Best Albums Of 2009

[barstool]

THE MOTHER HIPS - Pacific Dust
ROBERT POLLARD - The Crawling Distance
... AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD - Century of Self
THE MOORE BROTHERS - Aptos
JOSEPH ARTHUR - Nuclear Daydream (vinyl reissue + bonus tracks)
JAY FARRAR & BEN GIBBARD - One Fast Move Or I'm Gone
ST. VINCENT - Actor
THE DIRTY PROJECTORS - Bitte Orca
THE BUCKETS - Sod
SON VOLT - American Central Dust

[Linwood Thorpe]

some good albums:

Wilco (the Album)

Mos Def -the ecstatic

Flaming Lips- Embryonic

avett brothers, son volt and sonic youth were pretty good as well.

a few i really liked...

Monsters of Folk-Self Titled

Califone-All My Friends are Funeral Singers

Phoenix-Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Cotton Jones - Paranoid Cocoon.

my favorites?

Levon Helm--Electric Dirt

Blakroc- Blakroc

[gdavis5446]

This is an impossible thread, but that Jason Isbell record sure was good.

[saratoga jay]

Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard- One Fast Move
Son Volt- ACD
Vulture Whale- self-titled
Slaid Cleaves- Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
Ryan Bingham- Roadhouse Sun
Matt the Electrician- Animal Boy
Dan Auerbach- Keep It Hid
Bottle Rockets- Lean Forward
Balmorhea- All is Wild, All is Silent
Ben Kweller- Changing Horses

[calexico]

i have a 10-foot wanger

Hello, sailor.

[Blimps Go 90]

what a bunch of predictable shit

even the obligatory token Jay-Z record in the top 10

if the wilco record is the 16th-best record of 2009, i have a 10-foot wanger

it's not even in the top million

I don't get the love for this album at all...even most of the folks over at the Via Chicago board don't have it noted on their best of lists.

[hardwood floor]

what a bunch of predictable shit

even the obligatory token Jay-Z record in the top 10

if the wilco record is the 16th-best record of 2009, i have a 10-foot wanger

it's not even in the top million

[el caballo loco]

I enjoy being wrong.

[Terraplane]

Apparently, we're all wrong. Or nearly. Here's the list:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/ ... of_2009/11

[calexico]

Cage the Elephant - self titled

I know next to nothing about this band but I did love this single.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0tsm0EhCJM&feature=fvst

[hardwood floor]

blimps go 90 on with the show
couldn't you see that?
now didn't you know?
Aerosol halos, films of the flag
rifle games for seven-year-olds
what a drag
yeah now, that's a drag

[Blimps Go 90]

Boston Spaceships : Zero to 99
Son Volt : American Central Dust
Neko Case: Middle Cyclone
Robert Pollard: The Crawling Distance
Boston Spaceships: The Planets Are Blasted
Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard : One Fast Move or I’m Gone
Andrew Bird: Noble Beast

[Texas Tom]

[pdg]

In no particular order, some top spins:

Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Cage the Elephant - self titled
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
Vienna Teng - Inland Territory
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
Phish - Joy
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Iron and Wine - Around the Well
Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard - One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur
Son Volt - American Central Dust


Honorable mentions:

Pearl Jam - Backspacer (liked it so much better than the avocado album)
Death Cab for Cutie - The Open Door EP
Modest Mouse - No One's First and You're Next EP
Rodrigo Y Gabriela - 11:11
Tori Amos - Midwinter Graces
Muse - The Resistance
Gov't Mule - By A Thread
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Cowboy Junkies - Acoustic Junk
Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
and the live Tom Waits, Over the Rhine, and The Killers


Biggest disappointment:

Placebo - Battle for the Sun

[calexico]

Richard Hawley's Trueloves Gutter should be on a list......other then mine.


Just Saying

I liked his last one a lot. Didn't get around to this new one yet though.