A Second Take on 2012's EEPEEs and ELPEEs

 Best Albums of 2012

1. Jam City -Classical Curves

2. Death Grips -The Money Store

3. Le1f -Dark York

4. DJ Rashad -Teklife Volume 1: Welcome to the Chi

5. Julia Holter -Ekstasis

6. Mark Van Hoen -The Revenant Diary

7. Lana Del Rey -Born to Die

8. Traxman -Da Mind of Traxman

9. Lone -Galaxy Garden

10. Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, and the Congos -Icon Give Thank (FRKWYS Vol 9)

11. Nicki Minaj -Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded

12. Liars -WIXIW

13. Frank Ocean -Channel Orange

14. Tame Impala -Lonerism

15. Panabrite -Soft Terminal

16. Chairlift  -Something

17. Slava -Soft Control

18. Andy Stott -Luxury Problems

19. Grimes -Visions

20. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe -Timon Irnok Manta

21. Innergaze -Mutual Dreaming

22. Dan Deacon -America

23. Mykki Blanco -The Cosmic Angel: Illuminati Princess

24. Holly Herndon -Movement

25. Mark Lanegan -Blues Funeral

26. Container -LP (2)

27. Actress -R.I.P.

28. Beak> -Beak>>

29. Laetitia Sadier -Silencio

30. Animal Collective -Centipede Hz

31. Burial Hex -Eschatology II

32. Lee Renaldo -Between the Time and Tides

33. X-TG -Desertshore/The Final Report

34. Opponents -Temple of Decadence

35. Violens -TRUE

36. Voices from the Lake -Voices from the Lake

37. Child Actor -Victory

38. Dusk + Blackdown -Dasaflex

39. Pye Corner Audio -Sleep Games

40. Mountain Goats -Transcendental Youth

Best EPs of 2012

1. Arca - Stretch 2/Stretch 1

2. Fatima Al Qadiri - Desert Strike

3. Lana Del Rey - Paradise

4. Blawan - His He She and She

5. Perc - A New Brutality

6. Nguzunguzu - Warm Pulse

7. Evian Christ - Kings and Them

8. Dj Paypal  - Why

9. Burial - Kindred

10. Ghost Mutt - Sweat Mode

I Was There: The Best Music From 2002

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1. Metro Area - Metro Area

2. Clipse - Lord Willin

3. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt 1

4. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

5. Yeah yeah Yeahs - Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP

6. Golan Levin/Scott Gibbons/Gregory Shakar - Dialtones: A Telesymphony

7. Beck - Sea Change

8. Casino Versus Japan - Whole Numbers Play the Basics

9. Low - Trust

10. Wolf Eyes - Dead Hills

11. Arpanet - Wireless Internet

12. Max Tundra - Mastered by Guy At the Exchange

13. The Caretaker - Stairway to the Stars

14. Missy Elliott - Under Construction

15. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People

16. Justin Timberlake - Justified

17. Destroyer - This Night

18. Various - Digital Disco

19. Various - Blue Skied an Clear

20. Wire - Read and Burn Eps

21. Manual - Ascend

22. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat

23. Closer Musik - After Love

24. Schneider TM - Zoomer

25. Boom Bip - Seed to Sun\

Audiogalaxy_LoOsiEs-Sort_2002

1.LCD Soundsystem - "Losing My Edge"

2.Missy Elliott - "Work It"

3.Death in Vegas - "Girls"

4.Justin Timberlake - "Rock Your Body"

5.Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Our Time"

6.Casino Versus Japan - "Manic Thru Tone"

7.Kylie Minogue - "Come Into My World (Fischerspooner mix)"

8.The Knife - "Heartbeats"

9.Boards of Canada - "Dawn Chorus"

10.Tweet - "Oops (Oh My)"

11.Clipse - "Grindin"

12.Closer Musik - "You Don't Know Me"

13.Nelly - "Hot in Herre"

14.Pastor Troy feat Timbaland - "Are We Cuttin"

15.Beck - "Lost Cause"

16.Snoop Dogg feat Pharrell and Charlie Murphy - "Beautiful"

17.The Juan MacLean - "You Can't Have it Both Ways"

18.Queens of the Stone Age - "No One Knows"

19.Erick Sermon - "React"

20.N.O.R.E - "Grimey"

21.Primal Scream - "Rise"

22.Sleater-Kinney - "Combat Rock"

23.Doves - "There Goes the Fear"

24.Max Tundra - "Lysine"

25.Arpanet - "Illuminated Displays"

26.Audio Bullys - "Real Life"

27.Busta Rhymes - "I Know What You Want"

28.M83 - "Slowly"

29.Talib Kweli - "Get By"

30.Imperial Teen - "Ivanka"

31.Nine Inch Nails - "Leaving Hope"

32.Saloon - "Girls Are the New Boys"

33.Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man - "Mysteries"

34.Broken Social Scene - "Looks Just Like the Sun"

35.N.E.R.D. - "Run To the Sun"

36.Air - "The Way You Look Tonight"

37.Hot Hot Heat - "Get in Or Get Out"

38.Team Sleep - "Natalie Portman"

39.Underworld - "2 Months Off"

40.Space Cowboy - "I Would Die 4 U"

