Welcome! This page lists albums released from 2002 - 2010. The site doesn't look great at the moment. A better one should appear around MARCH 2012. Thanks. Any questions to joeyjjjshabadoo@gmail.comThese are UK and Ireland release dates. Europe around the same time and the USA is usually a week ahead or behind. NOTE::Bands in capital letters are bands who are featured in my discography which will be a feature on the site in the future.
There are 2865(2002 - 2007) albums listed below
2002 : 166 [UK: Jan - Dec]2003 : 362 [UK: Jan - Dec # IRE: May - Dec # USA: Aug - Dec]2004 : 470 [UK: Jan - Dec # IRE: Jan - Dec # USA: Jan - Dec]2005 : 550 [UK: Jan - Dec # IRE: Jan - Dec # USA: Jan - Dec]2006 : 566 [UK: Jan - Dec # IRE: Jan - Dec # USA: Jan - Dec]2007 : 751 [UK: Jan - Dec # IRE: Jan - Dec # USA: Jan - Dec # AUSR: Apr - Dec]2008 : [UK: Jan - Dec # IRE: Jan - Dec # USA: Jan - Dec # AUSR: Jan - Dec]2009 : [UK: Jan - Dec # IRE: Jan - Dec # USA: Jan - Dec # AUSR: Jan - Dec]2010 : [UK: Jan - Dec # IRE: Jan - Dec # USA: Jan - Dec # AUSR: Jan - Dec] NOTE::After each album I place the rating given by magazines The magazines listed below usually give ratings out of 5 or out of 10, so I decided to mark all the ratings out of 5. So if any magazine from 2002 gave a rating out of 10, i halved it :: IRELAND ::HP = HOT PRESS, visit www.hotpress.com to read reviews. :: UK :: Q = Q, visit www.q4music.com to read reviews. UNCUT = UNCUT, visit www.uncut.co.uk to read reviews. MOJO = MOJO, visit www.mojo4music.com to read reviews. K = KERRANG!, visit ww.kerrang.com to read reviews. NME = NME, visit www.nme.com to read reviews. ROCK SOUND = ROCK SOUND, visit www.rock-sound.net to read reviews. MH = METAL HAMMER, visit www.metalhammer.co.uk to read reviews. :: USA :: ROL STONE = ROLLING STONE, visit www.rollingstone.com to read reviews. SPIN = SPIN , visit www.spin.com to read reviews.
Date Released : Name of band_______Name of album (chart position) [extra info] [album ratings]Coming soon...........my review of some of the albums listed below
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=============================================================2002 (166 albums listed below)
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January 5 :
January 6 - 12 :
January 13 - 19 : 2002 : P.O.D_________Satellite (16) [5th album] [Q - 3]
January 20 - 26 : 2002 :
January 27 - Febuary 2 : 2002 :
Febuary 3 - 9 : 2002 : Chemical Brothers_________Come With Us (1) [4th album, ft.R Ashcroft,B Orton] [Q - 3] The Soundtrack Of Lives_________Behind The Music (???) [3rd album] [Q - 4]
Febuary 10 - 16 : 2002 : Haven_________Between The Senses (26) [debut album] [Q - 3] ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE_________HOLES IN THE WALL (35) debut album] [Q - 3] Drowning Pool_________Sinner (70) [debut album] [Q - 4] One Giant Leap_________One Giant Leap (???) [debut album,ft.Maxi Jazz,R Williams,M Stipe,N Cherry,E Reader] [Q - 3]
Febuary 17 - 23 : 2002 : Cooper Temple Clause_________See Through This And Leave (27) [debut album] [Q - 2]
Febuary 24 - March 2 : 2002 : Sting/The Police_________Best Of (1) [re-released Greatest Hits] Lambchop_________Is A Woman (38) [6th album] [Q - 2] Air_________Everybody Hertz (67) [remix album] [Q - 4]
March 3 - 9 : 2002 : Jewel_________This Way (34) [4th album] [Q - 3] Johnny Cash_________Man in Black : Best Of (39) [Greatest Hits]
March 10 - 16 : 2002 : Alanis Morisette_________Under Rug Swept (2) [3rd album] [Q - 4] A____________HI-FI SERIOUS (18) [3rd album] [Q - 4] Timo Maas_________loud (41) [debut album] [Q - 4] Vex Red_________Start With A Strong and Persistent Desire (48) [final album] [Q - 4] Billy Bragg and the Blokes_________England Half English (51) [album of new songs] [Q - 3] Nine Inch Nails_________And All That Could Have Been (54) [live album] .....And You Will Know Us By The Trial Of Dead_________Source Tags And Codes (73) [3rd album] [Q - 3]
March 17 - 23 : 2002 : GORILLAZ__________G-SIDES (65) [b-sides album] [Q - 3] Six by Seven_________The Way I Feel Today (69) [3rd album] [Q - 3]
March 24 - 30 : 2002 : Gomez_________In Our Gun (8) [3rd album] [Q - 2] RIVAL SCHOOLS_________UNITED BY FATE (???) [debut album] [Q - 4] The Bees_________Sunshine Hit Me (???) [debut album] [Q - 4]
March 31 - April 6 : 2002 : The Streets_________Original Pirate Material (12) [debut album] [Q - 4] Iron Maiden_________Rock In Rio (15) [live album] [Q - 3] Embrace_________Fireworks (Singles 1997-2002) (36) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 2] Pete Yorn_________Musicforthemorningafter (???) [debut album] [Q - 4]
April 7 - 13 : 2002 : Pet Shop Boys_________Release (7) [8th studio album] Cornershop_________Handcream For A Generation (30) [5th album] [Q - 4]
April 14 - 20 : 2002 : SHERYL CROW_________C'MON C'MON (2) [4th album] [Q - 3] BADLY DRAWN BOY_________ABOUT A BOY OST (6) [Soundtrack] [Q - 4] The Bluetones_________The Singles 1995-2002 (14) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 4] Neil Young_________Are You Passionate? (24) [album of new songs] [Q - 2] Del Amitri_________Can You Do Me Good (30) [6th album]
April 21 - 27 : 2002 : Elvis Costello_________When I Was Cruel (17) [album of new songs] [Q - 3] Michelle Branch_________Spirit Room (54) [2nd album, major label debut, US-2001]
April 28 - May 4 : 2002 : Wilco_________Yankee Foxtrot Hotel (40) [4th album] [Q - 4] Goo Goo Dolls_________Gutterflower (56) [7th album] [Q - 3] Alec Empire_________Intelligence & Sacrifice (71) [solo album from Atari Teenage Riot member]
May 5 - 11 : 2002 : DOVES_________THE LAST BROADCAST (1) [2nd album] [Q - 3] Bryan Ferry_________Frantic (6) [album of new songs from Roxy Music singer] [Q - 3] Pitchshifter_________PSI (54) [6th album]
May 12 - 18 : 2002 : Tom Waits_________Alice (20) [Music to Robert Wilson's play 'Alice'] [Q - 4] Tom Waits_________Blood Money (21) [Music to Robert Wilson's play 'Woyzeck(org.Georg Büchner)'] [Q - 4] Coal Chamber_________Dark Days (43) [3rd album] The Bellrays_________Meet The Bellrays (74) [album of new songs]
May 19 - 25 : 2002 : Moby_________18 (1) [6th album] [Q - 4] WEEZER_________MALADROIT (16) [4th album] [Q - 4] The Proclaimers_________Best Of (30) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 4] Rush_________Vapor Trials (38) [17th album] [Q - 3]
May 26 - June 1 : 2002 : HUNDRED REASONS_________IDEA'S ABOVE OUR STATION (6) [debut album] [Q - 4] Gary Numan_________Exposure: Best of 1977-2002 (44) [2cd Greatest Hits] [Q - 3] The Charlatans_________Songs from the Other Side (55) [b-sides album] [Q - 3] The The_________45 RPM: The Singles (60) [Greatest Hits]
June 2 - 8 : 2002 : Box Car Racer_________Box Car Racer (27) [debut album, band incl.Tom DeLonge & Travis Barker] The Kinks_________Ultimate Collection (35) [2cd best of] GEMMA HAYES_________NIGHT ON MY SIDE (52) [debut album] [Q - 3]
June 9 - 15 : 2002 : DJ Shadow_________The Private Press (8) [2nd studio album] [Q - 4] Belle and Sebastian_________Storytelling (26) [Score to Todd Solondz film 'Storytelling'] [Q - 3] The Jam_________At The BBC (33) [2cd sessions album]
June 16 - 22 : 2002 : Korn_________Untouchables (4) [5th album] [Q - 4] David Bowie_________Heathen (5) [25th album] [Q - 4] Squeeze_________The Big Squeeze: Best of (8) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 4] Ms Dynamite_________A Little Deeper (14) [debut album] [Q - 4 // HP - 3.25] The Stranglers_________Peaches: Best Of (21) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 3] The Von Bodies_________Lack Of Communication (???) [debut album] [Q - 3]
June 23 - 29 : 2002 : PAPA ROACH_________LOVEHATETRAGEDY (4) [2nd album] [Q - 3 // HP - 2.5] New Found Glory_________Sticks And Stones (10) [3rd album] [Q - 2]
June 30 - July 6 : 2002 : Robert Plant_________Dreamland (20) [covers album] [HP - 4 // Q - 4]
July 7 - 13 : 2002 : OASIS_________HEATHEN CHEMISTRY (1) [5th album] [Q - 2] Morcheeba_________Charango (7) [4th album] MUSE_________HULLABALLO (10) [2cd: B-Sides & Live album] [Q - 3] GREEN DAY_________SHENINGANS (32) [b-sides album] [HP - 3.25 // Q - 3] TENACIOUS D_________TENACIOUS D (54) [debut album]
July 14 - 20 : 2002 : RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS_________BY THE WAY (1) [8th album] [Q - 5 // HP - 3] THE VINES_________HIGHLY EVOLVED (3) [debut album] [Q - 4] COUNTING CROWS_________HARD CANDY (9) [4th album] [Q - 3] Roots Manuva_________Dub Come Save Me (75) [dub re-working of 2001's "Run Come Save Me"] WILT___________MY MEDICINE (???) [2nd album] [HP - 3.75 // Q - 3]
July 21 - 27 : 2002 : IDLEWILD___________THE REMOTE PART (3) [3rd album] [Q - 4] The Flaming Lips_________Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (13) [10th album] [HP - 4 // Q - 4] Ben Kweller_________Sha Sha (???) [debut album] [Q - 4]
July 28 - August 3 : 2002 : AEROSMITH_____________O YEAH! AEROSMITH ULTIMATE HITS (6) [2cd Greatest Hits] [Q - 4] Fun Lovin' Criminals_________Bag Of Hits (11) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 4] The Charlatans_________Live It Like You Love It (40) [live album] [Q - 3] Silverchair_________Diorama (???) [4th album] [Q - 3]
August 4 - 10 : 2002 : BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN_________THE RISING (1) [12th studio album] [Q - 4] LINKIN PARK_________REANIMATION (3) [remix album] [Q - 2] THE CORAL_________THE CORAL (5) [debut album] [Q - 4] Beth Orton_________Daydreamer (8) [3rd album] [HP - 3.5 // Q - 2] Filter_________The Amalgamut (68) [3rd album] [Q - 3]
August 11 - 17 : 2002 : Primal Scream_________Evil Heat (9) [7th album] [Q - 3] Dirty Vegas_________Dirty Vegas (40) [debut album] [Q - 3] N.E.R.D____________In Search Of.......... (42) [debut album] Raging Speedhorn_________We Will Be Dead Tomorrow (63) [2nd album]
August 18 - 24 : 2002 : Royksoop_________Melody AM (9) [debut album] Def Leppard_________X (14) [8th studio album] McAlmont & Butler_________Bring it Back (18) [2nd album] James Taylor__________October Road (39) [album of new songs] [Q - 4]
August 25 - 31 : 2002 : TOPLOADER_________MAGIC HOTEL (3) [2nd album] [Q - 2] Leaves_________Breathe (71) [debut album] [Q - 4]
September 1 - 7 : 2002 : COLDPLAY_________A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD (1) [2nd album] [Q - 4] QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE_________SONGS FOR THE DEAD (4) [3rd album] [Q - 4] Bowling For Soup_________Drunk Enough To Dance (14) [4th album] [Q - 4] Spunge____________Story So Far (48) [3rd album]
September 8 - 14 : 2002 : The Music_________The Music (4) [debut album] [Q - 3] Catatonia_________Greatest Hits (24) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 3] Aimee Mann_________Lost in Space (72) [4th solo album] [Q - 4]
September 15 - 21 : 2002 : ASH_________INTERGALACTIC SONIC 7's (3) [2cd:Greatest Hits/b-sides] [Q - 5]
September 22 - 28 : 2002 : Paul Weller_________Illumination (1) [6th album] [Q - 4] John Squire_________Time Changes Everything (17) [debut solo album from The Stone Roses guitarist] [Q - 2] Marc Bolan & T-Rex_________Essential (18) [Greatest Hits] Death In Vegas_________Scorpio Rising (19) [3rd album,ft.L Gallaghter,H Sandoval,P Weller,D Allison] [Q - 3] The Cranberries_________Stars:The Best Of (20) [Greatest Hits] Polyphonic Spree_________The Beginning Stages Of..(???) [debut album] [Q - 4]
September 29 - October 5 : 2002 : Elvis_________30 Number 1 Hits (1) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 5] BON JOVI_________BOUNCE (2) [8th album] [Q - 3] Peter Gabriel_________Up (11) [7th studio album] [Q - 4] Status Quo_________Heavy Traffic (15) [album of new songs] [Q - 2] Beck_________Sea Change (20) [8th album] [Q - 4] RYAN ADAMS_________DEMOLITION (22) [album of demo material] [Q - 3] Disturbed_________Believe (41) [2nd album] [Q - 2]
October 6 - 12 : 2002 : Rolling Stones_____________Forty Licks (2) [2cd Greatest Hits] [Q - 4] SUPERGRASS____________LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS (9) [4th album] [Q - 2] Aqualung_____________Aqualung (15) [debut album] [Q - 2] Seude______________A New Morning (24) [5th album] [Q - 3] Kathryn Williams_________Old Low Light (56) [3rd album] [Q - 4] The Datsuns_________The Datsuns (???) [debut album] [Q - 4]
October 13 - 19 : 2002 : INTERPOL_________TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS (???) [debut album] [Q - 3]
October 20 - 26 : 2002 : Fleetwood Mac_________Very Best of (7) [Greatest Hits] INXS_____________Definitive (15) [Greatest Hits] JJ72_____________I TO SKY (20) [2nd album] [Q - 4] Jackson Browne_________The Naked Ride Home (53) [12th studio album]
October 27 - November 2 : 2002 : FOO FIGHTERS_________ONE BY ONE (1) [4th album] [Q - 3] Richard Ashcroft_________Human Conditions () [2nd solo album from Verve frontman] [Q - 2] FEEDER___________COMFORT IN SOUND (15) [4th album, 1st since death of drummer Jon Lee] [Q - 4] The Who_________The Ultimate Collection (17) [Greatest Hits] Lemon Jelly_________Lost Horizions (20) [2nd album] [Q - 4] The Libertines_________Up The Bracket (35) [debut album] [Q - 3] Blondie_________Greatest Hits (38) [Greatest Hits]
November 3 - 9 : 2002 : DAVID GRAY_________A NEW DAY AT MIDNIGHT (1) [5th album] [Q - 4] NIRVANA_________NIRVANA (3) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 5] MANIC STREET PREACHERS_________FOREVER DELAYED : GREATEST HITS (4) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 3] Tori Amos______________Scarlet's Walk (26) [7th studio album] [Q - 3] Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man_________Out of Season (28) [debut from Portishead frontwoman Gibbons and Talk Talk bassist Paul Webb] [Q - 4] Sigur Ros_________() (49) [3rd album] [Q - 4] Graham Coxon_________Kiss Of The Morning (???) [4th solo album from Blur guitarist] [Q - 2]
November 10 - 16 : 2002 : U2________________THE BEST OF 1990 - 2000 (2) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 4] BADLY DRAWN BOY_________HAVE YOU FED THE FISH? (10) [2nd album] [Q - 4] David Bowie_________Best Of Bowie (11) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 5] The Stone Roses_________The Best Of (19) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 5] Groove Armada_________Love Box (41) [4th album] [Q - 2] Iron Maiden_________Edward the Great (57) [Greatest Hits] Eric Clapton_________One More Car, One More Rider (69) [live album] [Q - 2]
November 17 - 23 : 2002 : Elton John_________Greatest Hits : 1970-2002 (3) [2cd Greatest Hits] [Q - 3] PEARL JAM_________RIOT ACT (34) [7th album] [Q - 3]
November 24 - 30 : 2002 : Jools Holland_________Small World Big Band 2 (17) [ft.Sam Brown,N Jones,B Ferry,T Jones,C Hynde,BDBoy,Ray Davies,J Beck,J Cliff...] Audioslave_________Audioslave (46) [debut album] [Q - 4] George Harrison_________Brainwashed (52) [final album, he died in 2001] [Q - 3] PULP______________HITS (71) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 4]
December 1 - 7 : 2002 : SUM 41_____________DOES THIS LOOK INFECTED? (39) [3rd album] [Q - 4] SYSTEM OF A DOWN_________STEAL THIS ALBUM (56) [album of demo's] Bob Dylan_________The Bootleg Series : Vol 5 : Live 1975 (69) [live album] [Q - 4]
December 8 - 14 : 2002 :
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December 22 - 28 : 2002 :
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=============================================================2003 (362 albums listed below)
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January 6 - 13 : 2003 : Good Charlotte_________The Young And The Hopeless (69) [2nd album, US-2002] [NME - 4 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 2]
January 14 - 20 : 2003 :
January 21 - 27 : 2003 : InMe_________Overgrown Eden (15) [debut album] [K - 4 // Q - 3 ] Teenage Fanclub_________Four Thousand Seven Hundred And Sixty-Six Seconds - A Shortcut To Teenage Fanclub (47) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 4] Reef_________Together : The Best Of (52) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 3]
January 28 - Febuary 3 : 2003 : Hell Is For Hereos_________The Neon Handshake (16) [debut album] [Q - 4 // K - 4 // NME - 3.5] Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds_________Nocturama (20) [12th album] [Q - 3] Tom McRae_________Just Like Blood (26) [2nd album] [Q - 4] ZWAN_________MARY, STAR OF SEA (33) [debut album] [Q - 4 // K - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3]
Febuary 4 - 10 : 2003 : Calexico_________Feast Of Fire (71) [4th album] [MOJO - 5 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3]
Febuary 11 - 17 : 2003 : Ed Harcourt_________From Every Sphere (39) [2nd album] [NME - 4 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] The Movielife_________Forty Hour Train Back TO Penn (???) [3rd album]
Febuary 18 - 24 : 2003 : LED ZEPPELIN_________EARLY DAYS & LATTER DAYS (14) [2cd best of] [UNCUT - 5] Matchbox Twenty_________More Than You Think You Are (31) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] American Hi-Fi_________The Art Of Losing (???) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // SPIN - 3.5]
Febuary 25 - March 3 : 2003 : THE REVS_________SUCK (4 IRE) [2nd album] Turin Brakes_________Ether Song (4) [2nd album] [NME - 4 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3] Moloko_________Statues (18) [4th album] [Q - 4] MULL HISTORICAL SOCIETY_________US (19) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Ozzy Osbourne_________Essential Ozzy Osbourne(???) [Greatest Hits] [K - 4 // UNCUT - 4]
March 4 - 10 : 2003 : The Clash_________The Essential Clash (18) [2cd best of] [NME - 5 // K - 5 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Cradle Of Filth_________Damnation And A Day (44) [9th album] [K - 3 // Q - 2] The Kills_________Keep On Your Mean Side (47) [debut album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] AFI_________Sing The Sorrow (52) [6th album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // K - 4] Everclear_________Slow Motion Daydream (???) [6th album] [Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3]
March 11 - 17 : 2003 : Paul McCartney_________Back In The World: Live (5) [live album] [Q - 2] Evan Dando_________Baby I'm Bored (30) [Lemonheads singer debut solo album] [NME - 4 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 2] Cave In_________Antenna (67) [4th album] [K - 5 // Q - 4 // NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3] Ringo Starr_________Ringorama (???) [12th solo album] [ROL STONE - 3]
March 18 - 24 : 2003 : LINKIN PARK_________METEORA (1) [2nd album] [NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // K - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Placebo_________Sleeping With Ghosts (11) [4th album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // K - 2] THE CARDIGANS_________LONG BEFORE THE DAYLIGHT (47) [5th album] [NME - 4 // Q - 3] Whitesnake_________Best Of (44) [Greatest Hits] OK Go_________OK Go (94) [debut album] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // K - 3 // ROL STONE - 2]
March 25 - 31 : 2003 : THE WHITE STRIPES_________ELEPHANT (1) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 5 // UNCUT - 5 // NME - 4.5 // Q - 4 // K - 4 // MOJO - 4] HOT HOT HEAT_________MAKE UP THE BREAKDOWN (35) [debut album] [NME - 4.5 // SPIN - 4 // K - 4 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] 3 Doors Down_________Away From The Sun (???) [2nd album] [Q - 3] Spiritualized_________The Complete Works Vol 1 (??) [Bsides & rareites] [UNCUT - 4]
April 1 - 7 : 2003 : Lighthouse Family_________The Very Best Of (9) [Greatest Hits] Athlete____________Vehicles and Animals (19) [debut album] [Q - 4] Yo La Tengo_________Summer Sun (???) [11th album] [NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3] The Donnas_________Spend The Night (??) [5th album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Burning Brides_________Fall Of The Plastic Empire (??) [debut album] [Q - 4] The Buzzcocks_________The Buzzcocks (???) [7th album] [Q - 3] Godsmack_________Faceless (???) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 2 // Q - 1] Sly And The Family Stone_________Essential(??) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 4]
April 8 - 14 : 2003 : Run DMC_________Greatest Hits (16) [Greatest Hits] [NME - 4 // Q - 3]
April 15 - 21 : 2003 : AntiProduct_________Made In The USA (???) [2nd album]
April 22 - 28 : 2003 : YEAH YEAH YEAHS_________FEVER TO TELL (13) [debut album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // K - 4 // NME - 4] Evanescene_________Fallen (18) [debut album] [ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // Q - 3] GOLDFRAPP_________BLACK CHERRY (19) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3] Cold___________Year Of The Spider (???) [3rd album] [ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 2] Ian McCulloch_________Slideling (???) [3rd solo album] [ROL STONE - 2]
April 29 - May 4 : 2003 : BLUR_________THINK TANK (1) [7th album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // NME - 4] Four Tet_________Rounds (???) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 5 // NME - 4.5 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Therapy?_________High Anxiety (???) [9th album] [K - 4 // Q -3] Anthrax_________We've Come For You All (???) [9th album] [K - 4] Various Artists_________Soundtrack: Matrix Reloaded (???) [ft.Linkin Park,M Manson,Deftones,POD,RATM,D Mattews Band...] [ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // Q - 2]
May 5 - 11 : 2003 : THE FRAMES_________SET LIST (1 IRE) [live album] Marilyn Manson_________The Golden Age Of Grotesque (4) [6th album] [Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Damien Dempsey_________Seize The Day (5 IRE) [2nd album] Lou Reed_________NYC Man: The Ultimate Collection (31) [Greatest Hits] Alkaline Trio_________Good Mourning (32) [4th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // K - 4 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] The Bluetones_________Luxembourg (49) [4th album] [Q - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 2] The Mooney Suzuki_________Electric Sweat (???) [2nd album] [ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // Q - 2] THIRD EYE BLIND_________OUT OF VIEN (???) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 2] Mary Gauthier_________Filth And Fire (????) [3rd album] Duran Duran_________The Singles '81 - '85 (???) [Greatest Hits]
May 12 - 18 : 2003 : Deftones_________Deftones (7) [4th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // NME - 4 // K - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4] Staind_____________14 Shades Of Grey (16) [4th album] [ROCK SOUND - 2.5 // Q - 2 // ROL STONE - 2] The Dandy Warhols_________Welcome To The Monkey House (20) [4th album] [Q - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 6 // ROL STONE - 3] Cerys Matthews_________Cookahoop (30) [debut solo album from Catatonia singer] [Q - 3] Less Than Jake_________Anthem (37) [6th album] [ROL STONE - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 3] Pretenders__________Loose Screw (55) [8th album] [Q - 3] Inspiral Carpets_______Cool As / Rare As (65) [Greatest Hits] Tricky__________Vunerable (88) [7th album] [ROCK SOUND - 3.5] The Androids_________The Androids (???) [debut album] [ROCK SOUND - 3 // Q - 2] Weird Al Yankovich_________Poodle Hat (???) [11th album] [ROL STONE - 2]
May 19 - 25 : 2003 : LED ZEPPELIN_________HOW THE WEST WAS WON (5) [live album] [Q - 5 // ROL STONE - 4] Turn_________Forward (???) [2nd album] Relish_________Karma Calling (???) [2nd album] Estel_________A Guide In Times Of Great Danger (???) [2nd album] Shed Seven_________Where Have You Been Tonight (???) [live album] [Q - 2 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5]
May 26 - June 2 : 2003 : STEREOPHONICS_________YOU GOTTA GO THERE TO COME BACK (1) [4th album] [Q - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 3] METALLICA_________ST ANGER (3) [8th album] [K - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 2.5] UB40_________Labour Of Love ; Vol 1, 2 & 3 (10) [Greatest Hits] EELS_________SHOOTENANNY (35) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4] Dave Gahan_________Paper Monsters (36) [debut solo album from Depeche Mode frontman] [Q - 4] Skin_______________Fleshwounds (43) [debut solo album from Skunk Ainese frontwoman] [ROCK SOUND - 2 // Q - 2] British Sea Power_________The Decline Of British Sea Power (54) [debut album] [Q - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4] Gillian Welch_________Soul Journey (65) [4th album] The Thorns_________The Thorns (68) [debut album] The Pale_________Lonely Space Age (???) [album of new songs] Roxy Music_________Live (???) [live album] [Q - 2]
June 3 - 9 : 2003 : RADIOHEAD_________HAIL TO THE THIEF (1) [6th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3] Annie Lennox_________Bare (3) [3rd album] [Q - 2] Grandaddy_________Sumday (22) [3rd album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Paul Young_________The Essential (27) [Greatest Hits] QUEEN_________LIVE AT WEMBLEY 86 (38) [2cd live album] Mogwai_________Happy Songs For Happy People (UK 47 IRE 25) [4th album] [Q - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] The Waterboys_________Universal Hall (74) [8th album(?)] Tindersticks_________Waiting For The Moon (76 UK 44 IRE) [6th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // Q - 4] BB King_________Reflections (???) [album of new songs??] Fu Manchu_________Go For It Live (???) [live- free live mp3 on thier official site]
June 10 - 16 : 2003 : BIFFY CLYRO_________THE VERTIGO OF BLISS (48) [2nd album] [Q - 2] Negative O_________Life Is Killing Me (78) [6th album] Liam Lynch_________Fake Songs (???) [debut album] [ROL STONE - 4// Q - 2] Prince_________N.E.W.S (???) [instrumental album, 4 tracks each 14 min long]
June 17 - 23 : 2003 : Mars Volta_________De-Loused In The Cormatorium (43) [debut album] [K - 5 // NME - 4.5 // HOT PRESS - 4.25 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Steve Winwood_________About Time (97) [8th solo album] [Q - 3] Decal_________Brightest Star (???) [] [HP - 4.5] Apollo 440_________Dude Descending A Staircase (???) [4th album] [HP - 2 // Q - 2] Nu_________AlphaBravoShockpopDisco (???) [] [Q - 2]
June 24 - 30 : 2003 : THE THRILLS_________SO MUCH FOR THE CITY (3 UK 1 IRE) [debut album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Morchebba_________Parts Of The Process (6) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 4] Electric Six_________Fire (7) [debut album] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3] The Who_________The Who Live At The Royal Albert Hall (72) [live album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3]
July 1 - 7 : 2003 : The Darkness_________Permission To Land (2) [debut album] [K - 5 // MH - 4.5 // HP - 3.5 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] KINGS OF LEON_________YOUTH & YOUNG MANHOOD (5) [debut album] [K - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4] Ocean Colour Scene_________North Atlantic Drift (14) [9th album] [HP - 3 // Q - 3 // NME - 2] Michelle Branch_________Hotel Paper (35) [3rd album] [Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 2] Cosmic Rough Riders_________Too Close To See Far (83) [5th album] [NME - 3.5 // Q - 2] One Minute Silence_________One Size Fits All (???) [3rd album] Napalm Death_________Noise For Music's Sake (???) [2cd:best of/rarities]
July 8 - 14 : 2003 : MANIC STREET PREACHERS_________LIPSTICK TRACES: A SECRET HISTORY OF (11) [2cd b-sides album] [Q - 3] Nitin Sawhney___________Human (54) [6th studio album] [Q - 4] The Sleepy Jackson_________Lovers (69) [debut album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4] Martina Topley-Bird_________Quixotic (70) [debut album] [NME - 2.5] Spineshank___________The Height Of Callousness (83) [3rd album] [Q - 2] Sugar Ray_________In The Pursuit of Leisure (???) [5th album] [Q - 4] Mondo Generator_________A Drug Problem That Never Existed (???) [2nd album] [NME - 3.5 // Q - 3] Star Spangles_________Bazooka!!! (???) [debut album] [HP - 3.5 // Q - 3] The Jimmy Cake_________Superlady (???) [4 song EP]
July 21 - 28 : 2003 : SUPER FURRY ANIMALS_________PHANTOM POWER (4) [6th album] [NME - 4.5 // HP - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Janes Addiction_________Strays (14) [4th album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4] BELL X1_________MUSIC IN MOUTH (15 IRE) [2nd album] [Q - 4] Longview_________Mercury (45) [debut album] [Q - 3] Various Artists_________A Different Shade Of Green (???) [tribute album to Green Day] Kiss____________Symphony ALive 4 (???) [live album]
July 22 - 28 : 2003 : THE CORAL_________MAGIC AND MEDICINE (1) [2nd album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // HP - 3] Yes___________The Ultimate Collection (10) [Best Of] Killing Joke_________Killing Joke (43) [11th album] [K - 5 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 2]
July 29 - August 4 : 2003 : Kraftwerk_________Tour De France Soundtracks (21) [10th album] [HP - 3.25 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Holly Golightly_________Truly She Is None Other (???) [album of 9 new songs + 4 covers] [HP - 4.25] Serafin_________No Push Collide (???) [debut album] [Q - 4] Ween_________Quebec (???) [9th album] [Q - 2] Smash Mouth_________Get The Picture (???) [4th album] Future Kings Of Spain_________Future Kings Of Spain (???) [debut album] Jeff Beck_________Jeff (???) [album of new songs] Ride_________Waves (???) [sessions album]
August 5 - 11 : 2003 : Dashboard Confessional_________A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar (93 UK 2 USA) [4th album] [Q - 4] Kosheen_________Kokopelli (7) [2nd album] [Q - 3] Shack_________Heres Tom With The Weather (55) [5th album] [Q - 4] The Hiss_________Panic Movement (???) [debut album] [NME - 4 // Q - 3] SNOW PATROL_________FINAL STRAW (??) [3rd album] [Q - 4] Ben Lee_________Hey You, Yes You (???) [5th album] Broadcast_________Ha Ha Sound (???) [3rd album] Number One Son_________Leesons (???) [2nd album]
August 12 - 18 : 2003 : Neil Young & Crazy Horse_________Greendale (24 UK 5 IRE 22 USA) [album of new songs] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 3.5] ELBOW__________CAST OF THOUSANDS (7 UK 52 IRE) [2nd album] [NME - 4.5 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] ALIEN ANT FARM_________truANT (68 UK 42 USA) [3rd album] [Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Adema_________Unstable (43 USA) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 2] Guided By Voices_________Earthquake Glue (???) [15th album(?)]
August 19 - 25 : 2003 : BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB_________TAKE THEM ON, ON YOUR OWN (3 UK 21 IRE 47 USA) [2nd album] [NME - 4.5 // HP - 4 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Rancid_________Indestructible (29 UK 15 USA) [6th album] [K - 5 // HP - 4 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Paul Weller_________Fly On The Wall : B-Sides & Rarities 1991-2002 (22) [rare tracks,remixes, B-sides,covers] [Q - 3] The Raveonettes_________Chain Gang Of Love (43) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 3.75] The Wildhearts_________The Wildhearts Must Be Destroyed (54) [album of new songs] [HP - 4.5] Peter Frampton_________Now (???) [12th album] [Q - 2] Sepultura_________Roorback (???) [10th album] Gorky's Zygotic Mynci_________Sleep/Holiday (???) [9th album] Styx_________Rockers (???) [Greatest Hits]
August 26 - September 1 : 2003 : Josh Ritter_________Hello Starling (2 IRE) [3rd album] [HP - 4.5] James Taylor_________You've Got A Friend (4) [Greatest hits] The Undertones_________Tennage Kicks: The Best Of (35) [Greatest Hits] Ocean Colour Scene_________Anthology (75) [B-sides and more] Jewel_________0304 (79) [5th album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // HP - 3] Million Dead_________A Song To Ruin (???) [debut album] [Q - 4] Pete Yorn_________The Day I Forgot (???) [2nd album] Various Artists_________Soundtrack: Underworld (???) [ft.Milla Jovovich, Puscifer, A P Circle, Dillenger Escape Plan, Finch, Icarus Line....] The Flaming Lips_________Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (???) [re-release] Beth Orton_________The Other Side Of Daybreak (???) [compilation of b-side,remix..] [ROL STONE - 3]
September 2 - 8 : 2003 : DAVID KITT_________SQUARE ONE (1 IRE) [3rd album] [HP - 4.5 // Q - 3] John Mayer_________Heavier Things (1 USA 72 IRE 74 UK) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3 // HP - 3] Iron Maiden___________Dance Of Death (2 UK 18 USA) [13th album] [Q - 3] Cooper Temple Clause_________Kick Up The Fire, And Let The Flames Break Loose (5) [2nd album] [NME - 4 // HP - 3.5] Fun Lovin' Criminals_________Welcome To Poppy's (20 UK 64 IRE) [4th album] [Q - 3 // HP - 5] Spiritualized_________Amazing Grace (25) [5th album] [ROL STONE - 2 // Q - 2] The Rapture_________Echoes (32) [debut album] [Q - 4 // HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Tim Burgess_________I Believe (38) [debut solo album from Charlatans singer] [HP - 3.5 // Q - 3] The Libertines_________Up The Bracket (51) [RE-RELEASE with bonus material] My Morning Jacket_________It Still Moves (62 UK 121 USA) [3rd album] [K - 5 // Q - 4 // HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3] Laibach_________WAT (???) [album of new songs] [Q - 4] The Wannadies_________Before And After (???) [8th album] [HP - 3.75 // Q - 3] Frank Black & The Catholics_________Show Me Your Tears (???) [album of new songs] [HP - 3.5 // Q - 2] Wheatus_________Hand Over Your Loved Ones (???) [2nd album] [Q - 3 // HP - 3] Andrew W.K._________The Wolf (???) [2nd album] [Q - 3] Heather Nova_________Storm (???) [5th album] [Q - 2] Pennywise_________From The Ashes (???) [8th album] Josh Rouse_________1972 (???) [5th album] SIMPLE KID_________SIMPLE KID #1 (???) [debut album]
September 9 - 15 : 2003 : STARSAILOR_________SILENCE IS EASY (2 UK 25 IRE) [2nd album] [Q - 3 // HP - 3 // ROL STONE - 2] A Perfect Circle_________Thirteenth Step (2 USA 37 UK 27 IRE) [2nd album] [HP - 3.75 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] David Bowie_________Reality (3 UK 6 IRE 29 USA) [26th album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Seal_________4 (4) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 3 // HP - 3 // Q - 2] Warren Zevon_________The Wind (57 UK 16 USA 48 IRE) [album of new songs, he died 7-Sep-2003] [ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 4 // Q - 4] Jet_________Get Born (17 UK 62 IRE) [debut album] [Q - 4 // HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3] Human League_________The Very Best Of The Human League (24) [Best Of] Saves The Day_________In Reviere (27 USA) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 3] Elvis Costello_________North (44) [album of new songs] [ROL STONE - 3] ZZ Top_________Mescalero (57 USA) [14th album] [Q - 2] Thursday_________War All The Time (62) [3rd album] I Am Kloot_________I Am Kloot (68) [2nd album] [Q - 4] The Proclaimers_________Born Innocent (70) [5th album] Peaches_________Fatherfucker (???) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Ann Scott_________Poor Horse (???) [debut album] [HP - 4] Billy Talent_________Billy Talent (???) [debut album] [Q - 3] Alfie_________Do You Imagine Things (???) [3rd album] [Q - 2] Violent Delight_________Transmission (???) [debut album] Fountains Of Wayne_________Welcome Interstate Managers (???) [3rd album]
September 16 - 22 : 2003 : MUSE_________ABSOLUTION (1 UK 3 IRE) [3rd album] [HP - 4.75 // NME - 4.5 // K - 4 // Q - 4] Sting_________Sacred Love (3 UK 8 IRE 3 USA) [8th album] [ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 3 // HP - 1.5] Erykah Badu_________Worldwide Underground (3 USA) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2 // ROL STONE - 2] LIMP BIZKIT_________RESULTS MAY VARY (7 UK 12 IRE 3 USA) [4th album] [Q - 4 // K - 3 // ROL STONE - 3 // HP - 2.25 / NME - 2] Nickelback_________The Long Road (5 UK 9 IRE 6 USA) [4th album] [Q - 3] Chemical Brothers_________Singles 1993-2003 (9 UK 11 IRE) [Greatest Hits] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3] Sinead O Connor_________She Who Dwells In The Secret Place Of The Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow Of The Almighty (17 IRE) [live,rare songs] [HP - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Emmylou Harris_________Stumble Into Grace (52 UK 32 IRE) [album of new songs] [HP - 4.5 // Q - 4] Cara Dillon_________Sweet Liberty (34 IRE) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 2] Beth Orton_________Pass In Time:The Definitive Collection (45) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 4] Placebo_________Sleeping With Ghosts (50) [re-release] Jeff Buckley_________Live at Sin-e (58 IRE) [live album] [Q - 5 // ROL STONE - 4] The Mavericks_________The Mavericks (65) [6th album] Dexy's Midnight Runners_________Lets Make This Precious (75) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 4] The Bandits_________And They Walked Away (???) [debut album] [Q - 4] Living Colour_________Collideoscope (???) [5th album] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3] Alice Cooper_________The Eyes Of Alice Cooper (???) [album of new songs] [Q - 3] Freeland_________Now & Them (???) [debut album] [Q - 3] Various Artists_________Lost Highways - Vol 1 (???) [ft.Ryan Adams, Lucinda Williams,Jayhawks,Bright Eyes, Johnny Cash....] Grateful Dead_________The Very Best Of Grateful Dead (???) [Greatest Hits] Big Star_________Big Star Story (???) [Best Of] [Q - 4]
September 23 - 29 : 2003 : Dido___________Life For Rent (1 UK 1 IRE 4 USA) [2nd album] [HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Dave Matthews_________Some Devil (2 USA) [debut solo album] [HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3] Rob Zombie_________Past, Present & Future (11 USA) [Greatest Hits] Fuel_________Natural Selection (15 USA) [3rd album] DOVES_________LOST SIDES (50) [b-sides album] Finley Quaye_________Much More Than Love (56) [3rd album] [Q - 3 // HP - 3] Pantera_________The Best Of Pantera : Far Beyond The Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits (38 USA 63 IRE) [Greatest Hits] Iggy Pop_________Skull Ring (???UK 4 Nov 2003 USA) [album of new songs,ft.G Day,Sum 41,The Trolls,Peaches...] [Q - 4 // HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3] Messiah J & The Expert_________Whats Confusing You (???) [debut album] [HP - 4] Oceansize_________Effloresce (???) [debut album] [Q - 4] Kinesis_________Handshakes For Bullets (???) [debut album] [Q - 3] Enigma_________Voyageur (???) [5th album] FEEDER_________COMFORT IN SOUND (???) [re-release of 2002 album with extra's]
September 30 - October 6 : 2003 : Elvis__________Second To None (4 UK 13 IRE 3 USA) [another Greatest Hits] [Q - 4] Belle And Sebastian__________Dear Catastrophe Waitress (21 UK 25 IRE) [5th album] [HP - 4.5 // NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Clannad__________In A Lifetime : The Best Of (23 UK 30 IRE) [Greatest Hits] Ill Nino__________Confession (37 USA) [3rd album] Billy Bragg__________Must I Paint You a Picture - The Essential Billy Bragg (49) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 4] Eagle Eye Cherry__________Sub Rosa (???) [3rd album] [Q - 4] The Undertones__________Get What You Need (???) [1st album with new singer Paul McLoone] [Q - 4] Desert Sessions__________Volume 9 & 10 (???) [ft.Josh Homme, PJ Harvey and more] [NME - 4 // K - 3 // Q - 2] The Fire Theft__________The Fire Theft (???) [debut album] Vertical Horizon__________Go (???) [5th album] Various Artists__________World Of Possibility: Domino Records 10th anniversary (???) [2cd comp ft.Sebadoh,The Pastels,Plush,(Smog), Franz f,The Kills,Four Tet....] Arthur Lee & Love__________The Forever Changes Concert (???) [1967 album played live track by track] Motorhead__________Stone Deaf Forever (???) [99 track Best Of!] [Q - 4]
October 7 - October 13 : 2003 : SHERYL CROW____________THE VERY BEST OF (2 UK 4 IRE 4 USA) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 3] TRAVIS____________12 MEMORIES (3 UK 17 IRE 41 USA) [4th album] [HP - 3.5 // NME - 3 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Funeral For A Friend____________Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation (13) [debut album] [NME - 4 // Q - 3] Simon & Garfunkel____________The Essential Simon & Garfunkel (27 USA) [Best Of] Blondie____________The Curse Of Blondie (36) [8th studio album] [Q - 4 // HP - 3] ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE____________THE AMERICAN ADVENTURE (45) [2nd album] [HP - 4 // Q - 4] The Distillers____________Coral Fang (46 UK 97 USA) [3rd album] [NME - 4 // K - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3] The Handsome Family____________Singing Bones (???) [6th album(?)] Various Artists____________Soundtrack: School Of Rock (???) [ft.Jack Black,The who,Cream,Led Zep,T.Rex....] Various Artists____________Love Music Hate Racism (???) [ft.The Bees,Turin Brakes,Billy Bragg,B Jaxx,Doves,Faithless...] Jimi Hendrix____________Live at Berkeley : 2nd show (???) [live album] [Q - 4]
October 14 - 20 : 2003 : THE STROKES____________ROOM ON FIRE (2 UK 2 IRE 4 USA) [2nd album] [Q - 5 // NME - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 3.75] Paddy Casey____________Living (2 IRE) [2nd album] [HP - 4.25] Texas____________Careful What You Wish For (5 UK 35 IRE) [7th album] [HP - 3] Erasure____________Hits: The Very Best Of (15) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 4] Basement Jaxx____________Kish Kash (17 UK 36 IRE) [3rd album] [HP - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // NME - 3] Van Morrison____________Whats Wrong With This Picture (43 UK 19 IRE) [30th album(?)] [HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] The Eagles____________Complete Greatest Hits (27 UK 21 IRE) [Greatest Hits] Seude____________Singles (31 UK 47 IRE) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 4 // NME - 3.5] Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros____________Streetcore (50) [His final album,he died 22-Dec-2002] [HP - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Brian Setzer____________Nitro Burnin' Funny Daddy (???) [album of new songs] [Q - 3] Something Corporate____________North (???) [2nd album] [Q - 2] BARENAKED LADIES____________EVERYTHING TO EVERYONE (???) [6th album] [ROL STONE - 2] Machine Head____________Through The Age Of The Empires (???) [5th album] Beth Hart____________Leave The Light On (???) [3rd album] Chicks On Speed____________99 Cents (???) [3rd album] Static-X____________Shadow Zane (???) [3rd album] The Shins____________Chutes Too Narrow (???) [2nd album] Boomtown Rats____________The Best Of The Boomtown Rats (???) [Greatest Hits] [HP - 4.25 // Q - 3]
October 21 - 27 : 2003 : R.E.M___________IN TIME : THE BEST OF R.E.M: 1988-2003 (1 UK 1 IRE 8 USA) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3] Beautiful South__________Gaze (14) [8th studio album] [Q - 3] Jetplane Landing___________Once Like A Spark (???) [2nd album] [HP - 4.25] Aqualung____________Still Life (???) [2nd album] [HP - 3.75 // Q - 3] Relaxed Muscle___________A Heavy Nite With Relaxed Muscle (???) [debut album] [Q - 2] The Bellrays_________The Red, White and Black (???) [album of new songs] Various Artists________Ever Get the Feeling You've Been Cheated? The '70s Punk Rebellion (???) [4cd box set ft.all classic 70's bands] Johnny Greenwood_________Bodysong (???) [Soundtrack for Film]
October 28 - November 3 : 2003 : BON JOVI_________THIS LEFT FEELS RIGHT (4 UK 8 IRE 14 USA) [different versions of thier Greatest Hits] [HP - 2.5 // Q - 2] P.O.D__________Payable on Death (9 USA) [5th album] [ROL STONE - 2 // Q - 2] Primal Scream__________Dirty Hits (25 UK 41 IRE) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 4] Robert Plant__________Sixty Six to Timbuktu (27) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Peter Gabriel__________Hits (29 UK 100 USA) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 4] RYAN ADAMS__________ROCK 'N' ROLL (11 IRE 33 USA 41 UK) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // HP - 3] Underworld__________Anthology 1992-2002 (33 IRE 43 UK) [Greatest Hits] [NME - 4 // Q - 3] UB40__________Homegrown (49) [album of new songs] RYAN ADAMS__________LOVE IS HELL PART 1 (21 IRE 69 UK 78 USA) [part I of 5th album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 2] Various Artists__________Soundtrack: The Matrix Revolutions (69 USA) [ft. Don Davis(14/16 tracks),Pale 3,Juno Reactor] Wheat__________Per Second......Every Second (???) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 3] Laptop__________Dont Try This At Home (???) [3rd album] Rush__________Rush In Rio (???) [live album] ELBOW__________CAST OF THOUSANDS (???) [re-release]
November 4 - 10 : 2003 : BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN__________ESSENTIAL (5 IRE 14 USA 28 UK) [2cd Greatest Hits] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] PEARL JAM____________LOST DOGS (15 USA 63 IRE) [2cd rarities/b-sides] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Stone Temple Pilots__________Thank You: The Best Of (26 USA) [Best Of] John Lee Hooker__________Face To Face (???) [album of new songs] [UNCUT - 3] Grandaddy__________Sumday (???) [Re-Release with bonus tracks] Adam And The Ants__________Antbox (???) [66 tracks incl singles/b-sides/demos, 3cd, re-release, org released 2000]
November 11 - 17 : 2003 : RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS_______GREATEST HITS (2 IRE 4 UK 21 USA) [Greatest Hits+2 new songs] [HP - 4 // Q - 4] THE BEATLES_______LET IT BE... NAKED (7 UK 5 USA) [Re-working of 'Let It Be'] [HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] BLINK 182_______BLINK 182 (23 UK 3 USA) [6th album] [ROL STONE - 4 // NME - 2.5 // Q - 2] Dave Matthews Band________The Central Park Concert (14 USA) [live album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Jools Holland & his Orchestra______Small World Big Friends 3 (39) [ft.S Earle,P Gabriel,R Wood,Suggs,R Starr,P Rodgers,S McGowan,D Gray,B Guy and more] Status Quo________Riffs (44) [their versions of famous songs] [NME - 4.5] Tori Amos_________Tales Of A Librarian (74 UK 40 USA) [Greatest Hits] [UNCUT - 5 // Q - 3] Various Artists________Concert For George (97 USA) [concert for George Harrison feat McCartney, Starr, Clapton ect] [HP - 3.5] Talking Heads______Once in a Lifetime (???) [3cd/1dvd box set ft.Hits/Unrealesed ect] [UNCUT - 4] The Blind Boys of Alabama_____Go To Tell It On The Mountains (???) [christmas themed album ft.C Hynde,M Franti,T Waits,S Lynne,S Burke and more] The Flaming Lips________Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell EP (???) [7 song EP] Aimee Mann_________Lost In Space (???) [re-release of 2002 album with bonus tracks] Guided By Voices_______Hardcore UFOs: Revelations, Epiphanies and Fast Food in the Western Hemisphere (???) [5cd box set ft.best of/rarietes/bsides/unreleased/live] [Q - 3]
November 18 - 24 : 2003 : Puddle Of Mudd_________Life On Display (20 USA) [2nd album] [Q - 2 // ROL STONE - 1] Pet Shop Boys________PopArt - The Hits (30) [Greatest Hits] [NME - 5 // Q - 5 // UNCUT - 3] Simon And Garfunkel________Essential (33 UK 28 IRE) [Greatest Hits] Nelly Furtado________Folklore (38 USA 62 UK) [2nd album] [HP - 4.5 // Q - 3 // NME - 2 // ROL STONE - 2] LINKIN PARK__________LIVE IN TEXAS (47 UK 23 USA 67 IRE) [Live/DVD album] [Q - 2] Korn____________Take A Look In The Mirror (53 UK 25 IRE 19 USA) [6th album] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 2 // NME - 1.5] Rage Against The Machine_______Live At Olympic Auditorium (???) [Live album] [HP - 3.5] Mark Lanegan_________Here Comes The Weird Chill EP (???) [9 track EP] [K - 5 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Wyclef Jean____________Greatest Hits (???) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 2] T.L.C___________Now and Forever - The Hits (???) [Greatest Hits] Scott Walker_________5 Easy Pieces (???) [Box Set of Songs] [NME - 4] Rory Gallagher__________Meeting With the G-Man (???) [live album]
November 25 - December 1 : 2003 : Alicia Keys_________The Diary Of Alicia Keys (1 USA 13 UK 37 IRE) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // HP - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] No Doubt__________The Singles 1992-2003 (2 USA 29 IRE 46 UK) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 3] Josh Groban_______Closer (4 USA) [2nd album] THE OFFSPRING________SPLINTER (30 USA 74 UK) [7th album] [K - 3 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Daft Punk_________Daft Club (???) [re-mixes of their songs] Joe Cocker________Ultimate Collection 1968-2003 (???) [Best Of] [Q - 3] The Hollies_______The Long Road Home (???) [6cd box set]
December 1 - 8 : 2003 : COUNTING CROWS________FILMS ABOUT GHOSTS : BEST OF (32 USA) [Best Of] RYAN ADAMS_________LOVE IS HELL PART 2 (???) [part II of 5th album] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4] Damon Albarn_______Democrazy (???) [debut solo album, of demo's] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3]
December 9 - 15 : 2003 : Santana____________Ceremony: Remixes and Rarities (???) [outtakes/remixes] Various Artists________Soundtrack: Cold Mountain (???) [ft.Jack White,A Krauss,T Eriksen,Sting,Gabriel Yared...] [HP - 2.5] Various Artists________Soundtrack: Lord Of The Rings : Complete Triology (???) [3 soundtracks to film released in box set]
December 16 - 22 : 2003 :
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January 6-12 : 2004 : Phantom Planet__________Phantom Planet (???) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Pete Yorn_______________Live From New Jersey (only avail from peteyorn.com) [live album]
January 13-19 : 2004 : Gary Jules_______________Trading Snakeoil For Wolftickets (12) [2nd album] Crystal Method_______________Legion of Boom (36 USA) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // HP - 3] Various Artists___________Best of Acoustic (???) [acoustic songs]
January 20-26 : 2004 : Ani DiFranco________________Educated Guess (37 USA) [18th album] [Q - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 3 // ROL STONE - 2] The Special Goodness_________Land Air Sea (???) [3rd album,band ft.Patrick Wilson(Weezer) + Atom Willard(Rocket From Crypt/A&A's] [MH - 3.5 // Q - 2] Gang of Four__________Brief History Of The 20th Century (???) [re-release of 1990 compliation + extra tracks]
January 27- Febuary 1 : 2004 : Air_____________Walkie Talkie (2 UK 61 USA) [3rd album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4] THE CORAL_________Nightfreaks and The Sons Of Becker (5) [between 2nd and 3rd album!only 75000 avail] [NME - 3.5 // HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] The Cure_____________The Dots : B-Sides and Rarities (???) [b-sides&rarities] [NME - 3 // Q - 2] Spiritualized_________The Complete Work's Vol 2 (???) [rarities] [Q - 3]
Febuary 2 - 8 : 2004 : INCUBUS____________A CROW LEFT OF THE MURDER (2 USA 6 UK) [5th album] [MH - 4 // HP - 3.25 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] SNOW PATROL____________FINAL STRAW (3) [re-release of 2003 album with bonus tracks] LOSTPROPHETS_________START SOMETHING (4 UK 33 USA) [2nd album] [MH - 4.5 // ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // Q - 4 // NME - 4 // HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3] Five For Fighting_________The Battle For Everything (20 USA) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 2] Stereolab_________Margerine Eclipse (???) [8th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // Q - 3] Voodoo Child_________Baby Monkey (???) [2nd album] Chimaira_________Impossibility Of Reason (???) [2nd album] The Meat Puppets_________Classic Puppets (???) [Best Of] Various Artists_________Counter Culture 2003 (???) []
Febuary 9-15 : 2004 : Norah Jones____________Feels Like Home (1 UK 1 IRE 1 USA) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // NME - 3 // HP - 3] FRANZ FERDINAND__________FRANZ FERDINAND (3 UK 2 IRE) [debut album] [UNCUT - 5 // NME - 4.5 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // HP - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5] Hothouse Flowers__________Into Your Heart (3 IRE) [5th album] [HP - 3.5 // Q - 3] Melissa Etheridge__________Lucky (15 USA) [8th album] [ROL STONE - 3] The Von Bodies___________Pawn Shoppe Heart (36 UK 60 IRE) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Lambchop_____________Aw C'Mon / No You C'mon (45 UK 15 IRE) [7th / 8th album] [Q - 4 // HP - 4] Courtney Love__________America's Sweetheart (56 UK 53 USA) [debut solo album] [NME - 3 // Q - 3 // HP - 2.5 // ROL STONE - 2] Stand__________In A Happy Place (???) [3rd album] The Ataris____________Live At The Metro (only avail at band official site) [live album] Damageplan_____________New Found Power (???) [debut album]
Febuary 16-22 : 2004 : Duran Duran__________Greatest (4) [Greatest Hits] Juliet Turner_________Season of the Hurricane (8 IRE) [3rd album] Probot___________Probot (34 UK 47 IRE 68 USA) [Dave Ghrol metal album] [MH - 4 // Q - 3] The Stranglers_________Norfolk on Coast (70) [15th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // Q - 3] The Veils____________The Runaway Found (???) [debut album] [HP - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // NME - 3] Span_____________Mass Distraction (???) [debut album] [K - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3 // HP - 2.5] Monster Magnet_________Monolithic Baby (???) [6th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // NME - 3 // Q - 2] John Squire__________Marshall's House (???) [2nd solo from Stone Roses/Seahorses guitarist] [Q - 4]
Febuary 23-29 : 2004 : The Stands___________All Years Leaving (28) [debut album] [Q - 3 // NME - 2 // HP - 2] Blindside___________About A Burning Fire (39 USA) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 3] The Stills___________Logic Will Break Your Heart (66) [debut album] [Q - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // NME - 3.5] Johnny Cash________Unearthed (75 IRE) [5cd box set of unrealesed material] Grant-Lee Phillips__________Virginia Creeper (???) [3rd solo album] [HP - 3.25 // Q - 3] Liars___________They Were Wrong So We Drowned (???) [2nd album] [NME - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 2.5] V.A.S.T_____________Nude (???) [3rd album] [K - 3] Janis Ian__________Billies Bones (???) [18th album] January___________Motion Sickness (???) [2nd album] Living Things___________Black Skies in Broad Daylight (???) [debut album] DAMIEN RICE_________O (???) [2002 album re-released with DVD]
March 1-7 : 2004 : Zero 7_______________When It Falls (3) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // HP - 3.75 // ROL STONE - 3] HUNDRED REASONS_______SHATTERPROOF IS NOT A CHALLENGE (20) [2nd album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // Q - 4 // NME - 3.5 // K - 3] AUF DER MAUR________AUF DER MAUR (31) [debut album] [NME - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 2] John Frusciante_________Shadows Collide With People (53) [4th solo album] [HP - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Hootie and the Blowfish______The Best of Hootie & the Blowfish: 1993–2003 (62 USA) [1cd best of] The Living End____________Modern Artillery (???) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Various Artists____________Decade: Ten Years of Fierce Panda (???) [compilation ft.Ash,Supergrass,Placebo,Idlewild] [Q - 4 // NME - 3.5] Grant Lee Buffalo_________Storm Hymnal: Gems From the Vault of Grant Lee Buffalo (???) [best of/rarites ect] George Harrison__________Dark Horse Years 1976/1992 (???) [box set ft albums released from 76-92]
March 8-14 : 2004 : Brides Of Destruction__________Here Comes The Brides (92 USA) [debut album, band incl.Tracii Guns,Nikki Sixx] [Q - 2] Vaux_____________There Must Be Some Way To Stop Them (???) [debut album] [K - 3] Space___________Suburban Rock N Roll (???) [3rd album]
March 15-21 : 2004 : George Michael______________Patience (1 UK 29 USA) [4th album] Guns'n'Roses________________Greatest Hits (2 UK 3 USA) [Best Of] [NME - 4.5 // Q - 3] Godsmack_______________The Other Side (5 USA) [re-working of songs and new songs] [ROL STONE - 2] HIM_______________And Love Said No : 1994-2004 (30) [Best Of] David Byrne______________Grown Backwards (178 USA) [album of new songs] [Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Eleanor McEvoy___________Early Hours (???) [5th album] The Shins_________Chutes Too Narrow (???) [2nd album] Crackout__________Oh No (???) [2nd album] Joe Jackson Band___________Afterlife (???) [live album] [Q - 3] The Saw Doctors___________Live in Galway (???) [live album]
March 22-28 : 2004 : Christy Moore________Christy Moore 1964-2004 (3 IRE) [6cd, 101 songs] [HP - 5 // Q - 3] N.E.R.D__________Fly Or Die (4 UK 6 USA 13 IRE) [2nd album] [NME - 4 // K - 3 // Q - 2] Eric Clapton_________Me and Mr Johnson (10 UK 33 IRE) [covers of songs by Robert Johnson] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 2] THE VINES__________WINNING DAYS (29 UK 23 USA) [2nd album] [HP - 4.25 // ROL STONE - 3 // NME - 2,5 // Q - 2 // K - 2] Cypress Hill_________Till Death Do Us Part (53 UK 21 USA) [7th album] [HP - 4 // K - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Rubyhorse__________Goodbye To All That (45 IRE) [4th album] Blanche___________If We Can't Trust the Doctors (???) [debut album] [HP - 3.75] Sugarcult________Palm Trees and Power Lines (46 USA) [2nd album] [K - 4 // ROL STONE - 2] The Descendents__________Cool To Be You (???) [6th album] [ROL STONE - 3] Various Artists__________Mayor of the Sunset Strip (???) [soundtrack to documentary] Johnny Cash__________Life (???) [Best Of] [ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Lou Reed__________Animal Serenade (???) [live album] [ROL STONE - 3] Ringo Starr's All Starr Band________Tour 2003 (???) [live album] Paul Simon__________The Paul Simon Songbook (??? US) [remastered version of 1965 debut album] [UNCUT - 3]
March 29 - April 4 : 2004 : THE DIVINE COMEDY_________ABSENT FRIENDS (23) [8th album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] AEROSMITH______________HONKIN' ON BOBO (28) [14th album] [Q - 3] The Housemartins__________Best Of (29) [Best Of] [Q - 4] Bob Dylan______________Bootleg Series Volume 6 (33) [live album] [NME - 5 // Q - 4 // HP - 4] King Adora___________Who Do You Love? (???) [2nd album] [Q - 3] Clutch_____________Blast Tyrant (???) [6th album] Sarah Harmer_________All Of Our Times (???) [3rd album] Haven_____________All For A Reason (??) [2nd album] Various Artists______We Love You... So Love Us, Vol.3 (???) [ft.LCD Soundsystem,Franz Ferdinand,Electric Six,Scissor sisters...] [Q - 3] The Wildhearts_________Coupled With... (???) [B-sides album] [Q - 4] Depeche Mode______Singles Box 4 / Singles Box 5 / Singles Box 6 (???) [singles + b-sides box set] Dubstars_____________Stars: The Best Of (???) [Best Of] [Q - 3]
April 5-11 : 2004 : The Delays_________Faded Seaside Glamour (17) [debut album] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 7 // NME - 7 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Amen__________Death Before Musick (???) [4th album] [K - 3 // Q - 3] Tortoise_________Its All Around You (???) [5th album] [UNCUT - 2 // Q - 2] Kate Jacobs________You Call That Dark (???) [4th album] Various Artists_________46664 Concert (???) [Aids concert held in Africa ft.R Plant,Queen,P Gabriel,Baaba Maal,J Cliff.....]
