Topic: Top Albums of 2009: Part I (Read 233111 times)

Johnny C · « **Reply #400 on:** 24 Oct 2009, 09:31 »

St. Vincent's Actor was really good, yeah.

Tom · « **Reply #401 on:** 24 Oct 2009, 13:44 »

Quote from: KickThatBathProf on 24 Oct 2009, 09:14

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

Looks to me like everyone else is on the same page

theoryC · « **Reply #402 on:** 24 Oct 2009, 14:04 »

Quote from: KickThatBathProf 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

The excellent cover art cancels those out, leaving the music as the sole reason for listening to the album! Woah!

edit: Hold it. Why is Decemberists #10 in my list and Fun excluded? I knew there was a problem with it.

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #403 on:** 24 Oct 2009, 19:49 »

Quote from: Tom on 24 Oct 2009, 13:44

Looks to me like everyone else is on the same page

No, not really. I was trying to say TBOBPAH shouldn't draw quite as much ire as either Wavves or Animal Collective because the main reason people do not like them is that they are "boring" not because "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah this hurts my ears what the hell are you doing to those instruments", to which you replied that they should be more offensive to the ears to sound better. This is what did not make any sense.

Johnny C · « **Reply #404 on:** 24 Oct 2009, 20:57 »

the pains of being pure at heart are pretty good ~pop music~

Touch Me Im Sick · « **Reply #405 on:** 24 Oct 2009, 23:27 »

Jesus, just because I said I liked Wavves and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, I'm suddenly a Pitchfork-brainwashed little shit. Way to fucking go, people.

I just so happen to like stuff covered by Pitchfork. Major difference...

Retrospectre · « **Reply #406 on:** 25 Oct 2009, 01:55 »

I think Pitchfork's given good reviews to almost all of my favourite records from this year.

scarred · « **Reply #407 on:** 25 Oct 2009, 02:03 »

I don't have a huge beef with Poopspork, but sometimes their reviews can be baffling - they literally had nothing bad to say about Doves' Kingdom of Rust but it still only merited a 7.8.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #408 on:** 25 Oct 2009, 04:10 »

Rammstein - Liebe ist fur alle da.

Best album of 2009.

Inlander · « **Reply #409 on:** 25 Oct 2009, 06:15 »

Quote from: Kyros on 23 Oct 2009, 19:44

Yonder is the Clock

Oh wow at first I didn't see that little "l" in there and maybe it's just because I've been dancing to surf music for the last hour and a half, but damned if "Yonder is the
Cock" wouldn't be the best name for an album ever.

amok · « **Reply #410 on:** 25 Oct 2009, 08:03 »

Quote from: Retrospectre on 25 Oct 2009, 01:55

I think Pitchfork's given good reviews to almost all of my favourite records from this year.

Ditto, mostly, most stuff I like that they cover on that site, they seem to review well

I even got some stuff on the basis of reading some reviews on there, and liked that too. I fail at being indie

Then again Ferry Corsten's remix album is one of my CDs of the year so that's no great surprise

David_Dovey · « **Reply #411 on:** 25 Oct 2009, 17:02 »

Quote from: Touch Me Im Sick on 24 Oct 2009, 23:27

Jesus, just because I said I liked Wavves and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, I'm suddenly a Pitchfork-brainwashed little shit. Way to fucking go, people.

I just so happen to like stuff covered by Pitchfork. Major difference...

Welcome to the conversation we had about half a page back. Try reading the rest of the thread now.

Joseph · « **Reply #412 on:** 25 Oct 2009, 21:24 »

Quote from: Inlander on 25 Oct 2009, 06:15

Quote from: Kyros on 23 Oct 2009, 19:44
Yonder is the Clock

Oh wow at first I didn't see that little "l" in there and maybe it's just because I've been dancing to surf music for the last hour and a half, but damned if "Yonder is the
Cock" wouldn't be the best name for an album ever.

