Larsen B

I wish I could be more orderly and concise, but the only way I could shorten it would be to firstly restrict it to one album per artist, but then that throws up dilemmas in itself (how can choose between Alligator and Boxer), so here is 20 in alphabetical/chronological order (probably neglected the early noughties due to lack of memory): Arab Strap - Monday At the Hug and Pint Arab Strap - The Last Romance The Arcade Fire - Funeral Beirut - Gulag Orkestar Beirut - The Flying Club Cup Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye M83 - Saturdays=Youth Mew - ...And the Glass Handed Kites The National - Alligator The National - Boxer Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Detroyer? Okkervil River - The Stage Names Pulp - We Love Life Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto Wild Beasts - Two Dancers The XX - XX Argh, no room for ATDI, Spoon and many others.

A rather delayed (due to techincal issues) review of the gig on Drowned In Sound.

Quoted for truth etc. Despite the fact that having an X-Factor winner for christmas number one every year is annoyingly predictable I'd much rather have the X-Factor winner number 1 than RATM. Why? The X-Factor winners' single will (probably) be some inane ballad-like pop song, not especially christmassy, but so inoffensive I'll be able to ignore it with ease. This is much preferable to an aggresive anthem for twattish little teenagers, which despite it self-righteousness only really serves as an excuse for pathetic twerps to yell the "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me", without any regard for whom the "you" in question is. Plus anyone who actually wants a song with the word "motherfucker" in the lyrics as christmas number one is simply a twat.

I've been meaning to check out The Antlers album.

Complete with a rechristening for the former De Rosa man! Apologies!

Not all that bad a list even with Bitte Orca underappreciation considered. Foxbase Beta at number 10 seems pleasingly bizarre, I mean it's really a reissue/remastering isn't it? The big omission for me is YACHT - See Mystery Lights.

C'mon people, make it ten and put it in order!! 1. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers 2. The XX - The XX 3. YACHT - See Mystery Lights 4. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca 5. Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care 6. Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry They Washed Away, No More Stories, The World Is Grey, I'm Tired, Lets Wash Away 7. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion 8. Aidan Moffat and the Best Ofs - How to Get to Heaven From Scotland 9. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns 10. Wave Pictures - If You Leave It Alone That's right, I had to have the entire Mew album title, it would just seem too unofficial otherwise.

I agree to a certain degree, but from what I have seen of nme recently it's showing slight improvement. It's also notable that few of the uber-fashionable trend bands really make this list. BUT EVERYBODY STOP POSTING THEIR FAVOURITE ALBUMS OF THE NOUGHTIES, WE NEED A WHOLE NEW THREAD FOR THAT!!!!

You win!!!!!

If anyone cares etc.. I actually don't think it is a bad list at all, but c'mon everyone let's have you're complaints about In Rainbows being higher than Kid A, other omissions, how does it compare to the "P2K" list etc or just be the person who thinks it's really scathing and witty to say "I wouldn't wipe my arse with nme". I give them points for the suprising inclusion of my favourite album of this year Two Dancers. 1. The Strokes - Is This It 2. The Libertines - Up The Bracket 3. Primal Scream - xtrmntr 4. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell 6. PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea 7. Arcade Fire - Funeral 8. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights 9. The Streets - Original Pirate Material 10. Radiohead - In Rainbows 11. At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command 12. LCD Soundsystem - The Sound Of Silver 13. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away 14. Radiohead - Kid A 15. Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf 16. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free 17. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise 18. The White Stripes - Elephant 19. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells 20. Blur - Think Tank 21. The Coral - The Coral 22. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 23. Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future 24. The Libertines - The Libertines 25. Rapture - Echoes 26. Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner 27. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black 28. Johnny Cash - Man Comes Around 29. Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World 30. Elbow - Asleep In The Back 31. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning 32. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones 33. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible 34. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump 35. Babyshambles - Down In Albion 36. Spirtualized - Let It Come Down 37. The Knife - Silent Shout 38. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm 39. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles 40. Ryan Adams - Gold 41. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers 42. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend 43. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 44. Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below 45. Avalanches - Since I Left You 46. Delgados - The Great Eastern 47. Brendan Benson - Lapalco 48. Walkmen - Bows And Arrows 49. Muse - Absolution 50. MIA - Arular.

Yay, brilliant books both of them. I reckon Kavalier and Clay is in my top ten books ever fo sho. Apparently a film has been touted for ages, and of course the Coens are making a Yiddish Policeman's Union film. Read any other Chabon?

In the same vein as Radiobutt et al Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers

I saw this post on facebook and you're first comment on it and the subsequent Simpsons' clip, good on ya lad.

Agreed, the album is a letdown though.

Well I Wonder if it was really all that serious. It was probably all a Miserable Lie, if you ask me Mozza is going Nowhere Fast, although his friends/bandmates etc must have been in a right Panic.

He's not the only one: Review / Slow Club @ Tunnels, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, 27/09/09 / Gigs // Drowned In Sound

Excellent, thanks for the info.

You what?! I hope they are more pissed!

Any chance of a vague idea of stage times?

REVIEW HERE.

Really, I actually thought it seemed like more than that. At least it was nice and intimate.

Do you know was the actual attendance was roughly, Steven? I thought it was an excellent gig. Anyone get any decent photos?

I'm reading Wild Harbour by Ian McPherson which I picked up on a whim in the oxfam book shop having gone specifically to find some Nan Shepherd. It was written before WW2 and follows a couple who try to escape the war (which in the book breaks out in 1944) by hiding in a cave in the Speyside hills. I've been keen to read some more by local(ish) writers, although I've still never read Sunset Song.

I have wee listen to Oxygen every now and then, it's glorious, but I find it hard to believe I was ever the sort to like something so self-serious. That said I guess we were all teenagers once.