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Best Albums Of 2009: Longlist - candidates

Nov 22 2009, 21h26 por nybatteri82

Alice in Chains _ Black Gives Way To Blue
Amazing Baby _ Rewild
Arctic Monkeys _ Humbug
Basement Jaxx _ Scars
Blue October _ Approaching Normal
Brand New _ Daisy
Dan Auerbach _ Keep It Hid
Dave Matthews Band _ Big Whiskey And The Groogrux King
Depeche Mode _ Sounds Of Universe
Devin Townsend Project _ Ki
Doves _ Kingdom Of Rust
Florence and The Machine _ Lungs
Future of the Left _ Travels With Myself And Another
Ghinzu _ Mirror Mirror
happysad _ Mów Mi Dobrze
Hey _ Miłość! Uwaga! Ratunku! Pomocy!
Howling Bells _ Radio Wars
Jenny Wilson _ Hardships!
Kaizers Orchestra _ VAYre Demoner
Kasabian _ The West Rider Pauper Lunatic
Kult _ HURRA!
La Roux _ La Roux
Lady Of The Sunshine _ Smoking Gun
Lady Sovereign _ Jigsaw
Laleh _ Me and Simon
Little Birdy _ Confetti
Little Boots _ Hands
Mando Diao _ Give Me Fire
Manic Street Preachers _ jornal for plague lovers
Marylin Manson _ The High End of Low
Metric _ Fantasies
Muse _ The Resistance
Nelly Furtado _ Mi Plan
Nerina Pallot _ Graduate
Noisettes _ Wild Young Hearts
Nouvelle Vague _ 3
Olivia Ruiz _ Miss Meteores
Paloma Faith _ Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful
Pati Yang _ Faith, Hope & Fury
Pearl Jam _ Backspacer
Placebo _ Battle For The Sun
PMMP _ Veden varaan
royksopp _ Junior
Silversun Pickups _ Swoon
Spinerette _ Spinerette
The Big Pink _ A Brief History of Love
The Cribs _ Ignore The Ignorant
The Dead Weather _ Horehound
The Dear Hunter _ Act III: Life and Death
The Decemberists _ The Hazard of Love
The Gossip _ Music For Men
The Mars Volta _ Octahedron
The Sounds _ Crossing The Rubicon
The Temper Trap _ Conditions
The xx _ xx
Tori Amos _ Abnormally Attracted To Sin
U2 _ No Line On The Horizon
Von Bondies _ Love, Hate And Then There's You
Wye Oak _ The Knot
Zu _ Carboniferous

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Top 41 albums of 2009 ... para mi gusto, claro

Nov 22 2009, 13h50 por dashiva76

So, here are my favourites albums of 2009. Best songs list coming soon. Good year for scandinavian artists...On the Spanish front, well, i haven't been paying them that much attention so far, but kind of weak offerings...

1. Florence and The Machine - Lungs
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
3. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
4. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
5. The xx - xx
6. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
7. Röyksopp - Junior
8. Calvin Harris - Ready For The Weekend
9. The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms
10. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
11. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
12. Delorean - AYRTON SENNA E.P.
13. Saint Etienne - Foxbase Beta
14. Kings of Convenience - Declaration Of Dependence
15. Little Boots - Hands
16. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
17. Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care
18. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
19. Passion Pit - Manners
20. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
21. Various Artists - Dark Was The Night
22. Various Artists - Valerie & Friends
23. Zoot Woman - Things Are What They Used To Be
24. Air - Love 2
25. Atlas Sound - Logos
26. Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
27. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
28. The Antlers - Hospice
29. Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - II
30. Telepathe - Dance Mother
31. Anorak - Neighbourhood Postcards
32. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
33. Zero 7 - Yeah Ghost
34. The Legends - Over and over
35. Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
36. The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
37. The Mary Onettes - Islands
38. Savath & Savalas - La Llama
39. White Lies - To Lose My Life
40. Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
41. Various Artists – Adventureland

Any comments?

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The Ultimate Perfect Gig (INCOMPLETE)

Nov 22 2009, 0h25 por anchovybay

• Name your top 15 artists.
• Come up with a set list for them to make your perfect gig
• All artists get a 10 song set list with a 3 song encore.

