The 2009 Magazine Albums Of The Year Thread For Posting Lists and Discussion.

http://passionweiss.com/2009/12/17/the-50-best-hip-hop-songs-of-2009-25-1/

A best hiphop songs list w/ videos and music links. Gucci only appears in the top 25 on the Big Boi cut

Have there been any lists of best remixes for this year? Speaking as a knackered old cheesy quaver, last year's lists, kindly reprinted here were very helpful.

Especially for introducing me to the wonder of Grindhouse (Dubfire remix) by Radio Slave, which has been the accompaniment to many a mid afternoon, armchair daymare over the last 12 months. (And it mixes in with everything really well. Especially the Optimo remix of Optimo by Liquid Liquid.)

soundsxp.com writers poll:

Albums

1. Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Pains of Being Pure at Heart
2. Grizzly Bear – Vecktamist
3. Micachu - Jewellery
4. The Horrors - Primary Colours
5. The XX - XX
6. Port O’Brien – Threadbare
7. Fanfarlo - Reservoir
8. Let’s Wrestle - In the Court of the Wrestling Let’s
9. Future of the Left – Travels With Myself and Another
10. Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More
11. Sin Fang Bous - Clangour
12. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
13. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
14. Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern - Pram Town
15. Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
16. Cate Le Bon - Me Oh My
17. Manic Street Preachers – Journal for Plague Lovers
18. 6 Day Riot - 6 Day Riot Have A Plan
19. Tyvek - s/t
20. God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl

Singles

1. Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Fiction
2. The Humms – Are You Dead?
3. Mumford and Sons – Little Lion Man
4. The Rayographs - Francis
5. Fergus & Geronimo - Harder Than It’s Ever Been
6. Hockey - Too Fake
7. The Magic Kids - Hey Boy
8. God Help The Girl – Come Monday Night
9. Exlovers - Photobooth
10. Allo, Darlin' - Henry Rollins Don't Dance
11. Passion Pit – Chunk of Change EP
12. Betty and the Werewolves - David Cassidy
13. Animal Collective - My Girls
14. The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea
15. The School - And Suddenly
16. Wavves – So Bored
17. Nodzzz - Is She There
18. Micachu & the Shapes – Lips
19. Race Horses - Cake
20. The Breeders - Fate Not Fatal

Sherbrooke, December 29, 2009 — The demanding music radio show Délire Actuel (CFLX-FM, Sherbrooke, Quebec) unveiled today its top 30 experimental music albums you shouldn’t have missed in 2009. This list culls 30 titles, the 2009 crème de la crème in demanding music, i.e. the avant-gardist or experimental fringe in every music genre (contemporary, avant-garde jazz, free improvisation, avant-rock, electronica, etc.).

“What I call demanding music covers the notions of experimental music, avant-garde music, innovative music, musique actuelle, etc.,” explained François Couture, producer of the show. “Obviously, I haven’t heard everything released in 2009! So, I am not pretending that these are THE best records of the year, but they are MY best 30 records of the year. And, since they were selected from somewhere around 6000 submissions, I hope that the artists and record labels can find a little pride in appearing on this Top 30.”

Délire Actuel’s 2009 Demanding Music Top 30
http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2009/12/le-top-30-des-musiques-exigeantes-2009.html

