the Dan Deacon album is still amazing
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 14:49 (five years ago) link
And now everything in one handy post:
2009 IN REVIEW:
2009 albums worth listening toFavorite songs of 20092009 end-of-the year lists
ILM 2009 EOY POLL:
Nominations thread
Lists of nominations:AlbumsTracks
Voting thread
Results threads:AlbumsTracks
Final results:AlbumsTracks
Ballots:AlbumsTracks
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link
I recall there were some extremely bad T.I. singles during this era
― zwei dunkel jungen (crüt), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
I must have been focused on school that year. It's mostly a blank for me music-wise.
― jmm, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
What I ranked then and still love and listen to regularly:
Shackleton - 3 EPsMarked Men - GhostsPissed Jeans - King of JeansLindstrom and Prins Thomas - II
What I wouldn't mind hearing right now but hasn't really stuck:
Emptyset - S/TNiobe - Blackbird's EchoSubway - II Juan Maclean - Future will ComeReigning Sound - Love and CursesSerpentcult - Weight of Light
Doesn't seem as great now as it did back then:
Future of the Left - Travels with Myself and Another (my #1)Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall (residual Blood Visions love)Thee Oh Sees - Help Distance - Repercussions Death - For the Whole World to See
Actively do not like at this point:
Baroness - Blue Record
I was still holding The xx at arms length back then but fully embrace them now.
OTM that "Aidy’s Girl Is A Computer" is the definitive song of that moment.
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 15:59 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkPy4yq7EJo
this song is still like... miraculous
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 16:11 (five years ago) link
describes a complex and ambiguous romantic situation, beautifully layered musically gradually morphing from textural bells into a more traditional r&b ensemble into horn arrangements which burst from the surface of the song like mountains in a relief map. and it was a hit
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
or was at least inescapable on r&b stations
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
Loved it then, still do: The xx, La Roux, Röyksopp, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Gui Boratto, The Bird and the Bee, Annie, Horrors
Liked it then, less so now: Phoenix, Lily Allen, Girls
Hadn't heard then, love now: Discovery-LP, Fuck Buttons-Tarot Sport, Jon Hopkins-Insides
Have still never heard: Electric Red, Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear
― dorsalstop, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
Can't find any lists I made at the time, but I know my favorite albums were Dananananaykroyd's Hey Everyone! and the Fever Ray s/t. I'll still vouch for the former, though I barely ever listen to it, while I increasingly think of the latter as a classic. My #1 single was "Daniel" by Bat for Lashes.
2009 was also the birth of chillwave, as coined by Carles to refer to Neon Indian, Washed Out, and Memory Tapes, all of whom debuted in 2008-09.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 16:38 (five years ago) link
people moaned about GAPDYX but fuck me did the singles poll have a lot of Lady Gaga in it
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link
had a look at the 2009 p4k eoy list today and discovered Warm Heart of Africa by the Very Best which i'd never heard or heard of before and have really enjoyed today
my favourite underappreciated 2009 indie albums are Why There Are Mountains by Cymbals Eat Guitars and Ashes Grammar by A Sunny Day In Glasgow which are both classics to me. i hadn't thought about jj in a while but jj no 2 still rules so much
― ufo, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
This was the list I pulled together at the time...
1. Flaming Lips - Embryonic2. Baroness - Blue Record3. Mastodon - Crack the Skye4. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions5. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion6. Oneida - Rated O7. The xx - xx8. Converge - Axe to Fall9. Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder10. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart11. Kylesa - Static Tensions12. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca13. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix14. Wooden Shjips - Dos15. Isis - Wavering Radiant16. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!17. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport18. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns19. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm20. Cobalt - Gin
For the most part, still fairly happy with the list. I'd probably bump Sunn O)) up to #2 now and push the Mastodon down a little bit. I'd probably swap out Kylesa for Eletrik Red (which I didn't hear until 2010). Definitely guilty of contributing to GAPDY love.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link
I listened to Rival Consoles on a recommendation the other day and thought, 'it's like Fuck Buttons never happened'
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
Obviously this year was a massive uk funky year for me and any time I think of the period 2008 - 2010 I will think of that music first. I think I voted for Marcus Nasty's official Rinse mix out of loyalty but I didn't listen to it much compared to all the radio sets (the best of which in 2009 was probably a DJ Mak-10 set with MC Shantie on Deja Vu FM (https://www.mixcloud.com/Classic_UK_Funky_Sets/dj-mak-10-mc-shantie-deja-vu-fm-26-march-2009/).
