clipse - “So Sick”
Keke Palmer - “Game Song”
Rihanna - “Lemme Get That”
Rihanna ft. Jay-Z Lil’ Mama - “Umbrella”
Nicole Scherzinger - “Whatever You Like”
Britney Spears - “Gimme More”
Gwen Stefani - “The Sweet Escape”
Linda Sundblad - “Lose You”
Taylor Swift - “Teardrops on My Guitar”
Ashley Tisdale - “Not Like That”
Justin Timberlake - “What Goes Around…”
Tommy heavenly6 - “Heavy Starry Chain”
The Veronicas - “Hook Me Up”
White Stripes - “Icky Thump”
will.i.am - “I Got It from My Mama” (+Daft Punk remix)

Dice (roughly in order):
01. M.I.A. - Kala
02. Britney Spears - Blackout
03. Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
04. Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta
05. Various - Hyphy Hitz
06. Ashley Monroe - Satisfied
07. Hilary Duff - Dignity
08. Kelly Clarkson - My December
09. Tegan and Sara - The Con
10. Aly and AJ - Insomniatic (+ bonus tracks)
11. Lil’ Wayne - The Carter 3
12. A-Trak - Dirty South Dance
13. Low - Drums and Guns
14. Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss
15. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
16. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
17. R. Kelly - Double Up
18. Radiohead - In Rainbows
19. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
20. Keke Palmer - So Uncool

Knocked Outta Contention
!!! - Myth Takes
Amerie - Because I Love It
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
The Ark - Prayer for the Weekend
Art Brut - It’s a Bit Complicated
Battles - Mirrored
Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Trip the Light Fantastic
Busdriver - Roadkillovercoat
Vanessa Carlton - Heroes & Thieves
Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
Ciara - The Evolution
Clientele - God Save the Clientele
Digitalism - Idealism
Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English
Electric Six - I Shall Exterminate…
Siobhan Donaghy - Ghosts
Feist - The Reminder
The Fratellis - Costello Music
The Go! Team - Proof of Youth
Grinderman - s/t
Charlotte Hatherley - The Deep Blue
The Horrors - Strange House
Justice - †
Kid Rock - Rock ‘n’ Roll Jesus
Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted
Katharine McPhee - s/t
Maxïmo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures
MIA - Bittersuss
Mandy Moore - Wild Hope
Melt-Banana - Bambi’s Dilemma
Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Paramore - Riot!
Pissed Jeans - Hope for Men
Jordan Pruitt - No Ordinary Girl
Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad
Marnie Stern - In Advance of the Broken Arm
Tracey Thorn - Out of the Woods
Ashley Tisdale - Headstrong
Mary Weiss and Reigning Sound - Dangerous Game
Kanye West - Graduation
White Stripes - Icky Thump
will.i.am - Songs About Girls
Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams
Yelle - Pop Up

No Dice:
Against Me! - New Wave
Bat for Lashes - Fur and Gold
Bjork - Volta
Keyshia Cole - Just Like You
Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
Deerhunter - Cryptograms
Dragonette - Galore
Fall Out Boy - Infinity on High
Lupe Fiasco - The Cool
Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
Hannah Montana - OST 2 + Meet Miley Cyrus
Vanilla Hudge - V
J-Me - s/t
Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing
Les Savy Fav - Let’s Stay Friends
Liars - Liars
Manu Chao - La Radiolina
Maroon 5 - It Won’t Be Soon Before Long
Menomena - Friend and Foe
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Postmarks - s/t
Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Shins - Wincing the Night Away

Processing
Air - Pocket Symphony
Keren Ann - s/t
Interpol - Our Love to Admire
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights
Kano - London Town
Noisettes - What’s the Time Mr. Wolf?
Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye
The Stooges - The Weirdness
Skye Sweetnam - Sound Soldier

Seeking/Anticipating
The Beaties - Never Say Die

Should Probably Listen To At Least Once
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
El-P - I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead
Patty Griffin - Children Running Through
The National - Boxer

OMG Overlooked in 2006
Cassie - Cassie
Mira Craig - Mira Mira
DJ Webstar - Presents…Caught in the Web
The Feeling - Twelve Stops from Home
Persephone’s Bees - Notes from the Underworld
Taylor Swift - s/t


2006: The Year of Smoking

2005/2006 Combined List

Cigars
01. Marit Larsen - Under the Surface
02. The Ark - State of the Ark
03. Margaret Berger - Pretty Scary Silver Fairy
04. Paris Hilton - Paris
05. The Veronicas - Secret Life Of…
06. Amy Diamond - Still Me Still Now
07. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
08. Phoenix - It’s Never Been Like That
09. BWO - Halcyon Days
10. Pink - I’m Not Dead
11. Fergie - The Dutchess
12. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
13. Miranda! - Sin Restricionnes (2004 Argentina)
14. Marie Serneholt - Enjoy the Ride
15. Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way
16. Lillix - Inside the Hollow
17. Fefe Dobson - Sunday Love
18. Arctic Monkeys - [Terrible Long Title]
19. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33
20. Devo 2.0 - s/t

Beyonce - B’Day
Delays - You See Colours
Destroyer - Rubies
Dr. Octagon - Return of Dr. Octagon
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
Flyleaf - s/t (2005)
Kristy Frank - Freedom
Guillemots - Through the Window Pane
Hannah Montana - OST
Man Man - Six Demon Bag
Meg and Dia - Something Real
Joanna Newsom - Y’s
Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
Katie Neil - EP
The Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love
Marion Raven - Here I Am (2005 Norway)
Rihanna - A Girl Like Me
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Spank Rock - Yoyoyoyoyoyo
Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
YMCK - Family Music (2004 Japan)
Thom Yorke - The Eraser

Cigarettes (# = soundtrack, compilation, etc.)

