Top 10 Albums of 2009

[Din Of Win]

Hey all. I've searched, but i haven't seen any "Top 10 of '09" lists, so i thought i'd start one!

IMHO, 2007 and 2008 were both REALLY good years, but this year was a little lackluster. In regards to heavy music in peticular this year straight sucked. I won't go into too much detail, but here are my top 10 releases of 2009 (in no real order):

1. Gliss - 'Devotion Implosion'
2. The Raveonettes - 'In and Out of Control'
3. The Crocodiles - 'Summer of Hate'
4. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - 's/t'
5. The XX - 's/t'
6. Coalesce - 'OX'
7. Eastern Wave - 'All Covet, All Lose'
8. Fever Ray - 's/t'
9. Teenage Bottlerocket - 'They Came From the Shadows'
10. The Leftovers - 'Eager to Please'

Close but no cigar: Shellac, Gaza, Grizzly Bear, Battlefields, Black Pyramid, Daitro, Dinosaur Jr., Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Manual Zombie, Loss Of A Child, Fall of Efrafa, Ox Scapula, Narrows, Jesu, Red Knife Lottery.


Yall's turn!

[Floridabwoy]

The Gaslight Anthem - 59 Sound
Assembly of Dust - Some Assembly Required
Blakroc - Blakroc
Derek Trucks Band - Already Free
Lettuce - RAGE!
Medeski Martin & Wood - Radiolarians III
Pretty Lights - Filling up our City Skies (i prefer disc 2)

all i got.

[StingrayDerek]

Where is Them Crooked Vultures?

[HailCorduroy]

Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Them Crooked Vultures
The Dead Weather - Horehound
The Black Crowes - Before the Frost...After the Freeze
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Chickenfoot

[Floridabwoy]

Originally Posted by HailCorduroy

The Black Crowes - Before the Frost...After the Freeze

I need to check this out. I loved Southern Musical Companion and Amorica... Wasn't really into Warpaint though.

[DLKasim]

My list of albums I have purchased this year, in order from favorite to least favorite:

Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
Megadeth - Endgame
Lacuna Coil - Shallow Life
Creed - Full Circle

Of that short list, only Mastodon was a real standout. AIC was a solid effort, but not outstanding like their past work. Overall, this year seemed weak sauce compared to 2008. The fact that I only purchased five new albums all year really points to that.

[Floridabwoy]

[bommer]

best album from 2009 i can think of is....

3 inches of blood - Here waits thy doom

[DLKasim]

Originally Posted by Floridabwoy

I know, I know. I loved their first album and got suckered in when I saw that Brian Marshall was back. I wish I would have spent the money on something useful, like guitar polish.

[shackled]

Only two albums really caught my ear enough to purchase:

The Eden House- Smoke & Mirrors
Mastodon- Crack The Skye

Other than that I just downloaded a song here and there...

[scrunks11]

Wolf-Ravenous
Slayer-World Painted Blood


my two best

[agreatheight]

I am not sure I can come up with 10, but Mastodon's Crack The Skye kicked a whole bunch of ass.

[neptoon]

i recognize like 3 or 4 of the bands mentioned so far...wow...

[Joey3313]

Originally Posted by Floridabwoy

The Gaslight Anthem - 59 Sound

That was 2008. Swing and a miss.


Top 10? Lemme see:
1) Nothington- Roads, Bridges, and Ruins
2) Banner Pilot- Collapser
3) Propagandhi- Supporting Caste
4) The Menzingers- Hold on Dodge (it's only an EP, but it's that good).
5) Teenage Bottlerocket- They Came From The Shadows
6) A Wilhelm Scream- A Wilhelm Scream (EP again).
7) Pulley- Time Insensitive Material (EP again).
8) The Lawrence Arms- Buttsweat and Tears (what's with these EPs?)
9) Strung Out- Agents of the Underground
10) This Is A Standoff- Be Disappointed

[Valerus]

No particular order:

ISIS - Wavering Radiant
Baroness - Blue Album
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Thrice - Beggars
The American Dollar - Ambient One
Amorphis - Skyforger
If These Trees Could Talk - Above The Earth, Below The Sky
mewithoutYou - it's all crazy, it's all false, it's all a dream, it's alright
Russian Circles - Geneva
The Soldier Thread - Shapes
Pelican - What We All Come To Need
(it's 11...suck it)

[rocknrollbandit]

I would add Them Crooked Vultures and Mandala-Rx Bandits

[Ben Lesser]

Thrice - Beggars
Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
John Frusciante - The Empyrean
Do Make Say Think - Other Truths
Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
Dan Deacon - Bromst
Matthew Good - Vancouver
Rx Bandits - Mandala
The xx - xx
Brand New - Daisy

In no particular order.

Honorable mentions: fun., Volcano Choir, Them Crooked Vultures, Bat For Lashes, Múm

[oldrocker]

Gov't Mule - By a Thread

[maxschrek]

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest



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[TheDialog]

Phoenix
Grizzly Bear
Animal Collective
ARCTIC MONKEYS
Dirty Projectors
The Dead Weather
Flaming Lips
Wilco
etc.