The Rolling Top Albums of 2009 Thread!!!

k · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 3:36 pm

Drinky Wrote:

19. NOMO - Invisible Cities

I finally got around to listening to this over the weekend. Certainly good as expected, but nothing spectacular to me. It seems like I always feel this way about them. Almost every year they release an album and it ends up somewhere between 20-25 on my year end list, never higher, never lower. That's not a bad thing by any means, but I'm ready for them to do something that absolutely blows me away.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 6:31 pm

k Wrote:

Drinky Wrote:

19. NOMO - Invisible Cities

I finally got around to listening to this over the weekend. Certainly good as expected, but nothing spectacular to me. It seems like I always feel this way about them. Almost every year they release an album and it ends up somewhere between 20-25 on my year end list, never higher, never lower. That's not a bad thing by any means, but I'm ready for them to do something that absolutely blows me away.

Yeah. I don't really think this one is as good as their last two, but those were plenty satisfactory for me. This one just lacks that certain something, some memorable moment or anything really distinctive. A little disappointing but still very good.

ShamWow! · **Posted:** Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:41 pm

Radcliffe Wrote:

ShamWow! Wrote:

[img][250:250]http://vox2.cdn.amiestreet.com/album-art/Meteor-by-The-Shazam_bS_1ZNdjEOYx_full.jpg[/img]

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

It's quite good. The vox are tight, and the guitars have the usual Shazam crunch and pop. This and the Sour Jazz have made my commutes quite enjoyable.

OPA! · **Posted:** Fri Aug 28, 2009 1:36 pm

Best Of 2009

01. DEASTRO - Moondagger

[Favorite Tracks: "Tone Adventure #3", "Moondagger", "Greens, Grays, And Nordics"]

02. BIBIO - Ambivalence Avenue

[Favorite Tracks: "Ambivalence Avenue", "Jealous Of Roses", "Haikuesque (When She Laughs)"]

03. BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW - Eating Us

[Favorite Tracks: "Tooth Decay", "Gold Splatter", "Iron Lemonade"]

04. NEON INDIAN - Psychic Chasms

[Favorite Tracks: "6669 (I Don't Know If You Know)", "Should Have Taken Acid With You", "Deadbeat Summer"]

05. DAN DEACON - Bromst

[Favorite Tracks: "Paddling Ghost", "Snookered", "Build Voice"]

06. YACHT - See Mystery Lights

[Favorite Tracks: "I'm In Love With A Ripper", "The Afterlife", "Psychic City (Voodoo City)"]

k · **Posted:** Sat Aug 29, 2009 2:23 am

1. William Fowler Collins- Perdition Hill Radio
2. Barn Owl- The Conjurer
3. Jasper TX- Singing Stones
4. Tomasz Bednarczyk- Painting Sky Together
5. Nadja- Under the Jaguar Sun
6. Jim O'Rourke and Loren Connors-Two Nice Catholic Boys
7. Peter Broderick- Music for Falling From Trees
8. Emeralds/Pain Jerk- European Tour 2009 Split
9. Rafael Anton Irisarri- Hopes and Past Desires
10. James Blackshaw- The Glass Bead Game
11. Six Organs of Admittance-RTZ
12. Tim Hecker-An Imaginary Country
13. Eternal Tapestry- Palace of the Night Skies
14. Toshiya Tsunoda- Scenery of Decalcomania
15. Animal Collective-Merriweather Post Pavilion
16. Richard Youngs-Sleep Deprivation
17. Luperci- The Holy Mountain
18. Blues Control- Local Flavor
19. Max Richter- Henry May Long (score/OST)
20. Biosphere- Wireless-Live at Arnolfini Bristol
21. Sunburned Hand of the Man- A Grand Tour of Tunisia
22. Wooden Shjips- Dos
23. Crystal Antlers- Tentacles
24. 6majik9-A Solid Space
25. Temple Music-Incompleteness
26. Spiral Joy Band- Lullabies for Jeff Dean
27. Peter Broderick- Five Film Score Outtakes
28. Human Greed- Black Hill: Midnight at the Blighted Star
29. SunnO)))- Monoliths and Dimensions
30. Nurse With Wound- The Surveillance Lounge

Awaiting the next Jefre Cantu Ledesma, Jack Rose, Bardo Pond, Bjerga/Iversen, Youngs/Paine, and Mokira.

Still reserving full judgment on Nomo, Cryptacize, and KFW.

TheTheory · **Posted:** Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:30 am

a new Nurse With Wound? Interesting...

*edit*
Might as well post my current list while I'm at it.

01 (tie). The Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
01 (tie). Sonic Youth - The Eternal
03. St. Vincent - Actor
04. The xx - xx
05. Gomez - A New Tide
06. Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears - Tell 'em What You Got
07. mewithoutYou - It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's Alright.

need to really listen to the paper chase and japandroids, both of which I have but haven't had a chance to really give much time to.

