Best Music of 2009

[Music Head]

Time for all those best of the year lists.
I will post them as I find them all in this thread.
Looks like JonG is handling the Electronic/Techno in that thread.

[Music Head]

from Spin magazine editors

1) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
2) Phoenix - 1901
3) Girls - Hellhole Ratrace
4) Animal Collective - My Girls
5) Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
6) Kid Cudi feat. Kanye West & Common - Make Her Say
7) Florence and the Machine - You Got The Love
8) Bat For Lashes - Daniel
9) Antony and the Johnsons - Aeon
10) Drake feat. Trey Songz - Successful
11) Atlas Sound feat. Noah Lennox - Walkabout
12) Roots - How I Got Over
13) Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension
14) Big Pink - Dominos
15) Mike Snow - Animal
16) La Roux - Bulletproof
17) Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You
18) Basement Jaxx - Raindrops
19) Mos Def - Life In Marvelous Times
20) Robyn Hitchcock - Up To Our Nex

[Music Head]

from Spin magazine editors

1) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
3) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
4) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
5) Girls - Album
6) Bat For lashes - Two Suns
7) Mos Def - The Ecstatic
8) Florence And The Machine - Lungs
9) Drake - So Far Gone
10) Dead Weather - Horehound
11) Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Summer Of Fear
12) Ida Maria - Fortress Around My Heart
13) Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
14) Amadou & Mariam - Welcome To Mali
15) Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
16) Japandroids - Post-Nothing
17) Mastodon - Crack The Skye
18) Antony And The Johnsons - The Crying Light
19) Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
20) Paramore - Brand New Eyes
21) Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Linx Pt. II
22) Tegan And Sara - Sainthood
23) St. Vincent - Actor
24) Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
25) Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love
26) Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come
27) Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
28) Flaming Lips - Embryonic
29) Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
30) Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young
31) Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
32) U2 - No Line On The Horizon
33) Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
34) Mariachi El Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx
35) Miike Snow - Miike Snow
36) Brakes Brakes Brakes - Touchdown
37) Gallows - Grey Britian
38) Rick Ross - Deeper Than Rap
39) Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
40) Kiss - Sonic Boom

[Dementia32]

I fully expect Animal Collective to be at the top or near the top of most lists for 2009.

Now here's the part where I make what is likely to be an unpopular comment...

I don't like Animal Collective. I don't like Merriweather Post Pavillion (well, okay I like probably two songs from it), and I don't particularly like their previous work either. I've tried and really do want to like them but just don't "get it." I feel like I'd have to be high in order to actually enjoy it, and I just shouldn't need any assistance in actually enjoying music.

Thumbs up to the lists' inclusion of Neko Case, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, St. Vincent, Grizzly Bear, Bat For Lashes, Dead Weather, Phoenix, Girls, Tegan and Sara, Mos Def, and even Kiss (much better album than I could have expected from them) though.

EDIT: I believe that Under the Radar's Best of 2009 and Best of the Decade lists are supposed to be out on the 18th btw.

[Music Head]

^^

Thanks for the heads up.

Probably won't be able to keep up once they all start the flood.
But I'll keep plugging away.:ranger:

[Dementia32]

^^

Thanks for the heads up.

Probably won't be able to keep up once they all start the flood.
But I'll keep plugging away.:ranger:

Under the Radar is pretty much the only magazine subscription that I have, so I'd be more than happy to post their list here once I get my copy. mile:

[Music Head]

Under the Radar is pretty much the only magazine subscription that I have, so I'd be more than happy to post their list here once I get my copy. mile:

all yours.

[JonG]

Spin's list is as expected. No surprises. I do agree with their number one pick for album of the year. That is, if those 40 are the only ones to choose from.

[Drealm]

This list of 40 best albums of the year makes me feel old. I've not even heard a single one of them.

I realize I don't really follow musical trends. I am discovering new stuff, but not much, just some albums, often from the same artist that I want to dig up the full discography.

There is so much music coming out, I wonder how someone can really follow the musical trends...just giving a good listen to these 40 albums would take me so much time that I don't even want to begin that. So it seems almost impossible to make a good choice, considering every other releases in addition to this list. That's crazy, there's simply too much music.

I realize that the main source of new musical discovery is coming from people around me. A few albums are discovered at music stores listening station. So if people gave me all they could, I'm stuck. And I don't know where to begin new searching grounds. There's not a particular style I like more.

For example, in the 40 list, how the hell can I know which one I could like apart listening everyone of them?

That's too huge.

And listening to radio don't give a good insight of music.

I don't know what to do. I think I will just wait for some albums to show themselves in my life.

[JonG]

This list of 40 best albums of the year makes me feel old. I've not even heard a single one of them.

You haven't heard of the band U2? Or just not the new album? :biggrin1:

I see the other side of this. I am thrilled that there is more music out there than I can possibly consume. That way I never run out of new things to discover. I love hunting down new music to enrich my life. I get bored with the same sounds pretty easy.

How to filter it all? There are many good magazines, websites and blogs out there. Some are better than others. There are those to suit any taste. And in this day of downloads you can most often sample music before acquiring the entire release.