Cream of Wheat Brand
The Ark - One of Us Is Gonna Die Young
BWO - Chariots of Fire; Temple of Love
Cansei de Ser Sexy - Let’s Make Love and Listen Death from Above
Girl Authority - Hollaback Girl
Nelly Furtado - Maneater
Paris Hilton - Nothing in This World
Marit Larsen - Don’t Save Me; Only a Fool
Kidz Bop - Crazy Frog (Axel F)
Lillix - Sweet Temptation
Miranda! - Don
Hannah Montana (nee Miley Cyrus) - I Got Nerve
Prince - Black Sweat
Rihanna - SOS
Marie Serneholt - That’s the Way My Heart Goes; I Need a House
The Veronicas - 4Ever
Young B and DJ Webstar - Chicken Noodle Soup

Whole Wheat Brand
Lily Allen - LDN
Aly and AJ - Rush; Not This Year
The Ark - Clamor for Glamour
Ashley Parker Angel - Let U Go
Belinda - Ni Freud Ni Tu Mama
Black Eyed Peas - Pump It
Blog 27 - Hey Boy
Chamillionaire - Ridin’ Dirty
Ciara - Get Up
Delays - Valentine
Amy Diamond - Don’t Cry Your Heart Out
Hilary Duff - Play with Fire
Fergie - Fergalicious
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
Hannah Montana - Best of Both Worlds; Who Said
Hi_Tack - Say Say Say
Paris Hilton - Screwed; Stars Are Blind
Jonas Brothers - Mandy
Kim-Lian - In Vain
Megan McCauley - Tap That
Meg and Dia - Monster; Indiana
Morningwood - Nth Degree
Ms. Peaches - Fry That Chicken
Sarah Nixey - Strangelove
Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler
The Pack - Vans
Persephone’s Bees - Nice Day
Phoenix - Long Distance Call
Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me
Sugababes - Red Dress
Mihai Traistariu - Tornero
The Veronicas - Everything I’m Not
Weird Al - White and Nerdy
Wigwam - Wigwam
Matt Willis - Up All Night
Young Leek - Jiggle It
YMCK - Magical 8bit Tour
Bertine Zeitlitz - 500

Wheat Brand
Christina Aguilera - Ain’t No Other Man
Lily Allen - Smile
Amerie - Take Control
I’m from Barcelona - We’re from Barcelona
Beyonce - Deja Vu
Janet Jackson - Lookout Weekend
Courtney Jaye - Can’t Behave#
Cheyenne Kimball - One Original Thing#
Lil’ Chris - Checkin’ It Out
Madonna - Sorry
My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
Pet Shop Boys - I’m with Stupid
The Similou - All This Love
Jessica Simpson - Public Affair

No Cigars
Lily Allen - Alright, Still
Ashley Parker Angel - Soundtrack to Your Life (OK maybe like ½ a cigar)
Danielson - Ships
Nelly Furtado - Loose
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Islands - Return to the Sea
Jonas Brothers - It’s About Time
Cheyenne Kimball - The Day Has Come
The Knife - Silent Shout
Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites
Mr. Lif - Mo Mega
Christina Milian - So Amazin’
Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes
Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off
The Wreckers - Stand Still, Look Pretty
Various Artists - Aquamarine OST
Various Artists - High School Musical OST

Processing
Christina Aguilera - Back to Basics
Cat Power - The Greatest
CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
Futureheads - News and Tributes
Ghostface - Fishscale
Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
Jojo - The High Road
Killers - Sam’s Town
Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor
Nina Pallot - Fires
Test Icicles - For Screening Purposes Only
TV on the Radio - C is for Cookie
Scott Walker - The Drift

Searching
Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Fefe Dobson - Sunday Love
Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
Sara Paxton - The Ups and Downs
Persephone’s Bees - Notes from the Underworld
Platinum Weird - Make Believe
Jessica Simpson - A Public Affair
Skye Sweetnam - Sound Soldier
Jillian Wheeler - [untitled]
Bertine Zetlitz - My Italian Greyhound

Oops! …Overlooked in 2005
Amy Diamond - This Is Me Now
Miranda Lambert - Kerosene
Brie Larson - Finally Out of P.E.
Hope Partlow - Who We Are
Huckapoo - Huckapoo (unreleased)
Rachel Stevens - Come and Get It
Various - Darcy’s Wild Life OST


2005: The Year Without a Theme

20 Cigars:
13 + God: 13 + God
Art Brut: Bang Bang Rock n’ Roll
Busdriver: Fear of a Black Tangent
Datarock: Datarock Datarock
Deerhoof: The Runners Four
Fiery Furnaces: Rehearsing My Choir
Gogol Bordello: Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike
Gorillaz: Demon Days
Gustav: Rettet Die Wale
The Hold Steady: Separation Sunday
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings: Naturally
LCD Soundsystem: LCD Soundsystem
Jamie Lidell: Multiply
MIA: Arular
The Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree
Polysics: Polysics or Die!!!
Robyn: Robyn
Silver Jews: Tanglewood Numbers
Spoon: Gimme Fiction
Sufjan Stevens: Illinois


20 Cigarettes
Amerie: 1 Thing
Art Brut: Good Weekend
Backstreet Boys: Just Want You to Know
Kelly Clarkson: Since U Been Gone
Crazy Frog: Axel F
Daft Punk: Robot Rock (Soulwax remix)
Datarock: Fa-Fa-Fa
Missy Elliott: Lose Control
Gorillaz: Feel Good Inc.
Hold Steady: Your Little Hoodrat Friend
The Killers: Mr. Brightside
LCD Soundsystem: Tribulations
Jamie Lidell: When I Come Back Around
Lindsay Lohan: First
MIA: Pull Up the People
Kylie Minogue: Giving You Up
Gwen Stefani: Hollaback Girl
Spoon: I Turn My Camera On
Skye Sweetnam: Part of Your World
Ying Yang Twins: Wait


