Favourite albums of 2009

[Brian_Storm]

This has been a really surprising year in music for me. I discovered artists i never thought i would like or listen to and one of my favourite bands had the most disappointing album of the year (Weezer - Raditude) But, here are the ones that I think deserve the recognition.

1) Dead Weather - Horehound
Who saw this one coming? i don't even think Jack White did. So unique. So awesome. best album of 2009 in my opinion.

2) Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
I reiterate, who saw this one coming? Finally, someone had the balls to make a good, raw-powered rock record. Too bad it was a couple of already established rock legends that had to do it.

3) Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
Proof that these guys have some vision in their music. This album took a couple of listens to understand, but once you understand it its a thing of beauty.

4) Metric - Fantasies
My Canadian content. For me, Metric took a long long time to get into, but this album made it easy. From the introductory hypnotic Help I'm Alive, to the anthemic big rock Stadium Love, this album was a necessary addition to the list

5) Aqua - Greatest Hits
Just kidding - could you imagine?

Seriously, its gotta go to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
From the first note i know this was going to be bigger and better than anything they've done yet. Karen-O's squeals and screams are unmatched by any other singer. The energy on this album is undeniable and makes it worth listening to over and over agian.

Honerable Mention!!
Where The Wild Things Are Soundtrack
Never has a soundtrack ever matched up with a movie with such congruency. The match-up of Spike Jonze and Karen-O was perfect from the get go. Though I'm sure the soundtrack by itself would sound a bit off, if you have seen the movie and then listen to it, you can't help but feel like a little kid again.

[Mega-Tallica]

Already a thread about this in the History Of Rock forum.

[Brian_Storm]

so?

[Mega-Tallica]

so?

So, why have two threads on the same thing?

[R-M4ISTER]

No The Resistance from Muse, Dear Agony from Breaking Benjamin, or Endgame from Megadeth?

Shame you.

[Brian_Storm]

So, why have two threads on the same thing?

why is the albums of 2009 thread in the history of rock forum and not the album review forum...these are albums we are talking about.
plus theres millions of threads and to go through them all would take forever. who cares if theres 2 threads?

[Cubecubed]

1.Swoon-Silversun Pickups
2.21st Century Breakdown-Green Day
3.Them Crooked Vultures-Them Crooked Vultures
4.Popular Songs-Yo La Tengo
5.Horehound-The Dead Weather
6.Cosmic Egg-Wolfmother
7.Brand New eyes-Paramore
8.Backspacer-Pearl Jam
9.Crack the Skye-Mastodon


lol top 9, because raditude wasn't that good and The Resistance was downright bad.

[Cubecubed]

So, why have two threads on the same thing?

that one is a discussion thread. This is a list thread.two different things.

[Evilbottom]

No The Resistance from Muse, Dear Agony from Breaking Benjamin, or Endgame from Megadeth?

Shame you.

The Resistance is pretty dull and Endgame is generic. So far my list is


1. The Antlers - Hospice
2. Amorphis - Skyforger
3. Silversun Pickups - Swoon
4. Absu - Absu
5. Marianas Trench - Masterpiece Theatre
6. Guilt Machine - On This Perfect Day
7. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
8. Stream Of Passion - The Flame Within
9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Its Blitz
10. Astra - The Weirding

but its been a while since I updated it last. Haven't even checked out Them Crooked Vultures yet

[overcookedbacon]

Top 10... At least, of the 2009 albums that I can remember off the top of my head.

1. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
2. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
3. Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong
4. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
5. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
6. Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
7. Polvo - In Prism
8. The Horrors - Primary Colours
9. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
10. Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall

[elfreako]

In no particular order:

Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
The Dead Weather - Horehound
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Regina Spektor - Far
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come
Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms

and a tie between Franz Ferdinand and Pearl Jam


Dishonorable mentions to Placebo and Muse.

[thedoorsdk]

My favorite records of the year (in no particular order) are:

Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Black Crowes - Before the Frost...Until the Freeze
Patterson Hood - Murdering Oscar and Other Love Songs
Baroness - Blue Record
Levon Helm - Electric Dirt

I'm sure I forgot a few, but these are definitely the big ones.

[Gowienczyk]

A-Ha - Foot of the Mountain
Amorphis - Skyforger
Band of Skulls - Baby Darling Doll Face Honey
The Boy Least Likely To - The Law of the Playground
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
Hourglass - Oblivious To The Obvious
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Miike Snow - Miike Snow
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
The Temper Trap - Conditions
White Guys Jumping - Deep
White Guys Jumping - New Cape Cod
Wilco - Wilco
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs

[elfreako]

A
The Boy Least Likely To - The Law of the Playground

Ooooh good call. Forgot that one.

I didn't even know Wilco had a new one out!

[Gowienczyk]

There's probably some records I'm forgetting, too!

[BuRn7 CaK3]

My top 10 in no order:
Skillet - Awake
Breaking Benjamin - Dear Agony
AFI - Crash Love
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
Dead By Sunrise - Out of Ashes
OneRepublic - Waking Up
Flyleaf - Memento Mori
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
The Used - Artwork
Atreyu - Congregation of the Damned

[Oscar-Rio]

Here's mine. The order isn't exactly reflective of what i think is best. These are more along the lines of my favorite 10 from this year.

10. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - The Century of Self
09. Portal - Swarth
08. Silversun Pickups - Swoon
07. Vektor - Black Future
06. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
05. Miike Snow - Miike Snow
04. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
03. Amesouers - Amesouers
02. Junius - The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist
01. The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come

[Lameboy19]

The Resistance is pretty dull and Endgame is generic. So far my list is


1. The Antlers - Hospice



;_;

soooo sadddd


My list:

1. Converge - Axe to Fall
2. fun. - Aim and Ignite
3. The Antlers - Hospice
4. Nero's Day at Disneyland - From Rotting Fantasylands
5. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
6. Tegan and Sara - Sainthood
7. Arsonists Get All The Girls - Portals
8. Andrew Jackson Jihad - Can't Maintain
9. Animal Collective - Meriwether Post Pavilion
10. Girls - Album


pretty much set in stone for me

[BuRn7 CaK3]

08. Silversun Pickups - Swoon

That's still so weird to say. May I ask, what exactly got you into Silversun Pickups?

[chumsicles]

Hmmmm, now that it's December

Sparks - The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman
Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Flipper - Love
Bob Dylan - Christmas In The Heart
Electric Six - Kill
Sonic Youth - The Eternal

[woofmix]

1. The Great Misdirect- Between The Buried and Me
2. Crack The Skye- Mastodon
3. Swoon- Silversun Pickups
4. The Resistance- Muse
5. Horehound- The Dead Weather
6. Them Crooked Vultures- Them Crooked Vultures

[tridentgum0]

The Resistance is pretty dull and Endgame is generic. So far my list is


1. The Antlers - Hospice
2. Amorphis - Skyforger
3. Silversun Pickups - Swoon
4. Absu - Absu
5. Marianas Trench - Masterpiece Theatre
6. Guilt Machine - On This Perfect Day
7. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
8. Stream Of Passion - The Flame Within
9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Its Blitz
10. Astra - The Weirding

but its been a while since I updated it last. Haven't even checked out Them Crooked Vultures yet

Don't bother.

[Evilbottom]

Don't bother.

Dammit, I'm already listening to it as I read this :o

Sounds alright so far, nothing special, but I've heard much worse from this year.

[Rommel]

1. Megadeth - "Endgame"
2. Rammstein - "Liebe Ist Für Alle Da"
3. Dethklok - "Dethalbum II"
4. Dream Theater - "Black Clouds & Silver Linings"
5. Children of Bodom - "Skeletons in the Closet"
6. DevilDriver - "Pray for Villains"
7. God Forbid - "Earthsblood"

Been a pretty decent year, I guess. (:

[clashcityrocker10]

Here's a few albums I've liked from this year, in no order whatsoever.

Silversun Pickups - Swoon
Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
Mudcrutch - Mudcrutch
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
Booker T. and Drive-by Truckers - Potato Hole
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Modest Mouse - No One's First and You're Next (EP)
Phish - Joy

[1993mic]

The Used- Artwork
Three Days Grace - Life Starts Now
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Silverstein - A Shipwreck in the Sand
Papa Roach - Metamorphosis
Atreyu - Congregation of the Damned
Billy Talent - Billy Talent III
Dashboard Confessional - Alter the Ending
Taking Back Sunday - New Again
Thrice - Beggars
AFI - Crash Love

I don't think I have forgotten any album I listened to and liked.

[goodbyetonight]

Lacuna Coil - Shallow Life
Say Anything - Say Anything
Breaking Benjamin - Dear Agony
Meisa Kuroki - Hellcat
The Sounds - Crossing the Rubicon
Dead By Sunrise - Out of Ashes

Worst - 30 Seconds To Mars - This is War....what an awful, awful album. Such a disappointment after how great the first two were.

[Oscar-Rio]

That's still so weird to say. May I ask, what exactly got you into Silversun Pickups?

The music. Not so sure why that's so weird.

[Cubecubed]

That's still so weird to say. May I ask, what exactly got you into Silversun Pickups?

No one should have to explain liking Silversun Pickups. The music is pretty damn good.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

The music. Not so sure why that's so weird.

Because you're all into metal. At least, that's all I ever see you listen to.

[ElectricWankery]

The two albums that really stood out to me this year are The Horrors - Primary Colours and Sonic Youth - The Eternal.

Primary Colours was a huge surprise for me because the sound just seemed so different compared to earlier stuff by The Horrors. This album was quite catchy in a moods-created-by-sounds kind of way. There is a good level of ambience to the songs while still having an almost post-punk vibe to it. The album also sounds fairly cohesive. It's nice to have albums that are still albums and not merely a collection of unrelated songs. The closing track, Sea Within a Sea, may very well be my favourite song of the past decade.

The Eternal is a great retrun to the energy punch that mid-90s Sonic Youth produced and has felt some-what toned down in the last decade of their output. At the same time, the songs are not trying to capture the pop-like construction of the mid-90s songs they are reminiscent of, but rather have a good sense of the experimental skronky-ness and extended noise breaks that have been prevalent in all of Sonic Youth's career. The extended atmospheric noise break at the end of Anti-Orgasm, or the harsh, riffy guitars of Calming the Snake, for instance. Other tracks on the album also contain the sort of mellow groove that appears in later Sonic Youth releases, such as the final track, Massage the History. Basically The Eternal feels like an examination of the different styles and sound motifs Sonic Youth have gone through throughout their career without feeling like a lame rehash of past successes with no attempts at creativity. This album is quite fresh. The only thing that kind of bugs me about it is that it does suffer a bit of sounding like a random collection of songs, which is irritating when all their other albums work really well as complete musical pieces. I wouldn't recommend this as a starting album to get into Sonic Youth, but as something for the fan who wants to really appreciate the variety of their entire career.

[afterstasis]

i want to love "the eternal" more than i do, but it didn't stick with me like the last album did.

i'd say it's mostly better than anything else since "washing machine" though.

[LegendofRock3021]

The two albums that really stood out to me this year are The Horrors - Primary Colours and Sonic Youth - The Eternal.

