Your Top 10 Albums of 2009

[lewsun]

Dredg - the pariah, the parrot, the delusion

Wolfmother - Cosmic egg

Flood of red - leaving everything behind

ETID - new junk aesthetic

The almost - Monster Monster

Ladyhawke - ladyhawke Special edition

Oceana - birth eater

Biffy Clyro - only revolutions

Thursday Common exsistence

Eels - hombre lobo

Animal Collective - Merriweather post pavillion

thats probably a shit list, but its what im currently listening too. also i just noticed i put 11.

id also like too add the (500) days of summer soundtrack.

[Mr Owl PhD]

Not in any order, something a bit like:

Rachael Dadd 'After the Ant Fight'

Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard 'Em Are I'

Wye Oak 'The Knot'

Sky Larkin 'The Golden Spike'

Slow Club 'Yeah So'

Teacups 'Forest Fiction'

Cate Le Bon 'Me oh My'

Alasdair Roberts 'Spoils'

Alela Diane 'To Be Still'

Fever Ray 'Fever Ray'

Not sure which is best. I've probably listened to Teacups the most this year, but their album only came out the other week. 'Spoils' is pretty good.

[Soda Jerk]

My number one record of the year has changed, the list is still the same, but I just want to add the Gruel 2xLP to the top spot. It's fucking raging.

[girl anachronism]

I forgot about the Piney Gir album, that had some lovely songs on it.

[Paranoid Android]

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

St. Vincent - Actor

Atlas Sound - Logos

Fever Ray - S/T

Girls - Album

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimist

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - S/T

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Fanfarlo - Reservoir

I forgot about the Arctic Monkeys and JJ, their albums would definitely be in my top 10. Fanfarlo and Pheonix are out.

[calum]

I don't have a top 10. Here's 5:

Converge - Axe To Fall

Johnny Foreigner - Grace And The Bigger Picture

Why? - Eskimo Snow

Japandroids - Post-Nothing

The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead

[Graham]

Sort of in order but not quite...

Bat For Lashes - Two Suns

The Twilight Sad - Forget the Night Ahead

Johnny Foreigner - Grace and the Bigger Picture

Morrissey - Years of Refusal

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Its Blitz

Shield Your Eyes - Shield Em

Jonsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps

The Flaming Lips - Embryonic

The Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called Moaning

Jeniferever - Spring Tides

[kirkt]

In order:

1. Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream

2. Slow Club - Yeah So

3. My Latest Novel - Deaths and Entrances

4. Sonic Boom Six - City of Thieves

5. Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate

6. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug

7. Yeah Yeah Yeah's - It's Blitz

8. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand

9. Sky Larkin - Visitor

10. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns

[RF Scott]

In order:

1. Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream

2. Slow Club - Yeah So

3. My Latest Novel - Deaths and Entrances

4. Sonic Boom Six - City of Thieves

5. Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate

6. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug

7. Yeah Yeah Yeah's - It's Blitz

8. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand

9. Sky Larkin - Visitor

10. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns

Think you're getting the Dodos and Sky Larkin mixed up there

I posted my best of 2009 at BEGINNING THIS BLOG WITH A SUMMARY The Anchor complete with links to LISTEN and BUY!

[vega]

After much deliberation:

7"s (in some kind of order):

Spectrals - S/T

Ganglians - Blood on the Sand/Make It Up

The Hope Conspiracy - True Nihilst

Facel Vega/The Sceptres - split

Copy Haho - Wrong Direction

Ox Scapula - both the S/T and the split with Wooderson

Twisted - both 7"s this year

Magnoila Electric Co. - It's Made Me Cry

Vaccine - Demo

Poison The Well - I

Notable mentions to Christmas Island and anything Male Bonding put out.

LPs (in some kind of order):

Converge - Axe To Fall

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post-Pavillion

Daitro - Y

Japandroids - Post-Nothing

Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country

Why? - Eskimo Snow

Rameses III - I Could Not Love You More

Teenage Cool Kids - Foreign Lands

Facel Vega/Harbour - split

What Price, Wonderland? - It Is True, It Is Shakey

Notable mentions to Kelpe, Cave In, Battle of Wolf 359 and Pelican.

So much good stuff out this year.

[Le Stu]

Two Fingers - Two Fingers.

That's my top one for 2009.

[britheguy]

Happy New Year.

I must be getting old. Out of the first 60+ bands mentioned on this thread, I've only heard of 7 of them...... I remember when I kept up with the times;)

Or are people being obscure, for obscure sake? Whatever, I really need to start getting with it again!!!

