The best albums of 2009.... my list

[adlo]

After seeing the "best albums of the decade" and "best movies of the decade" threads, I checked out a few "best albums of 2009" lists on the web.

It appears there are very few albums critics agree on this year.

What is your favourite album of the year? Will there be a clear OzGolf album of the year?

If there is, I think I have an idea what it might be.

My top ten:

My list, in order:

1. Two Dancers: Wild Beasts
2. Sigh No More: Mumford & Sons
3. Xx: The xx
4. Devils Halo: Meshell Ndegeocello
5. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix: Phoenix
6. Noble Beast: Andrew Bird
7. Bitte Orca: The Dirty Projectors
8. Not Even In July: JBM
9. When The Devil’s Loose: A.A. Bondy
10. Hospice: The Antlers

My full list post #45

[Yossarian]

Mumford and Son's: Sigh No More. It has its faults, it is a bit raw but it seriously knocked me over and keeps knocking me over.

[AndyP]

Temper Trap's Conditions got a good wrap from nearly all of us, and I think it was #2 on JJJ's list.

I'll have to think about my own.

[adlo]

I think Temper Trap would feature in the top 10, but would not be "the best".

[Yossarian]

Agreed adlo, top ten. Not #1 for mind.

[adlo]

Some suggestions to aid discussion:

Some of my favourites in here, some others taken from various lists....

Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix: Phoenix
Xx: The xx
Bitte Orca: The Dirty Projectors
Kid Sam: Kid Sam
Veckatimest: Grizzly Bear
Backspacer: Pearl Jam
Them Crooked Vultures: Them Crooked Vultures
Sigh No More: Mumford & Sons
Conditions: The Temper Trap
Journal for Plague Lovers: Manic Street Preachers
Merriweather Post Pavillion: Animal Collective
Golden Rule: Powderfinger
As Day Follows Night: Sarah Blasko
Manners: Passion Pit
Lungs: Florence & The Machine
Wilco (The Album): Wilco
Embryonic: Flaming Lips
No Line On The Horizon: U2
It's Blitz: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Resistance: Muse

[Minor_Threat]

Sacrifice - The Ones I Condemn

[Scottt]

I totally forgot Powderfinger had a new album - easy to do over here. Any good?

[LarryLong]

Can we get a list of every album released this year so that I can make a more considered choice?

[AndyP]

I think Temper Trap would feature in the top 10, but would not be "the best".
I was just looking at it from the angle of it being in most OZgolfer's top 10 (at least those that read and comment in the music thread). Whereas a top album for one, may not even get listened to by another.

[Jarro]

Were there any good albums released this year ?

[AndyP]

Were there any good albums released this year ?There's still another 16 days for Ryan Adams to have a 2009 release, jarro.

[Jarro]

There's still another 16 days for Ryan Adams to have a 2009 release, jarro.


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[adlo]

I totally forgot Powderfinger had a new album - easy to do over here. Any good?
Well worth getting. It is a good, solid Powderfinger album.

Can we get a list of every album released this year so that I can make a more considered choice?
Smart arse.

Were there any good albums released this year ?
Yes, but I doubt know how many were heavy metal/rock sorry Jarro.

There's still another 16 days for Ryan Adams to have a 2009 release, jarro.

AP, don't get him started.

[Jarro]

Yes, but I doubt know how many were heavy metal/rock sorry Jarro.


damn me and my limited musical appreciation :(

[adlo]

damn me and my limited musical appreciation :(

I am not having a go at you, merely commenting on the fact that 99% of what you list in the MUSIC.... thread is heavy. What else do you listen to jarro? :mrgreen:

2009 was not a year for AMAZING albums, but there have been quite a few solid albums.

[Pieface]

I enjoyed State of the Art by the Hilltop Hoods. I thrashed that disc for a couple months.

[Jarro]

I am not having a go at you, merely commenting on the fact that 99% of what you list in the MUSIC.... thread is heavy. What else do you listen to jarro? :mrgreen:

2009 was not a year for AMAZING albums, but there have been quite a few solid albums.

Although i do prefer heavier rock music, i'm not at all limited to just that.

I like Supertramp/Crowded House type of music as well. I steer clear of hip-hop/rap stuff 'cos that to me isn't music at all ... it's shit !!

I really have to say that most of this newer folky/rock type of stuff really has no substance at all ... IMO of course.

maybe i should listen to the radio now and then to see if there is actually any new music that i might actually like ;)

[adlo]

Although i do prefer heavier rock music, i'm not at all limited to just that.

I like Supertramp/Crowded House type of music as well. I steer clear of hip-hop/rap stuff 'cos that to me isn't music at all ... it's shit !!

I really have to say that most of this newer folky/rock type of stuff really has no substance at all ... IMO of course.

maybe i should listen to the radio now and then to see if there is actually any new music that i might actually like ;)

Don't waste your time with the radio.

I find it interesting that you like Crowded House but say folk/rock is crap :-k
Anyway, sometimes you just need to sift through all the generic crap to find the gold.

