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

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

I guess that's the Glenn Jones from Cul De Sac? Promising title.

NickB, awesome. Good to see some of my favorites finally show up -- King Midas Sound, Gary War, Richard Youngs, Oneohtrix Point Never. I might have to start buying The Wire again. Downloading the David Sylvian now, and re-listening to Alasdair Roberts.

kinda nice to see Broadcast topping the list but the LP really doesn't flesh most of its ideas out quite well enough (or maybe i just prefer more fully formed tunes from them)

Popmatters:

40 Passion Pit - Manners
39 Warsaw Village Band - Infinity
38 Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
37 Baroness - Blue Record
36 Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
35 Japandroids - Post-Nothing
34 Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
33 Khaled - Liberté
32 Akron/Family - Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free
31 Pearl Jam - Backspacer
30 Real Estate - Real Estate
29 Dan Deacon - Bromst
28 Brother Ali - Us
27 Buddy and Julie Miller - Written in Chalk
26 St. Vincent - Actor
25 The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
24 Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
23 The Antlers - Hospice
22 Maxwell - BLACKsummers’night
21 Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
20 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
19 Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses - Roadhouse Sun
18 The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come
17 Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
16 Fever Ray - Fever Ray
15 Mos Def - The Ecstatic
14 Goran Bregović - Alkohol
13 The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
12 The xx - xx
11 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz!
10 Miranda Lambert - Revolution
9 Girls - Album
8 Mastodon - Crack the Skye
7 Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Part II
6 Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
5 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
4 Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
3 The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
2 Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
1 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

40-60 here: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/special/section/popmatters-picks-the-best-music-of-2009/

Good ol' PopMatters.

haha what?

The Wire - Avant Rock

Billy Bao - May 08
Brainbombs - Fucking Mess
Evangelista - Prince of Truth
Jandek - Portland Thursday
The One Ensemble - Other Thunders
Julian Lynch - Orange You Glad
The Mantles - The Mantles
Bill Orcutt - A New Way To Pay Old Debts
Yasushi Ozawa - Some Fragments Of Bass Performance
Trembling Bells - Carbeth
Kurt Vile - Constant Hitmaker
Gary War - Horribles Parade
Wolf Eyes - Always Wrong
Richard Youngs - Beneath The Valley Of The Ultrahits
Zola Jesus - New Amsterdam

thanks!

The Wire - Electronica

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Utp
Cindytalk - The Crackle Of My Soul
Clark - 6 Tracks
Nathan Fake - Hard Islands
Fennesz & Sparklehorse - In The Fishtank
Lawrence English - It's Up To Us To Live
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
Hell - Teufelswerk
Klimek - Movies Is Magic
Stephan Mathieu & Taylor Dupree - Transcriptions
Mountains - Choral
Redshape - The Dance Paradox
Silkie - City Limits
Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself
Tu m' - Monochromes Volume One

x-post no worries mister

is there an outer limits this year?

Haha, yes no not all

not at all

The Wire - Outer Limits

Astral Social Club - Octuplex
Blood Stereo - Your Snakelike King
Lucio Capece & Mika Vainio - Trahnie
Raymond Dijkstra - L'Opus Ch
Emeralds - What Happened
Richard Garet & Brendan Murray - Of Distance
Grasslung/Pulse Emitter - Grasslung/Pulse Emitter
Russell Haswell - Wild Tracks
Kommissar Hjueler & Mama Baer - Asylum Lunaticum
Lee Patterson - Seven Vignettes
Keith Rowe - Untitled
Ghedalia Tazartes - Repas Froid
Aluk Tolodo - Finistirnis
Mika Vainio - Black Telephone
John Wiese - Circle Snare

aluk tolodo = krautrock black metal. Good stuff.

Oh okay, I thought that was some Turkish dude. The only thing I know on there is the Astral Social Club, which is great but I had to stop listening to it cos it was driving me nuts.

you havent heard Emeralds? Or did that dreadful keenan pish of hypnagogic pop put you off?

Uh yeah, yr right, I think I did, but it didn't make too much of an impression tbh. Ought to try again really.

Will put up the Hiphop and Critical Beats lists tomorrow if anyone wants 'em.

way more stuff I've heard of on this year's Wire list than usual even though I have read fewer issues of the Wire than in any other year for a decade (as in I bought one but never read past page 20)

nice to see some props for Oneohtrix Point Never but I am sad bcz apparently that comp sold out within like a week

the wire should just put out one big issue a year

it should be 300 pages

no

Oh shit, only just spotted this - picture of the Lex on page 41 of teh Wire (January issue).

hang on what? which photo?

There's a round-up of the year in dubstep/grime etc along with a random photo of some clubbers i.e. you and some other folks looking suave.

I'd scan it in, but I dropped my scanner on the floor last week :(

lol the only way lex would end up in that mag huh

lol the only way most of us etc...

Was hoping he would be illustrating the avant rock list
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3114/3115340515_c03db2f70f.jpg

(NB: picture taken in the flat of an ex-editor of the Wire!)

http://por-img.cimcontent.net/api/assets/bin-200908/7cde009d1384e990e01dae84da847334.jpg

fucking pitchfork

Jody Rosen has suddenly discovered NYC bachata hearthrobs Aventura and he's repping for Baltimore too.

What makes you so sure he's just discovered them?

http://www.slate.com/id/2155532/entry/2155544/

http://www.jewcy.com/feature/2007-09-18/the_music_of_atonement

GAPDY in top 6 of the pitchfork SINGLES list. also, AC's "Summertime Clothes" isn't on the list at all despite the inferior "My Girls" being #1. i don't understand.

pitchfork "best songs of 2005" -- hot 100 hits in places #1-30: 12; pitchfork "best songs of 2009" -- hot 100 hits in places #1-30: 0

some blogger tries to predict pithfork top 10 albums

http://popheadwound.blogspot.com/2009/12/pitchfork-predictions.html

1. Merriweather Post Pavillon - Animal Collective
2. Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear
3. Bitte Orca - Dirty Projectors
4. Only Built For Cuban Linx, Pt.2 - Raekwon
5. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
6. xx - The xx
7. Album - Girls
8. Psychic Chasms - Neon Indian
9. Embryonic - The Flaming Lips
10. Tarot Sport - Fuck Buttons

pitchfork "best songs of 2005" -- hot 100 hits in places #1-30: 12; pitchfork "best songs of 2009" -- hot 100 hits in places #1-30: 0

to be fair, 2005 was a singles list not a songs list. Also, in 2005, Since U Been Gone, Mr Brightside, Welcome to Jamrock, 1 Thing, Late Registration, Stay Fly, Hate It or Love It, In the Kitchen, and Go Crazy were released.

In 2009, we got...Lady Gaga, and even you all were, like us, slow to coming around embracing her. If we polled a month later, she'd have two songs in the top 30 instead of top 100 I reckon. Polled two months earlier, she may have had none.

^^ I think this is right. I'm not sure I even voted for "Bad Romance" but I def. would now.

Saddest moment for me was realising "Inflation" didn't make it :-(

I had even wondered who you'd get to write about it if it had made the list.