Sunday, November 29, 2009

Top 5 albums of the Year and the Top Ten of the Decade

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Top Ten Albums of the decade

1. Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2.Badly Drawn Boy- Hour of the Bewilderbeast
3.Dodos- Visiter
4.Sufjan Stevens- Illinoise!
5. Radiohed- Kid A
6. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club- Howl
7. My Morning Jacket- Z
8.Arcade Fire- Funeral
9. White Stripes- Elephant
10. LCD Soudsystem- Sound of Silver

Top Five Albums of 2009

1. Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
This is the album I played the most this year. Perfect pop songs with a touch of electronica. Love Like a Sunset is the best psychedelic Chemical Brothers song they didn't write.
2. Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavilion
My Girls received the most attention (it is awesome) but the urgency of Summertime Clothes makes it the best song to both sing and dance to. And the video is trippy as hell.
3. Them Crooked Vultures- Them Crooked Vultures
I needed this. Rock needed this kick in the pants. I wasn't sure what the former members of QotSA, Nirvana, and Led Zeppelin would create together. To my surprise, it sounds like Cream trying to play Zeppelin's Presence, the most underrated of the Zep albums. It's uptempo, raw, dirty, and edgy. And did I mention it rocks? Check out this video for Elephants. Even Jimmy Page would half to admit this riff is nuts.
4. Yea Yeah Yeahs- It's Blitz
Best disco/punk/rock album since Blondie's Parallel Lines.
5.Nightwave- The Dreamwave Hour 2 (dance mix featuring Mirrors, Phoenix, Cut Copy, Nightwave, Daft Punk, and Shazam etc.)

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Add your lists in the comments section. I'll add details and links this weekend.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Decade
1.Radiohead – In Rainbows
2.Band of Horses – Everything All the Time
3.Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
4.The Rural Alberta Advantage – Hometowns
5.The National – Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers
6.Postal Service – Give Up
7.Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker
8.Iron and Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days
9.Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
10.Xavier Rudd - Solace

Year
1.The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
2.Jeremy Enigk – OK Bear
3.We Were Promised Jetpacks – These Four Walls
4.Jon and Roy – Another Noon
5.Wilco – Wilco (The Album)

-Skoog

Zona Bob said...

My Favorite Ten Albums of the 2000s:

1. Spoon - Girls Can Tell (2001)
2. Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes (2000)
3. Five Gears In Reverse - You're Not Asking the Right Questions (2000)
4. Half Acre Day - Fourteen Trips Around the Sun (2007)
5. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker (2000)
6. Jay-Z - The Black Album (2003)
7. Spoon - Gimme Fiction (2005)
8. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005)
9. Eminem - The Eminem Show (2002)
10. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007)

My top 100 is more comprehensive.

My Top 5 Albums of 2009:

1. Future of the Left - Travels with Myself and Another
2. Connecticut Four - Tigershark ep
3. Russian Circles - Geneva
4. Bon Iver - Blood Bank
5. The Lonely Forest - We Sing the Body Electric!

Over on Facebook, and maybe my blog too, I'm going to post my Top 100 Albums of the '00's, Top 15 Albums of 2009, Top 20 Favorite Songs of 2009, Top 10 Shows I Recall Attending in 2009, Top 15 Memories of 2009, and Top 30 Favorite Not-2009 Songs in 2009, and Top 2 Total Fucking Letdown Albums of 2009.