Did you like Manic Street Preachers new album? It is very good, should be up your alley.

Edit: even from my list above, you should grab Pearl Jam, Powderfinger, Them Crooked Vultures, Yeah Yeah Yeahs....

[Hamo84]

Id have to say the new Muse album.. if any of them.

[AndyP]

The two I enjoyed the most this year are:
Muse - The Resistance
Calvin Harris - Ready for the Weekend

[Courty]

From adlo's list I'd say Phoenix & Temper Trap.

Phoenix have provided the greatest enjoyment for me, but not just form Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.

[adlo]

My list was just to aid discussion.

Throw any names out there!

[Courty]

Other than Phoenix & Temper Trap, my fave albums of the year would be Rockferry by Duffy, Perfect Symmetry by Keane and Sounds Like This by Eric Hutchinson.

[AndyP]

Perfect Symmetry is 2008, otherwise I would list it.

I'm tempted to include Temper Trap in my top 3, but I'm being conservative about it's weighting, as it is fresh in my mind.

[Courty]

Perfect Symmetry is 2008, otherwise I would list it.

Fair enough, I just included it as it was added to my library in 2009.

[Eldrick]

Bluejuice-head of the hawk
listened to it again in the car today,getting better each time

[Jarro]

Porcupine Tree - The Incident

[WBennett]

I only bought one CD all year - Invaders Must Die by The Prodigy.

Got back to their early 90's big beats and trancy sounds from Music for the Jilted Generation. Love listening to it loud on long drives without the family - it makes a pleasant change to nursery rhyme cd's that are in the stacker.

I've tried listening to JJJ again lately, and its official. I am too old.

[solarman]

Come on guys......surely Susan Boyle is up there.

[Courty]

Come on guys......surely Susan Boyle is up there.

She is in your wishlist... you've already admitted that you'd shag her. :neutral:

[LarryLong]

I'll consider shagging her too if she makes millions out of the album.

Just popped my mp3 collection into songbird to check how much stuff I have that was actually released in 2009. Turns out the only thing I've got is Mumford and Sons, so I guess I'll have to vote for that. Very good album, too.

[AlexMc]

1. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
2. Kid Sam - Kid Sam
3. Bitte Orca (EP) - Dirty Projectors
4. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
5. Travels With Myself and Another - Future of the Left
6. Sigh No More - Mumford & Sons
7. No One's First, and You're Next (EP) - Modest Mouse
8. Tongue N' Cheek - Dizzee Rascal
9. Blood Bank (EP) - Bon Iver
10. Embryonic - Flaming Lips

[KristianJ]

Only album I've bought from this year is Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King (Dave Matthews Band). IMO it's a top album and deserving of its Grammy nominations, and it's such a vast improvement over their last studio offering, but I need to have listened to a hell of a lot more new music than I have this year to be objective.

[Deano]

"Don't waste your time with the radio."

Gee thanks a lot adlo.

What industry are you in again so I can tell people to avoid it? lol

[adlo]

1. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
2. Kid Sam - Kid Sam
3. Bitte Orca (EP) - Dirty Projectors
4. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
5. Travels With Myself and Another - Future of the Left
6. Sigh No More - Mumford & Sons
7. No One's First, and You're Next (EP) - Modest Mouse
8. Tongue N' Cheek - Dizzee Rascal
9. Blood Bank (EP) - Bon Iver
10. Embryonic - Flaming Lips

Are these in order?

I need to check out 5 & 8, never heard them.


Only album I've bought from this year is Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King (Dave Matthews Band). IMO it's a top album and deserving of its Grammy nominations, and it's such a vast improvement over their last studio offering, but I need to have listened to a hell of a lot more new music than I have this year to be objective.
It is a good album. Much better than Stand Up. However, it would struggle to crack my fave 25 albums for 2009.

"Don't waste your time with the radio."

Gee thanks a lot adlo.

What industry are you in again so I can tell people to avoid it? lol
Sorry mate. Who do you work with?

You can't tell people to avoid coffee, its a drug :mrgreen:

I can't stand most major radio stations and the worst thing is the DJs. I hope I am not offending you further.

[Scottt]

Commercial radio DJs drive me crazy and the current day Triple J line-up isn't much better.

Adlo - Dizzee Rascal is a rapper from the East End of London. Very pop/rap.

[adlo]

Cheers Scottt. While I like good rap, I listen to very little these days.

[Yossarian]

JJJ plays some shit, but they play some good stuff as well.

I really can't stand dizzee rascal. Drives me bonkers.

[Scottt]

I see what you did there Yoss :lol:

[Yossarian]

However if I am shitfaced that song becomes quite good. Something to do with short skirts jumping around everywhere.

[goughy]

'Differently' - Cassie Davis. Hey - she's aussie and she's hot! What more do you want...

[AndyP]

Sorry mate. Who do you work with?

I can't stand most major radio stations and the worst thing is the DJs. I hope I am not offending you further.
Hoping isn't enough. You answered your own question in that post, then stuck the boot in some more. Quality work!