April 12-18 : 2004 : Diana Krall_________The Girl In The Other Room (4 UK 4 USA) [7th album] Young Heart Attack___________Mouthful Of Love (71) [debut album] [UNCUT - 3 // K - 3 // Q - 3] My Chemical Romance_________I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love (???UK) [debut album, US in 2002] [Q - 3] Bob Schneider___________I'm Good Now (???) [3rd album] Tindersticks___________Working For The Man (???) [Best Of] Bob Weir_________Weir Here : The Best Of (???) [Best Of] [NME - 4.5]
April 19-25 : 2004 : Prince___________Musicology (3 UK 3 USA) [album of new songs] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // NME - 3 // MOJO - 3] THE ZUTONS__________WHO KILLED THE ZUTONS? (13) [debut album] [NME - 3.5 // Q - 3] Drowning Pool__________Desensitized (66 UK 17 USA) [2nd album] [Q - 3] Various Artists___________Soundtrack - Kill Bill Vol 2 (58 USA) [ft. Johnny Cash,Chingon,Ennio Morricone,Charlie Feathers....] Ben Kweller_____________On My Way (???) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Tweaker_________2 a.m Wake Up Call (???) [2nd album, aka Chris Vrenna] The Alarm_____________In The Poppyfields (???) [album of new songs] SUPER FURRY ANIMALS_______PHANTOM PHORCE (???) [remix of last album]
April 26 - May 2 : 2004 : The Shadows__________________Life Story :Best Of (8) [Best Of] The Beta Band___________Heros To Zeros (18 UK 17 IRE) [3rd album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 2] The Walkmen_________Bows And Arrows (62) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // NME - 4 // HP - 3.25 // ROL STONE - 2] Patti Smith__________Trampin' (70) [7th album] [UNCUT - 5 // HP - 4.5 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] The Icarus Line__________Penance Soiree (??) [2nd album] [HP - 4.5 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Chumbawamba____________Un (??) [album of new songs] [HP - 4.5 // Q - 2]
May 3 - 9 : 2004 : The Who_______________Then and Now : 1964-2004 (4) [Best Of feat. 2 new songs] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4] PIXIES_______________WAVE OF MUTULATION : BEST OF (16) [Best Of] [Q - 5 // NME - 4] Breed 77______________Cultuta (61) [debut album] RYAN ADAMS_____________LOVE IS HELL (68) [2 EP's are now 1 full album] [CR - 4] Magnetic Fields____________i (???) [7th album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Living Things____________Black Skies in Broad Daylight (???) [debut album] [Q - 3] Marillion_______________Marbles (???) [13th album] Seafood_____________As The Cry Flows (???) [3rd album] Juno Falls___________Starlight Drive (???) [debut album] The Rolling Stones___________The Rolling Stones Singles 63-65 (???) [collection of singles] Jerry Garcia_______________All Good Things - The Studio Sessions (???) [Box Set of 5 albums + unreleased songs] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] WEEZER______________THE BLUE ALBUM : DELUXE EDITION (???) [re-released with bonus's] [CR - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4]
May 10 - 16 : 2004 : KEANE_____________HOPES AND FEARS (1) [debut album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3] The Streets_____________A Grand Dont Come For Free (2 UK 82 USA) [2nd album] [Q - 5 // HP - 4.75 // NME - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 3] RADIOHEAD_____________COM LAG 2+2=5 (37) [Japanese EP - limited edition] [Q - 3] Killswitch Engage_________The End of Heartache (40) [3rd album] [Q - 4] Amplifier_______________Amplifier (???) [debut album] [MH - 4.5 // Q - 4] Eagles Of Death Metal___________Love, Peace & Death Metal (???) [debut album] [HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3]
May 17 - 23 : 2004 : MUNDY_____________RAINING DOWN ARROWS (1 IRE) [3rd album] [HP - 4] Morrissey____________You Are The Quarry (2 UK 3 IRE 11 USA) [7th album] [NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 2] ASH_________________MELTDOWN (5 UK 6 IRE) [4th album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4] Alanis Morrissette_________So-Called Chaos (8 UK 15 IRE 5 USA) [4th album] [Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 2 // MOJO - 1] The Charlatans___________Up At The Lake (13 UK 32 IRE) [8th album] [Q - 4 // CR - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Graham Coxon__________Happiness In Magazines (18 UK 63 IRE) [5th solo album] [HP - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] New Found Glory_________Catalyst (27 UK 3 USA) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 3] Gomez_____________Split The Difference (35 UK 64 IRE) [4th album] [CR - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] Lenny Kravitz__________Baptism (74 UK 14 USA) [7th album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // CR - 2 // MOJO - 1] Gene Simmons__________Asshole (86 USA) [2nd solo from Kiss member] [CR - 3 // ROL STONE - 2 // Q - 2] Ron Sexsmith__________Retriever (???) [album of new songs] [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Glen Tilbrook___________Transatlantic Ping Pong (???) [2nd solo album] Matt Sharp___________Matt Sharp (???) [debut album from The Rentals frontman/ex-Weezer bassist] Kathryn Williams_________Relations (???) [covers of songs] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 3] Faultline__________Your Love Means Everything (???) [re-release of 2002 album with bonus songs] [Q - 4] Judas Priest____________Metalogy [box set=4cd+dvd] (???) [box set=4cd+dvd]
May 24 - 30 : 2004 : Avril Lavigne_______________Under My Skin (1 UK 1 USA) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Slipknot______________Vol 3 : The Subliminal Verses (5 UK 2 USA) [3rd album] [NME - 4 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Nick Drake__________Made To Love Magic (27) [album of rarities] [CR - 5 // ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // NME - 3] Adam & The Ants__________The Very Best Of (33) [best of] Tori Amos____________Welcome To Sunny Florida (???) [live album]
May 31 - June 6 : 2004 : The Corrs_______________Borrowed Heaven (2 UK 51 USA) [4th album] [Q - 2] The Calling_____________Two (9 UK 54 USA) [2nd album] PJ HARVEY_____________UH HUH HER (12 UK 29 USA) [6th solo album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 2.5] Mission Of Burma__________OnOffOn (???) [2nd album, 22 yrs after debut] [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3]
June 7 - 13 : 2004 : Faithless____________No Roots (1 UK 18 IRE) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2 // MOJO - 2] SUPERGRASS___________SUPERGRASS IS 10 : BEST OF 1994-2004 (4 UK 7 IRE) [Greatest Hits+2 new songs] [Q - 4 // CR - 4 // UNCUT - 3] THE KILLERS___________HOT FUSS (6 UK 52 IRE 59 USA) [debut album] [NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Velvet Revolver________Contraband (11 UK 1 USA 8 IRE) [debut album] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // MH - 4 // HP - 3.5] THIN LIZZY___________GREATEST HITS (13 UK 5 IRE) [2cd Greatest Hits] Hope of The States_________The Lost Riots (21) [debut album] [Q - 3] Bad Religion______________The Empire Strikes First (40 USA) [13th album] [MOJO - 4 // MH - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] The Datsuns____________Outta Sight / Outta Mind (58) [2nd album] [CR - 4 // MH - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 2] MIKE AND THE MECHANICS + PAUL CARRACK___________RE-WIRED (61) [6th album, ft Carrack on vocals] Sonic Youth________________Sonic Nurse (64 USA) [13th album] [HP - 4.25 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE___________THREE CHEERS FOR SWEET REVENGE (???) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Ikara Colt______________Modern Apprentice (???) [2nd album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // HP - 3] X-Ecutioners_____________Revolutions (???) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 2] Gary Moore_______________Power Of The Blues (???) [album of new songs] Various Artists_______________Shrek 2 Soundtrack (???) [ft.Counting Crows, Lipps Inc, Eels, Pete Yorn, Nick Cave + Bad Seeds....] Lamb_________________Best Kept Secrets 1996-2004 (???) [Best Of] [Q - 2]
June 14 - 20 : 2004 : Beastie Boys______________To The 5 Boroughs (1 USA 2 UK 8 IRE) [6th album] [ROL STONE - 5 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 4 // HP - 3.75 // Q - 3] Phish________________Undermind (13 USA) [13th album] Jesse Malin____________The Heat (???) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 5 // CR - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 4 // Q - 2] My Red Cell______________13 In My 31 (???) [debut album] [Q - 2] Chris Stamey____________Travels In The South (???) [album of new songs] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
June 21 - 27 : 2004 : BADLY DRAWN BOY_______________ONE PLUS ONE IS ONE (9) [3rd album] [HP - 4.25 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 2] Picturehouse____________Get Yer Hits Out! (20 IRE) [Greatest Hits] Republic Of Loose_______________This Is the Tomb Of The Juice (35 IRE) [] [Q - 3] Kings Of Convenience____________Riot On A Empty Street (49) [] [HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Wilco__________________A Ghost Is A Born (50 UK 37 IRE) [] [UNCUT - 5 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // CR - 3] Brian Wilson________________Gettin' In Over My Head (53) [] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // HP - 3 // CR - 2] The Concretes______________The Concretes (???) [debut album] [NME - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 3] Patti Scialfa____________23rd Street Lullaby (???) [2nd solo album] [ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 3.5] Chikinki________________Lick Your Ticket (???) [] [Q - 3 // HP - 3] John Frusciante______________The Will Of Death (???) [] [Q - 3] Motorhead______________Inferno (???) [] [ROL STONE - 3] Lit______________________Lit (???) []
June 28 - July 4 : 2004 : Razorlight___________Up All Night (3) [debut album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 3] The Cure____________The Cure (8) [12th album] [HP - 4.5 // NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3 // CR - 3] The Bees____________Free The Bees (26) [] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Marah____________20000 Streets Under The Sky (???) [] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 2] The Vandals___________Hollywood Potato Chip (???) [] The Kinks___________The Village Green Preservation Society (???) [re-release with 3CD's] [Q - 4 // CR - 3]
July 5 - 11 : 2004 : The Ordinary Boys____________Over The Counter Culture (19) [debut album] [HP - 3.5 // Q - 3] Rush_________________Feedback EP (68) [covers album] [CR - 3 // ROL STONE - 2] The Open_______________The Silent Hours (72) [debut album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4] Stimulator_____________Stimulator (???) [debut album] [CR - 4 // MH - 4] They Might Be Giants_________Spine (???) [] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Johnathon Richman__________Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love (???) [21st album] [Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 2] The Faces____________Five Guys Walk Into A Bar (???) [Box Set] [Q - 5 // CR - 5 // MOJO - 5 // UNCUT - 3]
July 12 - 18 : 2004 : The Roots_____________The Tipping Point (71 UK 4 USA) [] [HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Dogs Die In Hot Cars________Please Describe Yourself (44) [debut album] [HP - 4.5 // NME - 4 // Q - 4] Polyphonic Spree__________Together We're Heavy (61 UK 121 USA) [2nd album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Sparta______________Porcelain (60 USA) [] [ROL STONE - 2 // Q - 2 // HP - 2] THE FUTUREHEADS__________THE FUTUREHEADS (???) [debut album] [NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4] Chris Robinson___________This Magnificent Distance (???) [] David Davies____________Bug (???) [] Paul Simon__________Studio Recordings 1972-2000 (???) [9CD box set] [UNCUT - 4]
July 19 - 26 : 2004 : THE HIVES__________TYRANNOSAURUS HIVES (7 UK 33 USA 23 IRE) [3rd album] [NME - 4 // CR - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Van Halen__________Best Of Both Worlds (15 UK 3 USA) [Best Of] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // CR - 3] Modest Mouse______________Good News for People Who Love Bad News (40) [] [NME - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4] Mull Historical Society___________This Is Hope (58) [3rd album] [NME - 4 // Q - 2] Grand Drive_______________The Lights In This Town Are Too Many (???) [4th album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // HP - 2] REGINA SPEKTOR_____________SOVIET KITSCH (???) [] [Q - 3] Phil Manzanera_____________6PM (???) [] Less Than Jake_____________B Is For B-Sides (???) [b-side album]
July 27 - August 1 : 2004 : RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS___________LIVE AT HYDE PARK (1 UK 5 IRE) [live album] [UNCUT - 2 // CR - 2] Taking Back Sunday____________Where You Want To Be (3 USA 71 UK) [] [ROL STONE - 3] PEARL JAM_____________LIVE AT BENAROYA HALL (18 USA 48 IRE) [live album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // CR - 3] K.D. Lang___________Hymns of the 49th Parallel (66 USA) [album of covers] [Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2] Tanya Donelly____________Whiskey Tango Ghosts (???) [] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] International Noise Conspiracy_________Armed Love (???) [4th album] [Q - 3] Old 97_____________Drag It Up (???) [] [ROL STONE - 2] Kittie_____________Until The End (???) [3rd album] Letter Kills__________The Bridge (???) [] Joni Mitchell_________Beginning of Survival (???) [album of her issue-minded tracks]
2 - 8 August 2004 : Mark Lanegan___________Bubblegum (43 UK 35 IRE) [] [HP - 4.25 // NME - 4 // Q - 4 // CR - 4] Tom Baxter___________Feather & Stone (65 UK 45 IRE) [debut album] Ffa Coffi Pawb_________Am Byth (???) [] [Q - 3] Various Artists_________Unity : The Official Athens 2004 Olympic Games Album (???) []
August 9 - August 15 : 2004 : Alter Bridge__________One Day Remains (5 USA) [debut album from ex-Creed members + ???] [ROL STONE - 2] The Devlins__________Waves (15 IRE) [4th album] [HP - 3.75] Ataxia_____________Automatic Warning (???) [debut album from John Frusciante side project] [Q - 2] Various Artists________Soundtrack : Garden State (???) [] Blondie_____________Blondie : Singles Box (???) [hits and b-sides] [Q - 4 // CR - 3] Crosby & Nash__________Crosby/Nash (???) [] [ROL STONE - 3] FEEDER_____________PICTURE OF PERFECT YOUTH (???) [b-sides, only avail @ feederweb.com]
August 16 - 22 : 2004 : DAMIEN RICE____________B-SIDES (1 IRE) [b-sides] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 2] Saliva____________Survival Of The Sickest (20 USA) [4th album] [K - 2] QUEEN________________GREATEST HITS : WE WILL ROCK YOU (42 USA) [GH released in US] Charlotte Hatherley___________Grey Will Fade (51) [debut album] [UNCUT - 4 // CR - 4 // HP - 3.5 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3] Various Artists__________Future Soundtrack For America (56 USA) [] PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA____________LOVE EVERYBODY (???) [4th album, US release, UK-2005] Northern State_______________All City (???) [] Various Artists______________Soundtrack : Going The Distance (???) []
August 23 - 29 : 2004 : Prodigy_____________Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned (1 UK 3 IRE 62 USA) [] [K - 4 // NME - 3 // Q - 2 // ROL STONE - 2 // UNCUT - 2] Finn Brothers__________Everyone Is Here (8 UK 18 IRE) [] [CR - 4 // Q - 3 // HP - 2.25] Jeff Buckley___________Grace : 10th Anniversary Edition (44) [album now incl rarities] [UNCUT - 5 // CR - 5 // Q - 4] Steve Earle___________The Revolution Starts Now (66 UK 60 IRE) [] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // CR - 4] Clinic_____________Winchester Cathedral (???) [] [HP - 4 // NME - 4 // Q - 2] Guided By Voices__________Half Smiles of The Decomposed (???) [final album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Gibby Haynes____________Gibby Haynes & His Problem (???) [] [K - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Butch Walker____________Letters(???) [2nd album] Rich Robinson____________Paper (???) [] Various Artists___________Soundtrack : Wicker Park (???) [] Matthew Jay_____________Matthew Jay... Too Soon (???) [album of unrealesed songs, only avail @ at matthewjay.com] Saves The Day_____________Ups And Downs : Early Recordings And B-Sides (???) [] Roxy Music & Bryan Ferry__________The Platinum Collection (???) [3cd Best Of] [Q - 3]
August 30 - September 4 : 2004 : The Libertines________________The Libertines (1 UK 5 IRE) [2nd album] [NME - 4.5 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // CR - 2] Jill Scott_______________Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds, Vol. 2 (27 UK 3 USA) [] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Bjork_________________Medulla (9 UK 22 IRE 14 USA) [] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Mark Geary______________Ghosts (12) [] [HP - 4.5] PAPA ROACH_______________GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER (30 UK 32 IRE 17 USA) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 3] Various Artists_____________Soundtrack : Resident Evil: Apocalypse (43 USA) [] [K - 3] The Trashcan Sinatras___________weightlifting (???) [] [HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Dio___________________Master Of The Moon (???) [] [CR - 4 // K - 3]
September 5 - 11 : 2004 : KASABIAN_______________KASABIAN (4 UK 29 IRE) [debut album] [HP - 3.5 // NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Dizzee Rascal____________Showtime (8 UK 65 IRE) [2nd album] [HP - 4.5 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] The Black Keys___________Rubbr Factory (62) [] [Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Har Mar Superstar__________The Handler (68) [] [HP - 4 // NME- 4 // UNCUT - 4 // CR - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Fiery Furnaces____________Blueberry Boat (???) [] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3] Walking Concert___________Run To Be Born (???) [Walter Schreifels new band] The Exit____________Home For An Island (???) [] Paul Westerberg__________Folker (???) [] Blink__________________Deep Inside The Sound Of Sadness (???) [] Jack Irons________________Attention Dimension (???) [ex-RHCP drummer solo album]
September 12 - 18 : 2004 : Embrace___________Out Of Nothing (1 UK 39 IRE) [4th album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Paul Weller__________Studio 150 (2 UK 5 IRE) [covers album] [HP - 3.5 // Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2] Ian Brown___________Solarized (7 UK 14 IRE) [] [HP - 3.75 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 2] THE THRILLS___________LET'S BOTTLE BOHEMIA (9 UK 1 IRE) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 2 // ROL STONE - 2] Joni Mitchell__________Dreamland : The Very Best Of (43) [best of] Ed Harcourt___________Strangers (57) [] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Megadeth____________The System Has Failed (60 UK 32 IRE 18 USA) [] [CR - 2 // K - 2] Bowling For Soup__________A Hangover You Don't Deserve (64 UK 37 USA) [] [Q - 3] The Faint___________Wet From Birth (99 USA) [] Radio 4____________Stealing of a Nation (???) [2nd album] [K - 4 // HP - 3.75 // Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2 // ROL STONE - 2] Proud Mary___________Love And Light (???) [] Various Artists_________Soundtrack : Ny-Lon (???) [] Various Artists_________Soundtrack : Freaks and Geeks (???) [] [ROL STONE - 3.5]
September 19 - 25 : 2004 : GREEN DAY___________AMERICAN IDIOT (1 UK 2 IRE 1 USA) [7th album] [K - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // HP - 2.5] THE FRAMES___________BURN THE MAPS (1 IRE) [5th album] [HP - 4] Bryan Adams___________Room Service (4 UK 28 IRE) [] [Q - 2] The Music____________Welcome To The North (8 UK 68 IRE) [2nd album] [NME - 4.5 // HP - 4.25 // K - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2 // ROL STONE - 2] Chevelle________________This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) (8 USA) [] Nick Cave & Bad Seeds____________Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (11 UK 4 IRE) [13th album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Status Quo______________XS Access All Areas : Greatest Hits (16) [Greatest Hits] Shadows Fall_____________The War Within (20 USA) [4th album] John Fogerty_____________Deja Vu (All Over Again) (23 USA) [] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 2] THE CLASH______________LONDON CALLING: 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION (26) [25th anniversary special] [Q - 5 // UNCUT - 5 // ROL STONE - 5] 22-20's_____________22-20's (40) [debut album] [NME - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Elvis Costello__________The Delivery Man (73 UK 40 USA) [] [ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 4 // Q - 3] Elvis Costello__________Il Songo (???) [full-length orchestral work] The Delgados___________Universal Audio (???) [] [UNCUT - 3] The Mooney Suzuki_________Alive & Amplified (???) [3rd album] Hot Water Music__________The New What Next (???) [] Various Artists___________In Honor : Compilation to Beat Cancer (???) [charity album] Various Artists___________Discovered Covered : The Late Great Daniel Johnston (???) [] [Q - 3] Ocean Colour Scene__________One For The Road (???) [live album] The Cramps______________How To Make A Monster (???) [unreleased material - 2CD's]
September 26 - October 3 : 2004 : Joss Stone___________Mind, Body & Soul (1 UK 11 USA 10 IRE) [2nd album] [HP - 3.25 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Marilyn Manson__________Lest We Forget : Best Of (4 UK 9 USA 23 IRE) [Greatest Hits] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Groove Armada__________Best Of (6 UK 14 IRE) [Greatest Hits] [UNCUT - 2] The Used___________In Love And Death (6 USA) [] [HP - 3.25 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Brian Wilson__________Smile (7 UK 13 USA) [] [ROL STONE - 5 // Q - 4 // HP - 3.75] Mark Knopfler__________Shangri-La (11 UK 66 USA 69 IRE) [] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2 // HP - 2] INTERPOL_____________ANTICS (21 UK 15 USA 10 IRE) [2nd album] [HP - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 4] Social Distortion___________Sex, Love and Rock And Roll (31 USA) [] Various Artists____________MTV 2 Headbangers Ball, Volume 2 (43 USA) [] Thirteen Senses____________The Invitation (60) [debut album] [Q - 3] Marianne Faithfull_________Before The Poison (???) [] [HP - 4 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 2] Blues Explosion_________Damage! (???) [aka John Spencer B E] [HP - 4] THERAPY?_____________NEVER APOLIGIZE, NEVER EXPLAIN (???) [10th album] [HP - 3.5 // Q - 3] Winnebago Deal_________Dead Gone (???) [] [Q - 3] Client______________City (???) [] Travis Morrison__________Travistan (???) [] Mansun_______________Kleptomania (???) [3CD feat rare and unheard material]
October 4 - October 10 : 2004 : R.E.M___________AROUND THE SUN (1 UK 1 IRE 13 USA) [13th album] [HP - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Fatboy Slim___________Palookaville (14 UK 63 IRE) [4th album] [HP - 3.75 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 2] Tom Waits___________Real Gone (16 UK 9 IRE 28 USA) [] [HP - 4.25 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Cake__________________Pressure Chief (17 USA) [] [HP - 3.25 // ROL STONE - 2] SUPER FURRY ANIMALS__________SONGBOOK - SINGLES VOLUME 1 (18 UK 67 IRE) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 4] Korn_________________Greatest Hits Volume 1 (22 UK 43 IRE 4 USA) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 2] BIFFY CLYRO__________INFINITY LAND (47) [3rd album] [HP - 3.25 // Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2] John Denver__________Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits (52 USA) [Greatest Hits] Jackson Browne_________The Very Best Of (53) [Best of] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] De La Soul__________Grind Date (87 USA) [] [HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 2] Hailte____________Courses (???) [2nd album] [HP - 4.5] Hot Snakes__________Audit In Progress (???) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 2] William Shatner__________Has Been (???) [] [HP - 3.25 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Kimya Dawson___________Hidden Cagenda (??? US 8 Nov UK) [] [ROL STONE - 3] Robyn Hitchcock___________Spooked (???) [] [ROL STONE - 3] Helmet___________Size Matters (???) [] [ROL STONE - 2 // Q - 2] Nancy Sinatra____________Nancy Sinatra (???) [] [Q - 2] The Blueprint__________Phenomenology (???) [debut album] Various Artists__________Mary Had A Little Amp (???) [] Various Artists__________Songs And Artists That Inspired Fahrenheit 9/11 (???) [Soundtrack] Various Artists__________Take Action : Volume 4 (???) [2CD benefit album] Various Artists__________Maybe This Christmas Tree (???) [] Chris Rock____________Never Scared (???) [comedy album] Nick Drake___________Nick Drake : A Treasury (???) [Best Of] [Q - 4 // HP - 3.75] New York Dolls___________Live From Royal Festival Hall, 2004 (???) [live album] [UNCUT - 3] EVERCLEAR____________TEN YEARS GONE : BEST OF 1994-2004 (???) [Greatest Hits] BARENAKED LADIES___________BARENAKED FOR THE HOLIDAYS (???) [Christmas themed album]
October 11 - 17 : 2004 : Luke Kelly____________Best Of (2 IRE) [Best Of] [HP - 4.5] Good Charlotte___________Chronicles Of Life and Death (8 UK 23 IRE 3 USA) [] [HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 2 // Q - 2] JIMMY EAT WORLD___________FUTURES (22 UK 51 IRE 6 USA) [4th album] [HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] SUM 41_____________CHUCK (59 UK 10 USA) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2 // HP - 2] Massive Attack___________Danny The Dog OST (70) [soundtrack] [HP - 3.5 // Q - 3] Death In Vegas____________Satan's Circus (???) [] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Ian Broudie____________Tales Told (???) [Lightning Seeds man solo album] [Q - 3] Jackson United____________Western Ballads (???) [Chris Shiflett of FF other band] [HP - 3] Camper Van Beethoven_________New Roman Times (???) [] [HP - 3 // Q - 2] Blood Brothers___________Crimes (???) [] Various Artists___________Left Of The Dial : Dispatches from the '80s Underground (???) [great 4CD compilation]
October 18 - 24 : 2004 : Beautiful South___________Gold Diggas, Head Nodders And Pholk Songs (11 UK 4 IRE) [covers album] [HP - 4 // Q - 3] Meatloaf______________Bat Out Of Hell : Live (14 UK 69 IRE) [live album] [UNCUT - 3] Elliott Smith____________From A Basement On The Hill (41 UK 11 IRE 19 USA) [] [HP - 4.5 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Talking Heads____________Best Of Talking Heads (30 UK 38 IRE) [Best Of] Tunde______________Tunde (32) [Lighthouse Family singer solo album] Estelle_____________The 18th Day (35) [] [HP - 3.5 // Q - 3] Various Artists____________Enjoy Every Sandwich : The Songs Of Warren Zevon (99 USA) [famous artists cover his songs] [HP - 3.75 // Q - 3] Frank Black________________Frank Black Francis (???) [CD1:pre-Pixies demos,CD2:new versions of Pixies songs] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 2] Soundtrack Of Our Lives___________Origin (Phase 1) (???) [] Ted Leo & the Pharmacists___________Shake The Sheets (???) [] Doug Gillard_______________Salamander (???) [Guided By Voices guitarist solo album] Simple Minds_______________Silver Box (???) [5CD box set - demos, live, sessions, lost album] [Q - 2]
October 25 - 31 : 2004 : Simple Plan______________Still Not Getting Any.... (3 USA) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 3 // HP - 2] Def Leppard______________Best Of (6 UK 25 IRE) [Best Of] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Placebo_______________Once More With Feeling : The Singles (8 UK 46 IRE) [best of] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] DAVID KITT______________THE BLACK AND RED NOTEBOOK (16 IRE) [covers album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] QUEEN______________ON FIRE : LIVE AT THE BOWL (20 UK 67 IRE) [live album] Depeche Mode_____________The Remixes 1981-2004 (24 UK 40 IRE) [remix album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Leonard Cohen______________Dear Heather (34 UK 5 IRE) [] [HP - 4.75 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] The Eightes Matchbox B-Line Disaster___________The Royal Society (68) [] [HP - 7.5 // Q - 3] Something Happens____________________The Best Of (71 IRE) [best of] Willie Nelson____________________It Will Always Be (75 USA) [] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.5] The Donnas_________________Gold Medal (76 USA) [5th album] [UNCUT- 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // HP - 3.25] Luna___________________Rendezvous (???) [] Pavement__________________Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (???) [re-release 10th anniversary] [ROL STONE - 5 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Various Artists_________________Music From The O.C. - Mix 2 (???) [music from TV Show "The O.C"] Various Artists_________________For The Lady (???) [benefit album for Aung San Suu Kyi] Various Artists/Grandaddy__________Below The Radio (???) [Grandaddy pick fav songs]
November 1 - 7 : 2004 : A Perfect Circle___________eMOTIVE (2 USA 71 IRE 57 USA) [political songs] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] KINGS OF LEON___________A-HA SHAKE HEARTBREAK (3 UK 3 IRE) [2nd album] [HP - 4.5 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 2] TRAVIS_______________SINGLES (4 UK 23 IRE) [Greatest Hits] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] Bee Gees_________________Number Ones (7 UK 20 IRE 23 USA) [No.1 hits] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] MANIC STREET PREACHERS__________LIFEBLOOD (13 UK 15 IRE) [7th album] [HP - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] The Verve________________This Is The Music - Singles 92-98 (15 UK 28 IRE) [Greatest Hits] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] John Lennon_______________Acoustic (31 USA) [Acoustic album] [UNCUT - 3] Andrea Bocelli_____________Andrea (19 UK 63 IRE 16 USA) [] The Rolling Stones___________Life Licks (38 UK 50 USA) [live album] [ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 2] Train________________Alive At Last (48 USA) [live album] Live________________The Best Of Live - Awake (65 USA) [Best of] A.F.I_______________A.F.I (88 USA) [compilation of first 5 albums] [Q - 2] Detroit Cobras____________Baby (???) [] [HP - 3.25 // UNCUT - 2] Downset________________Universal (???) [] [Q - 1] Various Artists__________________MTV 2 Shortlist Prize (???) [feat. nominees for 2004 Shortlist Prize] PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA_______________I (???) [10yr anniversary release]
November 8 - 14 : 2004 : MARIO ROSENSTOCK____________THE BEST OF GIFT GRUB 2004 (3 IRE) [comedy album] Elton John_____________Peachtree Road (21 UK 17 USA) [] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.25 // Q - 3] Seal_______________Best 1991-2004 (27 UK 56 IRE 47 USA) [] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Vanessa Carlton________________Harmonium (33 USA) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 2] Handsome Boy Modeling School_____________White People (???) [] [HP - 4.75 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 2] Blood Brothers_______________Crimes (???) [] Various Artists____________UK Music Hall Of Fame (???) [2CD album] Various Artists____________Give 'Em The Boot 4 (???) [Hellcat Records compilation] Various Artists____________Spongebob Squarepants : Soundtrack (???) [] NOFX_______________Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us) (???) [Greatest Hits]
November 15 - 21 : 2004 : PEARL JAM_____________REARVIEWMIRROR (GREATEST HITS 1991-2003) (16 USA 58 UK 22 IRE) [2CD Best Of] [ROL STONE - 4] THE BEATLES____________THE CAPITOL ALBUMS : VOLUME 1 (35 USA) [Beatles first 4 USA albums in Box Set] Billy Joel_____________Piano Man : The Very Best Of (40 UK 29 IRE) [Best Of] [Q - 3] Neil Young_____________Greatest Hits (45 UK 8 IRE 27 USA) [Greatest Hits] BON JOVI_____________100 MILLION BON JOVI FANS CAN'T BE WRONG (53 USA) [Box Set - 4CD,1DVD] Collective Soul___________Youth (66 USA) [] Plush______________Underfed (???UK) [] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Rufus Wainwright___________Want Two (???US Mar05 UK) [] [ROL STONE - 4] Steriogram____________Schmack! (???UK) [] [HP - 3 // Q - 2] Brian Jonestown Massacre_____________Tepid Peppermint Wonderland : Retrospective (???) [] Embrace____________________Out Of Nothing (???) [re-release with DVD]
November 22 - 28 : 2004 : U2______________HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB (1 IRE 1 UK 1 USA) [11th album] [NME - 4.5 // HP - 4.25 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 4] Gwen Stefani__________Love Angel Music Baby (7 USA 14 UK 20 IRE) [debut solo album] [NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] NIRVANA_____________WITH THE LIGHTS OUT (19 USA 23 IRE 56 UK) [Box Set - 3CD, 1DVD] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5] Creed_____________Greatest Hits (15 USA 55 IRE) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 3] Michael Jackson____________The Ultimate Collection (71 IRE 75 UK) [Box Set - 4CD,1DVD] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] INCUBUS_____________ALIVE AT RED ROCKS (???) [live album with DVD] John Frusciante_____________A Sphere In the Heart Of Silence (???) [solo album] FRANZ FERDINAND_____________FRANZ FERDINAND (???) [US re-release with 2CD's] Morrissey_________________You Are The Quarry (???) [re-release with bonus CD] Nine Inch Nails_____________The Downward Spiral (???) [re-release with bonus CD] METALLICA______________VINYL BOX (only 5,000 copies USA) [contains "Kill 'Em All", "Ride The Lightning", "Master Of Puppets", "And Justice For All", legendary $5.98 "Garage Days Re-Revisited EP", and the Creeping Death picture disc]
November 29 - December 5 : 2004 : LINKIN PARK/Jay-Z____________Collision Course (1 USA 38 UK 21 IRE) [6 tracks - hybrid of bands songs] [Q - 3] Genesis_________________Platinum Collection (29) [3CD box set] Simon And Garfunkel___________Old Friends : Live On Stage (61 UK 53 IRE) [live album] [UNCUT - 3] Various Artists_____________Video Game Awards Hits Volume 1 (???) [] The Cure__________________Three Imaginary Boys (???) [2CD version of album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 2] Siouxsie & The Banshees__________Downside Up - B-Sides & Rarities (???) [4CD box set] [UNCUT - 4]
December 6 - 12 : 2004 : MANIC STREET PREACHERS__________THE HOLY BIBLE : 10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION (???) [album + bonus CD + DVD] [NME - 5 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4] Various Artists____________I Love Comedy (???)
December 13 - 19 : 2004 : KT Tunstall_________Eye To The Telescope (???) [debut album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.25]
December 20 - 26 : 2004 :
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10 - 16 January : 2005 : Various Artists_____________Elektra : Sountrack (62 USA) [] Various Artists_____________KCRW Sounds Eclectic 3 (???) []
17 - 23 January : 2005 : Thirteen Senses_____________The Invitation (14) [re-release] Early Day Miners_____________All Harm Ends Here (???) [] Various Artists_____________Sunday Nights: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough (???) []
24 - 30 January : 2005 : Chemical Brothers_____________Push The Button (1 UK 3 IRE 59 USA) [] [HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Mercury Rev________________The Secret Migration (14 UK 5 IRE) [] [HP - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] LCD Soundsystem______________LCD Soundsystem (20 UK 17 IRE) [] [ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 3] Bright Eyes________________I'm Wide Awake, Its Morning (23 UK 10 USA 24 IRE) [] [Q - 5 // ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 2.5] Erasure_________________Nightbird (27) [] [ROL STONE - 3] Bright Eyes________________Digital Ash In A Digital Urn (43 UK 15 USA 50 IRE) [] [ROL STONE - 3 // HP - 2.5 // Q - 2] ....Know Us By The Trail Of Dead_________________Worlds Apart (81 USA) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // HP - 3] Ani DiFranco________________Knuckle Down (49 USA) [] [HP - 3 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Jimmy Chamberlin Complex_____________Life Begins (???) [] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Adrian Belew________________Side One (???) [] [MOJO - 3] Various Artists_______________New York Rocks (???) [] Gruff Rhys______________Yr Atal Genhedlaeth (???) [] Redjetson_______________New General Catalogue (???) [debut album]
31 January - 6 February : 2005 : Athlete_____________Tourist (1 UK 18 IRE) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // HP - 3] FEEDER______________PUSHING THE SENSES (2 UK 16 IRE) [5th album] [Q - 4 // HP - 2.5] Motley Crue____________Red, White & Cure (6 USA 30MayUK) [2CD best of] [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Various Artists___________Grammy 2005 Nominees (8 USA) [] Lemon Jelly____________'64-'95 (17 UK 21 IRE) [] [HP - 3.25] Roots Manuva____________Awfully Deep (24 UK 30 IRE) [] [NME - 4.5 // HP - 3.5] The Others____________The Others (51) [debut album] [HP - 4] Unwritten Law___________Here's To The Mourning (51 USA) [] Billy Mackenzie____________Transmission Impossible (???) [] Roger Daltry___________Moonlighting : The Antology (???) [2CD best of]
7 - 13 February : 2005 : 3 Doors Down___________Seventeen Days (1 USA) [] [HP - 2.5 // ROL STONE - 2] Paul Brady___________Say What You Feel (10 IRE) [] [HP - 3.75] WILLY MASON___________WHERE THE HUMANS EAT (68) [] [Q - 4 // HP - 3.75] Death In Vegas___________Milk It : The Best Of (???) [2CD best of album] [Q - 4 // NME - 3.5]
14 - 20 February : 2005 : Bloc Party____________Silent Alarm (3 UK 3 IRE) [debut album] [NME - 4.5 // HP - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4] Josh Rouse____________Nashville (66 UK 48 IRE) [5th album] [Q - 4 // HP - 3] Willie Nelson___________Songs (64 USA) [20 track Best Of] Electric Six___________Senor Smoke (???) [2nd album] [HP - 3] John Frusciante__________Curtains (???) [6th solo album in 6 months] [ROL STONE - 2] Goldfinger___________Disconnection Notice (???) [5th album] Various Artists__________Cursed : Soundtrack (???) []
21 - 27 February : 2005 : DOVES______________SOME CITIES (1 UK 2 IRE) [3rd album] [HP - 4.25 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Mars Volta____________Frances The Mute (4 USA 23 UK 18 IRE) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4 // HP - 4 // NME - 3.5] Tori Amos_____________The Beekeeper (24 UK 5 USA 27 IRE) [] [HP - 3.75 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] The Kills_______________No Wow (56 UK 60 IRE) [2nd album] [HP - 3.5 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Thievery Corporation___________The Cosmic Game (74 UK 94 USA) [] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Clem Snide____________End Of Love (???) [] [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Ben Lee_____________Awake Is The New Sleep (???) [] [HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 2] Adam Green____________Gemstones (???) [HP - 3.5] Dio______________Evil Or Divine (???) []
28 February - 6 March : 2005 : Jack Johnson____________In Between Dreams (3 USA 48 UK 41 IRE) [] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5] Judas Priest____________Angel Of Retribution (13 USA 38 UK 40 IRE) [] [K - 5 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Arcade Fire_____________Funeral (71 UK 29 IRE) [] [Q - 4] Crosby, Stills & Nash_________Greatest Hits (37) [] Joe Chester______________A Murder Of Crows (43 IRE) [] Fred______________Making Music So You Dont Have To (70 IRE) [] [HP - 3.75] Kathleen Edwards____________Back To Me (???) [] [HP - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3] The House Of Love____________Days Run Away (???) [] [HP - 3.5 // Q - 3] PRESIDENTS OF THE USA__________LOVE EVERYBODY (???UK 2004USA) [] [HP - 3.25 // Q - 3] Asian Dub Foundation__________Tank (???) [] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Eric Matthews____________Six Kinds Of Passion Looking For An Exit (???) [] Ivy_______________In The Clear (???) []
7 - 13 March : 2005 : KAISER CHIEFS____________EMPLOYMENT (3 UK 7 IRE 86 USA) [debut album] [ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3 // HP - 2.5] IDLEWILD_____________WARNINGS/PROMISES (9 UK 50 IRE) [4th album] [NME - 4.5 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3 // HP - 2.5] THE FUTUREHEADS______________THE FUTUREHEADSs (11 UK 28 IRE) [re-release of 2004 album with DVD] Zakk Wylde & Black Label Society_______________Mafia (15 USA) [] [Q - 3] Rufus Wainwright__________________Want Two (21 UK 36 IRE) [] [NME - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4] Tears For Fears_______________Everybody Loves A Happy Ending (45) [] The Engineers_______________The Engineers (???) [debut album] [NME - 4.5 // Q - 4] 50 Foot Wave_______________Golden Ocean (???) [] [MOJO - 4 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 3] Various Artists___________Late Night Tales - The Flaming Lips (???) [FL's favourtie songs] Wilco__________________A Ghost Is Born (???) [re-release of 2004 album with bonus material] Dropkick Murphys___________Singles Collection Vol 2 1998-2004 (???) [Greatest Hits and more]
14 - 20 March : 2005 : STEREOPHONICS____________LANGUAGE, SEX, VIOLENCE, OTHER? (1 UK 1 IRE) [4th album] [NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 2] Damien Dempsey____________Shots (1 IRE) [] [HP - 4.5 // Q - 3] Various Artists____________Even Better Than The Real Thing 3 (1 IRE VA) [] The Bravery____________The Bravery (5 UK 15 IRE 18 USA) [debut album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // HP - 3.5 // NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3] Moby____________Hotel (8 UK 6 IRE 28 USA) [] [HP - 3.75 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Daft Punk___________Human After All (10 UK 10 IRE 98 USA) [3rd album] [NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // Q - 2 // HP - 2] Prince____________Hits/B-Sides (20) [3CD Best of/B-Sides] [NME - 3] Al Green____________Everything's OK (50 USA) [] [ROL STONE - 4] Brendan Benson____________Alternative To Love (70 UK 44 IRE) [3rd album] [Q - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // HP - 3] Ambulance Ltd____________Ambulance Ltd (???) [] [NME - 4 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Hell Is For Heroes__________Transmit Disrupt (???) [2nd album] [Q - 3] Dishwalla_____________Dishwalla (???) [5th album]
21 - 27 March : 2005 : Basement Jaxx_____________The Singles (3 UK 7 IRE) [best of] [Q - 4 // NME - 4] QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE_______LULLABIES TO PARALYZE (4 UK 2 IRE 5 USA) [4th album] [NME - `4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Lifehouse________________Lifehouse (10 USA) [] [ROL STONE - 2] Beck_________________Guero (15 UK 23 IRE 2 USA) [] [NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 3] Ocean Colour Scene__________A Hyperactive Workout For The Flying Squad (30 UK 30 IRE) [] [MOJO - 3] Ozzy Osbourne____________Prince Of Darkness (36 USA) [4CD Box Set] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Billy Idol____________Devil's Playground (46 USA) [] [Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Yo La Tengo_____________Prisoners Of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs, 1985-2003 (47 IRE) [3CD Box Set] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4] The Decemberists__________Picaresque (???US) [] [ROL STONE - 3.5] Louis XIV___________The Best Little Secrets Are Kept (???USA) [] [ROL STONE - 3] Out Hud____________Let Us Never Speak Of It Again (???) [] [Q - 3] John Doe____________Forever Hasn't Happened Yet (???) [] Various Artists____________Under The Influence : Super Furry Animals (???) [the bands favourite songs] [Q - 4] BEN FOLDS FIVE____________WHATEVER AND EVER AMEN (???) [re-release with bonus songs]
28 March - 3 April : 2005 : NEW ORDER_________________WAITING FOR THE SIRENS CALL (5 UK 19 IRE 46 USA) [] [ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 3.5 // NME - 3 // Q - 2 // MOJO - 2] Nick Cave & Bad Seeds____________________B-Sides & Rarities (74 UK 73 IRE) [3CD album] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Glen Phillips__________________Winter Pays For Summer (???) [3rd solo album] Peter Himmelman___________________Imperfect World (???) [] Porcupine Tree____________________Deadwing (???UK 26Apr UK) []
4 - 10 April : 2005 : Natalie Imbruglia_____________Counting Down The Days (1 UK 26 IRE) [3rd album] [MOJO - 2] Various Artists_____________The OC Mix 4 (6 IRE COMP 56 USA) [] Lisa Marie Presley____________Now What (9 USA) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 2.5] Various Artists_____________Teenage Kicks (9 IRE COMP) [V.Good 2CD punk-pop album] British Sea Power_____________Open Season (13) [2nd album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Morrissey________________Live At Earls Court (18 UK 22 IRE) [live album] [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] HOT HOT HEAT_______________ELEVATOR (34 USA 34 UK) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // MOJO - 3] Martha Wainwright____________Martha Wainwright (63 UK 47 IRE) [debut album] [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Tom Vek_______________We Have SOund (73) [debut album] [Q - 4] Fischerspooner______________Odyssey (???) [] [ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3 // HP - 3] Reel Big Fish_______________We're Not Happy Till You're Not Happy (???) [] [K - 3] Adema________________Planets (???) [] Various Artists_____________Bonnaroo 2004 Festival (???) [2CD live album]
11 - 17 April : 2005 : GARBAGE_____________BLEED LIKE ME (4 UK 4 USA 18 IRE) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // HP - 3 // Q - 2] A-Ha______________The Definitive Singles Collection (14) [] Do Me Bad Things__________Yes!! (68) [debut album] [Q - 4] I Am Kloot_____________Gods And Monsters (74) [] [HP - 4.25 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 2] The National____________Alligator (???) [] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] American Hi-Fi___________Hearts On Parade (???) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 2] VHS Or Beta____________Night On Fire (???) [] Shurman______________Jubilee (???) [] Various Artists__________A Lot Like Love : Soundtrack (???) []
18 - 24 April : 2005 : Rob Thomas______________...Something To Be (1 USA 11 UK 17 IRE) [debut solo album from Matchbox Twenty singer] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Anna Nalick_____________Wreck Of The Day (20 USA) [] [ROL STONE - 3] Yourcodenameis:milo__________Ignoto (???) [] [Q - 3] 10,000 Things___________10,000 Things (???) [] Various Artists___________Friends and Lovers: Songs of Bread (???) [tribute album] [Q - 3]
25 April - 1 May : 2005 : BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN___________DEVILS AND DUST (1 UK 1 IRE 1 USA) [19th studio album] [MOJO - 5 // ROL STONE - 4.5 // HP - 4 // Q - 3] EELS_______________BLINKING LIGHTS AND OTHER REVELATIONS (16 UK 11 IRE 93 USA) [6th album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Hal______________Hal (31 UK 6 IRE) [] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 3.5] The Caesars____________Paper Tigers (40) [] [ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3 // HP - 1.5] The Go-Betweens___________Oceans Apart (60 IRE) [] [MOJO - 5 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] BEN FOLDS_____________SONGS FOR SILVERMAN (65 UK 68 IRE 13 USA) [] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] Various Artists____________Pet Shop Boys : Back To Mine (???) [band chooses favourite tracks] This Is Menace____________No End In Sight (???) [different singer on each track] Stereolab______________Oscillons from the Anti-Sun (???) [3CD+DVD, Box Set of EP songs] [MOJO - 3]
2 - 8 May : 2005 : Nine Inch Nails______________With Teeth (3 UK 1 USA 7 IRE) [] [K - 5 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation____________Mighty Rearranger (4 UK 49 IRE 22 USA) [] [MOJO - 4 // HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Cream____________________I Feel Free : Ultimate Collection (6) [] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4] John Williams________________Soundtrack : Star Wars Episode 3 : Revenge of the Sith (16 UK 6 USA 44 IRE) [] RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS___________COLD ROSES (20 UK 16 IRE 26 USA) [] [NME - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 2] Aimee Mann_____________The Forgotten Arm (19 IRE 60 USA) [5th album] [Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3] Tom McRae______________All Maps Welcome (47) [3rd album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] LIMP BIZKIT_____________THE UNQUESTIONABLE TRUTH - PART 1 (71 UK 24 USA) [] [K - 2] Smokey Robinson___________My World : Definitive Collection (64 USA) [Best Of] The Raveonettes__________Pretty In Black (???) [] [ROL STONE - 4 // NME - 4 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 2] Joe Perry____________Joe Perry (???) [Aerosmith guitarist solo album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 2] Mike Doughty___________Haughty Melodic (???) [Soul Coughing singer solo album] The Dissociatives_________The Dissociatives (???) [] Jim Boggia_____________Safe in Sound (???) [] Bjork________________Army Of Me (???) [20 remix's of same track - proceeds go to Unicef] They Might Be Giants___________A User's Guide to They Might Be Giants: Melody, Fidelity, Quantity (???) [Anthology]
9 - 15 May : 2005 : Dave Matthews Band____________Stand Up (1 USA) [6th album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] WEEZER_________________MAKE BELIEVE (11 UK 7 IRE 2 USA) [5th album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // K - 4 // MOJO - 3 // NME - 2.5] Fall Out Boy______________From Under The Cork (9 USA) [] [K - 3] Morcheeba______________The Antidote (17) [] [HP - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] The Starting Line__________Based On A True Story (18 USA) [] Teenage Fanclub__________Man-Made (34 UK 33 IRE) [] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Spoon_______________Gimme Fiction (44 USA) [5th album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // MOJO - 3] Styx_______________Big Bang Theory (46 USA) [covers album] Team Sleep____________Team Sleep (52 USA) [debut album] Turbonegro____________Party Animal (???) [] [MOJO - 4 // Q- 3] Kathryn Williams_______________Over Fly Over (???) [] [Q - 4] Bill Wyman & The Rhythm Kings____________Just For A Thrill (???) [5th album] Robert Earl Keen_______________What I Really Mean (???) [] Sloan_______________A Sides Win : Singles 1992-2005 (???) [Greatest Hits incl DVD videos]
16 - 22 May : 2005 : Faithless_____________Forever Faithless : Greatest Hits (1 UK 1 IRE) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 3] SYSTEM OF A DOWN___________MEZMERIZE (2 UK 2 IRE 1 USA) [3rd album-Part 1 of 2] [HP - 4.5 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Van Morrison____________Magic Time (3 UK 14 IRE 25 USA) [] [HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] Def Leppard_____________Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection (10 USA) [2CD Best Of] [ROL STONE - 4.5] MAXIMO PARK_____________A CERTAIN TRIGGER (15) [debut album] [NME - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] Duke Spirit_____________Cuts Across The Land (40) [debut album] [NME - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] Juliette And The Licks____________You're Speaking My Language (???) [MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] Million Dead_______________Harmony, No Harmony (???) [2nd album] Paul Westerberg_____________Besterberg : The Best Of Paul Westerberg (???) [Best of solo material from Replacements singer] Gang Of Four_____________That's Entertainment (???) [re-release of classic '79 album]
23 - 29 May : 2005 : Gorillaz____________Demon Days (1 UK 2 IRE 6 USA) [2nd album] [NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] THE CORAL____________THE INVISIBLE INVASION (3 UK 16 IRE) [3rd album] [MOJO - 4 // NME - 3.5// ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Audioslave____________Out Of Exile (5 UK 3 IRE 1 USA) [2nd album] [K - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] Seether____________Karma and Effect (8 USA) [2nd album] Sinead O'Connor__________Collaborations (22 IRE) [deuts] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 3] Alkaline Trio___________Crimson (34 UK 25 USA) [] [NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Belle & Sebastian_________Push Barman To Open Old Wounds (40 UK 40 IRE) [album of EP's and singles released on 1st label] [ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] The Wallflowers_________Rebel, Sweetheart (40 USA) [5th album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // HP - 3] Four Tet_____________Everything Ecstatic (59 UK 67 IRE) [] [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Bruce Dickinson__________Tyranny Of Souls (65) [] Sleater-Kinney__________The Woods (80) [7th album] [MOJO - 5 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 2] At The Drive-In__________This Station Is Non-Operational (95 USA) [] [K - 5 // NME - 4] Stephen Malkmus__________Face The Truth (???) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] Shout Out Louds__________Howl Howl Gaff Gaff (???USA) [debut album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] Shelby Lynne___________Suit Yourself (???) [] [Q - 3 // HP - 2.5] Raging Speedhorn_________How The Great Have Fallen (???) [] Son Volt_____________A Retrospective 1995-2000 (???) [2CD hits&rarities] [MOJO - 3]
30 May - 5 June : 2005 : OASIS___________DON'T BELIEVE THE TRUTH (1 UK 1 IRE 12 USA) [6th album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // NME - 3] The Walls_________New Dawn Breaking (5 IRE) [2nd album] Turin Breaks_________Jackinabox (9 UK 60 IRE) [3rd album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] Better Than Ezra_________Before The Robots (84 USA) [5th album] Art Brut__________Band Bang Rock and Roll (???) [debut album] [MOJO - 4 // Q -2] Smog___________A River Ain't Too Much To Love (???) [] [ROL STONE - 2] The Melvins____________Mangled Demo's (???) []
6 - 12 June : 2005 : COLDPLAY______________X & Y (1 UK 1 USA 1 IRE) [3rd album] [Q - 5 // NME - 4.5 // HP - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3] THE WHITE STRIPES_________GET BEHIND ME SATAN (3 UK 3 USA 3 IRE) [5th album] [K - 5 // ROL STONE - 4.5 // NME - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 3] Electric Light Orchestra_________All Over The World : The Very Best Of (11 UK 22 IRE) [] Various Artists____________Vans Warped Tour 2005 Compilation (13 USA) [] The Tears________________Here Comes The Tears (15 UK 44 IRE) [debut album] [NME - 4 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 2] Various Artists____________Other Voices : Songs From A Room Vol.3 (18 IRE VA) [] Kraftwerk______________Minimum - Maximum (29 UK 47 IRE) [live album] [NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 4] Foreigner______________The Definitive (34) [] Lynyrd Skynyrd_____________Greatest Hits (47) [] Finch__________________Say Hello To Sunshine (48 UK 24 USA) [] Avenged Sevenfold__________City Of Evil (63 UK 30 USA) [] [K - 5 // ROL STONE - 3] Deep Purple____________The Platinum Collection (66) [3cd Box Set] Sons & Daughters__________The Repulsion Box (70) [] [NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] Dream Theater____________Octavarium (72 UK 36 USA) [] Various Artists___________Punk-O-Rama Vol. 10 (93 USA) [] Ringo Starr____________Choose Love (???) [] [MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] Death By Stereo__________Death For Life (???) [4th album] [K - 3] The Aquabats____________Charge!! (???) [] Gomez________________Out West (???US 25 July UK) [2cd live album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3]
13 - 19 June : 2005 : FOO FIGHTERS____________IN YOUR HONOUR (2 UK 2 IRE 2 USA) [5th album/2cd album] [K - 5 // HP - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] Rory Gallagher___________Big Guns: The Very Best Of (31 UK 3 IRE) [2CD Best Of] [ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 3] The Magic Numbers__________The Magic Numbers (7 UK 12 IRE) [debut album] [MOJO - 5 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Jeff Wayne______________Soundtrack: War Of The Worlds (8) [] Funeral For A Friend__________Hours (12 UK 23 IRE) [2nd album] [K - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] UB40__________________Who You Fighting For (20) [] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Ry Cooder______________Chavez Ravine (35 UK 42 IRE) [] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // HP - 3.75 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Nine Black Alps__________Everything Is (51) [debut album] [MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] Saint Etienne___________Tales From Turnpike House (72) [] [Q - 2 // HP - 4] Motion City Soundtrack_________Commit This To Memory (72 USA) [] Brian Eno______________Another Day On Earth (75) [] [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // HP - 2.5] Roisin Murphy___________Ruby Blue (???) [debut solo album] [Q - 4] The Departure___________Dirty Words (???) [debut album] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 2] Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell___________Begonias (???) [] [Q - 3] Kinesis_______________You Are Being Lied To (???) [] [Q - 2] Martin Grech____________Unholy (???) [2nd album] The Churchills___________Odds of Winning (???) [] Life Of Agony____________Broken Valley (???) [] Rebelski______________Stickers On Keys (???) [] The Indigo Girls___________Rarities (???) [] 101ers_______________Egin Avenue Breakdown (???) [re-release] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3]
20 - 26 June : 2005 : Jamiroquai___________Dynamite (3 UK 27 IRE) [6th album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 3] THE OFFSPRING__________GREATEST HITS (8 USA 14 UK 13 IRE) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 4] Billy Corgan__________Thefutureembrace (25 IRE 31 USA) [debut solo album] [HP - 4 // NME - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] Sam Cooke____________Portrait Of A Legend 1951-64 (26) [] The Ordinary Boys___________Brassband (31) [2nd album] [NME - 3 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 2] Dropkick Murphys___________Warriors Code (48 USA) [] TLC________________Now & Forever: The Hits (53 USA) [] InMe_______________White Butterfly (56) [2nd album] [Q - 2] The Transplants__________Haunted Cities (72 UK 28 USA) [2nd album] [NME - 2] The Cribs_____________The New Fellas (???) [] [NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // HP - 2 // Q - 2] John Hiatt_____________Master Of Disaster (???) [18th album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] Chris Hillman____________The Other Side (???) [] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] The Redwalls___________De Nova (???) [] [Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 2] The Vanity Project____________The Vanity Project (???) [debut album] Timo Maas______________Pictures (???) [] Various Artists_____________Look At All the Love We Found: A Tribute to Sublime (???) [tribute album] Sugar Ray_______________The Best Of Sugar Ray (???) [Greatest Hits]
27 June - 3 July : 2005 : CKY___________An Answer Can Be Found (35 USA) [] Megadeath___________Greatest Hits : Back To Front (65 USA) [Greatest Hits] The Posies___________Every Kind Of Light (???) [] [HP - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] David Pajo___________Pajo (???) [] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] Longwave_________________There's A Fire (???) [3rd album] String Cheese Incident__________One Step Closer (???) [] Hayseed Dixie____________Hot Piece Of Grass (???) [] Shannon McNally___________Geronimo (???) [] Various Artists___________Carl Barat : Under The Infulence (???) [CB of The Libertines fav songs] Fountain Of Wayne__________Out-Of-State Plates (???) [2cd Rarities] [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3]
4 - 11 July : 2005 : Hard-Fi__________Stars of CCTV (6 UK 65 IRE) [debut album] [NME - 4.5 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 2] Royksopp__________The Understanding (13 UK 16 IRE) [] [Q - 4 // NME - 4 // MOJO - 2 // HP - 2] The Subways_________Young For Eternity (32) [debut album] [Q - 3 // NME - 3] Missy Elliott_________The Cookbook (33 UK 60 IRE 2 USA) [] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Various Artists__________Soundtrack : Fantastic Four (77 USA) [] Various Artists__________The Future Soundtrack For America (???UK) [] [MOJO - 4] KASABIAN______________LIVE FROM BRIXTON ACADEMY (download only) [] The Boo Radley's___________Find The Way Out (???) [2CD Best Of/other] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3]
12 - 18 July : 2005 : Michael Jackson_____________Essential Michael Jackson (2 UK 4 IRE 128 USA) [] All-American Rejects__________Move Along (6 USA) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 3] Son Volt______________Okemah and the Melody of Riot (89 USA) [] [MOJO - 3] Tony Iommi & Glenn Hughes____________Fused (???) [3rd solo album] Rufio_______________________The Comfort Of Home (???) [] Various Artists_____________Soundtrack : Stealth (???) [incl. 3 new Incubus songs] Iron Maiden_______________Essential Iron Maiden (???USA) [2cd best of]