#3 and #4 could switch spots... and number 4 could drop completely on more listens. But the first two should be fairly solid at this point.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

revised:

1. Caetano Veloso
2. Loudon Wainwright III
2. Joe Bataan (a close third)
4. Son Volt
5. Jesse Winchester
6. Marcio Local
7. Ojos De Brujo
8. Joe Henry
9. Rancid
10. Sonic Youth
11. Macaco
12. Trash Can Sinatras
13. Justin Townes Earle
14. Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women
15. Randy Weeks
16. Elvis Costello
17. John Doe & the Sadies
18. Richard Shindell
19. Tim Easton

need to rank: dinosaur jr, otto, lucas santtana, willie nile, deadstring brothers, prefab sprout, the weight, os mutantes, joe pernice

need to hear: guy clark, willie nelson, the XX, richard hawley, joan as policewoman

didn't like but keep meaning to revisit: lhasa, robyn hitchock

probably forgetting stuff

OPA! · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2009 3:42 pm

Best Of 2009

01. BIBIO - Ambivalence Avenue

[Favorite Tracks: "Ambivalence Avenue", "Jealous Of Roses", "Haikuesque (When She Laughs)"]

02. BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW - Eating Us

[Favorite Tracks: "Tooth Decay", "Gold Splatter", "Iron Lemonade"]

03. DEASTRO - Moondagger

[Favorite Tracks: "Tone Adventure #3", "Moondagger", "Greens, Grays, And Nordics"]

04. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Merriweather Post Pavilion

[Favorite Tracks: "In The Flowers", "Summertime Clothes", "Lion In A Coma"]

05. DIRTY PROJECTORS - Bitte Orca

[Favorite Tracks: "The Bride", "Stillness Is The Move", "Remade Horizon"]

06. DAN DEACON - Bromst

[Favorite Tracks: "Paddling Ghost", "Snookered", "Build Voice"]

k · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2009 3:48 pm

TheTheory Wrote:

a new Nurse With Wound? Interesting...

Yeah, and it's quite good, which is more than a (a bit of) pleasant surprise. No matter how many times I get burned I will still buy anything by them and Current 93, so after dropping way too much money over the years to get a near complete discography I kind of feel a bit rewarded with this album. If you're interested let me know, more than happy to send it your way.

shiv · **Posted:** Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:26 pm

iran dissolver
bat for lashes two suns
mi ami watersports
p.o.s. never better
future of the left travels with myself and another
dan deacon bromst
andrew bird noble beast
doom born like this
st. vincent actor
the skull defekts the temple
clues s/t
harlem free drugs
japandroids post-nothing
clark totems flare
deer tick born on flag day
pissed jeans king of jeans
lightning bolt earthly delights
wild beasts two dancers
discovery lp
lucero 1372 overton park
stardeath and white dwarfs the birth
health get color
mayer hawthorne a strange arrangement
willie isz georgiavania
jay reatard watch me fall
dj quik & kurupt blaqkout
major lazer guns don't kill people, lazers do
animal collective merriweather post pavilion
miike snow s/t
we were promised jetpacks these four walls
the thermals now we can see

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

Top Ten

1 white denim FIT
2 franz ferdinand TONIGHT: FRANZ FERDINAND
3 cornershop JUDY SUCKS A LEMON FOR BREAKFAST
4 1990s KICKS
5 jarvis cocker FURTHER COMPLICATIONS
6 dinosaur jr. FARM
7 sonic youth THE ETERNAL
8 von bondies LOVE, HATE AND THEN THEREâ€™S YOU
9 p j harvey & john parish A WOMAN A MAN WALKED BY
10 neko case MIDDLE CYCLONE

OPA! · **Posted:** Mon Sep 14, 2009 5:13 pm

Updated.

mutty · **Posted:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 11:59 pm

Radcliffe Wrote:

ShamWow! Wrote:

[img][250:250]http://vox2.cdn.amiestreet.com/album-art/Meteor-by-The-Shazam_bS_1ZNdjEOYx_full.jpg[/img]

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

Is this only available in digital?

mutty · **Posted:** Sun Sep 20, 2009 12:32 am

Opa, that is a very colorful top ten

paladisiac · **Posted:** Sun Sep 20, 2009 2:39 am

mutty Wrote:

Opa, that is a very colorful top ten

do you mean "flamboyant"?

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Tue Sep 22, 2009 3:46 pm

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

11. Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
12. Ganglians - Monster Head Room
13. HEALTH - Get Color
14. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
15. Woods - Songs of Shame
16. The Dodos - Time to Die
17. Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
18. Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship
__. Suckers - s/t EP
19. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
20. Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country

21. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
22. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
23. Wolf Eyes - Always Wrong
__. Crystal Stilts - Love Is a Wave 7"
24. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
25. The xx - xx
26. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
27. Vetiver - Tight Knit
28. NOMO - Invisible Cities
29. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
30. Here We Go Magic - s/t
__. Magnolia Electric Co. - It's Made Me Cry 7"

31. DOOM - Born Like This
32. Tyvek - s/t
33. Lhasa - s/t
34. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
35. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
36. Condo Fucks - Fuckbook
37. Lotus Plaza - The Floodlight Collective
38. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
39. Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong
__. Spoon - Got Nuffin EP
40. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
__. Ganglians - s/t EP