[adlo]

Hoping isn't enough. You answered your own question in that post, then stuck the boot in some more. Quality work!

:oops:

:)

:lol:

[adlo]

My list, in order:

1. Sigh No More: Mumford & Sons
2. Xx: The xx
3. Devils Halo: Meshell Ndegeocello
4. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix: Phoenix
5. Two Dancers: Wild Beasts
6. Noble Beast: Andrew Bird
7. Bitte Orca: The Dirty Projectors
8. Not Even In July: JBM
9. When The Devil’s Loose: A.A. Bondy
10. Hospice: The Antlers

Mumford & Sons continues to impress. Raw, not flawless, but a great debut. Overall I thought 2009 fell well short of 2008, but still a heap of solid albums nonetheless.

Honourable mentions:

Strict Joy: The Swell Season
It’s Blitz: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Veckatimest: Grizzly Bear
Kid Sam: Kid Sam
As Day Follows Night: Sarah Blasko
Middle Cyclone: Neko Case
Blood Bank EP: Bon Iver
Actor: St Vincent
Union: The Boxer Rebellion
Resevoir: Fanfarlo

Overrated album of the year:

Post Merriweather Pavillion: Animal Collective

The most critically acclaimed album of 2009, this is not that good.

Biggest Disappointment of the year:

Unmap: Volcano Choir

IMO fell well short of Bon Iver's previous works, Blood Bank EP and For Emma, Forever Ago.

[Eag's]

Adlo I can honestly say I have never heard of any of the albums or artists you have listed above. Not having a dig as obviously there is so much music out there to choose from.
I will give anything ago, but I would say my music taste would be more main stream. It may be time for me to experiment with some new stuff ;) Here is a list of what I listen to regularly -

Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace/ Greatest Hits
Tonic - Lemon Parade/Suger
Shinedown - The Sound Of Madness
Alter Bridge - Blackbird/One Day Remains
ELO - The Very Best Of The Electric Light Orchestra
Everclear - So Much For The Afterglow
Filter - Short Bus
Puddle Of Mudd - Come Clean
Hoobstank - The Reason
System Of A Down - Toxicity
Creed - Weathered/Full Circle
Powderfinger - Odyssey Number Five
Police - Greatest Hits
Nickleback - Dark Horse
Metallica - Black Album
Van Halen - Greatest Hits Vol 1
Hootie & The Blowfish - Cracked Rear View
Genisis - We Can't Dance
Def Leppard - Adrenalize

[AndyP]

http://www.ozgolf.net/forums/showthread.php?t=16202

Do it, Eag's.

[adlo]

Eag's, I'd say you would enjoy the following:

1. Sigh No More: Mumford & Sons
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix: Phoenix
8. Conditions: The Temper Trap

Strict Joy: The Swell Season
It’s Blitz: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Kid Sam: Kid Sam
Union: The Boxer Rebellion

Add to that:

Head of The Hawk: Bluejuice

[Courty]

Eags, definitely check out Phoenix & Temper Trap. You will like.

[AndyP]

You will like.Or not. But it can't hurt to try.

[adlo]

Very true Andy. You never know if you never try.

[Courty]

Or not. But it can't hurt to try.

No no. I guarantee Rich will like them. ;)

[Eag's]

Cheers guys I will give them a go :smt023

[Eag's]

Checked out all the groups you guys recommended, but the 2 that stood out were The Temper Trap & Phoenix (good call Courty) ;)
I really like The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition, Fader & Science Of Fear 8-)

[Courty]

I guarantee Rich will like them. ;)


Checked out all the groups you guys recommended, but the 2 that stood out were The Temper Trap & Phoenix (good call Courty)

8)

[AndyP]

Eag's, if you are keen, you can do some youtube listening of our playlists from last year. Scottt, Courty and myself already provided some of the youtube links.

Maybe you'll find some good stuff in there too.

Adlo Discs:
http://www.ozgolf.net/forums/showthread.php?p=294581#post294581
http://www.ozgolf.net/forums/showthread.php?p=294583#post294583

JC Discs:
http://www.ozgolf.net/forums/showthread.php?p=292359#post292359

Bruce CD:
http://www.ozgolf.net/forums/showthread.php?p=265753#post265753

My CD:
http://www.ozgolf.net/forums/showthread.php?p=265800#post265800

Scottt Playlist:
http://www.ozgolf.net/forums/showthread.php?p=262394#post262394

Courty Disc:
http://www.ozgolf.net/forums/showthread.php?p=265422#post265422

[Eag's]

Ok cheers AP.

[BrisWesty]

Two very out of left field albums for me.

1. Beauty Will Rise by Steve Curtis Chapman - songs arising out of the experience of losing his youngest child (adopted 5 year old) in 2008 in a driveway accident involving one of his other children as the driver. Haven't been able to listen to this album without tears. Stunning!

2. 101 More 80s Hits - well the compilation was put together in 2009. Gotta love Stutter Rap