19 - 25 July : 2005 : Alanis Morissette____________Jagged Little Pill : Acoustic (12 UK 16 IRE 50 USA) [] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 2] M People & Heather Small___________Ultimate Collection (55) [best of] Thousand Foot Krutch____________The Art Of Breaking (67 USA) [] Frank Black__________Honeycomb (???) [] [NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] Youth Group__________Skeleton Jar (???) [debut album] Emmylou Harris_________Heartaches and Highways: The Best of (???) [Q - 4] Iggy Pop___________A Million In Prizes : The Iggy Pop Anthology (???) [2cd Best Of] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 3]
26 - 31 July : 2005 : Various Artists______________Tom Dunne's Alternative Irish Anthems (3 VA IRE) [] Jason Mraz______________Mr. A-Z (5 USA) [] [Q - 3] The Editors_______________The Back Room (13 UK 26 IRE) [debut album] [NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] The Stands___________________Horse Faboulous (62) [] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 3] Clor______________________Clor (???) [debut album] [NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] A____________________TEEN DANCE ORDINANCE (???) [4th album] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Bob Mould______________Body Of Song (???) [] [MOJO - 3 // Q - 2] Various Artists____________________Whatever : The '90s Pop Culture Box (???) [7cd/130 song boxset] Brian Setzer_______________Rockabilly Riot Vol. One - Tribute To Sun Records (???) [covers album] [MOJO - 3] Orange Juice___________________The Glasgow School (???) [best of] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4]
1 - 7 August : 2005 : Madness__________________The Dangermen Sessions Vol. 1 (11 UK 39 IRE) [] Kirsty Maccoll_______________The Very Best of Kirsty Maccoll (17) [21 track Best Of] Chris Rea______________Heartbeats-Chris Rea's Greatest Hits (24) [16 track Best Of] Public Enemy___________Power To The People And The Beats - Public Enemy's Greatest Hits (39 UK 69 USA) [18 track Greatest Hits] Emery_______________The Question (45 USA) [] Blindside____________The Great Depression (89 USA) [] Dogs______________Turn Against This Land (???) [debut album] [NME - 3.5 // Q - 3] Lorene Drive____________Romantic Wealth (???) [2nd album] Tristan Prettyman____________TwentyThree (???) [] June-Carter Cash___________Keep On The Sunny Side: Her Life in Music (???) [2cd anthology] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 2] Richard Hell_____________Spurts : Richard Hell Story (???) [best of] [Q - 4]
8 - 14 August : 2005 : Staind______________Chapter V (1 USA) [5th album] Nickel Creek_____________Why Should The Fire Die? (17 USA) [live album] Hootie And The Blowfish__________Looking For Lucky (47 USA) [] [ROL STONE - 2.5] Tommy Lee____________Tommyland : The Ride (62 USA) [Motley Crue's drummer 3rd solo album] [Q - 3] The Proclaimers___________Restless Soul (74) [] [Q - 2] Pennywise___________The Fuse (78 USA) [8th album] Koufax____________Hard Times In Fashion (???) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 3] Stephen Stills_________Man Alive (???) [] [MOJO - 2] The Fleshtones_________Beachhead (???) [13th album] Various Artists_________Killer Queen (???) [covers of Queen songs] Cursive____________The Difference Between Houses and Homes (Lost Songs and Loose Ends 1995-2001) (???) [rarities]
15 - 21 August : 2005 : 311____________Don't Tread On Me (5 USA) [] [ROL STONE - 2] SUPERGRASS________ROAD TO ROUEN (9 UK 29 IRE) [5th album] [MOJO - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3] The Click Five_________Greetings from Imrie House (15 USA) [] The Shadows__________Platinum Collection (30) [2cd best of + dvd] The Rakes__________Capture/Release (32) [debut album] [NME - 4.5 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] Taproot__________Blue Sky Research (33 USA) [] [Q - 3] Silverstein___________Discovering the Waterfront (34 USA) [] 10 Years___________The Autumn Effect (72 USA) [] Leaves________The Angela Test (???) [2nd album] [MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] Alfie_________Crying At Teatime (???) [4th album] [Q - 3 // NME - 2.5] The Stooges_________The Stooges (???) [re-release of debut album with bonus material] [MOJO - 5 // Q - 4] The Stooges_________Fun House (???) [re-release of 2nd album with bonus material] [MOJO - 5 // Q - 4] The Ramones_________Weird Tales of the Ramones (???) [3cd + dvd + comic book] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3]
22 - 28 August : 2005 : GOLDFRAPP_____________SUPERNATURE (2 UK 9 IRE) [3rd album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Black Rebel Motorcycle Club__________Howl (14 UK 29 IRE 90 USA) [3rd album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // NME - 3.5] SUPER FURRY ANIMALS__________LOVE KRAFT (19 UK 23 IRE) [7th album] [NME - 4 // MOJO - 3 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Jack's Mannequin__________Everything In Transit (37 USA) [] New Pornographers_____________Twin Cinema (44 USA) [3rd album] [MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] Fear Factory_____________Transgression (45 USA) [] Fun Lovin' Criminals____________Livin' In The City (59) [5th album] [HP - 3.75 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 2] Various Artists___________Six Feet Under : Everything Ends (74 USA) [music from TV show] [Q - 3] The Bled_______________Found In The Flood (87 USA) [] Smash Mouth_______________All Star: The Smash Hits (96 USA) [Greatest Hits] John Vanderslice_____________Pixel Revolt (???) [5th album] Mike Gordon & Leo Kottke______________Sixty Six Steps (???) [2nd collaborative album] Yes_______________The Word Is Live (???) [3CD live album]
29 August - 4 September : 2005 : Kayne West____________Late Registration (2 UK 2 IRE 1 USA) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 5 // Q - 4 // NME - 4] DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE_______PLANS (4 USA) [] [Q - 3] Eric Clapton_________Back Home (19 UK 57 IRE 13 USA) [] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Bob Dylan____________No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (The Bootleg Series Vol. 7) (16 US 21 UK 19 IRE) [] Iron Maiden__________Death On The Road (22 UK 27 IRE) [2CD live album] Herbie Hancock________Possibilities (22 USA) [deuts album] Cold_______________A Different Kind Of Pain (26 USA) [] 30 Seconds To Mars_________A Beautiful Lie (44 USA) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 2] Our Lady Peace__________Healthy In Paranoid Times (45 USA) [] From Autumn To Ashes_________Abandon Your Friends (58 USA) [] [ROL STONE - 3] OK Go____________Oh No (???) [2nd album] Various Artists_________Austin City Limits 2004 (???) [] Johnny Cash_________The Legend (???) [box set - 107 tracks] [Q - 5 // MOJO - 4]
5 - 11 September : 2005 : The Rolling Stones_________A Bigger Bang (2 UK 3 USA 18 IRE) [] [ROL STONE - 4.5 // Q - 3 // NME - 3] The Chalets_________Check In (15 IRE) [] Richard Hawley________Cole's Corner (55) [3rd album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 4] North Mississippi Allstars_________Electric Blue Watermelon (???) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 3] Kathy Valentine_____________Lightyears (???) [debut solo album from Go-Go's bassist]
12 - 18 September : 2005 : DAVID GRAY__________LIFE IN SLOW MOTION (1 UK 1 IRE 16 USA) [6th album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Switchfoot__________Nothing Is Sound (3 USA) [] [ROL STONE - 3] Paul McCartney_________Chaos And Creation In The Back Yard (10 UK 32 IRE 6 USA) [14th solo album] [ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 3 // NME - 3] ELBOW____________LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD (12 UK 31 IRE) [3rd album] [NME - 4.5 // Q - 4] Sigur Ros__________Takk (16 UK 6 IRE 27 USA) [4th album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Trapt__________Someone In Control (14 USA) [] Simple Minds________Black And White 050505 (37) [] [Q - 2] Tracy Chapman__________Where You Live (43 UK 47 IRE 49 USA) [7th album] [HP - 3.25 // Q - 2] B.B King___________B.B King & Friends : 80 (45 USA) [deuts album] The Rasmus_________Hide From The Sun (65) [] The Dandy Warhols_________Odditorium or Warlords of Mars (67 UK 75 IRE 89 USA) [] [Q - 3 // NME - 3 // ROL STONE - 1] Institute___________Distort Yourself (81 USA) [Gavin Rossdale new band debut album] [Q - 2 // ROL STONE - 2] Stellastarr*________Harmonies for the Haunted (??? USA) [] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] The Like_________Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? (??? USA) [] [ROL STONE - 3.5] NADA SURF__________THE WEIGHT IS A GIFT (???) [] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Rob Dickinson________Fresh Wine For The Horses (???) [Catherine Wheel frontman solo album] [ROL STONE - 3] Cave In__________Perfect Pitch Black (??? USA 19SepUK) [] Spin Doctors_________Nice Talking To Me (??? USA) [] Dar Williams_________My Better Self (???) [] Reuben____________Very Fast Very Dangerous (???) [] Various Artists_________Elizabethtown : Soundtrack (??? USA 26SepUK) [] Various Artist__________Just Like Heaven : Soundtrack (???) [] Sonic Youth_________Goo : Deluxe Edition (???) [2cd reissue of 1990 album] [Q - 4]
19 - 25 September : 2005 : BON JOVI___________HAVE A NICE DAY (2 UK 9 IRE 2 USA) [] [ROL STONE - 3] Disturbed____________Ten Thousand Fists (1 USA 59 UK) [3rd album] Ian Brown____________The Greatest (5 UK 13 IRE) [Greatest Hits] [NME - 3.5 // Q - 3] Coheed & Cambria_________Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV: Volume 1. From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (7 USA) [] [K - 5 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] QUEEN & PAUL RODGERS__________RETURN OF THE CHAMPIONS (12 UK 84 USA 47 IRE) [live album] Goldie Lookin' Chain__________Safe As Fuck (16) [2nd album] [NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // HP - 2.5] Status Quo______________The Party Ain't Over Yet (18) [] Maroon 5_____________Friday the 13th: Live at the Santa Barbara Bowl (61 USA) [live album] [ROL STONE - 3] Devendra Banhart__________Cripple Crow (69 UK 75 IRE) [] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Oceansize_____________Everyone Into Position (???) [] [NME - 4 // HP - 2.25] Echo & The Bunnymen_________Siberia (???) [] [HP - 3.5 // Q - 3] Black Velvets___________Black Velvets (???) [debut album] [Q - 2 // NME - 2] Anthrax____________Anthropology: No Hit Wonders (1985-91) (???) [2cd best of] Ray Charles___________Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959) (???) [8CD box set] [Q - 5]
26 September - 2 October : 2005 : Katie Melua__________Piece By Piece (1 UK 4 IRE) [2nd album] [HP - 3.5 // Q - 3] SHERYL CROW__________WILDFLOWER (2 USA 25 UK 60 IRE) [] [HP - 3.25 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] The Corrs___________Home (14 UK 2 IRE) [] [HP - 3.5 // Q - 2] H.I.M____________Dark Light (18 UK 19 IRE 18 USA) [] [Q - 4] Neil Young__________Praire Wind (22 UK 11 IRE 11 USA) [] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] The Dead 60s_________The Dead 60s (23 UK 65 IRE) [] BLOODHOUND GANG_________HEFTY FINE (24 USA) [] [ROL STONE - 2] Turn_______________Turn (30 IRE) [] [HP - 3.5] RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS_________JACKSONVILLE CITY NIGHTS (59 UK 43 IRE 33 USA) [2nd album this year] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // NME - 3.5] Big Star_______________In Space (???) [] [NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 2] Panic! At The Disco_________The Fever You Can't Sweat Out (???) [debut album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] Mew____________Mew And The Glass Handed Kites (???) [] [Q - 3] Ric Ocasek_________Nexterday (???) [Cars frontman solo album] [Q - 2] Saucy Monky__________Turbelence (???UK) [] Millionaire__________Paradisiac (???) [Produced by Josh Homme] Smile Empty Soul________Anxiety (???) [] Various Artists_________Just Say Sire : Sire Records Story (???) [box set:3cd's and dvd, 40th anniversary of Sire Records] Various Artists_________Warchild: Help - A Day In The Life Of (???) [charity album] [NME - 5 // HP - 3.5] Natalie Merchant________Retrospective 1990-2005 (???) [2cd best of] [Q - 4] Buddy Guy___________Bring Em' In (???) [covers album] [ROL STONE - 3] The Band_________A Musical History (???) [box set:5cd's and dvd] [ROL STONE - 5 // Q - 4]
3 - 9 October : 2005 : FRANZ FERDINAND____________YOU COULD HAVE IT SO MUCH BETTER..... (1 UK 2 IRE 8 USA) [2nd album] [NME - 4.5 // Q - 4 // HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] NICKELBACK_____________ALL THE RIGHT REASONS (13 UK 70 IRE 1 USA) [5th album] [Q - 2 // ROL STONE - 2] Fiona Apple_____________Extraordinary Machine (7 USA 10OctUK) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 4] John Lennon____________Working Class Hero : The Definitive Lennon (10 UK 21 IRE) [2cd best of] [Q - 3] NEW ORDER____________SINGLES (14 UK 71 IRE) [2cd Greatest Hits] [NME - 4.5 // Q - 4] Melissa Etheridge___________Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled (14 USA 24OctUK) [Greatest Hits] Sinead O'Connor______________Throw Down Your Arms (17 IRE) [reggae covers album!] [HP - 4 // Q - 2] Bullet for My Valentine____________Poison (21) [] [MH - 4 // Q - 4] Shinedown____________Us And Them (23 USA) [] O.A.R______________Stories Of A Stranger (40 USA) [5th album] Ms Dynamite____________Judgement Days (43) [2nd album] [NME - 4 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 3] Deftones_______________B-Sides & Rarities (43 USA 7NovUK) [B-Sides & Rarities] Liz Phair_______________Somebody's Miracle (46 USA) [5th album] [ROL STONE - 2] Cream_____________Royal Albert Hall (61 UK 59 USA) [2cd live album] Ladytron_____________Witching Hour (???) [] [NME - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] John Cale______________Black Acetate (???UK 18OctUSA) [] [Q - 3 // HP - 3] Journey______________Generations (???) [13th album] The Deadly Snakes_____________Porcella (???) [4th album] Broken Social Scene____________Broken Social Scene (???) [3rd album] Curt Kirkwood_____________Snow (???) [Meat Puppets frontman debut solo album] Andy Bell____________Electric (???) [Erasure frontman solo album] Metric______________Let It Out (???) [] Various Artists_____________Soundtrack : Goal! (???) [] Simple Plan_____________MTV Hard Rock Live (???) [live album] John Lydon______________The Best of British 1 £ Notes (???) [best of] [Q - 3] The Go! Team_____________Thunder, Lightning, Strike (???) [re-release-UK/1st release-US] [ROL STONE - 4] The Beta Band______________Music - The Best of the Beta Band (???) [2cd best of] [Q - 4]
10 - 16 October : 2005 : Christy Moore________Burning Times (3 IRE) [] [HP - 4] Paul Weller________As Is Now (4 UK 24 IRE) [] [Q - 4] Alicia Keys___________MTV Unplugged (52 UK 68 IRE 1 USA) [] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Story Of The Year________In the Wake of Determination (19 USA 31OctUK) [2nd album] Sevendust__________Next (20 USA 31OctUK) [] Roadrunner United________All-Star Sessions (45 UK 77 USA) [] Jackson Browne________Solo Acoustic - Vol.1 (55 USA 31OctUK) [solo versions of songs] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Frank and Walters________Souvenir (72 IRE) [] [HP - 4] Grandaddy________Excerpts from the Diary of Todd Zilla (???UK 18OctUSA) [mini-album] [HP - 4 // Q - 3] Gang Of Four________Return The Gift (???) [2cd-1:new versions of classics/2:remixes] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 2.5]
17 - 23 October : 2005 : BELL X1__________FLOCK (1 IRE) [3rd album] [HP - 4.5 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 2] The Prodigy__________Their Law : The Singles 1990-2005 (1 UK 3 IRE) [Greatest Hits] [Q - 4] Aslan___________Platinum Collection (3 IRE) [3CD best of] Depeche Mode_________Playing The Angel (6 UK 15 IRE 7 USA) [] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 2.5] STARSAILOR___________ON THE OUTSIDE (13) [3rd album] [Q - 4] Thrice___________Vheissu (15 USA) [] [ROL STONE - 2] Stevie Wonder_________A Time To Love (24 UK 5 USA) [] [HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3] THE REVS____________THE REVS (28 IRE) [3rd album] [HP - 4.25] We Are Scientists________With Love & Squalor (45 IRE) [] [HP - 3] Bryan Adams___________Anthology (65 USA 30 UK 50 IRE) [2cd Best Of] My Morning Jacket__________Z (67 USA 74 UK) [] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4] THE CARDIGANS_________SUPER EXTRA GRAVITY (???) [6th album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Wheatus_________Too Soon Monsoon (???) [3rd album] Various Artists_________John Peel - A Tribute (???) [] [Q - 5] Brian Wilson_________What I Really Want for Christmas (**USA 14NovUK) [Christmas themed album] [Q - 2]
24 - 30 October : 2005 : AEROSMITH____________ROCKIN' THE JOINT (24 USA) [live CD/DVD] The Saw Doctors_____________The Cure (26 IRE) [] [HP - 3.5] Burt Bacharach_______________At This Time (60) [] [Q - 3 // HP - 3] Fiery Furnaces_____________Rehearsing My Choir (???) [] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Jack Endino_____________Permanent Fatal Error (???) [] Rogue Wave____________Descended Like Vultures (???) [] Various Artists__________This Bird Has Flown -- A 40th Anniversary Tribute to the Beatles' Rubber Soul (???) [] Angie Stone___________Stone Hits: The Very Best of Angie Stone (???USA 7NovUK) [Best Of] They Might Be Giants___________They Got Lost (???) [ratities album]
31 October - 6 November : 2005 : BLINK 182____________GREATEST HITS (6 UK 22 IRE 6 USA) [Greatest Hits] GEMMA HAYES_____________THE ROADS DONT LOVE YOU (13 IRE) [2nd album] [HP - 4 // Q - 3] Creedence Clearwater Revival/John Fogerty____________The Long Road Home - The Ultimate.... (13 USA) [] Rammstein_______________Rosenrot (29 UK 40 IRE) [] Santana_____________All That I Am (36 UK 2 USA) [another duets album] [Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // HP - 2] NIRVANA_____________SLIVER : BEST OF THE BOX (56 UK 21 USA) [19 from box set, 3 new] Trey Anastasio_____________Shine (64 USA) [Phish guitarist solo album] The Paddingtons____________First Comes First (65) [debut album] [HP - 2.5 // Q - 2] Deep Purple______________Rapture Of The Deep (???) [] [Q - 2] Various Artists___________Gilles Peterson Presents The BBC Sessions (???) [various BBC sessions] [Q - 4] Embrace_____________Dry Kids (B-Sides 1997-2005) (???) [b-sides album] Grateful Dead___________Filmore West 1969 (??? USA 21NovUK) [3cd live album]
7 - 13 November : 2005 : MARIO ROSENSTOCK____________GIFT GRUB 6: THE SPECIAL ONE (1 IRE) [comedy album] Kate Bush______________Aerial (3 UK 6 IRE 48 USA) [2cd album] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4] Neil Diamond________________12 Songs (4 USA) [] [HP - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 4] Eurythmics______________Ultimate Collection (5 UK 10 IRE) [best of + 2 new songs] Texas______________Red Book (16 UK 74 IRE) [] [HP - 2] Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler___________Private Investigations : Very Best Of (20 UK 11 IRE) [Bands + its frontmans hits] Bob Marley & The Wailers___________Africa Unite - The Singles Collection (26 UK 37 IRE) [] [Q - 4] Elvis Presley___________HitStory (31 UK 22 IRE) [3cd-(1)#1s (2)Second To None (3)more hits] Jools Holland and His R&B Orchestra____________Swinging the Blues, Dancing the Ska (36) [] Barry White__________Gold : Best Of (37) [2cd best of] LIMP BIZKIT______________GREATEST HITZ (47 USA 21NovUK) [best of] David Bowie____________The Platinum Collection (55 UK 74 IRE) [3cd best of] [Q - 3] Beastie Boys______________Solid Gold Hits (71 UK 42 USA) [best of] The Mars Volta_________________Scab Dates (76 USA) [live album] [ROL STONE - 3] Various Artists______________The O.C. Mix 5 (???) [] Various Artists______________Smallville: The Metropolis Mix (???) [] The Tragically Hip____________Hipeponymous (???) [box set:2cd(Best of)+2 DVD] The Highwaymen_____________Road Goes On Forever (???) [10th anniversary re-relase, band:J Cash, W Nelson, W Jennings, K Kristofferson] Guided By Voices_____________Suitcase 2 - American Superdream Wow (???) [box set ft.rarities]
14 - 20 November : 2005 : Madonna__________Confessions On A Dance Floor (1 UK 3 IRE 1 USA) [10th album] [Q - 4 // HP - 3.5] GREEN DAY____________BULLET IN A BIBLE (6 UK 8 IRE 8 USA) [live CD/DVD, rec@ Milton Keynes National Bowl, London June 2005] [HP - 3.75 // Q - 3] Babyshambles___________Down In Albion (10 UK 28 IRE) [debut album] [HP - 3.75] Dustin The Turkey________Bling When You're Minging (15 IRE) [] Alanis Morissette____________The Collection (44 UK 41 IRE 51 USA) [Greatest Hits: 1995-2005] Wilco______________Kicking Television - Live In Chicago (47 USA) [live album] BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN____________BORN TO RUN : 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION (63 UK 40 IRE 18 USA) [cd+2dvd] Giveamanakick__________We Are The Way Foward (???) [2nd album] Various Artists_________Myspace Records: Volume 1 (???) [comp ft.AFI, Fall Out Boy, Weezer, All-American Rejects....] Bowling For Soup__________Bowling For Soup Goes To the Movies (???) [covers album] Bright Eyes___________Motion Sickness (???) [live album] Sublime__________Gold (???) [2CD best of] Bush________Zen X Four (???) [CD/DVD live album]
21 - 27 November : 2005 : Enya______________Amarantine (8 UK 16 IRE 8 USA) [7th album] SYSTEM OF A DOWN________HYPNOTIZE (11 UK 10 IRE 1 USA) [3rd album:Part 2] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Scott Strapp__________The Great Divide (19 USA) [Creed frontman debut solo album] John Mayer Trio_________Try! Live In Concert (34 USA) [band=John Mayer, Steve Jordan, Pino Palladino] Fort Minor__________The Rising Tied (60 USA) [Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda side-project, debut album] Various Artists_________Peter Kay : The Best of (62) [ft.songs sang in his shows and sketches on cd] Various Artists_____________Drive Thru Records: Greatest Hits (???) [record companys best songs ft.New Found Glory, Something Corporate, Finch, Fenix TX] Rush_____________________R30: Live In Frankfurt (???) [live 2 CD/ 2 DVD] Billy Joel___________________My Lives (???) [Box Set:4 CD + DVD ft.demo, outtakes, bside, live ect] QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE__________OVER THE YEARS & THROUGH THE TREES (???) [live CD/DVD]
28 November - 4 December : 2005 : The Darkness________________One Way Ticket To Hell And Back (11 UK 20 IRE 58 USA) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // HP - 2.5] INXS_______________Switch (17 USA) [with new singer JD Fortune] Dave Matthews Band_________________Weekend On The Rocks (37 USA) [live album:2CD+1DVD] Slade________________The Very Best Of (39) [Best Of] Ozzy Osbourne_________________Under Cover (67) [covers album] Rufus Wainwright_________________Want (???) [2CD album ft.Want One & Want Two]
5 - 11 December : 2005 : Korn_________________See You On The Other Side (3 USA 71 UK) [7th album]
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19 - 26 December : 2005 : RYAN ADAMS______________29 (???) [3rd album this year!!] [NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 2.5]
27 December 2005 - 1 January 2006: Sevendust_______________Best Of (Chapter One: 1997-2004) (???) [Best Of]
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2 - 8 January : 2006 : THE STROKES____________FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF EARTH (1 UK 4 IRE 4 USA) [3rd album] [NME - 4] Various Artists____________Grandma's Boy (???) [indie soundtrack ft.Bloc Party, VHS or Beta, Ima Robot, Futureheads, Aphex Twin......]
9 - 15 January : 2006 : Various Artists____________Underworld: Evolution (???) [soundtrack ft.Puscifer, My Chem Romance, Slipknot, Alkaline Trio, Lacuna Coil.....] Various Artists____________TBS Tunes: Fun Tracks Wisecracks (???) [light-hearted/comic songs ft.Bowling For Soup, Devo, Ween, They Might Be Giants....]
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23 - 29 January : 2006 : Artic Monkeys____________Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (1 UK 1 IRE 24 USA(Feb26)) [debut album] [NME - 5 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4] Richard Ashcroft____________Keys To The World (2 UK 6 IRE) [3rd solo album] [HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 2] Various Artists____________Tom Dunne : Pet Picks 2000-2006 (2 VA IRE) [] Yellowcard____________Lights And Sounds (59 UK 5 USA) [5th album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] The Kooks____________Inside In/Inside Out (9) [debut album] [Q - 4 // HP - 3.5] P.O.D____________Testify (9 USA) [6th album] [Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 2] Various Artists____________2006 Grammy Nominees (14 USA) [21 track ft.Gorillaz, Green Day, U2, P McCartney, J Johnson, Seal, Coldplay, Foo Fighters....] A-Ha____________Analogue (24) [8th album] Clap Your Hands Say Yeah____________Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (26 UK 11 IRE) [debut album] Cat Power____________The Greatest (45 UK 34 USA 44 IRE) [6th studio album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins____________Rabbit Fur Coat (63 UK 88 USA) [Rilo Kiley member debut solo album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] Robert Pollard____________From A Compund Eye (???) [Guided By Voices frontman 2cd solo album] [Q - 3] The Elected____________Sun, Sun, Sun (???US 30JanUK) [2nd album, Rilo Kiley's Blake Sennett side-project] [Q - 3] Tortoise & Bonnie Prince Billy____________The Brave and the Bold (???) [collab, covers album]
30 January - 5 February : 2006 : Andrea Bocelli____________Amore (3 USA 4 UK[6 Mar] 9 IRE[6 Mar]) [album of new songs] Train____________For Me, Its You (10 USA) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 3] Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan____________Ballad of the Broken Seas (38 UK 32 IRE) [1st collabrative album] Various Artists____________Rock for Relief (???) [proceeds to Mercy Corps] Various Artists____________Back To Mine:Compiled By Liam Howlett (???) [The Prodigy's Howlett picks fav tracks] [Q - 4]
6 - 12 February : 2006 : Belle & Sebastain____________The Last Pursuit (8 UK 23 IRE 65 USA) [7th album] [NME - 4 // HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Jack Johnson & Friends____________Curious George : Soundtrack (1 USA 60 UK 54 IRE) [soundtrack for film] [HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] KT Tunstall____________Eye To The Telescope (47 USA) [released in 2004 in UK] Sparks____________Hello Young Lovers (66) [20th album] [Q - 4] Idiot Pilot____________Strange We Should Meet Here (???) [debut album:Euro-06, USA-05] [Q - 3] The Academy Is____________Almost Here (???) [debut album] [Q - 3] Minus 5____________The Minus 5 (The Gun Album) (???) [album of new songs:band ft Scott McCaughey, guitarist John Ramberg and REM's Peter Buck and drummer Bill Rieflin, Wilco] [Q - 3] Sarah Harmer____________I'm A Mountain (???) [4th album] The Gossip__________Standing In The Way Of Control (???) [3rd album] Richard Thompson____________RT - The Life and Music of Richard Thompson (???) [5cd box set]
13 - 19 February : 2006 : Beth Orton____________The Comfort Of Strangers (24 UK 63 IRE 93 USA) [4th album] [HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // NME - 3] Panic! At The Disco____________A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (25 UK 73 IRE) [debut album-Euro 06, US 05] [Q - 2]
20 - 26 February : 2006 : Rodrigo y Gabriela____________Rodrigo y Gabriela (1 IRE 13Mar UK) [2nd album] [HP - 3.5] Neil Diamond____________12 Songs (5 UK 16 IRE) [album of new song, prod. by Rick Rubin] Ray Davies____________Other Peoples Lives (36) [3rd solo from The Kinks frontman] [HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] William Orbit____________Hello Waveforms (???) [album of new songs] [HP - 3 // Q - 2] Ian Love____________Ian Love (???) [album of new songs from Cardia/Rival Schools guitarist] EELS____________EELS WITH STRINGS: LIVE AT TOWN HALL (???) [live album, rec @ New York City's Town Hall in 2005] [Q - 4]
27 February - 5 March : 2006 : Corinne Bailey Rae____________Corinne Bailey Rae (1 UK 5 IRE 17 USA(19June)) [debut album] [Q - 4 // HP - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Hawthorne Heights____________If Only You Were Lonely (3 USA) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Kid Rock & The Twisted Brown Trucker Band____________Live Trucker (12 USA) [live album] BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & E-STREET BAND____________HAMMERSMITH ODEON, LONDON '75 (25 IRE 33 UK 93 USA) [live album] Cara Dillon____________After The Morning (50) [3rd album] [HP - 4] Rhett Miller____________The Believer (???) [3rd solo album from Old 97's frontman] [ROL STONE - 3.5]
6 - 12 March : 2006 : David Glimour____________On A Island (1 UK 16 IRE 6 USA) [3rd solo album from Pink Floyd member] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4] Josh Ritter____________The Animal Years (3 IRE 11Apr US) [4th album] [HP - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4] Van Morrison____________Pay The Devil (8 UK 22 IRE 26 USA) [covers album] [MOJO - 4 // HP - 3.75 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Delays____________You See Colours (24 UK 61 IRE) [2nd album] [HP - 4.5 // Q - 4 // NME - 3.5] Morning Runner____________Wilderness Is Paradise Now (25) [debut album] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 2] Mystery Jets____________Making Den (32) [debut album] [NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] The Little Willies____________The Little Willies (41 UK 48 USA) [debut album/band ft Norah Jones, mostley covers] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Neko Case____________Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (54 USA) [4th solo from The New Pornographers member] [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Mudhoney____________Under A Billion Suns (???) [7th album] [HP - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 2] Soledad Brothers____________Hardest Walk (???) [4th album] [HP - 3.25 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] The Buzzcocks____________Flat Pack Philosophy (???) [8th album] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Witch____________Witch (???) [debut album, band ft. Dinosaur Jr. singer/guitarist J Mascis on drum]] [MOJO - 3] Glenn Kotche____________Mobile (???) [3rd solo from Wilco member] Stereolab____________Fab Four Suture (???) [compilation of 6 singles & b-sides] [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // Q - 2] Dave Davies____________Kinked (???) [Kinks guitarist compilation of solo studio and live recordings] Blondie____________Greatest Hits : Sound & Vision (???USA) [CD(20 hits)/DVD(16 vids)]
13 - 19 March : 2006 : Placebo____________Meds (7 UK 21 IRE) [5th album] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Graham Coxon____________Love Travels At Illegal Speeds (24 UK 61 IRE) [6th solo album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4] Donald Fagen____________Morph The Cat (35 UK 55 IRE 26 USA) [3rd solo album from half of Steely Dan] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Black Sabbath____________Greatest Hits 1970-1978 (96 USA) [greatest hits-16 songs] The Concretes____________In Colour (???) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 3] Roots Manuva____________Alternately Deep (???) [5th album] [Q - 3] Sepultura____________Dante XXI (???US 20MarUK) [10th album] [Q - 3] Engerica____________There Are No Happy Endings (???) [debut album] The Pretenders____________Pirate Radio (???US 10AprUK) [box set-4 cd +1 dvd-demos, live, rare ect.] [Q - 3]
20 - 26 March : 2006 : Prince____________3121 (9 UK 23 IRE 1 USA) [album of new songs] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Ben Harper____________Both Sides Of The Gun (7 USA) [album of new songs, 2cd album] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Beverly Knight____________Voice : The Best Of (10) [best of 1995-2006] My Chemical Romance____________Life On The Murder Scene (53 UK 40 IRE 30 USA) [live/rarities cd/dvd] [ROL STONE - 3] Anti-Flag____________For Blood And Empire (100 USA) [5th album] HUNDRED REASONS____________KILL YOUR OWN (???) [3rd album] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Loose Fur____________Born Again In The U.S.A (???) [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] [2nd album, band ft.Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy and drummer Glenn Kotche and producer/artist Jim O'Rourke] Skin____________Fake Chemical State (???) [2nd solo album from Skunk Ainise frontwoman] [Q - 3] Liars____________Drum's Not Dead (???) [3rd album] Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders____________Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders (???) [debut album from Foo's drummer]
27 March - 2 April : 2006 : Embrace____________This New Day (1 UK 32 IRE) [4th album] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 2] Massive Attack____________Collected: Best Of (2 UK 6 IRE) [2cd Best Of: 1991-2006] [Q - 4] Rob Zombie____________Educated Horses (5 USA) [3rd solo from White Zombie member] YEAH YEAH YEAHS____________SHOW YOUR BONES (7 UK 17 IRE 11 USA) [2nd album] [NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 3] Atreyu____________Deathgrip on Yesterday (9 USA) [3rd album] Be Your Own Pet____________Be Your Own Pet (47 UK 85 IRE) [debut album] [NME - 4] Rammstein____________Rosenrot (47 USA) [5th album, Europe-2005] The Bluetones____________A Rough Outline: The Singles & B-Sides 1995-2003 (???) [2cd compilation] Roy Orbison____________The Essential Roy Orbison (???) [2cd best of]
3 - 9 April : 2006 : Morrissey___________Ringleader Of The Tormentors (1 UK 3 IRE 27 USA) [8th album] [NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] The Flaming Lips________At War With The Mystics (6 UK 6 IRE 11 USA) [11th album] [NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 4] Jack L_____________Broken Songs (11 IRE) [album of new songs] STEREOPHONICS_________LIVE FROM DAKOTA (13 UK 22 IRE) [2cd live album] [Q - 2] Poison____________The Best Of Poison: 20 Years Of Rock (17 USA) [best of 1986-2006] Daft Punk____________Musique Vol.1: 1993-2005 (34 UK 34 IRE) [best of] [Q - 3] Secret Machines_________Ten Silver Drops (43 UK 75 IRE) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // NME - 3.5] THE VINES___________VISION VALLEY (71) [3rd album] [Q - 4 // NME - 3.5] Killing Joke_________Hosannas from the Basements of Hell (???) [13th album] [MOJO - 4] Islands__________Return To The Sea (???) [debut album] Erasure___________Union Street (???) [band record acoustic/country & western versions of some hits]
10 - 16 April : 2006 : The Streets__________The Hardest Way To Make A Living (1 UK 3 IRE 68 USA) [3rd album] [NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Christy Moore__________Live At The Point 2006 (1 IRE) [live CD/DVD] Republic Of Loose________Aaagh! (2 IRE) [2nd album] QUEEN_______________STONE COLD CLASSICS (45 USA) [Greatest Hits] THE BEATLES_____________CAPITOL ALBUMS VOLUME 2 (46 USA) [box set ft. 4 albums] Buckcherry____________15 (48 USA) [3rd album] Calexico____________Garden Ruin (59 IRE) [5th album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] Various Artists__________MTV2 Headbangers Ball: The Revenge (60 USA) Built To Spill___________You In Reverse (63 USA) [6th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // Q - 3] Saves The Day___________Sound The Alarm (67 USA) [5th album] [Q - 3] Pretty Girls Make Graves_____________Elan Vital (???) [3rd album] [MOJO - 4] Eagles Of Death Metal____________Death By Sexy (???) [2nd album, band ft. Josh Homme on drums]
17 - 23 April : 2006 : THE ZUTONS____________TIRED OF HANGIN' AROUND (2 UK 25 IRE 22Aug(USA)) [2nd album] [MOJO - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 2] The Charlatans__________Simpatico (10 UK 83 IRE) [9th album] [MOJO - 3 // Q - 2] Dresden Dolls__________Yes, Virginia (42 USA) [2nd album] [Q - 3] N.O.F.X_____________Wolves In Wolves' Clothing (46 USA) [10th album] [ROCK SOUND - 3.5] Drive-By Truckers_______A Blessing and a Curse (50 USA) [6th album] Fiery Furnaces________Bitter Tea (???) [5th album] [Q - 2] Richard Butler________Richard Butler (???) [Psychedelic Furs singer solo album] [UNCUT - 2] Rye Coalition_______Curses (???) [4th album, helped by Nirvana/Probot/Foo Fighters Dave Ghrol]
24 - 30 April : 2006 : Gnarls Barkley______________St Elsewhere (1 UK 4 IRE 20 USA(may8)) [debut album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN________________WE SHALL OVERCOME : THE SEEGER SESSIONS (3 UK 2 IRE 3 USA) [album of traditional cover songs] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3] Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova___________The Swell Season (5 IRE) [debut album] [Q - 3] Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris___________All The Roadrunning (8 UK 25 IRE 17 USA) [collabrative album] [Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Taking Back Sunday_____________Louder Now (18 UK 70 IRE 2 USA) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Wolfmother_______________Wolfmother (25 UK 22 USA) [debut album, released Australia 2005] [Q - 4 // NME - 3.5] Goo Goo Dolls_____________Let Love In (65 UK 98 IRE 9 USA) [8th album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Therapy?____________One Cure Fits All (???) [9th album] [Q - 2] Starlight Mints__________Drowaton (???) [3rd album] The Drips___________The Drips (???) [debut album, band ft.ex-Distllers guitarist T Belivaqua's and ex-the Bronx Matt Caughthran and Joby J Ford] Tom Verlaine__________Around (???) [Television frontman solo album - instrumetal] Tom Verlaine__________Songs and Other Things (???) [Television frontman solo album] Various Artists_________Unexpected Dreams: Songs from the Stars (???) [charity album ft TV Stars(ex.Teri Hatcher) and Film stars(Scarlett Johansson)] K.D. Lang___________Reintarnation (???) [best of album, 1984-1993] [MOJO - 3 // Q - 3]
1 - 7 May : 2006 : SNOW PATROL__________EYES OPEN (1 UK 1 IRE 34 USA) [4th album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // NME - 3] Tool____________10,000 Days (4 UK 6 IRE 1 USA) [4th album, first since 2001] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3] PEARL JAM____________PEARL JAM (5 UK 4 IRE 2 USA) [8th album] [K - 5 // ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // CLASSOC ROCK - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 2] Jewel______________Goodbye Alice In Wonderland (8 USA) [5th album] [UNCUT - 3 // HP - 3 // ROL STONE - 2 // MOJO - 2 // NME - 2] Thursday____________A City Divided By Light (20 USA) [4th album] [UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 1.5] Scott Walker/The Walker Brothers_____________The Best of: the Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore (25) [best of solo and group] Rebel Meets Rebel________________Rebel Meets Rebel (38) [debut album, band ft Pantera's trio of musicians ("Dimebag" Darrell and Vinnie Paul Abbott and Rex Brown) and country singer David Allan Coe] Kayne West____________Late Orchestration (59 UK 46 IRE) [live album, rec in London 2005] Glen Phillips_________Mr. Lemons (???) [3rd solo album from Toad The Wet Sprocket singer solo album] Sunset Rubdown_________Shut Up, I Am Dreaming (???) [2nd album] The Bellrays________Have A Little Faith (???US 7AugUK) [album of new songs]
8 - 14 May : 2006 : RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS_________STADIUM ARCADIUM (1 UK 1 IRE 1 USA) [9th album-2CD] [Q - 5 // ROL STONE - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROCK SOUND - 3] Dirty Pretty Things_________Waterloo To Anywhere (3 UK 22 IRE) [debut album, band ft.Carl Barat] [NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Paul Simon___________Suprise (14 USA 5JuneUK) [10th solo album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] Neil Young___________Living With War (15 USA 14 UK 24 IRE) [album of new songs] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3] John Fogerty_________The Long Road Home: the Ultimate John Fogerty/Creedence Collection (32 UK (Nov05)US) [his solo hits and songs with CCR] Scott Walker_________The Drift (51 UK 80 IRE) [album of new songs, first since 1995] [Q - 2] Korn_______________Live & Rare (51 USA) [live & rare songs!] Hard-Fi______________In Operation (62) [live CD/DVD] Ocean Colour Scene__________Live at the Jam House: Acoustic Set (73 UK 88 IRE) [live/acoustic ft some new songs] Black Heart Procession__________The Spell (???) [5th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // MOJO - 3] The Stills_____________Without Feathers (???) [2nd album] [NME - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // Q - 2 // ROL STONE - 2]
15 - 21 May : 2006 : THE RACONTEURS____________BROKEN BOY SOLDIERS (2 UK 4 IRE 7 USA) [debut album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // NME - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 3] [band ft. Jack White & Brendan Benson] FEEDER_______________THE SINGLES (3 UK 16 IRE) [Greatest Hits+3 new songs, 1998-2006] [Q - 4] Beautiful South__________Superbi (6 UK 17 IRE) [9th album] Hoobastank__________Every Man For Himself (12 USA) [3rd album] Bic Runga___________Birds (26 IRE) [3rd album, New Zealand-2005] Grandaddy___________Just Like the Fambly Cat (50 UK 82 IRE) [4th album] [Q - 3] Foward Russia___________Give Me A Wall (53) [debut album] [NME - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Shack____________The Corner Of Miles And Gil (55) [5th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 4] Ron Sexsmith___________Time Being (79 IRE) [album of new songs] Twilight Singers__________Powder Burns (???) [4th album, Band ft former Afghan Whigs leader Greg Dulli] [Q - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5] Radio 4____________Enemies Like This (???) [4th album] [HP - 3.25 // UNCUT - 3] Phoenix____________Its Never Been Like That (???) [3rd album] [Q - 3]
22 - 28 May : 2006 : Zero 7____________The Garden (4 UK 29 IRE) [3rd album] [Q - 3] Pet Shop Boys___________Fundamental (5 UK 24 IRE) [9th album] [Q - 4] Angels & Airwaves_________We Don't Need To Whisper (6 UK 23 IRE 4 USA) [debut album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // HP - 2.25 // UNCUT - 2] The Wreckers_________Stand Still, Look Pretty (14 USA) [debut album, band ft.Michelle Branch and Jessica Harp] Boy Kill Boy_________Civilian (16) [debut album] [HP - 4.5 // Q - 4 // NME - 3] Johnny Cash_________Personal File (31 IRE) [2cd of previously unreleased material-self-produced, solo acoustic recordings] [HP - 3.5] Def Leppard__________Yeah! (52 UK 16 USA) [covers album] [ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Less Than Jake________In With the Out Crowd (55 UK 78 USA) [6th album] [ROCK SOUND - 3] Mission Of Burma_________The Obliterati (???) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Hot Chip___________The Warning (???) [debut album] [NME - 4] The Walkmen___________A Hundred Miles Off (???) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Cosmic Rough Riders____________The Stars Look Different from Down Here (???) [4th album] [ROCK SOUND - 2] Various Artists____________Big Star, Small World (???) [Big Star tribute album ft. Idlewild, Wilco...] [Q - 2]
29 May - 4 June : 2006 : MUNDY______________LIVE & CONFUSION (6 IRE) [live CD/DVD] [HP - 3.5] THE FUTUREHEADS____________NEWS & TRIBUTES (12 UK 49 IRE) [2nd album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] A.F.I______________Decemberunderground (16 UK 66 IRE 1 USA) [7th album] [ROL STONE - 3 // NME - 3 // UNCUT - 3] The Upper Room__________Other People's Problems (50) [debut album] [HP - 2.25 // UNCUT - 2] Peeping Tom___________Peeping Tom (103 USA) [debut album, band ft. Faith No More's Mike Patton and Dan the Automator] [UNCUT - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Les Claypool___________Of Whales And Woe (115 USA) [Primus bassist/vocalist debut solo album] [ROL STONE - 2.5] George Thorogood & the Destroyers______________The Hard Stuff (???) [album of new songs] The Candlebox_________________The Best of (???) [best of 1993-1998, after 3 albums]
5 - 11 June : 2006 : Sandi Thom_________Smile, It Confuses People (1 UK 3 IRE) [debut album] [HP - 3 // UNCUT - 2] The Feeling_________Twelve Stops And Home (2 UK 76 IRE) [debut album] [HP - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Paul Simon_________Suprise (4 UK 8 IRE) [10th solo album, 1st since 2000] [HP - 4 // MOJO - 3] Primal Scream________Riot City Blues (5 UK 14 IRE) [8th album] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 4 // MOJO - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Damien Dempsey________Live At The Olympia (10 IRE) [live album] [HP - 4] Various Artists________Vans Warped Tour 2006 Compilation (27 USA) [bands that appeared on tour] Live_______________Songs From The Black Mountain (52 USA) [7th album] [ROL STONE - 2] Sonic Youth__________Rather Ripped (64 UK 72 IRE) [album of new songs] [HP - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Gomez____________How We Operate (69) [5th album] [HP - 4.5 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 2] Head Automatica________________Propaganda (???) [2nd album: band ft.Glassjaw singer Daryl Palumbo] [MOJO - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // HP - 3] Cracker____________Greenland (???) [8th album] [UNCUT - 4] Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint____________River In Reverse (???) [collaboration album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] Cheap Trick___________Rockford (???) [album of new songs, named after hometown]
12 - 18 June : 2006 : KEANE______________UNDER THE IRON SEA (1 UK 1 IRE 4 USA) [2nd album] [HP - 3.25 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 3] Nelly Furtado__________Loose (5 UK 14 IRE 1 USA) [3rd album] [HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Three Days Grace__________One-X (5 USA) [2nd album] Billy Joel_________12 Gardens Live (14 USA 80 IRE) [2cd live album] Paul Weller__________Catch Flame (31 IRE) [2cd live album] [HP - 4.25 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3] Widespread Panic_______Earth To America (48 USA) [9th album] The Longcut______________A Call And Response (???) [debut album] [NME - 4 // HP - 3.5 // MOJO - 3] Joan As Police Woman________Real Life (???) [debut album] [ROL STONE - 2.5] Brookville______________Life in the Shade (???) [2nd album, band ft.Ivy member Andy Chase] Joan Jett & The Blackhearts________Sinner (???) [album of new songs] Allison Moorer____________Getting Somewhere (???) [album of new songs, produced by Steve Earle] Various Artists___________Sound of Superman (???) The Replacements____________Don't You Know Who I Think I Was?: The Best of (???) [best of 1983-1990+2 new songs] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 3]
19 - 26 June : 2006 : Fatboy Slim__________Why Try Harder: The Greatest Hits (2 UK 5 IRE) [greatest hits 1997-2006] [ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4] Underoath________Define the Great Line (2 USA) [5th album] The Automatic__________Not Accepted Anywhere (3) [debut album] [HP - 3.75 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Guster_____________Ganging Up On The Sun (25 USA) [5th album] THE DIVINE COMEDY________VICTORY FOR THE COMIC MUSE (43 UK 22 IRE) [9th album] [HP - 4.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Hope Of The States________Left (50) [2nd album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // HP - 3.5 // NME - 3 // UNCUT - 3] COUNTING CROWS__________NEW AMSTERDAM: LIVE AT THE HEINEKEN MUSIC HALL 2003 (52 USA) [live album recorded in 2003] Frank Black_________Fastman/Raiderman (???) [2cd album of new songs] [MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Various Artists_________Austin City Limits 2005 (???) [2cd live album]
27 June - 2 July : 2006 : Lostprophets__________Liberation Transmission (1 UK 30 IRE 33 USA) [3rd album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] India.Arie_____________Testimony: Vol. 1,Life & Relationship (1 USA) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] Dashboard Confessional___________Dusk & Summer (2 USA) [4th album] [Q - 2] Billy Talent______________Billy Talent II (46) [2nd album] Various Artists________Rough Trade Shops: Singer Songwriter 01 (???) [2cd album] Grant Lee Phillips__________nineteeneighties (???) [covers album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3]
3 - 10 July : 2006 : MUSE______________BLACK HOLES & REVELATIONS (1 UK 1 IRE 9 USA) [4th album] [Q - 5 // NME - 4.5 // HP - 4.25 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // MOJO - 3] Johnny Cash__________American V : A Hundred Highways (9 UK 5 IRE 1 USA) [album of covers and some new songs] [HP - 4.25 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Rise Against__________The Sufferer & The Witness (10 USA) [4th album]
11 - 18 July : 2006 : Thom Yorke____________The Eraser (3 UK 8 IRE 2 USA) [Radiohead singer debut solo album] [ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.5] Guillemots____________Through The Windowpane (17 UK 60 IRE) [debut album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3] The Early November___________The Mother, The Mechanic, And The Path (31 USA) [2nd album, 3cd album!] Seether______________One Cold Night (50 USA) [acoustic versions of their hits] REGINA SPEKTOR__________BEGIN TO HOPE (54) [4th album] [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 3] Sufjan Stevens__________The Avalanche: Outtakes And Extras From The Illinois Album (71 USA 55 IRE) [album of outtakes] [HP - 4.5 // NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] The Format_________Dog Problems (77 USA) [2nd album] Peaches_______________Impeach My Bush (???) [3rd album] [HP - 4.5 // NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Every Move A Picture_____________Heart == Weapon (???) [debut album] [ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // HP - 3] Soul Asylum___________The Silver Lining (???) [9th album, 1st since 1998] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Butch Walker__________The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and the Let's-Go-Out-Tonites (???) [3rd album] Various Artists________Music From Glastonbury The Film (???) [ft's music from rockumentary film directed by Julien Temple] [Q - 3]
19 - 26 July : 2006 : Razorlight___________Razorlight (1 UK 2 IRE) [2nd album] [Q - 5 // HP - 3.75 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Lily Allen___________Smile (2 UK 6 IRE 20 USA[29Jan07]) [debut album] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.75 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Paolo Nutini__________These Streets (3 UK 26 IRE 48 USA[29Jan07]) [debut album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 2 // ROL STONE - 2] The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus______Don't You Fake It (25 USA) [debut album] The Pipettes_______________We Are The Pipettes (41) [debut album] [HP - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] The Rifles___________No Love Lost (68) [debut album] [MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Moloko___________Catalogue: Best Of (70 IRE) [best of 1995-2003] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Golden Smog___________Another Fine Day (95 USA) [3rd album, 1st since 1998] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] Helmet__________Monochrome (159 USA) [6th album] The Bronx__________The Bronx (???) [2nd album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // Q - 3] ALIEN ANT FARM_________UP IN THE ATTIC (???) [4th album] THIRD EYE BLIND_________A COLLECTION (THE BEST OF) (???) [best of 1997-2003]
26 - 31 July : 2006 : Pharrell Williams___________In My Mind (7 UK 21 IRE 3 USA) [N.E.R.D/The Neptunes singer/producer debut album] [NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // UNCUT - 2] James Dean Bradfield___________The Great Western (22 UK 62 IRE) [Manic Street Preacher singer debut solo album] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 3] Humanzi_________Tremors (44 IRE) [debut album] [HP - 4.25 // Q - 2] Tom Petty____________Highway Companion (56 UK 70 IRE 4 USA) [3rd solo album] [Q - 4 // MH - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // HP - 3.5] Flogging Molly__________Whiskey On A Sunday (67 USA) [compilation ft.acoustic and live songs] Silversun Pickups_________Carnavas (???US 161 UK[28May07]) [debut album] [CR - 3 // Q - 3] New York Dolls_________One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This (???) [3rd album, 1st since 1974] [HP - 4.25 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Roddy Woomble__________My Secret Is My Silence (???) [Idlewild singer debut solo album] [HP - 4.25 // Q - 1] Sleepy Jackson__________Personality (One Was A Spider, One Was A Bird) (???) [2nd album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Various Artists_________Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (???) [soundtrack to Cohen documentary] Various Artists_________Bollocks To Cancer (???) [album ft. unrealesed songs(Elbow, Weller...), Proceeds go to male cancer charity Everyman] Bruce Hornsby_________Intersections 1985-2005 (???) [4cd + 1dvd- compilation of unreleased studio,live,sessions ect]
31 July - 6 August : 2006 : James Morrison___________Undiscovered (1 UK 16 IRE) [debut album] [Q - 4 // HP - 4 // UNCUT - 2] Stone Sour__________Come What(ever) May (27 UK 34 IRE 4 USA) [2nd album] [K - 4 // Q - 2] Duels_______The Bright Lights and What I Should Have Learned (???) [debut album] [NME - 4 // Q - 3 // HP - 3] Espers_________Espers II (???) [3rd album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3]
7 - 13 August : 2006 : Breaking Benjamin________Phobia (2 USA) [3rd album] Slayer______________Christ Illusion (5 USA 10 IRE 23 UK) [10th album] [K - 4] Five For Fighting_________Two Lights (8 USA) [4th album] Ani DiFranco__________Reprieve (46 USA) [15th album] [UNCUT - 3] La Rocca____________The Truth (???) [debut album] [HP - 4] Matt Friedberger_________Winter Women/Holy Ghost Language School (???) [Fiery Furnaces member releases 2 solo albums together] [ROL STONE - 3] Nina Gordon____________Bleeding Heart Graffiti (???) [2nd album from Veruca Salt singer] Kaki King___________... Until We Felt Red (???) [3rd album] The Sadies_________In Concert: Volume 1 (???) [live album]
14 - 20 August : 2006 : The Mama's & The Papa's____________California Dreamin': the Best of (21) [24 track best of] The Captain_________________This Is Hazelville (23) [debut album] [NME - 2.5] Lambchop_______________Damaged (43 UK 52 IRE) [album of new songs] [HP - 4.5 // Q - 4] The Panic Channel_____________(One) (???) [debut album from 3 members of Janes Addiction with new singer] [UNCUT - 2] The Damnwells____________Air Stereo (???) [2nd album] The Monkees___________The Monkees: Deluxe Edition (???) [expanded 2 disc edition of 1966 album, their debut] The Monkees___________More Of The Monkees: Deluxe Edition (???) [expanded 2 disc edition of 1967 album, their 2nd]
21 - 27 August : 2006 : DAVID KITT__________________NOT FADE AWAY (5 IRE) [4th studio album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Outkast__________________Idlewild (16 UK 19 IRE 2 USA) [6th album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4] Kelis________________Kelis Was Here (10 USA 41 UK(11Sep)) [4th album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Prince_________________Ultimate (24 UK 21 IRE 61 USA) [2cd best of, 2nd disc:remixes ect] The Young Knives______________Voices Of Animals and Men (21) [debut album] [Q - 4 // NME - 3.5] Seth Lakeman________________Freedom Fields (32) [3rd solo album] The Immediate________________In Towers And Clouds (33 IRE) [debut album] Various Artists________________Soundtrack: Snakes On A Plane (43 USA) [s/t ft.Cobra Starship, Gym Class Heroes, The Bronx ect] Cerys Matthews________________Never Say Goodbye (43) [2nd album from Catatonia singer] [Q - 3] Gov't Mule____________High and Mighty (62 USA) [album of new songs] Alexisonfire_______________Crisis (72) [3rd album] Cursive_______________Happy Hollow (96 USA) [5th album] M. Ward___________________Post-War (???) [5th album] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Amy Millan_______________Honey From The Tombs (???) [debut album-performs with Stars and B.S.Scene] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Radio Birdman_________________Zeno Beach (???) [album of new songs, 1st since 1981] [UNCUT - 3 // MH - 3] David Pajo________________1968 (???) [2nd solo from Slint,Tortoise,Zwan,Papa M member] [UNCUT - 3] Eric Bachmann_________________To The Races (???) [2nd solo album-Crooked Fingers singer] Various Artists___________________Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys (???) [2cd album inspired by the 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' films] Tortoise_________________A Lazarus Taxon (???) [3cd+dvd - Compilation of rare material] Reel Big Fish______________Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album (???) [2cd/1dvd live album]
28 August - 3 September : 2006 : Bob Dylan___________Modern Times (3 UK 1 IRE 1 USA) [32nd album] [Q - 4 // MH - 3] Kasabian___________Empire (1 UK 3 IRE) [2nd album] [NME - 4.5 // Q - 4 // MH - 3 // ROL STONE - 1] Iron Maiden___________A Matter Of Life and Death (4 UK 5 IRE 9 USA) [14th album] [K - 5 // METAL HAMMER - 5 // ROL STONE - 3] The Roots___________Game Theory (9 USA) [7th album] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Ray LaMontagne___________Till The Sun Turns Black (28 USA 73 UK(9Oct) 50 IRE(9Oct)) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // HP - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Crossfade_________Falling Away (30) [2nd album] Motorhead_________Kiss Of Death (45) [18th album] [UNCUT - 4] Pete Yorn_________Nightcrawler (50 USA) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 2.5] Sunshine Underground________Raise The Alarm (66) [debut album] [Q - 3] The Dears_________Gangs Of Losers (???) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Beach Boys___________Pet Sounds: 40th Anniversary Limited Edition (???) [expanded ed of 1966 album with new mono mix, DVD mixes] [MH - 5 // UNCUT - 4]
4 - 10 September : 2006 : Audioslave____________Revelations (12 UK 7 IRE 2 USA) [3rd album] [K - 3 // HP - 2.5 // UNCUT - 2] Freddie Mercury__________The Very Best Of Freddie Mercury Solo (6 UK 27 IRE) [2cd best of, 1:hits 2:remixes,demo....] Missy Elliot__________Respect M.E. (7 UK 11 IRE) [best of 1997-2005] [UNCUT - 4] Basement Jaxx___________Crazy Itch Radio (16 UK 29 IRE) [4th album] [UNCUT - 4] Bread__________The Sound of Bread: Their 20 Finest Songs (18) [20 track best of] Nick Oliveri & The Mondo Generator________Dead Planet: SonicSlowMotionTrails (???) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 4] Charlotte Gainsbourg__________________5:55 (???) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 3] Box Codax________________Only An Orchard Away (???) [debut album from band ft.Nick McCarthy(Franz Ferdinand)] [UNCUT - 2 // Q - 1] Hem_____________Funnel Cloud (???) [4th album] Pinback____________Nautical Antiques: Selection of B-Sides Outtakes (???) [11 track compilation] Alice In Chains__________Essential Alice In Chains (???) [28 song best of 1989-1999] [UNCUT - 2]
11 - 17 September : 2006 : The Fratellis__________Costello Music (2 UK 45 IRE) [debut album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] John Mayer__________Continuum (2 USA 58 UK(16Oct)) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 2 // Q - 2] The Mars Volta_________Amputechture (49 UK 68 IRE 9 USA) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // NME - 2.5] PAPA ROACH___________THE PARAMOUR SESSIONS (61 UK 16 USA) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 2.5] BARENAKED LADIES__________BARENAKED LADIES ARE ME (17 USA) [7th album] [ROL STONE - 2.5] Black Label Society___________Shot To Hell (69 UK 21 USA) [7th album] [ROL STONE - 2] Diana Krall____________From This Moment On (29 UK 7 USA(25Sep)) [10th album] [UNCUT - 3] Mastodon___________Blood Mountain (46 UK 41 IRE 32 USA) [3rd album] [MH - 4.5 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // HP - 2.5] Madeleine Peyroux__________Half the Perfect World (33 USA) [4th album] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] TV On The Radio__________Return To Cookie Mountain (41 USA) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 4.5 // HP - 4.25 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Echo & The Bunnymen________More Songs to Learn and Sing: the Very Best of (47) [best of] [UNCUT - 3] Micky Harte__________Live & Learn (53 IRE) [2nd album] Yo La Tengo__________I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass (66 USA 56 IRE) [11th album] [ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Sugarcult___________Lights Out (64 USA) [5th album] Hothouse Flowers_________Platinum Collection (69 IRE) [best of] R.E.M______________AND I FEEL FINE - BEST OF THE IRS YEARS (70 UK 80 IRE) [2cd: 1982–1987, 1cd:best of,2nd:rarities ect] [MH - 4.5 // UNCUT - 4] Colm Lynch___________A Whisper In A Riot (87 IRE) [debut album] The Black Keys_________Magic Potion (95 USA) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Peter Frampton__________Fingerprints (???) [his 1st instrumental album] [UNCUT - 3] Everclear____________Welcome To The Drama Club (???) [7th album] [ROL STONE - 2] Electric Six________Switzerland (???) [3rd album] [Q - 2 // UNCUT - 1] The Album Leaf__________Into The Blue Again (???) [4th album] Ima Robot__________Monument To The Masses (???) [2nd album] Heavens_____________Patent Pending (???) [debut album-ft. Matt Skiba(A Trio)] Various Artists______Between The Covers (???) [covers by U2, S Crow, T Amos, Madonna, N Jones... proceeds to Aids research] Dead Moon___________Echoes Of The Past (???) [best of, 2cd] PULP___________HIS 'N' HERS: DELUXE EDITION (???) [2cd version of 1994 album, their 4th ft.b-sides,demos..] PULP___________DIFFERENT CLASS: DELUXE EDITION (???) [2cd version of 1995 album, their 5th ft.b-sides,demos..] PULP___________THIS IS HARDCORE: DELUXE EDITION (???) [2cd version of 1998 album, their 6th ft.b-sides,demos..]