Everything Remains to be Done: The Best Music of 1992

 All Your Favorites on Compact Disc:  1992's Best Long Ones

1. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

2. Prodigy - Experience

3. Nine Inch Nails - Broken

4. Stereolab - Peng!

5. Nirvana - Incesticide

6. Main - Hydra-Calm

7. Coil - Stolen and Contaminated Songs

8. The Pharcyde - Bizzare Ride II The Pharcyde

9. Various - Artificial Intelligence

10. Pale Saints - In Ribbons

11. Helmet - Meantime

12. Ministry - Psalm 69

13. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes

14. The Flaming Lips - Hit to Death in the Future Head

15. God - Possession

16. L7 - Bricks Are Heavy

17. Neil Young - Harvest Moon

18. Meat Beat Manifesto - Satyricon

19. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

20. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey's Dead

21. Babyland - You Suck Crap

22. Leonard Cohen - The Future

23. Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me OST

24. PJ Harvey - Dry

25. Swirlies - What to Do About Them

Cassingles and Digipaks and 12 inches all at once: 1992 Singles of the Year

1. The Nightcrawlers - "Push the Feeling On"

2. Smashing Pumpkins - "Drown"

3. Metalheads - "Terminator"

4. Aphex Twin - "Xtal"

5. Foul Play  - "Dubbing You"

6. Nine Inch Nails - "Happiness in Slavery"

7. Stereolab - "Au Grand Jour"

8. Neil Young - "Harvest Moon"

9. Dr Dre - "The Day the Niggaz Took Over"

10. Sade - "No Ordinary Love"

11. Rage Against the Machine - "Killing in the Name Of"

12. Manix - "Oblivion (Head in the Clouds)"

13. Pale Saints - "A Thousand Stars Burst open"

14. En Vogue - "Free Your Mind"

15. Prodigy - "Out of Space"

16. Open Skies - "Deep In Your Eyes"

17. Beastie Boys - "So Wha'Cha Want"

18. Acen - "A Trip II The Moon"

19. The Pharcyde - "Oh Shit"

20. Bikini Kill - "Rebel Girl"

21. Mary J Blige - "Real Love"

22. Body Snatch - "Revenge of the Punter"

23. The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Reverence"

24. New Decade - "Beyond Understanding"

25. Screaming Trees - "Nearly Lost You"

26. Helmet - "Unsung"

27. Leonard Cohen - "Democracy"

28. Duran Duran - "Come Undone"

29. 2 Bad Mice - "Waremouse (remix)"

30. Wreckx n Effect - "Rump Shaker"

31. L7 - "Shitlist"

32. Wild Planet - "Electron"

33. Babyland - "Mindfuck"

34. Sloan - "500 Up"

35. The Cure - "Friday I'm in Love"

36. Chocolate USA - "All Jets Are Gonna Fall"

37. Ministry - "N.W.O."

38. Ouija Board - "The Spirit Player"

39. Jawbreaker - "Chesterfield King"

40. Lou Reed - "Dreamin"

Party Like It's Nine-Teen-Eighty-Two

 In a way, I'm glad this is the last year I'm doing all these since I would only continue to rub up against issues that make me feel...icky...including things on my list, even if they musically were very pivotal records.  For instance, I've not included Thriller or Planet Rock on the list below because of the heinousness of those artists's crimes, but there's little doubt that both of those albums changed music and defined the decade to a certain extent.   At the same time, there's probably no reason I'd ever need to tell you that Thriller is an album lots of people nevertheless enjoy and has played an essential role in their lives.  Take with this what you will, and also berate me as a hypocrite for the other artists I've kept within these ranks.  Music listening habits and critical plaudits have always been complicated, but perhaps never moreso than right now. 

HOT CHART-RACKING LPS OF 1982

1. A Certain Ratio -Sextet

2. Prince -1999

3. XTC -English Settlement

4. Yazoo -Upstairs at Eric's

5. Brian Eno -Ambient 4: On Land

6. Vangelis -Blade Runner OST

7. New Order -1981-1982

8. Colin Newman -Not To

9. Duran Duran -Rio

10. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five -The Message

11. A Flock of Seagulls -A Flock of Seagulls

12. Bad Brains -Bad Brains

13. The Birthday Party -Junkyard

14. 23 Skidoo -Seven Songs

15. The English Beat -Special Beat Service

16. Cocteau Twins -Garlands

17. Killing Joke -Revelations

18. Kate Bush -The Dreaming

19. The Cure -Pornography

20. Diamanda Galas -The Litanies of Satan

21. Man Parrish -Man Parrish

22. Neil Young -Trans

23. Donald Fagen -The Nightfly

24. Savage Republic -Tragic Figures

25. Harumi Hosono -Philharmony

THE BEST SINGLE CUTS of 1982

1. A Flock of Seagulls - "Space Age Love Song"

2. Indeep - "Last Night a Deejay Saved My Life"

3. Laurie Brannigan - "Gloria"

4. Bauhaus - "Bela Lugosi's Dead (Live)"

5. Prince - "1999"

6. New Order - "Temptation"

7. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - "The Message"

