Starting the final week!
The latest installment of my Top 100 All-time Favorites list for 2008 looks like this:
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30 |
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King Crimson |
1981 |
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Discipline |
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Me and my uncle, playing Monopoly, eating crab legs. Me wondering if this was the Talking Heads. Go Belew! Go! |
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29 |
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Gillian Welch |
1998 |
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Hell Among The Yearlings |
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Death, whiskey, morphine, winter, murder. Beautiful. |
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28 |
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Led Zeppelin |
1973 |
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Houses Of The Holy |
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Where's that confounded title track? |
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27 |
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Elliott Smith |
1998 |
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XO |
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Elliott, Elliott, Elliott. Sigh. |
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26 |
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The Beastie Boys |
1994 |
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Ill Communication |
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B-Boys makin with the freak freak. |
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25 |
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Pink Floyd |
1975 |
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Wish You Were Here |
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Wish you weren't so overplayed. |
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24 |
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Spoon |
2007 |
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Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga |
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Getting dangerously close to commercial appeal. But still fantastic. |
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23 |
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Nick Drake |
1972 |
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Pink Moon |
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I too gave up a career in music in order to become a computer programmer. |
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22 |
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REM |
1984 |
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Reckoning |
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"Time After Time" is my least favorite song, and "Little America" is my most favorite. |
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21 |
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Andrew Bird |
2005 |
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Mysterious Production Of Eggs |
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Did he just say he wanted to drill a tiny hole into her head? Should I laugh? |
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And the histogram for #100-#21 looks like this:
(release dates of records listed so far, grouped into five-year spans)
Next exciting installment will be out on Wednesday Wednesday!
