Put your favourite albums of 2009 in here

[someguy]

So far I can say two albums from this year that I enjoy thoroughly are

http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/7951/micachuandtheshapesjewe.jpg

Jewellery by Micachu

Vulture (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnWCM2KZFDY)
Lips (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoEA_xYaLBw)
Golden Phone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KvJ23OW8TE)

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6972/3316941931fe07a78a34.jpg

Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors

No Intention (http://www.divshare.com/download/7743100-cf2)
Stillness is the Move (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIfmsNRMz6k)

And some albums that I've enjoyed

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/7383/thedreamlovevsmoney.jpg

Love vs Money by The-Dream

Rockin' That Shit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxTFNXhb1kY)
Walking on the Moon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exreRB6S74g)

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/1708/leefieldsmyworld.jpg

My World by Lee Fields & The Expressions

Ladies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epu97rNb9F8)
Love Comes and Goes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCGFf5cxUOo)

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/677/51ncm7woxrlss500.jpg

Someday This Could All Be Yours Vol. 1 by The Paper Chase

What Should We Do With Your Body (The Lightning) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPSygZwKfEU)

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/1417/totemsflare.jpg

Totems Flare by Clark

Rainbow Voodoo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbFDIRtSMK0)
Totem Crackerjack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_RkluaGaSE)

[chinton]

I don't hear a lot of talk about It's Frightening by White Rabitts. Great album

[Tayzlor]

That Micachu album is rocking my number three spot.

I only recently started listening to 2009 albums and am informally proceeding from least-anticipated to most-anticipated so I've yet to hear Dan Deacon, Dirty Projectors, Sunset Rubdown, Fiery Furnaces, Tim Hecker, and Fever Ray.

But, yeah, my favorite album is MPP. I really can't do that thing where I deny my actual feelings in favor of something more distinctive. Still, to save some face from the unreasonable embarrassment stemming from this selection, I will qualify: it's not better than their last four albums. I might actually be the douchebag at shows that says their old material is better with a false sense of superiority. I mean, when I went to one of their shows there were conflicting feelings of antipathy and elatement--elatement in seeing such a (still) fairly "out-there" band tour with an actual budget to sold-out shows and antipathy to see them perform to a mostly-bored audience (energized only at the opening progression to "My Girls"). But, whatever, no valid reasons to be hatin'.

I haven't heard a lot of the albums that would likely constitute my year-end list but, from what I've heard:

1. MPP
2. Magik Markers - Balf Quarry
3. Micachu & the Shapes - Jewellery
4. Eat Skull - Wild & Inside
5. Wavves - Wavvves
6. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
8. Jon Hopkins - Insides
9. Here We Go Magic - Here We Go Magic
10. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beware (still growing on me too)

Hon. mentions: Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas, Handsome Furs, NOMO, Marissa Nadler, Mi Ami, The Juan Maclean, Sonic Youth

Disappointments: Bob Dylan, Lily Allen, Gui Boratto, Crystal Antlers, Neko Case, Morrissey, Super Furry Animals

[Tayzlor]

I've actually avoided that White Rabbits album because I've read they sound too much like Spoon. Maybe that's just a lazy reviewer making a connection between the band and their producer...?

[one_crow_sorrow]

At the moment, my top five would be something like:

1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away
3. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
4. Alamaailman Vasarat - Huuro Kolkko
5. Bibio - Vignetting the Compost

[jeremy910]

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd88/theboypaperweight/Animal%20Collective/MerriweatherPostPavilion.jpg
Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavillion

http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt136/trevorshanahan/swoon01.jpg
Silversun Pickups- Swoon

http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/uu126/StereoPirate/veckatimest.jpg
Grizzly Bear- Veckatimest

[Spice]

http://navyyardsc.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/noisettes.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eP1drrYNHTY/Sfeso75a0mI/AAAAAAAAAJo/nlsaniROQ0Y/s320/149133.the+eternal.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z1Wd1LqcWoQ/SfeBsgl9HzI/AAAAAAAAB48/cRB1WPNVQAs/s320/Manic+Street+Preachers+-+Journal+For+Plague+Lovers+(2009).jpeg

[someguy]

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/876/stvincentactoralbumart.jpg

Actor by St. Vincent

it grew on me, I think the moment it clicked was after her really awesome performance on Letterman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGG6ukPDgVA

[Jerk Shapiro]

Umphrey's McGee's Mantis and John Frusciante's The Empyrean are the only two albums of 09 that I've gotten around to yet. But, they're both splendid, making them my two favorites for the year so far!

