Your Top 10 Albums of 2009

[jayson]

it's about that time

what are your favourite albums which were released this past year?

here are mine

(not in preferential order except #1 and i reserve the right to modify if anything comes out in the next month that i like better)

1. john zorn - O'o
2. sonic youth - the eternal
3. neko case - middle cyclone
4. dan auerbach - keep it hid
5. the budos band - III
6. the thermals - now we can see
7. built to spill - there is no enemy
8. bod dylan - together through life
9. hope sandoval & the warm inventions - through the devil softly
10. the derek trucks band - already free

[Seymour_Glass]

Let's see. Do i even have ten albums from this year?

Now We Can See - The Thermals
The Eternal - Sonic Youth
Bitte Orca - Dirty Projectors
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
It's Blitz - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

ummmm/.....

I'm sure There Is No ENemy will be on my list when I finally get the damn thing.

[Frunobulax]

In no order:
Bitte Orca - Dirty Projectors
Fall Be Kind EP - Animal Collective
There Is No Enemy - Built To Spill
Embryonic - Flaming Lips
Yakuza Heart Attack II - Yakuza Heart Attack
The Thermals - Now We Can See
Skirting The Edge - Jandek
Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear
Songs Of Shame - Woods
Wind's Poem - Mount Eerie
St. Vincent's "Actor" was quite good, as was the new Sunn O))). Japandroids released an enjoyable disc, and Squarepusher showcased his bass virtuosity. And Dan Deacon's "Bromst" proved that he is a serious composer.

[flaggwalkstheline]

1 21st century Breakdown- Greenday
2 No one's first and you're next- Modest Mouse
3 The Resistance- Muse
4 It's Blitz- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5 Together Through life- Bob Dylan
6 The Loud Wars- So many Dynamos
7 Crack the skye- Mastodon
8 Tonight- Franz Ferdinand
9 Tentacles- Crystal Antlers
10 Relapse- Eminem

[Frunobulax]

fwtl, that may be the worst list I've ever seen. Green Day? Muse? Eminem's last album? Please tell me this is a joke.
Seymour, I gotta tell you, The Pains of Being Boring as Fuck have got to be excised from yr vocabulary slowly.
[Goes back to listening to Roland Kirk]

[flaggwalkstheline]

fwtl, that may be the worst list I've ever seen. Green Day? Muse? Eminem's last album? Please tell me this is a joke.
Seymour, I gotta tell you, The Pains of Being Boring as Fuck have got to be excised from yr vocabulary slowly.
[Goes back to listening to Roland Kirk]

2009 has been a rare year for me in that there has been a large amount of popular/mainstream music that has come out which I have enjoyed and no amount of indy-hipster nattering is gonna change that

now technically my favorite album that I have gotten this year is Titus Andronicus' debut: The Airing Of Grievances but that album came out in 2008 so it's not on my list

[Seymour_Glass]

Doood: Relapse?

And Fruno: I enjoy the Pains of Being Boring as Fuck. And I barely have any albums from this year at all.

[Frunobulax]

"Indy-hipster nattering" [sic]. Well, as an avowed hipster hater, Pitchfork debunker, and master of actual sarcasm, them's fighting words.

[flaggwalkstheline]

In the words of the great sage Yosemite Sam:
YEAAH THEMS FIGHTIN WORDS!

[Seymour_Glass]

OOOOOOHHHHH SHIIIIIIIIIIIITTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It be goin' down here.

Spoiler:

I've been wanting to say that for a very long time.

[Frunobulax]

Don't make me sulk and listen to Joy Division!

[flaggwalkstheline]

Don't make me sulk and listen to Joy Division!

ah ha ha joy division

thats funny

[ola]

Oh crap!

I was really bad about keeping up with new music in 2009. I hope I catch up in 2010, there are things on these lists I would like to hear.

