2009 End Of Year/ End Of Decade Music Lists

[troutman]

Here they come . . .

Pitchforks top video's of 2009:

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-...ideos-of-2009/

Watch Jack White and Alison Mosshart exchange machine gun fire in what looks like a Calgary suburban community.

Top 200 albums of 2000s:

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-...he-2000s-20-1/

WOXY listeners vote for album of the year:

http://www.woxy.com/boards/showthread.php?t=59641

We will also see best of the decade lists.

[troutman]

NPR's Top 50 of the decade:

http://www.woxy.com/boards/showthread.php?t=59761

01. John Adams: On The Transmigration Of Souls
02. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
03. The Arcade Fire: Funeral
04. The Bad Plus: These Are The Vistas
05. Beyonce: Dangerously In Love
06. Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
07. Bright Eyes: I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
08. Burial: Untrue
09. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: S/T
10. Kelly Clarkson: Breakaway


NME's Top 50 of the decade:

http://www.woxy.com/boards/showthread.php?t=59837

1. The Strokes – Is This It
2. The Libertines – Up the Bracket
3. Primal Scream – xtrmntr
4. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell
6. PJ Harvey – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
7. Arcade Fire – Funeral
8. Interpol – Turn On the Bright Lights
9. The Streets – Original Pirate Material
10. Radiohead – In Rainbows

[macker]

http://betterpropaganda.com/content.aspx?id=976

http://popdose.com/the-popdose-100-t...of-the-decade/

http://stereogum.com/archives/list/p...de_098731.html

http://www.emusic.com/features/hub/d...ums/index.html

http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/l...he-decade.html

Could make some great mix tapes!

[macker]

Canadian :

http://www.snobsmusic.net/2009/11/50...cade-2000.html

50. Soft Airplane- Chad VanGaalen
49. Missiles- The Dears
48. Down at the Khyber- Joel Plaskett
47. The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse- The Besnard Lakes
46. Sounding a Mosaic- Bedouin Soundclash
45. Goddess- Emm Gryner
44. The Beat Stuff- Hannah Georgas
43. New Seasons- The Sadies
42. In the Future- Black Mountain
41. Arm's Way- Islands
40. Back To Me- Kathleen Edwards
39. He Poos Clouds- Final Fantasy
38. Close to Paradise- Patrick Watson
37. Live It Out- Metric
36. Apologies to the Queen Mary- Wolf Parade
35. Reconstruction Site- The Weakerthans
34. Ongiara- Great Lake Swimmers
33. Are We Not Horses?- Rock Plaza Central
32. Broken Social Scene- Broken Social Scene
31. Situtation- Buck 65
30. Five Dollar Bill- Corb Lund
29. LP- Holy
28. Honey from the Tombs- Amy Millan
27. Evil Dead: The Musical- Original Cast Recording
26. Twin Cinema- New Pornographers
25. You Forget It In People- Broken Social Scene
24. Andorra- Caribou
23. Make Up the Breakdown- Hot Hot Heat
22. Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?- Metric
21. I Know You're Married, But I've Got Feelings Too- Martha Wainwright
20. So Jealous- Tegan & Sara
19. Library Voices EP- Library Voices
18. Beast- Beast
17. Neon Bible- Arcade Fire
16. Lost Channels- Great Lake Swimmers
15. Hair In My Eyes Like a Highland Steer- Corb Lund
14. You're a Woman, I'm a Machine- Death From Above 1979
13. Elephant Shell- Tokyo Police Club
12. Dead Man's Bones- Dead Man's Bones
11. The Con- Tegan & Sara
10. The Reminder- Feist
9. Set Yourself On Fire- Stars
8. No Cities Left- The Dears
7. At the Moment of Our Most Needing...- Rock Plaza Central
6. Going Steady- Rah Rah
5. Face Control- Handsome Furs
4. Funeral- Arcade Fire
3. Outside Love- Pink Mountaintops
2. Mass Romantic- New Pornographers
1. Let It Die- Feist

[Matata]

