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After reading through the Guardian top ten albums of the last decade, - here - http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/series/albums-of-the-decade - I thought I would list mine...

Here they are In no order;

Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
TV on the Radio - Dear Science, (2008)
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (2005)
M Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent (2003)
Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)
Adem - Homesongs (2004)
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump (2000)
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005)
The Strokes - Is This It (2001)

Others I love;

Paul Curreri - The Velvet Rut (2007)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Ease Down the Road (2001)
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005)
Elbow - Asleep in the Back (2001)
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells (2001)

Lots on there that I don't listen to as much as I used to but still have lots of sentimental value.

These are bands I've seen live since 2006

Adem
Aiden
All Time Low (x2)
The Answering Machine (x5)
Anti-Flag
Asobi Seksu
Attack! Attack! (x7)
The Audition (x2)
The Automatic


The Blackout (x3)
Bloc Party
Broadway Calls
Bullet For My Valentine


Cancer Bats
Cherry Ghost (x4)
Cobra Starship
The Cooper Temple Clause
Cord
The Cribs


The Dears
Delays (x3)
The Devil Wears Prada
Dinosaur Pile-up
Dirty Pretty Things


Elliot Minor
The Enemy (x2)
Enter Shikari (x2)
Every Time I Die


Fall Out Boy
The Fallout Theory
Fear Of Music (x2)
Fightstar
Flashguns
The Fratellis
The Friday Night Boys
Foo Fighters
From First to Last
Funeral for a Friend (x2)
The Futureheads


Gallows
The Gaslight Anthem
Glam Chops


Hadouken!
Hey Monday
The hickey underworld
Hundred Reasons


In Case of Fire


James Dean Bradfield (x2)
Jamie T
Johnny Boy
John Power
Justice


Kaiser Chiefs
Kasabian
Keane
Kids In Glass Houses (x7)
Klaxons


Liam Frost
Little Man Tate
Lostprophets (x2)


Manic Street Preachers (x22)
McFly (x4)
The Medic Droid
The Mission District
Morrissey
Mumm-Ra
Muse
My Passion


New Found Glory
New Young Pony Club
The Noisettes

Operahouse
Orson
Out of Sight


Paige
Paramore
Patrick Wolf
Pendulum
Peter Doherty
Polar Bear Club


The Rakes
Reemer
Reuben
Reverend and The Makers
Rolo Tomassi


Saving Aimee (x2)
Simple Plan (x2)
Sound And Fury
The Strange Death Of Liberal England
Sum 41


Taking Back Sunday
Templeton Pek
Tiger Please
Tonight Is Goodbye
True Tiger


Valencia
Vega 4
Violens


We Are The Ocean (x3)
We The Kings
White Lies


You Me At Six (x2)
Young Guns
Your Demise

This is it. My top 100 songs of the decade.

Also, some of my fav vids.

1. Nude– Radiohead

2. New Slang – The Shins
3. I’d Rather Dance With You – Kings of Convenience

4. Wolf Like Me – TV on the Radio

5. Jesus, ETC – Wilco
6. Gettysburg – Ratatat

7. Too Young – Phoenix
8. Atlas – Battles

9. Wake Up – Arcade Fire

10. Witness (1 Hope) – Roots Manuva

11. Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) – Beyoncé

12. Roscoe – Midlake
13. Decatur – Sufjan Stevens

14. Hoppípolla – Sigur Rós
15. Elephant Gun – Beirut

16. You And I Are A Gang Of Losers – The Dears
17. Banquet– Bloc Party
18. The Rat– The Walkmen
19. The Art Teacher – Rufus Wainwright

20. No I In Threesome – Interpol

21. Hard to Explain – The Strokes

22. Winter’s Love – Animal Collective
23. You Could Easily Have Me – Metronomy
24. Canadian Girl – The Walkmen

25. B.Y.O.B – System of a Down
26. Party Hard - Andrew W.K.

27. Water Here – Bodies of Water
28. Long Distance Call – Phoenix

29. Short Skirt, Long Jacket– Cake

30. Impossible Germany – Wilco

31. Pyramid Song – Radiohead
32. 10 A.M. Automatic – The Black Keys

33. Crips – Ratatat
34. Reckoner– Radiohead
35. Here We Go – Jon Brion
36. Hope There’s Someone – Antony and the Johnsons
37. Le Long De La Riviere Tendre – Sébastien Tellier
38. Maps – Yeah Yeah Yeahs

