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Again, thanks to everyone who took time to think about and post their list for this year. And again, thanks to those who posted but didn't bother to read the instructions at the top properly.... Here are the results! A 1st place vote scored 10 points, 2nd place 9, down to 10th place scoring 1 point. I've posted the whole list here - there were 291 albums voted for in all (277 last year). If enough people want to query the results or look at the raw data, then I'll upload the spreadsheet. I usually miss some near-duplicates or votes where someone got the artist and the title the wrong way round, so please feel free to point out any inconsistencies if it affects anything in the top 50. Rank - Artist - Album [Total points] [Total number of votes] 1 - Caribou - Swim [70] [12] 2 - Arcade Fire - Suburbs [60] [9] 3 - Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy [54] [9] 4 - Janelle Monae - ArchAndroid [43] [5] 5 - Beach House - Teen Dream [42] [8] 6 - LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening [40] [7] 7 - Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest [36] [4] 7 - National - High Violet [36] [4] 9 - Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma [33] [6] 10 - Big Boi - Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty [31] [6] 11 - Four Tet - There is love in you [30] [8] 12 - Kvelertak - Kvelertak [27] [4] 12 - Daughters - Daughters [27] [4] 12 - Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can [27] [3] 15 - Sleigh Bells - Treats [26] [5] 16 - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today [25] [4] 17 - Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis [24] [3] 18 - Gorillaz - Plastic Beach [22] [3] 18 - Fall - Your Future Our Clutter [22] [3] 18 - Yellow Swans - Going Places / Being There [22] [3] 21 - Roots - How I Got Over [20] [5] 21 - Robyn - Body Talk [20] [3] 23 - fang island - Fang Island [19] [2] 23 - Foals - Total Life Forever [19] [2] 25 - Steve Mason - Boys Outside [18] [3] 25 - Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal [18] [3] 25 - Harvey Milk - A Small Turn of Human Kindness [18] [3] 25 - Pantha du Prince - Black Noise [18] [2] 29 - Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History [17] [3] 29 - Broken Bells - Broken Bells [17] [3] 31 - Shackleton - Fabric 55 [16] [2] 31 - Menomena - Mines [16] [2] 31 - Hot Chip - One Life Stand [16] [2] 34 - Electric Wizard - Black Masses [15] [2] 34 - Black Milk - Album Of The Year [15] [2] 34 - Das Racist - Sit Down, Man [15] [2] 37 - Deftones - Diamond Eyes [14] [2] 37 - Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner [14] [4] 37 - James Blake - CMYK EP [14] [3] 40 - Oceansize - Self-Preserved While The Bodies Float Up [13] [2] 40 - Sword - Warp Riders [13] [2] 40 - Pariah - Safehouses EP [13] [2] 40 - Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles II [13] [4] 40 - Mogwai - Special Moves [13] [2] 45 - Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms [12] [2] 46 - Yeasayer - Odd Blood [11] [2] 46 - Polar Bear - Peepers [11] [2] 46 - Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz [11] [2] 46 - Errors - Come Down With Me [11] [2] 46 - Black Dog - Music For Real Airports [11] [3] 46 - Ihsahn - After [11] [2] 46 - Chemical Brothers - Further [11] [2] 53 - Salem - King Night [10] [1] 53 - Danza - Danza III [10] [1] 53 - Electric President - Violent Blue [10] [1] 53 - Xcerts - Scatterbrain [10] [1] 53 - Pure Reason Revolution - Hammer & Anvil [10] [1] 53 - MGMT - Congratulations [10] [1] 53 - Eels - Tomorrow Morning [10] [1] 53 - Faust - Faust is last [10] [1] 53 - Pete Swanson - Where I Am [10] [1] 53 - Teenage Fanclub - Shadows [10] [1] 53 - Posies - Blood/Candy [10] [1] 53 - Black Country Communion - Black Country Communion [10] [1] 53 - Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me [10] [1] 53 - Goldfrapp - Headfirst [10] [1] 53 - Shinsei Kamattechan - Tomodachi Koroshite Made [10] [1] 53 - New Pornographers - Together [10] [2] 53 - Specific Heats - Cursed! [10] [1] 53 - Field Music - Measure [10] [1] 53 - Lissie - Catching A Tiger [10] [2] 53 - Brian Eno - Small Craft on a Milk Sea [10] [1] 53 - Allo Darlin' - Allo Darlin' [10] [1] 53 - Tesla Boy - Modern Thrills [10] [1] 53 - Moon Wiring Club - A Spare Tabby At The Cat's Wedding [10] [1] 53 - Balam Acab - See Birds EP [10] [1] 77 - Foreign Exchange - Authenticity [9] [1] 77 - Black Eyed Peas - Beginning [9] [1] 77 - Anathema - We're here because we're here [9] [1] 77 - Gazpacho - Miss Atropos [9] [1] 77 - Barn Owl - Ancestral Star [9] [1] 77 - Local Natives - Gorilla Manor [9] [1] 77 - Duran Duran - All You Need Is Now [9] [1] 77 - Massive