finally back!
― Bee OK, Thursday, 1 September 2016 00:46 (seven years ago) link
and will finish out albums now.
Journal for Plague Lovers. A great rock album.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 1 September 2016 00:50 (seven years ago) link
Sunday, Monday, GAPDY Days
― you think Lou Bega gave up after Mambo Number One??? (voodoo chili), Thursday, 1 September 2016 01:03 (seven years ago) link
This is either Bitte Orca or Monoliths & Dimensions. Tough choice!
― Frederik B, Thursday, 1 September 2016 01:04 (seven years ago) link
yeah yeah yeahs out of these choices, but the two best albums of 2009 were made by the-dream ("love vs money" and electrik red's "how to be a lady, vol 1")
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Thursday, 1 September 2016 01:12 (seven years ago) link
Bat for Lashes
― o. nate, Thursday, 1 September 2016 01:19 (seven years ago) link
Dan Deacon's Bromst not on the list? What the hey
― frogbs, Thursday, 1 September 2016 01:23 (seven years ago) link
Either It's Blitz! or Journal For Plague Lovers
I listened to Embryonic a lot at the time, but haven't really felt the need to dig it out in recent years. Humbug may just be Arctic Monkeys finest work, which isn't saying much.
Voting for It's Blitz!
Animal Collective can fuck off, as usual.
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Thursday, 1 September 2016 01:25 (seven years ago) link
Oh shit, Fever Ray is on here...
...ah well, it's still It's Blitz!
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Thursday, 1 September 2016 01:26 (seven years ago) link
Wow, hadn't noticed that Love vs Money isn't on there. That's crazy.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 1 September 2016 01:35 (seven years ago) link
This has to be the worst of all these lists. Total peak of indie critical dominance crowding out what was actually amazing that year. That said I do like about 10 of these albums.
Actual best albums of 2009:
Electrik Red - How To Be A Lady, Vol. 1The-Dream - Love vs MoneyShafiq Husayn - Shafiq En' A-Free-Ka
Best albums on this list:
Fever Ray - S/TThe XX - S/TLady Gaga - The Fame Monster
― Tim F, Thursday, 1 September 2016 05:06 (seven years ago) link
there is some good stuff in here but mostly yikes @ this list
too bad them crooked vultures didn't quite make the top 30
― it's sort of a layered stunt (sheesh), Thursday, 1 September 2016 05:24 (seven years ago) link
Shocked that Bromst isn't on here. Love so much stuff that came out this year: YESTERDAY'S WORK by Ecstatic Sunshine especially, look that one up. Javelin's record, s/t i think? the last Sonic Youth album isn't very good but I'm glad I got to see them live before the split. Paul Banks' Julian Plenti album SKYSCRAPER is great, but that whole thing is really fans only... but I saw Animal Collective play two days in a row that May, Dan Higgs opened the first, Grouper the second....up front for Higgs but behind hundreds of chattering heads during Grouper, got DDD on cd at that show and i played it almost as much as Merriweather that year... so yeah, it's gotta be Merriweather, a record I anticipated for a year and a half that leaked on Christmas, I'll never forget listening to that thing for the first time late at night, stoned, with the same Sennheiser headphones i still have, and when those drums kick in on "In the Flowers"... to bottle that feeling... pure magic... love so many records on this list though, it was a very exciting time for sure...
― flappy bird, Thursday, 1 September 2016 05:24 (seven years ago) link
to me and my friends, they were our Beatles... age of course a major factor here... but i'm so grateful to have had that experience and relationship with a band like AC, where i saw them move and grow for five years from record to record, each better than the last. Merriweather is the peak of that, and it's tied with some very intense feelings for me... still love it, but i really wore the thing out...
― flappy bird, Thursday, 1 September 2016 05:28 (seven years ago) link
Two Dancers
― nate woolls, Thursday, 1 September 2016 06:15 (seven years ago) link
what an absolute shit show. the only ones here I really care for any more are SunnO))) and St Vincent
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Thursday, 1 September 2016 06:31 (seven years ago) link
Amazing year for hiphop but you'd never know it from this top 30 :(
― billstevejim, Thursday, 1 September 2016 06:33 (seven years ago) link
Wow, not a lot to choose from here. Neko Case is my favourite by a mile, St. Vincent a distant second.
