Topic: Top Albums of 2009: Part I (Read 236109 times)

pulpfiction21 · « **Reply #350 on:** 19 Oct 2009, 07:56 »

there is also a mixed drink called a "Starfucker". It's actually really delicious, if you like girly mix drinks.

Lummer · « **Reply #351 on:** 19 Oct 2009, 09:58 »

I think no matter what happens, Agoraphobic Nosebleed's latest effort ranks as the best record this year. If not that, then at least the most demented, whacked-out ride of the year.

How can you NOT love a record that features a song called "Druggernaut Jug Fuck"!?

McTaggart · « **Reply #352 on:** 19 Oct 2009, 10:16 »

Ok I am late to the party with this one, but if you like hiphop you've gotta hear Raekwon's new one. It's like Fishscale good.

Koremora · « **Reply #353 on:** 19 Oct 2009, 16:01 »

Fuck Buttons - TAROT SPORT TAROT SPORT TAROT SPORT TAROT SPORT TAROT SPORT TAROT SPORT TAROT SPORT

MOTHERFUCKING TAROT SPORT YOU CUNTS.

This is the greatest and best album.

Johnny C · « **Reply #354 on:** 19 Oct 2009, 19:14 »

McTaggart's right, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II is absolutely killer. there is a song where redman suggests putting out your joint in ODB's urn, so his ashes can get high

AanAllein · « **Reply #355 on:** 19 Oct 2009, 22:36 »

I am still very much uneducated in hip-hop, but I agree that that album is fantastic.

scarred · « **Reply #356 on:** 20 Oct 2009, 13:58 »

PYRAMID just changed their name to PYRAMIDDD, apparently. Now I think they're all just hella wasted.

Retrospectre · « **Reply #357 on:** 20 Oct 2009, 15:19 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 19 Oct 2009, 19:14

McTaggart's right, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II is absolutely killer. there is a song where M-E-T-H-O-D Man suggests putting out your joint in ODB's urn, so his ashes can get high

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #358 on:** 20 Oct 2009, 15:51 »

In all honesty, i am finding this a disappointing year for great albums. There are maybe a handful i would consider so and then a lot of average ones.

Possible top 10 contenders so far:

Dananananaykroyd - Hey Everyone
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
Röyksopp - Junior
The Thermals - Now We Can See
The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
Frank Turner - Poetry of the Deed
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Starfucker - Jupiter
The Antlers - Hospice
Future of the Left - Travels With Myself and Another
Mayer Hawthorne and the County - A Strange Arrangement
Seasick Steve - Man From Another Time
Fun. - Aim and Ignite

EDIT: Edited because I am an idiot and didn't pay attention when typing this.

Johnny C · « **Reply #359 on:** 21 Oct 2009, 05:58 »

Quote from: Retrospectre on 20 Oct 2009, 15:19

the last 36 hours of my life have been nightmare calibre so you'll have to excuse me for messin up the vocal qualities of the two gravel-throated stars of How High

skydivingninja · « **Reply #360 on:** 21 Oct 2009, 06:36 »

A top ten so far...

1. Porcupine Tree-The Incident. How many Porcupine Tree fans got excited when they announced that the centerpiece of the new album would be 55 minutes long. Don't lie, you were. And we had every reason to be, because this is absolutely amazing. It could overthrow Lightbulb Sun and In Absentia as my favorite PT album, but its still young. We'll see.

2. Dethklok-The Dethalbum II. Wait a minute, the number 2 album of the year is from a cartoon band? Yes. Yes it is. Its an album chock full of great melodic deth metal sounds. The change in style of Brendon Small's growls as Nathan Explosion really helps the songs become more memorable. Most death metal bands would kill for the actual popularity Dethklok has.

3. dredg-The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion. Wow. My second dredg album after El Cielo and this was not what I was expecting at all. Catchy hooks are everywhere on this album. Even the "Stamp of Origins" that are scattered throughout the album are great. There are a few unnecessary filler songs, but it doesn't subtract from the overall quality.

