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The Best music of 2009
« on: December 20, 2009, 05:05:26 PM »
We had a thread like this around this time in '07 I think.
Best (or worst) albums of the year in your opinion?

Best for me, in ascending order:

7.Regina spektor - Far
6.Die Mannequin - Fino + Bleed
5.Imogen Heap - Ellipse
4.Tegan and Sara - Sainthood
3.La roux - self titled
2.St.Vincent - Actor
1.The Cliks - Dirty King

Opinions?
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Re: The Best music of 2009
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2009, 06:32:53 PM »
1) Crack the Skye - Mastodon
2) no line on the horizon - U2
3) Black Gives Way To Blue - Alice in Chains (comeback of the decade!)
4) Splitting the Atom - Massive Attack (4 new MA songs > most people's whole albums)
5) Fantasies - Metric
6) the Resistance - Muse
7) Hordes of Chaos - Kreator
8 ) the Line - Blair & the Boyfriends

...I haven't heard the new albums by Idlewild, Clutch or David Guetta in full yet, so this could change. Still, though, those first 3 aren't going to move.

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Re: The Best music of 2009
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2009, 06:57:30 PM »
The Art Of Breaking Apart by Velvet Acid Christ
The Shizit by The Shizit
Today We Are All Demons by Combichrist
Battle For The Sun by Placebo
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Re: The Best music of 2009
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2009, 07:16:27 PM »
I'll tell you in 2014.
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Re: The Best music of 2009
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2009, 10:09:17 PM »
we make a "top nine" every year at my job, and this is what i ended with this year (in no specific order):

1. ellipse - imogen heap
2. endgame - megadeth
3. a cabinet of curiosities - jane's addiction
4. grace: live around the world - jeff buckley
5. love tattoo - imelda may
6. jason isbell and the 400 unit - jason isbell and the 400 unit
7. years of refusal - morrissey
8. the audacity of hype - jello biafra and the guantanamo school of medicine
9. lotusflow3r - prince
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Re: The Best music of 2009
« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2009, 10:24:34 PM »
1.- Lungs - Florence + The Machine
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Re: The Best music of 2009
« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2009, 10:45:57 PM »
Quote from: yosmark on December 20, 2009, 10:24:34 PM
1.- Lungs - Florence + The Machine

So good.


Florence + The Machine - Lungs
Tegan and Sara - Sainthood
Matt & Kim - Grand
Elizabeth and the Catapult - Taller Children
Jenny Owen Youngs - Transmitter Failure
Regina Spektor - Far
Imogen Heap - Ellipse
Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light
Au Revoir Simone - Still Night, Still Light
The Decemberists - Hazards of Love
An Horse - Rearrange Beds
Various Artists - Dark Was The Night (compilation)






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Re: The Best music of 2009
« Reply #7 on: December 21, 2009, 12:19:00 AM »
This was a really ordinary year for music, but here's my top 15.

1. The Dead Weather - Horehound
2. Them Crooked Vultures - Self-titled
3. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
4. Mastadon - Crack the Skye
5. Muse - The Resistance
6. St Vincent - The Actor
7. Anthony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
8. Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
9. Decoder Ring - They Blind the Stars and the Wild Team
10. Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
11. Converge - Axe to Fall
12. Sufjan Stevens - The BQE
13. PJ Harvey and John Parish - A Woman a Man Walked By
14. White Lies - To Lose My Life
15. The xx - Self-titled

Honourable Mention: The Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs - It's Blitz
Honourable Mention: The Flaming Lips - Embryonic

Both Ben Folds and Regina Spektor released some god awful and disappointing albums this year.
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Re: The Best music of 2009
« Reply #8 on: December 21, 2009, 02:26:10 AM »
I'm not doing this in any order, I'm just typing them in as I remember them. I've also most likely forgotten a few too...

Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
Metric - Fantasies
The Decemberists - Hazards of Love
Marit Bergman - Tear Collector
Yeah Yeah Yeah's - It's Blitz


I haven't heard the new Sonic Youth or Camera Obscura albums yet, so I couldn't add them
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Re: The Best music of 2009
« Reply #9 on: December 21, 2009, 09:35:03 AM »
Blitzen Trapper- Black River Killer (technically an EP, but it has 7 cuts so I say it counts)
Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Metric- Fantasies
Wilco- Wilco The Album
Fever Ray- Fever Ray
Morrissey- Years of Refusal
Silversun Pickups- Swoon
Neko Case- Middle Cyclone
The Dead Weather- Horehound
Noah and the Whale- The First Days of Spring
Flaming Lips- Embryonic

In no particular order other than Black River Killer by Blitzen Trapper Kicks ALL ass!
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Re: The Best music of 2009
« Reply #10 on: December 21, 2009, 12:40:05 PM »
Quote from: Rob on December 21, 2009, 09:35:03 AM

Metric- Fantasies

Morrissey- Years of Refusal

Neko Case- Middle Cyclone
I quite like all these.....

Quote from: Rob on December 21, 2009, 09:35:03 AM
In no particular order other than Black River Killer by Blitzen Trapper Kicks ALL ass!
I'd like this one better, I think, if our local (and amazing overall) indie radio station
didn't have the title track on a rotation schedule that puts top-40 stations to shame....

Seriously, once an hour is plenty.  (This is the downside to letting actual
human DJs pick their own music.)
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Re: The Best music of 2009
« Reply #11 on: December 21, 2009, 12:57:24 PM »
As entire albums, Actor by St. Vincent and Far by Regina Spektor but that's not to say that the best tracks of 2009 weren't provided by other acts.
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Re: The Best music of 2009
« Reply #12 on: December 21, 2009, 03:21:37 PM »
Quote from: MeAndMyCharms on December 21, 2009, 02:26:10 AM
I'm not doing this in any order, I'm just typing them in as I remember them. I've also most likely forgotten a few too...

Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
Metric - Fantasies
The Decemberists - Hazards of Love
Marit Bergman - Tear Collector
Yeah Yeah Yeah's - It's Blitz


I haven't heard the new Sonic Youth or Camera Obscura albums yet, so I couldn't add them


Ok, I've just got myself a copy of Camera Obscura's My Maudlin Career, and I need to add it to my list also. I love it already
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Re: The Best music of 2009
« Reply #13 on: December 21, 2009, 05:21:41 PM »
I have 9, roughly ordered...

St. Vincent - Actor
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
The xx - xx
PJ Harvey and John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Grizzly Bar - Veckatimest
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
God Help the Girl - God Help the Girl
Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
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Re: The Best music of 2009
« Reply #14 on: December 21, 2009, 06:10:34 PM »
La Roux  - La Roux
Algerois - DJ Bob
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