Hard rock albums of the year?
Is this list only for print mags or can we discuss the (Onion) AV Club list here too?
― where are that man's pants? :-( (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Post away
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Remind me never to buy an "Uncut" issue. God, that list.
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't understand lists like that - "Oh shit we're almost done and it's been nothing but indie bands. OK, let's throw in, I don't know? Jay-Z at 49, he's good, right?"
― where are that man's pants? :-( (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
to please ilxors
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't understand Raphael Saadiq on that list either, since as far as I can tell it was released September 2008 in the UK just like everywhere else.
― burr so icey to me (some dude), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I've heard of thirty-three of these artists, and heard precisely nil of their records. ILM you say? At least looking at the lists means I've now heard of Kurt Vile.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Noted indie bands Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Van Morrison.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
so where's this av club list you were gonna post whitey on the moon?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
"I've heard of thirty-three of these artists, and heard precisely nil of their records. ILM you say?"
you win!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I've heard 35
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
The Zu album is terrific. I hope LJ has heard it, if not, it will blow him away.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I think he has although I forget his verdict as this was back in Jaunary iirc
― 9-1 changed everything (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
(even longer ago than January)
Good choice for the Rock-A-Rolla winner. It's a monster album.
― krakow, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
AV Club ran a best of the decade albums list recently but I'm pretty sure they haven't run a best of '09 list yet.
― burr so icey to me (some dude), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
xp I like a lot of the albums in there and it's cool that people have picked up on stuff that I thought was completely ignored, like the Gnaw album has been a total 'is it just me' since the spring now
I can never properly articulate what I find sort of... skeezy about Rock-a-Rolla as a mag but I think it's something like, why do their limits of what they cover stop where they do? In theory you can say this about almost every music publication and even in practice they're far from alone but theirs is the niche I understand least
― 9-1 changed everything (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
The writing has got a lot better though for def
the verdict was that it was very good fwiw
― GET THAT BABY JESUS RIGHT UP YE (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Zu is def gonna make my top 10.
― and Susan Gucci as Erica Mane (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
it will probably make my top 5 but then i haven't actually heard an awful lot of records
― GET THAT BABY JESUS RIGHT UP YE (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Rock-a-Rolla seems to cover some pretty unconnected subgenres and yet doesn't seem at all interested in sketching out the territory between them or having any consistent sensibility as to how it treats them. Like, whenever I've bought it most of the reviews have been metal of some kind or other which hasn't really appealed to me, but the featured articles will be about how THIS harsh noise dude furrows his brow hard so he's cool, and THIS glacial ambient drone dude is OK with us, and so is THIS weirdo pronkoid math-skronk band, but THESE broadly similar acts are not within our remit, and any middle ground between them is, like, a sellout. Kind of frustrating to someone like me, who likes the outliers who get on the cover more than the bulk of the stuff reviewed.
Anyway I am pleased to see Part Chimp, Zu and Pissed Jeans, so who cares, I guess.
I am really missing Plan B magazine because I feel like there is probably music out there I would love but I haven't heard about it and I don't know how to hear about it. Obviously ILX helps with some stuff, but it's hard to get any overarching feel for what's out there when you pretty much have to have heard of a band to bother clicking on their thread.
― subtyll cauillacyons (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't worry yer pretty lil' head, that's what these year-end lists are for. I have found the most interesting ones to be from The Wire, Quietus, Silent Ballet, Brainwashed and Fact Magazine. And if those aren't enough, there should also be some interesting entries in Drowned In Sound, Muzzle of Bees, Cokemachineglow, and of course Pitchfork.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess you're right. I always find year-end lists a bit overwhelming, is all. Too much at once. I could certainly stand to check some or all of those publications more often if I wanted to know what was going on, of course.
Maybe I mean "I miss reading about bands who might still play a 150-capacity pub venue for a fiver in my uncool UK hometown", and suspect that year-end lists are not where those acts hang out.
― subtyll cauillacyons (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 23:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I used to look forward to the MM/Kerrang/NME/RAW albums of the year lists every year and I'd usually save up xmas money n stuff and buy 5 or so of the top albums i liked the look of that i didnt have.I wonder if kids still do that or if they just d/l the albums on the list.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 26 November 2009 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I wish The Wire would hurry up.
― and Susan Gucci as Erica Mane (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 26 November 2009 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Or wait for the spotify playlist of the highlight tracks.
― krakow, Thursday, 26 November 2009 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Is what the kids might do now, I mean.
