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		<title>100 Best Icelandic Pop &amp;amp; Rock Albums</title>
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		<description>&lt;a href="http://www.tonlist.is/100bestu#0"&gt;100 Best Icelandic Pop &amp; Rock Albums&lt;/a&gt; all streamable in full for free. Icelandic state broadcaster R&#0218;V and Icelandic subscription music website &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tonlist.is/&quot;&gt;t&#0243;nlist.is&lt;/a&gt; have published what they, their team of experts and the Icelandic public consider to be the 100 best Icelandic rock and pop albums of all time. Bj&#0246;rk, Sigur R&#0243;s, M&#0250;m and The Sugarcubes don&apos;t need much introduction but below the cut there are short description of the other artists. &lt;small&gt;[via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ruv.is/heim/frettir/frett/store64/item263885/&quot;&gt;R&#0218;V&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/small&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;200.000 naglb&#0237;tar: Name means 200000 Nippers (as in the tool for removing nails, this is a Halld&#0243;r Laxness reference). Rose to fame in the mid 90s with an anthemic pop song about a woman who&apos;s hiding the fact her husband beats her up called H&#0230;&#0240; &#0237; h&#0250;si (A Floor in a House). Their second biggest hit was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVespd4b6Q0&quot;&gt;Brj&#0243;tum &#0254;a&#0240; sem brotnar&lt;/a&gt; (Break That Which is Breaks, as in the nihilist idea that nothing that can be broken should be left unbroken). They made an album with L&#0250;&#0240;rasveit verkal&#0253;&#0240;sins (The Laborers&apos; Marching Band) who also featured in Heima, the recent documentary about Sigur R&#0243;s. 

Ampop: Starting life as an electronic duo, they added a drummer to the line-up and became more melodic.

Apparat Organ Quartet: The world largest quartet, comprised of four organists and one drummer. The band&apos;s main songwriter is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.johannjohannsson.com/&quot;&gt;J&#0243;hann J&#0243;hannsson&lt;/a&gt; started out as the keyboard player in goth-rock band Ham (see below) but has now become a respected composer.

Baggal&#0250;tur: The band version of Icelandic comedy website &lt;a href=&quot;http://baggalutur.is/&quot;&gt;Baggal&#0250;tur&lt;/a&gt;, which is the Icelandic equivalent of The Onion.

Bjartmar Gu&#0240;laugsson: Folky singer-songwriter who was incredibly popular in the late eighties. He started out as a lyricist for others, including Bj&#0246;rk at one point.

Bj&#0246;rgvin Halld&#0243;rsson: A popstar in Iceland since the late sixties, with countless hits. His only album in this list is an album of children&apos;s music he made with guitarist Gunnar &#0222;&#0243;r&#0240;arson (see below). His son, Krummi, is the lead singer of M&#0237;nus (see below).

Botnle&#0240;ja: Started out as a catchy pop-punk band in the vein of the Buzzcocks, they went to write more complicated rock songs. Toured abroad under the name Silt, which is a direct translation of their name.

Bragi Valdimar og Memfismaf&#0237;an: Bragi Valdimar is a member of Baggal&#0250;tur (see above) and Memfismaf&#0237;an (The Memphis Mafia) is a collection of various other well known Icelandic musicians, including members of The Sugarcubes, Hj&#0225;lmar (see below) and many others. The album Gilligill is a collection of humorous children&apos;s songs.

Bubbi Morthens: The Icelandic Bruce Springsteen. Started out as a singer-songwriter whose songs were about life as a working class Icelander but he&apos;s since explored countless different musical styles. He founded Utangar&#0240;smenn (see below) around the time he was first becoming popular as a solo artist. He later went on to found new wave bands Eg&#0243; (see below) and Das Kapital. He later formed GCD (see below) with Icelandic sixties rock legend R&#0250;nar J&#0250;l&#0237;usson, member of Hlj&#0243;mar (see below) and Tr&#0250;brot (see below). He&apos;s also worked extensively with singer-songwriter Megas (see below) as well as releasing a great number of solo albums.

Dikta: A tuneful indie rock band.

