Pixies - Doolittle 
What is it? noisy shouty alt rock
How'd I find it? High school crush's favourite album
I don't listen to this anymore. I can't fault it; it's hailed as the father of indie but it's still not even too overrated. Every song is 4-5 star quality. Future tryhards will probably wear its cover on t-shirts. I just don't want to hear the songs of high school enemies. If you've never listened to it, you really should.

Powderfinger - Odyssey Number Five
What is it? radio friendly rock
How'd I find it? Topped Hottest 100 Australian albums poll
I like My Happiness. Didn't know QR trains used to have buttons like that, and look at old Roma Steet! Oh, it leads quite nicely into The Metre too. This is better than I expect from a poll-winner. There's something a bit sterile about it that keeps me from really liking it and a lot of the songs could be shorter (ugh Thrillology), but I'd still be stoked if they name that new bus/train tunnel after the band.

You Am I - Hourly, Daily
What is it? alt rock (what does that even mean?)
How'd I find it? This list
I like that this band is more Sydney than Powderfinger is Brisbane. That's pretty important to me. I listened to this album so many times while driving to between those two cities. I don't care what the world thinks; this is a five-star album for me. "Fourteen year olds, screaming get out of my country," "We ain't going west of the city," and I smile every time I see the "470 to Circular Quay".

wowaka - SEVEN GIRLS' DISCHORD
What is it? Vocaloid pop, a bit alt rock in parts
How'd I find it? A Livejournal comm called singing_robots
Rolling Girl (track 2) and this version of World's End Dancehall (6) are the songs I would use as OP/ED if my life were an anime. This producer's style is so jagged that it makes the robot voices sound natural, which is a much better approach than putting the computer voice in the middle of an emotional piano ballad. I can't think of any Western equivalent for this, or even things to compare it to.

Megan Washington - I Believe You Liar
What is it? "Indie" female vocalist pop
How'd I find it? A song was played on Nova
Everett True's review is spot-on, I reckon. She's got a great voice, but her singing sounds unemotional. The production is like cling wrap. Still, there's some good potential there. I didn't know Rich Kids was about Brisbane until I read that review, but listening to it now, yeah, I've lived that. The guy I didn't wanna dance with was spotted busking near King George Square when I visited a year later.

Found out about this through a Reddit post. Tried gathering 100 Australian albums at first, but that turned out too homogeneous, so it'll be half Australian, half other. Non-Spotify links provided where possible.

Venetian Snares - Rossz csillag alatt született
What is it? Orchestral samples, breakcore
How'd I find it? Clicked a random genre on rym and tried the top album.
I doubt that this really is the best of the genre, just one of the more accessible. Its rating has increased a bit since I first found it, possibly due to being featured on a lot of /mu/ lists. It's the kind of sad/abrasive thing a lot of their audience like. Of course the Elgar Cello Concerto is in there. I'd love to hear this kind of thing in a game/movie soundtrack.

JYONGRI - Love Forever
What is it? Mid-2000s J-Pop, female vocalist
How'd I find it? This song was used in The World Ends With You.
Sounds super dated, though I think it did back when I first heard it in 2009 anyway (like a lot of J-Pop). This sound will probably become trendy again though, with the jelly sandals and chokers I've been seeing on the street. I struggled to stay awake for the whole album, but the linked song and other ballads still pretty good, seeing as sad piano ballads don't go out of style.

Angus & Julia Stone - Down The Way
What is it? Indie folk-pop, adult contemporary, when female vocalists imitate Bjork
How'd I find it? Everywhere on the radio in 2010!
Don't like them but glad they exist because they gave me something to argue about with my old music teacher. I've eventually come around to the everything he recommended except this. Every time I listen to this album I'm thinking, "nah, it's probably not as bad as I remembered." But this is the soundtrack of basic middle-class white people and that's nails on chalkboard for me. I keep trying anyway.

Ben Salter - The Cat
What is it? Male singer-songwriter, Australian, saxophones
How'd I find it? I don't remember exactly, but it involved this video.
I'm glad that I lived in Toowong, because it seems like lots of artsy types come from the inner-west, and I like seeing places I know in stuff. If I had friends who liked this kind of music, I'd be screaming at them to listen to this, because it's one of my favourite albums ever. It's got lush instrumentation, strong vocals, Brisbane, trains, bus numbers, and cats. Perfect.