Not Counting for Sanity Purposes
Alan Braxe and Friends: The Upper Cuts
Dirtbombs: If You Don’t Already Have a Look
Kraftwerk: Minimum-Maximum (live)
Optimo: How to Kill the DJ Vol. 2
Various Artists: Run the Road


Close but No Cigars (bold = cigar consideration)
Angels of Light: Sing “Other People”
Animal Collective and Vashti Bunyan: Prospect Hummer EP
Animal Collective: Feels
Annie: DJ Kicks
Beanie Sigel: The B. Coming
Bloc Party: Silent Alarm
Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Matt Sweeney: Superwolf
The Books: Lost and Safe
Caribou: The Milk of Human Kindness
Choo Choo La Rouge: I’ll Be Out All Night
DJ Target: Aim High Vol. 2
Missy Elliott: The Cookbook
Final Fantasy: Has a Good Home
Hood: Outside Closer
Iron and Wine: Woman King EP
Isolee: Wearemonster
The Juan Maclean: Less Than Human
Justus Kohncke: Doppelleben
Lemon Jelly: ’65-‘95
Low: The Great Destroyer
Stephen Malkmus: Face the Truth
M83: Before the Dawn Heals Us
Mice Parade: Bem-Vinda Vontade
Montag: Alone, Not Alone
New Pornographers: Twin Cinema
Of Montreal: The Sunlandic Twins
Shining: In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster
Skeletons and the Girl-Faced Boys: Git
We vs. the Shark: Ruin Everything!
Kanye West: Late Registration
Wolf Parade: Apologies to the Queen Mary


No Cigars:
Aly and AJ: Into the Rush
Paul Anka: Rock Swings
Architecture in Helsinki: In Case We Die
Beck: Guero
Black Mountain: Black Mountain
Bright Eyes: I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning
Bright Eyes: Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Constantines: Tournament of Hearts
Daft Punk: Human After All
Decemberists: Picaresque
DangerDoom: The Mouse and the Mask
Devendra Banhart: Cripple Crow
Eels: Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
Aimee Mann: The Forgotten Arm
Fiery Furnaces: EP
Fischerspooner: Odyssey
Russian Futurists: Our Thickness


Processing:
Broken Social Scene: Broken Social Scene
Junior Senior: Hey Hey My My Yo Yo
Okkervil River: Black Sheep Boy
Fannypack: See You Next Tuesday
Common: Be


Haven’t Heard:
Akron/Family: Akron/Family
Antony and the Johnsons: I Am a Bird Now
Fiona Apple: Extraordinary Machine
Andrew Bird: And the Mysterious Production of Eggs
The Evens: The Evens
Kano: Home Sweet Home
The Kills: No Wow
The National: Alligator
Pinetop Seven: The Night’s Bloom
Sleater-Kinney: The Woods
Sigur Ros: Takk
Super Furry Animals: Love Kraft
Venetian Snares: Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett
White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan
Xiu Xiu: La Foret


Head-Smack Overlooked of 2004:
American Music Club: Love Songs for Patriots
Air: Talkie Walkie
Camper Van Beethoven: New Roman Times
Diplo: Florida
dj /Rupture: Special Gunpowder
Jeff Hanson: Jeff Hanson
Kings of Convenience: Riot on an Empty Street
Lindsay Lohan: Speak
Mylo: Destroy Rock and Roll
Skye Sweetnam: Noise from the Basement


2003: The Year of Kish and Kash [revisionist]

Kish Kash

  1. Sheena Ringo: Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana

  2. Basement Jaxx: Kish Kash

  3. Constantines: Shine a Light

  4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell

  5. Broken Social Scene: You Forgot It in People

  6. TV on the Radio: Young Liars EP

  7. Ying Yang Twins: Me and My Brother

  8. Liz Phair: s/t

  9. Dizzee Rascal: Boy in Da Corner

  10. The Unicorns: Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?

  11. Missy Elliott: This Is Not a Test!

  12. David Banner: MTA2: Baptized in Dirty Water

  13. T.I.: Trap Muzik

  14. Oukast: Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

  15. Fefe Dobson: s/t

  16. Richard X: Presents His X-Factor Vol. 1

  17. Strokes: Room on Fire

  18. King Geedorah: Take Me to Your Leader

  19. Electric Six: Fire

  20. The Darkness: Permission to Land

Kishy-Kashy (Bubbling Under)
50 Cent: Get Rich or Die Tryin’
ACIDMAN: Loop
Blur: Think Tank
Books: Lemon of Pink
Deerhoof: Apple O’
Jewel: 0304
Kelis: Tasty
Manitoba: Up in Flames
Radiohead: Hail to the Thief
Pete Rock & Inl: Center of Attention
Britney Spears: In the Zone

Kash
Jay-Z: Black Album
The Rapture: Echoes
Sufjan Stevens: Greetings from Michigan
Super Furry Animals: Phantom Power


The Nineties

1999: The Year of Crazy Butterflies [revisionist]


‘99 Albums

‘99 Track Mixes

Crazy Town
1. Dismemberment Plan: Emergency & I
2. Handsome Boy Modeling School: So…How’s Your Girl?
3. Jay-Z: Vol. 3….Life and Times of S. Carter
4. Fiona Apple: When the Pawn…
5. Basement Jaxx: Remedy
6. Cassius: 1999
7. Blur: 13
8. Mr. Bungle: California
9. Takako Minekawa: Fun 9
10. Lali Puna: Tridecoder
11. Mr. Oizo: Analog Worms Attack
12. Stereolab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
13. Lilys: The 3 Way
14. Built to Spill: Keep It Like a Secret
15. Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs
16. Bonnie “Prince” Billy: I See a Darkness
17. μ-Ziq: Royal Astronomy
18. Sigur Ros: Aegaetis Byrjun
19. Method Man & Redman: Blackout!
20. Catatonia: Equally Cursed and Blessed