Dr. Gunni og vinir hins: Dr. Gunni is a long-time fixture on the Icelandic music scene, having been one of Iceland&apos;s premier alternate rockers in the late eighties and into the mid nineties. Abbababb! is his best selling album, a collection of children&apos;s songs, the breakout hit being Prumpuf&#0243;lki&#0240; (The Fartpeople).

Eg&#0243;: Iceland&apos;s premier New Wave band, founded by Bubbi Morthens (see above).

Ellen Kristj&#0225;nsd&#0243;ttir: Sister of KK (see below), she&apos;s mainly an interpreter of other people&apos;s songs. The album on this list, S&#0225;lmar (Hymns), is a collection of traditional Icelandic Christian songs.

Elly Vilhj&#0225;lms: Sister of Vilhj&#0225;lmur Vilhj&#0225;lmsson (see below), who she sings with on the one album she has on the list. Iceland&apos;s premier female singer of pop and jazz standards in the sixties and seventies.

Emil&#0237;ana Torrini: Probably best known in the Anglophone world for singing Gollum&apos;s Song over the end-credits of The Two Towers, Emil&#0237;ana Torrini has had a long solo career and has co-written a number of songs for other recording artists, including Kylie Minogue, and collaborated with Paul Oakenfold, Gus Gus (see below) and Thievery Corporation.

Ens&#0237;mi: An alternative rock band. One of their albums, not on this list, was produced by Steve Albini.

FM Belfast: Electro band with three singers. Features &#0214;rvar &#0222;&#0243;reyjarson Sm&#0225;rason of M&#0250;m. On the album How to Make Friends they cover old school techno smash Pump by Snap.

Fr&#0230;bbblarnir: Iceland&apos;s first punk band. For some reason their selected album, Viltu nammi v&#0230;na? (Do you want candy dear?) is not playable.

GCD: One of many popular bands founded by Bubbi Morthens (see above) this time as a collaborative project with bass guitarist and singer R&#0250;nar J&#0250;l&#0237;usson, former member of Hlj&#0243;mar (see below), Tr&#0250;brot (see below) and many other bands. The name comes from what are supposedly the three most common chords in rock songs.

Gr&#0253;lurnar: New wave all-girl band. Made Iceland&apos;s all time most popular movie Me&#0240; allt &#0225; hreinu (Everything Clear) with the band Stu&#0240;menn (see below). The movie featured both bands on a tour of Iceland competing for popularity. The lead singer of Gr&#0253;lurnar, Ragnhildur G&#0237;slad&#0243;ttir, went on to join Stu&#0240;menn.

Gunnar &#0222;&#0243;r&#0240;arson: Former member of Hlj&#0243;mar (see below), Tr&#0250;brot (see below) and many other bands. Primarily a guitarist and songwriter his solo works have been collaborative, such as Himinn og j&#0246;r&#0240; (Heaven and Earth), which features a number of singers, such as Bj&#0246;rgvin Halld&#0243;rsson (see above) and former Hlj&#0243;mar and Tr&#0250;brot singer Shady Owens.

GusGus: Started out as an artistic collaborative, with music only being one part of what they did, but soon the band aspect became the main focus. Countless people have at one time or another been members of GusGus, including Emil&#0237;ana Torrini (see above) and Dan&#0237;el &#0193;g&#0250;st Haraldsson lead singer of N&#0253;d&#0246;nsk (see below). Through the years their music has progressed from trip-hop to electro.

Ham: Iceland&apos;s foremost goth rock band. They never quite managed to record a proper full-length album, but their defining statement as the live recording of their final concert, released as Ham Lengi Lifi! (Long Live Ham!) The principal songwriter was Sigurj&#0243;n Kjartansson, who was also one of the two main singers (singing in an operatic style), the other being &#0211;ttar Proppe, who growled. They were fiercely loved by their followers (including Bj&#0246;rk) while they were active but never widely popular. Sigurj&#0243;n Kjartansson later went on to become one half of Iceland&apos;s most popular comedic duo, Tv&#0237;h&#0246;f&#0240;i (Biceps or Doublehead). Ham always had a streak of humor in them, covering Abba&apos;s Voulez-vous and The Motors&apos; Airport.

