How hip are you?

One of the better BritPop mags is Uncut.

In the new issue, they list their (editors, staffwriters and contributing writers)
Top 50 "albums" (their word) of 2011.

Know any of the recordings? The artists?

1. PJ Harvey---Let England Shake
2. Gillian Welch---The Harrow and the Harvest
3. Metronomy---The English Riviera
4. White Denim---"D"
5. Josh T. Pearson---Last of the Country Gentlemen
6. The Horrors---Skying
7. Radiohead---The King of Limbs
8. Wild Beasts---Smother
9. Bon Iver---Bon Iver
10. The War on Drugs---Slave Ambient
11. Laura Marling---A Creature I Don't Know
12. Fleet Foxes---Helplessness Blues
13. Tom Waits---Bad as Me
14. Kurt Vile---Smoke Ring for My Halo
15. Wilco---The Whole Love
16. Jonathan Wilson---Gentle Spirit
17. Feist---Metals
18. Tinariwen---Tassil
19. Drive-By Truckers---Go-Go Boots
20. Ry Cooder--Pull Up some Dust and Sit Down
21. James Blake---James Blake
22. GangGang Dance---Eye Contact
23. Thurston Moore---Demolished THoughts
24. Real Estate---Days
25. Bill Callahan---Acpocalypse
26. The Decemberists---The King is Dead
27. Bjork---Biophile
28. King Creosote and Jon Hopkins---Diamond Mine
29. Paul Simon---So Beautiful or So What
30. Tim Hecker---Rave Death
31. Destroyer---Kaput
32. Gil Scott Heron & Jamie XX---We're New Here
33. Low---C'mon
34. Fatoumata Diawara---Fatou
35. My Morning Jacket---Circuital
36. Jonny---Jonny
37. Little Dragon---Ritual Union
38. Hiss Golden Messenger---From Country Hai East Cotton
39. Dawes---Nothing is Wrong
40. Kate Bush---50 Words for Snow
41. Raphael Saadiq---Stone Rollin'
42. Jenny Hval---Viscera
43. St. Vincent---Strange Mercy
44. Tune-Yards---WHOLKILL
45. Mikal Cronin---Mikal Cronin
46. Iceage---New Brigade
47. The Caretaker---An Empty Bliss Beyond this World
48. Cornershop Featuring Bubbley Kaur---Cornershop and the Double Groove Of
49. Abouretum---The Gathering
50. Unknown Mortal Orchestra---Unknown Mortal Orchestra

See! Just put a whole bunch o' water bewtween 2 large groups of peeps and look what ya get.

Golly. I have the first 2 and really like them.

PJ harvey might be a fading memory but the Gillian W cd is the kind of record that I might listen to every night for months.

And I have 15 and 29.

I don't have any of these. Must be a bad list.

Cat,
you don't live three miles from a crazy guy that buys Cds ten at a time three times a week.

Good deal!

Here's another list...."British Pop Magazines Nobody Cares About".

Carry on....

I've heard about 23. I bought 15. Kept only 7. There is a LOT of real snoozemeister stuff on there.

I woke up from what I thought was a nap the other day, but Kate Bush's new album was still playing.

On the title track of Kate Bush's "50 Words for Snow," she whispers the consecutive #'s and a guy says a snow word. When she gets to different points in the count, she sings things like, "22 more to go, 22 more to go."

Her studio is in her house and she hardly ever leaves her property. We can tell, Kate.

On her next album, I hopwe she does a sultry version of "99 Bottles of Beer."

I like Bjork and Feist, but I still haven't been able to get into either of those albums. I didn't even know Laura Marling had a new album.

I've got five on that list. Haven't listened to the PJ Harvey album yet, although I will fix that this weekend.

One of the doctors I used to work with subscribed to Uncut and brought the issues into the office. I thought it was, indeed, a good magazine.

On his "Get to know the staff" questionnaire, he mentioned it in his "Likes". He was quick to explain that Uncut magazine is about music ...

I know. Bad name. "I've been told" there's another periodical with the same title.

It also comes with a new sampler CD every month--the musical "Uncut, " that is.

I guess Adrian's never read it, 'cause they don't publish it in Canadian.