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There seems to be enough interest in the blogs to warrant this so I'll call out all you music lovers to post your top 10, 20, or 25 Albums of this year ONLY. Please DO NOT include descriptions\reviews\album artwork of albums unless spoiler tagged to save us from exhaustingly long lists.
Hopefully we can all discover some new music to enjoy. Please post in similar format to below and feel free to comment on any artist or album posted in any list.
Here is mine:
1. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2. Blackchords – Blackchords
3. The Wooden Sky – If I Don't Come Home You'll Know I'm Gone
4. The Middle East – The Recordings of the Middle East
5. The Basics – Keep your Friends Close
6. Owen – New Leaves
7. Whitley – Go Forth, Find Mammoth
8. The Temper Trap – Conditions
9. An Horse – Rearrange Beds
10. Leader Cheetah – The Sunspot Letters
11. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
13. The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love
14. Silversun Pickups – Swoon
15. Mumford & Sons – Sigh No more
16. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros – Up From Below
17. M. Ward – Hold Time
18. The Red Tree – Ivory and Gold
19. Andrew Bird – Noble Beast
20. Fanfarlo – Reservoir
21. Au Revior Simone – Still Night, Still Light
22. Yves Klein Blue – Ragged and Ecstatic
23. Paul Dempsey – Everything is True
24. Florence and the Machine – Lungs
25. Lady of the Sunshine – Smoking Gun
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1. Megadeth - Endgame
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This might be fanboyism, but I honestly think this album is the best since Youthanasia, which would put it a #6 (on my rankings). Broderick's guitar work really shows through with that melodic style. Probably not that great because of the lack of truly awesome riffs
2. Vader - Necropolis
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The album just makes sense. Vader has this unstable lineup, but releases solid stuff. Just a solid death metal record that comes a bit above the other stuff released
3. Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know
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Oh man I had been looking forward to it for a long time, and it does not disappoint. Iommi plays like a God here and Dio's voice is still nearly impossible to match.
4. Stratovarius - Polaris
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I don't like power metal, but I did like some of Strato's earlier stuff (their recent stuff was very disappointing IMHO), but with the resignation(?) of the lead guitarist, and the addition of some new blood it looks like Stratovarius got together and added 1 and 1. Some solid songs, and solid guitar work + the I actually liked the keyboards in this album o_O
5. Suffocation - Blood Oath
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Not Suffocation's best by a long shot, but still fairly decent output after their fairly disappointing s/t. Sounds like Suffocation tbh. If you didn't like suffocation before, this won't change any opinions.
6. Saxon - Into the Labyrinth
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solid heavy metal is what Saxon is known for and is what Saxon delivers.
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Eh, without the effort put into finding youtube vids of the best track, or including download links in with the music, and including descriptions of why you thought the music was so awesome, I'm not sure this is really sharing that much. But hey I don't want to discourage anyone, just encouraging people to describe their top picks a little more.
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On December 17 2009 14:54 meeple wrote:
Eh, without the effort put into finding youtube vids of the best track, or including download links in with the music, and including descriptions of why you thought the music was so awesome, I'm not sure this is really sharing that much. But hey I don't want to discourage anyone, just encouraging people to describe their top picks a little more.
I did say they could spoiler tag any description, album artwork, etc they wanted. In the efforts to keep the lists at reader friendly level I did not include any reviews personally but my list is by no means a benchmark.
P.S. JWD I really like that list. I loved each and every one of those albums and found it really hard to exclude the Rural Alberta Advantage too. Good stuff.
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http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=108038 -
Links to Videos, Album Covers, AND Description!
1. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
2. The Antlers - Hospice
3. K'naan - Troubador
4. Regina Spektor - Far
5. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
6. Béla Fleck - Throw Down Your Heart
7. M. Ward - Hold Time
8. Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
9. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle
10. The Lonely Island - Incredibad
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On December 17 2009 14:59 The_Conclave wrote:Show nested quote +On December 17 2009 14:54 meeple wrote:
Eh, without the effort put into finding youtube vids of the best track, or including download links in with the music, and including descriptions of why you thought the music was so awesome, I'm not sure this is really sharing that much. But hey I don't want to discourage anyone, just encouraging people to describe their top picks a little more. I did say they could spoiler tag any description, album artwork, etc they wanted. In the efforts to keep the lists at reader friendly level I did not include any reviews personally but my list is by no means a benchmark. P.S. JWD I really like that list. I loved each and every one of those albums and found it really hard to exclude the Rural Alberta Advantage too. Good stuff.
