Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......2009! !

Fever Ray

Man, I love that Yeah Yeah Yeahs album. And I guess the Phoenix album, it was uneven but it had amazing singles. I was never a fan of Grizzly Bear's music, but I have a good deal of respect for them.

This is probably the one Animal Collective that I really love, but I'm leaning towards the xx and maybe Sonic Youth. (I didn't even listen to that album until after they split. Really regret not keeping up with them to the end, I probably would've gone to a lot of shows had I done so.)

can only assume tonetta will win in a landslide

Wild Beasts offered a unique sound that year, love that album.

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voted FOTL which I consider a perfect album.

Jewellery

my other 2009 favs:
MPP
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days / Light Years
Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight
Dizzee Rascal - Tongue n' Cheek
Richard Youngs - Beyond the Valley of Ultrahits
Hugo Fattoruso & Rey Tambor - Emotivo
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
and if it counts: Prefab Sprout - Let's Change the World With Music

crack the skye

going with AnCo, boring choice I know but it's such a great pop album. the fact that it didn't spawn a bunch of lame imitators like you thought it would actually makes it hold up quite well.

the Dam-Funk album is great too, idk if I consider it an album really, it's more a compilation of 5 EPs. which are kinda hit and miss. the best 60 minutes or so of that though, wow

love the Junior Boys, kinda lukewarm on that album though

surprised Bromst by Dan Deacon isn't on the list, that felt like a pretty big album at the time. I get exhausted just thinking about putting it on again.

Ahhhhh the year I started to really get into music. Remember it like yesterday!

Bromst, with a proper sound system, is the best music you will ever listen to the first time you listen to it. Then you never want to hear it again (imo)

Post-Nothing: very fun simple guitar music which I still teach to students to expose them to the beautiful world of drop-d
MPP: Kinda perfect? No More Running can still get me a little teary
Real Estate: also kinda perfect? Toooooooooone, so much tone. cool lemonade in the backyard. a heartfelt 17yo diary entry which is obviously naive but also perfectly truthful. great teenager music this
Catacombs: The best album of the naughts hands down. "one way to go, yet so maaaaaany roads".
Embroyonic's opening track is the best thing the lips ever did. Sadly the rest of the album never even touches that peak
Girls - Album again perfect teenager music. Who doesn't wish they had a boyfriend, a pizza and a bottle of wine when they're a straight white 14yo boy living by the beach? Laura also the perfect "I have no idea how to treat this girl I like well" teenage anthem tbh.
Emeralds: pretty
Bitte Orca: blew my mind
The Antlers: antidote by indulgence to the melodrama typical of teendom

the rest I listened to after the fact. Anyways, voted cass obviously

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Oh and the visitor, that one was great but I always finished listening to it thinking "I should have just listened to 'Not Sport, Martial Arts/The Workplace' 1-2 punch instead".

Voted Wild Beasts but The Field was close. Agree Tarot Sport is missing. Love the Grizzly Bear. I enjoyed 2009 a lot.

Not a lot here I love, voted for the Very Best (even though I like their prior mixtape more).

I was coming home from Vegas in a very fancy rental car that I had to open up. I hit 100 mph and of course got caught somewhere in Barstow, CA. Was listening to Bitte Orca and at that speed really blew my mind. Getting my vote because of that experience. Was the last time I have been pulled over, iirc.

Hell yeah. First time I listened to fun house was going 160kmph on a desolate country road and it was perfect (but also, don't speed kids)

sunn O))) by some distance for me

fever ray or dj sprinks. will need to think on this further

it's finally happened, I have heard none of these albums. Well maybe Fever Ray but I've completely forgotten it if I have.

Fever Ray gets the nod on this list. Hadn't listened to it in years but this prompting confirms that it still resonates for me.

Dr Mick, the metal years.

can only assume tonetta will win in a landslide

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Dr Mick, the metal years.

― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 10:30 (three hours ago)

Was there a metal poll that year because I reckon I heard a lot metal that year on the back of that

surprised that everyone is not saying “midtown 120 blues”

Fever Ray

VWas there a metal poll that year because I reckon I heard a lot metal that year on the back of that

― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 13:45 (forty-four minutes ago)

I think so?

dj sprinkles all the way, forever

Have to vote for Cass (my honorable mentions would be Bill C, Dirty Ps, Fever Ray, Flaming Lips, JBs, Micachu)

Big ones on my list that are missing:

Hudson Mohawke - Butter
Maxwell - BLACKsummer's Night
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Mount Kimbie - Maybes EP
The Bad Plus - For All I Care

And wasn't 45:33 '09? But out of these, it's Dirty Projectors for sure.

You post “worst year by far imo” and then list a pile of masterpiece albums!