18 - 24 September : 2006 : Scissor Sisters__________Ta-Dah (1 UK 1 IRE 19 USA) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Elton John____________The Captain and The Kid (6 UK 18 USA) [29th album] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 2] New Found Glory__________Coming Home (19 USA) [5th album] DJ Shadow_______________The Outsider (24 UK 25 IRE 77 USA) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 4] Get Cape Wear Cape Fly__________The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager (26) [debut album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Jonny Lang_____________Turn Around (35 USA) [5th album] The Rapture___________Pieces Of The People We Love (40 UK 52 IRE) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Free______________Chronicles: The Very Best Of (42) [2cd best of] Indigo Girls____________Despite Our Differences (47 USA) [10th album] Bonnie 'Prince' Billy________The Letting Go (70 UK 27 IRE) [album of new songs] [UNCUT - 4] Bert Jansch________The Black Swan (???) [23rd album] [UNCUT - 4] Ben Kweller________Ben Kweller (???) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Darkel___________Darkel (???) [Air member debut solo album] [MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Joseph Arthur_______Nuclear Daydream (???) [5th album] Smash Mouth________Summer Girl (???) [5th album] Ann Scott_________We're Smiling (???) [2nd album] Various Artists__________A Life Less Lived : The Gothic Box (???) [3cd/1dvd box set] Various Artists__________My Name Is Earl - The Album (???) [soundtrack to 1st series] Electronic____________Get the Message: The Best of (???) [best of 1989-1999: band are Bernard Summer(New Order), Johnny Marr(the Smiths)] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] Mansun______________Legacy: the Best of (???) [best of 1995-2004] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Janes Addiction_________Up from the Catacombs: the Best of (???) [best of 1987-2003]
25 September - 1 October : 2006 : THE FRAMES___________THE COST (2 IRE) [6th album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5] Tony Bennett___________Duets (3 USA) [celebrates 80th bday, duets with Bono, McCartney, Sting, E John, S Wonder...] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 2 // Q - 1] Weird Al Yankovich__________Straight Outta Lynwood (10 USA) [12th album] [ROL STONE - 3] Jamelia____________Walk With Me (20 UK 67 IRE) [3rd album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Saosin____________Saosin (22 USA) [debut album] Jerry Lee Lewis_________Last Man Standing: The Duets (26 USA) [deuts with Springsteen, Clapton, Young, Nelson] [ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] Larrikin Love__________The Freedom Spark (37) [debut album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 3] The Lemonheads__________The Lemonheads (56) [8th album] [UNCUT - 4 // MH - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 2.5] Sparklehorse__________Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain (60) [4th album] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Nicky Wire__________I Killed The Zeitgeist (???) [Manic Street Preacher bassist solo debut album] [UNCUT - 3] Paul McCartney________Ecce Cor Meum (???) [classical album] Emily Haines_________Knives Don't Have Your Back (???) [Metric's singer 2nd solo album] Jay Bennett________The Magnificent Defeat (???) [new album from ex-Wilco member] Depeche Mode________Touring the Angel: Live In Milan (???) [live CD/DVD] My Morning Jacket________Okonokos (???) [2cd live album] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] The Black Crowes__________The Lost Crowes (???) [2cd sessions album] [UNCUT - 4 // MH - 3.5] Tori Amos_________A Piano: The Collection (???) [5cd box set of hits,demos,live,unreleased] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] The Byrds___________The Byrds: There Is A Season (???) [99 songs on 4cds(hits,demos,live), and dvd] [Q - 5 // ROL STONE - 5 // MH - 4.5 // UNCUT - 4] John Lennon________The U.S. Vs John Lennon (???) [s/t to documentary of same name, ft 2 unrealeased tracks] [UNCUT - 4]
2 - 8 October : 2006 : THE KILLERS___________SAM'S TOWN (1 UK 1 IRE 2 USA) [2nd album] [HP - 4.25 // NME - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 2] Evanescence___________The Open Door (2 UK 3 IRE 1 USA) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 2] BECK_____________THE INFORMATION (41 IRE 7 USA) [7th album] [HP - 4.25 // NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Jet______________Shine On (13 UK 57 IRE 16 USA) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3] The 4 Of Us__________Fingerprints (17 IRE) [6th album] Duke Special_________Songs From The Deep Forest (31 IRE 24OctUK) [debut album] [Q - 4 // HP - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Kt Tunstall_________Acoustic Extravaganza (32) [acoustic versions of songs] [ROL STONE - 3] The Decemberists_______The Crane Wife (35 USA 127 UK[29Jan'07]) [4th album] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.75 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Simple Kid__________Simple Kid 2 (43 IRE) [2nd album] [HP - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] Scott Matthews__________Passing Stranger (45) [re-release, org.April 2006] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3 // HP - 2.75] BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN__________WE SHALL OVERCOME: SEEGER SESSIONS - AMERICAN LAND EDITION (70) [re-release(April 2006) with extra songs] [UNCUT - 4] Amos Lee_______________Supply and Demand (76 USA) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 2] Lindsey Buckingham__________Under The Skin (80 USA) [4th solo from Fleetwood Mac guitarist] [UNCUT - 5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3__________Ole! Tarantula (???) [album of new songs] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 3] Sean Lennon______________Friendly Fire (???) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 2] Katryn Williams_________________Leave To Remain (???) [6th album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Juliette & The Licks___________Four To The Floor (???) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // HP - 2] Cord______________Other People's Lives Are Not As Perfect As They Seem (???) [debut album] [Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2] The Boyfriends______________The Boyfriends (???) [debut album] [Q - 2] Akron/Family___________Meek Warrior (???) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 2] Trey Anastasio_______________Bar 17 (???) [5th solo from Phish singer/guitarist] Amplifier____________Insider (???) [2nd album] Various Artists____________________The Record Shop - 30 Years Of Rough Trade Shops (???) [2cd ft. songs picked by bands] Gomez______________Five Men in a Hut: A's B's and Rarities: 1998-2004 (???) [2cd compilation] [Q - 3] Mercury Rev______________Essential Mercury Rev: Stillness Breathes 1991-2006 (???) [2cd best of] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3]
9 - 15 October : 2006 : Director______________We Thrive On Big Cities (2 IRE) [debut album] [HP - 8.5] Trivium______________The Crusade (7 UK 12 IRE 25 USA) [3rd album] [MH - 4] Senses Fail_____________Start Searching (15 USA) [2nd album] Sting______________Songs From The Labyrinth (24 UK 37 USA) [lute themed album] [ROL STONE - 3] Millburn________________Well, Well, Well (32) [debut album] Albert Jr. Hammond_________Your's To Keep (74) [Strokes guitarist solo debut album] [HP - 4.25 // NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Robert Randolph & the Family Band___________Colorblind (75 USA) [2nd studio album] The Blood Brothers___________Young Machetes (92 USA) [5th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 2 // Q - 2] The Melvins___________A Senile Animal (???) [album of new songs] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Iain Archer__________Magnetic North (???) [album of new songs] [HP - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Meg Baird/Helena Espvall/Sharron Kraus_____________Leaves From Off The Tree (???) [collabrative album between 3 women] [UNCUT - 4] Robert Pollard_________Normal Happiness (???) [singe of Guided By Voices-2nd solo album in 2006] [ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] The Bluetones__________The Bluetones (???) [5th album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] The Datsuns___________Smoke & Mirrors (???) [3rd album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // HP - 2.75] Portastatic___________Be Still Please (???) [new album from Band features 2 members of Superchunk] Various Artists___________Soundtrack: Marie Antoinette (???US Nov6UK) [2cd ft.Strokes, New Order, The Cure, Gang of Four] [UNCUT - 4] Various Artists___________American Hardcore: The History of American Punk Rock 1980-1986 (???) [26 track ft.Black Flag, Bad Brains, Scream, Minor Threat] [UNCUT - 4] Various Artists___________John Peel - Right Time Wrong Speed: 1977-1987 (???) [2cd-DJ Peel's fav songs] [Q - 4]
16 - 22 October : 2006 : BADLY DRAWN BOY______________BORN IN THE UK (17 UK 54 IRE) [4th album] [Q - 4 // HP - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Deacon Blue______________The Singles (18 UK 9 IRE) [19 track best of] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] AEROSMITH____________DEVIL'S GOT A NEW DISGUISE:THE VERY BEST OF (33 USA) [new best of ft.16 classic's + 2 new tracks] Chris Rea_______________The Road To Hell & Back (34) [live album] Messiah J & The Expert_________________Now This I Have To Hear (83 IRE) [2nd album] [HP - 4.5] Jeremy Enigk_________________World Waits (???) [2nd solo from Sunny Day Real Estate/Fire Theft singer] [UNCUT - 3] Clinic______________Visitations (???) [5th album] [Q - 4 // HP - 3.75] Various Artists_____________(BBC Radio 1's) Live Lounge (???) [covers album] [Q - 3] Goldfrapp_____________We Are Glitter (???) [remix album] Primus____________They Can't All Be Zingers: Best of (???) [16 track best of]
23 - 29 October : 2006 : My Chemical Romance______________The Black Parade (2 UK 5 IRE 2 USA) [3rd album] [NME - 4.5 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3] Meat Loaf_______________Bat Out Of Hell 3: The Monster Is Loose (3 UK 20 IRE 8 USA[NW]) [album of new songs] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 2 // ROL STONE - 2] John Legend_________________Once Again (10 UK 19 IRE 3 USA) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // HP - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] The Ordinary Boys_______________How To Get Everything You Ever Wanted (15) [3rd album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2 // MOJO - 2] Royseven________________The Art Of Insincerity (17 IRE) [debut album] Various Artists___________Soundtrack: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Special Edition (31 USA) [re-release of 1993 soundtrack with bonus disc] Paul Stanley___________Live To Win (53 USA) [Kiss singer/guitarist solo album] [UNCUT - 1] Pet Shop Boys_____________Concrete (61) [live album] [UNCUT - 2] Sparta________________Threes (83 USA) [3rd album] Tim Finn_____________Imaginery Kingdom (???) [7th solo, Finn Brothers/Split Enz member] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] Isobel Campbell______________Milkwhite Sheets (???) [2nd album of 06] [UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Def Leppard______________Hysteria: Deluxe Edition (???) [re-release of 18ml selling 1986 album] [MH - 4.5 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 2] Bright Eyes_____________Noise Floor: Rarities 1998-2005 (???) [rarities] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] BEN FOLDS____________SUPERSUNNYSPEEDGRAPHIC: THE LP (???) [songs from recent EP's and movies] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] PULP______________THE COMPLETE PEEL SESSIIONS 1981-2001 (???) [2cd radio sessions] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // UNCUT - 4] PJ HARVEY_____________THE PEEL SESSIONS 1991-2004 (???) [radio sessions] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 2]
30 October - 5 November : 2006 : Amy Winehouse___________Back To Black (3 UK 26 IRE) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 3] The Blizzards___________A Public Display Of Affection (4 IRE) [debut album] The Who___________Endless Wire (9 UK 7 USA 52 IRE) [11th album, 1st in 24 years] [ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // HP - 3.25] AEROSMITH____________DEVIL IN A DISGUISE: THE VERY BEST OF (19 UK 6 IRE) [1cd best of:1972-2006] Deftones____________Saturday Night Wrist (33 UK 10 USA 50 IRE) [5th album] [HP - 4.25 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] Frank & Walters________A Renewed Interest In Happiness (31 IRE) [album of new songs] The Holloways_________So, This Is Great Britain (54) [debut album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 2 // Q - 1] Willie Nelson_________Songbird (87 USA) [originals + covers, produced by Ryan Adams] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // HP - 3] Copeland_________Eat, Sleep, Repeat (90 USA) [3rd album] Nellie McKay_________Pretty Little Head (???) [2nd album, 2cd album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] The Others__________Inward Parts (???) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 1] Isis__________In The Absence Of Truth (???) [4th album] [Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2] The Prize Fighter Inferno_________My Brother's Blood Machine (???) [debut album, Coheed And Cambria's Claudio Sanchez side-project] Various Artists____________Soundtrack: Happy Feat (???) [animated film/ft some actors singing!] Aimee Mann___________One More Drifter in the Snow (???) [christmas themed album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Cee-Lo____________Closet Feak: The Best of Cee-Lo Green the Soul Machine (???) [best of ft solo songs + Goodie Mob songs, 1995-2004] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] John Lee Hooker_______________Hooker (???) [4cd box set (incl songs ft Clapton, Van Morrison, Santana ect] [UNCUT - 5 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] H.I.M____________Uneasy Listening Vol. 1 (???) [ft remixes, radio ect] Baby Rock Records____________Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Nirvana (???) [lullaby versions of Nirvana songs!] The Clash_____________Singles Box (???) [box set ft.19 7" singles & 44-page booklet] [Q - 5 // UNCUT - 5]
6 - 12 November : 2006 : DAMIEN RICE__________9 (4 UK 1 IRE 22 USA) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Jamiroqaui_________High Times: The Singles 1992-2006 (1 UK 12 IRE) [greatest hits] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Mario Rosenstock________Gift Grub Volume 7 (2 IRE) [comedy album] The Cake Sale__________The Cake Sale (3 IRE) [collab.album ft.Bell X1, G Hansard, D Rice, L Hannigan, N Persson, G Lightbody, G Hayes, N Hannon....] Paul Weller___________Hit Parade (7 UK 28 IRE) [1cd best of/4cd:1cd-Style Council, 1cd-The Jam, 2cd-solo] [Q - 4] Dave Matthews Band__________Best Of What's Around Volume 1 (10 USA) [best of 1994-2006, 2cd-1 hits, 1 live] The Magic Numbers__________Those The Brokes (11 UK 25 IRE) [2nd album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // HP - 3 // NME - 2.5] Moby_________Go: The Very Best (23 UK 15 IRE) [greatest hits: 1991-2006] [ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Abba__________Number Ones (15 UK 60 IRE) [1cd greatest hits] FOO FIGHTERS__________SKIN AND BONES (21 USA 35 UK(20nov) 33 IRE) [acoustic live album] [HP - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] JJ Cale & Eric Clapton___________The Road To Escondido (50 UK 77 IRE 23 USA) [collab.album, new songs] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] The Charlatans___________Forever: The Singles (38) [new greatest hits: 19902-2006] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4] Joanna Newsom___________Ys (41 UK 50 IRE) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 5 // NME - 4 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 2] The Long Blondes_________Someone To Drive You Home (44) [debut album] [NME - 4.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Bowling For Soup_________The Great Burrito Extortion Case (88 USA) [6th album] [ROCK SOUND - 3 // ROL STONE - 2] yourcodenameis:milo_________Print Dead, Vol.1 (???) [collab album, guests incl The Automatic, Get cape., L Bizzle] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Brakes_______________The Beatific Visions (???) [2nd album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Various Artists_________Soundtrack: Stranger Than Fiction (???) [soundtrack ft. Spoon, The Jam..] We Are Scientists________Crap Attack (???) [bside,rarites CD/DVD] [HP - 3.5 // UNCUT - 2] Pavement________________Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition (???) [special ed of 1995 album] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] MANIC STREET PREACHERS________________EVERYTHING MUST GO: 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (???) [bonus edition of 1996 album] [MOJO - 5 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4]
13 - 19 November : 2006 : George Michael_________25 (1 UK 3 IRE 9 AUSR[1-Mar-10]) [2or3 cd ft. hits solo/Wham] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Sugababes_________Overloaded: The Singles Collection (3 UK 12 IRE) [best of 2000-2006] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] TENACIOUS D_________THE PICK OF DESTINY (10 UK 9 IRE 8 USA) [2nd album/Soundtrack to film] [UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // HP - 1.5 // Q - 1] +44______________When The Heart Stops Beating (50 UK 77 IRE 10 USA) [debut album, band ft.Hoppus & Barker from B182] [ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // Q - 2] Various Artists_________Fanning's Fab 50, Volume 2 (12 IRE-VA) Depeche Mode__________The Best Of, Volume 1 (18 UK 18 IRE) [new best of] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Yusuf Islam_________An Other Cup (20 UK 56 IRE 52 USA) [album of new songs] [HP - 4.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Various Artists________NME Presents The Essential Bands (23 IRE-VA) Jarvis Cocker_________Jarvis (37 UK 66 IRE) [debut album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Staind__________The Singles 1996-2006 (41 USA) [best of] Neil Young & Crazy Horse_________Live At The Fillmore East: March 6 & 7, 1970 (55 USA) [live album] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] Army Of Anyone_________Army Of Anyone (56 USA) [debut album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] [band ft.Filter's Richard Patrick on vocals, Dean & Robert DeLeo from Stone Temple Pilots] Sublime_________Everything Under The Sun (97 USA) [box set=3cd+1dvd, rare, live, radio ect] [UNCUT - 3] ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead_____________So Divided (???) [5th album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Various Artists____________Forever Changing: The Golden Age Of Elektra Records - 1963 to 1973 (???) [5cd box set ft.Queen, The Doors, Love...] [UNCUT - 5 // ROL STONE - 5 // Q - 3] Various Artists____________Soundtrack: A Brokedown Melody (???) [s/t to surf doc ft. Jack Johnson, Eddie Vedder[unrealesed solo], Beta Band.....] Various Artists____________Rising Son: The Legend of Skaterboarder Christian Hosoi (???) [doc film of famous skateboarder, ft. Dave Ghrol[unrealesed solo], QOTSA, SOAD, Gnarls Barkley] Rhythms Del Mundo Cuba___________Rhythms Del Mundo (???) [UNCUT - 3] [band incl members of Buena Vista Social Club, their interpretations of songs by Coldplay, A Monkeys ect] Gnarls Barkley___________St Elsewhere: Special Edition (???) [re-release as CD/DVD, incl 92pg booklet] Panic! At The Disco___________A Fever You Can't Sweat Out: Collectors Box Edition (???) [box set ft. album, DVD ect-25,000 copies only] Michael Jackson___________Visionary :The Video Singles (???) [box set ft singles with thier video] Johnny Cash____________Johnny Cash at San Quentin: Legacy Edition (???) [ft. 2cd and dvd]
20 - 26 November : 2006 : Jay-Z________________Kingdom Come (1 USA 35 UK 40 IRE) [9th studio album] [NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] OASIS_________________STOP THE CLOCKS (2 UK 5 IRE 89 USA) [2cd best of 94-06] [NME - 5 // UNCUT - 5 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // Q - 3] THE BEATLES______________LOVE (3 UK 3 IRE 4 USA) [music to Cirque De Soleil Beatles show, prod by George Martin] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3] U2_______________U218 SINGLES (4 UK 2 IRE 12 USA) [16 hits + 2 new] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3 // MOJO - 3] Brand New_____________The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me (31 USA) [3rd album] [NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Killswitch Engage________________As Daylight Dies (32 USA 64 UK) [4th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // NME - 3 // Q - 2] Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra______________Moving Out Of The Country (45) [new collabrative album] [MOJO - 3] Tom Waits__________________Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards (49 UK 25 IRE 74 USA) [3cd-54rare song-94pg booklet] [UNCUT - 5 // HP - 4.5 // NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3] Swan Lake_____________Beast Moans (???) [debut album, band ft.Wolf Parade/Sunset Rubdown principal Spencer Krug, Destroyer's Dan Bejar and Frog Eyes' Carey Mercer] [UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5] Various Artists___________Soundtrack: National Lampoon's Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (???) [ft. Everclear, Ordinary Boys, Starlight Mints...] P.O.D_____________Greatest Hits - The Atlantic Years (???) [best of ft.17 song, 2 of them new] Johnny Cash_____________The Legend Of Johnny Cash Vol. II (???) [best of, follow up to 05's Vol.1] David Crosby______________Voyage (???) [3cd box set ft. hits with The Byrds, CSN&Y + unrealesed] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4] The Doors_____________Perception (???) [6cd-all studio album + 6dvd] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Crowded House__________Farewell To The World (???UK 16Jan07(US)) [live album-last show] [UNCUT - 4] Robert Plant_________Nine Lives (???) [box set-9cd-all albums + dvd] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3]
27 November - 3 December : 2006 : INCUBUS____________LIGHT GRENADES (52 UK 79 IRE 1 USA) [6th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2 // NME - 2] Faithless_____________To All New Arrivals (30 UK 34 IRE) [5th album] [Q - 3 // HP - 3 // NME - 2.5 // UNCUT - 2] Sufjan Stevens___________Songs For Christmas (80 IRE) [box set-5cd ft. christmas EP's released since 2001] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3 // NME - 3] Mark Kozelek___________Little Drummer Boy Live (???) [Sun Kil Moon and Red House Painters singer live 2cd album] Our Lady Peace____________A Decade (???) [best of]
4 - 10 December : 2006 : Gwen Stefani____________Sweet Escape (3 USA 26 UK 30 IRE) [2nd solo album, No Doubt] [HP - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 2 // NME - 2] Josh Ritter____________In The Dark: Live at Vicar Street (40 IRE) [live album] Babyshambles_____________Blinding EP (62) [5 track EP, released between albums] Billy Idol__________Happy Holidays (A Very Special Christmas Present) (???) [ft. covers of xmas songs + new songs] Various Artists___________OC Mix 6: Covering Our Tracks (???) [ft. famous songs covered by up and coming bands]
11 - 17 December : 2006 : Sonic Youth______________The Destroyed Room: B-sides and Rarities (???) [11 track ft.b-sides, rarities] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Various Artists________________It's Not Like Christmas (???) [proceeds to charity Shelter, ft. Electric Soft Parade, Duke Special, Iain Archer, Futureheads]
18 - 24 December : 2006 : Nas________________Hip-Hop Is Dead (1 USA 68 UK 90 USA) [8th studio album] [HP - 4.25 // ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Neil Young_______________Living With War - Raw (???) [Special Ed. of May album ft. DVD with video and more] Frank Black_____________Christmass (???) [ft.live acoustic recordings and other]
25 - 31 December : 2006 : Switchfoot_____________Oh! Gravity (18 USA) [6th album] [ROL STONE - 2] Various Artists___________Family Values Tour 2006 (102 USA) [live album-Korn, Deftones, Stone Sour] Matisyahu_____________No Place To Be (???) [dvd-live in isreal / cd-7 songs, 2 version of 'Message in A bottle'] N.W.A____________Strength of Street Knowledge: Best Of (???) [17 songs] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3]
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1 - 7 January : 2007 : Carly Simon__________Into White (15 USA) [23rd studio album]
8 - 14 January : 2007 : Gruff Rhys___________Candylion (50 UK 44 IRE) [Super Furry Animals singer 2nd solo album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5 // HP - 3.5] Seasick Steve__________Dog House Music (91) [album of new songs, released 2006] The Autumn Defense_______The Autumn Defense (???) [3rd album, band ft. Wilco bassist John Stirratt and Wilco multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone] [Q - 4]
15 - 21 January : 2007 : Al Green_____________Definitive Greatest Hits (46 USA) [21 song best of] America___________Here and Now (52 USA) [new album/2cd album. Guests incl. Ryan Adams, Nada Surf, Ben Kweller and more] [ROL STONE - 2.5] Frank Turner____________Sleep Is for the Week (200) [Million Dead singer debut album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // UNCUT - 2]
22 - 28 January : 2007 : The View_____________Hats Off To The Buskers (1 UK 3 IRE) [debut album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 2.5] The Good, The Bad & The Queen_____________The Good, The Bad & The Queen (2 UK 5 IRE 49 USA) [debut album] [HP - 4.5 // NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] The Shins______________Wincing The Night Away (2 USA 16 UK[NW] 8 IRE) [3rd album] [NME - 4.5 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Various Artists____________Grammy Nominees 2007 (4 USA) John Mellencamp____________Freedom Road (5 USA) [album of new songs] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2] Saliva_______________Blood Stained Love Story (19 USA) [5th album] [ROL STONE - 2] Cooper Temple Clause_____________Make This Your Own (33) [3rd album] [ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] Grateful Dead__________Live At The Cow Palace: New Year's Eve 1976 (48 USA) [3cd live album] Of Montreal__________Hissing Fauna Are You The Dest (72 USA) [8th album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3] The Hold Steady__________Boys and Girls in America (84 UK 2006-USA) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 5 // Q - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4] Field Music_________Tones Of Town (112) [2nd album] [HP - 4] Ginger__________Yoni (184) [2nd solo album from The Wildhearts frontman] Deerhoof__________Friend Opportunity (???) [8th album] [ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Dustin Kensrue_____________Please Come Home (???) [Thrice singer debut solo album]
29 January - 4 February : 2007 : Norah Jones______________Not Too Late (1 UK 2 IRE 1 USA) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Klaxons_______________Myths Of The Near Future (2 UK 4 IRE) [debut album] [NME - 4.5 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 2] Jamie T_______________Panic Prevention (4 UK 57 IRE) [debut album] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3] Just Jack______________Overtones (6 UK 11 IRE) [2nd album] Jill Scott_____________Jill Scott Collaborations (12 USA) [ft. duets with Will Smith, Mos Def, Common, Isley Brothers and more] Little Man Tate_____________About What You Know (27) [debut album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 3] Clap Your Hands Say Yeah__________________Some Loud Thunder (45 UK 23 IRE 47 USA) [2nd album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 3] Alkaline Trio_______________Remains (68 UK 64 USA) [22 track compilation containing b-sides, live songs and rarities] The Earlies_______________The Enemy Chorus (135) [2nd album] [HP - 4.25 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4] Dexy's Midnight Runners____________The Project Passion Revue (156) [compilation ft.b-sides,live,session 1980-1982] Kristin Hersh______________Learn To Sing Like A Star (160) [7th solo album from Throwing Muses/50 Foot Wave member] [ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Little Barrie______________Stand Your Ground (192) [2nd album] Skinny Puppy_____________Mythmaker (???) [13th album] [Q - 3] Various Artists______________Endless Highway - The Music Of The Band (???) [tribute album ft. Jack Johnson, Death Cab FC, My Morning Jacket, Gomez, Rosanne Cash...]
5 - 11 February : 2007 : Mika__________________Life In Cartoon Motion (1 UK 3 IRE 29 USA[26Mar]) [debut album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 3 // HP - 2] Fall Out Boy__________________Infinity On High (3 UK 6 IRE 1 USA) [4th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Bloc Party___________________A Weekend In The City (2 UK 2 IRE 12 USA) [2nd album] [NME - 4 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Cold War Kids___________________Robbers & Cowards (35 UK 50 IRE) [debut album-UK release, USA(Oct'06)] [NME - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Matt Monro_________________From Matt With Love (39) [best of] Bowling For Soup_______________The Great Burrito Extortion Case (43) [uk release, USA(Nov'06)] The Hours______________Narcissus Road (47) [debut album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] The Used_____________Berth (71 USA 177 UK) [live CD/DVD] The NOISEttes______________What's the Time Mr. Wolf? (75) [debut album] [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Bayside______________The Walking Wounded (75 USA) [5th album] The Almighty______________Anth'f**ing'ology: The Gospel According To.. (165) [2cd compilation] Richmond Fontaine____________Thirteen Cities (172) [album of new songs] Paramore______________All We Know Is Falling (200) [debut album: US-2005, UK-2007] Apples In Stereo______________New Magnetic Wonder (???) [6th album] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3] Aereogramme_________My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go (???) [4th album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] The Secret Show_____________Impressionist Road Map of the West (???) [debut album from band ft. FFAF's frontman Matt Davies] [Q - 2] Lifetime___________________Lifetime (???) [4th album, 1st in 10 years] Various Artists_____________Yes, I'm A Witch (???) [Yoko Ono tribute album] [HP - 4.5 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // NME - 3] Wu-Tang Clan____________Wu-Tang Clan & Friends -- Unreleased (???) [20 songs of rare material]
12 - 18 February : 2007 : Van Morrison________At The Movies: Soundtrack Hits (17 UK 13 IRE 35 IRE) [songs released on soundtracks] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] The Fall___________Reformation Post TLC (78) [26th album] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // Q - 3] Tokyo Police Club__________A Lesson In Crime EP (139) [8 track EP, US-2006 / Euro-2007] Pop Levi___________The Return to Form Black Magick Party (???) [debut solo from Former Ladytron bassist] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Lucky Pierre________Dip (???) [3rd album, Band is Arab Strap’s Aiden Moffat] Various Artists_________The Triptych Mixed By Fred Deakin (???) [FD is half of Lemon Jelly]
19 - 25 February : 2007 : The Fray_______________How To Save A Life (4 UK 4 IRE 2005-US) [debut album] [UNCUT - 2 // Q - 2 // HP - 1.5] Johnny Cash_______________At San Quentin: Legacy Edition (20 UK 18 IRE) [re-release of 1969 live album with bonus material + DVD] [Q - 4] Lucinda Williams________________West (30 UK 60 IRE 14 USA) [8th album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Explosions In The Sky________________All Of A Sudden, I Miss Everyone (58 UK 81 IRE) [4th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 4 // NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // HP - 2.5] Everything But The Girl_________________The Platinum Collection (76 USA 94 IRE) [best of] Art Garfunkel_______________Some Enchanted Evening (82) [covers] [MOJO - 2 // Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2] The Ataris________________Welcome The Night (85 USA 198 UK) [5th album] [HP - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 2.5 // ROL STONE - 2] Kittie_______________Funeral for Yesterday (101 USA) [4th album] Jill Cunniff_______________City Beach (???) [Luscious Jackson singer] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5] Trans Am______________________Sex Change (???) [album of new songs] [MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] The Television Personalities________________Are We Nearly There Yet? (???) [album of new songs] [MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Fu Manchu_______________We Must Obey (???) [10th album] Various Artists_______________Jonny Greenwood Is The Controller (???) [Radiohead guitarist picks fav songs from Trojan Records] [NME - 8 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] John Cale__________________Circus (???) [3cd live album] [HP - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 2] Luscious Jackson_____________Greatest Hits (???) [best of]
26 February - 4 March : 2007 : KAISER CHIEFS_______________YOURS TRULY ANGRY MOB (1 UK 2 IRE 45 USA(26mar)) [2nd album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5 // HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3] Electric Light Orchestra_________Out of the Blue: Deluxe Edition (18) [30th aniversary of album relase (1977)] Dr. Hook________________Hits And History (19) [best of] Patrick Wolf_____________The Magic Position (46) [3rd album] [NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] 30 Seconds To Mars_____________A Beautiful Lie (51) [2nd album, USA 2005, Europe 2007] Malcolm Middleton_________A Brighter Beat (78) [3rd solo from Arab Strap member] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // NME - 3.5 // HP - 3.25 // UNCUT - 3] Jesse Malin____________Glitter In The Gutter (95) [3rd album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] The Damned___________Damned Damned Damned: 30th Anniversary Edition (155) [3cd edition of 1977 debut album, ft.bsides, rarities,live] Nico____________The Frozen Borderline: 1968–1970 (128) [2cd compilation ft.remastered tracks, outtakes, prev unreleased tracks] The Bluetones____________BBC Radio Sessions (164) [13 track sessions compilation] Money Mark____________Brand New By Tomorrow (???) [solo from Beastie Boy collab.] [HP - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 3 // Q - 2] Dean & Britta_________Back Numbers (???) [band are Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips from Luna] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] Various Artists_________Songs For The Young At Heart (???) [Cocker, C Matthews, Lambchop doing children songs] Beck_____________The Information (???) [re-release incl 3 new songs, 6 remixes and lyrics book, October 2006]
5 - 11 March : 2007 : Arcade Fire___________Neon Bible (2 UK 1 IRE 2 USA) [2nd album] [Q - 5 // HP - 4.75 // NME - 4.5 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Bryan Ferry_________Dylanesque (5 UK 51 IRE) [covers of Bob Dylan songs] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.75 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Korn__________MTV Unplugged (9 USA 131 UK) [acoustic/live album] Air__________Pocket Symphony (22 UK 12 IRE 40 USA) [5th album] [HP - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] Sevendust__________Alpha (14 USA) [6th album] [MH - 2.5 // Q - 2] Grinderman___________Grinderman (23 UK 15 IRE) [debut album] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // Q - 3] IDLEWILD___________MAKE ANOTHER WORLD (24 UK 100 IRE) [5th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // HP - 3 // NME - 3] Finger Eleven________Them vs. You vs. Me (31 USA) [5th album] WILLY MASON__________IF THE OCEAN GETS ROUGH (33 UK 60 IRE) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // NME - 3] The Horrors__________Strange House (37) [debut album] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // HP - 3.5 // ROCK SOUND - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // Q - 2] Tracey Thorn___________Out Of The Woods (38 UK 72 IRE 172 USA) [debut album from EBTGirl singer] [HP - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 2] Ry Cooder__________My Name Is Buddy (41 UK 32 IRE) [album of new songs] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Chimaira___________esurrection (42 USA 76 UK) [4th album] Bright Eyes_______________Four Winds EP (57 USA) [incl album track & 5 b-sides] Mr.Hudson and The Library_________A Tale Of Two Cities (69) [debut album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Jack Savoretti____________Between The Minds (70) [debut album] Son Volt______________The Search (81 USA) [album of new songs] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Iggy & The Stooges_________The Weirdness (81) [4th album, 1st since 1973] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // NME - 3.5 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // HP - 2.5 // UNCUT - 2 // Q - 2] Saxon_______________The Inner Sanctum (102) [17th album] Charlotte Hatherley_____________The Deep Blue (109) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 2] !!!__________________Myth Takes (135) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Manowar_________________Gods Of War (163) [album of new songs] Richard Swift______________Dressed Up For The Letdown (190) [album of new songs] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4] Maria Taylor____________Lynn Teeter Flower (???) [2nd solo from Saddle Creek singer/songwriter] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // NME - 3] Apostle Of Hustle__________National Anthem of Nowhere (???) [2nd album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] The Cinematics___________A Strange Education (???) [debut album] [NME - 3] Euros Childs__________Bore Da (???) [Gorky's Zygotic Mynci singer 2nd solo] [HP - 3 // UNCUT - 2 // Q - 2] Various Artists__________Ballads Of The Book (???) [collaborations between Scottish bands and poets] [NME - 2.5] Johnny Cash______________Cash: Ultimate Gospel (???) [album of his gospel type songs] Moby______________Go: The Very Best of Moby Remixed (???) [remix album] Placebo___________________Covers (iTunes only) [covers album] [Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2]
12 - 18 March : 2007 : Neil Young____________Live at Massey Hall (6 USA 30 UK[NW] 9 IRE) [live album-19 Jan 1971 in Toronto] [HP - 4.25 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 4] Amy Winehouse____________Back To Black (7 USA) [released 2006 in Europe] Joss Stone_____________Introducing Joss Stone (12 UK 27 IRE 2 USA) [3rd album] [HP - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] LCD Soundsystem_________Sound of Silver (28 UK 14 IRE 46 USA) [2nd album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4] James Morrison_________Undiscovered (24 USA) [released 2006 in Europe] Type O Negative_________Dead Again (27 USA 87 UK[NW]) [7th album] Within Temptation__________The Heart Of Everything (38 UK 80 IRE) [4th album] [ROCK SOUND - 3] Moving Hearts__________The Platinum Collection (44 IRE) [best of from irish band incl.C Moore, D Sinnott, D Lunny, D Spillane] The Fratellis__________Costello Music (48 USA) [released 2006 in Europe] Aqualung____________Memory Man (88 USA) [3rd album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 2.5] Pentangle____________The Time Has Come: 1967-1973 (???) [4-CD collection of rarities, out-takes and live performances]
19 - 25 March : 2007 : Modest Mouse__________We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (1 USA 47 UK[2WL] 22 IRE) [5th album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // HP - 3.25] Enter Shikari__________Take To The Skies (4 UK 26 IRE) [debut album] [NME - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // K - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 2] Good Charlotte__________Good Morning Revival (13 UK 23 IRE 7 USA) [4th album] [K - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // HP - 3 // ROL STONE - 2 // Q - 2] The Waterboys__________Book Of Lightning (19 IRE 51 UK[2WL]) [9th album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 2] David Bowie__________The Best of 1980-1987 (34) [follow up to The Best of 1969/1974, The Best of 1974/1979] Stephen Marley_________Mind Control (35 USA 147 UK) [debut album] [HP - 3.75 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] The Rakes__________Ten New Messages (38) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // NME - 2.5 // UNCUT - 2 // HP - 2] The Aliens__________Astronomy For Dogs (46) [debut album ft.half of Beta Band] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard & Ray Price_________Last Of The Breed (64 USA) [2cd collabrative album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] John Barry_______________The Very Best of John Barry (64) [he composed 11 James Bond soundtracks and other films] FEEDER___________PICTURE OF PERFECT YOUTH (65) [2cd b-sides album] [UNCUT - 2] Andrew Bird_________Armchair Apocrypha (76 USA) [4th solo album] [Q - 4] E-lP__________I'll Sleep When You're Dead (78 USA 158 UK) [2nd album, guests incl T Reznor, Cat Power, Mars Volta ect] The Sounds__________Dying To Say This To You (89) [2nd album, US & Sweden-2006] Jethro Tull_____________The Best of Acoustic (108) [best of their acoustic hits] Ted Leo & The Pharmacists________Living With the Living (109 USA) [4th album] [UNCUT - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Kubichek!__________Not Enough Night (137) [debut album] [NME - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5] Justin Nozuka___________Holly (156) [debut album] The Pierces__________Thirteen Tales Of Love And Revenge (???) [debut album] [MOJO - 3 // NME - 3 // UNCUT - 1] Various Artists___________TMNT - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Music from the Motion Picture (???) Various Artists___________Cover To Cover: David Bowie (???) [Bowie covers by Dandy Warhols, Culture Club, Duran Duran, Herman's Hermits, Terrorvision] Les Incompetents__________End of an Error (2004-2006) (???) [compilation] [NME - 3.5] Sly And The Family Stone______Re-Release of: "A Whole New Thing", "Dance to the Music", "Life", "Stand!", "There's a Riot Going On", "Fresh", "Small Talk" (???)