Hjaltal&#0237;n: An indie pop band whose cover of &#0222;&#0250; komst vi&#0240; hjarta&#0240; &#0237; m&#0233;r (You Touched My Heart) by P&#0225;ll &#0211;skar (see below) was a huge hit in Iceland last year.

Hj&#0225;lmar: Iceland&apos;s finest reggae band. Members of Hj&#0225;lmar later went on to back Megas (see below) as Senu&#0254;j&#0243;farnir (The Scene Stealers).

Hlj&#0243;mar: One of countless Beatlepop bands which sprang up around the world in the early sixties. Singer and bassist R&#0250;nar J&#0250;l&#0237;usson had the distinction of also being in Iceland&apos;s national soccer squad and dating, and later marrying, Miss Iceland. Hlj&#0243;mar featured under the name Thor&apos;s Hammer on the second volume of garage rock compilation series Nuggets.

Hrekkjusv&#0237;nin: A supergroup of folk and rock musicians who came together to make a children&apos;s album in 1977, starting an Icelandic tradition of serious rock musicians making children&apos;s music in Iceland. All lyrics on their only album, L&#0246;g unga f&#0243;lkins (The Young Folks&apos; Songs), were by novelist and poet P&#0233;tur Gunnarsson, all music was by Valgeir Gu&#0240;j&#0243;nsson of Spilverk &#0254;j&#0243;&#0240;anna (see below) and later of Stu&#0240;menn (see below) and Leifur Hauksson of folk group &#0222;okkab&#0243;t. The lyrics were quite subversive and anti-capitalist but despite that (or perhaps because of that), the album instantly became a classic of Icelandic children&apos;s music.

Jeff Who?: Icelandic indie rock band.

Jet Black Joe: Rock band whose music has often been compared to grunge. They were very popular in the early nineties before disbanding. The lead singer, P&#0225;ll R&#0243;sinkranz, went on to be a singer of Christian spiritual music before reforming the band in this decade.

KK: Folk and blues musician. Real name Kristj&#0225;n Kristj&#0225;nsson, he&apos;s the brother of Ellen Kristj&#0225;nsd&#0243;ttir (see above).

Lay Low: Stage name of Lov&#0237;sa El&#0237;sabet Sigr&#0250;nard&#0243;ttir. She&apos;s a singer-songwriter who plays slow, atmospheric music.

Magn&#0250;s &#0222;&#0243;r Gu&#0240;mundsson: A long time fixture of the Icelandic music scene, first as a member of the band Change. He released a number of solo albums, including the one on this list, &#0193;lfar (Elves).

Mannakorn: Seventies rock band.

Maus: Indie rock band popular in the nineties and into this decade before they disbanded. Roger O&apos;Donnell, keyboard player of The Cure, played with Maus on the album Lof m&#0233;r a&#0240; falla a&#0240; &#0254;&#0237;nu eyra (Let Me Fit Your Ear).

Megas: His public image in Iceland is some combination of Bob Dylan, George Bataille and a bum. Starting out as a folk singer with an eponymous album in 1972, he would later explore a number of musical styles. He is also considered one of the Iceland&apos;s best poets. His lyrics are written according to traditional Icelandic poetics, but his subject matter is routinely very subversive and has been from the very first. His life has been just as controversial, having often been on the brink of death from ODing on drugs. &#0193; bleikum n&#0225;ttkj&#0243;lum (In pink nightgowns), which he made with Spilverk &#0254;j&#0243;&#0240;anna (see below) in 1977, is widely acknowledged to be his masterpiece, a caustic punk-influenced rock album that routinely tops Icelandic album best-of lists (along with &#0193;g&#0230;tis Byrjun by Sigur R&#0243;s, Homogenic and Debut by Bj&#0246;rk and Lifun by Tr&#0250;brot (see below)). Referenced in the song Iceland by The Fall.

M&#0237;nus: Hardcore punk band fronted by Krummi, son of Bj&#0246;rgvin Halld&#0243;rsson (see above).

Mugison: Experimental singer-songwriter from &#0205;safj&#0246;r&#0240;ur in the Westfjords.