I've been thinking about how the different genres of popular music have fared over the years. IMHO:

The best

Metal if you haven't listened to metal in the last 10 years you've really missed out. Bands have been aggressively pushing all creative boundaries. The variety and quality is staggering, and it's coming from all over the world. It's now impossible to talk 'metal' without first defining what type of metal your talking about.
Standouts Strapping young lad, Mastodon, Lamb of god, converge, dillinger escape plan, Dimmu Borgir, Mars Volta, DragonForce etc. etc. etc.

electronica Electronic music is thriving both as fuel for raves and festivals, and also as an effective vehicle for artists to explore new territory.
Standouts Mushroomhead, MGMT, TV on the radio, animal collective, Bjork

The good

Pop Pop has had an incredible change of face since the days of boy bands and britney. The genre has really fleshed out and is gushing with talent. Even the bottom end of the talent pool is miles above the venga bus.
Standouts Mika, MIA, Empire of the sun, Lady gaga, JT

indy rock mopey geeks with guitars made some of the most inspired rock of the decade. It's also produced a lot of music I hate, so I'm not letting it on 'the best' list
Standouts Modest Mouse, The shins, Arcade fire, white stripes, My morning jacket

Needs to improve

hip hop Still alive and well, but is slow in moving on from the 'thug' era. The genre wasn't able to replace Eminem and Jay-z when they took time off.
Standouts Jay-z, Eminem, Atmosphere, Outkast, K-Os, Kanye west

punk Started the decade off very well, but is having a dry spell now that post-punk and emo have run out of ideas
Standouts Thursday, At the drive in, My Chemical romance, Fugazi

Is anyone even trying anymore?

hard rock It was the Nickelback brand that ruled, driving out talent in droves and leaving only room for imitators. At least we should get another Tool album in about 5 years or so.
Standouts The darkness, Andrew WK, Tool

Country Anyone worth a damn in country is dead or will be soon.
Standouts Corb Lund, *insert unknown, real country here*

I'm painting with a pretty wide brush here, but thats how I see it.

[FoxMulder91]

Originally Posted by Matata

I've been thinking about how the different genres of popular music have fared over the years. IMHO:

The best

Metal if you haven't listened to metal in the last 10 years you've really missed out. Bands have been aggressively pushing all creative boundaries. The variety and quality is staggering, and it's coming from all over the world. It's now impossible to talk 'metal' without first defining what type of metal your talking about.
Standouts Strapping young lad, Mastodon, Lamb of god, converge, dillinger escape plan, Dimmu Borgir, Mars Volta, DragonForce etc. etc. etc.


punk Started the decade off very well, but is having a dry spell now that post-punk and emo have run out of ideas
Standouts Thursday, At the drive in, My Chemical romance, Fugazi

No offence, but if you think those "metal" bands were they best of the decade/released the best material, you need to dig deeper.

As for the "Punk" none of those bands should be considered punk..seriously MCR considered punk? lol.

Also the comment about "Post-Punk" and "emo" Most people dont even know what real "Post-Punk" and "emo" music is.

[FoxMulder91]

I meant to edit my original post.
Accidently posted the edited version as a seperate post.

Ill post my favortie releases of the year/decade in the next couple days for sure.

[Berger_4_]

^Dude, there's an edit button for a reason

Anyways, my favorites of this year:

Metric - Fantasies
You Say Party! We Say Die! - XXXX
The Thermals - Now We Can See
MSTRKRFT - Fist of God
Joel Plaskett - Three
Islands - Vapours
The Dudes - Blood Guts Bruises Cuts
Corb Lund - Loosin' Lately Gambler
The Constantines - Too Slow For Love
The Bloody Beetroots - Roborama
Blitzen Trapper - Black River Killer

I'll maybe consider a decade thing, or top songs of the year/decade later.

[North East Goon]

Hank III and whether you like them or not The Dixie Chicks are pretty talented in the country department. Most of the popular artists/bands are not even country anymore. I bought the first Highwaymen CD the other day, where are artists like that in today's country music?