TV On The Radio
Nine Inch Nails
The Decemberists
Weezer
The Flaming Lips
Bright Eyes
Stars
Pink Floyd
Elliott Smith
The Beatles
Allison Iraheta
Bad Religion
The Hold Steady
Pearl Jam
Bruce Springsteen

TV on the Radio

You Could Be Love
Young Liars
Golden Age
Blues From Down Here
Province
King Eternal
A Method
Satellite
King Eternal
Dry Drunk Emperor
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Walking The Cow (Johnston)
Dreams
The Wrong Way

Nine Inch Nails

All The Love In The World
With Teeth
Don't You Know What You Are
March Of The Pigs
Starfuckers Inc.
Wish
The Collector
The Good Soldier
The Frail
The Wretched
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Head Like A Hole
Something I Can Never Have
Hurt

The Decemberists

The Hazards Of Love 1
July, July!
The Hazards Of Love 2
Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
O Valencia!
Isn't It A Lovely Night?
The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid
16 Military Wives
The Crane Wife 3
The Hazards Of Love 4
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Sons And Daughters
Valarie Plame
California One/The Youth And Beauty Brigade

Weezer

My Name Is Jonas
Beverly Hills
Perfect Situation
In The Garage
Pork And Beans
The Greatest Man That Ever Lived
Hash Pipe
The Sweater Song
Buddy Holly
Knock-Down-Drag-Out
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If You're Wondering If I Want You To (I Want You To)
Say It Ain't So
Surf Wax America

The Flaming Lips

Race For The Prize
Silver Trembling Hands
Fight Test
One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots pt. 1
My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion
It Overtakes Me
Convinced Of The Hex
Jesus Shootin' Heroin
She Don't Use Jelly
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Do You Realize??
The W.A.N.D
Watching The Planets

Bright Eyes

At The Bottom Of Everything
The Calender Hung Itself
Method Acting
Four Winds
A Scale, A Mirror, and Those Indifferent Clocks
Lover I Don't Have To Love
Hot Knives
Soul Singer In A Session Band
Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh
Make War
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Road To Joy
Easy/Lucky/Free
Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love And To Be Loved)

Stars

Set Yourself On Fire
Ageless Beauty
The Night Starts Here
Take Me To The Riot
A Thread Cut With A Carving Knife
Barricade
Sleep Tonight
The Woods
One More Night (Your Ex-Lover Remains Dead)
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
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Reunion
Celebration Guns
In Our Bedroom After The War

Pink Floyd

Interstellar Overdrive
In The Flesh
Happiest Days Of Our Lives/Another Brick In The Wall pt. 2
Free Four
Fearless
When You're In
Astronomy Domine
The Gunner's Dream
Vera/Bring The Boys Back Home
Comfortably Numb
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Wish You Were Here
When The Tigers Broke Free
Brain Damage/Eclipse

Elliott Smith

LA
Pretty Mary K
Waltz #2 (XO)
Antonio Carlos Jobim (Heatmiser)
In The Lost And Found (Honky Bach)
Plainclothes Man (Heatmiser)
Son Of Sam
Flowers For Charlie
Miss Misery
Between The Bars
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Speed Trials
Somebody That I Used To Know
Needle In The Hay

The Beatles

Come Together
Get Back
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Blue Jay Way
Helter Skelter
If I Needed Someone
I Am The Walrus
Dear Prudence
Strawberry Fields Forever
Hey Jude
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Blackbird
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
A Day In The Life

Allison Iraheta
(Under Construction (Dec. 1st))

Bad Religion

Sinister Rouge
Los Angeles Is Burning
21st Century Digital Boy
We're Only Gonna Die
Let Them Eat War
Stranger Than Fiction
Kyoto Now
Atomic Garden
Struck A Nerve
American Jesus
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Boot Stamping On A Human Face Forever
A Streetkid Named Desire
Fields Of Mars

The Hold Steady

Stuck Between Stations
Constructive Summer
The Swish
You Gotta Dance With Who You Came To The Dance With
Both Crosses
One For The Cutters
Stevie Nix
Banging Camp
Your Little Hoodrat Friend
First Night
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Party Pit
You Can Make Him Like You
How A Resurrection Really Feels

