In no particular order:
My Top 10 Favorites:
Cat Power - The Greatest
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad of Broken Seas
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say...
Elvis Costello & Allen Touissant - The River in Reverse
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
The Roots - Game Theory
The Beatles - Love
Would have made the list, but I ran it into the ground...
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Was vaguely disappointed by...:
Yo La Tengo - I'm not afraid of you...
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Come Back Album:
Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormenters (Life is a Pigsty turned up to 11 is a primer in angst)
Can't wait to hear more from:
Peter, Bjorn, and John
I didn't get the fuss over:
The Hold Steady
I meant to spend more time with the new albums by:
Bob Dylan
Bruce Springsteen
Dixie Chicks
Pearl Jam
Pernice Brothers





thats quite a list there my friend... i wish you lots of musical love in the new year!
Cool list....love the categories!!
Thanks. I almost forgot, The Flaming Lips going on my vaguely disappointing list.
We have a lot of the same albums on this year's best of ... although I loved both the Sonic Youth and Flaming Lips albums. I'll publish my list in a day or two, then we can argue.