These would have to be the top five of this year for me!

1)Counting Crow- This Desert Life
2)TQ- The Second Coming
3)The Cult-God and Evil
4)Dave Matthews Band-Everyday
5)Deltron-Deltron 3030

Morrissey would have probably been number #1 if he would ever release an album.

Here they are (in no particular order):
1.The Doves - Lost Souls
2.Radiohead - Amnesiac
3.Radiohead - Kid A
4.REM - Reveal
5.Coldplay - Parachutes
6.GirlsAgainstBoys - Series 7 soundtrack
7.Stephen Hero - Landed
8.Stephen Hero - Lullaby

I would like to mention the Tindersticks. They released "Can our love..." under Beggars Banquet, after leaving Isle Records since the rc was sort of telling them what to do. Way to go :) To know that this is possible after all makes me feel optimistic about Mozz as well :))

michael legge - 'morrissey rarities' minidisc compilation.

what a generous man!

cousteau - cousteau (ha-ha!)
muse - origin of symmetry
thomas d. - reflektor falke...
zita swoon - Life = A Sexy Sanctuary

probably.

No particular order here, just my top most recent favorites:

1) Echo & The Bunnymen : Flowers
2) REM : Reveal
3) Ours : Distorted Lullabies
4) Badly Drawn Boy : Hour of Bewilderbeast
5) Peter Murphy : Wild Birds
6) PJ Harvey : Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
7) Doves : Lost Souls
8) Radiohead : Kid A
9) Radiohead : Amnesiac

...and last but not least, (I list this one knowing someone will inevitably bash me for it, but I don't care, the creativity captured in this CD is well worth discovering and helps in the darker hours my moods so often swing to)...

10: Marilyn Manson : Holywood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death)

the last two Cinerama releases. Disco Volante and the recent Peel Sessions are truly remarkable. I love David Gedge's emotional, lasciviously fueled lyrics. If you recall in their album, This is Cinerama, they brilliantly covered, London. Bravo! Bravo!

julieta venegas- bueninvento
aterciopelados- gozo poderoso
the nortec collective- tijuana sessions vol 1
amores perros - soundtrack
el gran silencio- chuntaros radio poder
manu chao- proxima estacion: esperanza

1)VAST -- "Music for People"
2)Peter Murphy -- "Wild Birds"
3)Depeche Mode -- "Exciter"
4)Neuroticfish -- "No Instruments"
5)U2 -- "All That You Can't Leave Behind"

The Sheila Divine-Where have all my countrymen gone (march 2001)
Death Cab for Cutie-We have the facts and we're voting yes (march 2000)
Death Cab for Cutie-Forbidden Love EP (October 2000)
Kristin Hersh-Sunny Border Blue
Shipping News-Very soon and in pleasant company (2001)
Doves-lost souls
Radiohead-Kid A
Coldplay-Parachutes
Madonna-Music
Badly Drawn Boy-hour of bewilderbeast
Weezer-weezer
AM/FM-Mutilate us

Amnesiac
Gorillaz
Kid A
The Strokes
Doves
Air
St. Germain
the Cranes

radiohead-amnesiac
depeche mode-exciter
muse-origin of simmetry
coldplay-parachutes
dandy warhols-thirteen tales from urban bohemia
R.E.M-reveal
grandaddy-the software slump
belle&sebastien-fold your hands child,you walk like a peasant
unbelievable truth-sorrythankyou
stereophonics-just enough education to perform

when i could say"in this period i listen expecially the new fabolous Morrissey album?"Ah,an endless question!!!

I LOVE Radiohead...but really this cd SUCKED! Sorry but true. I will remain a big fan but I don't know if i like where they are going..

1. big blue house - sleep, baby, sleep
2. mickey sofine - you shoot rockets, i sprout flames
3. korean a go-go- pink pretty pipe bombs go boom
4. hammerme - town by the sea.
5. red children - hate the cute children
6. brooklyn tabernacle choir - hallelujah!: the very best of the brooklyn tabernacle choir
7. 9 foot lady - one more solo?
8. mary - ...and princess diana is still dead
9. brian lynch - spheres of influence
10. marksman - geeks with charvals
11. eric alexander - the second milestone
12. david hazeltine - a world for her

in lower case due to a bad & worthless lameness filter -

Savatage - Poets and Madmen
and I can't think of more good recent releases, to be honest.

1. Rialto--Night On Earth
2. Rialto--Girl On A Train mini LP
3. Luke Haines--The Oliver Twist Manifesto
4. Luke Haines--Christy Malry's Own Double Entry
5. Goldfrapp--Felt Mountain
6. Placebo--Black Market Music
7. Saint Etienne--Interlude
8. Manic Street Preachers--Know Your Enemy
9. Echobelly--People Are Expensive
10. Echo And The Bunnymen--Flowers

Destroy Radiohead and their world of overblown, whiny, whinging, nauseating, pathetic, overrated, prog rock bollocks.
BOLLOCKS.

Radiohead "Amnesiac"
Radiohead "Kid A"
Gorillaz
Belle & Sebastian "Fold Your Hands Child....."
Cat Power "The Covers Record"
Idlewild "100 Broken Windows"
Air "The Virgin Suicides"

Ok, some of these may not have been release in the last year but they're still relatively new to me... and just kick butt!!!

(In no particular order)

Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of Bewilderbeast
JJ72 - JJ72
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Placebo - Black Market Music
Tricky - Blowback
Tool - Lateralus

I'd probably put more if I had the time/money for all these others I've heard are good.

In no particular order....

1. Gorillaz - Gorillaz
2. Earth Crisis - Last of the Sane
3. Gus Gus - Vs. T-World (Yes, I know it came out before June '00, but I don't care. It's awesome)
4. Pennywise - Land of the Free
5. Radiohead - Kid A
6. Go-Go's - God Bless the Go-Go's
7. U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
8. Jello Biafra - Become The Media

Here it be:

  leatherface- horsebox
  belle and sebastian- fold your hands
  pinhead circus- the black power of romance
  the kung-fu monkeys- schools out, surf's up...
  drowningman- rockn'roll killing machine
  zero boys - vicious circle (reissue)
  screeching weasel- teen punks in heat
  dirt bike annie - sweatin' to the oldies
  Interpol - grey ep
  AFI - the art of drowning

to all who posted u2, i'm sorry, but they are way over rated. i'm still trying to figure out why bono's ego is as over inflated as it is. the days of the joshua tree are long gone. bono has no reason to hold himself as highly as he does. anything and everything u2 has released since joshua tree has plain and simply sucked!

(caps at beginning of sentences is apparently like yelling. whatever!!!)

1) Megadeth- The World Needs a Hero
2) Depeche Mode- Exciter
3) Overkill- Bloodletting
4) Disturbed- The Sickness
(Yeah, I know it's way over a year old but I just found it and couldn't take it out of the CD player)
5) Lacuna Coil- Halflife EP
6) Cranberries- Bury the Hatchet

And lastly, The Smiths Very Best Of Yeah, right!

Wow! Love too see what other people like to listen to! For anyone willing to try something once, may I humbly suggest these MOSTLY CANADIAN albums ;-)

The Watchmen "Silent Radar" (#1 kicks ass hardcore!)
The Philosopher Kings "Famous Rich and Beautiful"(creamy and delicious!)
Matthew Good Band "Underdogs" and "Beautiful Midnight" (very prozac and Ritalin friendly!)
And anything by Blue Rodeo... ah yeah... ah yeah!

Non Canadian,
NEW U2 album, outstanding!
All radiohead up to OK computer
Fuel (for the angry!)
Linkin Park (for the very angry!)
and lastly,MORRISSEY AND THE SMITHS (no explanation required ;-)

Musically over-stimulated,
DeB of the West-West Sider Riders :-)

So very few...
David Gray
Jealous Sound
Album Leaf
Coldplay
Pete Yorn
Last Days of April
Death Cab for Cutie

My favorite albums of this year Hmmmm....How about some from this year and some of all time.I never start or end my day(also in between those times:-):-) without listening to Morrissey or The Smiths.It`s an essential part of my everday existence as I`m sure it is for many of you.

(1)Morrissey-It`s too difficult to choose one

(2)The Smiths-Ditto

(3)Belle and Sebastian-Fold Your Hands..

(4)Depeche Mode-Exiter

(5)Coldplay-Parachutes

(6)Radiohead-Kid A

(7)Radiohead-Amnesiac

(8)Doves -Lost Souls

(9)REM-Reveal

(10)Belle and Sebastian-The Boy With The Arab Strap I know it was released years ago but it`s such a wonderful album I had to add it.

How I Love All Of The Very Mozzer Things Of Life.... Tibby

I still buy lots of back catalogue albums of many artists (apart from Smiths, Morrissey and The Bunnymen - got them all), but the top 3 for me are:
1, Echo And The Bunnymen - Flowers
2, Doves - Lost Souls
3, REM - Reveal

I also got Can Our Love by the Tindersticks and i don't like it one bit, so if anyone is offended by that, but it's not to my liking.
I still think this year has a lot to offer yet though, The Chameleons have just released an album, Suede are on the way and also there is an Echo And The Bunnymen box set out next week!!!

In the very particular order of no particular order:

Sleater Kinney--All Hands On The Bad One
Hey Mercedes-- EP
The The--Naked Self
Coldplay--Parachutes
Palo Alto--Self titled
Grandaddy--The Sophtware Slump
Old 97's--Satellite Rides
Shelby Lynne--I AM Shelby Lynne

I also enjoy the buzzing sound my electric fan makes.

Lloyd Cole's "the negatives"

He is a wonderful songwriter. This from "No More Love Songs":

'I gave her whiskey and she gave me everything
  there was a boy, she said, beautiful eloquent
  he went to Spain,
  and where he went, she went
  no Joan of Arc- she was broken, discarded
  that was a long time ago
  Still
  No more love songs...'

Very moving melodies too!

1. All For You- Janet Jackson
2. Music- Madonna
3. Miss E- So Addictive
10. Ancient Melodies of the Future- Built to Spill

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds- "no more shall we part"

Even by the standards set by the Cave man this stands as a towering set of songs, delivered by one of the worlds great bands.

Cave's finest work. Very few individual's on this planet could achieve work of such quality.

I really enjoyed John Tams album "Unity", I suggest anybody who enjoys folk music to check it out.

I've favored only a few of the many new albums that our out, here are a few...

Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy
Weezer - Green Weezer
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
Dove - Lost Souls
Belle and Sebastian - Fold Your Hands
Super Furry Animals - Mwng

Hopefully - I'll be able to add a new Morrissey album. Yet again, I can only hope for that!

Ciao for now

lupine howl - the carnivourous lunar activities of...
travis - the invisible band
radiohead - kid a, amnesiac
built to spill - ancient melodies of the future
depeche mode - exciter
old 97s - satellite rides
placebo - black market music
BRMC - black rebel motorcycle club
hooverphonic - magnificent tree
vincent clarke/martyn ware - spectrum...
sonic youth - nyc ghosts and stories
coldplay - parachutes
unwound - leaves turn inside you
echo and the bunnymen - flowers
nels cline - destroy all nels cline

and there is undoubtedly many i forgot...anybody who has not should check out BRMC. they got praises from johnny marr of all people and they are excellent. if you like jesus and mary chain or any of the british shoegazer stuff from that time period, you will probably love'em.

Of course I know that this is not a meeting point for those headbangers, but even being a forever incurable Morrissey fan I nominate Soulfly with their second album "Primitive". Pure energy!

The Weakerthans "Left and Leaving"
Grandaddy "The Sophtware Slump"
Ron Sexsmith "Blue Boy"

Jon Paul Fiorentino
http://ca.geocities.com/jonfiorentino

these are the only albums i bought
from that time frame:

stephen malkmus. stephen malkmus
belle and sebastian. fold your hands child, you walk like a peasant
radiohead. kid a
badly drawn boy. hour of bewilderbeast
weezer. weezer

i have heard the strokes single and it is very good but i cannot find it anywhere.

Top three Scottish(Glaswegian) albums of last financial year...

1. Teenage Fanclub - Howdy!
2. Belle & Sebastian - Fold Your Hands...
3. Travis - The Invisible Band

although i have "people are expensive" (as well as the two singles, "tell me why" and "digit ep") i wasn't really that impressed with this album, as i have been in the past with the three previous echobelly albums.

incidentally, don't you think that the song, "sleeping hitler" (b-side off of "bellyache ep") sounds a kind of like "the harsh truth of the camera eye"?

sonya sings (1993): "but it's much too late to be judge. oh how i wish i was blindly, i wish i was blindly, blindly loved."
morrissey sings (1991): "i don't want to be judged anymore, i don't want to be judged. i would sooner be loved. i would sooner be just blindly loved."

some cds i have bought and liked this year:

Momus - "Folktronic" (well "folk me amadeus" is just grooving.)

Deltron 3030 (i saw them on tour and didn't get this until recently, but i've really enjoyed it, unlike the kid koala album or the automator's a better tomorrow cd. they're all OK album, but deltron is the best so far, better than gorillaz!)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (friendly rock band)

Lucksmiths - "Happy Secret" (i don't have their latest cd, but at the moment, i'm content with this one and "a good kind of nervous")

Belle & Sebastian - "...Sings Jonathan David" (okay okay this song just rocks. the more i listen to this, the better it gets. oh their last album was pretty good too, everyone seems to agree.)

Weezer - Weezer/green album (everyone loves them, no need to explain.)

Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
Gentle Waves - Swansong for You
Lush - Ciao ('spooky' is still the best ;)
Grandaddies - The Sophtware Slump

i'm sure there are a lot more i've forgot, but these are the ones that comes to my mind right now.

truly truly truly
vu

1. Arab Strap - "Red Thread"
2. Mogwai - "Rock Action"
3. Strokes - "The Modern Age" (E.P.)

The following did not come out over the last year:

Doves
Badly Drawn Boy
Grandaddy

So as deserving as they are...scratch them off!

:P

Coldplay: Parachutes

Air: 10.000 Hz

Travis: The Invisible Band

Nick Cave abs: No More Shall We Part

Joy Division: Les Bains Douches

Das Pop: I Love (try to chech this band out)

JJ72: JJ72

MSP: Know Your Enemy

Ash: Free All Angels

Gene: Rising For Sunset (got it this year)

Relationship of Command by At The Drive-In is one of the most exciting, original new albums I've heard in years...

Exciter by Depeche Mode got a lot of unenthusiastic reviews, but is actually a very fine record...and Dave sounds better than ever...

All That You Can't Leave Behind by U2 has some really good tracks, though I still can't help feeling disappointed with it - something of an artistic retreat after their 1990s experimentation...

Renegades by RATM, also some terrific moments, but not as good as the stuff they wrote themselves...

Parachutes by Coldplay, overplayed on radio, but pretty good (if falling short of excellence)...

As for BDB, Radiohead, Nelly Furtado...liked most of the stuff I've heard from them, but haven't actually heard the whole albums yet. Must investigate. And the Best of Blur's good, if compilations count. Eagerly awaiting the next neworder record.

1. Morrissey - Oye Esteban DVD
2. Babacar - Babacar
3. The cure - Bloodflowers
4. Phish - Siket disc
5. Air - 10,000HZ Legend

I can't say I have been interested in anything but Depeche Mode's new album Exciter.

number one is, though it has been released for a little longer than one year:
einstürzende neubauten- silence is sexy
you should really listen to that one, if you're really open towards truly beautiful music. it's weigh less noisy than one might expect (though every bit of noise has allways been perfectly jusified by en) and it leads you into a whole universe of emotions and impressions and bits of thoughts circling around the vacant new buildings at the potzdamer platz in berlin.
2.) nick cave and the bad sees- no more shall we part
3.)placebo- black market music

i'll get

rem-reveal
air-10000 hz legend
radiohead- amnesiac

for my upcoming birthday, so i don't have an opinion about them yet.

a question for all the people who have posted coldplay's parachutes.i like that album,really,but yesterday,listening carefully,i've found a gruesome similarity between our love's "hold on to your friends" and coldplay "shiver"(also a bit of "everything is not lost)maybe my ears are so used to listen Moz that now..so,what's your opinion?do u agree with me?

B&S- Fold Your Hands...and simply because theyre amazing
(im gonna see em in spain with pulp in 3 weeks!)

Pete Yorn- musicforthemorningafter
(though i was suprised to see someone else listed this guy off earlier on here...live hes crap though...perhaps he was nervous)

Coldplay- Parachutes (how beautiful is this?)

TRAVIS- The Invisible Band (nuff said)

Badly Drawn Boy- this is what music is all about

The Doves- *sigh*

Air- the virgin suicides

Gorillaz- brilliant!

An album that should have never been recorded and shows that ANYONE these days could get a record deal except Morrissey....
The Web Brothers- Maroon..... complete shit

lates.

Monroe Mustang - de Avonden 091099
godspeed you black emperor - lift your skinny fists...
Go-Betweens - Friends of Rachel Worth
KC Accidental - Anthems for the What Could Have Been Pills
Elbow - Asleep at the Back
The New Year - Newness Ends
American Analog Set - Through the 90s...
Low/Dirty Three - In the Fishtank
Monroe Mustang - I Am The Only Running Footman
REM - Reveal

try these!

the aislers set
clientele
sigur ros
delgados
laura watling
neutral milk hotel
apples in stereo
broadcast
cornelius
the sea and cake
and all things belle and sebastian

britpop is dead my friends, it's ok to let go.

I am a veteran morrissey fan but have recently got onto the net and have discovered albums and singles that i had never known to exist because of the american label thing and lack of exposure in britain. I have got the internet and im back into the swing of things. I feel sorry for the people who have listened many times to the songs as they are fresh to me. I love him again. Maladjusted, southpaw grammar, oye esteban dvd, rare tracks, all new to me and FABULOUS.

I love you all.