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

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the cokemachineglow list isn't THAT bad. AT least they had the good sense not to put MPP as #1

plus a subpar Lil Wayne tape

No Ceilings is fucking spun gold. And I'm sorry, but OB4CL2 is easily the album of the year. It's more intricate, compelling and holds up under repeat listens more than anything else 2009. I don't get the dismismals of it for not being forward-thinking, or whatever backhanded compliment Nate Patrin (who is usually spot-on) gave it for landing in the Top 5 on P4K. Writing great songs always advances the medium.

On a side note, anybody heard that new Cornershop album?

sock

jk but come on dude seriously

Blurt Top 50 albums

http://www.blurt-online.com/features/view/526/

Dunno if this has been posted or not but just came across it hehe
http://www.bestalbumsof2009.com/

the cokemachineglow list isn't THAT bad. AT least they had the good sense not to put MPP as #1

― Emily's Cheese, Wednesday, December 23, 2009 1:07 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

also.. no fucking Girls album on it.

@sofatruck

Thank GOD.

Actually I'd have to say the worst list I've seen is that Blurt one now that I look at it. It's like an even blander Paste. That list and the fact the Guardian put the XX as #1 , that's another big "no-no"

droppin hip hop 09 knowledge big uppin raekwon and lil wayne

Makin' a list, checkin' it twice, gon' find out who be naughty or nice...

Fast 'n' Bulbous Top 100
1. King Midas Sound - Waiting For You (Hyperdub)
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (Interscope)
3. Mastodon – Crack The Skye (Reprise/WEA)
4. Baroness - Blue Record (Relapse)
5. The Very Best - Warm Heart Of Africa (Green Owl)
6. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glassnote)
7. Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay (Kompakt)
8. Gary War - Horribles Parade (Sacred Bones)
9. Fever Ray (Mute)
10. Tony Allen - Secret Agent (World Circuit)
11. Dâm-Funk - Toeachizown (Stones Throw)
12. Them Crooked Vultures (DGC/Interscope)
13. Kiila - Tuota Tuota (Fonal)
14. Richard Youngs - Under Stellar Streams (Jagjaguwar)
15. K'NAAN - Troubador (A&M/Octone)
16. The xx - xx (Young Turks/XL)
17. Wardruna - Runaljad: gap var Ginnunga (Fimbulljóð)
18. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone (Anti)
19. White Denim - Fits (Full Time Hobby)
20. Evangelista - Prince Of Truth (Constellation)
21. Shrinebuilder (Neurot)
22. fun. - Aim And Ignite (Nettwerk)
23. OOIOO - Armonico Hewa (Thrill Jockey)
24. Zola Jesus - The Spoils (Sacred Bones)
25. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers (Domino)
26. Fontän – Winterhwila (Information)
27. Cold Cave - Love Comes Close (Matador)
28. Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts (No Fun Productions)
29. Leyland Kirby - Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was (History Always Favours the Winner)
30. White Rabbits - It's Frightening (TBD)
31. Fool's Gold (IAm Sound)
32. Ben Frost - By The Throat (Bedroom Community)
33. Sunn 0))) - Monoliths and Dimensions (Southern Lord)
34. David Sylvian – Manafon (Samadhi Sound)
35. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Warp)
36. The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love (4AD)
37. The Rakes - Klang! (V2)
38. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (Domino)
39. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic (WB)
40. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
41. Raise The Red Lantern (At A Loss)
42. Real Estate (Woodsist)
43. Death - For the Whole World To See (Drag City)
44. Hacride - Lazarus (Listenable)
45. Zu - Carboniferous (Ipecac)
46. Crippled Black Phoenix - 200 Tons of Bad Luck (Invada)
47. Otto - Certa Manha Acordei De Sonhos Intranquilos (Nublu)
48. Soap & Skin - Lovetune For Vacuum (P.I.A.S.)
49. Katatonia - Night Is The New Day (Peaceville)
50. Oneida - Rated O (Jagjaguwar)
51. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight (Sony)
52. Slough Feg - Ape Uprising (Cruz del Sur)
53. Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights (Load)
54. Anti-Pop Consortium - Fluorescent Black (Big Dada)
55. YOB – The Great Cessation (Profound Lore)
56. 3 Inches Of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom (Century Media)
57. The Antlers - Hospice (Frenchkiss)
58. Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night (Columbia)
59. The Gates Of Slumber - Hymns Of Blood And Thunder (Rise Above)
60. Health - Get Color (Lovepump United)
61. The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away (Thrill Jockey)
62. St Vincent - Actor (4AD)
63. Julianna Barwick - Florine EP (Florid)
64. Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor (Drag City)
65. Alasdair Roberts - Spoils (Drag City)
66. Girls - Album (True Panther Sounds)
67. Kylesa - Static Tensions (Prosthetic)
68. Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone (Relapse)
69. Liam Hayes & Plush - Bright Penny (Broken Horse)
70. Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor (Universal/Polydor)
71. Dälek - Gutter Tactics (Ipecac)
72. Gay Witch Abortion - Maverick (Learning Curve)
73. Brother Ali - Us (Rhymesayers)
74. Khaled - Liberté (Wrasse)
75. Teeth Of The Sea - Orphaned By The Ocean (Rocket Launch)
76. DM Stith - Heavy Ghost (Asthmatic Kitty)
77. Cobalt - Gin (ProfoundLore)
78. City Center (Type)
79. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue (Warp)
80. Abramis Brama - Smakar Söndag (Transubstans)
81. Radio Moscow - Brain Cycles (Alive)
82. Madder Mortem - Eight Ways (Peaceville)
83. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - I Speak Fula (Out Here)
84. Converge - Axe To Fall (Epitaph)
85. Broadcast & The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age (Warp)
86. The Horrors - Primary Colours (Beggars XL)
87. Memory Tapes - Seek Magic (Something In Construction)
88. Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth (Hometapes)
89. Mountains - Choral (Thrill Jockey)
90. Sonic Youth - The Eternal (Matador)
91. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport (ATAP)
92. Horisont - Två Sidor Av Horisonten (Crusher)
93. Siena Root - Different Realities (Transubstans)
94. Betty Davis - Is It Love Or Desire (Light In The Attic)
95. British Sea Power - Man Of Aran (Rough Trade)
96. Maxïmo Park - Quicken The Heart (Warp)
97. 10-20 (Highpoint Lowlife)
98. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms (Lefse)
99. Javelin - Jamz n Jemz (Javelin)
100. Warsaw Village Band - Infinity (Barbes)