26 March - 1 April : 2007 : Elton John________________Rocket Man: The Definitive Hits (2 UK 17 IRE 9 USA) [another best of feat 17 songs] The Doors________________The Very Best Of (15 UK 4 IRE) [20 track best of] Machine Head_______________The Blackening (16 UK 54 USA) [6th album] Stevie Nicks________________Crystal Visions... The Very Best Of Stevie Nicks (21 USA) [solo best of + some F Mac songs] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] The Bees_______________Octopus (26) [3rd album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // HP - 3] Christy Moore_______________The Spirit of Freedom (33 IRE) [re-release of 1986 album] Kelly Jones_____________Only The Names Have Changed (40 IRE) [Sterophonics singer debut solo] [UNCUT - 2] Clutch______________From Beale Street to Oblivion (52 USA 112 UK) [8th album] Brett Anderson____________Brett Anderson (54) [debut solo album from Suede/The Tears singer] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.5 // NME - 2 // Q - 1] Good Shoes_____________Think Before You Speak (55) [debut album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] Madina Lake________________From Them, Through Us, to You (60) [debut album] Magnum_______________Princess Alice And The Broken Arrow (70) [14th album] Ibrahim Ferrer________________Mi Sueno (93) [album from member of Buena Vista Social Club] Laura Veirs_________________Saltbreakers (96) [6th album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] The Doors_______________Morrison Hotel (177) [remastered edition of 1970 album with bonus tracks] Grant Lee Philips_____________Strangelet (???) [4th album] [Q - 3] Various Artists____________Back To The Bus: Funeral For A Friend (???) [FFAF pick their fav songs] Warren Zevon____________"Excitable Boy", "Stand In The Fire", "The Envoy" (???) [re-release 3 albums] DAVID GRAY_____________SHINE: BEST OF THE EARLY YEARS (???) [best of 1993-1996, first 3 albums] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] COLDPLAY_____________THE SINGLES 1996-2006 (???) [7" vinyl box set of 14 singles] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 3]
2 - 8 April : 2007 : KINGS OF LEON__________BECAUSE OF THE TIMES (1 UK 2 IRE 25 USA 4 AUSR) [3rd album] [NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // K - 4 // HP - 3.75 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5] SILVERCHAIR__________YOUNG MODERN (1 AUSR 70 USA(23July)) [5th album] [ROL STONE - 4] MAXIMO PARK___________OUR EARTHLY PLEASURES (2 UK 52 IRE) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // HP - 3 // NME - 3 // MOJO - 2] The Proclaimers__________The Best Of (5 UK 56 IRE) [best of ft.Comic Relief song] Alison Krauss_________A Hundred Miles Or More: A Collection (38 UK 72 IRE 10 USA) [best of] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 2] Chevelle_____________Vena Sera (12 USA) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 2] Larry The Cable Guy_________Morning Constitutions (16 USA) [comedy album] Engelbert Humperdinck___________The Greatest Hits & More (21) [2cd best of] The Academy Is..._________Santi (32 USA 94 UK) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 2.5] Shadows Fall__________Threads Of Life (46 USA 192 UK) [6th album] Johnny Cash_________The Legend Of: Ring of Fire II (47 IRE) [new best of] Black Sabbath________The Dio Years (54 USA 151 UK[NW]) [best of when Dio was singer, 1979-1982 and 1991-1992] [K - 4 // UNCUT - 2] James Taylor___________You've Got A Friend: The Best Of (55 IRE 68 UK(16Apr)) [new best of] Brandi Carlile__________The Story (76 USA) [2nd album] Thirteen Senses__________Contact (76) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Fountains Of Wayne_________Traffic And Weather (97 USA 172 UK[7 May]) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // CR - 3 // Q - 3 // NME - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 2.5] Fields_______________Everything Last Winter (90) [debut album] [HP - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] Low_____________Drums And Guns (92 UK 54 IRE[NW]) [8th album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4] Bebel Gilberto__________Memento (149) [album of new songs] Prefab Sprout_________Steve McQueen: Legacy Edition (155) [bonus edition of 1985 album with extra CD] The Beautiful South__________The BBC Sessions (165) [2cd sessions album] Soulsavers___________It's Not How Far You Fall It's the Way You Land (172) [2nd album, vocals by Mark Lanegan] [Q - 4] Yourcodenameis:milo_________They Came From The Sun (189) [3rd album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] Sia______________Lady Croissant (???) [live album from Zero 7 sometime singer]
9 - 15 April : 2007 : Bright Eyes_________________Cassadaga (8 UK 35 IRE 4 USA 40AUSR) [7th studio album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4] Marillion______________Somewhere Else (24) [14th album] Blonde Redhead_________________23 (63 USA 152 UK[NW]) [7th album] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] From Autumn To Ashes______________Holding A Wolf By The Ears (74 USA) [4th album, 1st with new singer] Aretha Franklin______________Queen Of Soul: The Best of (78) [new 1cd best of] Hayseed Dixie______________Weapons of Grass Destruction (79) [6th album, all covers] Joan Armatrading______________Into The Blues (125) [new album] Lucky Soul_______________The Great Unwanted (146) [debut album] The John Butler Trio_____________Grand National (160) [4th album] Sly & The Family Stone_____________There's A Riot Goin' On: Deluxe Edition (185) [bonus edition of 1971 album, the bands 5th] Bill Callahan (aka Smog)______________Woke On A Whaleheart (199) [new album, 1st under his name] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] CocoRosie_________________The Adventures Of Ghosthorse & Stillborn (???) [3rd album] [HP - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // Q - 2]
16 - 22 April : 2007 : Nine Inch Nails________________Year Zero (6 UK 13 IRE 2 USA 5 AUSR) [6th album] [K - 5 // ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // NME - 2.5] Porcupine Tree_____________Fear Of A Blank Planet (31 UK 59 USA) [9th album] Patti Smith_________________Twelve (63 UK 74 IRE 60 USA) [covers album] [Q - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Shitdisco________________Kingdom Of Fear (94) [debut album] [NME - 4.5 // Q - 3 // HP - 2] The Comas______________Spells (???) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] Joseph Arthur_________________Let's Just Be (???) [6th album] [UNCUT - 3] Page McConnell__________________Page McConnell (???) [Phish members debut solo album] Various Artists____________Bridging The Distance: A Portland, OR Covers Compliation (???) [Decemberists, Minus 5, Dandy W cover songs for 'p:ear', charity for homeless youths] RADIOHEAD_____________COM LAG (2+2=5) EP (???) [reiussed in uK and US, was Japan only 2004]
23 - 29 April : 2007 : Arctic Monkeys________________Favourite Worst Nightmare (1 UK 1 IRE 7 USA 2 AUSR) [2nd album] [Q - 5 // NME - 4.5 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // HP - 3.75] Thirsty Merc_____________Slideshows (4 AUSR) [2nd album] Delorentos___________In Love With Detail (7 IRE) [debut album, CHOICE PRIZE NOM] Expatriate_____________In The Midst Of This (38 AUSR) [debut album] Feist______________The Reminder (52 UK 64 IRE 16 USA) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 4] The Wildhearts_______________The Wildhearts (55) [6th album] [Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2] Switches______________Heart Turned to D.E.A.D (64) [debut album] [Q - 4 // NME - 3.5] ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE_____________NO NEED TO BE DOWNHEARTED (163) [3rd album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 2] The Nightwatchman_____________One Man Revolution (???) [debut album from Tom Morello(RATM,Audioslave)] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // CR - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // HP - 3 // NME - 2 // Q - 2] Mando Diao________________Ode To Ochrasy (???) [3rd album/released in most of Europe in 2006.UK and US now] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 2.5] Dntel__________________Dumb Luck (???) [band is James Scott Tamborello(half of Postal Service)] [Q - 3 // NME - 2.5 // UNCUT - 2] Robert Pollard________________Silverfish Trivia (???) [Guided By Voices singer] [22-minute, seven-song "mini-LP"] [UNCUT - 3] Shout Out Louds________________Our Ill Wills (???) [2nd album] Various Artists____________A Tribute To Joni Mitchell (???) [covers by Bjork, E Costello, S Stevens...] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // HP - 3] Various Artists____________Sountrack: Lucky You (???) [ft. new song by Bob Dylan] Genesis_________________Genesis 1976-1982 (???) [box set ft 5 albums, cd of bsides and DVD's of albums] Leonard Cohen_____________The Songs of Leonard Cohen (???) [Reissue of 1967 album, his debut] [MOJO - 5 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4] Leonard Cohen_____________Songs From a Room (???) [Reissue of 1969 album, his 2nd] [MOJO - 5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] Leonard Cohen_____________Songs of Love and Hate (???) [Reissue of 1971 album, his 3rd] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4]
30 April - 6 May : 2007 : James_____________Fresh As A Daisy: The Singles (12) [2cd best of: 1983 - 2007] [Q - 3] Rush___________Snakes and Arrows (13 UK 80 IRE 3 USA) [18th album] [ROL STONE - 3 // HP - 2.5 // Q - 2] Black Rebel Motorcycle Club________________Baby 81 (15 UK 27 IRE 46 USA 36 AUSR) [4th album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 3.5 // HP - 3] Squeeze_____________The Essential Squeeze (25) [1cd best of] Various Artists_____________Soundtrack: Spider-Man 3 (33 USA) [soundtrack] [HP - 3] Ocean Colour Scene_____________On The Leyline (37 UK 43 IRE) [8th album] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 2.5 // Q - 2] Tori Amos_______________American Doll Posse (50 UK 28 IRE 20 AUSR 5 USA) [9th album] [HP - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Dinosaur Jr._________________Beyond (52 UK 71 IRE 69 USA) [8th album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] Angelique Kidjo______________Djin Djin (61 USA) [her 8th album] [MOJO - 3 // Q - 2] The Fall Of Troy_____________Manipulator (76 USA) [3rd album] [NME - 2.5] 65daysofstatic____________The Destruction of Small Ideas (151) [3rd album] The Crimea________________Secrets of the Witching Hour (???) [2nd album, FREE DOWNLOAD] [HP - 4.25 // Q - 4 // NME - 3] Youth Group_________________Casino Twilight Dogs (???) [released in Australia in 06] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 2] Polytechnic________________Down Til Dawn (???) [debut album] [MOJO - 3 // NME - 3] Client________________Heartland (???) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2 // NME - 2] Frog Eyes________________Tears of the Valedictorian (???) [4th album] Warren Zevon_________________Preludes -- Rare and Unreleased Recordings (???) [2cd rarities album] [UNCUT - 4] Asian Dub Foundation___________________Time Freeze: 1995-2007 The Best Of (???) [best of] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Elvis Costello_____________The Best of: The First 10 Years (???US (4Jun)UK) [22 songs from 77-87] [Q - 4] Elvis Costello_____________Rock and Roll Music (???US (4Jun)UK) [album ft.more up-tempo songs and 2 prev unreleased]
7 - 13 May : 2007 : MANIC STREET PREACHERS__________SEND AWAY THE TIGERS (2 UK 4 IRE) [8th album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3 // HP - 2] TRAVIS___________THE BOY WITH NO NAME (4 UK 20 IRE 58 USA) [5th album] [Q - 4 // HP - 3.5 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5] Bjork____________Volta (7 UK 10 IRE 9 USA 20 AUSR) [7th album] [NME - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // HP - 3] Beverley Knight___________Music City Soul (8) [5th album] Groove Armada____________Soundboy Rock (10 UK 28 IRE 30 AUSR) [5th album] [HP - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 2.5] Dolores O'Riordan___________Are You Listening? (28 UK 15 IRE 77 USA(NW)) [debut solo album from Cranberries singer] [Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2] Gym Class Heroes__________As Cruel As School Children (34 UK 96 IRE(NW) (2006)US) [3rd album] Elliott Smith___________New Moon (39 UK 22 IRE(NW) 24 USA) [2cd album ft songs unrealesed from 94-97] [UNCUT - 5 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // HP - 3.75 // NME - 3.5] The Vasco Era_____________Oh We Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (40 AUSR) [debut album] The Cinematic Orchestra_________Ma Fleur (44) [3rd album] CSS______________Cansei De Ser Sexy (69) [re-release from 2006] [ROCK SOUND - 4] Goon Moon___________Licker's Last Leg (???) [band ft.Chris Goss & Joerdie White(aka Twiggy Ramirez)] [ROCK SOUND - 4] The Sea & Cake___________Everybody (???) [new album] [ROCK SOUND - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 2] The Clientele_________God Save The Clientelle (???) [4th album] Gary Numan_________The Complete John Peel Sessions (???) [recorded during 1979-2001] [ROCK SOUND - 4]
14 - 20 May : 2007 : LINKIN PARK_____________MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT (1 UK 1 IRE 1 USA 2 AUSR) [3rd album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3 // CR - 2] Rufus Wainwright___________Release The Stars (2 UK 9 IRE 23 USA) [5th album] [HP - 4.5 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 2.5] Funeral For A Friend___________Tales Don't Tell Themselves (3 UK 27 IRE 43 AUSR) [3rd album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // NME - 3 // Q - 2] Wilco________________Sky Blue Sky (39 UK 23 IRE 4 USA 23 AUSR) [6th album] [ROL STONE - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3 // HP - 2.75 // ROCK SOUND - 2] Megadeth______________United Abominations (23 UK 31 IRE 8 USA 23 AUSR) [11th album] [ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Joe Cocker_____________Hymn For My Soul (9) [covers album] The Beautiful Girls________Ziggurats (21 AUSR) [3rd album] The Maccabees__________Colour It In (24) [debut album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3 // HP - 3 // Q - 3] Various Artists_________Soundtrack: Shrek The Third (44 UK 37 AUSR) [ft new Eels song, Led Zep, Paul McCartney, The Ramones] [ROL STONE - 3] Runrig____________Everything You See (61) [13th album] Battles___________Mirrored (70 UK 35 IRE) [debut album] [NME - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Tom McRae_____________King Of Cards (72) [4th album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 2] The 1990's_____________Cookies (107) [debut album] [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Maps____________We Can Create (132) [debut album] [NME - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Ian Hunter__________Shrunken Heads (138) [11th solo album, Mott The Hoople singer] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] Dungen_____________Tio Bitar (???) [5th album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4] The Exies___________A Modern Way Of Living With The Truth (???) [4th album] Various Artists_________Music With A Twist: Revolutions (???) [Compilation supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender artists] Various Artists_________The Sandinista! Project (???) [all songs covered from The Clash album by Camper Van Beethoven, Amy Rigby..../proceeds to Joe Strummer's Memorial Forest organization] Various Artists_________The Future Is Unwritten (???) [soundtrack to Joe Strummer doc, ft.The Clash, Dylan, Presley, MC5....] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 3.5] Various Artists_________Thank You For Being You (???) [ft. artists from Scottish independant labels from 1980-present] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3]
21 - 27 May: 2007 : -IRE? Maroon 5___________It Won't Be Soon Before Long (1 UK 3 IRE 1 USA 6 AUSR) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] Ozzy Osbourne_________Black Rain (8 UK 53 IRE 3 USA 37 AUSR) [9th album] [MOJO - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2] The Cribs___________Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever (13) [3rd album] [HP - 4.5 // NME - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 3] The Bravery___________The Sun and The Moon (24 USA) [2nd album] Erasure___________Light At The End Of The World (29) [12th album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] The Used_____________Lies For The Liars (39 UK 5 USA 5 AUSR) [3rd album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // HP - 3.25 // Q - 3 // NME - 2] The Beach Boys________The Warmth Of The Sun (40 USA) [follow-up best of to 2003's Sounds of Summer ft.fans fav's] Candie Payne_________I Wish I Could Have Loved You More (56) [debut album] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3] The National_________Boxer (57 UK 31 IRE 68 USA) [4th album] [HP - 4.5 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 3.5] Tim Armstrong_________A Poet's Life (59 USA 145 UK) [Rancid frontman debut solo] [K - 4] Amber Pacific________Truth in Sincerity (64 USA) [2nd album] Gary Moore________Close As You Get (102) [album of new songs + covers from ex-Thin Lizzy member] Von Sudenfed_________Tromatic Reflexxions (124) [debut album from band ft.Mouse and Mars and The Fall's Mark E Smith] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // HP - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3] Paradise Lost__________In Requiem (125) [11th album] Meg Baird__________Dear Companion (???) [debut album] [HP - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Voxtrot___________Voxtrot (???) [debut album] [NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] Fiction Plane________Left Side of the Brain (???) [2nd album] [Q - 1] Ben + Vesper_________All This Could Kill You (???) [Duo are husband-wife duo Benjamin and Vesper Stamper] Various Artists________Do You Trust Your Friends? (???) [ft's band covering tracks from Stars 2004 album "Set Yourself On Fire"] Joan Osborne__________Breakfast in Bed (???) [covers + original songs]
28 May - 3 June : 2007 : The Pigeon Detectives__________Wait For Me (3) [debut album] [NME - 3.5 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // Q - 3] JEFF BUCKLEY___________SO REAL: SONGS FROM JEFF BUCKLEY (16 UK 1 IRE) [best ft.2 unrealesed songs] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Chris Cornell____________Carry On (25 UK 29 IRE 17 USA 27 AUSR) [2nd solo album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 2.5 // ROL STONE - 2] Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova_________Soundtrack: Once (20 IRE) Circa Survive____________On Letting Go (24 USA) [2nd album, ft.ormer Saosin vocalist Anthony Green & This Day Forward] Richard Thompson____________Sweet Warrior (39) [new album] [UNCUT - 4] Mumm-Ra______________These Things Move in Threes (42) [debut album] [NME - 4 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 2] Joe Jackson______________The Very Best Of (60) [new 1cd best of] Perry Farrell's SatelliteParty__________Ultra Payloaded (91 USA 153 UK[NW]) [debut album from band ft. Janes Addiction singer] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // HP - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // NME - 1.5] Turisas______________The Varangian Way (187) [2nd album] Wheat________________Everyday I Said a Prayer for Kathy and Made a One Inch Square (???) [4th album] [UNCUT - 3] Johnette Napolitano___________Scarred (???) [Concrete Blond frontwoman solo album] Various Artists__________Furry Selection (???) [tracks from Trojan records, picked by Super Furry Animals bassist Guto Pryce] [UNCUT - 3]
4 - 10 June : 2007 : BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN________WITH THE SEEGER SESSIONS BAND: LIVE IN DUBLIN (21 UK 1 IRE 23 USA 40 AUSR) [live album] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Powderfinger_________Dream Days at the Hotel Existence (1 AUSR) [6th album] BIFFY CLYRO_________PUZZLE (2 UK 17 IRE) [4th album] [ROCK SOUND - 5 // NME - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Damien Dempsey_________To Hell Or Barbados (2 IRE) [4th album] [Q - 2] Paul McCartney_________Memory Almost Full (5 UK 30 IRE 3 USA 33 AUSR) [21st studio album] [HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 3] The Twang____________Love It When I Feel Like This (3 UK 74 IRE) [debut album] [UNCUT - 3 // NME - 3 // Q - 2] Xavier Rudd___________White Moth (6 AUSR) [new album] Dizzee Rascal____________Maths and English (7 UK 57 IRE(NW)) [3rd album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] Marilyn Manson____________Eat Me Drink Me (8 UK 23 IRE 8 USA 9 AUSR) [6th album] [K - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] Hank Marvin____________Guitar Man (13) [covers album] Genesis____________Turn It On Again: The Tour Edition (14UK 11sep07-US) [expanded 2cd edition of 1999 best of] [MOJO - 4] Dream Theater_________Systematic Chaos (25 UK 53 IRE 19 USA 23 AUSR) [9th album] [Q - 4] THE CLASH___________THE SINGLES (23 UK 35 IRE) [best of album] [NME - 4.5 // ROCK SOUND - 4.5] Various Artists___________Vans Warped Tour: 2007 Tour Compilation (31 USA) Poison____________________POISON'D! (32 USA) [covers album] [ROL STONE - 2.5] Bob Marley and The Wailers______________Exodus: 30th Anniversary Edition (44) [bonus edition of 1977 album] [Q - 5 // UNCUT - 5] THE BEATLES________________SGT.PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND (48) [40th anniversary of album, 1967 released] Tesla_____________Real To Reel (48 USA) [covers album] Tiger Army__________Music From Regions Beyond (49 USA) [4th album] Marc Almond____________Stardom Road (53) [covers album] [UNCUT - 3] Various Artists___________Monterey International Pop Festival (58 USA) [from 1967 concert ft. Simon & Garfunkel, Electric Flag, Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding] O.A.R.______________Live From Madison Square Garden (69 USA) [live album] Nick Lowe___________At My Age (143) [album of new songs] Shellac_______________Excellent Italian Greyhound (159) [4th album] [UNCUT - 3] Keren Ann___________Keren Ann (189 UK May'07-USA) [5th album] [CR - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 3 // ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Bonde Do Rolê____________Lazers (193) [album of new songs] Emily Haines_____________Knives Don't Have Your Back (???UK 2006US) [debut album from Metric/Broken Social Scene member] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Ataxia______________AW II (???) [2nd album, band ft.John Frusciante, Joe Lally and Josh Klinghoffer] CJ & The Satellites_________Thirteen (???) [debut album from band ft. CJ, guitarist of The Wildhearts] Black Light Burns__________Cruel Melody (???) [debut album from band ft.Wes Borland on guitar/vocals]
11 - 17 June : 2007 : The Travelling Wilbury's________Collection (1 UK 1 IRE 9 USA 1 AUSR) [2 albums + dvd] [UNCUT - Vol1: 5, Vol3: 4 // ROL STONE - 2] BON JOVI____________LOST HIGHWAY (2 UK 5 IRE 1 USA 5 AUSR) [10th album] [CR - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 3] THE POLICE_____________THE POLICE (3 UK 3 IRE 11 US(LW)) [2cd best of] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE________ERA VULGARIS (7 UK 6 IRE 14 USA 4 AUSR) [5th album] [UNCUT - 5 // NME - 4 // HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // K - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // Q - 2] THE WHO________________THEN AND NOW (9 UK 74 IRE) [1cd best of, re-release] Various Artists_________Instant Karma: The Campaign to Save Darfur (15 USA 48 AUSR(9Jy)) [charity album, Lennon covers] [HP - 3.75 // ROL STONE - 3] Paramore____________RIOT! (20 USA 24 UK(25J) 56 IRE(25J) 47 AUSR(8June09)) [2nd album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // K - 3 // Q - 3 // NME - 2.5] Van Morrison_____________The Best Of: Volume 3 (23 UK 80 IRE) [best of 1993-2005] [UNCUT - 4] John Lennon______________Lennon Legend: Limited Edition (30) [cd/dvd edition] AEROSMITH_______________DEVIL'S GOT A NEW DISGUISE: VERY BEST OF; TOUR EDITION (44 UK 33 IRE) [cd/dvd best of] Orbital______________Live At Glastonbury 1994-2004 (40 IRE) [live album] Tiny Dancers_______________Free School Milk (64) [debut album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Orbital____________Live at Glastonbury 1994-2004 (101) [live album 2CD/1DVD] Chris Rea____________Chris Rea - The Ultimate Collection (1978-2000) (186) [3cd best of] John Doe___________A Year in the Wilderness (???) [new album, member of X] [CR - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] The Icarus Line_________Black Lives At The Golden Coast (???UK 10July.US) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 2.5 // ROCK SOUND - 2.5 // Q - 2] The Concretes_________Hey Trouble (???) [3rd album, 1st with new singer Maria Eriksson] [NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] HELL IS FOR HEROES__________HELL IS FOR HEROES (???) [3rd album] [Q - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 3] Pegi Young___________Pegi Young (???) [debut album from Neil Young's wife] [ROL STONE - 3] Tuatara__________East Of The Sun (???) [5th album, band ft.REM's Peter Buck, Screaming Trees Barrett Martin, Minus 5's Scott McCaughey] Mark Olson________The Salvation Blues (???) [Jayhawks singer debut solo album] Sonic Youth________Daydream Nation: Deluxe Edition (???) [re-release of 1988 album with 2cd's] [ROL STONE - 5 // Q - 5 // UNCUT - 5 // NME - 4.5]
18 - 24 June : 2007 : THE WHITE STRIPES_____________ICKY THUMP (1 UK 5 IRE 2 USA 3 AUSR) [6th album] [NME - 4.5 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] BELL X1________________TOUR DE FLOCK: LIVE AT THE POINT (6 IRE) [live album] [HP - 3.5] Calvin Harris________________I Created Disco (8 UK 34 IRE) [debut album] [Q - 3] Lifehouse______________Who We Are (14 USA) [4th album] Ghosts______________The World Is Outside (18) [debut album] [NME - 2 // Q - 2] Tomahawk_____________Anonymous (32 AUSR) [3rd album from band ft. Mike Patton (Faith No More)] DevilDriver_____________The Last Kind Wars (48 USA 94 UK) [3rd album] Gallows_______________Orchestra Of Wolves (57) [re-release of 2006 album with bonus CD] [NME - 4.5 // ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Simian Mobile Disco_____________Attack Decay Sustain Release (59) [debut album from Jas Shaw & James Ford] Straylight Run______________The Needles The Space (72 USA) [2nd album] Annuals____________Be He Me (???UK 2006US) [debut album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 2] Blanche_____________Little Amber Bottles (???) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3] Taken By Trees______________Open Field (???) [debut album from ex-Concretes singer Victoria Bergsman] [NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Amiina_______________Kurr (???) [debut album] [NME - 3.5 // Q - 3] You Say Party! We Say Die!_____________Lose All Time (???UK Mar07-Can) [2nd album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 2.5] Mooney Suzuki_____________Have Mercy (???) [4th album] [NME - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // UNCUT - 2 // Q - 1] Jetplane Landing____________Backlash Cop (???) [3rd album] Fridge________________The Sun (???) [new album, Band include Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet)] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Clinic______________Funf (???) [b-sides/rarities album] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5] Various Artists___________Anchored in Love: Tribute to June Carter Cash (???) [incl S Crow, W Nelson, R Cash, L Lynn, E Harris...] [UNCUT - 3] Marvin Gaye____________In Our Lifetime: Expanded Love Man Edition (???) [25th anniversary of album release with bonus material] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Grant McLennan & Robert Forster________________Intermission - The Best Of The Solo Recordings 1990-1997 (???) [2cd solo best of from The Go-Between's duo] [UNCUT - 3] Frank Black_______________93-03: the Best of Frank Black (???) [Pixies singer solo best of] [ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // CR - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 3 // Q - 2] The Hentchmen with Jack White________________Hentch Forth Five (???) [Q - 3]
25 June - 1 July : 2007 : Editors______________And End Has A Start (1 UK 7 IRE 37 AUSR) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.5 // NME - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // ROCK SOUND -2.5 // Q - 2] RYAN ADAMS______________EASY TIGERS (18 UK 14 IRE 7 USA 32 AUSR) [8th album] [CR - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // NME - 3] BEASTIE BOYS______________THE MIX UP (79 UK 75 IRE 15 USA 42 AUSR) [7th album] [UNCUT - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2 // NME - 2] Sinead O'Connor______________Theology (18 IRE 157 UK) [2cd album-same songs on each-acoustic/with band] [HP - 4.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 1] Airbourne______________Runnin' Wild (21 AUSR) [debut album] PEARL JAM____________LIVE AT THE GORGE (71 IRE 36 USA) [live box set 7cd] Paul Simon_________________The Essential Paul Simon (42 USA) [another best of] Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'Ole___________Wonderful World (44 USA) [compilation Social Distortion___________Greatest Hits (86 USA) [best of] [NME - 3.5 // K - 3 // Q - 3] Bad Brains______________Build A Nation (100 USA) [8th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // K - 4 // CR - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] Reuben______________In Nothing We Trust (102) [3rd album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // Q - 4 // K - 4] Art Brut______________It's A Bit Complicated (123) [2nd album] [NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] Symphony X______________Paradise Lost (161) [7th album] Dogs______________Tall Stories From Under The Table (181) [debut album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // Q - 3 // NME - 3] The Click Five________________Modern Minds and Pastimes (???) [2nd album] Metric__________________Grow Up and Blow Away (???) [recorded in 1999 but record company troubles mean released now] Love________________The Blue Thumb Recordings (???) [3cd ft. 1969's "Out Of Here", 1970's "False Start" and live CD] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3]
2 - 8 July : 2007 : The Chemical Brothers__________We Are The Night (1 UK 4 IRE 18 AUSR 65 USA(16Jy)) [6th album] [UNCUT - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // Q - 3 // NME - 3] Crowded House______________Time On Earth (3 UK 37 IRE 46 USA 2->1(NW) AUSR) [5th album] [UNCUT - 4 // CR - 3 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Velvet Revolver_______________Libertide (6 UK 7 IRE 5 USA 10 AUSR) [2nd album] [CR - 5 // HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 3] Various Artists________________Soundtrack: Transformers (21 USA 38 AUSR) Silverstein________________Arrivals & Departure (25 USA) [3rd album] ASH______________TWILIGHT OF THE INNOCENTS (32 UK 26 IRE) [6th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // HP - 3.75 // NME - 3.5 // CR - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] Air Traffic_____________________Fractured Life (42) [debut album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 3] Sara Bareilles___________Little Voice (45 USA) [2nd album] Unkle________________War Stories (58 UK 66 IRE(NW)) [3rd album ft.J Homme, I Astbury] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 2.5] Happy Mondays_____________Uncle Dysfunktional (73) [5th album, 1st since 1992] To My Boy________________Messages (???) [debut album] [NME - 4 // Q - 3] The Knife______________Silent Shout: Expanded Edition (???) [re-release of 2006 album with 1cd and 2dvd] [Q - 4]
9 - 15 July : 2007 : !!!top 100!!! INTERPOL_____________OUR LOVE TO ADMIRE (2 UK 1 IRE 4 USA 14 AUSR) [3rd album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] The Enemy_____________We Live and Die In These Towns (1 UK 82 IRE(NW)) [debut album] [NME - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] SMASHING PUMPKINS_____________ZEITGEIST (4 UK 5 IRE 2 USA 7 AUSR) [7th album] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // CR - 3 // NME - 2.5 // Q - 2] Cherry Ghost__________Thirst For Romance (7 UK 70 IRE) [debut album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 2] Paul Kelly__________Stolen Apples (8 AUSR) [new studio album] Spoon__________Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (10 USA) [6th album] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Bad Religion__________New Maps Of Hell (35 USA 134 UK) [14th album] [Q - 3] Reel Big Fish___________Monkeys for Nothin' and the Chimps for Free (40 USA 190 UK) [6th album] New Young Pony Club__________Fantastic Playroom (54) [debut album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5] Against Me!__________New Wave (57 USA) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3] Gogol Bordello__________Super Taranta (67) [4th album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // CR - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Scott Matthews__________Passing Stranger (81) [re-release of 2006 album] [HP - 3] Nick Drake_______________Family Tree (122) [rarities album] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 2] Young Marble Giants____________Colossal Youth & Collected Works (163) [re-release with bonus tracks, 1991 debut, one of Kurt Cobain fav albums] Turbonegro______________Retox (???UK) [8th album] [Q - 4 // CR - 4 // NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Buffalo Tom_______________Three Easy Pieces (???) [7th album, 1st since 1998] [CR - 4 // NME - 3.5 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Jason Isbell_____________Sirens of the Ditch (???) [debut solo, Former Drive By Truckers guitarist solo] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.5] They Might Be Giants____________The Else (???) [12th album] Jesse Harris_______________Feel (???) [new studio album] Various Artists____________Healing the Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation (???) [live concert for charity:Healing the Divide's Tibetan Health Initiative, ft. Tom Waits] Stephen Stills___________Just Roll Tape: April 26th, 1968 (???) [demo album recorded in 1968, first album released in 1970] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Chris & Rich Robinson_____________Brothers Of A Feather (???) [ft. brothers from Black Crowes on live acoustic tour] [ROL STONE - 3.5] No Use For A Name______________All The Best Songs (???) [best of] FOO FIGHTERS______________THE COLOUR AND THE SHAPE: EXPANDED EDITION (???) [10th year anniversary] [NME - 4]
16 - 22 July : 2007 : Colbie Caillat_____________Coco (5 USA) [debut album-fame through myspace] Yellowcard______________Paper Walls (13 USA 25 AUSR 113 UK) [4th album] Rooney______________Calling The World (42 USA) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] The Rocket Summer___________Do You Feel (44 USA) [3rd album] MxPx_________________Secret Weapon (76 USA) [8th album] Josh Rouse______________Country Mouse City House (132) [7th album] [Q - 3] The Levellers_____________Levelling The Land: Collectors Edition (186) [bonus edition of their 2nd album, 1991 release] Turbo Fruits_____________Turbo Fruits (???US 6Aug(UK)) [debut album, band ft. half of Be Your Own Pet] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 3] Meat Puppets______________Rise to Your Knees (???) [11th album] [ROL STONE - 1.5] Ben Jelen_____________Ex-Sensitive (???) [2nd album] Emerson Hart________________Cigarettes and Gasoline (???) [debut album from Tonic singer] The Tindersticks_______________The Complete BBC Sessions (???) [2cd album, recorded 1993-97] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Motorhead____________Better Motorhead Than Dead: Live at Hammersmith (???) [live album]
23 - 29 July : 2007 : Grinspoon_______________Alibis & Other Lies (2 AUSR) [5th album] Prince_______________Planet Earth (3 USA 38 AUSR free-UK) [album of new songs] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // NME - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Kisschasy_______________Hymns for the Nonbeliever (5 AUSR) [2nd album] SUM 41____________UNDERCLASS HERO (46 UK 7 USA 66 IRE 22 AUSR) [5th album] [Q - 2 // ROL STONE - 2 // NME - 2] GARBAGE______________ABSOLUTE GARBAGE (11 UK 22 IRE 68 USA 23 AUSR) [best of 1995-2007] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] THE THRILLS__________________TEENAGER (48 UK 24 IRE) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 2] Tegan And Sara__________The Con (34 USA) [5th album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // NME - 3.5] Evans Blue____________The Pursuit Begins When This Portrayal of Life Ends (44 USA) [2nd album] Hanson____________The Walk (56 USA) [7th album] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] YEAH YEAH YEAHS___________IS IS EP (72 USA) [3rd EP] [NME - 4] Various Artists____________Monsters of Rock: Platinum Edition (77 USA) [ft. Skid Row, Alice Cooper, Poison, Twisted Sister...] Nile_____________Ithyphallic (139) [5th album] Trey Anastasio___________The Horseshoe Curve (???) [6th solo from Phish member] [ROL STONE - 2.5] Robbers On High Street_____________Grand Animals (???) [2nd album] Sebadoh_________________The Freed Man (???) [re-release of 1989 debut with bonus tracks] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] Johnny Cash________________The Great Lost Performance (???) [live show at the Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park, N.J on 27 July 1990] THE DOORS__________________Live in Boston: Boston Arena 10 Apr 1970 (???) [3cd live album]
30 July - 5 August : 2007 : Common______________Finding Forever (1 USA 35 UK) [7th album] Korn______________Untitled (15 UK 31 IRE 2 USA 11 AUSR) [8th album] [Q - 3 // NME - 2.5 // ROL STONE - 2.5] Amy Macdonald__________This Is The Life (2 UK 58 IRE) [debut album] Newton Faulkner___________Hand Built By Robots (3 UK 88 IRE) [debut album] [Q - 2] Prince______________Ultimate (6 UK RE) [2cd best of] Architecture in Helsinki____________Places Like This (30 AUSR) [3rd album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] The Starting Line__________Direction (30 USA) [3rd album] GoodBooks_____________Control (104) [debut album] [NME - 3.5 // Q - 3] Martin Simpson_____________Prodigal Son (162) [new studio album] The Raspberries____________Live on the Sunset Strip (???) [cd/2cd+dvd] Placebo___________Extended Play EP (???US only) [3 live songs + 5 classics]
6 - 12 August : 2007 : Kate Nash____________Made Of Bricks (1) [debut album] [NME - 4 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3(2008)] THE CORAL____________ROOTS AND ECHOES (8) [4th album] [Q - 4 // NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Fuel_______________Angels & Devils (42 USA) [4th album] Slightly Stoopid_________Chronchitis (55 USA) [5th album] Okkervil River__________The Stage Names (62 USA) [5th album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Drowning Pool_________Full Circle (64 USA) [3rd album, 1st album with new singer, the former SOiL singer Ryan McCombs] Still Remains_____________The Serpent (98) [2nd album] Richard & Linda Thompson_________In Concert - November 1975 (186) [live album] Public Enemy_________How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul? (???) [10th album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // NME - 3] Chow Chow___________Colours and Lines (???) [debut album, lead singer died June 07] Dax Riggs__________We Sing Of Only Blood and Love (???) [debut album, former singer of Acid Bath and Deadboy & the Elephantmen] Various Artists___________Soundtrack: The Hottest State (???) [ft. N Jones, B Eyes, C Power, M Ward....] Various Artists___________True Colors: Tour CD (???) [proceeds to Human Rights campain, especiall the Gay and Lesbian campain] Joe Satriani____________Surfing with the Alien: Legacy Edition (???) [20th anniversary of 1987 album]
13 - 19 August : 2007 : Elvis Presley__________________The King (1 UK 3 IRE) [box set of 18 singles, 30 years anniversary of death] Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds_____________Live At Radio City (3 USA) [2cd or 2dvd live album, Recorded at 22nd April 2007 concert at Radio City, NY] Blaqk Audio___________________Cexcells (18 USA) [debut album, band is AFI's Davey Havok and Jade Puget] Kila____________Gamblers' Ballet (34 IRE) [new album, CHOICE PRIZE NOM] The Terminals___________Last Days Of The Sun (???) [new album, 1st in 12 years] [UNCUT - 5]
20 - 26 August : 2007 : Richard Hawley__________Lady's Bridge (6 UK 20 IRE) [5th album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] As I Lay Dying__________An Ocean Between Us (8 USA 117 UK(NW)) [4th album] Rilo Kiley___________Under The Blacklight (34 UK 17 IRE 22 USA) [4th album] [UNCUT - 5 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // NME - 2.5] M.I.A___________Kala (39 UK 22 IRE 18 USA) [2nd album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Cartel______________Cartel (20 USA) [2nd album] Something For Kate___________The Murmur Years: The Best Of 1996 - 2007 (26 AUSR) [2cd best of] The New Pornographers_____________Challengers (34 USA 156 UK) [4th album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Aiden_____________Conviction (45 UK 54 USA) [3rd album] [Q - 3 // NME - 2] Sixx: AM_____________The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack (62 USA) [debut album, side proj of Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx] [HP - 2.5 // Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2] Kula Shaker___________Strangefolk (69) [3rd album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 2] Minus The Bear__________Planet Of Ice (74 USA) [3rd album] Various Artists__________Soundtrack: Halloween (82 USA) [soundtrack to Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween] New Model Army__________High (161) [10th album] Liars_____________Liars (???) [4th album] [NME - 4 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Earlimart__________Mentor Tormentor (???) [5th album] Imperial Teen___________The Hair, The TV, The Baby & The Band (???) [4th album] Adema____________Kill The Headlights (???) [4th album, first with new singer Bobby Reeves] Travis Morrison Hellfighters____________All Y'all (???) [2nd solo album from Dismemberment Plan singer] Mobile_______________Tomorrow Starts Today (???US 2006-Canada) [debut album] Various Artists____________The Cavern - The Most Famous Club In The World (???) [3cd album ft.The Beatles, Queen, The Kinks, Thin Lizzy, Arctic Monkeys..] [MOJO - 4] The Black Keys___________Magic Potion: Expaned Edition (???) [re-release of 06 album ft bonus stuff]
27 August - 2 September : 2007 : Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals_______________Lifeline (9 USA 7 AUSR 181 UK) [new album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Atreyu_____________Lead Sails Paper Anchor (61 UK 8 US 38 AUSR) [4th album] [Q - 4] SUPER FURRY ANIMALS________________HEY VENUS! (11 UK 16 IRE) [8th album] [NME - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Ringo Starr________________Photograph: The Very Best of (26) [best of] [UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] Joe Bonamassa_________________Sloe Gin (50) [new album] Scorpions_______________Humanity-Hour 1 (63 USA) [16th album / ft's Billy Corgan on a song] Scary Kids Scaring Kids______________Scary Kids Scaring Kids (80 USA) [2nd album] Heaven & Hell______________Live From Radio City Music Hall (99 USA) [live album, band is 3 members of Black Sabbath & Dio] Tunng______________Good Arrows (105) [3rd album] Polyphonic Spree______________The Fragile Army (198) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // NME - 3] Euros Child______________The Miracle Inn (???) [2nd album of 2007, Former Gorky's Zygotic Mynci singer] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] Collective Soul______________Afterwards (???) [7th album]
3 - 9 September : 2007 : Hard-Fi_____________Once Upon A Time In The West (1 UK 3 IRE) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // NME - 3] Athlete_____________Beyond The Neighbourhood (5) [3rd album] [HP - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 2 // Q - 2] Chiodos____________Bone Palace Ballet (5 USA) [2nd album] The Proclaimers__________Life With You (13) [7th album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] PINK FLOYD_____________THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN: EXPANDED EDITION (22) [40th anniversary edition] [UNCUT - 5 // NME - 4.5 // MOJO - 4] Jamie Scott & The Town______Park Bench Theories (24) [2nd album] [Q - 3] Kate Rusby______________Awkward Annie (32) [7th album] [HP - 4.25 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] Every Time I Die___________The Big Dirty (41 USA 124 UK) [4th album] Patti Scialfa_________Play It As It Lays (90 USA 163 UK) [3rd solo album from E-Street band member] [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] Fionn Regan__________The End Of History (123) [uk release, org ire 2006] Emigrate____________Emigrate (131) [debut album] The Magic Numbers_________Undecided EP (149) [6 song EP] Catherine Feeny_________Hurricane Glass (164) [2nd album, org released 2006 USA] Black Francis___________Bluefinger (170) [solo from Pixies frontman] [NME - 3.5 // HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Linda Thompson_________Versatile Heart (188) [new album, guests incl Martha & Rufus Wainwright, Antony & Johnsons] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] Various Artists__________Guilt By Association (???) [covers: D Banhart does Oasis, The Concretes does Take That, Bonnie P Billy does Mariah]
10 - 16 September : 2007 : Kayne West___________Graduation (1 UK 2 IRE 1 USA 2 AUSR(NW)) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 4.5 // NME - 3 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] KT Tunstall___________Drastic Fantastic (3 UK 10 IRE 9 USA(NW) 48 AUSR(NW)) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 2 // NME - 2] Paddy Casey____________Addicted To Company Part 1 (3 IRE) [3rd album] [HP - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 2.5] Josh Ritter___________The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter (4 IRE 79 USA(20aug)) [5th album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3 // MOJO - 3] Natalie Imbruglia_________Glorious: The Singles 1997-2007 (5 UK 16 IRE 40 AUSR(2WL)) [greatest hits] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Angus and Julia Stone_________A Book Like This (6 AUSR) [debut album] Marc Bolan & T-Rex_________Greatest Hits (15) [best of] [UNCUT - 4] Luciano Pavarotti_________The Ultimate Collection (17 UK 27 IRE) [best of, Pavarotti died on 6 September 2007] The Go! Team___________Proof Of Youth (21 UK 24 IRE) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] David Geraghty___________Kill Your Darlings (21 IRE) [solo from Bell X1 guitarist] [HP - 4] Siouxsie Sioux___________Mantaray (39) [solo from Siouxsie & the Banshees singer] [HP - 3.75 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] Stephen Fretwell___________Man On The Roof (44) [new album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Alabama 3 ___________M.O.R (88 UK 45 IRE) [6th album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Various Artists___________Soundtrack: Across The Universe (49 USA) [musical film based on The Beatles songs] Pinback___________Autumn Of The Seraphs (69 USA) [4th album] [MOJO - 4] InMe_______________Daydream Anonymous (71) [3rd album] [Q - 2] Animal Collective__________Strawberry Jam (72 USA 83 IRE(NW) 132 UK) [6th album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Iced Earth__________Framing Armageddon: Something Wicked Part 1 (79 USA 117 UK) [8th album] HOT HOT HEAT__________HAPPINESS LTD (86 USA 133 UK) [5th album] [MOJO - 4 // NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] Hybrasil__________The Monkey Pole (88 IRE) [debut album] Ani DiFranco___________Canon (89 USA) [2cd best of] [HP - 4.25 // Q - 3] King Creosote___________ombshell (90) [new album] [UNCUT - 3] Kosheen____________Damage (95) [3rd album] Kevin Ayers_________The Unfairground (128) [new album from Former Soft Machine frontman] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4] Vic Chesnutt_______________North Star Deserter (???) [new album] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Modeselektor________________Happy Birthday! (???) [2nd album, guests include Thom Yorke, Maximo Park] [UNCUT - 3] The Good Life_____________Help Wanted Nights (???) [4th album, band feat Cursive frontman Tim Kasher] Qui______________Love's Miracle (???) [2nd album, band frontman is Jesus Lizard's David Yow] Ann Wilson_______________Hope and Glory (???) [debut album from Heart singer] Various Artists___________Kurt Cobain: About A Son (???) [soundtrack to doc feat Kurt interviews, incl Bad Brains, Melvins...] Various Artists___________Sowing the Seeds: The 10th Anniversary (???) [from Appleseed Recordings, ft Springsteen, Donovan, J Browne, A DiFranco....] Various Artists___________Soundtrack: Dedication (???) [ft. Deerhoof, Cat Power, The Strokes...] Lou Reed and Zeitkratzer_____________Metal Machine Music (???) [live album featuting Reeds 1975 album] [UNCUT - 3] Elvis Costello__________My Aim Is True: Expanded Edition (???) [expanded edition of 1977 album] [ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 3]
17 - 23 September : 2007 : Declan O'Rourke__________________Big Bad Beautiful World (4 IRE) [2nd album] [HP - 2.5] Reverend and the Makers_______________The State Of Things (5 UK 37 IRE 41 AUSR) [debut album] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // NME - 2.5 // HP - 2] Mark Knopfler_________________Kill To Get Crimson (9 UK 26 USA) [5th solo album, Dire Straits frontman] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 2] Eddie Vedder________________Soundtrack: Into The Wild (11 USA 183 UK(NW) 68 IRE(NW) 39 AUSR(NW))) [soundtrack/Vedder is Pearl Jam frontman] [HP - 4.25 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 3 // NME - 2.5] Ben Lee___________________Ripe (11 AUSR) [6th album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] HIM_________________Venus Doom (31 UK 36 IRE 12 USA 32 AUSR) [6th album] [ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // NME - 3] Scouting For Girls________________Scouting For Girls (12) [debut album] [Q - 3 // NME - 1] Status Quo_________________In Search Of The Fourth Chord (15) [new album] [Q - 2] Motion City Soundtrack_______________Even If It Kills Me (16 USA 113 UK) [3rd album] Flaws_______________Achieving Vagueness (18 IRE) [debut album, CHOICE PRIZE NOM] Dropkick Murphys______________Meanest Of Times (98 IRE 20 USA 165 UK) [6th album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] The Hot Lies_______________Ringing In The Same (35 AUSR) [debut album] Turin Brakes______________Dark On Fire (36) [4th album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // HP - 2.5 // MOJO - 2 // NME - 2] New Found Glory____________From The Screen To Your Stereo Part II (42 USA) [cover album] The Rumble Strips_____________Girls and Weather (70) [debut album] [Q - 4 // SPIN - 4 // NME - 3.5 // HP - 3.25 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] Debbie Harry_____________Necessary Evil (77 IRE) [Blondie singer, 5th solo album] [HP - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Pat Monahan____________Last Of Seven (82 USA) [Train singer, debut album] [ROL STONE - 3] The Donnas_____________Bitchin' (89 USA) [7th album, self-released] [ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] Edwyn Collins____________Home Again (90) [5th solo, Orange Juice frontman] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 4 // NME - 3.5] Apocalyptica___________Worlds Collide (111) [6th album] Les Savy Fav_____________Let's Stay Friends (???) [4th album] [NME - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4] Thurston Moore_____________Trees Outside The Academy (???) [Sonic Youth singer, solo album] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // NME - 3 // Q - 3] Kevin Drew____________Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew Spirit If... (???) [BSS member, solo album] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Rogue Wave____________Asleep At Heaven's Gate (???) [3rd album] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Emma Pollock_____________Watch The Fireworks (???) [Member of The Delgados, debut album] [Q - 3] Ministry_______________The Last Sucker (???) [11th album] Various Artists______________Soundtrack: Across The Universe (???) [ft's Beatles covers by Bono, Eddie Izzard, Secret Machines....] Various Artists______________The Simpsons: Testify (???) [ft's. songs recorded for show, seasons 11-18] [UNCUT - 2] The Crystal Method_____________Vegas: 10th Anniversary Edition (???) [bonus ed. of 1997 debut album] Joy Division______________Expanded Editions of: Unknown Pleasures / Closer / Still (???) [Q - 5, Q - 4, Q - 2 // UNCUT - 5 // UNCUT - 5 // UNCUT - 5] Emmylou Harris_____________Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems (???) [4cd box set, rarites and more] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] COUNTING CROWS_____________AUGUST AND EVERYTHING AFTER: DELUXE ED (???) [bonus ed. of 1997 debut album] [CR - 3]
24 - 30 September : 2007 : FOO FIGHTERS__________ECHOES, SILENCE, PATIENCE AND GRACE (1 UK 2 IRE 3 USA 1 AUSR) [6th album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // HP - 3.5 // NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] The Cat Empire___________So Many Nights (2 AUSR) [4th album] Ian Brown__________The World Is Yours (4 UK 7 IRE) [5th solo album] [UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // NME - 3 // HP - 3] Jill Scott____________The Real Thing: Words And Sounds Vol. 3 (4 USA 79 UK(8Oct)) [3rd album] Melissa Etheridge__________The Awakening (13 USA) [9th album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] Joni Mitchell__________Shine (36 UK 59 IRE 14 USA) [17th album, 1st in 9 years] [MOJO - 5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3 // HP - 3] PJ HARVEY_________WHITE CHALK (11 UK 15 IRE 65 USA(NW) 24 AUSR(NW)) [7th album] [HP - 4.5 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // NME - 3.5] Jose Gonzalez__________In Our Nature (19 UK 26 IRE 11 AUSR) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Iron and Wine__________The Shepard's Dog (74 UK 75 IRE 24 USA) [3rd album] [HP - 4.5 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Milburn___________These Are The Facts (51) [2nd album] [Q - 3] Jamelia_____________Superstar: The Hits (55) [best of 2000-2007] Steve Earle_____________Washington Square Serenade (79 USA 55 UK(NW) 77 IRE(NW)) [album of new songs] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // HP - 3.75 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3] Arch Enemy_____________Rise of The Tyrant (84 USA 105 UK) [7th album] Devendra Banhart___________Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (93 UK 86 IRE(NW)) [6th album?] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // NME - 3] Puressence___________Don't Forget To Remberer (176) [4th album] Future Of The Left________Curses (???) [debut album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4] múm_________________Go Go Smear The Poisoned Ivy (???) [4th album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] Nellie McKay__________Obligatory Villagers (???) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] Tiny Masters Of Today__________Bang Bang Boom Cake (???) [debut album] [NME - 3] Matt Pond PA__________Last Light (???) [7th album] Bill Medley___________Damn Near Righteous (???) [Half of the Righteous Brothers solo album] Various Artists_________There's Only One T in Wichita (???) [NME - 4] [Wichita Recordings, 7th anniversary, its acts include Bloc Party, Bronx, CYHSY, Espers...] Various Artists_________Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (???) [tribute album ft. McCartney, Lennon, E John, W Nelson, T Petty, L Kravitz.......] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4] Blue October___________Foiled For The Last Time (???) [ft's 2006 album 'Foiled', some unrealsed songs and live show] Texas_____________The Complete BBC Sessions (???) [2cd sessions album] [Q - 2] Shack_____________Time Machine: The Best Of (???) [best of 1988-2007] [UNCUT - 4]
1 - 7 October : 2007 : BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN__________________MAGIC (1 UK 1 IRE 1 USA 2 AUSR(NW)) [15th album] [ROL STONE - 5 // MOJO - 5 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // NME - 3] Matchbox Twenty__________________Exile On Mainstream (53 UK(2WL) 9 IRE(2WL) 3 USA 1 AUSR) [ft. 11 hits plus 6 new songs] Katie Melua___________________Pictures (2 UK 13 IRE) [3rd album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3 // HP - 3 // UNCUT - 2] The Bee Gee's________________Greatest (35 UK 4 IRE) [expanded ed of 1979 best of] [Q - 3] Bob Dylan_________________Dylan (10 UK 5 IRE 36 USA 25 AUSR) [3cd best of] [Q - 5 // NME - 4.5 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Babyshambles___________________Shotter's Nation (5 UK 19 IRE) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 5 // HP - 4 // NME - 4 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Annie Lennox___________________Songs Of Mass Destruction (7 UK 21 IRE 9 USA 41 AUSR(2WL)) [4th solo album] [NME - 3.25 // HP - 3.25 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 2] John Fogerty__________________Revival (14 USA 80 UK(NW)) [new album] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] Dashboard Confessional_______________The Shade Of Poison Trees (18 USA 173 UK) [5th album] [Q - 2] Future Kings Of Spain______________Nervousystem (24 IRE) [2nd album] Nightwish__________________Dark Passion Play (25 UK 62 IRE 84 USA 42 AUSR) [1st album ft new singer, Anette Olzon] [Q - 3] Tim Rogers_______________The Luxury Of Hysteria (41 AUSR) [solo album from singer of You Am I] Mick Jagger_______________The Very Best Of Mick Jagger (57 UK 77 USA) [best of] [ROL STONE - 4.5 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 2 // Q - 2] The Cult________________Born Into This (72 UK 70 USA) [8th album] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 1] Kate Walsh_______________Tim's House (75) [2nd album] Stars_____________In Our Bedroom After the War (78 IRE) [4th album] [NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] Oceansize____________Frames (153) [3rd album] iLiKETRAiNS_____________Elegies To Lessons Learnt (190) [debut album] [MOJO - 4 // NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Carbon/Silicon_________________The Last Post (???) [band ft.Clash's Mick Jones and Generation X's Tony James] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // NME - 2.5] Scott Walker______________And Who Shall Go To The Ball? And What Shall Go To The Ball? (???) [instrumental album] [MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Richard Lloyd_______________The Radiant Monkey (???) [solo from Television guitarist] [Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2] Various Artists__________Heavy Metal Box (???) [4cd, 70 song, classic metal tracks from 1968-1991] Various Artists__________Radio 1: Established 1967 (???) [2cd of covers by Foo's, Gossip ect] [NME - 3] Various Artists__________Soundtrack: Control (???) [soundtrack to Joy Division film ft. New Order, Killers ect] [NME - 3.5] Genesis_______________Genesis 1983-1998 (???UK 20Nov(US)) [5cd/5dvd box set ft 4 albums and rarities disc] The House Of Love______________The House Of Love (???) [re-release of 88 album with bonus] [NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] Depeche Mode______________Ultra (???) [remastered and expanded edition of 1997 album] Depeche Mode______________Exciter (???) [remastered and expanded edition of 2001 album] David Byrne__________________Live From Austin, Texas (???) [live album ft. solo and Talking Head material] IDLEWILD___________________SCOTTISH FICTION: BEST OF 1997-2007 (???) [best of] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // NME - 2.5]
8 - 14 October : 2007 : Kid Rock_______________Rock N Roll Jesus (1 USA) [7th album] [ROL STONE - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 2.5 // Q - 1] Eric Clapton_______________Complete (2 UK 15 IRE 14 USA 41 AUSR) [2cd best of] Jack Penate_______________Matinee (7 UK 74 IRE(NW)) [debut album] [HP - 3.75 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 2.5 // MOJO - 2 // Q - 2] Aslan__________________For Some Strange Reason (8 IRE) [5th studio album] [HP - 4] Ali Campbell_______________Running Free (9) [2nd solo form UB40 singer] Alter Bridge_____________Blackbird (37 UK 13 USA) [2nd album] The Coronas______________Heroes Or Ghosts (21 IRE) [debut album] Stevie Wonder______________Number Ones (23 UK 43 IRE) [best of] Puddle of Mudd______________Famous (27 USA) [3rd album] Band Of Horses_____________Cease To Begin (35 USA) [2nd album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // CR - 2] Eran James____________Ten Songs About Love (43 USA) [2nd album] Vanessa Carlton_____________Heroes & Thieves (44 USA) [3rd album] She Wants Revenge__________This Is Forever (58 USA) [2nd album] Beirut______________The Flying Club Cup (69 UK 51 IRE(NW)) [2nd album] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 2.5] Robert Wyatt_____________Comicopera (85) [album of new songs] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4] Justin Currie______________What is Love For (106) [debut solo from Del Amitri frontman] RADIOHEAD_____________IN RAINBOWS (??? Download Only) [7th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 4.5 // HP - 4.25] The Fiery Furnaces____________Widow City (???) [6th album] [MOJO - 4 // HP - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5] The Pheonix Foundation_______________Happy Ending (???) [3rd album, New Zealand only] [UNCUT - 4] Marc Cohn______________Join The Parade (???) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] Robert Pollard______________Coast to Coast Carpet of Love (???) [solo album by Guided by Voices singer] [UNCUT - 2] Robert Pollard______________Standard Gargoyle Decisions (???) [solo album by Guided by Voices singer] [UNCUT - 1] Sunset Rubdown_____________Random Spirit Lover (???) [3rd album] Celebration______________The Modern Tribe (???) [2nd album] Various Artists____________Worried Noodles (???) [bands put David Shrigley words to music incl. Franz F, G Bear, D Byrne]
15 - 21 October : 2007 : STEREOPHONICS____________PULL THE PIN (1 UK 15 IRE) [6th album] [NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // HP - 3] R.E.M_____________R.E.M LIVE (12 UK 3 IRE 72 USA) [live album] [MOJO - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5] JIMMY EAT WORLD______________CHASE THE LIGHT (27 UK 56 IRE 5 USA 30 AUSR) [6th album] [HP - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Santana________________Ultimate Santana (16 UK(NW) 22 IRE 8 USA 6 AUSR) [18 track best of with 3 new songs] Jools Holland & Friends______________The Best Of (9 UK 83 IRE) [best of album] [MOJO - 4] The Panics___________Cruel Guards (18 AUSR) [3rd album] Roisin Murphy____________Overpowered (20 UK 52 IRE) [2nd album] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // HP - 3.75 // NME - 3] Thrice______________The Alchemy Index: Vols. I & II: Fire & Water (24 USA 114 UK) [5th album] [ROL STONE - 3 // NME - 3] CATHY DAVEY____________TALES OF SILVERSLEEVE (24 IRE) [2nd album] [HP - 4.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] THE HIVES_____________BLACK AND WHITE ALBUM (29 UK 65 USA(12Nov) 36 AUSR) [4th album] [HP - 4.5 // NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] HUNDRED REASONS_____________QUICK THE WORD, SHARP THE ACTION (100) [4th album] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3] Funeral For A Friend__________The Great Wide Open (102) [10 track EP, many live songs] David Ford___________Songs For The Road (164) [2nd album] Ed Harcourt___________Until Tomorrow Then: The Best of Ed Harcourt (191) [best of] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Dan Wilson___________Free Life (???) [debut solo from Semisonic singer] The Cake Sale___________The Cake Sale (???US 2006inIRe) [coolab album ft. G Hansard, D Rice, G Hays, J Ritter, G Lightbody, N Persson....] Gov't Mule__________Mighty High (???) [reggae/dub versions of old songs + new songs] [ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 2] Luther Vandross_____________Love, Luther (???) [4cd box set ft. hits, rarities, unrelased tracks] Aretha Franklin_____________Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul (???) [2cd rarities] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] T-Rex & Marc Bolan______________Bolan At The Beeb (???) [3cd sessions album, incl 2 unreleased] THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE________LIVE AT MONTEREY (???) [features Hendrix legendary performance of 1967] [MOJO - 5 // UNCUT - 4]
22 - 28 October : 2007 : The Hoosiers_____________The Trick To Life (1 UK 47 IRE) [debut album] [Q - 3 // HP - 2] Van Morrison_____________Still On Top: Greatest Hits (2 UK 3 IRE 48 USA(2WL) 31 AUSR(NW)) [2cd best of] Robert Plant and Alison Krauss__________Raising Sand (4 UK(NW) 10 IRE(NW) 2 USA) [deuts album] [MOJO - 5 // UNCUT - 5 // HP - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Serj Tankian______________Elect The Dead (26 UK 29 IRE 4 USA 19 AUSR(NW)) [debut solo album from SOAD singer] [Q - 3 // NME - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // UNCUT - 2] Coheed And Cambria_____________Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow (41 UK 6 USA 39 AUSR) [4th album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Seether____________ng Beauty in Negative Spaces (9 USA) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 1.5] Neil Young_____________Chrome Dreams II (14 UK 15 IRE 11 USA 41 AUSR(NW)) [new album] [MOJO - 5 // HP - 4.5 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Say Anything____________In Defense Of The Genre (27 USA) [3rd album, 2cd album] [ROL STONE - 3] RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS__________FOLLOW THE LIGHTS EP (40 USA) [7 songs:3 new, 4 covers] Dave Gahan_____________Hourglass (50 UK 73 IRE) [2nd solo album from Depeche Mode singer] [HP - 3.75 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Rob Zombie_________________Zombie Live (57 USA) [first live album] Ween_______________La Cucaracha (69 USA) [10th album] [NME - 2.5] Cobra Starship_______________!Viva La Cobra! (80 USA) [2nd album] Paul Weller_____________Wild Wood: Deluxe Edition (88) [2cd edition of 1993 album] [Q - 5 // NME - 4] Ray Davies____________Working Man's Cafe (179) [new solo album from Kinks singer] [Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Electric Six______________I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being The Master (???) [4th album] [UNCUT - 3 // NME - 2.5 // ROCK SOUND - 2 // Q - 2] Various Artists______________Radio 1: Live Lounge 2 (???) [2cd sessions and covers]