Primary Colours was a huge surprise for me because the sound just seemed so different compared to earlier stuff by The Horrors. This album was quite catchy in a moods-created-by-sounds kind of way. There is a good level of ambience to the songs while still having an almost post-punk vibe to it. The album also sounds fairly cohesive. It's nice to have albums that are still albums and not merely a collection of unrelated songs. The closing track, Sea Within a Sea, may very well be my favourite song of the past decade.

I'll second the love for Primary Colours, that is a fantastic album to say the least. I've also really enjoyed Psychic Chasms, Darkness Come Alive, and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. But I still have a lot of catching up to do with this year's music, a bunch of great stuff I haven't listened to yet.

[Pizza7]

Lacuna Coil - Shallow Life

WOW! I'm not checking out anything else on your list because of this.

[Pizza7]

Surprised there's no mention of Katatonia - Night is the New Day. Took me awhile to get into it, but it's very good.

Mine goes out to (of course) My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire

Amorphis - Skyforger is up there, too.

[goodbyetonight]

WOW! I'm not checking out anything else on your list because of this.

Because I care if you do or not?

[Cubecubed]

WOW! I'm not checking out anything else on your list because of this.

Lacuna Coil is awesome. L2music.

[Mystlyfe77]

Lacuna Coil is awful. L2music.

Fixed.

[Cubecubed]

not Fixed.

fixed. ;p

[Hungryfreak]

unfixed. :o

Refixed.

[Cubecubed]

Scalloped potaotes.

Re-fixed?

[Hungryfreak]

Anti-re-fixed

Prefixed

I'm done with this deadly game of cat and also cat.

To extend on the Sonic Youth stuff, I really like The Eternal. I enjoy a lot of the subdued energy it displays or moments like "Anti-Orgasm" where the music just dissolves from the formula it has set up. The end lacks memorability for me, but I still enjoy it and rank it somewhere among my favorites of the year (though not on my top 10).

[afterstasis]

just to break up the fixin'...
my top 50 thus far for folks who don't visit the HoR discussion on this very subject.

1. cold cave - love comes close (darkwave)
2. panopticon - collapse (black metal)
3. the mountain goats - the life of the world to come (indie folk)
4. amesoeurs - self titled (post-punk)
5. sawhorse - cover it with asphalt (post-rock)
6. pensees nocturnes - vacuum (black metal)
7. andrew wk - 55 cadillac (classical)
8. sore eros - second chants (psych)
9. dinosaur jr - farm (alt rock)
10. austere - to lay like old ashes (black metal)
11. the pains of being pure at heart - self titled (indie/pop)
12. sunn 0))) - monoliths and dimensions (drone metal)
13. neon indian - psychic chasms (synth/psych-pop)
14. lightning bolt - earthly delights (noise rock)
15. hunx and his punx - gay singles (pop/punk)
16. circle of ouroborus - tree of knowledge (black metal)
17. vic chesnutt - at the cut (dark folk)
18. peste noire - ballade ****re lo anemi francor (black metal)
19. liturgy - renihilation (black metal)
20. factums - flowers (post-punk/art rock)
21. jeremy jay - slow dance (indie/pop)
22. former ghosts - fleurs (post-punk)
23. pyramids with nadja - self titled (progressive drone-gaze or somethin')
24. irepress - sol eye sea i (post-metal)
25. to kill a petty bourgeoisie - marlone (dream pop)
26. wolves in the throne room - black cascade (black metal)
27. tyondai braxton - central market (classical)
28. portal - swarth (death metal)
29. ovens - self titled (power pop)
30. ganglians - monster head room (psych)
31. crocodiles - summer of hate (shoegaze)
32. greymachine - disconnected (industrial/post-metal)
33. silversun pickups - swoon (maybe i don't need to label every one of these?)
34. arroyo - individuum & massen (post-rock)
35. silver pines - forces (dream pop)
36. blut aus nord - memoria vetusta II (black metal)
37. john vanderslice - romanian names (indie pop)
38. balmorhea - all is wild, all is silent (post-rock/classical)
39. richard youngs - beyond the valley of ultrahits (experimental pop)
40. do make say think - the other truths (post-rock)
41. skagos - ast (black metal)
42. witch hunt - burning bridges to nowhere (crust punk)
43. dreams of the drowned - thanatotropic principle (black metal)
44. the black heart procession - six (indie rock)
45. planning for burial - leaving (shoegaze/post-metal/etc)
46. oriin - all things are numbers (post-rock)
47. jeffrey lewis & the junkyard - em are i (folk)
48. pianos become the teeth - old pride (screamo)
49. solstafir - kold (black/post-metal)
50. horrific - your worst nightmare (death metal)

[LegendofRock3021]

I'm glad I at least heard a few of the albums on your list, but I really have a long way to go in terms of this year's albums. There are a whole bunch of albums that I've been meaning to listen to, but just haven't gotten around to it yet.

[clashcityrocker10]

I forgot Lightning Bolt's Earthly Delights in my first post. Really good noise rock album.

[Cubecubed]

Hooray for Swoon!

[Lameboy19]

just to break up the fixin'...
my top 50 thus far for folks who don't visit the HoR discussion on this very subject.

