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Top Albums of 2009: Part I
AanAllein:
--- Quote from: tricia kidd on 06 Jan 2010, 13:59 ---
--- Quote from: Merrick on 06 Jan 2010, 04:57 ---I've seen some Editors hatin' here.
I thought ITLAOTE was really good. Burn me.
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don't hate them, but they're boring compared to other similar bands. that paul banks solo album this year tops anything they've done.
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This is the incorrect answer. Their first two albums were good (I have a preference for the second one, but I'm the minority there) and the third one is just...boring '80s new wave? Like, I guess it does that okay, but who wants to listen to a middling album from the '80s?
TheFuriousWombat:
Things I really liked, sort of in order up to my favorite of the year but not really. If I were to make a definitive list, these would probably all be on it somewhere in any case:
William Fowler Collins Perdition Hill Radio
Hildur Gudnasdottir - Without Sinking
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Vs. Children
Grizzly Bear Veckatimest
Elm - Nemcatacoa
Xela The Divine
Hanging Thief S/T
Scott Tuma and Mike Weiss Taradiddle
Evan Caminiti Psychic Mud Shrine
Concern Truth and Distance
MONO Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Good Stuff House Endless Bummer
Do Make Say Think Other Truths
Wildbirds and Peacedrums The Snake
Ilyas Ahmed Goner (definitely album of the year for me, no doubt in my mind. Its brilliant!)
tricia kidd:
--- Quote from: AanAllein on 06 Jan 2010, 16:47 ---
--- Quote from: tricia kidd on 06 Jan 2010, 13:59 ---
--- Quote from: Merrick on 06 Jan 2010, 04:57 ---I've seen some Editors hatin' here.
I thought ITLAOTE was really good. Burn me.
--- End quote ---
don't hate them, but they're boring compared to other similar bands. that paul banks solo album this year tops anything they've done.
--- End quote ---
This is the incorrect answer. Their first two albums were good (I have a preference for the second one, but I'm the minority there) and the third one is just...boring '80s new wave? Like, I guess it does that okay, but who wants to listen to a middling album from the '80s?
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i honestly don't know which band you're talking about. if you're talking about Editors, your response makes no sense. if you're talking about Interpol, i agree that Antics is their best album but Our Love To Admire doesn't sound anything like 80s new wave. it is, however, not great.
Joseph:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 30 Dec 2009, 00:22 ---I went through all this thread looking for starting points to assemble my own list and I've actually heard literally none of the albums herein mentioned, unless I skimmed some shit.
I don't think I have actually heard 10 albums released in 2009.
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Did I never mention Aleph at Hallucinitory Mountain?
Anyhow, as far as what I heard (which admittedly wasn't a ton):
Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beware
Chain and the Gang - Down With Liberty... Up With Chains!
Current 93 - Aleph
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Julie Doiron - I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
Joan of Arc - Flowers
Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine
Mt. Eerie - Wind's Poem
The New Year - The New Year
Listened to Future Of the Left, Bill Callahan, Immaculate Machine, These Estates, Yo La Tengo, Neko Case, and Handsome Furs a bunch as well.
TheFuriousWombat:
Oh, I forgot to mention my absolute least favorite album of the year, Bitte Orca. What a fucking disastrous mess of an album. Irritating beyond belief, completely mishmashed, illogically constructed, jarringly composed in the worst possible sense of the word, rife with totally superfluous instrumentation and generally godawful songwriting, I cannot for one single second of this aural trainwreck fathom in the slightest why anyone might like this. And no, I'm really not being hyperbolic here, I do think it's that bad.
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