so I'm a little bit later than usual with this annual thread, but oh well

in no particular order-

Dan Deacon- Bromst
Grizzly Bear- Veckatimest
Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavilion
Dirty Projectors- Bitte Orca
YACHT- See Mystery Lights
the xx- XX
Yeah Yeah Yeah's- It's Blitz!
Passion Pit- Manners
Mos Def- The Ecstatic
Bon Iver- Blood Bank EP
Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
St. Vincent- Actor
Ganglians- Monster Head Room
Lonnie Walker- These Times Old Times
Modest Mouse- No One's First and You're Next EP

[Edited on September 30, 2009 at 6:34 PM. Reason : I have no idea why I typed Marry Me instead of Actor]

9/30/2009 6:25:28 PM

i've actually been keeping a list going.. i love lists:

1. sunset rubdown - dragonslayer
2. st. vincent - actor
3. vivian girls - everything goes wrong
4. micachu & the shapes - jewellery
5. atlas sound - logos
6. yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz!
7. YACHT - see mystery lights
8. animal collective - merriweather post pavillion
9. dirty projectors - bitte orca
10. dan deacon - bromst
11. mewithoutyou - it's alright, it's all crazy, etc etc
12. passion pit - manners
13. edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros - up from below
14. fruit bats - the ruminant band
15. noah and the whale - the first days of spring
16. owen - new leaves
17. volcano choir - unmap
18. the decemberists - the hazards of love

9/30/2009 6:32:38 PM

^, ^^ i'm so out of the loop! i've heard a grand total of 5 of those bands

9/30/2009 6:33:48 PM

i agree with most of those (St .Vincent's new album is Actor)

will also add The Pain of Being Pure at Heart - (both s/t and Higher Than The Stars)
Kurt Vile - God Is Saying This To You
Smith Westerns - s/t
Ducktails - Landscapes
Megafaun - Gather, Form & Fly

i'll add more when i can remember

albums i was let down by:
The Field - Yesterday & Today
new Jay Reatard

[Edited on September 30, 2009 at 6:40 PM. Reason : htf did i forget Megafaun]

9/30/2009 6:35:49 PM

yeah that The Field album was quite meh.

9/30/2009 7:43:16 PM

no particular order:

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - s/t
Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
St. Vincent - Actor
A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head


lots of great reissues this year as well: the Vaselines, the Feelies, the Beatles, Red Red Meat

9/30/2009 8:04:33 PM

Frightened Rabbit- The Midnight Organ Fight

amazing record.


also, my newest favorite cd is Locksley. they are fantastic...check them out!

[Edited on September 30, 2009 at 8:21 PM. Reason : .]

9/30/2009 8:15:07 PM

st. vincent - actor is on all those lists

could you compare them to other bands so i might know what kind of music they are?

9/30/2009 8:19:44 PM

It's just one broad

She's pretty great, though

9/30/2009 8:38:42 PM

she's pretty awesome. my life goal is to marry her. or someone who looks like her.

9/30/2009 8:44:27 PM

My life goal is to kill wilso and marry his widow

9/30/2009 8:51:07 PM

my life goal is to kill ernie after he kills wilso and takes his widow who will then be my wife and widow of 2

[Edited on September 30, 2009 at 8:54 PM. Reason : *]

9/30/2009 8:53:33 PM

what the heck you guys

9/30/2009 10:00:24 PM

i enjoyed

andrew bird - noble beast
wilco - wilco (the album)
the mars volta - octahedron
dan auerbach - keep it hid
m. ward - hold time
the black crowes - before the frost...
portugal. the man - the satanic satanist

9/30/2009 10:18:09 PM

I'm sorry dudes, but I've had dibs on her for years

although I think Vulcan91 had dibs on her before I did

9/30/2009 10:38:36 PM

Quote :

"1. sunset rubdown - dragonslayer"

YES

also:

Quote :

