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

rofl the horrors
rofl the xx. hipster bullshit

i do like the idea of the ilx hipsters loving the nme no 2 album of the year though.

This one is just whacky!
http://thequietus.com/articles/03326-the-quietus-reductive-subjective-albums-of-the-year-20-1?page=1

The Quietus Album of the Year: 1. Sunn O))) - Monoliths And Dimensions

talk about hipster bullshit...

Sunn Zzzz makes me long for quietus...

i do like the idea of the ilx hipsters loving the nme no 2 album of the year though.

This probably happens like once every other year? I really don't think you understand other people's taste at all...

The full NME top 50 really looks like they were scraping the barrel for relevant acts to include though.

is their top 50 a bit pitchfork-y? Usually NME will have some uk bands in there that noone else will, but that top 10 is definite pitchfork style.

is there an ilxor decade-end / year-end poll happening this year already?

i do like the idea of the ilx hipsters loving the nme no 2 album top ten - okay top nine - albums of the year though.

I like #1 and #9 btw. The xx are crap imo tbh fwiw.

talk about hipster bullshit...

Do I know you? It just amuses me to be called a hipster when I'm 38, an overweight metaller, no famous/hip friends and have an annual clothes budget of 40 quid. That list (as it says quite clearly) is just a reflection of what me and Luke listen to. We both really rate the Sunn album. We've both been writing about Sunn for about seven years each now and it's finally really good to see them get the coverage they deserve.

Just so I understand what The Rules are for future reference - is it alright for me to write about metal for the metal press but the second I do it for a none-genre specific title, I become a hipster? Just so I know like. I'm obviously a lot less sophisticated about these things than some on here.

There seems to be a lot of what psychologists would refer to as self-recognition on this thread.

This probably happens like once every other year

Yeah I was gonna say, the idea that the two hiveminds at play here are polar opposites is really not borne out by, well, anything

Any top 50 with the Pissed Jeans album in is better than one without it in </opinions4u>

NME top 50 albums

50 Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose
49 Neko Case & Her Boyfriends - Middle Cyclone
48 Atlas Sound - Logos
47 Telepathe - Dance Mother
46 Gallows - Grey Britain
45 Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter
44 Oneida - Rated O
43 Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
42 Empire Of The Sun - Walking On a Dream
41 Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
40 Crystal Stilts - Alight Of Night
39 Japandroids - Post Nothing
38 Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans
37 Passion Pit - Manners
36 The Drums - Summertime!
35 Sonic Youth - The Eternal
34 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
33 Jay-Z - The Blueprint III
32 Noah And The Whale - The First Days Of Spring
31 Micachu & The Shapes - Jewellry
30 The Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant
29 Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young
28 Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
27 PJ Harvey And John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By
26 Florence And The Machine - Lungs
25 Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
24 Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
23 Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
22 Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
21 Health - Get Color
20 Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
19 The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms
18 Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another
17 Girls - Album
16 Mumford And Sons - Sigh No More
15 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
14 Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
13 La Roux - La Roux
12 Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
11 Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
10 Jamie T – Kings and Queens
09 Fever Ray – Fever Ray
08 Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
07 The Big Pink – A Brief History of Love
06 Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
05 Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
04 Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
03 – Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
02 – The XX – The XX
01 – The Horrors – Primary Colours

NME top 10 Songs

50 The Twilight Sad - I Became A Prostitute
49 The Cribs - Cheat On Me
48 Florence And The Machine - Drumming Song
47 The Maccabees - No Kind Words
46 Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
45 Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy
43 Biffy Clyro - The Captain
42 Manic Street Preachers - Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
41 La Roux - I'm Not Your Toy
40 Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land
39 Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar
38 Girls - Hellhole Ratrace
37 Bon Iver - Blood Bank
36 Washed Out - Feel It All Around
35 Little Boots - New In Town
34 Friendly Fires - Jump In The Pool
33 Phoenix - Lisztomania
32 Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For the Others
31 Future Of The Left - Arming Eritrea
30 Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart
29 Shakira - She Wolf
28 The XX - Islands
27 Chew Lips - Solo
26 Wild Beasts - Hooting And Howling
25 Biffy Clyro - That Golden Rule
24 La Roux - Bulletproof
23 Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move
22 The Big Pink - Velvet
21 Lady Gaga - Poker Face
20 Lily Allen - The Fear
19 La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream remix)
18 Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo
17 Memory Tapes - Bicycle
16 Bat For Lashes - Daniel
15 Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning
14 Jamie T - Sticks & Stones
13 Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension
12 Kasabian - Fire
11 Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone
10 – Health – Die Slow
09 – Lady Gaga – Paparazzi
08 – La Roux – In For The Kill
07 – The Drums – Let’s Go Surfing
06 – Jay-Z – Empire State Of Mind
05 – Animal Collective – My Girls
04 – Dizzee Rascal – Bonkers
03 – The Big Pink – Dominos
02 – The Horrors – Sea Within a Sea
01 – Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero

Lots of La Roux, guess that's better than 60% of the top 5 being MGMT though.

thanks for typing it all out

my apologies, Doran. i had no idea you were in sunn0)))

doran i dont think it was a dig at you btw. Was either a dig at me for slagging the xx off or was just a dig at Sunn o)))
xp

ok that was clearly a dig

i have 3 of the nme list, Neko,Oneida and the manics. Still to get the SY album.

xpost I lolled tbh

my apologies, Doran. i had no idea you were in sunn0)))

Ha ha. I wish. I'm not hip. It's never going to happen. Although I do admit to attending gigs occasionally where people half my age in trucker caps and moustaches do attend and make me uncomfotable with their demonstrative dancing.

oh youre from london then?