Rock-a-Rolla seems to cover some pretty unconnected subgenres and yet doesn't seem at all interested in sketching out the territory between them or having any consistent sensibility as to how it treats them.
that's because there isn't really a central 'IT' to sketch out these connections or possess a consistent sensibility... and tbh I'm not sure why such a thing would be desirable from a magazine, which is after all a compendium of individual perspectives. plan B's strength was exactly its collective spirit and lack of a definable remit.
I think the thing is that RaR's area of interest seems at once narrow and nebulous - essentially, it's that fuzzy-bordered and fairly vast hinterland between the wire and terrorizer.
anyway, have to say that I'm pretty amazed and delighted to see richard youngs at no.3 in the RaR list.
― m the g, Thursday, 26 November 2009 00:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't even vote for that one - Ultrahits was on my list, maybe my vote got transferred?
― krakow, Thursday, 26 November 2009 09:53 (fourteen years ago) link
from the looks of the write-up, it's a joint result for ultrahits and stellar stream.
― m the g, Thursday, 26 November 2009 10:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Stellar Stream may well be great, I just haven't had anything like long enough with it yet. It'll be next year at least before I can really make a judgement on it.
― krakow, Thursday, 26 November 2009 10:43 (fourteen years ago) link
rateyourshit delivers
#1 album: mpp#1 ep: fall be kind#1 single: brothersport#2 single: my girls
lololol
― moullet, Thursday, 26 November 2009 10:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I wish The Wire would hurry up.― and Susan Gucci as Erica Mane (Whiney G. Weingarten),
― and Susan Gucci as Erica Mane (Whiney G. Weingarten),
I hope someone else types it up this year. My fingers are still sore after typing out the rockarolla.I'm looking forward to the Terrorizer end of year list, should be some good stuff in that.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 26 November 2009 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Mojo Magazine
via: Swear I'm not Paul: List: Mojo Magazine's Top 50 Albums of the Year
50. Max Richter - Waltz With Bashir OST49. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II48. Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid47. Bruce Springsteen - Working On a Dream46. The Black Crowes - Before the Frost...
45. Cate Le Bon - Me Oh My44. Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Inspiration Informaton43. Dead Man's Bones - Dead Man's Bones42. Doug Paisley - Doug Paisley41. Mos Def - The Ecstatic
40. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light39. Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band - Between My Head and the Sky38. Sonic Youth - The Eternal37. BLK JKS - After Robots36. White Denim - Fits
35. Portico Quartet - Isla34. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)33. Leonard Cohen - Live in London32. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers31. Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens - What Have You Done, My Brother?
30. Staff Benda Bilili - Tres Tres Fort29. Mastodon - Crack the Skye28. Vetiver - Tight Knit27. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - I Speak Fula26. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
25. Alasdair Roberts - Spoils24. Vieux Farka Toure - Fondo23. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug22. The XX - XX21. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
20. Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers19. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Diamonds18. Fever Ray - Fever Ray17. The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage16. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
15. Kasabian - The West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum14. Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement13. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest12. The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin11. The Cribs - Ignore the Ignorant
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz09. Madness - The Liberty of Nolton Folgate08. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport07. Florence & the Machine - Lungs06. Bob Dylan - Together Through Time
05. Tinariwen - Imidiwan: Companions04. The Horrors - Primary Colours03. Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter02. Bill Calahan - Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle01. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
― djmartian, Thursday, 26 November 2009 13:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Q: for the stats fans: How many albums are both in the Mojo and Uncut lists?
― djmartian, Thursday, 26 November 2009 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Terrorizer list is good imo, haven't heard quite a bit of it but nothing that made me go 'waht'
(no I'm not posting it)
― 9-1 changed everything (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 26 November 2009 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
in the meantime...
Top 1000 metal albums of 2009 on rateyourmusic.com - custom charthttp://bit.ly/hhfrz
― djmartian, Thursday, 26 November 2009 13:25 (fourteen years ago) link
only heard one of these albums listed so far.
― mark e, Thursday, 26 November 2009 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Will be doing the ilx metal albums of 2009 this year with Glenn again. Hopefully more people will vote this year. Will open up a nominations thread soon. (maybe even today if people want me to)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 26 November 2009 13:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm surprised I didn't know Cornershop put out an album this year (not that I like them, but I would think I would have heard about it and registered the fact)
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 26 November 2009 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
chris martin
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 26 November 2009 13:38 (fourteen years ago) link
bloke from keanebloke from snow patrol
oops wrong thread
djmartian get your hugeassed metal nominations list ready and i'll open the metal poll nominations thread with your list
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 26 November 2009 13:40 (fourteen years ago) link
i will compile a selective list at the weekend, you can start it before
― djmartian, Thursday, 26 November 2009 13:49 (fourteen years ago) link
What one's have I got up my sleeve here.
