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1) Nirvana - Live At Reading
2) Leonard Cohen - Live In London
3) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
4) Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...Pt II
5) Baroness - Blue Record
6) Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
7) Brad Paisley - American Saturday Night
8) Amadou & Mariam - Welcome To Mali
9) Antlers - Hospice
10) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
11) Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
12) Mount Erie - Wind's Poem
13) Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
14) Miranda Lambert - Revolution
15) Converge - Axe To Fall
16) Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night
17) Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock
18) Levon Helm - Electric Dirt
19) Tinariwen - Imidiwan: Companions
20) Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
21) Xx - Xx
22) DM Stith - Heavy Ghost
23) Clientele - Bonfires On The Heath
24) UGK - UGK 4 Life
25) Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
26) Todd Snider - The Excitement Plan
27) Japandroids - Post-Nothing
28) Brother Ali - Us
29) Allen Toussaint - The Bright Mississippi
30) Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band - Between My Head And The Sky
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Okay, here we go with this year's lists from Under the Radar. I will start with their picks for the top 50 of 2009.
1) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
2) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
3) Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
4) Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
5) Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
6) Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
7) Atlas Sound - Logos
8) Mew - No More Stories...
9) Taken By Trees - East of Eden
10) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
11) Jack Penate - Everything is New
12) The Antlers - Hospice
13) The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
14) St. Vincent - Actor
15) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
16) Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
17) The Veils - Sun Gangs
18) Telekinesis - Telekinesis!
19) David Bazan - Curse Your Branches
20) Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
21) Fever Ray - Fever Ray
22) Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
23) Loney, Dear - Dear John
24) Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
25) Apse - Climb Up
26) Passion Pit - Manners
27) Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
28) Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
29) Dan Deacon - Bromst
30) The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
31) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
32) Papercuts - You Can Have What You Want
33) Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
34) Here We Go Magic - Here We Go Magic
35) HEALTH - Get Color
36) Built to Spill - There Is No Enemy
37) The Hidden Cameras - Origin: Orphan
38) Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
39) Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
40) The Invisible - The Invisible
41) The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage
42) Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
43) The Duckworth Lewis Method - The Duckworth Lewis Method
44) Various Artists - Dark Was the Night
45) Real Estate - Real Estate
46) Wave Machines - Wave If You're Really There
47) YACHT - See Mystery Lights
48) The Dodos - Time to Die
49) Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
50) Flight of the Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky
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And now, the massive list of the 200 best albums of the decade...
1) Arcade Fire - Funeral
2) Radiohead - Kid A
3) Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
4) Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
5) Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
6) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
7) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
8) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
9) The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
10) Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
11) Elliot Smith - Figure 8
12) Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
13) Radiohead - Amnesiac
14) Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
15) Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
16) The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
17) Jens Lenkman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
18) Radiohead - In Rainbows
19) The Dears - No Cities Left
20) Sigur Ros - Ãgætis Byrjun
21) PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
22) Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
23) Bat For Lashes - Fur and Gold
24) Charlotte Gainsbourg - 555
25) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
26) Feist - The Reminder
27) Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
28) Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
29) Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
30) Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block
31) The White Stripes - Elephant
32) Beck - Sea Change
33) Spiritualized - Let It Come Down
34) Tegan and Sara - The Con
35) Doves - The Last Broadcast
36) Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
37) Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
38) The Postal Service - Give Up
39) Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
40) Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
41) The Shins - Oh Inverted World
42) Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
43) The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
44) of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
45) M83 - Saturdays=Youth
46) The Bees - Free The Bees
47) Clinic - Internal Wrangler
48) Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
49) The Concretes - The Concretes
50) Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
51) Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
52) Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of the Bewilderbeast
53) Mew - Frengers
54) M. Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent
55) My Morning Jacket - Z
56) Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
57) Joanna Newsom - Ys
58) The Delgados - The Great Eastern
59) Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
60) Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
61) Portishead - Third
62) Antony & the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
63) Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
64) The Strokes - This Is It
65) Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
66) Broadcast - HaHa Sound
67) Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
68) Death Cab For Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
69) The Divine Comedy - Absent Friends
70) Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
71) The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
72) Okkervil River - The Stage Names
73) Cursive - The Ugly Organ
74) Panda Bear - Person Pitch
75) Air - Talkie Walkie
76) Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
77) Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
78) The National - Boxer
79) OutKast - Stankonia
80) Elliot Smith - From a Basement on a Hill
81) Spoon - Gimme Fiction
82) Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
83) Iron & Wine - The Creek that Drank the Cradle
84) The Dodos - Visiter
85) Coldplay - Parachutes
86) The Dears - Missiles
87) Love Is All - Nine Times That Same Song
88) Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
89) The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
90) Cat Power - The Greatest
91) Deerhunter - Microcastle
92) OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
93) Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
94) The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
95) The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
96) She & Him - Volume One
97) CSS - Cansel de Ser Sexy
98) Neko Case - Blacklisted
99) Emily Haines - Knives Don't Have Your Back
100) Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
101) Pulp - We Love Life
102) Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
103) Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites
104) The Decemberists - Her Majesty the Decemberists
105) Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
106) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
107) Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
108) The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
109) Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
110) M.I.A. - Kala
111) Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
112) Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life
113) The Veils - Nux Vomica
114) Cat Power - You Are Free
115) Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
116) Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
117) Loney, Dear - Loney, Noir
118) Kanye West - The College Dropout
119) Beck - Guero
120) Spiritualized - Amazing Grace
121) Spoon - Girls Can Tell
122) Feist - Let it Die
123) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
124) The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
125) The Duke Spirit - Deptune
126) Doves - Some Cities
127) Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
128) Jamie Lidell - Multiply
129) Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
130) Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures
131) Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
132) Ladytron - The Witching Hour
133) Air - The Virgin Suicides
134) Lambchop - Nixon
135) The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes
136) MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
137) Death Cab For Cutie - The Photo Album
138) Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
139) Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
140) Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
141) Doves - Lost Souls
142) Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
143) Lykke Li - Youth Novels
144) Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands
145) Grandaddy - Sumday
146) Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt
147) Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
148) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
149) Kanye West - Late Registration
150) of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
151) Air - 10,000 Hz Legend
152) Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus
153) The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
154) The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
155) Electrelane - The Power Out
156) of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
157) Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
158) Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills
159) Gorillaz - Demon Days
160) Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
161) Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
162) Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
163) The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
164) Broadcast - The Noise Made By People
165) The National - Alligator
166) Calexico - Feast of Wire
167) Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
168) Supergrass - Life on Other Planets
169) Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
170) My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
171) Tindersticks - Can Our Love...
