Thursday, December 24, 2009

The Musical Advent Calendar - A Quick Recap


So the No. 1 albums have been announced, and the recriminations are already under way.

But mocking the lists of others is as much about what they left off as what they put on. To make such mockery easier, here is a brief recap of all 10 top 24s, so you might more easily spot their scandalous decision to omit Black Joe Lewis entirely.

Ali Mason
1. Blue Roses - Blue Roses
2. Nancy Elizabeth - Wrought Iron
3. Emmy The Great - First Love
4. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
5. Florence & The Machine - Lungs
6. The Leisure Society - The Sleeper
7. The XX - XX
8. Left With Pictures - Beyond Our Means
9. God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl
10. The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms
11. The Mummers - Tale To Tell
12. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
13. The Decmberists - The Hazards Of Love
14. Broken Records - Until The Earth Begins To Part
15. Slow Club - Yeah So
16. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
17. The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
18. Noah And The Whale - The First Days Of Spring
19. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
20. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
21. The Unthanks - Here's The Tender Coming
22. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
23. The Felice Brothers - Yonder Is the Clock
24. Taxi Taxi! - Still Standing At Your Back Door

Rory Dollard
1. Emmy the Great - First Love
2. PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman, A Man Walked By
3. Japandroids - Post Nothing
4. Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring
5. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
6. The XX - The XX
7. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
8. Blue Roses - Blue Roses
9. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
10. Soulsavers - Broken
11. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle
12. The Antlers - Hospice
13. BLK JKS - After Robots
14. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
15. The Decemberists - Hazards of Love
16. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
17. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
18. Sleeping States - Gardens of the North
19. Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time
20. John Vanderslice - Romanian Names
21. Headless Heroes - Silence of Love
22. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
23. Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream
24. NASA - Spirit of Apollo

Dom Farrell
1. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
2. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
3. Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
4. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
5. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
6. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Tell 'Em What Your Name Is
7. Doves - Kingdom of Rust
8. Noah & The Whale - The First Days of Spring
9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
10. Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time
11. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
12. Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
13. The Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock
14. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
15. Soulsavers - Broken
16. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Summer of Fear
17. The Dead Weather - Horehound
18. The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
19. Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons - Death Won't Send Me A Letter
20. Seasick Steve - Man From Another Time
21. The Horrors - Primary Colours
22. Florence & The Machine - Lungs
23. Brendan Benson - My Old Familiar Friend
24. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Hypnotic Brass Ensamble

Andy Welch
1. Noah And The Whale – The First Days Of Spring
2. Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
3. Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter
4. Ian Brown – My Way
5. Jack Penate – Everything Is New
6. Doves – Kingdom Of Rust
7. Girls – Album
8. Blue Roses – Blue Roses
9. M Ward – Hold Time
10. John Parish And PJ Harvey – A Woman A Man Walked By
11. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
12. Monsters Of Folk – Monsters Of Folk
13. Muse – The Resistance
14. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
15. Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
16. Florence And The Machine – Lungs
17. Julian Casablancas – Phrazes For The Young
18. The Temper Trap – The Temper Trap
19. Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
20. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
21. Emmy The Great- First Love
22. The Dead Weather – Horehound
23. Kings Of Convenience – Declaration Of Dependence
24. Asobi Seksu – Hush

Guy Atkinson
1. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
2. The XX - XX
3. The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead
4. Paramore - Brand New Eyes
5. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
6. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
7. The Grammatics - The Grammatics
8. Passion Pit - Manners
9. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Pheonix
10. Thursday - Common Existence
11. Brand New - Daisy
12. La Roux - La Roux
13. The Veils - Sun Gangs
14. The Horrors - Primary Colours
15. Silversun Pickups - Swoon
16. Metric - Fantasies
17. Sky Larkin - The Golden Spike
18. The Antlers - Hospice
19. Jamie T - Kings & Queens
20. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
21. Dananananaykroyd - Hey Everyone!
22. Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
23. Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti is...Skyscraper
24. Converge - Axe To Fall

