2008 didn't have much going for it in the beginning, especially after such a stellar year like 2007. However it closed out strong, and definitely stepped up to the plate and will make a case of it's own in the future of great years of music. So here you have it:

20. Ratatat- LP3
I feel like just about anyone can gain something from listening to this, or any Ratatat album for that matter. Easy for anyone to embrace.
Favorite track: Shempi

19. Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
Watching them perform their Acoustic Mainline set at Coachella in April…

Death Drag - Deerhunter

Radiohead - Reckoner

Stay tuned..

2006

June 11th Dane Cook 6 plays
June 18th Radiohead 5 plays
June 25th Jason Collett 29 plays
July 2nd Jason Collett 29 plays
July 9th Placebo 12 plays
July 16th Thom Yorke 68 plays
July 23rd Thom Yorke 38 plays
July 30th Radiohead 73 plays
August 6th Guster 92 plays
August 13th M83 34 plays
August 20th Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 49 plays
August 27th Paulson 85 plays
September 3rd Hot Chip 118 plays
September 10th The Decemberists 96 plays
September 17th The Arcade Fire 19 plays
September 24th Modest Mouse 46 plays
October 1st Mitch Hedberg 39…

Radiohead - In Rainbows
m83 - Digital Shades

Two incredible new albums merged as one.

1. M83 - Waves, Waves, Waves
2. Radiohead - 15 Step
3. M83 - Coloring The Void
4. Radiohead - Bodysnatchers
5. M83 - Sister, Part 1
6. Radiohead - Nude
7. M83 - Strong and Wasted
8. Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
9. M83 - My Own Strange Path
10. Radiohead - All I Need
11. M83 - Dancing Mountains
12. Radiohead - Faust Arp
13. M83 - Sister, Part 2
14. Radiohead - Reckoner
15. M83 - By The Kiss
16. Radiohead - House…

In anticipation of my 50,000th track, I took my top ten artists from here and put them all on a playlist and shuffled it up. I figured this way, no matter what track came on, it'd have some emotional weight in my life that I could write a typical boring journal entry about.

I honestly though I'd make it to 50,000 tracks a lot quicker than a year. With how much I listen to music I'd never think it'd take me a year and three months to listen to 50,000 songs.

It'd be very easy to say my music tastes…

Midlake - Roscoe

The first song off of the album The Trials of Van Occupanther, Roscoe is clearly the most standout track on the album. Generally you see artists put tracks like these in the middle of the album, to keep your interest peaked throughout the course of listening to it. Midlake's approach was very different, starting off with a bang.

When I first listened to the album it didn't impress me. I remember being initially impressed (by Roscoe), but their sound never lingered in my head. I remember the album dragging downwards, and not generating much of a…

Last.FM has had frequent stops in the bathroom this past weekend. And in the process, have completely annihilated my campaign for a 40,000th track. Now that it's working again, I'm able to go back and see what the 40,000th track is. According to my charts, it's At The Bottom Of Everything.

However, I know with certainty that it's not actually that.

I have itunes and can scrobble at my work. My boss wasn't working yesterday, so my entire eight hour workshift, I was on a Tool kick, and I was listening to them. This would have went well beyond…

Thursday, June 14th.

Geoff, Juliana, Erin, Ash and I arrived in Manchester at about 8:00 AM to a line that stretched much farther than the eye can see. It was coming the opposite direction on the road we were in, so the cops directed us to go to the end and then turn around. We drove for about five or ten minutes, still not seeing the end of the line, and eventually turned into a gas station and attempted to turn back into the line. Only problem was, the line wasn't moving. We were fortunate enough that we wasked the…

I've decided (with the insistence of Leah :P) to make a Top 23 albums of my lifetime. One for each year.

They are going to appear in alphabetical order.

And I'm limiting myself to one album per artist as well.

I'm feeling somewhat nostalgic today, and respectful towards the roots of my music taste.

This was not easy to do AT ALL. And I'm sure that it would differ on a different day, under a different mood.

But here we go.

Adrenaline - Deftones
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This was an album that I acquired in ninth grade. This was after people had…