the ten albums i listened to the most in 2009

[sarajean]

okay, so...there's a thread for the ten best released this year, but...i didn't really listen to a lot of new music this year. all i'm interested in is what you listened to over and over since the year started.

here's mine:

1. radiohead - hail to the thief
2. magnetic fields - 69 love songs
3. bar kokhba sextet - book of angels, volume 10: lucifer
4. spiritualized - songs in a&e
5. golden smog - down by the old mainstream
6. jamie saft trio - book of angels, volume 1: astaroth
7. seu jorge - the life aquatic studio sessions
8. explosions in the sky - the earth is not a cold dead place
9. beastie boys - paul's boutique
10. neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea

warning in advance, folks: this thread will be strictly moderated. if you post more than 10, anything from 11 on will be edited out. you have to follow the rules.

[jayson]

there is some overlap from my best of 2009 list, but that's exactly why some of those albums made my best of 2009 list, because i couldn't stop listening to them.

off the top of my head, these were the albums i went to the most often this past year:

1. john zorn - O'o
2. neko case - middle cyclone
3. bob dylan - blood on the tracks (the new york sessions)
4. bar kokhba sextet - book of angels, volume 10: lucifer
5. magnetic fields - 69 love songs
6. golden smog - down by the old mainstream
7. tom waits - mule variations
8. miles davis - in a silent way
9. vishwa mohan bhatt - saradamani
10. bob dylan - blood on the tracks (the new york sessions)

[Frunobulax]

IN NO ORDER:
1. Pavement - Brighten the Corners
2. No Flashlight - Mount Eerie
3. 1000 Hurts - Shellac
4. Bitte Orca - Dirty Projectors
5. Los Angeles - Flying Lotus
6. Auspicious Wind - Yume Bitsu
7. The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
8. At Rear House - Woods
9. Kid A - Radiohead
10. Sung Tongs - Animal Collective (although I did listen to In The Aeroplane almost as much)

[Sickrose]

I like the idea of the thread

1) mos Def - Black on both sides
2) Inspectah Deck - The movement
3) De La Soul - 3 feet high and rising ( I saw them this year and they were ace)
4) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - it's Blitz
5) Glasvegas - Glasvegas
6) The Kills - Midnight Boom
7) David Bowie - Hunky Dory
8 Tom Waits -Orphans Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
9) The xx - xx
10) Dylan - The Freewheeling Bob Dylan

[ola]

Yeah, I can do this. Alphabetized.

Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Broadcast - Tender Buttons
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
NIN - The Fragile
Portishead - Third
Smog - Dongs of Sevotion
Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy

[ola]

7) David Bowie - Hunky Dory

Yay! Looked up to see this right after I posted mine.

[Sickrose]

7) David Bowie - Hunky Dory

Yay! Looked up to see this right after I posted mine.

Quality - what a random coincidence - of all the Bowie Albums we could have been listening too we have chosen the same one!

[flaggwalkstheline]

1 The Airing of Grievances- Titus Andronicus (this band has overtaken my brain)
2 Lonesome Crowded West- Modest Mouse (I pretty much listen to this one all the time)
3 21st century Breakdown-Greenday
4 Noones first and you're next- Modest Mouse
5 Big Science- Laurie Anderson
6 Six Demon Bag- Man Man
7 Loveless- My Bloody Valentine
8 The Soft Parade- The Doors
9 The Slim Shady LP- Eminem
10 White blood Cells- The White Stripes

[ola]

7) David Bowie - Hunky Dory

Yay! Looked up to see this right after I posted mine.

Quality - what a random coincidence - of all the Bowie Albums we could have been listening too we have chosen the same one!

I didn't have this one until maybe last year, a friend finally gave it to me... I mostly just listened to Ziggy Stardust and miscellaneous songs before that. It's one I can always listen to all the way through. <3

[Coldalarm]

In no particular order:

1. The Wooden Birds' "Magnolia".
2. Sonic Youth's "Goo".
3-5. Nick Drake's "Pink Moon", "Bryter Layter" & "Five Leaves Left".
6. The Stone Roses' "The Stone Roses".
7-8. Elliott Smith's "XO" & "Figure 8".
9. Animal Collective's "Strawberry Jam".
10. The Decemberists' "The Hazards of Love".

[ola]

More Nick Drake binging, nice.

[sarah]

in no order:


21st Century Breakdown (green day)
Day and Age (the killers)
Hot Fuss (the killers)
Check Your Head (beastie boys)
Hello Nasty (beastie boys)
Bullet in the Bible (green day)
Davy (coconut records)
alright, still (lily allen)
Once more, with feeling (buffy musical soundtrack)
Dookie (green day)



what can I say....this is the year of green day. I'm looking forward to 2010 and the year of the beastie boys.


also, thank you to sarajean for bringing back and introducing me to major music lovin' this year.

