Acclaimed Music Top 30 Albums from 2009 poll

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

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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

i mean, For Emma, Forever Ago is great, but it's like In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, so hard to separate it from all the cultural detritus caused by it. the weird new america/last great generation of noise rock bands were still active and relevant i feel (the Lightning Bolt LP from 2009 is great, and Black Dice put out their best work REPO in 2009. same goes for Eric Copeland). that lasted until 2010/2011. i don't think vest rock/cabincore became omnipresent until 2011.

boring 80s/90s indie/college rock revivalists like... Modern Baseball

uh

Emo bullshit, whatever. They're still boring as fuck & doing absolutely nothing new. Can't wait for them to fade away

one thing i miss about this era is the sense of experimentation and somewhat avant garde stuff that permeated indie music.

The problem was, a lot of the acts that were doing it really shouldn't have been doing it. A lot of them were fucking awful at it and the music has aged horrendously.

Metz fucking rule.

Seriously, 2007-2010 is probably one of the worst times in... *groans* ... "indie music" I can ever remember. Just endless amounts of utter, utter shit.

the reason for my Dirty Projectors vote is this story: i was working for a rental car company and they asked if i wanted to go to Las Vegas to pick up a Camaro, the one that is in all those Transformers movies. left the night before and actually won some money, paid for my trip and then some. anyways, i put on Bitte Orca and started to rock out. before i knew it i was up to 95 MPH and didn't i get pulled over. if i was going any faster i would have went to jail, nonetheless it still cost me a pretty penny. i played the album twice as this was going to be a memory of my Vegas trip in 2009.

the real answer is probably Fever Ray but not going to get my vote here.

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Thank you, Fever Ray!

Close enough :)

another strong showing for Neko :)

I knew it wouldn't get very many votes - and even I wouldntve voted for it - but I still think Hospice is a great sadsack indie rock record along the lines of In the Aeroplane over the Sea or The Meadowlands

Hospice is beyond sadsack melancholy though, I think I'd rather have cancer that listen to it again

Missed this one.

Would have voted Phoenix