8. The System - "You Are in My System"

9. Joe Jackson - "Steppin' Out"

10. The Clash - "Straight to Hell"

11. The Go-Go's - "Vacation"

12. Bad Brains - "Pay to Cum"

13. A Certain Ratio - "Knife Slits Water"

14. Yazoo - "Only You"

15. The Gap Band - "You Dropped a Bomb on Me"

16. The English Beat - "Save It For Later"

17. Gary Davis - "The Professor Here"

18. Cleaners from Venus - "Only a Shadow"

19. Wide Boy Awake - "Slang Teacher"

20. The Raincoats - "No One's Little Girl"

21. Duran Duran - "The Chauffeur"

22. Roxy Music - "More Than This"

23. Billy Idol - "White Wedding"

24. Soft Cell - "Fun City"

25. David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto - "Bamboo Houses"

26. Poison Girls - "Take the Toys"

27. Bruce Springsteen - "State Trooper"

28. Missing Persons - "Destination Unknown"

29. Man Parrish - "Heatstroke"

30. Vanity 6 - "Nasty Girl"

31. Dexy's Midnight Runners - "Come on Eileen"

32. The Cure - "One Hundred Days"

33. Big Black - "Steelworker"

34. Modern English - "I Melt With You"

35. Dead Kennedys - "Moon Over Marin"

36. Alan Parsons Project - "Eye in the Sky"

37. XTC - "Senses Working Overtime"

38. Berlin - "The Metro"

39. The Psychedelic Furs - "Love My Way"

40. Killing Joke - "Empire Song"

Sangrias in the Park: The Best Music of 1972

Albums of the Year 1972

1. Can - Ege Bamyasi

2. Lou Reed - Transformer

3. Black Sabbath - Volume 4

4. Nick Drake - Pink Moon

5. Neu! - Neu!

6. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

7. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book/Music of My Mind

8. Roxy Music - Roxy Music

9. Pharoah Sanders - Black Unity

10. Al Green - Let's Stay Together

11. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers

12. Neil Young - Harvest

13. Miles Davis - On the Corner

14. Popul Vuh - Hosianna Mantra

15. Klaus Schulze - Irrlicht

16. Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together

17. Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy

18. Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill

19. Ash Ra Tempel - Schwingungen

20. Eduard Artemiev - Solaris

21. T-Rex - The Slider

22. Herbie Hancock - Sextant

23. Kraftwerk - 2

24. Joni Mitchell - For the Roses

25. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly

Best Single Tracks of the Year

1. Cymande - "Bra"

2. Lou Reed - "Perfect Day"

3. Can  - "Vitamin C"

4. Neu! - "Hallogallo"

5. Hot Butter - "Popcorn"

6. Stevie Wonder - "Superstition"

7. Al Green - "Let's Stay Together"

8. Todd Rundgren - "I Saw the Light"

9. Mott the Hoople - "All the Young Dudes"

10. Black Sabbath - "Supernaut"

11. Roxy Music  - "2HB"

12. David Bowie - "Lady Stardust"

13. Neil Young - "Old Man"

14. Sparks - "Nothing is Sacred"

15. Nick Drake - "From the Morning"

16. T-Rex - "Children of the Revolution"

17. Timmy Thomas - "Why Can't We Live Together"

18. The Modern Lovers - "Roadrunner"

19. Hawkwind - "Brainstorm"

20. Manu Dibango - "Soul Makossa"

21. Raspberries - "Go All the Way"

22. Steely Dan - "Dirty Work"

23. Johnny Nash - "I Can See Clearly Now"

24. Randy Newman - "God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)"

25. Paul Simon - "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard"

26. Terry Callier - "You're Gonna Miss Your Candyman"

27. The Ventures - "Joy (Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring)"

28. Curtis Mayfield - "Superfly"

29. Amon Duul II - "Tables Are Turned"

30. Bill Withers - "Lean on Me"

31. Barbara Moore - "Steam Heat"

32. Jimmy Cliff - "Many Rivers to Cross"

33. Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Someday Never Comes"

