Acclaimed Music Top 30 Albums from 2009 poll

GY!BE's heyday was late 90s

Ha, 2009 was a big postrock year for me as well. Worriedaboutsatan and Her Name is Calla. Land of Kush.

otm about Fuck Buttons, though I never really dug them... so much stuff from the late aughts is already so dated... remember EAR PWR and High Places?

so much stuff from the late aughts is already so dated

I thought a lot of it was horrendous at the time, to be fair. It started to pick up again circa 2011 for me.

Yeesh these choices are not very attractive. Going on what's here I'd probably go with Wilco. But hoo boy, what a smelly list.

Sunn O))) pretty much the only one for me.

I haven't listened to High Places in years. But relistening now, 03/07-09/07 is still awesome.

Voted for Actor. Easily my favourite St Vincent record. Two Dancers, It's Blitz, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Embryonic, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II and Fever Ray all stand up too.

I still really rate the Royksopp album mentioned earlier. It's their only essential record.

Fuck Buttons sounded dated to me when it came out. It's just not very good.

obviously bill callahan

The Juan MacLean's The Future Will Come was the only good record released this year.

Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle

Horrible '00s album title

Yeah, this list is pretty junky.

Other things that I would have voted for over anything listed:

The Appleseed Cast — Sagarmatha
Bad Lieutenant — Never Cry Another Tear
Beach House — Teen Dream
Andrew Bird — Noble Beast
Andrew Bird — Useless Creatures
Death Cab for Cutie — The Open Door EP
Doves — Kingdom of Rust
The Durutti Column — Love in the Time of Recession
For Against — Never Been
John Parish and PJ Harvey — A Woman A Man Walked By
Jon Hassell — Last the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions — Through the Devil Softly
Glenn Jones — Barbecue Bob in Fishtown
Maxwell — BLACKsummers'night
Carla Morrison — Aprendiendo A Aprender
Mount Kimbie — Maybes
Mount Kimbie — Sketch on Glass
Sonic Youth — The Eternal
David Sylvian — Manafon

Voted Wilco.

Voting for the lush sounds on the brilliant Veckatimest.

Teen Dream came out in 2010

A Sunny Day in Glasgow's "Ashes Grammar" was the big album for me at the time. Of the options here I guess it's Callahan or Bat for Lashes.

Teen Dream came out in 2010

So it did! Not sure how I remembered it so clearly along with other 2009 albums. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

pretty sure it came out in january or february 2010

none that were really that great on here either

a few major omissions

toe's for long tomorrow was on heavy rotation this year for me

fuck, _the visitor_ came out in '09!

My favorite and by far most-played album from 2009 is Polvo's In Prism.

Best song: The Mountain Goats - "Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace"
Close second: Bat for Lashes - "Daniel"

ya in prism wasn't bad

but i dig their older stuff way more

was just listening to cor-crane secret yesterday

Oh man, can't believe I forgot The Visitor!

I listened to General Elektriks "Good City for Dreamers" a lot in 2009, still holds up pretty dang well imo

japandroids. woulda voted for miranda had she been on there, though.

isn't The Vistor, ABBA?

jim o'rourke

oh i see, ABBA is the Visitors. you must be talking about UFO then?

oh, haha.

UFO wasn't making sense (as metal is not that big around here) but they did release an album called The Visitor in 2009.

or i should have said, this isn't Rate Your Music so UFO made no sense.

don't know any of this. my faves of that year are:

lindstrom & prins thomas
dj sprinkles
reagenz
leyland kirby (blech sentimental emo ambient done right!!)

i guess i liked that bat for lashes album ok.
wait, the fame monster, i'm voting for that.

don't know it's different from the fame, tbh

don't know how it's different, i meant to say

GAPDYX

gucci
ace hood
plies
???
young money
???

GAPDYX

Gucci
Ace Hood
Plies
DMX
Young Money
X Gon Give It To Ya

Girls, St. Vincent and Neko Case are classics in my collection - voting Girls

Went Fuck Buttons. Girls a close second

there's enough I like here but nothing really great, a pretty weak list (though very skewed)

xx over Fever Ray, I guess

Other's I like from this list:

Top:

4 595 Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
5 626 Fever Ray - Fever Ray

Just Under:

1 184 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2 304 The xx - xx

A Bit More Below:

12 1035 The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
6 627 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
7 801 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
16 1586 Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
19 1739 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
8 803 The Horrors - Primary Colours

I must the only one who thinks Crack the Skye is one of the finest albums of the last decade at least. Oh well. And I've never heard them but The Pains of Being Pure at Heart must be one of the most irrationally(?) infuriating bandnames ever.

Some great rediscoveries from a smart playlist of the 2009 songs I gave a rating of 3 stars or more over the years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GzjCG0JjI4

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Scx9fVHPHA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OysOL_Xn-Ik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QASe0nt_Lng

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Finally decided and voting for Dirty Projectors.

Where the fuck did the GAPDY thing come from anyway?

god, I'd forgotten how out of control the animal-centric band naming was back then

it was bad. but now there are a lot of sports-centric names in indie rock. one thing i miss about this era is the sense of experimentation and somewhat avant garde stuff that permeated indie music. now we're stuck with boring 80s/90s indie/college rock revivalists like Parquet Courts, Car Seat Headrest, Modern Baseball, Speedy Ortiz, Metz, The Men, etc. Even dross like Fuck Buttons and Ear Pwr was compelling in a way that all of those R.E.M. and Pavement clones are not.

yeah but even by 2009 it was all that lonely cabin woodchopper crap

i'll take that over car seat fucking headrest any day