I heard so little music this year.  There was a lot going on in my
life, much of which precluded time and and money for music.  If I get
some more of both of those latter, precious commodities, this list
could be completely different in two months, much less a year.

I was going to annotate this, but if I wait for that, it may never
happen.  Maybe I'll do a revised and annotated version later.

But right this minute, here 'tis:

1) Hank III, Damn Right Rebel Proud
2) Goldfrapp, Seventh Tree
3) British Sea Power, Do You Like Rock Music?
4) Local H, 12 Angry Months
5) Radiohead, In Rainbows
6) Lindsey Buckingham, Gift of Screws
7) School of Seven Bells, Alpinisms
8) Todd Steed & the Suns of Phere, Eskimo Hair
9) REM, Accelerate
10) Scott Miller, Appalachian Refugee (the ex-V-Roy Scott Miller, that is)
11) Wire, Object 47
12) The Features, Some Kind of Salvation
13) The Bye Bye Blackbirds, Houses and Homes
14) New Radiant Storm King, Drinking in the Moonlight
15) AC/DC, Black Ice
16) The Dandy Warhols, Earth to the Dandy Warhols
17) Beck, Modern Guilt

hate hate hate: Vampire Weekend.  It has nothing to do with hype.  I
just really do not like anything about them.

shockingly does NOT suck one little bit:  From the Jam

didn't hear: The Fall, Of Montreal, James, Byrne/Eno, Steve Wynn, You
Am I, Ladytron, Magnetic Fields, Tricky, Raveonettes, T-Bone Burnett,
Sigur Ros, Sloan, Don Dixon, Chris Difford, Matthew Sweet, Mudcrutch,
Okkervil River, the Ting Tings, Portishead, Lucinda Williams, Ray
Davies, Billy Bragg, Destroyer, Raconteurs, Weezer, many many more

later,

Miles

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