34. Alice Cooper - "School's Out"

35. Dennis Brown - "Money in My Pocket"

36. Chicago - "Saturday in the Park"

37. Doobie Brothers - "Listen to the Music"

38. Tom Jones - "Witch Queen of New Orleans"

39. Elton John - "Rocket Man"

40. Faust - "It's a Rainy Day Sunshine Girl"

Second Look at 2011's Best Music

2011 ALBUMS REVISITED

Partial originals here

 1. Rustie - Glass Swords

2. Destroyer - Kaputt

3. The Weeknd - House of Balloons

4. Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer/Dream Losss

5. Death Grips - Ex-Military

6. Drake - Take Care

7. St. Vincent  - Strange Mercy

8. Steve Hauschildt - Tragedy an Geometry

9. Various - Bang & Works Vol 2

10. Ford & Lopatin - Channel Pressure

11. Maria Minerva - Tailinn At Dawn

12. Belong - Common Era

13. Com Truise - Galactic Melt

14. Kingdom - Dreama EP

15. A$AP Rocky - Live.Love.A$AP

16. John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves

17. Fatima Al Qadiri - Genre Specific Xperience EP

18. James Ferraro - Far Side Virtial

19. Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts

20. Gazelle Twin - The Entire City

21. Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place

22. Blanck Mass - Blanck Mass

23. Innergaze - Shadow Disco EP

24. Panda Bear - Tomboy

25. Zwischenwelt - Paranormale Acktivitat

2011 TUUUUUNEZ

1. Rihanna feat Calvin Harris - "We Found Love"

2. Com Truise - "Brokendate"

3. Death Grips - "Guillotine"

4. Rustie - "Ultra Thizz"

5. Jlin - "Erotic Heat"

6. M83 - "Midnight City"

7. Jamie XX - "Far Nearer"

8. Jay-Z and Kanye West - "No Church in the Wild"

9. Thurston Moore - "Benediction"

10. The Weeknd - "The Morning"

11. Britney Spears - "Til the World Ends"

12. Ford & Lopatin - "Emergency Room"

13. Kingdom - "Stalker Ha"

14. Shabazz Palaces - "An Echos from the Hosts That Profess Infinitum"

15. Macintosh Plus - "リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー"

16. St. Vincent - "Cruel"

17. Lana Del Rey - "Video Games"

18. Maria Minerva - "Hagasuxzzavol"

19. John Maus - "Believer"

20. Octo Octa - "I'm Trying"

21. Charli XCX - "Nuclear Seasons"

22. Drake - "Over My Dead Body"

23. Egyptrixx - "Liberation Front"

24. Blawan - "Getting Me Down"

25. Fun.  - "Some Nights"

Wanna See Me Disco? The Top Music of 2001

2001 Top O The Napster Queue

1. Daft Punk - Discovery

2. Missy Elliott - Miss E….So Addictive

3. Bjork - Vespertine

4. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein

5. Solvent - Solvent City

6. Fennesz - Endless Summer

7. The Strokes - Is This It

8. Four Tet - Pause

9. Liars - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Put a Monument on Top

10. Bardo Pond - Dilate

11. Spiritualized - Let It All Come Down

12. Radiohead - Amnesiac

13. The Coup - Party Music

14. Miss Kittin and the Hacker - 1st Album

15. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World

16. Simian - Chemistry is What We Are

17. Low - Things We Lost in the Fire

18. Prefuse73 - Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives

19. Gorillaz - Gorillaz

20. Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction

21. Takagai Masakatsu - Pia

22. Aaliyah - Aaliyah

23. The Faint - Danse Macabre

24. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP

25. R.E.M.  - Reveal

HIGHEST 2001 SHORTIES

1. Missy Elliott - "Get Yr Freak On"

2. The Rapture - "House of Jealous Lovers"

3. Daft Punk - "Digital Love"

4. Squarepusher - "Red Hot Car"

5. Le Tigre - "Deceptacon (DFA Mix)"

6. Cannibal Ox - "The F Word"

7. Golden Boy and Miss Kittin - "Rippin Kittin"

8. Spiritualized - "Don't Just Do Something"

9. Dntel - "(This is the Dream Of) Evan and Chad"

10. The Coup - "5 Millions Ways to Kill a CEO"

11. The Shins - "Know Your Onion"

12. Bjork - "Cocoon"

13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Art Star"

14. Metro Area - "Miura"

15. Gorillaz - "Clint Eastwood"

16. MF Doom - "I Hear Voices"

17. Liars - "Mr Your On Fire Mr"

18. Outkast feat Killer Mike - "The Whole World"

19. Destiny's Child - "Bootylicious"

20. Interpol - "PDA"

21. Janet Jackson - "Son of a Gun"

22. 311 - "Amber"

23. Low  - "Embrace"

24. Mystikal - "Shake Ya Ass"

25. Pierre Bastien - "Avid Diva" 

There Are Many Imitators But These Are the True Creators: Top Music of 1991

Albums of the Year

1. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

2. Massive Attack - Blue Lines

3. Nirvana - Nevermind

4. LFO - Frequencies

5. Public Enemy - Apocalypse 91..The Enemy Strikes Black

6. KMD - Mr. Hood

7. Orbital - Orbital

8. Aphex Twin - Analogue Bubblebath 1 & 2

9. Stereolab - Super Electric EP

10. Medicine - Shot Forth Self Living

11. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

12. Main - Hydra EP

13. Coil - Love's Secret Domain

14. Main Source - Breaking Atoms

15. Slint - Spiderland

16. Diamanda Galas - Plague Mass

17. R.E.M - Out of Time

18. Sepultura - Arise

19. Underground Resistance - Waveform/Nation 2 Nation Eps

20. Biz Markie - I Need a Haircut

21. Magnetic Fields - Distant Plastic Trees

22. Godflesh  - Slavestate

23. Chapterhouse - Whirlpool

24. Wire  - The Drill

25. Digital Underground - Sons of the P

SONGS of the Year

1. My Bloody Valentine  - "When You Sleep"

2. Nirvana - "Lithium"

3. The Prodigy - "Your Love"

4. Slowdive - "Shine"

5. Slint - "Good Morning Captain"

6. Aphex Twin - "Isopropoplex"

7. Massive Attack - "Unfinished Sympathy"

8. LFO  - "We Are Back"

9. Cypress Hill - "How I Could Just Kill a Man"

10. Soundgarden - "Jesus Christ Pose"

11. Stereolab - "Super Electric"

12. A Tribe Called Quest - "Scenario"

13. PJ Harvey - "Dress"

14. The Mover - "Nightflight (non-stop to Kaos)"

15. KMD - "Humrush"

16. Ministry - "Jesus Built My Hotrod"

17. Public Enemy - "Shut Em Down"

18. Xon - "Midnight Express"

19. 808 State - "Cubik"

20. Moby - "Go"

21. Ice Cube - "the Wrong Nigga to Fuck Wit"

22. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - "Give It Away"

23. Chapterhouse - "Mesmerise"

24. 2 bad mice - "warehouse"