1. Henry Cow The Road: Volumes 1-5 + Volumes 6-10 ReR Megacorp

2. Magma Ëmëhntëtt-Rê Seventh Records

3. Supersilent 9 Rune Grammofon

4. Vainio, Mika Aíneen Musta Puhelin (Black Telephone of Matter) Touch

5. Kreng L’autopsie phénoménale de Dieu MIasmah

6. Bouhalassa, Ned Gratte-cité empreintes DIGITALes

7. Furt Sense Psi

8. Derome, Jean Plates-formes et traquenards Disques Victo

9. Dixon, Bill Tapestries for Small Orchestra Firehouse 12

10. Miriodor Avanti! Cuneiform

11. Alva Noto - Ryuchi Sakamoto - Ensemble Modern Utp_ Raster-Noton

12. Brady, Tim My 20th Century Ambiances Magnétiques

13. Victor Ensemble, Fay The Freesong Suite Greene Avenue Music

14. Hildegard lernt fliegen ...vom fernen Kern der Sache Unit Records

15. Rubin, Justin Nostalgia Innova Recordings

16. Vialka Succès planétaire international Vialka

17. Speak Easy Backchats Creative Sources

18. Quatuor Bozzini Hozhro Collection QB

19. Kinit Her Glyms or Beame of Radicall Truthes Hinterzimmer Records

20. Led Bib Sensible Shoes Cuneiform

21. Rothkamm ALT Baskaru

22. Rodéoscopique Rodéoscopique Audiogram

23. Mirthkon Vehicle AltrOck

24. Rupp, Olaf - Marino Pliakas - Michael Wertmüller Too Much is Not Enough FMP

25. Pateras, Anthony - Robin Fox End of Daze Editions Mego

26. Jones Trio, Darius Man’ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) AUM Fidelity

27. MC Maguire Trash of Civilizations Innova Recordings

28. Agnel, Sophie Capsizing Moments Emanem

29. Mezei Wind Quartet, Szilárd We Were Watching the Rain Leo Records

30. Martin, Aaron Chautauqua Preservation

Demanding formatting.

I've never heard of Demanding Formatting. Are they on Ghost Box?

re: Demanding formatting.

see the link, the artists are in bold
http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2009/12/le-top-30-des-musiques-exigeantes-2009.html

Thanks. I did not mean it as a serious complaint.

AAJ is now starting to post its EOY lists:

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=35090
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=35149
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=35115
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=35091

Time Out New York writers' lists:
http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/music/81522/best-and-worst-music-of-2009

i love those guys, but some of those lists are really wha?

Terrorizer Top 40 Albums of 2009

so another Terrorizer album of the year award goes to Converge

1: Converge - Axe To Fall
2: Cobalt - Gin
3: Kylesa - Static Tensions
4: Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars
5: Napalm Death - Time Waits No Slave
6: Mastodon - Crack The Skye
7: Megadeth – Endgame
8: Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
9: Funeral Mist - Maranatha
10: Immortal - All Shall Fall
11: Drudkh - Microcosmos
12: Beherit - Engram
13: Portal - Swarth
14: Sunn o))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
15: Marduk - Wormwood
16: Absu - Absu
17: Tombs - Winter Hours
18: Burnt By The Sun - Heart Of Darkness
19: Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
20: Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow
21: Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
22: Baroness - Blue Record
23: Madder Mortem - Eight Ways
24: The Devil's Blood - The Time of No Time Evermore
25: Archgoat - the Light Devouring Darkness
26: Shining - VI - Klagopsalmer
27: Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
28: Hacride - Lazarus
29: Fuckpig - Spewings from A Selfish Nation
30: Amorphis - Skyforger
31: Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution
32: Grey Machine - Disconnected
33: Behemoth - Evangelion
34: Unanimated - In the Light of Darkness
35: Obscura - Cosmogenesis
36: Gnaw Their Tongues - All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity
37: Shrinebuilder - S/T
38: Teitanblood - Seven Chalices
39: Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt
40: Evile - Infected Nations

After a year of tweets...

My Top 100 records of 2009: http://bit.ly/5x6xPv

i love those guys, but some of those lists are really wha?

I like that one of them has the Tanya Morgan album at #1. I feel that one hasn't gotten enough love in these year-end lists.

props for listing that 8ball album xp

props for not taking me to task for my placement of gucci mane ;)

eh its cool no need for miranda lambert fans to dilute the fanbase

The Terrorizer readers' poll is hysterical - Behemoth won literally 10 or 11 of 13 or 14 'best' categories and their album just scraped into the writers' top 40

thats the readers for you. its the same with Kerrang. The readers polls are always totally different and much lamer than the writers polls.

though the Kerrang writers polls are totally lame now mostly too

glad somebody else remembers scale-a-ton!

METACRITICS' Top-Albums List:

Will 2009 go down as the least memorable year in music of the past decade? Despite having many more albums to choose from (Metacritic scored 892 albums this year, up from 805 last year and well up from the 400-600 per year we averaged in earlier years), not a single qualifying new studio album achieved a score of 90 or above — the first time in our 10-year history that has happened. And only six of the 100 highest-scoring albums of the past decade were released in 2009.

