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This was incredibly hard to do because it's been a great year for music (especially in the 'heavy' field). Lots of omissions (The Mars Volta, mewithoutYou, etc) that would have appeared had it been any other year, but I think what I have here is testament to how the last year of the noughties has been one of the greatest. So here they are, my favourite albums of 2009. Lets hope 2010 is just as triumphant!


20. Thursday - Common Existence


19. Narrows - New Distances


18. Rise and Fall - Our Circle Is Vicious


17. The Horrors - Primary Colours


16. Burnt by the Sun - Heart of Darkness


15. Alexisonfire - Old Crows / Young Cardinals


14. Baroness - Blue Record


13. Kylesa - Static Tensions


12. Architects - Hollow Crown


11. Gallows - Grey Britain


10. Poison the Well - The Tropic Rot


9. Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect


8. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue


7. Brand New - Daisy


6. The Ghost of a Thousand - New Hopes, New Demonstrations


5. Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic


4. Thrice - Beggars


3. Isis - Wavering Radiant


2. Mastodon - Crack The Skye


1. Converge - Axe To Fall

1. How did you get into 29?
Forgive Durden- He was recommended to me and I just loved Razia's Shadow

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Minor Threat- Straight Edge

3. How many albums by 13 do you own?
Death Cab for Cutie- I had 2 but i borrowed them

4. What is your favorite song by 15?
I Hate Myself- Conversation With Dr. Seussicide

5. What is your favorite song by 5?
Panic! At the Disco- I don't listen to them anymore, so i don't know

6. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
blink-182- again, i don't listen to them anymore

7. What is your favorite song by 10?
Billy Talent- I don't like them anymore

8. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
Mineral- Ummm I don't have one?

9. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Silverstein- I don't like them anymore

10. How many times have you seen 25 live?
Lifetime- 0 times

12. What is your favorite album by 11?
The Promise Ring- Nothing Feels Good

13. What is your favorite song by 1?
Motion City Soundtrack Modern Chemistry as me tomorrow and it'll be a different song

14. Have you ever seen 14 live?
The Jazz June- 0 times

15. What is a good memory involving 27?
Alexisonfire- I will never have good memories about this band....

16. What is your favorite song by 16?
The Get Up Kids-Action And Action

17. What is your favorite album by 18?
Maritime-Heresy And The Hotel Choir

18. What is your favorite song by 21?
+44- I don't listen to them anymore

19. What is the first song you ever heard by 26?
Braid-My Baby Smokes

20. What is your favorite album by 2?
Fall Out Boy-Take This to Your Grave, the only album that doesn't want me to gouge out my eyes

21. What is you favorite song by 3?
Thursday-Concealer

22. What is you favorite song by 8?
Sunny Day Real Estate-Songs About An Angel

23. How many times have you seen 17 live?
Don't have a 17

24. What is the worst song by 12?
Coheed and Cambria- I don't know, something I didn't like when i listened to them

25. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
Weezer-Beverly Hills

26. What is you favorite album by 7?
Cap'n Jazz- Analphabetapolothology

27. What is your favorite song by 24?
Piebald- Long Nights

28. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
Dashboard Confessional- Don't listen to him anymore

29. What is your favorite album by 4?
Reggie and the Full Effect- Songs Not To Get Married To

30. How many albums do you own by 20?
Green Day- 1....

1. fun. - Aim and Ignite

2. The Dangerous Summer - Reach For The Sun

3. Say Anything - Say Anything

4. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

5. Brand New - Daisy

6. person L - The Positives

7. Moneen - The World I Want To Leave Behind

8. Xo - Some Day

9. Ace Enders And A Million Different People - When I Hit The Ground

10. New Found Glory - Not Without A Fight

11. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing

12. Holiday Parade - Tickets & Passports

13. Alexisonfire - Old Crows/Young Cardinals

14. Sherwood - Qu

15. Slow Club - Yeah So

1. Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic

2. Converge - Axe To Fall

3. Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect

4. Clutch - Strange Cousins From The West

5. Poison the Well - The Tropic Rot

6. Mastodon - Crack The Skye

7. Doomriders - Darkness Comes Alive

8. Isis - Wavering Radiant

9. Baroness - Blue Record

10. Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor

11. CKY - Carver City

12. dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion

13. Manchester Orchestra - Everything To Nothing

14. Alexisonfire - Old Crows / Young Cardinals

15. The Company Band - The Company Band

I can't pin down a top 10 chart. So instead here's the albums and songs that have won me over or taken me by utter surprise this year.