After that, definitely The-Dream/Electrik Red etc. is what I remember 2009 for.
I didn't keep any record of what I voted for, but looking at ILM's top 50 the albums I would have voted for and still listen to the most are Fall Out Boy and Meanderthals (which alongside the first Smith & Mudd album from 2007 is one of my two main balearic "background music" go-to records). DJ Sprinkles as well but I think of that as a 2008 record.
I think I was also really into the DJ Quik/Kurupt, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Animal Collective, Paramore, XX, Mungolian Jet Set, Fever Ray, Gucci Mane, Juan Maclean, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Dam-Funk albums.
Pretty sure I either didn't hear or underrated the Maxwell album until later. The other big album in that category would be Me'shell Ndgeocello's 'Devil's Halo' which is often my favourite of hers.
But looking at Matt DC's list upthread reminds me of how much more tracks-focused I was back then.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link
My favorite that year was Miranda Lambert's Revolution
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
Oh yeah and Miranda! Although it's not my favourite of her albums.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link
My favorite was and remains the Maxwell record.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 20:31 (five years ago) link
Forgot that Dam-Funk album was 2009, that'd be on my updated list too - another one I didn't discover until the following year.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 20:33 (five years ago) link
my ballots were
albums:the-dream - love vs. money *taylor swift - fearless fever ray - fever ray*junior boys - begone dull care electrik red - how to be a lady vol. 1* (10 years old!)DJ quik and kurupt - blaqkout*OPN - rifts the yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz! baroness - the blue albumdam-funk - toeachizown
tracks:
the-dream - fancy darkstar - aidy's girl is a computer**DJ quik & kurupt - 9x's outta 10 guido - way U make me feel**hot toddy - I need love**sade - soldier of lovejoker & ginz - purple city**joy orbison - hyph mngo**kelly clarkson - my life would suck without you***lady gaga - bad romance***
*still rate & listen to often**have not listened to this since 2009***waht
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link
hah didn't realize that OPN's Rifts and Toeachizown came out the same year, those both struck me as spiritual cousins
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
It's depressing that so many artists who were a big deal 2009 are still a big deal in 2019. Or maybe I just mean Drake.
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 20:43 (five years ago) link
joker & ginz - purple city**
this is a good song
― harvey wall/barrier (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 20:47 (five years ago) link
In my memory 2009 was a year I was really enthused about new music and there's a lot of stuff I still like, album-wise that would include:
Electrik RedThe-DreamDJ SprinklesFlaming LipsAnimal CollectiveFever RayGucci Mane (Burrprint)BaronessLindstrom & Prins ThomasSunn O)))
The post-dubstep sound was the other thing I really took to at that time - the people mentioning 'Aidy's Girl Is a Computer' OTM, also 'Hyph Mngo' and the singles Joker put out that year.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 20:54 (five years ago) link
I'm listening to Hey Playa now and it still bangs.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 21:01 (five years ago) link
the whole album holds up pretty well, do you know, whatcha wan do, fuck y'all, 9x
― harvey wall/barrier (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 21:05 (five years ago) link
JUELZ SEZ RELAPSE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl15PlIXHIk
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 17 January 2019 14:12 (five years ago) link
This was during the era when I paid attention to everything Gucci Mane was doing, really focused in.