Do we want to see Q's again?
― Mitchell Stirling, Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
The Fly magazine.
1/ Wild Beasts - Two Dancers2/ The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love3/ Florence + The Machine - Lungs4/ YYYs - It's Blitz!5/ The Horrors - Primary Colours6/ Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose7/ The Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant8/ The Temper Trap - Conditions9/ ...Trail Of Dead - The Century Of Self10/ Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another11/ White Lies - To Lose My Life12/ The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead13/ Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More14/ The XX - XX15/ Japandroids - Post-Nothing16/ Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called Moaning17/ Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest18/ The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms19/ Muse - The Resistance20/ Dananananaykroyd - Hey Everyone!21/ Swimming - The Fire-Flow Trade22/ Manics - Journal For Plague Lovers23/ Bat For Lashes - Two Suns24/ Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream25/ Passion Pit - Manners26/ Doves - Kingdom Of Rust27/ Animal Collective - MPP28/ The Invisible - s/t29/ Howling Bells - Radio Wars30/ Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - s/t31/ The Virgins - The Virgins32/ Kasabian - West Ryder etc33/ Dizzee Rascal - Tongue 'N Cheek34/ Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand35/ Blue Roses - Blue Roses36/ Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca37/ Noah & The Whale - First Day Of Spring38/ Julian Plenti - ...is Skyscraper39/ Jamie T - Kings & Queens40/ Arctic Monkeys - Humbug41/ The Boxer Rebellion - Union42/ PJ Harver & John Parrish - A Woman, A Man Walked By43/ Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport44/ Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand45/ La Roux - La Roux46/ HEALTH - Get Color47/ Speech Debelle - Speech Therapy48/ Golden Silvers - True Romance49/ Girls - Album50/ Chairlift - Does It Inspire You
Rough Trades EOY list
1 - XX, The - XX2 - Low Anthem, The - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin3 - Horrors, The - Primary Colours4 - Fever Ray - Fever Ray5 - Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, The - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart6 - Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest7 - Leisure Society, The - The Sleeper8 - Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport9 - Forest Fire - Survival10 - Very Best, The - Warm Heart Of Africa11 - Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion12 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!13 - Atlas Sound - Logos14 - Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix15 - Local Natives - Gorilla Manor16 - White Denim - Fits17 - Jónsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps18 - Terry Lynn - Kingstonlogic 2.019 - Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career20 - Mountain Goats, The - The Life Of The World To Come21 - Wild Beasts - Two Dancers22 - Portico Quartet - Isla23 - Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do24 - Memory Tapes - Seek Magic25 - Florence + The Machine - Lungs26 - Girls - Album27 - Alela Diane - To Be Still28 - Andrew Bird - Noble Beast29 - Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains30 - Taken By Trees - East Of Eden31 - Mos Def - The Ecstatic32 - Shitty Limits, The - Beware The Limits33 - Dead Man's Bones - Dead Man's Bones34 - Fanfarlo - Reservoir35 - Lindstrøm & Christabelle - Real Life Is Not Cool36 - Kid Congo And The Pink Monkey Birds - Dracula Boots37 - Big Pink, The - A Brief History Of Love38 - Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More39 - A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head40 - Martyn - Great Lenghts41 - Young Republic, The - Balletesque42 - Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter43 - Cate Le bon - Me Oh My44 - Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications45 - Mummers, The - Tale To Tell46 - Smith Westerns, The - The Smith Westerns47 - Ganglians - Monster Head Room48 - Micachu And The Shapes - Jewellery49 - Irrepressibles, The - From the circus to the sea50 - Telepathe - Dance Mother51 - Decemberists, The - The Hazards Of Love52 - Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca53 - Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs54 - Vivian Girls, The - Everything Goes Wrong55 - Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms56 - She Keeps Bees - Nests57 - Soulsavers - Broken58 - Acorn, The - Glory Hope Mountain59 - Japandroids - Post-Nothing60 - Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
― Mitchell Stirling, Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link
25 albums, or 50%.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
A consensus emerges - there are seven albums which appear on the Uncut, Mojo, Fly and Rough Trade lists:
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post PavillionDirty Projectors - Bitte OrcaFuck Buttons - Tarot SportGrizzly Bear - VeckatimestThe Horrors - Primary ColoursThe XX - The XXYeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
roxy muzak & taylor saporito sing animal collective's merriweather post pavillion
― Kate 'Impeach' Bush (Future_Perfect), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
rescuing a gorgeously bleepy melodic gem from the clutches of a Gorilla Zoe mixtape track
heh
good to see someone else repping for the demi lovato album! though i think i prefer her second one to the debut
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey ilxor, do you want to post your list on here? Not signed up to Facebook so I can't see it. Think we have a decent amount of overlap in taste, so I'll be interested to see your selection.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Here you go!