Attack - Heligoland [9] [1] 77 - Best Coast - Crazy For You [9] [1] 77 - Glitch Mob - Drink the Sea [9] [1] 77 - Devo - Something For Everybody [9] [2] 77 - Bombay Bicycle Club - Flaws [9] [1] 77 - Sailors With Wax Wings - Sailors With Wax Wings [9] [1] 77 - Mrs Jynx - Shark Carousel [9] [1] 77 - Scuba - Triangulation [9] [1] 77 - New Young Pony Club - Optimist [9] [1] 77 - Jason Moran - Ten [9] [1] 77 - Demdike Stare - Liberation through Hearing [9] [1] 77 - Superchunk - Majesty Shredding [9] [1] 77 - Eskmo - Eskmo [9] [1] 77 - Les Savy Fav - Root For Ruin [9] [1] 77 - Wu-Tang Clan - Return of The Wu [9] [1] 77 - Various artists - Deutsche Electronische Musik [9] [1] 77 - Liars - sisterworld [9] [2] 77 - Island - Island [9] [1] 102 - Stornoway - Beachcomber's Windowsill [8] [1] 102 - Extra Lens - Undercard [8] [1] 102 - David Bowie - Station to Station [8] [1] 102 - Magnetic Man - Magnetic Man [8] [2] 102 - Miami Horror - Illumination [8] [1] 102 - Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh [8] [1] 102 - Devil Sold His Soul - Blessed & Cursed [8] [1] 102 - Lindstrom & Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool [8] [1] 102 - Titus Andronicus - Monitor [8] [1] 102 - Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer [8] [1] 102 - Whiskers - War of Currents [8] [1] 102 - Comeback Kid - Symptoms + Cures [8] [1] 102 - Kele - Boxer [8] [2] 102 - Grooveman Spot - Change Situations [8] [1] 102 - Besnard Lakes - Are the roaring light [8] [1] 102 - Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids [8] [1] 102 - Hidden Orchestra - Night Walks [8] [1] 102 - Contortionist - Exoplanet [8] [1] 102 - Luke Abbott - Holkham Drones [8] [1] 102 - Skyzoo and Illmind - Live From the Tape Deck [8] [1] 102 - Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza - Danza III: The Series of Unfourtunate Events [8] [1] 102 - Endless Boogie - Full House Head [8] [1] 102 - I'm New here - Gil Scott-heron [8] [1] 102 - Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record [8] [1] 102 - Women - Public Strain [8] [1] 102 - Standard Fare - Noyelle Beat [8] [1] 102 - Star One - Victims of the Modern Age [8] [1] 102 - Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe 2 [8] [1] 102 - Method Man Ghostface & Raekwon - Wu-Massacre [8] [1] 102 - Yimino - Breaker [8] [1] 102 - Anais Mitchel - Headestown [8] [1] 102 - Jimmy Eat World - Invented [8] [1] 134 - Failures - Failures [7] [1] 134 - Shonen Knife - Super Group [7] [1] 134 - Bilal - Airtight's Revenge [7] [1] 134 - Coral - Butterfly House [7] [1] 134 - These New Puritans - Hidden [7] [1] 134 - Onra - Long Distance [7] [1] 134 - Fukpig - Belief is the Death of Intelligence [7] [1] 134 - Lunatic Soul - Lunatic Soul 2 [7] [1] 134 - Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern - Essex Arms [7] [1] 134 - Parades - Foreign Tapes [7] [1] 134 - Of Montreal - Fake Priest [7] [1] 134 - For Today - Breaker [7] [1] 134 - This is happening - LCD Soundsystem [7] [1] 134 - Alphabeat - Beat Is... [7] [1] 134 - Lady Antebellum - Need You Now [7] [1] 134 - Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking It Easy [7] [1] 134 - Danny Byrd - Rave Digger [7] [1] 134 - Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope In The Sky [7] [1] 134 - Ion Dissonance - Cursed [7] [2] 134 - American Dollar - Atlas [7] [1] 134 - Black Keys - Brothers [7] [1] 134 - Tame Impala - Innerspeaker [7] [3] 134 - Booka Shade - More! [7] [1] 134 - Forest Swords - Dagger Paths [7] [1] 134 - Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin - Let It Sway [7] [1] 134 - Kids in Glass Houses - Dirt [7] [1] 134 - Jeff Mills - Occurrence [7] [1] 161 - drums - drums [6] [1] 161 - Weezer - Pinkerton [6] [1] 161 - Cancer Bats - Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones [6] [1] 161 - Coheed and Cambria - Year of the Black Rainbow [6] [2] 161 - Guido - Anidea [6] [1] 161 - Acacia Strain - Wormwood [6] [1] 161 - Dungen - Skit I Allt [6] [1] 161 - Avarus - 2 [6] [1] 161 - Vampire Weekend - Contra [6] [2] 161 - Mount Kimbie - Crooks and Lovers [6] [2] 161 - Yahzarah - Ballad Of Purple Saint James [6] [1] 161 - Mux Mool - Skulltaste [6] [1] 161 - DMX Krew - March to the Stars [6] [1] 161 - Futures - Holiday [6] [1] 161 - Spocks Beard - X [6] [1] 161 - Gaslight Anthem - American Slang [6] [1] 161 - Caitlin Rose - Own Side Now [6] [1] 161 - oOoOO - oOoOO EP [6] [1] 161 - Apples in Stereo - Travellers in space and time [6] [1] 161 - Orange Juice - Coals To Newcastle [6] [1] 161 - Various - New Wave Dance Music From South Africa [6] [1] 161 - Delphic - Acolyte [6] [1] 161 - Kelis - Flesh Tones [6] [1] 161 - Bring Me The Horizon - There Is A Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There