39. Girl – Beck
40. Postcards From Italy – Beirut
41. Hearts on Fire – Cut Copy
42. These Are The Eyes – Bodies of Water
43. Bandits – Midlake
44. White Winter Hymnal – Fleet Foxes
45. Two Weeks – Grizzly Bear
46. No One Does It Like You – Department of Eagles

47. Soldier Girl – The Polyphonic Spree

48. Face to Face – Daft Punk
49. Strawberry Swing – Coldplay

50. Playground Love – Air
51. One Pure Thought – Hot Chip
52. My Girls – Animal Collective

53. No Cars Go – Arcade Fire
54. Two Doves – Dirty Projectors
55. Grace Under Pressure - Elbow

56. Darling, Be Here – Bodies of Water
57. First Day Of My Life – Bright Eyes

58. Kim & Jessie – M83
59. PDA – Interpol
60. Someone Great – LCD Soundsystem
61. She Is Beautiful – Andrew W.K.
62. All The King's Men - Wild Beasts

63. Hide and Seek – Imogen Heap
64. Over And Over– Hot Chip
65. Mirando – Ratatat

66. 2080 – Yeasayer
67. Underneath The Weeping Willow – Grandaddy
68. I Want You So Hard (Boy’s Bad News) – Eagles of Death Metal
69. Kidz Are So Small – Deerhoof
70. Woozy With Cider – James Yorkston
71. Knife – Grizzly Bear

72. West Coast – Coconut Records
73. Lex– Ratatat
74. I Want Love - Elton John
75. Decent Days And Nights – Futureheads

76. Chicken Payback – The Bees
77. Movies – Alien Ant Farm

78. Getting Up – Q-Tip
79. Flume – Bon Iver

80. Flakes – Mystery Jets

81. Whoo! Alright-Yeah...Uh Huh – The Rapture
82. Starlight – Muse
83. Bathroom Gurgle – Late of the Pier

84. Untitled 4 – Sigur Rós
85. Chicago – Sufjan Stevens
86. Fake Empire – The National
87. Just Got To Be - The Black Keys

89. Province – TV on the Radio
90. Ringing in My Ear - Adem

91. I Understand What You Want But I Just Don't Agree – The Sleepy Jackson
92. Step By Step (feat. Hot Chip) – Wiley
93. Oxygen – JJ72
94. There Goes The Fear – Doves
95. Must Be The Moon - !!!

96. Myriad Harbour – The New Pornographers
97. The Pills Won’t Help You Know – The Chemical Brothers
98. If I Ever Feel Better – Phoenix
99. In The New Year – The Walkmen

100. Dear Lord – Joseph Arthur

best album recommendations for people with similar taste as mine :)

2008:
rock / altrock, indie rock, post rock:
; Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow And Blue [Warp] (2008)
; The Kills - Midnight Boom [Domino] (2008)
; Upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start - Embers (2008)
Autistic Daughters - Uneasy Flowers [Kranky] (2008)
Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends (2008)
Mooncake - Lagrange Points (2008)
September Malevolence - After this darkness, there's a next (2008)
Shearwater - Rook (2008)
Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns (2008)
TV on the Radio - Dear Science (2008)
Youthmovies - Good Nature (2008)
Deerhunter - Microcastle - Weird Era Continued (2CD) [Kranky] (2008)

electronica / calmed, downtempo, new classical, ambient:
; Bersarin Quartett - Bersarin Quartett [lidar] (2008)
; Fennesz - Black Sea [Touch] (2008)
; Portishead - Third (2008)
Microfilm - The Slingshot Orchestra (2008)
Wildbirds And Peacedrums - Heartcore [Leaf] (2008)
Nico Muhly - Mothertongue [Bedroom Community] (2008)
Autistici - Volume Objects [12K] (2008)
geskia - Silent 77 (2008)
Jacaszek - Treny (2008)
VA - Silent Ballet - 9 (2008)


