The Rolling Top Albums of 2009 Thread!!!

discostu · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:17 pm

OPA! Wrote:

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

Shelf it for a week or two and come back once the hype has died down.

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:32 pm

discostu Wrote:

OPA! Wrote:

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

Shelf it for a week or two and come back once the hype has died down.

I endorse this message.

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:25 pm

Brand New "Daisy"
The Raveonettes "In & Out of Control"
Dead Man's Bones "s/t"
The Films "O Scorpio"

are most defintiely in the Top 10 so far.

shiv · **Posted:** Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:30 pm

that raveonettes is awful. it's like they've been neutered.

Kit · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:47 pm **Posts:** 3052

boner pills Wrote:

that raveonettes is awful. it's like they've been neutered.

yikes, I was actually planning on picking this up today if it was on sale somewhere

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:52 pm

I'm not putting these in order until I have to, but faves of the year so far:

V.V. Brown Traveling Like the Light
Lucero 1372 Overton Park
Philadelphia Grand Jury Hope Is For Hopers
1990s Kicks
Gidgets Ga Ga Big Bong Fiasco
The XX The XX
Vetiver Tight Knit
Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz
Grant Lee Phillips Little Moon
Diane Birch Bible Belt

Gin Holy Smoke
Kieran Kane Somewhere Beyond The Roses
Rat Silo Doubleplusungood
Reigning Sound Love and Curses
Dead Trees King of Rosa
Raveonettes In and Out of Control
The Backsliders Thank You
David Arthur Brown Teenage Summer Days
Roman Candle Oh Tall Tree In The Ear
Cornershop Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast

Also liking albums by the Aggrolites, Bazooka Jones, Findlay Brown, Jersey Budd, Dipsomaniacs, Tim Easton, the Films, Generationals, the Greatest Hits, Joe Henry, Bap Kennedy, the Krayolas, Dan Mangan, the Manvils, Steve Pearson & British Racing Green, and the Tomorrows.

And still have to hear the new Sour Jazz.

OPA! · **Posted:** Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:19 pm

boner pills Wrote:

that raveonettes is awful. it's like they've been neutered.

Agreed. Huge disappointment for me.

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:46 pm

OPA! Wrote:

boner pills Wrote:

that raveonettes is awful. it's like they've been neutered.

Agreed. Huge disappointment for me.

I've liked each and every single bit of music this band has put out yet!

bort · **Posted:** Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:50 pm

01. Leftovers - Eager To Please
02. Brakes - Touchdown
03. Dodos - Time To Die
04. Dino Jr. - Farm
05. God Help The Girl - s/t
06. Sick Sick Birds - Heavy Manners
07. Screaming Females - Power Move
08. We Were Promised Jet Packs - These Four Walls
09. Bishop Allen - Grrr...
10. jj - jjn2
11. Alex Kerns - Demo
12. V.V. Brown - Travelling Like The Light
13. Parasites - Solitary
14. Radio Faces - Party At The Bushwick Hotel
15, Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy
16. Luke Vibert - We Hear You
17. Surfer Blood - Astrocoast
18. Son Volt - American Central Dust
19. The Two Man Gentlemen Band - Drip Dryin' With The Two Man Gentleman Band
20. The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage

EPs
01. The Drums - Summertime! EP
02. Nancy/The Challenged - 7 Guys, 1 Cup EP

i'll put these in order sometime, though my top 2 are pretty solidified. LOVE the new Built To Spill though!

OPA! · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:44 pm

Best Of 2009

01. DEASTRO - Moondagger

02. MINT CHICKS - Screens

03. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Merriweather Post Pavilion

04. DAN DEACON - Bromst

05. THE DEPRECIATION GUILD - In Her Gentle Jaws

06. CROCODILES - Summer Of Hate

07. ENGINEERS - Three Fact Fader

08. BIBIO - Ambivalence Avenue

09. BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW - Eating Us

10. DISCOVERY - LP

11. TELEFON TEL AVIV - Immolate Yourself

12. LOTUS PLAZA - The Floodlight Collective

13. MEMORY TAPES - Seek Magic

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Fri Oct 09, 2009 4:45 pm

Radcliffe Wrote:

Roman Candle Oh Tall Tree In The Ear

Really? Heard them when they opened for Iron & Wine and was not impressed.

