I thought I'd get this year-end thread going.

Personally, I have plenty of contenders for my year-end list, but have yet to decide on all twenty.

So I thought, we could have some fun and list all of our contenders and, from those, ones that will absolutely be there by the end of this thread -- when all is said and done.
Isn't that what the "edit" button is for??

Okay. I'll start....

1. ??
2. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
3. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
4. Crooked Fingers - Dignity and Shame
5. Martha Wainwright - Marthat Wainwright
6. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
7. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
8. The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
9. My Morning Jacket - Z
10. System of a Down - Mezmerize
11. Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic
12 Patrick Wolf - Wind in the Wires
13. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
14. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - Clap Your Hands SY!
15. The Books - Lost and Safe
16. Brazilian Girls - Brazilian Girls
17. The Clientelle - Strange Geometry
18. Black Mountain - Black Mountain
19. Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
20. The Fiery Furnaces - Rehearsing My Choir

??
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses
Beck - Guero
Ike Reilly Assassination - Sparkle in the Finish
Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth
Love As Laughter - Laughter's Fifth

Honourable Mentions:
Caribou - Milk of Human Kindness
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Common - Be
Quasimoto - The Further Adventures of Lord Quas
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree

Guilty Pleasure:
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge

Commentary to follow....

So, why don't you walk on the wild side & post yours....

Cheers,

audiobill