14.

Doves - Kingdom of Rust 3735

13.

Bat For Lashes - Two Suns 4635

12.

Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum 4930

11.

White Lies - To Lose My Life 5440

10.

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion 5780

9.

Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today I'm Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories The World Is Grey I'm Tired Let's Wash Away 5785

8.

Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand 5985

7.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz 6110

6.

U2 - No Line On The Horizon 6465

5.

Arctic Monkeys - Humbug 6930

4.

Metric - Fantasies 7380

3.

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 8660

2.

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 9385

1. Muse - The Resistance 11205

Album covers, music videos, points breakdowns ect. to follow at a later (post school) date.

suspense!!!!

:uhoh: ;)

I figured Muse would be #1, although they don't really deserve it since it is their worst album to date. I'm glad Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, and Phoenix made the top 10 though.

^^ah. Glad it still works without the in between bits we didn't record then. :nice:

 

All in all, I'd say that was a fantastic (if imperfect, of course) top 30.

 

I can see why people are saying not as good as last year or 2006 or 2005 or whenever. I think end of decade or no end of decade, this is the winding down of an era. A lot of the factors that made the music the way it was for the last few years have gone or faded. Politics, economics, and therefore angst have all shifted. The internet isn't a brand new musical wild frontier anymore. People are starting to figure out what works and doesn't. Indie is now slowly starting to go mainstream (glares at New Moon). The original rush of new bands finding their way into the wider world is slowing down, and the reliability of existing bands is now more established.

 

It's exciting to see what the future is going to bring, but at the same time this was the era that taught me to really love all sorts of music. I didn't even care about it in highschool, but looking back, nothing I like now was a factor then. Even if I did try to care, most of the stuff I like now didn't even exist, the old stuff I like wasn't popular, and there wasn't the same sort of access to the underground that there is now. This is probably the stuff I'll be bugging my grandkids with if I ever have any. When this era is really over, there will always be a part of me looking back longingly whatever else comes.

 

As for that future, I kind of worry that the wild creativity bubbling up everywhere this decade will be somewhat diluted if it does break through into the mainstream. But then at the same time the very definition of indie (if people stick to it) means that everyone can make whatever music they want. The endless variety may end up more organized, but there will still be room for endless variety. And if there isn't, anyone can now make room.

 

To the future! :dance:

I'm really quite pleased with that top 20, maybe the first time ever I have been so :D. Yeah, Muse is #1 and The Resistance isn't that great but I expected that anyway. Good stuff!

Mew should have won :snobby:

What a load of shit. I go away for 2 weeks overseas, comeback and see Muse at #1? Are you people kidding me?

^^Well you guys can't say you didn't try. I think Mew had a higher ratio of first place votes than anything else.

I should try some mew.

I should try some mew.

 

Yes, you should. :wideeyed:

Interesting to see how the list both changes and doesn't in a one vote one point system.

 

124 albums of the 232 received a single vote.

 

46 received 2 votes.

 

Phoenix and Muse are tied for first place with 33 votes. :shocked2:

 

Muse - The Resistance 33

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 33

Arctic Monkeys - Humbug 26

Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand 24

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 23

Metric - Fantasies 23

U2 - No Line On The Horizon 22

White Lies - To Lose My Life 22

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz 21

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion 19

Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum 18

Doves - Kingdom of Rust 16

Bat For Lashes - Two Suns 15

Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today I'm Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories The World Is Grey I'm Tired Let's Wash Away 15