Come-Come ‘98-y

Arling & Cameron: All-In [‘98 NL/‘99 US]
Beta Band: 3 EPs [‘98 UK/‘99 US] Black Box Recorder: England Made Me [‘98 UK/‘99 US]
Red Snapper: Making Bones


Butterflies (Bubbling Under)
Beck: Midnite Vultures
blink-182: Enema of the State
B*Witched: Awake and Breathe
Bows: Blush
Dillinger Escape Plan: Calculating Infinity
The Dixie Chicks: Fly
Missy Elliott: Da Real World
Eve: Let There Be Eve…Ruff Ryders’ First Lady
Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Gogol Bordello: Voi-La Intruder
Guided by Voices: Do the Collapse
Hot Boys: Guerilla Warfare
Le Tigre: Deceptacon
Les Rythmes Digitales: Darkdancer
Lil Wayne: Tha Block Is Hot
Moby: Play
Prince Paul: Prince Among Thieves
Q-Tip: Amplified
Roots: Things Fall Apart
Senor Coconut: El Baile Alemain
Spirit Caravan: Jug Fulla Sun
Squarepusher: Budakhan Microphone
Supergrass: s/t
Testament: The Gathering
To Rococo Rot: The Amateur View
Toy-Box: Fantastic
Tom Waits: Mule Variations
White Stripes: s/t


Flutterbies (processing)
All Seeing I: Pickled Eggs and Sherbet
Arsonists: As the World Burns
Drunken Tiger: Year of the Tiger
Mint Royale: On the Ropes
Shannon Moore: Ltd
Mouse on Mars: Niun Niggung
Mos Def: Black on Both Sides
Nazareth: Boogaloo
ODB: Nigga Please
O Rappa: Lado B Lado A
Orso: s/t
Pavement: Terror Twilight
Powerman 5000: Tonight, the Stars Revolt!
Quannum Projects: Quannum Spectrum
Ruff Ryders: Ryde or Die Vol. 1
Uz jsme doma: Usi
Katharine Whalen: Jazz Squad
Zombie Nation: Leichenschmaus
V/A: Kompakt Total 1


Sugar, Baby
The Avengers: Died for Your Sins
Banco De Gaia: The Magical Sounds Of…
Carlinhos Brown: Omelete Man
Child’s View: Funfair
Cibo Matto: Stereotype A
Destiny’s Child: The Writing’s on the Wall
Foo Fighters: There Is nothing Left to Lose
GAS: Konigsforst
Hardknox: s/t
Helloween: Metal Jukebox
The Herbaliser: Very Mercenary
Incubus: Make Yourself
Kelis: Kaleidoscope
Kool Keith: Black Elvis/Lost in Space
The Melvins: The Bootlicker
Modest Mouse: Building Nothing Out of Something
Dolly Parton: The Grass Is Blue
John Prine: In Spite of Ourselves
Rage Against the Machine: The Battle of Los Angeles
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Californication
SHeDAISY: The Whole Shebang
Britney Spears: …Baby One More Time
Stereo Total: My Melody
Scooter: Back to the Heavywieght Jam


Sugar Babies [EPs] Aphex Twin: Windowlicker EP
Autechre: EP7
Negativland & Chumbawamba: The ABCs of Anarchism EP
Rilo Kiley: s/t (The Initial Friend EP)


Come-come (also-rans)
8 Ball & MJG: In Our Lifetime
800 Cherries: Romantico
A: A vs. Monkey Kong
Christina Aguilera: s/t
Jessica Andrews: Heart Shaped World
Aphrodite: s/t
Badmarsh & Siri: Dancing Drums
Bardo Pond: Set and Setting
Beatnuts: A Musical Massacre
Lou Bega: A Little Bit of Mambo
The BellRays: Let It Blast
BG: Chopper City in the Ghetto
Mary J. Blige: Mary
Bloque: s/t
Bobby Conn: Llovessonngs
Cheb i Saba: Shri Durga
Crazy Town: The Gift of Game
Dr. Dre: 2001
Dubtribe Sound System: Bryant Street
Eminem: Slim Shady LP
The Fall: The Marshall Suite
Folk Implosion: One Part Lullaby
Juan Gabriel: Todo Esta Bien
Goatsnake: I
Goldfinger: Darrin’s Coconut Ass: Live
Macy Gray: On How Life Is
GusGus: This Is Normal
hitomi: thermo plastic
Holy Modal Rounders: Too Much Fun!
Home: XIV
Jamiroquai: Synkronized
Jimmy Eat World: Clarity
Joi: One and One Is One
Latin Playboys: Dose
Lava Baby: In the Right Place…
Len: You Can’t Stop the Bum Rush
Les Negresses Vertes: Trabendo
The Lonesome Organist: Calvacade
Jennifer Lopez: On the 6
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs: La Marcha Del Golazo Solitario
Low: Secret Name
Luscious Jackson: Electric Honey
Lene Marlin: Playing My Game
Paul McCartney: Run Devil Run
Julie Miller: Broken Things
Montgomery Gentry: Tattoos & Scars
Mandy Moore: So Real
Mr. Scruff: Keep It Unreal
Naughty By Nature: Nineteen Naughty Nine Nature’s Fury
Randy Newman: Bad Love
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris: Trio II
The Rentals: Seven More Minutes
OOIOO: Feather Float
Pet Shop Boys: Nightlife
Polaris: Music from the Adventures of Pete & Pete
Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali: Sacrifice to Love
Slick Rick: The Art of Storytelling
Smash Mouth: Astro Lounge
Will Smith: Willennium Super Collider: Head On
They Might Be Giants: Long Tall Weekend
TLC: Fanmail
Type O Negative: World Coming Down
U.S. Maple: Talker


1998: The Year of Spaceeggs [revisionist]