N&#0253;d&#0246;nsk: Pop band who were very popular in the nineties.

Olga Gu&#0240;r&#0250;n &#0193;rnad&#0243;ttir: Though she later went on to be a playwright Olga Gu&#0240;r&#0250;n &#0193;rnad&#0243;ttir is to this day most famous for her 1975 children&apos;s album Eniga Meniga. All the lyrics were written by novelist &#0211;lafur Haukur S&#0237;monarson.

P&#0225;ll &#0211;skar: Brother of Sigr&#0250;n Hj&#0225;lmt&#0253;rsd&#0243;ttir, singer of Spilverk &#0222;j&#0243;&#0240;anna (see below). P&#0225;ll &#0211;skar is most famous as a singer of disco songs but he&apos;s done all kinds of other music. Shocked some Icelanders in the early nineties by being very open about his homosexuality. He also had a long-running Dr. Love type show where he educated a generation of Icelanders in matters of the heart and pants.

P&#0233;tur Ben: Singer-songwriter and trained composer.

Purrkur pillnikk: Early Icelandic punk band, fronted by Einar &#0214;rn Benediktsson, later singer of The Sugarcubes. Purrkur pillnikk&apos;s motto, &#0254;a&#0240; skiptir ekki m&#0225;li hva&#0240; &#0254;&#0250; getur heldur hva&#0240; &#0254;&#0250; gerir (it doesn&apos;t matter what you can but what you do) became the call to arms of a whole generation of Icelandic punk bands. Bass player Bragi &#0211;lafsson would also found The Sugarcubes with Einar &#0214;rn.

Quarashi: Icelandic rap band who had a minor worldwide hit with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9aJLP_Ws_Y&quot;&gt;Stick&apos;em Up&lt;/a&gt;.

S&#0225;lin hans J&#0243;ns m&#0237;ns: A pop band that has been very popular for the last twenty years.

Spilverk &#0254;j&#0243;&#0240;anna: Folk-rock band.

Stu&#0240;menn: Iceland&apos;s all-time most popular pop band. Originally started as a joke by Valgeir Gu&#0240;j&#0243;nsson of Spilverk &#0222;j&#0243;&#0240;anna (see above) and Jakob Fr&#0237;mann Magn&#0250;sson in 1970. The name Stu&#0240;menn was their idea for the worst possible bandname, stu&#0240; meaning both shock (as in electroshock) and good times and menn meaning men. A translation of the name would be something like The Good Time Guys. Valgeir and Jakob fleshed out the joke with members of Spilverk &#0222;j&#0243;&#0240;anna (see above) and put out the album Sumar &#0225; S&#0253;rlandi in 1975 which they performed anonymously in animal masks. After releasing a follow-up to the unexpectedly popular Sumar &#0225; S&#0253;rlandi the band was shelved for a while as Valgeir focused on Spilverk &#0222;j&#0243;&#0240;anna. In 1982, after Spilverk &#0254;j&#0243;&#0240;anna had quit, Valgeir wrote an album&apos;s worth of songs that he thought would fit Stu&#0240;menn. Instead of just releasing an album the band decided to make a movie about a fictional band, called Stu&#0240;menn, who would tour Iceland in competition with the all girl new wave band Gr&#0253;lurnar (see above). The movie, Me&#0240; allt &#0225; hreinu (Clear on Everything), became a massive hit and remains to this day Iceland&apos;s all time most popular movie. Stu&#0240;menn went on to release a slew of popular albums and is still playing, after a hiatus in the nineties.

Sykurmolarnir: The Icelandic name for The Sugarcubes.

Todmobile: Popular rock band in the nineties.

Tr&#0250;brot: Sixties rock supergroup, made up of members of Hlj&#0243;mar (see above) and Flowers. Lifun was their masterpiece, a concept album about the human lifespan that is unusually short for a prog rock concept album. Lifun routinely tops Icelandic rock album best-of lists.

Utangar&#0240;smenn: Very popular punk band founded by Bubbi Morthens (see above).