25. Coil - "Things Happen"

Sweet Romantic Place: The Best Music of 1981

 Top Albums of 1981

1. Japan - Tin Drum

2. David Byrne and Brian Eno - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

3. Soft Cell - Non-stop Erotic Cabaret

4. Depeche Mode - Speak & Spell

5. Rush - Moving Pictures

6. Eurythmics - In the Garden

7. This Heat - Deceit

8. Moebius and Plank - Material

9. Devo - New Traditionalists

10. The Human League - Dare

11. The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire

12. Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca

13. New Order  - Movement

14. Jon Hassell - Dream Theory in Malaya

15. Phil Collins - Face Value

16. Gregor and Conrad Schnitzler - Conrad and Sohn

17. Venom - Welcome to Hell

18. Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls and Marches

19. Lime - Your Love

20. The Fall - Slates EP

21. Nico - Drama of Exile

22. Duran Duran - Duran Duran

23. Grace Jones - Nightclubbing

24. Einsturzende Neubaten - Kollaps

25. The Flying Lizards - Fourth Wall

Top Tracks of 1981

1. Japan- "Ghosts"

2. Laurie Anderson- "O Superman"

3. The Specials- "Ghost Town"

4. The Human League- "Don't You Want Me"

5. Devo- "Beautiful World"

6. BB&Q Band- "On the Beat"

7. Coati Mundi feat Kid Creole and the Coconuts- "Que Pasa/Me No Pop I"

8. Rush- "Limelight"

9. The Clash- "This is Radio Clash"

10. The Associates- "White Car in Germany"

11. Phil Collins- "In the Air Tonight"

12. Depeche Mode- "Dreaming of Me"

13. Hall and Oates- "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)"

14. Go-Go's- "Our Lips Are Sealed"

15. Pete Shelley- "Homosapien"

16. Tom Tom Club- "Genius of Love"

17. Yoko Ono- "Walking on Thin Ice"

18. D.A.F. - "Der Mussolini"

19. Romeo Void- "Never Say Never"

20. Queen and David Bowie- "Under Pressure"

21. Inner Life- "Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Garage Mix)"

22. ESG- "Moody"

23. Ludus- "The Escape Artist"

24. R.E.M.- "Radio Free Europe"

25. Frankie Smith- "Double Dutch Bus"

A Godawful Small Affair: The Music of 1971

 Top Albums of the Year

1. Can - Tago Mago

2. Joni Mitchell - Blue

3. Curtis Mayfield - Curtis/Live

4. David Bowie - Hunky Dory

5. Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness

6. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

7. Nick Drake - Bryter Layer

8. Black Mass - Lucifer

9. T-Rex - Electric Warrior

10. The Temptations - Sky's the Limit

11. Pink Floyd - Meddle

12. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

13. Black Sabbath - Masters of Reality

14. Yoko Ono - Fly

15. Caravan  - In the Land of Gray and Pink

16. Led Zeppelin - IV

17. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate

18. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

19. Deuter - D

20. Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson

21. Wendy Carlos - A Clockwork Orange

22. Alice Cooper - Killer

23. Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel

24. The Beach Boys - Surf's Up

25. Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin On

Top Songs of the Year

1. T-Rex - "Mambo Sun"

2. David Bowie - "Life on Mars"

3. Nick Drake - "One of These Things First"

4. Can - "Halleluwah"

5. The Temptations - "Just My Imagination"

6. The Who - "Baba O'Riley"

7. Joni Mitchell - "A Case of You"

8. Bill Withers - "Ain't No Sunshine"

9. Pink Floyd - "Echoes"

10. Al Green - "Tired of Being Alone"

11. Led Zeppelin - "When the Levee Breaks"

12. The Rolling Stones - "Moonlight Mile"

13. Black Sabbath - "Children of the Grave"

14. Leonard Cohen  - "Famous Blue Raincoat"

15. John Cale and Terry Riley - "Church of Anthrax"

16. The Stylistics - "People Make the World Go Round"

17. Carole King - "It's Too Late"

18. Paul Simon - "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard"

19. Cat Stevens - "The Wind"

20. The Beach Boys - "Surf's Up"

21. Ten Years After - "I'd Love to Change the World"

22. James Brown  - "Super Bad"

23. The Doors - "Riders on the Storm"

24. Elton John - "Tiny Dancer"

25. Booker T and the MGs - "Melting Pot"

2021 In Conclusion

 Top 25 Songs

1. Lonelady - "There is No Logic"

2. Angel Olsen and Sharon Van Etten - "Like I Used To"

3. Freddie Gibbs ft Schoolboy Q - "Gang Signs"

4. ZULI - "Where Do You Go"

5. Charli XCX ft Christine and Caroline Polachek - "New Shapes"

6. Cold Beat - "Mandelbrot Fall"

7. Anz - "You Could Be"

8. Lil Nas X - "Montero (Call me By Your Name)"

9. Proc Fiskal - "Leith Tornn Carnal"

10. Jenny Hval - "Jupiter"

11. Noname - "Rainforest"

12. Scalping - "Monolithium"

13. Water from Your Eyes - ""Quotations""

14. Marissa Nadler - "Bessie, Did You Make It?"

15. Winter - "Lua"

16. Zohra - "Badala Zamana"

17. Andy Stott - "Never the Right Time"

18. Brogan Bentley - "Ecstasy"

19. Laura Wolf - "Cross Your Mind"

20. Burial - "Dark Gesthemane"