electronica / experimetal, idm:
* Clark - Turning Dragon [warp] (2008)
; Beneva vs. Clark Nova - Sombunall (2008)
; Deadelus - Love to Make Music to [Ninja Tune] (2008)
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles [Warp] (2008)
Xploding Plastix - Treated Timber Resists Rot (2008)
d_rradio - d_rradio (2008)
Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You [Domino] (2008)
Sascha Funke - Mango (2008)
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing (2008)

electronica / dance:
Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires [XL] (2008)
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (2008)
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours [MODCD050] (2008)
Parov Stelar - The Flame of Fame (EP) (2008)
Ohm Square - Taking Shape (2008)


folk / songwriters:
* Juana Molina - un dia [Domino] (2008)
; Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (2008)
; Longital (sk) - Gloria (2008)
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes [Sub Pop] (2008)
James Yorkston - When the Haar Rolls In [Domino] (2008)
Ljudbilden & Piloten - One Hundred Fifty-Five (2008)
Sam Amidon - All Is Well [Bedroom Community] (2008)
John Shannon - American Mystic (2008)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down In The Light [Domino] (2008)
Adem - Takes [Domino] (2008)
Boduf Songs - How Shadows Chase the Balance [Kranky] (2008)

jazz / :
Eric Truffaz and Murcof - mexico (2008)
The Drift - Memory Drawings (2008)

* = >8,5/10
; = 8/10

2007:
rock / altrock, indie rock, post rock:
* Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)
* The National - Boxer [Beggars Banquet] (2007)
; Low - Drums And Guns [Sub Pop] (2007)
; The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters (2007)
; Grails - Burning Off Impurities (2007)
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam [Domino] (2007)
Autumns - Fake Noise from a Box of Toys (2007)
Battles - Mirrored [Warp] (2007)
Calla - Strength In Numbers (2007)
Menomena - Friend & Foe [Barsuk Records] (2007)
north sea - Exquisite Idols [Type] (2007)
Songs of the Green Pheasant - Gyllyng Street [Fat Cat] (2007)
Caspian - The Four Trees (2007)


electronica / calmed, downtempo, new classical, ambient
* Dntel - Dumb Luck [Sub Pop] (2007)
* Efterklang - Under Giant Trees [Leaf] (2007)
* Kiln - Dusker [Ghostly] (2007)
; Efterklang - Parades [Leaf] (2007)
; Stars of the Lid - and Their Refinement of the Decline [Kranky 100] (2007)
; Ulver - Shadows of the Sun (2007)
Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur [Ninja Tune] (2007)
Hanne Hukkelberg - Rykestrasse 68 [Leaf] (2007)
Helios - Ayres [Type] (2007)
Murcof - Cosmos [Leaf] (2007)
Opitope - Hau (Spekk011) (2007)
Steve Jansen - Slope [Samadhi Sound] (2007)
The World on Higher Downs - Land Patterns (2007)
valgeir sigurdsson - ekvílibríum [Bedroom Community] (2007)
Vladislav Delay - Whistleblower (2007)

electronica / experimetal, idm
* Bjork - volta [One Little Indian] (2007)
; Amon Tobin - Foley Room [Ninja Tune] (2007)
; Burial - Untrue (2007)
Apparat - Walls (2007)
BLAERG - Sesquipedalia (2007)
CocoRosie - The Adventures Of Ghosthorse & Stillborn (2007)
Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music I [midi creative noble] (2007)
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime [Kompakt] (2007)
Underworld - Oblivion With Bells (2007)

electronica / dance:
; Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain (2007)
Chemical Brothers - We Are the Night (2007)
Digitalism - Idealism (2007)
Justice - Cross (t) (2007)
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver [DFA] (2007)


folk / songwriters:
; Milenasong - Seven Sisters [Monika Enterprise] (2007)
Kate Nash - Made of Bricks (2007)
Lou Rhodes - Bloom [A&G] (2007)
Iron & Wine - The Sheperds Dog [Sub Pop] (2007)
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup (2007)
Fink - This Is the Thing (ep) [Ninja Tune] (2007)
Nancy Elizabeth - Battle and Victory [Leaf] (2007)
Eliott Smith - New Moon (DE) [Domino] (2007)

jazz:
Food - Molecular Gastronomy [Rune Grammofon] (2007)

