Bem, esta é de fôlego, mas vale a pena. São os 100 discos do ano para o site www.brainwashed.com, simply the best.

And the winner was... Stars Of The Lid, "And Their Refinement Of The Decline". Yay, yay, ind'agora estiveram em Braga a tocar a coisa ao vivo.
O resto é... (uma fabulosa lista para comprar, piratear, pedir emprestado, mas fundamentalmente ouvir):

1. Jesu, "Conqueror" (Hydra Head)
2. Angels of Light, "We Are Him" (Young God)
3. Throbbing Gristle, "Part Two: The Endless Not" (Mute)
4. A Place To Bury Strangers, "A Place To Bury Strangers" (Killer Pimp)
5. Burial, "Untrue" (Hyperdub)
   
6. Grinderman, "Grinderman" (Mute)
7. Om, "Pilgrimage" (Southern Lord)
8. Einstürzende Neubauten, "Alles Wieder Offen" (Potomak)
9. Panda Bear, "Person Pitch" (Paw Tracks)
10. M.I.A., "Kala" (XL)
11. Six Organs of Admittance, "Shelter from the Ash" (Drag City)
12. Battles, "Mirrored" (Warp)
13. Earth, "Hibernaculum" (Southern Lord)
14. Boris with Michio Kurihara, "Rainbow" (Drag City)
15. Caribou, "Andorra" (Merge)
16. Deerhunter, "Cryptograms" (Kranky)
17. Liars, "Liars" (Mute)
18. LCD Soundsystem, "Sound Of Silver" (DFA)
19. Animal Collective, "Strawberry Jam" (Paw Tracks)
20. Boris with Merzbow, "Rock Dream" (Southern Lord)
21. Faust and Nurse With Wound, "Disconnected" (Art-Errorist)
22. Threshold HouseBoys Choir, "Form Grows Rampant" (Threshold House)
23. Robert Wyatt, "Comicopera" (Domino)
24. Shellac, "Excellent Italian Greyhound" (Touch & Go)
25. Pan Sonic, "Katodivaihe" (Blast First)
26. The Field, "From Here We Go to Sublime" (Kompakt)
27. Einsturzende Neubauten, "Jewels" (Potomak)
28. Low, "Drums and Guns" (Sub Pop)
29. James Blackshaw, "The Cloud of Unknowing" (Tompkins Square)
30. Thurston Moore, "Trees Outside The Academy" (Ecstatic Peace)
31. Marissa Nadler, "Songs III: Bird on the Water" (Peacefrog)
32. Iron and Wine, "The Shepherd's Dog" (Sub Pop)
33. Volcano the Bear, "Amidst the Noise and Twigs" (Beta-lactam Ring)
34. Blonde Redhead, "23" (4AD)
35. Ghost, "In Stormy Nights" (Drag City)
36. Deerhoof, "Friend Opportunity" (Kill Rock Stars)
37. Beirut, "The Flying Club Cup" (Ba Da Bing!)
38. Eluvium, "Copia" (Temporary Residence)
39. Oren Ambarchi, "In The Pendulum's Embrace" (Touch)
40. Wooden Shjips, "Wooden Shjips" (Holy Mountain)
41. The National, "Boxer" (Beggars Banquet)
42. Jesu, "Pale Sketches" (Avalanche)
43. Akron/Family, "Love Is Simple" (Young God)
44. Von Südenfed, "Tromatic Reflexxions" (Domino)
45. El-P, "I'll Sleep When You're Dead" (Definitive Jux)
46. Neurosis, "Given to the Rising" (Neurot Records)
47. Sir Richard Bishop, "While My Guitar Violently Bleeds" (Locust)
48. Do Make Say Think, "You, You're a History In Rust" (Constellation)
49. Nadja, "Radiance of Shadows" (Alien8)
50. Grails, "Burning Off Impurities" (Temporary Residence)
51. Fennesz Sakamoto, "Cendre" (Touch)
52. Nadja , "Touched " (Alien8)
53. Kemialliset Ystävät, "Kemialliset Ystävät" (Fonal)
54. Mogwai, "Zidane" (Pias)
55. KTL, "2" (Editions Mego)
56. Burning Star Core, "Blood Lightning 2007" (No Fun Productions)
57. !!!, "Myth Takes" (Warp)