[pablo_super1!]

Well I've heard a few that were decent , but the only one that's really blown me away in a way is Relapse by Eminem. I also really liked Blackout 2 by Method Man and Red Man.

http://www.aftermathmusic.com/eminem_relapse1.jpg
2 Favorite Tracks:
Underground
Beautiful
http://keepittrill.com/media/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/blackout2-album-cover.jpg
2 Favorite Tracks:
Dangerous Mc's
This is for all my Smokers

I sill Need to listen to Mos Def's The Ecstatic.

[chinton]

The White Rabitts album does sound a bit like Spoon but I dont see that as a bad thing. I'm surprised that I'm in the minority here that likes Spoon.

[Jon Lyrik]

I like 'em too. Don't love them.

Either TMV or AC's latest.

[Brando @$$ Fat]

John Vanderslice's "Romanian Names" is the best one I've heard so far.

[Strider]

My Top Five (so far):

1. Swoon - Silversun Pickups

Favorite Tracks: "The Royal We", "Catch & Release", "Panic Switch"

2. It's Blitz! - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Favorite Tracks: "Zero", "Hysteric", "Heads Will Roll"

3. The Airborne Toxic Event - The Airborne Toxic Event

Favorite Tracks: "Innocence", "Sometime Around Midnight", "Happiness Is Overrated"

4. Fantasies - Metric

Favorite Tracks: "Help, I'm Alive", "Stadium Love", "Blindness"

5. Tinted Windows - Tinted Windows

Favorite Tracks: "Kind Of A Girl", "Messing With My Head", "Without Love"

Strider

[paul calf]

My Top Five (so far):

3. The Airborne Toxic Event - The Airborne Toxic Event

Favorite Tracks: "Innocence", "Sometime Around Midnight", "Happiness Is Overrated"

Strider

great album and you also chose my 3 fave tracks too.

[The Heart Collector]

I liked the albums by Bill Callahan, Will Oldham, and to a lesser extent, Cass McCombs and Bob Dylan.

[Sigur509]

Top 10:

Outer South by Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
My Maudlin Career by Camera Obscura
Swoon by Silversun Pickups
Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective
It's Blitz! by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix
Wilco(The Album) by Wilco
Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
Octahedron by The Mars Volta
Two Suns by Bat for Lashes

[Tayzlor]

"The Crane Wife" is the only Decemberists album I genuinely enjoy (although I cannot deny Meloy's talent, I also cannot deny by implacable hatred--just look and listen to the dude), so I was actually looking forward to his latest, a supposed extension of the style he developed on "Crane". Really disappointing, I hate concept albums with an actual emphasis on the narrative...who listens to music for narrative when there are so many other mediums, even ones that incorporate music? The riffs are overly-familiar and he reprises motifs too many times (something that's diluted a lot of the Fiery Furnaces recent material). And fucking children's choir. No.

Listened to Junior Boys, Sunn O))), and Wilco. All solid stuff.

Likely to make any requisite list:

The Smith Westerns - The Smith Westerns
Blank Dogs - Under and Under
Ganglians - Monster Head Room
YACHT - See Mystery Lights

[Reigh Kaufman]

Top 10:


My Maudlin Career by Camera Obscura

Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective

It's Blitz! by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Wilco(The Album) by Wilco

Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear



Yup. I am very fond of Camera Obscura at the moment.

[Cosimo]

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/1708/leefieldsmyworld.jpg



tis a great album

[notchreturns]

TOP 10 so far.

Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
The Antlers - Hospice
Dan Deacon - Bromst
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Future of the Left - Travels With Myself and Another
Clark - Totems Flare
St Vincent - Actor
Sunn o))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
J Dilla - Jay Stay Paid

[Derek237]

My tops of the year so far:

1.Relapse- Eminem

Far and away the best album of '09, and Eminem's best since Slim Shady.

Best tracks: My Mom, Deja Vu, Medicine Ball

2.It's Blitz- Yeah Yeah Yeahs

One of the greatest and most surprising bands just got better.

Best Tracks: Soft Shock, Dragon Queen, Zero

3.My Maudlin Career- Camera Obscura

Amazing album. The scottish indie band's best effort so far.

Best Tracks: French Navy, Carless Love, My Maudlin Career



Other good albums in no particular order:

4.Fever Ray- Fever Ray

5.Actor- St. Vincent

6.Hold Time- M. Ward

7.Merriweather Post Pavillion- Animal Collective

8.Santigold- Santigold

9.Face Control- Handsome Furs

10.Middle Cyclone- Neko Case

[Cronos]

Little Boots - Hands
Red This Ever - Selfless
Regina Spektor - Far

[poguesfan]

Sonic Youth: The Eternal

[visual_tension]

Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage

[JackassFan]

Esser - Braveface
Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
Ali Campbell - Flying High
Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King
Bob Dylan - Together Through Life

[Cosimo]

TOP 10 so far.

J Dilla - Jay Stay Paid

though i have heard most of the beats before on dilla beat tapes the instrumentals are sick. the instrumentals always sound better when it comes to dilla

[Heisenberg]

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/876/stvincentactoralbumart.jpg

Actor by St. Vincent

Absolutely fantastic album, enjoyed every minute of it. :)

[Cosimo]

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/7803/elmichelsaffair01big.jpg
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/918/20640226.png

[SAI]

I haven't been buying enough albums. I've heard two this year that I'd count as great records though.

Fever Ray: Fever Ray
http://theremoteview.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/fever-ray-cover_medium-360x360.jpg
Keep the Streets Empty For Me [Fanvid] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBVkq-V3jg0)
When I Grow Up (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F-CpE73o2M)
I'm Not Done [Audio only] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sewd37tx0W8)

and

Florence and the Machine: Lungs
http://www.whatrecords.co.uk/live/pics/55969.jpg
Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nxO-yPQesA)
Girl With One Eye (Live) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Zoxf3G6u8)
Howl [Fanvid] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZGs3ftX3rA&feature=PlayList&p=412577A5FE5259E0&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=12)

[Sigur509]

.

[therealjohng]

The new Health album is GOOD.

[someguy]

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/8818/84647757.jpg

The xx - xx

Islands (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ora0cgiC8xw)
Basic Space (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHZVGqqf3gg)

[HannibalGuy]

http://thehurstreview.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/dinosaur-jr-farm-album-art.jpg

[Macphist0]

Far and away the best album of '09, and Eminem's best since Slim Shady.


WHOA. Don't know where to start with that. Did you ignore The Marshall Mathers LP & The Eminem Show?



Anyways I've hardly clicked into gear this year with my music, Manics was VERY good, White Lies had a solid debut album as well, I'm sure I've heard more, but need to clarify on the actual year, because I was going around saying The 59' Sound was album of the year, only to find out it was a 2008 one.

[fervors]

The new Health album is GOOD.

It is.

Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
Dark Night Of The Soul by Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse & David Lynch
Horehound by The Dead Weather
xx by The xx
Big Ned by Big Ned
Merriweather by Animal Collective
King of Jeans by Pissed Jeans
Wall of Arms by The Maccabees
Manners by Passion Pit
Primary Colours by The Horrors

[franky4fingerz]

i cant remember if kings of leon "only the night" was 09 or not. but if it is it"s number 1 followed by Modest Mouses new lp. soon to be toped by the new pearl jam

[dfd3657]

http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/6325/batforlashestwosuns.jpg

I fucking love this album. Others I've been digging on:

Regina Spektor - Far
Gwar - Lust in Space
Behemoth - Evangelion
Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
Fondlecorpse - Creaturegore
Iwrestledabearonce - It's All Happening
3 Inches of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom

I haven't fully gotten a chance to listen to Dirty Projectors, Florence + The Machine and St. Vincent yet.

