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I figured Top 40 was a bit excessive so instead I'm going to post my Top 20 Most Listened to Artists and Tracks (as of 04.11.09).

Artists
1. Death Cab for Cutie
2. Brand New
3. Muse
4. Jack's Mannequin
5. Coldplay
6. Bon Iver
7. Damien Rice
8. Jimmy Eat World
9. Copeland
10. Sigur Rós
11. Stars
12. Tegan and Sara
13. Kings of Leon
14. Manchester Orchestra
15. Ellie Goulding
16. Ingrid Michaelson
17. Doves
18. 30 Seconds to Mars
19. The National
20. Elbow

Tracks
1. You Stole
2. Blood Bank
3. The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future
4. Re: Stacks
5. Corner of Your Heart
6. Flume
7. About Today
8. End Credits (Feat. Plan B)
9. Wish I Stayed
10. For Emma
11. Daisy
12. Your Ex-Lover Is Dead (Final Fantasy remix)
13. Don't Forget Me
14. Into Dust
15. In For The Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey remix)
16. Buildings and Mountains
17. On Call
18. No Sunlight
19. Love Will Tear Us Apart
20. Black Tables

-----------Top 20-----------
Animal Collective ~ Merriweather Post Pavillion
The Antlers ~ Hospice
Fever Ray ~ Fever Ray
Patrick Wolf ~ The Bachelor
Memory Tapes ~ Seek Magic
Phoenix ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Grizzly Bear ~ Veckatimest
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit ~ S/T
Fanfarlo ~ Reservoir
Animal Collective ~ Fall Be Kind [EP]

The xx ~ The xx
Atlas Sound ~ Logos
St. Vincent ~ Actor
Passion Pit ~ Manners
Neko Case ~ Middle Cyclone
Nomo ~ Invisible Cities
Umphreys McGee ~ Mantis
Flaming Lips ~ Embryonic
Yeah Yeah Yeahs ~ It's Blitz!
Magnolia Electric Co. ~ Josephine

-----------Excellent-----------
Cymbals Eat Guitars ~ Why are There Mountains
Dinosaur Jr. ~ Farm
A.A. Bondy ~ When the Devil is Loose
Manchester Orchestra ~ Mean Everything to Nothing
Local Natives ~ Gorilla Manor
Tegan & Sara ~ Sainthood
Neon Indian ~ Psychic Chasms
jim o' rourke ~ The Visitor
Mars Volta ~ Octahedron
Dirty Projectors ~ Bitte Orca
Bat for Lashes ~ Two Suns

Washed out ~ Life of Leisure [EP]
Sufjan Stevens ~ BQE
Hercules & Love Affair ~ Sidetracked
Pains of Being Pure at Heart ~ Higher than the Stars [EP]
Marissa Nadler ~ Little Hells
Bibio ~ Ambivalence Avenue
Toro y Moi ~ My Touch
Julian Casablancas ~ Phrazes for the Young
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart ~ S/T
Avett Brothers ~ I and Love and You
Mos Def ~ The Ecstatic

Built to Spill ~ There is No Enemy
Sunset Rubdown ~ Dragonslayer
maudlin of the Well ~ Part the Second
Discovery ~ LP
Beirut ~ March of the Zapotec [EP]
Tortoise ~ Beacons of Ancerstorship
Akron/Family ~ Set Em' Wild, Set Em' Free
Woods ~ Songs of Shame
The Decemberists ~ The Hazards of Love
Andrew Bird ~ Noble Beast
Tim Hecker ~ Imaginary Country

-----------Good-----------
Dan Deacon ~ Bromst
Islands ~ Vaupors
The Wooden Sky ~ If I Don't Come Home, You'll Know I'm Gone
Kid Cudi ~ Man on the Moon: End of Days
Girls ~ Girls
JJ ~ no. 1
Muse ~ The Resistance
Osso ~ Run Rabbit Run
Monsters of Folk ~ Monsters of Folk

Miike Snow ~ Miike Snow
Junior Boys ~ Begone Dull Care
Antony & The Johnsons ~ The Crying Light
Bon Iver ~ Blood Bank [EP]
fun. ~ Aim & Ignite
The Real People ~ Holland [EP]
Modest Mouse ~ No One's First and You're Next [EP]
Handsome Furs ~ Face Control
Polvo ~ In Prism
Volcano Choir ~ Unmap
Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson ~ Break Up