OPA! · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:11 pm

Best Of 2009

01. DEASTRO - Moondagger

02. MINT CHICKS - Screens

03. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Merriweather Post Pavilion

04. DAN DEACON - Bromst

05. BEAR IN HEAVEN - Beast Rest Forth Mouth

06. THE DEPRECIATION GUILD - In Her Gentle Jaws

07. ENGINEERS - Three Fact Fader

08. CROCODILES - Summer Of Hate

09. TELEFON TEL AVIV - Immolate Yourself

10. BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW - Eating Us

11. BIBIO - Ambivalence Avenue

12. MEMORY TAPES - Seek Magic

13. LOTUS PLAZA - The Floodlight Collective

14. DISCOVERY - LP

15. THE BIG PINK - A Brief History Of Love

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:19 pm

Super Seventy (not so super after about #50):

01. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
02. Times New Viking - Born Again Revisited
03. Cryptacize - Mythomania
04. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
05. Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
06. Dan Deacon - Bromst
07. Thee Oh Sees - HELP
08. Ganglians - Monster Head Room
09. Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
__. Times New Viking - Stay Awake EP
__. Abe Vigoda - Reviver EP
10. Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
__. Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP

11. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
12. Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
13. Oneida - Rated O
14. Jackie-O Motherfucker - Ballads of the Revolution
__. No Age - Losing Feeling EP
15. HEALTH - Get Color
16. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
17. The Dodos - Time to Die
18. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
19. Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong
20. Circulatory System - Signal Morning

21. Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
22. Woods - Songs of Shame
23. Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
24. Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship
25. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
26. Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
27. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
__. Ganglians - s/t EP
28. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
__. Suckers - s/t EP
29. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
__. Washed Out - Life of Leisure EP
30. Here We Go Magic - s/t

31. Wolf Eyes - Always Wrong
32. Tyvek - s/t
33. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
34. NOMO - Invisible Cities
__. Crystal Stilts - Love Is a Wave 7"
35. Volcano Choir - Unmap
36. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
37. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
38. Vetiver - Tight Knit
39. Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
40. Lhasa - s/t

41. DOOM - Born Like This
42. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
43. Condo Fucks - Fuckbook
44. Lotus Plaza - The Floodlight Collective
45. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
46. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
47. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
__. Spoon - Got Nuffin EP
__. Magnolia Electric Co. - It's Made Me Cry 7"
48. Melvins - Chicken Switch
49. Wavves - Wavvves
__. Radiohead - "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)"/"These Are My Twisted Words"
50. Mi Ami - Watersports

51. Polvo - In Prism
52. The xx - xx
53. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Beware
54. JJ - JJ NÂ° 2
55. Mika Miko - We Be Xuxa
56. Blank Dogs - Under and Under
__. JJ - JJ NÂ° 1
57. UUVVWWZ - s/t
58. Busdriver - Jhelli Beam
__. Blank Dogs - The Fields EP
59. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - s/t
60. Marissa Nadler - Little Hells

61. Cass McCombs - Catacombs
62. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
63. Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine
64. Passion Pit - Manners
65. Girls - Album
66. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
67. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
68. M. Ward - Hold Time
69. Various Artists - Dark Was the Night
__. Delorean - Ayrton Senna EP
70. Themselves - theFREEhoudini Deluxe

wenchlette · **Posted:** Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:02 pm

I haven't thought about this in any great detail, but I've been listing to the Avett Brothers, Dead Man's Bones, the Mountain Goats and Mike Doughty like crazy.

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

top 10 looking something like this, in no particular order:

Lucero
Cornershop
The Church
The Gourds
Raveonettes
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
1990's
Radio Faces
Roman Candle
Deer Tick

e-stone · **Posted:** Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:17 pm

wenchlette Wrote:

Mike Doughty

forgot he was putting out a new one. and against my better judgement, i'm somewhat interested. so it's good? or do i have to keep in mind that you are a total fanboy(girl)

wenchlette · **Posted:** Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:21 pm

e-stone Wrote:

wenchlette Wrote:

Mike Doughty

forgot he was putting out a new one. and against my better judgement, i'm somewhat interested. so it's good? or do i have to keep in mind that you are a total fanboy(girl)

Well, here's the deal. I am a total fanboy(girl), but it's good. It's really simple (like, even moreso than his last couple of solo releases) and he draws a tiny bit more influence from Soul Coughing in little places.

