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oximoronx's top albums (6 months) 1. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (96) 2. Wire - Pink Flag (84) 3. Lotus Plaza - The Floodlight Collective (83) 4. Swell Maps - A Trip To Marineville (80) 5. Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology (76) 6. Pixies - Trompe le Monde (76) 7. The Stooges - The Stooges (69) 8. The Monochrome Set - The Strange Boutique (69) 9. Theoretical Girls - Theoretical Girls (68) 10. Orange Juice - The Glasgow School (67) 11. Wire - Chairs Missing (66) 12. George Harrison - Wonderwall Music (65) 13. Arcade Fire - Funeral (64) 14. Deerhunter - Weird Era Cont. (63) 15. Faust - The Faust Tapes (63) 16. Lucky Dragons - Dream Island Laughing Language (62) 17. The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace (60) 18. The Chameleons - Dali's Picture (60) 19. Joy Division - Substance (60) 20. fIREHOSE - Flyin' the Flannel (59) 21. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (59) 22. Pixies - Surfer Rosa (59) 23. The Clash - London Calling (59) 24. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (57) 25. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium (57) 26. Josef K - Entomology (57) 27. Ciccone Youth - The Whitey Album (54) 28. Cocteau Twins - BBC Sessions (53) 29. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (51) 30. Wire - 154 (49) 31. The Fall - Grotesque (After The Gramme) (49) 32. HEALTH - HEALTH (48) 33. Lydia Lunch - Queen of Siam (48) 34. Disco Inferno - In Debt (48) 35. Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop (47) 36. The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow (47) 37. Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade (47) 38. Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange (46) 39. Brian Eno - Music for Films (46) 40. High Places - High Places (46) 41. Pixies - Doolittle (46) 42. Cocteau Twins - Lullabies To Violaine (45) 43. Yo La Tengo - Electr-o-pura (45) 44. David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (45) 45. Liars - Liars (44) 46. Bauhaus - In the Flat Field (44) 47. David Bowie - Low (44) 48. Television - Marquee Moon (44) 49. Cluster - Zuckerzeit (44) 50. Sebadoh - Bakesale (43)

1. How did you get into 29?
The Number Twelve Looks Like You
i saw their music video for "Grandfather" on Fuse.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Reggie and the Full Effect
Get Well Soon

3. How many albums by 13 do you own?
Born of Osiris
just one, The New Reign

4. What is your favorite song by 5?
Atmosphere
like, everyone. but mostly "Your Glass House" and "Shoes"

5. What is your favorite song by 15?
A Day to Remember
crap, i dont like ADTR that much, but id have to go with "If It Means A Lot To You"

6. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Suicide Silence
no. but i like their song "Lifted"

7. What is your favorite song by 10?
Dr. Acula
"Piano Lessons Can Be Murder"

8. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
Team Sleep
i love team sleep, but when i was really into them i was going though some shit, so all i have is bad memories involving them :/

9. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
iwrestledabearonce
heck yes, "Taste Like Kevin Bacon"
makes me wanna dance and throwdown at the same time. haha

10. How many times have you seen 26 live?
The Editors
sadly, i have never been to one of their shows :(

11. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
blink-182
like the fuck i know, ive been into blink since the 2nd grade. but if my memory serves me well, id have to say "Reebok Commercial"

12. What is your favorite album by 11?
Incubus
Make Yourself

13. Who is a favorite member of 1?
Deftones
omfg, all of them. no joke. god bless Chi <3

14. Have you ever seen 14 live?
Minus the Bear
NO! i was supposed to Nov 20 2009 @ Mr.Smalls in Pittsburgh. :/

15. What is a good memory involving 27?
The Strokes
driving to work, with coffee and a cigarette

16. What is your favorite song by 16?
Foo Fighters
"Everlong" <3

17. What is your favorite album by 18?
The Fall of Troy
Manipulator

18. What is your favorite song by 21?
M.I.A.
i dont have a 21, but two 20's. but my favorite song by M.I.A. would have to be "$20"

19. What is the first song you ever heard by 25?
Eyedea and Abilities
im not sure because i first heard them live at an Atmosphere show

