With the end of decade sending everyone scrambling to make decade topping lists, let's not forget all the good music that made this year one of the better musical years of the decade.
Don't forget to vote in our annual "best of." Just send us your top 20 albums of the year...or as many as you can think of, if you can't think of 20. We take all albums...all genres...just be sure they were released in 2009. To vote, just put your list in the comments section of the blog...or email us.
Here 11 Best Albums of 2009: 34-44 (Part 2):
34. Moby - Wait for Me (Shot In The Back of the Head) - only $5.00
35. Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon
36. Au Revoir Simone - Still Night, Still Light - only $5.00
37. Rodrigo y Gabriela - 11:11 -only $5.00
38. Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti...is a Skyscraper
39. Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen (What Have I Done)
40. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (East Jesus Nowhere)
41. The Editors - In This Light and On This Evening
42. Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
43. Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
44. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
I don't know how people get enough time to listen to so many new albums in a year - not when there's so much old stuff to explore, too.
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, I'll give you my top 3:
1. Sea Sew - Lisa Hannigan
2. Dark Days/Light Years - Super Furry Animals
3. The Eternal - Sonic Youth
I can't really choose between 2 and 3, but I'm going with that order.
This was tough
ReplyDelete1. Merriweather Post Pavilion- Animal Collective
2. Bitte Orca- Dirty Projectors
3. Far- Regina Spektor
4. Veckatimest- Grizzly Bear
5. Eskimo Snow- Why?
6. Dragonslayer- Sunset Rubdown
7. Aim and Ignite- fun.
8. Hospice- The Antlers
9. Embryonic- The Flaming Lips
10. Actor- St. Vincent
11. The Hazards of Love- The Decemberists
12. My Weakness is Strong- Patton Oswalt
13. My Maudlin Career- Camera Obscura
14. Grand- Matt & Kim
I think those are the ones worth mentioning. Several albums disappointed me so they're not on the list cough Raditude =(
I enjoyed a number of albums this year my top three would be:
ReplyDelete1.silversun pickups - swoon
2.japandroids - post nothing
3.metric - fantasies
i wouldn't know how to rank the rest, so in alphabetical order...
trail of dead - century of self
cage the elephant - self titled
cut off your hands - you and i
dinosaur jr. - farm
flyleaf - memento mori
the fray - self titled
modest mouse - no one's first and you're next
paramore - brand new eyes
placebo - battle for the sun
say anything - self titled
taking back Sunday - new again
third eye blind - ursa major
like Brendan said there were some disappointments, unfortunately the fun. album fell in there for me. i haven't even bothered listening to raditude based on a desire to not be let down.