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     skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 490 Registered: 10-2008 |
Uncut are first off the mark and have just published their top 50 Highlights (or not, depending on your viewpoint :-) ) are Animal Collective at No 1, Super Furry Animals at No 2, Dirty Projectors at No3, Bob Dylan at No 4 and Spences faves Wild Beasts at No5. Wilco are at 7, Flaming Lips at 14 and Sonic Youth at 19. No's 50-21 are shockingly poor and are full of unremarkable albums by artists whose best years are either behind them, or by new artists whose best years are hopefully not even in front of them!! for the record i think the top 3 are amongst the years best in what just might be the worst year for "popular music" ever. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 457 Registered: 01-2007 |
Not seen it Kev just back from a holiday and can only think of the dirty projectors and the xx that make it for me grim reality after last years excellence | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 491 Registered: 10-2008 |
xx is no6 frank | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 495 Registered: 10-2008 |
animal collective at no1 in mojo as well. i think this one is a no brainer to be honest. what is the criteria for album of the year in the rock press? i would say first of all most of the songs have to be good/excellent, thats a given. secondly, it should sound fresh, current, not too retro (although thats not unforgivable). thirdly, an album shouldnt be age restrictive, teens and middle age fans can all love the record. fourthly, the artist hopefully is not treading water, and has made an album that is not just another rehash of their trademark sound, but is still uniquely them. I cant think of any other band the rock press would consider for album of the year, animal collective meets all these hands down. i havent thought too long and hard about my list yet, but of what i listen to in the rock field, animal collective will be high up on it. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 518 Registered: 10-2008 |
http://www.nme.com/list/50-best-albums-o f-2009/159978 | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 519 Registered: 10-2008 |
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/special/sec tion/popmatters-picks-the-best-music-of- 2009/ | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 520 Registered: 10-2008 |
http://thequietus.com/articles/03326-the -quietus-reductive-subjective-albums-of- the-year-20-1 | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3443 Registered: 05-2005 |
Malcolm Ross and The Low Miffs - The Low Miff and Malcolm Ross Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependance The Clientele - Bonfires on The Heath Doves - Kingdom of Rust Euros Childs - Son of Euros Childs Wild Beasts - 2 Dancers Grace Jones - Hurricane Wilco - Wilco Album of next year for me will probably be Liam Dullaghan -Making History. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 613 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Low Anthem one was pretty good but all the Tom Waits like songs...what was that all about???? Really like Sara Blasko but I've only had it a short time. Her singing sort of reminds me of early Portishead. Some of the songs are really strong. Talking about songs, song of the year for me was Happenstance by the Church (totally classic Church)but the rest of the album is pretty sludgy. I did eventually get into the Doves one but it isn't as defined as either of their first 2 and I couldn't honestly say it's a truly GREAT album. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3448 Registered: 05-2005 |
Geoff, know what you mean re Doves album. I don;t actually think for me anyway, great albums exist anymore, they seem to be extremely rare animals, apart from Wild Beasts! | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 209 Registered: 05-2005 |
kings of convenience - declaration of dependence bill callahan - sometimes etc yo la tengo - popular songs euros childs - son of eurochild (get it right spence) wild beasts - 2 dancers wilco - the album animal collector - merriweather post pavillion masters of reality - pine/cross dover doom - born like this people under the stairs- carried away | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 210 Registered: 05-2005 |
damn i forgot the super furry animals they can take DOOMs place | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 526 Registered: 10-2008 |
mine are: King Midas Sound - Waiting For You Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport Animal Collective - Merryweather P P Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca Martyn - Great Lengths Shackleton - 3 EPs Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest Sonic Youth - The Eternal 2562 - Unbalance Fever Ray - S/T Comps & Reissues The Feelies - first 2 albums REM - Murmur and Reckoning Kraftwerk - The first 5 albums Various Dubstep artists - 5 years of Hyperdub Various Artists - Warp20 Various Dubstep artists - Steppas Delight vol2 Robert Hood - Minimal Nation Delroy Wilson - Dubplate Style Big Star - first 2 albums Tricky - Maxinquaye | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3289 Registered: 05-2005 |