29 October - 4 November : 2007 : The Eagles_________________Long Road Out of Eden (1 UK 4 IRE 1 USA 1 AUSR) [7th album, 1st since 1979] [ROL STONE - 4.5 // HP - 3.75 // Q - 2] Avenged Sevenfold_______________Avenged Sevenfold (4 USA 37 AUSR(NW)) [4th album] Andrea Bocelli______________The Best Of Andrea Bocelli: Vivere (8 UK(2WL) 16 IRE(2WL) 9 USA) [best of] QUEEN_________________ROCK MONTREAL (20 UK 88 IRE) [2cd live album] The Libertines________________The Best Of: Time For Heroes (23 UK 62 IRE(NW)) [best of] [NME - 3.5 // Q - 3] Puscifer_______________V Is For Vagina (25 USA 27 AUSR) [debut album from band ft. Tool's MJ Kennan] [MH - 4 // ROL STONE - 2.5] Nine Black Alps_________________Love/Hate (69) [2nd album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] Otep_______________the_Ascension (81 USA) [3rd album] Armor For Sleep______________Smile For Them (93 USA) [3rd album] Various Artists______________Soundtrack:: I'm Not There (95 USA) [soundtrack to bob dylan film, ft covers by m Lanegan, C Power, E Vedder, S Youth...] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // MOJO - 3] David Byrne______________The Knee Plays (???) [re-release of 1985 album, first time on CD] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] Juno Falls____________Weightless (???) [2nd album] [HP - 3.5]
5 - 11 November : 2007 : Jay-Z________________American Gangster (30 UK 59 IRE 1 USA) [10th album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 4 // NME - 2.5] Gift Grub____________Gift Grub 8: The G-Factor (2 IRE) [comedy album] Monaghan Mimic________________Nob Nation (5 IRE) [comedy album] Angels And Airwaves_______________I-Empire (29 UK 70 IRE 9 USA 31 AUSR) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 2.5 // Q - 2 // NME - 1.5] The Wombats____________A Guide To Love, Loss And Desperation (11) [debut album] [NME - 3.5 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // HP - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 2] Sigur Ros_____________Hvarf/Heim (23 UK 15 IRE 58 USA 49 AUSR) [rarities] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // HP - 3.75 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3] Nas_____________Greatest Hits (124 USA 150 UK) [best of] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // NME - 3] Dillinger Escape Plan__________Ire Works (147) [3rd album] The Raveonettes_____________Lust Lust Lust (???) [4th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // SPIN - 4 // Q - 3 // HP - 3] Dust Galaxy______________Dust Galaxy (???) [ft's. Thievery Corporation's Rob Garza] Grizzly Bear___________Friend EP (???) [ft's CSS, Band of Horses, Atlas Sound covering bands songs] Operation Ivy_____________Energy (???) [re-release of 1991 classic album, Tim Armstrong & Matt Freeman of Rancid] [ROCK SOUND - 4] The Who____________View From A Backstage Pass (???) [live album of unreleased tracks 69-76, only buy on thewho.com]
12 - 18 November : 2007 : Alicia Keys________________As I Am (14 UK(NW) 15 IRE(NW) 1 USA 15 AUSR) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 3 // NME - 3 // UNCUT - 2 // Q - 2] LED ZEPPELIN______________MOTORSHIP (4 UK 5 IRE 7 USA 8 AUSR) [2cd best of] [Q - 5 // MH - 4] THE KILLERS_____________SAWDUST (7 UK 14 IRE 12 USA 6 AUSR) [b-sides/rarities album] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.25 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // NME - 3] DAVID GRAY____________GREATEST HITS (11 UK 7 IRE 96 USA) [greatest hits] Beautiful South/The Housemartins___________Soup: The Cream Of (16 UK 72 IRE) [best of] [Q - 3] James Taylor_____________________One Man Band (17 USA 129 UK[3Dec]) [live album] Rolling Stones_____________Rolled Gold+: The Very Best of (26 UK 60 IRE) [expanded 2cd best of, org 1975] [NME - 4.5] Tom Baxter_____________Skybound (27) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 3] Operator Please____________Yes Yes Vindictive (28 AUSR) [debut album] Goo Goo Dolls____________Greatest Hits: Volume One: The Singles (33 USA) [best of] [CR - 4.5 // UNCUT - 2] Seal______________System (37 UK 35 USA) [5th album] [UNCUT - 2 // Q - 2] Duran Duran______________Red Carpet Massacre (44 UK(NW) 75 IRE(NW) 36 USA) [13th album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // NME - 2] Aretha Franklin_____________Jewels In The Crown: Duets With The Queen (54 USA) [duets compilation album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] SHERYL CROW___________HITS & RARITIES (122) [2cd: 1 hits, 1 rarities] LCD SOUNDSYSTEM_____________45:33 (128) [1 track, commissioned by Nike] [HP - 4] Groove Armada____________10 Year Story (151) [2cd rarities collection] Hadouken!____________Not Here To Please You (???) [compilation of 6 new songs and remixes by Bloc Party, Plan B....] Queensryche____________Take Cover (???) [band cover U2, The Police, Pink Floyd, Queen.....] Enter Shikari_____________The Zone (???) [b-sides/rarites album, 4000 copies only] [Q - 3]
19 - 25 November : 2007 : Faker_______________Be The Twlight (37 AUSR) [2nd album] Daft Punk_______________Alive 2007 (174 UK 96 IRE 50 AUSR(NW)) [live album, recorded 14/06/2007 at Bercy in Paris] [NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] GORILLAZ_______________D-SIDES (63) [b-sides/rarities] [NME - 4 // Q - 3] NINE INCH NAILS_________________Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D (77 USA 160 UK[NW]) [remix album] [NME - 3.5 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5] Tarja Turunen________________My Winter Storm (134) [debut album from former Nightwish singer] [CR - 4 // Q - 2] Various Artists________________Dig For Fire: a Tribute to PIXIES (???) [covers by Dinosaur Jr, The Might Be Giants, OK Go, Joy Zipper....] Various Artists__________The Brit Box: UK Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit Pop Gems of the Last Millennium (???) [4cd box set from 1985-2000] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // NME - 3 // MOJO - 2] Phish_______________Vegas 96 (???) [3cd live album] Sebastian Bach_______________Angel Down (???) [Skid Row frontman 2nd solo, GNR Axl Rose features on 2 tracks] Interpol________________Our Love To Admire (???) [July 2007 album released with bonus material] LED ZEPPELIN_________________THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME (???) [re-release of 1976 live album, 2cd] [UNCUT - 4]
26 November - 2 December : 2007 : Kylie Minogue______________X (4 UK 14 IRE 1 AUSR) [10th album] [HP - 4 // Q - 3] Simon & Garfunkel______________The Collection (47 UK 76 IRE) [best of] DAMIEN RICE______________LIVE FROM UNION CHAPEL (58 IRE 179 UK) [first official live album] [HP - 3.5 // Q - 2] Genesis_______________Live Over Europe 2007 (51 UK) [2cd live album] [Q - 2]
3 - 9 December : 2007 : U2_______________THE JOSHUA TREE: 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION (51 UK 12 IRE) [bonus ed of 1987 album] [ROL STONE - 5 // UNCUT - 5 // Q - 5 // MOJO - 5 // NME - 4] Various Artists________________Tom Dunne's Essential Selection - Volume 1 (16 IRE VA) Godsmack______________Good Times, Bad Times...Ten Years Of Godsmack (35 USA) [best of] Ronnie Drew________________The Best Of (56 IRE) [best of] The Verve_____________This Is Music: 1992-1998 singles (79) [2004 best of re-released with dvd of music videos] Rufus Wainwright_____________Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall (171) [live album featuring Rufus covering Judy Garland] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Wyclef Jean___________Carnival II Memoirs of an Immigrant (???) [6th solo album] [Q - 3] Various Artists______________Live Earth; The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis (???) [2cd/dvd package] [HP - 2] David Bowie____________Bowie Box Set (???) [10cd box set featuring last 5 albums: Outside(95) to Reality(03), each with bonus disc] [Q - 3] Echo & The Bunnymen____________Killing Moon: the Best of Echo & the Bunnymen (???) [best of] [Q - 4]
10 - 16 December : 2007 : Wu-Tang Clan______________8 Diagrams (25 USA 114 UK) [5th album] [NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Dave Matthews Band______________Live At Piedmont Park (68 USA) [live album] Pink Floyd_______________Oh, By The Way (???) [17cd box set featuring all 14 albums] [Q - 4 // NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] RADIOHEAD_______________LIMITED EDITION 7CD ALBUM BOX SET (???) [features all 6 albums] [Q - 4]
17 - 23 December : 2007 : Rivers Cuomo___________Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo (???) [Weezer singer solo album of demo/rarities] [ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // NME - 2] Jonny Greenwood______________Soundtrack: There Will Be Blood (???) [Radiohead guitarist does soundtrack for film] [Q - 3]
24 - 30 December : 2007 :
31 December - 6 January : 2007 : RADIOHEAD__________IN RAINBOWS (1 UK 1 IRE 1 USA 2 AUSR) [7th album, MERCURY PRIZE NOM] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5] Various Artists_________Soundtrack: Juno (8 USA 14 AUSR(2WL)) [ft.Kimya Dawson, Moldy Peaches, Belle & Sebastian, The Kinks, Sonic Youth...] [NME - 4.5 // MOJO - 4]
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7 - 13 January 2008 : Tom Baxter__________Skybound (12) [2nd album] Sia___________Some People Have Real Problems (26 USA 41 AUSR(27Apr09) 106 UK[NW]) [4th album] [Q - 3 // HP - 2.5 // ROL STONE - 2] Kate Nash___________Made Of Bricks (36 USA) [released 2007 in UK] Marah__________Angels of Destruction (???) [6th album] [Q - 3]
14 - 20 January 2008 : IRE? British Sea Power__________Do You Like Rock Music? (10 UK 37 IRE) [3rd album, MERCURY PRIZE NOM] [Q - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // HP - 4 // NME - 3.5] The Maccabees__________Colour It In: Special Edition (55) [bonus ed. of 2007 debut album] The Magnetic Fields_________Distortion (77 USA 143 UK) [new album] [ROL STONE - 4 // NME - 4 // HP - 4 // Q - 3] Ringo Starr__________Liverpool 8 (91 UK 94 USA) [14th solo album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Various Artists___________XFM Debut Sessions (???) [2cd sessions album] Marvin Gaye__________Here, My Dear: Expanded Edition (???) [30th anniversary special, org 1978] [UNCUT - 5 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4] Shed Seven________Singles Collection (???) [2cd best of] [Q - 2]
21 - 27 January 2008 : Cat Power_____________Jukebox (32 UK 35 IRE(NW) 12 USA 36 AUSR) [covers album] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3 // NME - 3] EELS_______________MEET THE EELS: ESSENTIAL EELS 1996-2006 (26 UK 57 IRE) [1cd best of] [Q - 4] Drive-By Truckers_________Brighter Than Creation's Dark (37 USA 143 UK) [8th album] [UNCUT - 5 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] Lightspeed Champion__________Falling Off The Lavender Bridge (45) [former Test Icicles singer/debut solo] [NME - 4.5 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3] Matt Costa___________Unfamiliar Faces (59 USA) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 2] Stephen Sondheim________Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (62 UK 45 AUSR(NW)) [soundtrack] EELS______________USELESS TRINKETS - B-SIDES, SOUNDTRACKS (69) [2cd b-sides,rarities ect] Black Mountain___________In The Future (72 UK 99 IRE(NW)) [2nd album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // HP - 3] Seasick Steve & The Level Devils__________Cheap (198) [org released May 2007] theAUDITION___________________Champion (???) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5] The Whigs_________________Mission Control (???) [2nd album] [HP - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] North Mississippi Allstars__________________Hernando (???) [6th album]
28 January - 3 February 2008 : Adele____________19 (1 UK 2[18-apr-2011] IRE 2 AUSR[1-aug-2011] 62 USA(9June)) [debut album, MERCURY PRIZE NOM] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // SPIN - 2.5 // UNCUT - 2] The Mars Volta___________The Bedlam In Goliath (42 UK 57 IRE 3 USA 3 AUSR) [4th album] [K - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 3] Bullet For My Valentine_________Scream Aim Fire (5 UK 10 IRE 4 USA 4 AUSR) [2nd album] Various Artists_________2008 Grammy Nominees (5 USA) Sarah Brightman_________Symphony (13 UK(14Apr) 50 IRE(14Apr) 13 USA 38 AUSR(28Apr)) [new album] Vampire Weekend_________Vampire Weekend (22 UK 54 IRE(NW) 17 USA 48 AUSR(11aug)) [debut album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // HP - 3] KD Lang___________Watershed (35 UK 75 IRE 3 AUSR(2WL) 8 USA(NW)) [5th album of new songs] [Q - 4 // HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // MOJO - 3] Willie Nelson__________Moment Of Forever (56 USA 175 UK[3WL]) [new album, orginal+covers] [MOJO - 5 // UNCUT - 4] Airbourne____________Running Wild (62) [debut album, released in Australia in 07] Sons & Daughters_________This Gift (66) [3rd album] [HP - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3] Joe Jackson________Rain (154) [new album] [Q - 3 // SPIN - 2] Van Morrison__________It's Too Late To Stop Now (167) [remastered ed of 1974 live album, with bonuses] These New Puritans_________Beat Pyramid (188) [debut album] [HP - 4 // Q - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // ROCK SOUND - 3] Ginger________________Market Harbour (189) [solo album from Wildhearts member] The Pat Metheny Trio___________Day Trip (197) [live album rec in Tokyo] The Shackeltons_________________The Shackeltons (???) [debut album] [SPIN - 4] Xiu Xiu_____________Women As Lovers (???) [6th album] [SPIN - 3.5 // NME - 2.5] John Power______________Stormbreaker (???) [3rd solo from Cast/The La's member] [Q - 3] 79Cortinaz_____________Hopioki (???) [debut album] [HP - 3] Chris Walla_______________Field Manual (???) [Death Cab For Cutie guitarist solo] Robert Pollard___________Superman Was A Rocker (???) [1st of 2 new solo albums in 2009] Thao with the Get Down Stay Down__________We Brave Bee Stings and All (???) [new album] Various Artists_____________Later ...Live with Jools Holland (???) [2cd album ft. songs from show] [UNCUT - 2]
4 - 10 February 2008 : Jack Johnson____________Sleep Through The Static (1 UK 1 IRE 1 USA 1 AUSR) [4th album] [Q - 4 // HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 2 // MOJO - 2] SHERYL CROW___________DETOURS (20 UK(2WL) 28 IRE(2WL) 2 USA) [6th album] [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // HP - 3] Hot Chip___________Made In The Dark (4 UK 9 IRE 25 AUSR) [3rd album] [HP - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Lenny Kravitz___________Is It Time For A Love Revolution (42 UK 82 IRE 4 USA 47 AUSR) [8th album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2 // MOJO - 2 // HP - 1.5] Dionne Warwick___________The Love Collection (27 UK 26 AUSR[4May'09]) [best of] Morcheeba___________Dive Deep (59) [6th album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 2] The Duke Spirit___________Neptune (63) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // SPIIN - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // HP - 3 // UNCUT - 3] NADA SURF_____________LUCKY (82 USA 193 UK[2WL]) [5th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3] American Music Club__________The Golden Age (154) [9th album] [SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3] New Found Glory__________From the Screen to Your Stereo, Vol. 2 (193) [covers album] Cass McCombs___________Dropping The Writ (???) [3rd album] [Q - 4 // HP - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Bob Mould____________District Line (???) [7th solo from Sugar/Husker Du frontman] [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 3] Dead Meadow___________Old Growth (???) [6th album] [SPIN - 3.5] Colin MacIntyre___________The Water (???) [formely Mull Historical Society, debut solo album] [Q - 3 // NME - 3] The Beat_________You Just Can't Beat It: the Best of the Beat (???) [best of] [Q - 4]
11 - 17 February 2008 : Michael Jackson_________________Thriller 25 (3 UK 2 AUSR) [25th anniversary release] [Q - 5 // ROL STONE - 5 // NME - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Morrissey___________________Greatest Hits (5 UK 19 IRE) [2nd best of] [HP - 5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3 // NME - 3] One Night Only__________________Started A Fire (10) [debut album] [HP - 3.5 // Q - 3 // NME - 2.5 // ROCK SOUND - 1.5] Lior________________Corner Of An Endless Road (13 AUSR) [2nd album] Simple Plan___________________Simple Plan (31 UK(NW) 69 IRE(NW) 14 USA 6 AUSR(NW)) [3rd album] [Q - 2 // ROL STONE - 2 // ROCK SOUND - 2] The Getaway Plan_________________Other Voices, Other Rooms (14 AUSR) [debut album] City And Colour______________Bring Me Your Love (31 AUSR 117 UK) [2nd album] Laura Marling_________________Alas, I Cannot Swim (45) [debut album, MERCURY PRIZE NOM] [HP - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] Widespread Panic________________Free Somehow (78 USA) [10th album] [Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 2] Chris Rea_____________Chris Rea Presents The Return of the Fabulous Hofner Bluenotes (135) [3cd album]
18 - 24 February 2008 : The Feeling_________________Join With Us (1 UK 29 IRE) [2nd album] [MOJO - 4 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Joe Brown_________________The Very Best Of: 50th Anniversary (16) [best of] HAM SANDWICH_________________CARRY THE MEEK (23 IRE) [debut album] [HP - 4] Andrea Bocelli_______________Vivere - One Night In Tuscany (30 UK 50 IRE) [live album] Secondhand Serenade________________A Twist In My Story (44 USA) [2nd album] Pete & The Pirates_______________Little Death (71) [debut album] [MOJO - 3] Mike Doughty__________________Golden Delicious (87 USA) [solo from Soul Coughing singer] Nick Lowe______________Jesus Of Cool (126) [reissue, deluxe ed of his 1978 debut album] I Was A Cub Scout__________Want You to Know That There Is Always Hope (128) [debut album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Porcupine Tree___________Nil Recurring EP (137) [4 track EP] Genghis Tron________________Board Up The House (???) [2nd album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // Q - 3] The Mountain Goats_______________Heretic Pride (???) [16th album] [Q - 4 // SPIN - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Atlas Sound_____________Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel (???) [Bradford Cox(Deerhunter) side project] [MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5] Gary Louris________________Vagabonds (???) [Jayhawks frontman] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Hayseed Dixie__________________No Covers (???) [7th album with no cover songs] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] The Boggs___________________Forts (???UK 2007uSA) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Envelopes_______________Here Comes The Wind (???) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] The Apes__________________Ghost Games (???) [4th album]
25 February - 2 March 2008 : GOLDFRAPP_______________A & E (2 UK 9 IRE 48 USA 11 AUSR) [4th album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // NME - 3] Erykah Badu__________Nu AmErykah: Part 1 (4th World War) (55 UK(NW) 2 USA) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // HP - 2.5] Los Campesinos______________Hold On Now, Youngster (72) [debut album] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 4 // SPIN - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // Q - 3 // NME - 3] Seasick Steve____________Dog House Music (77 IRE) [org released in 2006] [SPIN - 3.5] Sebastien Tellier_____________Sexuality (124) [3rd album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Gary Numan & Tubeway Army_________Replicas Redux - Expanded 2008 Tour Edition (131) [deluxe ed of 1979 album] Magnum_______________Wings Of Heaven - Live (198) [live album ft. entire 1988 album] The Phoenix Foundation__________________Happy Ending (???) [3rd album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] The Bellrays_________________Hard, Sweet and Sticky (???) [new album] [SPIN - 3] Cowboy Junkies_________________Trinity Revisted (???) [re-recording of 98 'Trinity sessions', guests incl R Adams, V Chesnutt]
3 - 9 March 2008 : Duffy_____________________Rockferry (1 UK 1 IRE 4 USA(12may) 18 AUSR(1 Apr)) [debut album] [Q - 4 // NME - 4(?) // ROL STONE - 4 // SPIN - 4 // HP - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS_________DIG LAZARUS DIG (4 UK 5 IRE 64 USA(14Apr) 2 AUSR) [14th album] [HP - 4.25 // NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 4] Flogging Molly_______________Float (4 USA) [4th album] [SPIN - 3.5 // CR - 3 // Q - 2] The Black Crowes_____________Warpaint (52 UK 5 USA) [7th album] [HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] Jackson Browne_____________Solo Acoustic: Volume 2 (92 UK 24 USA) [live album] THE CARDIGANS______________THE BEST OF (32 UK 60 IRE) [2cd/1cd best of 1994-2005] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Billy Bragg______________Mr. Love and Justice (33 UK 82 IRE) [new album] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // HP - 3 // Q - 3] The Gutter Twins_____________Saturnalia (54 UK 60 IRE(NW)) [debut album.band is mark lanegan & greg dulli] [HP - 4.5 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // NME - 3.5] Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks_____________Real Emotional Trash (64 USA 105 UK) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 4.5 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3 // Q - 2] Kelis_______________The Hits (71) [best of 1999-2007] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Bauhas__________________Go Away White (120) [5th/final album] [SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] Black Francis_____________Svn Fngrs (136) [Pixies frontman mini-album] [HP - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Kathryn Williams & Neill MacColl_____________Two (155) [collabrative album] Malcolm Middleton________________Sleight of Heart (168) [Arab Strap member solo album] [HP - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Nine Inch Nails_____________Ghosts I-IV (???) [6th/instrumental album, free download] [UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Kathleen Edwards_______________Asking For Flowers (???) [3rd album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 2] Howlin' Rain______________Magnificent Friend (???) [2nd album] [SPIN - 3] Ghostland Observatory________________Robotique Majestique (???) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 2.5] THE CHARLATANS_____________YOU CROSS MY PATH (???) [free download on xfm.co.uk, 30,000 downl, cd in May] Various Artists____________Fresh Cuts, Volume 2 (???) [only sold in Guitar Centre stores, ft new Pumpkins song] Elvis Costello_____________This Years Model: Deluxe Edition (???US 7Apr-UK) [2cd version of 1978 album] [ROL STONE - 5] Lynyrd Skynyrd_____________Street Survivors: Deluxe Edition (???) [2cd version of 1977 album] [CR - 4.5 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Whiskeytown___________Strangers Almanac: Deluxe Edition (???) [2cd version of 1997 album, Ryan Adams old band] [UNCUT - 5 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4 // CR - 2.5]
10 - 16 March 2008 : Gyroscope____________Breed Obsession (1 AUSR) [3rd album] MGMT____________Oracular Spectacular (12 UK 5 IRE 40 AUSR(4May)) [debut album] [NME - 4 // HP - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Rory Gallagher_________Essential Rory Gallagher (17 IRE) [best of, essential series] [CR - 3.5 // Q - 3] The Young Knives___________Superabundance (28) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // HP - 3 // NME - 2.5] Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly_________Searching For The How's & Why's (30) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // HP - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3 // SPIN - 2.5] Hercules & Love Affair_________Hercules & Love Affair (31 UK 44 IRE) [debut album] [HP - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 4] The Kills_______________Midnight Boom (47 UK 78 IRE(NW)) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // NME - 3 // Q - 3] Chequerboard__________________Penny Black (85 IRE) [2nd album] Meshuggah______________obZen (151) [6th album] Vincent Vincent & The Villains___________Gospel Bombs (158) [debut album] A Place To Bury Strangers__________A Place To Bury Strangers (???-UK 2007-US) [debut album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5] Adam Green_____________Sixes and Sevens (???) [5th album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // HP - 2.5 // SPIN - 2.5 // Q - 2 // MOJO - Karine Polwart_________________This Earthly Spell (???) [4th album] [Q - 4] Why?_______________Alopecia (???) [new album] [SPIN - 3.5] Kaki King_________________Dreaming of Revenge (???) [4th album, appeared on Foo's & Tegan and Sara albums in 07] [MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA___________THESE ARE THE GOOD TIMES PEOPLE (???) [5th album] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 1] Various Artists______________NME Classics: 61 Classics Tracks from the History of NME (???) [3cd album] Bob Dylan___________________Re-Transmissions (???) [live album ft.tv app's, award performances] THE VINES_________________THE BEST OF THE VINES (???us 5may-uk) [best of 2002-2006] [Q - 4]
17 - 23 March 2008 : Mary Black_______________25 Years, 25 Songs (1 IRE) [best of] MUSE_____________HAARP: LIVE FROM WEMBLEY 2007 (2 UK 5 IRE 46 USA(2WL)) [2nd live album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // NME - 4] ELBOW_____________THE SELDOM SEEN KID (5 UK 14 IRE) [4th album, MERCURY PRIZE WINNER] [NME - 4.5 // HP - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 4 // MOJO - 3] Bryan Adams___________11 (6 UK 25 IRE 80 USA(12 May) 35 AUSR) [11th album] [HP - 3] Van Morrison____________Keep It Simple (10 UK 12 IRE 10 USA(2WL) 47 AUSR) [new studio album] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5] We Are Scientists_________Brian Thrust Mastery (11 UK 58 IRE) [2nd album] [NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3 // SPIN - 3] Yael Naim______________New Soul (55 USA) [2nd album, USA-08, ROW-07] Neon Neon______________Stainless Style (67 UK 54 IRE(7Apr)) [debut album, band incl G Rhys(SFA), MERCURY PRIZE NOM] [HP - 4.5 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3] The Hush Sound____________Goodbye Blues (75 USA) [3rd album] She & Him______________Volume One (81 USA) [debut album from duo, M Ward & Zooey Deschanel] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // HP - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Be Your Own Pet____________Get Awkward (101) [2nd album] [NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // SPIN - 2.5 // HP - 1.5] Operator Please_____________Yes Yes Vindictive (157 UK ausr-07) [debut album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // NME - 3] The Teenagers__________Reality Check (184) [debut album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3 // Q - 2 // HP - 1.5] The Dodos__________Visitor (???) [3rd album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4] Destroyer_____________Trouble in Dreams (???) [new studio album] [HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 4 // NME - 2.5 // Q - 2] Daniel Lanois____________Here Is What Is (???us 31mar-uk) [new album from producer/singer] [HP - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Goldie Lookin' Chain__________Under The Counter (???) [3rd album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Van der Graaf Generator_________Trisector (???) [new album] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3] DeVotchKa_______________A Mad and Faithful Telling (???) [5th album] [SPIN - 4] Amsterdam______________Arm In Arm (???) [new album] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Joseph Arthur____________Could We Survive EP (???) [1st of 4 EP's in 2008] Various Artists____________Body Of War: Songs That Inspired an Iraq War Veteran (???) [ft. Eddie Vedder, Neil Young, Bright Eyes, Serj Tankian] Various Artists____________Music From The Motion Picture 21 (???) [ft new song by LCD Soundsystem] Various Artists____________Heroes Original Soundtrack (???) New Found Glory______________Hits (???) [best of 1999-2007]
24 - 30 March 2008 : Cut Copy_________________In Ghost Colours (1 AUSR 118 UK[12May]) [2nd album] [SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // HP - 2.5] Panic At The Disco_________________Pretty. Odd. (2 UK 7 IRE 1 AUSR) [2nd album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // HP - 2] Foals___________________Antidotes (3 UK 20 IRE) [debut album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 3.5 // SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // HP - 3 // Q - 3] THE RACONTEURS_______________CONSOLERS OF THE LONELY (9 UK 6 IRE(NW) 50 AUSR) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.5 // CR - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // SPIN - 3] Guillemots______________________Red (10 UK 93 IRE) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 2 // NME - 2] The B-52's__________________Funplex (11 USA) [7th album] [HP - 4.5 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 1 // MOJO - 1] Millencolin______________________Machine 15 (11 AUSR) [7th album] COUNTING CROWS___________________SATURDAY NIGHTS, SUNDAY MORNINGS (12 UK 28 IRE 22 AUSR) [5th album] [ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // CR - 2.5] SUPERGRASS________________DIAMOND HOO HA (19 UK 49 IRE) [6th album] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // HP - 3 // SPIN - 3] Cavalera Conspiracy_______________Inflikted (77 UK 40 AUSR) [debut album from Cavalera brothers] Deep Purple__________________Very Best Of (43) [best of] Pennywise_______________Reason To Believe (46 AUSR) [download for free from myspace for next 2 weeks] [CR - 3.5 // Q - 3] Does It Offend You, Yeah?_____________You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into (48) [debut album] [Q - 4 // NME - 3.5 // HP - 3 // SPIN - 3 // UNCUT - 2 // MOJO - 2] Mystery Jets_________________21 (50) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Joy Division______________________The Best Of (63) [2cd best of] [CR - 4.5] BECK________________ODELAY: DELUXE EDITION (184) [2cd vesion of classic 96 album] [UNCUT - 5 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4] The Whip____________________X Marks Destination (75) [debut album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 2] Pugwash____________________Able Seamen (???) [HP - 4.5] Young Heart Attack__________________Rock and Awe (???) [2nd album] [CR - 3.5] Lindsey Buckingham_____________Live at the Bass Performance Hall (???) [Fleetwood Mac member live solo album] The Lemonheads______________It's a Shame About Ray: Collector's Edition (???) [2cd/dvd expanded edition of 1993 album] [MOJO - 5 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Jesus and Mary Chain____________Remastered Versions of: 'Psychocandy' / 'Honey's Dead' / 'Darklands' / 'Stoned and Dethroned' / 'Automatic' (???)
1 - 6 April 2008 : R.E.M____________________ACCELERATE (1 UK 1 IRE 2 USA 13 AUSR) [14th album] [SPIN - 4.5 // NME - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 4 // HP - 3 // UNCUT - 3] The Black Keys_________________Attack & Release (34 UK 78 IRE 14 USA 12 AUSR) [4th album] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3] GNARLS BARKLEY_____________________THE ODD COUPLE (19 UK 31 IRE 18 USA(2WP) 20 AUSR(NW)) [2nd album] [NME - 4 // HP - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // SPIN - 3] Sevendust_______________Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow (19 USA) [7th album] [Q - 3] Moby________________Last Night (28 UK(12May) 26 IRE(12May) 27 USA 20 AUSR) [8th album] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // SPIN - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Theory Of A Deadman_______________Scars & Souvenirs (26 USA 106 UK(17may09)) [3rd album] The Specials__________________The Best Of (28) [best of] [HP - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4] In Flames__________________A Sense Of Purpose (54 UK(NW) 85 IRE(NW) 28 USA) [9th album] [SPIN - 3] Joe Satriani________________Professor Satchafunkilus And The Musterion of Rock (89 USA) [12th album] Boy Kill Boy___________________Stars And The Sea (98) [2nd album] [Q - 3 // HP - 2] Frank Turner______________Love, Ire and Song (111) [2nd solo from Million Dead frontman] The Storys_______________Town Beyond The Trees (175) [2nd album] Nizlopi_________________Make It Happen (180) [3rd album] Sun Kil Moon__________________April (???) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // SPIN - 3] Anti-Flag________________The Bright Lights of America (???) [8th album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // SPIN - 2] The Sword_________________Gods of Earth (???) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // SPIN - 3.5] French Kicks_______________Swimming (???) [4th album] [SPIN - 3.5] The Brian Jonestown Massacre___________My Bloody Underground (???) [9th album] [SPIN - 2.5 // Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2] Willie Nelson__________________One Hell Of A Ride (???) [4cd box set ft.100 songs from 1954-2007] [CR - 4.5 // Q - 4] Apples in Stereo__________________Electronic Projects for Musicians (???) [b-sides and rarities compilation] [SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 2] Gossip________________Live In Liverpool (???) [live album] [NME - 3 // Q - 3 // SPIN - 2.5 // UNCUT - 2]
7 - 13 April 2008 : The Rolling Stones_____________Martin Scorsese: Shine A Light (Soundtrack) (2 UK 10 IRE 11 USA(LW) 28 AUSR) [live album] [HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4 // CR - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] The Courteeners______________St. Jude (4) [debut album] [NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] P.O.D____________When Angels & Serpents Dance (9 USA) [7th album] [ROL STONE - 2 // SPIN - 2] James______________Hey Ma (10) [10th album] [HP - 4 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Nine Inch Nails______________Ghosts I-IV (60 UK 83 IRE 14 USA 15 AUSR) [6th album] The Breeders______________Mountain Battles (46 UK 21 IRE 98 USA) [4th album] [NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // HP - 3] Ashes Divide____________Keep Telling Myself It's Alright (36 USA) [debut album from band ft.Billy Howerdel, Josh Freese] The Long Blondes______________Couples (48) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // NME - 3 // HP - 3 // Q - 3] Dream Theater___________Greatest Hit (...and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs) (113) [best of] Asia________________Phoenix (166) [new album, first from original members since 1983] Clinic_______________Do It! (???) [5th album] [SPIN - 4 // HP - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Peter Moren________________The Last Tycoon (???) [debut solo from Peter Bjorn & John member] [HP - 4 // SPIN - 3 // UNCUT - 2 // MOJO - 2] Chris Difford______________The Last Temptation Of Chris (???) [solo from Squeeze member] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Wye Oak___________________If Children (???) [debut album, indo in 07] [MOJO - 4] Crayonsmith_______________White Wonder (???) [2nd album] [HP - 4] Torche_______________Meanderthal (???) [2nd album] [SPIN - 4] Tapes'n Tapes_________________Walk It Off (???) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // SPIN - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Prenup_______________Hell to Pay (???) [debut album, band ft. 2 Hothouse Flowers + 1 Pogues] [HP - 3] Cloud Cult_______________Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes) (???) [6th album] Eric Avery________________Help Wanted (???) [debut album from Janes Addiction bassist] Spoon________________Don't You Evah EP (???) [8 song-1 new, 1 cover, 6 remix] Various Artists______________Green Owl Compilation: a Benefit for the Energy Action Coalition (???) [proceed to Energy Action Coalition, ft Muse, B Party, Fiest..] Various Artists______________Moshi Moshi Singles: 2006-2008 (???) [record label best of, ft. Kate Nash] Various Artists______________Juno B-Sides: Almost Adopted Songs (???) [iTunes only release] Jesse Malin_________________On your Sleeve (???) [covers album] [MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // HP - 3(?) // ROL STONE - 2.5] Colin Meloy___________Colin Meloy Sings Live (???) [live album from The Decemberists singer] [SPIN - 4 // Q - 3]
14 - 20 April 2008 : IRE-UK100-AUSR The Kooks________________Konk (1 UK 2 IRE 41 USA 8 AUSR) [2nd album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 3] The Presets_______________Apocalypso (1 AUSR) [2nd album] [NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Cog_________________Sharing Space (2 AUSR) [2nd album] Thrice________________The Alchemy Index: Vols. III & IV - Earth & Air (17 USA 140 UK) [2nd 2cd album of 4cd album] Rush______________Snakes & Arrows Live (70 UK 18 USA) [2cd live album] Tristan Prettyman_____________Hello...X (27 USA) [2nd album] FALL OUT BOY__________________****: LIVE FROM PHEONIX (32 AUSR 147 UK) [live album as CD/DVD or DVD] [NME - 3] Mark Geary________________Opium (32 IRE) [4th album] [HP - 4] BLOOD RED SHOES________________BOX OF SECRETS (47) [debut album] [Q - 4 // NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Jason Mraz_______________We Dance EP (52 USA) [2nd part of 3 part album "We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things"] Asia_______________Phoenix (73 USA) [1st album with original lineup since '82] The Jimmy Cake_________________Spectre & Crown (73 IRE) [3rd album] Yeasayer______________All Hour Cymbals (143) [debut album, 07Usa] ¡Forward, Russia!_________________Life Processes (156) [2nd album] [HP - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 1] The La's_________________The La's: Deluxe Edition (190) [2cd version of 1990 debut album] Frightened Rabbit______________The Midnight Organ Fight (???) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Jim Noir______________Jim Noir (???) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] James McMurthy________________Just Us Kids (???) [album of new songs] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 4] Phantom Planet________________Raise The Dead (???) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // SPIN - 3] Joseph Arthur_______________Crazy Rain and Boredom (???) [2nd of 4 EP's in 2008] AIR_________________MOON SAFARI: DELUXE EDITION (???) [10th anniversary of album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4] METALLICA________________KILL 'EM ALL / RIDE THE LIGHTNING (???) [reissue on vinyl only]
21 - 27 April 2008 : uk100 ausr ire usa The Last Shadow Puppets_________The Age of Understatement (1 UK 2 IRE 30 AUSR) [debut album, MERCURY PRIZE NOM] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // NME - 4 // HP - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS_________FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS (32 UK(12May) 38 IRE(12May) 3 USA 43 AUSR(19May)) [debut album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3] Whitesnake_________________Good To be Bad (7 UK 95 IRE(NW) 62 USA) [11th album] Story Of The Year_________________The Black Sawn (18 USA 25 AUSR 136 UK) [3rd album] The Audreys___________________When The Flood Comes (20 AUSR) [2nd album] The Weepies________________Hideaway (31 USA) [3rd album] Tantric_________________The End Begins (91 USA) [3rd album] Alabama 3________________Hits and Exit Wounds (155 UK 96 IRE) [diff versions of best songs] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 3] Robert Forster________________The Enangelist (149) [half of Go-Betweens] [UNCUT - 5 // SPIN - 3.5] Deus_____________Vantage Point (???) [HP - 4 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] [5th album, guests incl. Elbow's Guy Garvey and The Knife's Karin Dreijer Andersson] Barry Adamson______________Back To The Cat (???) [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] [known for work with NC & Bad Seeds, David Lynch] Four Tet________________Ringer EP (???) [4 track EP] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Joe Chester_____________The Tiny Pieces Left Behind (???) [2nd album] [HP - 4] Thalia Zedek_____________Liars and Prayers (???) [4th album, Live Skull/Come member] [SPIN - 3] The Night Marchers__________See You In Magic (???) [debut album from band ft. John Reis (Rocket from the Crypt, the Hot Snakes)] [SPIN - 3] Blind Melon____________For My Friends (???) [first album with new singer, Travis Warren] Sleepcar___________West Texas (???) [debut album, lead singer:Jim Ward(Sparta, At The Drive-In)] The Bluetones_____________The Bluetones Collection (???) [best of] [Q - 3] The Hellacopters_____________Head Off (???) [covers album] [CR - 4] Love________________Forever Changes: Collectors Edition (???) [new edition of classic 1967 album] [UNCUT - 5 // CR - 4.5 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4] The Replacements_____________Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash: Deluxe Edition (???) [new edition of 1981 debut] [Q - 4] The Replacements_____________Stink EP: Deluxe Edition (???) [new edition of 1982 EP] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] The Replacements_____________Hootenanny: Deluxe Edition (???) [new edition of 1983 album] [Q - 3] The Replacements_____________Let It Be: Deluxe Edition (???) [new edition of 1984 album] [UNCUT - 5 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4] Carole King_____________Tapestry: Legacy Edition (???US 22sep-uK) [org released in 1971] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 3]
28 April - 3 May 2008 : ire uk100 ausr usa Portishead_______________Third (2 UK 4 IRE 7 USA 9 AUSR) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 5 // NME - 4.5 // SPIN - 4.5 // HP - 4 // Q - 3] Def Leppard________________Songs From The Sparkle Lounge (10 UK(NW) 5 USA 32 IRE(NW)) [11th album] [CR - 3.5 // HP - 3 // MOJO - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // UNCUT - 1] The Roots_______________Rising Down (95 UK 6 USA) [8th album] [MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // HP - 3] Mudcrutch______________Mudcrutch (8 USA 167 UK[26May]) [ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] [band are: Band are Tom Petty, Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell and keyboardist Benmont Tench as well as Tom Leadon and Randall Marsh] The Platters_________________The Very Best Of (9) [best of] Steve Winwood________________Nine Lives (31 UK(NW) 12 USA) [new studio album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // HP - 2(?) // CR - 2(?) // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 2] Carly Simon_______________This Kind Of Love (15 USA) [24th album] [MOJO - 3 // Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2] Augustana_______________Can't Love Can't Hurt (21 USA) [3rd album] The Aftermath______________Friendlier Up Here (26 IRE) [debut album] [HP - 2.5] Mindless Self Indulgence______________If (27 USA 132 UK) [5th album] The Fall_______________Imperial Wax Solvent (35) [27th album] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Sarah McLachlan______________Rarities, B-Sides, And Other Stuff 2 (44 USA 193 UK) [b-sides, rarities, deuts] Crystal Castles_______________Crystal Castles (47 UK 49 IRE) [debut album] [HP - 4 // NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] Cajun Dance Party______________The Colourful Life (49) [debut album] [NME - 3 // Q - 3 // HP - 3 // MOJO - 2] Santogold________________Santogold (74 USA 26 UK[2WL] 45 IRE[2WL]) [debut album] [MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 4 // NME - 4 // Q - 3 // HP - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Tindersticks_______________The Hungry Saw (81 UK 77 IRE(NW)) [7th album] [Q - 4 // HP - 4 // SPIN - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Jamie Lidell______________Jim (83) [3rd album] [SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // HP - 2 // Q - 2] Half Man Half Biscuit___________CSI:Ambleside (123 UK) [11th album] Eli 'Paperboy' Reed & The True Loves______________Roll With You (???) [debut album] [MOJO - 4] New Amusement______________Any Port In A Storm (???) [mini album] [HP - 4] The Envy Corps___________________Dwell (???) [2nd album] [HP - 4] Shearwater____________________Rook (???) [5th album] [SPIN - 3.5] ABC___________________Traffic (???) [8th album, 1st in 11 years] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] The Cab________________Whisper War (???) [debut album] Langhorne Slim_____________Langhorne Slim (???) [album of new songs] Les Savy Fav_____________After The Balls Drop (???) [live album from NY on NYE'07, online buy only] Diana Ross & The Supremes_____________Let the Music Play: Supreme Rarities 1960-1969 (???) [50 tracks incl Beatles and Rolling Stones cover] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4] The Night Marchers________________See You In Magic (???US 2june-UK) [debut album] [MOJO - 4] JIMMY EAT WORLD_______________BLEED AMERICAN: DELUXE EDITION (???) [2cd version of classic 2001 album]
4 - 10 May 2008 : uk100-ire-ausr-usa Neil Diamond_______________Home Before Dark (1 UK(NW) 10 IRE(NW) 1 USA 9 AUSR) [new studio album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // HP - 3] Sharon Shannon_____________The Galway Girl: The Best Of (2 IRE) [best of] Mario Rosenstock_______________Dat's Life (3 IRE) [comedy album] REPUBLIC OF LOOSE________________VOL IV: JOHNNY PYRO & THE DANCE OF EVIL (6 IRE) [3rd album] [HP - 4] Hadouken_______________Music For An Accelerated Culture (12) [debut album] [NME - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] GEMMA HAYES_____________THE HOLLOW OF MORNING (12 IRE 154 UK(NW)) [3rd album] [HP - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Willie Nelson_____________Legend: The Best Of (16 UK 33 IRE 49 AUSR) [best of] Jack McManus_____________Either Side Of Midnight (22) [debut album] Frankie Valli/The Four Seasons______________The Very Best Of (25) [best of] [UNCUT - 4] Delays________________Everything's The Rush (26) [3rd album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // HP - 3 // MOJO - 2] Tokio Hotel____________Scream (39 USA) [compilation album] Giveamanakick_____________Welcome To The Cusp (55 IRE) [3rd album] Elvis Costello & The Imposters_______________MOMOFUKU (59 USA 112 UK) [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] BARENAKED LADIES______________SNAKETIME! (61 USA) [kids themed album] Mario Rosenstock______________Gift Grub 3 & 4 (69 IRE) [re-release of 2 albums in 1 package] From First To Last_______________From First To Last (81 USA) [3rd album] Tokyo Police Club___________Elephant Shell (128) [debut album] [NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // HP - 3] Nine Inch Nails________________The Slip (???) [free downloadable album, 7th album] [K - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // SPIN - 4 // NME - 3.5] Nouns________________No Age (???) [2nd album] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5] The Notwist_________________The Devil, You + Me (???) [6th album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] The Wave Pictures______________Instant Coffee Baby (???) [7th album] [NME - 4] The Morning Benders______________Talking Through Tin Cans (???) [debut album] [NME - 3.5] T Bone Burnett___________Tooth of Crime (???) [ft music written for play 'Tooth of Crime'] [ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 2 // Q - 2] 18th Dye______________Amorine Queen (???) [3rd album] We Are The Physics________________We Are The Physics Are OK At Music (???) [debut album] Various Artists____________Sound Selection: Compiled By the Bees (???) [The Bee's fav songs] Polvo________________1996's "Exploded Drawing" & 1997's "Shapes" (???) [vinyl re-issue, split in 98 but recently reunited]
12 - 18 May 2008 : ire-uk100-ausr-usa DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE_________________NARROW STAIRS (24 UK 29 IRE 1 USA 6 AUSR(NW)) [6th album] [ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 4 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // HP - 2.5] Frank Sinatra______________Nothing But The Best (10 UK 9 IRE 2 USA 16 AUSR(5July)) [best of, 10 yrs this week since he passed away] [UNCUT - 4] Pendulum_____________In Silico (2 UK 9 AUSR) [debut album] Jason Mraz__________________We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. (3 USA 28 AUSR(NW)) [3rd album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // HP - 2 // MOJO - 2] The Searchers_____________The Very Best Of (11) [best of] [Q - 3] 10 Years_______________Division (12 USA) [4th album] Iron Maiden_______________Somewhere Back In Time: Best Of: 1980-1989 (14 UK 72 IRE 58 USA) [80's best of] [CR - 4.5 // Q - 4] Bon Iver___________For Emma, Forever Ago (43 UK 16 IRE(NW) 32 AUSR(26Jan09)) [debut album] [MOJO - 5 // UNCUT - 5 // Q - 4 // SPIN - 4 // HP - 3] Martha Wainwright_______________I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too (29 UK 28 IRE(NW) 19 AUSR) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 4 // SPIN - 3.5] Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan______________Sunday at Devil Dirt (38 UK 28 IRE) [2nd collabrative album] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3] THE CHARLATANS_______________YOU CROSS MY PATH (39 UK 96 IRE) [10th album] [HP - 4. // CR - 8 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Filter________________Anthems For The Damned (60 USA) [4th album] [Q - 2] Old 97's_________________Blame It On Gravity (85 USA) [7th album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] The National_______________A Skin, A Night & The Virginia EP (87 IRE) [12 track EP ft. live,demo,b-sides] Martina Topley-Bird______________The Blue God (88) [2nd album] [HP - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Amy Winehouse______________Frank: Super Deluxe Edition (98) [reissue of 2003 debut] [UNCUT - 4] The Shortwave Set______________Replica Sun Machine (158) [2nd album, produced by Danger Mouse] [Q - 4 // HP - 2.5 // UNCUT - 2] Titus Andronicus_______________Airing of Grievances (???) [debut album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Black Taj________________Beyonder (???) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4] Royal Bangs_________________We Breed Champions (???-US 2009-Euro) [debut album] [NME - 3.5] Joseph Arthur______________Vagabond Skies EP (???) [3rd of 4th EP in 2008] Adem___________________Takes (???) [covers of PJHarvey, Pumpkins, Bjork ect]
19 - 25 May 2008 : ire-uk100-ausr-usa The Ting Tings______________We Started Nothing (1 UK 3 IRE 78 USA(2WL) 22 AUSR(NW)) [debut album] [HP - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // NME - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] 3 Doors Down______________3 Doors Down (1 USA) [4th album] [Q - 2] Pete Murray_______________Summer at Eureka (1 AUSR) [3rd album] Beth Rowley_______________Little Dreamer (6) [debut album] [HP - 2.5] The Osmonds_______________The Very Best of (11) [best of] Shihad________________Beautiful Machine (11 AUSR) [7th album] Donna Summer_______________Crayons (17 USA) [Q - 3] Foxboro Hot Tubs______________Stop, Drop and Roll !!! (37 UK 99 IRE 21 USA) [debut from Green Day side-project] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3] John Williams_____________Soundtrack - Indina Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (83 UK 39 USA) H.I.M________________Digital Versatile Doom: Live From the Orpheum Theatre XXXVII A.S. (48 AUSR) [live cd/dvd] Sparks_______________Exotic Creatures of the Deep (54) [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3.5] Bonnie 'Prince' Billy_______________Lie Down In The Light (55 IRE(2WL) 122 UK) [HP - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3] Scarlett Johansson_______________Anywhere I Lay My Head (64 UK 65 IRE) [tom Waits cover's] [NME - 4 // HP - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // SPIN - 2.5 // MOJO - 2] The Dresden Dolls_____________No, Virginia... (94 USA) [compilation of new recordings of old songs, b-sides ect] [SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Thea Gilmore______________Liejacker (101) Paul Weller____________Live At The Royal Albert Hall (140) [live DVD/CD] Mudhoney______________The Lucky Ones (???) [9th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3] Islands_____________Arm's Way (???) [2nd album] [SPIN - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Mates Of State______________Re-Arrange Us (???) [5th album] [SPIN - 4] Congregation_______________Congregation (???) [MOJO - 4] Windsor for the Derby__________________How We Lost (???) [MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Free Kitten____________Inherit (???) [band ft's. Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, Pussy Galore's Julie Cafritz & Yoshimi P-We of Boredoms] [UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 2 // Q - 2] Joan Of Arc_______________Boo! Human (???) [11th album] [SPIN - 3] THE DANDY WARHOLS_________...EARTH TO THE DANDY WARHOLS... (???) [6th album, download now, cd AUTUMN 08] French Kicks______________Swimming (???) [4th album] Mudhoney______________Superfuzz Bigmuff: 20th Anniversary Edition (???) [MOJO - 5 // UNCUT - 5 // Q - 3]
26 May - 1 June 2008 : ire-uk100-ausr The Pigeon Detectives_____________Emergency (5 UK 69 IRE(NW)) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 3 // NME - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 2.5 // UNCUT - 2] Al Green_________________Lay It Down (88 UK 9 USA) [MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // HP - 3] Spiritualized_______________Songs in A&E (15 UK 17 IRE) [NME - 4 // SPIN - 4 // HP - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] THE FUTUREHEADS_______________THIS IS NOT THE WORLD (17) [3rd album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // HP - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Sandi Thom_______________The Pink & The Lily (25 UK 72 IRE) [2nd album] [HP - 2.5] Kids in Glass Houses_______________Smart Casual (29) [debut album] [Q - 2] Cyndi Lauper_________________Bring Ya To The Brink (41 USA) [HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3] The Zombies__________________The Zombies and Beyond (43) [best of] Johnny Flynn_______________A Larum (98) [debut album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // HP - 4] The Wedding Present_____________El Rey (102) [8th album] [SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Yazoo______________In Your Room (193) [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] [contains Yazoo's only two studio albums (Upstairs at Eric's and You and Me Both) in stereo and 5.1 remasters. Also included is a disc of B-sides and remixes. The fourth disc is a DVD containing the music videos] Mark Moriss_______________Memory Muscle (???) [debut from Bluetones singer] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Born Ruffians______________Red, Yellow and Blue (???) [debut album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 3]
2 - 8 June 2008 : ire-uk100-ausr-usa Paul Weller_______________22 Dreams (1 UK 6 IRE 30 AUSR(NW)) [9th album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3 // SPIN - 3] RADIOHEAD_______________THE BEST OF (4 UK 1 IRE 26 USA 10 AUSR) [best of 94-05] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Disturbed_________________Indestructible (20 UK 43 IRE 1 USA 1 AUSR(NW)) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 2] WEEZER________________THE RED ALBUM (21 UK(2WL) 27 IRE(2WL) 4 USA 21 AUSR(NW)) [6th album] [K - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // NME - 3.5 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3] Journey________________Revelation (69 UK(NW) 5 USA) [first with new singer-Arnel Pineda] [ROL STONE - 3] THE ZUTONS_______________YOU CAN DO ANYTHING (6 UK 24 IRE) [3rd album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 3 // NME - 2 // UNCUT - 2] Jewel_________________Perfectly Clear (8 USA) [6th album, country themed] [ROL STONE - 2.5] Alanis Morissette_____________Flavours of Entanglement (15 UK 32 IRE 8 USA(NW) 17 AUSR(NW)) [7th album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // HP - 3 // SPIN - 2.5 // UNCUT - 2] Sparkadia______________Postcards (23 AUSR) [debut album] Paul Simon_________________The Essential Paul Simon (27 UK 29 IRE) [2cd best of, part of Essential series] [Q - 4] Fred______________Go God Go (30 IRE) [2nd album] [HP - 3] Aimee Mann_________________@#%&*! Smilers (32 USA 122 UK) [7th album] [MOJO - 5 // Q - 4 // SPIN - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Gavin Rossdale__________________Wanderlust (33 USA) [debut solo album] [ROL STONE - 2] Various Artists______________Vans Warpped Tour '08 (35 USA) Hall & Oates_________________The Singles (35 UK 88 IRE(NW)) [best of] Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers______________Greatest Hits (38 UK 53 IRE) [greatest hits] The Pogues_______________Just Look Them Straight in the Eye and Say... Pogue Mahone (40 IRE) [5cd box set] Creedence Clearwater Revival____________The Best Of Creedence Clearwater Revival (46 UK 64 IRE) [best of] Royworld______________________Man In The Machine (52 IRE) [debut album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Ladytron__________________Velocifero (75) [4th album] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 2.5 // Q - 2 // HP - 1.5] The Virgins_______________The Virgins (???) [debut album] [ROL STONE - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // HP - 3.5 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Johnny Foreigner__________________Waited Up 'Til It Was Light (???) [debut album] [NME - 4 // Q - 3] Gemma Ray_____________The Leader (???) [MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Scott Maher______________21 Bends (???) [HP - 3] Oppenheimer_________________Take the Whole Midrange and Boost It (???) [2nd album, CHOICE IRE PRIZE NOM] Babyshambles_________________Oh What A Lovely Tour (???) [live cd/dvd] [Q - 3]
9 - 15 June 2008 : ire100-ausr-uk100-usa COLDPLAY_______________VIVA LA VIDA OR DEATH AND ALL HIS FRIENDS (1 UK 1 IRE(NW) 1 USA(NW) 1 AUSR(NW)) [4th album] [SPIN - 4.5 // NME - 4 // HP - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Damien Dempsey______________The Rocky Road (2 IRE) [covers album] [HP - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] The Fratellis______________Here We Stand (5 UK 13 IRE 80 USA 20 AUSR) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // HP - 3 // SPIN - 2.5] N*E*R*D_________________Seeing Sounds (20 UK 60 IRE 7 USA 14 AUSR(NW)) [3rd album] [HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] My Morning Jacket________________Evil Urges (9 USA 125 UK) [5th album] [SPIN - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 4 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Jape__________________Ritual (16 IRE) [CHOICE IRE PRIZE WINNER] [HP - 4 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Emmylou Harris______________All I Intended To Be (40 UK 32 IRE 22 USA) [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Jakob Dylan________________Seeing Things (24 USA 87 IRE(4Aug) 106 UK(4Aug)) [debut solo from Wallflowers singer] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3 // SPIN - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5] Whitesnake_______________30th Anniversary Collection (38) [3cd box set ft.hits & rarities] Mystery Jets_______________Twenty One (42) [re-release] Joan As Police Woman____________To Survive (56 UK 42 IRE(NW)) [2nd album] [HP - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // MOJO - 3] U2________________THE JOSHUA TREE: DELUXE EDITION (72) [new edition of 1987 album] Rev Theory____________Light It Up (74 USA) Lykke Li_________________Youth Novels (75 IRE 112 UK) [debut album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Juliet Turner_______________People Have Names (86 IRE) [Q - 3] Uriah Heep______________Wake The Sleeper (172) [21st studio album] Robert Pollard______________Robert Pollard Is Off to Business (???) [8th album in 6 years] [UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3.5] Walter Becker______________Circus Money (???) [2nd solo album from 1/2 of Steely Dan] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Solomon Burke_______________Like A Fire (???) [sings songs by Eric Clapton, Ben Harper ect who wrote for him spec] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 3 // Q - 2] Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson_________________Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson (???) [debut album] [MOJO - 4] Priscilla Ahn__________________A Good Day (???) [debut album] [NME - 3.5 // Q - 2] Sloan_________________Parallel Play (???) [9th album] [UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Trey Anastasio and the Undectet___________Original Boardwalk Style (???) [live album from 30,31 Dec 2006 in House of Blues in Atlantic City, New Jersey] Nils Lofgren______________The Loner: Nils Sings Neil (???) [covers Neil Young songs] [ROL STONE - 3] Sonic Youth____________Hits For The Squares (???) [compilation-sold in Starbucks-people pick fav song include Radiohead, Beck ect] The Beach Boys______________U.S. Singles Collection The Capitol Years 1962 - 1965 (???) [ft. 16 classic singles and b-sides]
16 - 22 June 2008 : ire100-uk100-ausr-usa100 THE OFFSPRING_____________RISE AND FALL, RAGE AND GRACE (39 UK 55 IRE 10 USA 3 AUSR) [8th album] [K - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // UNCUT - 2] FEEDER____________SILENT CRY (8 UK 82 IRE) [6th album] [HP - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] FLEET FOXES___________________FLEET FOXES (11 UK 39 IRE 83 USA(2June)) [debut album] [MOJO - 5 // HP - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 4 // NME - 3.5] Judas Priest____________Nostradamus (30 UK 11 USA 17 AUSR) [MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] Denis Wilson____________Pacific Ocean Blue: Expanded Edition (16 UK 71 IRE) [re-release of 1977 album] [UNCUT - 5 // ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] Petula Clark_____________Then & Now: The Very Best Of (17) [best of] The Music_____________Strenght In Numbers (19 UK 30 AUSR) [3rd album] [HP - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 2] Dolly Parton____________The Very Best Of (23) [best of] Wolf Parade____________At Mount Zoomer (45 USA) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] UB40_______________TwentyFourSeven (81) [Q - 3] Exit Ten______________Remberer The Day (154) [debut album] Wild Beasts______________Limbo Panto (???) [debut album] [HP - 4.5 // NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3.5] Silver Jews_______________Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (???) [6th album] [HP - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 4] Hot Club de Paris________________Live At Dead Lake (???) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Tilly and the Wall________________O (???) [3rd album] [SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] My Brightest Diamond________________A Thousand Shark's Teeth (???) [2nd album, Band fronted by Shara Worden] [MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 2.5] Chicago_______________Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus (???) [originaly planned for release in 1994] THE OFFSPRING_______________SMASH (???) [remastered edition of 1994 album, with new 24-page booklet] THE OFFSPRING_______________IGNITION (???) [remastered edition of 1992 album] METALLICA________________MASTER OF PUPPETS (???) [re-released on single disc at 33 rpm and a deluxe two-disc version on 180-gram vinyl spinning at 45 rpm]
23 - 29 June 2008 : uk100-ausr-ire100 Motley Crue_______________Saints of Los Angeles (78 UK(NW) 4 USA 14 AUSR) [9th album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2] SIGUR ROS_____________MED SUD I EYRUM VID SPILUM ENDALAUST (5 UK 4 IRE 15 USA 14 AUSR(NW)) [5th album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 4 // HP - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // NME - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Shinedown_____________The Sound of Madness (8 USA 159 UK(2Mar09)) [3rd album] [Q - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 2] Cute Is What We Aim For________________Rotation (21 USA) [2nd album] [Q - 3] Herman's Hermits______________The Best of (24) [best of] Amos Lee_________________Last Days at the Lodge (29 USA) [3rd album] Cage The Elephant_______________Cage The Elephant (38 UK ->59 USA(10-Jan-2011)) [debut album] [Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Less Than Jake_______________GNV FLA (61 USA 171 UK) [7th album] G. Love & Special Sauce____________Superhero Brother (63 USA) Billy Idol________________Idolize Yourself: The Very Best Of Billy Idol (36 UK(21July) 73 USA) [Q - 2] Ry Cooder_____________I, Flathead (84) [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] The Rascals_______________Rascalize (100) [debut album] [Q - 3 // NME - 3 // MOJO - 2 // UNCUT - 2] White Denim_______________Workout Holiday (114) [debut album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 4 // MOJO - 3] Infadels_______________Universe In Reverse (200) [debut album] [Q - 3 // HP - 2.5] The Watson Twins_____________Fire Songs (???) [debut album, collab with Jenny Lewis in '06] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3 // Q - 3 // HP - 1] Thomas White________________I Dream of Black (???) [debut solo from ESP/Brakes member] [Q - 4] Love As Laughter__________________Holy (???) [ROL STONE - 3.5 // SPIN - 3] Yeti______________The Legend Of Yeti Gonzales (???) [debut album] Jessie Baylin____________Firesight (???) Liz Phair_____________Exile in Guyville (???) [re-release of classic 1993 album with bonus] [ROL STONE - 5 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] BLONDIE_____________PARALLEL LINES: DELUXE COLLECTOR'S EDITION (???) [re-release of classic 1978 album with bonus]
30 June - 6 July 2008 : ire100-uk100-ausr-usa100 John Mayer_____________Where The Light Is (5 USA 30 AUSR 125 UK) [live cd/dvd] Seth Lakeman___________Poor Man's Heaven (8) [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE_____________THE BLACK PARADE IS DEAD! (12 UK 22 USA 10 AUSR) [live cd/dvd] Alkaline Trio_____________Agony and Irony (13 USA 52 UK(NW)) [6th album] [K - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // HP - 3 // SPIN - 3] The Subways___________All or Nothing (17) [2nd album] [K - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // SPIN - 3] Los Lonely Boys_______________Forgiven (26 USA) Little Red___________Listen to Little Red (29 AUSR) [debut album] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] Dirty Pretty Things_____________Romance At Short Notice (35) [2nd album] [MOJO - 4 // NME - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] David Bowie______________Live Santa Monica '72 (61) [live 1972 concert] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] Blackmore's Night______________Secret Voyage (194) [7th album] Ian McLagan & The Bump Band_____________Never Say Never (???) [Ian was member of Small Faces] [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Matthew Jay_______________Further Than Tomorrow (???) [2nd album] [Q - 4] The New Mastersounds_____________Plug & Play (???) [MOJO - 4] Earlimart___________________Hymn and Her (???) [6th album] [SPIN - 3] Tickle Me Pink_______________________Madeline (???) [debut album] The Zombies___________________Odessey and Oracle - 40th Anniversary Live Concert (???) [live album]