* * * *

Having said that (sorry, Larry David), at least there’s a chance you may have heard of our top-ranking album of 2009, which cannot always be said about our year-end high score lists. Animal Collective may not be a household name, but in indie music circles, their whimsical landmark Merriweather Post Pavilion actually qualifies as a high-profile release. With a Metascore of 89, it’s our top album of 2009, and it’s one that people could still be listening to in the years to come.

Amazingly (esp. given it was never released here) and at least partly due to my uncontrollable stanning, my local mag made "Inflation" number 2 song of 2009 (behind "Empire State of Mind").

wow. nice.

When is the Pazz & Jop list coming out?

Usually comes out around the beginning of february iirc

results will be published in print and online the week of January 18th

http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-12-29/music/2009-voice-jazz-critics-poll-the-results

The Village Voice's jazz critics poll results are out(plus they also listed separately fave jazz vocals and Latin-jazz)

for those who liked my last year's rundown...i wrote one for my spanking-new blog here: www.soundclash.wordpress.com
would be interested in any thoughts/suggestions/complaints!

Pitchfork may not want a column anymore, but good to see you're blogging a rundown.

Brainwashed readers' poll results are out. Top ten is un-fucking-touchable.

Sunn O)))
Current 93
Tim Hecker
Om
Six Organs of Admittance
Emeralds
Nurse with Wound
Antony and the Johnsons
Fever Ray
Nurse with Wound (yes, again)

Full results at http://brainwashed.com.

2. Pavement Ist Rad & The Lots Of People Posting All Starr Band (Feat. Trai'd) - Sing Vampire Weekend's Contra

what on earth is this?

what the fuck is LOPP

just went to their board, this is the first post on it.

Just ate Chun Li's pussy

Post by ROBERTO 2000 on Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:29 am
since she's chinese, i'll probably be hungry again in an hour!

thank u mitchell sterling for bringing this to our attention

I'm posting this because the mixes are all available for download. My top 10 electronic albums and mixes of 2009: http://www.avclub.com/articles/january-2010,36676/

Linked in the piece, I mean. And I want you to hear them! They're awesome.

lopp is late of the pier

Philip Sherburne

http://phs.abstractdynamics.org/2010/01/ranking_2009_albums.html

1. Sunn O))), Monoliths & Dimensions (Southern Lord)
2. The xx, xx (Young Turks)
3. Emeralds, What Happened (No Fun)
4. Black to Comm, Alphabet 1968 (Type)
5. Benzo, The Dust/The Tapes: Mania Remixes (Sex Tags Mania / Laton)
6. Demdike Stare, Symbiosis (Modern Love)
7. Kevin Drumm, Imperial Horizon (Hospital Productions)
8. Lukid, Foma (Werk)
9. Moritz von Oswald Trio, Vertical Ascent (Honest Jon's)
10. Monolake, Silence (ml/I)

11. Pepe Bradock, Confiote de Bits (K7)
12. September Collective, Always Breathing Monster (Mosz)
13. Beak>, Recordings (Invada)
14. Mapstation, The Africa Chamber (~scape)
15. Ben Frost, By the Throat (Bedroom Community)
16. Ethernet, 144 Pulsations of Light (Kranky)
17. Fuck Buttons, Tarot Sport (ATP)
18. Fever Ray, Fever Ray (Rabid)
19. Mocky, Saskamodie (Crammed)
20. DJ Sprinkles, Midtown 120 Blues (Mule)

21. Atom TM, Liedgut (Raster Noton)
22. Vladislav Delay, Tummaa (Huume)
23. Jon Hassell, The Moon Dropped… (ECM)
24. Elm, Nemcatacoa (Digitalis)
25. Lokai, Transition (Mosz)
26. Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest (Warp)
27. Pixel, The Drive (Raster Noton)
28. Redshape, The Dance Paradox (Delsin)
29. Shackleton, Three EPs (Perlon)
30. Ras G, Brotha From Anotha Planet (Brainfeeder)

