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Monthly Top Tracks

Oct-2006
Peaches : Hot Rod (1 plays)
Nov-2006
Sparklehorse : I Almost Lost My Mind (3 plays)
Dec-2006
Patrick Wolf : The Libertine (3 plays)
Jan-2007
Patrick Wolf : Accident & Emergency (15 plays)
Feb-2007
Nine Inch Nails : My Violent Heart (19 plays)
Mar-2007
Mansun : Love Remains (4 plays)
Apr-2007
Björk : Earth Intruders (27 plays)
May-2007
Martin Grech : The Heritage (8 plays)
Jun-2007
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club : Window (12 plays)
Jul-2007
The Cooper Temple Clause : Connect (18 plays)
Aug-2007
The Lover Speaks : The Big Lie (13 plays)
Sep-2007
Midlake : Roscoe (7 plays)
Oct-2007
PJ Harvey : Grow Grow Grow (43 plays)
Nov-2007
Saul Williams : Break (34 plays)
Dec-2007
Barth : Royal Charter (10 plays)
Jan-2008
Beirut : Cliquot (25 plays)
Feb-2008
Tricky : Unfinished 2 (18 plays)
Mar-2008
Sam Sparro : Black & Gold (22 plays)
Apr-2008
Santogold : L.E.S Artistes (18 plays)
May-2008
Santogold : Creator (33 plays)
Jun-2008
Tricky : Council Estate (16 plays)
Jul-2008
Charlotte Gainsbourg : The Operation (14 plays)
Aug-2008
Hafdis Huld : Tomoko (14 plays)
Sep-2008
Björk : Vertebrae By Vertebrae (13 plays)
Oct-2008
Sonic Youth : Star Power (19 plays)
Nov-2008
IAMX : Think of England (59 plays)
Dec-2008
Fever Ray : If I Had A Heart (15 plays)
Jan-2009
Empire of the Sun : Half Mast (11 plays)
Feb-2009
Empire of the Sun : We Are The People (11 plays)
Mar-2009
PJ Harvey : Black Hearted Love (39 plays)
Apr-2009
IAMX : Nature of Inviting (27 plays)
May-2009
Fischerspooner : Infidels of the World Unite (20 plays)
Jun-2009
Sonic Youth : Sacred Trickster (24 plays)
Jul-2009
The Dead Weather : Treat Me Like Your Mother (19 plays)
Aug-2009
Anneli Drecker : Safe Now (16 plays)
Sep-2009
The Knife : We Share Our Mothers' Health (53 plays)
Oct-2009
Au Revoir Simone : Shadows (19 plays)
Nov-2009
Kas Product : Never come back (38 plays)

-----------Top 20-----------
Animal Collective ~ Merriweather Post Pavillion
The Antlers ~ Hospice
Fever Ray ~ Fever Ray
Patrick Wolf ~ The Bachelor
Memory Tapes ~ Seek Magic
Phoenix ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Grizzly Bear ~ Veckatimest
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit ~ S/T
Fanfarlo ~ Reservoir
Animal Collective ~ Fall Be Kind [EP]

The xx ~ The xx
Atlas Sound ~ Logos
St. Vincent ~ Actor
Passion Pit ~ Manners
Neko Case ~ Middle Cyclone
Nomo ~ Invisible Cities
Umphreys McGee ~ Mantis
Flaming Lips ~ Embryonic
Yeah Yeah Yeahs ~ It's Blitz!
Magnolia Electric Co. ~ Josephine

-----------Excellent-----------
Cymbals Eat Guitars ~ Why are There Mountains
Dinosaur Jr. ~ Farm
A.A. Bondy ~ When the Devil is Loose
Manchester Orchestra ~ Mean Everything to Nothing
Local Natives ~ Gorilla Manor
Tegan & Sara ~ Sainthood
Neon Indian ~ Psychic Chasms
jim o' rourke ~ The Visitor
Mars Volta ~ Octahedron
Dirty Projectors ~ Bitte Orca
Bat for Lashes ~ Two Suns

