another damn list
   okay - this is mostly reposted from 
doa, with the honorable mention stuff at the bottom being new.  
1. Crooked Fingers – Red Devil Dawn
 
2. The Strokes – Room on Fire 
3. Guided by Voices – Earthquake Glue 
4. Outkast – Speakerboxxx / The Love Below 
5. Lightning Bolt – Wonderful Rainbow 
6. Dead Meadow – Shivering King and Others
 
7. The Summer Hymns – Clemency
 
8. Yo la Tengo – Summer Sun 
 
9. The Apes – Oddeyesee
 
10. The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?
 
mentionables:  Xiu Xiu, A Promise; The Rapture, Echoes; Masters of the Hemisphere, Last Show Ever; the Sunburned Hand of the Man, the Trickle-Down Theory of Lord Knows What (is this 2003 or 2002?); Dead Raven Choir, Wine Women and Wolves; the Shins, Chutes Too Narrow; Grandaddy, Sumday.
I haven't been able to hear all of the Animal Collective or Jorma Whittaker records that came out last year, but what I have heard I like a good bit.  
Man, weblogs are really self-indulgent.  Is there any entertainment value in this whatsoever?