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

please to be naming cuz they ain't jumping on first full listen

Not on nearly enough lists: Dam Funk.

i kinda don't get the dirty projectors album at all and i generally dig well-executed leftfield arty shit...the narratives aren't interesting imo and the tunes not altogether great...it's just a bit empty for me

but then subjectivity calls...fair enough it ain't my thing and i have cloth ears

i kinda don't get the dirty projectors album at all and i generally dig well-executed leftfield arty shit...the narratives aren't interesting imo and the tunes not altogether great...it's just a bit empty for me

but then subjectivity calls...fair enough it ain't my thing and i have cloth ears
--102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic)

Didn't you only check it out about fifty messages ago? Give it a chance man. The last track is the only one I'm not too fussed about, the rest is pretty stunning IMO.

I'll give it another listen. I'll give GAPDY another listen, man. It's all I have left to give.

"man, why is nothing on this dirty projectors album nearly as good as stillness is the move?"

It's the burning question. It's Midlake and Roscoe all over again.

The Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1234927/Now-thats-I-music-The-50-best-albums-Noughties.html#ixzz0ZLnJZHK

1. AMY WINEHOUSE: Back To Black (Island, 2006)
2. COLDPLAY: A Rush Of Blood To The Head (Parlophone, 2002)
3. THE KILLERS: Hot Fuss (Lizard King, 2004)
4. MADONNA: Confessions On A Dance Floor (Warner Bros., 2005)
5. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: The Rising (Columbia, 2002)
6. LILY ALLEN: Alright, Still (Parlophone, 2006)
7. ALICIA KEYS: The Diary Of Alicia Keys (J Records, 2003)
8. THE WHITE STRIPES: Elephant (Third Man, 2003)
9. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS: By The Way (Warner Bros., 2002)
10. ADELE: 19 (XL, 2008)
11. ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS: Raising Sand (Rounder, 2007)
12. KANYE WEST: Graduation (Roc-A-Fella, 2007)
13. NORAH JONES: Come Away With Me (Blue Note, 2002)
14. DESTINY'S CHILD: Survivor (Columbia, 2001)
15. LADY GAGA: The Fame (Interscope, 2009)
16. GORILLAZ: Gorillaz (Parlophone, 2001)
17. CHRISTINA AGUILERA: Back To Basics (RCA, 2006)
18. FLORENCE & THE MACHINE: Lungs (Island, 2009)
19. ARCTIC MONKEYS: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (Domino, 2006)
20. GIRLS ALOUD: Tangled Up (Fascination, 2007)
21. SNOW PATROL: Final Straw (Fiction, 2004)
22. THE STROKES: Is This It (Rough Trade, 2001)
23. TAKE THAT: Beautiful World (Polydor, 2006)
24. JOHN LEGEND: Get Lifted (Columbia, 2005)
25. BOB DYLAN: Love And Theft (Columbia, 2001)
26. THE ARCADE FIRE: Funeral (Merge, 2005)
27. THE BLACK EYED PEAS: Elephunk (A&M, 2003)
28. KINGS OF LEON: Only By The Night (Columbia, 2008)
29. FRANZ FERDINAND: Franz Ferdinand (Domino, 2004)
30. RADIOHEAD: In Rainbows (XL, 2007)
31. NE-YO: Year Of The Gentleman (Def Jam, 200
32. FLEET FOXES: Fleet Foxes (Bella Union, 2008)
33. KEANE: Hopes And Fears (Island, 2004)
34. GREEN DAY: American Idiot (Reprise, 2004)
35. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE: Justified (Jive, 2002)
36. COLDPLAY: Parachutes (Parlophone, 2000)
37. RIHANNA: Good Girl Gone Bad (Def Jam, 2007)
38. SCISSOR SISTERS: Scissor Sisters (Polydor, 2004)
39. MUSE: Black Holes & Revelations (Warner Bros., 2006)
40. THE KILLERS: Sam's Town (Mercury, 2006)
41. MIKA: Life In Cartoon Motion (Casablanca, 2007)
42. MARK RONSON: Version (Sony BMG, 2007)
43. PAOLO NUTINI: Sunny Side Up (Atlantic, 2009)
44. KYLIE: Fever (Parlophone, 2001)
45. SUFJAN STEVENS: Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty, 2005)
46. JOSS STONE: The Soul Sessions (Relentless, 2003)
47. ESTELLE: Shine (HomeSchool/ Atlantic, 200
48. THE KOOKS: Inside In / Inside Out (Virgin, 2006)
49. KAISER CHIEFS: Employment (B-Unique, 2005)
50. VAMPIRE WEEKEND: Vampire Weekend (XL, 2008)

I really hope that list causes a new and bitter fight between critics to rage across three Tumblrs, two message boards and several blogs, but I somehow doubt it.

lol daily mail. I did not expect that.

it's on the wrong thread btw!

it's allowed for being wtf

That last top ten is a masterpiece of awfulness.

I actually really like 3 of that top 10 - more than I agree with the RS or P4k decade top 10.

it's weird to see a list like that which cleaves so solidly to sales lists and is pretty MOR, and to think it's refreshing because the grizzly collective consensus elsewhere is so boring

it's good to see winehouse, keys, destiny's child and aguilera ranked highly (though it's the wrong aguilera album)

they picked the right girls aloud album as well

Also, lol @ the absence of Kid A in that Daily Mail list.

i think that means it automatically beats every other publication's list

Come on up fer a rising.

