The Rolling Top Albums of 2009 Thread!!!

dangerbird · **Joined:** Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:53 am **Posts:** 427

allright, time for my first list of the year

excellent:

John Frusciante - The Empyrean
The Tragically Hip - We are the same
Wilco - Wilco (The album)
Metric - Fantasies

good

silversun pickups - swoon
bon iver - blood bank ep
eels - hombre lobo
Neil Young - Fork in the road
Hayden - The place where we lived
Booker T. - Potato Hole

Didnt like

Animal Collective - Merriweather post pavillion
The Pains of being pure at heart - s/t
Obits - I blame you
Modest Mouse - No one's first and youre next

needs more listens

the decemberists - the hazards of love
son volt - american central dust
phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix
bell x1 - blue lights on the runway

OPA! · **Posted:** Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:01 am

I gotta give that Metric another listen. I didn't like it much the first time.

Evil Dr. K · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:51 am **Posts:** 6327

I've bought one new release in the last two months.

Could be my last year in the front rank of popular culture before I retire and join the pipe and slippers brigade.

Top 3 of 2009 so far

1. White Denim 'Fit'
2. Franz Ferdinand 'Tonight: Franz Ferdinand'
3. 1990s 'Kicks'

FT · **Posted:** Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:27 pm

I just heard the new Joe Pernice album last night, and it's definitely going to rank highly on my list. Brendan Benson is also good, but not as fantastic as the Pernice album.

FT · **Posted:** Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:28 pm

konstantinl Wrote:

the pipe and slippers brigade

by far my favorite decemberists song

Gordo · **Posted:** Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:24 pm

FT Wrote:

konstantinl Wrote:

the pipe and slippers brigade

by far my favorite decemberists song

I laughed, Bob. And I need to give that Pernice CD a listen, pronto.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:31 am

Here's 50:

01. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
02. Dan Deacon - Bromst
03. Oneida - Rated O
04. Cryptacize - Mythomania
05. Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
06. Thee Oh Sees - HELP
__. Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP
07. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
__. Times New Viking - Stay Awake EP
__. Abe Vigoda - Reviver EP
08. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
09. Ganglians - Monster Head Room
10. Jackie-O Motherfucker - Ballads of the Revolution

11. Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship
12. Woods - Songs of Shame
13. Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
14. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
__. Suckers - s/t EP
15. The Dodos - Time to Die
16. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
17. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
18. Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
19. NOMO - Invisible Cities
__. Magnolia Electric Co. - It's Made Me Cry 7"
20. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions

21. Tyvek - s/t
__. Crystal Stilts - Love Is a Wave 7"
22. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
23. Lhasa - s/t
24. Vetiver - Tight Knit
__. Ganglians - s/t EP
25. Wolf Eyes - Always Wrong
26. DOOM - Born Like This
27. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
28. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
29. Condo Fucks - Fuckbook
30. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Beware

31. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
32. Lotus Plaza - The Floodlight Collective
33. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
34. Wavves - Wavvves
__. Spoon - Got Nuffin EP
35. Busdriver - Jhelli Beam
36. Marissa Nadler - Little Hells
37. Mi Ami - Watersports
38. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
39. UUVVWWZ - s/t
40. Blank Dogs - Under and Under
41. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
42. Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine
43. Cass McCombs - Catacombs
44. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - s/t
45. Mika Miko - We Be Xuxa

46. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
__. Blank Dogs - The Fields EP
47. M. Ward - Hold Time
48. Various Artists - Dark Was the Night
49. Passion Pit - Manners
50. Themselves - theFREEhoudini Deluxe

OPA! · **Posted:** Thu Aug 20, 2009 3:26 pm

I'm only listing albums I purchase (most likely on CD as I don't purchase many mp3s anymore or download stuff.)

Best Of 2009

01. Black Moth Super Rainbow Eating Us

02. Deastro Moondagger

03. Bibio Ambivalence Avenue

04. YACHT See Mystery Lights

05. Neon Indian Psychic Chasms

06. Dan Deacon Bromst

Grape Ripple · **Posted:** Thu Aug 20, 2009 5:06 pm

Wow, that's the first mention of the Black Moth Super Rainbow album I've noticed on Obner. One of my favorites of the year. Good job OPA!.

ptrck · **Joined:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:55 pm **Posts:** 5568

two albums that are really good that i havent seen mentioned a lot:

jay reatard - watch me fall
reigning sound - love and curses

both will probably make my top 20, that reigning sound album is very good actually

e-stone · **Posted:** Fri Aug 21, 2009 2:36 pm

Drinky Wrote:

42. Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine

not feeling this one either? after my initial HUGE dissapointment, it has grown a little...but still not very impressed. it definitely picks up towards the end, but by that point it's too little too late.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

Patrick Wrote:

two albums that are really good that i havent seen mentioned a lot:

jay reatard - watch me fall
reigning sound - love and curses

both will probably make my top 20, that reigning sound album is very good actually

that reigning sound is good. havent heard that jay reatard, but i'm skeptical.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Fri Aug 21, 2009 2:38 pm

e-stone Wrote:

Drinky Wrote:

42. Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine

not feeling this one either? after my initial HUGE dissapointment, it has grown a little...but still not very impressed. it definitely picks up towards the end, but by that point it's too little too late.