In your blog you gave descriptions of the top 5, and I wasn't bashing anything... just saying that the more effort a person puts into describing why they like their top picks, the more discussion people can make about them.
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1. Muse - The Resistance
2. Metric - Fantasies
3. Tegan and Sara - Sainthood
Most of my music listening this year has been on pandora, so i don't really pay attention to albums much. if i took the time to look up bands i could make a better list but these three are the only ones that come to mind
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2009 was a great year for music.
1. Converge - Axe to Fall
2. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
3. Sweet Trip - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
4. Brand New - Daisy
5. maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
6. Emery - ...In Shallow Seas We Sail
7. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
8. Sole and the Skyrider Band - Plastique
9. Dance Gavin Dance - Happiness
10. Kidcrash - Snacks
11. Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
12. Tiny Vipers - Life on Earth
13. Thursday - Common Existence
14. fun. - Aim and Ignite
15. Future of the Left - Travels With Myself and Another
16. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
17. Thrice - Beggars
18. The Antlers - Hospice
19. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
20. Shiina Ringo - 三文ゴシップ
21. Coalesce - ox
22. Eleventh He Reaches London - Hollow Be My Name
23. Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
24. meWithoutYou - It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All a Dream! It's Alright
25. Atlas Sound - Logos
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Oh man, this thread is going to give me tons of good leads. Nice list Umbrella, I'm intrigued.
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On December 17 2009 15:08 meeple wrote:
In your blog you gave descriptions of the top 5, and I wasn't bashing anything... just saying that the more effort a person puts into describing why they like their top picks, the more discussion people can make about them.
Well then perhaps when you make your list you might choose to be more informative than my effort. I didn't see the reasoning when people can research each artist and form their own opinion instead of basing an initial interest it off somebody else's views.
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Dark Night Of the Soul - Sparklehorse and Dangermouse (endorsed torrent)
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I couldn't go to see them in London cause I had an effing exam earlier today!  </3
They're the best...I've seen them once, frigging awesome
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I've seen them once, in Vancouver with The Fall of Troy and Chiodos. Holy fucking amazing 
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Definitely jealous Shallow
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Heartbreaker by G dragon kekekke
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Super condensed list gogogo
1. 凛として時雨 - just a moment
2. Chase and Status feat. Plan B - End Credits (yeah it's a single, but it's amazing)
3. Washed Out - High Times
4. Nomak - Muziq and Foto
5. VNV Nation - Of Faith, Power and Glory
6. The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
7. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
8. Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
9. Epik High - [e] (aww yeah)
10. Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Had to force myself to omit touhou remix albums, which would have probably filled about half the list D:
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i spent most of the year listening to older music rather than keeping up, but i'm surprised at a lot of these choices, so i'll contribute and try to stir up some discussion.
what i listened to and didn't outright hate (singles/eps included):
1: Animal Collective - MPP + Fall Be Kind (the light from these releases won't reach the rest of 2009 for another five years)
2: Asobi Seksu - Hush + Rewolf
3: Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
4: Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
5: Hijokaidan - The Noise
6: Boredoms - Super Roots 10
7: Mos Def - The Ecstatic
8: Team Teamwork - The Ocarina of Rhyme (so cheesy, so good)
9: Sunn o))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
10: Black Dice - Repo (one of my favourite bands; huge disappointment)
Honourable Mention: Midori - Swing
albums with one good song:
Project Pat - Real Recognize Real ("Outro" is hilarious)
Sonic Youth - The Eternal ("Antenna"; after the last three albums, there's no way this is anything but a huge drop in quality)
albums i have listened to, but haven't listened to enough to really process:
Les Rallizes Denudes - Tangled Up In Blue 1973
Converge - Axe to Fall
Maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
UGK - UGK 4 Life
Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
Raekwon - Only Built for Cuban Linx Pt. 2
Killer Mike - Underground Atlanta
Girls Generation - Gee + Genie EPs (picked up by osmosis through Roffles' stream)
Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange
Atlas Sound - Logos
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Actor/Model - Gossip About Guys
Amy Millan - Masters of the Burial
The Bravery - Stir The Blood
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
Canadians - A sky with no stars
The Dark Romantics - Heartbreaker
Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
fun. - Aim and Ignite
La Roux - La Roux
Lights - The Listening
Matt and Kim - Grand
Metric - Fantasies
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Higher Than The Stars (also their eponymous album. IDK if that was 2009 tho)
The Sounds - Crossing the Rubicon
The Submarines - Honeysuckle Weeks
Totally Michael - Totally Michael
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