The Scumbo Memorial "Best Albums of the First Half of 2009" Thread

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If we're tossing disappointments in there, Regina Spektor's latest is so, so bad.

Biggest disappointment for me, easily :sigh:

The ones I listened to and enjoyed enough to rank:


Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz *
The Horrors- Primary Colours*
U2 - No Line on the Horizon *
Pure Reason Revolution - Amor Vincit Omnia *
Passion Pit - Manners *
Metric - Fantasies *
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand *
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years*
Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey and the Groo Grux King*
Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You*
Bob Dylan - Together Through Life*
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career*
Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream *
Doves - Kingdom of Rust*
Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light *
Bell X1 - Blue Lights on the Runway *
Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted *
Bat For Lashes - Two Suns*
St. Vincent - Actor*
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast*
 
So far:

1. Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective
2. Manners by Passion Pit
3. Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
4. No Line on the Horizon by U2
5. Actor by St. Vincent
6. Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors
7. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix
8. The Hazards of Love by The Decemberists
9. Dark Was the Night by Various Artists
10. Incredibad by The Lonely Island

Still want to listen to the Doves, Here We Go Magic, Moby, Prince, Sonic Youth, Sunset Rubdown, Super Furry Animals, Wilco, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs albums.

Yeah, easily looking forward to the Flaming Lips double album.
 
Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
U2 - No Line on the Horizon
Morrissey - Years of Refusal
 
TOP TEN OF THE YEAR SO FAR:

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U2- No Line On The Horizon

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Metric - Fantasies

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

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Bat for Lashes - Two Suns

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Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

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St. Vincent - Actor

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The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love

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Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe

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Doves - Kingdom of Rust

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Andrew Bird - Noble Beast

THE ONLY DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE YEAR SO FAR:

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U2 - No Line on the Horizon
Alamaailman Vasarat - Huuro Kolkko
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
Zu - Carboniferous
forgot:
Pet Shop Boys - Yes
 
PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman a Man Walked By
U2 - No Line on the Horizon
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
Doves - Kingdom of Rust
Peaches - I Feel Cream
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
Micachu - Jewellery
 
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