The Facebook note included a YouTube link to each of the 49 songs, obviously missing here.
#1Fever Ray9 for 09Animal Collective, Merriweather Post PavilionBat for Lashes, Two SunsThe-Dream, Love vs. MoneyThe Horrors, Primary ColoursThe Juan Maclean, The Future Will ComeRaekwon, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…Pt IIRihanna, Rated RSix Organs of Admittance, Luminous NightThe xx, xxthe next 9Broadcast and the Focus Group, Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio AgeDOOM, Born Like ThisThe Flaming Lips, EmbryonicFuck Buttons, Tarot SportMos Def, The EcstaticOneida, Rated OThe Raveonettes, In and Out of ControlYeah Yeah Yeahs, It's Blitz!5: Five Years of Hyperdubanother 9Annie, Don't StopBasement Jaxx, ScarsBlack Meteoric StarGhostface Killah, Ghostdini: Wizard of Poetry in Emerald CityTim Hecker, An Imaginary CountryJay-Z, The Blueprint 3LSD March, Under Milk WoodMount Eerie, Wind's PoemSunn O))), Monoliths and Dimensions19 more admired in whole or partAntony and the Johnsons, Another WorldJames Blackshaw, The Glass Bead GameBlues Control, Local FlavorClipse, Til the Casket DropsCurrent 93, Aleph at Hallucinatory MountainDepeche Mode, Sounds of the UniverseThe Field, Yesterday and TodayPJ Harvey and John Parish, A Woman A Man Walked ByIsis, Wavering RadiantJ Dilla, Jay Stay PaidMerzbow, 13 Japanese Birds seriesThe Mountain Goats, The Life of the World to ComeOm, God Is GoodA Place to Bury Strangers, Exploding HeadShrinebuilderSonic Youth, The EternalTaken by Trees, East of EdenWoods, Songs of ShameYo La Tengo, Popular Songs49 short ones for 09Animal Collective, “My Girls”Animal Collective, “Summertime Clothes”Basement Jaxx, “Raindrops”Bat for Lashes, “Daniel”Bat for Lashes, “Pearl's Dream”Big Boi ft. Gucci Mane, “Shine Blockas”James Blackshaw, “Cross”Burial, “Fostercare”Burial and Four Tet, “Moth”Clipse ft. Cam'ron, “Popular Demand (Popeyes)”Miley Cyrus, “Party in the USA”Darkstar, “Aidy's Girl Is a Computer”Depeche Mode, “Wrong”DOOM, “Gazzillion Ear”The-Dream, “Rockin' That Shit”The-Dream, “Sweat It Out”Fever Ray, “When I Grow Up”Fever Ray, “Seven”Four Tet, “Love Cry”The Flaming Lips ft. Karen O, “I Can Be a Frog”The Flaming Lips, “Watching the Planets”Fuck Buttons, “Surf Solar (7" Edit)”Keri Hilson ft. Kanye West and Ne-Yo, “Knock You Down”The Horrors, “Sea within a Sea”Jay-Z, “DOA (Death of Auto-Tune)” *Joker, “Digidesign”The Juan Maclean, “One Day”King Midas Sound, “Meltdown”Lady Gaga, “Paparazzi”Lady Gaga, “Bad Romance”Adam Lambert, “Mad World” (Tears for Fears cover) **LCD Soundsystem, “Bye Bye Bayou” (Alan Vega cover)Lindstrom and Christabelle, “Baby Can't Stop (Aeroplane Remix)”Mos Def, “Life in Marvelous Times”Pet Shop Boys, “Love Etc.”Raekwon ft. Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah and Method Man, “House of Flying Daggers”The Raveonettes, “Last Dance”Rihanna ft. Young Jeezy, “Hard”Rihanna, “Russian Roulette”Saint Etienne, “Method of Modern Love”Six Organs of Admittance, “Anesthesia”Solange, “Stillness Is the Move” (Dirty Projectors cover) ***Taylor Swift, “You Belong with Me”Taken by Trees ft. Noah Lennox, “Anna”The xx, “Crystalised”The xx, “Teardrops” (Womack & Womack cover)Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Zero”Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Heads Will Roll”Yo La Tengo, “Here to Fall”* Yes, I realize that Jay's running on autopilot here. It's still a great song.** This doesn't hold a candle to Tears for Fears' original, but it's pretty awesome.*** This works much better as a full-stop R&B song than an indie rock tune.6 extended plays for 09Animal Collective, Fall Be KindAnnie, All NightJesu, Opiate SunNo Age, Losing FeelingSpectrum, War SucksSpoon, Got Nuffin9 archival, remix and live albums for 09Bardo Pond, PeriNick Cave and Warren Ellis, White LunarEcho and the Bunnymen, Live at the Royal Albert HallMelvins, Chicken SwitchKylie Minogue, Boombox: The Remix Album 2000-2008REM, Live at the OlympiaSaint Etienne, Foxbase BetaSix Organs of Admittance, RTZTom Waits, Glitter and Doom Live19 not heard in 09Matias Aguayo, Ay Ay AyAtlas Sound, LogosWilliam Basinski, 92982Dälek, Gutter TacticsDeerhunter, Rainwater Cassette ExchangeDizzee Rascal, Tongue n' CheekEmeralds, What Happened (ordered from No Fun)Hush Arbors, Yankee RealityKing Midas Sound, Waiting for You...Madlib, Beat Konducta Vol. 5-6: A Tribute to...Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts (ordered from No Fun)OOIOO, Armonico HewaJim O'Rourke, The VisitorPet Shop Boys, YesReal Estate (ordered from Woodsist)Jack Rose and the Black Twig PickersU2, No Line on the HorizonWhite Rainbow, New CloudsZomby, One Foot Ahead of the Other29 live thrillsAnimal Collective (2x)Antipop ConsortiumAutoluxErykah BaduBlack Dice (2x)Boredoms performing 9 drummer BOADRUMBoris performing FeedbackerCaribou Vibration Ensemble with Marshall AllenDevoDirty Three performing Ocean SongsEcho and the Bunnymen (2x)El-PThe Feelies performing Crazy RhythmsThe Flaming LipsGrouperThe Jesus LizardThe Juan MacleanMelvinsPeter MurphyMy Bloody ValentineNo Age with Bob Mould performing Hüsker DüOneida presents The OcropolisPanda BearPrimal Scream (2x)Red Red MeatSchool of Seven BellsShellacSix Finger SatelliteSuicide performing Suicide (1st LP)8 from 08 loved in 09Burning Star Core, ChallengerFlying Lotus, Los AngelesGang Gang Dance, Saint DymphnaGrouper, Dragging a Dead Deer up a HillJamie Lidell, JimNe-Yo, Year of the GentlemanSteinski, What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 RetrospectiveYoung Jeezy, The Recession10 anticipated in 10Erykah Badu, New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)The-Dream, Love KingEluvium, SimilesFour Tet, There Is Love in YouFlying Lotus, CosmogrammaLiars, SisterworldLindstrom and Christabelle, Real Life Is No CoolMassive Attack, HeligolandPantha du Prince, Black NoiseSpoon, Transference
Fever Ray
9 for 09
Animal Collective, Merriweather Post PavilionBat for Lashes, Two SunsThe-Dream, Love vs. MoneyThe Horrors, Primary ColoursThe Juan Maclean, The Future Will ComeRaekwon, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…Pt IIRihanna, Rated RSix Organs of Admittance, Luminous NightThe xx, xx
the next 9
Broadcast and the Focus Group, Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio AgeDOOM, Born Like ThisThe Flaming Lips, EmbryonicFuck Buttons, Tarot SportMos Def, The EcstaticOneida, Rated OThe Raveonettes, In and Out of ControlYeah Yeah Yeahs, It's Blitz!5: Five Years of Hyperdub
another 9
Annie, Don't StopBasement Jaxx, ScarsBlack Meteoric StarGhostface Killah, Ghostdini: Wizard of Poetry in Emerald CityTim Hecker, An Imaginary CountryJay-Z, The Blueprint 3LSD March, Under Milk WoodMount Eerie, Wind's PoemSunn O))), Monoliths and Dimensions
19 more admired in whole or part
Antony and the Johnsons, Another WorldJames Blackshaw, The Glass Bead GameBlues Control, Local FlavorClipse, Til the Casket DropsCurrent 93, Aleph at Hallucinatory MountainDepeche Mode, Sounds of the UniverseThe Field, Yesterday and TodayPJ Harvey and John Parish, A Woman A Man Walked ByIsis, Wavering RadiantJ Dilla, Jay Stay PaidMerzbow, 13 Japanese Birds seriesThe Mountain Goats, The Life of the World to ComeOm, God Is GoodA Place to Bury Strangers, Exploding HeadShrinebuilderSonic Youth, The EternalTaken by Trees, East of EdenWoods, Songs of ShameYo La Tengo, Popular Songs
49 short ones for 09
Animal Collective, “My Girls”Animal Collective, “Summertime Clothes”Basement Jaxx, “Raindrops”Bat for Lashes, “Daniel”Bat for Lashes, “Pearl's Dream”Big Boi ft. Gucci Mane, “Shine Blockas”James Blackshaw, “Cross”Burial, “Fostercare”Burial and Four Tet, “Moth”Clipse ft. Cam'ron, “Popular Demand (Popeyes)”Miley Cyrus, “Party in the USA”Darkstar, “Aidy's Girl Is a Computer”Depeche Mode, “Wrong”DOOM, “Gazzillion Ear”The-Dream, “Rockin' That Shit”The-Dream, “Sweat It Out”Fever Ray, “When I Grow Up”Fever Ray, “Seven”Four Tet, “Love Cry”The Flaming Lips ft. Karen O, “I Can Be a Frog”The Flaming Lips, “Watching the Planets”Fuck Buttons, “Surf Solar (7" Edit)”Keri Hilson ft. Kanye West and Ne-Yo, “Knock You Down”The Horrors, “Sea within a Sea”Jay-Z, “DOA (Death of Auto-Tune)” *Joker, “Digidesign”The Juan Maclean, “One Day”King Midas Sound, “Meltdown”Lady Gaga, “Paparazzi”Lady Gaga, “Bad Romance”Adam Lambert, “Mad World” (Tears for Fears cover) **LCD Soundsystem, “Bye Bye Bayou” (Alan Vega cover)Lindstrom and Christabelle, “Baby Can't Stop (Aeroplane Remix)”Mos Def, “Life in Marvelous Times”Pet Shop Boys, “Love Etc.”Raekwon ft. Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah and Method Man, “House of Flying Daggers”The Raveonettes, “Last Dance”Rihanna ft. Young Jeezy, “Hard”Rihanna, “Russian Roulette”Saint Etienne, “Method of Modern Love”Six Organs of Admittance, “Anesthesia”Solange, “Stillness Is the Move” (Dirty Projectors cover) ***Taylor Swift, “You Belong with Me”Taken by Trees ft. Noah Lennox, “Anna”The xx, “Crystalised”The xx, “Teardrops” (Womack & Womack cover)Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Zero”Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Heads Will Roll”Yo La Tengo, “Here to Fall”
* Yes, I realize that Jay's running on autopilot here. It's still a great song.
** This doesn't hold a candle to Tears for Fears' original, but it's pretty awesome.
*** This works much better as a full-stop R&B song than an indie rock tune.
6 extended plays for 09
Animal Collective, Fall Be KindAnnie, All NightJesu, Opiate SunNo Age, Losing FeelingSpectrum, War SucksSpoon, Got Nuffin
9 archival, remix and live albums for 09
Bardo Pond, PeriNick Cave and Warren Ellis, White LunarEcho and the Bunnymen, Live at the Royal Albert HallMelvins, Chicken SwitchKylie Minogue, Boombox: The Remix Album 2000-2008REM, Live at the OlympiaSaint Etienne, Foxbase BetaSix Organs of Admittance, RTZTom Waits, Glitter and Doom Live
19 not heard in 09
Matias Aguayo, Ay Ay AyAtlas Sound, LogosWilliam Basinski, 92982Dälek, Gutter TacticsDeerhunter, Rainwater Cassette ExchangeDizzee Rascal, Tongue n' CheekEmeralds, What Happened (ordered from No Fun)Hush Arbors, Yankee RealityKing Midas Sound, Waiting for You...Madlib, Beat Konducta Vol. 5-6: A Tribute to...Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts (ordered from No Fun)OOIOO, Armonico HewaJim O'Rourke, The VisitorPet Shop Boys, YesReal Estate (ordered from Woodsist)Jack Rose and the Black Twig PickersU2, No Line on the HorizonWhite Rainbow, New CloudsZomby, One Foot Ahead of the Other
29 live thrills
Animal Collective (2x)Antipop ConsortiumAutoluxErykah BaduBlack Dice (2x)Boredoms performing 9 drummer BOADRUMBoris performing FeedbackerCaribou Vibration Ensemble with Marshall AllenDevoDirty Three performing Ocean SongsEcho and the Bunnymen (2x)El-PThe Feelies performing Crazy RhythmsThe Flaming LipsGrouperThe Jesus LizardThe Juan MacleanMelvinsPeter MurphyMy Bloody ValentineNo Age with Bob Mould performing Hüsker DüOneida presents The OcropolisPanda BearPrimal Scream (2x)Red Red MeatSchool of Seven BellsShellacSix Finger SatelliteSuicide performing Suicide (1st LP)
8 from 08 loved in 09
Burning Star Core, ChallengerFlying Lotus, Los AngelesGang Gang Dance, Saint DymphnaGrouper, Dragging a Dead Deer up a HillJamie Lidell, JimNe-Yo, Year of the GentlemanSteinski, What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 RetrospectiveYoung Jeezy, The Recession
10 anticipated in 10
Erykah Badu, New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)The-Dream, Love KingEluvium, SimilesFour Tet, There Is Love in YouFlying Lotus, CosmogrammaLiars, SisterworldLindstrom and Christabelle, Real Life Is No CoolMassive Attack, HeligolandPantha du Prince, Black NoiseSpoon, Transference
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey thanks! Still need to hear the Tim Hecker and the Mount Eerie.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
There's some great stuff in ilxor's list. He showed it to me recently and I was delighted to see The Horrors doing so well. I'm not keen on the whole album but 4 of the tracks at least are classics. Would love to have seen Shellac live. I think the lyrics to "Prayer To God" are on balance my favourite of the decade.
