C'mon….someone had to start it. In the immortal words of Dupek…..POAST 'EM!
Best Albums of 2009
Here's an alphabetical list I compiled for another board:
Alasdair Roberts - Spoils
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind
Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
Broadcast and the Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
Circulatory System - Signal Morning
Current 93 - Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Drunkdriver and Mattin - List of Profound Insecurities
Dysrhythmia - Psychic Maps
Emeralds - What Happened?
Espers - III
Evan Parker/John Wiese - C-Section
Evangelista - Prince of Truth
Future of the Left - Travels With Myself and Another
Girls - Album
Group Bombino - Guitars from Agadez Vol. 2
Hush Arbors - Yankee Reality
Ilyas Ahmed - Goner
Jack Rose - Black Dirt Sessions
Jack Rose and the Black Twig Pickers - S/T
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Ballads of the Revolution
James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Taking Away
Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
Locrian - Drenched Lands
Lula Cortes - Rosa De Sangue (reissue)
Magik Markers - Shame Mask
Magik Markers - Balf Quarry
Mark McGuire - Tidings II
Master Musicians of Bukkake - Totem One
Metric - Fantasies
Mission of Burma - The Sound The Speed The Light
Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Mouthus - Divisionals
Nels Cline - Coward
Noveller - Paint on the Shadows
Noveller - Red Rainbows
Oneida - Rated O
Phosphorescent - To Willy
Polvo - In Prism
Pyramids with Nadja - S/T
Raekwon - OB4CL2
Richard Youngs - Beyond the Valley of Ultra Hits
Shackleton - Three EPs
Shrinebuilder - S/T
Sir Richard Bishop - The Freak of Araby
Six Organs of Admittance - Luminous Night
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Spectrum - War Sucks EP
Stellar Om Source - Rise in Planes
Sunn 0))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
The Clientele - Bonfires on the Heath
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
The Khan Jamal Creative Arts Ensemble - Drum Dance to the Motherland (reissue)
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
Tyondai Braxton - Central Market
United Bible Studies - The Jonah
William Elliott Whitmore - Animals in the Dark
Wooden Shjips - Dos
Woods - Songs of Shame
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
Alasdair Roberts - Spoils
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind
Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
Broadcast and the Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
Circulatory System - Signal Morning
Current 93 - Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Drunkdriver and Mattin - List of Profound Insecurities
Dysrhythmia - Psychic Maps
Emeralds - What Happened?
Espers - III
Evan Parker/John Wiese - C-Section
Evangelista - Prince of Truth
Future of the Left - Travels With Myself and Another
Girls - Album
Group Bombino - Guitars from Agadez Vol. 2
Hush Arbors - Yankee Reality
Ilyas Ahmed - Goner
Jack Rose - Black Dirt Sessions
Jack Rose and the Black Twig Pickers - S/T
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Ballads of the Revolution
James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Taking Away
Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
Locrian - Drenched Lands
Lula Cortes - Rosa De Sangue (reissue)
Magik Markers - Shame Mask
Magik Markers - Balf Quarry
Mark McGuire - Tidings II
Master Musicians of Bukkake - Totem One
Metric - Fantasies
Mission of Burma - The Sound The Speed The Light
Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Mouthus - Divisionals
Nels Cline - Coward
Noveller - Paint on the Shadows
Noveller - Red Rainbows
Oneida - Rated O
Phosphorescent - To Willy
Polvo - In Prism
Pyramids with Nadja - S/T
Raekwon - OB4CL2
Richard Youngs - Beyond the Valley of Ultra Hits
Shackleton - Three EPs
Shrinebuilder - S/T
Sir Richard Bishop - The Freak of Araby
Six Organs of Admittance - Luminous Night
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Spectrum - War Sucks EP
Stellar Om Source - Rise in Planes
Sunn 0))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
The Clientele - Bonfires on the Heath
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
The Khan Jamal Creative Arts Ensemble - Drum Dance to the Motherland (reissue)
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
Tyondai Braxton - Central Market
United Bible Studies - The Jonah
William Elliott Whitmore - Animals in the Dark
Wooden Shjips - Dos
Woods - Songs of Shame
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
1.) Pearl Jam - Backspacer
2.) Metric - Fantasies
3.) Sonic Youth - The Eternal
4.) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
5.) St. Vincent - Actor
Haven't really thought through the rest yet. I'll update this later.
2.) Metric - Fantasies
3.) Sonic Youth - The Eternal
4.) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
5.) St. Vincent - Actor
Haven't really thought through the rest yet. I'll update this later.
That is a good call. Every album released this year was pretty awesome ;D
azaghal1981 wrote:
Here's an alphabetical list I compiled for another board:
Alasdair Roberts - Spoils
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind
Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
Broadcast and the Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
Circulatory System - Signal Morning
Current 93 - Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Drunkdriver and Mattin - List of Profound Insecurities
Dysrhythmia - Psychic Maps
Emeralds - What Happened?