2006:
rock / altrock, indie rock, post rock:
; Mogwai - Mr.Beast (2006)
; Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist (2006)
Placebo - Meds (2006)
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position (2006)
Snow Patrol - Eyes Open (2006)
The Dresden Dolls - Yes Virginia (2006)
north sea & rameses iii - Night Of The Ankou [Type] (2006)
The Beatles - Love (2006)
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas (2006)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones (2006)

electronica / calmed, downtempo, new classical, ambient:
* Loscil - Plume [Kranky] (2006)
; Massive Attack - Collected [2CD] + videos (2006)
BT - This Binary Universe (2006)
Chris Herbert - mezzotint [Kranky] (2006)
Clint Mansell - The Fountain (2006)

electronica / experimetal, idm:
; The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa (cz) - Watching Black (2006)
; Bonobo - Days to Come [Ninja Tune] (2006)
; Clark - Body Riddle [Warp] (2006)
Hot Chip - Warning (2006)
Matthew Herbert - Scale (2006)
Thom Yorke - The Eraser (2006)
DJ Shadow -The Outsider (2006)
Prefuse 73 - Security Screenings [Warp] (2006)
Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast (2006)
Deadelus - Denies The Days Demise [Ninja Tune] (2006)
Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy -The Brave And The Bold (2006)

electronica / dance:
; Coldcut - Sound Mirrors [Ninja Tune] (2006)
Basement Jaxx - Crazy Itch Radio (2006)
Moby - Go - The Very Best Of Moby (2006)


folk / songwriters:
* Joanna Newsom - Ys [Drag City] (2006)
* Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go [Domino] (2006)
; Ali Farka Toure - savane (2006)
; James Yorkston - The Year of Leopard [Domino] (2006)
; Longital (sk) - Výprava [slnko records] (2006)
; Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche [Asthmatic Kitty] (2006)
Sufjan Stevens - Songs For Christmas (2006)
Adem - Love And Other Planets [Domino] (2006)
Beirut - Gulag Orkesta (2006)
Boduf Songs - lion devours the sun [Kranky] (2006)
Cassandra Wilson - Thunderbird (2006)
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife[Rough Trade] (2006)
Eliott Smith - To: Elliott from: Portland (Elliott covers by various artist) (2006)


* = >8,5/10
; = 8/10

Mon 8 Jun – Manic Street Preachers, New Young Pony Club, Adem

Manic Street Preachers, New Young Pony Club, Adem



Photos gallery *here*

An hour's worth of love songs. Awwwwwwwwwwww.

Download from: http://tinyurl.com/tsslove

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms
2. Joan as Police Woman - Real Life
3. Tindersticks - Can Our Love...
4. Adem - These Lights Are Meaningful
5. The Divine Comedy - The Summerhouse
6. The Magnetic Fields - Take Ecstasy With Me
7. Antony & The Johnsons - You Are My Sister
8. Jim White - Bluebird
9. Arctic Monkeys - Baby I'm Yours
10. The Style Council - You're The Best Thing
11. Fujiya & Miyagi - Dishwasher
12. Luke Vibert - I Love Acid
13. Pet Shop Boys - Liberation
14. Kings of Tomorrow - Finally

this was my sun & moon show

1. Hymie's Basement - Moonhead
2. Cat Power - Moonshiner
3. Cara del Gato - Moon Party
4. At Night - catch the moon
5. Faun Fables - Mother Twilight
6. Belle and Sebastian - Here Comes the Sun
7. Aid - Flying To The Sun
8. Herman Düne - When the Sun Rose Up This Morning
9. The Hidden Cameras - The Day Is Dawning
10. Gang Of Virgins - Sink the Sun
11. The Deep Dark Woods - By The Light Of The Moon
12. Chavela Vargas - Luz de Luna
13. Normanoak - New Moon
14. The Weepies - Living in Twilight
15. Current 93 - Sunset (The Death Of Thumbellina)
16. Nick Drake - Things Behind The Sun
17. CocoRosie - Brazilian Sun
18. Belle and Sebastian - Asleep on a Sunbeam
19. Broken Social Scene - Looks Just Like the Sun
20. The Unicorns - Peach Moon
21. Adem - You and Moon
22. Good Night & Good Morning - Lune
23. Joanna Newsom - Bridges and Balloons

Raucously starting off this week’s EPdition is a 1979 live recording (from their Boys Next Door/Birthday Party support slot at Hearts, North Carlton) of Fitzroy’s Primitive Calculators.
Check Chapter Music - www.chaptermusic.com.au for the “Can’t Stop It!” compilations and lots of other great stuff.

