List season in the music world can get to be a bit redundant (hey, People magazine likes Fleet Foxes too!), so Vice has an antidote to the repeated list doldrums: “The Only Top 35 Albums Of The Year Countdown You’ll Ever Need” which provides a run down for where albums will place on best of lists at the end of the year. It’s a funny list, you can read the whole thing here (It's for the British edition of Vice, so it's Fish and Chips-centric). Here’s a sampling:

Number 34: Reserved for Britpop 'survivors' who’ve made 'their best album in years'.

 

Number 28: This space is reserved for Bruce Springsteen if he makes an album in the year of the list. If not, The Gaslight Anthem or Hold Steady should sub-in.

 

Number 21: British Sea Power.

 

Number 12: Rapper facing child sex charges.

 

Numbers  8 – 2: Records that were OK: no one was mad about them, but no one disliked them much either, so they swum through the middle course, whereas intense records that some people were truly passionate about but others really hated all ultimately failed to make the cut.

 

Number 1: Coldplay (Q), Arctic Monkeys (NME), Sven Vath (Mixmag), Neil Young (Uncut), Neil Young (Mojo), Neil Young (Classic Rock), Neil Young (Home & Garden), people humming transcendentally over distorted tape loops of concrete being laid (The Wire).