This Bogus Poetry

These are my favourite albums of 2011. I'm not saying they are the best, merely the ones I've listened to and enjoyed the most. --- 1. Glasvegas - Euphoric /// Heartbreak \\\ --- --- 2. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake --- --- 3. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will --- --- 4. Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years --- --- 5. True Widow - As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth --- --- 6. Austra - Feel It Break --- --- 7. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi --- --- 8. The Horrors - Skying --- --- 9. Zola Jesus - Conatus --- --- 10. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints --- --- 11. White Lies - Ritual --- --- 12. Chelsea Wolfe - Apokalypsis --- --- 13. Eddie Vedder - Ukelele Songs --- --- 14. WU LYF - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain --- --- 15. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes --- --- And I don't really like the album that much, but this is my favourite single and video of the year She Wants Revenge - Take the World --- But mostly I've been listening ...

It strikes me that magazines and websites announcing their best albums of the year is occuring earlier and earlier as they seek to outdo each other. A bit like shops bringing out their Christmas stuff in September. With that in mind, fashionably late, here are my favourite albums from 2009. 1. Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers 2. The Horrors - Primary Colours 3. Crystal Stilts - Alright Of Night 4. Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another 5. Peaches - I Feel Cream 6. The XX - The XX 7. 80Kidz - This Is My Shit 8. Carina Round - Things You Should Know EP 9. The Yeah Yeah Yeah's - It's Blitz 10. Miss Kittin - Two 11. White Lies - To Lose My Life 12. Wooden Shjips - Dos 13. La Roux - La Roux 14. The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love 15. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport 16. The Antlers - Hospice 17. Julian Plenti - Is... Skyscraper 18. Grammatics - Grammatics 19. Flight Of The Conchords - I Told You I was Freaky 20. PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Man A Woma...

My favourite albums released in 2008 are as follows: 1. Foals - Antidotes 2. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles 3. Portishead - Third 4. Glasvegas - Glasvegas 5. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus!!! Dig!!! 6. Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling 7. dEUS - Vantage Point 8. Blood Red Shoes - Box of Secrets 9. REM - Accelerate 10. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular 11. The Faint - Fasciination 12. TV On The Radio - Dear Science 13. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing 14. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid 15. Lykke Li - Youth Novels 16. Hercules and the Love Affair - Hercules and the Love Affair 17. Mystery Jets - 21 18. Ladytron - Velocifero 19. Miss Kittin - Batbox 20. The Cure - 4:13 Dream 21. Ratatat - LP3 22. Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Enderlast 23. Neon Neon - Stainless Style 24. Spiritulized - Songs in A&E 25. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night Lest we forget: 2007 1. Calvin Harris - I Created Disco 2. Justice - Cross 3. Grinderman - Grinderman 2006 1. Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Show Yo...