2009 End Of Year/ End Of Decade Music Lists

[simmer2]

Originally Posted by kermitology

Yeah, I thought they were simply awful at TVOTR.

The Arcade Fire song on DWTN is atrocious.

As did I unfortunately; to each their own, and it's definitely not mine. We actually re-named them Robot Labia based on their suckage.

I love The XX.

I am still compiling a list, but Glasvegas is most definitely on it. Did anyone else give them a listen to?

[rubecube]

My top 5 of 2009:

1. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus
2. Metric - Fantasies
3. Said the Whale - Islands Disappear
4. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
5. The Swell Season - Strict Joy

Favourite albums of the 00s, no particular order:

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)

Michael Franti & Spearhead - Everyone Deserves Music (2003)

Outkast - Stankonia (2000)

Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003)

Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)

Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antartica (2000)

Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)

The White Stripes - Elephant (2003)

Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs (2001)

The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)

TV on the Radio - All three albums are terrific

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (2008)

My Morning Jacket - Z (2005)

Drive-by Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark (2008)

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (2008)

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus (2009)

Metric - Fantasies (2009)

[troutman]

I like that list Rube - mine won't be much different.

My favorite Songs Of The Decade (no particular order):

TVOTR - Wolf Like Me, A Method, Crying, Dancing Choose, Golden Age, Family Tree

OutKast - Hey Ya, Ms. Jackson, So Fresh, So Clean

The Roots - The Seed (2.0), In The Music, Rising Up

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps

Spoon - The Underdog, Sister Jack

MGMT - Time To Pretend

Wilco - A Shot In The Arm

Streets - Dry Your Eyes, Two Nations

Vampire Weekend - M79, Oxford Comma, A-Punk

Yo La Tengo - Little Eyes

Ween - Transdermal Celebration, Exactly Where I'm At, The Argus, Your Party

Sigur Ros - Staralfur

REM - Imitation Of Life, Supernatural Superserious

Pear Jam - The Fixer

New Pornographers - Sing Me Spanish Techno

Modest Mouse - Missed The Boat, Dashboard, Float On, The Ocean Breathes Salty, 3rd Planet, Gravity Rides Everything, Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes, The Stars Are Projectors

Magneta Lane - Lady Bones

Metric - Help I'm Alive

MIA - Paper Planes

Los Lobos - Luna, La Venganza De Los Pelados, Good Morning Atzlan

Kara Keith - Kick This City

Flight Of The Conchords - Bowie

The Doves - Black And White Town

Constantines - Our Age

Built To Spill - Conventional Wisdom

Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes

Drive-By Truckers - The Righteous Path

Of Montreal - Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games

[troutman]

My favorite albums of the decade (in no particular order):

Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel The Illinois

TVOTR - Dear Science, Return To Cookie Mountain

Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site

Vampire Weekend - S/T

Sonic Youth - Murray Street, The Eternal, Rather Ripped

Shins - Oh, Inverted World

Peter, Bjorn and John - Writer's Block

OutKast - Stankonia

New Pornographers - Twin Cinema, Electric Version

Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antarctica, We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

Ben Kweller - Sha Sha

Futureheads - S/T

Fleet Foxes - S/T

Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

Libertines - S/T

Ween - White Pepper

Destroyer - Rubies

Beck - Sea Change

Bruce Springsteen - The Rising

Eels - Daisies Of The Galaxy

Belle & Sebastion - The Life Pursuit

Bob Dylan - Love And Theft

Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy

Arcade Fire - Funeral

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South

Doves - Last Broadcast

Raveonettes - In And Out Of Control

[fatso]

Originally Posted by Bent Wookie

I love The XX.

I am still compiling a list, but Glasvegas is most definitely on it. Did anyone else give them a listen to?

Glasvegas' debut is a great cd, but that's 2007 or 2008 no?

