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Albums of the year - 2009
Two ratings, one for the album, one for the album compared to average of artist's previous albums. Mostly just for me to come back to next year to have a look.

LPs

1) dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion, 10/10 - 8.5/10
Most poppy of their albums but it’s still fucking amazing.
2) Muse- The Resistance, 9/10 – 7.5/10
Exogenesis <3
3) Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue 8.5/10 - 8/10
Not quite up there with Dirt and EPs, but it’s growing on me.
4) Amorphis – Skyforger, 8/10 – 8/10
5) AFI - Crash Love, 7.5/10 - 8/10
One of my fav AFI albums. I thought they were full-on going emo after Decemberunderground, but luckily they decided to write a decent rock record
6) Placebo- Battle For The Sun 7/10 - 6/10
6) Porcupine Tree - The Incident, 7/10 - 6/10
7) The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die, 7/10 - 7/10
9) N.A.S.A. - The Spirit of Apollo, 7/10
Good bunch of collaborations with decent artists. It works.
10) K'naan – Troubadour, 7/10 - 6/10
Much shorter and not as good as The Dusty Foot Philosopher, but has some good songs (my favs – Wavin Flag, Fire In Firetown, I Come Prepared, Fatima)

EPs.

1) Puscifer- "C" Is for (Please Insert Sophomoric Genitalia Reference HERE), 10/10 - 10/10. (The new 3 tracks are pretty much the best Puscifer tracks)
2) Massive Attack - Splitting The Atom, 8/10 - 8/10 (3 really good songs and1 really boring one- Bulletproof Love)
3) RJD2 - Tin Foil Hat, 6.5/10 - 6/10 (fav track - Thine Planetarium)
4) Modest Mouse - No One's First, And You're Next, 6/10 – 4/10 (it is a collection of B-sdies hence why it’s not that good)

Pretty Decent LPs

Katatonia - Night Is The New Day (need to listen to this more)
Imogen Heap - Ellipse
k-os - Yes!
Norah Jones - The Fall
Weezer – Ratitude (usual weezer immaturity)
Owl City - Ocean Eyes
Billy Talent - Billy Talent III (solid catchy album as usual)
Chali 2na - Fish Outta Water
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings (need to listen to more)
Dub Pistols - Rum & Coke
Eminem – Relapse (never gonna match SS or MM Lps but not bad)
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
Zero 7 - Yeah Ghost
Ziggy Marley - Family Time
Jazz Liberatorz – Fruits of the Past (random good find, jazzy hip-hop)
Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon: The End Of Day (pretty good for mainstream hip-hop. Whole album is pretty good)
Metric– Fantasies
The Sounds - Crossing The Rubicon
Tech N9ne – Sickology 101 (pretty angry lyrics but he can rhyme pretty damn well)
Awol One & Factor – Owl Hours
The Crystal Method – Divided By Night

Ones that should have been much better

311 - Uplifter
Air - Love 2
Lacuna Coil – Shallow Life (really forgettable)
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures (eh.. guys, it doesn’t work especially well. Let’s get back to Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age and retirement)
Street Sweeper Social Club - Street Sweeper Social Club (a lot of it blends into one, maybe I’m just pissed it’s not RATM)
Elysian Fields –The Afterlife (maybe I need to listen to it more, but not especially liking this one)
Dizze Rascal - Tongue N' Cheek (only a few ok songs, the others are puke-inducing - Holiday, Leisure, etc)

The utter anal crap

Chris Cornell – Scream

Pretty good year for music. The top 10, especially top 3 made it a pretty excellent year.

This list does not include plays/musicals, local bands or ticketless concerts/events.