is A Heaven, Let's Keep It A Secret [6] [1] 161 - Ray La Montagne - God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise [6] [1] 161 - Burzum - Belus [6] [1] 187 - Miko - Chandelier [5] [1] 187 - Midlake - Courage Of Others [5] [2] 187 - James La'Brie - Static Impulse [5] [1] 187 - Freeway and Jake One - Stimulus Package [5] [1] 187 - Avett Brothers - I and Love and You [5] [1] 187 - Neon Indian - Psychic Charms [5] [1] 187 - Spoon - Transference [5] [1] 187 - One life Stand - Hot chip [5] [1] 187 - Body - All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To Blood [5] [1] 187 - Delorean - Subiza [5] [1] 187 - Rolo Tomassi - Cosmology [5] [1] 187 - Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here [5] [1] 187 - Shad - TSOL [5] [1] 187 - Atmosphere - To All My Friends [5] [1] 187 - Cure - Disintegration (2010 deluxe edition) [5] [1] 187 - Besnard Lakes - Besnard Lake are the Roaring Night [5] [1] 187 - james blake - klavierwerke EP [5] [1] 187 - Besnard Lakes - Besnard Lakes are the Roaring Night [5] [1] 187 - Kano - Method To The Maadness [5] [1] 187 - Prins Thomas - Prins Thomas [5] [1] 187 - Eminem - Recovery [5] [1] 187 - ratatat - LP4 [5] [1] 187 - Land of Kush's Egyptian Light Orchestra - Monogamy [5] [1] 187 - Domo Genesis - Rolling Papers [5] [1] 211 - Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky [4] [1] 211 - Wild Nothing - Gemini [4] [1] 211 - Electronic Anthology Project - Electronic Anthology Project [4] [1] 211 - Fresh & Onlys - Play It Strange [4] [1] 211 - Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi [4] [1] 211 - Red Sparowes - Fear is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer [4] [1] 211 - Celldweller - Wish Upon A Black Star [4] [1] 211 - Fucked Up - Couple Tracks [4] [1] 211 - Mim Suleiman - Tungi [4] [1] 211 - Kylesa - Spiral Shadow [4] [1] 211 - Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern [4] [1] 211 - Sepalcure - Love Pressure EP [4] [1] 211 - Bees - Every Step's A Yes [4] [1] 211 - Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini [4] [1] 211 - Matthew Dear - Black City [4] [1] 211 - Sigh - Scenes from Hell [4] [1] 211 - A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Autumn, Again [4] [1] 211 - Hundred In The Hands - Hundred In The Hands [4] [1] 211 - John Grant - Queen Of Denmark [4] [1] 211 - Fake Problems - Real Ghosts Caught on Tape [4] [1] 211 - Laura Viers - July Flame [4] [1] 211 - Advisory Circle - Mind How You Go (Revised Edition) [4] [1] 211 - Stellar OM Source - Trilogy Select [4] [1] 211 - Iron Maiden - Final Frontier [4] [2] 235 - Gangrene - Gutter Water [3] [1] 235 - EL-P - Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 [3] [1] 235 - Groove Armada - Black Light [3] [1] 235 - Shugo Tokumaru - Port Entropy [3] [1] 235 - Gatekeeper - Giza [3] [1] 235 - Charles Trees - Dream EP [3] [1] 235 - Drive-By Truckers - Big To Do [3] [1] 235 - Poets of The Fall - Twilight Theater [3] [1] 235 - God Is An Astronaut - Age of the Fifth Sun [3] [1] 235 - Howl - Full of Hell [3] [1] 235 - Alkaline Trio - This Addiction [3] [1] 235 - Rick Ross - Teflon Don [3] [1] 235 - Circle of Contempt - Artifacts In Motion [3] [1] 235 - Haight Ashbury - Here In The Golden Rays [3] [1] 235 - Walls - Walls [3] [1] 235 - teenagersintokyo - Sacrifice [3] [1] 235 - Bonobo - Black Sands [3] [2] 235 - Teengirl Fantasy - 7AM [3] [1] 235 - Sun Araw - On Patrol [3] [1] 235 - Magnetic Fields - Realism [3] [1] 235 - Shining - Blackjazz [3] [1] 256 - Future Islands - In Evening Air [2] [1] 256 - Karnivool - Sound Awake [2] [1] 256 - Soutaisei Riron - Synchroniciteen [2] [1] 256 - Dessa - A Badly Broken Code [2] [1] 256 - Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit [2] [1] 256 - Evan Caminiti - West Winds [2] [1] 256 - DriveBy Truckers - Big ToDo [2] [1] 256 - J. Tillman - Singing Ax [2] [1] 256 - Roc Marciano - Marcberg [2] [1] 256 - Rangers - Suburban Tours [2] [1] 256 - KT Tunstall - Tiger Suit [2] [1] 256 - Kamelot - Poetry For The Poisoned [2] [1] 256 - Jazmine Sullivan - Love Me Back [2] [1] 256 - Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Let It Sway [2] [1] 256 - Royksopp - Senior [2] [1] 256 - Underworld - Barking [2] [1] 256 - HIM - Screamworks [2] [1] 273 - Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble - Miles Away [1] [1] 273 - CFCF - River EP [1] [1] 273 - Harlem - Hippies [1] [1] 273 - Neil Cowley Trio - Radio Silence [1] [1] 273 - These Wonderful Evils - Parade Room [1] [1] 273 - Sylvester Anfang II - Commune Cassetten [1] [1] 273 - Zeromancer - Death Of Romance [1] [1] 273 - Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart [1] [1] 273 - Kate Nash - My Best Friend is You [1] [1] 273 - Oh No - Dr No's Ethiopium [1] [1] 273 - Oceano - Contagion [1] [1] 273 - Lorn - Nothing Else [1] [1] 273 - Kid cudi - Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager [1] [1] 273 - Plan B - Defamation of Strickland Banks [1] [1] 273 - Kristin Hersh - Crooked [1] [1] 273 - Amusement Parks on Fire - Road Eyes [1] [1] 273 - Hans Zimmer - Inception OST [1] [1] 273 - Afrirampo - We Are Uchu No Ko [1] [1] 273 - Ocean - Heliocentric [1] [1]