Phonica Records' top 100 - decent list imo

100. JOE GODDARD : Harvest Festival GRECOROMAN
99. MARKUS GUENTNER : Doppelgaenger SENDING ORBS
98. LUCIANO : Tribute To The Sun CADENZA
97. WHITE DENIM : Fits FULL TIME HOBBY
96. VARIOUS ARTISTS : Tumbele SOUNDWAY
95. WILD BEASTS : Two Dancers DOMINO
94. HERVE : Ghetto Bass CHEAP THRILLS
93. VARIOUS ARTISTS : Ghana Special SOUNDWAY
92. HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR : Without Sinking TOUCH
91. BLACKJOY : Edits Vol. II LUCIEN ENTERTAINMENT

90. SUPER VALUE : Super Soul Special Edits SUPER VALUE
89. VARIOUS : 10th Anniversary TRU THOUGHTS
88. A MOUNTAIN OF ONE : Institute Of Joy AMO1
87. LUKE VIBERT : We Hear You PANET MU
86. FAT FREDDYS DROP : Dr Boondigga and... THE DROP
85. NATHAN FAKE : Hard Islands BORDER COMMUNITY
84. HARMONIC 313 : When Machines Exceed... WARP
83. THE JUAN MACLEAN : The Future Will Come DFA
82. DISCOVERY : Discovery XL RECORDINGS
81. DJ KOZE : Reincarnations GET PHYSICAL MUSIC

80. TAMA SUMO : Panorama Bar 02 OSTGUT TON
79. MARCEL DETTMANN : Berghain 02 OSTGUT TON
78. SVEN WEISEMANN : Xine WANDERING
77. WILL SAUL : Balance 015 EQ RECORDINGS
76. NATURAL YOGURT BAND : Away with... NOW AGAIN
75. RADIO SLAVE : Fabric 48 FABRIC
74. JAY Z & RADIOHEAD : Jaydiohead MINTY FRESH BEATS
73. JAMES PANTS : The Electric Finger 2 LIGER VISION
72. VARIOUS : Five Years Of Hyperdub HYPERDUB
71. TOM TRAGO : Voyage Direct RUSH HOUR

70. QUANTIC : Tradition in Transition TRU THOUGHTS
69. IRON AND WINE : Around The Well SUB POP
68. LLOYD MILLER : A Lifetime In Oriental Jazz JAZZMAN
67. PHOENIX : Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix V2
66. MICACHU : Jewellery ROUGH TRADE
65. DIRTY PROJECTORS : Bitte Orca DOMINO
64. JAMES PANTS : Seven Seals STONES THROW
63. MONOLAKE : Silence MONOLAKE / IMBALANCE
62. MATIAS AGUAYO : Ay Ay Ay KOMPAKT
61. DEMDIKE STARE : Symbiosis DEMDIKE STARE

60. MORITZ VON OSWALD : Vertical Ascent HONEST JONS
59. LAWRENCE : Until Then Goodbye MULE ELECTRONIQUE
58. WASHED OUT : Life Of Leisure MEXICAN SUMMER
57. WILLIAM BASINSKI : 92982 2062
56. SILKIE : City Limits Volume 1 DEEP MEDI MUSIK
55. PAUL WHITE : The Strange Dreams Of... ONE HANDED
54. RSD : Good Energy PUNCH DRUNK
53. SHACKLETON : Three EPs PERLON
52. DESIRE : II ITALIANS DO IT BETTER
51. BAT FOR LASHES : Two Suns EMI

50. THE VERY BEST : Warm heart of Africa MOSHI MOSHI
49. DIMITRI FROM PARIS : Night Dubbin' BBE
48. MAGDA : Fabric 49 FABRIC
47. TELEPATHE : Dance Mother V2
46. YACHT : See Mystery Lights DFA
45. THE FIELD : Yesterday and Today KOMPAKT
44. DOOM : Born Like This LEX RECORDS
43. HUDSON MOHAWKE : Butter WARP
42. MEANDERTHALS : Desire Lines SMALLTOWNSUPER...
41. MATTHEW BURGESS & JOLYON GREEN : Originals