1993 - dc Talk
1993 - Carmen
1995 - Crystal Bernard and Billy Dean
October 14, 1999 - Goo Goo Dolls & Tonic
September 28, 2000 - Matchbox Twenty
April 10, 2001 - Godsmack, Staind & Cold
August 15, 2001 - Nelly & St. Lunatics
December 29, 2001 - Barenaked Ladies
March 13, 2002 - Sugar Ray & Simple Plan
June 11, 2002 - blink-182 & Green Day
July 25, 2002 - Nickelback
August 6, 2002 - Area 2 Music Festival: Ash, Blue Man Group, Busta Rhymes, David Bowie, Moby, Dieselboy, Avalanches, Dj Tiesto, DJ Tim Skinner, John Digweed & Carl Cox
October 12, 2002 - Incubus & Hometown Hero
December 17, 2002 - The Night 89x Stole Christmas: Trust Company, The Used, The Vines, Zwan, New Found Glory, Good Charlotte & Box Car Racer
April 2003 - Counting Crowes (Working Personnel)
April 18, 2003 - Alkaline Trio
July 15, 2003 - Blues Traveler & Ziggy Marley
August 13, 2003 - Evanescence, Cold & some other bands
November 20, 2003 - 311 & Alien Ant Farm (Working Personnel)
January 9, 2004 - David Bowie & Macy Gray
December 1, 2004 - The Night 89x Stole Christmas 7: The Used, Taking Back Sunday, Franz Ferdinand, Jimmy Eat World, Good Charlotte
May 30, 2005 - 89x 14th Birthday Bash: The Sights, Lost City Angels, The Blue Van, Robbers on High Street, 30 Seconds to Mars, Louis XIV, Tegan and Sara, Acceptance, Unwritten Law, Motion City Soundtrack, Sum 41, Brendan Benson, Keane, The Killers
August 13, 2005 - James Taylor & Band
September 11, 2005 - Green Day & Jimmy Eat World
September 17, 2005 - 30 Seconds to Mars
October 9, 2005 - Rufus Wainwright
October 22, 2005 - Nickel Creek & The Ditty Bops
October 24, 2005 - U2 & Institute
October 25, 2005 - U2 & Institute
November 5, 2005 - 30 Seconds to Mars & Halestorm
December 10, 2005 - U2 & Institute
December 15, 2005 - Aerosmith and Lenny Kravitz

#
311 (2009, 2008)


B
Backstreet Boys (1998)
Badfish (2007)
Bassnectar (2008)
Beastie Boys (2008)
Blind Melon (2008)
Blues Traveler (2009)
Britney Spears (2009, 2000, 1998)


C
The Crystal Method (1999)


D
Dark Star Orchestra (2007)
Dave Matthews Band (2000)
Destiny's Child (2001, 1999)
The Disco Biscuits (2008, 2006)


E
Eve (2001)
Everlast (2001)


F
Filter (1999)


G
G. Love & Special Sauce (2008)
Goo Goo Dolls (1999)


J
Jason Mraz (2007)
Jessica Simpson (2001)
John Butler Trio (2008, 2007)


K
Korn (1999)


L
Lifehouse (2001)
Limp Bizkit (1999)
Live (2001)
Lotus (2007)


M
McLovins (2009)
Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood (2008)
Mobb Deep (1999)


N
Nelly & The St. Lunatics (2001)
The New Deal (2009, 2008, 2005)
*NSYNC (1999, 1998)


O
The Omega Moos (2008)
Our Lady Peace (2001)


P
Pepper (2008, 2007)
PHANTOGRAM (2009)
Phil Lesh & Friends (2008)
Phish (2009)


R
Radiohead (2008)
Run DMC (1999)


S
Slightly Stoopid (2008)
Spin Doctors (2008)
Staind (1999)
Sound Tribe Sector 9 (2009, 2008, 2007)
Shpongle (2008)


T
Tatyana Ali (1999)
Telepath (2009)
Third Eye Blind (2008)
TLC (1999)
Tonic (1999)
Trans-Siberian Orchestra (2007)
Trey Anastasio (2008)


U
Umphrey's McGee (2008)


Z
Ziggy Marley (2009)

Radiohead
Gov't Mule
Girl Talk
The Grateful Dead (summer tour)
The Bravery
Astral Projection
Bassnectar
Blink 182
Coldplay
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Crystal Method
Ziggy Marley
Willie Nelson
311
The Disco Biscuits
Dave Matthews Band
Tech N9ne
The String Cheese Incident
EOTO
John Mayer
The Glitch Mob
MSTRKRFT
Incubus
Slightly Stoopid
Les Claypool
Toubab Krewe
Bob Dylan
Snoop Dogg
Tom Foolery
Railroad Earth
Damian Marley
Nas
Sound Tribe Sector 9
Rebelution
Shpongle
Toots & The Maytals
Modest Mouse

