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Budos Band- III
Section 25- Retrofit
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Sorry for the delay, but I'm supposed to be on vacation & relaxing. haha. Same as always these should be viewed as in no particular order. Minutes, days, weeks after I post this I realize I've missed something great, but here it goes anyway. I hope you find it to be of interest. This list does not represent what was popular in terms of sales at X-Ray (even though many were), simply what I listened to a lot in 2009. Comments welcome & I'd be happy to see your list if you made one.

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This represents what I've been listening to the most, regarding 2008 releases. These are ranked in no particular order. Check out the other Top Ten's at the end.

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1) Brimstone Howl- "We Came In Peace" (Alive)
2) Correcto- "Correcto" (Domino)
3) Quest For Fire- "Quest For Fire" (Storyboard)
4) Bonnie Prince Billy- "Lie Down In The Light" (Drag City)
5) The Golden Hands Before God Conducts Incredible Magic Band....- "Here" (Pop Echo)
6) Frightened Rabbit- "The Midnight Organ Fight" (Fat Cat)
7) Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez- "Why Is Bear Billowing?" (Carpark)
8) Woven Hand- "Ten Stones" (Sounds Familyre)
9) Baby Woodrose- "Coming Around Again" (Bad Afro)
10) The Gutter Twins- "Saturnalia" (Sub Pop)
11) Wire- "Object 47" (Pink Flag)
12) Buffalo Killers- "Let It Ride" (Alive)
13) Black Diamond Heavies- "A Touch Of Someone Else's Class" (Alive)
14) King Khan & The Shrines- "The Supreme Genious Of" (Vice)
15) Dead Meadow- "Old Growth" (Matador)
16) Silver Jews- "Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea" (Drag City)
17) British Sea Power- "Do You Like Rock Music?" (Rough Trade)
18) Bobby Previte- "Set The Alarm For Monday" (Palmetto)
19) Neva Dinova- "You May Already Be Dreaming" (Saddle Creek)
20) The Black Keys- "Attack & Release" (Nonesuch)
21) Retribution Gospel Choir- "Retribution Gospel Choir" (Caldo Verde)
22) The Asteroid No. 4- "These Flowers Of Ours" (The Committee...)
23) Red Snapper- "Pale Blue Dot" (Import)
24) Jenny Lewis- "Acid Tongue" (Warner)
25) Blackstrap- "Steal My Horses & Run" (Tee Pee)
26) The Rosebuds- "Life Like" (Merge)
27) Blitzen Trapper- "Furr" (Sub Pop)
28) Ray LaMontagne- "Gossip In The Grain" (Sony/BMG)
29) Kings Of Leon- "Only By The Night" (Warner)
30) Hank Williams III- "Damn Right, Rebel Proud" (Curb)
31) Deerhunter- "Microcastle" (Kranky)
32) The Memories Attack- "The Memories Attack" (Noyes Records)
33) Bon Iver- "For Emma, Forever Ago" (Jagjaguwar)
34) TV On The Radio- "Dear Science" (Interscope)
35) Anathallo- "Canopy Glow" (Anticon)
36) Fleet Foxes- "Fleet Foxes" (Sub Pop)
37) Alejandro Escovedo- "Real Animal" (Manhattan)
38) Colour Revolt- "Plunder Beg & Curse" (Fat Possum)
39) Richard Formby- "Volume One" (Mind Expansion)
40) Modey Lemon- "Season Of Sweets" (Narnack)
41) Miss Kitten- "Batbox" (Nobody's Bizzness)
42) Lords Of Altamont- "The Altamont Sin" (Gearhead)
43) The Kills- "Midnight Boom" (Domino)
44) Hayes Carll- "Trouble In Mind" (Universal)
45) Calexico- "Carried To Dust" (1/4 Stick)
46) The Black Angels- "Directions To See A Ghost" (Light In The Attic)
47) Damian Jurado- "Caught In The Trees" (Secretly Canadian)
48) The Dirtbombs- "We Have You Surrounded" (In The Red)
49) One Hundred Dollars- "Forest Of Tears" (Blue Fog)
50) The Fleshtones- "Take A Good Look" (Yep Roc)

Click on "Read More" to see other Top 10's

Here's a list of my top 50 albums that were released this year (in no particular order). It's based solely on what I was listening to & enjoying, and nothing to do with sales here at the store. Of course there were plenty of detours through other decades along the way, but you get my drift. As always, I'll remember something that should've been included weeks from now, but for the time being, this is how it stands.

