My Top 20:

1) Fountains Of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
2) Matthew Sweet - Kimi Ga Suki * Raifu
3) Chris Von Sneidern - The Wild Horse
4) Rooney - S/T
5) The Thorns - S/T (with "Sunset Sessions" Bonus CD)
6) Michael Carpenter & Kings Rd - KINGSRDWORKS
7) New Pornographers - Electric Version
8) The Shazam - Tommorow The World
9)  Barely Pink - Last Day Of Summer
10) Puffy AmiYumi - Nice
11) All American Rejects - S/T
12) Sloan - Action Pact
13) Marshall Crenshaw - Whats in the Bag?
14) The Kennedys - Stand
15) Cheap Trick - Special One
16) True Love - I Was Accident
17) Adam McIntyre  - Rockstars & Superheroes
18) Villas - Set For Life
19) Trollyvox - Leap Of Flolly
20) Bangles  - Doll Revolution

Extreme-Style Honorable Mention:
Bleu - Redhead (isnt this a remixed reissue from 2002?)
A Nothern Chorus - Spirit Flags
Travis - 12 Memories
Styx - Cyclorama
Supergrass - Life On Other Planets
Ray Mason Band - Idiot Widsom
Preocupied Pipers - Jokes About The Medical Profession
Jet - Get Born

EP's and Demos:
Shiner22 - Demo CD
The Meddling Kids - The Basement Demos
Timmeh - demos off Mp3.com (wheres the new album????)

Best Compilations & Reissues:
V/A - International Pop Overthrow - Vol 6
The Get Easy! Sunshine Pop Collection
The Sonic Adventures of Zekley & Grady (homemade comp by Jeffery Glenn, great
job)
The Beatles - Let it Be...Naked (but lets run it through pro tools first)
V/A - Phil's Spectre - A Wall Of Soundalikes
Hollies - The Long Road Home 1963-2003 Box Set
Eagles - The Best Of 2-CD set
V/A - Where The Girls Are Volume 5: A Decade of Columbia Femme Pop
Aerovons - Resurrection
Treble Boys - Baked Jamiaca (1982 demos) & Last Howl (Live at CGBB's November
16, 1982)
REM - The Best Of REM In Time 1988-2003
Association - USA re-releases on Collectors Choice
Nazz - Open My Eyes - The Anthology (but why did they have to resequence
everything?)
The Searchers - 40th Anniversary Collection 
V/A - A Tribute To The Four Seasons Vol 1 (2002 boot, but I bought this year
and it's too much fun not to include it)
Roy Wood - Outstanding Performer (70's & 80's singles)
Elvis - 2nd To None (bought it for Mom & Dad)
Bubblegum Motherf***er (bootleg of 60's bubblegum trax) - various volumes
Lovin Spoonful - Do You Believe in Magic, Hums Of.. & Daydream  
Five Americans - The Best Of 
The Broken Hearts - Want One? (Rook Michael Mazzarella's first band)
Guadalcanal Diary - Walking In The Shadow - Jamboree (though the design
dept of
Collectables records deserves to be spanked for yet another cheap-ola
packaging
job)
Human Radio - II (unreleased, downloaded off internet)



Billy G. Spradlin
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