Pranam Prabhakar
1. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
2. The Horrors – Primary Colours
3. The Phantom Band – Checkmate Savage
4. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
5. The XX – XX
6. Micachu & the Shapes– Jewellery
7. Flaming Lips – Embryonic
8. Atlas Sound – Logos
9. Bat for Lashes – Two suns
10. Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs
11. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
12. Sonic Youth – The Eternal
13. Beat the Radar – From The City To The Sea
14. Dinosaur Jr – Farm
15. Beirut – March of the Zapotec
16. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart – The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
17. Dangermouse/Sparklehorse - Dark Night of The Soul
18. Passion Pit – Manners
19. Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand
20. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
21. Dizzee Rascal – Tongue N’ Cheek
22. Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years
23. Devendra Banhart – What Will We Be
24. Crystal Stilts – Alight of the Night - Departure

John Skilbeck
1. Frida Hyvonen – Silence Is Wild
2. Shrag – Shrag
3. Pastels/Tenniscoats - Two Sunsets
4. MJ Hibbett - Regardez, Ecoutez et Repetez
5. Mika Miko - We Be Xaxu
6. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
7. La Casa Azul - La Nueva Yma Sumac
8. The Lovely Eggs - If You Were Fruit
9. Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant
10. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
11. The Thermals - Now We Can See
12. Art Brut - Art Brut Vs Satan
13. Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard - 'Em Are I
14. Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night
15. Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong
16. Gossip - Music For Men
17. Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Through the Devil Softly
18. Brilliant Colors – Introducing
19. Annie - Don't Stop
20. Daniel Johnston - Is And Always Was
21. Sky Larkin - The Golden Spike
22. Joe Gideon and the Shark - Harum Scarum
23. Girls - Album
24. Medusa Snare - Cinderella

Matt Collins
1. The Leisure Society - Sleeper
2. Blue Roses - Blue Roses
3. Fanfarlo - Fanfarlo
4. Doves - Kingdom of Rust
5. The Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called Moaning
6. Martin Carr - Ye Gods and Little Fishes
7. Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More
8. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
9. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Up from Below
10. First Aid Kit - Drunken Trees
11. Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring
12. Pet Shop Boys - Yes
13. Ohbijou - Beacons
14. Passion Pit - Manners
15. Port O'Brien
16. Left With Pictures - Beyond Our Means
17. Huw M - Os Mewn Swn
18. Adrian Crowley - Season of the Sparks
19. Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Young
20. Why? - Eskimo Snow
21. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Where There Are Mountains
22. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
23. Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
24. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

SP
1. The XX - XX
2. Mos Def - The Ecstatic
3. BLK JKS - After Robots
4. Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
5. Florence & The Machine - Lungs
6. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
7. Drums - Summertime
8. Vetiver - Tight Knit
9. The Horrors - Primary Colours
10. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
11. Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
12. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
13. Modest Mouse - No One's First, And You're Next
14. Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Twice Born Men
15. Brother Ali - Us
16. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
17. Magic Arm - Make Lists Do Something
18. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
19. Richmond Fontaine - We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River
20. Portico Quartet - Isla
21. M Ward - Hold Time
22. Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
23. The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage
24. Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon

Me
1. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Tell 'Em What Your Name Is
2. Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock
3. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
4. The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
5. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Up From Below
6. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
7. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
8. Alessi's Ark - Notes From The Treehouse
9. Alela Diane - To Be Still
10. Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time
11. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
13. Deer Tick - Born On Flag Day
14. Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
15. The Avett Bros - I And Love And You
16. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
17. AA Bondy - Where The Devil's Loose
18. Patterson Hood - Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)
19. Floating Action - Floating Action
20. The Dirty Guvnahs - The Dirty Guvnahs
21. Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons - Death Won't Send Me A Letter
22. William Elliot Whitmore - Animals In The Dark
23. Broken Records - Until The Earth Begins To Part
24. Heartless Bastards - The Mountain

So there we go. Start flagging up the errors at will...

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