Sounds like it could be a perfectly acceptable Bill Callahan or Will Oldham record.

michaelicious · « **Reply #413 on:** 26 Oct 2009, 05:36 »

Yeah that's what I was thinking too.

Tom · « **Reply #414 on:** 27 Oct 2009, 12:19 »

A collaboration between the two is probably not far off.

Touch Me Im Sick · « **Reply #415 on:** 27 Oct 2009, 14:32 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 25 Oct 2009, 17:02

Quote from: Touch Me Im Sick on 24 Oct 2009, 23:27
Jesus, just because I said I liked Wavves and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, I'm suddenly a Pitchfork-brainwashed little shit. Way to fucking go, people.

I just so happen to like stuff covered by Pitchfork. Major difference...

Welcome to the conversation we had about half a page back. Try reading the rest of the thread now.

Belated reply = fuuuuuck, my bad

JD · « **Reply #416 on:** 27 Oct 2009, 16:02 »

Haven't felt the urge to go listen to Girls. Am I missing something?

Koremora · « **Reply #417 on:** 27 Oct 2009, 16:27 »

I dunno, I gave them a listen and didn't really hear too much that was interesting to me. Plus, the dude's voice sounds like he's trying way too hard to give it that "duuuuuude" inflection. That's just me though, apparently a lot of people have really loved it, or utterly loathed it. I wasn't particularly moved one way or the other.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #418 on:** 28 Oct 2009, 03:59 »

This is my pre-list list, hastily thrown together just then because my God I listen to a lot of music and I'm really not looking forward to doing the end of year list. So I thought I'd get a head-start and then try to slide the next two months' worth of stuff in as I go. Obviously this list is highly subject to my mood right now, and I could probably come back to it tomorrow and have no idea what I was thinking. Also it feels like more than a year even since I've listened to some of this stuff and I've barely listened to quite a lot of it.

I think I'm going to have to set aside a good week or maybe two for exclusively going through all of this year's music, one by one, before I do the end-of-year list. Yes, I take list-making that seriously, even though nobody will even read the damn thing. Anyway:

Albums:

Eleventh He Reaches London- Hollow Be My Name
Baroness- Blue Record
Pulling Teeth- Paranoid Delusions Paradise Illusions
Regina Spektor- Far
Future of the Left- Travels With Myself and Another
Om- God is Good
Converge- Axe To Fall
Frank Turner- Poetry of the Deed
Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Elvis Costello- Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
Calvin Harris- Ready For the Weekend
Between the Buried and Me- The Great Misdirect
Doomriders- Darkness Come Alive
Lewd Acts- Black Eyed Blues
Alexisonfire- Old Crows/Young Cardinals
Fuck Buttons- Tarot Sport
Russian Circles- Geneva
Mumford & Sons- Sigh No More
Yuksek- Away From the Sea
Pelican- What We All Come to Need
Mastodon- Crack The Skye
Passion Pit- Manners
Mountain Goats- The Life of the World to Come
Kowloon Walled City- Gambling on the Richter Scale
Porcupine Tree- The Incident
The Whitest Boy Alive- Rules
Neil Young- Fork in the Road
Karnivool- Sound Awake
Lonely Island- Incredibad
The Field- Yesterday and Today
A Death in the Family- Small Town Stories
Amosouers- Amosouers
The Devil & Abbe May- Hoodoo You Do
Arcane- Chronicles of the Waking Dream
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
Toehider- Not Much of a Man
Sleepmakeswaves & Tangled Thoughts of Leaving- Split
Boris/Torche- Chapter Ahead Being Fake
These Estates- I Can't Wait!
Pelican- Ephemeral

David_Dovey · « **Reply #419 on:** 28 Oct 2009, 04:00 »

Actually that is a really solid top 10. Everything that deserves to be there, nothing that doesn't. Happy.

valley_parade · « **Reply #420 on:** 28 Oct 2009, 07:57 »

Quote from: Zombiedude on 27 Oct 2009, 16:02

Haven't felt the urge to go listen to Girls. Am I missing something?

