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

move along here

that's good advice

done vomit spewing

kinda surprised at Sonic Youth getting shut out of the Pitchfork list

hey, has anyone heard the dead sea album? they contributed to the score of this really dope film i just watched

what type of human being looks up the old pitchfork scores and types them out into a list ffs

gotta say Flaming Lips is a dope album and i'm glad it's repping for the GAPDY upset

there are about 10-20 subjectively dope-ish to dope albums in that list, so i'm not complaining one bit, although part of me is thinking 'well if they KNEW the st vincent album was dope, why is it only at 13'

lol, I'm on call Whiney, waiting for the phone to ring...

re: sonic youth, at this point I think they're taken for granted. I kind of wish Jim O'Rourke was still in the band. I think they reached a second peak on their albums with him

yeah, but SY's last 3 albums all placed, don't know why they'd be taken for granted now but not then

not that i really feel bad for them or anything, but they're one of my only footholds in the indie consensus and would have bumped up the number of albums in the list i've heard from 4 to 5

I'm not sure why this album hasn't been better received. Even The Wire didn't include SY on their list, for the first time this decade (even NYCG+F made their top 50)

i even kinda liked it and i generally think sonic youth are booooo-ring

it was at least as good as the Yo La Tengo album I think

honorable mentions >>> list

FACT 100 best: Albums of the Decade.

01. Burial - Untrue
02. Strokes, The - Is This It
03. Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
04. Villalobos* - Alcachofa
05. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
06. M.I.A. (2) - Kala
07. Radiohead - Kid A
08. Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss
09. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
10. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
11. Other People Place, The - Lifestyles Of The Laptop Cafe
12. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
13. Bjork - Vespertine
14. Madvillain - Madvillainy
15. Robyn - Robyn
16. Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
17. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - The Doldrums
18. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
19. Metro Area - Metro Area
20. Kanye West - The College Dropout
21. Convextion - Convextion
22. Burial - Burial
23. Fennesz - Endless Summer
24. Kelley Polar - Love Songs Of The Hanging Gardens
25. Hot Chip - The Warning
26. Chromatics - Night Drive
27. Arcade Fire - Funeral
28. Portishead - Third
29. Actress - Hazyville
30. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
31. Pinch (2) - Underwater Dancehall
32. Gas - Pop
33. Joanna Newsom - Ys
34. 2 Many DJ's - As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2
35. Isolee - We Are Monster
36. M.I.A. (2) - Arular
37. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
38. Black Dice - Beaches & Canyons
39. Herbert* - Bodily Functions
40. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
41. Belbury Poly - The Willows
42. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven!
43. Clipse - We Got It 4 Cheap, Vol. 2
44. Newworldaquarium - The Dead Bears
45. Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra Of Bubbles
46. Caretaker, The - A Stairway To The Stars
47. Streets, The - Original Pirate Material
48. OutKast - Stankonia
49. Daft Punk - Discovery
50. DJ Slimzee - Sidewinder Tape
51. J Dilla - Donuts
52. Jan Jelinek - Loop-finding-jazz-records
53. XX, The - xx
54. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
55. Matthew Dear - Asa Breed
56. Rhythm & Sound - w/ The Artists
57. Studio (2) - West Coast
58. Horsepower Productions - In Fine Style
59. White Stripes, The - White Blood Cells
60. Matias Aguayo - Are You Really Lost
61. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
62. Lawrence - The Absence Of Blight
63. Fiery Furnaces, The - Blueberry Boat
64. Theo Parrish - Sound Sculptures Volume 1
65. Books, The - The Lemon Of Pink
66. Ricardo Villalobos - The Au Harem D'Archimede
67. Quasimoto - The Unseen
68. Sunn O))) & Boris (3) - Altar
69. Various - Run The Road
70. Luomo - Vocalcity
71. Soft Pink Truth, The - Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Soft Pink Truth?
72. Monolake - Polygon_Cities
73. Trus'me* - Working Night$
74. Manitoba - Start Breaking My Heart
75. Quiet Village - Silent Movie
76. Knife, The - Silent Shout
77. Lil' Wayne* - Tha Carter II
78. Bug, The - London Zoo
79. DJ Harvey - Sarcastic Study Masters
80. Kode9 + Spaceape, The* - Memories Of The Future
81. Neil Landstrumm - She Took A Bullet Meant For Me
82. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
83. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
84. Antony And The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
85. REKID - Made In Menorca
86. CocoRosie - La Maison De Mon Reve
87. No Age - Nouns
88. Michael Mayer - Immer
89. Zomby - Where Were U In '92?
90. Bjorn Torske - Feil Knapp
91. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
92. Miss Kittin & The Hacker - First Album
93. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country
94. Senking - List
95. Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
96. Karl Lindh - Bortom E4's Horrisont
97. Annie - Anniemal
98. Shed - Shedding The Past
99. Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
100.Parallax Corporation, The - Cocadisco

honorable mentions >>> list

It seems very often that I read lists and think that they'd look better if they were turned on their heads, and that one is no exception.

looool at pitchfork using my altered chris brown cover http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7738-the-worst-album-covers-of-2009/

OMFG

waaaaht hahaha

the caption for the patrick wolf one brought a lol

FACT 100 best: Albums of the Decade http://bit.ly/5Erqs3

hahahahahahah

not that i really feel bad for them or anything, but they're one of my only footholds in the indie consensus and would have bumped up the number of albums in the list i've heard from 4 to 5

― some dude, Friday, December 18, 2009 1:55 AM (1 hour ago)

deacon, rae, quik, ???