Axel Rudi Pell
Cripper2x
Debauchery
Death Angel
Diary About my Nightmares
Die Ärzte
Die Toten Hosen
DragonForce
Drone
Ektomorf
Fiddler's Green2X
Gamma Ray
GWAR
HammerFall
Heaven & Hell
In Extremo 2X
J.B.O
Kataklysm
Korpiklaani
Lay Down Rotten
MachineHead
Motörhead
Napalm Death
Onkel Tom
Running Wild
Saxon
Schandmaul
Sniper
Swashbuckle
Sweety Glitter3X
Tankard
Testament
Volbeat
Ziggy Marley

some of them i absolutely love. others... kind of suck ... but either way, great experiences.

Architect
ATB
Autolux
Beach House
Baseck
Beirut x2
Benny Benassi
Ben Harper
Binary Field
Bob Dylan
Boys Noize
Brian McKnight
The Brunettes
Cheech & Chong
Crocodiles
The Crystal Method
Cypress Hill
The Decemberists
Deftones
Devon Williams
Dionne Warwick
Doll & The Kicks
Dropkick Murphys
Earth Wind & Fire x2
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
The Flaming Lips
The Flatliners
Green Day
Grizzly Bear x3
Groove Armada
Here We Go Magic
India Arie
Indigo Girls
Infected Mushroom
The Insurgence
Jason Mraz
Jimmy Eat World
Joan Baez
Joss Stone
Luther Vandross
Macy Gray
The Mars Volta
Michael McDonald
Morrissey x2
Naha
No Doubt
Otto Von Schirach
Paul Oakenfold
Paul van Dyk
Pearl Jam
Pennywise
Pixies
Rain Machine
The Raveonettes
Shiny Toy Guns
Simian Mobile Disco
Stevie Nicks
Stevie Wonder x2
Sublime or whatever you want to call them without bradley
Thievery Corporation
Tom Petty
Van Morrison
Venetian Snares
Vetiver
The Walkmen
The Who
Why?
Yo La Tengo
Youth Brigade
Ziggy Marley

1. How did you get into no.29?
Armin van Buuren - Heard him a lot of years ago on the radio

2. What's the first song you ever heard by no.22?
Deadmau5 - Faxing Berlin

3. Whats your favourite lyric by no.33?
Kyteman - Don't know

4. How did you get into no.49?
Daft Punk - Saw them on tv years ago with their single Around The World

5. How many albums by no.13 do you own?
Pete Philly & Perquisite - One

6. What is your favorite song by no.50?
Jack Johnson - Sitting, Wating, Wishing

7. Is there a song by no.39 that makes you sad?
The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work

8. What is your favorite song by no.15?
Dido - Sand In My Shoes

9. What is your favorite song by no.5?
Bob Dylan - Can't choose a song!

10. Is there a song by no.6 that makes you happy?
Alpha Blondy - Mostly all of the songs

11. What is the worst song by no.40?
Sticks & Delic - Slangeleer

12. What is your favorite song by no.10?
a balladeer - Robin II

13. What is a good memory you have involving no.30?
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris, this song brought me in love with the Goo Goo Dolls

