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

A consensus emerges - there are seven albums which appear on the Uncut, Mojo, Fly and Rough Trade lists:

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
The Horrors - Primary Colours
The XX - The XX
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

Correction - eight albums:

Florence & the Machine - Lungs

Correction - NINE albums:

Wild Beasts - Two Dancers

(I'm not very good at this.)

at this rate 'The Future Will Come' will be my first 'favourite album of year to not get on ANY mag eoy list'

From Norway

Nettavisen (a Norwegian online news portal)

http://pub37.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=3172289350&frmid=10&msgid=1017909&cmd=show

1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
2. Doves - Kingdom of Rust
3. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
4. Rihanna - Rated R
5. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
6. Narum - Samma hen du fær
7. Nirvana - Live at Reading
8. Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand
9. La Roux - La Roux
10. El Caco - Heat
11. Leonard Cohen - Live in London
12. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
13. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
14. Tommy Tee - Studio Time
15. Dinosaur Jr - Farm
16. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
17. 50 Cent - Before I Self Destruct
18. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
19. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
20. Jonas Fjeld & Chatham County Line - Brother of Song
21. Jaa9 & OnklP - Sellout!
22. Florence and the Machines - Lungs
23. Drake - So Far So Gone
24. Eminem - Relapse
25. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown

Planet Sound (UK teletext service)

so far
http://bit.ly/51PHeE

11) Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast Cornershop
12) It's Blitz Yeah Yeah Yeahs
13) Hazards Of Love The Decemberists
14) Epcot Starfields Windmill
15) We Ain't Got No Money, Honey, But We Got Rain Liam Frost
16) Two Dancers Wild Beasts
17) Junior Royksopp
18) My Maudlin Career Camera Obscura
19) Empire Of The Sun Empire Of The Sun 20) Until The Earth Begins To Part Broken Records

21) Monsters Of Folk Monsters Of Folk
22) Forget The Night Ahead The Twilight Sad
23) Hundreds Of Lions Erin McKeown
24) Origin Orphan The Hidden Cameras
25) Everything Is New Jack Penate

26) New Worlds Charlotte Hatherley
27) The Liberty Of Norton Folgate Madness
28) Bitte Orca Dirty Projectors
29) Kingdom Of Rust Doves
30) Turning The Mind Maps

31) Tarot Sport F*** Buttons
32) Don't Stop Annie
33) Beginning Middle End The B Of The Bang
34) Fantasies Metric
35) Yeah So Slow Club
36) Travels With Myself And Another Future Of The Left
37) Room 7½ Dot Allison
38) Wilco (The Album) Wilco
39) To The City From The Sea Beat The Radar
40) Gorilla Manor Local Natives

41) Truelove's Gutter Richard Hawley
42) Lonely Road Liam McKahey And The Bodies
43) Hands Little Boots
44) The Real Feel Spiral Stairs
45) The Last Laugh Joker's Daughter

46) Which Bitch? The View
47) Once Kid Harpoon
48) The Duckworth Lewis Method The Duckworth Lewis Method
49) The New Pop Sound Of DON'T MOVE!
50) I'm OK Gable

Planet Sound still exists?! huh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Sound
It was announced on the 17th of July 2009 that Planet Sound is to end in January 2010

wow. lots of stuff on the planet sound list I've never even heard of...

NOMINATIONS THREAD for ILX METAL ALBUMS Of 2009 (Closes December 20)

various lists from Cargo Records Distribution UK

Cargo Staff Picks 2009
http://cargorecords.blogspot.com/2009/11/cargo-staff-picks-2009.html

updated today:

rateyourmusic.com - top 1000 albums of 2009
http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2009

still at number 1: Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

i bet it updates every day

i bet animal collective stays #1 with every update

more like rate your shitty prog-metal .com

more like rate your shitty prog-metal .com

http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart - Use that and remove over-represented genres!

it will just end up looking like an ilx list then!

on spotify, checking out some of the Rock-a-Rolla list I hadn't heard...

was pretty floored by the sheer hyperactive weirdness and crinkly fuzziness of the omar album, until I realised that a spotify glitch meant it was playing at about three times the correct speed. listening at the 'proper' speed now. I wish I could accelerate it again.

email and ask them ;)

wtf at that Lindstrom being on the rough trade list - it's not due for release until 2010 right?

everyone seems to be underrating the really actually rather good trail of dead album. like, to the extent where they're nominating muse instead.

Silly Norwegians, it's obvious that the only African-Americans who put out worthy albums this year are rappers whose best work came in the 90s!

at least they acknowledge the fact that black people make music at all

must every thread turn into this?

Afraid so

No list will ever satisfy everyone, it's impossible.
Mind you if it did, threads would be lucky if they got 3 posts.

Bill Callaham

it's sad that super furry animals end up number 2 on an uncut list and that sems about right as they have turned into dad rock.

