Topic: Top Albums of 2009: Part I (Read 211927 times)

pogonrudie · « **Reply #450 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 10:54 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 02 Nov 2009, 23:41

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.

Quote from: Christophe on 03 Nov 2009, 00:30

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...

JD · « **Reply #451 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 23:09 »

Quote from: DynamiteKid on 02 Nov 2009, 09:58

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 · « **Reply #452 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 05:53 »

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 · « **Reply #453 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 07:11 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 05 Nov 2009, 00:47

Quote from: valley_parade on 03 Nov 2009, 15:00
TAAS

Cool Freudian Slip, Bro

Whoops.

Quote from: pogonrudie on 05 Nov 2009, 10:54

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

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

Thrillho · « **Reply #454 on:** 09 Nov 2009, 09:07 »

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

Theriandros · « **Reply #455 on:** 11 Nov 2009, 12:14 »

Quote from: BeoPuppy on 25 Oct 2009, 04:10

Rammstein - Liebe ist fur alle da.

Best album of 2009.

Trying to decide if this is serious.

scarred · « **Reply #456 on:** 11 Nov 2009, 13:04 »

Theriandros · « **Reply #457 on:** 11 Nov 2009, 14:35 »

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 · « **Reply #458 on:** 11 Nov 2009, 14:39 »

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 · « **Reply #459 on:** 13 Nov 2009, 01:56 »

Finally got around to listening to the new Fuck Buttons.

whoa.

SleeperCylon · « **Reply #460 on:** 17 Nov 2009, 12:16 »

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

ElDavido · « **Reply #461 on:** 29 Nov 2009, 17:14 »

Horse Feathers - House with No Home...ah that was last year but I'll wave my hand and none of you will notice....*waves hand*...did it work by any miniscule chance?
Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight / Quietly Now...again last year but I still love it.
The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead. God I love that album.
Datarock - Read. Im getting low on albums released this year Im a huge fan of so I'll stick that in.
MONO - Hymn To The Immortal Wind. Recent listen but getting into it well.

Utter Let-Downs:
Editors newest
Muse newest
Julian Casablancas newest

DarkAvenger · « **Reply #462 on:** 29 Nov 2009, 17:19 »

Album that should be on everybody's list: "Real Size Monster Series" - Police Teeth.

Christophe · « **Reply #463 on:** 29 Nov 2009, 17:43 »

Quote from: DarkAvenger on 29 Nov 2009, 17:19

Album that should be on everybody's list: "Real Size Monster Series" - Police Teeth.

+1,000,000,000,000

Scarychips · « **Reply #464 on:** 29 Nov 2009, 17:44 »

Quote from: ElDavido on 29 Nov 2009, 17:14

Utter Let-Downs:
Editors newest

I totally agree with you on this. I'm not sure why, but the "indrustrial-ish" twist on their music doesn't work with me. Maybe I still need another listen or two.

ElDavido · « **Reply #465 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 07:17 »

Just sounds like god awful 80s synthy pop now. We already had to listen to the Eurythmics...why make us again!?

AanAllein · « **Reply #466 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 13:01 »

Yeah that was pretty much my experience. It basically sounds like it came straight from the '80s. I mean, it's an okay '80s record I guess, but that's hardly what I was looking for from a new Editors release.

I don't mind the Julian Casablancas album though. I mean, it's nothing special, but it's quite listenable.

Scarychips · « **Reply #467 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 13:56 »

Talking about solo stuff. Interpol's Paul Banks' Julian Plenti record is really good. I really liked it.

ElDavido · « **Reply #468 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 16:30 »

Ah I heard Plenti was bringing out a solo record recently, is it out yet?

Scarychips · « **Reply #469 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 16:46 »

It's already out actually. Since August 4th. I think it's in the Mediaf!re thread, but if it's not, PM me and I'll post it.

ElDavido · « **Reply #470 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 16:50 »

Jebus I'm behind on my Interpol chat, need to check that out cheers.

byebyepanda · « **Reply #471 on:** 02 Dec 2009, 01:00 »

GIRLS - Album

MrDorman · « **Reply #472 on:** 02 Dec 2009, 01:38 »

From the top of my head:
Muse - The Resistance
The Engineers - Three Fact Fader
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Orenda Fink - Ask the Night
Memory Tapes - Seek Magic

StreetSpirit · « **Reply #473 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 15:22 »

Polvo - In Prism

KvP · « **Reply #474 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 20:16 »

Here's my list. I'm not bothering to number them beyond the top 10, they're all pretty good as far as I'm concerned.

