It's time for '09! I really want paying a lot of attention to music this year but I've since gone back and found some great stuff. Anything released between Jan 1 and Dec 31 2009 is eligible. Play along if you want. Name as many or as few as you wish. Here's my favorite albums of 2009 in alphabetical order by artist: 1. The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You 2. Big Star - Keep An Eye On The Sky 3. Vic Chesnutt - At The Cut 4. Eilen Jewell - Sea Of Tears 5. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Live Anthology 6. R.E.M. - R.E.M. Live At The Olympia 7. The Raveonettes - In And Out Of Control 8. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Up From Below 9. Wilco - Wilco (The Album) 10. Wussy - Wussy
My 2009 Allen Toussaint - Bright Mississippi Ben Sidran - Dylan Different Bill Frisell - Disfarmer Brian Blade - Mama Rosa Henrik Freischlader - Recorded By Martin Meinschafer Melody Gardot - My One And Only Thrill The Stanley Clarke Trio - Jazz In The Garden Steve Earle - Townes Tomasz Stanko - Dark Eyes
I admit I'm one of those who really likes U2's No Line on the Horizon. Bob Dylan Together Through Life
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - The Live Anthology The only album released in 2009 that comes to my mind that I really like. But this is a great one.
Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle - Bill Callahan Little Hells - Marissa Nadler Middle Cyclone - Neko Case Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix Actor - St. Vincent
Sarah Blasko - As Day Follows Night Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle Ceu - Vangarosa Dave Rawlings Machine - A Friend Of A Friend Fat Freddy's Drop - Dr Boondigga & The Big BW Eileen Jewel - Sea of Tears Mariachi El Bronx Roland S Howard - Pop Crimes The WHO Trio - Less Is More The xx - xx A pretty good year I reckon. There are a few others I like, but I think these are my favourites.
Plenty as usual, mostly keeping clear of the mainstream. I've now also taught myself how to convert my upper case text. 2000 Lb Of Blues - Soul Of A Sinner Johnnie Bassett & The Blues Insurgents - The Gentleman Is Back Blue Hammer - Alive & Well Cash Box Kings - Cuttin Heads - Live At The Cuda Cafe June Core - Leave It All Behind Sean Costello & His Jivebombers - Sean's Blues Kurt Crandall - Get Wrong With Me Enrico Crivellaro - Mojo Zone Doug Deming & The Jewel Tones - Falling Through The Cracks Electrophonics - Little A Lot Rick Estrin & The Night Cats - Twisted Kirk Fletcher - I'M Here & I'M Gone Billy Flynn - Blues Drive Mark Hummel - Chicago Blues Party - Recorded Live 1980 - 1992 Insomniacs - At Least I'M Not With You Peter Nande - Jelly Bean Baby - California Sessions Vol II John Nemeth - Love Me Tonight Darrel Nulisch - Just For You Gary Primich - Botheration Raoul & The Big Time - You My People Duke Robillard - New Guitar Summit Duke Robillard - Stomp The Blues Tonight Mighty Mike Schermer - Live Set Racky Thomas Band - Hard Travellin' Twisters - Come Out Swingin Kim Wilson - Smokin Joint Rhythm Room Sessions Vol 2 Johnny Winter - The Woodstock Experience Ray Beadle - Loaded Pat Capocci - Delinquent Beat Michael Carpenter - Redemption #39 Bill Chambers - Drifting South Guy Clark - Somedays The Song Writes You Slaid Cleaves - Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away Joe Cocker - Live At Woodstock Doors - Live In New York 6Cd Box John Fogerty - The Blue Ridge Riders Rides Again Steve Forbert - The Place & The Time Gov'T Mule - By A Thread Wayne Hancock - Viper Of Melody Levon Helm - Electric Dirt Cornell Hurd Band - American Shadows - The Songs Of Moon Mullican Harmony James - Tailwind Kieren Kane - Somewhere Beyond The Roses Robert Earl Keen Jr - The Rose Hotel Tommy Keene - In The Late Bright Bap Kennedy - Howl On John Kennedy - Is This Not Paris Louis King & The Liars Klub - That & A Quarter Kieron Mcdonald - Beware Of The Swamp Man Buddy & Julie Miller - Written In Chalk New Christs - Gloria Graham Parker - Carp Fishing On Valium - The Songs Graham Parker - Live In San Francisco 1979 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Live Anthology 4Cd Box Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Live At The BBC Smithereens - Play Tommy Starline Rhythm Boys - Masquerade For Heartache Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs - Under The Covers Vol 2 Derek Trucks Band - Already Free
Hey bvb1123 I notice that you have listed Eilen Jewell. She is one of the "new" artists that I am happy to say I have recently discovered via SHMF.