40. JORIS VOORN : Balance 014 EQ RECORDINGS
39. GREG WILSON : Credit to the Edit Volume 2 TIRK
38. JAMIE JONES : Don't You ... CROSSTOWN REBELS
37. DANIEL WANG : Balihu 1993 - 2008 RUSH HOUR
36. MODERAT : Moderat BPITCH CONTROL
35. HORSE MEAT DISCO : Horse Meat Disco STRUT
34. KINGS OF CONVENIENCE : Declaration of... SOURCE
33. SUBWAY : Subway II SOUL JAZZ
32. FUCK BUTTONS : Tarot Sport ATP RECORDS
31. MAJOR LAZER: Guns Don't Kill People... MAD DECENT

30. FEVER RAY : Fever Ray RABID
29. VLADISLAV DELAY : Tummaa LEAF
28. DANGERMOUSE & SPARKLEHORSE : Dark Night...
27. PEVERELIST : Jarvik Mindstate PUNCH DRUNK
26. PEPE BRADOCK : Confiote De Bits BBE
25. THE CREPES : What Else? INFORMATION
24. FONTAN : Winterhwila INFORMATION
23. DAM FUNK : Toeachizown STONES THROW
22. REAGENZ : Playtime WORKSHOP
21. GRIZZLY BEAR : Veckatimest WARP

20. 3 CHAIRS : Spectrum 3 CHAIRS
19. GOLF CHANNEL : Try To Find Me Vol. 2
18. VARIOUS : LTJ In Bologna Dirty Old Music - Chapter 2
17. DJ SPRINKLES : Midtown 120 Blues MULE MUSIQ
16. 2562 : Unbalance TECTONIC
15. PORTICO QUARTET : Isla REAL WORLD
14. DIXON : Temporary Secretary INNERVISIONS
13. LINDSTROM & CHRISTABELLE : Real Life Is No Cool
12. BIBIO : Ambivalence Avenue WARP
11. LUSINE : A Certain Distance GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL
Linkwood

10 LINKWOOD : System PRIME NUMBERS
9 YAGYA : Rigning SENDING ORBS
8 ZOMBY : One Foot Ahead Of The Other RAMP RECORDINGS
7 OMAR S : Fabric 45 FABRIC
6 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE : Merriweather Post Pavilion DOMINO
5 ALEXANDER NUT : Rinse 08: Alexander Nut RINSE
4 ANDRES : II MAHOGANI MUSIC
3 TRUSME : In The Red FAT CITY
2 MARTYN : Great Lengths 3024
1 THE XX : XX YOUNG TURKS

on the off-chance anyone cares about mine:

http://rodneyjgreene.blogspot.com/2010/01/top-50-singles-2009.html
http://rodneyjgreene.blogspot.com/2010/01/top-50-albums-2009.html

nope

didn't think so

i care! i thought pill's second mixtape was way better as a full-length than his first though, even if the first did have "trap goin' ham"

i always find it interesting to see how the people who've been into the same music as me over the year end up ordering the same/similar items...though from experience, ordering music this year was a bit "luck of the draw" - i could reorder my own top 100 tracks in pretty much any permutation and they'd still make an acceptable sense. fyi--

http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/309538328/albums-09
http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/309619543/tracks-09

Both have "Trap Goin' Ham". I got bored with 4075 quicker than I did 4180. That may be due to familiarity breeding contempt, but I suspect it's more due to his more standard choice of freestyle beats and the lack of supporting tracks as good as "Bunkin'" or "The Work's Hard".

i think i like the way 4075 feels more fleshed out - its tracks aren't just abbreviated demonstrations of his talent but that talent funneled to song-length purpose. love "coastin", "ok dennn", "let me in", "glass", "we outside" especially.

also love the random beyoncé beat on each mixtape - first time i heard "trap jumpin" it actually took me half a verse to realise wtf it was.

"OK Dennn" is prob my fave non-TGH track on 4075 but with about 4-5 exceptions, I prefer his skillz showcases to his more fleshed out songs, or at least they are slower to grab my attention.

LOPP is a spin-off board from the Sound Opinions one. The music results are not in the public section (not much is) I will try and get that changed for y'all.