1. Plaid - Heaven's Door: The Soundtrack
2. FaltyDL - Love Is a Liability / Bravery
3. Ramona Falls - Intuit
4. Few Nolder - New Folder
5. Silkie - City Limits Vol. 1
6. Baroness - Blue Record
7. Luke Vibert - We Hear You / Rhythm
8. The Black Dog - Further Vexations
9. Devin Townsend Project - Addicted
10. Moderat - Moderat
Runners-up:
The XX - XX
Harmonic 313 - When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence
Atlas Sound - Logos
CFCF - Continent
Helado Negro - Owe Awe
The Horrors - Primary Colors
Mew - Long-named album.
Sticklips - It is Like a Horse, it is Not Like Two Foxes
Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts
Mapstation - The Africa Chamber
Yuuki Matthews - Music for Savage Tropical Imagery
Helios - Unreleased Vol. 1
Paul Baran - Panoptic
Sunken Foal - Fermented Condiments
Black Dice - Repo

Johnny C · « **Reply #475 on:** 28 Dec 2009, 09:28 »

PORTICO'S NEW ALBUM, FIRST NEIGHBOURS, IS ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT AND ONE OF THE BEST RECORDS I'VE HEARD THIS YEAR HANDS DOWN. PLEASE VISIT http://www.myspace.com/porticonation FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS AND SLINT-Y MUSIC W/ A GIRL SINGER

DavidGrohl · « **Reply #476 on:** 28 Dec 2009, 09:59 »

For me :
The Engineers - Three Fact Fader
Passion Pit - Manners
Ramona Falls - Intuit
Fun. - Aim & Ignite

tricia kidd · « **Reply #477 on:** 28 Dec 2009, 10:47 »

Crippled Black Phoenix - 200 Tons of Bad Luck

As expected from a "supergroup", it's all over the place in a good way. You've got a couple traditional post-rock epics, a few Matt Elliott-esque depressing ballads, some heavy stoner riffs, and all of it is executed with amazing production values and great little touches that become more apparent with each listen.

Flaming Lips - Embryonic

Album of the year, will probably end up in the running for album of the decade. Their best work since Clouds Taste Metallic, bar none. After Mystics I honestly thought I wasn't part of their target audience at all anymore, but this thing is a monster.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - s/t

Never has such unabashedly catchy retro-pop been so elegantly good. It's fucking scary how easy they make this shit sound. At times I've listened to this thing on repeat in excess of three times in a row on car rides.

Dan Deacon - Bromst

Not only an insane, eclectic, fun record but the live show was even better. If you have the chance, SEE THIS MAN IN ACTION.

The Horrors - Primary Colours

Largely abandoning their previous aping of Gun Club-era punk and embracing influences from Can to Spiritualized, this album is both truly derivative and truly brilliant. It's good to see a band that finally lived up to their hype.

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

I feel like this album does for me what The Shins do for their fans. There's a definite comparison, but these guys hit higher notes and have a tighter sense of songwriting, with just enough curveballs to keep it from being pure pop.

Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind

It's a Mono album, I think that's all that really needs to be said.

A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head

Not particularly different from their Jesus and Bloody Mary Division debut, but every bit as effective, if not moreso.

We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls

The best of the New Scottish Sound, easy. Beating The Twilight Sad at their own game, though...

The Twilight Sad - Forget the Night Ahead

...is still an amazing, cathartic record.

The xx - s/t

I love this shit. So mellow, so natural, so beautiful, so retro, so futuristic.

Johnny C · « **Reply #478 on:** 28 Dec 2009, 13:10 »

Real talk that Phoenix record is unassailable.

Lummer · « **Reply #479 on:** 28 Dec 2009, 13:44 »

I've really been trying to be open here, but I just can't get that goddamn ANb record out of the top spot.

Anyway, how is it possible NOT to love a record with a song called "Druggernaut Jug Fuck" and another song with the greatest Iron Maiden pun ever?

David_Dovey · « **Reply #480 on:** 28 Dec 2009, 21:45 »

It's probably not dogg

(actually I've got some disease where grindcore doesn't click to me at all but don't hold against me please)

Johnny C · « **Reply #481 on:** 29 Dec 2009, 02:16 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 28 Dec 2009, 09:28

PORTICO'S NEW ALBUM, FIRST NEIGHBOURS, IS ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT AND ONE OF THE BEST RECORDS I'VE HEARD THIS YEAR HANDS DOWN. PLEASE VISIT http://www.myspace.com/porticonation FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS AND SLINT-Y MUSIC W/ A GIRL SINGER

WHO READ THIS POST, I'M SERIOUS

Spluff · « **Reply #482 on:** 29 Dec 2009, 03:59 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 28 Dec 2009, 21:45

(actually I've got some disease where grindcore doesn't click to me at all but don't hold against me please)

This is actually quite a common problem. The layman's term for it is 'ears'.