A Camp Colonia a-ha Foot of the Mountain Tori Amos Abnormally Attracted to Sin Bat for Lashes Two Suns Biffy Clyro Only Revolutions Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career Depeche Mode Sounds of the Universe Flight of the Conchords I Told You I Was Freaky Grizzly Bear Veckatimest Emm Gryner Goddess Jesca Hoop Hunting My Dress Norah Jones The Fall Pearl Jam Backspacer Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Porcupine Tree The Incident Sparks The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman Regina Spektor Far St. Vincent Actor Wilco Wilco (The Album)
1a. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 1b. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Japandroids - Post-Nothing Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Here are my 2009 favs: Lynyrd Skynyrd - God & Guns Dan Fogelberg - Love In Time Eloy - Visionary Wetton/Downes - Icon 3 Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Night Castle Mastedon - 3 Dave Matthews Band - Big Whisky & The Groocrux King Blue Rodeo - The Things We Left Behind Robert Earl Keen - The Rose Hotel Point Blank - Fight On!
Yes the grizzly bear album is one of my top 5 picks from the 2000s ...great album that I still listen to.
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Live Anthology Nirvana - Live at Redding Norah Jones - The Fall Rosanne Cash - The List Dinosaur Jr. - Farm Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom Live Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion Technically The Beatles - In Mono Box Set (but the vinyl released in 2014 is where it's at)
This was a tough year for me to find something I liked. The closest I've came to doing so is Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Crack The Skye - Mastodon World Painted Blood - Slayer ...and that's about it. I would normally list the Tori Amos release here, but I've never been able to get to grips with Abnormally Attracted to Sin...or its dreadful title...oh, and Midwinter Graces wasn't very good either...
Who's Hurting Now? - Candi Staton Here's the Tender Coming - the Unthanks Popular Songs - Yo La Tengo My Maudlin Career - Camera Obscura Ida Con Snock - Michael Hurley The Duckworth Lewis Method Fork in the Road - Neil Young Together Through Life - Bob Dylan
I kind of missed a lot of 2009. I was touring the US playing music at youth camps, so it will probably be a short list Muse - resistance Madness - the liberty of norton folgate Decemberists - Hazards of love Devin Townsend - Ki Devin Townsend - Addicted there's probably more. but that's all that's coming to mind for me. Quality over quantity
1. AIC - Black Gives Way to Blue 2. Robin Trower - What Lies Beneath 3. Uriah Heep - Celebration 4. Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings 5. Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know 6. Billy Sheehan - Holy Cow 7. Slough Feg - Ape Uprising 8. Hammerfall - No Sacrifice, No Victory 9. Tia Carrera - The Quintessential 10. Them Crooked Vultures - s/t 11. Mastodon - Crack the Skye 12. Chickenfoot - s/t 13. Avett Bros - I and Love and You 14. Stratovarius - Polaris 15. Queensryche - American Soldier
Excellent year. I was in college and music was my whole world. This was also a point when indie rock was still living a full life and hip-hop and electronic hadn't yet taken over every facet of the alternative scene. Compare Pitchfork's year-end list of 2009 with their list from last year. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion Fever Ray: Fever Ray Antony and the Johnsons: The Crying Light The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: S/T Dan Auerbach: Keep It Hid Neko Case: Middle Cyclone Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz! Decemberists: The Hazards of Love Girls: Album Bat for Lashes: Two Suns Silversun Pickups: Swoon Tori Amos: Abnormally Attracted to Sin Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca Regina Spektor: Far Florence and the Machine: Lungs Dead Weather: Horehound The xx: xx Arctic Monkeys: Humbug Black Crowes: Before the Frost...After the Freeze Muse: The Resistance Pearl Jam: Backspacer Brand New: Daisy Flaming Lips: Embryonic Flight of the Conchords: I Told You I Was Freaky Swell Season: Strict Joy Tori Amos: Midwinter Graces Lady Gaga: The Fame Monster The Antlers: Hospice Yo La Tengo: Popular Songs Bill Callahan: Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle Atlas Sound: Logos Japandroids: Post-Nothing Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms St. Vincent: Actor
01. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion 02. White Denim - Fits 03. F***k Buttons - Tarot Sport 04. Niobe - Blackbird's Echo 05. Flaming Lips - Embryonic 06. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Tell 'Em What Your Name Is! 07. Kyteman - The Hermit Sessions 08. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 09. Vektor - Black Future 10. Peverelist - Jarvik Mindstate 11. Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum 12. DD/MM/YYYY - Black Square 13. Dan Deacon - Bromst 14. Wolves In The Throne Room - Black Cascade 15. Alamaailman Vasarat - Huuro Kolkko 16. BLK JKS - After Robots 17. Wardruna - Runaljod-Gap Var Ginnunga 18. Gallows - Grey Britain 19. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More 20. Wooden Wand - Hard Knox 21. Soulsavers - Broken 22. Mastodon - Crack The Skye 23. The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage 24. Low Frequency In Stereo - Futuro 25. The Antlers - Hospice 26. Motor City Drum Ensemble - Raw Cuts Vol. 1 27. Invisible System - Punt (Made In Ethiopia) 28. Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light 29. Blackroc - Blackroc 30. D.M. Stith - Heavy Ghost 31. Teeth Of The Sea - Orphaned By The Ocean 32. Rome - Flowers From Exile 33. A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head 34. Fever Ray - Fever Ray 35. Franz Nicolay - Major General 36. The Ruins Of Beverast - Foulest Semen Of A Sheltered Elite 37. Sunn O))) - Monoliths And Dimensions 38. Fact - Fact 39. Cobalt - Gin 40. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures 41. Adrian Younge - Black Dynamite 42. Baroness - Blue Record 43. Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another 44. P.O.S. - Never Better 45. Jeff The Brotherhood - Heavy Days 46. Horseback - The Invisible Mountain 47. St. Vincent - Actor 48. Dan Melchior Und Menace - Thankyou Very Much 49. Washed Out - Life Of Leisure 50. This Immortal Coil - The Dark Age Of Love 51. Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy 52. Lee Fields - My World 53. Thy Catafalque - Róka Hasa Rádió 54. Mos Def - The Ecstatic 55. Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra - Take Off! 56. MONO - Hymn To The Immortal Wind 57. Annie - Don't Stop 58. Panzerballett - Hart Genossen Von ABBA Bis Zappa 59. Arbouretoum - Song Of The Pearl 60. Thee Oh Sees - Help 61. Staff Benda Bilili -Très Très Fort 62. Rodrigo Y Gabriela - 11:11 63. Alec K. Redfearn & The Seizures - Exterminating Angel 64. Sólstafir - Köld 65. Japandroids - Post-Nothing 66. Land Of Kush - Against The Day 67. Brave Little Abacus - Masked Dancers: Concerns In So Many Things You Forget Where You Are 68. Cave Singers - Welcome Joy 69. Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem 70. Mi Ami - Watersports 71. De Staat - Wait For Evolution 72. Atlas Sound - Logos 73. Portico Quartet - Isla 74. Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Nuclear Evolution: The Age Of Love 75. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms