Best Albums of 2009

[killsaly]

I need to go through the music software later. I have feeling my list is going to be very similar to Jags...

[bearman🐻]

Phoenix -- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Yo La Tengo -- Popular Songs
Air -- Love 2
Dinosaur Jr. -- Farm
Them Crooked Vultures
Fischerspooner -- Entertainment
Manic Street Preachers -- Journal For Plague Lovers
Peaches -- I Feel Cream
Arctic Monkeys -- Humbug
Grand Duchy -- Petits Fours

[James Ford]

My list probably belongs on an NPR music thread, but I'll poast it here.

1. Apples in Stereo, #1 Hits Explosion
2. Sondre Lerche, Heartbeat Radio
3. Justin Townes Earle, Midnight at the Movies
4. M. Ward, Hold Time
5. Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
6. Avett Brothers, I and Love and You
7. Super Furry Animals, Dark Days/Light Years
8. Andrew Bird, Noble Beast+Useless Creatures
9. Bill Callahan, Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle
10. Richard Hawley, Truelove's Gutter
11. Elvis Perkins in Dearland, self titled LP+Doomsday ep
12. Dave Rawlings Machine, A Friend of a Friend
13. St. Vincent, Actor
14. A.A. Bondy, When the Devil's Loose
15, Wilco, Wilco the Album
16. Camera Obscura, My Maudlin Career
17. Yo La Tengo, Popular Songs
18. White Rabbits, It's Frightening
19. Alela Diane, To Be Still
20 The Clientele, Bonfires on the Heath

[thatguy]

some of my favorites, in no particular order:

william elliott whitmore: animals in the dark
rancid: let the dominoes fall
lucero: 1372 overton park
steel panther: feel the steel
king giant: southern darkness
chuck ragan: gold country
black joe lewis and the honeybears: tell 'em what your name is!
ben nichols: the last pale light in the west
austin lucas: somebody loves you
clutch: strange cousins from the west

[andyrichter]

Neko Case-Middle Cyclone
Mika Miko-We Be Xuxa
Sonic Youth-The Eternal
Dinosaur Jr-Farm
Screaming Females-Power Move
PJ Harvey and John Parish-A Woman A Man Walked By
Slayer-World Painted Blood
Vivian Girls-Everything Goes Wrong
Flipper-Fight/Love
Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine-The Audacity of Hype

[Vas Deferens]

hey azaghdork, please condense your list to 10 or so...

[Relaxer]

I didn't realize that Flipper had put out new material. And *really* didn't realize that Krist Novo..la..ma...chick...uh... y'know the tall dude from Nirvana was in the band. Going to have to check that out.

[azaghal1981]

I haven't gotten a chance to yet.
That's what I've narrowed it down to so far.
And if you look at the rest of this thread, you'll see that a sizable number of what I listed in that post  made it on others' short lists.

hey azaghdork, please condense your list to 10 or so...

[azaghal1981]

Courtesy of insomnia, here's a top 10 for now (subject to change) in no particular order:

Current 93 - Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain
Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
Alasdair Roberts - Spoils
Magik Markers - Balf Quarry
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Future of the Left - Travels with Myself and Another
Master Musicians of Bukkake - Totem One
Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2
Circulatory System - Signal Morning

[killsaly]

Asobi Seksu - Hush
ultraklystron - the Fourth Estate
Placebo - Battle for the Sun
Dual Core - Next Level
Shael Riley and the Double Ice Backflip - Songs from the Pit
Screen Vinyl Image - Interceptors
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
K Flay - Mashed Potatoes
Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti is... Skyscraper
Muse - the Resistance

[sweetcell]

School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms

oh crap forgot about that one - it's definitely on my list.  it's US release was in 2009, and i didn't hear it until this year, so it's a 2009 album for me too

[godsshoeshine]

top 5
phoenix - wap
deer tick - born on flag day
dinosaur jr - farm
pains of being pure at heart
neko case - middle cyclone

[Vas Deferens]

Add:

The Horrors - Primary Colours
The Hidden Cameras - Origin:Orphan
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

I will add more later, but here are some:

Bowerbirds - Upper Air
Califone - All My Friends are Funeral Singers
William Elliott Whitmore - Animals in the Dark
Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Evangelista - Prince of Truth
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Brakes - Touchdown
Phosphorescent - To Willy

 

[nkotb]

Just listening to this now.  Every time they put out a new album, I sigh and think "Ho hum...more distorted bass and frantic drummer."  Then I listen to it and punch holes in the wall because it rules.

Not top album worthy, but still, it makes me want to break glass.

Here's an alphabetical list I compiled for another board:

Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights

[Justin Tonation]

Animal Collective - MPP
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Merzbow - 13 Japanese Birds Pt.5: Uzura
Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today?
Mountains - Choral
Phoenix - WAP
David Sylvian - Manafon
Wye Oak - The Knot

Best reissue: The nearly complete studio recordings of a four-man band from across the pond (dominated by two members) whose works have had enormous impact on popular music, issued in two distinct and long-awaited box sets by EMI. Kraftwerk.