The Best of the Rest (Albums)

The albums here are definitely worthy of a download or at least a few spins.  In some cases I found them to be decent to very good but not great, and in others I simply didn’t have enough time in my day to give them the attention they might deserve.  Either way, I just don’t find myself going back to them like the ones at the top of the list.  Who knows, perhaps you’ll find a gem in this list and can thank me for it.

• DeVotchKa – A Mad & Faithful Telling
• R.E.M. – Accelerate
• Walter Becker – Circus Money
• The Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely
• TV on the Radio – Dear Science
• Sam Phillips – Don’t Do Anything
• The Fireman – Electric Arguments
• Brian Eno & David Byrne – Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
• The B-52’s – Funplex
• Nomo – Ghost Rock
• Muse – HAARP
• Black Mountain – In the Future
• Sloan – Parallel Play
• Keane – Perfect Symmetry
• Joe Jackson – Rain
• Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Real Emotional Trash
• Four Tet – Ringer (EP)
• Jack Bruce and Robin Trower – Seven Moons
• Of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping
• Cassettes Won’t Listen – Small-Time Machine
• The Hold Steady – Stay Positive
• Annuals – Such Fun
• Brian Wilson – That Lucky Old Sun
• John Zorn – The Dreamers
• Gnarls Barkley – The Odd Couple
• Backyard Tire Fire – The Places We Lived
• Portishead – Third
• Ladytron – Velocifero
• Coldplay – Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
• The Black Crowes – Warpaint
• The Plastic Constellations – We Appreciate You
• King’s X – XV

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