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
lol at my inability to tell the difference between lopp and lotp
― mr bollock apple (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
It's not from the same ATP when I saw 'em, but still great...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHknmc_o28w
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ you apologizing for "doa" being autopilot jay but including the WHOLE DAMN ALBUM in the top 27
― the bait vs. radrake david (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
posted a top 100 tracks of 2009 here + youtube playlist featuring all but 10 of them
― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 00:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah good point. It should probably be in the bottom 19 or so. I do like a number of the tracks on there, not really the whole thing, and obviously it doesn't hold up to Jay's 5 or 6 better albums. Then again... I really liked American Gangster, I might as well like this one, too, huh?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
In retrospect I'd easily swap the Jay-Z album for Blues Control, Current 93, Om. Really like all of those start to finish.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Radio K Top 77 albums of '09
http://radiok.cce.umn.edu/top77/
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
seems like less local stuff than usual on the radio k list
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Xgau (w/ P&J predictions):
http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Rock-Roll/Resuscitations-and-Business-Plans-The-Best-Albums-of-2009/ba-p/2032
― xhuxk, Monday, 11 January 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Forty-nine years younger than Nelson at 27, Nellie McKay reached back half a century to reinvoke the spunk, optimism, and beauty of Hollywood nice gal Doris Day, dumbfounding her contemporaries in the process
You can't dumbfound people who don't care at all.
― if I don't see more dissent, I'm going to have to check myself in (Matos W.K.), Monday, 11 January 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, he really loves that late '08 Baseball Project cd. I've been meaning to check that out but haven't paid much attention to Steve Wynn since his early '80s Dream Syndicate days.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 January 2010 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Mostly a good, interesting read.
If I can be nitpicky, am I the only one intrigued by Christgau describing the the xx as "electropoppers" (a term which he then uses to describe Lady Gaga, lest we have any doubts about his meaning)? Is it because of the band's background? Is it because they're from the UK? Is all eighties revivalism swept into this category? Are the rhythms on "Basic Space" really such a shock to the rock mindset?
Animal Collective are (these days) more "electropop" than the xx when you get down to it, but the term would never be applied to them. I don't think Christgau means the term as a compliment or an insult, but I'm curious as to what Christgau does mean by it.
OTOH I love Christgau on the Brad Paisley album: http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Rock-Roll/Paisley-s-Progress/ba-p/1695;jsessionid=DF668A4729C68A6D83677028A764B67C
― Tim F, Monday, 11 January 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
At least he didn't call them "techno."
― if I don't see more dissent, I'm going to have to check myself in (Matos W.K.), Monday, 11 January 2010 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Hold up-- The xx are 80s revivalists?
― pugwant (The Reverend), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 02:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I think so. They sound something like The Cure to me.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 12 January 2010 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I think Christgau means "electropop" in an '80s sense of the word, while even if Animal Collective may now use programming alot, and added a bit more pop, he and many think of them more as rock.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 02:26 (fourteen years ago) link
What is the 80s sense of the word?
I would have thought any sense of the word would suggest, like, primarily electronic arrangements, but maybe not?
― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 05:16 (fourteen years ago) link
New wave, synth pop, new romantic...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 05:32 (fourteen years ago) link
it just amuses him to bracket the two together since they have programmed drums and synth sounds, esp. since he's riffing on being an old fart.
more concerned about the critically esteemed hip hop of the year consisting of "Raekwon, Mos Def, and possibly Jay-Z", did no one review say the quik/kurupt?
don't know Serengeti that he mentions.
― zvookster, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 05:41 (fourteen years ago) link
"three recent NYU grads" - is that a joke?
― Mark, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 05:43 (fourteen years ago) link
At least the B&N site looks decent-- the presentation of the Consumer Guide on MSN is appalling.
