Last night I was listening to the Triple J’s top albums of the year so I though I’d do my own. OK, I don’t get to buy half the albums I’d like to and no doubt a whole lot of great albums came out this year that I didn’t hear about but the ones I did hear and bought I of course love, and these are

International Echoes (The Rapture), Black Cherry (Goldfrapp), Chutes too Narrow (The Shins), Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (The Flaming Lips), Absolution (Muse), Off the Wall – Ten Years of Wall of Sound (Wall of Sound), 100th Window (Massive Attack), You Are Free (Cat Power), Youth and Young Manhood (Kings of Leon), Welcome to the Monkey House (Dandy Warhols), Elephant (The White Stripes), Eargasm (Plump DJs), Talkin Honky Blues (Buck 65), Thickfreakness (The Black Keys), De-loused in the Comatorium (The Mars Volta), Strays (Janes Addiction).

Aus/NZ Decoder Ring (Decoder Ring), The Cat Empire (The Cat Empire), The White Printz EP (The Bumblebeez), The Red Printz EP (The Bumblebeez), Strange Bird (Augie March), Get Born (Jet), 1704 (Gelbison), Good (Goodshirt), Lovers (The Sleepy Jackson), Alleys to Valleys (Hermitude), Cook Cut Damage Destroy (Prop) interestingly, all those were either a debut album or EP albeit the last one was a remixed version, The Cream of the Crock (You am I), Frequencies Will Move Together (B(if)tek, An Elefant Never Forgets (The Herd).

My favourites are in bold. And trust me, I’m tempted to bold just about all of them.

I think its also time to clear that “Wishlist” for 2003. And these were, and are still standing, and feel free to donate them to me!:

Tour De France (Kraftwerk), Morvern Caller Soundtrack, Ladytron album, A Minor Revival (Sodastream), Bad Blood (Gerling), M. Ward album, Take Them On Your Own (The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club), Think Tank (Blur), Land of the Giants (Downsyde), Exciter (Depeche Mode), Sophtware Slump (Grandaddy), We Rock Hard (Freestylers), Krafty Kutz album, Room on Fire (The Strokes), Dancehall Places (Mint Royale), Happy Songs for Happy People (Mogwai), Rooney (Rooney), Phantom Power (Super Furry Animals), Genetic World (Telepopmusik), Fever To Tell (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Yo La Tengo album, The Decline of the British Sea Power (British Sea Power), Various mixed by Meat Katie Destination Australia 02 (Meat Katie), Now and Them by (Freeland), O (Damien Rice), 25 (Rough Trade), War All The Time (Thursday), Make Up The Breakdown (Hot Hot Heats), The Kills album, The Bright Lights (Interpol), Dizzy Rascal album, So Much for the city (The Thrills), The Jeevas album, Shift these Thoughts (Heligoland), The Libertines album, Belle & Sebastian album, TV On the Radio (Young Lions), Instant O in the Universe (Stereolab), Erase Errata (Erase Errata), The Target Is You (Love of diagrams), Logic Will Break Your Heart (The Stills), The Anyones (The Anyones). Phew!