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This reminds me that I need to work on Missed06. Here’s the list:

1. Arctic Monkeys - ‘Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not’
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - ‘Show Your Bones’
3. Muse - ‘Black Holes And Revelations’
4. Hot Chip - ‘The Warning’
5. CSS - ‘Cansei De Ser Sexi’
6. Gnarls Barkley - ‘St Elsewhere’
7. Long Blondes - ‘Someone To Drive You Home’
8. The Strokes - ‘First Impressions Of Earth’
9. Kasabian - ‘Empire’
10. My Chemical Romance - ‘The Black Parade’
11. Howling Bells - ‘Howling Bells’
12. The Killers - ‘Sam’s Town’
13. Panic! At The Disco - ‘A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out’
14. TV On The Radio - ‘Return To Cookie Moutain’
15. Thom Yorke - ‘The Eraser’
16. Amy Winehouse - ‘Back To Black’
17. The Futureheads - ‘News And Tributes’
18. The Rapture - ‘Pieces Of The People We Love’
19. The Longcut - ‘A Call And Response’
20. The Streets - ‘The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living’
21. The Raconteurs - ‘Broken Boy Soldiers’
22. The Flaming Lips - ‘At War With The Mystics’
23. The Knife - ‘Silent Shout’
24. The Secret Machines - ‘Ten Silver Drops’
25. Mogwai - ‘Mr Beast’
26. Jarvis - ‘Jarvis’
27. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - ‘Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’
28. Morrissey - ‘Ringleader Of The Tormentors’
29. The Spinto Band - ‘Nice And Nicely Done’
30. Cat Power - ‘The Greatest’
31. The Sunshine Underground - ‘Raise The Alarm’
32. Lily Allen - ‘Alright, Still’
33. The Bronx - ‘The Bronx’
34. Albert Hammond Jr - ‘Yours To Keep’
35. Forward Russia - ‘Give Me A Wall’
36. Datarock - ‘Datarock’
37. Be Your Own Pet - ‘Be Your Own Pet’
38. Metric - ‘Live It Out’
39. The Young Knives - ‘Voices Of Animals And Men’
40. Midlake - ‘The Trials Of Van Occupanther’
41. The Gossip - ‘Standing In The Way Of Control’
42. The Automatic - ‘Not Accepted Anywhere’
43. Beck - ‘The Information’
44. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - ‘Ballad Of The Broken Seas’
45. Bob Dylan - ‘Modern Times’
46. Semi Finalists - ‘Semi Finalists’
47. Wolfmother - ‘Wolfmother’
48. Get Cape Wear Cape Fly - ‘The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager’
49. Absentee - ‘Schmotime’
50. The Kooks - ‘Inside In/Inside Out’

Q Magazine has published their list of the top 20 songs of the last 20 years. Here they are:

1. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Nirvana, 1991
2. “Hey Ya!” OutKast, 2003
3. “Sweet Child O’ Mine” Guns N’ Roses, 1987
4. “Unfinished Symphony” Massive Attack, 1991
5. “One” U2, 1991
6. “Live Forever” Oasis, 1994
7. “Bitter Sweet Symphony” The Verve, 1997
8. “Common People” Pulp, 1995
9. “There She Goes” The LA’s, 1990
10. “7 Nation Army” The White Stripes, 2003
11. “Song 2″ Blur, 1997
12. “Crazy” Gnarls Barkley, 2006
13. “Angels” Robbie Williams, 1997
14. ” … Baby One More Time” Britney Spears, 1999
15. “Personal Jesus” Depeche Mode, 1990
16. “Like A Prayer” Madonna, 1989
17. “Firestarter” The Prodigy, 1997
18. “Brimful of Asha” Cornershop, 1997
19. “Stan” Eminem, 2000
20. “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor” Arctic Monkeys, 2006

Now, while I like Q, I gotta say, this list is whack, like the crack they must of smoked to come up with a list like this.

