Best Albums of 2009

[edbert]

>>>Not So Hot
>>>The Shazam - Meteor

You're just out to piss me off.  Be honest: did you get the album or just click through some samples?


PS everybody who liked Phoenix might wanna check out the new Tahiti 80; at least get the track "Brazil"

[kosmo vinyl]

>>>Not So Hot
>>>The Shazam - Meteor

You're just out to piss me off.  Be honest: did you get the album or just click through some samples?


PS everybody who liked Phoenix might wanna check out the new Tahiti 80; at least get the track "Brazil"

Nope bought the CD and supersized it to boot... While I like they added some AC/DC riffage to their sound, it seems to me that in the seven years between albums, they could have saw down and wrote actual songs.  To my ears it's a just a well produced collection of riffs and choruses masquerading as songs, that didn't pass the car test.   There is just nothing akin to "Super Tuesday" on this outing, they almost turned into OK GO on this one.

[bellenseb]

I think these are all from this year...

Say Hi - Oohs and Aahs
Emmy the Great - First Love
Marissa Nadler - Little Hells
Deastro - Moondagger

[edbert]

Nope bought the CD and supersized it to boot... While I like they added some AC/DC riffage to their sound, it seems to me that in the seven years between albums, they could have saw down and wrote actual songs.  To my ears it's a just a well produced collection of riffs and choruses masquerading as songs, that didn't pass the car test.   There is just nothing akin to "Super Tuesday" on this outing, they almost turned into OK GO on this one.

Chute. Well couldn't you lie and say you like it, so the venue bookers who read the forum would snag them when they tour next year?  I mean we don't want a repeat of the last time (2003?) when their only area gig was a totally unadvertised short opener slot at State Theater

[kosmo vinyl]

Nope bought the CD and supersized it to boot... While I like they added some AC/DC riffage to their sound, it seems to me that in the seven years between albums, they could have saw down and wrote actual songs.  To my ears it's a just a well produced collection of riffs and choruses masquerading as songs, that didn't pass the car test.   There is just nothing akin to "Super Tuesday" on this outing, they almost turned into OK GO on this one.

Chute. Well couldn't you lie and say you like it, so the venue bookers who read the forum would snag them when they tour next year?  I mean we don't want a repeat of the last time (2003?) when their only area gig was a totally unadvertised short opener slot at State Theater

I was really looking forward to this one as well, but stacked up against their early records these are the tracks that would have ended up as b-sides on those...

[xneverwherex]

White Lies - To Lose My Life
Phoenix - WAP
Brookville - Broken Lights
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Up From Below
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days Light Years
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
The Rifles - Great Escape
Fanfarlo - Reservoir
Maximo Park - Quicken The Heart
Violens - v - EP

[azaghal1981]

The Wire's top 50

Good for new discoveries.


I've been going through and listening to stuff I hadn't previously heard. The Ben Frost, Sa-Ra Creative Partners, Atom TM and Mordant Music were all nice finds.

[fatskippy]

Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King

[eros]

Winner:



Honorable mention:

Manics - Journal for Plague Lovers
Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Phoenix

[killsaly]

Here is my list of favorite EPs of the year:
Cloud Cult - No one Said it Would be Easy (Live EP)
Boss in Drama - Your Favorite EP
Surf City - Surf City EP
Nightmare Air - EP # 1
Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind
Safeashome - Hateful Town 7"
I Fight Dragons - Cool is Just a Number
Scarlet Youth - Breaking the Patterns
Ringo Deathstarr - In Love
Previously on Lost - Season 5 EP

[Jaguar]

Sliding in at the very last second!
(Actually, will also make my 2010 list because it's technically not released until January 12, 2010.)

Malory - Pearl Diver

Not only a last second contender but it's either in the 1st or 2nd place position with Spc-Eco - 3-D.

WOW!!!

[hutch]

franz ferdinand's tonight

[azaghal1981]

What I have:
1. Current 93 - Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain
2. Alasdair Roberts - Spoils
3. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
4. Magik Markers - Balf Quarry
5. Master Musicians of Bukkake - Totem One
6. Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
7. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
8. Circulatory System - Signal Morning
9. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2
10. Future of the Left - Travels with Myself and Another
11. Broadcast and the Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
12. Emeralds - What Happened?
13. Noveller - Red Rainbows
14. Woods - Songs of Shame
15. Jack Rose and the Black Twig Pickers - S/T
16. Metric - Fantasies
17. Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
18. Phosphorescent - To Willy
19. Shackleton - Three EPs
20. The Clientele - Bonfires on the Heath
21. Tyondai Braxton - Central Market
22. Atom Tm - Liedgut
23. Group Bombino - Guitars from Agadez Vol. 2
24. Evan Parker/John Wiese - C-Section
25. Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind

[Vas Deferens]

^ needs to listen to Bill Callahan's album....maybe you can take off Metric afterwards.

That Current 93 album is phenomenal/epic/orgasmic....at least you got that right.

[azaghal1981]

The Current 93 is flawless and got maybe 1/10th the press it deserves.

I like it even more than Black Ships at this point.