Album of The Year - Endgame

Albums 2009

1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
3. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
4. The xx - The xx
5. Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement
6. Dam-Funk - Toeachizown
7. Mos Def - The Ecstatic
8. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
9. Fashawn - Boy Meets World
10. St. Vincent - Actor

Honorable Mention: Mount Kimbie - Maybes EP
 
2009:

1. Mos Def: The Ecstatic
2. The xx: xx
3. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
4. Fever Ray: Fever Ray
5. Eels: Hombre Lobo
6. Junior Boys: Begone Dull Care
7. Neko Case: Middle Cyclone
8. Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
9. Sun O))): Monoliths & Dimensions
10. Kid Cudi: Man on the Moon: The End of Day



 
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1. The xx - xx
2. PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman a Man Walked By
3. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
4. Doves - Kingdom of Rust
5. The Dead Weather - Horehound
6. Jon Hopkins - Insides
7. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
8. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
9. BEAK> - Beak>
10. The Swell Season - Strict Joy

11-25 (in alphabetical order):

Crippled Black Phoenix - The Resurrectionists & Night Raider
Do Make Say Think - Other Truths
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter
King Midas Sound - Waiting for You
Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence
Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, the Commuter
Pet Shop Boys - Yes
A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Soulsavers - Broken
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

bonus track:

 
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NathanRicaud said:
This album just missed out on making the top 10!

I’m actually so surprised you like this album TCell! It’s such an incredible album! 🔥🔥🔥

You love jazz, soul and blues and the Classics ROTM track in general and you seem to love Indie and Rock a lot. I would’ve never of guessed that you love the album Love vs. Money!

So intrigued by you now lol 😈🤔
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To quote Whitman: "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."

Just like you, I love music Nathan. And while Hip-Hop and modern R&B aren't my favourite, I do like them. And that album (really the whole trilogy) by The-Dream is smouldering seduction.
 
Top 10 - 2009
  1. Fever Ray - S/T
  2. The XX - XX
  3. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
  4. Coconut Records - Davy
  5. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
  6. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
  7. Girls - Album
  8. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
  9. St. Vincent - Actor
  10. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
HMs:
Chester French - Love The Future
The Antlers - Hospice
Los Campesinos - Romance Is Boring
Malajube - Labyrinthes
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
The-Dream - Love Vs. Money
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
 
My usual list that won't make any impact on the final results:

1. Jamie Cullum - The Pursuit
2. Natalie Imbruglia - Come To Life
3. Florence And The Machine - Lungs
4. Kate Miller-Heidke - Curiouser
5. Chris Cornell - Scream (YES)
6. Metric - Fantasies
7. Polly Scattergood - s/t
8. Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
9. One Eskimo - s/t
10. Sondre Lerche - Heartbeat Radio

Let's also take a moment to remember that 2009 was the year when Shakira was dancing inside a glittery giant... something singing the amazing line "I'm starting to feel just a little abused like a coffee machine in an office".
 
radiojazzz said:
1. The xx - xx
2. PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman a Man Walked By
3. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
4. Doves - Kingdom of Rust
5. The Dead Weather - Horehound
6. Jon Hopkins - Insides
7. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
8. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
9. BEAK> - Beak>
10. The Swell Season - Strict Joy

11-25 (in alphabetical order):

Crippled Black Phoenix - The Resurrectionists & Night Raider
Do Make Say Think - Other Truths
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter
King Midas Sound - Waiting for You
Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence
Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, the Commuter
Pet Shop Boys - Yes
A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Soulsavers - Broken
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

bonus track:

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Your BONUS track is awesome! That whole album is incredible, sincerely, no sarcasm. And i think i remember that there are no guitars on it anywhere, right? And "Part of Me" charted in Europe on the DANCE charts...
 
Haven't had a really difficult year in a while! I was a junior in college in 2009, and was really starting to explore the indie rock scene a lot more around this time. The first few are pretty obvious picks if you know my M.O., the rest was really tough to narrow down.

1. Silversun Pickups - Swoon. I wouldn't learn about my favorite band until 2010 driving with my wife on our honeymoon. We had purchased an SUV in late 2009, and it still had a Sirius XM subscription. Panic Switch came on during the drive. We were both hung over from the celebration our family subjected us to the night before, and discovering this band and feeling like I was ready to die were about the only things I remember from that car trip.
2. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing. Got the vinyl up on the wall!
3. Passion Pit - Manners. Discovered this thanks to a friend who had it playing in the car on the way to see NOFX. Instant obsession.
4. We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls. This one was a vinyl white whale for a long time, the rerelease was one of the few vinyl purchases I made this year.
5. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm.
6. Modest Mouse - No One's First, and You're Next
7. Metric - Fantasies
8. Built to Spill - There Is No Enemy
9. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
10. The Dear Hunter - Act III: Life and Death


Fillip's Big Damn List of Honorable Mentions:
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
The Lonely Island - Incredibad. Funny story, I got into E-40 because of his collab on this album. I knew OF him before this, but hadn't really listened to his work.
MC Lars - This Gigantic Robot Kills
The Number 12 Looks Like You - Worse Than Alone
Halestorm - S/T
NOFX - Coaster. I really liked this album when it came out. There are still some bangers (We Called It America, Blasphemy, Suits and Ladders), but there are also some big duds on this one.
CKY - Carver City. I feel like this band was always underrated.
Eels - Hombre Lobo
Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
Billy Talent - III
He Is Legend - It Hates You
Portugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist
Mutemath - Armistice
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
Fun - Aim and Ignite
Muse - The Resistance
The Fall of Troy - In The Unlikely Event
Baroness - Blue Record
Los Campesinos - Romance Is Boring
 
2009:
1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. Jason Falkner - All Quiet on the Noise Floor
3. Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
4. The Broken Family Band - Please & Thank You
5. Frank Turner - Poetry of the Deed
6. Future of the Left - Travels with Myself and Another
7. BOAT - Setting the Paces
8. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
9. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
10. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

HM:
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
The Church - Untitled #23
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
Florence + the Machine - Lungs
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate
Metric - Fantasies
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - ...And the Horne You Rode in O
Superdrag - Industry Giants
The Thermals - Now We Can See
We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
Woods - Songs of Shame
 
1. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
2. Ola Podrida - Belly of the Lion
3. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
4. The XX - XX
5. Frank Turner - Poetry of the Deed
6. Beirut - March of the Zapotec/Holland
7. Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself
8. Bowerbirds - Upper Air
9. Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti is...Skyscraper
10. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

I feel like the back-half of this list is pretty interchangeable with another half dozen or so albums...Bill Callahan, Franz Ferdinand, Neko Case, Kings of Convenience, White Lies, Phoenix...I'll roll on current mood
 
JTJamFan said:
Your BONUS track is awesome! That whole album is incredible, sincerely, no sarcasm. And i think i remember that there are no guitars on it anywhere, right? And "Part of Me" charted in Europe on the DANCE charts...
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yeah, it feels like this is a record waiting to be reevaluated. maybe when it finally comes out on vinyl?
 
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