Cheers

[TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH]

In order:

1. Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream

2. Slow Club - Yeah So

3. My Latest Novel - Deaths and Entrances

4. Sonic Boom Six - City of Thieves

5. Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate

6. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug

7. Yeah Yeah Yeah's - It's Blitz

8. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand

9. Sky Larkin - Visitor

10. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns

Working on a Dream at number 1? God, I wasn't taken by it at all. A couple of good songs, but I thought it was mostly the Boss treading water.

[Stichman]

Broken Records Until the Earth Begins to Part

Bell X1 Blue Lights on the Runway

The Xcerts In The Cold Wind We Smile

Blue Roses - Blue Roses

Sky Larkin The Golden Spike

The Twilight Sad Forget the Night Ahead

Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances

Emmy the Great - First Love

Bat For Lashes Two suns

There Will Be Fireworks There Will Be Fireworks

[Woodsinho]

InMe - Herald Moth

Mastodon - Crack the Skye

Baroness - Blue Record

Pelican - What We All Come to Need

Paramore - Brand New Eyes

Converge - Axe to Fall

The Fall of Troy - In the Unlikely Event

Silversun Pickups - Swoon

Muse - The Resistance

Lamb of God - Wrath

This is good progress, I don't think I would have been able to get 10 for 2008.

[kirkt]

Working on a Dream at number 1? God, I wasn't taken by it at all. A couple of good songs, but I thought it was mostly the Boss treading water.

By no means a classic but a really great pop album with some absolutely brilliant tracks on it (Life Itself, The Wrestler, The Last Carnival) and shows how many different styles he can do. Couple of dodgy tracks but flows really well as an album.

[kirkt]

Think you're getting the Dodos and Sky Larkin mixed up there

I posted my best of 2009 at BEGINNING THIS BLOG WITH A SUMMARY The Anchor complete with links to LISTEN and BUY!

You are correct, I dont know why as I dont even have The Dodos album, only connection is them both being on Wichita.

[Surfer_Rosa]

I'm pretty late with this, but I'm bored today and have nothing better to do:

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post-Pavillion

The Antlers - Hospice

Dananananaykroyd - Hey Everyone!

DOOM - Born Like This

Fever Ray - Fever Ray

Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport

Hudson Mohawke - Butter

Micachu & the Shapes - Jewellery

Youves - Cardio-Vascular

[Guest]

1: The Xcerts - In The Cold Wind We Smile

and some other albums I enjoyed this year that aren't in any particular order...

Brand New - Daisy

Chromeo - She's In Control

Mariachi El Bronx - El Bronx (Most bizarre transformation of a bands sound last year, too)

The Maccabees - Wall of Arms

MSTRKRFT - Fist of God

Copy Haho - Bred for Skills and Magic (Not technically an album I know but a pretty fucking good EP)

Simian Mobile Disco - Temporary Pleasure

I find it pretty hard to make "Best of insert year" lists because, although I listen to a lot of music that is new to me, I don't keep a track of whether it was released this year or in the nineties or whatever...

[kirkt]

In order:

1. Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream

2. Slow Club - Yeah So

3. My Latest Novel - Deaths and Entrances

4. Sonic Boom Six - City of Thieves

5. Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate

6. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug

7. Yeah Yeah Yeah's - It's Blitz

8. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand

9. Sky Larkin - Visitor

10. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns

I've decided to put The Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant in at 8 and move everything else down. Not that anyone cares...

[Sam 45]

A bit off topic but i've decided 'I Became a Prostitue' by The Twilight Sad is my no.1 track of the year. If i was to attempt to compile an album list 'Forget The Night Ahead' would be either 1 or 2 aside 'Beacons' by Ohbijou.

[Soda Jerk]

I find it pretty hard to make "Best of insert year" lists because, although I listen to a lot of music that is new to me, I don't keep a track of whether it was released this year or in the nineties or whatever...

I'm the same, purely because I spend more time discovering bands from years gone by than I do finding new bands. It's a bit easier to bump into an old band because they were somehow connected to another band you like. Labelmates, sharing members, etc.

If it was a list of "Best records you heard for the first time this year", my top 10 would be alot different.

[JamieC]

top 4 (of 4!!!)

Poetry of the Deed, Frank Turner.

Waxing Gibbous, Malcolm Middleton.

Forget the Night Ahead, Twilight Sad.

Post Electric Blues, Idlewild.

pretty clear i dont buy much albums!

[Guest]

Poetry of the Deed, Frank Turner.

Waxing Gibbous, Malcolm Middleton.

Forget the Night Ahead, Twilight Sad.

Post Electric Blues, Idlewild.

pretty clear i dont buy much albums!

Actually, Post Electric Blues would be in mine too. Fine return to form for Idlewild.

[JamieC]

Actually, Post Electric Blues would be in mine too. Fine return to form for Idlewild.

aye, i thought it wis a cracking album though i dont think idlewild have done a bad album, just albums perhaps not as good when viewed against 100 broken windows, which is biblicly good.