also, rev, WOW

BOWTIE
really liking tuneyards; kinda my catnip tho

so is this finally the year Sunn 0))) have broke to the mainstream? given that they are even in the Mojo top 20

I think it's just that they happened to release an album this year that got critically blowjobbed in a bunch of places; I don't get the impression it's made them significantly bigger in a broader sense (they've been getting more well known pretty much year on year, seemingly regardless of how uh accessible their records are)

They sold out Koko here in London which is a pretty big venue. Pissed i didnt get to go down, id loved to have seen the demographic they now atract. First time I saw them on the White tour they played Satans Hollow in manchester (with attila, amazing), a real old hoary metal venue with a huge fibreglass devils head on the wall along with a load of mathy emo boys and it was a rather hilarious mix of ultra slow head banging and cardiganed wire boys standing out like sore thumbs

they've been edging mainstream since they did that jarvis cocker thing a while back

first time I saw them was in the underworld, which is tiny. but they also sold out islington academy a few years back, which is a horrible, acoustically dead aircraft hangar-type place.

FACT list is like a series of one-two challops gotchas, overall excellent, but seems very chopped and screwed in terms of the presentation.

Do you ever get to read FACT Chris? It's a pretty reasonable list based on what they tend to write about (ditto their 00s top 100)

Fact list was posted here Nov 30: Best of Decade (2000s) Album Lists

Treblezine would have had DAPGY in a solid block at the top had YYYs moved up a bit.

Silent Ballet and Brainwashed are left, and that's about it.

is the wire in the shops yet? its the one list i really look forward to, ive not subscribed this year so its good to catch up with the best of the noise/drone end of things ive missed as a result. It is very cold outside though and im coughing chunks

Wasn't suggesting it was unreasonable at all; I love FACT, it's just a decade list is a brand ad and they seem to me to be making the most of that, e.g. making it a Statement more than a tally. Which, again, is great, it just seems sort of overtly strategic.

since when has advertising a brand ever been anything less than overtly strategic?

21. Convextion - Convextion

NICE

the otm way to be critical of fact would be to point out how much stuff they include & rank highly is reflective of pfork, not trying some complicated explanation of why their entire mo is ... a statement ... or something. if anything is a statement, its their unwillingness to jettison pfork's critical faves

perhaps they enjoy them.

not that i really feel bad for them or anything, but they're one of my only footholds in the indie consensus and would have bumped up the number of albums in the list i've heard from 4 to 5

― some dude, Friday, December 18, 2009 1:55 AM (1 hour ago)

deacon, rae, quik, ???

― k3vin k., Friday, December 18, 2009 3:53 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and dinosaur jr.

I try to never say anybody's overthinking anything but wow you guys

i.e.:

perhaps they enjoy them.

― strongohulkingtonsghost

otm

people are entitled to both their pet conspiracy theories and how they decide to waste their worktime, but 90 percent of y'all are about one step from stone-circa-"jfk" level paranoia, without the hilarious panacea of joe pesci's eyebrows and john candy filtering terry southern through snagglepuss.

I can get into describing 1) what it means that people like stuff (what motivates them? why do they like this, and not that) 2) what the absence of given genres or records from a list says about the listmakers' taste, all that seems fertile ground for discussion & reaction, but OTOH to begin with any supposition other than "people make lists of things they like based on something other than whether they like them" is a stance that's really wrongheaded imo and worse yet I recognize it from elsewhere: it's how indie rock people used to talk about people who liked pop music. like there's no way these people actually like this stuff, is there? which is a revoltingly conservative stance no matter whose taste you're insulting imo

keenly aware however that I'm the dude who is constantly harping on metal noobs about liking metal that's actually indie rock & you don't really like metal you posing beardo blah blah blah so yeah check out my glass house, it was totally expensive

Kerrang Albums Of The Year 2009

20 Kylesa - Static Tensions
19 Placebo - Battle For The Sun
18 Leathermouth - XO
17 Lamb Of God - Wrath
16 The Ghost Of A Thousand
15 Steel Panther - Fight The Steel
14 The Wildhearts - Chutzpah!
13 Alexisonfire - OldCrows/Young Cardinals
12 Enter Shikari - Common Dreads
11 Brand New - Daisy
10 Rammstein - Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da
9 The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
8 Paramore - Brand New Eyes
7 Converge - Axe To Fall
6 Pearl Jam - Backspacer
5 Mariachi El Bronx - El Bronx
4 Mastodon - Crack The Skye
3 Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
2 Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
1 Gallows - Grey Britain

Winning album there has a strong 'ex-pat in Daily Mail online comment box' theme and I know we all love a bit of that

perhaps they enjoy them.

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, December 18, 2009 8:10 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeesh im not saying theres something WRONG with those choices, just that as an argument that makes at least a little more sense

I can get into describing 1) what it means that people like stuff (what motivates them? why do they like this, and not that) 2) what the absence of given genres or records from a list says about the listmakers' taste, all that seems fertile ground for discussion & reaction, but OTOH to begin with any supposition other than "people make lists of things they like based on something other than whether they like them" is a stance that's really wrongheaded imo and worse yet I recognize it from elsewhere: it's how indie rock people used to talk about people who liked pop music. like there's no way these people actually like this stuff, is there? which is a revoltingly conservative stance no matter whose taste you're insulting imo

― Herodcare for the Unborn (J0hn D.), Friday, December 18, 2009 8:20 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

and yet ... it formed indie?

Leaving aside my actual enjoyment of the bands I kind of find Kerrang the weirdest list yet in that it's like 80% albums that I thought were met on release with an overwhelming 'eh it's OK I guess but they're just treading water at this point'