"Album" is good, but not as good as p4k make it out to be.

Christophe · « **Reply #421 on:** 28 Oct 2009, 13:13 »

That NSFW version of their video where one of the dude's is singing into the other dude's dick is pretty hilarious.

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.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #422 on:** 29 Oct 2009, 04:37 »

Quote from: Christophe on 28 Oct 2009, 13:13

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

Fixed Your Music Fail

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #423 on:** 29 Oct 2009, 05:06 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 29 Oct 2009, 04:37

Quote from: Christophe on 28 Oct 2009, 13:13
But fuck a band for naming a song "Lust for Life" when there is already a mindblowingly dull song named "Lust for Life" 32 years ago.

Fixed Your Music Fail

Fixed Your Music Fail.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #424 on:** 29 Oct 2009, 05:16 »

Nope, sorry, try again.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #425 on:** 29 Oct 2009, 06:13 »

Nah, I'm happy with it, I'll let it stand.

Retrospectre · « **Reply #426 on:** 29 Oct 2009, 06:59 »

Go see an ear doctor.
Right now.

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #427 on:** 29 Oct 2009, 07:24 »

Quote from: BeoPuppy on 29 Oct 2009, 06:13

Nah, I'm happy with being wrong about everything

Touch Me Im Sick · « **Reply #428 on:** 29 Oct 2009, 11:10 »

Quote from: Retrospectre on 29 Oct 2009, 06:59

Go see an ear doctor.
Right now.

Johnny C · « **Reply #429 on:** 29 Oct 2009, 16:21 »

opinion

Inlander · « **Reply #430 on:** 29 Oct 2009, 19:26 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 29 Oct 2009, 16:21

wrong opinion

Fixed your opinion.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #431 on:** 30 Oct 2009, 02:44 »

Quote from: BeoPuppy on 29 Oct 2009, 06:13

Nah, I'm happy with it, I'll let it stand.

Nah, I'm happy with it, I'll let it stand.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #432 on:** 30 Oct 2009, 02:51 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 29 Oct 2009, 16:21

opinion

joke

Thrillho · « **Reply #433 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.

Thrillho · « **Reply #434 on:** 02 Nov 2009, 15:13 »

On first listen, it's pretty average - I'm hoping I'll get a better impression as I listen more. But it seems to have a very strong sense of ridiculousness to it while still being very Weezerish.

pogonrudie · « **Reply #435 on:** 02 Nov 2009, 19:05 »

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.

scarred · « **Reply #436 on:** 02 Nov 2009, 22:44 »

I think Tiny Mix Tapes' review summed it up pretty well.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #437 on:** 02 Nov 2009, 23:41 »

Quote from: pogonrudie on 02 Nov 2009, 19:05

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.

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

Christophe · « **Reply #438 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!

JD · « **Reply #439 on:** 03 Nov 2009, 00:41 »

Weezer = Edward Cullen

scarred · « **Reply #440 on:** 03 Nov 2009, 00:49 »

Weezer's next album cover:

Scarychips · « **Reply #441 on:** 03 Nov 2009, 05:18 »

They look dirty.

Retrospectre · « **Reply #442 on:** 03 Nov 2009, 07:10 »

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 · « **Reply #443 on:** 03 Nov 2009, 08:35 »

Quote from: Christophe on 28 Oct 2009, 13:13

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 · « **Reply #444 on:** 03 Nov 2009, 12:30 »

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 · « **Reply #445 on:** 03 Nov 2009, 15:00 »

Quote from: pogonrudie on 02 Nov 2009, 19:05

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 · « **Reply #446 on:** 04 Nov 2009, 21:49 »

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 · « **Reply #447 on:** 04 Nov 2009, 22:02 »

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 · « **Reply #448 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 00:35 »

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

David_Dovey · « **Reply #449 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 00:47 »

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

TAAS

Cool Freudian Slip, Bro

THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)

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