#1. Joyful Noise [I-Grade Records]

In respect to points of contention (and I use that term ‘contention’ VERY VERY lightly), there has never been in the case of this blog or anything else that I may have written in a galaxy far far away or while sitting on my couch a matter of being so perfectly and completely obvious as here. Joyful Noise was PERFECT. That’s it. That’s all I’m going to say, it was perfect in every conceivable and inconceivable way (it was perfect in ways and circumstances which don’t actually even exist). Arguably the best compilation of the past twenty years, at the very least.