The SOMB results are

Singles
http://www.soundopinions.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=22458

1 Phoenix – 1901
2 Animal Collective - My Girls
3 Phoenix - Lisztomania/Lisztomania (Alex Metric Remix)/Lisztomania (Clasixx Remix)
4 Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the Move
5 grizzly bear - Two Weeks/Two Weeks (Fred Falke Remix)
6 Weezer - (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To
7 Bat for Lashes - Daniel
8 Jay-Z - Empire State of Mind (feat. Alicia Keys)
9 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero/Zero (RAC Remix)
10 Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes
11 Basement Jaxx - Raindrops
12 The-Dream - Rockin’ That Thang
13 Shakira – She Wolf / Loba / She Wolf (Calvin Harris Remix)
14 Kanye West – Paranoid
15 Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others/While You Wait For The Others (feat. Michael McDonald)
16 Taylor Swift – You Belong With Me
17 Annie - Songs Remind Me Of You
18 Mount Kimbie - Maybes EP
19 Camera Obscura - French Navy
20 Animal Collective - Brothersport
21 Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction
22 Yeah yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
23 Big Pink - Dominos
24 Guido - Orchestral Lab / Way U Make Me Feel
25 Burial / Four Tet - Moth / Wolf Cub
26 DJ Quik & Kurupt - 9x's Outta 10
27 Junior Boys - Hazel / Hazel (Ewan Pearson's Extended Remix)
28 Neko Case - People Got A Lotta Nerve
29 Darkstar - Aidy's Girl is a Computer / Aidy's Girl's A Computer (Kyle Hall Mix)
30 Lily Allen - The Fear / Fag Hag / Kabul Shit
31 Lady Gaga – Bad Romance
32 Girls - Lust For Life / Life in San Francisco
33 Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo/Wet Look
34 The-Dream - Walkin’ on the Moon (feat. Kanye West)
35 Akron/Family - River
36 Joker / DJ2000F & J Kamata - Digidesign / You Don't Know What Love Is
37 Mount Kimbie - Sketch on Glass EP
38 Washed Out - Feel It All Around / Feel It All Around (Toro Y Moi Remix)
39 JJ - From Africa to Malaga
40 Miley Cyrus - Party in the U.S.A.
41 Miike Snow – Animal
42 Metric – Gimme Sympathy
43 Electrik Red - So Good
44 Floating Points - Love Me Like This (Nonsense Dub)/ Shangrila
45 Electrik Red - Friend Lover
46 St. Vincent - Actor Out of Work / Bicycle
47 Portishead - Chase the Tear
48 Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
49 La Roux - Bulletproof / Bulletproof (Redial Remix)/Bulletproof (Fred Falke Remix)
50 Passion Pit - The Reeling / The Reeling (Calvin Harris Remix)
51 Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension
52 Royksopp - The Girl and the Robot
53 Atlas Sound - Walkabout
54 Thermals - Now We Can See
55 Franz Ferdinand - No You girls/Lucid Dreams (Mike Fraser Mix)
56 Metric - Help, I’m Alive
57 Handsome Furs - I’m Confused
58 Lady GaGa - Paparazzi
59 DJ Quik & Kurupt - Hey Playa! (Moroccan Blues)
60 Annie - Anthonio
61 Yeasayer - Ambling Alp/Ambling Alp (Memory Tapes Remix)
62 Fever Ray - When I Grow Up
63 Akira Kiteshi - Pinball / Noglitch
64 Music Go Music - Warm in the Shadows
65 Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar
66 Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa (feat. Ezra Koenig)/Warm Heart of Africa (Theophilus London Remix)
67 Drake - Best I Ever Had
68 Jay Reatard - It Ain't Gonna Save Me
69 Major Lazer - Keep It Goin' Louder
70 Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone / Catapult / Sketchead / Fright Lined Dining Room
71 Matt and Kim - Daylight
72 Passion Pit - Little Secrets
73 Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
74 Baroness - A Horse Called Golgotha
75 Converge - Axe to Fall
76 Kings of Leon - Use Somebody/Use Somebody (RAC Remix)
77 Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire
78 Mariah Carey – Obsessed
79 Lady Gaga – Poker Face
80 Maxwell - Prettywings
81 Mastodon - Oblivion
82 Keri Hilson - Knock Me Down (feat. Ne-Yo and Kanye West)
83 Memory Tapes - Bicycle / Plain Material
84 Holy Ghost! - I Will Come Back/I Will Come Back (CLASSIXX Remix)
85 xx – Crystalised / Hot Like Fire
86 Raekwon - House of Flying Daggers (feat. Inspectah Deck, GZA, Ghostface Killah & Method Man)
87 Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You
88 Delorean - Ayrton Senna EP (Deli / Seasun / Big Dipper / Moonson)
89 Antlers - Two
90 Florence + the Machine - You've Got the Love / You've Got The Love (the xx Remix)
91 Morrissey - I'm Throwing my Arms Around Paris
92 Addleboy Vs. Cliff - Beep My Beep
93 The-Dream - Sweat it out
94 Flight of the Conchords - Hurt Feelings
95 Micachu & the Shapes - Golden Phone
96 La Roux - In For The Kill/In For The Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey Remix)/In For The Kill (The Twelves Remix)
97 Pet Shop Boys – Love Etc
98 Kode9 - Black Sun / 2 Far Gone
99 YACHT - Psychic City
100 Fever Ray - If I Had a Heart