1. cold cave - love comes close (darkwave)
2. panopticon - collapse (black metal)
3. the mountain goats - the life of the world to come (indie folk)
4. amesoeurs - self titled (post-punk)
5. sawhorse - cover it with asphalt (post-rock)
6. pensees nocturnes - vacuum (black metal)
7. andrew wk - 55 cadillac (classical)
8. sore eros - second chants (psych)
9. dinosaur jr - farm (alt rock)
10. austere - to lay like old ashes (black metal)
11. the pains of being pure at heart - self titled (indie/pop)
12. sunn 0))) - monoliths and dimensions (drone metal)
13. neon indian - psychic chasms (synth/psych-pop)
14. lightning bolt - earthly delights (noise rock)
15. hunx and his punx - gay singles (pop/punk)
16. circle of ouroborus - tree of knowledge (black metal)
17. vic chesnutt - at the cut (dark folk)
18. peste noire - ballade ****re lo anemi francor (black metal)
19. liturgy - renihilation (black metal)
20. factums - flowers (post-punk/art rock)
21. jeremy jay - slow dance (indie/pop)
22. former ghosts - fleurs (post-punk)
23. pyramids with nadja - self titled (progressive drone-gaze or somethin')
24. irepress - sol eye sea i (post-metal)
25. to kill a petty bourgeoisie - marlone (dream pop)
26. wolves in the throne room - black cascade (black metal)
27. tyondai braxton - central market (classical)
28. portal - swarth (death metal)
29. ovens - self titled (power pop)
30. ganglians - monster head room (psych)
31. crocodiles - summer of hate (shoegaze)
32. greymachine - disconnected (industrial/post-metal)
33. silversun pickups - swoon (maybe i don't need to label every one of these?)
34. arroyo - individuum & massen (post-rock)
35. silver pines - forces (dream pop)
36. blut aus nord - memoria vetusta II (black metal)
37. john vanderslice - romanian names (indie pop)
38. balmorhea - all is wild, all is silent (post-rock/classical)
39. richard youngs - beyond the valley of ultrahits (experimental pop)
40. do make say think - the other truths (post-rock)
41. skagos - ast (black metal)
42. witch hunt - burning bridges to nowhere (crust punk)
43. dreams of the drowned - thanatotropic principle (black metal)
44. the black heart procession - six (indie rock)
45. planning for burial - leaving (shoegaze/post-metal/etc)
46. oriin - all things are numbers (post-rock)
47. jeffrey lewis & the junkyard - em are i (folk)
48. pianos become the teeth - old pride (screamo)
49. solstafir - kold (black/post-metal)
50. horrific - your worst nightmare (death metal)

you make me feel so reclusive, I've only heard about 3 or 4

but I took this year to hit up classic bits that I have never checked out before

[afterstasis]

you make me feel so reclusive, I've only heard about 3 or 4

but I took this year to hit up classic bits that I have never checked out before

wait until i post the full list. ;)

but yeah, i've been digging into lesser known music for over 15 years so i have quite the leg up on you... that, and a lot of free time.

[Cubecubed]

i feel ok that my album of the year is at least on your list.

[afterstasis]

i feel ok that my album of the year is at least on your list.

swoon?
i still never warmed up to it like i did with "carnavas", but it's still a damn solid release.

[Cubecubed]

swoon?
i still never warmed up to it like i did with "carnavas", but it's still a damn solid release.

Yeah swoon. I'm still definitely more into the mainstream music,but the albums i like are a little more obscure than if i had made an album of the year list like 5 years ago.

[afterstasis]

it can be a slow process for some people to get into new stuff... have you checked that "the pains of being pure at heart" album out?
i think you may dig them if you give 'em a shot.

[Cubecubed]

I liked the new Yo la tengo record, and thats in my top 5,so im making some progress.

[Pizza7]

Lacuna Coil is awesome. L2music.

I used to be a huge LC fan back in the day. I actually enjoyed Comalies when it was released, too. Hell, I even thought a few songs on Karmacode were decent, but the new album is just plain dreadful.

[Gowienczyk]

Lacuna Coil is awesome. L2music.

lolno

[BuRn7 CaK3]

I used to be a huge LC fan back in the day. I actually enjoyed Comalies when it was released, too. Hell, I even thought a few songs on Karmacode were decent, but the new album is just plain dreadful.

Couldn't of said it better myself. Shallow Life is just horrible.

[kingtonyx]

I have to say I was really excited for basically all of my favorite bands releasing new albums this year, but I was worried of perhaps being disappointed by a surprising new direction. I have to say that in almost all cases, the albums not only met but exceeded my expectations.

I've listened to 44 albums this year, currently listening to #45 (We The Kings - Smile Kid) so I probably have a bit more listening to do but most of my money goes towards RB DLC.... I still have not listened to Crack The Skye, for instance.

My top 10:
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
30 Seconds To Mars - This Is War
AFI - Crash Love
Alexisonfire - Old Crows/Young Cardinals
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
Billy Talent - III
The Used - Artwork
Metric - Fantasies
Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight
A Day To Remember - Homesick

Bottom 5:
Chris Cornell - Scream
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Brand New - Daisy
Lamb Of God - Wrath
Muse - The Resistance

[Cubecubed]

lolno

lolyes,sir. lolyes.

[LegendofRock3021]

Black Gives Way to Blue is also one of my favorite releases from this year that I forgot to mention in my earlier post.

[LRoq617]

I've been working on a top 10 list myself, but I've only listened to 11 albums or so, and my goal is to hear at least 20. So far I've gotten through:

Alice In Chains, Black Gives Way to Blue
Behemoth, Evangelion
Between the Buried and Me, The Great Misdirect
Breaking Benjamin, Dear Agony
The Dead Weather, Horehound
Marilyn Manson, The High End of Low
Mastodon, Crack the Skye
Muse, The Resistance
Orianthi, Believe
Pearl Jam, Backspacer
Them Crooked Vultures

I still plan to listen to the new ones from the Black Eyed Peas, Cage the Elephant, Killswitch Engage, and Silversun Pickups, and I've had some friends suggest the new ones from Five Finger Death Punch and Brand New. Anyone have any others to suggest?