Best Album's of '09

Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic
The Chariot - Wars and Rumours of Wars
Kap Bambino - Blacklist
Dananananaykroyd - Hey Everyone
Converge - Axe To Fall
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Annie - Don't Stop / All Night EP
HEALTH - Get Colour
Poison the Well - The Tropic Rot
You Say Party! We Say Die! -XXXX
The Lonely Island - Incredibad
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Florence + The Machine - Lungs
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
Imogen Heap - Ellipse

Best Song's of '09

Ellie Goulding - Under The Sheets
Every Time I Die - Wanderlust
The Chariot - Daggers
Kap Bambino - Dead Lazers
Dananananaykroyd - Black Wax
Enter Shikari - Antwerpen
Alexisonfire - Old Crows
Bat for Lashes - Glass
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster – Step Up (I'm On It)
Röyksopp – Happy Up Here
HEALTH – Die Slow
Flight of the Conchords - Too Many Dicks (On The Dancefloor)
Imogen Heap - Canvas
Fuck Buttons - olympians
You Love Her Coz She's Dead - Tender Young Hearts Beat Fast
Converge - Axe To Fall
Hadouken! - Turn The Lights Out (Late 2009/Early 2010 Track)
The Big Pink - Dominos
Between the Buried and Me - Fossil Genera - A Feed from Cloud Mountain
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Lonely's Lunch
Joe and Will Ask? – Take Me Away (Original Mix)

Best Cover Track
Florence + The Machine - You Got the Love

Best Remix
Ellie Goulding - Under The Sheets (Jakwob Remix)

Best B-Side
Ellie Goulding- Fighter Plane

Artist(s) To Look Out for in 2010
Ellie Goulding
Uffie
Delphic

'77
Accident Recover
Alexisonfire
Alondra Bentley
アンティック-珈琲店- (An Cafe)
Anti-Flag
Bad Way
Berri Txarrak
Billie the Vision & The Dancers
Christina Rosenvinge
Cliper
Day Of Rising
Dorian
Drizzle Of Dust (x4)
Electric Wasted
Enter Shikari
Estado de Locura
Fall Out Boy
Falling Kids
Hard Life
Hardcore Superstar
Hijos de Caín
Katy Perry
Kon Ira
La Cámara Secreta
La Guardia
La Unión
Marvin
Metro Station
Miranda!
雅-miyavi-
New Found Glory
NoWayOut (x4)
Parkway Drive
Poison the Well
Read My Lips (x2)
Rise Against
Simple Plan
Shinoflow
Sleazy Trigger
Stained Blood
Stoned by Truckers
Straighten Things Out
The Hives
The Holy Buttons
The Prodigy
Thursday
Uzzhuaïa
Vetusta Morla (x2)
We Are Standard
Yawn
You Me At Six
Zebrahead

1) Architects: Hollow Crown
2) Five Finger Death Punch: War Is The Answer
3) Killswitch Engage: Killswitch Engage
4) Darkest Hour: The Eternal Return
5) Alexisonfire: Old Crows/Young Cardinals
6) He Is Legend: It Hates You
7) Gallows: Grey Britain
8) The Devil Wears Prada: With Roots Above And Branches Above
9) Every Time I Die: New Junk Aesthetic
10) Bury Tomorrow: Portraits
11) Arsonists Get All The Girls: Portals
12) Oceana: Birth Eater
13) Mastodon: Crack The Skye
14) Mariachi El Bronx: El Bronx
15) Lamb of God: Wrath
16) It Dies Today: Lividity
17) Funeral for a Friend: Your History Is Mine
18) Enter Shikari: Common Dreads
19) Suicide Silence: No Time to Bleed
20) Muse: The Resistance

There we have it, perfect for any metal fan, or anyone who likes a little mariachi in there metal =)

Note: the Killswitch Engage album is their second self titled one and doesn't appear to be on lastfm, all the tracks are there thought if you search ;)

so as a testament to my never ending hunt for good new music to obsess over, i'm going to listen to every song in this list at least once to see if i like any of it and if this script is worth a shit. will report back over the months as i work through it..

Recommended Songs (sorted by most recommended songs)

