Redefining Failure: Yail Bloor's Top 20 Albums of 2009

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:29 am

Barely in order...

01. Deer Tick - Born On Flag Day
02. Lucero - 1372 Overton Park
03. Reigning Sound - Love and Curses
04. Chuck Prophet - iLet Freedom Ring!
05. Drive-By Truckers - The Fine Print
06. Vetiver - Tight Knit
07. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
08. Deadstring Brothers - Sao Paulo
09. Black Crowes - Before The Frost
10. Justin Townes Earle - Midnight At The Movies
11. Ike Reilly - Hard Luck Stories
12. The Dead Weather - Horehound
13. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
14. Yeah Yeah Yeah's - It's Blitz!
15. Dawes - North Hills
16. Gidgets Ga Ga - The Big Bong Fiasco
17. M. Ward - Hold Time
18. The xx - XX
19. John Doe & The Sadies - Country Club
20. Julian Cassablancas - Phrazes For The Young

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:26 pm

Nice to see The Weight getting some love, but I think that's a 08 release. Though, it probably hit most people's ears in 09.

I posted up a video clip recently of my friends' band, The Fox Hunt. They're actually getting a vinyl release of their upcoming album on The Colonel, The Weight's vinyl label. They've been touring together off & on in 09.

I've actually been kicking around doing a concert/doc film on The Fox Hunt, and their upcoming shows in Brooklyn with The Weight and The Goddamn Rattlesnake.

Hegel · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:12 pm

I have not been able to get into The Dead Weather. I've listened to it straight through 4 times and I just struggle with it. Give me some reasons to like it other than what I've been able to experience on my own. haha

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:02 pm

Hegel Wrote:

I have not been able to get into The Dead Weather. I've listened to it straight through 4 times and I just struggle with it. Give me some reasons to like it other than what I've been able to experience on my own. haha

I have listened to it exclusively in my truck at deafening volumes so I can't even imagine what it sounds like on a computer or headphones or whatever. I dunno, its a little weird and a lot of raunchy. It hits me in a pretty good spot.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

i think this is my favorite list on obner, and there are some albums I don't that I'm assuming I should check out.

thisotherkingdom · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:44 pm

I haven't had the energy to make my list yet, but I may as well go ahead and copy yours to use as mine because that's how similar they're gonna end up.

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

this would be very closet to my list...around 2/3rds of it would be in my top 30 or so.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:23 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

01. Deer Tick - Born On Flag Day
07. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
19. John Doe & The Sadies - Country Club

Will be on my list in some order.

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:32 pm

Definitely a true Bloor list. Lots of crossover with mine, although I'm not sure what you hear in Dear Tick and Dawes. Also, I'm just gonna ignore the Black Crowes on there.

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

Only The Weight and Yeah Yeah Yeahs are likely to make my Top 20 but I'm so far behind with my 2009 Vogelenzangranks no one will care when it's finished, I still have about 15 2009 albums on top of the stereo to listen to.

I could go into extended rants about Lucero, The XX and Wilco but I don't have the energy right now.

I'll probably pick up Ike Reilly and Reigning Sound at some point in the future.

Hegel · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:03 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

Hegel Wrote:

I have not been able to get into The Dead Weather. I've listened to it straight through 4 times and I just struggle with it. Give me some reasons to like it other than what I've been able to experience on my own. haha

I have listened to it exclusively in my truck at deafening volumes so I can't even imagine what it sounds like on a computer or headphones or whatever. I dunno, its a little weird and a lot of raunchy. It hits me in a pretty good spot.

90% of my music is listened in my car and I actually have a pretty good system in there. I don't bump down the street, but it's a bit better than factory shit. I guess I'll give it some more listens. I really want to like it.

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:05 pm

Aswad Vogelenzang Wrote:

Vogelenzangranks

Man, there should be a Top 100 of the decade of those.

(or maybe just #'s 82 - 100)

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

Radcliffe Wrote:

Aswad Vogelenzang Wrote:

Vogelenzangranks

Man, there should be a Top 100 of the decade of those.

(or maybe just #'s 82 - 100)

I might do that if someone sends me the severed head of Danny Don't Rap in a hat box, but only then.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:21 pm

Radcliffe Wrote:

Aswad Vogelenzang Wrote:

Vogelenzangranks

Man, there should be a Top 100 of the decade of those.

(or maybe just #'s 82 - 100)

I swear we had a sticky or a thread where we ranked tops of the decade, but I haven't been able to locate it.

FT · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:51 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

Barely in order...

01. Deer Tick - Born On Flag Day
02. Lucero - 1372 Overton Park
07. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
11. Ike Reilly - Hard Luck Stories
15. Dawes - North Hills
17. M. Ward - Hold Time

Outstanding!

FT · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:53 pm

Radcliffe Wrote:

I'm not sure what you hear in Dear Tick and Dawes.

Same thing I hear...GOOG

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:16 pm

Radcliffe Wrote:

Definitely a true Bloor list. Lots of crossover with mine, although I'm not sure what you hear in Dear Tick and Dawes. Also, I'm just gonna ignore the Black Crowes on there.

Deer Tick write good songs and I really dig the lo fi meets mid 1960's production. Even the sad sack songs are interesting.

Dawes has the hooks and the harmonies and what can I say, I'm a sucker for both even if some of the songwriting is admittedly lackluster.

Your universal disdain for the Crowes always amuses me especially since they have been mining territory that is in your wheelhouse for 20 years now.

wenchlette · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:18 pm

These lists have done nothing but remind me of how little I listened to this year. Which I guess is a good thing for the "to hear" lists I'm always making.

I didn't even know there was a new Ike Reilly until people started posting their year ends.

Sanchez · **Joined:** Sat Dec 27, 2008 8:14 pm **Posts:** 491

That Julian Casablanca is un-listenable to me, vetiver will prob make my top 10

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

so we are going with The Weight as a 2009 album? that would be in my top 5 if so.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:30 pm

rparis74 Wrote:

so we are going with The Weight as a 2009 album? that would be in my top 5 if so.

Amazon lists it as a 2009 release and that's good enough for me.

Edit: actually they don't.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:39 pm

Ok so I'm officially taking The Weight off my list. It will head my list of "2008 albums that I didn't get into until 2009"

1. The Weight - Are Men
2. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
3. The Henry Clay People - For Cheap Or ForFree

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

yes on all 3

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:49 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

rparis74 Wrote:

so we are going with The Weight as a 2009 album? that would be in my top 5 if so.

Amazon lists it as a 2009 release and that's good enough for me.

Edit: actually they don't.

Haha, I like how 6 hours ago I posted this, and it just sunk in.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 8:22 pm

I think I missed your original post on the matter in the fog of war work.

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