This is a companion thread to http://www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?showtopic=235357 - if you've already posted there and would like your favourites to be part of the compiled list, please post your results here - feel free to list up to 10 albums - in this format: Position - Artist - Album for example, 01 - The National - High Violet 02 - Engineers - In Praise Of More 03 - Brian Eno - Small Craft On A Milk Sea PLEASE DON'T POST ANY OPINIONS OR RESPONSES TO OTHER FORUMITES' CHOICES IN THIS THREAD - you can do that in http://www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?showtopic=235357. The spaces and hyphens between position, artist and album are really important as it means that I can import the text straight into Excel without having to piss about with reformatting, and also I can reuse the 2007/2008/2009 spreadsheet ;-) . I'll leave this thread running until the end of 23 December. You can edit your list as much as you like - I won't compile them until I close the thread. If you have any questions then PM me - if the answer is useful to others I'll add it to this post, below. Q - Are reissues allowed? A - As long as the reissue date is in 2010, yes. Q - Is Local Natives' "Gorilla Manor" album from 2009 or 2010? A - It was released in the UK in November 2009 (USA February 2010) so counts as a 2009 release for this poll.

Again, thanks to everyone who took time to think about and post their list for this year. Thanks again, also, to those who posted but didn't bother to read the instructions at the top properly. You thoughtless cunts! Anyway - here are the results! A 1st place vote scored 10 points, 2nd place 9, down to 10th place scoring 1 point. I've posted the whole list here - there were 277 albums voted for in all (248 last year). If enough people want to query the results or look at the raw data, then I'll upload the spreadsheet. I usually miss one or two near-duplicates or votes where someone got the artist and the title the wrong way round, so please feel free to point out any inconsistencies if it affects anything in the top 50. Happily, our collective taste is moving away from that of Q magazine, with 3 of our top 10 in Q's top 10 (5 last year), but at least U2 received not one single, solitary vote on our list. Pitchfork also have 3 of their top 10 in our top 10 (5 last year) - are there any critics' lists with a better match? Rank - Artist - Album (Total points) (Total number of votes) 1 - Mastodon - Crack The Skye (151) (19) 2 - Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport (87) (13) 3 - Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (68) (11) 4 - XX - xx (63) (10) 5 - Baroness - Blue Record (51) (8 ) 6 - Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (48) (6) 7 - Pissed Jeans - King Of Jeans (44) (6) 8 - Astra - The Weirding (38) (7) 8 - Between The Buried & Me - The Great Misdirect (38) (7) 8 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (38) (7) 11 - Converge - Axe to Fall (36) (6) 11 - Horrors - Primary Colours (36) (7) 13 - Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (34) (6) 14 - Propagandhi - Supporting Caste (29) (3) 15 - Porcupine Tree - The Incident (28) (5) 15 - Sonic Youth - the eternal (28) (4) 17 - Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2 (27) (4) 18 - Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions (26) (6) 19 - Future of the Left - Travels With Myself And Another (25) (4) 20 - Kylesa - Static Tensions (24) (4) 21 - Clark - Totems Flare (23) (3) 21 - Zu - Carboniferous (23) (4) 23 - Passion Pit - Manners (21) (3) 24 - Clint Mansell - Moon OST (19) (4) 24 - Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love (19) (4) 24 - Silversun Pickups - Swoon (19) (2) 24 - Pains of being pure at heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (19) (3) 28 - Ben Frost - By The Throat (18) (3) 28 - Fever Ray - Fever Ray (18) (5) 28 - Isis - Wavering Radiant (18) (3) 28 - jj - No. 2 (18) (3) 28 - Lindstrom & Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool (18) (3) 28 - Nirvana - Live at Reading (18) (2) 34 - Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights (17) (4) 34 - Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do (17) (3) 34 - Pet Shop Boys - Yes (17) (2) 37 - And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - The Century of Self (15) (2) 37 - Brand New - Daisy (15) (2) 37 - Dinosaur Jr. - Farm (15) (3) 37 - Hudson Mohawke - Butter (15) (2) 41 - Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue (14) (3) 41 - Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (14) (2) 41 - Burnt By The Sun - Heart of Darkness (14) (3) 41 - Charlotte Hatherley - New Worlds (14) (2) 41 - Soulsavers - Broken (14) (2) 41 - Duckworth Lewis Method - The Duckworth Lewis Method (14) (2) 47 - Bibio - Vignetting The Compost (13) (2) 47 - Dam Funk - Toeachizown (13) (2) 47 - Dan Deacon - Bromst (13) (3) 50 - Engineers - Three Fact Fader (12) (2) 50 - Frank Turner - Poetry of the Deed (12) (2) 50 - Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II (12) (2) 50 - Lisa Mitchell - Wonder (12) (2) 50 - Mos Def - The Ecstatic (12) (2) 50 - Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms (12) (2) 50 - Tombs - Winter Hours (12) (2) 57 - Billy Talent - Billy Talent III (11) (2) 57 - DOOM - Born Like This (11) (3) 57 - Manic Street Preachers - Journals for Plague Lovers (11) (4) 57 - Moderat - Moderat (11) (2) 57 - Mars Volta - Octahedron (11) (2) 57 - Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted To Sin (11) (2) 63 - Ruarri Joseph - Both Sides Of The Coin (10) (1) 63 - A Camp - Colonia (10) (1) 63 - amon amarth - twilight of the thunder god (10) (1) 63 - Armin Van Buuren - Universal Religion Chapter 4 (10) (1) 63 - Boys Noize - Power (10) (1) 63 - Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains (10) (1) 63 - Florence + The Machine - Lungs (10) (1) 63 - Girls - Album (10) (2) 63 - Hacride - Lazarus (10) (1) 63 - Kraftwerk - Der Katalog (10) (1) 63 - Martyn - Great Lengths (10) (2) 63 - obits - I blame you (10) (1) 63 - Pendle Coven - Self Assessment (10) (1) 63 - Peter Broderick - 4 Track Songs (10) (1) 63 - Portal - Swarth (10) (1) 63 - Pyramids with Nadja - Pyramids with Nadja (10) (1) 63 - R.A. the Rugged Man - Legendary Classics Vol. 1 (10) (1) 63 - Redshape - The Dance Paradox (10) (1) 63 - Sally Shapiro - My Guilty Pleasure (10) (2) 63 - Shafiq Husayn - Shafiq En' A Free Ka (10) (1) 63 - Sparklehorse and Danger Mouse - Dark Night of the Soul (10) (1) 63 - Strung Out - Agents of the Underground (10) (1) 63 - Sunset Rubdown - Dragon Slayer (10) (1) 63 - Tubelord - Our first American Friends (10) (1) 63 - White Lies - To lose my Life (10) (1) 63 - WHY? - Eskimo Snow (10) (1) 89 - Various Artists - A State of Trance 2009 (9) (1) 89 - Air France - No Way Down (9) (1) 89 - Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle (9) (1) 89 - Bob Dylan - Together through life (9) (1) 89 - Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Vs Children (9) (1) 89 - Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM (9) (1) 89 - Cio D'or - Die Faser (9) (1) 89 - Japandroids - Post Nothing (9) (2) 89 - Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications (9) (1) 89 - Jay-Z - Blueprint 3 (9) (2) 89 - Jeremy Jay - Slow Dance (9) (1) 89 - Jóhann Jóhannsson - And After The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees (9) (1) 89 - Marillion - Live from Loreley 2009 (9) (1) 89 - Martin Schulte - On the moon (9) (1) 89 - Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez - Old Money (9) (1) 89 - Oneida - Rated O (9) (1) 89 - Patrick Wolf - The Batchelor (9) (1) 89 - Placebo - Battle For The Sun (9) (2) 89 - Poison the Well - The Tropic Rot (9) (1) 89 - Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder (9) (1) 89 - Tesla Boy - Tesla Boy EP (9) (1) 89 - Daylaborers - The Learning Process (9) (1) 89 - Field - Yesterday & Today (9) (3) 89 - Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come (9) (1) 89 - Two Tongues - Two Tongues (9) (1) 89 - Wicked Witch - Chaos: 1978 to 1986 (9) (1) 89 - Zombi - Spirit Animal (9) (1) 116 - Alchemist - Chemical Warfare (8 ) (2) 116 - Atlas Sound - Logos (8 ) (1) 116 - Broadcast and The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age (8 ) (1) 116 - Clubroot - Clubroot (8 ) (1) 116 - Dananananaykroyd - Hey Everyone (8 ) (2) 116 - Dizzee Rascal - Tongue N Cheek (8 ) (1) 116 - Do Make Say Think - Other Truths (8 ) (2) 116 - Edan - Echo Party (8 ) (1) 116 - Girls - Girls (8 ) (1) 116 - HORSE the Band - Desperate Living (8 ) (1) 116 - Idlewild - Post Electric Blues (8 ) (1) 116 - Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, the Commuter (8 ) (1) 116 - Katatonia - Night is the New Day (8 ) (1) 116 - La Roux - La Roux (8 ) (1) 116 - Leonard Cohen - Live In London (8 ) (1) 116 - Marillion - Recital of the Script 2009 (8 ) (1) 116 - Matt and Kim - Grand (8 ) (1) 116 - Mew - No More Stories... (8 ) (1) 116 - Moritz Van Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent (8 ) (1) 116 - Nils Frahm - wintermusik (8 ) (1) 116 - oneone - AoooO (8 ) (1) 116 - Parov Stealar - Coco (8 ) (1) 116 - Porn Sword Tobacco - Everything is music to the ear (8 ) (1) 116 - Sondre Lerche - Heartbeat Radio (8 ) (1) 116 - St. Vincent - Actor (8 ) (2) 116 - Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate (8 ) (1) 116 - Number Twelve Looks Like You - Worse Than Alone (8 ) (1) 116 - Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage (8 ) (1) 116 - Whitest Boy Alive - Rules (8 ) (2) 116 - them crooked vultures - self titled (8 ) (1) 116 - Tom waits - Glitter and doom live (8 ) (1) 116 - Various - Inglourious Basterds OST (8 ) (1) 148 - 30 Seconds To Mars - This Is War (7) (1) 148 - Andrew Bird - Noble Beast (7) (1) 148 - Antipop Consortium - Fluorescent Black (7) (1) 148 - Architects - Hollow Crown (7) (1) 148 - Born of Osiris - A Higher Place (7) (1) 148 - Current 93 - Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain (7) (1) 148 - Darlings - Darlings (7) (1) 148 - Dj Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues (7) (1) 148 - Doves - Kingdom Of Rust (7) (3) 148 - failures - failures (7) (1) 148 - Heather Woods Broderick - From The Ground (7) (1) 148 - Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor (7) (1) 148 - Lawrence - Until Then, Goodbye (7) (1) 148 - Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Letting Up Despite Great Faults (7) (1) 148 - Marillion - Less is More (7) (1) 148 - Pastels / Tenniscoats - Two Sunsets (7) (1) 148 - Point B - Suicide Beauty Spot (7) (1) 148 - Pure Reason Revolution - Amor Vincit Omnia (7) (1) 148 - Real Estate - Real Estate (7) (1) 148 - Say Anything - Say Anything (7) (1) 148 - Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love (7) (2) 148 - Prodigy - Invaders Must Die (7) (1) 148 - Thursday - Common Existence (7) (1) 148 - Tomas Dvorak - Machinarium OST (7) (1) 148 - Tortoise - Beacons of ancestorship (7) (1) 148 - Various Artists - Valerie and Friends (7) (1) 174 - A Mountain Of One - Institute Of Joy (6) (1) 174 - Ambivalence Avenue - Bibio (6) (1) 174 - AtomTM - Liedgut (6) (1) 174 - Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Outer South (6) (1) 174 - Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (6) (2) 174 - Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive (6) (1) 174 - Dredg - The Pariah The Parrot The Delusion (6) (1) 174 - Luke Vibert - We Hear You (6) (1) 174 - Pasteboard - Glitter (6) (1) 174 - Perfume - Triangle (6) (3) 174 - Regina Spektor - Far (6) (1) 174 - Silkie - City Limits Volume 1 (6) (1) 174 - Six organs of admittance - Luminous light (6) (1) 174 - Skunk Anansie - Smashes and Trashes (6) (1) 174 - Solomun - Dance Baby (6) (1) 174 - Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years (6) (1) 174 - Thermals - Now We Can See (6) (1) 174 - Thea Gilmore - Strange Communion (6) (1) 192 - 2562 - Unbalance (5) (2) 192 - Bill Wells and Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Gok (5) (1) 192 - Clutch - Strange Cousins From The West (5) (2) 192 - Damian Lazarus - Smoke The Monster Out (5) (1) 192 - Demdike Stare - Symbiosis (5) (1) 192 - Embryonic - The Flaming Lips (5) (1) 192 - Fake Problems - It's Great to Be Alive (5) (1) 192 - Henrik Schwarz, Ame and Dixon - The Grandfather Paradox (5) (1) 192 - IQ - Frequency (5) (1) 192 - Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care (5) (1) 192 - Kid cudi - man on the moon (5) (1) 192 - Kings Of Convenience - Declaration Of Dependence (5) (1) 192 - Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts (5) (1) 192 - Pulley - Time Insensitive Material (5) (1) 192 - Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country (5) (1) 192 - Venetian Snares - Filth (5) (1) 192 - Winds of Plague - The Great Stone War (5) (1) 192 - Yonlu - A Society In Which No Tear Is Shed Is Inconceivably Mediocre (5) (1) 210 - Ben Klock - One (4) (1) 210 - Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career (4) (1) 210 - Eliane Radigue - Triptych (4) (1) 210 - Emmy The Great - First Love (4) (1) 210 - Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist (4) (1) 210 - Joakim - Milky Ways (4) (1) 210 - Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement (4) (1) 210 - My Latest Novel - Deaths & Entrances (4) (1) 210 - Nerina Pallot - The Graduate (4) (2) 210 - Paramore - Brand New Eyes (4) (1) 210 - PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By (4) (1) 210 - Reuben - We Should Have Gone to University (4) (1) 210 - Saviours - Accelerated Living (4) (1) 210 - Antlers - Hospice (4) (2) 210 - Reasoning - The