Your Top 10 Albums of 2009

[Guest idol_wild]

I guess it's probably about that time. I'm currently compiling my list just now. Because I'm a geek.

Have you got yours yet?

[KarmaTsunami]

Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport

Japandroids - Post-Nothing

Florence + the Machine - Lungs

The Twilight Sad - Forget the Night Ahead

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - s/t

Andrew Bird - Noble Beast

Neko Case - Middle Cyclone

Fanfarlo - Reservoir

Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains

Noah and the Whale - The First Day of Spring

[TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH]

Um... in no particular order:

God Help the Girl ~ God Help the Girl

Dananananaykroyd ~ Hey Everyone!

The Twilight Sad ~ Forget the Night Ahead

Magnolia Electric Co. ~ Josephine

Great Lake Swimmers ~ Lost Channels

Brendan Benson ~ My old, Familiar Friend

Charlotte Hatherley ~ New Worlds

Silversun Pickups ~ Swoon

Pelican ~ What we all Come to Need

Bat for Lashes ~ Two Suns

[Alkaline]

I'm not prepared to whittle down to a top ten yet but here's the shortlist so far:

Asobi Seksu- Hush

Mastodon- Crack The Skye

The Decemberists- The Hazards Of Love

Mono- Hymn To The Immortal Wind

Jeniferever- Spring Tides

Doves- Kingdom Of Rust

Metric- Fantasies

Camera Obscura- My Maudlin Career

Manchester Orchestra- Means Everything To Nothing

Isis- Wavering Radiant

Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Kasabian- West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

The Temper Trap- Conditions

Wheat- White Ink Black Ink

Mew- No More Stories...

A Fine Frenzy- Bomb In A Birdcage

Brand New- Daisy

Alice In Chains- Black Gives Way To Blue

Killswitch Engage- Killswitch Engage

Converge- Axe To Fall

Pelican- What We All Come To Need

Dananananaykroyd- Hey Everyone!

Broken Records- Until The Earth Begins To Part

Johnny Foreigner- Grace And The Bigger Picture

mewithoutYou- It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright

Chuck Ragan- Gold Country

Flatlands- Black Sluice

Fall Of Efrafa- Inle

I'm sure there's more as well.

[Swingin' Ryan]

Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career

Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring

Slow Club - Yeah So

Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Alessi's Ark - Notes from the Treehouse

God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl

Polly Scattergood - Polly Scattergood

The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

[waltz]

I'm working on a proper, big Is This Music? feature on this very subject. Tough decisions... it's been a great year for albums.

[Monster Zero]

It feels like I have bought a fair heap this year but most seem to be oldies and reissues....

Sunn O))) ~ Monoliths and Dimensions

The Phantom Band ~ Checkmate Savage

Yeah Yeah Yeahs ~ It's Blitz!

Pelican ~ What We All Come to Need

Part Chimp ~ Thriller

Mono ~ Hymn to the Immortal Wind

Spinnerette ~ Spinnerette

Isis ~ Wavering Radiant

The Big Pink ~ A Brief History of Love

The Twilight Sad ~ Forget the Night Ahead

[neepheid]

I'm fairly certain I haven't even listened to 5 albums released this year, never mind 10.

[Lemonade]

According to my iPod I've only bought 10 albums in 2009. (Well actually I've probably bought hundreds, but only 10 that actually came out in 2009). And they are almost all shit.

Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D (*)

Busta Rhymes - Back On My B.S (*)

Eminem - Relapse

La Roux - La Roux

Little Boots - Hands

Lily Allen - It's Not Me It's You (*)

Megadeth - Endgame

Weezer - Raditude

Notorious soundtrack (*)

Muse - The Resistance

(* bought off a street peddler in Spain for 1)

Musically, it's been a bad year for me.

If I had to put them in order:

1 - Eminem - Relapse

2 - Little Boots - Hands

3 - La Roux - La Roux

4 - Muse - The Resistance

5 - Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D

6 - Notorious soundtrack

7 - Weezer - Raditude

8 - Megadeth - Endgame

9 - Busta Rhymes - Back On My B.S

10 - Lily Allen - It's Not Me It's You

Lily comes in last because I've never actually listened to this album, though I hate the song about premature ejaculation that was never off the radio in the summer. I don't even know why I bought it, I think I was just excited about getting stuff for free.

[Guest Gladstone]

You bought the Black Eyed Peas album?

I fucking hate them, probably more than any band/artist right now. I can't believe anyone likes them or would consider purchasing any of their music - I just don't get it...

EDIT: Just saw that you only paid 1. Still, what a waste of a pound.

[Lemonade]

You bought the Black Eyed Peas album?

I fucking hate them, probably more than any band/artist right now. I can't believe anyone likes them or would consider purchasing any of their music - I just don't get it...

EDIT: Just saw that you only paid 1. Still, what a waste of a pound.

I quite liked the stuff they were doing a few years ago, Pump It, Don't Lie, My Humps etc. But they've gone all club / dancey now, and it's not so good. But that song "Tonight's Gonna Be A Good Night" makes me deliriously happy every time I hear it. It's maybe the most chirpy and upbeat song I've ever heard.

[Shaki]

Eels - Hombre Lobo

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - Working on a Dream

This is also doubles up as the list of all the albums I own released in 2009.

[Guest Gladstone]

I quite liked the stuff they were doing a few years ago, Pump It, Don't Lie, My Humps etc. But they've gone all club / dancey now, and it's not so good. But that song "Tonight's Gonna Be A Good Night" makes me deliriously happy every time I hear it. It's maybe the most chirpy and upbeat song I've ever heard.

Really? I must be spectacularly missing something.

The stuff My Humps and all that shit I could understand why folk would like it, and for a while I flirted with the idea of liking the Black Eyed Peas, pretty much up until the point I saw them at T in the Park years ago. My wife (then fiancee) really liked them and was keen to go watch, and I was interested enough to go along. They had something like a 40 minute slot, and the crowd to go see them was massive. They had a fucking warm up act. Some dude came out and did about 15 minutes of shit rapping to warm up for them. Then they came out and played about 5 songs. If I was a proper Black Eyed Peas fan I'd have been massively pissed off - they also filled a good 5 minutes with one of the guys break dancing, which is quite cool, but gets boring after about 30 seconds of the same move.

However - all the new stuff is complete and utter garbage. That Tonight's Going to be a Good Night is one of the most repetitive boring songs I've ever heard. But, it's not a patch on the new one for shiteness. I forget what it's called, but I was sitting eating my supper a couple of Sundays ago, and X Factor results was on in the background. On comes Black Eyed Peas with that new song. The guy floats in on a wire from behind the crowd and man he can't sing, he can't rap, he's just talking these words, and it sounds awful. At least on the record, they've EQ'd the fuck out of his voice, but this just sounded like someone's Dad doing Green Green Grass of Home on Karaoke. And I really don't think they're even decent club tunes. They're in a middle ground between shit pop music and shit dance music.

Again - I just don't get it.

[Steven Milne]

I havent bought much new music this year, which i guess i could rectify once i see what everyone is digging from this thread

Albums ive enjoyed/ some ive listened to obsesively:

NOAH AND THE WHALE - FIRST DAYS OF SPRING

GRIZZLY BEAR - VICKTIMEST

ANDREW BIRD - NOBLE BEAST

PHEONIX - WOLFGANG AMADEUS

SLOW CLUB - YEAH SO

WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS - THESE FOUR WALLS

NICK CAVE/ WARREN ELLIS - Jesse James Soundtrack

THE WHITEST BOY ALIVE - RULES

FRANZ FERDINAND - TONIGHT

THE WALKMEN - YOU AND ME

Other than that, ive been listening to:

Orange Juice - The Glasgow School

Inglourious Basterds OST

The Twilight Sad - Forget the Night ahead

Fruit Bats - debut album

Joseph Bull - solo album

The Juan Maclean

Lots of singles - Temper Trap, Big Pink, Mock and Toof, Frabbit,

[Soda Jerk]

Really? I must be spectacularly missing something.

The stuff My Humps and all that shit I could understand why folk would like it, and for a while I flirted with the idea of liking the Black Eyed Peas, pretty much up until the point I saw them at T in the Park years ago. My wife (then fiancee) really liked them and was keen to go watch, and I was interested enough to go along. They had something like a 40 minute slot, and the crowd to go see them was massive. They had a fucking warm up act. Some dude came out and did about 15 minutes of shit rapping to warm up for them. Then they came out and played about 5 songs. If I was a proper Black Eyed Peas fan I'd have been massively pissed off - they also filled a good 5 minutes with one of the guys break dancing, which is quite cool, but gets boring after about 30 seconds of the same move.

