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SoundsXP has been running since 2001 (when it was all fields round here too, we tell ya..). So here's where I not only embarrass ourselves by reprinting our former annual writers polls but also give us all the chance to vote for the best 10 albums of that time... but constrained by the SoundsXP lists. So... what's your Top Ten since 2001 poll of polls from this little lot:

2001:
1. hefner - dead media
2. detroit cobras - life, love and leaving
3. white stripes - white blood cells
4. ash - free all angels
5. strokes - is this it
6. tompaulin - town and the city
7. muse - origin of symmetry
8. the fall - are you missing a winner
9. mercury rev - all is dream
10. eric alexandrakis - iv catatonia

2002:
1. The Libertines - Up The Bracket
2. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
3. The Vines - Highly Evolved
4. Dressy Bessy - Sound Go Round
5. Delgados – Hate
6. Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons
7. Supergrass - Life On Other Planets
8. Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
9. Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
10. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

2003:
1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever To Tell
2. Belle And Sebastian: Dear Catastrophe Waitress
3. White Stripes: Elephant
4. The Strokes: Room On Fire
5. Fiery Furnaces: Gallowsbirds Bark
6. Herman Düne: Mas Cambios
7. Joyzipper: The Stereo And God
8. The Essex Green: The Long Goodbye
9. Jane’s Addiction: Strays
10. Adam Green: Friends Of Mine

2004:
1. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
2. The Go! Team - Thunder Lightening Strike
3. Magnetic Fields - I
4. The Loves - Love
5. The Libertines - The Libertines
6. Interpol - Antics
7. Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
8. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
9. The Concretes - The Concretes
10. The Futureheads – Futureheads

2005:
1 Arcade Fire - Funeral
2 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
3 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
4 National - Alligator
5 Brakes - Give Blood
6 Envelopes – Demon
7 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
8 Rakes - Capture/Release
9 Art Brut – Bang Bang Rock & Roll
10 Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt.....

2006:
1. Love Is All – 9 Times the Same Song
2. Absentee - Schmotime
3. Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
4. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – s/t
5. Beirut – Gulag Orkestra
6. The Spinto Band – Nice and Nicely Done
7. TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
8. The Pipettes – We Are the Pipettes
9. The Research – Breaking Up
10. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

I'll go first:

1. The Libertines - Up The Bracket
2. Strokes - is this it
3. Detroit Cobras - life, love and leaving
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. Belle And Sebastian: Dear Catastrophe Waitress
6. The Go! Team - Thunder Lightening Strike
7. Magnetic Fields - I
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever To Tell
9. The Loves - Love
10.Dressy Bessy - Sound Go Round

Bless you BV.

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hmmm - only own about 12 of those.

the national - alligator
white stripes - white blood cells

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Arcade Fire - Funeral
Herman Düne: Mas Cambios
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Brakes - Give Blood
Absentee - Schmotime
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

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hmm... this is a tricky on, I'm gonna have to think about this....

Here's the top 20s from previous years:







- good lord, look at that funky layout!

- ditto

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Tall, moustachioed alcoholic - plays firewood with a bow.

I especially like the way in 2001 you managed to get the title of "Are You Are Missing Winner" wrong not once but twice. Top effort!

Anyhoo, best album of that period: Ultraglide in Black by the Dirtbombs.

Second best: Fever to Tell, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Best comp (by a billion light years): The Complete Peel Sessions, The Fall

thanks VV! i tried to do the albums thing but i ended up doing singles instead. so from the lists provided (from 2002)...

The White Stripes - Fell in love with a Girl. one of my fave singles of ALL TIME

Outkast- Hey Ya! ditto^ but it's too long.

Klaxons - Gravity's Rainbow hate EVERTHING else i've heard by them, and the whole Nathan Barley thing. but i LOVE this.

Manic Cough - Lips and Hips Love everything about Manic Cough. and best frontwoman in England IMO.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Bang one my fave EPs. best thing they've done maybe?

Good Shoes – Small Town Girl great debut release. easily my favourite Good Shoes single.

The Strokes – Reptilia hate the band. but Love two of their singles, this being one. least i can admit it.

Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows i love how sleazy this sounds. don't really like anything else i've heard by them.

The Boyfriends / Long Blondes: Filthy Little Angels EP4 favourite Long Blondes recordings by FAR. Boyfriends are so boring though.

The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army i Love the lyrics in this so much.

The Libertines - Up The Bracket
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy/Wind In The Wires
Iron and Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells

Thats if we're allowed to vote for anything, I've no idea what if we're restricted to the polls there, there are some very very peculiar choices there. I mean Coldplay?

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Jarvis Cocker or David Bowie or AVB or Johnny Borrell, she isn't picky

Cavey Cocker, Cup Cake Queen, Saint Thomas.

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Tall, moustachioed alcoholic - plays firewood with a bow.

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If Ian Curtis had lived, and enjoyed the ale…

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Jarvis Cocker or David Bowie or AVB or Johnny Borrell, she isn't picky

Cavey Cocker, Cup Cake Queen, Saint Thomas.