What were your favourite albums of 2009?

[METALMAN]

I'm just going to do a list rather than write about how they make me feel or whatever because that is boring for both me and you but you can feel free to do whatever you like.

1. Idlewild - Post Electric Blues

2. Zoey van Goey - the Cage Was Unlocked All Along

3. the Duckworth Lewis Method - the Duckworth Lewis Method

4. Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk

5. My Latest Novel - Deaths and Entrances

6. Malajube - Labyrinthes

7. Metric - Fantasies

8. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

9. We Were Promised Jetpacks - these Four Walls

10. Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had the Blues But I Shook them Loose

11. Frank turner - Poetry of the Deed

12. the Killers - Live From Royal Albert Hall

13. the Raveonettes - In And Out Of Control

14. the Rumble Strips - Welcome to the Walk Alone

15. Owl City - Ocean Eye

16. Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For the Young

17. the Decemberists - the Hazards of Love

18. Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions

19. Maximo Park - Quicken the Heart

20. Little Dragon - Machine Dreams

21. Loney, Dear - Dear John

22. the Prodigy - Invaders Must Die

23. Lady Gaga - the Fame/Fame Monster

24. Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers

25. Malcolm Middleton - Waxing Gibbous

26. Rowland S. Howard - Pop Crimes

27. Marina and the Diamonds - Crown Jewels EP

28. Peter Doherty - Grace/Wastelands

29. Wilco - Wilco (the Album)

30. FrYars - Dark Young Hearts

31. Brendan Benson - My Old, Familiar Friend

32. Aidan Moffat & the Best-Ofs - How to Get to Heaven From Scotland

33. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

34. the Cribs - Ignore the Ignorant

35. Bob Dylan - together through Life

36. the Rakes - Klang

37. the Horrors - Primary Colours

38. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm

39. InMe - Herald Moth

40. Noah and the Whale - the First Days Of Spring

41. them Crooked Vultures - them Crooked Vultures

42. Justin townes Earle - Midnight At the Movies

43. Graham Coxon - the Spinning top

44. the twilight Sad - Forget the Night Ahead

45. the Maccabees - Wall Of Arms

46. Brand New - Daisy

47. Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream

48. Alexisonfire - Old Crows/Young Cardinals

49. Bat For Lashes - two Suns

50. the Adventures of Loki - the Adventures of Loki

Some stuff that was alright but didn't make the list:

Andrew Jackson Jihad - Can't Maintain

Blue Roses - Blue Roses

the Flaming Lips - Embyronic

Florence and the Machine - Lungs

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

Morrissey - Years of Refusal

Muse - the Resistance

Neil Young - Fork In the Road

Patrick Wolf - the Bachelor

the View - Which Bitch?

Some notable stuff that was alright but never really had any chance of making the list:

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

Antony and the Johnsons - the Crying Light

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Outer South

Dananananaykroyd - Hey Everyone

Jay-Z - the Blueprint 3

La Roux - La Roux

Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You

Little Boots - Hands

Madness - Liberty Of Norton Folgate

Passion Pit - Manners

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

Shit/Disappointing

Arctic Monkeys - Humbug

Beirut - March of the Zapotec

Bob Mould - Life and times

Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career

Editors - In this Light and on this Evening

Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - What It takes to Move Forward

Fredo Viola - the turn

Billy talent - Billy talent III

Calvin Harris - Ready for the Weekend

God Help the Girl - God Help the Girl

the Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin

Marmaduke Duke - Duke Pandemonium

yeah i was bored

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

Albums I liked this year (not all-inclusive):

XXXX - You Say Party! We Say Die!

Eskimo Snow - Why?

If You Leave It Alone - The Wave Pictures

Dragonslayer - Sunset Rubdown

Yeah So - Slow Club

Outside Love - Pink Mountaintops

Dinero Severo - Norfolk & Western

Middle Cyclone - Neko Case

Fantasies - Metric

Fake Surfers - Intelligence

The Duckworth-Lewis Method - The Duckworth-Lewis Method

Concentration - Dog Day

Bay Of Pigs - Destroyer

Clues - Clues

III - Billy Talent

Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective

Get Guilty - AC Newman

God that's an elitist list.

Oh Matt Good was nice too. New Our Lady Peace was horrible though.

[Nimrodic]

The only album that I actually bought and listened to that was released in 2009 was Killswitch Engage's self-titled album. So, my list is rather short heh.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Mew's album was by far the best album of the year.

[Jimmy]

?

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

[RPS]

1. grizzly bear; veckatimest

2. antony & the johnsons - the crying light

3. kid cudi; man on the moon

4. la roux; la roux

5. the xx; the xx

6. dizzee rascal; tongue 'n' cheek

7. david guetta; one love

8. patrick wolf; the bachelor

9. basement jaxx; scars

10. peaches; i feel cream

really dug the grizzly bear album; had vaguely heard of them before this year, but really after hearing this album it got me hooked. i now am addicted to yellow house as well. i love antony, so obviously i'm going to like to the crying light. i didn't connect too it as much as his last album, but i still dug it. kid cudi's man on the moon is probably the most interesting album of the year; it's weird, fun and a bit alienating, but somehow the dude makes it work. la roux's and xx's self titled debut both served great purposes - they brought something a bit different to mainstream audiences, while still playing it relatively safe so as to make the music enjoyable and strangely addicting.