Vilhj&#0225;lmur Vilhj&#0225;lmsson: Popular singer in the seventies. He died shortly after releasing his most popular album, Hana n&#0250;, in a car crash in Luxembourg. The song &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikc29LdXAFY&quot;&gt;S&#0246;knu&#0240;ur&lt;/a&gt; (Sorrow) has become a standard at funerals.

&#0222;eyr: One of Iceland&apos;s best punk bands. One of the many bands to have members later go on to found The Sugarcubes. The band worked with Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke but the resulting material was never released. For some reason the album that&apos;s on the list, Mj&#0246;tvi&#0240;ur m&#0230;r, is not playable.

&#0222;ursaflokkurinn: A folk-rock band fronted by Egill &#0211;lafsson of Spilverk &#0222;j&#0243;&#0240;anna (see above) and Stu&#0240;menn (see above).


[Full disclosure: One of the guitarists in Maus is a friend of mine, Valgeir Gu&#0240;j&#0243;nsson is my first cousin, once removed, Baggal&#0250;tur once made fun of me, I once worked in a bookstore with Ham&apos;s &#0211;ttar Proppe and I once worked with H&#0246;skuldur &#0211;lafsson of Quarashi and &#0193;rni Vilhj&#0225;lmsson of FM Belfast doing groundskeeping and MeFi&apos;s own &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metafilter.com/user/6599&quot;&gt;svenni&lt;/a&gt; is in FM Belfast.]</description>
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		<title>By: Kattullus</title>
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		<description>Oh, and Rokk &#237; Reykjav&#237;k is the soundtrack album for the movie of the same name that featured many of the bands featured in this post.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 19:18:58 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: cjorgensen</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2555820</link>	
		<description>Wow.

It is a bit hard to navigate a site where I don&apos;t speak the launguage.

I dig a lot of these artists. M&#250;m and Emil&#237;ana Torrini especially. I so hope this streams to the US. Internet issues (real slow loading), so will have to see tomorrow.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 19:25:05 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: UbuRoivas</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2555835</link>	
		<description>what, no kukl?

THIS TREASURE TROVE OF 100 FREE STREAMING ICELANDIC ALBUMS IS USELESS!!!</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 19:37:49 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Kattullus</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2555843</link>	
		<description>Yeah, I&apos;m surprised too that K.U.K.L. aren&apos;t represented. This being a best-of lists there are a whole bunch of albums I&apos;d have included that aren&apos;t there and a number of albums whose presence puzzle me. If you like K.U.K.L. you should really track down some &#222;eyr. My album sadly got lost along with about 30 of my favorite CDs (I mourn that lost carrying case nearly every day).</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 19:45:35 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: ornate insect</title>
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		<description>Of course you&apos;re related to someone on this list; by my quick calculation, every third person in the country is in a band. 

On a more serious note, however, I am somewhat amazed that this list actually appears to leave off one of the few Icelandic CDs I own. 

It&apos;s noirish, eclectic, jazz-inflected, very, very cool pop that I like a lot and highly recommend: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.myspace.com/tomasreinarsson&quot;&gt;TR&#218;N&#211; by Tomas R. Einarsson (featuring vocals by Ragnheidur Gr&#246;ndal and Mugison)&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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		<title>By: mds35</title>
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		<description>Surely in the top 100 there would be room for the Funerals, Kimono, seabear and M&#250;m, no?</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 19:53:22 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: god hates math</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2555861</link>	
		<description>#101 - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowblow_(album)&quot;&gt;Slowblow&lt;/a&gt;, by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowblow&quot;&gt;Slowblow&lt;/a&gt;.

And yeah, both Seabear records, as well.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 19:59:51 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: aubilenon</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2555869</link>	
		<description>Too bad &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.last.fm/music/Yagya&quot;&gt;dub techno/ambient&lt;/a&gt; doesn&apos;t count as rock or pop.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:09:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: googly</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2555872</link>	
		<description>#102: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sendingorbs.com/content/artists/yagya/willidreamduringtheprocess&quot;&gt;Will I Dream During the Process?&lt;/a&gt; 

&lt;small&gt;Thanks for this post!&lt;/small&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:11:25 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: cowbellemoo</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2555873</link>	
		<description>This is a fantastic post, Kattullus.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:11:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: cowbellemoo</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2555878</link>	
		<description>Also: your tag list is going to break metafilter somehow.  I am sure of it.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:15:35 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: clcapps</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2555884</link>	
		<description>No Siggi &#193;rmann either?</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:21:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Kattullus</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2555885</link>	
		<description>cowbellemoo: &lt;i&gt;Also: your tag list is going to break metafilter somehow. I am sure of it.&lt;/i&gt;

Heh... well... I figure if your name is in a post you should get a tag. At first I decided against it but it does make it easier to search if, say, someone wants to make a post about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor&apos;s_Hammer_(band)&quot;&gt;Thor&apos;s Hammer&lt;/a&gt; or Megas.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:22:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: grobstein</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2555887</link>	
		<description>&lt;em&gt;[Full disclosure: One of the guitarists in Maus is a friend of mine, Valgeir Gu&#240;j&#243;nsson is my first cousin, once removed, Baggal&#250;tur once made fun of me, I once worked in a bookstore with Ham&apos;s &#211;ttar Proppe and I once worked with H&#246;skuldur &#211;lafsson of Quarashi and &#193;rni Vilhj&#225;lmsson of FM Belfast doing groundskeeping and MeFi&apos;s own svenni is in FM Belfast.] &lt;/em&gt;

New rule (to prevent self-links): no one from Iceland is allowed to post about anyone else from Iceland.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:24:58 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: yhbc</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2555888</link>	
		<description>The best thing about Kattullus is that he really does look like you would expect a young, clever, sophisticated Icelander (is that a word?) to look.

The next best thing is that he shares.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:25:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: ericb</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2555898</link>	
		<description>What&apos;s with all the weird squiggles over vowels?

&lt;small&gt;&lt;small&gt;Maybe this is just a comment to mark this thread to appear in &quot;my comments,&quot; since I don&apos;t use favorites on MeFi.&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:34:37 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Dee Xtrovert</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2555901</link>	
		<description>It&apos;s a weird list, which spends too much time on some bands and neglects a lot of classics (including many which received release outisde Iceland.)  Bless?  Thor&apos;s Hammer?  Olympia?  Reptile?  Purrkur Pillnikk&apos;s &quot;other&quot; classic, &quot;Googooplex?&quot;  Ghostgital?  Where are they?</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:38:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: UbuRoivas</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2555907</link>	
		<description>&lt;em&gt;What&apos;s with all the weird squiggles over vowels?&lt;/em&gt;

they&apos;re graffiti by the huldufolk.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:46:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Kattullus</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2555908</link>	
		<description>Dee Xtrovert: &lt;i&gt;It&apos;s a weird list, which spends too much time on some bands and neglects a lot of classics (including many which received release outisde Iceland.) Bless? Thor&apos;s Hammer? Olympia? Reptile? Purrkur Pillnikk&apos;s &quot;other&quot; classic, &quot;Googooplex?&quot; Ghostgital? Where are they?&lt;/i&gt;

Thor&apos;s Hammer are there, under their Icelandic name, Hlj&#243;mar. But yeah, there&apos;s some oddness on that list, but then that goes for pretty much every 100bestwhatever list. That said, I love a good third of the albums and quite like at least another third on there which is more than I can say about most lists like that.

But yeah, the bands mentioned in the comments, and some others, such as my beloved Skakkamanage, I would have been happy to see on that list.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:49:41 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Burhanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2555912</link>	
		<description>&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG6JihCFS2g&quot;&gt;Witness the last of the god-men....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:53:41 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Midnight Rambler</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2555916</link>	
		<description>Jeff Who?  Is an awesome band.  My friend just got back from Iceland and told me about the band (my name &lt;em&gt;might &lt;/em&gt;be Jeff).</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:57:02 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: filthy light thief</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2555956</link>	
		<description>Ooh, I know &lt;a href=&quot;http://ghostigital.com&quot;&gt;Ghostgital&lt;/a&gt;! I know (of) them! Definitely not pop or rock, unless all Icelanders bend genres at will. In that case, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.myspace.com/ghostigital&quot;&gt;Ghostgital&lt;/a&gt; may well be some sort of pop music.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 22:06:30 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: hypersloth</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2555962</link>	
		<description>I&apos;m from Iceland; I have nothing to say about anyone else from Iceland.  The link is great.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 22:22:09 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: the aloha</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556000</link>	
		<description>oh my, this sounds like it will be awesome. the prospect of new music to my ears always makes me happy.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 22:52:43 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: bjork24</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556002</link>	
		<description>Eponysterical</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 22:54:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: padraigin</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556015</link>	
		<description>I can&apos;t make it play, and it&apos;s killing me. 