Espers - III
Evan Parker/John Wiese - C-Section
Evangelista - Prince of Truth
Future of the Left - Travels With Myself and Another
Girls - Album
Group Bombino - Guitars from Agadez Vol. 2
Hush Arbors - Yankee Reality
Ilyas Ahmed - Goner
Jack Rose - Black Dirt Sessions
Jack Rose and the Black Twig Pickers - S/T
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Ballads of the Revolution
James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Taking Away
Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
Locrian - Drenched Lands
Lula Cortes - Rosa De Sangue (reissue)
Magik Markers - Shame Mask
Magik Markers - Balf Quarry
Mark McGuire - Tidings II
Master Musicians of Bukkake - Totem One
Metric - Fantasies
Mission of Burma - The Sound The Speed The Light
Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Mouthus - Divisionals
Nels Cline - Coward
Noveller - Paint on the Shadows
Noveller - Red Rainbows
Oneida - Rated O
Phosphorescent - To Willy
Polvo - In Prism
Pyramids with Nadja - S/T
Raekwon - OB4CL2
Richard Youngs - Beyond the Valley of Ultra Hits
Shackleton - Three EPs
Shrinebuilder - S/T
Sir Richard Bishop - The Freak of Araby
Six Organs of Admittance - Luminous Night
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Spectrum - War Sucks EP
Stellar Om Source - Rise in Planes
Sunn 0))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
The Clientele - Bonfires on the Heath
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
The Khan Jamal Creative Arts Ensemble - Drum Dance to the Motherland (reissue)
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
Tyondai Braxton - Central Market
United Bible Studies - The Jonah
William Elliott Whitmore - Animals in the Dark
Wooden Shjips - Dos
Woods - Songs of Shame
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
Dark Days/Light Years (SFA)
Further Complications (Jarvis)
Journal For Plague Lovers (MSP)
Them Crooked Vultures
Together Through Life (Dylan)
etc.
Further Complications (Jarvis)
Journal For Plague Lovers (MSP)
Them Crooked Vultures
Together Through Life (Dylan)
etc.
yeah, come on azaghal! - give us a top 10 or something
nkotb wrote:
That is a good call. Every album released this year was pretty awesome ;D
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here's some albums
alva noto - xerrox vol 2
animal collective - merriweather/fallbekind
the xx - xx
evangelista - prince of truth
sunn o))) - monoliths and dimensions
the flaming lips - embryonic
emeralds - the overlook
tim hecker - an imaginary country
grizzly bear - veckatimest
kreng - l?autopsie phénoménale de dieu
there's plenty more and if i were to make a top 10, i'm sure a few of these wouldn't appear. this year has been pretty unexciting for the most part maybe because of all the awesome re-releases we've had come our way which overshadowed nearly everything.
alva noto - xerrox vol 2
animal collective - merriweather/fallbekind
the xx - xx
evangelista - prince of truth
sunn o))) - monoliths and dimensions
the flaming lips - embryonic
emeralds - the overlook
tim hecker - an imaginary country
grizzly bear - veckatimest
kreng - l?autopsie phénoménale de dieu
there's plenty more and if i were to make a top 10, i'm sure a few of these wouldn't appear. this year has been pretty unexciting for the most part maybe because of all the awesome re-releases we've had come our way which overshadowed nearly everything.
1. Fever Ray s/t
2. Place to Bury Strangers ?Exploding Head?
3. Bonnie Prince Billy ?Beware?
4. Real Estate s/t
5. Pains of Being Pure at Heart s/t
6. Thee Oh Sees ?Help?
7. Killer Mike ?Underground Atlanta?
8. Mastodon ?Crack the Skye?
9. Sunny Day in Glasgow ?Ashes Grammar?
10. Kylesa ?Static Tensions?
Made the shortlist: Dirty Projectors, Ghinzu, The XX, Harlem Shakes, Mos Def
2. Place to Bury Strangers ?Exploding Head?
3. Bonnie Prince Billy ?Beware?
4. Real Estate s/t
5. Pains of Being Pure at Heart s/t
6. Thee Oh Sees ?Help?
7. Killer Mike ?Underground Atlanta?
8. Mastodon ?Crack the Skye?
9. Sunny Day in Glasgow ?Ashes Grammar?
10. Kylesa ?Static Tensions?
Made the shortlist: Dirty Projectors, Ghinzu, The XX, Harlem Shakes, Mos Def
a tad early for this, i thought i had a few more weeks to mull this over…
while i do, i'd like to throw the following 3 albums into the fray:
sspu - swoon
royksopp - junior
yyy - it's blitz!