20. What is your favorite album by 2?
August Burns Red
Messengers

21. What is you favorite song by 3?
Emmure
"The Key To Keeping The Show Fresh Is... I'm Dead"

22. What is you favorite song by 8?
Brand New
"Seventy Times 7" and "Handcuffs"

23. How many times have you seen 17 live?
Bring Me the Horizon
never.

24. What is the worst song by 12?
War From a Harlots Mouth
none of them :)

25. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
Aesop Rock
"None Shall Pass"

26. What is you favorite album by 7?
Interpol
#1: Antics
#2: Our Love To Admire
#3: Turn On The Bright Lights

27. What is your favorite song by 24?
Norma Jean
"Face: Face"

28. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
Arsonists Get All The Girls
YES! "Mantipede" and "So You Think You Know About The Game Of Life"

29. What is your favorite album by 4?
Ligeia
Bad News

30. How many albums do you own by 20?
M.I.A.
just one, Kala

I will update this when the actual end of the 2000s arrives,
although, first should really just be a tie between Elbow's Seldom Seen Kid & Shpongle's Ineffable Mysteries of Shpongleland, but that would be cheating

1. Muse - Origins of Symmetry
2. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
3. Autolux - Future Perfect
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
6. Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere
7. Interpol - Antics
8. Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
9. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
10. Tallest Man On Earth - Shallow Grave
11. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
12. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
13. Muse - Absolution
14. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
15. Kasabian - Kasabian
16. Wolfmother - Wolfmother
17. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
18. Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
19. Portishead - Third
20. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
21. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
22. Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
23. The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
24. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
25. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
26. Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
27. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
28. Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto
29. The Vines - Highly Evolved
30. The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
31. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
32. Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards
33. Justice- †
34. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
35. Dr. Dog - Fate
36. Manchester Orchestra - I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child
37. Radiohead - In Rainbows
38. Grizzly Bear -Yellow House
39. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
40. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
41. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
42. Man Man - Rabbit Habits
43. The Libertines - The Libertines
44. The Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia...
45. Liars - Liars
46. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
47. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
48. Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future
49. Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon
50. Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
51. System of a Down - Toxicity
52. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
53. Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo to Anywhere
54. Plants and Animals - Parc Avenue
55. Two Gallants - What the Toll Tells
56. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
57. Death Cab for Cutie -Transatlanticism
58. The Vines - Winning Days
59. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
60. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
61. Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
62. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
63. The Black Keys- Attack & Release
64. Coachwhips - Bangers vs. Fuckers
65. The Cloud Room - The Cloud Room
66. A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place To Bury Strangers

I will update this when the actual end of the 2000s arrives,

1. Muse - Origins of Symmetry
2. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
3. Autolux - Future Perfect
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
6. Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere
7. Interpol - Antics
8. Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
9. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
10. Tallest Man On Earth - Shallow Grave
11. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
12. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
13. Muse - Absolution
14. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
15. Kasabian - Kasabian
16. Wolfmother - Wolfmother
17. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
18. Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
19. Portishead - Third
20. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
21. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
22. Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
23. The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
24. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
25. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
26. Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
27. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
28. Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto
29. The Vines - Highly Evolved
30. The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
31. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
32. Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards
33. Justice- †
34. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
35. Dr. Dog - Fate
36. Manchester Orchestra - I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child
37. Radiohead - In Rainbows
38. Grizzly Bear -Yellow House
39. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
40. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
41. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
42. Man Man - Rabbit Habits
43. The Libertines - The Libertines
44. The Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia...
45. Liars - Liars
46. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
47. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
48. Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future
49. Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon
50. Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
51. System of a Down - Toxicity
52. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
53. Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo to Anywhere
54. Plants and Animals - Parc Avenue
55. Two Gallants - What the Toll Tells
56. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
57. Death Cab for Cutie -Transatlanticism
58. The Vines - Winning Days
59. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
60. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
61. Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
62. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
63. The Black Keys- Attack & Release
64. Coachwhips - Bangers vs. Fuckers
65. The Cloud Room - The Cloud Room
66. A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place To Bury Strangers

1. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

2. Tocotronic- Tocotronic

3. Up the Bracket - The Libertines

4. Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol

5. Source Tags & Codes - ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

6. Neon Golden - The Notwist

7. B.R.M.C. - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

8. Du Und Wieviel Von Deinen Freunden - Kettcar

9. Songs For The Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age

10. Original Pirate Material - The Streets

Runners-up: Nothing Will Go Wrong - Slut, Holes in the Wall - The Electric Soft Parade, El Cielo - dredg, The Last Broadcast - Doves

1. Modest Mouse
2. Kings of Leon
3. Interpol
4. The Maccabees
5. Born Ruffians
6. The Cribs
7. Jamie T
8. Los Campesinos!
9. Elle Milano
10. Friendly Fires

What was the first song you ever heard by #6?
- Men's Needs

What is you favorite album by #2?
- Because of the Times

What is your favorite lyric sung by #5?
- "When I saaaaiiiilll back home tooo yooouuuu, I know exactly, just what to doooo" (Hedonistic Me)

How many times have you seen #4 live?
- Just the once, hopefully again in Feb 2010

What is your favorite song by #7?
- Eek, tough one. Probably Calm Down Dearest

Is there a song by #3 that makes you sad?
- There's no way I could be sad when listening to Interpol. If I was pushed for an answer it'd be 'Untitled

What is your favorite lyric sung by #2?
- "Wanted like a substitute, I've been workin' awful hard for you" (True Love Way)

What is your favorite song by #9?
- Curiosity Killed The Popstar

How did you get into #3?
- First time I heard them was on Friends (Untitled) so had a look into them a little bit but it was only in the past year I decided to get all their material after hearing Evil a few times in the pub

What was the first song you heard by #1?
- Float On

What is your favourite song by #4?
- Love You Better

How many times have you seen #9 live?
- None, and never will as they split (n)

What is a good memory you have concerning #2?
- Maybe not a good memory as such but the first two albums always remind me of walking home from work in the winter when it gets dark really early!

Is there a song by #8 that makes you sad?
- Don't think so

What is your favourite album by #5?
- Their only to date, Red, Yellow & Blue

What is your favourite lyric sung by #3?
- Here, I feel, I wish I could just see it,
The love, the hate, the things that separate
Forcing conscious to conscious, every small attack
It takes a small man to notice, but not to act up
Confrontation, complication needs a foundation
I'm calm baby, I'm calm (Song Seven, sung by Kessler)

What is your favourite song by #1?
- It'll have to be Float On

What is your favourite song by #10?
- Paris

How many times have you seen #8 live?
- NONE, but intend to in Feb 2010

What is your favorite album by #1?
- The Lonesome Crowded West I reckon

What is a great memory you have considering #9?
- Nothing, I don't think. Surprised they're as high as 9 tbh

JGentle's top albums (overall)
1. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones (230) 2. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (204) 3. The White Stripes - Icky Thump (199) 4. Morrissey - Viva Hate (178) 5. Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (153) 6. The Tiger Lillies - Low Life Lullabies (150) 7. Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands (149) 8. Calexico - Feast of Wire (144) 9. Steven Wilson - Insurgentes (143) 10. Tom Waits - Bone Machine (141) 11. M. Ward - Transistor Radio (136) 12. Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run The Game 1 (129) 13. Porcupine Tree - On the Sunday of Life... (128) 14. The Arcade Fire - Funeral (125) 15. Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello (120) 16. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder (119) 17. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (116) 18. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go (109) 19. Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance (102) 20. Tim Buckley - Blue Afternoon (102) 21. Four Tet - Pause (101) 22. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (100) 23. Fred Neil - Bleecker & MacDougal (96) 24. Andrew Bird - Weather Systems (96) 25. Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow (94) 26. Nick Drake - Pink Moon (94) 27. The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire (90) 28. M. Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent (89) 29. David Bowie - Low (Remastered) (87) 30. Joy Division - Closer (85) 31. Tom Waits - Black Rider (85) 32. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (85) 33. Kimmo Pohjonen - Kluster (84) 34. Crippled Black Phoenix - A Love Of Shared Disasters (83) 35. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call (82) 36. Tim Buckley - Tim Buckley (79) 37. Grinderman - Grinderman (78) 38. Porcupine Tree - The Incident (78) 39. Crepusculum - Sky Diaries EP (78) 40. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells (77) 41. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (77) 42. The Phantom Payn - Vol. 1 "Dig The Squares-They're Ugly" (76) 43. 16 Horsepower - Sackcloth 'n' Ashes (76) 44. Radiohead - In Rainbows [CD1] (74) 45. The Smiths - The Smiths (73) 46. The White Stripes - Elephant (73) 47. Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People (72) 48. Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals (72) 49. Set Fire to Flames - Sings Reign Rebuilder (72) 50. Katatonia - Night Is the New Day (72)