It’s a toss-up between DJ Sprinkles and Micachu for me, with Micachu having a hair of advantage bc I didn’t hear the Sprinkles until later. Could’ve also voted Bill or Cass very happily

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wild beasts, cause i couldn't vote for them in the last one

might've voted for the ecstatic if it were on here

Definitely DJ Sprinkles for me, though I was pretty tempted by Flaming Lips. Embryonic is a really underrated album. IMO, their only truly great record.

Electrik Red in a heartbeat - one of the best albums ever made - followed by DJ Sprinkles and then probably Animal Collective, Fever Ray, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the XX and then Wild Beasts (at least if we're confined to the list).

Equal-second to me but surprisingly not on this list is The-Dream's second album, and somewhat close behind would be Paramore, Maxwell and maybe Rihanna.

I think of Fall Out Boy's Folie a Deux as a 2009 album but it turns out it came out in mid-December 2008.

Wild Beasts, as that’s my fave of theirs, while 2004’s Map of What Is Effortless is for TTA.

So this is the year of GAPDYX. I don’t really love anything here. Real Estate didn’t get good until their second album. I guess Girls were ok, but I never listen to it anymore. Write-in vote for Bat For Lashes.

wait how have I never heard/heard of this Emeralds album?!?

sunn for me narrowly over Tonetta

gahhhh

Released only as a run of 75 cassettes sold on tour

jordan otm. voted xx, but maxwell is my real vote.

The-Dream is my go to answer for this best of ‘09 but that isn’t here …

Given what is, Raekwon

Gotta be Monoliths

(As for Electrik Red I love maybe 2-3 songs on that record then there’s the rest)

The AC I burned myself out on though it’s still solid. The SY… this might be my least favorite SY studio LP of the final stretch

I think I liked a lot of these at the time but the only one I listen to with any frequency now is the xx. Midtown 120 Blues is probably the correct answer though.

Eletrik Red is good.
White Denim never put out an album that could match how incredible their live show was.
So anco it is.

Relatively weak crop, much as I dig the SY, JBs, Fever Ray and The Field. Voting for Sprinkles though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8EfrXZQ7bU

Yob - Great Cessation, not least because it has both "Burning the Altar" and my favorite Yob song of all time, "The Lie that Is Sin"

as always, as ever, tim F otm

THE-DREAM - LOVE VS MONEY

^beats it up like gorillas

ii too xps

Voted for Monolith & Dimensions, but my favorite 2009 release was Oneohtrix' compliation Rifts

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I've not heard that emeralds

BLACKsummer's Night still sounds beamed in from a parallel universe where albums remain taut.

Some others from that year:

Brad Paisley – American Saturday Night
Mos Def – The Ecstatic
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
DJ Quik and Kurupt – Blaqkout
Lady Gaga – The Fame Monster
Miranda Lambert – Revolution
Wussy – Wussy

My 2009 list from the time that I posted on lastfm

Absu - Absu ,
Altar of Plagues - White Tomb ,
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs ,
Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ ,
Baroness - Blue ,
Candlemass - Death Magic Doom ,
Church of Misery – Houses Of The Unholy ,
Coalesce - Ox ,
Cobalt - Gin ,
Converge - Axe To Fall ,
Emeralds - Emeralds ,
Emeralds - What Happened,
Fen - The Malediction Fields ,
Ganglians - Ganglians ,
Horseback - The Invisible Mountain ,
Hymn to the Immortal Wind ,
Isis - Wavering Radiant ,
Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough ,
Kylesa -Static Tensions ,
Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights ,
Liturgy - Renihilation ,
Majeure - Timespan.
Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers,
Mastodon - Crack The Skye ,
Morne - Untold Wait ,
Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem ,
Mournful Congregation - The June Frost ,
Natural Snow Buildings - Shadow Kingdom ,
Om - God Is Good ,
Oneohtrix Point Never – russian mind ,
Orthodox - Sentencia ,
Real Estate - Real Estate,
Shrinebuilder - S/T,
Slough Feg - Ape Uprising ,
SubArachnoid Space - Eight Bells
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions ,
The Gates of Slumber - Hymns Of Blood And Thunder ,
While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose ,
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade ,
Woods - Songs Of Shame ,
Woods Family Creeps - Woods Family Creeps ,
Yob - The Great Cessation ,
Zombi - Spirit Animal ,
Zu - Carboniferous ,

Pretty good year for me personally.

Mastodon, with Fever Ray as a close second

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missed this one, i would've voted for midtown 120 blues. cool that it still has so much support despite never being available to stream (afaik.) thankful for this poll and tim f bringing the electrik red album back to my attention for the first time in at least ten years, so so good

Do not know this band Wild Beasts. Now playing...

2009 might not have been great for albums, but going back through some old mix comps recently led to rediscovering some absolute gold.

Surely this was one of the best things to come out of that late-2000s dubstep era

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0uc3IRU8To