Best/Favorite Music of 2009 Thread

[If you shout...]

i think i'm the only one who actually found the Grizzly Bear album to be rather mediocre, lol!

You're hardly alone.

 

[u2popmofo]

7. Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind

I was just thinking earlier today that I'd pretty much entirely forgotten about that album. I don't think I've listened to it since a week or to after it was released, but I absolutely loved it for those few weeks. Need to give it some more spins again.

 

[LemonMelon]

#3 would be the very NSFW video for "Watching the Planets." It's not on the You Tubes, though, for obvious reasons.

YouPubes is a much safer bet.

This takes the title of most simultaneously awful and awesome video of 2009, though mostly awful:

YouTube - The Horrors - "Mirror's Image" official music video premiere

 

[mikal]

You're hardly alone.

i mean, it's not bad. maybe it's just a victim of its own hype for me. i didn't listen to it until a month after its release, and it didn't come close to living up to the hype.

 

[If you shout...]

I agree. I came to it without any hype, though, for whatever that's worth. "Mediocre" is pretty much my word for every Grizzly Bear release. C'est la vie, though. One can't love 'em all.

 

[Dalton]

You're hardly alone.

True, his mom is just up the stairs.

 

[Jive Turkey]

I think this deserves a year end repost. By far my favourite televised performance of the year. The only problem is that the album version sounds inferior now

YouTube - Grizzly Bear - "Ready, Able" on Letterman 7/16 (TheAudioPerv.com)

 

[u2popmofo]

So i thought it would be easier for me to not order them and just write a blurb of thoughts about each album. This is proving to take far more time than I thought, and I'm almost considering just ordering them and deleting the comments now.

 

[lazarus]

I haven't made a specific list yet, but after hearing Islands' Vapours today I really think it should be on there.

 

[If you shout...]

I keep forgetting that Islands is still going. That's been a very quietly consistent band, right there. They steadily fly just right under the radar.

 

[corianderstem]

So i thought it would be easier for me to not order them and just write a blurb of thoughts about each album. This is proving to take far more time than I thought, and I'm almost considering just ordering them and deleting the comments now.

I wanna read your blurbs. Chop chop, mofo. Time's a wastin'!

 

[mikal]

definitely would say that Bear In Heaven album is on my list.

 

[u2popmofo]

I wanna read your blurbs. Chop chop, mofo. Time's a wastin'!

Doh! I just deleted the 3 or 4 I'd written as they were all getting lengthy and probably boring for anyone other than myself to read! The unranked list is pretty much done though, will be posting soon.

 

[corianderstem]

Now I will spend the rest of my New Year's Eve weeping bitter tears.

 

[lazarus]

That was going to happen anyway?

 

[corianderstem]

Ha! Nah.

 

[u2popmofo]

Because I seem to have something inside of me that hates the idea of putting a ranked list of albums together, and then looking at it at a later date and hating the order, I've taken the easy road this year and just listed my favorite albums without numbers next to them. To further prove how much my brain hates the idea of ranking albums and artists I like against each other, I couldn't even come up with a "Top 20" and "5 Honorable Mentions", so I instead have below a really lame and strange grouping for you all to mock me over:

Favorite 14 Albums of 2009
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest’
Pains of Being Pure at Heart - self-titled
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - ‘It’s Blitz!’
Built to Spill - ‘There Is No Enemy’
The Clientele - ‘Bonfires On The Heath’
The Fiery Furnaces - ‘I’m Going Away’
The Thermals - ‘Now We Can See’
Bat For Lashes - ‘Two Suns’
The XX - ‘XX’
F**k Buttons - ‘Tarot Sport’
Future of the Left - ‘Travels With Myself and Another’
Doves - ‘Kingdom of Rust’
Fever Ray - self-titled
U2 - ‘No Line on the Horizon’

11 Albums That I Cannot Decide Whether Or Not They Should Be In My Top 20 Or Honorable Mentions
The Dead Weather - ‘Horehound’
Mastodon - ‘Crack the Skye’
Russian Circles - ‘Geneva’
The Flaming Lips - ‘Embryonic’
Manic Street Preachers - ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’
Andrew Bird - ‘Noble Beast’
Animal Collective - ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion’
Dirty Projectors - ‘Bitte Orca’
Florence + The Machine - ‘Lungs’
Mos Def - ‘The Ecstatic’
The Dodos - ‘Time To Die’

Favorite EPs
Realpeople - 'Holland' (second disc of Beirut's March of the Zapotec EP)
Modest Mouse - 'No One's First And You're Next'
Death Cab For Cutie - 'The Open Door'

 

[lazarus]

Ha! Nah.

 

[corianderstem]

I would never sit like that in a skirt. Hussy.

 

[lazarus]

But she's ALONE. And hey, if you have a figure like that...

 

[corianderstem]

I can't comment on that. But I will comment that there appears to be a dunce cap in the chair, and she's got white wine in her glass while the bottle next to her is red.

She's an unreliable narrator, so I cannot apply this scenario to my own evening.

 

[lazarus]

I think the glass is just empty, and that hat is a new year's party hat.

The cane confuses me, though.

And I'm surprised you failed to note the ghost over in the corner.

 

[corianderstem]

I thought the ghostly image was your patented reference to ZOMG CORI'S OLD!!!!!



Actually, I figured with the ghostly oldie and the cane, our blonde friend (uselessly wearing high heels as she sits in an unladylike fashion) is drinking and bemoaning the fact that she's going to get old and lose her fabulous looks.

Which is to say that no, that is not how I'll be spending NYE. Maybe I'll put on heels with my sweatpants, though. You know, as an homage.

 

[lazarus]

Maybe THAT'S what the cane is for!

 

[Dalton]

The cane confuses me, though.

Only because you can't see the slot for batteries.

 

[corianderstem]

I'd also like to state for the record that I don't dye my hair to match my dress.

 

[Dalton]

I think she's wearing a hat.

 

[lazarus]

I'd also like to state for the record that I don't dye my hair to match my dress.

That is a headwrap! You can see her red hair in a ponytail behind it.

Looks like someone's eyesight is failing. Ahh, the perils of aging...

 

[Dalton]

BTW - I think I'm ready to call my foreigners thread a flop. I swung. I missed.

 

[Jive Turkey]

BTW - I think I'm ready to call my foreigners thread a flop. I swung. I missed.

allbecauseofU2 is stealing your thunder