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

lex diamond story had some bangin joints on it too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQXf_8Yzsgo

oh man, i put the blaq poet album on my "to review" list last night, i'm glad you're giving me hope in it's awesomeness

PLANET SOUND

Top 50 albums of 20091) Telekinesis! Telekinesis
2) Checkmate Savage The Phantom Band
3) Primary Colours The Horrors
4) Journal For Plague Lovers Manic Street Preachers
5) Colonia A Camp
6) Twice Born Men Sweet Billy Pilgrim
7) Up From Below Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros
8) Veckatimest Grizzly Bear
9) Flashmob Vitalic
10) The Sleeper The Leisure Society

11) The First Days Of Spring Noah And The Whale
12) Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast Cornershop
13) It's Blitz Yeah Yeah Yeahs
14) Hazards Of Love The Decemberists
15) Epcot Starfields Windmill
16) We Ain't Got No Money, Honey, But We Got Rain Liam Frost
17) Two Dancers Wild Beasts
18) Junior Royksopp
19) Empire Of The Sun Empire Of The Sun 20) My Maudlin Career Camera Obscura

21) Until The Earth Begins To Part Broken Records
22) Monsters Of Folk Monsters Of Folk
23) Forget The Night Ahead Twilight Sad 24) Hundreds Of Lions Erin McKeown
25) Origin Orphan The Hidden Cameras
26) Everything Is New Jack Penate
27) New Worlds Charlotte Hatherley
28) The Liberty Of Norton Folgate Madness
29) Bitte Orca Dirty Projectors
30) Kingdom Of Rust Doves

31) Turning The Mind Maps
32) Tarot Sport F*** Buttons
33) Don't Stop Annie
34) Beginning Middle End The B Of The Bang
35) Fantasies Metric
36) Yeah So Slow Club
37) Travels With Myself And Another Future Of The Left
38) Room 7½ Dot Allison
39) Wilco (The Album) Wilco
40) To The City From The Sea Beat The Radar

41) Gorilla Manor Local Natives
42) Truelove's Gutter Richard Hawley
43) Lonely Road Liam McKahey And The Bodies
44) Hands Little Boots
45) The Real Feel Spiral Stairs
46) The Last Laugh Joker's Daughter
47) Which B***h? The View
48) Once Kid Harpoon
49) The Duckworth Lewis Method The Duckworth Lewis Method
50) The New Pop Sound Of DON'T MOVE!

I know, but this time it's complete. And shut.

I'm thinking that Janet "Make Me" track is a great late contender for end of the year lists.

http://www.slate.com/id/2237677/entry/2238149/

Y'all reading Jody Rosen of Slate and Ann Powers, Jonah Weiner, and Carl Wilson talking about the year and their faves and the state of hiphop; and club beats in the American top 40. I never seem to agree with Powers---she's busy hailing Lady Gaga in one of the week's worth of items here. Jody Rosen has suddenly discovered NYC bachata hearthrobs Aventura and he's repping for Baltimore too.

Jibing with Ann and Jody's "Ladies' Year" theory, three of the best rock records I heard this year came courtesy of (three very different) women: Karen O. on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' sleek dance-floor offensive It's Blitz!, Mica Levi on Micachu and the Shapes' art-school-cum-romper-room rave-up Jewellery, and Hayley Williams on Paramore's Brand New Eyes. -Jonah

Ann and Jody are pointing to the pop charts. Is this really new though, women have been prominent in pop for a long time. Jonah seems to be just reaching to grab rockers to fit the theme.

'wasted' losing to a 3rd tier cam single in pfork was pretty :-( to me

your favorite 2009 songs thread

yeah that's just :-( for everyone involved (xpost)

^ xpost

http://www.slate.com/id/2237677/entry/2238149/

Y'all reading Jody Rosen of Slate and Ann Powers, Jonah Weiner, and Carl Wilson talking about the year and their faves and the state of hiphop; and club beats in the American top 40. I never seem to agree with Powers---she's busy hailing Lady Gaga in one of the week's worth of items here. Jody Rosen has suddenly discovered NYC bachata hearthrobs Aventura and he's repping for Baltimore too.

― curmudgeon, Monday, December 14, 2009 10:20 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

cool to see Rosen talking about the Get Em Mamis album, my paper just named that our #1 local album of the year

'wasted' losing to a 3rd tier cam single in pfork was pretty :-( to me

― unicorn strapped with a unabomb (deej), Monday, December 14, 2009 11:28 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what a disaster for gucci

not for him, for pfork

taylor swift is ranked higher than 'wasted' so think abt that while yr off writing narratives about gucci's hipster fanbase

well then.