[LegendofRock3021]

Anyone have any others to suggest?

I'll list some that I feel are worth at least a listen:

Bloody Panda - Summon
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive
Ganglians - Monster Head Room
Sonic Youth - The Eternal

[LRoq617]

I'll list some that I feel are worth at least a listen:

Bloody Panda - Summon
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive
Ganglians - Monster Head Room
Sonic Youth - The Eternal

I'll definitely check out Sonic Youth, but I'm not really a big Dinosaur, Jr. fan. The other 3 bands, I've never even heard of.

Oh, I can also add Shallow Life and 21st Century Breakdown to the list of stuff I've heard this year, but both were completely unremarkable and/or lame, so they aren't getting any consideration.

[LegendofRock3021]

I'll definitely check out Sonic Youth, but I'm not really a big Dinosaur, Jr. fan. The other 3 bands, I've never even heard of.

Oh, I can also add Shallow Life and 21st Century Breakdown to the list of stuff I've heard this year, but both were completely unremarkable and/or lame, so they aren't getting any consideration.

My bad, here are 4 other more albums you might want to listen to:

Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

[seriousbusson]

I used to be a huge LC fan back in the day. I actually enjoyed Comalies when it was released, too. Hell, I even thought a few songs on Karmacode were decent, but the new album is just plain dreadful.

Seconded. I preferred Lacuna Coil when they were still a metal band. They fail horribly as a generic alternative band.

[Gowienczyk]

lolyes,sir. lolyes.

Lacuna Coil is garbage.

[MrFruitLord]

My top 15...
1) Isis - Wavering Radiant
2) Neon Indian - Neon Indian
3) Cobalt - Gin
4) Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse or Jesu - Infinity
5) Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
6) Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone
7) Pelican - What We All Come to Need
8) Converge - Axe To Fall
9) The Life and Times - Tragic Boogie
10) Om - God is Good
11) Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave
12) Big Buisness - Mind the Drift
13) Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
14) Municipal Waste - Massive Agressive
15) Evile - Infected Nations


I'll put this in here too.

[tridentgum0]

No one should have to explain liking Silversun Pickups. The music is pretty damn good.

I never saw anything there personally.

EDIT: Everyone else is doin' it!! No particular order.

Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe
Black Pyramid - Black Pyramid
Hey Champ - Cold Dust Girl (EP)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Goatwhore - Carving Out the Eyes of God
Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor
Cobalt - Gin
Kylesa - Static Tensions
Absu - Absu
National Suicide - The Old Family is Still Alive
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Venice is Sinking - Azar
Converge - Axe to Fall
Wry - She Science
Isis - Wavering Radient
Russian Circles - Geneva
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
Big Business - Mind the Drift
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
The Antlers - Hospice

[neckermanncj]

I never saw anything there personally.

EDIT: Everyone else is doin' it!! No particular order.

Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe
Black Pyramid - Black Pyramid
Hey Champ - Cold Dust Girl (EP)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Goatwhore - Carving Out the Eyes of God
Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor
Cobalt - Gin
Kylesa - Static Tensions
Absu - Absu
National Suicide - The Old Family is Still Alive
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Venice is Sinking - Azar
Converge - Axe to Fall
Wry - She Science
Isis - Wavering Radient
Russian Circles - Geneva
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
Big Business - Mind the Drift
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
The Antlers - Hospice

this is like the same thing as your best of 2009 music thread

[tridentgum0]

Copy and paste is your friend. ;)

[Hungryfreak]

this is the same thing as the best of 2009 music thread

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[Cubecubed]

Lacuna Coil is garbage.

i will agree that they aren't absolutely stunning or anything,but theres no reason to disregard the rest of someone's list just because Lacuna Coil happens to be on it.

[Gowienczyk]

I only disregarded Lacuna Coil. Did I single anything else out?

[Cubecubed]

I only disregarded Lacuna Coil. Did I single anything else out?

i wasn't referring to you. i was referring the original person i quoted.

[Gowienczyk]

:p

[LRoq617]

My bad, here are 4 other more albums you might want to listen to:

Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

I didn't even think about Heaven & Hell, so yeah, that gets added to the list. I'm getting SSP new one as of tomorrow, so that's on track, and I'd forgotten about the YYYs. All I've heard Dull Life, and while I didn't love it, it wasn't too bad. Never heard of the other band, but between these 3 and Sonic Youth, I should be kept busy.

[LRoq617]

Oh man, add the Sunn 0))) album to my list of "Listened to it and didn't give a fudge" list. I can't stand those guys, period.

[Evilbottom]

Absu - Absu
Alexisonfire - Old Crows/Young Cardinals
Amorphis - Skyforger
The Antlers - Hospice
Astra - The Weirding
Billy Talent - Billy Talent III
Dethklok - Dethalbum II
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Eluveitie - Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion
Epica - Design Your Universe
Evile - Infected Nations
Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt
Guilt Machine - On This Perfect Day
Jay-Z - The Blueprint III
Marianas Trench - Masterpiece Theatre
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Megadeth - Endgame
The Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come
Muse - The Resistance
OSI - Blood
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
Stream Of Passion - The Flame Within
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
The Boy Least Likely To - The Law Of The Playground
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares
Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Its Blitz

Heres all the albums I've heard from this year. Color coding should be self explanatory

[berkthgar]