Pearl Jam

Present Tense
Wash
Jeremy
Red Mosquito
Insignificance
Deep
Off He Goes
Breath
Hitchhiker
Rearviewmirror
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Leash
Black
Indifference

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because the seen live tag is stupid

Nov 21 2009, 20h06 por ohnoarobot

Andrew Bird
Apostle of Hustle
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
Atmosphere
Battles
Beck
Ben Folds
Black Joe Lewis
Bloc Party
The Black & White Years
City and Colour
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah x 2
The Cribs
Damien Rice
Death Cab for Cutie
The Decemberists
Deerhoof
DeVotchKa
Eagles of Death Metal
Explosions in the Sky
Final Fantasy x 2
Fleet Foxes
Franz Ferdinand
Frightened Rabbit
Ghostland Observatory
Gogol Bordello x 3
Grizzly Bear
Heartless Bastards
Here We Go Magic
Hollywood Gossip
Icy Demons
Islands
Jaguar Love x2
Jamie Lidell
Jenny Lewis
Kaiser Chiefs
The Killers
The Kills
Larkin Grimm
Living Things
Minus the Bear
The Mountain Goats
Muse
The National
The New Pornographers
of Montreal x 2
Okkervil River x 2
Patrick Wolf x 2
Plasticines x 2
The Raconteurs
Regina Spektor
Ringo Deathstarr
sharon jones & the dap kings
Sondre Lerche
Spoon
St. Vincent
Stars
The Strokes
The Swell Season
Thomas Dybdahl
Vampire Weekend
Voxtrot
We Are Scientists
Willy Mason
Yeasayer
Yellow Fever

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Top 20

Nov 21 2009, 6h40 por anchovybay

Post your Last.fm overall top 20 artists, the first song you heard of theirs, the song that made you fall in love, and your current favorite.

Keep in mind, current favorite =/= all time favorite

1. Bruce Springsteen
Born To Run
Jungleland
Zero And Blind Terry

2. Pearl Jam
Even Flow
Black
Breakerfall

3. The Hold Steady
Your Little Hoodrat Friend
First Night
The Swish

4. Bad Religion
Los Angeles Is Burning
Struck A Nerve
American Jesus

5. Allison Iraheta
Alone
Alone
Someone To Watch Over Me

6. The Beatles
Eleanor Rigby
A Day In The Life
Blackbird

7. Elliott Smith
Needle In The Hay
Needle In The Hay
Waltz #2

8. Pink Floyd
Another Brick In The Wall pt. 2
Comfortably Numb
The Gold It's In The...

9. Stars
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
Set Yourself On Fire

10. Bright Eyes
When The President Talks To God
At The Bottom of Everything
Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love And To Be Loved)

11. The Flaming Lips
The W.A.N.D
One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
Watching The Planets

12. Weezer
Hash Pipe
Say it Ain't So
If You're Wondering If I Want You To (I Want You To)

13. The Decemberists
16 Military Wives
The Crane Wife 3
The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid

14. Nine Inch Nails
Head Like A Hole
Starfuckers, Inc.
Hurt

15. TV on the Radio
Dreams
The Wrong Way
The Wrong Way

16. Marilyn Manson
The Dope Show
Sweet Dreams
Heart Shaped Glasses (When The Heart Guides The Hand)

17. X
Los Angeles
Hungry Wolf
The Stage

18. Frank Zappa
Zomby Woof
Peaches en Regalia
Cosmik Debris

19. Green Day
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

20. Neil Young
Rockin' In The Free World
The Needle And The Damage Done
Down By The River

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Meme For Top 50 Artists

Nov 21 2009, 3h56 por anchovybay

1. What's your favorite song by 15?
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt

2. How did you get into 20?
Green Day - Heard them when I was much younger and liked them since.

3. Who is your favorite member in 1?
Bruce Springsteen - Kind of obvious lol

4. What’s your favorite lyric bit by 29?
Lifter Puller - "Love is like a battle of the bands, crank up your amps man." - Lifter Puller vs. The End Of The Evening

5. Have you ever seen 22 live?
Neutral Milk Hotel - No.

6. What's your favorite album from 10?
Bright Eyes - Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground

7. Do you own any merchandise from 3?
The Hold Steady - No, but I should.

8. What is a good memory you have of 7?
Elliott Smith - The first time I saw the scene in The Royal Tenenbaums that uses Needle In The Hay.