18 Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo

Wait WTF how did this get in there?

I'm from St Helens which kind of innoculates me from ever being cool.

Just ask Johnny Vegas, Jacqui Abbott from The Beautiful South or Bernie Clifton.

XP: To Matt DC. Well, I voted for it and so did two of the other people in my office who string for the NME . . .

how many of the bbc sound of 2010 are in it?

I have no business complaining about the results of the tracks given that I could have voted but didn't (being a luddite who listens to actual albums or singles)... but it's not too inspiring to cast your eye over, is it, given that it's almost entirely made up of songs off the top 50 albums?

nme album list fairly listenable

new ilm mantra:

I really don't think you understand other people's taste at all

Odd thing looking at the NME lists - have any of their album top 10, excepting the Horrors, made their cover in the past year? Possibly YYYs, but other than that...

I really don't think you understand other people's taste at all

fixed

Yeah, most of them. Jay Z was a joint cover with Ian Brown. La Roux was top of their future 50 (or one of those things).

maybe they're looking towards 2010 covers
xp

no famous/hip friends

there's still a few days of christmas post to go you know john.
kanye may yet surprise you.

Ha ha. Fuck that chump.

Despite the NME's recent "lol 1999, lol Travis, what were we thinking of, look how everything's snowballed since" editorial, judging by these lists they'll eventually be considering 2009 to be another fallow year.

There's a lot of Old Man Indie in there (The XX, Grizzly Bear, Wild Beasts, Animal Collective) that suggests that the NME and The Kids are miles apart at the moment. Probably further than at any time since the days when they put Shack and Godspeed You Black Emperor on the cover. Can't really see their target audience going wild for much of this stuff, if that audience even exists in reasonable numbers any more.

i was just attempting to point out the irony of someone derriding people that rate, say, the xx as "hipsters" and then turning around and raving about sunn0))) - but then again, it's entirely possible that i have misunderstood herman g neuname's comments?

Q: for the stats fans, how many albums on the NME 2009 list are also on:

A: Uncut 2009 list
B: Mojo 2009 list

Get to it, stats fans!

http://img.thisismoney.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02/AngusLoughran1_203x150.jpg

how can The XX be Old Man Indie when they're all teenagers themselves? i think you're under-estimating "the kids" Matt. or over-estimating them. not sure which anymore.

Karen my comments about the xx are a private running joke with a couple of ilxors (mostly done over on last.fm)

a bit confused at xx and wild beasts being 'old man indie' - not-quite-hip-anymore indie, yeah

i do wonder about the nme audience tho - the expansion of the too-informed-to-read-the-nme indie kid subculture presumably wears it out a little

the covers thing is a bit of a false lead i think - it's like they're trying to put people on the cover that will sell the magazine or something

It just amuses me to be called a hipster when I'm 38

We've both been writing about Sunn for about seven years each now

xxposts Other than maybe (maybe) Grizzly Bear, I wouldn't really call any of those bands "old man indie" - unless I misunderstand what you mean? I think it's good the NME have finally started to get out of their pub-rock hole slightly and start embracing slightly more leftfield (and also non-Brit) stuff than they have done for the last decade or so.

FYI, if you're posting on a rock-writer-centric message board about the XX, you're definitely a hipster to SOMEBODY.

Karen my comments about the xx are a private running joke with a couple of ilxors (mostly done over on last.fm)

whats the joke? The XX aren't really for hipsters so its funny to say that they are?

and start embracing (and also non-Brit) stuff than they have done for the last decade or so.

thats kinda what was thinking upthread when i asked if it had gone pitchfork-y

oh but hipsters do love them.

thought we'd established grizzly bear are dad rock not old man indie

BTW I am *really* loving the Quietus list, and there is a lot to check out. Aside from all the cool avant-garde stuff, who knew that British Sea Power had released another album, with THREE eleven-minute songs?

the NME of 2009 reminds me of Select magazine circa 2000, a mixed bag with no distinctive direction

select magazine - best albums of 2000
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/select.html

1. Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
2. Primal Scream – Xtrmntr
3. Granddaddy – The Sophtware Slump
4. Godspeed You Black Emperor
5. Coldplay – Parachutes
6. Radiohead – Kid A
7. Lambchop – Nixon
8. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
9. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Madonna
10. Doves – Lost Souls
11. Queens Of The Stone Age – Rated R
12. Black Box Recorder – The Facts Of Life
13. Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
14. David Holmes – Bow Down To The Exit Sign
15. At The Drive In – Relationship Of Command
16. Kellies – Kaleidoscope
17. Bent – Programmed To Love
18. JJ72 – JJ72
19. Yo La Tengo – And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
20. Shellac – 1000 Hurts
21. Deltron 3030 – Deltron 3030
22. The Delgados – The Great Eastern
23. Add N To (X) – Add Insult To Injury
24. Chris Morris – Blue Jam
25. Fatboy Slim – Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars
26. Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun
27. Kathryn Williams – Little Black Numbers
28. Various – Sound Of The Pirates [Mixes By Zed Bias]
29. Belle And Sebastian – Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
30. The RZA – Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai OST

ayo, Quietus, i like and respect and visit your site, but i don't know at which point you guys thought you were People magazine and thought it would be a good idea to wrestle maximum hit counts by making your year end list a one-entry-a-click listicle. No fuckin way I'm clickin through 40 entries to find out how high you ranked a Flaming Lips album, duders.