[TravmacDaddy]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/The-Dream_Love_vs._Money.jpg

Love Vs. Money-The Dream

Favorite Songs:

Fancy
Right Side Of My Brain

[Sigur509]

Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
Where The Wild Things Are by Karen O and the Kids
No More Stories by Mew
Through The Devil Softly by Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions
Bonfires on the Heath by The Clientele
My Maudlin Career by Camera Obscura
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix
Man On The Moon: The End Of Day by Kid Cudi
It's Blitz! by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Two Suns by Bat For Lashes

[echo_bravo]

I wish I was able to listen to more music this year but I havent heard much new stuff

1. The Dead Weather- Horehound
2. Q-Tip- Kamaal the Abstract (this was recorded earlier this decade but it was finally released this year)
3. Iggy Pop- Preliminaries
4. The Mars Volta- Octahedron
5. Grizzly Bear- Vechatimest

[Kevin Smith fan]

1.The Great Misdirect- Between the Buried and Me
2.Mamma, I'm Swollen by Cursive
3.Be One Of Us And Hear No Noise by Metavari
4.Desperate Living- Horse the Band
5.Wars and Rumours of Wars by The Chariot
6.Relapse by Eminem
7.No Time to Bleed by Suicide Silence
8.My Maudlin Career- Camera Obscura
9.Pick a Coffin by Hellmouth
10.El Mariachai El Bronx by El Mariachi El Bronx

[Cosimo]

so far

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/7264/leebanner.jpg
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/452/letstakeoff12.jpg
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/117/0e9f50b30d3939069fa41d4.jpg
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/1682/deadmanbones452.jpg
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/3271/raekwononlybuilt4cubanl.jpg

will add more later

[ZMoney08]

http://www.thrashmag.com/images/reviews/8ba98afa-ab7a-4ae6-bff8-89e4aac598b6.jpg

Dredg - The Pariah, The Pariot and the Delusion

I'm a huge Dredg fan and it took me a few listens for me to really appreciate this album. I guess that's how the all have been for me though. Just a fantastic band who is really really good live as well.

[The Postmaster General]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/TheField-YesterdayAndToday.jpg

[john_rambo]

http://amygrindhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/jay-z_blueprint3_cover-400x400.jpg

http://extremasound.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/the-dead-weather-horehound-474534.jpg

http://looseneck.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/kid-cudi-album-cover.jpg

[Cosimo]

and


http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/1601/fuckbuttonstarotsport.jpg

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/7588/harmonic313129249t.jpg

[Cosimo]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/TheField-YesterdayAndToday.jpg

good call bubba

[blankpage]

1. NEW JUNK AESTHETIC, by Every Time I Die
2. MAN ON THE MOON: THE END OF DAY, by Kid Cudi
3. BEGGARS, by Thrice
4. AXE TO FALL, by Converge
5. BLACKROC, by The Black Keys, Damon Dash, and featured guests
6. OLD CROWS/YOUNG CARDINALS, by Alexisonfire
7. THEM CROOKED VULTURES, by Them Crooked Vultures
8. BOY MEETS WORLD, by Fashawn
9. III, by Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
10. THE TROPIC ROT, by Poison the Well

11. THE ECSTATIC, by Mos Def
12. CRACK THE SKYE, by Mastodon
13. HOMESICK, by A Day to Remember
14. ONLY BY THE NIGHT, by Kings of Leon
15. THE WORLD I WANT TO LEAVE BEHIND, by .moneen.
16. OUTBREAK, by Outbreak
17. HAPPINESS, by Dance Gavin Dance
18. CONSTELLATIONS, by August Burns Red
19. ONLY BUILT 4 CUBAN LINX PT. 2, by Raekwon
20. THE GREAT MISDIRECT, by Between the Buried and Me

[franky4fingerz]

backspacer- pearl jam
no one's first and your next- modest mouse

[Sigur509]

The new Atlas Sound and Lotus Plaza will probably make it in my top 10 come december. Logos is too fucking great to forget about, its top 3 materal for me.