Washed out ~ Life of Leisure [EP]
Sufjan Stevens ~ BQE
Hercules & Love Affair ~ Sidetracked
Pains of Being Pure at Heart ~ Higher than the Stars [EP]
Marissa Nadler ~ Little Hells
Bibio ~ Ambivalence Avenue
Toro y Moi ~ My Touch
Julian Casablancas ~ Phrazes for the Young
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart ~ S/T
Avett Brothers ~ I and Love and You
Mos Def ~ The Ecstatic

Built to Spill ~ There is No Enemy
maudlin of the Well ~ Part the Second
Discovery ~ LP
Beirut ~ March of the Zapotec [EP]
Tortoise ~ Beacons of Ancerstorship
Akron/Family ~ Set Em' Wild, Set Em' Free
Woods ~ Songs of Shame
The Decemberists ~ The Hazards of Love
Andrew Bird ~ Noble Beast
Tim Hecker ~ Imaginary Country

-----------Good-----------
Dan Deacon ~ Bromst
Islands ~ Vaupors
The Wooden Sky ~ If I Don't Come Home, You'll Know I'm Gone
Kid Cudi ~ Man on the Moon: End of Days
Girls ~ Girls
JJ ~ no. 1
Muse ~ The Resistance
Osso ~ Run Rabbit Run
Monsters of Folk ~ Monsters of Folk

Miike Snow ~ Miike Snow
Junior Boys ~ Begone Dull Care
Antony & The Johnsons ~ The Crying Light
Bon Iver ~ Blood Bank [EP]
fun. ~ Aim & Ignite
The Real People ~ Holland [EP]
Modest Mouse ~ No One's First and You're Next [EP]
Handsome Furs ~ Face Control
Polvo ~ In Prism
Volcano Choir ~ Unmap
Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson ~ Break Up

Sonic Youth ~ The Eternal
A.C. Newman ~ Get Guilty
Dead Weather ~ Horehound

-----------Meh-----------
John Mayer ~ Battle Studies
State Radio ~ Let it Go
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears ~ Tell Em' What Your Name Is!
Karen O and the Kids ~ Where the Wild Things Are
Röyksopp ~ Junior
Real Estate ~ Real Estate
Mastodon ~ Cracke the Skye
Hudson Mohawke ~ Polyfolk Dance [EP]
Ben Kweller ~ Changing Horses
Dave Matthews Band ~ Big Whiskey & The Groogrux King
Andrew Bird ~ Fitz and Dizzyspells [EP]

Platinum Pied Pipers ~ Abundance
God Help The Girl ~ Stills [EP]
Imogen Heap ~ Elipse
Brand New ~ Daisy
M. Ward ~ Hold Time
The Whitest Boy Alive ~ Rules
Zu ~ Carboniferous
Yuksek ~ Away from the Sea
Hudson Mohawke ~ Butter
Dragonette ~ Fixin to Thrill

-----------Pretty Bad/Horrible-----------

MSTRKRFT ~ Fist of God
Telepathe ~ Dance Mother
Amy Milan ~ Masters of the Burial
Wilco ~ Wilco (The Album)
IAMX ~ Kingdom of Welcome Addiction
Pete Yorn ~ Back and Forth
The Dodos ~ Time to Die
Audrye Sessions ~ Audrye Sessions
Great Lake Swimmers ~ Lost Channels
Vetiver ~ Tight Knit

Silversun Pickups ~ Swoon
Deerhunter ~ Rainwater Cassette Exchange [EP]
Lotus Plaza ~ Floodlight Collective
Japandroids ~ Post-Nothing
Swan Lake ~Enemy Mine
Conor Oberst ~ Outer South
Paper Route ~ Absence
The Bird and the Bee ~ Ray Guns are not the Future
Dent May ~ The Good Feeling Music of Dent May
N.A.S.A. ~ Spirit of Apollo

Bruce Springsteen ~ Working on a Dream
Iran ~Dissolver
Wavves ~ Wavves (soooo baddddd. epically bad)