In all seriousness, this is a pretty good album, though it'll never get into my 'most listened' list on last.fm. It's diverse, interesting, and musical enough to justify the longer track lengths. The hidden track is actually very good, too (albeit not very grindcore).

DavidGrohl · « **Reply #483 on:** 29 Dec 2009, 10:37 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 29 Dec 2009, 02:16

WHO READ THIS POST, I'M SERIOUS

I approve this message. Not the best of 2009, though.

Johnny C · « **Reply #484 on:** 29 Dec 2009, 11:14 »

if you don't think that album is one of the best album's you've heard this year then we've got words to have my friend, because there are so many parts that disagree with you: the crescendo of "my mother was born here, stoney indian" in "the battle of duck lake"; the sudden shift into an eerie major-key chiming guitar riff in "first neighbours" that totally belies the grimness of lines like "like a corpse we settle in"; the eruption of about seven measures of straight time into "i heard there's proof"; the way the drum line playfully mimics rhythm of the vocals in "unreunion" (or vice-versa, maybe); the way the intro cascades into three ringing melodies in "a year between the wars"; the absolutely amazing dissonance of the horns and strings in "frank slide," maybe the most effective use of those elements that i've heard in a few years, never mind the way that the song's rhythm suddenly changes from a strut to a weird, creepy shuffle; the surprisingly delicate nature of "bachelors, unite!" and the crisp lightness of the plucked guitar in that song; the sleater-kinneyish punk charge of "hallmark poultry limited" that's unexpected simply because of how brisk and straighforward it is; the "ooooos" that make "my teenage best friend's death in welland" more beautiful than it should be; the ghostly "we wait still" in "laura secord,"; the cinematic broadness of "louis riel leaves the college de montreal" that becomes terrible and awesome in the biblical sense during its horn-laden chorus; the martial rhythms of "spanish dance" that turn into a series of instrumental washes reminiscent of last year's excellent self-titled record by women.

i missed one song in there just cause i was thinking of all those parts off the top of my head. this is one of the most memorable records i've heard in a long time, and it's an album where absolutely no song, no section, no note is out of place. lean and cleverly-written and catchy, and some of the most incredible lyrics.

if that isn't enough for you, i'm perfectly willing to go through the last few pages and name the 2009 albums that don't hold a candle to this one.

Johnny C · « **Reply #485 on:** 29 Dec 2009, 11:16 »

seriously if you profess any love at all for guitars or the album spiderland you need to be all over first neighbours

JD · « **Reply #486 on:** 29 Dec 2009, 11:45 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 28 Dec 2009, 09:28

PORTICO'S NEW ALBUM, FIRST NEIGHBOURS, IS ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT AND ONE OF THE BEST RECORDS I'VE HEARD THIS YEAR HANDS DOWN. PLEASE VISIT http://www.myspace.com/porticonation FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS AND SLINT-Y MUSIC W/ A GIRL SINGER

This is pretty awesome.

tricia kidd · « **Reply #487 on:** 29 Dec 2009, 12:25 »

spiderland really isn't all that great though.

michaelicious · « **Reply #488 on:** 29 Dec 2009, 13:54 »

The general mood of that Portico album reminds me a lot of The Cape May upon the first few listens.

Johnny C · « **Reply #489 on:** 29 Dec 2009, 15:49 »

Quote from: michaelicious on 29 Dec 2009, 13:54

The general mood of that Portico album reminds me a lot of The Cape May upon the first few listens.

-spindly
-ominous
-visceral

yeah, that fits

Professor Snuggles · « **Reply #490 on:** 29 Dec 2009, 16:23 »

I honestly no longer remember what albums I liked from the beginning of the year, and my computer died so I don't even have them anymore anyway, but I'm gonna come down on the side of The Dream - Love vs. Money being the best record of the year, and Gucci Mane - The State vs Radric Davis is in the top 10 somewhere. Also:

Smith Westerns - Self titled
Strange Boys - And Girls Club
Maxwell - Black Summers Night
Miranda Lambert - Revolutions
Mayer Hawthorne - Strange Arrangement
Avett Brothers - I and Love and You

And probably a bunch of other stuff I really liked at one point but forgot about.

tricia kidd · « **Reply #491 on:** 30 Dec 2009, 00:01 »

Quote from: Professor Snuggles on 29 Dec 2009, 16:23

Avett Brothers - I and Love and You

i was talking about that just last night, that album is like a reverse-grower. i like it less every time i listen to it. at first i thought it was 10/10 A+ but now i think it's just kind of ok.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #492 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.