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 1 September 2016 07:40 (seven years ago) link
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Thursday, 1 September 2016 10:02 (seven years ago) link
yuck ugh christ
― imago, Thursday, 1 September 2016 10:03 (seven years ago) link
xx album is still great
― groovemaaan, Thursday, 1 September 2016 10:04 (seven years ago) link
no
GAPDYX really was a thing, and it really was fucking awful. at least Fever Ray is in there ruining its primacy
― imago, Thursday, 1 September 2016 10:10 (seven years ago) link
I guess some of these albums have good stuff on them (FR, Horrors, Flaming Lips, St Vincent, Mastodon, Sunn O))), maybe even Lady Gaga) but I'd hardly describe any of them as a good album these days. What WAS good from 2009, though? According to my records, Thumpermonkey, Devin Townsend and Cheer-Accident, all of whom all of you have heard of. Ugh
― imago, Thursday, 1 September 2016 10:17 (seven years ago) link
These were the best electronic albums of 2009 (besides Fever Ray, of course):
Hell - TeufelswerkReagenz - PlaytimeTBA_Natalie Beridze - PendingEtienne Jaumet - Night MusicDinky - AnemicAda - AdaptationsDJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 BluesNamlook / Le Mar - Namlook / Le Mar
― Tuomas, Thursday, 1 September 2016 10:24 (seven years ago) link
Playtime especially is a slept-on classic, one of the best house albums of the last 15 years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HTQ_gB9pHA
― Tuomas, Thursday, 1 September 2016 10:26 (seven years ago) link
top 5 this year
Washed Out - Life Of Leisure EPNeon Indian - Psychic ChasmsMemory Tapes - Seek MagicChilly Wavezales - FuckaducktailsVarious - Wave Up America, Your're Chill
― nashwan, Thursday, 1 September 2016 10:48 (seven years ago) link
Here is the ILX EOY list for this:
50 -- Gucci Mane - Burrprint 3D (89.5 points, 9 votes) (dnp in p4k, 195 in p&j)49 -- Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay (91 points, 11 votes) (dnp in p4k, 226 in p&j)48 -- Girls - Album (92 points, 10 votes) (10 in p4k, 10 in p&j)47 -- Baroness - Blue Record (92 points, 11 votes) (41 in p4k, 19 in p&j)46 -- Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career (93 points, 8 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 30 in p&j)45 -- Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux (96 points, 6 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, dnp in p&j)44 -- UGK - UGK 4 Life (96.5 points, 10 votes) (dnp in p4k, 311 in p&j)43 -- Henrik Schwarz, Âme and Dixon - The Grandfather Paradox (98 points, 9 votes) (dnp in p4k, 816 in p&j)42 -- Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (98.5 points, 10 votes) (6 in p4k, 6 in p&j)41 -- NOMO - Invisible Cities (101 points, 7 votes) (dnp in p4k, 356 in p&j)40 -- El Perro Del Mar - Love Is Not Pop (104.5 points, 8 votes, 2 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 1558 in p&j)39 -- Meanderthals - Desire Lines (104.5 points, 9 votes) (dnp in p4k, 877 in p&j)38 -- JJ – jj n° 2 (104.5 points, 9 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (35 in p4k, 105 in p&j)37 -- Horrors - Primary Colours (106.5 points, 11 votes) (dnp in p4k, 65 in p&j)36 -- Neko Case - Middle Cyclone (107 points, 12 votes, 2 #1 vote/s) (21 in p4k, 3 in p&j)35 -- The Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come (110.5 points, 10 votes) (45 in p4k, 80 in p&j)34 -- Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster (111.5 points, 10 votes) (dnp in p4k, 31 in p&j)33 -- Mariah Carey - Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel (112 points, 8 votes) (dnp in p4k, 332 in p&j)32 -- Broadcast & The Focus Group - ...Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age (112.5 points, 9 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 88 in p&j)31 -- Miranda Lambert - Revolution (115 points, 9 votes) (dnp in p4k, 25 in p&j)30 -- Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care (115 points, 10 votes, #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 199 in p&j)29 -- Röyksopp - Junior (116 points, 9 votes, #1 vote/s) (30 in p4k, 301 in p&j)28 -- Omar-S - Fabric 45: Detroit (123 points, 10 votes) (dnp in p4k, 134 in p&j)27 -- Mungolian Jet Set - We Gave it All Away...Now We Are Taking It Back (128.5 points, 10 votes) (dnp in p4k, 744 in p&j)26 -- Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You (136 points, 10 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 22 in p&j)25 -- Dâm-Funk - Toeachizown (138 points, 13 votes) (dnp in p4k, 47 in p&j)24 -- Death - ...For the Whole World To See (145.5 points, 12 votes) (dnp in p4k, 151 in p&j)23 -- Rihanna - Rated R (152.5 points, 16 votes) (dnp in p4k, 125 in p&j)22 -- Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another (163 points, 11 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 67 in p&j)21 -- St. Vincent - Actor (167 points, 12 votes, #1 vote/s) (13 in p4k, 12 in p&j)20 -- Mastodon - Crack the Skye (170.5 points, 12 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 18 in p&j)19 -- Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II (172 points, 15 votes, no #1 vote/s) (5 in p4k, 8 in p&j)18 -- Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (181 points, 15 votes, no #1 vote/s) (7 in p4k, 23 in p&j)]17 -- The Flaming Lips - Embryonic (182 points, 15 votes, 2 #1 vote/s) (4 in p4k, 9 in p&j)16 -- Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night (190 points, 17 votes, no #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 14 in p&j)15 -- Sunn 0))) - Monoliths And Dimensions (212 points, 17 votes, no #1 vote/s) (31 in p4k, 42 in p&j)14 -- The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come (240 points, 22 votes, 2 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 126 in p&j)13 -- Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport (265 points, 24 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (11 in p4k, 39 in p&j)12 -- DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues (270 points, 19 votes, 3 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 82 in p&j)11 -- Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II (285.5 points, 22 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 359 in p&j)10 -- Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (290.5 points, 23 votes, 3 #1 vote/s) (2 in p4k, 5 in p&j)9 -- Taylor Swift - Fearless (292 points, 19 votes, 2 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 186 in p&j)8 -- Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (300 points, 23 votes, 3 #1 vote/s) (8 in p4k, 2 in p&j)7 -- Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (348 points, 27 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (1 in p4k, 1 in p&j)6 -- DJ Quik and Kurupt - Blaqkout (353.5 points, 27 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (25 in p4k, 62 in p&j)5 -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (386.5 points, 34 votes, 1 #1 vote/s) (12 in p4k, 4 in p&j)4 -- Electrik Red - How to Be a Lady Vol. 1 (455.5 points, 28 votes, 6 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 148 in p&j)3 -- The xx - xx (514 points, 39 votes, 2 #1 vote/s) (3 in p4k, 7 in p&j)2 -- The-Dream - Love vs. Money (538.5 points, 34 votes, 10 #1 vote/s) (dnp in p4k, 16 in p&j)1 -- Fever Ray - Fever Ray (636.5 points, 44 votes, 5 #1 vote/s) (9 in p4k, 13 in p&j)
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Thursday, 1 September 2016 10:58 (seven years ago) link
I was hoping this would throw up a few more good ones, but there's still not a lot here that makes me very excited. Maybe it's just too much in that middle-ground between recent and long ago to get passionate about.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Thursday, 1 September 2016 11:01 (seven years ago) link
TFW you realize you were so out of the loop in 2009 that you didn't hear ANY of the Acclaimed Music top 30 albums (or any of the ILX top 31 albums) all the way through.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 1 September 2016 11:03 (seven years ago) link
looking at that list, it really feels like things have moved on quite significantly since it was compiled. Fuck Buttons came up on my Spotify Discovery Weekly the other day and it has not aged very well at all.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Thursday, 1 September 2016 11:22 (seven years ago) link
Fever Ray, but only because DJ Sprinkles isn't on the list
― paolo, Thursday, 1 September 2016 11:29 (seven years ago) link
While the ilx list has Love vs Money, and therefore almost by definition is the better list, it's... not that good either, right? At least the top 30. Anyone here really still thinks the sound of 2009 was Junior Boys, Royksopp or Lily Allen?
