[John2e]

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Originally Posted by pfillion /img/forum/go_quote.gif My album of the year is Katatonia "Night is the New Day"

A runaway by far

 

[virometal]

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Originally Posted by HipHopScribe /img/forum/go_quote.gif 2. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

This highly regarded album has made five lists thus far.

 

[abellaw]

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Originally Posted by sahwnfras /img/forum/go_quote.gif Slaughterhouse- Slaughterhouse Jay-Z- Blueprint 3 Asher Roth- Asleep In The Bread Aisle Clipse- Til The Casket Drops Drake- So Far Gone EP Eminem- Relapse Kid Cudi- Man From The Moon Maino- If Tommorow Comes Mos Def- Ecstatic Wale- Attention Defict Wyclef Jean & DJ Drame- Troussaint St. Jean, From the Hut to the Projects to the Mansion 50 Cent- Before I Self Destruct ..Still waiting on, Lil Wayne, Young Money & Eminem before years end

I like a lot of the music on this list, and i can tell you are a hip hop fan. I really didn't enjoy the new clipse album that much apart from the first track freedom i think and champion.

I also bought the new between the buried and me and passion pit manners on sale at target. I have to say good stuff!!

 

[sahwnfras]

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Originally Posted by abellaw /img/forum/go_quote.gif I like a lot of the music on this list, and i can tell you are a hip hop fan. I really didn't enjoy the new clipse album that much apart from the first track freedom i think and champion. I also bought the new between the buried and me and passion pit manners on sale at target. I have to say good stuff!!

Ya i can agree on the Clipse, def not as great as Lord Willin, but Popular Demand is hot.

Young Money was dope as hell, and Eminems EP is worth the money, especially if you dont have Relapse already.

And Future Shop & Best Buy lied about Rebirth in their ad this week (i knew it got pushed back, but still tried to cop it).

O ya forgot about Meth & Red- Blackout 2. I would say Rakims new album, but i aint heard it yet.

 

[Azathoth]

Updating my list to include more 2009 gems, what a year for great music! My two absolute favorites are:

Cobalt - Gin
Transcendent, atavistic experimental black metal with a progressive and atmospheric bent.

Helen - We Specialize In Cages
A trippy cocktail of drum n' bass/alternative/nu-jazz, a dash of funk, topped off with dreamy female vocals.

The rest:

My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire
Weapon - Drakonian Paradigm
Tribulation - The Horror
Exivious - Exivious
Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire
Obscura - Cosmogenesis
Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
Brimstone In Fire/Pathogen - All Flesh Fades
Suffocation - Blood Oath
Eternal Now - Filipinas 1800
YOB - The Great Cessation
Teitanblood - Seven Chalices
Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave
The Chasm - Farseeing The Paranormal Abysm
Altar of Plagues - White Tomb
Immortal - All Shall Fall
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
Baroness - Blue Record
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest
Gorod - Process Of A New Decline
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
Lost Soul - Immerse In Infinity
Kylesa - Static Tensions
Pelican - What We All Come To Need
Urgehal - Ikonoklast
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor

 

[pedalhead]

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Originally Posted by Davey /img/forum/go_quote.gif Yea, you probably know, but there's a pretty cool remix around of the second song, Sometimes I Realise, by Steven Wilson. Think it's a bonus track on the 2-disc version. Some of it does sound a bit like PT.

Wasn't aware of that, thanks.

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Originally Posted by Kernmac /img/forum/go_quote.gif A fusion of Folk and Rock with maybe a hint of Indie, most tracks backed with a dynamic banjo lick - great string work, and powerful drum beats. The tracks range from foot stomping to heartfelt. Several tracks are quite dark with some implied menace to them, often starting slow and then quickly changing to a pounding crescendo. This “colour” or “shade” of varying tone, with quick changes of tempo and rhythm creates an interesting but well integrated album with plenty of passion. The lyrics are thought provoking, deep and relevant to the music and refreshingly, lacking any cheesiness. "As the winter winds litter London with lonely hearts The warmth in your eyes swept me into your arms Was it love or fear of the cold that led us through the night For every kiss your beauty trumped my doubt" Album of the year condender.

I took a punt on this one (Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More) following your post & having checked out a few samples online. Just received it today & I agree it's a superb album with lots going on. I'll definitely be spinning this one a lot over the holidays. Cheers.

I'll also add another excellent cd I picked up recently....

Jesca Hoop - Hunting My Dress

Highly recommended for Imogen Heap fans in particular.

 

[Signal2Noise]

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Originally Posted by Signal2Noise /img/forum/go_quote.gif I'm impressed with the musical tastes of posters in this thread. My top 10 of 2009 so far include (inpo): U2 ~ No Line on the Horizon Grizzly Bear ~ Veckatimest Neko Case ~ Middle Cyclone Yeah Yeah Yeahs ~ It's Blitz! Various Artists ~ Dark Was the Night Animal Collective ~ Merriweather Post Pavilion The Dandy Warhols ~ The Dandy Warhols Are Sound Leonard Cohen ~ Live in London Pink Mountaintops ~ Outside Love Dan Auerbach ~ Keep It Hid

To round out 2009:

Tegan & Sara ~ Sainthood
Them Crooked Vultures
The Dead Weather ~ Horehound
The Brian Jonestown Massacre ~ Smoking Acid (EP)
Blue Rodeo ~ The Things We Left Behind
The Swell Season ~ Strict Joy



Looking forward to 2010

 

[necropimp]

Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
Destroy Destroy Destroy - Battle Sluts
Immortal - All Shall Fall
Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt

out of the albums i've heard from 2009 those are the ones that impressed me the most

 

[RedSky0]

Mumford & Sons is awesome, thanks for recommendation guys.

 

[sailboat]

I'll add Russian Circles' Geneva to the already great mentions. Granted, it's the only album of theirs that I've listened to. Getting more plays than Pelican's newest.

 

[9pintube]

David Gilmour..."LIVE IN GDANSK".......................................... and......................... J.B.Lenoir..."ALABAMA BLUES" both on VINYL!!!

 

[festivus528]

Here is my list:

Album of the Year: Thrice - Beggars

Other favorites:
Brand New - Daisy
Chevelle - Sci-Fi Crimes
Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
ISIS - Wavering Radiant
Mastodon: Crack the Skye
Oceansize - Home & Minor EP
Russian Circles - Geneva
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love

Disappointments:
mewithoutYou - it's all crazy! it's all false! it's all a dream! it's Alright
Mute Math - Armistice
Porcupine Tree - The Incident

 

[gbacic]

A disappointing lack of Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré by Magma on here...

that and Part the Second by maudlin of the Well are probably the best releases this year.

 

[MrQ]

A few of my faves...

Moon (ost) - Clint Mansell
Monoliths And Dimensions - Sunn O)))
Gin - Cobalt
Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
What We All Come To Need - Pelican
God Is Good - OM

Gutter Tactics - Dälek
Drop - Mistabishi
Travel The Galaxy - Ed Rush and Opitcal
Crash Bang Wallopp - Logistics
Sub Focus - Sub Focus


I replaying Russian Circles - Geneva, after a few mentions here.
But Baroness' Blue Album didn't win me over, although I bought it.

 

[Pepsi]

Great Album along with her great story.