Here's a list of all the albums I enjoyed from 2009

Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
Amorphis - Skyforger
Animals as Leaders - s/t
August Burns Red - Constellations
Baroness - Blue Record
Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate
Breaking Benjamin - Dear Agony
Converge - Axe to Fall
Daath - The Concealers
DTP - Addicted
Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic
Gama Bomb - Tales From the Grave in Space
Hypocrisy - A Taste of Extreme Divinity
Katatonia - Night is the New Day
Lamb of God - Wrath
Living Colour - The Chair in the Doorway
Mantic Ritual - Executioner
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today..
Municipal Waste - Massive Agressive
Obiymy Doschu - Elehia
Pathosray - Sunless Skies
Pelican - What We All Come to Need
The Red Chord - Fed Through the Teeth Machine
Rodrigo y Gabriela - 11:11
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
Skeletonwitch - Breathing the Fire
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
Suicide Silence - No Time To Bleed
Throwdown - Deathless
Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares

A few of my favourite artists released albums this year, but they were rather disappointing to me.. such as Porcupine Tree, Riverside, Dream Theater, Killswitch Engage, Clutch, etc.

[afterstasis]

i'm feeling pretty comfortable with this top 100 list...

1. cold cave - love comes close
2. panopticon - collapse
3. the mountain goats - the life of the world to come
4. amesoeurs - self titled
5. sawhorse - cover it with asphalt
6. pensees nocturnes - vacuum
7. andrew wk - 55 cadillac
8. sore eros - second chants
9. dinosaur jr - farm
10. austere - to lay like old ashes
11. the pains of being pure at heart - self titled
12. sunn 0))) - monoliths and dimensions
13. neon indian - psychic chasms
14. lightning bolt - earthly delights
15. hunx and his punx - gay singles
16. circle of ouroborus - tree of knowledge
17. vic chesnutt - at the cut
18. peste noire - ballade ****re lo anemi francor
19. liturgy - renihilation
20. factums - flowers
21. jeremy jay - slow dance
22. former ghosts - fleurs
23. pyramids with nadja - self titled
24. to kill a petty bourgeoisie - marlone
25. greymachine - disconnected
26. tyondai braxton - central market
27. skagos - ast
28. portal - swarth
29. ovens - self titled
30. ganglians - monster head room
31. crocodiles - summer of hate
32. irepress - sol eye sea i
33. silversun pickups - swoon
34. arroyo - individuum & massen
35. silver pines - forces
36. richard youngs - beyond the valley of ultrahits
37. wolves in the throne room - black cascade
38. balmorhea - all is wild, all is silent
39. john vanderslice - romanian names
40. do make say think - the other truths
41. witch hunt - burning bridges to nowhere
42. blut aus nord - memoria vetusta II
43. dreams of the drowned - thanatotropic principle
44. planning for burial - leaving
45. the black heart procession - six
46. oriin - all things are numbers
47. jeffrey lewis & the junkyard - em are i
48. pianos become the teeth - old pride
49. solstafir - kold
50. kreng - l'autopsie phenomenale de dieu
51. horrific - your worst nightmare
52. aspen woods - new world disorder
53. sui caedere - threne
54. astra - the weirding
55. danny norbury - light in august
56. Æthenor - faking gold and murder
57. csejthe - la mort du prince noir
58. narrows - new distances
59. why? - eskimo snow
60. the ruins of beverast - foulest semen of a sheltered elite
61. cobalt - gin
62. boy in static - candy cigarette
63. the field - yesterday and today
64. girls - album
65. desire - II
66. black math horseman - wyllt
67. mi ami - watersports
68. arctic plateau - on a sad sunny day
69. zola jesus - the spoils
70. fragment. - self titled
71. major lazer - guns don't kill people, lazers do
72. celeste - misanthrope(s)
73. six organs of admittance - luminous night
74. big business - mind the drift
75. simon joyner - out into the snow
76. gentle friendly - ride slow
77. kylesa - static tensions
78. prurient - rose pillar
79. toma - as we fall into static our hearts sing
80. eat skull - wild and inside
81. mount eerie - wind's poem
82. reflections of internal rain - last flood
83. megasus - self titled
84. oranssi pazuzu - muukalainen puhuu
85. gary war - horribles parade
86. blueneck - the fallen host
87. funebrarum - the sleep of morbid dreams
88. cloaks - versus grain
89. tiny vipers - life on earth
90. fall of efrafa - inle
91. a second of june - the inside laws
92. locrian - drenched lands
93. tombs - winter hours
94. pocahaunted - passage
95. mountainhood - goldeness being part 1 in the multi-visorial dream saga called the light
96. l'acephale - stahlhartes gehause
97. current 93 - aleph at hallucinatory mountain
98. miserere luminis - self titled
99. nadja - when i see the sun it always shines on tv
100. king kong ding dong - youth culture index

[CommonCriminal]

I really have spent more of this year catching up on music from the past 50 years, and I still have A LOT to listen to. I did enjoy these 4 albums, though.

Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
Polvo - In Prism

[Runesmith]

Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
Depeche Mode - Sounds of The Universe
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Miike Snow - Miike Snow

I've been so busy listening to older music that I haven't had the chance to listen to much from 2009. These are the albums I enjoyed from this year, though.

[LegendofRock3021]

I have to do some catching up to do, but here are a bunch of albums that I've really enjoyed from what I've heard. Though not some of the best albums of the year by any means, I may post a list in the HoR 2009 discussion thread:

Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
Big Business - Mind the Drift
Black Pyramid - Black Pyramid
Children - Hard Times Hangin at the End of the World
Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive
Ganglians - Monster Head Room
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Kylesa - Static Tensions
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Red Fang - Red Fang
Wolf - Ravenous
Wry - She Science

[Oscar-Rio]

I didn't like that Wolf album. Can't really say why, I was pretty bored listening to it.