[dfd3657]

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/8461/cover4425152392009.jpg

This is probably my album of the year so far. I still need to let the new Arkona and Epica albums sink in.

[DaMovieMan]

Lots of great albums this year, will post more later but so far the ones below are among my favorite..

http://youcringe.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/albumthumb_3838_danger-mouse-sparklehorse-dark-night-of-the-soul-2009.jpg

Favorite Songs: Insane Lullaby (ft. James Mercer), Little Girl (ft. Julian Casablancas), Revenge (ft. The Flaming Lips)

http://optimisticunderground.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/fuck-buttons-tarot-sport.jpg

Favorite Tracks: Surf Solar, Olympians.

http://onethirtybpm.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/noble-beast-by-andrew-bird_6qifpgfhj4ox_full.jpg

Favorite Songs: Tenuousness, Oh No, Not a Robot But a Ghost

[Kastman]

Converge - Axe to fall

Raekwon - Only built for cuban linx part: 2

Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport

Sonic Youth - The Eternal

[SAI]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nw8fcHV1bdE/SoMJcOGSaaI/AAAAAAAAGYc/TVpJwTasXp8/s400/AnnieDon't+Stop.jpg
I need to play it a few more times, but I tthink Annie's Don't Stop will end up as one of my favourite records of 2009.

[john_rambo]

http://www.hiphopmusicdotcom.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Brother-Ali-Us.jpg

[DaMovieMan]

Hip Hop Album of the Year:

Raekwon - OBFCL2
http://synamatiq.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/raekwon-only_built_4_cuban_linx_2.jpg

Antlers - Hospice
http://www.culturebully.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/hospice-antlers.jpg

Julian Casablancas - Phrases for the Young
http://blograge.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/julian-casablancas-phrazes-for-the-young.jpg

Rock album of the year:

Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
http://thehurstreview.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/dinosaur-jr-farm-album-art.jpg

[dfd3657]

So I've finally stopped listening to The Great Misdirect for the time being to listen to things I've had in my backlog for awhile, and I have to say that Shakira's new CD is really growing on me. When I first heard the lead single I was pretty meh about it, but now I find it incredibly catchy (despite the lyrics being retarded for the most part), and the rest of the album is fantastic as well. Which is awesome, because I found Oral Fixation Vol. 2 to be kind of disappointing. I don't tend to like her English stuff that much, but I'm really liking the sort of electro-pop approach she took with this album.

[Noct]

It was a pretty great year for music for me.


Manic Street Preachers: Journal for Plague Lovers
http://new.assets.thequietus.com/images/articles/1589/manic_street_preachers_journal_for_plague_lovers_1 241170684_crop_550x550.jpg

The Dead Weather: Whorehound
http://kjnb.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/dead-weather.jpg

Jarvis Cocker: Further Complications
http://condemnedtorocknroll.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/jarvis_cocker_further_complications.jpg

Modest Mouse: No one's first and You're Next
http://everydaymusic.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/modest-mouse-no-ones-first-1.jpg

The Dears: Missiles
http://www.muzzleofbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/the-dears-missiles.jpg

Pascal Lejeune: adelaide
http://www.quebecpop.com/Pochettes/4291.jpg

[SAI]

Three runners up...

Royksopp: Junior
http://pstereo.net/site/wp-content/uploads/royksopp-junior.jpg
Their best, and most accessible, album to date. Full of brilliant dance pop music - some for the dancefloor, some for the comedown.
Standout tracks: Vision One (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUgktUe6q2s) / You Don't Have a Clue (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcoKxYv8NCQ) / The Girl and the Robot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAWdBJ-yVAk)

Florence and the Machine: Lungs
http://www.popramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/florence_and_the_machine_lungs-300x300.jpg
The album Kate Bush should have made in the 12 years that Aerial took, heralds the arrival of a major talent to watch.
Standout Tracks: Howl (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYlLfMUbsgk) / Hurricane Drunk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoHV229_DQM) / Drumming Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpLXQorSQe8)

