The 2009 Magazine Albums Of The Year Thread For Posting Lists and Discussion.

LJ try and give an ear to that Teeth of The Sea album, it might do thangs for you - I really like it

Oh no doubt, Doran. I'm just saying everyone's a hipster to SOMEBODY whether you're trying or not.

Our MO is to cover music for people who are slightly older than the readers of most music websites.)

That's a pretty great mission statement, tbh, and i'm glad someone's out there gunning for the old cranks.

To be fair, the first batch up to 21 are all on one page. I don't mind clicking for the top 20. The Complex Top 100, however, is out of control. I got bored clicking through the top 100, then got distracted by the Top 100 Girls.

Oops, real link. Beware, it's mind-numbingly addictive, kind of like that Hot Or Not site 10 yrs ago.

LJ try and give an ear to that Teeth of The Sea album, it might do thangs for you - I really like it

― Dark, promiscuous five-year-old (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:56 (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

ooh look it is on spotify what have i become

maybe a factor reflecting a more mixed bag NME top 50 is the existence of NME Radio

NME Radio
http://www.nme.com/radio/playlist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NME_Radio

A Playlist - badly drawn boy.
in 2009???

Also The Bravery.

ha that proves my opinion earlier in this thread

re:

the NME of 2009 reminds me of Select magazine circa 2000, a mixed bag with no distinctive direction

select magazine - best albums of 2000
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/select.html

1. Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

Am really liking this, DJ Mencap!

2009 consensus

via
http://www.albumvote.co.uk/albums/best/2009.aspx

1 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! 365
2 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion 331
3 Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 319
4 The Horrors - Primary Colours 308
5 Wild Beasts - Two Dancers 270
6 Florence and the Machine - Lungs 244
7 Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers 235
8 Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca 218
9 The XX – The XX 218
10 Fever Ray - Fever Ray 199
11 Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport 192
12 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 184
13 Arctic Monkeys - Humbug 176
14 Wilco - Wilco (The Album) 169
15 Bat for Lashes - Two Suns 154
16 Doves - Kingdom of Rust 149
17 Kasabian – The West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum 149
18 The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love 131
19 The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin 119
20 Bob Dylan - Together Through Life 114
21 La Roux - La Roux 112
22 Muse - The Resistance 110
23 Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate 108
24 The Cribs – Ignore the Ignorant 105
25 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart 104
26 Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream 103
27 Neko Case - Middle Cyclone 103
28 Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career 97
29 Jamie T - Kings & Queens 97
30 Bill Calahan – Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle 96
31 Tinariwen - Imidiwan: Companions 90
32 Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another 89
33 Girls - Album 87
34 Passion Pit - Manners 87
35 Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter 86
36 The Phantom Band – Checkmate Savage 83
37 Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You 78
38 Sonic Youth - The Eternal 77
39 Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk 75
40 Sunn 0))) – Monoliths And Dimensions 73
41 Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring 71
42 The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love 71
43 The Hidden Cameras - Origin: Orphan 71
44 The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead 68
45 The Flaming Lips – Embryonic 66
46 Jack Penate - Everything is New 65
47 The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms 64
48 Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3 62
49 U2 - No Line on the Horizon 62
50 Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – I Speak Fula 60

Sources:

Q Magazine
Mojo Magazine
Uncut Magazine
Amazon Editors
The Times
The Time New Artists
musicOMH
NME
Planet Sound
The Fly

hang on, how is that albumvote list compiled? show me the maths on that, I'm curious about something

no idea of how it was compiled, just spotted the link in my RSS reader

Are people seriously rating Florence + the Machine above Neko Case? I like them both, but c'mon.

they don't seem to say on the site. can't work out if they're just aggregating the placements within various lists, or if they're basing it off the points allotted to the albums on the lists when they came out

(or if it's some weird voting system that they do on the site)

the logical weighted system for consensus would be 50 points for number 1, 1 point for 50th

ah. the vote button on the site was confusing me

all the sources so far are mainstream media reflecting the AlbumVote website, they are not interested in Rock-A-Rolla, and the likes of Terrorizer and The Wire

terrorizer and the wire lists dont usually come out til january.

that's why i mentioned "the likes of"

To get an idea of the scope of albumvote, their coming soon lists only established / high profile artists

http://www.albumvote.co.uk/albums/prerel.aspx

the problem with http://www.albumvote.co.uk/albums/best/2009.aspx is the .uk

7 Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers 235

like find me one american mag that still cares about this crap

50 Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – I Speak Fula 60

I've been trying to fins a leak of this to twitter review forever. Internet is scrubbed clean. Could someone hip me to a mediafire link on 77 or something?

*find*

DJ Mencap, if yr reading, I don't really buy into the term 'post-rock' but this Teeth Of The Sea record is one of the best albums perhaps lying within a certain 'post-rock' discourse that I've heard in years

50 Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – I Speak Fula 60

Whiney, I think there's a publicist now handling this who might get you a legit download.

xp yeah parts of it had me thinking of the stuff that got called post-rock before Mogwai etc - nerdy English noodling like Pram and Moonshake - but w/ a load of 70s drug rock thrown in

I'm not sure anyone in Britain still cares about the Manics, that album appears to be this year's Dig Lazarus Dig.

it certainly isn't noodling - it's pretty damn direct and righteous

(wasn't like Hood and Ganger and that last Slowdive album the predominant sort of British pre-Mogwai post-rock?)

Hmm, Ganger started about the same time as Mogwai iirc - Hood were around earlier but really obscure before being on Domino (whereupon they became the biggest band in the world etc) and not so much 'post'-anything as weird and fidgety - Slowdive were a thing too I guess

You mean "England's answer to black metal" Hood?

decent review, unnecessary neurosis dig, mentions my favourite torche song: http://www.lowcut.dk/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=571:teeth-of-the-sea--orphaned-by-the-ocean&catid=29:album-reviews&Itemid=54

Hood were EBM! I keep saying that. It's still true. I only called them 'post-rock' because that's what everyone said they were. It's a silly term.

That was an xpost, btw :D

(yeah noodling isn't the right word... just reading back my review of it and recalling that the olde poste rocke thing is mainly contained in the last track on the album anyway)

Whiney, I think there's a publicist now handling this who might get you a legit download.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, December 8, 2009 1:38 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

who is it?

rock, paper, scissors

http://www.rockpaperscissors.biz/index.cfm/fuseaction/current.home.cfm

i work with them a lot; drop me a line and i'll point you at somebody whiney

The Quietus 20-1
20. PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By
19. Teeth Of The Sea - Orphaned By The Ocean
18. Soap & Skin - Lovetune For Vacuum
17. Ben Frost - By The Throat
16. Githead - Landing
15. British Sea Power - Man Of Aran
14. Abouretum - Song Of The Pearl
13. Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
12. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
11. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
10. Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
9. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
8. Gnaw Their Tongues - All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity
7. Gyratory System - The Sound Board Breathes
6. Oneida - Rated O
5. Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
4. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
3. The xx - xx
2. The Horrors - Primary Colours
1. Sunn O))) - Monoliths And Dimensions

I saw The Gyratory System live at Offset; they were quite good although I'd imagine better on record. A bit repetitive and noodly in the live sphere.

I really did not like that Soap & Skin album.

Hood were EBM! I keep saying that. It's still true.

http://www.shout.ru/news/front242_promo2003_01.jpg

Hood, yesterday.

gyratory system are really good actually.

at least, i thought their album was v interesting, in a brazen, experimental way. Others might think it sounds like someone who went mental with the GTA cheat where you can make fire engines fall out the sky.

Still wanna hear that Ben Frost album.

me too!

not seeing much love for 'the visitor' :-(

me three!

yes, gyratory system ARE much better on record. THANK U SPOFITY

actually they kinda rock

look at them, caring about processed trumpet rave-ups!

http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs204.snc1/7133_638626271040_36910239_40921193_3199476_n.jpg

I'm shocked the NME couldn't find room for the Super Furry Animals album, they always have them in no matter what they put out. They even put his solo album in last time. Also really disappointed they missed out The Flaming Lips album.

nme probably think they cant sell the lips album to the kids