YEAR END LIST

My favorite music that either came out this year or that I listened to heavily this year:
1) Radiohead - In Rainbows
Sorry to say I paid 0 cents for the best album of the year. You've read all the reviews on how revolutionary their selling method was but most have generally overlooked the music. Thom Yorke's never sounded better and his voice KILLS me on "Nude" which I think may be the best track on the album. Greenwood & co. have their arrangements down to a science. Love love LOVE this album, what more can I say about the greatest living band on Earth?
2) Bjork - Volta
Obviously Bjork can do no wrong in my book. One of my songs of the year would definitely have to be "Wanderlust" which I played the hell out of. Plus I finally got to see her live at the Apollo of all places and she was as deliriously amazing as I knew she'd be.
3) KRISTEENYOUNG - The Orphans

Let's get it over with: the bitch is half-crazy but man can she sing. I saw her open up for Morrissey and thought she was alright but it was when I saw her in closer proximity opening for Ted Leo that I found her to be genius. Her on-stage banter needs work but her songs are so extremely operatic/glam and her style so unique that I couldn't help buying an album. Though her style is so over-the-top to the point of abrasive, one of her favorites of mine is "(But it's all just) Imagined", a ballad that can be heard at http://myspace.com/kristeenyoung
4) Bob Mould - Blowoff
Bob Mould is my own personal god. Blowoff is his collaboration with Richard Morel and it's totally dancey/bear intensive yet with a rock edge. It got major play on my stereo this year.
5) Sigur Ros - Hvarf/Heim
This was one of their new releases this year, a double album of old faves done acoustically or differently and then new material on Hvarf. Another band that can do no wrong for me.

As far as old stuff I discovered or rediscovered, I listened to a helluva lot of Nirvana Unplugged, the usual mix of Husker Du/Bob Mould/Grant Hart, got into the Jam and listened to Judy Garland live at Carnegie Hall so many times I should've been arrested and of course the Gay Pimp's "For the Fellas...".