Albums
http://www.soundopinions.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=22438

1 Animal Collective - Merriweather post pavillion
2 phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix
3 Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
4 XX - XX
5 Converge - Axe to fall
6 Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
7 neko case - middle cyclone
8 The-Dream – Love vs. Money
9 Flaming Lips - Embryonic
10 Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
11 Fever Ray - Fever Ray
12 Weezer - Raditude
13 Handsome Furs – Face Control
14 Raekwon – Only Built For Cuban Linx II
15 yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz!
16 super furry animals - dark days / light years
17 sunset rubdown - dragonslayer
18 St. Vincent - Actor
19 bill callahan - sometimes i wish we were an eagle
20 Akron/Family – Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free
21 Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
22 Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
23 mastodon - crack the skye
24 dj quik and kurupt - blaqkout
25 reigning sound - love and curses
26 Shackleton - The Three EPs
27 JJ – jjn02
28 pains of being pure at heart - s/t
29 Girls – Album
30 baroness - the blue album
31 Future of the Left - Travels with myself and another
32 Antlers - Hospice
33 Metric - Fantasies
34 Sonic Youth - The Eternal
35 Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
36 Memory Tapes – Seek Magic
37 Pavement Ist Rad & The Lots Of People Posting All Starr Band (Feat. Trai'd) - Sing Vampire Weekend's Contra
38 Morrissey – Years Of Refusal
39 Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
40 Field - Yesterday & Today
41 Passion Pit – Manners
42 Wilco, Wilco (The Album)
43 Electrik Red – How To Be A Lady Vol. 1
44 japandroids - post-nothing
45 Annie – Don’t Stop
46 Micachu and The Shapes – Jewellery
47 Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
48 Decemberists - The hazards of love
49 Fuck Buttons - Tarot sport
50 Junior Boys - Begone Dull care
51 Kylesa - Static Tensions
52 James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
53 Horrors - Primary Colours
54 Oneida - Rated O
55 atlas sound - logos
56 mos def - the ecstatic
57 Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
58 Cobalt - Gin
59 Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
60 Atom™ - Liedgut
61 Julian Casablancas – Phrazes for the Young
62 Emeralds - Emeralds
63 Juan MacLean – The Future Will Come
64 arctic monkeys - humbug
65 Jay Reatard – Watch Me Fall
66 dan deacon - bromst
67 Fanfarlo – Reservoir
68 maxwell - blacksummer's night
69 Isis - Wavering Radiant
70 Avett Brothers – I And Love And You
71 Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
72 A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
73 Thermals - Now We Can See
74 Antony and The Johnsons - The Crying Light
75 Martyn - Great Lengths
76 m. ward - hold time
77 Few Nolder - New Folder
78 wild beasts - two dancers
79 franz ferdinand - tonight
80 Them Crooked Vultures -S/T
81 Fun – Aim and Ignite
82 why? - eskimo snow
83 mew - No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry, They Washed Away
84 Pet Shop Boys – Yes
85 pissed jeans - king of jeans
86 Black Dog – Further Vexations
87 Andrew Bird – Noble Beast
88 Big Pink - a Brief history of love
89 Mumford and Sons – Sigh No More
90 Thee Oh Sees - Help
91 Fiery Furnaces - I'm going away
92 Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy
93 HEALTH - Get color
94 Vivian Girls – Everything Goes Wrong
95 A.C. Newman - Get Guilty
96 DâM-FunK – Toeachizown
97 Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
98 yo la tengo - popular songs
99 Black to Comm - Alphabet 1968
100 Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights

Mitchell, please explain: 37 Pavement Ist Rad & The Lots Of People Posting All Starr Band (Feat. Trai'd) - Sing Vampire Weekend's Contra

I like to think this is some sort of weird joke meme we should all run with.

I will try, essentially it's the boarder 'Pavement Ist Rad' who produced a rick-roll of Vampire Weekend's Contra. {see http://www.soundopinions.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=22104) in October which was plainly not the new VW album but managed to fool a few people out of the 4000 that downloaded it via one mediafire link. the wiki page for Contra was changed to say that the album leaked in October etc. Best explained by internet user 'Duff' in it's accompanying blurb on SOMB.

More than a few skeptical eyes meet the high placement of this record, no doubt, and reasonably so. There's no getting around the fact that this long player was constructed essentially as a rickroll set to ensnare a few thousand innocent fans of pleasant Talking Heads-biting North American Indie Rock®. Much to the dismay of these victims, the similarities between this record and the forth-coming release from the Ivy League's Vampire Weekend end roughly twenty seconds into each track, giving way typically to either John Lennon or someone doing a terrible job of pretending to be John Lennon. But while we all enjoy a joke at some twee fucker's expense from time to time, there's something at work here other than the spectacle of minor internet terrorism.

I mean, yeah, Sing Vampire Weekend's Contra is filled to the brim with inside jokes, some of which can only possibly be appreciated by a few dudes on a Jim Derogatis fansite spinoff board. But some of the finest moments have much broader appeal, striking suddenly with Earth-shattering absurdity. Track 2 ending with the dramatic final notes of "Day In the Life." A rousing and goofy cover of "Sgt. Pepper's" with the words, "Let me introduce to you/ the one and only Billy Corgan," spontaneously giving way to Bullet With Butterfly Wings. The bubbly synths, meowing samples, and boatloads of sass oozing from the forthcoming smash single "Dance Pussy Dance," later reprised with a chopped and screwed version. The guitar intros from The Toadies' "Possum Kingdom" and Everclear's "Santa Monica" dueling to the death and both losing to The Twisted Misters in a Greg-Gillis e-induced nightmare. Scores of crackpot genius moments like this, aimed at any fan of rock and roll with a random and encyclopedic knowledge of the last 40 years of pop music, all raising the same basic question:

Why?

Why on Earth make a record like this? If the beginning and end of the project was just to piss off some rabid music pirates with questionable taste, the thirty second intro to each song followed by two or three minutes of Neil Young awkwardly repeating "Vampire Weekend" (or is it "vaym-par pecan?") surely would have sufficed, and I'm sure it would've been a hell of a lot less work. But that's not what we have here. What we have here is what sounds like The Jesus Lizard covering Wings suddenly interrupted by a shitty vocal recording spliced in of some dude singing the noise guitar part. We have Satan winning souls for NPR. We have Dave fucking Grohl. Why make a record like this? For the love of pop music, and for the love all the solid bros of all sexes that gather here, or fuck, anywhere really, to discuss their irrational attachment to a bunch of rhythmic and melodic sound recordings, for all the bullshitting and ballbusting that inevitably follows, for the friendships that color our lives. Sure, not many people out there give much of fuck about how Jasper "EZ" Hitchen feels about Hipinion or Patron, regardless of how auto-tuned his voice is (mother fucker still hasn't heard this damn record yet. smfh). But anyone who comes across this record does so in the pursuit of life-affirming pop music in this young century, and surely gives a fuck about the love of music, and about those they share it with.