― Mark, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 05:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Quik & Kurpt haven't appeared in EOY lists for shit (except maybe p4k and a couple others). Sad thing.
― pugwant (The Reverend), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 07:50 (fourteen years ago) link
am I the only one intrigued by Christgau describing the the xx as "electropoppers"
You know I can totally hear the xx in songs like Yazoo's 'Nobody's Diary', but it does involve erasing the synth tracks. There is a bit of a New Order thing too I guess.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 10:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i kinda like his list!
― The tendrils INTERTWINE with gentle undulations. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I d/l'ed The Panic Is On, still have to play--never heard of it before. His lists always have some reissue or compilation I haven't heard of and end up loving.
― if I don't see more dissent, I'm going to have to check myself in (Matos W.K.), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Our list (Porcys, Poland) http://porcys.com/Others.aspx?id=247
― lukk, Monday, 18 January 2010 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Jane Dark, top 25 songs
http://janedark.com/2010/01/top_25_songs_of_2009_in_a_sing.html
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Do we have a PAZZ AND JOP 2009 thread yet?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
imo jane dark is terrible
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
The Best Southern Soul 2009. I wish Pitchfork would give this guy a column
http://www.southernsoulrnb.com/corner2010.cfm
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Still wanna hear that Ben Frost album.
― The bugger in the short sleeves (NickB), Tuesday, December 8, 2009 9:12 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark
searched "ben frost," he hasn't got his own thread, but man I am getting to this album this afternoon and it is WAY cool.
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Monday, 28 June 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
speaking of Ben Frost:
Ben Frost is one of six young talents to have been hand-picked “for a year of collaboration and inspiration” in the international Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.The 30-year-old composer, producer and musician has been chosen as the scheme’s “music protégé for 2010-2011″. He will be mentored by none other than Brian Eno, former Roxy Music member, ambient pioneer, multidisciplinary artist and producer for the likes of Talking Heads, Jon Hassell and U2.Melbourne-hailing, Reykjavik-based Frost received much acclaim for his 2009 album By The Throat, released via his own Bedroom Community label. Over the years he has collaborated with the likes of Tim Hecker, Nico Muhly and Bjork; he is currently working on the score for multi-player online game World of Darkness and “a reworking of Tarkovsky’s Solaris“. More info on the latter here. [thanks, Enter]The Arts Initiative has six disciplines: dance, film, literature, music, theatre and visual arts. Each protégés receives their own individually tailored programme, with time provided across the year for unique personal access to, and creative dialogue with, their assigned mentor. Furthermore, each protégé receives a grant of $25,000 USD each and is eligible for a further $25,000 towards the cost of creating a project following their mentoring year.The other protégés and mentors for 2010-2011 are:Literature: American poet Tracy K. Smith; mentored by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Germany)Visual arts: South African artist Nicholas Hlobo; mentored by Anish Kapoor (United Kingdom)Theatre: Lebanese actor, writer and aspiring director Maya Zbib; mentored by Peter Sellars (United States)Film: Annemarie Jacir, a Palestinian film director and poet living in Jordan; mentored by Zhang Yimou (China)
The 30-year-old composer, producer and musician has been chosen as the scheme’s “music protégé for 2010-2011″. He will be mentored by none other than Brian Eno, former Roxy Music member, ambient pioneer, multidisciplinary artist and producer for the likes of Talking Heads, Jon Hassell and U2.
Melbourne-hailing, Reykjavik-based Frost received much acclaim for his 2009 album By The Throat, released via his own Bedroom Community label. Over the years he has collaborated with the likes of Tim Hecker, Nico Muhly and Bjork; he is currently working on the score for multi-player online game World of Darkness and “a reworking of Tarkovsky’s Solaris“. More info on the latter here. [thanks, Enter]
The Arts Initiative has six disciplines: dance, film, literature, music, theatre and visual arts. Each protégés receives their own individually tailored programme, with time provided across the year for unique personal access to, and creative dialogue with, their assigned mentor. Furthermore, each protégé receives a grant of $25,000 USD each and is eligible for a further $25,000 towards the cost of creating a project following their mentoring year.
The other protégés and mentors for 2010-2011 are:
Literature: American poet Tracy K. Smith; mentored by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Germany)Visual arts: South African artist Nicholas Hlobo; mentored by Anish Kapoor (United Kingdom)Theatre: Lebanese actor, writer and aspiring director Maya Zbib; mentored by Peter Sellars (United States)Film: Annemarie Jacir, a Palestinian film director and poet living in Jordan; mentored by Zhang Yimou (China)
― sofatruck, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link