21. Backxwash ft Ada Rock - "I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS"

22. Doja Cat & SZA - "Kiss Me More"

23. Tirzah - "Send Me"

24. Cate Le Bon - "Running Away"

25. Vapour Theories - "Breaking Down"

25 Top Albums

1. Sweet Trip - A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals

2. Lonelady - Former Things

3. Jorge Elbrecht - Presentable Corpse 002

4. Grouper - Shade

5. Gazelle Twin x NYX - Deep England

6. Mirage - Mirage

7. Pan Daijing - Jade

8. Divide and Dissolve - Gas Lit

9. Cold Beat - War Garden

10. Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready

11. Dialect - Keep Going…Under

12. Lil Nas X - Montero

13. Marissa Nadler - The Shape of the Clouds

14. Anz - All Hours

15. Water for Eyes - Structure

16. Liars - The Apple Drop

17. Gnod - La Mort du Sens

18. Moor Mother & Billy Woods - BRASS

19. Leon Vynehall - Rare Forever

20. Illuminati Hotties - Let Me Do One More

21. Alan Vega - Mutator

22. Ka Baird  - Vivication Excercises

23. Various - Salutations

24. The Weather Station - Ignorance

25. Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red

Top 10 EPs

1. ZULI - All Caps

2. Laura Wolf - Artifacts

3. Scalping  - Flood

4. Hyd - Hyd

5. CORIN - Enantiodromia

6. Backxwash - Stigmata EP

7. Selena Gomez - Revelacion EP

8. Grubby Little Hands - Phlmsy

9. Octo Octa - She's Calling

10. Odour of Sanctity  - When the Dead Feel Divine

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Top 15 TV Shows

1. The White Lotus

2. What We Do In the Shadows

3. Physical

4. The Great

5. Hacks

6. Exterminate All the Brutes

7. Nine Perfect Strangers

8. Betty

9. Midnight Mass

10. Can't Get You Out of My Head

11.Reservation Dogs

12. Only Murders in the Building

13. Rick and Morty

Inside Job

14. Loki

15. Mythic Quest

No One Man Should Do All These Lists: 10 Year Vintage best of 2010

 40 Long-Form Streams, Music Blog RARs, or Album-format Releases

1. Various - Bang and Works Volume 1

2. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today

3. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

4. Arp - The Soft Wave

5. Drake - Thank Me Later

6. El Guincho - Pop Negro

7. Kingdom - That Mystic EP

8. Games - That We Play

9. James Blake - CMYK EP

10. Balam Acab - See Birds EP

11. Seven Fields of Aphelion - Periphery

12. Sun Araw - On Patrol

13. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

14. Das Racist - Shut Up, Dude

15. Chuck Person - Eccojams Vol 1

16. Bing & Ruth - City Lake

17. Eluvium  - Static Nocturne

18. Various - Let Me Shine for You

19. Hype Williams - Find Out What Happens When People Stop Being Polite

20. The-Dream - Love King

21. John Roberts - Glass Eights

22. Kangding Ray - Pruitt-Igoe EP

23. Diddy Dirty Money - Last Train to Paris

24. Actress - Splzash

25. Laetitia Sadler - The Trip

26. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - The Social Network OST

27. LA Vampires Meets Zola Jesus - LA Vampires Meets Zola Jesus

28. Solvent - Subject to Shift

29. Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids

30. Com Truise - Cyanide Sisters

31. Bibio - Mind Bokeh

32. Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?

33. Sandwell District - Feed Forward

34. Pariah - Safehouses

35. Robert AA Lowe and Rose Lazar - Eclipses

36. Four Tet - There is Love In You

37. Jacques Greene - The Look EP

38. Dean and Britta - 13 Most Beautiful

39. High Places - Vs Mankind

40. Superchunk - Majesty Shredding

40 Nasty and Quick Scrobble-Songs

1. Girl Unit - "Wut"

2. Kanye West - "Runaway"

3. Balam Acab - "See Birds"

4. Deerhunter - "Helicopter"

5. Slava  - "Dreaming Tiger"

6. Kingdom - "Bust Broke"

7. Endgames - "Ecstasy (Jam City Refix)"

8. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Round and Round"

9. Ke$ha - "Blow"

10. Seven Fields of Aphelion - "Grown"

11. Far East Movement  - "Like a G6"

12. Roska and Untold - "Myth"

13. El Guincho - "Bombay"

14. Oneohtrix Point Never featuring Antony - "Returnal"

15. Ghost Mutt - "Thoroughbred"

16. Drake - "Over"

17. Com Truise - "Sundriped"

18. Grouper - "Hold the Way"

19. Ghostface Killah - "In Tha Park"

20. Azari & III - "Into the Night"

21. Deadboy - "If U Want Me"

22. Sun Araw - "Deep Cover"

23. Solvent - "Formulate"

24. Active Child - "Wilderness"

25. The-Dream - "Yamaha"

26. Jacques Greene - "The Look"

27. Roots Manuva - "Witness (Slugabed mix)"

28. Four Tet - "Love Cry"

29. Raime - "We Must Hunt Under the Wreckage"

30. LA Vampires Versus Zola Jesus - "No No No"

31. Gayngs - "The Gaudy Side of Town"

32. Rihanna - "Cheers (Drink to That)"

33. Martin Solveig - "Hello"

34. High Places - "The Longest Shadows"

35. Starkey - "Stars"

36. KOP - "Fire It Up (funkystepz mix)"

37. Caribou - "Odessa"

38. Taz - "Gold Tooth Grin"

39. Pure Ecstasy - "Easy"

40. oOoOO - "Sedsumthin"