"Neko Case - Middle Cyclone Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career Dinosaur Jr. - Farm St. Vincent - Actor the decemberists - the hazards of love Dan Deacon- Bromst the xx- XX Yeah Yeah Yeah's- It's Blitz! Bon Iver- Blood Bank EP Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix St. Vincent- Actor Lonnie Walker- These Times Old Times Modest Mouse- No One's First and You're Next EP"

9/30/2009 10:41:22 PM

I don't hear much new music but I have enjoyed the following this year that I remember

megafaun
phoenix
bombadil

and i thought the new sonic youth totally sucked.

still need to hear polvo

9/30/2009 10:50:07 PM

apparently me and miska are into the same kind of music

who knew

9/30/2009 11:12:35 PM

Hey, here's a list of things I like that people have mostly already mentioned

Camera Obscura, Wild Beasts, Vivian Girls, Megafaun, Dan Auerbach (I really thought that came out last year), The Antlers

Phoenix and Girls were both good, not great

Pains of blah blah, xx, and 3/4 of the Bon Iver EP didn't do much for me

I'm glad someone else kind of liked the Wilco album

I feel like The Mountain Goats and Will Oldham probably had new albums this year because they have new albums every year. I don't really remember either, though.

[Edited on October 1, 2009 at 12:10 AM. Reason : 1/2 of the Monsters of Folk album is pretty good also. I think I mentioned that already]

10/1/2009 12:03:54 AM

the new Why? didn't live up to Alopecia at all

10/1/2009 12:24:41 AM

I can never keep track of whats coming out.

however the company im working for is doing stuff with BLK JKS and their new album is pretty cool.

10/1/2009 12:25:56 AM

Quote :

"I'm glad someone else kind of liked the Wilco album"

I definitely thought it was enjoyable. Get pretty much berated any time I mention this to someone, though.

10/1/2009 1:07:00 AM

I have always contended that Why? is not good. at all.

10/1/2009 8:50:58 AM

Merriweather Post Pavillion

/thread
/year

I dare something to beat it. Highly doubt it's possible.

10/1/2009 10:24:26 AM

overrated

10/1/2009 10:37:03 AM

it's like a joke how much i love sunset rubdown - dragonslayer, but that's by far my #1.

10/1/2009 10:45:10 AM

a guy on KNC the other day said Panda Bear's "Person Pitch" was the best album of the past decade.

he also said he wasn't kidding.

10/1/2009 11:56:48 AM

fanboi

10/1/2009 11:57:31 AM

Quote :

"Merriweather Post Pavillion /thread /year I dare something to beat it. Highly doubt it's possible."

good, solid album. but to highly doubt its possible to have a better album this year creates an argument that would never get cleared up due to comparing it to other genres and tastes that are extremely hard to compare.

I will say that I know for a fact I enjoy Mew's "No More Stories..." more as a whole than I do the AC album. I pick that example because it is at least somewhat comparable stylistically.

[Edited on October 1, 2009 at 12:10 PM. Reason : ]

10/1/2009 12:09:48 PM

phish - joy

flame on

10/1/2009 7:25:54 PM

LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE ALREADY FLAMIN ON PRETTY HARD YOURSELF THERE BRO

10/1/2009 8:15:49 PM

so i listened to a couple of these, and they pretty much all seem to suck. to me. and i've never really heard of anything in this thread either, maybe i'm just too much stuck in the "mainstream" or..i dunno.. somebody put down something good.

10/1/2009 8:28:51 PM

which did you listen to?

what didn't you like about it?

what other music DO you like?

these are questions that would be very helpful in determining what it is from these lists that you might actually like.

10/1/2009 8:36:48 PM

The more I listen to this Wild Beasts, the more it creeps up my list

10/1/2009 8:53:50 PM

^^ i dunno, a couple of the ones that were repeated a couple times. something more...rockier.