Year-End Summary | 2009 Breakdown: Top 13 Genre Lists | Singles, Shows, Movies & Books

Hey, Kind Midas Sound! I like that act, but I only know the single releases. Will check-out the disc.

It's an excellent album and I'm excited to see it in your top spot. Well deserved.

MSN: http://music.msn.com/music/year-in-review/best-albums/?GT1=28102&photoidx=2

1. Wilco, "Wilco (The Album)" (Nonesuch)
2. Bob Dylan, "Together Through Life" (Columbia)
3. Brad Paisley, "American Saturday Night" (Arista Nashville)
4. Leonard Cohen, "Live in London" (Columbia)
5. (TIE) Neko Case, "Middle Cyclone" (Anti-)
5. (TIE) Loudon Wainwright III, "High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project" (Second Story Music)
6. (TIE) Dirty Projectors, "Bitte Orca" (Domino)
6. (TIE) Phoenix, "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix" (V2)
7. Miranda Lambert, "Revolution" (Epic)
8. Amadou & Mariam, "Welcome to Mali" (Nonesuch)
9. Antony & the Johnsons, "The Crying Light" (Secretly Canadian)
10. The xx, "xx" (XL)

only the 6th list in this entire thread with the Dylan album, i guess it must really suck, huh?

does anyone even read MSN's critical reviews? I sure don't. Christgau is a fucking idiot.

We sure do.

I feel as if some opinions have been challenged.

i sure don't

Christgau is a fucking idiot.

Be polite.

ok. Christgau is pretty lame and tired. Is that nicer?

Merry Xmas!

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Those sleigh bells you hear over your roof is the sound of Santa skipping your house tonight. :-(

Mmm, lumps o' coal.

The Silent Ballet finished - http://www.thesilentballet.com/tsbt/2009/10_01.html

I actually heard half of their top ten, I'm doing better this year.

We sure do.

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

So does anybody in the UK know if Stewart Lee (at the Sunday London Times I think?) published a top 10 this year? His "Left Field" Top 10 that somebody reprinted here last year had a few interesting recommendations on it, but Google isn't helping find a '09 list by him.