I recognize some of these names from my days as an import buyer for an indie record store (god, the number of Gling-Glo that went through my fingers back in those days, you would not believe).</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 23:07:58 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Kattullus</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556022</link>	
		<description>Oh, and Dee Xtrovert, if you like Thor&apos;s Hammer, and this goes for anyone else as well, you should really check out Lifun by Tr&#250;brot. It&apos;s an amazing album which, and this is a plus for many, is sung in English (and only a couple of the lyrics are really weird, but mostly it&apos;s for the content, not the syntax, &quot;Looking in a mirror of my destination/See myself reflected in a masturbation/Out in the sea of doubt and insecurity&quot; is the most memorable example).</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 23:18:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Kattullus</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556024</link>	
		<description>padraigin: &lt;i&gt;I can&apos;t make it play, and it&apos;s killing me.&lt;/i&gt;

Is it timing out? It&apos;s working just fine for me and I&apos;m in Rhode Island. Are you clicking on the album cover and getting the player? The player is a pop-up so your pop-up zapper might be keeping it from showing up.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 23:20:51 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: D.C.</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556028</link>	
		<description>I first heard some of these bands in the eighties thanks to Enigma Records&apos; &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geyser_-_Anthology_of_the_Icelandic_Independent_Music_Scene_of_the_Eighties&quot;&gt;Geyser&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; compilation.

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp0vC0On0RY&quot;&gt;&#222;eyr &quot;Killer Boogie&quot; video&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJM_0Hpr1u4&quot;&gt;My favorite version of Purrkur Pillnikk, &quot;&#211;v&#230;nt&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (but bad youtube audio)</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 23:33:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: KokuRyu</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556030</link>	
		<description>Oh, wow, what a great post. This made my day. Thank you.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 23:38:57 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: goodnewsfortheinsane</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556080</link>	
		<description>I saw Apparat Organ Quartet in Rotterdam. They are &lt;em&gt;weird&lt;/em&gt;, in a steampunk Kraftwerk sort of way.

Epic post, Kattullus.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 00:48:41 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Grimp0teuthis</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556091</link>	
		<description>Holy crap.

Also: what, no &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.myspace.com/mammut&quot;&gt;Mamm&#250;t&lt;/a&gt;?</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 01:07:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: auralcoral</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556126</link>	
		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-amp-Rock-Albums#2555846&quot;&gt;Seconded&lt;/a&gt;, and absolutely amazing post Kattullus.

and to add my two cents on missing groups/albums--at least in terms of punk--the hardcore scene in Iceland has grown significantly in the past 5 years. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.myspace.com/iadapt&quot;&gt;I Adapt&lt;/a&gt;&apos;s &lt;i&gt;No Pasaran&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.myspace.com/gavinportland&quot;&gt;Gavin Portland&lt;/a&gt;&apos;s &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://12tonar.c.is/index.php?page=shop.product_details&amp;category_id=6&amp;flypage=shop.flypage&amp;product_id=17&amp;option=com_virtuemart&amp;Itemid=1&amp;vmcchk=1&amp;Itemid=1&quot;&gt;Views of Distant Towns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; are two examples of the continued growth of Iceland&apos;s underground music community.

I was at I Adapt&apos;s last show.  It was February and I remember having no problem standing outside in a t-shirt afterwards, steam pouring off me, my hair frosting a bit.  Stagedives, costumes, singalongs, and a packed &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tonaslod.is/hellirinn.html&quot;&gt;Hellirinn&lt;/a&gt; (The Cave) made for a lively and amazing introduction to Icelandic music when I was living there last year.  Of course, hardcore isn&apos;t for everyone but Icelandic DIY is alive and well and should be duly noted.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 02:52:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: foxy_hedgehog</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556127</link>	
		<description>Kattullus wins, but...