1. Liz Phair: whitechocolatespaceegg
2. Beta Band: 3 E.P.’s
3. Arling & Cameron: All In / Arling & Cameron & Swarte: Sound Shopping
4. Wendy & Lisa - Girl Bros.
5. Jay-Z: Vol. 2…Hard Knock Life
6. OutKast: Aquemini
7. Stereo Total: Juke-Box Alarm
8. Fantastic Plastic Machine: Luxury
9. Mice Parade: The True Meaning of Boodleybaye
10. Beck: Mutations
11. Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
12. Sonic Youth: A Thousand Leaves
13. Hole: Celebrity Skin
14. Spoon: A Series Of Sneaks
15. Cornelius: Fantasma
16. Uzeda: Different Section Wires
17. Black Box Recorder: England Made Me
18. Juvenile: 400 Degreez
19. Solex: Solex vs. the Hitmeister
20. The Tamperer and Maya: Fabulous


Cool, Tall, Vulnerable, Luscious
Air: Moon Safari
Tori Amos: From The Choirgirl Hotel
Beastie Boys: Hello Nasty
Jane Birkin: A La Legre
Bonnie “Prince” Billy: I See a Darkness
Boredoms: Super Ae
Bronco Bullfro: s/t
Carlinhos Brown: Omelette Man
The Coup: Steal This Album
E-40: The Element of Surprise
E-Type: Last Man Standing
Fatboy Slim: You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby
Gang Starr: Moment of Truth
Herbie Hancock: Gershwin’s World
PJ Harvey: Is This Desire?
Hum: Downward Is Heavenward
Junkie XL: Saturday Teenage Kick
Willie Kent & Willie James Lyons: Ghetto
Kid Rock: Devil Without a Cause
Arto Lindsay: Noon Chill
Awilo Longomba: Coupe bibamba
Madonna: Ray of Light
Manu Chao: Clandestino
Mateo & Matos: New York Rhythms Volume 2
Neutral Milk Hotel: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Nicole: Make It Hot
Ninetynine: 767
The Notwist: Shrink
Jean-Jacques Perrey & David Chazam: Eclektronics
Propellerheads: Decksanddrumsandrockandroll
Pulp: This Is Hardcore
Red Aunts: Ghetto Blaster
Redman: Doc’s Da Name 2000
Royal Trux: Accelerator
Seatbelts: Cowboy Bebop OST
Stereolab: Aluminum Tunes: Switched On Vol. 3
Steve Reich Music For 18 Musicians
Stock, Hausen, & Walkman: Oh My Bag!
Vengaboys: The Party Album!
Tom Zé Fabrication Defect: Con Defeito De Fabricacao
Rob Zombie: Hellbilly Deluxe
V/A: Bombay the Hard Way
V/A: Wall of Sound Presents Bustin’ Loose