However - all the new stuff is complete and utter garbage. That Tonight's Going to be a Good Night is one of the most repetitive boring songs I've ever heard. But, it's not a patch on the new one for shiteness. I forget what it's called, but I was sitting eating my supper a couple of Sundays ago, and X Factor results was on in the background. On comes Black Eyed Peas with that new song. The guy floats in on a wire from behind the crowd and man he can't sing, he can't rap, he's just talking these words, and it sounds awful. At least on the record, they've EQ'd the fuck out of his voice, but this just sounded like someone's Dad doing Green Green Grass of Home on Karaoke. And I really don't think they're even decent club tunes. They're in a middle ground between shit pop music and shit dance music.

Again - I just don't get it.

Your posts are always massive.

I love your dedication to explanations.

[waltz]

Notorious soundtrack (*)

Is all of this CD as good as the Jay-Z/Santogold track?

[Ithaca]

Without giving it too much thought, my 2009 highlights have been:

Animals As Leaders

Animals as Leaders

Long Distance Calling

Avoid the Light

Isis

Wavering Radiant

The Decemberists

The Hazards of Love

Mastodon

Crack The Skye

Clutch

Strange Cousins From the West

Sonic Youth

Live at Battery Park, NYC: July 4th 2008

Alice in Chains

Black Gives Way to Blue

He Is Legend

It Hates You

Nirvana

Live at Reading

[Guest Gladstone]

Your posts are always massive.

I love your dedication to explanations.

Just like my cock.

How lad rock of me...

[Lemonade]

Is all of this CD as good as the Jay-Z/Santogold track?

The rest of the album is all Biggie songs. It's got some fantastic tracks on it but if you've already got his albums you'll have most of them already.

[KarmaTsunami]

I listened to the latest Converge album all the way through for the first time today. i may have to rewrite my top 10.

[diarmaid]

Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Twice Born Men

Brendan Benson - My Old Familiar Friend

Decemberists - Hazards of Love

The Wildhearts - Chutzpah!

Ben Folds - Ben Folds Presents University A Capella

The Lewis Duckworth Method - The Lewis Duckworth Method

These are pretty much the only albums I got this year that I think much of. I can't even make up a top 7. Shocking.

[Larsen B]

C'mon people, make it ten and put it in order!!

1. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers

2. The XX - The XX

3. YACHT - See Mystery Lights

4. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

5. Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care

6. Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry They Washed Away, No More Stories, The World Is Grey, I'm Tired, Lets Wash Away

7. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion

8. Aidan Moffat and the Best Ofs - How to Get to Heaven From Scotland

9. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns

10. Wave Pictures - If You Leave It Alone

That's right, I had to have the entire Mew album title, it would just seem too unofficial otherwise.

[diarmaid]

C'mon people, make it ten and put it in order!!

Mines in order, just couldn't make it past 6. Still got a month and a bit mind.

[waltz]

C'mon people, make it ten and put it in order!!

1. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers

2. The XX - The XX

3. YACHT - See Mystery Lights

4. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

5. Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care

6. Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry They Washed Away, No More Stories, The World Is Grey, I'm Tired, Lets Wash Away

7. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion

8. Aidan Moffat and the Best Ofs - How to Get to Heaven From Scotland

9. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns

10. Wave Pictures - If You Leave It Alone

That's right, I had to have the entire Mew album title, it would just seem too unofficial otherwise.

A few of those are in mine. The Dirty Projectors record is one of my favourites of all time ever.

[Soda Jerk]

Okay, here's mine. It's in order, as they are all in joint first.

1.) Why? - Eskimo Snow

1.) Jesu - Opiate Sun

1.) Big Business - Mind The Drift

1.) What Price Wonderland - Is It True, Is It Shakey

1.) They Might Be Giants - Here Comes Science

1.) Dananananaykroyd - Hey Everyone!

1.) Castavet - Summer Fences

1.) Japandroids - Post Nothing

1.) Kaospilot - Shadows

1.) Pelican - What We All Come To Need

1.) Dinosaur Jr - Farm

1.) Keelhaul - Triumphant Return To Obscurity

1.) Dear Landlord - Dream Homes

1.) Baroness - Blue

1.) Native - Wrestling Moves

Oh, and that's more than ten