41. JJ - JJ NÂ° 2
42. Wavves - Wavvves
43. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Beware
__. JJ - JJ NÂ° 1
44. Polvo - In Prism
__. Radiohead - "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)"/"These Are My Twisted Words"
45. Marissa Nadler - Little Hells
46. Mi Ami - Watersports
47. UUVVWWZ - s/t
48. Blank Dogs - Under and Under
49. Busdriver - Jhelli Beam
50. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - s/t

51. Cass McCombs - Catacombs
52. Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine
53. Mika Miko - We Be Xuxa
54. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
__. Blank Dogs - The Fields EP
55. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
56. Passion Pit - Manners
57. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
58. M. Ward - Hold Time
59. Various Artists - Dark Was the Night
60. Themselves - theFREEhoudini Deluxe

OPA! · **Posted:** Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:08 pm

Best Of 2009

01. DEASTRO - Moondagger

02. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Merriweather Post Pavilion

03. DAN DEACON - Bromst

04. BIBIO - Ambivalence Avenue

05. TELEFON TEL AVIV - Immolate Yourself

06. THE DEPRECIATION GUILD - In Her Gentle Jaws

07. BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW - Eating Us

08. DISCOVERY - LP

09. LOTUS PLAZA - The Floodlight Collective

Postmersh · **Posted:** Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:29 pm

OPA! Wrote:

Best Of 2009

04. BIBIO - Ambivalence Avenue

I keep expecting to get hooked by this one, but it hasn't happened yet...

The new Bloody Panda is bloody good... and the new Anti-Pop Consortium and Health'll probably be top-10 by the time all is said and done.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:34 pm

Postmersh Wrote:

OPA! Wrote:

Best Of 2009

04. BIBIO - Ambivalence Avenue

I keep expecting to get hooked by this one, but it hasn't happened yet...

Yeah, that's where I am.

It's a nice-sounding record and all, and that's probably why I had it pretty high on my list a while back. I kinda gave it the benefit of the doubt because I thought it would get better as I got more into it. Hasn't happened, and I'm starting to give up.

Zombeels · **Posted:** Wed Sep 23, 2009 5:12 pm

My favourite of the year so far

OPA! · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 3:37 pm

Best Of 2009

01. DEASTRO - Moondagger

02. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Merriweather Post Pavilion

03. DAN DEACON - Bromst

04. THE DEPRECIATION GUILD - In Her Gentle Jaws

05. BIBIO - Ambivalence Avenue

06. BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW - Eating Us

07. DISCOVERY - LP

08. TELEFON TEL AVIV - Immolate Yourself

09. LOTUS PLAZA - The Floodlight Collective

10. CROCODILES - Summer Of Hate

discostu · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 3:42 pm

OPA! Wrote:

Best Of 2009

10. CROCODILES - Summer Of Hate

Where'd this come from? Heard some hype earlier this year, remember them having a bit of a JAMC / low-fi sound. See they're touring with The Horrors and Raveonettes. Seems fitting.

OPA! · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:04 pm

discostu Wrote:

OPA! Wrote:

Best Of 2009

10. CROCODILES - Summer Of Hate

Where'd this come from? Heard some hype earlier this year, remember them having a bit of a JAMC / low-fi sound. See they're touring with The Horrors and Raveonettes. Seems fitting.

I listened to it for the first time a few months ago and it didn't really impress me enough for a second listen. Recently, however, I came across it on my computer and this time around, it clicked immediately. Initially, it doesn't sound like much but damn, after repeated listens, the melodies really draw you in.

discostu · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:10 pm

OPA! Wrote:

discostu Wrote:

OPA! Wrote:

Best Of 2009

10. CROCODILES - Summer Of Hate

Where'd this come from? Heard some hype earlier this year, remember them having a bit of a JAMC / low-fi sound. See they're touring with The Horrors and Raveonettes. Seems fitting.

I listened to it for the first time a few months ago and it didn't really impress me enough for a second listen. Recently, however, I came across it on my computer and this time around, it clicked immediately. Initially, it doesn't sound like much but damn, after repeated listens, the melodies really draw you in.

Sounds like what happened for me with The Big Pink.

OPA! · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:14 pm

discostu Wrote:

OPA! Wrote:

discostu Wrote:

OPA! Wrote:

Best Of 2009

10. CROCODILES - Summer Of Hate

Where'd this come from? Heard some hype earlier this year, remember them having a bit of a JAMC / low-fi sound. See they're touring with The Horrors and Raveonettes. Seems fitting.

I listened to it for the first time a few months ago and it didn't really impress me enough for a second listen. Recently, however, I came across it on my computer and this time around, it clicked immediately. Initially, it doesn't sound like much but damn, after repeated listens, the melodies really draw you in.

Sounds like what happened for me with The Big Pink.

The Big Pink, incidentally, has yet to do it for me. I'm a little disappointed simply because I really wanted to like it.

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