Only had this much
22-Pistepirkko: Eleven
Barry Adamson: As Above So Below
The Aislers Set: Terrible Things Happen
Akasha Cinematique
All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors: Turning Into Small
Amon Tobin: Permutation
A* C*: Picnic of Love
And Also The Trees: Silver Soul
Antonelli: Peng Peng Baby
Archers of Loaf: White Trash Heroes
Freya Aswynn: Songs of Yggdrasil
Autechre: LP5
BWitched: s/t
Belle & Sebastion: The Boy With the Arab Strap
The BellRays: Let It Blast
Big Punisher: Capital Punishment
Black Eyed Peas: Behind the Front
Black Star: Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
Blink: The End is High
blink-182: Dude Ranch
Blonde Redhead: In an Expression of the Inexpressible
Bloque: s/t
Lester Bowie: The Odyssey of Funk & Popular Music
Boxhead Ensemble: Dutch Harbor: Where The Sea Breaks Its Back
Bran Van 3000: Glee
Buckfunk 3000: First Class Ticket to Telos
Busta Rhymes: Extinction Level Event
Don Byron: An Existential Dred: Nu Blaxploitation
Cadallaca: Introducing…
Cake: Prolonging the Magic
Calexico: The Black Light
The Cardigans: Gran Turismo
James Carter: In Carterian Fashion
Cat Power: Moon Pix
Catatonia: International Velvet
Celly Cel: The “G” Filez
cEvin Key / Subconscious Electronic Orchestra: Music for Cats
Chaos AD: Buzz Caner
Chico Science & Nação Zumbi: CSNZ
The Chinkees": …Are Coming
Computor Rockers: Galaxy Defenders
Conjunto Cespedes: Flores
Course of Empire: Telepathic Last Words
Cows: Sorry In Pig Minor
Dana International: Diva
David Sanchez: Obsesion
Deejay Punk-roc: Chicken Eye
Desert Sessions: Vol. 1-4
The Detroit Cobras: Mink Rat or Rabbit
Digital Underground: Who Got the Gravy
Dixie Chicks: Wide Open Spaces
DJ Clue: The Professional
DJ Vadim: USSR Reconstructed
DMX: It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot
Don Caballero: What Burns Never Returns
Donnas: American Teenage Rock ‘N’ Roll Machine
Charles Douglas: The Burdens of Genius
Dr. Bombay: Rice & Curry
Eels: Electro-Shock Blues
Eve 6: s/t
Faithless: Sunday 8 P.M.
Fear of Pop: Volume 1
Lee Fields: Let’s Get A Groove On
Fila Brazilia: Power Clown
Flin Flon: A-OK
Freestylers: We Rock Hard
Fugazi: End Hits
Fun-Da-Mental: Erotic Terrorism
Galleon: Mind Over Matter
Garbage: Version 2.0
Sue Garner: To Run More Smoothly
Gastr Del Sol: Camoufleur
Girlfriendo: Surprise! Surprise!
Girls Against Boys: FreakOn*Ica
Global Goon: Cradle of History
Goblin: La via della droga OST
Godspeed You Black Emperor!: f#a#
Goldie: Saturnz Return
Goodie Mob: Still Standing
Green Pajamas: All Clues Leads To Meaghan’s Bed
Groove Armada:
Buddy Guy & Junior Wells: Last Time Around Live at Legends
Happyland: Welcome to Happyland
Rei Harakami: Unrest [‘97/‘98]
Juliana Hatfield: Bed
Herbert: Around the House
Hit ‘n’ Hide: On a Ride
Hives: Barely Legal
Holly Golightly: Serial Girlfriend
I-F: Fucking Consumer
Imogen Heap: I Megaphone
Tetsu Inoue: Waterloo Terminal
Jacintha: Here’s to Ben
Jay-Jay Johanson: Tattoo
Joydrop: Metasexual
Julie Ruin: s/t
Kenickie: Get In
Junior Kimbrough: God Knows I Tried
Kurupt: Kuruption!
Kyra: Here I Am, I Always Am
Kim Lenz and Her Jaguars: s/t
Les Nubians: Princesses Nubie
Lifter Puller: The Entertainment and Arts
Linda McCartney: Wide Prairie
Lo Fidelity All Stars: How to Operate With a Blown Mind
P.W. Long: Push Me Again
Los Umbrellos: Flamenco Funk
Eleni Mandell: Wishbone
Massive Attack: Mezzanine
Maxwell: Embrya
Meat Beat Manifesto: Actual Sounds & Voices
Daler Mehndi: Tunak Tunak Tun
Melt-Banana: Charlie
Mercury Rev: Deserter’s Songs
Joe Dee Messina: I’m Alright
Miss Papaya: Pink
Mix Master Mike: Anti-Theft Device
Morcheeba: Big Calm
Maryam Mursal: The Journey
Willie Nelson: Teatro
Noto: Kerne
Heather Nova: Siren
Of Montreal: The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy
Other Side: (Don’t Look Back) Behind The Shack
Ozomatli: s/t
Pacou: No Computer Involved
Theo Parrish: First Floor
Cuarteto Patria & Manu Dibango: Cubafrica
Peanut Butter Wolf: My Vinyl Weighs a Ton
Pere Ubu: Pennsylvania
Phew & Seiichi Yamamato: Shiawase no Sumika
Philus: Tetra
Pimp Daddy Nash: Private Leftfield Downtempo Fuzz
Bonnie Pink: Evil and Flowers
Plantastik: Wak’d
Plastilina Mosh: Aquamosh
Public Enemy: He Got Game OST
Q-Bert: Wave Twisters Episode 7 Milion
Queens of the Stone Age: s/t
R.E.M.: Up
Rae & Christian: Northern Sulphuric Soul
Ernest Ranglin: In Search Of The Lost Riddim
Rare Essence: We Go On and On
Reatards: Teenage Hate
S.O.A.P.: Not Like Other Girls
Sach: Seven Days to Engineer
Saint Etienne: Good Humor
Scrawl: Nature Film
Silver Apples: The Garden
Silver Jews: American Water
Talvin Singh: OK
Sister’s Barbershop: Reminiscences
Sixtoo: The Psyche Intangible
Slapp Happy: Ca Va
Elliott Smith: XO
Snap-Her: Queen Bitch of Rock n Roll
Soul Coughing: El Oso
Southside Reverb: Breakneck
Sparklehorse: Good Morning Spider
Squarepusher: Music Is Rotted One Note
Steps: Step One
Yoshinori Sunahara: Pan Am The Sound of the 70s
Sunny Day Real Estate: How It Feels To Be Something On
System Of A Down: s/t
Yura Yura Teikoku: 3x3x3
Thee Headcoats: The Messerschmidtt Pilot’s Severed Hand
They Might Be Giants: Severe Tire Damage
Transglobal Underground: Rejoice Rejoice
Treeberrys: Talkin About Treeberrys
Trembling Blue Stars: Lips That Taste of Tears
Trick Daddy: www[dot]thug[dot]com
Tricky: Angels With Dirty Faces
Turbonegro: Apcocalypse Dudes
U.N.K.L.E.: Psyence Fiction
Unsane: Occupational Hazard
Varttina : Vihma
Versus: Two Cents Plus Tax
Wamdue Project: Program Yourself
Gillian Welch: Hell Among the Yearlings
Whale: All Disco Dancing Must End in Broken Bones
Andre Williams: Silky
Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Hal Willner: Whoops, I’m an Indian
Lee Ann Womack: Some Things I Know
Wondermints: Bali
Faye Wong: 唱遊
Yoyo: Ebony
Zeke: Kicked In The Teeth
Умка И Броневичок: Компxxакт
麦田守望者: s/t
V/A: Blade OST


Not ‘98 Weldon Irvine: The Sisters [recorded ‘79, released ‘98] Beanfield Beanfield (Streetbeat ’98) [Germany 96]


The Eighties

1987: The Bad Year [revisionist]


‘87 Albums

‘87 Track Mixes


Baddest

1. Ut: In Gut’s House
2. Spacemen 3: The Perfect Prescription
3. Company B: s/t
4. Hurby’s Machine: The House That Rap Built
5. John Cougar Mellencamp: The Lonesome Jubilee
6. Prince: Sign O’ The Times
7. Eric B. & Rakim: Paid In Full
8. Guns ‘n’ Roses: Appetite for Destruction
9. Spoonie Gee: The Godfather of Rap
10. Jane Siberry: The Walking
11. Sonic Youth: Sister
12. R.E.M.: Document
13. Joyce Sims: Come Into My Life
14. Mose Allison: Ever Since the World Ended
15. Sinéad O'Connor: The Lion And The Cobra
16. Bananarama: Wow!
17. Jill Jones: s/t
18. Loop: Heaven’s End
19. Warren Zevon: Sentimental Hygeine
19. Debbie Gibson: Out of the Blue