Monthly Top Artists

Oct-2006
Nick Drake (2 plays)
Nov-2006
Björk (12 plays)
Dec-2006
Sneaker Pimps (17 plays)
Jan-2007
Patrick Wolf (143 plays)
Feb-2007
Nine Inch Nails (61 plays)
Mar-2007
Björk (23 plays)
Apr-2007
Nine Inch Nails (79 plays)
May-2007
Björk (44 plays)
Jun-2007
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (45 plays)
Jul-2007
The Cooper Temple Clause (44 plays)
Aug-2007
The Lover Speaks (82 plays)
Sep-2007
Jens Lekman (37 plays)
Oct-2007
PJ Harvey (276 plays)
Nov-2007
Saul Williams (288 plays)
Dec-2007
Barth (70 plays)
Jan-2008
Sneaker Pimps (108 plays)
Feb-2008
Datarock (60 plays)
Mar-2008
Björk (91 plays)
Apr-2008
The Kills (68 plays)
May-2008
Santogold (263 plays)
Jun-2008
Tricky (110 plays)
Jul-2008
Björk (170 plays)
Aug-2008
Sneaker Pimps (130 plays)
Sep-2008
Björk (373 plays)
Oct-2008
Sonic Youth (168 plays)
Nov-2008
IAMX (131 plays)
Dec-2008
PJ Harvey (135 plays)
Jan-2009
Nine Inch Nails (205 plays)
Feb-2009
Boards of Canada (61 plays)
Mar-2009
Bat for Lashes (264 plays)
Apr-2009
IAMX (215 plays)
May-2009
Björk (222 plays)
Jun-2009
Björk (160 plays)
Jul-2009
David Bowie (158 plays)
Aug-2009
A Camp (103 plays)
Sep-2009
A Camp (160 plays)
Oct-2009
Au Revoir Simone (102 plays)
Nov-2009
Kas Product (174 plays)

Abierta a votaciones populares la primera eliminatoria del Gran Torneo 2009.

Participe: http://commonpeoplemusic.com/gran-torneo-2009-primera-ronda-eliminatoria/


Discos en competición:

The New Christs - Gloria
Deer Tick - Born on Flag Day
Mount Eerie - Winds Poem
Telekinesis - Telekinesis!
The Dead Weather - Horehound
Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young
Pants Yell! - Received Pronunciation
Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy
Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
Elephant Stone - The Seven Seas
Thee Oh Sees - Help
Atlas Sound - Logos
Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
Dan Auerbach - Keep it Hidden
Animal Colective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
The Felice Brothers - Yonder is the Clock
Action Beat - The Noise Band From Bletchley
Carsick cars - You Can Listen, You Can Talk
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter
M. Ward - Hold Time
Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds - Dracula Boots
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
The xx - xx
The Church - Untitled #23
Soulsavers - Broken
Cohete - Cohete
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave
Love Of Lesbian - 1999
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Eels - Hombre Lobo
Wilco - Wilco
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Muse - The Resistance
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
The Wave Pictures - Play Some Pool
The Wave Pictures - If You Leave It Alone
Ezra Furman and the Harpoons - Inside The Human Body
Jeremy Jay - Slow dance
Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern - Pram Town
Radio Moscow - Brain Cycles
The Nightgowns - Sing Something
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Valley Lodge - Semester at Sea
The Drones - Havilah
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There are Mountains
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Its Blitz!
Port O'Brien - Threadbare
Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Morrissey - Years of Refusal
Ganglians - Monster Head Room

A Place to Bury Strangers [2009] Exploding Head
Air [2009] Love 2
Au Revoir Simone [2009] Still Night, Still Light
Beep Beep [2009] Enchanted Islands
CéU [2009] Vagarosa
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse [2009] Dark Night of the Soul
Flaming Lips [2009] Embryonic
Mando Diao [2009] Give Me Fire
Ministry of Sound [2009] Clubbers Guide to Spring 2009
Otto [2009] Certa Manha Acordei de Sonhos Intranquilos
Pearl Jam [2009]Backspacer
Pink Martini [2009] Splendor In The Grass
Sonic Youth [2009] The Eternal

Top 5 released this year:

5 Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest


4 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!