List A: 20 Year Vintage's Best Music of 2000

 40 Albums to Search the Used CD Bins for

1. Broadcast - The Noise Made By People

2. The Avalanches - Since I Left You

3. Radiohead - Kid A

4. Outkast - Stankonia

5. Peaches - The Teaches of Peaches

6. PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

7. Gas - Pop

8. Chicks on Speed - Will Save Us All

9. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele

10. Primal Scream - XTRMNTR

11. Elastica - The Menace

12. Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country

13. Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One

14. Luomo - Vocalcity

15. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - The Doldrums

16. Deftones - White Pony

17. Thievery Corporation - Mirror Conspiracy

18. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out

19. Simian - Watch It Glow

20. J Masic + The Fog - More Light

21. New Pornographers - Mass Romantic

22. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica

23. Various - Clicks and Cuts

24. Belle and Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk like a Peasant

25. Tosca  - Suzuki

26. Optiganally Yours - Presents: Exclusively Talentmaker

27. Various - O Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack

28. Fischerspooner - Fischerspooner

29. Tripping Daisy - Tripping Daisy

30. Coil - Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil

31. Cat Power - The Covers Record

32. Destroyer - Thief

33. At the Drive In - Relationship of Command

34. Phoenix - United

35. Bjork - Selmasongs

36. Doughty - Skittish

37. Phife Dawg - Ventilation

38. Erase Errata - Erase Errata EP

39. Adult. - Nausea

40. XTC - Wasp Star (Apple Venus Vol 2)

40 Tracks to Download over your 28.8k/s modem

1. Broadcast - "Come On Let's Go"

2. Outkast - "B.O.B"

3. Cat Power - "I Found a Reason"

4. Daft Punk - "One More Time"

5. Peaches  - "Fuck the Pain Away"

6. Radiohead - "Idiotechque"

7. New Pornographers - "Letter from an Occupant"

8. Solvent - "A Panel of Experts"

9. Boards of Canada - "In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country"

10. The Avalanches - "Since I Left You"

11. Ensemble - "Proposal 5"

12. Aaliyah - "Try Again"

13. Gorillaz - "Rock the House"

14. Primal Scream - "Exterminator"

15. Ghostface Killah - "Apollo Kids"

16. PJ Harvey - "You Said Something"

17. Kid606 - "Straight Outta Compton"

18. Optiganally Yours - "Gepetto"

19. Modest Mouse - "Third Planet"

20. Simian - "The Wisp"

21. Phoenix - "Too Young"

22. Da Brat - "That's What I'm Looking For"

23. Tosca - "Honey"

24. Bjork - "In the Musicals"

25. Fischerspooner - "Emerge"

26. Elastica - "My Sex"

27. Mystikal - "Shake Ya Ass (UKG Mix)"

28. St. Germain - "Rose Rouge"

29. Wu-Tang Clan - "Gravel Pit"

30. Overseer - "Supermoves"

31. Cex - "A Mansion as the Body She Resides In"

32. Doves - "Firesuite"

33. Adult.  - "Hand to Phone"

34. Belle and Sebastian - "I Fought in a War"

35. Shiftplus - "This is Hardcore"

36. Neko Case and Her Boyfriends - "No Need to Cry"

37. True Steppers - "Out of Your Mind"

38. Hives - "Hate to Say I Told You So"

39. At the Drive In - "Invalid Litter Dept."

40. Queens of the Stone Age - "Feel Good Hit of the Summer"

Groove Is In the Heart: 30 Years Vintage (1990)