Pretty sure Dame Vera Lynn's recent album should be in there but I can't see it.

the countdown for the inevitable Daily Mail top ten v.s. P4k top ten poll begins

I really really hope they hit up like Richard Littlejohn and Stephen Glover for their top 10s

Just wait until the shadow cabinet post their end of year lists.

please to be naming cuz they ain't jumping on first full listen

― that is a whole discussion within itself that is worth debating (forksclovetofu), Friday, December 11, 2009 12:49 PM (2 hours ago)

"no intention" and especially "two doves" for sure

playing now

I saw it mentioned briefly up above, but I'm shocked that the Lindstrom & Prins Thomas hasn't popped up in very many places. Is that an ILM thing?

i think what i like about stillness is that it sounds like rnb to me and two doves feels like sorta soggy tropicalia? no intention is popping a bit; I have a weakness for african-sounding orchestration even when it's hipster appropriated. all this is on a few listens so i should likely just marinate

REALLY not digging the male lead vox

I quite enjoyed the DP's show at PFM Fest 2008, so I was ready to give this album a chance. Its charm wore off quickly though. Being so close to them magnified their quirks.

Apologies for the crap scan.
http://i49.tinypic.com/14xm992.jpg

This article seems to be making a big deal that this years NME top 50 only has 16 major label albums, when presumably it was more in recent years.

Does the NME top 50 and this article mean the NME is about to change under new editor Krissi Murison?

Seems like a change that's already been guided along by outside influences of the type we've already talked about on here to me

Also, like, congratulations to indie minnows Warp, Domino, Rough Trade and XL among others but the idea that these are operations spirited along by some altruistic and pure love of music with no thought of financial gain might be a tiny bit naive

When's the best time for a P4K-friendly band to release an album and get rave reviews before the indie backlash can build momentum and the inclusion of the album on year-end lists prompts snickering? Sometime in the early fall? I mean, by the time Andy Samberg is putting you at the top of his year end list it's probably a good idea to skip Hipstertown for awhile.

forks entirely otm about the DPs

THERE'S A NEW MUSIC TAKING OVER THE COUNTRY

and it's as tired as that meme.

that nme article atually quotes pitchfork in it. Which is what I said about the list a few days ago. The NME is clearly going in a pitchfork direction.

i suppose some people will be happy if the NME is abandoning the conventional rock landfill indie its covered since conor mac tookover but will its audience? Wouldn't be surprised if they just stopped buying NME,and why would Animal Collective,Grizzly Bear and so on fans buy NME when they can read pitchfork for free?

I'll give it another listen. I'll give GAPDY another listen, man. It's all I have left to give.

― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Friday, December 11, 2009 1:00 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lj i consider you someone on this board who for better or worse has a very singular and idiosyncratic personal taste in music who celebrates that fact obnoxiously but imo appropriately. so i dunno why you even bother trying to be subjective and sitting yourself down with a bunch of consensus stuff agreed upon by people w/ completely different priorities from you and force yourself to listen to them. actually that goes for a lot of people on this board, fuck keeping up with the times if you've already got plenty of records you didn't have to try hard to like.

actually LJ has been known to give records second and third chances before.

moreso than a lot of people on this board.

you mean objective, right? thing is sometimes the consensus pulls out a gem! it's worth trying, just in case. see: studio - west coast, among others. i know that these records aren't always trying to do things i will deeply engage with but it's worth a go! anyway, i'm taking that post as a compliment if you don't mind

although you are right that there's a lot i have to catch up on that'll be more important to me that i am perhaps deferring in favour of more widely-known stuff. this is where the internet hopefully steps in and taps me on the shoulder. 'hey, remember us? we just released our 3rd album! you once totally overhyped us on an ilx thread! helll-oooo!'

yah i totally came round to portishead - third after like a year of naysaying but i think most ilxors have such conversions

right yeah objective

but i did mean it as a compliment, i respect your prog gangsta

\m/

i will ne'er speak ill of SY or goon

SoulBounce editors' Top 10 tracks:

http://soulbounce.com/soul/2009/12/year-end_top_10_ros_picks_of_2009.php
http://soulbounce.com/soul/2009/12/soulbounce_presents_harlems_top_ten_picks_of_2009.php
http://soulbounce.com/soul/2009/12/year-end_top_10_buttas_picks_for_2009.php
http://soulbounce.com/soul/2009/12/year-end_top_10_faves_picks_of_2009.php
http://soulbounce.com/soul/2009/12/year-end_top_10_ill_mamis_picks_of_2009.php

I see the Richard Hawley album sneaking into a number of year-end lists. Not sure this new disc is anywhere near as good as Cole's Corner, but Hawley is sorely underappreciated, so it's nice to see him get some recognition.

I completely forgot he had a new one out this year! Maybe I should try to track it down before finalizing my lists. Loved the last two discs.

i can't bring myself to listen to something called "Joy Orbison" am i missing out?

yes, actually. hyph mngo is a good track.
i just spent most of my day putting together my pazz and jop ballot.
Started out with a base pool of 16 albums and 225 singles.
Singles were cut to 125 that i love, 25 that i really love and 10 i want to vote for and albums were easier to cut down.
Anybody care for a rehash?

http://www.novaslim.com/2009/12/my-21-favorite-songs-of-2009/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter -- from SoulBounce's founding editor.