Chauffeur (4) (1) 210 - Temper Trap - Conditions (4) (1) 226 - Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs (3) (1) 226 - Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra - Take Off! (3) (1) 226 - As Tall as Lions - You Can't Take it With You (3) (1) 226 - black moth super rainbow - eating us (3) (1) 226 - Black to Comm - Alphabet 1968 (3) (1) 226 - Claro Intelecto - Warehouse Sessions (3) (1) 226 - Dashboard Confessional - Alter the Ending (3) (1) 226 - David Sylvian - Manafon (3) (1) 226 - El Grupo Nuevo - Cryptomnesia (3) (1) 226 - Gorod - Process of a New Decline (3) (1) 226 - Jeffrey Lewis - Em Are I (3) (1) 226 - Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay (3) (1) 226 - Megadeth - Endgame (3) (1) 226 - Minsk - With Echoes In The Movement Of The Stone (3) (1) 226 - Neko Case - Middle Cyclone (3) (1) 226 - Pendulum - In Silico (3) (1) 226 - Planetary Assault Systems - Temporary Suspension (3) (1) 226 - Rameses III - I Could Not Love You More (3) (1) 226 - Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come (3) (1) 226 - Zola Jesus - The Spoils (3) (1) 246 - Andrew WK - 55 Cadillac (2) (2) 246 - Annie - Don't Stop (2) (1) 246 - Au Revoir Simone - Still Night, Still Light (2) (1) 246 - Buried Inside - Spoils Of Failure (2) (1) 246 - David Guetta - One Love (2) (1) 246 - Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream (2) (1) 246 - Flaming Lips - Embryonic (2) (2) 246 - Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac. (2) (1) 246 - Howling Bells - Radio Wars (2) (1) 246 - Karnivool - Sound Awake (2) (1) 246 - Lusine - A certain distance (2) (1) 246 - Marissa Nadler - Little Hells (2) (1) 246 - Senser - Resistance Now (2) (1) 246 - Slayer - World Painted Blood (2) (1) 246 - Slow Club - Yeah So (2) (1) 246 - Storsveit Nix Noltes - Royal Family (2) (1) 246 - Bakerton Group - El Rojo (2) (1) 246 - Freezing Fog - The Freezing Fog (2) (1) 246 - Twilight Sad - Forget the Night Ahead (2) (1) 246 - Ty Segall - Lemons (2) (1) 266 - BEAK> - BEAK> (1) (1) 266 - Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions (1) (1) 266 - Cold Cave - Cremations (1) (1) 266 - Eminem - Relapse (1) (1) 266 - Gui Boratto - Take My Breath Away (1) (1) 266 - Jesca Hoop - Hunting My Dress (1) (1) 266 - Oceano - Depths (1) (1) 266 - Royksopp - Junior (1) (1) 266 - SND - atavism (1) (1) 266 - Veils - Sun Gangs (1) (1) 266 - Various Artists - 5 Years of Hyperdub (1) (1) 266 - Wave Machine - Wave If You're Really There (1) (1)

This is a companion thread to http://www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?showtopic=215745 - if you've already posted there and would like your favourites to be part of the compiled list, please post your results here - feel free to list up to 10 albums - in this format: Position - Artist - Album for example, 01 - Fever Ray - Fever Ray 02 - Point B - Suicide Beauty Spot 03 - Ben Frost - By The Throat PLEASE DON'T POST ANY OPINIONS OR RESPONSES TO OTHER FORUMITES' CHOICES IN THIS THREAD - you can do that in http://www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?showtopic=215745. The spaces and hyphens between position, artist and album are really important as it means that I can import the text straight into Excel without having to piss about with reformatting, and also I can reuse the 2007/2008 spreadsheet ;-) . I'll leave this thread running until the end of 29 December, as I won't be around on the 22nd as I'd previously thought. You can edit your list as much as you like - I won't compile them until I close the thread. If you have any questions then PM me - if the answer is useful to others I'll add it to this post, below. Q - Are reissues allowed? A - As long as the reissue date is in 2009, yes.

Thanks to everyone who took the trouble to format their lists for this. Thanks, also, to those who posted but didn't bother to read the instructions at the top I had a bit of extra time so I took lists from the discussion thread where people hadn't posted in the list thread. I only took their first post in the discussion thread, as their name was added to an exclusion list in Excel once it picked up the post. ..... so, without further ado, here are the results! 1st place scored 10 points, 2nd place 9, down to 10th place scoring 1 point. I've posted the whole list here - there were 248 albums voted for in all. If enough people want to query the results or look at the raw data, then I'll upload the spreadsheet to YSI later. Sadly, we have 5 albums in common with Q's top 10 (2 last year), but at least Coldplay is in 176th place in our list. Pitchfork have 5 of their top 10 in our top 10 (7 last year) - are there any critics' lists with a better match?