14. What is your favorite song by no.38?
Jose Gonzalez - Hints

15. Is there a song by no.19 that makes you happy?
3 Doors Down - Kryptonite

16. Is there a song by no.25 that makes you sad?
Typhoon - No!

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
Opgezwolle - Verre Oosten

18. What's your favorite lyric by no.11?
The Killers - When You Were Young

19. Who is a favorite member of no.1?
U2 - Bono!

20. Is there a song by no.14 that makes you happy?
Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA

21. What is a good memory involving no.27?
Santogold - Her concert at the Lowlands Festival 2008

22. What is your favorite song by no.16?
Pearl Jam - Alive

23. What is the first song you ever heard by no.47?
El Pino & The Volunteers - Moody Street

24. What is your favorite album by no.18?
Radiohead - In Rainbows

25. What is your favorite song by no.21?
UNKLE - Back And Forth

26. What is the first song you ever heard by no.26?
DJ Shadow - Organ Donor

27. What is your favorite album by no.3?
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Survival

28. What is you favorite song by no.2?
Coldplay - Can't choose!

29. What was the first song you ever heard by no.32?
Nickelback - How You Remind Me

30. What is you favorite song by no.8?
Tiesto - Adagio For Strings

31. How many times have you seen no.17 live?
Audio Bullys - Not even once

32. Is there a song by no.44 that makes you happy?
Cafe Del Mar - A lot of the songs

33. How did you get into no.12?
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Heard them on the radio

34. What is the worst song by no.45?
Saybia - Don't know the name of the song right now

35. What was the first song you ever heard by no.34?
Mark Knopfler - Sailing To Philidelphia

36. What was the first song you ever heard by no.48?
Matisyahu - King Without A Crown (live at Stubbs)

37. How many times have you seen no.42 live?
Nirvana - Unfortunately never

38. What is you favorite song by no.36?
Editors - Well Worn Hand

39. What was the first song you ever heard by no.28?
Mary J Blige - Can't remember right now

40. What is you favorite album by no.7?
Faithless - Sunday 8pm

41. Is there a song by no.31 that makes you happy?
Kings of Leon - Sex On Fire

42. What is your favorite album by no.41?
Alicia Keys - The Diary Of Alicia Keys

43. What is your favorite song by no.24?
Gorillaz - 1990-2000

44. What is a good memory you have involving no.46?
Ziggy Marley - Don't have one yet

45. What is your favorite song by no.35?
Novastar - Wrong

46. Is there a song by no.9 that makes you happy?
Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly (because of the video too)