[North East Goon]

When was the last music awards show that did not feature either of the Black Eyed Peas and Beyonce?

[surferguy]

todays country music has at least one gem waiting... he is from Calgary. Tim Hus!

www.timhus.ca

[Kybosh]

Originally Posted by macker

Canadian :

http://www.snobsmusic.net/2009/11/50...cade-2000.html

42. In the Future- Black Mountain
3. Outside Love- Pink Mountaintops

I love these guys. Same band, different name depending on what persona they feel like going for.

[Pastiche]

Really weird list.

So Jealous really sticks out as being massively overrated on that list. Ahead of Neon Bible and You Forgot It in People?

[Matata]

Originally Posted by FoxMulder91

No offence, but if you think those "metal" bands were they best of the decade/released the best material, you need to dig deeper.

As for the "Punk" none of those bands should be considered punk..seriously MCR considered punk? lol.

Also the comment about "Post-Punk" and "emo" Most people dont even know what real "Post-Punk" and "emo" music is.

Like I said, it is really difficult to argue 'metal', because there is so much of it and metal-heads are ridiculously elitist. I know it's deep scene, so I just picked bands I liked, since I haven't been listening to a lot of metal lately. who would you put on the standout list?

I used a pretty broad umbrella, since post-punk and emo evolved from punk music, I left them in there.

[troutman]

Decibel's Top 40 of 2009:

http://stereogum.com/archives/list/d...09_102701.html

10 Isis - Wavering Radiant
09 Marduk - Wormwood
08 Tombs - Winter Hours
07 Slayer - World Painted Blood
06 Kylesa - Static Tensions
05 Cobalt - Gin
04 Napalm Death - Time Waits No Slave
03 Coalesce - Ox
02 Converge - Axe To Fall
01 Baroness -The Blue Record

Q's 50 Best of 2009:

http://stereogum.com/archives/list/q...09_102821.html

10 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
09 U2 - No Line On The Horizon
08 Lily Allen -It's Not Me, It's You
07 Muse - The Resistance
06 Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
05 Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
04 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
03 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
02 Florence And The Machine - Lungs
01 Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

[troutman]

Paste's 50 Best of the Decade:

http://stereogum.com/archives/list/p...de_098731.html

10 M.I.A. - Arular (Interscope, 2005)
09 The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You (Columbia/American, 2009)
08 OutKast - Stankonia (Arista/LaFace, 2000)
07 Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator) (Acony, 2001)
06 The White Stripes - Elephant (V2, 2003)
05 Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (Saddle Creek, 2005)
04 Radiohead - Kid A (Capitol, 2000)
03 Arcade Fire - Funeral (Merge, 2004)
02 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch, 2002)
01 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty, 2005)

The ultimate music lists site:

http://www.rocklist.net/

Uncut's Top 150 of Decade:

1. The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
2. Bob Dylan – Love And Theft
3. Wilco – A Ghost Is Born
4. Brian Wilson – Smile
5. The Strokes – Is This It
6. Robert Plant And Alison Krauss – Raising Sand
7. The Arcade Fire – Funeral
8. Bob Dylan – Modern Times
9. Ryan Adams –Heartbreaker
10. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes

[Addick]

Isn't the end of this decade at the end of 2010 as there was no year '0'? I don't want spoil things by getting too technical but I don't want to separate 2010 from all his friends either.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Addick

Isn't the end of this decade at the end of 2010 as there was no year '0'? I don't want spoil things by getting too technical but I don't want to separate 2010 from all his friends either.

2000 to 2009 is 10 years.

[habernac]

Originally Posted by troutman

2000 to 2009 is 10 years.

yep. 2010 is the beginning of a decade, just like 1990, 1980, 1970....

[icarus]

Originally Posted by Addick

Isn't the end of this decade at the end of 2010 as there was no year '0'? I don't want spoil things by getting too technical but I don't want to separate 2010 from all his friends either.

Do you consider 1990 to be in the 80's? Didn't think so.