Call Me Sick Boy - Hopes Die Last (Score: 247.49)
Chemical Kids and Mechanical Brides - Pierce the Veil (Score: 202.33)
The Guillotine - Escape the Fate (Score: 185.05)
Broken Stars - Silverstein (Score: 180.31)
Ghost In The Mirror - Motionless In White (Score: 169.16)
Sound the alarm - Adept (Score: 158.26)
A Great Fire - Silverstein (Score: 157)
No Vacancy - Breathe Carolina (Score: 156.96)
To Keep From Getting Burned - Motionless In White (Score: 153.94)
My Darkest Hour - Scary Kids Scaring Kids (Score: 148.71)
Symptoms of a Failing System - Our Last Night (Score: 144.64)
The Business Of Living - Adept (Score: 143.57)
Goodbye My Love - LoveHateHero (Score: 143.52)
Numbers - Sky Eats Airplane (Score: 140.71)
Photographic Memory - Sky Eats Airplane (Score: 138.25)
Escape - Our Last Night (Score: 135.99)
Boiled Frogs - Alexisonfire (Score: 135.66)
This Could Be Anywhere In The World - Alexisonfire (Score: 129.12)
Children Of The Night - The Blackout (Score: 117.56)
Faces - Scary Kids Scaring Kids (Score: 115.46)
Red Dress - LoveHateHero (Score: 112.65)
My love for you is bombproof - Dying Diva (Score: 100.93)
I Owe You One - Lights (Score: 100)
It's Lonely At the Top [Or So I've Heard] - Burden of a Day (Score: 100)
This Is Usually The Part Where People Scream - Alesana (Score: 98.28)
Show Me Yours - Breathe Carolina (Score: 96.92)
Tilting the Hourglass - Alesana (Score: 95.75)
Take a Bow - Muse (Score: 94.74)
Scavenger - A Static Lullaby (Score: 93.77)
Can't Let Up - The Word Alive (Score: 92.84)
My Darkness - Destroy The Runner (Score: 92.16)
Drella - Pierce the Veil (Score: 92.01)
I Belong To The Skies - Hopes Die Last (Score: 90.2)
Black Lungs & Dollar Signs - Herbrightskies (Score: 89.56)
Holes - Confide (Score: 85.42)
There's No Sympathy for the Dead - Escape the Fate (Score: 84.86)
Poker Face - Of Mice & Men (Score: 83.55)
Our Friend Lazarus Sleeps - I Am Ghost (Score: 80.07)
Read Between - Cry Of The Afflicted (Score: 79.62)
Escape Artists Never Die - Funeral for a Friend (Score: 79.39)
shutthefuckuppercut - The Blackout (Score: 77.63)
Drop Me Off At The Bridge - We Are The Emergency (Score: 76.97)
The Seduction - He Is Legend (Score: 76.03)
Dead March - Architects (Score: 75.58)
Prom Queen has No Friends - Broadway (Score: 74.52)
XOXOXO - Secret And Whisper (Score: 74.52)
The After Dinner Payback - From Autumn to Ashes (Score: 73.56)
If We Speak Quietly - Lower Definition (Score: 70.48)
Recovery - Our Last Night (Score: 70.43)
Currents Convulsive - Pierce the Veil (Score: 70.05)
Robots 3 Humans 0 - Norma Jean (Score: 67.04)
Hot Water on Wool - Dance Gavin Dance (Score: 66.43)
Breathe - Scary Kids Scaring Kids (Score: 64.76)
Goodbye, Goodnight, For Good - Alesana (Score: 64.28)
Thoughts In Reverse - Destroy The Runner (Score: 63.99)
Voices - Saosin (Score: 63.65)
Timing Is Everything - Our Last Night (Score: 62.05)
Apology - Alesana (Score: 61.33)
Anyone Can Dig a Hole But it Takes a Real Man to Call it Home - Underoath (Score: 61.19)
Seven Years - Saosin (Score: 59.73)
Antarctica Inside Me - Poison the Well (Score: 59.35)
Security Without Doubts - Dear Whoever (Score: 58.84)
On The Offensive - From Autumn to Ashes (Score: 55.83)
The Fire - The Blackout (Score: 55.51)
Alex English - Dance Gavin Dance (Score: 54.59)
Ambrosia - Alesana (Score: 54.51)
American Dream - Silverstein (Score: 54.03)
Killer Likes Candy - I Am Ghost (Score: 53.07)
Moving for the Sake of Motion - Underoath (Score: 51.82)
The Greatest Story Ever Told - Ice Nine Kills (Score: 51.55)
Making Waves - Life in Your Way (Score: 50.8)
Some Live Their Lives - Herbrightskies (Score: 50.41)
Miami Nights - Lower Definition (Score: 50.13)
Something - Escape the Fate (Score: 49.55)
Disregard the Formula - Harp and Lyre (Score: 49.12)
Deth Kult Social Club - From Autumn to Ashes (Score: 48.47)
Tempus Vincit Omnia - Hopes Die Last (Score: 48.25)
Are You On Drugs - The Word Alive (Score: 47.86)
Still Fly (Big Tymers) - The Devil Wears Prada (Score: 47.86)
Affliction: The Witness, The Advocate - A Hope For Home (Score: 47.62)
Retribution - A Plea For Purging (Score: 47.06)
After A Storm - Sever Your Ties (Score: 46.27)
The Antidote - Story of the Year (Score: 46.19)
Prelude To A Dream - A Skylit Drive (Score: 46.13)
Milligram Smile - From Autumn to Ashes (Score: 45.74)
Hang 'Em High - A Static Lullaby (Score: 45.23)
This War Is Ours (The Guillotine II) - Escape the Fate (Score: 44.59)
Finding Home - Saosin (Score: 44.17)
Thanks For Coming (I like you dead) - Hopes Die Last (Score: 44.05)
Bleeding Mascara - Atreyu (Score: 42.97)
Roses for the Dead - Funeral for a Friend (Score: 42.85)
It's So Simple - Saosin (Score: 42.78)
METEMPSYCHOSIS - Helia (Score: 42.51)
Timothy - As Cities Burn (Score: 42.43)
Sleepers - Saosin (Score: 42.4)
An Era of Treachery - Adept (Score: 42.21)
Drunks, Lovers, Sinners And Saints - Alexisonfire (Score: 41.91)
All We Ever See Of Stars Are Their Old Photographs - We Are The Emergency (Score: 41.71)
The Grass Is Greener On Our Side - We Are The Emergency (Score: 41.04)
Pioneers - From Autumn to Ashes (Score: 40.88)

#eof