Badly Bubbling Under

Big Black: Songs About Fucking
Cover Girls: Show Me
Expose: Exposure
Fun Fun: Double Fun
Bobby Jimmy and the Critters: Back and Proud
Kool Moe Dee: How Ya Like Me Now
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam: Spanish Fly
Nocera: Over the Rainbow
Pebbles - s/t
Joe Satriani: Surfing with the Alien
Schoolly D: Saturday Night! The Album
X: See How We Are


Bad [meaning good]

Aerosmith: Permanent Vacation
Algebra Suicide: The Secret Like Crazy
Deborah Allen: Telepathy
Boogie Down Productions: Criminal Minded
Clarinet Summit: Southern Bells
Celia Cruz & Willie Colon: The Winners
Dana Dane: Dana Dane With Fame
Martin Dupont: Hot Paradox
INXS: Kick
Michael Jackson: Bad
Europa Kiado: Popzene
Madonna: You Can Dance
Magazine 60: Costa del Sol
Mel & Kim F.L.M.
MC Shy-D: Got to Be Tough
George Michael: Faith
Monet: Leave the Lights On
N.W.A.: N.W.A. and the Posse
Alexander O’Neal: Hearsay
Public Enemy: Yo! Bum Rush the Show
Alla Pugachevka: Пришла И Говорю
Redd Kross: Neurotica
Sonny Rollins: G-Man
Sabrina: s/t
Salt-N-Pepa: Hot, Cool & Vicious
Poncho Sanchez: Papa Gato
Thee Mighty Caesars: Wiseblood
Tiffany: s/t
Suzanne Vega: Solitude Standing
Yo La Tengo: New Wave Hot Dogs
V/A: Donda estabas tu…el 87?
V/A: Euro-Beat Mix Vol. 2
V/A: Fatal Beauty OST
V/A: Glasnost
V/A: The Hit Factory: The Best of Stock Aiken Waterman
V/A: Hollywood East Star Trax 3


Bad [meaning not bad]

16 Bit: Inaxycvgtgb
Alceu Valenca: Leque Moleque
Always August: Largeness With (W)Holes
Angela Winbush: Sharp
Barrence Whitfield and the Savages: Ow! Ow! Ow!
Belinda Carlisle: Heaven Is a Place on Earth
Beruirer Noir: Abracadaboum
Julie Brown: Trapped in the Body of a White Girl
Butthole Surfers: Locust Abortion Technician
Carla Bley: Sextet
John Chibadura & Tembo Brothers - $5000
Antara Chowdhury: Benghali Nursery Songs
Click: Duri Duri
Col. Bruce Hampton: Arkansas
Pascal Comelade: El Primitivismo
Cows: Taint Pluribus Taint Unum
David Roter Method: Bambo
Depeche Mode: Music For The Masses
Dinosaur Jr.: You’re Living All Over Me
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince: Rock The House
Drills: Drills/Certificate of Penetration
Dukes Of Stratosphear: Chips from the Chocolate Fireball
Dur-Dur Band: Dur Dur of Somalia
Electric Peace: Medieval Mosquito
Emeneya: Nizinzi
Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine: Let It Loose
The Ex: Too Many Cowboys
The Fools: Wake Up…It’s Alive!
Samantha Fox - s/t
Rosie Flores: s/t
Front 242: Official Version
Full Force: Guess Who’s Coming to the Crib?
France Gall: Babacar
Goo Goo Dolls: Goo Goo Dolls
Grateful Dead: In the Dark
Grazhdanskaya Oborona: хорошо
Gruesomes: Gruesomania
Nanci Griffith: Lonestar State of Mind
Guided by Voices: Devil Between My Toes
Heavy D & the Boyz: Living Large
Nona Hendryx: Female Trouble
Indigo Girls: Strange Fire
Inka: s/t
Invisible Limits: Demand for Supply
Jellybean: Just Visiting This Planet
The Judds: Heartland
Just-Ice & KRS-One: Kool & Deadly (Justicisms)
Niki Kleine: Wunder
Kim Wan-Sun: Alone in Front of the Yard
King Snake Roost: From Barbarism to Christian Manhood
k.d. lang and the Reclines: Angel with a Lariat
LA Dream Team: Bad to the Bone
The Lemonheads: Hate Your Friends
LL Cool J: Bigger and Deffer
Love and Rockets: Earth Sun Moon
Marshmallow Overcoat: The Inner Groove
Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper: Bo-Day-Shus!!!
Abdel Aziz el Mubarak: s/t
My Dad Is Dead: Peace, Love, and Murder
Opal: Happy Nightmare Baby
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris: Trio
Pata Negra: Blues de la Frontera
Pentagram: Day Of Reckoning
Lee “Scratch” Perry & Dub Syndicate: Time Boom X De Devil Dead
Pet Shop Boys: Actually
Daniel Ponce: Arawe
Pop Will Eat Itself: Box Frenzy
Pussy Galore: Right Now!
R. Stevie Moore: Teenage Spectacular
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Uplift Mofo Party Plan
Steve Reich: Drumming
The Replacements: Pleased to Meet Me
Linda Ronstadt: Canciones de mi Padre
Rush: Hold Your Fire
Scientists: The Human Jukebox
Screaming Trees: Even If And Especially When
Yasuaki Shimizu: Subliminal
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Through The Looking Glass
Sly & Robbie: Rhythm Killers
Ivana Spagna: Dedicated to the Moon
Bruce Springsteen: Tunnel Of Love
Mark Stewart: s/t
The Stomachmouths: Wild Trip
The System: Don’t Disturb This Groove
T La Rock: Lyrical King from the Boogie Down Bronx
Cecil Taylor: For Olim
Toxik: World Circus
Trouble Funk: Trouble Over Here, Trouble Over There
Sarah Vaughn: Brazilian Romance
Tom Waits: Franks Wild Years
Jody Watley: s/t
The Whispers: Just Gets Better With Time
Tammy Wynette: Higher Ground
Yello: One Second
V/A: The 20th Anniversary of the Summer of Love
V/A: Dance Dance OST
V/A: Hifazat OST