― Frederik B, Thursday, 1 September 2016 11:35 (seven years ago) link
Checking the website, The-Dream isn't even on the 'bubbling under' list. Wtf? That's something that will surely be changed with some historical perspective.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 1 September 2016 11:37 (seven years ago) link
Anyone here really still thinks the sound of 2009 was Junior Boys, Royksopp or Lily Allen?
They were all (arguably over)benefiting from previously rated works which is typical list fare, I don't think anyone was claiming they were career peaks for any of them or particularly representative of trends of the time.
― nashwan, Thursday, 1 September 2016 11:49 (seven years ago) link
definitely the xx album for me.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 1 September 2016 11:54 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, Electrik Red, DJ Sprinkles and The-Dream would be my Top 3 for this year but Fever Ray is close behind so I'll vote for that. Lots of other good stuff missing:
Oneohtrix Point Never - Zones Without PeopleBaroness - Blue RecordWolves in the Throne Room - Black CascadeGucci Mane - BurrprintParamore - Brand New EyesThe Jacka - Tear GasLindstrøm & Prins Thomas - II
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 1 September 2016 11:59 (seven years ago) link
Rifts is from 2009! That's surely also an album that will make it unto the list in time.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 1 September 2016 12:03 (seven years ago) link
Omg I forgot that Fall Out Boy was this year. And Maxwell.
But I think of DJ Sprinkles as 2008.
― Tim F, Thursday, 1 September 2016 12:09 (seven years ago) link
I don't think anyone was claiming they were career peaks for any of them
I would claim that's Lily Allen's best album, at least.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 1 September 2016 12:14 (seven years ago) link
I was going to vote for Two Suns, but then I noticed that Gaga was on the Acclaimed list and I voted for that.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 1 September 2016 12:15 (seven years ago) link
Prob St. Vincent or Bat for Lashes or Phoenix.
That xx album is such a boring nothing for being a widely-hailed album.
― Our Meals Are Hot And Fresh! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 September 2016 12:20 (seven years ago) link
Between Two Dancers and It's Blitz.
Where is Blaqkout?????
― you think Lou Bega gave up after Mambo Number One??? (voodoo chili), Thursday, 1 September 2016 12:24 (seven years ago) link
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix still holds up
Embryonic was pretty thrilling on first listen, but I haven't returned to it much since
― you think Lou Bega gave up after Mambo Number One??? (voodoo chili), Thursday, 1 September 2016 12:26 (seven years ago) link
Toeachizown is a pretty glaring omission, how do you ignore 5 LPs of pristine funk like that
― frogbs, Thursday, 1 September 2016 12:30 (seven years ago) link
oh yeah dam-funk and blaqkout are each in my top 5 from this year i think
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Thursday, 1 September 2016 12:32 (seven years ago) link
2009 was probably the year i listened to the most music and i remember it fondly
Fever Ray is probably most deserving here, but the Mastodon album is the one I come back to the most
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Thursday, 1 September 2016 13:33 (seven years ago) link
Fever Ray is alright but I'd much sooner listen to Silent Shout or Shaking The Habitual. There've been a hell of a lot of other records before and since that share the same sonic qualities as that album.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Thursday, 1 September 2016 13:35 (seven years ago) link
Teen Dream came out in 2010
― I know hoes that know Ali Farka Toure (voodoo chili), Friday, 2 September 2016 14:35 (seven years ago) link
A Sunny Day in Glasgow's "Ashes Grammar" was the big album for me at the time. Of the options here I guess it's Callahan or Bat for Lashes.