Sonic Youth ~ The Eternal
A.C. Newman ~ Get Guilty
Dead Weather ~ Horehound

-----------Meh-----------
John Mayer ~ Battle Studies
State Radio ~ Let it Go
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears ~ Tell Em' What Your Name Is!
Karen O and the Kids ~ Where the Wild Things Are
Röyksopp ~ Junior
Real Estate ~ Real Estate
Mastodon ~ Cracke the Skye
Hudson Mohawke ~ Polyfolk Dance [EP]
Ben Kweller ~ Changing Horses
Dave Matthews Band ~ Big Whiskey & The Groogrux King
Andrew Bird ~ Fitz and Dizzyspells [EP]

Platinum Pied Pipers ~ Abundance
God Help The Girl ~ Stills [EP]
Imogen Heap ~ Elipse
Brand New ~ Daisy
M. Ward ~ Hold Time
The Whitest Boy Alive ~ Rules
Zu ~ Carboniferous
Yuksek ~ Away from the Sea
Hudson Mohawke ~ Butter
Dragonette ~ Fixin to Thrill

-----------Pretty Bad/Horrible-----------

MSTRKRFT ~ Fist of God
Telepathe ~ Dance Mother
Amy Milan ~ Masters of the Burial
Wilco ~ Wilco (The Album)
IAMX ~ Kingdom of Welcome Addiction
Pete Yorn ~ Back and Forth
The Dodos ~ Time to Die
Audrye Sessions ~ Audrye Sessions
Great Lake Swimmers ~ Lost Channels
Vetiver ~ Tight Knit

Silversun Pickups ~ Swoon
Deerhunter ~ Rainwater Cassette Exchange [EP]
Lotus Plaza ~ Floodlight Collective
Japandroids ~ Post-Nothing
Swan Lake ~Enemy Mine
Conor Oberst ~ Outer South
Paper Route ~ Absence
The Bird and the Bee ~ Ray Guns are not the Future
Dent May ~ The Good Feeling Music of Dent May
N.A.S.A. ~ Spirit of Apollo

Bruce Springsteen ~ Working on a Dream
Iran ~Dissolver
Wavves ~ Wavves (soooo baddddd. epically bad)

01 - Neil Young - Heart of Gold
02 - Kevin Devine - Brother's Blood
03 - Brand New - Bed
04 - Brand New - Noro
05 - Manchester Orchestra - Tony The Tiger
06 - Grizzly Bear - Ready, Able
07 - Silversun Pickups - The Royal We
08 - The Thermals - I Called Out Your Name
09 - B.A.L.L. - Out of the Blue
10 - The Fall - Blindness
...
11 - Sublime - Badfish
12 - Blakroc - On the Vista (Mos Def)
13 - Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Slip Away

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*GOT SOME IF YOU NEED IT*

Dr. No's Ethiopium - Oh No [2009]
Instrumental hip-hop with okay beats. Kind of hit or miss song-wise.

Real Estate - Real Estate [2009]
Sounds like a Death Cab for Cutie demo, but with more post-rock and a dash of shoegaze influence.
The vocals are distorted so that it sounds like your in the room next to the singer, and you've got your head pressed up against the wall struggling to hear him sing.
I do like Snow Days quite a bit though.

Aceyalone & The Lonely Ones - Aceyalone [2009]
A rap tribute to 50's/60's pop music.
A fun album, with an interesting idea, that's executed well.

Collaborations ep - Amon Tobin and guests [2009]
A rather unremarkable release for amon tobin, but excellent release for anyone else.

Get Color - HEALTH [2009]
Catchy mixture of rock and electronic with dreamy, disconnected vocals and delicious jungle drums.

The Bay of Future Passed - Microfilm [2009]
One of my favorite post-rock bands.
I didn't like this as much as their previous releases.
Blood Sample is such a good track though. I suppose the band thought so as well since they included a piano rendition of the melody as the last song on the album.

an anxious object - Mouse On The Keys [2009]
Post-rock with piano and sometimes jazz too.
Wavers between boring and bad.

Polly Scattergood - Polly Scattergood [2009]
Gentle indie pop with female lead singer
There's a heavy emphasis on the lyrics, which kinda suck
There's not very many female-fronted bands I like, and I feel bad about this.