4. Dream Theater-Black Clouds & Silver Linings. What a comeback from the last crappy album, Systematic Chaos. There's not too much experimentation or style change on this album, except for the inclusion of an iPhone app Bebot in "A Rite of Passage." But DT knows what DT fans want, and what DT fans wanted was pretty much this album. Nothing groundbreaking by any means, but you can't argue with 5 great songs and 1 good song.

5. Mastodon-Crack the Skye. Another "wow" from me. I really prefer this style to Mastodon's older stuff. Psychadelic, progressive, and heavy makes for one awesome combination, especially on tracks like "Oblivion," "The Czar," and "Ghost of Karelia."

6. Bruce Springsteen-Working on a Dream

7. The Decemberists-The Hazards of Love

8. Pure Reason Revolution-Amor Vincit Omnia

9. Mew-No More Stories...

10. Umphrey's McGee-Mantis

Honorable Mentions: Muse, Marillion, Pearl Jam, Maudlin of the Well

valley_parade · « **Reply #361 on:** 21 Oct 2009, 06:52 »

Quote from: the_pied_piper on 20 Oct 2009, 15:51

Frank Turner - Pains of the Deed

POETRY, Rob. Poetry of the Deed.

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #362 on:** 21 Oct 2009, 09:09 »

Whoops, fixed. I knew that was right aswell but i must've been looking at something else at the time.

Koremora · « **Reply #363 on:** 21 Oct 2009, 11:53 »

Quote from: skydivingninja on 21 Oct 2009, 06:36

9. Mew-No More Stories...

WE HAVE A WINNER

theoryC · « **Reply #364 on:** 21 Oct 2009, 23:51 »

Quote from: Koremora on 21 Oct 2009, 11:53

Quote from: skydivingninja on 21 Oct 2009, 06:36
9. Mew-No More Stories...

WE HAVE A WINNER

QFT

my list right now:

1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
2. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
3. Kormorany - La Musica Teatrale
4. Mew - No More Stories
5. mewithoutYou - It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright
6. The Antlers - Hospice
7. Arve Henriksen - Cartography
8. Hecq - Steeltongued
9. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
10. Ametsub - The Nothings of the North

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #365 on:** 22 Oct 2009, 07:21 »

Quote from: theoryC on 21 Oct 2009, 23:51

5. mewithoutYou - It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright

wow that is terrible

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #366 on:** 22 Oct 2009, 08:18 »

Quote from: theoryC on 21 Oct 2009, 23:51

1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion

Well music, we had a good run...

theoryC · « **Reply #367 on:** 22 Oct 2009, 12:46 »

^two horrible posts

I would get used to AC placing high if I were you

scarred · « **Reply #368 on:** 22 Oct 2009, 13:55 »

Yeah I wasn't thrilled with MPP but basically everyone in Seattle luuuurrrrvess it so if it tops out lots of end-of-year lists, I'll be disappointed but not surprised.

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #369 on:** 22 Oct 2009, 14:22 »

Quote from: theoryC on 22 Oct 2009, 12:46

^two horrible posts

man you cannot deny it is both a terrible band name and album name

SWOON! at My Gravitas · « **Reply #370 on:** 22 Oct 2009, 16:17 »

I've tried very hard to lurve MPP, but still only a few of the songs on it get me excited.

Which is a shame, because the songs that do get me excited are fantastic.

Touch Me Im Sick · « **Reply #371 on:** 22 Oct 2009, 22:13 »

1. "Merriweather Post Pavillion" - Animal Collective
2. "The Pains of Being Pure at Heart" - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
3. "Earthly Delights" - Lightning Bolt
4. "Post-Nothing" - Japandroids
5. "Exploding Head" - A Place to Bury Strangers
6. "XX" - The xx
7. "In and Out of Control" - The Raveonettes
8. "Wavvves" - Wavves
9. "Yesterday and Today" - The Field
10. "Horehound" - The Dead Weather

JD · « **Reply #372 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 01:08 »

Wavvves?

valley_parade · « **Reply #373 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 07:32 »

Quote from: Touch Me Im Sick on 22 Oct 2009, 22:13

1. "Merriweather Post Pavillion" - Animal Collective
2. "The Pains of Being Pure at Heart" - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
8. "Wavvves" - Wavves

I hate to say it, but your ears are playing a very mean joke on your brain.