[afterstasis]

I didn't like that Wolf album. Can't really say why, I was pretty bored listening to it.

it grew on me through the year. i wasn't too impressed at first, but ended up enjoying it a lot more.

[LegendofRock3021]

I didn't like that Wolf album. Can't really say why, I was pretty bored listening to it.

I could definitely see why, I took me a bit to get into it, but now I like it a great deal more than on my early listens.


it grew on me through the year. i wasn't too impressed at first, but ended up enjoying it a lot more.

Yeah, it took some time for it to click with me, whereas I resonated with The Black Flame right away.

[E-Falcon]

Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
Muse - The Resistance
Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

[maddoggnick96]

I didn't get that many albums from 2009. Most of what I got I didn't like too much.

1. Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings
2. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
3. Closure In Moscow - First Temple
4. Dethklok - Dethalbum II

I've been meaning to pick up OOPARTS, but haven't got around to it. Heard it's good though.

[Doughoef]

Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Silversun Pickups- Swoon
Dinosaur Jr.- Farm

[schmeankman]

Listened to 3 and liked them all...

Blakroc - "S/t"
Nirvana - "Live at Reading"
Modest Mouse - "No One's First and You're Next"

[xX_Sandman_Xx]

Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Muse - The Resistance
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue

[Mega-Tallica]

I don't think anybody has mentioned God Forbid's Earthsblood yet. It's fantastic and they hail from New Jersey.;)

I picked this album up today along with BTBAM's The Great Misdirect. Two pretty good choices I think.

[MrFruitLord]

Earthsblood is alright, especially considering the other trendy hot topic metal bands at the moment.

[Mystlyfe77]

I don't think anybody has mentioned God Forbid's Earthsblood yet. It's fantastic and they hail from New Jersey.;)

It's better than some other metalcore, but it's still not very good.


Some better Jersey metal bands for you to check out (omitting obvious ones like Symphony X, Overkill, and Danzig).

Swashbuckle
Sacrificial Blood
Hæthen
Krieg
Burnt by the Sun
Ex Dementia
Fight Amp
Funebrarum
Whiplash

[Lameboy19]

Swashbuckle


YESS

nothing like some pirate thrash metal for yah

[Mega-Tallica]

It's better than some other metalcore, but it's still not very good.


Some better Jersey metal bands for you to check out (omitting obvious ones like Symphony X, Overkill, and Danzig).

Swashbuckle
Sacrificial Blood
Hæthen
Krieg
Burnt by the Sun
Ex Dementia
Fight Amp
Funebrarum
Whiplash

Thanks. I'll give them all a listen.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

My top 10:
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
30 Seconds To Mars - This Is War
AFI - Crash Love
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
The Used - Artwork
A Day To Remember - Homesick

Bottom 5:
Chris Cornell - Scream


I like this. Chris' album was just horrible. Timbaland ruined it. BUT I just read that Chris is reworking the album to make it all rock. Which I can't wait to hear now.

[iluvpancakes]

This was a really good year for music for me. a lot of my favorite bands came out with new albums. like...

30 Seconds to Mars - This is War
Breaking Benjamin - Dear Agony
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage
Three Days Grace - Life Starts Now
Thrice - Beggers.

There are some other artists that i have enjoyed some of their new stuff this year too like AFI, Silversun Pickups, Paramore, The Used, and Alice in Chains.

[tridentgum0]

It's better than some other metalcore, but it's still not very good.


Some better Jersey metal bands for you to check out (omitting obvious ones like Symphony X, Overkill, and Danzig).

Swashbuckle
Sacrificial Blood
Hæthen
Krieg
Burnt by the Sun
Ex Dementia
Fight Amp
Funebrarum
Whiplash

I'll vouch for Ex Dementia.

[LegendofRock3021]

It's better than some other metalcore, but it's still not very good.


Some better Jersey metal bands for you to check out (omitting obvious ones like Symphony X, Overkill, and Danzig).

Swashbuckle
Sacrificial Blood
Hæthen
Krieg
Burnt by the Sun
Ex Dementia
Fight Amp
Funebrarum
Whiplash

Swashbuckle and Whiplash are great, really solid bands.

[Mystlyfe77]

The lack of people vouching for Krieg, one of the oldest USBM bands, is a little upsetting.

[afterstasis]

i like krieg, as well as funebrarum.

[BevoTheWarrior]

My favorite album of the year is "Crash Love" by AFI. My favorite reissue of the year is "With the Beatles" by The Beatles and my favorite live album is "Live Anthology" by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.

[Lizard_King]

if i had to make a list, well, here it is:
1. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
2. White Lies- To Lose My Life
3. Them Crooked Vultures- Them Crooked Vultures
4. Silversun Pickups - Swoon
5. The XX - The XX

Honorable Mention: Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Biggest Disappointment: Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg.

[quakegod467]

My Top 10
10. Muse - The Resistance
9. Dethklok - The Dethalbum II
8. Arch Enemy - The Root of All Evil
7. Megadeth - Endgame
6. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
5. Kreator - Hordes of Chaos
4. Fear Factory - Mechanize (Um... *thinks of excuse*)
3. Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
2. Heathen - Evolution of Chaos
1. Slayer - World Painted Blood

[Reaper Eclipse]

1. Tri-Polar - Sick Puppies
2. For(N)ever - Hoobastank
3. Life Starts Now - Three Days Grace
4. Halestorm
5. Dear Agony - Breaking Benjamin
6. Black Gives Way To Blue - Alice In Chains
7. Memento Mori - Flyleaf
8. Mudvayne
9. Volume 4: Songs In The Key of Love & Hate - Puddle of Mudd
10. Against The Grain - The Veer Union

Those are just my top 10 out of the albums that I bought in 2009.