3 Noiseaux - Out Now!


2 Tegan and Sara - Sainthood


1 Duh! Sonic Youth - The Eternal


Honourable mention:

Andrew Bird - Noble Beast


Top 2 released this year that I didn't get a chance to buy

2 The Thermals - Now We Can See


1 CéU - Vagarosa

Last year I done a really comprehensive list of the best tracks and albums and things from thhe whole 12 months that I essentially started working on as soon as my hangover cleared on the 1st of January. Yeah I totally didn't stay in last year watching Father Ted all night, I was out partying, yes that's right. In comparison to that comprehensive work last year, I really have not been paying much attention. So this is going to be a bit shit. All the same I'll try my best. For you.

15 Songs that make one helluva playlist.

01 Manic Street Preachers - Peeled Apples
I hated this band until towards the end of 2008 when I discovered the Holy Bible properly. This is probably my most played track of the year, mainly through the radio rip on youtube, complete with Zane Lowe telling me the song as going to "tear my face off". Of course.
02 Future of the Left - I Am Civil Service
I discovered mclusky recently, and went on this bands myspace to check out what Falcos newest stuff was like. I really hated what I heard. Somewhere along the line I decided to get hold of the bands last album, it's fucking awesome. My ears must have been playing tricks on me.
03 Asbestos - Black Diamonds
I'm online friends with the bassist. That's not to say this song doesn't tear most stuff apart. Someone please sign them so they can tour and I can see them live.
04 The Flaming Lips - The Sparrow Looks Up At The Machine
I'm not sure any of the songs from Embryonic will really work on thier own terms. It's one of those sort of albums. Still, this is groovy.
05 Jay - Z - d.o.a
Err Jay, more songs like this, and less of the other shit you put out, please.
06 Eels - Fresh Blood
The first new Eels track and album in ages came out this year. Plus there's another one out in January. Exciting times for Eels fans.
07 Polvo - Lucia
I must admit, I was hugely disapointed with the new Polvo album. It's horribly produced, boring and just kinda tame in terms of weird guitars. All the same, this song is one of the best Polvo songs ever, so fair dues.
08 The Horrors - Scarlet Fields
The bassline doesn't sound like Love Will Tear Us Apart.
09 White Lies - To Lose My Life
Catchy.
10 Sonic Youth - What We Know
Sonic Youth should count thier blessings they have Lee Ranaldo in the band.
11 Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
This song, no matter how good, doesn't make up for that horrible third album. Not one bit.
12 Biffy Clyro - That Golden Rule
Fun riffs and fun times trying to keep time with the last part.
13 Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers
Track of the year, I think. Probably the weirdest song to slip through the charts since "Soon" by My Bloody Valentine or something. Luckily no one was paying that much attention and just wanted to dance.
14 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Soft Shock
That electro album was totally hit or miss. This song is lovely, though.
15 Lightning Bolt - Transmissionary
The pinacle of Lightning Bolt's progression over the last ten years. 12 minutes of awesome, octave travelling awesome. Headbang motherfuckers.

Worst song of the Year
Black Eyed Peas - I Got A Feeling
I got a feeling some people should learn to stay addicted to crystal meth.

Albums of the Year

01 Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
02 Future of the Left - Travels With Myself And Another
03 The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
04 Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
05 The Horrors - Primary Colours

No new bands in sight, but Welsh bands in the top two. Woohoo Welsh pride.

Writing this didn't make my headache go away. Goodnight.

Here are the top albums (in no order) of 2009 in my humble opinion. If you don't agree, then I'm sorry.

1. Swoon - Silversun Pickups
2. Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective
3. Above the Earth, Below the Sky - If These Trees Could Talk
4. Blue Record - Baroness
5. West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum - Kasabian
6. Axe To Fall - Converge
7. Geneva - Russian Circles
8. Hymn To The Immortal Wind - Mono
9. Other Truths - Do Make Say Think
10. Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony - Maybeshewill
11. The Eternal - Sonic Youth