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1Herman DüneMas Cambios1. With A Fistful of Faith 2. Red Blue Eyes 3. Show Me The Roof 4. My Friends Kill My Folks 5. In The Summer Camp 6. In August 7. You Stepped on Sticky Fingers 8. Sunny Sunny Cold Cold Day 9. At Your Luau Night 10. Winners Lose 11. The Static Comes from my Broken Heart 12. So Not What I Wanted
2Iron and WineThe Creek Drank the Cradle1. Lion's Mane 2. Bird Stealing Bread 3. Faded from the Winter 4. Promising Light 5. Rooster Moans 6. Upward Over the Mountain 7. Southern Anthem 8. Angry Blade 9. Weary Memory 10. Promise What You Will 11. Muddy Hymnal
3DecemberistsHer Majesty the Decemberists1. Shanty for the Arethusa 2. Billy Liar 3. Los Angeles, I'm Yours 4. Gymnast, High Above the Ground 5. Bachelor and the Bride 6. Song for Myla Goldberg 7. Soldiering Life 8. Red Right Ankle 9. Chimbley Sweep 10. I Was Meant for the Stage 11. As I Rise
4WeakerthansReconstruction Site1. Manifest 2. The Reasons 3. Reconstruction Site 4. Psalm For The Elks Lodge Last Call 5. Plea From A Cat Named Virtute 6. Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michel Foucault In Paris, 1961) 7. Time's Arrows 8. Hospital Vespers 9. Uncorrected Proofs 10. New Name For Everything 11. One Great City! 12. Benediction 13. Prescience Of Dawn 14. Past-Due
5Cat PowerYou Are Free1. I Don't Blame You 2. Free 3. Good Woman 4. Speak For Me 5. Werewolf 6. Fool 7. He War 8. Shaking Paper 9. Baby Doll 10. Maybe Not 11. Names 12. Half Of You 13. Keep On Runnin' 14. Evolution
6Okkervil RiverDown the River of Golden Dreams1. Down The River Of Golden Dreams 2. It Ends With A Fall 3. For The Enemy 4. Blanket And Crib 5. The War Criminal Rises And Speaks 6. Velocity Of Saul At The Time Of His Conversion 7. Dead Faces 8. Maine Island Lovers 9. Song About A Star 10. Yellow 11. Seas Too Far To Reach
7Casiotone for the Painfully AloneTwinkle Echo1. To My Mr. Smith 2. Jeane, If You're Ever in Portland 3. Toby, Take a Bow 4. It Wasn't the Same Somehow 5. Hey Eleanor 6. Half Ghost 7. Calloused Fingers Won't Make You Strong, Edith Wong 8. Blue Corolla 9. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone in a Yellow T-Shirt 10. Students for Scarves & Charm 11. Roberta C. 12. Attic Room 13. Giant 14. Twinkle Echo
8The ShinsChutes Too Narrow1. Kissing the Lipless 2. Mine's Not A High Horse 3. So Says I 4. Young Pilgrims 5. Saint Simon 6. Fighting In a Sack 7. Pink Bullets 8. Turn a Square 9. Gone For Good 10. Those to Come
9NoahjohnWater Hymns1. They Will Call 2. Rabbit Is Asleep 3. Saw Right 4. Two Members 5. First Communion 6. And the Lord 7. Faerie Wings 8. Promise Breakers 9. Shy Bladder 10. On East Whistlin' 11. Ballad of William Roy 12. Personal Best 13. Rabbit Reprise
10Nick Cave & The Bad SeedsNocturama1. Wonderful Life 2. He Wants You 3. Right Out Of Your Hand 4. Bring It On 5. Dead Man In My Bed 6. Still In Love 7. There Is A Town 8. Rock Of Gibraltar 9. She Passed By My Window 10. Babe, I’m On Fire
11Fiery FurnacesGallowsbird's Bark1. South is Only a Home 2. I'm Gonna Run 3. Leaky Tunnel 4. Up in the North 5. Inca Rag/Name Game 6. Asthma Attack 7. Don't Dance Her Down 8. Crystal Clear 9. Two Fat Feet 10. Bow Wow 11. Gale Blow 12. Worry Worry 13. Bright Blue Tie 14. Tropical Iceland 15. Rub Alcohol Blues 16. We Got Back the Plague
12Postal ServiceGive Up1. District sleeps alone tonight 2. Such great heights 3. Sleeping in 4. Nothing better 5. Recycled air 6. Clark Gable 7. We will become silhouettes 8. This place is a prison 9. Brand new colony 10. Natural anthem
13British Sea PowerThe Decline of1. Men Together Today 2. Apologies To Insect Life 3. Favours In The Beetroot Fields 4. Something Wicked 5. Remember Me 6. Fear Of Drowning 7. The Lonely 8. Carrion 9. Blackout 10. Lately 11. A Wooden Horse
14Death Cab for CutieTransatlanticism1. The New Year 2. Lightness 3. Title and Registration 4. Expo '86 5. The Sound of Settling 6. Tiny Vessels 7. Transatlanticism 8. Passenger Seat 9. Death of an Interior Decorator 10. We Looked Like Giants 11. A Lack of Color
15Fruit BatsMouthfuls1. Rainbow Sign 2. A Bit Of Wind 3. Magic Hour 4. The Little Acorn 5. Track Rabbits 6. Union Blanket 7. Lazy Eye 8. Slipping Through The Sensors 9. Seaweed 10. When U Love Somebody
16Handsome FamilySinging Bones1. The Forgotten Lake 2. Gail With The Golden Hair 3. 24-Hour Store 4. The Bottomless Hole 5. Far From Any Road 6. If The World Should End In Fire 7. A Shadow Underneath 8. Dry Bones 9. Fallen Peaches 10. Whitehaven 11. Sleepy 12. The Song Of A Hundred Toads 13. If The World Should End In Ice
17Centro-MaticLove You Just the Same1. Mighty Midshipman 2. Flashes and Cables 3. Argonne Limit Co. 4. Biology Tricks 5. Strahan Has Corralled the Freaks 6. All the Lightning Rods 7. Reset Anytime 8. Picking Up Too Fast 9. Spiraling Sideways 10. Supercar 11. Silver Plate Complaints 12. Breathe Deep Not Loud 13. Without You
18Pernice BrothersYours, Mine & Ours1. The Weakest Shade of Blue 2. Water Ban 3. One Foot In The Grave 4. Baby In Two 5. Blinded by the Stars 6. Waiting for the Universe 7. Judy 8. Sometimes I Remember 9. How To Live Alone 10. Number Two
19Go-BetweensBright Yellow, Bright Orange1. Caroline & I 2. Poison In The Walls 3. Mrs Morgan 4. In Her Diary 5. Too Much Of One Thing 6. Crooked Lines 7. Old Mexico 8. Make Her Day 9. Something For Myself 10. Unfinished Business
20CalifoneQuicksand/Cradlesnakes1. One 2. Horoscopic.Amputation.Honey 3. Michigan Girls 4. Cats Eat Coyote 5. Golden Ass 6. (red) 7. Million Dollar Funeral 8. When Leon Spinx Moved Into Town 9. Mean Little Seed 10. Vampiring Again 11. Slower Twin 12. Stepdaughter
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