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 17 January 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
My top 2009 albums in no particular order. I didn't make a list at the time so I'm going on my recollection:Neko Case - Middle CycloneThe Bads - So AliveDimmer - Degrees Of ExistenceGithead - LandingRobyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - Goodnight OsloDon McGlashan - Marvellous YearNew Model Army - Today Is A Good DayWheat Pool - HauntarioAstrid Williamson - Here Come The VikingsDead Guitars - Flags
Probably could've swapped a few with Twilight Sad, Joe Pernice, Wild Beasts, Puressence and the whole family loved They Might Be Giants - Here Come Science.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 17 January 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
God but it's hardly a 'classic year' for music is it? is there such a thing any more? I know we've had threads about this kind of thing, where people cite 1967, 1977, 1979, 1987, 1994 etc as iconic years for one reason or another like a new style bursting into the scene or a glut of fantastic albums... ILM even had a nice 'I love 1998' moment a wee while back.. But I don't really think of many years post-2005 as being particularly remarkable either way. they all just feel like a jumble of good/bad/okay music that aren't really marked by a pivotal event
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 17 January 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link
I think we're just old.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 17 January 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
oh yeah, that
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 17 January 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
cool thread deej. found my complete best-of doc for '09, I had italicized the ones that were top ten:
Rio en Medio, FrontierZombi, Spirit AnimalLaura Barrett, Victory GardenTombs, Winter HoursJunior Boys, Begone Dull CareBuried Inside, Spoils of FailureBlackout Beach, Skin of EvilCattle Decapitation, The Harvest Floor Matteah Baim, Laughing Boy Blut Aus Nord, Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the StarsDefeatist, Sharp Blade Sinks Deep Into Dull MindTiny Vipers, Life on EarthSmog, Sometimes I Wish We Were An EagleJames Blackshaw, The Glass Bead GameUmberto, From the GraveReigning Sound, Love and CursesJon Hassel, Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the StreetMark Lockheart, In DeepMgla, GrozaEric Copeland, Alien in a Garbage DumpPolvo, In PrismGwynbliedd, NostalgiaBloody Panda, SummonZola Jesus, The SpoilsIrritate, Ten Stabs of Demented Violence
I'd still enjoy any of these, most likely (though I don't remember Rio en Media AT ALL -- maybe something ambient? I'll look it up); what's interesting to me are the two that point toward what'll interest me most in 2019 -- Mark Lockheart (jazz), Eric Copeland (weirdo "noise" though not super noisy), Jon Hassell ("jazz" but also ambient, which has become a staple food for me). I also still listen mainly to metal, and will wholly rep for the Cattle Decapitation & Irritate records on this list, and the Buried Inside record and the Defeatist one too -- but none of those are really where I'm at metal-wise any more, I've gotten way more into oddball power metal & super chopsy stuff & of course the OSDM revivalist stuff that I feel weird repping but so much of it is GOOD.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 17 January 2019 17:59 (five years ago) link
Smog, Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
oh forgot about this one, which is weird bc i stole my band's name from it. but maybe not so weird bc it seems to exist outside of time. the best callahan record imo
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 January 2019 18:01 (five years ago) link
memoria vetusta ii too! my god
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 January 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link
the best bill callahan record is always whichever one I'm spending a bunch of downtime with
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 17 January 2019 18:06 (five years ago) link
2009 is the definition of a classic year for music. 2007, too
― flopson, Thursday, 17 January 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link
I feel like 2013 was when folk/primitive/drone/psych all coalesced into a scene or at least a POV that defines one side of this decade.
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Thursday, 17 January 2019 19:21 (five years ago) link
Jon Hassel, Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street
Was just listening to some of this last night. It sounds really good.
― jmm, Thursday, 17 January 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link
Oh shoot, I have a top 10 list in my old blog for every year except 2009 because I was distracted doing a top 200 songs of the decade list.