― geoffreyess, Friday, 2 September 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link
So it did! Not sure how I remembered it so clearly along with other 2009 albums. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Austin, Friday, 2 September 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
pretty sure it came out in january or february 2010
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 September 2016 18:52 (seven years ago) link
none that were really that great on here either
a few major omissions
toe's for long tomorrow was on heavy rotation this year for me
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 2 September 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link
fuck, _the visitor_ came out in '09!
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Friday, 2 September 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link
My favorite and by far most-played album from 2009 is Polvo's In Prism.
Best song: The Mountain Goats - "Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace"Close second: Bat for Lashes - "Daniel"
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 2 September 2016 19:42 (seven years ago) link
ya in prism wasn't bad
but i dig their older stuff way more
was just listening to cor-crane secret yesterday
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 2 September 2016 20:10 (seven years ago) link
Oh man, can't believe I forgot The Visitor!
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 September 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
I listened to General Elektriks "Good City for Dreamers" a lot in 2009, still holds up pretty dang well imo
― erudite beach boys fan (sheesh), Friday, 2 September 2016 23:06 (seven years ago) link
japandroids. woulda voted for miranda had she been on there, though.
― dc, Saturday, 3 September 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
isn't The Vistor, ABBA?
― Bee OK, Saturday, 3 September 2016 01:36 (seven years ago) link
jim o'rourke
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Saturday, 3 September 2016 01:40 (seven years ago) link
oh i see, ABBA is the Visitors. you must be talking about UFO then?
― Bee OK, Saturday, 3 September 2016 01:40 (seven years ago) link
oh, haha.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 3 September 2016 01:41 (seven years ago) link
UFO wasn't making sense (as metal is not that big around here) but they did release an album called The Visitor in 2009.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 3 September 2016 01:51 (seven years ago) link
or i should have said, this isn't Rate Your Music so UFO made no sense.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 3 September 2016 01:58 (seven years ago) link
don't know any of this. my faves of that year are:
lindstrom & prins thomasdj sprinklesreagenzleyland kirby (blech sentimental emo ambient done right!!)
― brimstead, Saturday, 3 September 2016 03:48 (seven years ago) link
i guess i liked that bat for lashes album ok.wait, the fame monster, i'm voting for that.
― brimstead, Saturday, 3 September 2016 03:49 (seven years ago) link
don't know it's different from the fame, tbh
― brimstead, Saturday, 3 September 2016 03:50 (seven years ago) link
don't know how it's different, i meant to say
GAPDYX
gucciace hoodplies???young money???
― brimstead, Saturday, 3 September 2016 04:26 (seven years ago) link
GucciAce HoodPlies DMXYoung MoneyX Gon Give It To Ya
― I know hoes that know Ali Farka Toure (voodoo chili), Saturday, 3 September 2016 09:20 (seven years ago) link
Girls, St. Vincent and Neko Case are classics in my collection - voting Girls
― niels, Saturday, 3 September 2016 10:27 (seven years ago) link
Went Fuck Buttons. Girls a close second
― octobeard, Saturday, 3 September 2016 12:45 (seven years ago) link
there's enough I like here but nothing really great, a pretty weak list (though very skewed)
xx over Fever Ray, I guess
― ufo, Saturday, 3 September 2016 13:01 (seven years ago) link
Other's I like from this list:
Top:
4 595 Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca5 626 Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Just Under:
1 184 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion2 304 The xx - xx
A Bit More Below:
12 1035 The Flaming Lips - Embryonic6 627 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix7 801 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!16 1586 Arctic Monkeys - Humbug19 1739 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart8 803 The Horrors - Primary Colours
― the future is now, Sunday, 4 September 2016 00:50 (seven years ago) link
I must the only one who thinks Crack the Skye is one of the finest albums of the last decade at least. Oh well. And I've never heard them but The Pains of Being Pure at Heart must be one of the most irrationally(?) infuriating bandnames ever.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Sunday, 4 September 2016 12:54 (seven years ago) link
Some great rediscoveries from a smart playlist of the 2009 songs I gave a rating of 3 stars or more over the years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GzjCG0JjI4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJuziTMtXKk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Scx9fVHPHA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OysOL_Xn-Ik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QASe0nt_Lng
― ArchCarrier, Sunday, 4 September 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 5 September 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
Finally decided and voting for Dirty Projectors.