Baddish [EPs]

Green River: Dry As a Bone EP
Metallica: $5.98 EP: Garage Days Revisited
My Bloody Valentine: Ecstasy EP
Pixies: Come On Pilgrim EP
Rhythim Is Rhythim: Strings of Life EP
Soundgarden: Screaming Life EP


86'ed

Les Rita Mitsouko: The No Comprendo


The Seventies

1974: The Year of Proggishness [revisionist]

‘74 Albums


Progressive

  1. Tuca: Drácula I Love You

  2. Ema Sugimoto: Emma Is Love

  3. Slapp Happy: Slapp Happy

  4. New York Dolls: New York Dolls in…Too Much Too Soon

  5. Miles Davis: Get Up With It

  6. Hugh Masekela: I Am Not Afraid

  7. Mulatu Astatke: Ethio Jazz

  8. Neil Young: On the Beach

  9. Queen: Sheer Heart Attack

  10. Robin Trower: Bridge of Sighs

  11. Chie Sawa: 23 (Twenty-Three Years Old)

  12. Kim Jung Mi: Kim Jung Mi

  13. Gedo: Gedo

  14. Nilüfer: Nilüfer LP

  15. Hall and Oates: War Babies

  16. Chairmen of the Board: Skin I’m In

  17. Lou Reed: Sally Can’t Dance

  18. Transsylvania Phoenix: Mugur de fluier

  19. Bo Diddley: Big Bad Bo

  20. Dana Gillespie: Weren’t Born A Man


Progress

10cc: Sheet Music
Batsumi: s/t
Jorge Ben Jor: A Tabua De Esmerelda
Big Star: Radio City
James Brown: Hell
Doug Carn: Adam’s Apple
Candies: Namida no kisetsu
Captain Beefheart: Bluejeans and Moonbeams
Carol: Carol First
Cher: Dark Lady
Cold Blood: Ready to Live
Malaku Daku: Love Drums from the Ghetto
Betty Davis: They Say I’m Different
Brian Eno: Here Come the Warm Jets
Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Funkadelic: Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
Al Green: Explores Your Mind
Dr. K. Gyasi & His Noble Kings: Sikyi Highlife
Harmonia: Musik von Harmonia
Henry Cow: Unrest
Hyunkyung and Youngae: s/t
Bobbi Humphrey: Blacks and Blues
Mayumi Itsuwa: Toki wo Mitsumete
The Jackson 5: Dancing Machine
King Crimson: Red
Kati Kovacs: Kovacs Kati
Miriam Makeba: A Promise
La Marelu: Jaleos Con la Marelu
Maceo: Us
The Meters: Rejuvenation
Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark
Van Morrison: Veedon Fleece
Mott the Hoople: The Hoople
Maria Muldaur: Waitress in a Donut Shop
Randy Newman: Good Old Boys
News: Hot Off the Press
Off Course: Kono Machi wo Yukeba / Off Course Round 2
Original the Dylan: City of Sadness
Dolly Parton: Jolene
Ann Peebles: I Can’t Stand the Rain
Perfume Azul do Sol: Nascimento
Suzi Quatro: Quatro
Fenton Robinson: Somebody Loan Me a Dime
Mick Ronson: Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Sadistic Mika Band: Black Ship
Gil Scott-Heron: Winter in America
The Singers Unlimited: A Capella II
Skorpio: A rohanas
Bridget St John: Jumble Queen
Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic
Syreeta: Stevie Wonder Presents Syreeta
Takeshi Terauchi & Blue Jeans: Tsugaru Jongara
Richard and Linda Thompson: I Want to See th Bright Lights Tonight
Mari Trini: Quién?
Chikara Ueda & The Caravan: Rock Impulse! Exorcist
The Wings Kissing You So Hard
Stevie Wonder: Fulfillingness’ First Finale
Tadeusz Woźniak: Odcień ciszy
Xoliso: Shingwanyana
Yamoah’s Band: Asem Sebe


Proggish

Ace Spectrum: Inner Spectrum
Aerosmith: Get Your Wings
Balla Et Ses Balladins: s/t
Bobby “Blue” Bland: Dreamer
Bonga: Angola ‘74
Juan Carlos Calderón: …Y Su Taller de Música
Can: Soon Over Babaluma
Canovas: Señora Azul
Clannad: Clannad 2
Cluster: Zuckerzeit
Ry Cooder: Paradise and Lunch
Cymande: Promised Heights
Lamont Dozier: Black Bach
Gil Evans Orchestra: Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix
Rachel Faro: Refugees
Mike Fiems: I Would Dream
Folque: s/t
Kinky Friedman: s/t
Herbie Hancock: Thrust
Millie Jackson: Caught Up
Bob James: One
Leo Kottke: Ice Water
Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge: Breakaway
Fela Kuti & Afrika 70: Confusion
Curtis Mayfield: Sweet Exorcist
Moto Perpétuo: s/t
Narnia: Aslan Is Not a Tame Lion
Willie Nelson: Phases & Stages
Olivia Newton-John: If You Love Me, Let Me Know
Shuggie Otis: Inspiration Information
Piero Piccioni: Il Dio sotto la pelle
Alan Price: Between Today and Yesterday
Raspberries:Starting Over
The Residents: Meet the Residents
Roxy Music: Country Life
Rufus & Chaka Khan: Rufusized
Gloria Scott: What Am I Gonna Do
Marilyn Sellars: One Day at a Time
Barbra Streisand: Butterfly
Supertramp: Crime of the Century
Teresa Teng: Airport/Snow Covered (Kuko / Yukigesho)
Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom