NME Top 50 albums of 2000's WITH DL LINKS!!!

I read NME this week and saw the list of their 50 albums of the past 10 years and whether I agree or not I thought that it would be amazing if someone put the list up with all the download links. I figured I doubt no one will bother but then I thought, you know what would be a nice thing to do!? :D This is my thanks for reading my blog guys, as will be everything I post in the next month, it keeps going from strength to strength and if no one read it I would have stopped ages ago.

Sorry if this post blows your mind to the point that you simply can't function in regular society buttttt...

50 MIA - Arula
49 Muse - Absolution
48 The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
47 Brendan Benson - Lapalco
46 The Delgados - The Great Eastern
45 Avalanches - Since I Left You
44 Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
43 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
42 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
41 Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
40 Ryan Adams - Gold
39 Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
38 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
37 The Knife - Silent Shout
36 Spirtualized - Let it Come Down
35 Babyshambles - Down In Albion
34 Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
33 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
32 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
31 Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
30 Elbow - Asleep In The Back
29 Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World
28 Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
27 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
26 Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
25 The Rapture - Echoes
24 The Libertines - The Libertines
23 Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future
22 Jay-Z - The Blueprint
21 The Coral - The Coral
20 Blur - Think Tank
19 The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
18 The White Stripes - Elephant
17 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
16 The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
15 Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
14 Radiohead - Kid A
13 The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
12 LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
11 At The Drive In - Relationship Of Command
10 Radiohead - In Rainbows
09 The Streets - Original Pirate Material
08 Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
07 Arcade Fire - Funeral
06 PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
05 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
04 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
03 Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
02 The Libertines - Up The Bracket
01 The Strokes - Is This It

I think i'll let this post settle a few days and then we're into outroversion's top 20 albums of 2009 which I think's better than this list lol and my top 100 tracks of this year and also the best of november rar's oh wow I wish I was someone else so I could discover this blog! Enjoy the ride gaiz.

New Albums- Fanfarlo (Resevoir)

So i've been working a hell of a lot recently, I unfortunately need to make money for my yearly quest of "make this the most awesome summer ever!". I'm pretty amazed with myself that i've kept this blog going while i've been "on da grind!" especially since I've had to declare my car off road due and walk 8 miles everyday! You should see my body though :p

Now I've gone on and on about Fanfarlo since finding them while randomly looking for new music a few weeks ago and it was pretty inevitable that they would get their own post sooner or later. And so it's finally here their debut album...
















Fanfarlo- Resevoir (2009)

01 I'm a Pilot
02 Ghosts
03 Luna
04 Comets
05 Fire Escape
06 The Walls Are Coming Down
07 Drowning Men
08 If It Is Growing
09 Harold T. Wilkins or How to Wait for a Very Long Time
10 Finish Line
11 Good Morning Midnight

My original review of FF "Dreampop, it's one of those abstract nondescript genres that still seems to fit some bands perfectly, this is one. Great for the summer, they're a mixture between the floatysunshinecatchiness of empire of the sun and the rhythmic intrumentation consciousness of an arcade fire. I really like these guys, they are probably the band that i've been most excited to discover in this blog, they really make stunning music. In the trunk is when it really struck me. Unbelievably endorphene inducing. Oh and they're from LDN!!!"

I'm pretty good to you, link to the whole album in the title and individual files on the track listing!

Before listening to album the first thing I noticed was that standout track from the demo cd "you are one of the few outsiders that understand us" isn't included, i'm hoping this means the rest of the album is eeeeeven better than that...

Early signs point to yes as "I am a pilot" is a heavenly track, starts the album off perfectly, and purposefully. The strings are magnificent and add a haunting atmosphere to the dark lyrics which are masked by an upbeat tempo and clapped beats which underly the piano perfectly. Part of what sounds like percussion is actually a lot of people playing the same part on guitars.

The similarities and ineed comparison to arcade fire are both obvious and unignorable. The strings and brass heavy tunes, flowing vocals and harmonies are evident on many of the tracks but in my opinion better than arcade fire because it really seems like the entire band has a common goal as each track builds and support each other well, AF vocals were lost way too often and I can see these going down great in big venues where AF will always be a support band to bands with a less pretentious and overtly thought out sound.

I've listened to the album about 6 times and it's a consistant and not overly ambitious debut, that is by no means a bad thing, they just know what they're good at and what they can pull off live and have aimed at hitting those highs first.

I'm so glad I found these guys and as coincidence would have it they're playing my town next month, i'm already there.