There was some great music last year and anyone who tells you differently wasn't looking very hard or they've maybe just given up. Here's what I liked in 2006. Even though they're numbered, I don't really consider them to be in any particular order since I enjoyed them all.

1) Ray Lamontagne- Till The Sun Turns Black (RCA)
2) Black Keys- Magic Potion (Nonesuch)
3) Woven Hand- Mosaic (Sounds Familyre)
4) The Black Angels- Passover (Light In The Attic)
5) The Aggrolites- S/T (Hellcat)
6) Neko Case- Fox Confessor.... (Mint)
7) M.Ward- Post War (Merge)
8) Bright Black Morning Light- S/T (Matador)
9) Belle & Sebastian- The Life Pursuit (Matador)
10) Cat Power- The Greatest (Matador)
11) The Raconteurs- Broken Boy Soldiers (V2)
12) Califone- Roots & Crowns (Thrill Jockey)
13) Yo La Tengo- I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador)
14) Andre Williams & The Diplomats Of Sound- Aphrodisiac (Vampi Soul)
15) Anti Clockwise- Artificial Light (3 Beads Of Sweat)
16) Th' Legendary Shack Shakers- Pandelerium (Yep Roc)
17) Azam Ali- Elysium For The Brave (Six Degrees)
18) Bad Wizard- Sky High (Howler)
19) Barry Adamson- Stranger On The Sofa (Mute)
20) The Knife- Silent Shout (Mute)
21) Sunset Rubdown- Shut Up I'm Dreaming (Absolutely Kosher)
22) Barzin- My Life In Rooms (Monotreme)
23) Band Of Horses- Everything All The Time (Sub Pop)
24) Boris- Pink (Southern Lord)
25) Liars- Drums Not Dead (Mute)
26) TV On The Radio- Return To Cookie Mountain (Interscope)
27) Black Heart Procession- The Spell (Touch & Go)
28) Buffalo Killers- S/T (Sympathy)
29) Built To Spill- You In Reverse (Warner)
30) Clearlake- Amber (Domino)
31) Hacienda Brothers- What's Wrong With Right (Proper)
32) Hank Williams III- Straight To Hell (Curb)
33) Richard Buckner- Meadow (Merge)
34) Shannon Lyon- Safe Inside (Busted Flat)
35) The Saints- Nothing Straight In My House (Yep Roc)
36) Sparklehorse- Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mouintain (EMI)
37) The Little Killers- A Real Good One (Gern Blandsten)
38) Kid Koala- Your Mom's Favourite DJ (Ninja Tune)
39) Legendary Pink Dots- Your Children Placate You From Premature Graves (Roir)
40) Brain Donor- Drain'd Boner (Invada)
41) Greg Brown- The Evening Call (Red House)
42) Angela Desveaux- Wandering Eyes (Thrill Jockey)
43) Bardo Pond- Ticket Crystals (All Tomorrows Parties)
44) Bonnie Prince Billy- The Letting Go (Drag City)
45) Entrance- Prayer Of Death (Tee Pee)
46) The Kooks- Inside In/ Inside Out (EMI)
47) Mojave 3- Puzzles Like You (4AD)
48) Mountain Goats- Get Lonely (4AD)
49) Nine Horses- Snow Borne Sorrow (Samadhisound)
50) Noxagt- Noxagt (Load)

Honorable mentions to.....

Chris Smither- "Leave The Light On" (True North)
Tom Waits- "Orphans" (Anti)
Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian- "S/T" (Nonesuch)
Shawn Colvin- "These Four Walls" (Nonesuch)
Ox- "American Lo-Fi" (Indie)
Willie Nelson- "Songbird" (Lost Highway)
Tom Russell- "Love & Fear" (High Tone)
Oneida- "Happy New Year" (Jagjaguwar)

My top 50 list 0f 2005 is now here for your viewing and scrutinizing. Consider this to be in no particular order or ranking as I don't like that sort of a system. Even with a list as seemingly large as a top 50 I still feel bad for leaving off some great releases, but you gotta draw the line somewhere. Feel free to send in your own top ten for posting on this site. Your name and who you are will be required. email to dave@xrayrecords.ca

1) The Buff Medways- Medway Wheelers (Damaged Goods)

2) Iron & Wine/Calexico- In The Reigns (Overcoat)

3) Brian Eno- Another Day On Earth (Hannibal)

4) Detroit Cobras- Baby (Bloodshot)

5) Bob Mould- Body Of Song (Yep Roc)

6) Ellen Allien- Thrills (Bpitch Control)

7) Teenage Fanclub- Man Made (Merge)

8) Ryan Adams & The Cardinals- Cold Roses (Lost Highway)

9) The Kills- No Wow (Rough Trade)

10) The Raveonettes- Pretty In Black (Columbia)

11) All Tomorrow's Party- Yoo Doo Right, Yoo Doo Slide (Sympathy)

12) Alvin "Young Blood" Hart- Motivational Speaker (Tone Cool)

13) American Analog Set- Set Free (Paper Bag)

14) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club- Howl (Red Ink)

15) Lowlights- Dark End Road (Darla)

16) Magnolia Electric Company- What Comes After The Blues (Secretly Canadian)

17) Eliza Gilkyson- Paradise Hotel (Red House)

18) Devendra Banhart- Cripple Crow (XL)

19) The National- Alligator (Beggars Banquet)

20) Sheavy- Republic? (Candlelight)

21) Pernice Brothers- Discover A Lovlier You (Ashmont)

22) Calla- Collisions (Beggars Banquet)

23) The Ponys- Celebration Castle (In The Red)

24) Sleater Kinney- The Woods (Sub Pop)

25) Spoon- Gimme Fiction (Merge)

26) The Decemberists- Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)

27) The High Dials- War Of The Wakening Phantoms (Rainbow Quartz)

28) Caribou- The Milk Of Human Kindness (Domino)

29) The Wedding Present- Take Fountain (Manifesto)

30) Reigning Sound- Home For Orphans (Sympathy)

31) Thievery Corporation- The Cosmic Game (ESL)

32) Brian Jonestown Massacre- Tepid Peppermint Wonderland (2cd anthology) (Tee Pee)

33) Witchcraft- Firewood (Rise Above)

34) Various Artists- Ghana Soundz: Afrobeat, Funk & Fusion in 70's Ghana (Soundway)

35) The Hellacopters- Rock & Roll Is Dead (Universal)

36) LCD Soundsystem- S/T (DFA)

37) Circle- Guillotine (Scratch)

38) Sigur Ros- Takk (Geffen)

39) The Warlocks- Surgery (Mute)

40) Bohren & Der Club Of Gore- Geisterfaust (Wonder)

41) Daniel Lanois- Belladonna (Anti)

42) Death In Vegas- Satans Circus (Drone)

43) Rosie Thomas- If Songs Could Be Held (Sub Pop)

44) Fourtet- Everything Ecstatic (Domino)

45) The Immortal Lee County Killers 3- These Bones Will Rise To Love You Again (Tee Pee)

46) Antony & The Johnsons- I Am A Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)

47) Richard Thompson- Front Parlour Ballads (Cooking Vinyl)

48) Amon Tobin- Splinter Cell (Ninja Tune)

49) Tristeza- March Of The White Lies (Rocket Racer)

50) The Fall- Fall Heads Roll (Dim Mak)

Here's the rough sketch of my top 20 for 2004. These are in no particular order because I've never been big on deciding what's better than what. The list could have been twice as long, but what the hay. I'll be adding some basic descriptions in a few days, in the meantime........

Richard Buckner- Dents & Shells (Merge)
Kings Of Convenience- Riot On An Empty Street (Virgin)
Chuck Prophet- Age Of Miracles (New West)
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter- Oh, My Girl (Barsuk)
The Fall- The Real New Fall LP (Narnack)
Bad Wizard- #1 Tonight (Howler)
Mr. Airplane Man- C'mon DJ (Sympathy...)
Luna- Rendevouz (Jetset)
King Cobb Steelie- Destroy All Codes (Outside)
Dave Alvin- Ashgrove (Yep Roc)
Comets On Fire- Blue Cathedral (Sub Pop)
The Unintended- S/T (Blue Fog)
Black Keys- Rubber Factory (Fat Possum)
Radio Dept.- Lesser Matters (XL Recordings)
These Arms are Snakes- Oxeneers Or The Lion Sleeps When It's Antelope Go Home (Jade Tree)
The Sadies- Favourite Colors (Yep Roc)
The Paybacks- Harder & Harder (Get Hip)
The Von Bondies- Pawn Shoppe Heart (Sire)
Patty Griffin- Impossible Dream (ATO)
Iron & Wine- My Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)

I'll Finish Up Soon.............In fact if you have a top 10 that you'd like to submit, send it to me at dave@xrayrecords.ca and I'll try to post some of the better ones. Please include your full name and all the details of your list, such as Artist, Title, Label etc. thanx.....