1 Skinny Jean - Dolce Doggerel 2 Seán Millar - Of The People part 1 3 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion 4 R.E.M. - Live At The Olympia: 5 Dinosaur Jr – Farm 6 Sarah Blasko - As Day Follows Night 7 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 8 Madness – The Liberty Of Norton Folgate 9 British Sea Power - Man Of Aran 10 Living Things - Habeas Corpus 11 7 Worlds Collide - The Sun Came Out 12 Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs - Under The Covers Vol 2 13 Wagons - The Rise And Fall Of Goodtown 14 Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing 15 El Mopa – The Metal Years 16 Bob Dylan – Together Through Life 17 Bruce Springsteen – Working On A Dream 18 The Answer - Everyday Demons 19 Regular John - Surrender 20 Philadelphia Grand Jury – Hope Is For Hopers 8 American 6 Australian 2 Irish 2 English 1 French 1 New Zealand | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 272 Registered: 02-2007 |
The Sun Came Out (7 worlds Collide) is a great album just got ot coupla days ago, Padraig | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 615 Registered: 05-2005 |
You know that album never really "stuck" with me David. I hope the Crowdies one in January is much better. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1691 Registered: 01-2005 |
I never heard much buzz about the second Sweet-Hoffs covers album like the first one had. I've got the first and liked it somewhat. I would love to see a remastered Bangles - All Over The Place with bonus tracks and the 1982 ep. I haven't bought that many new 2009 released albums this year due to catching up on many missed 2000-08 discs that have appeared on various "best of the decade" lists. Neko Case's Middle Cyclone and Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3's Goodnight Oslo have both been listened to many times though. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 529 Registered: 10-2008 |
another one for animal collective http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/117 680-best-60-albums-of-2009/ | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 531 Registered: 10-2008 |
and another one for AC, overwhelmingly the band of the year for the critics http://www.tinymixtapes.com/2009-Favorit e-50-Albums-of-2009 | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 532 Registered: 10-2008 |
Not seen it myself but apparently Animal Collective are album of the year in Record Collector. I shall be astounded of forehead if they arent no1 in Pitchforks list tomorrow. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 533 Registered: 10-2008 |
look away now geoff :-) http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-list s/7744-the-top-50-albums-of-2009/1/ aside from AC, the other bands who have come up trumps this year according to the journos are grizzly bear, dirty projectors and xx | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 203 Registered: 03-2007 |
Only three from that list for me ( No. 13 - Actor by St. Vincent; No. 37 - Hospice by The Antlers; No. 42 - Ashes Grammar by A Sunny Day In Glasgow.) | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 535 Registered: 10-2008 |
Simon Reynolds faves for this year http://blissout.blogspot.com/ christ, he likes some of the dubstep/techno ive loved this year - king midas sound, martyn,2562, joker, zomby etc. always knew he had great taste!! | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 460 Registered: 01-2007 |
I'd forgotton to mention Bill Callaghan which with the Xx are my LPs of the year | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3460 Registered: 05-2005 |
fu*k me kev, youand simon seperated at birth by the look of his selections!!!! indded! | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 106 Registered: 06-2005 |
2009 on a CD for me goes like this and clocks in at 79.45' 1. Charlie Darwin – The Low Anthem 2. Anna, Girl In The Clocktower – Woodpigeon 3. Penn Station – The Felice Brothers 4. I Declare A Ceasefire – My Latest Novel 5. Now I’m A Coastguard – Dan Michaelson And The Coastguards 6. Two – The Antlers 7. Tremendous Dynamite – Eels 8. Avalon Or Someone Very Similar – Yo La Tengo 9. We Still Got The Taste Dancing On Our Tongues – Wild Beasts 10. The Sweetest Thing – Camera Obscura 11. Bicycle – Memory Tapes 12. Islands – The Xx 13. Life Magazine – Cold Cave 14. Walkabout – Atlas Sound 15. Leave it – The Field 16. Olympians – Fuck Buttons Favourites of the year: Album: Wild Beasts - Two Dancers Song: Camera Obscura - The Sweetest Thing Concert: David Byrne - National Concert Hall, Dublin |