9. Is there a member of the same age as you in 2?
Pearl Jam - No.

10. When did you first get into 8?
Pink Floyd - 6th grade, heard The Wall and never looked back

11. Who likes 4 along with you?
Bad Religion - My brother

12. Which song did you first hear from 16?
TV on the Radio - Dreams

13. What song made you fall in love with 5?
Allison Iraheta - Her cover of Alone by Heart.

14. Which song do you not like by 18?
X - I was never that into Devil Doll.

15. Why do you like 14's songs?
The Decemberists - They're deliciously indie.

16. Where did you first hear 6?
The Beatles - Probably when I was very young.

17. How long was 19 a singer before you liked them?
Frank Zappa - I started liking him way after he had died, so I guess since the 60s.

18. Does 13 have a song that gives you a bad memory?
Hair - No.

19. When did you get into 17?
Marilyn Manson - Sometime during middle school.

20. How long have you been into 9?
Stars - A little over a year.

21. If 11 had a concert 300 miles away, would you drive there to see them?
The Flaming Lips - Oh hell yeah.

22. How many CDs do you own of 12?
Weezer - Two or three I think.

23. Does 21 have a song that makes you cry?
Neil Young - The Needle And The Damage Done is pretty damn emotional.

24. Does 27 have a song that makes you happy?
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Phenomena

25. Does 23 have a song that makes you smile?
R.E.M - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

26. What's the last song you've listened to from 28?
Stone Temple Pilots - I think it was their cover of David Bowie's "Andy Warhol."

27. Is there a song by 32 that you've listened to more than 30 times?
Switchfoot - No, but Awakening's got 23, which is close.

28. What is a song from 50 that you've only listened to once?
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Mark David Chapman

29. Is there a song you are sick of hearing by 24?
The Smiths - Nope, they have amazing replay value.

30. What song got you into 40?
Arcade Fire - Probably Antichrist Television Blues.

31. What is your favorite single by 25?
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

32. If 49 hated you, what would you do?
Karen O and the Kids - It's funny, because I actually know her, and she doesn't.

33. What would you say if 42 or one of the members from 42 asked you out?
System of a Down - That's an odd question.

34. Would you care if 41 had a boyfriend/girlfriend?
The Doors - Well one of them is dead, and I'm sure the rest are married.

35. Who has the best voice in 46?
The Who - Roger Daltrey

36. Do you think 26 is/are good looking?
The Gaslight Anthem - They're pretty cool looking.

37. How many times have you listened to your favorite song by 36?
Morrissey - Irish Blood, English Heart, 28 plays.

38. How many CDs do you own of 30?
The Velvet Underground - One.

39. Is there a song from 38 that makes you mad?
The Replacements - Nope.

40. Which member from 31 do you want to see go solo? If 31 is only one artist, what would you do if they joined a group?
The Pixies - Frank went solo, and Kim joined the Breeders so...yeah.

41. What does your favorite song from 48 remind you of?
Billy Joel - Miami 2017 (I've Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway), New York.

42. Did you hate 43 at first?
Simon and Garfunkel - Actually I did.

43. Does your best friend also listen to 33?
Heatmiser - lol I think I'm the only one who listens to 33.

44. Do you think your parents would like 37?
Regina Spektor - They do.

45. Does 47 have a song that makes you want to dance?
The National - Most of their songs are pretty dark and down, so not really.

46. Have you ever seen 34 in person?
The Killers - Yeah, Coachella 2009.

47. Do you like 44's name?
Material Issue - Yeah, it's a cool name.

48. Is there someone in 45 that you want to go out with?
Arctic Monkeys - lmfao, no.

49. Do you know anyone that hates 39?
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Nope.

50. Have you ever danced to a song from 35?
The Frogs - Nope.

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The Perfect Gig Meme

Nov 21 2009, 3h27 por anchovybay

• Name your top 15 artists.
• Come up with a set list for them to make your perfect gig
• The first 8 artists get a 5 song set list
• The next 4 artists get a 8 song set list
• The 3rd and 2nd artist get a 10 song set list
• The top artist gets a 12 song set list with a 3 song encore.