Having a second Gucci song on the shortlist-- which was all down to you-- probably siphoned points away from "Wasted", so it's all your fault David. ;)

i'm not sure that "wasted" would be in my, like, top 30 gucci songs of 09

haw xp

taylor swift is ranked higher than 'wasted' so think abt that while yr off writing narratives about gucci's hipster fanbase

― unicorn strapped with a unabomb (deej), Monday, December 14, 2009 12:03 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"he's TOO LOW in the list of like 10 rap songs on the pitchfork list, so hipsters CLEARLY don't love him"

taylor swift is ranked higher than 'wasted' so think abt

while yr off writing narratives about gucci's hipster fanbase

im not saying things wont change bro but im talking about 2009

"he's TOO LOW in the list of like 10 rap songs on the pitchfork list, so hipsters CLEARLY don't love him"

― yahoo terius (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, December 14, 2009 11:17 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yr talking about one of the only straight-rap top 40 singles this year here -- were not exactly digging deep

oh ridha, get that unibrow sorted, pls

fyi everybody those are the deejbot and whinebot A.I. programs I designed going at it in this thread, the real david and chris are off doing their christmas shopping and visiting relatives

i'm still getting the kinks in the software worked out, which is they seem to be having the exact same fight they had a month ago

I don't think they're quite realistic yet. Keep at it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-PolU07YQU

^er, directed at dude

lol ship

I have the Wire 50 here if anyone wants it.

go for it please!

guess who placed #7 in the christianity today poll

just guess

NickB plz save us from GAPDY

sonned by David Bazan though

John: Pentagram?

FYI: I'm hoping your followup is based on the books of the necronomicon

are there writeups i just can't see on christianity today's list because my browser is fuckin up?

guess who placed #7 in the christianity today poll

just guess

gucci mane?????????

"A song compilation with collaborators including Fleet Foxes, Sufjan Stevens, and Damien Jurado, Come O Spirit! avoids indie-rock clichés by approaching classic (and new) hymns with awe and reverence. Arranger/producers Isaac Wardell and Mason Neely prove that modern worship doesn't have to aim at the bombast of U2 or Coldplay to be contemporary or relevant; this collection feels humble and holy.—Joel Hartse"

posted for lols but I can't front, I'd probably enjoy this

sonned by David Bazan though

twist that knife Euler G*d damn u

j/k :)

J0hn I can probably get my in-laws to buy me your album now, so you'll come out ahead anyway

The Wire Records of the Year

1 Broadcast & The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
2 Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts
3 Bill Orcutt - A New Way To Pay Old Debts
4 Alasdair Roberts - Spoils
5 Sunn 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
6 David Sylvian - Manafon
7 Group Doueh - Treeg Salaam
8 Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
9 Ben Frost - By The Throat
10 King Midas Sound - Waiting For You
11 Harappian Night Recordings - Glorious Gongs of Hainuwele
12 Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
13 Shackleton - 3EPs
14 Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love
15 AtomTM - Liedgut
16 Mordant Music - SyMpToMs
17 Masayuki Takayanagi - Archive 1
18 Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay
19 Hecker - Acid In The Style Of David Tudor
20 William Basinski - 92982
21 The xx - xx
22 Flower-Corsano Duo - The Four Aims
23 Gary War - Horribles Parade
24 Courtis/Moore - Brokebox Juke
25 Leyland Kirby - Sadly The Future Is No Longer What It Was
26 Group Bombino - Guitars From Agadez Vol 2
27 Peter Evans - Nature/Culture
28 Kevin Drumm - Imperial Horizon
29 Dam Funk - Toeachizown
30 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
31 Pan SOnic & Keiji Haino - Shall I Download A Blackhole And Offer It To You?
32 Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent
33 MEV - MEV 40
34 Black Dice - Repo
35 Emeralds - What Happened
36 Position Normal - Position Normal
37 Belbury Poly - From An Ancient Star
38 Julie Tippetts & Martin Archer - Ghosts of Gold
39 Billy Bao - <ay 08
40 Sun Araw - Heavy Deeds
41 Richard Youngs - Under Stellar Stream
42 Subway - Subway II
43 Lionel Marchetti & Oliver Capparos - Equus
44 The Stooges - You Don't Want My Name You Want My Action
45 Eliane Radigue - Triptych
46 Fuck Buffoons - Tarot Sport
47 Glenn Jones - Barbecue Bob In Fishtown
48 Black To Comm - Alphabet 1968
49 Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
50 Hildur Gudnadottir - Without Sinking

2 out of 5 GAPDY

FYI: I'm hoping your followup is based on the books of the necronomicon

I'm hoping for a Tolkien-inspired doom metal song cycle.

47 Glenn Jones - Barbecue Bob In Fishtown

presumably not the "we've only just begun" guy tho that would be 100% awesome, loved that song

Hadn't seen that Kind Midas Sound disc in any polls before The Wire's. Nice to see, since KMS has had some solid singles for Hyperdub.

Thanks! Got the avant rock list?

Yeah, I'll try and put that up later.

18 Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay

^ still looking forward to hearing this, another one that I've not seen on many other lists