It's spread over 3 pages from here with brief write-ups: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6942403.ece?token=null&offset=60&page=6

1 The Green Pajamas: Poison in the Russian Room (Hidden Agenda)
2 Trembling Bells:Carbeth (Honest Jon’s)
3 Darren Hayman: Pram Town (Track & Field)
4 Alan Wilkinson, John Edwards, Steve Noble: Live at Café Oto (Bo’Weavil)
5 Bo Ningen: Koroshitai Kimochi (Stolen)
6 Corb Lund: Losin’ Lately Gambler (New West)
7 Magic Christian: Evolver (Dirty Water)
8 Death: ... For the Whole World to See (Drag City)
9 13th Floor Elevators: Sign of the 3 Eyed Men (Charly)
10 Derek Bailey and Agusti Fernandez: A Silent Dance (Incus)

thanks! well, my top 10 and his had one album in common, at least. (really tried to like that corb lund CD -- definitely like the idea of it -- but couldn't get past how wooden his singing sounds.)

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2009/12/24/the-top-10-jazz-albums-of-2009/#more-15561

Michael J. West of the Washington City Paper (and elsewhere) top 10 jazz. He likes not only the Vijay Iyer Trio (whose M.I.A. cover got a fair amount of attention) but also Ramsey Lewis, who he says just reinvented himself 50 years after first establishing his name

UK Times online top 10 "world music"

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6942403.ece?token=null&offset=84&page=8

1. Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics: Inspiration/Information (Strut)(Ethiopia plus UK)

2. Kronos Quartet: Floodplain (Nonesuch)(US on Middle East & South Asia)

3. 3 Deolinda: Cancao ao Lado (World Connection) (Portuguese)

4. Radiokijada: Nuevos Sonidos Afro Peruanos (Wrasse)

5. Griselda Sanderson: Harpaphonics (Waulk) (Nordic on various locations)

6. CéU: Vagarosa (Six Degrees)(Brazilian bossa nova and triphop)

7. Lura: Eclipse (Lusafrica) (Cape Verde singer)

8. Paolo Conte: Psiche (Wrasse) (Italian singer)

9. Yasmin Levy: Sentir (World Village) (Israeli Ladino singer)

10. Bonga: Bairro (Lusafrica) (Angolan Afro-samba-soul singer)

may as well link the FACT tracks of the year list:

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4164&Itemid=103

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8431676.stm

POLL OF POLLS
1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
3. The XX - The XX
4. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
5. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
6. Horrors - Primary Colours
7. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
8. Florence and the Machine - Lungs
9. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
10. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Source: HMV

full list:

Here is the 2009 HMV Poll of Polls top 50:
http://bit.ly/5in6Ik

1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
3. The XX - The XX
4. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
5. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
6. Horrors - Primary Colours
7. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
8. Florence And The Machine - Lungs
9. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
10. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
11. F*** Buttons - Tarot Sport
12. Girls - Album
13. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
14. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
15. Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
16. La Roux - La Roux
17. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
18. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
19. Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Pains of Being Pure at Heart
20. Jamie T - Kings & Queens
21. Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
22. Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
23. Sun O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
24. Mos Def - The Ecstatic
25. Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter
26. Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream
27. Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another
28. Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
29. Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
30. Muse - The Resistance
31. Martyn - Great Lengths
32. Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose
33. Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love
34. White Denim - Fits
35. U2 - No Line On The Horizon
36. Passion Pit - Manners
37. HEALTH - Get Colour
38. Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People Lazers Do
39. Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
40. Madness - The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
41. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
42. Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
43. Noah And The Whale - The First Days Of Spring
44. Telepathe - Dance Mother
45. Micachu And The Shapes - Jewellery
46. Dead Weather - Horehound
47. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
48. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
49. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
50. Gallows - Grey Britain

Exclaim, a Canadian website, has several genre lists including

Groove: Year in Review 2009

1. Georgia Anne Muldrow
2. Nino Moschella
3. Oumou Sangare
4. Mayer Hawthorne
5. Maxwell
6. The Very Best
7. PPP
8. Amadou and Mariam
9. Anthony Hamilton
10. Alice Russell

http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx?csid1=139&csid2=864&fid1=42691