This is a companion thread to http://www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?showtopic=184981 - if you've already posted there and want your favourites to be part of the compiled list, please post your results here - feel free to list up to 10 albums - in this format: Position - Artist - Album for example, 01 - Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires 02 - Portishead - Third 03 - Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours Please don't post any opinions or responses to other forumites' choices in this thread - you can do that in http://www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?showtopic=184981. The spaces and hyphens between position, artist and album are really important as it means that I can import the text straight into Excel without having to piss about with reformatting, and also I can reuse the 2007 spreadsheet ;-) . I'll leave this thread running until the end of 22 December so we've got results before Christmas. If you have any questions then PM me - if the answer is useful to others I'll add it to this post, below. 1) You can edit your list as much as you like - I won't compile them until I close the thread. 2) Radiohead's "In Rainbows" doesn't count for 2008 as i) it was issued in the UK in download/vinyl + CD boxset format in 2007 and ii) was voted for by forumites in 2007. 3) Bon Iver's "For Emma, Forever Ago" counts for 2008 as i) it wasn't issued in the UK until this year and ii) was not voted for by forumites in 2007.

Thanks to everyone who took the trouble to format their lists for this. A standard format made it a lot easier and quicker to do than in previous years..... so, without further ado, here are the results! 1st place scored 10 points, 2nd place 9, down to 10th place scoring 1 point. I've posted the whole list here - there were 220 albums voted for in all. If enough people want to query the results or look at the raw data, then I'll upload the spreadsheet to YSI later. Just having a quick look at critics' top 10 lists, it's great to see that we have only 2 albums in common with Q's top 10 Pitchfork have 7 of their top 10 in our top 10 - can anyone find any end-of-year list with a better match?

I've done more or less the same as last year and combined the top 10s with rating posts in the unstructured discussion for those that didn't post a top 10. It's based on a score of 10 for 1st place down to 1 for 10th place. I'll upload the spreadsheet where I did the calculations later on if anyone has any queries or wants to check they were counted correctly, but for now, here are the results! The winner got about 2.8% of the overall vote, which just goes to show how eclectic we are... Position - Album - Artist (Total) 1 - Donuts - J Dilla (86) 2 - Ys - Joanna Newsom (78) 3 - The Eraser - Thom Yorke (66) 4 - Return To Cookie Mountain - TV On The Radio (58) 5 - 10,000 Days - Tool (57) 6 - We Are The Pipettes - Pipettes (54) 7 - Black Holes And Revelations - Muse (46) 8= - So This Is Goodbye - Junior Boys (45) 8= - The Warning - Hot Chip (45) 10 - Let's Get Out Of This Country - Camera Obscura (44) 11 - Hello Everything - Squarepusher (41) 12= - 5.55 - Charlotte Gainsbourg (35) 12= - Silent Shout - Knife (35) 14 - The Bells Of 1 2 - Sol Seppy (34) 15= - Amputechture - Mars Volta (33) 15= - Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom (33) 15= - Scale - Herbert (33) 18= - Ballad Of The Broken Seas - Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan (32) 18= - Through The Windowpane - Guillemots (32) 20= - Mr Beast - Mogwai (30) 20= - Orphans - Tom Waits (30) 22= - Back To Black - Amy Winehouse (29) 22= - Pink - Boris (29) 24= - Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene (27) 24= - The Life Pursuit - Belle & Sebastian (27) 24= - The Loon - Tapes 'n Tapes (27) 27 - Blood Mountain - Mastodon (26) 28 - Rather Ripped - Sonic Youth (23) 29= - Fishscale - Ghostface Killah (21) 29= - Game Theory - Roots (21) 29= - Whatever… - Arctic Monkeys (21) 32= - A Matter Of Life And Death - Iron Maiden (20) 32= - Futuresex / Lovesounds - Justin Timberlake (20) 34= - Howling Bells - Howling Bells (19) 34= - Strange We Should Meet Here - Idiotpilot (19) 34= - The Trials Of Van Occupanther - Midlake (19) 34= - Wolfmother - Wolfmother (19) 34= - Yoyoyoyoyo - Spank Rock (19) 39 - Ships - Danielson (18) 40= - Begin To Hope - Regina Spektor (17) 40= - Come Clarity - In Flames (17) 40= - The Beauty Room - Beauty Room (17) 40= - The Last Resort - Trentemoller (17) 44= - Altar - Sunn O)))/Boris (16) 44= - Destroyer's Rubies - Destroyer (16) 44= - Happy Hardcore Pom Poms - Venetian Snares (16) 44= - Leaving Songs - Stuart A Staples (16) 44= - Modern Times - Bob Dylan (16) 44= - Victory For The Comic Muse - Divine Comedy (16) 44= - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions - Bruce Springsteen (16)

Wow, this was a real pain to collate all the votes as so much was in the unstructured discussion, but I went ahead and did it anyway - it's based on a score of 5 for a 1st place down to 1 for a 5th place. The raw data can be found here if anyone is really interested in seeing which 16 albums placed equal 164th with 1 point, or wants to make sure that I haven't misrepresented them in any way... The results are:

I'm quite happy to compile a chart based on the discussion thread and the list thread - it'll be a bit of work, so I'll only do it if there's any actual interest in seeing the results. I was thinking of scoring it as 5 points for a number 1, 4 points for no.2, etc. I bet it'd be a damn sight more interesting/eclectic than Pitchfork's top 50....