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
Don't remember much about this year, but this was my favorite album - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Going_Away
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Thursday, 17 January 2019 22:02 (five years ago) link
I don't have a lot of positive feelings about the music of 2009... I like the Matrix Metals album (RIP Sam Mehren).
― brimstead, Thursday, 17 January 2019 22:22 (five years ago) link
listened to a lot of Gucci and nudisco probably
― brimstead, Thursday, 17 January 2019 22:24 (five years ago) link
some songs I liked:
Best Coast - When I'm With YouCold Cave - The Trees Grew Emotions And DiedConverge - Losing BattleFukpig - Bombs Of WarHeadlights - TelephonesLiechtenstein - All At OnceNapalm Death - De-Evolution Ad NauseumRusted Shut - Shot In The HeadSic Alps - L. MansionThee Oh Sees - Enemy DestructTokyo Electron - Don't Need YouTransmittens - Meet Me At The SwingsVivian Girls - Before I Start To CryWankys - Hey Crusty, Have A Fucking BathXeno & Oaklander - Saracen
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 17 January 2019 22:38 (five years ago) link
I find it hard to remember tracks by year but would absolutely co-sign 2009 as peak UK Funky, the Petchy / Sweep Dem Gally Live FM sets of that era remain totally exhilarating. Dunno if Benny B still posts here but he did sterling work recording and sharing those as I recall.
― Twelves, Thursday, 17 January 2019 23:00 (five years ago) link
blimey, I made a list in 2009 :
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
― mark e, Thursday, 17 January 2019 23:38 (five years ago) link
and to be fair, I stand by that list.I still listen to all of those albums and love'em.
― mark e, Thursday, 17 January 2019 23:39 (five years ago) link
The Funky / London / UK House thread on Dissensus had some great petchy mixes on it back then - I'm guessing probably posted by the same guy?
― raise my chicken finger (Willl), Friday, 18 January 2019 00:23 (five years ago) link
songs I liked:animal collective - my girlsphoenix - girlfriendbug boi & gucci mane - shine blockadethe very best - warm heart of africaatlas sound - walkaboutthe xx - vcrbat for lashes - danielemmy the great - we almost had a babymr hudson & kanye west - anyone but himm. ward - for beginnersloudon wainwright iii - high wide and handsometaken by trees - to lose someone
― bobot, Friday, 18 January 2019 00:42 (five years ago) link
The xx's debut was this year? I thought it was 2010. That was great, too.
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Friday, 18 January 2019 00:45 (five years ago) link
Some 2009 shit from my old blog:
END OF YEAR 2009 ALBUMS 11-3011. Mariah Carey, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel (Island)12. Raekwon, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II (EMI)13. Telecult Powers, Twilight of the Oscillators (Temple of Pei)14. The Bran Flakes, I Have Hands (Illegal Art)15. HEALTH, Die Slow (Lovepump United)16. Sonic Suicide Squad, Hardline American Overdrive (Sounds from the Pocket)17. Cam'ron, Crime Pays (Diplomats/Asylum)18. Storm of Corpses, Bite Your Tongue (Bug Incision)19. Anthony Pirog, Beginning to End (Sonic Mass)20. The Fiery Furnaces, I'm Going Away (Thrill Jockey)21. Pissed Jeans, King of Jeans (Sub Pop)22. Richard Youngs, Beyond the Valley of Ultrahits (Sonic Oyster)23. Robert Inhuman, Drowning in Betrayal (MT6)24. Twig Harper, Music for Higher Dimensional Consciousness (HereSee)25. Newagehillbilly, Arctic (MT6)26. Jason Urick, Husbands (Thrill Jockey)27. Playboy Tre, Liquor Store Mascot (self-released)28. Apes in the Aviary, Strange Town (self-released)29. Khate, Detrivore (Just Not Normal)30. Mya, Beauty & The Streets Vol. I (Planet 9/Young Empire Music Group/Fontana)
END OF YEAR 2009 SONGS 11-2811. Depeche Mode "Wrong" (Mute/EMI) 12. The Fiery Furnaces "Lost At Sea" (Thrill Jockey)13. Speak Onion " " (No Label)14. Mya feat. Nicky Minaj "Ponytail" (Planet 9/Young Empire Music Group/Fontana)15. Islands "No You Don't" (ANTI-)16. Adam Lambert "Aftermath" (RCA/19 Productions)17. The Black Eyed Peas "Boom Boom Pow" (Interscope)18. Anni Rossi "Las Vegas" (4AD)19. N.A.S.A. feat. ODB and Karen O "Strange Enough" (ANTI-)20. Scarface feat. Bilal "Can't Get Right" (Rap-A-Lot/Asylum)21. Suckers "Afterthoughts & TV"22. Lotus Plaza "What Grows?" (Kranky)23. Chairlift "Bruises"24. Lars Horntveth "Kaleidoscopic" 25. Mirah "The River" (K)26. Pill "Pain In They Eyes"27. Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Zero" (Interscope)28. Clipse feat. Cam'rom "Back By Popular Demand (Popeye's)" (Re-up/Star Trak)