[METALMAN]

Mew's album was by far the best album of the year.

Oh my flatmate's friend bought me tickets to see them but I didn't go because I was doing something else and I also only knew like two of their songs. So she gave them to her dad instead. Apparently they were really good so I kind of wish I went. haha.

that is my Mew story.

[NM!]

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Skillet - Awake

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

Muse - The Resistance

Paramore - Brand New Eyes

Matt and Kim - Grand

[Pesci]

Didn't listen to nearly enough full albums last year (might have to catch up tbh), but from the very few I've acquired I'll have to go for Florence and the Machine. Her voice makes me hot

[GA!]

I haven't really listened to much new stuff, so I'll just say my favourite album of 2009 is 'Journal for Plague Lovers' by Manic Street Preachers.

[NobBe Nobbs]

Like I bloody know, I've listened to like two and they were both the shit.

[SRN]

All in non-linear order;

Cobalt - Gin

Immortal - All Shall Fall

Devin Townsend - Ki

Devin Townsend - Addicted

Mastodon - Crack The Skye

Augury - Fragmentary Evidence

Mumakil - Behold The Failure

Portal - Swath

Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions

Probably more that I've forgot but these are on the top of my head.

[NM!]

Oh, forgot to add this one.

Set Your Goals - This Will be the Death of Us

[Lowerdeck]

Not in any particular order...

Man Must Die - No Tolerance For Imperfection

Dying Fetus - Descent Into Depravity

Bernie Williams - The Journey Ahead

Davy Knowles / Back Door Slam - Coming Up For Air

Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters - Living In The Light

[Hudsanity]

1. Between the Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect

2. Devin Townsend Project - Ki

3. Keith Merrow - The Arrival

4. Eryn Non Dae. - Hydra Lernaia

5. Devin Townsend Project - Addicted

6. Excision - Shambhala 2009 Mix (not really an album but whatever)

7. Katatonia - Night Is the New Day

8. OSI - Blood

9. Architects - Hollow Grave

10. Hacride - Lazarus

That's it really. Honourable mention to Animals As Leaders I guess.

[Skummy]

I'm finding it difficult to remember everything I bought this year, though it's probably the least "new" music I've bought in a good few years.

Probably the best album of the year, though, has to be SunnO)))'s "Monoliths & Dimensions", which is just taking their style and modus operandus so far beyond what I had assumed would be it's logical conclusion and coming out with something truly beautiful. It's the first time that, on record, they've come close to being as mindblowing as they are live - and in many ways surpassing the live experience.

Can't be bothered looking through CDs or old iTunes libraries to remind myself what I bought this year, but there's a high chance I'll pop in and out of this thread whenever I have to DJ and remind myself of something good.

[Sousa]

I didn't buy/listen to as much new stuff as I would've liked, but Dinosaur Jr.'s Farm was the best of what I picked up this year with Embryonic by The Flaming Lips not far behind.

[Bushmeister]

Baroness - Blue Record

Pelican - What We All Come To Need

Kylesa - Static Tensions

This trio of excellent sludge/post-metal stuff solidified my belief in the fact that this style of music will break on through. Mammoth riffs, soulful vocals and excellent pacing were the order of the day.

Marduk - Wormwood

Immortal - All Shall Fall

Two venerable black metal acts, two excellent records. Immortal came back with a huge album off of their hiatus, and took their epic, riff-heavy metal format even further. Meanwhile, Marduk shedded the excess thrash influences that plagued their last album and retained just enough to make "Wormwood" a fucking slaughterhouse.

Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave

Afgrund - Vid Helvetes Grindar

Skitliv - Skandinavisk Misantropi

Mumakil - Behold The Failure

Graf Orlock - Destination Time Today

It was brutal, it was abusive, it was short. It was the grind year 2009.a

[WrightStuff]

Apathy- Wanna Snuggle?

Blakroc- Blakroc

Clipse- Til the Casket Drops

Cormega- Born & Raised

CYNE- Water for Mars

Finale- A Pipe Dream and a Promise

Freddie Gibbs- Midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik

Jay-Z- The Blueprint 3

Kid Cudi- Man on the Moon: The End of Day

Large Professor- The LP

Masta Ace & Edo G- A & E

Mastodon- Crack the Skye

Mos Def- The Ecstatic

Obie Trice- Special Reserve

Raekwon- Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II

Royce da 5'9"- Street Hop

Skyzoo- The Salvation

Slaughterhouse- Slaughterhouse

Statik Selektah- The Pre-Game EP

Torae & Marco Polo- Double Barrel

UGK- UGK 4 Life

Wale- Attention Deficit

*Cheated a bit by including a mixtape and an EP

Edited January 12, 2010 by WrightStuff