Top 10 Albums of the Year

[fish eel]

OK.

New list time.

Here are my top ten albums of the year.

This isnt a list to look cool either (as these can be). It's a scientific one, as I'm a bit anal and ALWAYS rate tracks in itunes, so it's based on the rating given to every track on every CD

1. Wilco - Wilco
2. bruce springsteen working on a dream
3. Yves Klein Blue - Ragged and Estactic
4. 7 Worlds Collide - The Sun Came out
5. matthew sweet & susannha hoffs under the covers v2
6 Powderfinger golden rule
7. bob evans goodnight bull creek
8. ben harper & relentless7 - white lies for dark times
9. Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side up
10.pearl jam - backspacer

 

[Solid]

Im really struggling to think of 10 albums from this year. Honestly haven't listened to that many albums released in 2009.

Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavilion
Say Anything- Self Title
Propagandhi- Supporting Castle
Emery- In Shallow Seas We Sail
Converge- Axe to Fall
Lady Gaga- The Fame
All Time Low- Nothing Personal

 

[Eelectrica]

1. Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver linings
2. Devin Towsend - Addicted. Really loving this CD at the moment.
3. Dark Tranquility - Where Death is Most Alive. Brilliant live album from the masters of melodic death metal
4. Queensryche - American Soldier. Great to have these guys back.
5. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
6. Devin Townsend - Ki
7. Lamb of God - Wrath
8. Megadeth - Endgame
9. Devil Driver - Pray for Villians
10. Slayer - World Painted Blood. So disappointed in this CD. Slayer has become a band of really cranky old men completely lacking creativity. Still it has its moments.

CD's I've yet to check out this year which would probably make the list
Porcupine Tree - The incident
Between the Buried and Me - The Great misdirect.

 

[Moffo]

what did you like about backspacer mate? i must admit i can't get into it...although im trying really hard

 

[ElectricEelMan]

OK.
It's a scientific one, as I'm a bit anal and ALWAYS rate tracks in itunes, so it's based on the rating given to every track on every CD

I thought I was the only one

I will give my top ten tomorrow at work since I am on a quiet 12 hour work shift with not much to do

 

[Non Terminator]

1. DREAM THEATER - Black Clouds And Silver Linings
2. TRANSATLANTIC - The Whirlwind
3. PORCUPINE TREE - The Incident
4. THE DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT - Ki
5. THE DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT - Addicted!


All I could think of right now.

 

[Cliffhanger]

Blakroc
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2
Chamber Music
A Fist in the Thought
Crime Pays
Supporting Caste
Dopium
Double Barrel
Let the Dominoes Fall
The Resistance

 

[Alex28]

1. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
2. Kid Sam - Kid Sam
3. Temecula Sunrise (EP) - Dirty Projectors
4. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
5. Travels With Myself and Another - Future of the Left
6. Sigh No More - Mumford & Sons
7. No One's First, and You're Next (EP) - Modest Mouse
8. Tongue N' Cheek - Dizzee Rascal
9. Blood Bank (EP) - Bon Iver
10. Embryonic - Flaming Lips

 

[Apey]

what did you like about backspacer mate? i must admit i can't get into it...although im trying really hard

I didn't like it on first listen, love it now though.

 

[Alex28]

I'm a huge Pearl Jam fan, but I don't think it is all that good to be honest. Maybe best album since Yield, but that's not really saying much unfortunately...

 

[snoozer]

1. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
2. Kid Sam - Kid Sam
3. Temecula Sunrise (EP) - Dirty Projectors
4. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
5. Travels With Myself and Another - Future of the Left
6. Sigh No More - Mumford & Sons
7. No One's First, and You're Next (EP) - Modest Mouse
8. Tongue N' Cheek - Dizzee Rascal
9. Blood Bank (EP) - Bon Iver
10. Embryonic - Flaming Lips

that's a great album.

 

[Flapper]

1. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
2. Kid Sam - Kid Sam
3. Temecula Sunrise (EP) - Dirty Projectors
4. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
5. Travels With Myself and Another - Future of the Left
6. Sigh No More - Mumford & Sons
7. No One's First, and You're Next (EP) - Modest Mouse
8. Tongue N' Cheek - Dizzee Rascal
9. Blood Bank (EP) - Bon Iver
10. Embryonic - Flaming Lips

That's a great album.

 

[magpie_man]

them crooked vultures - them crooked vultures
the flaming lips - embryonic
the xx - the xx
arctic monkeys - humbug
HEALTH - get color
the mars volta - octahedron
animal collective - merriweather post pavilion
the whitest boy alive - rules
the decemberists - the hazards of love
sunset rubdown - dragonslayer

 

[bartman]

My best way of coming up with this type of list is looking back at those CDs that have sat in/on the stereo for the longest. I didn't buy many this year, and some of these may technically be 2008 releases.

So in no particular order...

Various Artists - Dark Was The Night
Leader Cheetah - The Sunspot Letters
Lee Memorial - The Lives Of...
The Aerial Maps - In The Blinding Sunlight
Tim Finn - The Conversation
The Triffids - Beautiful Waste and Other Songs
The Gin Club - Junk

... that's pretty much it out of the ones I bought.

 

[Alex28]

Various Artists - Dark Was The Night

Would have made my list, however it is a compilation and not an album...

 

[half]

annie - don't stop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y3FFWPBvBs
mew - no more stories are told today i'm sorry they washed away no more stories the world is grey i'm tired let's wash away
wilco - wilco (the album)
yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz!

 

[elyod138]

Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Fever Ray - Self Titled

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
Florence + The Machine - Lungs

Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Sarah Blasko - As Day Follows Night
Bertie Blackman - Secrets and Lies
Imogen Heap - Ellipse
Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor

 

[Eelementary]

1. Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver linings
2. Devin Towsend - Addicted. Really loving this CD at the moment.
3. Dark Tranquility - Where Death is Most Alive. Brilliant live album from the masters of melodic death metal
4. Queensryche - American Soldier. Great to have these guys back.
5. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
6. Devin Townsend - Ki
7. Lamb of God - Wrath
8. Megadeth - Endgame
9. Devil Driver - Pray for Villians
10. Slayer - World Painted Blood. So disappointed in this CD. Slayer has become a band of really cranky old men completely lacking creativity. Still it has its moments.

CD's I've yet to check out this year which would probably make the list
Porcupine Tree - The incident
Between the Buried and Me - The Great misdirect.

Excellent list. I'll add:

* November's Doom - "Into Night's Requiem Eternal"
* Amorphis - "Skyforger"
* Behemoth - "Evangelion"
* Job For A Cowboy - "Ruination"
* Killswitch Engage - "Killswitch Engage"

 

[joel caine number 1 fan]

10-Killswich engage - killswitch engage
09-Three days grace - life starts now
08-the airbourne toxic event - the airbourne toxic event
07-nile - those whom the gods detest
06-Colbie Caillat-Breakthrough
05-tech n9ne - kod
04-Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
03-Lynyrd Skynyrd - God & Guns
02-steel panther - feel the steel
01-breaking benjamin - dear agony

 

[fish eel]

what did you like about backspacer mate? i must admit i can't get into it...although im trying really hard

It's a solid record, not great. But solid, hence it scrapped in at 10 ;-)