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 18 January 2019 00:52 (five years ago) link
And then here's how I pazzed/jopped:
Album Points Other VotesThe-Dream · Love Vs. Money 18 36Jason Crumer · Walk With Me 14 0Acidic Jews · Clean Rigs 12 0Aaron Dilloway · Chain Shot 11 0Atlas Sound · Logos 10 22Halflings · Self-Esteem 9 0Nancy Garcia · Be the Climb 8 0John Wiese · Circle Snare 7 1Aquarelle · Slow Circles 6 0Ascites · Incisional Drainage 5 0
Song Other VotesThe Lonely Island (ft. T-Pain) · "I'm on a Boat" 10Animal Collective · "Brother Sport" 7Cold Cave · "Life Magazine" 4Lil Wayne (ft. Young Money) · "Every Girl" 3Cam'ron · "Cookin' Up" 0Cryptacize · "Mythomania" 0Eat Skull · "Cooking a Way to Be Happy" 0Grasshopper · "Death Compass" 0Mariah Carey (ft. Nicki Minaj) · "Ribbon" 0Oneida · "Brownout in Lagos" 0
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 18 January 2019 00:57 (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, January 17, 2019 9:38 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, January 17, 2019 9:38 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Oh man, I agree with this so much.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 18 January 2019 00:58 (five years ago) link
JCLC, that Eric Copeland album was a big deal for me too. As flappy's heard me say a couple times, I've drifted away from him in the last half decade or so because he's TOO prolific and I'm having a harder time keeping up (again, getting old) with artists who release so much music so quickly.
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 18 January 2019 01:01 (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, January 17, 2019 4:51 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkI think we're just old.― pomenitul, Thursday, January 17, 2019 4:54 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, January 17, 2019 4:51 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I think we're just old.
― pomenitul, Thursday, January 17, 2019 4:54 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Well, I thought 2005 itself was a pretty good year for music in terms of number of great albums released. Since then, I'd say 2007 and 2009 for last decade, and this decade I'd say 2013 runs away with it, although the last couple of years have been decent.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 18 January 2019 01:05 (five years ago) link
Black DiceAmerie "Why R U"Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Heads Will Roll"The first Drake EPKe$ha "Tik Tok"Gucci Mane "Lemonade"
― billstevejim, Thursday, January 17, 2019 3:03 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― billstevejim, Thursday, January 17, 2019 3:09 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
man.
(so this is time travel, huh?)
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 18 January 2019 01:06 (five years ago) link
Cracking the seal on this, a 2009 song I loved but can barely remember now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTzA8XejLxE
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 18 January 2019 01:11 (five years ago) link
Christ, has it really been ten years since The Flaming Lips made their last great record?
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 18 January 2019 01:20 (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)
i think 2018 was a 'classic year' for music! jesus there's so much good music that came out last year, so many scenes reaching new heights.
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Friday, 18 January 2019 02:29 (five years ago) link
2018 was a real stinker for me. most albums i anticipated (hop along, 1975) didn’t live up to expectations, didn’t connect w much rap (although tbh sort of stopped checking), few pop bangers... got streaming on my phone and my tastes became super normy (stopped checking for house/techno aside from mixes cus nothing is on it) few good surprises by artists i had forgotten about or written off (parquet courts, arctic monkeys, amen dunes)
― flopson, Friday, 18 January 2019 04:39 (five years ago) link
going back to slsk in 2019
― flopson, Friday, 18 January 2019 04:40 (five years ago) link
do you mean it feels like yesterday or a long time ago?