I have it upped, you want?

e-stone · **Posted:** Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:23 pm

wenchlette Wrote:

e-stone Wrote:

wenchlette Wrote:

Mike Doughty

forgot he was putting out a new one. and against my better judgement, i'm somewhat interested. so it's good? or do i have to keep in mind that you are a total fanboy(girl)

Well, here's the deal. I am a total fanboy(girl), but it's good. It's really simple (like, even moreso than his last couple of solo releases) and he draws a tiny bit more influence from Soul Coughing in little places.

I have it upped, you want?

that would be great stace...thanks! i think i do remember reading that it was going to be more like skittish/rockity roll, which is a good thing in my book.

andyfest · **Posted:** Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:24 pm

Without much thought, mine is something like this...

1. Dinosaur Jr - Farm
2. White Rabbits - It's Frightening
3. Metric - Fantasies
4. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
5. Wilco - Wilco [The Album]
6. Deer Tick - Born on Flag Day
7. Raveonettes - In and Out of Control
8. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - S/T
9. Lucero - 1372 Overton Park
10. The Dodos - Time to Die
11. Iran - Dissolver
12. Harlem - Free Drugs ;-)

13. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
14. M. Ward - Hold Time
15. Dirty Projectors
16. Asobi Seksu - Hush
17. Coconut Records - Davy
18. Rhett Miller - S/T

---Need more listens---
Girls - Album
Why? - Eskimo Snow
The xx - S/T
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Graham Lindsey - We Are All Alone in This Together
Brand New - Daisy
Lou Barlow - Goodnight Unknown
Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
Old Canes - Feral Harmonic

---Just don't like no matter how hard I try---
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Bishop Allen - Grrr...
Kurt Vile - Constant Hitmaker
YACHT - See Mystery Lights

PopTodd · **Posted:** Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:25 pm

That Cornershop is probably going to be my Number 1.
Unless, of course, I get the new Hop On Pop out by the end of the year, in which case, it will be my #1 (by default).

OPA! · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:46 pm

Best Of 2009

01. THE MUMLERS - Don't Throw Me Away

02. DEASTRO - Moondagger

03. MINT CHICKS - Screens

04. BEAR IN HEAVEN - Beast Rest Forth Mouth

05. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Merriweather Post Pavilion

06. DAN DEACON - Bromst

07. ENGINEERS - Three Fact Fader

08. CROCODILES - Summer Of Hate

09. THE BIG PINK - A Brief History Of Love

10. TELEFON TEL AVIV - Immolate Yourself

11. BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW - Eating Us

12. BIBIO - Ambivalence Avenue

13. THE DEPRECIATION GUILD - In Her Gentle Jaws

14. LOTUS PLAZA - The Floodlight Collective

Vanlandingham · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:01 pm

Twilightkid Wrote:

OPA! Wrote:

boner pills Wrote:

that raveonettes is awful. it's like they've been neutered.

Agreed. Huge disappointment for me.

I've liked each and every single bit of music this band has put out yet!

I like the new Raveonettes album. I think its maybe slightly better than Lust Lust Lust and miles ahead of Pretty in Black. Not their best, but the best they've put out in a while.

The new Brand New does almost nothing for me. Bleh.

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

Twilightkid Wrote:

OPA! Wrote:

boner pills Wrote:

that raveonettes is awful. it's like they've been neutered.

Agreed. Huge disappointment for me.

I've liked each and every single bit of music this band has put out yet!

all their albums and ep's have been good, more or less. this new one is a bit different than the last few, but I like it.

seafoam · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:09 am

rparis74 Wrote:

Twilightkid Wrote:

OPA! Wrote:

boner pills Wrote:

that raveonettes is awful. it's like they've been neutered.

Agreed. Huge disappointment for me.

I've liked each and every single bit of music this band has put out yet!

all their albums and ep's have been good, more or less. this new one is a bit different than the last few, but I like it.

neutered is a bit harsh, maybe compared to LLL, I agree, but so far I like half the album which is on par with their usual output with me anyway, they are not a band I expect much stray from origins anyhow

jsh · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:24 am

Could I check out that Mike Doughty?

Top 10 looking like:

1 Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
2 Neko Case Middle Cyclone
3 Grizzly Bear Veckatimest
4 Ape School Ape School
5 Six Organs Of Admittance Luminous Night
6 Six Organs Of Admittance RTZ
7 Cass McCombs Catacombs
8 The Fiery Furnaces I'm Going Away
9 The Long Lost The Long Lost
10 Oneida Rated O

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