Top 10 Bands & Albums (as of Friday, 23 April 2010)

[mydelirium333]

Hello all. I've been wanting to finalise the hierarchy of my favourite music for a long time and with help from my sister, I've finally got down to it! Just for my own pleasure, and to share what I love to you. I'll include some links for you to download / listen to them if you'd like to try them out. Music taste is subjective, so all that I'm recommending to you here, are simply based on my own preferences, and 2 hours of nominating, analysing, evaluating, vetoing, and finally, ranking, through a very elaborate points system. I even surprised myself with some of the results but realised it's all pretty accurate (:

I apologise for the inaccurate Icelandic names / titles. My keyboard (and the blog) is limited so I've to replace Icelandic characters with English ones which look most alike.

Enjoy!

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Top 10 Bands

1.   Sigur Ros / experimental.indie.post-rock / Iceland      
2.   Death Cab for Cutie / indie / USA
3.   The Postal Service / electro.indie / USA
4.   Patrick Watson / experimental.indie / Canada
5.   City & Colour / acoustic.indie / Canada
6.   Mew / indie.progressive / Denmark
7.   Radiohead / alternative.experimental / England           
8.   Bon Iver / acoustic.indie.southern / USA
9.   Foals / dance.indie / England
10. Phoenix /dance.indie / France

Top 10 Albums

1.   Takk - Sigur Ros
2.   Give Up - The Postal Service
3.   You Are My Sunshine - Copeland
4.   Wooden Arms - Patrick Watson
5.   Sometimes - City & Colour
6.   Go - Jonsi
7.   For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver
8.   Asleep In The Back - Elbow
9.   Mid Sid I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust - Sigur Ros
10. Antidote - Foals

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So yes that's it! Do give me feedback on anything you've sampled and liked (: Always a joy to know there's one more person in the world who has good taste HAHAHA.

This list does not include heavy bands, because I think they're part of another league. It's so hard to compare them to the bands mentioned here.

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Here were the other nominees for Favourite Bands (in no order) whom, for some reason or other, did not make it into the top 10, but are still ranked quite high in the overall list:

- Kings of Convenience
- Bloc Party
- B-Quartet
- The Appleseed Cast
- Telefon Tel Aviv
- Copeland
- Flight of the Conchords
- Jonsi
- Lydia
- Minus the Bear
- Onsa
- Mutemath

And here were the other nominees for Favourite Albums (again, in no order), same situation as mentioned for bands:

- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
- And the Glass Handed Kites - Mew
- In Rainbows - Radiohead
- Illuminate - Lydia
- Plans - Death Cab for Cutie
- Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie
- Juturna - Circa Survive
- Moderat - Moderat
- Fahrenheit Fair Enough - Telefon Tel Aviv