― billstevejim, Friday, 18 January 2019 04:44 (five years ago) link
looking through the '09 results threads and wild to me that black eyed peas' "i gotta feeling" placed 12th in the tracks poll
― monotony, Friday, 18 January 2019 06:58 (five years ago) link
great song
― flopson, Friday, 18 January 2019 07:05 (five years ago) link
it's hot
― j., Friday, 18 January 2019 07:34 (five years ago) link
my 2018 tracks list is well over 50% afro pop, dancehall, SA house and related. A clutchful of token rock acts: Ought, The Beths, Parquet Courts, Malkmus, Teleman and Kero Kero Bonita. Little bit of electronic: Ross From Friends, Autechre. If it wasn't for those, I don't know what new music I would have listened to this year. My albums list is very thin. Still, I don't think it's been a bad year for the music I did listen to.
― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 18 January 2019 09:55 (five years ago) link
2018 was a great year if you're into female singer/songwriters, as has been every other recent year
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Friday, 18 January 2019 10:21 (five years ago) link
'09 (and especially '10-11) were tremendously exciting for me in terms of electronic music. Mount Kimbie's Maybes ep came out in' 09, and that 5 Years of Hyperdub comp, FlyLo, etc. Between UK dance music and 'post-dubstep' and the L.A. stuff it felt like a huge wave of creativity and new ideas, and for the first time (personally) also had an air of accessibility, like anyone might be able to contribute something.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 18 January 2019 12:09 (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, January 16, 2019 9:13 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
great writing, brad. that song is timeless and gets better with age, whole album does really.
― marcos smart (Spottie), Friday, 18 January 2019 20:43 (five years ago) link
I wasn't writing and also wasn't listening to a lot of new music in 2009, but here are albums I like:
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - AgorapocalypseBand of Skulls - Baby Darling Doll Face HoneyBaroness - Blue RecordCobalt - GinDälek - Gutter TacticsIsis - Wavering RadiantKylesa - Static TensionsLady Gaga - The Fame MonsterOblomov - Communitas (Deconstructing the Order)Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen puhuuPissed Jeans - King of JeansSkeletonwitch - Breathing the FireTýr - By the Light of the Northern StarVektor - Black FutureWolves in the Throne Room - Black CascadeYOB - The Great Cessation
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 18 January 2019 23:23 (five years ago) link
2009 was a bit of a transitional year for me in terms of what I was listening to, in the sense that I was beginning to move towards getting back into '80s music/synthpop (both familiar and unfamiliar) in a much bigger way than ever before and starting to move away from listening to "indie"/alternative rock stuff so much.
I remember at the time playing the shit out of the Manic Street Preachers' Journal For Plague Lovers, thinking higher of Muse's The Resistance than most, being initially delighted then suddenly disappointed (it was a fast burner) by Super Furry Animals' Dark Days/Light Years, and loving The Flaming Lips' Embryonic ...
Of course there was also Fever Ray and Yeah Yeah Yeahs' It's Blitz!, both of which I still play the shit out of. Greek synthpoppers Marsheaux released their best album, Lumineux Noir. Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys released albums this year that admittedly weren't up there with their best, but both featured at least one killer single and it mattered little since I was listening to and getting a lot out of the back catalogues of both bands a lot.
I didn't really rate the La Roux album or The xx's debut, even though on paper I should have been into both. It took until 2 years ago for The xx to finally make an album I liked. Of course, I disliked the Animal Collective album and still do.
I hated Arctic Monkeys in 2009 but have since come to really, really love Humbug, and I still think the album Franz Ferdinand put out that year wasn't all that bad.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 20 January 2019 00:35 (five years ago) link
― billstevejim, Thursday, January 17, 2019 10:44 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
A little of both.
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 20 January 2019 00:37 (five years ago) link
Also, I seem to remember 2009 as the year that a lot of bands/artists that had only been popular a couple of years before were starting to enter the "yawn, nobody gives a fuck" zone: Maximo Park, The Cribs, Jarvis Cocker, The Rakes (who I never liked), Kasabian (who I also never liked), Weezer, Doves, Editors and Green Day all released lousy records that year. Eels, Art Brut, Gomez and Graham Coxon all released albums that even their own fanbases struggled to get excited about.
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― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 20 January 2019 00:43 (five years ago) link
Gucci mane
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 January 2019 00:44 (five years ago) link
I would say that sadly very many people still give a fuck about Weezer
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 20 January 2019 00:53 (five years ago) link