TV on the Radio

Young Liars
The Wrong Way
Dancing Choose
Wolf Like Me
Dry Drunk Emperor

Nine Inch Nails

The Perfect Drug
March of The Pigs
The Wretched
Hurt
Something I Can Never Have

The Decemberists

The Hazards of Love 1
O Valencia!
16 Military Wives
The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid
Valarie Plame

Weezer

My Name Is Jonas
Say It Ain't So
Pork And Beans
El Scorcho
The Greatest Man That Ever Lived

The Flaming Lips

Fight Test
One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots pt.1
Race For The Prize
Watching the Planets

Bright Eyes

The Calender Hung Itself
Method Acting
Four Winds
Soul Singer in a Session Bad
Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love And To Be Loved)

Stars

Set Yourself On Fire
Take Me To The Riot
Sleep Tonight
A Thread Cut With A Carving Knife
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead

Pink Floyd

Dogs
Astronomy Domine
Us And Them
When The Tigers Broke Free
Brain Damage/Eclipse

Elliott Smith

LA
Flowers For Charlie
Between The Bars
Needle in The Hay
Antonio Carlos Jobim (Heatmiser)
In The Lost And Found (Honky Bach)
Son Of Sam
Waltz #2

The Beatles

Come Together
I Saw Her Standing There
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Strawberry Fields Forever
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Dear Prudence
Blackbird
A Day In The Life

Allison Iraheta

Friday I'll Be Over U
Don't Speak
Papa Was A Rolling Stone
Just Like You
Someone To Watch Over Me
Don't Waste The Pretty
Alone
I Can't Make You Love Me

Bad Religion

Sinister Rouge
We're Only Gonna Die
Atomic Garden
A Streetkid Named Desire
American Jesus
Let Them Eat War
Boot Stamping On A Human Face Forever
Fields of Mars

The Hold Steady

Stuck Between Stations
One For The Cutters
Your Little Hoodrat Friend
Stevie Nix
You Gotta Dance With Who You Came To The Dance With
Cattle And The Creeping Things
Constructive Summer
Banging Camp
How A Resurrection Really Feels
First Night

Pearl Jam

Wash
Deep
Insignificance
Jeremy
Off He Goes
Breath
Present Tense
Rats
Leash
Indifference

Bruce Springsteen

Thundercrack
Born To Run
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
Spirit In The Night
She's The One
The E Street Shuffle
It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
4th Of July, Asbury Park
Brilliant Disguise
New York City Serenade
Incident On 57th Street
Zero And Blind Terry
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Backstreets/Sad Eyes
The Angel
Jungleland

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Items for sale

Nov 19 2009, 12h55 por brianstowell

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tohXi4HqYzmXke8pueyvVMw&gid=6

Lots of band merch for sale. Shirts, CDs, DVDs, stickers, vinyl, and more. Help a kid out?

Stuff from:
30 Seconds to Mars, The Almost, August Burns Red, Between The Buried & Me, Chiodos, Dashboard Confessional, The Decemberists, Drive Thru Records, Epitaph, Fair to Midland, The Fall of Troy, Fall Out Boy, Franz Ferdinand, Gym Class Heroes, Hellogoodbye, Incubus, The Killers, Motion City Soundtrack, My Chemical Romance, New Found Glory, Paramore, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Saddle Creek Records, Say Anything, The Starting Line, Taking Back Sunday, The White Stripes, Underoath, The Used, Victory Records

& way more

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tohXi4HqYzmXke8pueyvVMw&gid=6

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what I've listened [2009]

