Top Albums of 2009: Part I

[scarred]

Weezer's next album cover:

[Scarychips]

They look dirty. 

[Retrospectre]

I keep trying to not listen to Embryonic so much and the muthafucker keeps finding it's way into my CD player.

[20 jazz funk greats]

But fuck a band for naming a song "Lust for Life" when there is already a perfectly good song already named "Lust for Life" 32 years ago.

this this this.

[Koremora]

Blue + Pinkerton are the only records Weezer made. After this, they were hit by meteorites. What is this "new Weezer" you guys are talking about? Sounds like some hoax bullshit to me.

[valley_parade]

That new Weezer is really terrible. Like, All-American Rejects bad. How did they go from "Only In Dreams" and "Across The Sea" to "The Girl Got Hot" and "I Can't Stop Partying"? Depressing.

a) The band that REALLY went TAAS this year was American Steel. So much so that they're now OPENING for the All American Rejects. Then again, "Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts" might just make my top 5 at the end of the year.

b) Can't Stop Partying was a great song when it was Rivers acoustic. Adding Lil Wayne fucked everything up.

[Johnny C]

Nah, the Jermaine Dupri production is really terrible, the dude phoned it in. it probably would have worked* if it was just a straight Weezer track. "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" is a pretty rad song though! I don't have high hopes for the rest of the record but at least it's one of the best singles they've had in a while.

*Well, worked better.

[Inlander]

So some day we're gonna get to Part II of this thread, right?

Anyway, the more I think about it the more I'm convinced that the best two albums I've heard this year have been Casiotone for the Painfully Alone vs. Children and Grand Salvo's Soil Creatures. Neither differ greatly from anything the artists concerned have done in the past, but both represent the best thing that each artist has so far put out (in my opinion). The Casiotone album, in particular, is clearly the encapsulation of everything he's been working towards so far while also being an astonishing leap forwards in both the depth and quality of his songwriting.

[Lummer]

Well, guys.. It's still "Agorapocalypse" for me.

[David_Dovey]

TAAS

Cool Freudian Slip, Bro

[pogonrudie]

Were you aware when you wrote that that Rivers actually collaborated with the All-American Rejects on this steaming shitpile of a record?

Are you serious? Haaaahaha, wow. Suddenly it all makes sense.

All this hullabaloo about "oh, if only Weezer could make an album that was as good as Blue/Pinkerton" is complete cock and is much like hoping your scumbag boyfriend isn't gonna cheat on you again when he does so repeatedly. Rivers sucks, the whole band sucks, AHHHH C'MON FUCK THIS BAND, let's just forget that they ever existed. If you don't believe in them they can't hurt you anymore!

I don't expect any new albums from them to be as good as Pinkerton...in my opinion, few albums are. But I do expect them to not be embarrassing. First time I listened to Raditude I had to keep it the volume low because I was scared somebody would walk by and think I was listening to All-Time Low or something.

And for the record, I'm not one of those people who think Weezer's streak of good music ended with The Blue Album/Pinkerton. I think that The Green Album and especially Maladroit are criminally underrated records. Their past couple though...

[Zombiedude]

I bought the new Weezer album today. As much as they are hit and miss these days I will ALWAYS buy a new Weezer album... Thoughts to follow.

Did you also get the snuggie with it?

[michaelicious]

My favourite part of the Snuggie commercials is when the mom is all swaddled up in the Snuggie keepin' "snuggly warm" while the baby is left to the elements in the apparently frigid living room.

[valley_parade]

TAAS

Cool Freudian Slip, Bro

Whoops.

especially Maladroit are criminally underrated records. Their past couple though...

I have been saying this forever. I fucking LOVE Maladroit.

[DynamiteKid]

I've got the new Robbie Williams album and it's pretty fucking impressive.

[Theriandros]

Rammstein - Liebe ist fur alle da.

Best album of 2009.

Trying to decide if this is serious.

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[Theriandros]

I actually liked the musical evolution displayed by that album, but I really don't know a lot of other people here that like Rammstein...

Also: Diablo Swing Orchestra's "Sing-Along Songs for the Damned and Delirious" is making a really good case for itself this year.

[evilbobthebob]

Personal favourites, no particular order:

Coalesce - OX
Converge - Axe To Fall
Baroness - Blue Record
Pulling Teeth - Paranoid Delusions Paradise Illusions
The Hope Conspiracy - True Nihilist (really an EP, but whatever)
The Arusha Accord - The Echo Verses

[scarred]

Finally got around to listening to the new Fuck Buttons.



whoa.

[SleeperCylon]

1 White Denim- Fits
2 Animal Collective - MPP
3 BLK JKS - After Robots
4 Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
5 Flaming Lips - Embryonic
6 Mos Def - The Ecstatic
7 St Vincent - Actor
8 Florence + The Machine - Lungs
9 Rodrigo & Gabriela - 11:11
10 Bob Dylan - Together Through Life