Editors - In This Light And On This Evening 11

Regina Spektor - Far 11

Florence and the Machine - Lungs 9

Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You 9

The XX - XX 9

Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown 8

Pearl Jam - Backspacer 8

Placebo - Battle for the Sun 8

A-ha - Foot of the Mountain 7

Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plagued Lovers 7

Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More 7

New Moon OST 7

Passion Pit - Manners 7

The Flaming Lips - Embryonic 7

The Temper Trap - Conditions 7

Noah And The Whale - First Days of Spring 6

Wilco - Wilco 6

Athlete - Black Swan 5

Eskimo Joe - Inshalla 5

Fever Ray - Fever Ray 5

Hockey - Mind Chaos 5

Starsailor - All the Plans 5

The Boxer Rebellion - Union 5

The Fray - The Fray 5

Atlas Sound - Logos 4

Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King 4

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca 4

Eels - Hombre Lobo 4

Imogen Heap - Ellipse 4

Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Young 4

Owl City - Ocean Eyes 4

The Dead Weather - Horehound 4

The Swell Season - Strict Joy 4

Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre 4

Andrew Bird - Noble Beast 3

Depeche Mode - Sounds of the universe 3

In Flight Safety - We Are An Empire My Dear 3

Morrissey - Years Of Refusal 3

MuteMath - Armistice 3

Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up 3

Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms 3

Robbie Williams - Reality killed the video star 3

Röyksopp - Junior 3

St. Vincent - Actor 3

Sufjan Stevens - The BQE 3

The Antlers - Hospice 3

The Horrors - Primary Colours 3

Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg 3

Bell X1 - Blue Lights on the Runway 2

Ben's Brother - Battling Giants 2

Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions 2

Dinosaur Jr - Farm 2

Evermore - Truth of the World: Welcome To The Show 2

Girls - Album 2

Grammatics - Grammatics 2

Jay-Z - The Blueprint III 2

Jenn Grant - Echoes 2

Joel Plaskett - Three 2

Jon Hopkins - Insides 2

Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti Is... Skyscraper 2

Just Jack - All Night Cinema 2

K'anaan - Troubadour 2

Kings of Convenience - Declaration Of Dependence 2

Lacuna Coil - Shallow Life 2

Leader Cheetah - The Sunspot Letters 2

Mando Diao - Give Me Fire 2

Mat Kearney - City of Black and White 2

Maximo Park - Quicken the heart 2

Michael Buble - Crazy Love 2

Miike Snow - Miike Snow 2

Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk 2

Mos Def - The Ecstatic 2

MSTRKRFT - Fist of God 2

OneRepublic - Waking Up 2

Pet Shop Boys - Yes 2

Philadelphia Grand Jury - Hope Is For The Hopers! 2

Porcupine Tree - The Incident 2

Powderfinger - Golden Rule 2

Red Light Company - Fine Fasination 2

Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter 2

Rob Thomas - Cradlesong 2

Say Hi - Oohs and Aahs 2

Silversun Pickups - Swoon 2

Stereophonics - Keep Calm And Carry On 2

Teagan and Sara - Sainthood 2

The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love 2

The Decemberists - Hazards of Love 2

The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die 2

The Rakes - Klang 2

Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures 2

Vetiver - Tight Knit 2

Volcano Choir - Unmap 2

Weezer - Raditude 2

Wild Beasts - Two Dancers 2

Acres And Acres - All Nations 1

AFI - Crash Love 1

Air - Love 2 1

Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time 1

Alondra Bentley - Ashfield Avenue 1

And So I Watch You From Afar - And So I Watch You From Afar 1

Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light 1

Apostle of Hustle - Eats Darkness 1

Avett Brothers - I and Love and You 1

Basement Jaxx - Scars 1

Benjamin Biolay - La Superbe 1

Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue 1

Big D and the Kids Table - Fluent In Stroll 1

Billy Talent - Billy Talent III 1

Blackbud - Blackbud 1

Bob Dylan - Together Through Life 1

Bomb The Music Industry! - Scrambles 1