Kyros · « **Reply #374 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 09:32 »

Quote from: SWOON! at My Gravitas on 22 Oct 2009, 16:17

I've tried very hard to lurve MPP, but still only a few of the songs on it get me excited.

Which is a shame, because the songs that do get me excited are fantastic.

I feel this way about basically every Animal Collective album, but MPP even more so.

Also say want you want about Animal Collective and Wavves but The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are awesome.

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #375 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 09:35 »

Quote from: Kyros on 23 Oct 2009, 09:32

Also say want you want about Animal Collective and Wavves but The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are awesome.

Yeah that is a correct statement

valley_parade · « **Reply #376 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 10:49 »

Quote from: Jay Reatard

The pains of being boring at heart

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #377 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 11:41 »

Yeah well they really aren't offensive to the ears though

Tom · « **Reply #378 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 13:00 »

that's kinda part of the problem there

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #379 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 13:05 »

So you are saying the problem with the Pains of Being Pure at Heart is that they need to sound more offensive to people's ears? I don't really follow

scarred · « **Reply #380 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 13:08 »

They could all just start yelling "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck" and slamming their guitars on the ground and it'd still be really cute.

Kyros · « **Reply #381 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 14:44 »

Quote from: KickThatBathProf on 23 Oct 2009, 13:05

So you are saying the problem with the Pains of Being Pure at Heart is that they need to sound more offensive to people's ears? I don't really follow

By this logic Wavves is clearly the best new artist of the year.

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #382 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 14:53 »

1. This is not Wavves' first year
2. That honor would probably go to another more deserving band (i.e. Brokencyde or Attack! Attack!)

SWOON! at My Gravitas · « **Reply #383 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 16:00 »

It is going to be difficult to pick just 10 albums from all the good stuff of this year.

I don't know whether I'm happier that this is the case, or sadder that I am taking making a list like this so seriously.

Mastodon- Crack the Skye
Isis- Wavering Radiant
Baroness- The Blue Record
Fever Ray- s/t
Blut Aus Nord- Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars
Cormorant- Metazoa
Infected Mushroom- Legend of the Black Shawarma
Converge- Axe to Fall
Do Make Say Think- Other Truths
Porcupine Tree- The Incident
The Flaming Lips- Embryonic
Memory Tapes- Seek Magic
Pelican- What We All Come to Need
Immortal- All Shall Fall
Hacride- Lazarus
Royksopp- Junior
Amesoeurs- s/t
Sunn0)))- Monoliths & Dimensions
Kylesa- Static Tensions
Mono- Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Yob- The Great Cessation
Jesu- Opiate Sun

Stupid musicians and their talent, making it difficult for me to subjectively rank their works in some dumb order.

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #384 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 16:14 »

A tentative top 10 which may change before the end of the year:

1. Fun. - Aim and Ignite
2. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
3. Future of the Left - Travels With Myself and Another
4. The Thermals - Now We Can See
5. Seasick Steve - Man From Another Time
6. Röyksopp - Junior
7. The Antlers - Hospice
8. Mayer Hawthorne and the County - A Strange Arrangement
9. Starfucker - Jupiter
10. The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules

David_Dovey · « **Reply #385 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 18:47 »

Quote from: valley_parade on 23 Oct 2009, 07:32

Quote from: Touch Me Im Sick on 22 Oct 2009, 22:13
1. "Merriweather Post Pavillion" - Animal Collective
2. "The Pains of Being Pure at Heart" - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
8. "Wavvves" - Wavves

I hate to say it, but Pitchfork are playing a very mean joke on your brain.

Eff Why Pee

Koremora · « **Reply #386 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 18:50 »

Hahahaha I know rite guys, anyone who likes THOSE bands are clearly hipster trash whose opinions are based solely on those of a certain web magazine that we are ALL superior to.