There are a couple of good songs. But, yeah, I'm pretty disappointed. I dunno if I'll even bother with his next MEC album, but I guess if he puts out any more "solo" albums, I'll give him another chance.

And really, I like everything above 45 on my list to some degree.

e-stone · **Posted:** Fri Aug 21, 2009 2:40 pm

Drinky Wrote:

e-stone Wrote:

Drinky Wrote:

42. Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine

not feeling this one either? after my initial HUGE dissapointment, it has grown a little...but still not very impressed. it definitely picks up towards the end, but by that point it's too little too late.

There are a couple of good songs. But, yeah, I'm pretty disappointed. I dunno if I'll even bother with his next MEC album, but I guess if he puts out any more "solo" albums, I'll give him another chance.

And really, I like everything above 45 on my list to some degree.

have you ever checked out j. tillman? not really sure if he'd be your thing or not, but you never know. for me, he really reminds of molina's better work.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Fri Aug 21, 2009 2:43 pm

e-stone Wrote:

have you ever checked out j. tillman? not really sure if he'd be your thing or not, but you never know. for me, he really reminds of molina's better work.

I have not. What's a good starting point?

e-stone · **Posted:** Fri Aug 21, 2009 2:47 pm

Drinky Wrote:

e-stone Wrote:

have you ever checked out j. tillman? not really sure if he'd be your thing or not, but you never know. for me, he really reminds of molina's better work.

I have not. What's a good starting point?

for more of the sparse, dark solo-molina like stuff check out either minor works or cancer and delerium. his two albums from this year -- vacilando territory blues and a year in the kingom -- he's kinda fleshed out his sound a bit -- still really good though. i can up any or all of these this weekend if you'd like.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Fri Aug 21, 2009 2:49 pm

e-stone Wrote:

Drinky Wrote:

e-stone Wrote:

have you ever checked out j. tillman? not really sure if he'd be your thing or not, but you never know. for me, he really reminds of molina's better work.

I have not. What's a good starting point?

for more of the sparse, dark solo-molina like stuff check out either minor works or cancer and delerium. his two albums from this year -- vacilando territory blues and a year in the kingom -- he's kinda fleshed out his sound a bit -- still really good though. i can up any or all of these this weekend if you'd like.

Either of those first two you mentioned would be cool. Just one of them would be fine. Thanks!

OPA! · **Posted:** Fri Aug 21, 2009 3:12 pm

Drinky Wrote:

e-stone Wrote:

Drinky Wrote:

e-stone Wrote:

have you ever checked out j. tillman? not really sure if he'd be your thing or not, but you never know. for me, he really reminds of molina's better work.

I have not. What's a good starting point?

for more of the sparse, dark solo-molina like stuff check out either minor works or cancer and delerium. his two albums from this year -- vacilando territory blues and a year in the kingom -- he's kinda fleshed out his sound a bit -- still really good though. i can up any or all of these this weekend if you'd like.

Either of those first two you mentioned would be cool. Just one of them would be fine. Thanks!

I believe J. Tillman is in Fleet Foxes.

e-stone · **Posted:** Fri Aug 21, 2009 3:19 pm

OPA! Wrote:

I believe J. Tillman is in Fleet Foxes.

he joined the band as their touring drummer last year. don't hold that against him though. he had already recorded 5 of his 6 albums.

pinehurst · **Joined:** Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:45 am **Posts:** 1526

So far... something like this:

1. Dark Was The Night
2. Animal Collective
3. Grizzly Bear
4. Andrew Bird
5. Wilco
6. Decemberists

mcaputo · **Posted:** Sun Aug 23, 2009 6:17 pm

reigning sound - love and curses
son volt - american central dust
el goodo - coyote
lucero - 1372 overton park
robert pollard - elephant jokes
richmond fontaine - we used to think the freeway sounded like a river
tim easton - porcupine
outrageous cherry - universal malcontents
vetiver - tight knit
neko case - middle cyclone
cheap star - speaking like an elephant
dexateens - singlewide
gringo - circus devils

FT · **Posted:** Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:41 pm

People Are Leaving Wrote:

robert pollard - elephant jokes

first half is great, second half not so much

i think the crawling distance is better

ShamWow! · **Posted:** Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:15 pm

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paladisiac · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 12:40 am

pinehurst Wrote:

So far... something like this:

1. Dark Was The Night
2. Animal Collective
3. Grizzly Bear
4. Andrew Bird
5. Wilco
6. Decemberists

short grizzly bear, that could be 5 of my top 6 too.

spooky.

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 12:12 pm

ShamWow! Wrote:

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Damn, I didn't know that was coming. How's it stack up?

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