I can&apos;t seem to get it to play.  (In Germany, in case that matters).  I get the player, but it won&apos;t play.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 03:00:43 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: fire&amp;wings</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556140</link>	
		<description>&lt;em&gt;what, no kukl?&lt;/em&gt;

I second this emotion.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 03:44:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: UbuRoivas</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556171</link>	
		<description>i see that the music is available for sale...is this an attempt to bring iceland back from complete bankruptcy? if so, it&apos;s a great plan.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 04:38:09 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Forktine</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556221</link>	
		<description>&lt;em&gt;what, no kukl?&lt;/em&gt;

Man, what an oversight.

But the list is great, and they are playing fine for me. I&apos;ve only heard of a few of the bands on that list, so I&apos;m having fun hearing new stuff.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 05:54:28 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: chara</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556222</link>	
		<description>Kattullus, I just....I just freaking love you.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 06:00:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Queen of Spreadable Fats</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556227</link>	
		<description>How could anyone not love &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tonlist.is/Music/Player.aspx?ID=67210&quot;&gt;Kindin Einar&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tonlist.is/Music/Artist/7425/hjalmar/#0&quot;&gt;Hj&#225;lmar&lt;/a&gt;&apos;s Icelandic take on Pluto Shervington&apos;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kca32orFys&quot;&gt;Ram Goat Liver&lt;/a&gt;?  I mean, have you no heart?

Takk fyrir mig, K&#225;ri</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 06:13:07 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: krilli</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556240</link>	
		<description>Many of the talented performers are available for marriage. Good availability of housing. Educated foreigners with liquid currency especially welcome.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 06:25:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: kittyprecious</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556277</link>	
		<description>So...I was just in Iceland last week and how come all I heard on the radio was second-rate American pop from 10 years ago?</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 07:07:50 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kittyprecious</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: aldurtregi</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556305</link>	
		<description>&lt;em&gt;So...I was just in Iceland last week and how come all I heard on the radio was second-rate American pop from 10 years ago?&lt;/em&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.365midlar.is/Fjolmidlar/Midlar-365&quot;&gt;This &lt;/a&gt;is why. Pretty much every radio station in the country is run by that conglomerate and all they play is easy-listening pap. One of the two state run radio stations has some good programs and is pretty much your only chance at hearing actual good music. 
Occasionally an interesting, independent radio station will pop up but they rarely last long. In a nation of 300k people niche markets are hard to sustain.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 07:40:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: cjorgensen</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556308</link>	
		<description>Am I just missing the M&#250;m?

Also, how long will this stay up?</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 07:43:42 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cjorgensen</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Kattullus</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556316</link>	
		<description>No, M&#250;m isn&apos;t there, strangely. When I first read it over I thought that M&#250;m was there, and I wrote the front page bit, and then I forgot to change that once I had written the more inside guide.

I&apos;m not entirely sure how long it will stay up, but at least until the end of the month.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 07:47:59 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kattullus</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: aldurtregi</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2556323</link>	
		<description>It goes down when the voting is over on May 29.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 07:55:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Kattullus</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2557201</link>	
		<description>Man, listening to albums I haven&apos;t listened to in forever sure throws up some curveballs. I can&apos;t fathom how I could forget about Gr&#253;lurnar&apos;s strange cover of Bob Dylan&apos;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ghMRZiHn4&quot;&gt;Don&apos;t Think Twice, It&apos;s All Right&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Oz6RbFVgqI&quot;&gt;Here&apos;s a live version&lt;/a&gt;. It&apos;s also on the album M&#225;vastelli&#240;, which is one of the 100.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 18:03:06 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kattullus</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: rubah</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/81466/100-Best-Icelandic-Pop-and-Rock-Albums#2567026</link>	
		<description>So I &lt;em&gt;didn&apos;t&lt;/em&gt; imagine GusGus!  This means there is more!   Yes!</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 21:08:45 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rubah</dc:creator>
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