I’m in the process of collecting names of albums that were released in 2006 for the next in the missed## series. A sneak peak of some albums I’m currently including for consideration in this year’s compilation:

• We Are Scientists, With Love And Squalor
• Arctic Monkeys, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not and Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys
• Richard Ashcroft, Keys to the World
• Morrissey, Ringleader of the Tormentors
• The Vines, Vision Valley
• Eagles of Death Metal, Death By Sexy
• Secret Machines, Ten Silver Drops
• The Raconteurs, Broken Boy Soldiers
• MUSE, Black Holes and Revelations
• Kasabian, Kasabian
• The Black Keys, Magic Potion (album)
• Scissor Sisters, Ta-Dah
• The Big Sleep, Son of the Tiger
• iLiKETRAiNS, Progress Reform
• Jet, Shine On
• MSTRKRFT, The Looks (album)
• The Futureheads, News and Tributes

Have I forgotten anything good?

(Via NME.com.)

Celebrating this year’s Mercury Prize noms…

1. Muse, “Map of the Problematique”
2. Arctic Monkeys, “Dancing Shoes”
3. Editors, “Open Your Arms”
4. Franz Ferdinand, “The Dark of the Matinee” (2004 winner)

Cover art: Muse, Black Holes and Revelations LP

Link to SC25

The Mercury Prize shortlist has been released and two SC faves, Arctic Monkeys and Editors, made the cut.

• Arctic Monkeys — “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”
• Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan — “Ballad of the Broken Seas”
• Editors — “The Back Room”
• Guillemots — “Through the Windowpane”
• Richard Hawley — “Coles Corner”
• Hot Chip — “The Warning”
• Muse — “Black Holes & Revelations”
• Zoe Rahman — “Melting Pot”
• Lou Rhodes — “Beloved One”
• Scritti Politti — “White Bread Black Beer” [aren’t they an old school new wave band?]
• Sway — “This is My Demo”
• Thom Yorke — “The Eraser”

Only the second coming of Christ, man.

NME have revealed the tracklist for their upcoming EP…

1. “The View From The Afternoon”
   
2. “Cigarette Smoker Fiona”
   
3. “From Despair To The Departure Lounge”
   
4. “No Buses”
   
5. “Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?”
   

You know, my host Fuitadnet couldn’t seem to figure out how to keep their servers up and running, so I never got a chance to comment on when Morrissey decided to comment about how AM’s fame was coming on too sudden. When I first heard that, my first thought was “What… Smiths… chopped liver?” But then somehow Morrissey realized (for once) that he but his foot in his mouth and so Baby Jesus stopped throwing poo.

Oh, just saw this on the official AM site… a track will be played from the EP on the Zane Lowe show on Monday. FYI if you’re into the band.

Schwing!

0. “Props to Tha Queen of Pop A.K.A. Keep on Climbin’ That Velvet Rope Baby,” Reggie and the Full Effect [Greatest Hits 1984-1987]
1. “Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt,” We Are Scientists [With Love and Squalor]
2. “Chun Li’s Spinning Bird Kick,” Arctic Monkeys [”I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor” b-side]
3. “Eye of Fatima, Part 1,” Camper Van Beethoven [Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart]
4. “Rubin, “The Everyones”

The Arctic Monkeys sold almost 120,000 copies of their debut album in a single day, and it may become one of the year’s top-sellers, retailers said.

The British band shot from obscurity to fame in a matter of months, thanks partly to savvy use of the Internet to market their music to fans.

A stream of adulatory media articles followed, and the group’s debut singles, “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor” and “When the Sun Goes Down,” both topped the British singles chart.

The band’s album, “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not,” sold 118,501 copies within 24 hours of its release Monday, more than the rest of the top 20 album chart combined. If sales hold up, it will become Britain’s fastest-selling debut, surpassing the 306,631 copies sold by Hear’Say’s “Popstars” in 2001.

In the UK at least. (source)