Nov 19 2009, 0h52 por pedrovalenca

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion * (7.0 of 10.0)
Anthony And The Johnsons – The Crying Light (3.3 of 10.0)
Arctic Monkeys – Humbug(7.2 of 10.0)
Bat for Lashes – Two Suns ** (8.6 of 10.0)
The Black Atlantic – Reverence For Fallen Trees (5.5 of 10.0)
Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career – BLANK (I still haven’t listened)
Coldplay– Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends (5.8 of 10.0)
Dead Man’s Bones – Dead Man’s Bones (I still haven’t listened)
The Decemberists – Hazards of Love (7.2 of 10)
Dinosaur Jr. – Farm(6.0 of 10.0)
Dragonette– Fixin To Thrill (5.5 of 10.0)
The Dodos – Time To Die (6.5 of 10.0)
Editors– In This Light And On This Evening* (7.7 of 10.0)
The Enemy –Music for the People * (7.6 of 10.0)
The Exploding Boy – Afterglow+ (7.4 of 10.0)
The Fiery Furnaces – I’m Going Away * (7.6 of 10.0)
Florence and The Machine– Lungs* (7.9 of 10.0)
Franz Ferdinand– Tonight* (7.6 of 10.0)
The Gossip– Music For Men * (7.8 of 10.0)
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest+ (7.2 of 10.0)
Kaiser Chiefs –Off With Their Heads + (7.6 of 10.0)
La Roux – La Roux + (7.5 of 10.0)
Lily Allen – It’s Not Me,It’s You * (7.7 of 10.0)
Little Boots – Hands* (7.7 of 10.0)
Mando Diao – Give Me Fire * (7.8 of 10.0)
Marina & the Diamonds – Some EP’s (6.8 of 10.0)
The Mars Volta – Octahedron(I still haven’t listented)
Mew– No More Stories Are Told (6.8 of 10.0)
Muse– The Resistance (7.0 of 10)
Patrick Wolf – The Bachelor (I still haven’t listented)
Phoenix– Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (7.3 of 10.0)
Portugal.The Man – The Satanic Satanist (4.0 of 10.0)
Project:KOMAKINO - The Struggle For Utopia (7.0 of 10.0)
The Rakes – Klang! (6.0 of 10.0)
The Raveonettes – In An Out of Control (7.6 of 10.0) *
Regina Spektor– Far** (9.1 of 10.0)
St.Vincent– Actor+ (7.4 of 10.0)
White Lies – To Lose My Life ***(absolute favorite so far) (9.3 of 10.0)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz! + (7.2 of 10.0)

*** - absolute favorite so far
** - definitely a highlight
* - over-the-top
+ - better than the average

Biggest surprises (much better than I thought it would be)

-Animal Collective
-Editors
-The Enemy
-The Exploding Boy
-Florence and the Machine
-Little Boots
-The Gossip
-Regina Spektor
-St.Vincent

Biggest disappointments (they weren’t exactly bad,but they were disappointing to me)
-Arctic Monkeys
-Coldplay
-Dragonette
-Kaiser Chiefs
-Mew
-Muse
-Portugal.The Man
-The Dodos

I was already expecting something good from:

-Bat for Lashes
-The Fiery Furnaces
-Franz Ferdinand
-Lily Allen
-Mando Diao
-White Lies
-Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Next year I want new stuff from:

-Arcade Fire
-Blonde Redhead
-Amy Winehouse
-Interpol
-Dengue Fever
-Santogold
- etc

My 2009’s top 10 would be:

1- White Lies – To Lose My Life (9.3)
2- Regina Spektor – Far (9.1)
3- Bat for Lashes – Two Suns (8.6)
4- Florence and the Machine – Lungs (7.9)
5- Mando Diao – Give Me Fire (7.8)
6- The Gossip – Music For Men (7.8)
7- Editors – In This Light and on This Evening (7.7)
8- Lily Allen – It’s Not Me,It’s You (7.7)
9- The Enemy – Music For The People (7.6)
10- Kaiser Chiefs – Off With Their Heads (7.6)

(+ The Raveonettes and The Fiery Furnaces)

my 2009's tracks:

Animal Collective - Also Frightned (7.1 of 10.0)
Arctic Monkeys - Dangerous Animals (7.2 of 10.0)
Bat for Lashes - Daniel(10.0 of 10.0)
Bat for Lashes - Glass(7.7 of 10.0)
Bat for Lashes - Pearl's Dream (7.0 of 10.0)
Bat for Lashes- Travelling Woman (7.8 of 10.0)
Coldplay- Lovers In Japan/Reign Of Love (10.0 of 10.0 - the 1st part)
The Decemberists - The Wanting Comes in Waves (7.3 of 10.0)
Editors- Papillon(8.5 of 10.0)
The Enemy - Away From Here (7.2 of 10.0)
The Exploding Boy - London(8.2 of 10.0)
The Fiery Furnaces- Starring At The Steeple (7.4 of 10.0)
Florence and The Machine - Dog Days Are Over (8.7 of 10.0)
Florence and The Machine - Girl With One Eye (8.4 of 10.0)
Florence and The Machine- Drumming(7.5 of 10.0)
Franz Ferdinand- Ulysses(8.4 of 10.0)
The Gossip - Heavy Cross (8.6 of 10.0)
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks (8.6 of 10.0)
La Roux - Tigerlilly (8.4 of 10.0)
Lily Allen - Not Fair (8.2 of 10.0)
Little Boots - Remedy(8.5 of 10.0)
Mando Diao- Maybe Just Sad (8.7 of 10.0)
Mando Diao - You Got Nothing On Me (7.8 of 10.0)
Marina & the Diamonds - The Shampain Sleeper (7.5 of 10.0)
Muse- The Resistance (7.5 of 10.0)
The Raveonettes - Breaking Into Cars! (9.0 of 10.0)
The Raveonettes- Boys Who Rape (7.3 of 10.0)
Regina Spektor - The Calculation (8.6 of 10.0)
Regina Spektor - Blue Lips (8.4 of 10.0)
Regina Spektor - Two Birds (7.8 of 10.0)
Regina Spektor - Genius Next Doorr (8.5 of 10.0)
Regina Spektor - Man of a Thousand Faces (8.5 of 10.0)
St.Vincent -Actor Out Of Work (7.5 of 10.0)
White Lies - Farewell To The Fairground (10.0 of 10.0)
White Lies - To Lose My Life (10.0 of 10.0)
White Lies - Unfinished Business (10.0 of 10.0)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Runaway(7.4 of 10.0)

my 2009's top 10 tracks:

1)Bat for Lashes - Daniel
2)White Lies - Farewell to the Fairground and To Lose My Life
3)Coldplay - Lovers In Japan/Reign Of Love (the 1st part)
4)Regina Spektor - The Calculation,Man of a Thousand Faces and Genius Next Door
5)The Raveonettes - Breaking Into Cars
6)Florence and the Machine - Dog Days Are Over
7)Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
8)Mando Diao - Maybe Just Sad
9)Editors - Papillon
10)The Gossip - Heavy Cross

(+)
Anthony and the Johnsons - Her Eyes Are Underneath The Ground;
The Black Atlantic - Fragile Meadow;
Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning;
Dragonette - Don't Be Funny;
The Dodos - Small Death;
Editors - In This Light And On This Evening;
The Enemy - Elephant Song,No Time For Tears,Sing When You're In Love;
The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away,Even In The Rain;
Franz Ferdinand - Lucid Dreams;
Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others;
La Roux - In It For The Kill,Quicksand,Bulletproof;
Lily Allen - The Fear,22,Chinese;
Mando Diao - Dance With Somebody;
Phoenix- Lisztomania;
The Rakes - You're In It;
The Raveonettes - Last Dance;
Regina Spektor - Folding Chair,One More Time With Feeling,Time Is All Around,The Sword & The Pen;
St.Vincent - The Strangers;
White Lies - Death,The Price of Love
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero.

(man,my lists sucks)

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Best Albums Of 2009: Longlist

Nov 17 2009, 21h28 por pzantingh

To be added to and deleted from, within the next month. Nothing definitive yet. The bigger ones are Top 10 material, most likely.

Athlete - Black Swan
The Antlers - Hospice
Balmorhea - All Is Wild, All Is Silent
Bell X1 - Blue Lights On The Runway
The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
David Gray - Draw The Line
The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love
Editors - In This Light And On This Evening
Eels - Hombre Lobo
Fanfarlo - Reservoir
Felix - You Are The One I Pick
Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
het zesde metaal - Akattemets
Iain Archer - To The Pine Roots
Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter
Laura Jansen - Bells
Loney, Dear - Dear John
The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
Ludovico Einaudi - Nightbook
Micah P. Hinson - All Dressed Up And Smelling Of Strangers
Moss - Never Be Scared, Don't Be A Hero
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
Muse - The Resistance
Musette - Datum
Olafur Arnalds - Found Songs
Oren Lavie - The Opposite Side Of The Sea
Owen - New Leaves
Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
Regina Spektor - Far
Sébastien Schuller - Evenfall
The Swell Season - Strict Joy
The Wooden Birds - Magnolia
The xx - XX

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