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

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.

it's not exactly a "reissue." it was never really issued, was it? anyway, i assume it's eligible for pazz & jop.

(i'm definitely voting for it.)

I was under the impression that it did come out way back when, albeit in small numbers.

actually, you're right, seems it never go a proper release.

I stand corrected, and now regret not voting for it,

carry on.

You can vote for reissues in P&J--it's just 10 albums of whatever sort.

Yeah, everything is eligible for P&J -- EPs, reissues, never before issued EPs of old stuff, albums that came out in 2008, you name it. If I was honest, I'd vote for almost all reissues this year. Not going to, but I'll probably include Death regardless (not quite my favorite album of old stuff that came out this year, but they need my vote since they might actually have a shot of placing in the poll.)

I've cooled slightly on the K'naan, don't think it'll hit my top ten anymore, but its still a great album.

I like and disqualified the Death album too.

was quite shocked to not see the U2 album in the Mojo list.

I wonder is this the first U2 album (for quite a while ..) to be absent from virtually every list of the year ?

(i suspect its made it onto the Q list given that they are on the EOY cover .. )

The Death CD is two tracks that were on a 7" and some others that were never released until this year, fyi

CLASH

40. Dizzee Rascal - Tongue'n'Cheek
39. Crocodiles - Summer Of Hate
38. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
37. Jamie T - Kings & Queens
36. Maccabees - Wall Of Arms
35. Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Through The Devil Softly
34. Danananaykroyd - Hey Everyone!
33. The Dead Weather - Horehound
32. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle
31. Gossip - Music For Men
30. 2562 - Unbalance
29. Flaming Lips - Embryonic
28. Devendra Banhart - What Will Be
27. Beyond The Wizards Sleeve - Re-Animations Vol 1
26. Woodpigeon - Treasury Liberty Canada
25. Paul White - The Strange Dreams Of Paul White
24. Passion Pit - Manners
23. DM Stith - Heavy Ghost
22. Anathallo - Canopy Glow
21. Moderat - Moderat
20. Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another
19. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
18. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
17. Nathan Fake - Hard Islands
16. Lusine - A Certain Distance
15. Luke Vibert - We Hear You
14. Monsters Of Folk - Monsters Of Folk
13. Florence & The Machine - Lungs
12. Yacht - See Mystery Lights
11. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
10. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
9. Andrew Weatherall - A Pox On The Pioneers
8. Noah & The Whale - The First Days Of Spring
7. The Horrors - Primary Colours
6. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
5. Health - Get Color
4. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
2. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
1. Animal Collective - MPP

i like the moderat album a lot!

when did "get color" get released?

this week's NME front cover "50 Best Albums of 2009"
http://bit.ly/5TL5X9

when did "get color" get released?

Mid-2009.

50 Best Albums of 2009 | NME.COM
http://www.nme.com/list/50-best-albums-of-2009/159978

Album of the Year: The Horrors - Primary Colours

50 Best Tracks of 2009 | NME.COM
http://www.nme.com/list/50-best-tracks-of-2009/159979

Track of the Year: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero

top 10

1. The Horrors - Primary Colours
2. The XX - The xx
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
4. Wild Beast - Two Dancers
5. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
6. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimist
7. The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
8. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
9. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
10. Jamie T - Kings and Queens

rofl the horrors
rofl the xx. hipster bullshit

i do like the idea of the ilx hipsters loving the nme no 2 album of the year though.

This one is just whacky!
http://thequietus.com/articles/03326-the-quietus-reductive-subjective-albums-of-the-year-20-1?page=1

The Quietus Album of the Year: 1. Sunn O))) - Monoliths And Dimensions

talk about hipster bullshit...

Sunn Zzzz makes me long for quietus...

i do like the idea of the ilx hipsters loving the nme no 2 album of the year though.

This probably happens like once every other year? I really don't think you understand other people's taste at all...

The full NME top 50 really looks like they were scraping the barrel for relevant acts to include though.

is their top 50 a bit pitchfork-y? Usually NME will have some uk bands in there that noone else will, but that top 10 is definite pitchfork style.

is there an ilxor decade-end / year-end poll happening this year already?

i do like the idea of the ilx hipsters loving the nme no 2 album top ten - okay top nine - albums of the year though.

I like #1 and #9 btw. The xx are crap imo tbh fwiw.

talk about hipster bullshit...

Do I know you? It just amuses me to be called a hipster when I'm 38, an overweight metaller, no famous/hip friends and have an annual clothes budget of 40 quid. That list (as it says quite clearly) is just a reflection of what me and Luke listen to. We both really rate the Sunn album. We've both been writing about Sunn for about seven years each now and it's finally really good to see them get the coverage they deserve.

Just so I understand what The Rules are for future reference - is it alright for me to write about metal for the metal press but the second I do it for a none-genre specific title, I become a hipster? Just so I know like. I'm obviously a lot less sophisticated about these things than some on here.

There seems to be a lot of what psychologists would refer to as self-recognition on this thread.

This probably happens like once every other year

Yeah I was gonna say, the idea that the two hiveminds at play here are polar opposites is really not borne out by, well, anything

Any top 50 with the Pissed Jeans album in is better than one without it in </opinions4u>

NME top 50 albums

50 Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose
49 Neko Case & Her Boyfriends - Middle Cyclone
48 Atlas Sound - Logos
47 Telepathe - Dance Mother
46 Gallows - Grey Britain
45 Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter
44 Oneida - Rated O
43 Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
42 Empire Of The Sun - Walking On a Dream
41 Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
40 Crystal Stilts - Alight Of Night
39 Japandroids - Post Nothing
38 Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans
37 Passion Pit - Manners
36 The Drums - Summertime!
35 Sonic Youth - The Eternal
34 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
33 Jay-Z - The Blueprint III
32 Noah And The Whale - The First Days Of Spring
31 Micachu & The Shapes - Jewellry
30 The Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant
29 Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young
28 Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
27 PJ Harvey And John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By
26 Florence And The Machine - Lungs
25 Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
24 Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
23 Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
22 Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
21 Health - Get Color
20 Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
19 The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms
18 Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another
17 Girls - Album
16 Mumford And Sons - Sigh No More
15 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
14 Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
13 La Roux - La Roux
12 Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
11 Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
10 Jamie T – Kings and Queens
09 Fever Ray – Fever Ray
08 Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
07 The Big Pink – A Brief History of Love
06 Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
05 Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
04 Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
03 – Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
02 – The XX – The XX
01 – The Horrors – Primary Colours

NME top 10 Songs

50 The Twilight Sad - I Became A Prostitute
49 The Cribs - Cheat On Me
48 Florence And The Machine - Drumming Song
47 The Maccabees - No Kind Words
46 Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
45 Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy
43 Biffy Clyro - The Captain
42 Manic Street Preachers - Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
41 La Roux - I'm Not Your Toy
40 Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land
39 Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar
38 Girls - Hellhole Ratrace
37 Bon Iver - Blood Bank
36 Washed Out - Feel It All Around
35 Little Boots - New In Town
34 Friendly Fires - Jump In The Pool
33 Phoenix - Lisztomania
32 Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For the Others
31 Future Of The Left - Arming Eritrea
30 Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart
29 Shakira - She Wolf
28 The XX - Islands
27 Chew Lips - Solo
26 Wild Beasts - Hooting And Howling
25 Biffy Clyro - That Golden Rule
24 La Roux - Bulletproof
23 Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move
22 The Big Pink - Velvet
21 Lady Gaga - Poker Face
20 Lily Allen - The Fear
19 La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream remix)
18 Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo
17 Memory Tapes - Bicycle
16 Bat For Lashes - Daniel
15 Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning
14 Jamie T - Sticks & Stones
13 Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension
12 Kasabian - Fire
11 Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone
10 – Health – Die Slow
09 – Lady Gaga – Paparazzi
08 – La Roux – In For The Kill
07 – The Drums – Let’s Go Surfing
06 – Jay-Z – Empire State Of Mind
05 – Animal Collective – My Girls
04 – Dizzee Rascal – Bonkers
03 – The Big Pink – Dominos
02 – The Horrors – Sea Within a Sea
01 – Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero

Lots of La Roux, guess that's better than 60% of the top 5 being MGMT though.

thanks for typing it all out

my apologies, Doran. i had no idea you were in sunn0)))

doran i dont think it was a dig at you btw. Was either a dig at me for slagging the xx off or was just a dig at Sunn o)))
xp

ok that was clearly a dig

i have 3 of the nme list, Neko,Oneida and the manics. Still to get the SY album.

xpost I lolled tbh