Oh hate list

My favorite records of last year (in no particular order).

Walkmen – You & Me
TV On The Radio – Dear Science
The Moi Non Plus – S/T
Department Of Eagles – In Ear Park
Portishead – Third
Elvis Costello & The Impostors – Momofuku
M83 – Saturdays=Youth
The Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely
Crystal Antlers – EP
Black Mountain – In The Future
Deerhunter – Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
Testament – The Formation of Damnation
Santogold – S/T
Fleet Foxes – S/T
Crystal Stilts – Alight of Night
The Magnetic Fields – Distortion
Health – Health/Disco
Tilly & The Wall – O
Fucked Up – The Chemistry of Common Life
Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
Blitzen Trapper - Furr
Crystal Castles – S/T
The Dutchess and the Duke – She’s the Dutchess, He’s the Duke
Sigur Ros – Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
No Age – Nouns
Blank Dogs – On Two Sides
Oxford Collapse – Bits
Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing

Other artists whose records came out this year, I sort of liked but decided they don’t quite fit in the first bucket (yet those with an “*” kinda stand out and may well belong to the first bucket when I am in the right mood).

Albert Hammond Jr.
Atlas Sound
Beach House *
Black Kids
The Breeders *
British Sea Power *
Bug *
CSS
Clinic
Coldplay
The Dirtbombs
The Dodos *
Foals
Glasvegas
Guns N’ Roses
Harvey Milk *
Hercules & The Love Affair *
Holy Fuck *
Islands
Jay Reatard *
Ladyhawk
Ladyhawke
Ladytron
The Last Shadow Puppets
Lightspeed Champion
Neon Neon *
Oasis
Okkervil River
Primal Scream
R.E.M.
Ratatat
The Roots
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
Sebastien Tellier
Shearwater *
Sons & Daughters
Spiritualized *
Supergrass *
The Tallest Man On Earth
Tapes ‘n Tapes
These New Puritans
The Ting Tings
Torche
Vampire Weekend
The Verve
The Virgins
War On Drugs
Why? *
Women *

Old stuff I have kept listening to a lot this year.

Black Sabbath
The Misfits
The Smiths
Bad Brains
Slayer
The Flying Burritos
Wire
Talking Heads
Pixies
Guided By Voices
The Kinks
The Who
X-Ray Spec
The Vaselines
Fugazi
The Stooges
Bowie
The Replacements
Primal Scream
The Stone Roses
Morrissey