There Will be fireworks - There Will Be Fireworks [2009]
Post-rock with a singer who has a heavy Scottish accent.
The accent makes me dawwwwww.

Daisy - Brand New [2009]
A pistache 90's alt rock sound with a little bit emo/screamo vocals thrown in.
Not that great.

Gutter Tactics - dälek [2009]
Moody rap with rock/metal samples.
Almost sounds like they sample SUNN O)) or Sleep or something similar on Who Medgar Evers Was...
Los Macheteros / Spear of a Nation has a power electronic feel to the beat.

3P - MNDSGn [2009]
Clumsy mixing of beats that don't really go together

just A moment - 凛として時雨 [2009]
j-rock/pop
I'm not very knowledgeable about Japanese music, but it doesn't stick out to me as being very good or bad.

Moen - Immanu El [2009]
Post rock with hushed, crooning vocals. Has that typical Christian band sound.
I have nothing against Christian bands; I'm just against boring ones.

Further Complications - Jarvis Cocker [2009]
Terrible, like 70's rock, but without any of the soul.
I hate the lead singers voice so much.

Seek Magic - Memory Tapes [2009]
Neo-disco sound with ambient and idm undertones
Good, but not for me.

Eating Us - Black Moth Super Rainbow [2009]
J-pop plus Boards of Canada and 70's prog.
Enjoyable twee album.

Let's see which countries my top 30 are from.

USA:
Relient K
Bad Religion
Boys Like Girls
Allister
Pinhead Gunpowder
Avenged Sevenfold
Take Notice
Brand New
Green Day
Mest
The Click Five
AFI
Megadeth
Panic! At the Disco
Linkin Park
P.O.D.
My Chemical Romance
Sublime
Fall Out Boy
Rise Against
blink-182
Mae
Zebrahead
(23)

Canada:
Sum 41
Simple Plan
(2)

United Kingdom:
Bullet For My Valentine
Kaiser Chiefs
(2)

Finland:
51koodia
Firevision
(2)

Sweden:
The Hives
(1)

hottimesinde's top albums (3 months) 1. Brand New - Daisy (732) 2. Elliott Smith - XO (477) 3. Northstar - Pollyanna (339) 4. Elliott Smith - Either/Or (311) 5. Jesse Lacey - Live At The Downtown (Jesse Lacey Acoustic Set) (305) 6. Matt Pryor - Confidence Man (250) 7. Pompeii - Nothing Happens For A Reason (214) 8. Kevin Devine - Put Your Ghost To Rest (197) 9. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity (183) 10. Cursive - Happy Hollow (169)

SONGS OF NOVEMBER

The following are my top 25 songs during the months of November:

1- Biffy Clyro- Know Your Quarry

2- Mumford & Sons- I Gave You All

3- Muse- Undisclosed Desires

4- Paul Tiernan- How To Say Goodbye
From the soundtrack of the film, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist.

5- Goodbye Motel- Watching You

6- Weezer- Can't Stop Partying

7- Little Man Tate- Joined By An Ipod

8- The Decemberists- The Rake's Song
Featuring twisted and sickening lyrics, this song has to contain the most adbnormal songwriting of the decade.

9- Enter Shikari- Gap In The Fence

10- Elliot Minor- Time After Time

11- Maxïmo Park- In Another World (You Would've Found Yourself By Now)

12- Snow Patrol- Run [Live]
From Snow Patrol’s latest “best loved songs” compilation, this was recorded under the Mencap Little Noise Sessions at the Union Chapel. In this live version, Run is stripped down completely and can’t help but sound beautiful.

13- Brand New- Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't

14- Temper Trap- Soldier On

15- Blood Red Shoes- It's Getting Boring By The Sea

16- The Vines- 4ever
The Vines cover ‘4ever’, as made famous by Australia’s female duo, The Veronicas.

17- Ash- True Love 1980

18- A.F.I.- Okay, I Feel Better Now

19- Vampire Weekend- Ottoman

20- Weird Al Yankovich- Polkarama!

21- Julian Plenti- Fly As You Might.

22- Richard Hawley- Baby You're My Light

23- Modest Mouse- Spitting Venom

24- The Wombats- My Circuitboard City

25- LoverMan- Crypt Tonight