Top 40 Cassettes and CDs and other Releases of 1990

1. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

2. Depeche Mode - Violator

3. My Bloody Valentine - Glider EP

4. A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instictive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

5. Slowdive - Slowdive EP

6. Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

7. Sonic Youth - Goo

8. Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual

9. Pale Saints - The Comforts of Madness

10. Manic Street Preachers - New Art Riot EP

11. Green Day - 39/Smooth

12. Galaxie 500 - This is Our Music

13. Flaming Lips - In A Priest Driven Ambulance

14. Eno/Cale - Wrong Way Up

15. Mark Lanegan - The Winding Sheet

16. Paul Simon - The Rhythm of the Saints

17. Ice Cube - Amerikkka's Most Wanted

18. Yo La Tengo - Fakebook

19. Loop - A Gilded Eternity

20. The Divine Comedy - Fanfare for the Comic Muse

21. Ride - Nowhere

22. They Might Be Giants - Flood

23. Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly

24. Black Dog - Techno Playtime

25. Living Colour - Time's Up

26. Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park

27. Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour

28. Danzig - II: Lucifuge

29. 808 State  - UTD State 90

30. Chapterhouse - Freefall EP

31. Lard - The Last Temptation of Reid

32. The Boo Radleys - Ichabod and I

33. Prince and the New Power Generation - Graffiti Bridge

34. Happy Mondays - Pills Thrills and Bellyaches

35. Beats International - Let Them Eat Bingo

36. Phish - Lawn Boy

37. George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1

38. Heavenly - Heavenly vs Satan

39. Psychic TV - Towards Thee Infinite Beat

40. McCarthy - The Banking Life

The 40 Best Single Songs in 1990

1. My Blood Valentine - "Soon"

2. LFO - "LFO (Leeds Warehouse mix)"

3. Bel Biv Devoe - "Poison"

4. Sinead O'Connor - "Nothing Compares 2 U"

5. A Tribe Called Quest - "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo"

6. Green Day - "Going to Pasalacqua"

7. Cocteau Twins - "Heaven or Las Vegas"

8. Primal Scream - "Come Together (Andrew Weatherall mix)"

9. Kronos Quartet - "Marquee Moon"

10. Ride - "Dreams Burn Down"

11. Lush - "Sweetness and Light"

12. The Orb - "Little Fluffy Clouds"

13. Depeche Mode - "Enjoy the Silence"

14. DJ Mink - "Hey! Can You Relate?"

15. The Sundays - "Here's Where the Story Ends"

16. Sonic Youth - "Mote"

17. Manic Street Preachers - "New Art Riot"

18. Holy Noise - "Father Forgive Them"

19. Logic - "The Final Frontier"

20. Deee-Lite  - "Groove is in the Heart"

21. Jane's Addiction - "Stop"

22. Galaxie 500 - "Listen, the Snow is Falling"

23. Psychic TV - "IC Water"

24. Nirvana - "Sliver"

25. 4 Hero - "Mr. Kirk's Nightmare"

26. Massive Attack - "Daydreaming"

27. Skinny Puppy - "Spasmolytic"

28. 808 State - "Cubik"

29. Tony Toni Tone - "Feels Good"

30. Blur  - "Sing"

31. Orbital - "Omen"

32. Wilson Philips - "Hold On"

33. Voodoo Child - "Voodoo Child"

34. Paul Simon - "Obvious Child"

35. Alice in Chains - "Man in the Box"

36. DHS - "Holo-Voodoo"

37. Jane Child - "Don't Want to Fall in Love"

38. Joey Beltram - "Energy Flash"

39. Nine Inch Nails - "Get Down Make Love"

40. David J - "I Hear Only Silence Now"

The Spirit of 1980 Radio- a 40 Year's Vintage (1980)

Ultimate LPs from 1980

1. Talking Heads - Remain in Light

2. Prince - Dirty Mind

3. Joy Division  - Closer

4. Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe

5. Bauhaus - In the Flat Field

6. Devo - Freedom of Choice

7. Harold Budd and Brian Eno - Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirrors

8. Cabaret Voltaire - The Voice of America

9. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth

10. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

11. Harald Grosskopf - Synthesist

12. The Durutti Column - The Return of the Durutti Column

13. Peter Gabriel - Scratch

14. The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight

15. Chris Carter - The Space Between

16. David Bowie - Scary Monsters and Super Creeps

17. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds

18. Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette

19. The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It

20. Fela Kuti - International Thief Thief

21. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetable

22. The Pretenders - The Pretenders

23. The Dance - Dance for Your Dinner

24. Carl Erdmann - Bizzarophytes

25. Adam and the Ants - King of the Wild Frontier

26. Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth

27. Walter Rockman - Underwater vol 1

28. XTC - English Settlement

29. Human League - Travelogue

30. Daryll Hall - Sacred Songs

31. The Selecter - Too Much Pressure

32. Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs

33. Van Halen - Women and Children First

34. Yello  - Solid Pleasure

35. Suicide - Alan Vega: Martin Rev

36. Various - Slow

37. Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue

38. Visage - Visage

39. Indoor Life - Indoor Life

40. Paul McCartney - McCartney II

Tip Top Cuts of 1980

1.  Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

2.  Talking Heads - "Once in a Lifetime"

3.  David Bowie - "Ashes to Ashes"

4.  Zapp - "More Bounce to the Ounce"

5.  Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark - "Enola Gay"

6.  The Cure - "A Forest"

7.  Grace Jones - "Private Life"

8.  Killing Joke - "Requiem"

9.  Devo - "Gates of Steel"

10.  Prince - "Do It All Night"

11.  Alice Cooper - "Clones (We're All)"

12.  Was Not Was - "Wheel Me Out"

13.  Breakwater - "Release the Beast"

14.  Les Vampyrettes - "Biomutaten"

15.  Blondie  - "Rapture"

16.  Bauhaus - "Dark Entires"

17.  Rush - "The Spirit of Radio"

18.  Generation X - "Dancing with Myself"

19.  Bob Marley and the Wailers - "Redemption Song"

20.  The Birthday Party - "Waving My Arms"

21.  Robert Palmer - "Johnny and Mary"

22.  Ludus  - "I Can't Swim I Have Nightmares"

23.  Soft Boys - "I Wanna Destroy You"

24.  Dead Kennedys - "Holiday in Cambodia"

25.  u2 - "I Will Follow"

26.  The Selecter - "Everyday"

27.  Rema Rema - "Fond Affections"

28.  XTC - "Generals and Majors"

29.  The Equators - "Baby Come Back"

30.  Loose Joints  - "Is It All Over My Face"

31.  Ozzy Osbourne - "Crazy Train"

32.  Throbbing Gristle - "Adrenalin"

33.  The Clash - "Police on My Back"

34.  Becky Bell - "Super Queen"

35.  Visage - "Fade to Grey"

36.  Alan Parsons Project - "Time"

37.  Aksak Maboul - "Modern Lesson"

38.  Teena Marie - "Behind the Groove"

39.  The Korgis - "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime"

40.  Van Halen - "Everybody Wants Some"