while i do, i'd like to throw the following 3 albums into the fray:
sspu - swoon
royksopp - junior
yyy - it's blitz!
in no particular order
Soulsavers 'Broken'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRomQF_eBuk
Mumford and Sons 'Sigh No More'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLJf9qJHR3E
Brakes 'Touchdown'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sENDMAhS64
Metric 'Fantasies'
Silversun Pickups 'Swoon'
White Rabbits 'Its Frightening'
The Duckworth Lewis Method 'The Duckworth Lewis Method'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3JA-417V_M&feature=related
Girls 'Album'
So Cow 'So Cow'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25cEVTp892c&feature=related
The xx 'xx'
Future of the Left 'Travels With Myself and Another'
The first Pains of Being Pure at Heart EP was pretty great too
Soulsavers 'Broken'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRomQF_eBuk
Mumford and Sons 'Sigh No More'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLJf9qJHR3E
Brakes 'Touchdown'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sENDMAhS64
Metric 'Fantasies'
Silversun Pickups 'Swoon'
White Rabbits 'Its Frightening'
The Duckworth Lewis Method 'The Duckworth Lewis Method'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3JA-417V_M&feature=related
Girls 'Album'
So Cow 'So Cow'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25cEVTp892c&feature=related
The xx 'xx'
Future of the Left 'Travels With Myself and Another'
The first Pains of Being Pure at Heart EP was pretty great too
I will add more later, but here are some:
Bowerbirds - Upper Air
Califone - All My Friends are Funeral Singers
William Elliott Whitmore - Animals in the Dark
Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Evangelista - Prince of Truth
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Brakes - Touchdown
Phosphorescent - To Willy
Bowerbirds - Upper Air
Califone - All My Friends are Funeral Singers
William Elliott Whitmore - Animals in the Dark
Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Evangelista - Prince of Truth
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Brakes - Touchdown
Phosphorescent - To Willy
These lists always stress me out because there is always so much to choose from and, it never fails, I always end up leaving out something that should be on my short list. Just a few, in no particular order, that have been my favorites so far.
Spc-Eco - "3-D"
93MillionMilesFromTheSun - "93MillionMilesFromTheSun"
Fleeting Joys - "Occult Radiance"
Mint Julep - "Songs About Snow"
Our Ceasing Voice - "Steadied Stars In The Morphium Sky" (EP)
A Place To Bury Strangers - "Exploding Head"
Sunlight Ascending - "All The Memories, All At Once"
Scarlet Youth - "Breaking The Patterns" (EP)
Screen Vinyl Image - "Interceptors"
The Fauns - "The Fauns"
Kyte - "Science For The Living"
Duelectrum - "Electrolandia"
There's also a load of honorable mentions by bands like:
The Insect Guide (deserves to be on above list but read below why here)
The Black Ryder
The Brothers Movement
Hot Zex
My Violaine Morning
Stellarium
Elemental Gaze
Kontakte
Disco Ditto
The Others
Lower Heaven
Ringo Deathstarr
The Vandelles
Foreign Cinema
Engineers
Data Unit
Maps
Pinkshinyultrablast
Wooden Shjips
Woven Bones
… and all kinds of other bands. A few may be from prior to 2009 (which I tried to keep on my lower list) but newer and part of my personal 2009 soundtrack, such as The Insect Guide (which would definitely make my upper bold list if it were a 2009 release) because it just took awhile (even though I knew of them long before) for me to get a copy. Not counting any reissues and various artists compilations only to make it easier.
Spc-Eco - "3-D"
93MillionMilesFromTheSun - "93MillionMilesFromTheSun"
Fleeting Joys - "Occult Radiance"
Mint Julep - "Songs About Snow"
Our Ceasing Voice - "Steadied Stars In The Morphium Sky" (EP)
A Place To Bury Strangers - "Exploding Head"
Sunlight Ascending - "All The Memories, All At Once"
Scarlet Youth - "Breaking The Patterns" (EP)
Screen Vinyl Image - "Interceptors"
The Fauns - "The Fauns"
Kyte - "Science For The Living"
Duelectrum - "Electrolandia"
There's also a load of honorable mentions by bands like:
The Insect Guide (deserves to be on above list but read below why here)
The Black Ryder
The Brothers Movement
Hot Zex
My Violaine Morning
Stellarium
Elemental Gaze
Kontakte
Disco Ditto
The Others
Lower Heaven
Ringo Deathstarr
The Vandelles
Foreign Cinema
Engineers
Data Unit
Maps
Pinkshinyultrablast
Wooden Shjips
Woven Bones
… and all kinds of other bands. A few may be from prior to 2009 (which I tried to keep on my lower list) but newer and part of my personal 2009 soundtrack, such as The Insect Guide (which would definitely make my upper bold list if it were a 2009 release) because it just took awhile (even though I knew of them long before) for me to get a copy. Not counting any reissues and various artists compilations only to make it easier.