Boston Globe's Siddhartha Mitter's top world albums of 2009 with descriptions

http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2009/12/20/siddhartha_mitters_top_world_albums_of_2009/

BURAKA SOM SISTEMA “Black Diamond’’

OTTO “Certa manhã acordei de sonhos intranquilos’’

STAFF BENDA BILILI “Très très fort’’

KAILASH KHER “Yatra’’

KHALED “Liberté’’

OUMOU SANGARÉ “Seya’’

BUIKA “El Ultimo Trago’’ The Spanish singer pairs with pianist Chucho Valdes

BLK JKS “After Robots’’

ASA “Asa’’

FRANCO “Francophonic Vol 2, 1980-1989’’

Tom Morgan of WWOZ in New Orleans Top 11 traditional New Orleans cds

Jimmy Carpenter - Toiling in Obscurity
Topsy Chapman - 3 in 1
Luther Kent - Bobby Bland Songbook
Los Po-Boy-Citos - New Orleans Latin Soul
Ingrid Lucia - St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Tom McDermott - New Orleans Duets
New Orleans Nightcrawlers - Slither Slice
Palmetto Bug Stompers - Live @ d.b.a.
Vic Shepherd - Crescent City Serenade
Allen Toussaint - Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch)
Luke Winslow-King - Old/New Baby (Fox On a Hill)

http://www.wwoz.org/new+orleans+community/best+cds+2009

LOPP's top 50 albums of 2009

1. Converge - Axe To Fall
2. Pavement Ist Rad & The Lots Of People Posting All Starr Band (Feat. Trai'd) - Sing Vampire Weekend's Contra
3. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
4. The-Dream - Love Vs. Money
5. Shackleton - Three EPs
6. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
7. DJ Quik & Kurupt - BlaQKout
8. Weezer - Raditude
9. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
10. The XX - XX
11. Electrik Red - How To Be A Lady: Vol. 1
12. Micachu & The Shapes - Jewellery
13. Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come
14. Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night
15. Field - Yesterday & Today
16. Emeralds - Emeralds
17. Few Nolder - New Folder
18. Oneida - Rated O
19. James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
20. Atom™ - Liedgut
21. Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
22. Annie - Don’t Stop
23. Kevin Drumm - Imperial Horizon
24. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II
25. Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
26. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
27. DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
28. DâM-FunK - Toeachizown
29. William Basinski - 92982
30. Bodycode - Immune
31. Up-Tight - The Beginning of the End
32. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
33. Gucci Mane - The Burrprint (The Movie 3D)
34. Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong
35. Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
36. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
37. White Rainbow - New Clouds
38. Kaito - Trust
39. Cobalt - Gin
40. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
41. Ryan Leslie - Transition
42. Handsome Furs - Face Control
43. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
44. Martyn - Great Lengths
45. Leyland Kirby - Sadly, The Future is No Longer What it Was
46. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
47. Morrissey - Years Of Refusal
48. Horrors - Primary Colours
49. Pet Shop Boys - Yes
50. Black To Comm - Alphabet

The Zero Boys are fucking awesome.

the ireallylovemusic list :

circlesquare - songs about dancing and drugs
rebotini - music components
cabaret voltaire : kora kora kora remixes
the black dog - further vexations
king cannibal - let the night roar
kid koala - the slew
the soundcarriers : harmonium
lindstrom & prins thomas : II
spektre : live at the glade
madness : liberty of norton folgate

Madness? Madness. No Telefon Tel Aviv, The Field or Paul White, Mark?

well john, madness are a throwback to my youth, and i cant ever let it go.
not heard telefon or the field albums, but yes, the paul white album was a close contender.

what's LOPP? that's an interesting list.

1. Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics: Inspiration/Information (Strut)(Ethiopia plus UK)

damn. forgot this was 2009 release. thought it was 2008.
consider this the real number 10 in my list as opposed to my nostalgia tinged entry.

xp: Check outthis link

! Found another clue!

hmmm something about the LOPP list's #2 seems ever so slightly suspicious

Lots of People Posting

"LOPP---just not what it used to be"

http://lotsofpeopleposting.teensboards.com/prison-f4/lopp-just-not-what-it-used-to-be-t563-20.htm

I wish I'd listened to the Shit and Shine album more before I did all my end of year lists.