― Bee OK, Monday, 5 September 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
Where the fuck did the GAPDY thing come from anyway?
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 5 September 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link
god, I'd forgotten how out of control the animal-centric band naming was back then
― Darin, Monday, 5 September 2016 21:24 (seven years ago) link
it was bad. but now there are a lot of sports-centric names in indie rock. one thing i miss about this era is the sense of experimentation and somewhat avant garde stuff that permeated indie music. now we're stuck with boring 80s/90s indie/college rock revivalists like Parquet Courts, Car Seat Headrest, Modern Baseball, Speedy Ortiz, Metz, The Men, etc. Even dross like Fuck Buttons and Ear Pwr was compelling in a way that all of those R.E.M. and Pavement clones are not.
― flappy bird, Monday, 5 September 2016 22:05 (seven years ago) link
yeah but even by 2009 it was all that lonely cabin woodchopper crap
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Monday, 5 September 2016 22:31 (seven years ago) link
i'll take that over car seat fucking headrest any day
― flappy bird, Monday, 5 September 2016 22:35 (seven years ago) link
i mean, For Emma, Forever Ago is great, but it's like In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, so hard to separate it from all the cultural detritus caused by it. the weird new america/last great generation of noise rock bands were still active and relevant i feel (the Lightning Bolt LP from 2009 is great, and Black Dice put out their best work REPO in 2009. same goes for Eric Copeland). that lasted until 2010/2011. i don't think vest rock/cabincore became omnipresent until 2011.
― flappy bird, Monday, 5 September 2016 22:40 (seven years ago) link
boring 80s/90s indie/college rock revivalists like... Modern Baseball
uh
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 5 September 2016 22:45 (seven years ago) link
Emo bullshit, whatever. They're still boring as fuck & doing absolutely nothing new. Can't wait for them to fade away
― flappy bird, Monday, 5 September 2016 23:12 (seven years ago) link
one thing i miss about this era is the sense of experimentation and somewhat avant garde stuff that permeated indie music.
The problem was, a lot of the acts that were doing it really shouldn't have been doing it. A lot of them were fucking awful at it and the music has aged horrendously.
Metz fucking rule.
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Monday, 5 September 2016 23:14 (seven years ago) link
Seriously, 2007-2010 is probably one of the worst times in... *groans* ... "indie music" I can ever remember. Just endless amounts of utter, utter shit.
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Monday, 5 September 2016 23:21 (seven years ago) link
the reason for my Dirty Projectors vote is this story: i was working for a rental car company and they asked if i wanted to go to Las Vegas to pick up a Camaro, the one that is in all those Transformers movies. left the night before and actually won some money, paid for my trip and then some. anyways, i put on Bitte Orca and started to rock out. before i knew it i was up to 95 MPH and didn't i get pulled over. if i was going any faster i would have went to jail, nonetheless it still cost me a pretty penny. i played the album twice as this was going to be a memory of my Vegas trip in 2009.
― Bee OK, Monday, 5 September 2016 23:39 (seven years ago) link
the real answer is probably Fever Ray but not going to get my vote here.
― Bee OK, Monday, 5 September 2016 23:43 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
Thank you, Fever Ray!
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 00:15 (seven years ago) link
Close enough :)
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 00:16 (seven years ago) link
another strong showing for Neko :)
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 01:14 (seven years ago) link
I knew it wouldn't get very many votes - and even I wouldntve voted for it - but I still think Hospice is a great sadsack indie rock record along the lines of In the Aeroplane over the Sea or The Meadowlands
― carly reagan jepsen (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 01:29 (seven years ago) link
Hospice is beyond sadsack melancholy though, I think I'd rather have cancer that listen to it again
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 01:36 (seven years ago) link
Missed this one.
Would have voted Phoenix
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 09:04 (seven years ago) link