Annie: Don't Stop / All Night EP
http://www.swedishleonsdiskoclub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/annie-dont-stop-300x300.jpg
A pure pop masterpiece, the kind of thing that Kylie Minogue would trade her left arm to have recorded.
Standout Tracks: Take You Home (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4GqTLLr_Ks) / I Don't Like Your Band (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN8_YhOeXL4)/ My Love is Better (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htV85zI9OWY) / Can't Let Go (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwfoQF0g5ek)


and one, inevitable, winner

FEVER RAY
http://theremoteview.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/fever-ray-cover_medium-360x360.jpg
The only album I've heard this year that works equally brilliantly both as a collection of indivually amazing tracks and as a whole, 45 minute, suite of music. It's dense, inventive, dark and beautiful. It's good enough that I'm not sure I want another Knife album at all.
Standout tracks: All of them

[spocos]

Monsters Of Folk - S/T

[cristane]

Assuming I won't stumble upon something better until New Year, here's my Top 5:

1. Rishloo - Feathergun
2. Dredg - The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion
3. Thrice - Beggars
4. Fightstar - Be Human
5. Chevelle - Sci-Fi Crimes

[spocos]

so far

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/1682/deadmanbones452.jpg


will add more later

that album is pretty fuckin amazing.

[Ayestrain]

What an excellent fucking year for music, at least for what I like..

Top ten:

1 http://allandrewsfriends.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/tragic-boogie.jpg
Tragic Boogie / The Life & Times

2 http://adventure-broadcasting.com/Adventure-Broadcasting/Adventure_Blog/Entries/2009/2/3_The_return_of_national_skyline_files/NS_Bliss&Death_FC.jpg
Bliss And Death / National Skyline

3 http://www.cokemachineglow.com/images/8910.gif
Veckatimest / Grizzly Bear

4 http://www.forosdz.com/foro/attachment.php?attachmentid=110180&stc=1&d=1249818674
No More Stories Are Told Today../ Mew

5http://www.thedwarf.com.au/var/plain/storage/images/submissions/contrib_content/a_woman_a_man_walked_by_pj_harvey_and_john_parish/4876214-2-eng-GB/a_woman_a_man_walked_by_pj_harvey_and_john_parish_ album.jpg
A Woman A Man Walked By / PJ Harvey & John Parish

6 http://mellowdrone.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/angry_bear_promo-300x275.jpg
Angry Bear / Mellowdrone

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S/T / Them Crooked Vultures

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Spent Bullets / Adam Franklin

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Sagarmatha / Appleseed Cast

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Black Gives Way To Blue / Alice In Chains

Other shit from this year I enjoyed:

Goodnight Oslo / Robyn Hitchcock
The Empyrean / John Frusciante
Dark Days, Light Years / Super Furry Animals
Fork In The Road / Neil Young
Eating Us / Black Moth Super Rainbow
Octahedron / Mars Volta
Dark Night Of The Soul / Mark Linkous, Dangermouse, various

Albums I was excited for but ended up disappointed with:

The Century Of Self / ..Trail Of Dead
Swoon / Silversun Pickups

[Sigur509]

What an excellent fucking year for music, at least for what I like..


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No More Stories Are Told Today../ Mew



YES!

[Ayestrain]

^ Just got to see Mew live for the first time the other night, here at the Music Box. It was pretty awesome!

[cloneofkelso]

Jay Z-Blueprint 3

[Lost in Space]

Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse

Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave

Winds Of Plague - The Great Stone War

Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt

Immortal - All Shall Fall

Mayhem - Life Eternal

My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire

Slayer - World Painted Blood

Suffocation - Blood Oath

Vreid - Milorg

[Okorta]

Artillery - When Death Comes

Dead Head - Depression Tank

Hyades - The Roots Of Trash

Nocturnal - Violent Revenge

Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal

Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

Rumpelstiltskin Grinder - Living For Death, Destroying The Rest

Scornage - Born To Murder The World

I still have about 80 or more albums from 2009 to listen to.

[Speermint]

Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
The Decemberists - Hazards of Love
Muse - The Resistance