[Sickrose]

In no particular order:

1. The Wooden Birds' "Magnolia".
2. Sonic Youth's "Goo".
3-5. Nick Drake's "Pink Moon", "Bryter Layter" & "Five Leaves Left".
6. The Stone Roses' "The Stone Roses".
7-8. Elliott Smith's "XO" & "Figure 8".
9. Animal Collective's "Strawberry Jam".
10. The Decemberists' "The Hazards of Love".

I love Elliott Smith's XO album - I havent listened to it for awhile. Think I will be revisiting it tonight

[Coldalarm]

More Nick Drake binging, nice.

I've also got the 'Treasury' compilation, but most of it's from his 3 albums so I didn't list it. Very good selection though

I love Elliott Smith's XO album - I havent listened to it for awhile. Think I will be revisiting it tonight

Aye, I really like it. Waltz #2 (XO) is an amazing song

[Seymour_Glass]

Uh... Hmmm

Imma be lame and combine Pavement into one, so:

Slanted and Enchanted/Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain/Wowee Zowee/ Brighten the Corners/ Terror Twilight - Pavement
There's Nothing Wrong With Love - Built to Spill
Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
Return to Cookie Mountain - TV On the Radio
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
The Body, The Blood, the Machine - The Thermals
Highly Refined Pirates - Minus the Bear
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank - Modest Mouse
Kill The Moonlight - Spoon
Doolittle - Pixies

[turtlex]

Oh well - since I have such weird, all over the place, tastes in music, it's odd but according to my ipod ( obviously, this doesn't include what I play at home ) ... these are the top listened to albums of 2009 :

Pearl Jam - Live in Landgraff Holland 2000
Pearl Jam - Live at Lollapalooza 2007
RENT Movie Sountrack
Pearl Jam - Live at the Gorge
Brad Mehldau - Art of the Trio
Pearl Jam - backspacer
Once More With Feeling Soundtrack / BtVS
Pearl Jam - ten redux
Dixie Chicks - Taking The Long Way
Erasure - Pop! 20 Hits

Hmmm, apparently I've been listening to some Pearl Jam.

[sarajean]

also, thank you to sarajean for bringing back and introducing me to major music lovin' this year.

Uh... Hmmm

Imma be lame and combine Pavement into one, so:

Slanted and Enchanted/Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain/Wowee Zowee/ Brighten the Corners/ Terror Twilight - Pavement
There's Nothing Wrong With Love - Built to Spill
Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
Return to Cookie Mountain - TV On the Radio
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
The Body, The Blood, the Machine - The Thermals
Highly Refined Pirates - Minus the Bear
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank - Modest Mouse
Kill The Moonlight - Spoon
Doolittle - Pixies

Honorable Mentions:
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
Energy - Operation ivy
London Calling - The Clash
Bee Thousand - Guided By Voices
Either/Or - Elliott Smith
You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
You In Reverse - built to Spill
We Have the Facts and We're VOting Yes - Death Cab for Cutie
The Sound of the Smiths

damnit, seymour!

Oh well - since I have such weird, all over the place, tastes in music, it's odd but according to my ipod ( obviously, this doesn't include what I play at home ) ... these are the top listened to albums of 2009 :

Pearl Jam - Live in Landgraff Holland 2000
Pearl Jam - Live at Lollapalooza 2007
RENT Movie Sountrack
Pearl Jam - Live at the Gorge
Brad Mehldau - Art of the Trio
Pearl Jam - backspacer
Once More With Feeling Soundtrack / BtVS
Pearl Jam - ten redux
Dixie Chicks - Taking The Long Way
Erasure - Pop! 20 Hits

Hmmm, apparently I've been listening to some Pearl Jam.

i purposely left shows off, since they're not technically albums. if i hadn't, my list would have been all radiohead.

[Seymour_Glass]

Dammit cause i broke da rules?

[sarajean]

indeed.

and you've lucked out because jayson isn't here to edit your post.

it'll be fixed on saturday.

[turtlex]

i purposely left shows off, since they're not technically albums. if i hadn't, my list would have been all radiohead.

Ah. This explains a lot, since I noticed that exactly.

I just used info from my ipod so I'd have to do some digging around to find just albums. Frankly, it didn't occur to me that the live stuff weren't technically albums. Sorry, punkin.

[sarajean]

well, i guess it depends. was it released by the band as a live album? or is it an actual bootleg recording from the show?

[turtlex]

Released by the band as an "official bootleg". That helps, hunh?!!

[sarajean]

then i'd consider that an album. since most of the live radiohead i have is from audience recordings, i wouldn't count that.

btw, i think the term "official bootleg" is bullshit. but that's just me. *shrugs*

[turtlex]

Ha! Yeah, it's a pretty stupid name, but that's what they call them. I don't mind, as long as the band keep releasing them from every concert !!

[sarajean]

To produce, distribute, or sell without permission or illegally

pro-audio is not a bootleg. they need to call it something else.