[Rocket2Russia]

The four I've heard (very few, I know) ranked:

1. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
2. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
3. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
4. A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head

[classicrockdude]

Honorable Mention: Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Biggest Disappointment: Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg.

I really enjoyed Cosmic Egg, but i don't think it matched their debut.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

30 Seconds To Mars - This Is War is definitely added to my list. I love the album. It's amazing, IMO.

[Cubecubed]

30 Seconds To Mars - This Is War is definitely added to my list. I love the album. It's amazing, IMO.

30STM are one of my guilty pleasures,and i definitely enjoyed this album.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

30STM are one of my guilty pleasures,and i definitely enjoyed this album.

I kind of agree. Though, most of my friends here (where I live) either like or love 30STM. And everyone who heard the album, loved it. My favorite song is either "Night of the Hunter" or "100 Suns"

[Gowienczyk]

30STM are one of my guilty pleasures,and i definitely enjoyed this album.

For shame, bro.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

For shame, bro.

You're just jealous.

[Gowienczyk]

Jealous of 30STM? Don't be ridiculous.

[Cubecubed]

For shame, bro.

meh. don't care. :p

[Gowienczyk]

You should.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

Jealous of 30STM? Don't be ridiculous.

Oh, I'll be ridiculous any time I want to be. :D

I know for a fact you don't like 90% of the music I do like, so it really doesn't bother me you don't like a band that I do. :p

[Gowienczyk]

Don't worry, I liked most of that stuff when I was 15 too.

owait-

[BuRn7 CaK3]

Trident isn't here. Why you talking about him behind his back?

[Gowienczyk]

I'm looking at you, bro.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

I'm not 15. Nor close to 15 (2-3 years as in close).

[Gowienczyk]

Your music listening habits suggest otherwise!

[BuRn7 CaK3]

Why does it matter to you on what I listen to? I like what I like and that's all that matters. Got a problem with it? Well too bad, I don't care. :p

[Cubecubed]

You should.

but I don't. funny how that works. :D

[Gowienczyk]

Why does it matter to you on what I listen to? I like what I like and that's all that matters. Got a problem with it? Well too bad, I don't care. :p

Because I have to hear about it! Duh.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

Because I have to hear about it! Duh.

Why do you have to hear about it? :p

[Gowienczyk]

Because you like to talk! :p

[BuRn7 CaK3]

'Tis True. :p

Though, if you and me were face to face, I'd be very quiet.

[Gowienczyk]

I'm not as abrasive or INYOURFACE either in reality.

[Cubecubed]

im probably exactly like i am on here in real life,lol.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

Wow. I like how we got off topic.

Sorry thread.

[Gowienczyk]

Derailing threads rules.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

Indeed it does.

[ProtestTheDrummer]

The Endless Sporadic - The Endless Sporadic

AMAZZING

[chicagobearsfan]

my favorite albums of 2009 have to be...
Slayer- World Painted Blood
Foo Fighters- Greatest Hits CD
Breaking Benjamin- Dear Agony
All That Remains- Overcome (i think that came out in 2008 but that album is epic)

[berkthgar]

my favorite albums of 2009 have to be...
Slayer- World Painted Blood
Foo Fighters- Greatest Hits CD
Breaking Benjamin- Dear Agony
All That Remains- Overcome (i think that came out in 2008 but that album is epic)

LOLNO
I agree with Dear Agony being good though.. but did someone actually enjoy Overcome? ATR fell so far after The Fall of Ideals :(

[Runesmith]

I forgot to add Kittie's "In The Black" to my original list. Yeah, I know, music elitists like us are supposed to hate bands like Kittie hurrduhdurrduhdurr, but I enjoyed the album a lot. The band has really improved in terms of their technical ability, and Morgan has a fantastic voice.

[LegendofRock3021]

I'd also like to add Horisont's Två Sidor av Horisonten. I've only listened to it once so far, but what a fantastic album it is.

[classicrockdude]

I loved Cosmic Egg by Wolfmother

[Mega-Tallica]

LOLNO
I agree with Dear Agony being good though.. but did someone actually enjoy Overcome? ATR fell so far after The Fall of Ideals :(

It had a few good tunes, but I agree it isn't quite up to par with their earlier material. ATR is slowly becoming another hard rock band.

And btw, it came out in 2008, not 2009.

[clashcityrocker10]

I didn't listen to this album until the new year, but I absolutely loved Sunn O)))'s Monoliths and Dimensions.

[Wiiman95]

Blood Oath - Suffocation

My fav Death Metal Release of 09

[AngryWorm]

Dear Agony - Breaking Benjamin
Splitting Adam - Splitting Adam
Welcome to The Masquerade - Thousand Foot Krutch
In Search of Solid Ground - Saosin

[Mystlyfe77]

Blood Oath - Suffocation

My fav Death Metal Release of 09

You're supposed to italicize the album, not the band.

[Jhail83]

The Resistance - Muse
It's Blitz - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Horehound - Dead Weather
The Hazards of Love - The Decemberists (Best of 2009 imo)
Far - Regina Spektor
The Incident - Porcupine Tree
On This Perfect Day - Guilt Machine
Middle Cyclone - Neko Case
Frequency - IQ
Number Seven - Phideaux
Hunting My Dress - Jesca Hoop
probably some other stuff I am forgetting at the moment...

[oogabooha]

The Resistance is probably my favorite. Also the Hot and Remixed Village People album which had a cool remix of Go West ^___^. I was looking forward to Ratitude but man was I dissapointed.