(seriously I don't care for pitchfork either but what a stupid attitude that is. People will like what they like, regardless of what Pitchfork says.)

David_Dovey · « **Reply #387 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 18:52 »

Sorry for being smarmy but it's just that it's the only way my brain can reconcile anyone actually liking any of those bands

Koremora · « **Reply #388 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 19:08 »

Oh my goodness! People like bands that you do not enjoy? Alert the internet police!

(oh wow I can be smarmy too)

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #389 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 19:17 »

Koremora, you should probably stop getting pissy over the Pitchfork jokes. It doesn't matter whether you like it or not or whether anyone else has an opinion on it, the jokes are going to happen and it's better if they are just left there and chuckled or sighed at (whatever is applicable to anybody's opinion who is reading this).

What I am saying is that there is no need to get into a slanging match over good-natured humour so grow up people.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #390 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 19:19 »

Also saying I accuse anyone of being hipster trash is hilarious because I am absolutely hipster trash and about the only fucker ever who'll actually nut up and admit it.

scarred · « **Reply #391 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 19:35 »

Yeah snide remarks are really the only way to go on this forum. I really dig POBPAH, they got #4 on my top 10 records of the year, but I'm not above making jokes about their faux British accents or cutesy attitude. If you can't laugh at yourself, what's the point?

Kyros · « **Reply #392 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 19:44 »

Oh right so the whole Top 10 thing. In the interest of fairness anything The Thermals release is basically Auto #1 for me, so really this is more of a Top 9, and in a non-Thermals year Actor would be my favorite album.

1) The Thermals - Now We Can See
2) St. Vincent - Actor
3) Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
4) A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
5) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
6) Japandroids - Post-Nothing
7) Matt & Kim - Grand
8.) Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong
9) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Self Titled/Higher Than the Stars EP
10) The Felice Brothers - Yonder is the Clock

Koremora · « **Reply #393 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 20:46 »

I probably over-reacted, but I guess I find the whole "Haha you like Animal Collective, you poor thing" pretty annoying. Oh well! Sorry if I acted like a dick for a second there.

scarred · « **Reply #394 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 22:04 »

I don't like Animal Collective but I'd never go so far as to pity their fans. I reserve that pleasure for brokenCYDE and Attack Attack!.

Mr. Tool · « **Reply #395 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 22:47 »

My list is still a work in progress as I'm trying to catch up on the significant releases I've missed this year, but anyways...

1. Deastro - Moondagger
2. Ramona Falls - Intuit
3. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
4. The Antlers - Hospice
5. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
6. Flight Of The Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky
7. Music Go Music - Expressions
8. Dead Man's Bones
9. Port O'Brien - Threadbare
10. Bruce Peninsula - A Mountain Is A Mouth

Spluff · « **Reply #396 on:** 23 Oct 2009, 22:48 »

New Russian Circles is so good.

michaelicious · « **Reply #397 on:** 24 Oct 2009, 05:56 »

Quote from: Mr. Tool on 23 Oct 2009, 22:47

10. Bruce Peninsula - A Mountain Is A Mouth

Should bump that up 8 or 9 spots.

valley_parade · « **Reply #398 on:** 24 Oct 2009, 06:13 »

Quote from: KickThatBathProf on 23 Oct 2009, 13:05

So you are saying the problem with the Pains of Being Pure at Heart is that they need to sound more offensive to people's ears? I don't really follow

No, they're just really boring and doing stuff that's been done for ages, now. I liked them when I heard a song or two off the album, then sat down and listened to the whole album. Yawn. Listen to Cruyff in the Bedroom is you want some decent 'gazey pop.

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #399 on:** 24 Oct 2009, 09:14 »

Well yeah it's not like I didn't understand your opinion. Honestly, I just think they are very relaxing to listen to. I guess there's kind of a fine line between boring and relaxing though so I can understand why people don't like the album.

What I was really replying to in that post was more confusion at Tom's response:

Quote from: Tom on 23 Oct 2009, 13:00

that's kinda part of the problem there

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