I'd have a lot of the same cds for 2009 listed here. My faves that I did not see listed here and I would include (in no order):

Rock/Alternative:
Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter
We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
Soulsavers - Broken

Electronic (for lack of a better term):
The Field - Yesterday and Today
Moby - Wait For Me
Kleerup - Kleerup (2008 original release in Sweden, but I think a 2009 release in UK/North America)

Major disappointments in 2009 for me included U2 and Pearl Jam.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by troutman

Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

I thought "The Soft Bulletin" was 1999?

Anyways favourite songs of the decade:

TV on the Radio - Halfway Home

Michael Franti & Spearhead - Rock the Nation; Bomb the World; Everyone Deserves Music

The Raconteurs - Old Enough

The White Stripes - In the Cold, Cold Night;, Denial Twist,

Radiohead - Bodysnatchers

Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa

MGMT - Kids

Modest Mouse - Paper Thin Walls, Float On;, Ocean Breathes Salty

Wilco - I Am Trying to Break Your Heart; Jesus, Etc.; I'm the Man Who Loves You

OutKast - Hey Ya; Ms. Jackson

My Morning Jacket - Off the Record

The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?; Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots pt. 1 & 2;

Metric - Gold, Guns, Girls

Drive-by Truckers - Righteous Path

Matt Costa - Emergency Call

Said the Whale - Camilo (the Magician)

Phoenix - Liztomania

Ben Folds - Still Fighting It

Jay-Z - 99 Problems

Eminem - Stan

Dave Matthews Band - When the World Ends

The Swell Season - Low Rising

The Les Claypool Frog Brigade - Buzzards of Greenhill

The Pack A.D. - Making Gestures

G. Love - Can't Go Back to Jersey; Banger

[troutman]

Originally Posted by rubecube

I thought "The Soft Bulletin" was 1999?

Yes, my bad. Time flies.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by troutman

Yes, my bad. Time flies.

Happens to the best of us.

[troutman]

Village Voice has finally published the 2009 pazznjop polls:

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/albums/2009/

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/singles/2009/

[3 Justin 3]

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.

Dillinger Escape Plan? Lamb of God? FATAING DRAGONFORCE?

Dear lord.

[troutman]

okay, I finally finished my 2009 compilations:

VOL. I

1. THE MOST SERENE REPUBLIC - Heavens To Purgatory 2. PEARL JAM - The Fixer 3. DIRTY PROJECTORS - No Intention 4. SONIC YOUTH - No Way 5. METRIC - Help, I'm Alive 6. MAGNETA LANE - Lady Bones 7. DEAD WEATHER - Treat Me Like Your Mother 8. THE ANTLERS - Two 9. THE RAVEONETTES - Breaking Into Cars 10. YOUNG GALAXY - Destroyer 11. YEAH YEAH YEAHS - Heads Will Roll 12. PETER BJORN & JOHN - I Want You! 13. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Summertime Clothes 14. YO LA TENGO - Nothing To Hide 15. JAPANDROIDS - Young Hearts Spark Fire 16. TEGAN & SARA - Hell 17. BUILT TO SPILL - Good Ol' Boredom 18. GRIZZLY BEAR - Two Weeks 19. THE TRAGICALLY HIP - Speed River

VOL II:

1. THE FLAMING LIPS - Silver Trembling Hands 2. A.C. NEWMAN - Prophets 3. THE DECEMBERISTS - The Wanting Come In Waves/Repaid 4. GRANT HART - Narcissus, Narcissus 5. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS - Hurt Feelings 6. DOVES - Kingdom Of Rust 7. BOB MOULD - I'm Sorry Baby, But You Can't Stand In My Light Any More 8. NEKO CASE - This Tornado Loves You 9. GOMEZ - Natural Reaction 10. MODEST MOUSE - Guilty Cocker Spaniels 11. KAREN O & THE KIDS - All Is Love 12. PHOENIX - 1901 13. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - My Lucky Day 14. DIRTY PROJECTORS & DAVID BYRNE - Knotty Pine 15. FEIST & BEN GIBBARD - Train Song 16. THE NATIONAL - So Far Around The Bend 17. SPOON - Well Alright 18. THE ARCADE FIRE - Lenin 19. DAVE SITEK - With A Girl Like You

Copies going out to the usual suspects . . .