Given that Norway is pretty ethnically homogeneous and has kept alive its folk traditions, maybe the music that ended up on that list resonates more with their cultural background than most African-American music. I wonder how much indie rock would turn up on EOY lists out of Africa?

Before we start getting into Scandanavian race politics, the Reverend's comment was a JOKE, ie the Norwegian poll features Rihanna, Jay-Z, Drake and 50 Cent whereas the others throw the occasional bone to Mos Def or Raekwon.

Oops. Sorry.

it's sad that super furry animals end up number 2 on an uncut list

Leaving aside the hilarious narcissism of small diffs going on here, people who get on this sort of crybaby tip about music they 'approve' of being lauded by media they 'disapprove' of really are disgusting not to mention boring savages

Harsh but fair.

i guess i missed the point of your post, is this entire exercise not one of subjectivity and opinion spouting it is actually more tiresome when people come in and claim to be above the fray and not prone to such pettiness. so you like the newest super furry animals and don't like people who would diminish it? is that what you are saying?

x-post

Um, no, it has its moments, I am just puzzled as to what world you live in where the idea of the band Super Furry Animals and the magazine Uncut interacting in this way is upsetting or unexpected

I am just puzzled as to what world you live in

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=41

Thank you, Dorian.

Post decade lists here: Best of Decade (2000s) Album Lists

Gorilla Vs. Bear

25 pisces | a lovely sight
24 ganglians | monster head room
23 the mantles | the mantles
22 st. vincent | actor
21 cass mccombs | catacombs
20 atlas sound | logos
19 washed out | high times
18 night control | death control
17 phoenix | wolfgang amadeus phoenix
16 nirvana | live at reading
15 the mayfair set | young one
14 mountain man | mountain man
13 nite jewel | good evening
12 memory tapes | seek magic
11 neon indian | psychic chasms
10 fever ray | fever ray
09 jj | no. 2
08 girls | album
07 smith westerns | smith westerns
06 the sandwitches | how to make ambient sadcake
05 the xx | xx
04 animal collective | merriweather post pavilion
03 grizzly bear | veckatimest
02 white denim | fits
01 raekwon | only built 4 cuban linx pt. II

commenced

musicOMH blog: musicOMH's Top 50 Albums Of 2009
http://blog.musicomh.com/musicomh/2009/11/musicomhs-top-50-albums-of-2009.html

link for

gorillavsbear.net: gorilla vs. bear's albums of 2009
http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2009/12/gorilla-vs-bears-albums-of-2009.html

part 1

The Quietus Reductive & Subjective Albums Of The Year List: 40 To 21
http://thequietus.com/articles/03325-the-quietus-reductive-subjective-albums-of-the-year-list-40-20

40. Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy
39. Atlas Sound - Logos
38. Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night
37. Crippled Black Phoenix 200 Tons Of Bad Luck
36. Broadcast and the Focus Group Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age
35. Various Productions feat. Gerry Mitchell The Invisible Lodger Fire

34. Admiral Angry Buster
33. Telepathe - Dance Mother
32. Pet Shop Boys - Yes
31. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
30. Part Chimp Thriller
29. Health Get Color

28. Micachu and the Shapes Jewellery
27. Engineers Three Fact Fader
26. Rammstein - Liebe Is Fur Alle Da
25. Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport
24. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavillion
23. Jim O’Rourke Visitor
22. King Cannibal Let The Night Roar
21. Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band Between My Head And The Sky

Is the Cornershop cd gonna get released in the US?

Art Rocker - Top 100
http://www.artrocker.com/node/19312

http://afropop.org/multi/feature/ID/921/Afropop%20Worldwides%202009%20Stocking%20Stuffers%20 Afropop.org - 35 stocking stuffers

Of the 50-odd albums I have, I only truly love Franco, Springsteen, K'NAAN, Mos Def, maybe the best of Girls, Mastodon, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, The Very Best, The xx, and Kurt Vile (though I prefer God Is Saying This To You...). Guess I better pick up the Bill Callahan.

Surprised by this claque's total shutout of P.O.S. and Art Brut.

I still like Q, but they are getting a bit too populist when they are including Mika in their year-end list maybe. Plus I doubt a lot of Mika fans read Q anyways.

K'Naan's a shutout so far, too, right? (At least on lists I've looked at, which really surprised me. Also sad that nobody seems to be listing the Death record, on Drag City. Are they disqualifying it just 'cause it's old music? Got written about everywhere when it came out, so I figured people would ignore how long ago the songs were recorded.)

I'm voting for K'Naan! Probably #1. And yeah, it's weird that he's not everywhere--he'd totally fit into the Arrested Development/Coup/first-Kanye success arena.

xp the death album is fantastic, but as a reissue it won't be eligible for most magazines' EOY lists.