I actually don’t have any 2009 album in my top 50 albums of the 00’s list... I guess I wasn’t very into 2009 but in retrospective these would have been my top 10:
1. Fever Ray - s/t2. Broadcast and The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age3. Seijiro Murayama / Éric La Casa - Supersedure4. Atlas Sound - Logos5. Jesse Somfay - a catch in the voice6. Moritz von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent7. Girls - Album8. Neon Indian - psychic chasms9. Jj - no. 210. Micachu - Jewellry
Also liked the Phoenix, Raekwon and XX singles from that year, the Animal Collective album felt overhyped to me but it still had some of the best songs in their career. I never got into Grizzly Bear.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 17 January 2019 19:43 (five years ago) link
Oh the Yeah Yeah Yeahs singles were also pretty good, really like that album but I always feel frustrated over its production, it sounds like it’s playing from another room.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 17 January 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link
I was right into ambient/experimental/drone stuff in 2009, so my list had a lot of that stuff on it:
Kevin Drumm - Imperial HorizonRichard Skelton- LandingsMoritz Von Oswald - Vertical AscentLeykand Kirby - Sadly... Vol.1Ramses III - I Could Not Love You MoreCobalt - GinRichard Youngs - Under Stellar StreamBen Frost - By the ThroatAlva Noto - Xerrox Vol.2Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions Sky Ramps - Days of ThunderNicholas Szczepanik - The ChiasmusOM - God is GoodFuneral Mist - MaranathaRussian Circles - Geneva
I'd still enjoy most of these, I think, but only really listen to Skelbo and Sunn with any regularity.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Thursday, 17 January 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link
I do have a favorite songs list without ranking
Ariel’s Pink Haunted Graffiti - Can’t Hear My EyesAtlas Sound - Quick CanalBlack Moth Super Rainbow - Iron LemonadeBot.ox - Blue steelBurial + Four Tet - MothsCrystal Stilts - Love is a waveEl Perro del Mar - Change of HeartFamily Portrait - Mega SecretsFederico Aubele - Otra VezFever Ray - Keep the Streets Empty For MeThe Field - Leave itFuck Buttons - Lisbon MaruHere We Go Magic - FangelaJoy Orbison - Hyph MngoKills - Black BalloonKoudlam - See You AllTame Impala - Remember MeMatias Aguayo - RollerskateMemory Tapes - BicycleMichachu - Golden phoneMount Kimbie - MaybesNoor Jahan - I am very sorryOdawas - harmless lover’s discourseOni Ayhun - OAR003-BParallel Dance Ensemble - Weight WatchersSiriusmo - Nights offThee Oh Sees - Tidal WaveTwin sister - I want a houseYeah Yeah Yeahs - Soft ShockXX - Islands
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 17 January 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
turn of the decade eras feel consistently strange to me. like the two before it, 2009-2011 feels in and of itself, transitional, and not especially reflective of "the '00s" or "the '10s" overall. that's probably just my perspective tho.
I wish Pill had stuck around longer. I still love his mixtape from that year. And he still tweets "another beautiful day. gotta thank the lord for that" several times a week.
Most of my favorite releases from this year were singles, mixtapes, EPs, and those weird bonus albums like "The Fame Monster." Albums were kinda not fun at all in 2009.
Stuff I remember liking or still enjoy:Animal Collective "What Would I Want? Sky"Pill - 4180 The PrescriptionNo Age - Losing Feeling EPBeak> - self titledRingo Deathstarr - SparklerThe first Ovlov EPThe first Merchandise EPBlack DiceFNU RonniesNunslaughter / Syphilitic Vaginas split 7-inchGnaw Their TonguesSun ArawVirtuoso Bosses "Delirious" Miley Cyrus "Party In The USA"The first half of the Silversun Pickups album and "Substitution"Pearl Jam "The Fixer"Neon IndianLady Gaga - The Fame MonsterThe XXAmerie "Why R U"Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Heads Will Roll"Taylor Swift "Forever and Always"Japandroids "I Quit Girls" & "Young Hearts Spark Fire"The first Drake EPKe$ha "Tik Tok"Gucci Mane "Lemonade"Tyler The Creator "Bastard" came out this year but I probably haven't listened to it since 2011.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 17 January 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link
In my head I'm hearing Plies "Becky" as still sounding ridiculous and awesome.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 17 January 2019 21:09 (five years ago) link
all thoughts are prey to some beast
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 January 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
I forgot Tik Tok - now that's a song that really couldn't have come out in 2006 or 2012.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 17 January 2019 21:16 (five years ago) link
2009 was probably my most successful year musically - it seemed like at that point in time anyone from Bristol who produced halfway passable dubstep could get booked, so I spent a fair bit of time DJing in Eastern Europe / Amsterdam / various Bristol dives. Also had a remix I did for Si Begg doing the rounds which eventually came out on Tigerbeat6, good times.Musically, aside from the neverending dubstep promos I remember really getting into Squires of Gothos / really obnoxious bassline house - nothing that has aged well at all but was great fun at the time..
― raise my chicken finger (Willl), Thursday, 17 January 2019 21:25 (five years ago) link
Also Flying Lotus - LA came out so that automatically makes it a good year
― raise my chicken finger (Willl), Thursday, 17 January 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link
"Heads Will Roll" was my single of the year. A karaoke banger.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 January 2019 21:38 (five years ago) link