47. What is your favorite album by no.4?
Blof - Watermakers

48. Who is your favorite member of no.37?
Willard Grant Conspiracy - Robert Fisher

49. What is the first song you ever heard by no.43?
Habib Koite - Can't remember

50. What is your favorite song by no.20?
Moby - Porcelain

2 Many DJs
A Plus D
a-ha
Above & Beyond
Acid Jacks
Air
Ajax
Alanis Morissette
Alex Lloyd
Allison (x3)
Amy Meredith
Angelique Kidjo
Annie
anti flag
Aphex Twin
The Arcade Fire
Architecture in Helsinki
Arctic Monkeys (+ met)
The Ark
Arrested Development
Art Vs Science (x2)
Ash
Augie March
ATB
The Avalanches
Bag Raiders
Bang Gang (x3)
Bare Egil Band
Basement Jaxx
Beastie Boys (x2)
The Beautiful Girls
Beck (x4 - first in 2000)
Ben Folds
Bernard Fanning
Bertie Blackman (+ met)
BigBang
Birds of Tokyo
Björk
Bjørn Torske
Black Debbath (+ met)
Black Kids
Bloc Party
Bloody Beetroots
Blue King Brown (x2)
Bob Evans
Booka Shade
Brian Wilson
Briskeby (+ met)
Cansei de Ser Sexy/CSS
The Cat Empire (x8)
Chemical Brothers (x2)
Chris Isaak
Chris Lilley (met)
Chromeo
Cog
Cold War Kids
Coldplay (x2)
Come Shine (+ met)
Craig David
Crookers
The Cuban Brothers
Cut Copy (+ Cut Copy DJs)
The Dandy Warhols
Dananananaykroyd
Danny T
Dave Matthews Band
Dappled Cities (+ met)
Datarock (x7 + friends)
Datsun (+ met)
David Bowie
dde
De La Soul
Deadmau5 (x2)
Death Cab for Cutie (sidestage)
Deftones
deLillos
Devo
Diplo
Dirty South
Dizee Rascal
DJ Shadow
Donavon Frankenreiter
Doves
Dropkick Murphys
Dukes Of Windsor (+ met)
Dungen
Easy Star All-Stars
Eclectic Method
Eddy Grant
Eels (x2)
Elvira Nikolaisen (+ met)
Enzyme
Ephemera
Equicez (+ met)
Erik Faber
Euroboys
Evermore (enemies)
Faker
Familjen
Farmers Market
Fatboy Slim
Felix da Housecat
The Fernets
Ferry Corsten
Fischerspooner
Flaming Lips (x2 2003, 2009)
Flamingo Crash (x3 + met)
Franz Ferdinand (x2)
The Fratellis
Freelance Hellraiser
Friendly Fires
Furia
Gatas Parlament (+ met)
Girl Talk
Gnarls Barkley
Gorillaz Sound System
Grafton Primary
Grandmaster Flash
The Grates (x5 + met)
Groove Armada
The Gutter Twins
Guy Blackman
Happy Mondays
The Hives (x4 - first in 2001)
Hilltop Hoods
Holly Throsby
Hooray For Everything (x5 + friends)
Hot Chip (x2 + met)
Hungry Kids of Hungary (x2)
Hurra Torpedo (x2 + met)
I Heart Hiroshima
Iggy & the Stooges
James Brown (+ photographed)
Jamiroquai
Jarvis Cocker
Jet
Jim Stärk
The John Butler Trio (x2)
John Dahlbäck
José González (x2)
Josh Pyke (x2)
Jurassic 5
Justin Timberlake
Kaada
Kaiser Chiefs (+ met)
Kaizers Orchestra (x6)
Karnivool (x2)
Kent (x2)
Kid Koala (& Short Attention Span Theatre) (+ met)
Kimya Dawson
Kings of Leon
Klaxons
The Kooks
Kraftwerk
Less Than Jake
Lisa Mitchell
Lily Allen
Lior (+ met)
Little Red
The Living End (x2)
Manchester Orchestra
Manic Street Preachers
Macromantics
Madrugada (x2)
Marit Larsen
Mark Ronson
The Mars Volta
Matisyahu
Mayhem
Metro Area
Metronomy
MGMT
Midnight Juggernauts (x2)
Miguel Migs (+ met)
Mike Relm
Millencollin
Minor Majority
Moby
Modest Mouse (+ met)
montpelier (née The Quills) (friends)
Morten Abel (x2)
Muse (+ met)
My Chemical Romance (+ met)
N.E.R.D
Neil Young
New Young Pony Club
The Nextmen
No Doubt
Nouvelle Vague
OK Go
Operator Please (friends)
Orbital
Palace of Pleasure (+ met)
Panic! At the Disco
Paperboys (+ met)
The Panda Band
Paul Dempsey
Paul McCartney
Paul Oakenfold
Pauly J (friend)
Peaches
Pendulum
Pet Shop Boys
Petter
Pharcyde
Phoenix
The Pipettes (+ met)
Pnau (x2)
The Polyphonic Spree
Postgirobygget
The Potbelleez
Powderfinger
The Presets (x4)
Princess Superstar
The Prodigy (x2)
Q-Tip
Queens of the Stone Age
Rage Against the Machine
Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band (+ met)
Rammstein
Rasmus Faber (+ met)
The Red Paintings
Ribozyme
Ricki-Lee
Robyn
Roger Sanchez
Rogue Traders
Róisín Murphy
Roni Size "Reprazent"
Röyksopp (x3 - first time in 1998)
Sam Sparro
Safariari
Santogold
Satyricon
Sepultura
Sgt. Petter
Shaggy
Sia
Side Brok
Sigur Rós
Silver
Simian Mobile Disco
Skambankt
Sly Fox
Smashing Pumpkins
Snob Scrilla
Sneaky Sound System
SoKo
Sondre Lerche (x3 + met)
Sonique
Soulwax
Sparkadia (x2 + met)
Spiderbait
Spoon
Stanton Warriors
Stereolab
Stereophonics
The Streets (x2)
The Strokes
Surferosa
Tame Impala
Teebee & K
Tegan and Sara
The Temper Trap
Tennis
That 1 Guy
Tijuana Cartel
The Ting Tings
Tokyo Police Club
Travis
Trentemøller
Turbonegro (x3 + met)
TV Rock
tyDi
Ugress
Vampire Weekend
Van She
Violent Femmes (+ met)
Washington
Weezer (x3)
The White Stripes
Who Made Who
Will Young
Wolf & Cub (+ met)
Wolfmother (x3)
The Wombats
Xploding Plastix (x3 + met)
Yelle
Yuksek
Yves Klein Blue (friends)
Ziggy Marley
The Zutons
Åge Aleksandersen

(and those are just the ones I remember)