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In this episode, Brook and Ryan rank their top 10 movies of 2009, rip movies about someone's wife a new one and also rank their top 10 songs of 2009.

Brook's Top 10:

1 - Inglorious Basterds

2 - The Hangover

3 - The Fantastic Mr. Fox

4 - Law Abiding Citizen

5 - It's Complicated

6 - Sherlock Holmes

7 - The Invention of Lying

8 - Year One

9 - Up

10 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish version)

Ryan's Top 10:

1 - Inglorious Basterds

2 - Harry Potter and the half-blood Prince

3 - The Watchmen

4 - Star Trek

5 - Sherlock Holmes

6 - The Hangover

7 - Zombieland

8 - Up

9 - Avatar

10 - Up In The Air

In this episode, Brook ranks his top 15 albums of 2007, attempts and fails to pull of a decent David Attenborough impersonation and is in such a hurry to finish under 30 minutes that he skips over some albums. To find out which albums he skipped, please subscribe to his premium account via Venmo.

Top 15 of 2007:

1) Radiohead - In Rainbows

2) Bill Callahan - Woke on a whaleheart

3) Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

4) Feist - The Reminder

5) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

6) LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

7) The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters

8) The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

9) Marissa Nadler - Songs III

10) Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

11) The National - Boxer

12) Panda Pear - Person Pitch

13) Burial - Untrue

14) Grinderman - Grinderman

15) St. Vincent - Marry Me

In this episode, Brook lists his top 15 albums of 2006, compares the frailty of gym shorts purchased from a discount store to selling an 18,000 square foot mansion in a major metropolitan city and gives a little advice on how to be a better drug dealer.

Brook's Top 15

1) Thom Yorke - The Eraser

2) Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards

3) Beach House - Beach House

4) Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country

5) Sol Seppy - The Bells of 1 2

6) Cat Power - The Greatest

7) The Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off

8) Bob Dylan - Modern Times

9) Guillemots - Through The Windowpane

10) Man Man - Six Demon Bag

11) Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye

12) Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon

13) Ladyhawk - Ladyhawk

14) Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury

15) Band of Horses - Everything All The Time

In this episode, Brook and Ryan discuss their top 10 movies of 2008, one of the words we're not supposed to say anymore (Brook says it) and a whole bunch of agree to disagree moments.

Brook's Top 10:

1 - The Dark Knight

2 - Stepbrothers

3 - Taken

4 - Wall-E

5 - Forgetting Sarah Marshall

6 - Iron Man

7 - Pineapple Express

8 - Ip Man

9 - Tropic Thunder

10 - Marley and Me

Ryan's Top 10:

1 - The Dark Knight

2 - Iron Man

3 - Forgetting Sarah Marshall

4 - Tropic Thunder

5 - Hellboy 2

6 - Role Models

7 - Burn After Reading

8 - Wall-E

9 - Hancock

10 - Cloverfield

In this episode, Brook lists his top 15 albums of 2005, apologizes for rambling multiple times and hopefully sounds better than ever after upgrading his recording methods!

Top 15 albums:

1) Sigur Ros - Takk

2) Smog - A River Ain't Too Much To Love

3) Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine

4) The Animal Collective - Feels

5) Richard Hawley - Cole's Corner

6) Black Mountain - Black Mountain

7) Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

8) LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem

9) Doves - Some Cities

10) Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

11) Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs

12) Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

13) The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth

14) The National - Alligator

15) Beck - Guero

In this episode, Brook is joined by Ryan to discuss their top 10 movies of 2007, why Spiderman is a great hate watch and then, at the end, freaking Ryan out-Radioheads Brook and lists four Radiohead songs in his top 10 songs of the year. Clearly he's never invited back again.

Brook's list

1) There Will Be Blood

2) No Country For Old Men

3) Superbad

4) Death Proof

5) Zodiac

6) I Am Legend

7) Knocked Up

8) The Bucket List

9) The Darjeeling Limited

10) The Assassination of Jesse James...(I don't feel great about this one)

Ryan's list

1) No Country For Old Men

2) Gone Baby Gone

3) There Will Be Blood

4) Zodiac

5) 28 Weeks Later

6) Order of the Phoenix

7) Death Proof

8) Juno

9) Superbad

10) American Gangster

In this episode, Brook previews a future episode, discusses all things sweet potatoes and fights through yawns to rank his top 15 albums of the year.

1. The New Year - The End Is Near

2. The Arcade Fire - Funeral

3. Madvillain - Madvillainy

4. Tom Waits - Real Gone

5. The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows

6. Interpol - Antics

7. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born

8. Air - Talkie Walkie

9. Man Man - The Man in the Blue Turban

10. Junior Boys - Last Exit

11. The Dead Texan - S/T

12. Bjork - Medulla

13. Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum

14. Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In the Hands

15. Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks

In this episode, Brook is joined by Joey, Ryan and Derrick to discuss their favorite movies in 15 different categories, plus a shout out in each category because everyone was a little salty at not getting to include certain movies. Other features in the pod include Derrick's dark twisted fantasy, Joey shocking everyone with his comedy pick and Ryan abandoning his child (Star Wars) for almost the entire draft. Oh, and Brook absolutely dominating the draft at every turn, even if it involved sneaking The Royal Tenenbaums through the back door in the romance category.

In this episode, Brook discusses his top 15 albums of 2003, too much and also too little information on monkey balls and a trend among the also-rans that up and coming bands would be wise to identify if they ever hope to be mentioned on a future Listening Party podcast.

1. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief

2. Calexico - Feast of Wire

3. Cat Power - You Are Free

4. The Wrens - The Meadowlands

5. Smog - Supper

6. The Arcade Fire - The Arcade Fire

7. Blur - Think Tank

8. Cursive - The Ugly Organ

9. Outkast - Speakerboxx / The Love Below

10. Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain

11. King Geedorah - Take Me To Your Leader

12. Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

13. The White Stripes - Elephant

14. Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts

15. Elbow - Cast of Thousands

In this episode, Brook and Ryan rank their top 10 movies of 2006, conjure the spirit of Derrick and blame 300 for setting unrealistic expectations on bodies of men that aren't warriors.

Brook's top 10:

1) Apocalypto

2) Once

3) Talladega Nights

4) The Devil Wears Prada

5) The Prestige

6) The Departed

7) Borat

8) Nacho Libre

9) Children of Men

10) The Lives of Others

Ryan's top 10:

1) The Prestige

2) The Departed

3) Children of Men

4) The Fountain

5) Pan's Labryinth

6) Little Miss Sunshine

7) 300

8) Grandma's Boy

9) The Hills Have Eyes

10) Talladega Nights