58. Andrew Chalk, "The River That Flows Into the Sands II" (Faraway Press)
59. Explosions in the Sky, "All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone" (Temporary Residence)
60. Dälek, "Abandoned Language" (Ipecac)
61. Yellow Swans, "At All Ends" (Load)
62. Axolotl, "Memory Theater" (Important)
63. Supersilent, "8" (Rune Grammofon)
64. Irr. App. (Ext.), "Cosmic Superimposition" (Errata In Exelsis)
65. Vic Chestnutt, "North Star Deserter" (Constellation)
66. Whitehouse, "Racket" (Susan Lawly)
67. The Tuss, "Rushup Edge" (Rephlex)
68. To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie, "The Patron" (Kranky)
69. Edward Ka-Spel, "Dream Logik Part 1" (Beta-Lactam Ring)
70. Burning Star Core, "Operator Dead... Post Abandoned" (No Quarter)
71. Chris Corsano / Mike flower, "Radiant Mirror" (Textile)
72. Current 93, "Birdsong In The Empire (live in Toronto 2005)" (Durtro Jnana)
73. Lichens, "Omns" (Kranky)
74. Nadja, "Thaumagenesis " (Archive)
75. Svarte Greiner, "Knive" (Type)
76. Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O., "Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under the Stars" (Important)
77. High On Fire, "Death Is This Communion" (Relapse)
78. Sir Richard Bishop, "Polytheistic Fragments" (Drag City)
79. William Basinski, "El Camino Real" (2062)
80. Richard Youngs, "Autumn Response" (Jagjaguwar)
81. Wolves In the Throne Room, "Two Hunters" (Southern Lord)
82. Colleen, "Les Ondes Silencieuses" (Leaf)
83. Holy Fuck, "LP" (Young Turks)
84. Merzbow, "Merzbear" (Important)
85. Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd, "After the Night Falls" (Darla)
86. Raccoo-oo-oon, "Behold Secret Kingdom" (Release the Bats)
87. The Dead C, "Future Artists" (Ba Da Bing!)
88. Charalambides, "Likeness" (Kranky)
89. Electralene, "No Shouts, No Calls" (Too Pure)
90. Richard Youngs, "Autumn Response" (Jagjaguwar)
91. Magik Markers, "Boss" (Ecstatic Peace!)
92. Carter Tutti, "Feral Vapours of the Silver Ether" (Divine Frequency)
93. The Fall, "Reformation Post T.L.C." (Narnack)
94. No Age, "Weirdo Rippers" (Fat Cat)
95. Konono No. 1, "Live at Couleur Café" (Crammed Discs)
96. Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd, "Before the Day Breaks" (Darla)
97. Jens Lekman, "Night Falls Over Kortedala" (Secretly Canadian)
    
98. Diana Rogerson, "The Lights Are On But No-One's Home" (United Jnana)
99. Sutcliffe Jugend, "This Is the Truth" (Ground Fault/Hospital Productions)

...é claro que compreendo e aceito que, nesta lista, os The National estejam em 41º lugar. O brainwashed.com é o site agregador de música estranha, muito estranha, muito difícil. O facto de uma banda tãããão pop aparecer, sequer, nas votações; e o facto de conseguir estar na 1ª metade da tabela; bem, os gajos são mesmo bons.
Só mudava, na lista, uma coisinha: ok, gostei muito do disco dos Stars Of The Lid (não é todos os dias que compro cd's duplos); mas acho que o segundo melhor disco nesta lista, o "Conqueror" dos Jesu, é melhorzinho. Não, não é apenas melhorzinho, é um cd filha-da-mãe.
Quanto aos divinos Current 93, até com discos ao vivo entram nas listas VIP.