Simon Bookish - Everything/Everything
What is it? Male singer-songwriter, art pop, chamber pop
How'd I find it? Rec'd by last.fm because I listened to Sufjan Stevens and Patrick Wolf
He has fewer Facebook likes than a generic Brisbane band I know of, how depressing. I want to throw money at this guy but this album isn't on his Bandcamp! I wanted to hear Philip Glass in pop form, and this delivers that and weirder. This is my niche. A 4.5 star review on RYM simply states, "Songs about not fucking".

St Vincent: Nah, not really feeling it. I'm over both Birth In Reverse and Digital Witness. The rest of the album is similarly dull and the "image" seems way too forced. This person explains it pretty well. This one is a bit harsh but I kinda feel the same way.

You Beauty: Jersey Flegg is currently my favourite 2014 album. Best legit free thing I've ever heard. I don't even like football.

The National: Watched the live stream, don't regret not going at all. I don't think their music suits that kind of setting, though I was a bit moved by Mr November at the end.

Neil Finn & Paul Kelly: Only just noticed that the full set is on Youtube, but I've been listening to the album on Spotify. Here's something I regret not attending. I was planning to, but I woke up late and by then it was sold out already!

Megan Washington: New single is eh. I still have hope that she may release something that I'll like as much as Sentimental Education. (Rich Kids could've been good too if the production wasn't so bland.)

Sky Ferreira: I was enjoying her album a bit at the beginning of the month, but not so much now. I think I might like the Unknown Mortal Orchestra remix of Everything Is Embarrassing more than the original.

Spotify: Jesus, I wish they'd advertise something other than condoms and alcohol, two things that I have zero interest in. Hell, I'm more interested in that train station and duck pond.

Infrastructure in Brisbane: Not really music-related, but there's a competition to name Brisbane's new tunnel, and lots of people are going for another band. I've been joking about a Powderfinger Tunnel since they built the Go-Between Bridge. Regurgitator Tunnel would be acceptable also.

Australian Compilations: Look at this link! Damn, wish I'd discovered this earlier. One of the better Australian music compilations I've seen. Dirty Jeans has a pretty average second half (the decline of jjj?) and Great Australian Songbook is just mostly tragic.

Older things I just discovered:
Augie March - Addle Brains
The Magnetic Fields - Born On A Train
Crowded House - Private Universe

Hottest 100 Vote: 
The Drones - Why Write A Letter That You’ll Never Send
Lorde - Ribs
Vampire Weekend - Step
The National - Sea Of Love
Kirin J Callinan - Embracism
Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener
Rainbow Chan - Haircut
Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Janelle Monae - Q.U.E.E.N. {Ft. Erykah Badu}

In descending order of how much I like them. I think the only ones to make it will be Step, Reflektor, and Do I Wanna Know? No sure what will be No. 1. My friend and I guess it'll be Royals, Get Lucky, or Riptide.

Ooh, Warmest 100 is predicting Riptide as No. 1. I'm not surprised. It reminds me of Big Jet Plane, being an aggressively... ah, I should save that for the 26th.

Other Triple J Things: People are arguing about jjj and homogenizing again. Nothing new to me. Yeah, I don't like the station much, despite being squarely in its target demographic, and sometimes I find even Nova easier (less annoying) to listen to, but after talking with a friend, I think the problem lies with the audience. They do play some decent stuff, but the majority likes dumb crap, which is how it goes with every kind of art. Oh well. Just listen to 4ZZZ or FBi or something.

Hey, they're talking about the Dessner-Greenwood classical collaboration now, that's something good!

Things I Just Discovered:
Kimbra - The Build-Up | Is that a prepared piano? It's a shame I never noticed this song earlier; I always zone out towards the end of albums.
The Triffids - Wide Open Road | It's up there with Cattle & Cane, I think!
Midnight Oil - Power And The Passion | For some reason I was expecting something MOR, but this is pretty fun.

Top Artists:

1. The Go-Betweens [1,008]
2.  Vampire Weekend [408]
3.  You Am I [407]
4.  The National [397]
5.  Arcade Fire [388]
6.  Robyn Hitchcock [299]
7.  Kraftwerk [283]
8.  Dirty Projectors [278]
9.  Ben Salter [262]
10.  The Drones [247]