7 - 13 July 2008 : ire100-uk100-ausr-usa100 Birds Of Tokyo_____________Universes (3 AUSR) [2nd album] BECK________________MODERN GUILT (9 UK 12 IRE 4 USA 13 AUSR) [8th album] [Q - 4 // NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3.5] Black Kids_____________Partie Traumatic (5 UK 63 IRE) [debut album] [NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // HP - 4 // SPIN - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis_______________Two Men With The Blues (20 USA) [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Creedence Clearwater Revival__________Best Of: Deluxe Edition (41 AUSR) Paul Heaton_____________The Cross Eyed Rambler (43) [2nd solo from Housemartins/B South singer] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Tricky_____________Knowle West Boy (63) [8th album] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] Stone Gods_____________Silver Spoons and Broken Bones (67) [debut album, band ft 2 members of The Darkness] Unkle___________End Titles: Story For A Film (70) [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // HP - 2.5 // UNCUT - 2] Ratatat_______________LP3 (82 USA) [3rd album] [HP - 4.5 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // NME - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Albert Hammond Jr____________¿Cómo Te Llama? (183) [2nd album from Strokes guitarist] [NME - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 2] Patti Smith & Kevin Shields____________The Coral Sea (???) [spoken word ft. MBV's Shields] [UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 4 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] The Melvins______________Nude With Boots (???) [UNCUT - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // SPIN - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] Sunny Day Sets Fire________________Summer Palace (???) [debut album] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5] Ron Sexsmith_________________Exit Strategy Of The Soul (???) [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] The Baseball Project________________Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails (???) [debut album] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3] Royal Treatment Plant______________Hope Is Not Enough (???) [NME - 4 // Q - 2] Son Ambulance_________________Someone Else's Deja Vu (???) [3rd album] [SPIN - 3.5] The Sugars________________The Curse of the Sugars (???) [NME - 3.5] The Alarm MMVI_________________Guerilla Tactics (???) [UNCUT - 3] Black Ghosts_________________Black Ghosts (???) [debut album] [SPIN - 3] Five O'Clock Heroes____________Speak Your Language (???) [2nd album] [Q - 2 // NME - 1.5] The Wildhearts__________________Stop Me If You’ve Heard This Before Vol 1 (???) [covers album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // Q - 2] Maroon 5_________________It Won't Be Soon Before Long:Deluxe Edition (???) [now as CD/DVD] Billy Joel_____________The Stranger: 30th Anniversary (???) [box set ft. 2cd+1dvd] [ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Finley Quaye_______________The Best of the Epic Years (???) [best of] [Q - 3] BIFFY CLYRO______________SINGLES 2001-2005 (???) [best of first 3 albums] [NME - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2]
14 - 20 July 2008 : uk100-ire100-ausr50-usa Nas__________________Untitled (23 UK 54 IRE 1 USA) [ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 4] Sharleen Spiteri_________________Melody (3 IRE 28 UK) [solo debut, Texas singer] [HP - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] John Mellencamp_____________Life, Death, Love and Freedom (7 USA 21 AUSR(NW) 162 UK(19Oct'08)) [ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] Billy Joel______________Piano Man: the Very Best of Billy Joel (9) [re-release of best of] THE VINES_____________MELODIA (12 AUSR 6oct-UK) [4th album] [SPIN - 3 // Q - 3 // NME - 2 // UNCUT - 2 // MOJO - 2 // HP - 1] O.A.R_______________All Sides (13 USA) [6th album] [ROL STONE - 2] The Hold Steady_______________Stay Positive (15 UK 30 USA) [4th album] [UNCUT - 5 // NME - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // HP - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // SPIN - 3] Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard________________The Dark Knight OST (91 UK 35 IRE(2WL) 20 USA) Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band________________Magic Tour Highlights EP (48 USA) Micah P.Hinson_______________...And The Red Empire Orchestra (157) [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3] Wire___________________Object 47 (???) [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 4 // MOJO - 2] Pop Levi____________Never Never Love (???) [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Andy Yorke________________Simple (???) [debut solo from Unbelivable Truth singer] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 1] Foreigner__________No End in Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner (???) [2cd best of] [Q - 3] THE CHARLATANS__________THE BEST OF THE BBC SESSIONS 1999-2006 (???) [session album!, 2cd] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3]
21 - 27 July 2008 : uk100-ire100-ausr-usa The Living End________________White Noise (2 AUSR) [5th album] [Q - 2] British India______________Thieves (5 AUSR) [2nd album] The Bachelors_______________I Believe - The Very Best of The Bachelors (7) [best of] Primal Scream_________________Beautiful Future (9 UK 36 IRE) [9th album] [NME - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] U2________________BOY (76 UK 13 IRE) [remastered ed. of 1980 debut] [ROL STONE - 4.5 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 2] Nine Inch Nails_______________The Slip (13 USA 22 AUSR 25 UK(NW) 40 IRE(NW)) [free download in May, CD release now] U2________________WAR (77 UK 16 IRE) [remastered ed. of 1983 album] [ROL STONE - 4.5 // UNCUT - 3] U2________________OCTOBER (79 UK 17 IRE) [remastered ed. of 1981 album] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] THE DANDY WARHOLS______________...EARTH TO THE DANDY WARHOLS... (25 AUSR 149 UK(18Aug)) [Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // SPIN - 2.5 // MOJO - 2 // UNCUT - 2] One Day As A Lion_____________One Day As A Lion EP (28 USA) [debut EP from duo:RATM's Zack de la Rocha and former The Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore] [ROL STONE - 4] CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy)____________Donkey (32 UK 37 IRE) [ROCK SOUND - 4 // SPIN - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2] Candlebox___________Into The Sun (32 USA) [4th album, 1st in 10yrs] [ROL STONE - 2.5] U2_____________U2 LIVE FROM PARIS: HIPPODROME DE VICENNES, PARIS: 4 July 1987 (54 USA 99 IRE(NW)) [digital only release, part of TJT box set] COUNTING CROWS_____________iTunes: LIVE FROM SOHO (66 USA) [live from iTunes store in NYC] Buddy Guy___________Skin Deep (68 USA) [ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] The Avett Brothers_____________The Second Gleam EP (82 USA) [8 track EP] Pepper______________Pink Crustaceans And Good Vibrations (83 USA) [5th album] Dr. Dog______________Fate (86 USA) [5th album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Liam Finn_____________I'll Be Lightning (88) [debut album, released in NZ/Aust 07, son of Neil Finn(Crowded House)] [Q - 4 // HP - 3] Bodies of Water____________A Certain Feeling (???) [2nd album] [NME - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Doug Sheridan______________Songs From Just Outside The House (???) [debut album] [HP - 4] Brendan Canning______________Something For All Of Us (???) [debut album, part of Broken Social Scene presents series, BSS member] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 3] Paul Westerberg______________49:00... Of Your Time/Life (???) [Replacements singer, 1 track, 43min lock, cost 49c] Julie Doiron___________Loneliest in the Morning (???) [re-release of 97 album with bonus tracks] Black Sabbath____________The Rules of Hell (???) [box set ft. 4 albums when Dio was singer]
28 July - 3 August 2008 : ire100-uk100-ausr50-usa Scars on Broadway_____________Scars on Broadway (41 UK 17 USA 43 AUSR) [debut album from 2 of SOAD members] [K - 5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // HP - 3 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Soulfly______________Conquer (64 UK 66 USA 19 AUSR) [6th album] [Q - 3] The Wolfe Tones____________The Anthology of Irish Song (20 IRE) [best of] Alice Cooper______________Along Came A Spider (31 UK 53 USA) [25th album] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3] Ida Maria______________Fortress Around My Heart (39 UK 38 IRE) [debut album??] [SPIN - 4.5 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // NME - 3 // HP - 2.5] Melee_______________Devil's and Angel's (61) [2nd album/US in 07] [HP - 2.5] Kitty, Daisy & Lewis________________Kitty, Daisy & Lewis (149) [UNCUT - 2] Black Affair_____________Pressure, Pressure, Point (???) [Q - 4 // NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3] James Jackson Toth_____________Waiting In Vain (???) [debut solo album] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // SPIN - 3] The Little Ones_____________Morning Tide (???) [debut album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // HP - 3 // Q - 2] Sea Wolf________________Leaves In The Floor (???UK 07-USA) [debut album] [UNCUT - 4] Faraquet_________________Anthology 1997-98 (???) [compalation] Sonic Youth____________SYR8: Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth (???) [live from 2005's Roskilde Festival]
4 - 10 August 2008 : uk100-ire100-ausr50-usa100 The Whitlams__________________Truth, Beauty and a Picture of You: Best of The Witlams (3 AUSR) The Grates________________Teeth Lost, Hearts Won (6 AUSR UK-15Sep09) [2nd album] Conor Oberst_________________Conor Oberst (37 UK 66 IRE 15 USA) [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // NME - 3.5 // SPIN - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 3 // HP - 2.5] Trapt__________________Only Through the Pain (18 USA) [3rd album] Hawthorne Heights____________________Fragile Future (23 USA) [3rd album, 1st since death of guitarist Casey Calvert] [ROCK SOUND - 4] Norma Jean__________________Norma Jean -Vs- The Anti Mother (29 USA) [4th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4] Randy Newman___________________Harps and Angels (46 UK 61 IRE 30 USA) [HP - 5 // ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4] Anthony Green__________________Avalon (44 USA) [debut solo from lead singer of Saosin, Circa Survive, The Sound of Animals Fighting] The Faint______________Fasciinatiion (46 USA) [5th album] [SPIN - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 2] Lewis Black_________________Anticipation (64 USA) [comedians 6th album] Various Artists____________________Songs For Tibet: The Art Of Peace (77 USA) [MOJO - 3] The Cool Kids___________________The Bake Sale (101) [HP - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] The Prodigy_________________MORE Music For The Jilted Generation (190) [re-release of 94 album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] The Prodigy_________________Experience: Expanded Edition (194) [re-release of 92 album] [Q - 4] Oneida___________________Preteen Weaponry (???) [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Oxford Collapse_________________Bits (???) [4th album] [SPIN - 3.5] Darker My Love______________2 (???) [2nd album] [NME - 3 // Q - 3] Brazilian Girls__________________New York City (???) [3rd album] David Vandervelde__________________Waiting For The Sunrise (???) [debut album] Mike Gordon___________________The Green Sparrow (???) [solo from Phish member] Killing Joke____________________RMXD (???) [remix album] Black Light Burns_________________Cover Your Heart and the Anvil Pants Odyssey (???) [cd-covers/dvd-doc,vid] [Q - 3]
11 - 17 August 2008 : ire100-uk100-ausr-usa Noah & The Whale___________________Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down (5 UK 32 IRE) [debut album] [Q - 4 // NME - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Michael Franti & Spearhead_________________All Rebel Rockers (18 AUSR) [Q - 4] The Levellers________________Letters From the Underground (24) [UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 2] Late Of The Pier_________________Fantasy Black Channel (28) [debut album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // SPIN - 3] Extreme______________Saudades de Rock (78 USA 146 UK(LW)) [5th album, first since '95] Fightstar________________Alternative Endings (85) [ROCK SOUND - 3.5] The Waterboys_____________Room to Roam: Collectors Edition (179) [bonus edition of 1990 album] Saville_________________Nostalgia (???) [HP - 4] Red Kid________________Rocket Ship (???) [HP - 2.5] Pierre de Reeder________________The Way That It Was (???) [debut solo from Rilo Kiley bassist] Racebannon_________________Acid or Blood (???) Various Artists________________Songs For Tibet: The Art Of Peace (???) [inc new song by Damien Rice]
18 - 24 August 2008 : ire100-ausr50-uk-usa100 Sneaky Sound System_________________2 (1 AUSR) [2nd album] Staind_______________The Illusion Of Progress (3 USA 73 UK(3WL)) [6th album] [ROL STONE - 2.5 // Q - 2 // UNCUT - 1] Monkey__________________Journey To The West (5 UK 24 IRE(NW)) [soundtrack to the stage musical Monkey: Journey to the West, Damon Albarn] [NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Xavier Rudd________________Dark Shades of Blue (5 AUSR) Lynyrd Skynyrd_________________Greatest Hits (15) [new best of] Donavon Frankenreiter________________Pass It Around (16 AUSR 98 USA) [3rd album] The Academy Is..._______________(Fast Times At Barrington High) (17 USA 30 AUSR(NW)) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Black Stone Cherry_________________Folklore and Supersition (23 UK 68 IRE 28 USA) Toadies___________________No Deliverance (59 USA) [3rd album] The Gaslight Anthem__________________The '59 Sound (70 USA 72 UK(29June09)) [2nd album] [K - 5 // Q - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] The Walkmen__________________You & Me (71 USA) [4th album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Amy MacDonald_________________This Is The Life (92 USA) [debut album, UK 2008] Ra Ra Riot_________________The Rhumb Line (109 USA) [debut album] [ROL STONE - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Stereolab______________Chemical Chords (102 UK 69 IRE(NW)) [HP - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Jaguar Love_____________Take Me To The Sea (???) [debut album, ft.members of Blood Brothers & Pretty Girls Make Graves] [HP - 4.5 // Q - 4 // NME - 3.5 // SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 2] Death Vessel_______________Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us (???) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] David Byrne & Brian Eno_________Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (???) [only avail via everythingthathappens.com, CD later] [ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3] The Week That Was______________The Week That Was (???) [MOJO - 4 // NME - 4] Loudon Wainwright III______________Recovery (???) [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Rory___________________God Bless The Big Bang (???) [debut from The Revs frontman] [HP - 4] Blue Mountain_______________Midnight In Mississippi (???) [MOJO - 4] Lee "Scratch" Perry_________________Repentance (???) [MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 2] Men Without Pants_______________Naturally (???) [debut from duo: Dan The Automator and Blues Explosion drummer Russell Simins] [SPIN - 3.5] Hamfatter________________What Part of Hamfatter Do You Not Understand? (???) [re-release of 07 album] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] The Stills_______________Oceans Will Rise (???US 6octUK) [3rd album] [MOJO - 3 // SPIN - 2.5 // Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2] Juliana Hatfield_______________How To Walk Away (???) [SPIN - 3] Jennifer O'Connor_________________Here With Me (???) [4th album] The Fiery Furnaces_________________Remberer (???) [live album] [SPIN - 3] Glen Campbell____________Meet Glen Campbell (???) [covers album, ft. songs by Travis, Foo F, U2] [UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians___________________Luminous Groove (???) [5cd box set] Goo Goo Dolls______________Greatest Hits Volume Two (???) [ft. unreleased tracks, b-sides, rarities ect]
25 - 31 August 2008 : ire100-ausr50-uk100-usa Slipknot______________All Hope Is Gone (2 UK 3 IRE 1 USA 1 AUSR) [5th album] [K - 4 // Q - 4 // HP - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // NME - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] THE VERVE_______________FORTH (1 UK 2 IRE 23 USA 20 AUSR) [4th album] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // SPIN - 4 // HP - 3 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Eva Cassidy_________________Somewhere (4) Michael Jackson_______________King Of Pop (5 UK 65 IRE 5 AUSR(NW)) [new best of to celebrate MJ's 50th] Teddy Thompson______________A Piece Of What You Need (10 UK 63 IRE) [4th album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4] Diesel______________Days Like These (17 AUSR) Dragonforce______________Ultra Beatdown (18 UK 47 IRE 18 USA 19 AUSR) [4th album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] The Dubliners______________Too Late To Stop Now: The Very Best Of (29 IRE) B.B. King_______________One Kind Favor (37 USA) [ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] The Automatic______________This Is A Fix (44) [2nd album] [NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // HP - 1] Joe Bonamassa______________Live From Nowhere in Particular (45) [2cd live album] Various Artists________________Tropical Thunder OST (63 USA) Black Tide_________________Light From Above (194) [debut album] Pete Greenwood_________________Sirens (???) [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Matthew Sweet________________Sunshine Lies (???) [10th album] [UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Solas_______________For Love and Laughter (???) [HP - 4] The Silent Years____________The Globe (???) [2nd album] [NME - 3.5] Jody Porter_______________Close To The Sun (???) [debut from Fountain of Wayne guitarist] Blues Traveler___________________North Hollywood Shootout (???) [9th album] The Do__________________A Mouthful (???) [NME - 4] Plush_______________Fed (???) [re-release of 2002 album] [UNCUT - 5 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4] Gomez_______________Bring It On: 10th Anniversary Edition (???) [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4]
1 - 7 September 2008 : ire100-uk100-ausr50 Underoath_______________Lost in the Sound of Separation (8 USA 36 AUSR 169 UK) [ROCK SOUND - 4] The Chemical Brothers_______________Brotherhood (11 UK 24 IRE) [new best of] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Brian Wilson________________That Lucky Old Son (37 UK 21 USA) [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 4 // HP - 3 // Q - 2] Roots Manuva__________________Slime and Reason (22) [6th album] [UNCUT - 4 // NME- 3.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Motorhead_______________Motorizer (32 UK 82 IRE 82 USA(LW)) [MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] Friendly Fires________________Friendly Fires (38) [debut album, MERCURY PRIZE NOM] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Brett Anderson________________Wilderness (161) [2nd solo from Suede singer] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 2 // UNCUT - 2 // NME - 1.5] James Yorkston______________When The Haar Rolls In (172) [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3.5] Fujiya & Miyagi___________________Lightbulbs (187) [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // SPIN - 3 // Q - 2] Giant Sand________________proVISIONS (???) [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3 // Q - 3 // SPIN - 3] Townes Van Zandt_________________Legend: The Very Best Of (???) [Q - 4] Volbeat_________________Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood (???) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] Apollo Sunshine_________________Shall Noise Upon (???) [3rd album] The Gutter Twins_________________Adorata EP (???) [iTunes only-2 originals, 6 covers] Various Artists_________________Sounds Eclectic: The Next One (???) [US radio station KCRW compilation] Nightwish___________________The Sound of Nightwish Reborn (???) [online only, rarities album] Kevin Ayers____________________What More Can I Say... (???) [rarities from 70's] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Isaac Hayes_________________-Ultimate Isaac Hayes: Can You Dig It (???) [2cd/1dvd best of, died August 2008] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4]
8 - 14 September 2008 : ire100?-uk100-ausr50 METALLICA_______________DEATH MAGNETIC (1 UK 1 IRE(NW) 1 USA 6 AUSR) [9th album] [K - 5 // ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // Q - 4 // HP - 3.5 // MOJO - 3] Glasvegas___________Glasvegas (2 UK 2 IRE) [debut album, MERCURY PRIZE NOM] [NME - 4.5 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Gym Class Heroes_________________The Quilt (14 USA 41 UK(NW)) [SPIN - 3] Stevie Wonder________________The Definitive Collection (14) Mitch Hedberg______________Do You Believe In Gosh? (18 USA) [3rd live album from comedian] Something With Numbers___________Engineering the Soul (20 AUSR) [3rd album] David Holmes_________________The Holy Pictures (65 UK 20 IRE) [CHOICE IRE PRIZE NOM] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3] Joshua Radin__________________Simple Times (34 USA) [2nd album] Calexico_____________________Carried To Dust (55 UK 36 IRE 98 USA) [6th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Michael Franti & Spearhead_______________All Rebel Rockers (39 USA) [UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] Josh Ritter_________________Live at the 9.30 Club (39 IRE) [live album] [HP - 2.5] Okkervil River__________________The Stand Ins (42 USA) [UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Iced Earth__________________The Crucible Of Man (Something Wicked Part 2) (79 USA) Emiliana Torrini_____________Me And Armini (93) [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4] Joan Baez________________Day After Tomorrow (100) [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Metronomy______________Nights Out (106) [2nd album] [NME - 4.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3] THIN LIZZY_______________UK TOUR 75 (116) [live album] Rachel Unthank and the Winterset____________The Bairns (178) [org rel in 2007, MERCURY PRIZE NOM] The Donkey's______________Living on the Other Side (???) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 4] Damien Jurado_____________Caught In The Trees (???) [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] The Shaky Hands_____________Lunglight (???) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 3] The Guggenheim Grotto_______________Happy The Man (???) [2nd album] [HP - 4] Neil Halstead______________Oh! Mighty Empire (???) [member of Mojave 3 and Slowdive] [MOJO - 4] Bart Davenport_________________Palaces (???) [MOJO - 4] Eddy Current Suppression Ring______________Primary Colours (???) [NME - 3.5] Julian Cope_______________Black Sheep (???) [MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Manda Rin______________My DNA (???) [debut solo from member of Bis] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Angela Desveaux_______________The Mighty Ship (???) [UNCUT - 3] The New Year____________The New Year (???) [3rd album, band ft's members of Bedhead] [HP - 3 // SPIN - 2.5] Kimya Dawson & Friends________________Alphabutt (???) [children themed album] [SPIN - 2.5 // UNCUT - 1] Chad VanGaalen________________Soft Airplane (???) [3rd album] The Gorgeous Colours_______________The Gorgeous Colours (???) [debut album] United Nations______________United Nations (???) [debut from group ft. Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly & Glassjaw/Head Automatica vocalist Daryl Palumbo] Colm Mac Con Iomaire______________The Hare's Corner (???) [solo from member of The Frames] D+_______________What Is Doubt For? (???) Liz Durrett_____________Outside Our Gates (???) Horse Feathers_____________House With No Name (???) Josh Rouse______________The Best Of Rykodisc Years (???) [best of] [Q - 3] Kevin Ayers_______________Songs for Insane Times: Anthology 1969-1980 (???) [4cd retrospective] [UNCUT - 4] Killing Joke_______________The Peel Sessions '79-'81 (???) [sessions album] [UNCUT - 3] ZZ Top________________Eliminator: Collector's Edition (???) [re-release of 1983 album with DVD] [ROL STONE - 4.5 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3]
15 - 21 September 2008 : ire100 The Blizzards_____________The Domino Effect (2 IRE) [2nd album] [Q - 3] Lisa Hannigan______________See-Saw (3 IRE 58 UK(11may'09) [debut album, CHOICE IRE PRIZE NOM] [HP - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 2] QUEEN + PAUL RODGERS______________THE COSMOS ROCKS (5 UK 47 IRE 47 USA(26oct)) [debut album] [MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 2 // ROL STONE - 2 // HP - 1] Mick Flannery_______________White Lies (6 IRE) [CHOICE IRE NOM] [HP - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] The Streets______________Everything is Borrowed (7 UK 19 IRE) [4th album] [NME - 4 // SPIN - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2 // HP - 2] Buckcherry_____________Black Butterfly (8 USA) [4th album] [SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 2] You Am I____________Dilettantes (12 AUSR) [8th album] THE CORAL______________THE SINGLES COLLECTION (13 UK 26 IRE) [2cd best of 02-08] [NME - 4.5 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] All That Remains____________Overcome (16 USA 174 UK(NW)) [4th album] Avenged Sevenfold____________Live At The LBC/Diamonds in the Rough (42 UK 54 IRE 24 USA) Jem______________Down To Earth (43 USA 64 UK(2feb'09)) [3rd album] [Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2] Lindsey Buckingham______________Gift Of Screws (59 UK 48 USA) [Fleetwood Mac guitarist] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3 // SPIN - 3] Taproot____________________Our Long Road Home (65 USA) [6th album] Amanda Palmer____________________Who Killed Amanda Palmer (77 USA) [solo debut from half of The Dresden Dolls] [ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // SPIN - 3.5] Little Man Tate________________Nothing Worth Having Comes Easy (80) [2nd album] [Q - 2] Kris Drever/Roddy Woomble/John McCusker____________Before The Ruin (156) [MOJO - 3] Leona Naess______________Thirteens (???) [HP - 4 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Saucy Monkey_______________Between The Bars (???) [mini-album] [HP - 4] Boston Spaceships__________________Brown Submarine (???) [MOJO - 4] [Band is former Guided By Voices vocalist Robert Pollard, bassist Chris Slusarenko and Decemberists/Jicks drummer John Moen] Jessica Lea Mayfield_________________With Blasphemy So Heartfelt (???) [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 2] House of Cosy Cushions____________________Animal Dream (???) [HP - 4] Mother Mother________________O My Heart (???) [2nd album] [Q - 4] The Flaws______________Achieving Vagueness (???) [HP - 3.5] George Clinton_______________George Clinton and His Gangsters of Love (???) [UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 1] Dead Confederate___________Wrecking Ball (???) [debut album] [UNCUT - 3] Jeff Ament________________Tone (???) [solo album from Pearl Jam bassist] Yo La Tengo________________They Shoot, We Score (???) [compilation of their songs from movies incl Junebug, Old Joy, Game 6, Shortbus]
22 - 28 September 2008 : ire100-ausr50-uk100-usa100 KINGS OF LEON_________________ONLY BY THE NIGHT (1 UK 1 IRE 5 USA 1 AUSR) [4th album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3 // HP - 2.5] The Butterfly Effect________________Final Conversation of Kings (3 AUSR) [3rd album] David Gilmour_________________Live in Gdansk (10 UK 22 IRE 26 USA 30 AUSR(NW)) [2cd live album] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3] TV On The Radio__________________Dear Science (33 UK 27 IRE(NW) 12 USA 26 AUSR) [3rd album] [Q - 5 // HP - 5 // SPIN - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 4] Ladyhawke________________Ladyhawke (47 UK 16 AUSR) [NME - 4 // SPIN - 4 // ROL STONE - 2.5] Jackson Browne___________________Time The Conquerer (57 UK 81 IRE 20 USA) [13th album] [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 2] Cold War Kids__________________Loyalty To Loyalty (68 UK 93 IRE 21 USA 20 AUSR(NW)) [2nd album] [NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 2.5 // Q - 2] Jenny Lewis_______________Acid Tongue (55 UK 80 IRE(NW) 24 USA) [Rilo Kiley singer 2nd album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 2.5] Plain White T's_________________Big Bad World (33 USA) [5th album] [Q - 2] Thievery Corporation_________________Radio Retaliation (35 USA 175 UK) [5th album] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Dave Edmunds________________The Many Sides of Dave Edmunds - The Greatest Hits and More (38) [MOJO - 4] The Drones________________Havilah (47 AUSR) [5th album] [MOJO - 4 // NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Old Crow Medicine Show___________________Tennessee Pusher (50 USA) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Bellowhead________________Matachin (73) [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4] Gary Moore_____________Bad For You Baby (101) [HP - 4] Nicole Atkins_____________Neptune City (146) [released 2007 in US] Brightblack Morning Light_____________Motion to Rejoin (???) [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // SPIN - 3 // MOJO - 3 // HP - 1] Blitzen Trapper____________________Furr (???) [ROL STONE - 4 // SPIN - 3.5] Peter, Bjorn and John______________Seaside Rocks (???) [mostly instrumental album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // HP - 3] Absentee________________Victory Shorts (???) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Bromhead Jacket________________On The Brain (???) [2nd album] [Q - 4] Karl Blau_________________Natures Got Away (???) [member of D+, Brothers Blau, Captain Fathom, Your Heart Breaks] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] The Spinto Band_______________Moonwink (???US 7octUS) [6th album] [Q - 3] Elvin Bishop________________The Blues Roll On (???) [MOJO - 3] All Girl Summer Fun Band_______________Looking Into It (???) [3rd album] High Places____________________High Places (???) [debut album] The Howling Hex__________________Earth Junk (???) Various Artists___________________Soundtrack: Choke (???) [online only-ft.Radiohead, DCFC, Buzzcocks, My M Jacket...] The Replacements_______________Tim (???) [remastered edition of 1985 album] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4] The Replacements_______________Pleased To Meet You (???) [remastered edition of 1987 album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4] The Replacements_______________Don't Tell A Soul (???) [remastered edition of 1989 album] [Q - 4] The Replacements_______________All Shock Down (???) [remastered edition of 1990 album] [Q - 3] New Order_______________Power, Corruption & Lies: Collectors Edition (???) [remastered 1983 album] [MOJO - 5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] New Order_______________Low-Life: Collectors Edition (???) [remastered 1985 album] [UNCUT - 5 // Q - 4 //MOJO - 4] Otis Redding________________Otis Redding Live! in London and Paris (???) [live album] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Golden Smog_______________Stay Golden: The Best of: The Rykodisc Years (???) [band ft's members of members of Soul Asylum, The Replacements, Wilco, The Jayhawks] The Undertones_________________An Anthology (???) [2cd best of 1978-2008] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4] Fatboy Slim_______________You've Come A Long Way Baby: 10th Anniversary Ed. (???) [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3]
29 September - 5 October 2008 : ire100-uk100-ausr50-usa100 James Taylor_________________Covers (4 USA) [covers album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Trivium______________Shogun (17 UK 30 IRE 23 USA 4 AUSR) [4th album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Jack's Mannequin__________________The Glass Passenger (8 USA) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // SPIN - 3 // Q - 2] Fight Like Apes_______________The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion (9 IRE) [debut album, CHOICE IRISH NOM] [HP - 5 // NME - 3.5] Seasick Steve__________I Started Out With Nothing and I've Still Got Some Of It Left (9 UK 19 IRE 17 AUSR(13Apr'09) [HP - 4.5 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] BEN FOLDS______________WAY TO NORMAL (70 UK 25 AUSR 11 USA) [3rd solo album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 3 // MOJO - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5] Anberlin______________New Surrender (13 USA) [4th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5] TRAVIS______________ODE TO J.SMITH (20) [6th album] [MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // SPIN - 2.5] Various Artists_________________Nightmare Revisited (31 USA) [cover album of songs from the 1993 film The Nightmare Before Christmas] Grateful Dead________________Rocking The Cradle: Egypt 1978 (35 USA) [live album] Iglu & Hartly_________________& Then Boom (36 UK 98 IRE) [debut album] [Q - 3 // NME - 1] Various Artists___________________Golden Age Of Song (40 USA) Various Artists_______________Soundtrack - Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (52 USA) Mercury Rev_______________Snowflake Midnight (52 UK 60 IRE) [7th album] [MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] Bayside______________Shudder (54 USA) [SPIN - 2] Ani DiFranco_________________Red Letter Year (55 USA) [16th album] [UNCUT - 3] Tina Turner________________Tina! (61 USA) [best of] In This Moment________________The Dream (70 USA) [2nd album] U2________________UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY: LIVE (86) [remastered edition] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3] The Aliens______________________Luna (103) [2nd album from former Beta Band members] [MOJO - 4 // NME - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Innerpartysystem_________________Innerpartysystem (120) [debut album] The Rasmus_________________Black Roses (146) [7th album] Dungen__________________4 (???) [4th album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3] Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs_______________Dirt Don't Hurt (???) [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4] Chairlift______________Does This Inspire You (???) [NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Halfset________________Another Way Of Being There (???) [CHOICE IRE PRIZE NOM] [HP - 4] Moris Tepper_______________Stingray In The Heart (???) [Magic Band guitarist] [MOJO - 4] Musée Mécanique_________________Hold This Ghost (???) [debut album] [Q - 4] Joseph Arthur & the Lonely Astronauts_____________Temperory People (???) [JA released 4 EP's this year also] [SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Pete Seeger______________________At 89 (???) [UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] Musée Mécanique______________Hold This Ghost (???) [debut album] [UNCUT - 3] The Nightwatchman_____________The Fabled City (???) [2nd solo from RATM/Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello] [ROL STONE - 3 // SPIN - 2.5] La Rocca_______________OK Okay (???) [2nd album] Mercury Rev______________Strange Attractor (???) [free download album, instrumental] Friendly Foes________________Born Radical (???) [debut album] Vivian Girls_______________Vivian Girls (???) [re-release of 2000 album] New Order____________Movement: Collectors Edition (???) [remastered 1981 album] [MOJO - 5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] New Order____________Brotherhood: Collectors Edition (???) [remastered 1986 album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4] New Order____________Technique: Collectors Edition (???) [remastered 1989 album] [Q - 5 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4] -returned- http://www.nme.com/news/new-order/41306 Creedence Clearwater Revival_______________Creedence Clearwater Revival (???) [remastered with bonus, 1968-1st album] [UNCUT - 3] Creedence Clearwater Revival_______________Bayou Country (???) [remastered with bonus, 1969-2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Creedence Clearwater Revival_______________Green River (???) [remastered with bonus, 1969-3rd album] [ROL STONE - 5 // UNCUT - 4] Creedence Clearwater Revival_______________Willy & the Poor Boys (???) [remastered with bonus, 1969-4th album] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4] Creedence Clearwater Revival_______________Cosmo's Factory (???) [remastered with bonus, 1970-5th album] [MOJO - 5 // UNCUT - 4] Creedence Clearwater Revival_______________Pendulum (???) [remastered with bonus, 1970-5th album] [UNCUT - 3] Nina Simone___________To Be Free (???) [box set: 3CDs ft 51 tracks from 1957-93] Jesus & Mary Chain_____________The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities (???) [4cd box set ft.rarities] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] Roy Orbison_______________The Soul of Rock and Roll (???) [4cd box set-107 songs incl 12 unreleased] [ROL STONE - 5 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4] Philip Glass______________Glass Box: A Nonesuch Retrospective (???) [10cd box set ft. his film scores and more] [UNCUT - 4] Various Artists______________Take Me To The River: A Southern Soul Story 61-77 (???) [3cd/75 song] [UNCUT - 5]
6 - 12 October 2008 : ire100-uk100-ausr50 OASIS______________DIG OUT YOUR SOUL (1 UK 2 IRE 5 USA 5 AUSR) [7th album] [NME - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3 // HP - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5] Rise Against________________Appeal To Reason (68 UK 3 USA 7 AUSR) [5th album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] Josh Pyke________________Chimney's Afire (3 AUSR) [2nd album] Bob Dylan_______________Tell Tale Signs: Bootled Series Vol.8 (9 UK 5 IRE 6 USA 32 AUSR) [Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006] [ROL STONE - 4.5 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 2] Empire Of The Sun______________Walking On A Dream (8 AUSR 23feb09-uk) [debut album] [Q - 4 // NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] [band is Luke Steele, frontman of The Sleepy Jackson and Nick Littlemore, who previously played in Teenager alongside Ladyhawke] Jack L______________Burn On (9 IRE) Sarah McLachlan__________________Closer: The Best Of Sarah McLachlan (11 USA 47 IRE(29June09)) [best of 1988-2008] Senses Fail_______________Life Is Not A Waiting Room (18 USA) [3rd album] [Q - 3] You Me At Six______________Take Off Your Colours (25) [Q - 3] The Amity Affliction_______________Severed Ties (26 AUSR) THE CLASH____________LIVE AT SHEA STADIUM (31 UK 77 IRE 93 USA) [1982 live album] [UNCUT - 5 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4] The Pretenders_____________Break Up The Concrete (32 USA 35 UK(1June'09)) [9th album] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Tesla_________________Forever More (33 USA) [7th album] Jon McLaughlin_______________OK Now (49 USA) [2nd album] Rachael Yamagata________________Elephants... Teeth Sinking Into Heart (53 USA) [2nd album] [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Dan Evans Goin' All Out (57 USA) Lambchop_______________Oh (Ohio) (100) [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 2] Juana Molina______________Un Dia (???) [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 2] Deerhoof______________Offend Maggie (???) [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // SPIN - 3] Land of Talk______________Some Are Lakes (???) [debut album] [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Department Of Eagles_________________In Ear Park (???) [Band are Grizzly Bear's Daniel Rossen & Fred Nicolaus] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] One Day International_____________Blackbird (???) [HP - 4 // NME - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Megapuss______________Surfing (???) [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] [debut album from duo: Devendra Banhart and Priestbird drummer Greg Rogove] Marnie Stern________This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That (???) [2nd album] [MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3] Saturday Morning Pictures_____________It's Cool To Hate The Singer (???) [MOJO - 4] Antony And The Johnsons____________Another World EP (???) [SPIN - 3.5] Jolie Holland_______________The Living and The Dead (???) [4th album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] Simon Bookish_________________Everything/Everything (???) [3rd album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] The Datsuns________________Head Stunts (???) [4th album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 2] Duncan Lloyd_____________Seeing Double (???) [debut from Maximo Park guitarist] [MOJO - 3 // Q - 2] I Am Ghost_____________________Those We Leave Behind (???) [2nd album] [Q - 3] Catfish Haven_______________Devastator (???) [Q - 3] Jeremy Warmsley_______________How We Became (???) [Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2] Castanets_________________City of Refuge (???) [4th album] The Rosebuds_____________Life Like (???) [4th album] These Arms Are Snakes______________Tall Swallowee & Dove (???) [3rd album, broke up in 2010] Annuals______________Such Fun (???) [2nd album] Mount Eerie_____________________Lost Wisdom (???) [ft. Julie Doiron and Fred Squire of Eric's Trip] Margot and the Nuclear So & Sos_____________Animal! (???) [band's choice as album] Margot and the Nuclear So & Sos_____________Not Animal (???) [record label's choice as album] Crooked Fingers_____________________Forfeit/Fortune (???) [no label: sold at shows, via official website] Lou Reed__________________Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse (???) [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3]
13 - 19 October 2008 : ire100-uk100-ausr50 KEANE________________PERFECT SYMMETRY (1 UK 4 IRE 7 USA 33 AUSR) [3rd album] [Q - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 2] Ray LaMontagne_____________Gossip In The Grain (23 UK 22 IRE 3 USA) [3rd album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 2] Augie March_____________Watch Me Disappear (4 AUSR) [4th album] Lucinda Williams________________Little Honey (51 UK 66 IRE 9 USA) [HP - 4] Dave Clark Five______________The Hits (15) [best of] Funeral For A Friend________________Memory & Humanity (17 IRE 71 UK(NW)) [4th album] [Q - 2] Ingrid Michaelson______________Be OK (35 USA) Buena Vista Social Club______________At Carnegie Hall (55 UK 47 IRE) [ROL STONE - 4.5 // Q - 4] Copeland_________________You Are My Sunshine (48 USA) [4th album] Santana_________________Multi Dimensional Warrior (82 USA) [2cd comp, 1970-2002] [MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Attic Lights_______________Friday Night Lights (151) [debut album] Those Dancing Days________________In Our Space Suits (180) [debut album] [SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // NME - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Fucked Up_______________The Chemistry of Common Life (???) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 4 // SPIN - 4] Secret Machines________________Secret Machines (???) [3rd album] [MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Tobacco________________Fucked Up Friends (???) [NME - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] Eugene McGuinness________________Eugene McGuinness (???) [debut album] [Q - 4 // SPIN - 3] The Acorn________________Glory Hope Mountain (??? UK) [debut album, US/Canada 07] [UNCUT - 4] Lovvers________________Think (???) [SPIN - 3.5] Cranes_________________Cranes (???) [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] I'm From Barcelona_______________Who Killed Harry Houdini? (???) [2nd album] [SPIN - 3] Max Tundra_________________Parallax Error Beheads You (???) [MOJO - 3] The Dead C________________Secret Earth (???) [SPIN - 2.5] Luka Bloom_________________Eleven Songs (??? IRE) [12th album] Tim Hecker & Aidan Baker___________Fantasma Parastasie (???) [Hecker in Jetone, Mille Plateaux, Alien8 // Baker in Nadja, ARC, and Mnemosyne] Windy & Carl______________Songs for the Broken Hearted (???) Religious Knives________________The Door (???) Various Artists____________We Wish You A Metal Xmas And A Headbanging New Year (???) David Bowie____________iSELECT: Bowie (???) [compilation of his fav songs of his] Johnny Cash______________Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison (???) [legacy edtion of live album: 2cd/1dvd] [UNCUT - 5 // Q - 5 // ROL STONE - 4 // NME - 4 // MOJO - 4]
20 - 26 October 2008 : ire100 - uk100 - ausr50 AC/DC______________Black Ice (1 UK 1 IRE 1 USA 1 AUSR) [15th album] [K - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // HP - 3] KAISER CHIEFS_____________OFF WITH THEIR HEADS (2 UK 16 IRE 55 USA(NW) 12 AUSR) [3rd album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3 // NME - 2.5 // SPIN - 2] Duke Special____________I Thought This Day Would Never Come (6 IRE) [2nd album] [HP - 4 // Q - 3] Escape The Fate______________This War Is Ours (35 USA 33 AUSR) [2nd album] [Q - 3] of Montreal_______________Skeletal Lamping (38 USA) [9th album] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 2] Rodrigo Y Gabriela_____________Live In Japan (48 IRE 153 UK(NW)) [live album] [HP - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Brett Dennen_______________Hope For The Hopeless (41 USA) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 4] Imelda May_______________Love Tattoo (58) [Q - 3] Messiah J & The Expert___________From The Word Go (66 IRE) [CHOICE IRE PRIZE NOM] [HP - 4] The King Blues________________Save the World. Get the Girl (113) [2nd album] Bonnie "Prince" Billy_________________Is It The Sea? (172) [live album from Scotland, rec in 2006] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 2] The Dears____________________Missiles (???) [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 2.5] Parts & Labor_________________Receivers (???) [4th album] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // MOJO - 3] Emily Jane White______________________Dark Undercoat (???) [MOJO - 4] White Denim__________________Explosion (???) [US version of debut] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // SPIN - 3.5] Gang Gang Dance________________Saint Dymphna (???) [SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Sebastien Grainger & the Mountains__________Sebastien Grainger and the Mountains (???) [debut from DFA 1979 vocalist/drummer] [NME - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 2.5] The Sea and The Cake_________________Car Alarm (???) [8th album] [SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] Electric Six_______________________Flashy (???) [5th album] [SPIN - 3.5] +/-________________________Xs on Your Eyes (???) [4th album] The Dead Trees_______________King Of Rosa (???) [debut album, support Alb Hammond Jr + Little Joy] Pit Er Pat__________________High Time (???) Various Artists________________Radio 1's Live Lounge Volume 3 (???) [2cd covers/sessions album] Various Artists________________Beathe Easy (???) [charity album set up by Dandy Warhols] Air______________________No Way Down (???) [ft.s No Way Down EP & On Trade Winds EP] Frightened Rabbit________________Liver! Lung! FR! (???US 30Mar09-UK) [live album from Glasgow, rec in 2007] [MOJO - 3] Kiss__________________Ikons (???) [4cd box set, eacb cd ft contribution made by members] The Long Blondes_______________Singles (???) [comp of early 7" singles & unreleased songs] [Q - 2]
27 October - 2 November 2008 : ire100-uk100-ausr50-usa100 SNOW PATROL________________A HUNDRED MILLION SUNS (2 UK 1 IRE 9 USA 7 AUSR) [5th album] [SPIN - 3.5 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 2 // NME - 2] John Legend_______________Evolver (21 UK(LW) 52 IRE(LW) 4 USA) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // SPIN - 3 // HP - 3 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Bloc Party________________Intimacy (8 UK 12 IRE 18 USA 5 AUSR) [3rd album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 3] RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS____________CARDINOLOGY (41 UK 52 IRE 11 USA) [10th album(in 9 yrs)] [ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 4 // HP - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 3] Katie Melua________________The Katie Melua Collection (15 UK 17 IRE) [best of] The Cure________________4:13 Dream (33 UK 46 IRE 16 USA 30 AUSR) [14th album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // HP - 3.5 // SPIN - 3 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] EAGLES OF DEATH METAL_____________Heart On (57 USA 40 AUSR 91 UK(26Jan09)) [3rd album] [ROL STONE - 4 // SPIN - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] David Arnold_________________Soundtrack: 007's Quantum Of Solace (64) Susan Tedeschi___________________Back To The River (71 USA) [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Burt Bacharach With The Sydney Symphony Orchestra___________________Live At The Sydney Opera House (72 USA) Los Campesinos!_________________We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (112) [2nd album, 2nd of 2008] [NME - 4.5 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 3] Crystal Stilts___________________Alight Of Night (???) [MOJO - 4 // NME - 4 // HP - 4 // SPIN - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Deerhunter____________________Microcastle (???) [MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Frida Hyvönen________________Silence Is Wild (???) [3rd album] [MOJO - 4 // HP - 4 // Q - 3] The Knux____________________Remind Me In 3 Days (???) [ROL STONE - 4 // SPIN - 3.5] School of Seven Bells________________Alpinisms (???) [ROL STONE - 3.5 // SPIN - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // ROCK SOUND - 3 // UNCUT - 2] [debut from band ft. ex-Secret Machines guitarist Ben Curtis with twins Alejandra and Claudia Deheza of On!Air!Library!] Elf Power, Vic Chesnutt & Amorphous Strums________________Dark Developments (???) [ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] The Peth__________________The Golden Mile (???) [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3] [debut from band ft.actor Rhys Ifans, Super Furry Animal's Dafydd Ieuan, former SFA Dic Ben plus Kris Jenkins and Nick Hilton] Euros Child_______________Cheers Gone (???) [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Various Artists__________________Perfect As Cats (???) [2cd Cure cover album, ft. Dandy Warhols, Bat For Lashes, Kaki King...] Various Artists_____________Late Night Tales: Compiled By Matt Helders of Arctic Monkeys (???) [his fav songs] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Various Artists_______________Zang Tumb Tuum: The ZTT Box Set (???) [box set from ZTT label, ft 50 tracks, 18 vid + 72 pg booklet] EELS_________________BLINKING LIGHTS AND OTHER REVELATIONS (???) [limited edition vinyl 4LP box of 2005 album] Arthur Russell_________________Love Is Overtaking Me (???) [compilation of demos/home recordings ect] [UNCUT - 5 // SPIN - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] The Buzzcocks________________Another Music in a Different Kitchen (???) [deluxe edition of 1978 album] [MOJO - 5 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] The Buzzcocks________________Love Bites (???) [deluxe edition of 1978 album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 2] The Buzzcocks________________A Different Kind of Tension (???) [deluxe edition of 1979 album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3] The Move______________Anthology 1966-1972 (???) [4cd box set] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] Peter Green________________The Anthology (???) [4cd box set, member of Fleetwood Mac in 60's] [UNCUT - 4] Greg Dulli________________Live At Triple Door (???) [live album from Twilight Singers/The Gutter Twins member] Hank Williams________________The Unreleased Recordings (???) [box set ft his radio show in 50's] [MOJO - 5 // UNCUT - 5 // ROL STONE - 4.5] METALLICA________________...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL (???) [re-release of 1988 album on vinyl]
3 - 9 November 2008 : ire100-uk100-ausr50-usa100 Various Artists______________Soundtrack: Twilight (1 USA 23 AUSR(2WL)) Hinder____________Take It To The Limit (4 USA 44 AUSR) [2nd album] Razorlight______________Slipway Fires (4 UK 8 IRE) [3rd album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // HP - 2.5 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // NME - 2 // SPIN - 2] Andrea Bocelli______________Incanto (12 UK 17 IRE 8 USA 46 AUSR(NW)) Status Quo____________Pictures: 40 Years Of Hits (8) [2cd best of] [UNCUT - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5] Paul Weller_____________At The BBC (32 UK 70 IRE) [4cd sessions album] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Sarah Brightman_______________A Winter Symphony (38 USA 177 UK(1Dec)) Shiny Toy Guns______________Season Of Poison (47 USA) [4th album] Thunder___________Bang! (62) Jeff Dunham________________________Jeff Dunham's Don't Come Home For Christmas (98 USA) [comedy album] Paul Carrack_________________I Know That Name (152) [MOJO - 2] Little Joy________________Little Joy (???) [debut album. band ft. The Strokes F Moretti] [ROL STONE - 4 // NME - 3.5 // SPIN - 3.5 // HP - 3 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] The Paddingtons__________________No Mundane Options (???) [2nd album] [MOJO - 4 // NME - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] The Lucksmiths__________________First Frost (???) [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Doug Paisley__________________Doug Paisley (???) [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3] BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB_________________THE EFFECT OF 333 (???) [5th album, all instrumental, avail online only] Wilderness_______________(k)no(w)here (???) [3rd album] Jackson United_________________Harmony and Dissidence (???) [2nd album. band ft. Foo F's Chris Shiflett] Dirty Epics___________________Straight In No Kissing (???) [debut album] Switchfoot__________________The Best Yet (???) [best of] Danielson______________Trying Hartz (???) [compilation of hits and rarites 1994-2004] [UNCUT - 3] Moby________________Last Night Remixed (???) [remixed version of April 2008 album] Ry Cooder_________________The UFO Has Landed: The RC Anthology (???) [2cd anthology] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3] GOLDFRAPP_________________SEVENTH TREE: SPECIAL EDITION (???) [new version ft. cd/dvd] ASH____________________1977: COLLECTORS EDITION (???) [3cd version:cd1:1977/Trailer EP, cd2:live, cd3:rarities] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3]
10 - 16 November 2008 : ire100-uk100-ausr50 STEREOPHONICS______________DECADE IN THE THE SUN: BEST OF (2 UK 16 IRE) [1cd/2cd best of] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] Mario Rosenstock______________Gift Grub 9: How To Look Gift Naked (4 IRE) [comedy album] Enya__________________And Winter Came... (6 UK 13 IRE 8 USA 7 AUSR) [HP - 4] Oliver Callan______________Nob Nation 2: The Recession Album (10 IRE) [comedy(?) album] Seal_______________Soul (17 UK 100 IRE(NW) 13 USA 27org/16 AUSR(8June09)) [covers album] [ROL STONE - 2.5 // HP - 2] The Smiths______________The Sound of The Smiths (21 UK 28 IRE 98 USA) [2cd's hits and rarities] [ROL STONE - 5 // HP - 5 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Paul Kelly______________Songs From The South Vol.1 & 2 (25 AUSR) The Dubliners_______________The Late Late Show Tribute (31 IRE) Tracy Chapman_______________Our Bright Future (75 UK 82 IRE 57 USA) [8th album] [HP - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 2] Tony Christie______________Made In Sheffield (91) [ft's Alex Turner, Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker...] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 4 // NME - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 2] Jeff Beck_______________Performing This Week: Live At Ronnie Scott's (143) [live album] Genesis_______________The Beginning – 1970-1975 (151) [box set ft. band's first 5 albums] [MOJO - 5 // ROL STONE - 4.5 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] The Bronx________________The Bronx III (???) [3rd album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // HP - 2.5 // UNCUT - 2] The Damned_________________So, Who's Paranoid? (???) [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] Love Is All_______________A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night (???) [2nd album] [NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // SPIN - 3.5] Mascott______________Art Project (???USA 2009-UK) [NME - 3.5 // HP - 3.5] Phil Manzanera_____________Firebird V11 (???) [Roxy Music guitarist solo album] [UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] Alexis Taylor_________________Rubbed Out (???) [debut solo from Hot Chip Singer] [UNCUT - 3] Japanther______________Tut Tut, Now Shake Ya Butt (???) [NME - 3] Longwave______________Secrets Are Sinister (???) [4th album] [SPIN - 2.5] Circus Devils_______________Ataxia (???) [band ft. Robert Pollard] Butch Walker_______________Sycamore Meadows (???) [MOJO - 4] Phil Manzanera_____________Music 1972-2008 (???) [comprises two CDs and a DVD, offers Roxy tracks, selections from previous solo albums and other items, while the DVD has live performances at various events and the documentary "Revolution To Roxy."] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Jurassic 5___________________J5: Deluxe Reissue (???) [expanded edition of 1997 debut] Jesse Malin_______________Mercury Retrograde (???) [live album] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // HP - 3 // MOJO - 2] Ween_______________Live At The Cat's Cradle 1992 (???) [cd/dvd live album] [UNCUT - 4] Live______________Live at the Paradiso - Amsterdam (???) [cd/dvd live album, recorded in 2008] Cheap Trick_______________Cheap Trick at Budokan: 30th Anniversary Edition (???) [4cd expanded edition of 1978 album] The Postmarks_______________By-The-Numbers (???) [covers album ft. Marley, Bowie, Cure, Blondie] [SPIN - 3.5] The Flaming Lips_____________Soundtrack: Christmas on Mars (???) [soundtrack to film made by band]
17 - 23 November 2008 : ire100-ausr50-uk100-usa100 Nickelback_______________Dark Horse (4 UK 19 IRE 2 USA 3 AUSR) [6th album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // SPIN - 2] Dido_________________Safe Trip Home (2 UK 11 IRE 13 USA 6 AUSR) [3rd album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // SPIN - 2.5] Rod Stewart______________Some Guys Have All The Luck (19 UK 7 IRE) [2cd best of] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Mudvayne_______________The New Game (15 USA) [4th album] Joe Dolan______________The Platinum Collection (24 IRE) Ronnie Drew_______________The Last Session: A Fond Farewell (27 IRE) [HP - 4] Tom Jones___________________24 Hours (32 UK 88 IRE) [MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra_______________The Informer (48) [HP - 3.5] David Byrne & Brian Eno_____________Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (77 IRE 153 UK) [cd release] [ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 4] BELLE & SEBASTIAN________________THE BBC SESSIONS (88) [2cd sessions album] [NME - 4.5 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Murray Gold________________Soundtrack: Doctor Who - Series 4 (92) Sammy Hagar____________Cosmic Universal Fashion (95 USA) [ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // UNCUT - 2] Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid________________NYC (???) [2nd collab album, Hebden is Four Tet] [SPIN - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Pony Club_______________Post Romantic (???) [HP - 3.5] The New Regime_________________Coup (???) [debut solo from Lostprophets drummer Ilan Rubin, digital release only] The Lost Brothers________________Trails Of The Lonely-Parts I and III (???) [debut album: band are The Basement’s Mark McCausland and ex 747s lead singer Oisin Leech] Dustin Kensrue____________________This Good Night Is Still Everywhere (???) [Thrice singer, holiday album] Barbara Morgenstern_________________BM (???) Various Artists____________________Guilt by Association Vol. 2 (???) [My Brightest Diamond, Frightened Rabbit, Matt Pond PA, Kaki King.. doing cover songs] Wu-Tang Clan___________________Wu: The Story of the Wu-Tang Clan (???) [band hits and solo members hits] Phish______________At The Roxy (???) [8 cd live box set] [ROL STONE - 4] The Doors_______________Live at the Matrix 1967 (???) [ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 THIRD EYE BLIND______________________RED STAR EP (???) [digital EP]
24 - 30 November 2008 : ire100-uk100-ausr50 THE KILLERS______________DAY AND AGE (1 UK 1 IRE 6 USA 4 AUSR) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // NME - 3.5 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // HP - 2.5] Guns N'Roses________________Chinese Democracy (2 UK 3 IRE 3 USA 3 AUSR) [first album in 17 years!] [ROL STONE - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 2 // Q - 2 // HP - 2] Kayne West______________808's and Heartbreak (11 UK 11 IRE 1 USA 12 AUSR) [4th album] [MOJO - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 3 // SPIN - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Various Artists________________Ray D'arcy's Even Better Than the Disco Thing (10 IRE COMP) [disco covers done on D'Arcy Today FM show] Duffy_______________Rockferry: Special Edition (13) COLDPLAY______________PROSPEKT'S MARCH EP (38 UK 36 IRE 15 USA 50 AUSR) [ft. 6 songs not made La Vida & 2 remix] [HP - 4 // NME - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5] LINKIN PARK______________ROAD TO REVOLUTION: LIVE MILTON KEYNES (58 UK 81 IRE 41 USA 24 AUSR) [2nd live album] The Fireman___________________Electric Agruments (73 UK 67 USA) [due are Flood & Paul McCartney] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] Paramore___________________The Final Riot! (88 USA 153 UK 48 AUSR[29Dec]) Abba_________________The Albums (89) [9cd box set: all 8 albums & rarities disc] Scott Weiland____________________Happy In Galoshes (97 USA) [ROL STONE - 3.5 // SPIN - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // HP - 3] The Soundtrack of Our Lives_____________Communion (???) [2cd album] [SPIN - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Alice Russell____________________Pot Of Gold (???) [MOJO - 4] The (International) Noise Conspiracy________________The Cross Of My Calling (???) [4th album] [SPIN - 3.5] Frost______________________Experiments in Mass Appeal (???) [2nd album] Various Artists______________The Nurse Who Loved Me: A Tribute to Failure (???) [bands cover songs of the band 'Failure' incl. Paramore] Various Artists____________________A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All (???) [iTunes only, ft music from Stephen Colbert Comedy Central TV Special] Simon and Garfunkel_________________The Collection (???) [box set of 5 albums] [UNCUT - 4] RIVERS CUOMO__________________ALONE 2: THE HOME RECORDINGS OF (???) [more home rec from Weezer frontman] [ROL STONE - 3 // SPIN - 3] Good Charlotte_____________________The Greatest Remixes (???) [ft's their hits remixed!] [ROCK SOUND - 3 // UNCUT - 2] White Zombie____________________Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (???) [box set, 4cd/1dvd, incl album song and rarities] Feist_____________________The Reminder: Deluxe Edition (???) [new ed of 2007 album with bonus tracks and vid] R.E.M_______________________MURMUR: DELUXE EDITION (????) [new ed features remastered version and live album] [ROL STONE - 5 // Q - 5 // UNCUT - 5 // MOJO - 4] DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE________________SOMETHING ABOUT AIRPLANES: 10th ANNIVERSARY ED (???) [expanded ed of 1998 debut album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] THE POLICE________________THE POLICE: CERTIFIABLE (???) [live CD/DVD, recorded Argentina 2008] SUM 41_________________8 YEARS OF BLOOD, SAKE AND TEARS: BEST OF SUM 41: 2000-2008 (???) [first best of, japan only] NADA SURF__________________VINYL BOX SET 1994-2008 (???) [all 5 albums, debut 7" on vinyl for 1st time] ANDREW W.K_____________________BEST OF (???) [Japan release only]
1 - 7 December 2008 : uk100-ire100-ausr50-usa100 Hamish & Andy________________Unessential Listeing (5 AUSR) Saw Doctors________________Live At The Melody Tent (56 IRE) Smokie_______________The All Time Greatest Hits Collection (68 IRE) Glasvegas_________________A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss) (???) [christmas themed album, download only] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4] Man Raze________________Surreal (???) [SPIN - 3.5 // MOJO - 3] [band are Phil Collen(Def Leppard), Simon Laffy(Girl/Hard Rain) and Paul Cook(Sex Pistols)] Tarja Turunen________________The Seer EP (???) [ft new song, live, remixes ect] [ROCK SOUND - 3.5] Hawkwind___________________Spirit Of The Age: Anthology 1976-1984 (???) [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] Hawkwind___________________The Dream Goes On: Anthology 1985-1997 (???) [MOJO - 3] Panic At The Disco_________________Live In Chicago (???) [live CD/DVD] QUEEN_____________________THE SINGLES COLLECTION: VOLUME 1 (???) [box set of 13 singles] [UNCUT - 3]