I'm in the middle of listening to my 2009 albums (down a good bit from 2008 in sheer numbers), but here are a few that stuck out:
Future of the Left - Travels With Myself and Another
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Wooden Shjips - Dos
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Future of the Left - Travels With Myself and Another
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Wooden Shjips - Dos
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
miike snow
the swell season —strict joy
the phenomnal handclap band
the xx
peaches –i feel the cream
royksopp–junior
bat for lashes –two suns
florence + the machine –lungs
the swell season —strict joy
the phenomnal handclap band
the xx
peaches –i feel the cream
royksopp–junior
bat for lashes –two suns
florence + the machine –lungs
I need to go through the music software later. I have feeling my list is going to be very similar to Jags…
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs
Air – Love 2
Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
Them Crooked Vultures
Fischerspooner – Entertainment
Manic Street Preachers – Journal For Plague Lovers
Peaches – I Feel Cream
Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
Grand Duchy – Petits Fours
Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs
Air – Love 2
Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
Them Crooked Vultures
Fischerspooner – Entertainment
Manic Street Preachers – Journal For Plague Lovers
Peaches – I Feel Cream
Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
Grand Duchy – Petits Fours
My list probably belongs on an NPR music thread, but I'll poast it here.
1. Apples in Stereo, #1 Hits Explosion
2. Sondre Lerche, Heartbeat Radio
3. Justin Townes Earle, Midnight at the Movies
4. M. Ward, Hold Time
5. Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
6. Avett Brothers, I and Love and You
7. Super Furry Animals, Dark Days/Light Years
8. Andrew Bird, Noble Beast+Useless Creatures
9. Bill Callahan, Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle
10. Richard Hawley, Truelove's Gutter
11. Elvis Perkins in Dearland, self titled LP+Doomsday ep
12. Dave Rawlings Machine, A Friend of a Friend
13. St. Vincent, Actor
14. A.A. Bondy, When the Devil's Loose
15, Wilco, Wilco the Album
16. Camera Obscura, My Maudlin Career
17. Yo La Tengo, Popular Songs
18. White Rabbits, It's Frightening
19. Alela Diane, To Be Still
20 The Clientele, Bonfires on the Heath
1. Apples in Stereo, #1 Hits Explosion
2. Sondre Lerche, Heartbeat Radio
3. Justin Townes Earle, Midnight at the Movies
4. M. Ward, Hold Time
5. Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
6. Avett Brothers, I and Love and You
7. Super Furry Animals, Dark Days/Light Years
8. Andrew Bird, Noble Beast+Useless Creatures
9. Bill Callahan, Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle
10. Richard Hawley, Truelove's Gutter
11. Elvis Perkins in Dearland, self titled LP+Doomsday ep
12. Dave Rawlings Machine, A Friend of a Friend
13. St. Vincent, Actor
14. A.A. Bondy, When the Devil's Loose
15, Wilco, Wilco the Album
16. Camera Obscura, My Maudlin Career
17. Yo La Tengo, Popular Songs
18. White Rabbits, It's Frightening
19. Alela Diane, To Be Still
20 The Clientele, Bonfires on the Heath
some of my favorites, in no particular order:
william elliott whitmore: animals in the dark
rancid: let the dominoes fall
lucero: 1372 overton park
steel panther: feel the steel
king giant: southern darkness
chuck ragan: gold country
black joe lewis and the honeybears: tell 'em what your name is!
ben nichols: the last pale light in the west
austin lucas: somebody loves you
clutch: strange cousins from the west
william elliott whitmore: animals in the dark
rancid: let the dominoes fall
lucero: 1372 overton park
steel panther: feel the steel
king giant: southern darkness
chuck ragan: gold country
black joe lewis and the honeybears: tell 'em what your name is!
ben nichols: the last pale light in the west
austin lucas: somebody loves you
clutch: strange cousins from the west
Neko Case-Middle Cyclone
Mika Miko-We Be Xuxa
Sonic Youth-The Eternal
Dinosaur Jr-Farm
Screaming Females-Power Move
PJ Harvey and John Parish-A Woman A Man Walked By
Slayer-World Painted Blood
Vivian Girls-Everything Goes Wrong
Flipper-Fight/Love
Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine-The Audacity of Hype
Mika Miko-We Be Xuxa
Sonic Youth-The Eternal
Dinosaur Jr-Farm
Screaming Females-Power Move
PJ Harvey and John Parish-A Woman A Man Walked By
Slayer-World Painted Blood
Vivian Girls-Everything Goes Wrong
Flipper-Fight/Love
Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine-The Audacity of Hype