Lummer · « **Reply #493 on:** 30 Dec 2009, 00:35 »

It kind of bugs me, that I haven't heard the new Portal yet.

Scarychips · « **Reply #494 on:** 31 Dec 2009, 09:32 »

TOP TEN OF 2009

10. Actor -- St. Vincent
9. Vs. Children -- Casiotone For the Painfully Alone
8. I Can't Wait -- These Estates
7. Strange Arrangement -- Mayer Hawthorne and the County
6. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart -- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
5. xx -- The xx
4. Veckatimest -- Grizzly Bear
3. March of the Zapotec/Holland -- Beirut
2. Far -- Regina Spektor
1. Tonight: Franz Ferdinand -- Franz Ferdinand

Johnny C · « **Reply #495 on:** 31 Dec 2009, 09:35 »

Actor was really, really good, and so was that Mayer Hawthorne record. Tight!

David_Dovey · « **Reply #496 on:** 31 Dec 2009, 09:51 »

Shit I guess I better do this seeing as I literally can not listen to anything else this year

David_Dovey · « **Reply #497 on:** 31 Dec 2009, 10:26 »

BAM

Albums:

Baroness- Blue Record
Eleventh He Reaches London- Hollow Be My Name
Om- God is Good
Converge- Axe To Fall
Future of the Left- Travels With Myself and Another
Coalesce- Ox
Shrinebuilder- Shrinebuilder
Devin Townsend Project- Addicted
Pulling Teeth- Paranoid Delusions Paradise Illusions
Kowloon Walled City- Gambling on the Richter Scale
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Regina Spektor- Far
Doomriders- Darkness Come Alive
Mumford & Sons- Sigh No More
Frank Turner- Poetry of the Deed
Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Elvis Costello- Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
Lewd Acts- Black Eyed Blues
Karnivool- Sound Awake
Calvin Harris- Ready For the Weekend
Disappearer- The Clearing
Amosouers- Amosouers
Between the Buried and Me- The Great Misdirect
Fuck Buttons- Tarot Sport
Russian Circles- Geneva
Heirs- Alchera
Alexisonfire- Old Crows/Young Cardinals
A Death in the Family- Small Town Stories
Mastodon- Crack The Skye
Yuksek- Away From the Sea
Passion Pit- Manners
Pelican- What We All Come to Need
Porcupine Tree- The Incident
The Whitest Boy Alive- Rules
Neil Young- Fork in the Road
The Field- Yesterday and Today
Mountain Goats- The Life of the World to Come
Lonely Island- Incredibad
The Devil & Abbe May- Hoodoo You Do
Arcane- Chronicles of the Waking Dream
Katatonia- Night is the New Day
Darkest Hour- The Eternal Return
Isis- Wavering Radiant
Killswitch Engage- Killswitch Engage
The Decemberists- The Hazards of Love
Kylesa- Static Tensions
Simian Mobile Disco- Temporary Pleasure
MSTRKRFT- Fist of God
A Place to Bury Strangers- Exploding Head

EPs:

Cave In- Planets of Old
Jesu- Opiate Sun
Toehider- Not Much of a Man
Sleepmakeswaves & Tangled Thoughts of Leaving- Split
Gull- The Thin King
Boris/Torche- Chapter Ahead Being Fake
These Estates- I Can't Wait!
Pelican- Ephemeral

Fairly tweaked from the list I did in October, and a big rush of albums from just the past few weeks, including "Ox" by Coalesce which I absolutely am kicking myself over not hearing earlier. Also really weird seeing something like Regina Spektor's record outside of the Top 10, considering I didn't think anything could even touch it when I first listened to it. Ditto "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix". I think this just speaks to how deeply I am in to sludge+hardcore right now than a comment on the music's quality. Also this list is a huge reminder that I really needed to give quite a lot of records more time and attention, but just ended up listening to "The Blue Record" instead.

Scarychips · « **Reply #498 on:** 31 Dec 2009, 10:42 »

Also, to comment on my top ten list, I had Franz Ferdinand's as my best album, not because it's a musical masterpiece or anything, but I just listened to it so many times, I couldn't not put it as my favourite album. And Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is one of my runner-ups, bu I recently gave another listen to Vs. Children and I realised it was better.

Oh and congrats Johnny for being in my top ten. I recently re-gave a listen to your band's EP and it's honestly incredibly fun.

Koremora · « **Reply #499 on:** 01 Jan 2010, 19:59 »

Just put my list up on my blog. Did a Top Ten, and then an honorable mention for anything below that.

http://mightyriogrande.blogspot.com/

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