8 - 14 December 2008 : ire100-ausr50-uk100-usa100 Common________________Universal Mind Control (12 USA) [SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3] Neil Young______________Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury (72 UK 40 USA(LW)) [UNCUT - 5 // MOJO - 5 // ROL STONE - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3] Maroon 5______________Call And Response: The Remix Album (73 USA) [remix album] [ROL STONE - 3.5] Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan_______________Keep Me in Mind Sweetheart EP (???) [Q - 4 // HP - 3.5] The Revellions_______________The Revellions (???) [HP - 3.5 // MOJO - 3] Sune Rose Wagner_________________Sune Rose Wagner (???) [half of Raveonettes, album sung in Danish] The Welcome Wagon_________________Welcome To The Welcome Wagon (???) [debut album, produced by Sufjan Stevens] Ken Block_________________Drift (???) [new solo from Sister Hazel frontman] Various Artists_________________Motown: The Complete No.1's (???) [box set, 10cd's-191 tracks, Motown's 50th Anniversary] Cat Power_________________Dark End Of The Street EP (???) [6 new covers] [ROL STONE - 4 // SPIN - 3 // Q - 3] Mark Kozelek_________________The Finally (???) [compilation of covers recorded over years] [SPIN - 3] Thrice_________________Live At The House Of Blues (???) [live 2cd/dvd album, recorded in Anaheim, CA in 2008] Flipper___________Album - Generic Flipper (???US June09-UK) [reissue of 1982 album] [UNCUT - 4] Flipper___________Gone Fishin' (???US June09-UK) [reissue of 1984 album] Flipper___________Sex Bomb Baby (???US June09-UK) [reissue of 1988 compilation] Flipper___________Public Flipper Limited (???US June09-UK] [reissue of 1986 live album] Pavement_________________Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed. (???) [new ed. of 1997 album with bonus material] [UNCUT - 5 // ROL STONE - 4.5 // ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // MOJO - 4] The Jimi Hendrix Experience______________Electric Ladyland: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (???) [ft's CD/DVD] [UNCUT - 5 // Q - 4] THE KINKS_________________PICTURE BOOK (???) [box set ft 130 tracks incl live, rarities + 60 pg booklet] [ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3]
15 - 21 December 2008 : ire100-usa100-uk100 Fall Out Boy____________Folie A Deux (39 UK 52 IRE 8 USA 9 AUSR) [5th album] [NME - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS________________WHEN THE WORLD COMES DOWN (15 USA 47 AUSR(12Jan)) [3rd album] [ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // SPIN - 3] Dave Matthews Band________________Live At Miles High Music Festival (97 USA) [live album] Saliva_______________Cinco Diablo (???) [5th album] The Isles_______________Troika (???) [2nd album] Joanna Chapman-Smith____________Contraries (???) [album of new songs] [Q - 3] Various Artists___________Soundtrack: Yes Man (???) [ft's. 9 songs by Eels & 4 by Munchausen by Proxy] WEEZER______________CHRISTMAS WITH WEEZER EP (???) [itunes only EP - christmas songs]
22 - 28 December 2008 : ire100-uk100-ausr50-usa100
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29 December 2008 - 4 January 2009: ire100-ausr50-uk100-usa100 Jason Mraz__________We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. (35 UK 69 IRE(2Feb09) USA[see May08])
5 - 11 January 2009: ire100-ausr50-uk100-usa100 Sullem Voe_____________All Naked Flames (???) [HP - 3.5] Emma-Lee_____________Never Just A Dream (???) [debut album]
12 - 18 January 2009: uk100-ire100-ausr50-usa100 The Derek Trucks Band__________Already Free (19 USA) [6th album] [UNCUT - 4] Animal Collective__________Merriweather Post Pavillion (26 UK 87 IRE 13 USA(NW)) [8th album] [UNCUT - 5 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 4 // Q - 4 // NME - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] (hed) p.e.________New World Orphans (72 USA) [7th album] Ar Rahman________OST: Slumdog Millionaire (76 UK 49 AUSR(26Jan)) [ROL STONE - 3] The Boxer Rebellion________Union (82 USA 144 UK[14Sep'09]) [2nd album, digital only] [Q - 4] BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E-STREET BAND________GREATEST HITS (86 USA 87 UK(NW)) [Wall-Mart exclusive best of] My Morning Jacket________iTunes Live From Las Vegas: Exclusively At The Palms EP (94 USA) [live EP, digital only]` Franz Nicolay________Major General (???) [debut album from Hold Steady member] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // SPIN - 2 // MOJO - 2] The Derek Trucks Band________Already Free (???) [ROL STONE - 3.5] Dexter Freebish________The Other Side - The Best of (???) [best of] The Bee Gees________Odessa: Deluxe Edition (???) [30th anniversary ed of 1969 album] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3]
19 - 25 January 2009: ire100-uk100-ausr50 White Lies_________________To Lose My Life... (1 UK 23 IRE) [debut album] [Q - 4 // NME - 4 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 2.5 // ROL STONE - 2.5] Anthony & The Johnsons________________The Crying Light (18 UK 8 IRE 65 USA 33 AUSR) [3rd album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3] Andrew Bird__________________Noble Beast (12 USA 97 IRE(2Feb) 123 UK(2Feb)) [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5] Bon Iver_______________Blood Bank EP (16 USA) Umphrey's McGee________________Mantis (62 USA) Fiction Family_______________Fiction Family (71 USA) [debut from duo: Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman and Nickel Creek guitarist Sean Watkins] BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN_______________THE COLLECTION (80 IRE) A.C. Newman__________________Get Guilty (99 USA) [2nd album from New Pornographers frontman] [Q - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] The Hunches_________________Exit Dreams (???) [MOJO - 4 // Q - 4] Cut Off Your Hands_______________You and I (???UK/US 2008-NZ) [debut album] [SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3] Robert Pollard________________The Crawling Distance (???) [SPIN - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Blackout Beach_____________Sking Of Evil (???) [band ft. Carey Mercer(Frog Eyes, Swan Lake)] Psychic Ills____________Mirror Eye (???) Various Artists______________Factory Records - Communications 1978-1992 (???) [4cd box set ft. songs on Factory Records] [ROL STONE - 4] Reel Big Fish______________Fame, Fortune and Fornication (???) [covers album]
26 January - 1 February 2009: -ire100-uk100-ausr50 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN________________WORKING ON A DREAM (1 UK 1 IRE 1 USA 3 AUSR) [16th album, with E-Street Band] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 4 // SPIN - 3 // Q - 3] FRANZ FERDINAND________________TONIGHT: FRANZ FERDINAND (2 UK 10 IRE 9 USA 6 AUSR) [3rd album] [MOJO - 4 // NME - 4 // HP - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Various Artists__________________2009 Grammy Nominees (6 USA) Imelda May__________________Love Tattoo (7 IRE) [MOJO - 3] Leonard Cohen_________________The Essential 3.0 (21 AUSR) [cd added to 2002 release] Hoobastank_________________For(N)Ever (26 IRE) [4th album] The Rifles_________________Great Escape (27) [2nd album] The Detroit Spinners______________Are You Ready For Love: The Very Best (50) Cara Dillon_______________Hill Of Thieves (69 UK 93 IRE) Frank Turner_______________Love, Ire and Song / The First 3 Years (72) [deluxe ed ft. 2008 album and 2008 comp] the bird and the bee________________Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future (78 USA) [2nd album] [MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] John Frusciante______________The Empyrean (105) [solo from Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist] [UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 0] The Phantom Band_____________Checkmate Savage (181) [debut album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] J.Tillman_________________Vacilando Territory Blues (191) [Fleet Foxes drummer] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // MOJO - 3]` Leathermouth_________________XO (???) [debut album from band who singer is My Chemical Romance's guitarist Frank Iero] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // Q - 3] Loney Dear______________Dear John (???) [HP - 4 // NME - 3.5 // SPIN - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Loren Connors & Jim O'Rourke_______________Two Nice Catholic Boys (???) [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3] Baskery_______________________Fall Among Thieves (???) [debut-UK 2009, Europe 2008] [MOJO - 4] Wino____________________Punctuated Equilibrium (???) [solo from member of The Obsessed, Saint Vitus and more] [SPIN - 3.5 // MOJO - 3] Henry Priestman_____________________The Chronicles Of Modern Life (???) [member of Yachts & The Christians] [NME - 3.5] Omar Rodríguez-López_______________Old Money (???) [solo from Mars Volta/At The Drive-In guitarist] [MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 3 // Q - 2] Telepathe______________________Dance Mother (???) [UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5] Magnetic Morning________________A.M. (???) [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // NME - 1.5] [debut from duo Swervedriver singer/guitarist Adam Franklin and Interpol drummer Sam Fogarino] The Cotton Jones Basket Ride________________Paranoid Cocoon (???) [ROL STONE - 3] Goblin Cock_______________Come With Me If You Want To Live (???) [band ft. Rob Crow from Pinback] [SPIN - 2.5] Nickel Eye_____________The Time Of Assassins (???) [debut from band ft.The Strokes' bassist Nikolai Fraiture] [Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2 // SPIN - 2] Barnaby Bright____________Wake The Hero (???) [debut album] Various Artists_______________Just Like Heaven: Tribute To The Cure (???) [covers ft. Joy Zipper, Tanya Donelly and more] [UNCUT - 4]
2 - 8 February 2009: -ire100-uk100-ausr50-usa100 The Fray_________________The Fray (1 USA 8 UK(NW) 13 IRE(NW) 3 AUSR(NW)) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 2.5] Fleet Foxes__________________Fleet Foxes: Expanded Edition (3) [expaned ed of 2008 album] The View_________________Which Bitch? (4 UK 33 IRE) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 3.5] Buddy Holly & The Crickets______________The Very Best Of (13 UK 79 IRE(NW)) [UNCUT - 5 // Q - 3] The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus__________________Lonely Road (14 USA 41 AUSR(NW)) [2nd album] [ROL STONE - 2.5] UB40___________________Love Songs (19 UK 36 IRE) A Day To Remember_______________Homesick (21 USA 165 UK) James Taylor_________________Covers (23 UK 29Sep'08-US) [covers album] [ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 2] Willie Nelson And Asleep At The Wheel______________Willie & The Wheel (90 USA) [collab album between Willie Nelson + Asleep At The Wheel] [UNCUT - 4] Ben Kweller_________________Changing Horses (92 USA) [4th album] [SPIN - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Various Artists___________________Sweetheart: Our Favorite Artists Sing Their Favorite Love Songs (99 USA) A Camp___________________Colonia (114) [2nd solo from The Cardigans Nina Persson] [UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 2] Phosphorescent___________________To Willie (???) [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // HP - 3.5 // SPIN - 2] Woodpigeon________________Treasury Library Canada (???-european) [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Heartless Bastards________________The Mountain (???) [3rd album] [SPIN - 4 // NME - 4] The Von Bondies________________Love, Hate And Then There's You (???) [3rd album] [HP - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // NME - 2.5 // UNCUT - 2 // MOJO - 2] Two Tongues__________________Two Tongues (???) [debut from duo:Say Anything's Max Bemis and Coby Linder + Saves The Day's Chris Conley and David Soloway] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // SPIN - 3.5] Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele_____________The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele (???) [debut album] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart______________The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart (???) [debut album] [NME - 4] Nico Vega________________Nico Vega (???) [debut album] Omar Rodríguez-López_______________Despair (???) [solo from Mars Volta member] Omar Rodríguez-López_______________Megaritual (???) [solo from Mars Volta member] Roger Joseph Manning Jr_______________Catnip Dynamite (???) [Jellyfish/Imperial Drag/TV Eyes member solo album] The Only Ones_________________The Only Ones (???) [re-release of 1978 album with bonus material] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] The Only Ones_________________Even Serpents Shine (???) [re-release of 1979 album with bonus material] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4] The Only Ones_________________Baby's Got A Gun (???) [re-release of 1980 album with bonus material] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Graham Nash_________________Reflections (???) [3cd box set: hits with Hollies, CSN&Y and solo plus rarities] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 2]
9 - 15 February 2009: -ire100-uk100-ausr50-usa100 Lily Allen___________________It's Not Me, It's You (1 UK 3 IRE 5 USA 1 AUSR) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // NME - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 1] India.Arie___________________Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics (3 USA) The Lonely Island___________________Incredibad (13 USA 45 AUSR(20Apr) 111 UK(26Feb)) [debut album: band is "Saturday Night Live" star Samberg and writers Taccone and Schaffer] [NME - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Ben Lee___________________The Rebirth Of Venus (21 AUSR) [7th album] [SPIN - 1.5 // Q - 1] The Airborne Toxic Event_____________The Airborne Toxic Event (35) [debut album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Van Morrison___________________Astral Weeks: Live At The Hollywood Bowl (61 UK 36 IRE 33USA(23Feb)) [live version of 1968 album] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] ALL AMERICAN REJECTS________________WHEN THE WORLD COMES DOWN (48 UK 82 IRE 2008-US,AUSR) Hot Leg_________________Red Light Fever (81) [debut album] [ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // SPIN - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 2.5] Emmy The Great__________________First Love (113) [debut album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3 // NME - 2.5] Steve Cradock___________________The Kundalini Target (114) [solo debut from Ocean Colour Scene/Paul Weller guitarist] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // NME - 1.5] Dan Auerbach_____________________Keep it Hid (???) [debut solo from Black Keys singer/guitarist] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5] Sky Larkin___________________The Golden Spike (???) [debut album] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 2] Miranda Lee Richards________________Light Of X (???) [she sang and played guitar in The Brian Jonestown Massacre] [ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3 // NME - 2] Nels Cline____________________Coward (???) [solo album from Wilco guitarist] Run Through The Desert__________________Break The Silence (???) [debut album] Aoife Moriarty____________________Dolls and Jigsaws (???IRE) [debut album - online release-Sep 2008, now cd] Thornley____________________Tiny Pictures (???) [canada release only] BEASTIE BOYS_________________PAUL'S BOUTIQUE: 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION (???) [expanded edition of classic 1989 album] [MOJO - 5] RYAN ADAMS_________________EXTRA CHEESE EP (???) [online EP - 7 songs, 1 unreleased] BEN FOLDS_________________STEMS AND SEEDS (???) [remix, remaaster, re-sequence of 'Way To Normal']
16 - 22 February 2009: -ire100-ausr50-uk100-usa 100 Morrissey______________Years Of Refusal (3 UK 12 IRE 11 USA) [9th album] [SPIN - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Empire Of The Sun_____________Walking On A Dream (21(19-1June) UK 17 IRE oct'08-AUSR) M.Ward______________Hold Time (31 USA 85 IRE(NW) 117 UK) [6th album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Annie Lennox____________________The Collection (34 US uk/ire 9Mar) [1st best of] [Q - 3] The Waifs______________Live From The Union Of Soul (48 AUSR) Various Artists_________________Dark Was The Night: A Red Hot Compilation (49 USA) [as of Dec'10 - raised $1 million for charity] [SPIN - 4 // NME - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 2] Thursday________________Common Existence (56 USA) [5th album] [Q - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // NME - 3.5] Saint Etienne_______________London Conversations: The Best Of (79) [3cd best of] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] Beirut__________________March Of The Zapotec And Realpeople Holland (87 USA 101 UK) [NME - 4 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Alela Diane_______________To Be Still (125) [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // NME - 3 // Q - 2] Grand Duchy_______________Petits Fours (???) [debut album: duo are Frank Black(Pixies) and wife Violet Clark] [MOJO - 4 // NME - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Asobi Seksu_______________Hush (???) [3rd album] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 4 // NME - 3 // Q - 3] Vetiver_____________________Tight Knit (???) [4th album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // HP - 2] These Are Powers___________________All Aboard Future (???) [SPIN - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5] Aidan Moffat and the Best Ofs______________How To Get To Heaven From Scotland (???) [Arab Strap member] [NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Mountains___________________Choral (???) [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4] Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit__________Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (???) [Former Drive By Trucker member] [SPIN - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Here We Go Magic________________Here We Go Magic (???) [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] Neal Casal______________Roots and Wings (???) [he is one of The Cardinals] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // HP - 2.5] Barzin______________Notes To An Absent Lover (???) [3rd album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] The Deep Dark Woods____________Winter Hours (???) [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 2] Charles Spearin_________________The Happiness Project (???) [Broken Social Scene member] [MOJO - 4] Benjy Ferree_____________Come Back to the Five and Dime Bobby Dee Bobby Dee (???) [2nd album] [Q - 4] Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3______________Goodnight Oslo (???) [SPIN - 3.5 // NME - 3.5 // MOJO - 3] William Elliott Whitmore________________Animals in the Dark (???) [SPIN - 3.5] Fol Chen_______________Part 1: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made (???) [SPIN - 3.5] Eleni Mandell________________Artificial Fire (???) [SPIN - 3.5] Sholi_______________Sholi (???) [debut album] [SPIN - 3.5] Living Things__________________Habeas Corpus (???) [SPIN - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Plushgun____________________Pins and Panzers (???) [debut album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Boston Spaceships________________The Planets Are Blasted (???) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 2] Fol Chen_____________________Part 1: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made (???) [Q - 3] Ana Egge________________Road To My Love (???) [ROL STONE - 3] Mi Ami____________________Watersports (???) [debut album] [NME - 3] The Sleeping_______________What It Takes (???) [3rd album] Crucified Barbara_______________Till' Death Do Us Party (???) [2nd album] Audrye Sessions_______________Audrye Sessions (???) [debut album] Robbert Bobbert & The Bubble Machine____________Robbert Bobbert & The Bubble Machine (???) [children themed album from Apples in Stereo frontman Robert Schneider] Broken Spindles_________________Kiss/Kick (???) [band is mainly Joel Petersen of The Faint] The Appleseed Cast____________________Sagarmatha (???) Azita__________________How Will You? (???) Various Artists___________________War Child: Heroes (???) [charity album: Duffy covers Wings, Beck covers Dylan, Hot Chip cover Joy Division...] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // HP - 3]
23 February - 1 March 2009: -uk100-ire100-ausr50- BELL X1__________________BLUE LIGHTS ON THE RUNWAY (1 IRE) [4th album] [Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] The Prodigy____________________Invaders Must Die (1 UK 3 IRE 58 USA(NW) 3 AUSR) [SPIN - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 2 // ROL STONE - 1.5] Lamb Of God__________________Wrath (25 UK 32 IRE 2 USA 8 AUSR) [5th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // NME - 4 // Q - 4 // SPIN - 3] The Cat Empire_________________Live On Earth (17 AUSR) [live album] Erasure_________________Total Pop - The First 40 Hits (21) [3cd/1dvd boxset] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Joe Bonamassa__________________The Ballad of John Henry (26) [Q - 3] Chris Isaak___________________Mr. Lucky (29 USA 11 AUSR(NW)) [UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] Kieran Goss_________________I'll Be Seeing You (72 IRE) [HP - 2] Deep Purple_________________Stormbringer: 35th Anniversary Edition (99) [expanded edition of 1974 album, their 9th] [MOJO - 3] ??? 9 Feb: Dan Auerbach_____________________Keep it Hid (104) [debut solo from Black Keys singer/guitarist] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5] ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead_____________The Century Of Self (148) [6th album] [SPIN - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] The Black Lips___________________200 Million Thousand (???) [SPIN - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3] Malakai______________________Ugly Side Of Love (???) [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4] Laura Gibson__________________Beasts Of Seasons (???) [album of new songs] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Fanfarlo__________________Reservoir (???) [debut album] [NME - 4 // MOJO - 4] Teitur_____________________The Singer (???) [uk 2009, europe 2008] [NME - 4] The Spikes________________Urges and Purges (???) [HP - 4] Terry Emm______________________White Butterflies (???) [MOJO - 4] Sarah Macdougall____________________Across The Atlantic (???) [debut album] [Q - 4] Lissy Trullie_________________Self-Taught Learner EP (???) [ROL STONE - 3.5] Clem Snide________________Hungry Bird (???) [Q - 3] Marianas Trench__________________Masterpiece Theatre (???) [2nd album] Green River Ordinance_________________Out Of My Hands (???) [debut album] Issac Hayes__________________Black Moses: Remastered (???) [remastered edition of 1971 album] [ROL STONE - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Issac Hayes__________________Juicy Fruit: Remastered (???) [remastered edition of 1976 album] [Q - 2] Motorhead________________No Sleep 'Till Hammersmith: Deluxe Edition (???) [2cd version of 1981 live album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4]
2 - 8 March 2009: -ire100-aria50-uk100-usa100 U2_________________NO LINE ON THE HORIZON (1 UK 1 IRE 1 USA 1 AUSR) [12th album] [ROL STONE - 5 // Q - 5 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // NME - 3.5] Neko Case__________________Middle Cyclone (3 USA 114 UK) [solo from New Pornographers member] [SPIN - 4.5 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // NME - 4 // HP - 4 // Q - 2] Red Light Company_________________Fine Fascination (13) [debut album] [HP - 4 // NME - 1.5] Tina Turner_______________The Platinum Collection (14 UK 24 IRE) The Answer_______________Everyday Demons (25 UK 67 IRE(NW)) [2nd album] [SPIN - 3 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // HP - 2 // NME - 2 // UNCUT - 2] Howling Bells________________Radio Wars (55 UK 28 AUSR(NW)) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Various Artists__________________Soundtrack: Watchmen (35 USA) Rush_________________Restrospective 3: 1989 - 2008 (47 USA 160 UK) [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5] THIN LIZZY_________________STILL DANGEROUS (98) [live album from 1977 Bad Reputation Tour] [MOJO - 4] Brighton Port Authority_______________I Think We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat (156) [debut from new Norman Cook project ft.David Byrne, Iggy Pop and more] [SPIN - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 2] Marissa Nadler_______________Little Hells (???) [4th album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5 // SPIN - 2.5] Buddy & Julie Miller_________________Written In Chalk (???) [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // SPIN - 3.5] The Invisible________________The Invisible (???) [debut album, MERCURY PRIZE NOM] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4] The Strange Boys________________The Strange Boys And Girls Club (???) [NME - 4 // MOJO - 3] Justin Townes Earle________________Midnight At The Movies (???) [UNCUT - 4] Glenn Tilbrook & The Fluffers______________Pandemonium Ensues (???) [MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] The Whitest Boy Alive________________Rules (???) [2nd album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 2.5 // MOJO - 2] Say Hi_________________Oohs and Aahs (???) [SPIN - 2] Casino__________________The Spider Simpson Incident (???) Drowning Pool___________________Loudest Common Denominator (???) [live album] Pete Townshend__________________Rachel Fuller Presents: In the Attic with Pete Townshend and Friends (???) [ROL STONE - 3] The Undertones________________The Undertones: Expaned Edition (???) [expaned ed of 1979 album ft bonus tracks] [UNCUT - 5]
9 - 15 March 2009: -ire100-uk100-ausr50-usa100- Annie Lennox____________________The Collection (2 UK 5 IRE 10 AUSR(4may)) [best of] [Q - 3] Chris Cornell____________________Scream (10 USA 70 UK(2WL) 75 IRE(2WL)) [3rd solo album] [MOJO - 3 // SPIN - 2.5 // ROL STONE - 2 // NME - 2] New Found Glory__________________Not Without A Fight (12 USA 83 UK 36 AUSR(23feb)) [6th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // Q - 3 // SPIN - 2.5 // UNCUT - 2] Various Artists___________________Punk Goes Pop: Volume 2 (15 USA) The Dubliners______________________The Very Best Of (16) [best of] The Everly Brothers__________________50 Years Of Hits (23) [best of] STARSAILOR___________________ALL THE PLANS (26) [4th album] [Q - 4 // HP - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 2] YEAH YEAH YEAHS_________________IT'S BLITZ (32) [download only] Lionel Richie & The Commodores_____________The Definitive Collection (36) [2cd best of] Glen Campbell____________________Greatest Hits (68) [best of] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] Madeleine Peyroux___________________Bare Bones (71 USA 70 IRE(13Apr) 12 UK(13Apr)) [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3] JJ Cale_____________________Roll On (90) [studio album] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] Nick Lowe_______________Quiet Please....the New Best of (113) [best of] Polly Scattergood________________Polly Scattergood (157) [debut album] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Micachu and the Shapes_____________Jewellry (196) [debut album] [HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // SPIN - 3.5] DM Stith_________________Heavy Ghost (???) [NME - 4.5 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Elvis Perkins__________________Elvis Perkins in Dearland (???) [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // HP - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 2.5] Sometymes Why_________________Your Heart Is A Glorious Machine (???) [band ft Ruth Ungar, Kristin Andreassen, Aoife O'Donovan and more] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4] Joe Gideon & The Shark____________Harum Scarum (???) [JG was member of Bikini Atoll] [Q - 4 // NME - 4 // HP - 3.5 // MOJO - 3] Extra Golden________________Thank You Very Quickly (???) [MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Handsome Furs__________________Face Control (???) [2nd album] [SPIN - 4 // ROL STONE - 3] Cursive________________Mama, I'm Swollen (???) [ROCK SOUND - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // SPIN - 1.5] The Duloks__________________Children Of The Sea (???) [NME - 4] Bell Orchestre__________________As Seen Through Windows (???) [band ft 2 Arcade Fire members] [MOJO - 4] The Boy Least Likely To______________The Law Of The Playground (???) [2nd album] [SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Riverboat Gamblers_________________Underneath the Owl (???) [SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3] Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band____________Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band (???) [debut album] [SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Mirah______________(a)spera (???) [SPIN - 3.5] Wake The President_______________You Can't Change That Boy (???) [NME - 3.5] Mongrel_____________Better Than Heavy (???) [debut album ft. Jon McClure, Drew McConnell, Arctic Monkeys Matt Helders and ex-AM Andy Nicholson] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 2] Television Room_________________Coffee Houses (???) [HP - 3] Sixteen Layers________________I am no one (???) [HP - 3] The Race__________________In My Head It Works (???) [NME - 3] Julie Doiron_______________I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day (???) [UNCUT - 3] Balmorhea______________________All is Wild, All is Silent (???) [3rd album] [MOJO - 3] Bishop Allen___________________Grrr.... (???) [3rd album] [SPIN - 2.5 // ROL STONE - 2] Lay Low_____________Farewell Good Night's Sleep (???) [her 3rd album, org released Iceland in 2008] Various Artists_________________Re:Generations (???) [Cee-Lo, TVOTR, The Roots and more cover Nat King Cole songs] Various Artists_________________Covered, A Revolution In Sound:Warner Bros. Records (???) [Disturbed cover FNM, Mastodon cover ZZ Top, TBS cover Petty...] Beth Orton_______________Trailer Park: Legacy Edition (???) [2cd bonus edition of 1996 album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Wheat__________________Medeiros/Hope and Adams/30 Minute Theatrik (???) [box set ft. first 2 albums + rarities disc] The La's___________________Breakloose: Lost La's 1984-1986 (???) [Q - 2] GEMMA HAYES__________________OLIVER EP (???) [EP of 4 new songs incl Jackson Browne cover]
16 - 22 March 2009: -ire100-uk100-ausr50-usa100 The Decemberists___________________The Hazards Of Love (14 USA 50 UK(NW)) [5th album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 3 // SPIN - 2.5] Static-X__________________Cult Of Static (16 USA 33 AUSR(2WL)) [6th album] [ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // Q - 3] Pete Doherty__________________Grace/Wastelands (17 UK 28 IRE) [debut solo] [HP - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 4 // NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Bonnie 'Prince' Billy__________________Beware (71 UK 70 IRE(NW)) [NME - 4.5 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 2] The Who______________________The Who Sell Out: Deluxe Edition (92) [2cd version of 1967 album] [UNCUT - 5 // ROL STONE - 5 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4] Marianne Faithfull____________Easy Come, Easy Go (100) [2cd covers, ft.Cocker, Cave, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 4 // MOJO - 3 // SPIN - 3] Filthy Dukes______________Nonsense In The Dark (121) [debut album] [HP - 4] Nightwish__________________Made in Hong Kong (and in Various Other Places) (196) [live CD/DVD album] Wavves_______________Wavvves (???) [2nd album] [SPIN - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 1] Hatcham Social______________You Dig the Tunnel, I’ll Hide the Soil (???) [debut album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Speck Mountain_________________Some Sweet Relief (???) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 3 // NME - 2.5] Hexes____________________White Noise/ Black Sound (???) [debut album-singer is A's bassist Daniel P Carter] [ROCK SOUND - 4 // Q - 3] Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds__________Dracula Boots (???) [UNCUT - 4] Ryan Driver________________Feeler Of Pure Joy (???) [UNCUT - 4] Cobalt_______________Gin (???) [UNCUT - 4] It's A Buffalo_________________Don't Be Scared (???) [NME - 3.5] Navvy_______________Idyll Intangible (???) [NME - 3.5] An Horse________________Rearranged Beds (???) [ausr 2008, eur & Us 2009] [SPIN - 3.5] Kylesa_____________Static Tensions (???) [SPIN - 3.5] Les Claypool_____________Of Fungi and Foe (???) [2nd solo album from Primus member] [Q - 3] Sara Lov__________Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming (???) [debut album]
23 - 29 March 2009: -ire100-ausr50-uk100-usa100 Pet Shop Boys__________________Yes (4 UK 34 IRE 32 USA(20Apr) 32 AUSR) [10th album] [MOJO - 4 // NME - 4 // SPIN - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] PAPA ROACH__________________METAMORPHOSIS (42 UK 8 USA) [6th album] [ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 2 // HP - 2 // Q - 1] Mastodon___________________Crack The Skye (34 UK 37 IRE 11 USA 19 AUSR(NW)) [4th album] [ROCK SOUND - 5 // SPIN - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] PEARL JAM____________________TEN: EXPANED EDITION (29 UK 42 IRE 11 AUSR(NW)) [expanded ed. of 1991 album] [UNCUT - 5 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 4] Blue October___________________Approaching Normal (13 USA) [5th album] [ROL STONE - 2] Evermore__________________Truth of the World: Welcome to the Show (13 AUSR) [3rd album] Royksopp__________________Junior (21 UK 28 AUSR 52 IRE(NW)) [3rd album] [SPIN - 3.5 // NME - 3 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // HP - 3] Indigo Girls___________________Poseidon And The Bitter Bug (29 USA) John Martyn_________________The Best Of (65) [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] RADIOHEAD_________________THE BENDS: COLLECTOR'S EDITION (95) [2cd/1dvd expaneded ed of 1995 album] [Q - 5 // MOJO - 5 // ROL STONE - 4.5 // UNCUT - 4] RADIOHEAD_________________OK COMPUTER: COLLECTOR'S EDITION (99) [2cd/1dvd expaneded ed of 1997 album] [Q - 5 // UNCUT - 5 // ROL STONE - 5] The Rakes__________________Klang (109) [3rd album] [NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // SPIN - 3 // MOJO - 3 // HP - 1] RADIOHEAD_________________PABLO HONEY: COLLECTOR'S EDITION (162) [2cd/1dvd expaneded ed of 1997 album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] ???? 26Jan: Henry Priestman_____________________The Chronicles Of Modern Life (175) THERAPY?_________________CROOKED TIMBER (197) [9th album] [NME - 3.5 // Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2] Condo Fucks____________________Fuckbook (???) [Yo La Tengo side-project] [NME - 4.5 // UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 2.5] Grammatics__________________Grammatics (???) [debut album] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 4 // Q - 2] The 1990's__________________Kicks (???) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 4 // HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // NME - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 3 // SPIN - 2.5] Obits______________I Blame You (???) [debut album from band ft. Rick Froberg(Hot Snakes/Pitchfork..)] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Dan Deacon_______________Bromst (???) [SPIN - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // HP - 3] Harlem Shakes__________________Technicolor Health (???) [UNCUT - 4] Herm__________________Monsters (???) [HP - 4] Mono________________Hymn to the Immortal Wind (???) [NME - 4 // SPIN - 2.5] Swan Lake__________________Enemy Mine (???) [2nd album, band incl members of Wolf Parade, Frog Eues, New Pornographers...] [SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 2.5] WhoMadeWho_________________The Plot (???) [NME - 3.5] Iain Archer___________________To The Pine Roots (???) [MOJO - 3 // Q - 2 // UNCUT - 2] Lotus Plaza_______________The Floodlight Collective (???) [debut album, band inc L Pundt of Deerhunter] [UNCUT - 3] The Bacon Brothers_______________New Year's Day (???) [album of new songs] [UNCUT - 2] Ian Gillan___________________One Eye To Morocco (???) [solo from Deep Purple singer] The Takeover UK____________________Running With Wasters (???) [debut album] I.U.D________________The Proper Sex (???) [debut from duo:Gang Gang Dance frontwoman Lizzi Bougatsos and Growing's Sadie Laska] O+S________________O+S (???) [debut album: duo are Orenda Fink(solo, Azure Ray) and Cedric LeMoyne(Remy Zero)] Ethan Brosh____________________Out Of Oblivion (???) GREEN DAY________________1039/SMOOTHED OUT SLAPPY HOURS, KERPLUNK! (???) [released on 12" vinyl in Europe] Red Red Meat_______________Bunny Gets Paid: Deluxe Edition (???) [2cd expaneded edition of 1995 album] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4] Coheed & Cambria______________Neverender:The Children of the Fence (???) [live box set: 4cd, 4dvd, 48pg book] [ROL STONE - 3]
30 March - 5 April 2009: -ire100-uk100-ausr50-usa100 Prince__________________Lotus Flow3r/MPLSoUND/Elix3r (2 USA) [3 new albums: Elix3r is collab album with Valente] [LOTUS: ROL STONE - 3 ## MPL: ROL STONE - 3.5 ## ELIX: ROL STONE - 2] Diana Krall____________________Quiet Nights (3 USA 17 AUSR 11 USA(1June)) [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Leonard Cohen____________________Live In London (19 UK 5 IRE 76 USA 26 AUSR) [2cd live album from 2008] [MOJO - 5 // HP - 5 // UNCUT - 4] Gavin DeGraw___________________Free (19 USA) Queensryche__________________American Soldier (25 USA 149 UK(NW)) [Q - 2] PJ HARVEY & JOHN PARISH________________A WOMAN A MAN WALKED BY (25 UK 39 IRE 80 USA 25 AUSR) [2nd collab album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // HP - 3.5 // SPIN - 3.5] DAVID KITT____________________THE NIGHTSAVER (25 IRE) [5th album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Silverstein____________________A Shipwreck In The Sand (33 USA) [4th album] Gomez_________________A New Tide (63 UK 60 USA 40 AUSR) [6th album] [SPIN - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3 // HP - 2.5 // Q - 2] DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE________________THE OPEN DOOR EP (42 USA) Stevie Nicks___________________The Soundstage Sessions (47 USA) Fever Ray_________________Fever Ray (90 UK 50 IRE) [debut solo from The Knife's Karin Dreijer Andersson] [MOJO - 4 // NME - 4 // Q - 4 // HP - 3.5 // SPIN - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Jim Gaffigan________________King Baby (56 USA) Peter Bjorn And John_______________Living Thing (92 USA 162 UK) [SPIN - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // NME - 2.5] Black Sabbath_______________Paranoid: Deluxe Edition (150) [3cd version ft original/1974 mix/unrealesed of 1970 album] [MOJO - 5 // Q - 4] ??? 2Mar: The Whitest Boy Alive________________Rules (168) Goldie Lookin' Chain______________Asbo 4 Life (175) [4th album] [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2 // MOJO - 2] Adam Franklin_________________Spent Bullets (???) [solo from member of Swervedriver/Magnetic Morning] [HP - 4.5 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4] Official Secrets Act_______________Understanding Electricity (???) [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5 // MOJO - 3] Sore Eros___________________Second Chants (???) [MOJO - 4] Malajube____________________Labyrinthes (???) [SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 2] Lau_____________________Arc Light (???) [NME - 3.5] Matteah Baim_______________Laughing Boy (???) [2nd solo album] [UNCUT - 3] Great Lake Swimmers_______________Lost Channels (???) [UNCUT - 3] Maria Taylor_________________Ladyluck (???) [3rd album, Michael Stipe(REM) guests on track] The Audition__________________Self-Titled Album (???) [3rd album] Other Lives___________________Other Lives (???) [2nd album] The Black Sheep_________________Not Part Of The Deal (???) [debut album] thenewno2___________________You Are Here (???) [cd release, online 2008, debut album, duo ft. Dhani Harrison] ELBOW_________________THE SELDOM SEEN KID: LIVE AT ABBEY ROAD (???) [online release ft 1cd/1dvd and 16pg booklet] [UNCUT - 3] Filter___________________The Very Best Things (1995–2008) (???) [best of] [Q - 3]
6 - 12 April 2009: -ire100-uk100-ausr50-usa100 DOVES________________KINGDOM OF RUST (2 UK 8 IRE 34 AUSR 89 USA) [4th album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // HP - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3] Bat For Lashes_________________Two Suns (5 UK 21 IRE) [2nd album, MERCURY PRIZE NOM] [SPIN - 4 // HP - 4 // NME - 4 // Q - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] YEAH YEAH YEAHS_______________IT's BLITZ (9 UK 10 IRE 22 USA(LW) 8 AUSR) [3rd album] [Q - 5 // SPIN - 4.5 // ROL STONE - 4 // NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5] Carole King_________________Tapestry: Legacy Edition (12 UK 79 IRE(NW)) [bonus edition of classic 1971 album] Neil Young________________Fork In The Road (22 UK 18 IRE 19 USA 37 AUSR(27Apr)) [new studio album] [UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 3 // HP - 2.5 // Q - 2] Bob Evans_______________Goodnight, Bull Creek (22 AUSR) [solo from Jebediah frontman] The Specials__________________The Best Of (26) [re-entry] Ultravox_________________The Very Best Of (35) [new best of] Lady Of The Sunshine______________Smoking Gun (45 AUSR) [solo album from Angus Stone of Angus & Julia Stone] Grateful Dead________________To Terrapin: Hartford '77 (59 USA) [live album from 1977] Ray Charles_______________Genius: The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection (91 USA) [new best of] The Hold Steady_______________A Positive Rage (141) [live CD/DVD, DVD ft show and doc] [UNCUT - 3] Dananananaykroyd______________Hey Everyone (154) [debut album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Meat Loaf_________________Piece Of The Action: The Best Of (168) [new best of] Faithless_________________Insomnia: The Best Of (173) [new best of] The Felice Brothers_____________Yonder Is the Clock (???) [UNCUT - 5 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5] The Thermals_________________Now We Can See (???) [4th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // SPIN - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3] Junior Boys________________Begone Dull Care (???) [3rd album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 4 // HP - 4 // SPIN - 2.5] Joker's Daughter________________The Last Laugh (???) [debut album, produced by Danger Mouse] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // HP - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // NME - 2] Crystal Antlers______________Tentacles (???) [debut album] [SPIN - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // NME - 3.5 // MOJO - 3] Richard Swift__________________The Atlantic Ocean (???) [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3] The Veils_________________Sun Gangs (???) [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3] Bob Mould___________________Life and Times (???) [9th solo from Husker Du/Sugar frontman] [UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // MOJO - 3 // NME - 3 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 2] Telekinesis!________________Telekinesis! (???) [SPIN - 4 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Sara Watkins_________________Sara Watkins (???) [debut solo from Nickelcreek member, produced by Led Zep JP Jones] [MOJO - 4 // Q - 3] King Of Spain__________________Battleships And Aeroplanes (???) [NME - 4] The Flowers Of Hell________________Come Hell Or High Water (???) [2nd album] [NME - 4] We Rock Like Girls Don't_____________How Did It Get To This (???) [NME - 4] Pontiak________________Maker (???) [UNCUT - 4] Gliss______________Devotion Implosion (???) [album of new songs] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3] It Hugs Back________________Inside Your Guitar (???) [debut album] [NME - 4 // HP - 2] Black Dice__________________Repo (???) [SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] And So I Watch You From Afar_____________________And So I Watch You From Afar (???) [HP - 3.5] I Was A King______________I Was A King (???) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] Duff McKagan's Loaded__________________Sick (???) [2nd album, on vocal/guitar -G'n'R/Velvet R Duff McKagan] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Single File_________________Common Struggles (???) [debut album] [SPIN - 3] The Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound_________When Sweet Sleep Returned (???) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 3] The Tragically Hip_________________We Are The Same (???US 17Nov-UK) [12th album] [UNCUT - 3] William Fitzsimmons_________________The Sparrow & The Crow (???) [online 2008, now cd] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 1] The Coathangers___________________Scramble (???) [NME - 2.5] Hurt_____________Goodbye To The Machine (???) [5th album] The Woodlands______________The Woodlands (???) [debut album] Chain and The Gang_______________Down With Liberty ... Up With Chains (???) [debut album from band ft.ex-Nation of Ulysses/Make Up leader Ian Svenonius] The Rentals_______________Chapter 1: The Story Of A Thousand Seasons Past EP (???) [part 1 of album 'Songs Of Time' to be released every 6 months] Men Without Pants_____________________Naturally (???) [debut from duo:Dan the Automator and Blues Explosion drummer Russell Simins] Halloween, Alaska________________Champagne Downtown (???) Various Artists______________Score! 20 Years Of Merge Records: The Covers! (???) [ROL STONE - 3.5] [ft non-Merge bands cover Merge bands (ex) DCFC cover SUperchunk, Bright Eye cover Magnetic Fields...] Various Artists_______________Loving Takes This Course - A Tribute To The Songs Of Kath Bloom (???) [MOJO - 4] [2cd album: 1st: B Callahan, D Banhart, M Kozelek ect cover Bloom, 2nd: orignal versions of songs] Grateful Dead______________Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings (???) [9cd box set ft.concert during 9-11 November 1973] [UNCUT - 5] Moby Grape______________The Place and The Time (???) [rare tracks] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4] Beastie Boys_______________Check Your Head: Remastered Edition (???) [remaster version of 1992 album, incl b-side,rarities ect] [Q - 5] JIMMY EAT WORLD_______________CLARITY: LIVE (???) [to celebrate 10th anniversary - digital only]
13 - 19 April 2009: -ire100-uk100-ausr50-usa100 Various Artists_________________Soundtrack: The Boat That Rocked (4 AUSR 174 USA[17nov'09]) [film released in US as "Pirate Radio"] Silversun Pickups__________________Swoon (7 USA 14 AUSR(NW) 107 UK) [2nd album] [NME - 4.5 // SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 2 // UNCUT - 2] Dusty Springfield_____________Just Dusty (18 UK 87 IRE) [new best of] [Q - 2] SUPER FURRY ANIMALS_______________DARK DAYS / LIGHT YEARS (23 UK 39 IRE(NW)) [9th album] [NME - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 2.5] Twisted Wheel_______________Twisted Wheel (45) [debut album] [HP - 2 // NME - 1.5] Metric______________Fantasies (48 AUSR 76 USA 164 UK(2WL)) [4th album] [NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3] Bill Callahan________________Sometimes, I Wish We Were An Eagle (89 UK 44 IRE(NW)) [2nd solo from (Smog) mainman] [MOJO - 5 // SPIN - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // HP - 4 // NME - 4 // Q - 3] The Juan MacLean________________The Future Will Come (???) [MOJO - 4 // NME - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] The Mummers_________________Tale To Tell (???) [debut album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Papercuts_______________You Can Have What You Want (???) [3rd album] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // NME - 2.5] Jeniferever_______________Spring Tides (???) [UNCUT - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // NME - 2.5] The Handsome Family_____________Honeymoon (???) [UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // HP - 3] Butcher Boy_________________React Or Die (???) [2nd album] [NME - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Wooden Shjips_________________Dos (???) [NME - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] SuperJimenez________________Bang (??? ) [HP - 4] Sarah Gillespie________________Stalking Juliet (???) [MOJO - 4] Flare_________________Cut (???) [aka Flare Acoustic Arts League] [UNCUT - 4] Eat Skull___________________Wind and Inside (???) [UNCUT - 4] Trembling Bells________________Carbeth (???) [UNCUT - 4] Fire On Fire_______________The Orchard (???) [UNCUT - 4] Woods_______________Songs Of Shame (???) [SPIN - 3.5] Claire Tchaikowski____________Those Thousand Seas (???) [debut album] [HP - 3.5] Capital_______________Days & Nights of Love & War (???) [Q - 3] Fastball_______________Little White Lies (???) [5th album] The Little Death_______________The Little Death (???) [debut album, band ft. Moby] Circus Devils_______________Gringo (???) [new album, band ft. Robert Pollard, band's 3rd album in 3 years, Pollard's 3rd this year!] Eugene Donegan_______________Little Apples (???) [debut album] Sugar Red Drive_______________Sugar Red Drive (???) [debut album] Jill Sobule_______________California Years (???) [album paid for by fans who donate €75,000] Casper & the Cookies______________Modern Silence (???) [band inc former Of Montreal member Jason NeSmith] Josh Freese_______________Since 1972 (???) [Vandals/GNR/Devo/Nine Inch Nails drummer, different prices for different version of album] John Doe & The Sadies____________Country Club (???) [covers album from X frontman] [MOJO - 4] METALLICA________________THE COMPLETE COLLECTION (???) [ft. all albums, sold via US iTunes] BECK________________ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE: DELUXE ED (???) [ft. bonus CD with unreleased tracks with 1994 album] [ROL STONE - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Dntel________________Early Works for Me If It Works for You II (???) [3cd-2 albums and 1 disc of rarities, he is 1/2 of The Postal Service] The Monks________________Black Monk Time: Reissue Edition (???) [reissue of 1966 album] [UNCUT - 5 // MOJO - 5 // Q - 4] The Monks________________The Early Years 1964-1965 (???) [demo's ect] [Q - 3] Sinead O'Connor_____________I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got: Limited Edition (???) [new ed. of 1990 album with bonus CD] [UNCUT - 3 // Q - 3]
20 - 26 April 2009: -ire100-uk100-ausr50-usa100 Christy Moore________________Listen (1 IRE 51 UK) [album of new songs] [HP - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3] Depeche Mode________________Sounds Of The Universe (2 UK 3 IRE 3 USA 32 AUSR) [12th album] [UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // ROL STONE - 2.5] The Noisettes________________Wild Young Hearts (7 UK 36 IRE 98 USA[21sep]) [2nd album] [SPIN - 4.5 // Q - 4 // HP - 3 // NME - 2.5] MUNDY_________________STRAWBERRY BLOOD (14 IRE) [4th album] [HP - 4 // Q - 3] Lacuna Coil________________Shallow Life (42 UK 16 USA) [5th album] [Q - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4] Fightstar__________________Be Human (20) [3rd album] [ROCK SOUND - 4] Chimaira_________________The Infection (30 USA 155 UK(2WL)) [5th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4] Camera Obscura_________________My Maudlin Career (32 UK 37 IRE(NW) 87 USA) [NME - 4.5 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // HP - 2] Manchester Orchestra________________Mean Everything To Nothing (37 USA) [NME - 3.5 // Q - 2] 10cc___________________The Very Best Of (39) [new best of] [Q - 2] Eric Hutchinson________________Sounds Like This (42 AUSR 2008-USA) Tinted Windows______________Tinted Windows (59 USA) [debut album] [SPIN - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] Dark Room Notes________________We Love You Dark Matter (98 IRE) [debut album] [HP - 4] The Virgins___________________The Virgins (105 UK 2008-USA) The Hours_________________See The Light (115) [2nd album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3] King Creosote_______________Flick The V's (124) [MOJO - 4 // NME - 4 // Q - 3] Art Brut_________________Art Brut Vs. Satan (138) [3rd album, produced by Frank Black] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard_______________Em Are I (150) [MOJO - 4 // HP - 4 // NME - 3.5 // SPIN - 3.5] The Handsome Family_____________Honeymoon (162) The Broken Family Band_____________Please and Thank You (???) [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 2] Brakes_____________________Touchdown (???) [3rd album] [Q - 4 // SPIN - 4 // NME - 4 // UNCUT - 3] Booker T. Jones___________________Potato Hole (???) [recorded with Drive By Truckers] [UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // MOJO - 2 // Q - 1] Margaret Healy______________Girls, Boys & Clockwork Toys (???) [HP - 4] Jo Hamilton_______________Gown (???) [MOJO - 4] Ali & the DTs_______________Get the First Layer of Civilisation Off (???) [debut album] [HP - 4] Eamon McGrath_______________13 Songs of Whiskey and Light (???) [album of new songs] [UNCUT - 4] Screaming Females_____________Power Move (???) [SPIN - 3.5] Cryptacize________________Mythomania (???) [2nd album] [NME - 3.5 // SPIN - 2] Still Flyin'___________________Never Gonna Touch The Sky (???) [NME - 3.5] The High Strung__________________Ode To The Inverse of The Dude (???) [Q - 3] Trashcan Sinatras__________________In The Music (???) [MOJO - 3] The Kingsbury Manx___________________Ascenseur Ouvert! (???) [5th album] Pterodactyl_______________Worldwild (???) [2nd album] The Urgency____________________The Urgency (???) [debut album] The Lonely Forest__________________We Sing the Body Electric! (???) The Veer Union_______________Against The Grain (???) King Khan and the Shrines_______________What Is?! (???US 2007-Euro) Black Label Society______________Skullage (???) [greatest hits cd/dvd] The Breeders____________________Fate To Fatal EP (???) [ft cover of Bob Marley song and collab with Mark Lanegan] HUNDRED REASONS_______________QUICK THE WORD, SHARP THE ACTION (???) [re-release of 08 album with bonus tracks] JANES ADDICTION______________A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES (???) [3cd/1dvd box set:dvd-live show,cd-demo,live,rarites...] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 2.5 // Q - 2]
27 April - 3 May 2009: -ire100-ausr50-uk100-usa100 Bob Dylan_________________Together Through Life (2 IRE 1 UK 1 USA 5 AUSR) [33rd studio album] [UNCUT - 5 // ROL STONE - 4 // MOJO - 4 // HP - 3.5 // SPIN - 3 // NME - 3 // Q - 3] The Enemy____________________Music For The People (2 UK 41 IRE) [2nd album] [MOJO - 4 // HP - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 2.5 // SPIN - 2] Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club______________The Beautiful Untrue (7 IRE) [2nd album] [HP - 4] Heaven and Hell________________The Devil You Know (21 UK 77 IRE 8 USA) [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3 // NME - 2.5 // UNCUT - 2] [debut from band: Band are Dio and Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice] NOFX__________________________Coaster (36 USA 24 AUSR) [11th album] [NME - 3] Halestorm__________________Halestorm (40 USA) [debut album, 29/3/2010 UK] Morrissey____________________Southpaw Grammar:Expaned Edition (63 UK 75 IRE) [bonus edition of 1995 album] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 3] Alphastates_____________Human Nature (83 IRE) [2nd album] [HP - 4] BEN FOLDS_____________BEN FOLDS PRESENTS: UNIVERSITY A CAPPELLA! (94 USA) [cappella version's of his songs by himself and universitys] Golden Silvers___________________True Romance (96) [debut album] [NME - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // Q - 3] Morrissey___________________Malajusted:Expaned Edition (97 IRE 103 UK) [bonus ed. of 1997 album] [MOJO - 4 // UNCUT - 1] The Amazing_____________The Amazing (???) [debut album, band incl members of Dungen & Granada-Sweden/online only] [UNCUT - 4 // Q - 4 // MOJO - 4] Nadja__________________When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV (???) [NME - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 3.5] Blue Roses_________________Blue Roses (???) [NME - 4 // Q - 4] Crocodiles______________Summer of Hate (???) [SPIN - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] Crippled Black Phoenix________________200 Tons Of Bad Luck (???) [2nd album] [NME - 4] Ricky Warwick__________________________Belfast Confetti (???) [HP - 4] The Oh Sees____________________Help (???) [Q - 4] Sophia_________________There Are No Goodbyes (???) [5th album] [UNCUT - 4] Immaculate Machine________________High On Jackson Hill (???) [4th album] [NME - 3.5] Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers_________________Songs in the Night (???) [ROL STONE - 3.5] Jack Butler____________________Fit The Paradigm (???) [debut album] [ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // Q - 2] Video Nasties____________________On All Fours (???) [debut album] [NME - 3] Great Northern_________________Remind Me Where the Light Is (???) [2nd album] [SPIN - 3] Pilot Speed_____________________Wooden Bones (???) [3rd album] The Cocktail Slippers________________St. Valentine's Day Massacre (???) [produced by Little Steve Van Zandt] The Disciplines_____________________Smoking Kills (???) [band ft Ken Stringfellow of The Posies, plays with REM & Big Star] Endless Hallway____________________Autonomy Games (???) The Black Crowes_____________________Warpaint Live (???) [2cd live album] Rachel Stamp____________________Now I'm Nailed To Your Bedroom Wall, I've Only Got Myself To Blame... The Best Of Rachel Stamp (???) RIVERS CUOMO & FRIENDS__________LIVE AT FINGERPRINGS EP (???) [live solo album from Weezer frontman] NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS___________FROM HER TO ETERNITY (???) [bonus cd/dvd edtion of 1984 album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4] NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS___________THE FIRST BORN IS DEAD (???) [bonus cd/dvd edtion of 1985 album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS___________KICKING AGAINST THE PRICKS (???) [bonus cd/dvd edition of 1986 cover album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS___________YOUR FUNERAL, MY TRIAL (???) [bonus cd/dvd edition of 1986 album] [Q - 5 // MOJO - 5 // UNCUT - 4]
4 - 10 May 2009: -ire100-ausr50-uk100-usa100 Ben Harper And Relentless7_________________White Lies For Dark Times (9 USA 17 AUSR 188 UK(LW)) [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3 // SPIN - 2.5] Yusuf___________________Roadsinger (10 UK 58 IRE 41 USA 35 AUSR(NW)) [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // Q - 3] The Devil Wears Prada_______________With Roots Above and Branches Below (11 USA) [3rd album] The Maccabees_______________Wall Of Arms (13 UK 65 IRE) [2nd album] [HP - 4 // NME - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Riptide Movement____________What About The Tip Jars (16 IRE) Gallows_______________Grey Britain (20) [2nd album] [HP - 5 // Q - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // NME - 3] The Horrors_______________Primary Colours (22 UK 87 IRE) [2nd album, MERCURY PRIZE NOM] [NME - 4.5 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // HP - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // SPIN - 3] Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band_____________Outer South (75 UK 51 IRE 40 USA) [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5 // NME - 3.5 // HP - 3.5 // SPIN - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Madina Lake________________Attics To Eden (42) [ROCK SOUND - 4 // NME - 1] Michael Giacchino_______________Soundtrack: Star Trek (49 USA 119 UK) Hatebreed______________For The Lions (58 USA) [covers album] Vasco Junior_______________Everybody Back On The Bus (68 IRE) [debut album] [HP - 3.5] Adrian Crowley________________Season Of The Sparks (88 IRE) [HP - 5 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 3] St.Vincent________________Actor (90 USA 161 UK) [2nd album] [SPIN - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // Q - 3 // NME - 3 // HP - 2.5] ISIS__________________Wavering Radiant (98 USA 190 UK) [5th album] [SPIN - 4 // ROCK SOUND - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // NME - 3] Peaches__________________I Feel Cream (152) [5th album] [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // HP - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // NME - 3.5 // Q - 3 // ROL STONE - 3] New York Dolls_______________Cause I Sez So (192) [MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 2.5] Patrick Watson____________Wooden Arms (???) [NME - 4.5 // SPIN - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Pink Mountaintops____________Outside Love (???) [3rd album] [MOJO - 4 // NME - 4 // HP - 4 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 2.5] Akron/Family_____________Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free (???) [4th album] [Q - 4 // MOJO - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Devon Sproule______________Don't Hurry For Heaven (???) [UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // HP - 2] Alasdair Roberts________________Spoils (???) [SPIN - 4 // HP - 4 // NME - 3.5] Magik Markers______________Balf Quarry (???) [prod.by S Youth Lee Ranaldo] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 3.5 // SPIN - 3 // HP - 3] Emm Gryner__________________Goddess (???) [HP - 4] Cracker__________________Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey (???) [9th album] [SPIN - 4] Tara Jane O'Neil______________A Ways Away (???) [UNCUT - 4] The Black Dog______________Further Vexations (???) [NME - 4] Tara Jane O'Neil_______________A Ways Away (???) [NME - 4] Golden Shoulders_______________Get Reasonable (???) [MOJO - 4] Mika Miko_______________We Be Xuxa (???) [2nd album] [NME - 3.5 // ROL STONE - 3 // UNCUT - 3] The Wave Pictures______________If You Leave It Alone (???) [NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3] Sucioperro_________________Pain Agency (???) [2nd album] [NME - 3.5] Kevin Devine______________Brother's Blood (???) [5th album] [SPIN - 3.5] Super Extra Bonus Party____________Night Horses (???) [debut album] [HP - 3.5] Fischerspooner________________Entertainment (???) [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // SPIN - 2 // NME - 1.5] John Foxx & Robin Guthrie____________Mirrorball (???) [former Ultravox singer & Cocteau Twins member] [Q - 3 // MOJO - 3] Hot Club Of Cowtown_________________Wishful Thinking (???) [Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3] Hanne Hukkelberg___________________Blood From A Stone (???) [NME - 3] Jon Hopkins______________Insides (???) [Q - 3] Alessi's Ark_____________Notes From The Treehouse (???) [Q - 3] Cats On Fire_____________Our Temperance Movement (???) [NME - 3] Watch This Fire Spread______________Dumb Days, Dark Nights (???) [2nd album] [UNCUT - 2] Led Bib______________Sensible Shoes (???) [4th album, MERCURY PRIZE NOM] Ziggy Marley______________Family Time (???) [3rd solo, ft.P Simon, W Nelson, J Johnson, Jamie lee Curtis...] El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez______________Cryptomnesia (???) [band ft.Omar Rodriguez Lopez(Mars Volta) & Zach Hill(Hella)] Sinead Madden______________Honey Promises (???IRE) [debut album] Bif Naked_______________The Promise (???) The Dangerous Summer_______________Reach For The Sun (???) [debut album] Sparks The Rescue_____________Eyes To The Sun (???) [re-release of 08 album with new song, diff tracklist..] [K - 3] Closure In Moscow_______________First Temple (???) [debut album] Years__________________Years (???) [aka Do Make Say Think and Broken Social Scene member Ohad Benchetrit] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 4] Double Dagger_______________More (???) Various Artists_________________Causes 2 (???) [charity album, 100% profit to Doctors Without Borders, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam America ft. Decemberists, D Banhard, LCD Soundsystem and more...] [UNCUT - 2] Hatebreed____________For The Lions (???) [covers album, songs by Metallica, Sepultura, Bad Brains....] [ROCK SOUND - 4] The Kills____________Keep On Your Mean Side: Re-Release (???) [org rel in 2003, now incl b-sides ect] The Vaselines______________Enter the Vaselines (???) [compilation ft 2 EP's, album, demo's, live ect - 2cd] [UNCUT - 4]
11 - 17 May 2009: -ire100-uk100-ausr50- GREEN DAY______________21st CENTURY BREAKDOWN (1 UK 1 USA 2 IRE(NW) 2 AUSR(NW)) [8th album] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // Q - 4 // NME - 4 // SPIN - 3 // MOJO - 3 // UNCUT - 2] Laura Izibor______________Let The Truth Be Told (2 IRE 100 UK(NW) 27 USA(15June)) [debut album] MAXIMO PARK_________________QUICKEN THE HEART (6) [3rd album] [SPIN - 3.5 // Q - 3 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3 // HP - 2.5] Little Birdy_________________Confetti (6 AUSR) [3rd album] John Spillane_______________So Far So Good, Like... The Best of (9 IRE) [best of] DIRECTOR________________I'LL WAIT FOR SOUND (11 IRE) [2nd album] [HP - 4] Phoenix__________________Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (37 USA(2WL) 54 UK(2wL) 64 IRE(2WL) 13 AUSR(2WL)) [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 4 // ROL STONE - 4 // HP - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // MOJO - 3] Marmaduke Duke________________Duke Pandemonium (14 UK 81 IRE) [2nd album from duo:Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil and Sucioperro's JP Reid] [ROCK SOUND - 4.5 // Q - 4 // NME - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // HP - 3] Steve Earle________________Townes (19 USA 37 UK(NW) 42 IRE(2wL)) [covers of Townes Van Zandt songs] [SPIN - 4 // Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // MOJO - 4 // ROL STONE - 3.5] Graham Coxon_____________The Spinning Top (36) [7th solo album] [UNCUT - 4 // NME - 4 // MOJO - 3 // Q - 2] The Crystal Method___________________Divided By Night (38 USA) [4th album] [SPIN - 1.5] Lisa Hannigan_________________See Saw (58 UK 15Sep'08-IRE) [debut album, MERCURY PRIZE NOM] Better Than Ezra__________________Paper Empire (62 USA) Talking Heads___________________Same As It Ever Was (73 USA) [best of, on sale in Starbucks] Bloc Party________________Intimacy Remixed (79) [remix version of 2008 album] [NME - 1.5] Thunder_______________The Very Best Of Thunder (80) [best of] Aiden_______________Knives (95 USA 150 UK) [4th album] [ROCK SOUND - 3.5 // Q - 3] In Case Of Fire_________________Align The Planets (135) [debut album] [Q - 4 // UNCUT - 4 // NME - 2] Wussy_______________Wussy (???) [3rd album] [SPIN - 4 // UNCUT - 4] Meat Puppets__________________Sewn Together (???) [12th album] [Q - 4 // SPIN - 3.5 // UNCUT - 3 // MOJO - 3] Starving Weirdos____________Into An Energy (???) [UNCUT - 4] Kasms___