10/1/2009 8:58:52 PM

fuck me in the ass wrong thread

[Edited on October 1, 2009 at 9:15 PM. Reason : das56]

10/1/2009 9:15:35 PM

Quote :

"The more I listen to this Wild Beasts, the more it creeps up my list"

This is my favorite album of 2009

I just want to make it official

11/12/2009 9:43:08 PM

Although I haven't listened to most of what has already been posted, I'm gonna hafta go with:

Fanfarlo - Reservoir

11/13/2009 12:10:45 AM

agree with most everything in the first few posts

i'd add to it Mumford & Sons - Sign No More

11/13/2009 1:10:31 AM

Portugal The Man - Satanic Satanist
Fruit Bats - Ruminant Band
Megafaun - Father Form Fly
Bon Iver - Blood Band EP
BTBAM - The Great Misdirect
Omar Rodriqguez Lopez - Xenophanes


These are the first that come to mind, and in not particular order.

11/13/2009 1:40:30 AM

^^whoops

SIGH no more


i knew i would do that

11/13/2009 2:24:31 AM

Other than Phoenix, Grizzly Bear and Animal Collective, I've listened to mostly local music. So here's my list in no particular order.

Lonnie Walker- These Times Old Times
Megafaun - Gather, Form & Fly
Bombadil - Tarpits & Canyonlands
Bowerbirds - Upper Air
Americans in France - Pretzelvania
The Kingsbury Manx - Ascenseur Ouvert!
North Elementary - Not for Everyone Just for You
I Was Totally Destroying It - Horror Vacui
Hammer No More The Fingers - Looking For Bruce
Western Civ - Shower the People You Love With Gold
Luego - Taped-together Stories

Not sure if I should include The Love Language since Stu released it last summer ... though it was widely distributed in '09.

11/13/2009 9:38:20 AM

forgot to mention ...

Birds of Avalon - Uncanny Valley
Fin Fang Foom - Monomyth

11/13/2009 11:33:15 AM

Quote :

"also, my newest favorite cd is Locksley. they are fantastic...check them out!"

hahahaha fag, i saw them open for hanson

wait...i mean, i heard they opened for hanson

11/13/2009 12:57:02 PM

Quote :

"Not sure if I should include The Love Language since Stu released it last summer"

I'd say no...I swear he was giving that shit out in '07 but I could be wrong.

There's probably some timeline based on which versions have "Equinox" on them.

11/13/2009 1:06:14 PM

wat about the new britneh cd?

That girl is still poppin' and lockin' even after a babeh.

11/13/2009 3:58:38 PM

whenever people start listing all these bands that I have barely heard of I feel like I am just way out of some sort of loop...but then i realize I have listened to the type of music my entire life and so I dont feel as bad. I also agree with Called to Arms that its impossible to compare albums of the year even within a given type of music. Regardless here is my list in no order

Baroness - The blue record
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect

11/13/2009 6:16:26 PM

Quote :

"Mastodon - Crack the Skye Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect"

and I also enjoyed
Shadows Fall - Retribution
Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue

11/16/2009 9:27:08 AM

Some of my absolute top favorites from the year:

BTBAM - The Great Misdirect
Omar Rodriqguez Lopez - Xenophanes
Mew - No More Stories...
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Empire! Empire!... - What it takes to move forward

11/16/2009 9:40:24 AM

I'm kind of ashamed to say:

Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Kylesa - Static Tensions
Doomriders - Darkness come alive

because i think all of those bands have done better in the past. Maybe that just goes to say some other bands will blow me away in 2010

I have been digging on Shining - VI Klagopslamer but i've played that to death and can't really listen anymore . New The Red Chord album is awesome but i still don't like grindcore




I'm also ashamed to say that the only non-'metal' album i have from 2009 is We play endlessly


I'm AstralAdvent and i think its time for a smiley change

[Edited on November 16, 2009 at 11:07 AM. Reason : ]

11/16/2009 11:05:27 AM