172) Rilo Kiley - Take-Offs and Landings
173) Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
174) Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man
175) M. Ward - Post-War
176) TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
177) Lansing-Dreiden - The Dividing Island
178) The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
179) Daft Punk - Discovery
180) Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
181) The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Behind the Music
182) Girl Talk - Night Ripper
183) Taken By Trees - East of Eden
184) Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
185) Desaparecidos - Read Music Speak Spanish
186) St. Vincent - Marry Me
187) Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State
188) Liars - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top
189) The Cardigans - Super Extra Gravity
190) The Dears - Gang of Losers
191) Caribou - Andorra
192) Sonic Youth - Murray Street
193) R.E.M. - Accelerate
194) The Avalanches - Since I Left You
195) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
196) The New Pornographers - Electric Version
197) Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
198) Mercury Rev - All Is Dream
199) LCD Soundsystem - The Sound of Silver
200) Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
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Paramore It would be ignorant to ignore "Ignorance"!
Plain White T's "1234" Had a childish innocence we could all relate to!
Demi Lovato "Remember December" Was good for a Disney artist!
Owl City shocked us with "Fireflies"
Taylor Swift has taken the world by storm and put out a song everyone can relate to!
So much!
"21 guns" from Green Day!
"If it means alot to you" by A Day to Remember!
"We Weren't Born to Follow" By Jon Bon Jovi
Too much to name! If you ask me, 2009 was a great year for music!:biggrin:
P.S. I know that "If it means alot to you" was out before 2009. I just love that song!
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Owl City shocked us only because that song sucks
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1) Empire Of The Sun - Standing On The Shore
2) Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You
3) Dodos - Fables
4) Jay-Z - Empire State Of Mind
5) Phoenix - 1901
6) Eels - Little Bird
7) Lady Gaga - Paparazzi
8) Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
9) Camera Obscura - French Navy
10) Horrors - Scarlet Fields
11) Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me
12) Metric - Help, I'm Alive
13) Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
14) Lee Fields and The Expressions - Ladies
15) Spinnerette - Baptized By Fire
16) Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire
17) Clipse - Kinda Like A Big Deal
18) P.J. Harvey and John Parish - Black Hearted Love
19) Xx - Islands
20) Florence and The Machines - Cosmic Love
21) Animal Collective - My Girls
22) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
23) Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson - Relator
24) Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
25) Tega and Sara - Alligator
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Music Head Wrote:Owl City shocked us only because that song sucks
Well, Depends on your tastes. I never fully decided if I really liked it or not. It was kinda up there with "The Ting Tings" "That's Not My Name" It got stuck in my head annoyingly but I still wanted to listen to it... Hmmm maybe subliminal messages?
I know many people just hate those songs and that's fine but to me they held a strange quality you don't find in traditional music. It was unique.
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C~R~K Wrote:Well, Depends on your tastes. I never fully decided if I really liked it or not. It was kinda up there with "The Ting Tings" "That's Not My Name" It got stuck in my head annoyingly but I still wanted to listen to it... Hmmm maybe subliminal messages?
I know many people just hate those songs and that's fine but to me they held a strange quality you don't find in traditional music. It was unique.
You are correct of course. I was just giving you some grief as part of your inititiation process. Somebody has to pick up the slack around here when Iota mellows out. I happen to love That's Not My Name, so there ya go.
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Music Head Wrote:18) P.J. Harvey and John Parish - Black Hearted Love
Holy crow! How did a follow-up to Dance Hall at Louse Point get past me??
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Music Head Wrote:You are correct of course. I was just giving you some grief as part of your inititiation process. Somebody has to pick up the slack around here when Iota mellows out. I happen to love That's Not My Name, so there ya go.
What would this life be without initiations! I'm glad to be aboard the forums! :wink:
