Which of the following is your favourite album?

coldplay (really?) and sigur ros. that's funny. one of my first reviews ever on the internet at amazon.de was about that sigur ros album. it was a mockery. here it is. in german unfortunately. i thought i had translated it somewhere. maybe on the old blog...

I will go to bat for all three of those #1s, although Kid A is definitely my favourite (now). And Coldplay's "Parachutes" is fantastic, simple and beautiful, just a dumb blast of joy, and I think the people who hate it either don't like the genre or are kidding themselves. By no means am I a fan of the band nowadays, though. (See here: www.saidthegramophone.com , and for an earlier perspective, here: www.tangmonkey.com )

was my first aimee mann and i really loved it and still do. but i think she won't be my #1. we'll see. for a start ryan adams and david thomas were rather disappointing. i have the feeling that i am enjoying pop music less and less every day. i hope i'll make it until the end of my 40 albums...

kid a i hated a little less than ok computer (that really is a kind of pink floyd for the 90s). i think i only lost two cds in my life. one was kid a. before amnesiac i found radiohead totally uninteresting. come to think of it after probably as well.

suggestion is welcome here. but unfortunately i don't have the slightest clue what kind of music moloko make. i have heard the name but can't associate it to anything. some indie rock? what i'd really like to know from people how many of the albums of my lists they know. i'd imagine there'd be very few people who know all albums of one year's list. but maybe i am totally wrong.

i've never heard: Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man Giant Sand - Chore of Enchantment Go-Betweens - The Friends of Rachel Worth Montgolfier Brothers - Seventeen Stars

i've heard but never acquired David Thomas and Two Pale Boys - Surf's Up

i own or owned Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists... Lambchop - Nixon Aimee Mann - Bachelor #2 Yo La Tengo - And then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out

thanks, phil. that's quite interesting. there is a big chance then that my favourite is unknown to you...

own/heard: Aimee Mann - Bachelor #2 Giant Sand - Chore of Enchantment Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists... Lambchop - Nixon Yo La Tengo - And then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out

Of those, the Giant Sand is probably my favorite, with Yo La Tengo close behind. I haven't listened to both for quite some time, though...

I bought a Lot of music in that year, the ones I liked the most (at the time) that you didn't mention: At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command Fireside - Elite Friends of Dean Martinez - A Place in the Sun Laurent Garnier - Unreasonable Behaviour Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump Living End - Roll On Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica Múm - Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today is OK Prayer Boat - Polichinelle Primal Scream - Exterminator Queens of the Stoneage - R Salvatore - Clingfilm Sixteen Horsepower - Secret South Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide tenEcke - block terrain