Not in order:
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
One of my favorite lyricists and singing voices of all time. Hated his previous album, loved this one and almost anything he does.
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Fruno has already expounded on why this is great.
Jogger - This Great Pressure
I've only had this for a little while but I've been liking it a lot. My honorary band on the list that did not exist in the '90s.
Squarepusher - Solo Electric Bass 1
I honestly didn't think Squarepusher would be able to captivate my attention just playing bass. He is a crazy bass magician.

That's all I've got right now.

Albums I expected to be on this list, that took a crappy turn from previous releases:
Air - Love 2
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us

[Brice]

Don't make me sulk and listen to Joy Division!

If you're gonna' listen to Joy Division isn't sulking mandatory?


I'm gonna' have to think on this a bit. I'm not sure I've heard ten albums this year that are worthy of top ten status and I'd hate to add stuff that sucks just to make it ten.

[Sickrose]

it's about that time

what are your favourite albums which were released this past year?

here are mine

(not in preferential order except #1 and i reserve the right to modify if anything comes out in the next month that i like better)

1. john zorn - O'o
2. sonic youth - the eternal
3. neko case - middle cyclone
4. dan auerbach - keep it hid
5. the budos band - III
6. the thermals - now we can see
7. built to spill - there is no enemy
8. bod dylan - together through life
9. hope sandoval & the warm inventions - through the devil softly
10. the derek trucks band - already free

Ahh I have been meaning to check out Dan auerbach's album the Black Keys are immense I saw them in Manchester a few months a ago and they were really good! I take it his solo albumn is quality since it's made your top ten.

I have heard they are doing some kind of rap album which I would be interested in hearing!

[jayson]

Ahh I have been meaning to check out Dan auerbach's album the Black Keys are immense I saw them in Manchester a few months a ago and they were really good! I take it his solo albumn is quality since it's made your top ten.

if you're already familiar with him from his work with the bk's, this one should come naturally to you.

for the most part, it's more subdued than the keys, but it's also very much rooted in the blues.

i found it an interesting look at his evolution as a songwriter.

also, it's an entire album with auerbach's amazing voice, which i find to be one of the most authentic in music right now.

[turtlex]

Dave Matthews latest and Pearl Jam's backspacer !

[Girlystevedave]

What if you didn't listen to many albums from 2009 but discovered new music in 2009 that may have come out years ago?

[Seymour_Glass]

What if you didn't listen to many albums from 2009 but discovered new music in 2009 that may have come out years ago?

Exactry me.

[jayson]

What if you didn't listen to many albums from 2009 but discovered new music in 2009 that may have come out years ago?

then start your own thread

seriously, you know all i care about is that you are listening to music.

[flaggwalkstheline]

sooooo

in about a month are we gonna start 2 do some "Best album of the 2000s" polls?

[sarajean]

sooooo

in about a month are we gonna start 2 do some "Best album of the 2000s" polls?

no, because you'd all vote for american idiot, or something, and then jayson, fruno and i would all have to leave the internet forever.

[Frunobulax]

sj totally sums it up in a perfect manner again. Plus, you can go to Paste, Spin, P4K, Stereogum, NME, and about a dozen other places for opinions on the best of the decade.

[flaggwalkstheline]

sooooo

in about a month are we gonna start 2 do some "Best album of the 2000s" polls?

no, because you'd all vote for american idiot, or something, and then jayson, fruno and i would all have to leave the internet forever.

ohhhh thats cold

Spoiler:

I would vote for modest mouse: good news for people who love bad news

[jayson]

sooooo

in about a month are we gonna start 2 do some "Best album of the 2000s" polls?

no, because you'd all vote for american idiot, or something, and then jayson, fruno and i would all have to leave the internet forever.

ohhhh thats cold

Spoiler:

I would vote for modest mouse: good news for people who love bad news

and i'd have just about the same reaction i would to american idiot.

we did top 10 of 2000-2009 at the waits forum and i had a hard enough time not making it a list of top 10 john zorn albums from that period.