We also check a number of brand new arrivals courtesy of the lovely Filewile from Bern, Switzerland - www.filewile.com - and Shoeb Ahmad’s label hellosQuare from Canberra - www.hellosquarerecordings.com.
Make sure you get down to Paddington if you're in Sydney this coming Sunday afternoon for Shoeb’s collab with ex-Triosk keyboards/pianoman Adrian Klumpes (www.adrianklumpes.com):
Ahmad Klumpes
Sunday 22 February, 3.30pm
Stone Gallery, 395 Oxford St Paddington
$15/5

Courtesy of China’s Sa Dingding, who makes up her own language - just like Liz Fraser from the Cocteau Twins www.cocteautwins.com - a taster for her 8 March show (part of Hemispheres 09) at the Sydney Opera House - www.sydneyoperahouse.com/whatson/sadingding.aspx blending nicely with Susumu Yokota’s new vocal-heavy album “Mother” - www.susumuyokota.org. The dawning of a new age, man…

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Coming up Nextended - Monday 23 February 09
Couchblip Label Special - with special guest Luke Killen/Disjunction Reunion!
We bring you a new instalment in our series of Australian label specials - this time a look at Sydney label Couchblip www.couchblip.com. Started in 2001, mainly as a vehicle to showcase the work of a group of friends with serious IDM proclivities, the label soon expanded to not only release, but also import and distribute like-minded soundmakers to Australian audiences. We talk with label founder Luke Killen/Disjunction Reunion about the label’s history and inspirations as we explore Couchblip sounds, including the latest release, the Limpet EP (#11 - out late 2008 on limited vinyl).
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Primitive Calculators - Bake In The Sun
(“Primitive Calculators” - 2004, Chapter Music) #

Austin Benjamin Trio - Resonance as a Colour (Mapstation Remix)
(“Unraveled, Rewoven” EP - 2009, hellosQuare) #

Telefon Tel Aviv - M
(“Immolate Yourself” - 2008, Bpitch Control)

Robert Lippok - Parade
(“Falling Into Komëit” - 2004, Monika)

Adem - Launch Yourself (Hot Chip Remix)
(“Launch Yourself” single - 2006, Domino)

Algorythm & Blues - Cute Ass Algorithm (Deadbeat's Desi Sleng Destroyer)
(“Cute Ass Algorithm” single - 2009, Mouthwatering)

Buraka Som Sistema - Sound Of Kuduro (DJ Mehdi’s Sound Of Terror Remix)
(“Sound Of Kuduro” single - 2009, Fabric)

Harmonic 313 - Cyclotron
(“When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence” - 2008, Warp)

Monster Zoku Onsomb! - Team Siouxsie
(“Earth Eaters” - 2008, Acid Samovar) #

A Certain Frank - Nothing
(“Nothing” - 2001, Ata Tak)

Robert Henke - [_flicker]
(“Atom/Document” - 2008, Imbalance Computer Music)

Omit - Dropper
(“Dirt Beneath The Daydream” compilation - 2009, Wire Magazine)

Sa Dingding - Lagu Lagu
(“Alive” - 2007, Universal)

Susumu Yokota - Reflect Mind (feat. Nancy Elizabeth & KAORI)
(“Mother” - 2009, Lo)

Animal Collective - No More Runnin
(“Merriweather Post Pavilion” - 2009, Domino)

Barrage - Corridor
(“Hero Or Dirt?” - 2005, Feral Media) #

Fujiya & Miyagi - Hundreds & Thousands
(“Lightbulbs” - 2008, Full Time Hobby)

Fabio Orsi & Valerio Cosi - The Frozen Seasons Of Lysergia (Part One)
(“Thoughts Melt In The Air” - 2009, Preservation)


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