Brand New - Daisy 1

Brendan Benson - My Old Familiar Friend 1

British Sea Power - Man of Aran 1

Broken Records - Until the Earth Begins to Part 1

Bruce Peninsula - A Mountain Is a Mouth 1

Built to Spill - There is No Enemy 1

Calvin Harris - Ready For the Weekend 1

Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career 1

Choir of Young Believers This Is for the White in Your Eyes 1

Codes - Trees Dream In Algebra 1

Conor Oberst - Outer South 1

Creed - Full Circle 1

Dame Shirley Bassey - The Performance 1

Dan Black - Un 1

Dan Deacon - Bromst 1

Dappled Cities - Zounds 1

Dark Was the Night 1

David Fonseca - Between Waves 1

David Gray - Draw The Line 1

Dj Tiesto - Kaleidoscope 1

Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion 1

Echo & The Bunnymen - The Fountain 1

Engineers - Three Fact Fader 1

Flypside - State Of Survival 1

Fruit Bats -Ruminant Band 1

Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport 1

fun. - Aim and Ignite 1

Gavin Degraw - Free 1

Gomez - A New Tide 1

Graham Coxon - The Spinning Top 1

Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know 1

IAMX - Kingdom of Welcome Addiction 1

Idlewild - Post Electric Blues 1

Ingrid Michaelson - Everybody 1

Jack Penate - Everything Is New 1

Jamie T - Kings & Queens 1

Japandroids - Post-Nothing 1

jj - no.2 1

John Garrison - Departures 1

John Mayer - Battle Studies 1

Johnny Foreigner - Grace And The Bigger Picture 1

Jónsi&Alex - Riceboy Sleeps 1

Joose Keskitalo - Tule minun luokseni kulta 1

Karnivool - Sound Awake 1

k-os - Yes! 1

Lawrence Arabia - Chant Darling 1

Lisa Hannigan - Sea Sew 1

Lisa Mitchell - Wonder 1

Loney, Dear - Dear John 1

Lost Valentinos - Cities Of Gold 1

Madeleine Peyroux - Bare Bones 1

Madness - Liberty of Norton Folgate 1

Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing 1

Matt & Kim - Grand 1

Mika - The Boy Who Knew Too Much 1

Milow - Milow 1

Moby - Wait For Me 1

Mono - Hymn to the immortal wind 1

Neko Case - Middle Cyclone 1

Nelly Furtado - Mi Plan 1

Nerina Pallot - The Graduate 1

Newton Faulkner - Rebuilt By Humans 1

NOFX - Coaster 1

Oh No Ono - Eggs 1

Other Lives - Other Lives 1

Paramore - Brand New Eyes 1

Peter Doherty - Grace/Wastelands 1

Pilot Speed - Wooden Bones 1

Plushgun - Pins & Panzers 1

Portugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist 1

Prefab Sprout - Let's Change the world with Music 1

Rammstein - Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da 1

Real Estate - Real Estate 1

Red Riders - Drown In Colour 1

Risto - Sähköhäiriöön 1

Robert Post - Dream & Let Go 1

Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees - Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees 1

Sarah Blasko - As Day Follows Night 1

Scott Orr - Ghost Party 1

Sonata Arctica - The Days Of Grays 1

Sonic Youth - The Eternal 1

Stars of Track and Field - A Time for Lions 1

Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer 1

Super Mash Bros. - All About The Scrilions 1

The Black Crowes - Before the Frost...Until the Freeze 1

The Dodos - Time to Die 1

The Duckworth Lewis Method - The Duckworth Lewis Method 1

The Felice Brothers - Yonder is the Clock 1

The Leisure Society - The Sleeper 1

The Lemonheads - Varshons 1

The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms 1

The Most Serene Republic - ...And the Ever Expanding Universe 1

The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come 1

The Rifles - Great Escape 1

The Sunday Drivers - The End Of Maiden Trip 1

The Tragically Hip - We are the same 1

The Twilight Sad - Forget the Night Ahead 1

The Von Bondies - Love, Hate Then There's You 1

The Wave Pictures - If You Leave It Alone 1

The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules 1

The Working Title - Bone Island 1

The Xcerts - In The Cold Wind We Smile 1

Tubelord - Our First American Friends 1

Where The Wild Things Are OST 1

Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs 1

You Say Party! We Say Die! - XXXX 1

Young Galaxy - Invisible Republic 1