1. Dangerous Summer - Reach for the Sun 2. NFG - Not Without a Fight (thought it so-so when i came out, love it now) 3. John Mayer - Battle Studies
Lots of stuff I need to go back and listen to. Was able to pull a lot of good stuff from my list. 1. St. Vincent - Actor 2. Amesoeurs - s/t 3. Bike for Three - More Heart than Brains toe - For Long Tomorrow Daitro - Y Regina Spektor - Far Still Life Still - Girls Come Too The Mercury Program - Chez Viking Saxon Shore - It Doesn't Matter Lye By Mistake - Fea Jur Maybeshewill - Sing the Word Hope in Four Part Harmony Fanfarlo - Reservoir Baroness - Blue Record sgt. - Capital of Gravity And So I Watch you From Afar - s/t Kidcrash - Snacks If These Trees Could Talk - Above the Earth, Below the Sky MONO - Hymn of the Immortal Wind Doomriders - Darkness Comes Alive Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career Mew - No More Stories... Metric - Fantasies Comadre - A wolf Ticket Vedera - Stages Drake - So Far Gone Kid Cudi - Dat Kid From Cleveland / Man on the Moon Little Boots - Hands Kylesa - Static Tensions POS - Never Better Dalek - Gutter Tactics The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - s/t Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Its Blitz! Bat For Lashes - Two Suns Silversun Pickups - Swoon Japandroids - Post-Nothing https://rateyourmusic.com/list/ecirht/best_of_09/1/
this was an insane hip-hop year and may have been the end of the mixtapes era. I downloaded so much stuff off datpiff this year
1. Empire! Empire! (I was a Lonely Estate) - What It Takes to Move Forward 2. Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day 3. Mastodon - Crack the Skye 4. Brave Little Abacus - Masked Dancers: Concern in So Many Things You Forget Where You Are 5. Passion Pit - Manners 6. Rihanna - Rated R 7. Alexisonfire - Old Crows/Young Cardinals 8. Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic 9. Japandroids - Post-Nothing 10. Adam Lambert - For Your Entertainment
1. Grammatics - Grammatics 2. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing 3. Tigers on Trains - Grandfather Grammatics is an overlooked treasure of an album, mixing together Antidote-era Foals math rock, orchestral flourishes, and beautiful interweaving vocals. Broken Wing and Relentless Fours are two of the best songs of the decade, and it's a shame that the band were only able to release one full length before splitting. Mean Everything to Nothing is Manchester Orchestra's best out and out rock album and just a fucking great time from start to finish. Grandfather is a beautiful introspective folk record, reminiscent of Simon & Garfunkel records, exploring themes of death and regret. A Year in The Garden Shed is one of my favourite songs of all time.
1. Thrice - Beggars 2. 311 - Uplifter 3. Passion Pit - Manners --------------------------------------------- ****** 4. Brand New - Daisy ****** 5. Portugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist 6. Silversun Pickups - Swoon 7. Pearl Jam - Backspacer 8. Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic 9. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing 10. Wilco - Wilco (The Album) 11. Mutemath - Armistice 12. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures 13. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 14. Switchfoot - Hello Hurricane 15. John Mayer - Battle Studies 16. Cage The Elephant - Cage The Elephant 17. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown 18. Mastodon - Crack The Skye 19. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 20. Our Lady Peace - Burn Burn 21. A Day To Remember - Homesick 22. Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon: The End Of Day 23. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug 24. The Antlers - Hospice 25. Muse - The Resistance 26. Eels - Hombre Lobo 27. Mae - (Morning) (Afternoon) (Evening) EPs 28. Taking Back Sunday - New Again 29. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains 30. Japandroids - Post-Nothing Honorable Mention: AFI - Crash Love Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue Anchor & Braille - Felt Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion As Tall As Lions - You Can't Take It With You Band Of Skulls - Baby Darling Doll Face Honey Barcelona - Absolutes Baroness - Blue Record The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love Bon Iver - Blood Bank EP Breaking Benjamin - Dear Agony Cartel - Cycles Chevelle - Sci-Fi Crimes Clutch - Slow Hole To China (B-Sides/Rarities) Clutch - Strange Cousins From The West Crash Boom Bang - Gold Rush The Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King Dawes - North Hills The Decemberists - Hazards Of Love Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe Dierks Bentley - Feel That Fire Doves - Kingdom Of Rust Editors - In This Light and On This Evening Flight of the Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky Foreign Born - Person To Person Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand fun. - Aim and Ignite Girls - Album Jet - Shaka Rock Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti Is... Skyscraper The Lonely Island - Incredibad The Mars Volta - Octahedron Metric - Fantasies mewithoutYou - It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright Michael Buble - Crazy Love Miike Snow - Miike Snow Modest Mouse - No One's First, And Your Last EP Monsters Of Folk - Monsters Of Folk New Found Glory - Not Without A Fight Paramore - Brand New Eyes Person L - The Positives Pete Yorn - Back & Fourth Placebo - Battle For The Sun Poison The Well - The Tropic Rot Rancid - Let The Dominoes Fall Real Estate - Real Estate Say Anything - Say Anything Small Black - Small Black EP Stereophonics - Keep Calm And Carry On St. Vincent - Actor Telekinesis - Telekinesis! The Temper Trap - Conditions Third Eye Blind - Ursa Major Throw Me The Statue - Creaturesque Thursday - Common Existence Tinted Windows - Tinted Windows The Used - Artwork Wale - Attention Deficit Washed Out - High Times EP Washed Out - Life Of Leisure EP Weezer - Raditude Wild Beasts - Two Dancers The xx - xx Checking Out in Full First Time (Artist's 09 album): Alexisonfire All Time Low Architects As Cities Burn Asking Alexandria Between The Buried And Me Biffy Clyro Bomb The Music Industry! Bruce Springsteen The Chariot Collective Soul Converge Dance Gavin Dance The Dangerous Summer Dashboard Confessional The Dead Weather The Dear Hunter Dinosaur Jr. Dredg Enter Shikari Fightstar Frank Turner Fu Manchu Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Jay-Z Kevin Devine Major Lazer Mat Kearney Matt and Kim Mayday Parade Morrissey Mumford & Sons OneRepublic Owl City Papa Roach Phish Rebelution Relient K Robert Francis Rob Thomas RX Bandits Silverstein Sonic Youth Superdrag Tegan and Sara Thee Oh Sees Thirty Seconds To Mars Title Fight Touche Amore Twenty One Pilots U2 We The Kings Wolfmother Yeah Yeah Yeahs
If you havent heard the All Time Low album you list above, they re-recorded that album for its ten year anniversay in 2019 and it sounds MUCH better than the original. Its called Its Still Nothing Personal.
You're a few years too early for this one unfortunately. The self-titled debut album from TWBF came out this year, but The Dark Dark Bright wasn't until 2013. A brilliant album though, will absolutely be in my top three in 2013.
it fucking sucks so bad lol. i did really enjoy the AnCo album from this year, excited to check out MPP.
1. fun. - Aim & Ignite 2. Brand New - Daisy 3. Third Eye Blind - Ursa Major 4. Metric - Fantasies 5. Portugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist 6. Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You 7. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 8. Closure In Moscow - First Temple 9. Relient K - Forget and Not Slow Down 10. Big D & The Kids Table - Fluent In Stroll 11. Mute Math - Armistice 12. Dashboard Confessional - Alter The Ending 13. Rx Bandits - Mandala 14. Say Anything - Say Anything 15. Weezer - Raditude 16. A Fine Frenzy - Bomb in a Birdcage 17. All Time Low - Nothing Personal 18. Emmy The Great - First Love 19. Set Your Goals - This Will Be The Death of Us 20. Destry - It Goes On
definitely a weird little year. Most bands on my list, this is not my favorite album from them. Aside from maybe Metric and Phoenix? Either way, weird year
somehow didn’t come across beggars being this year. wouldn’t have been in my top 3 but would have been in the ranked list in the next post.
1. John Mayer – Battle Studies 2. Mat Kearney – City of Black & White 3. Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More And the rest...... Timbaland – Shock Value II Twenty One Pilots – S/T The Fray – S/T The Lonely Island – Incredibad Kelly Clarkson – All I Ever Wanted Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz! Keri Hilson – In a Perfect World Papa Roach – Metamorphosis Rascal Flatts – Unstoppable The Dangerous Summer – Reach for the Sun Eminem – Relapse Kate Voegele – A Fine Mess Chickenfoot – S/T Hit The Lights – Coast to Coast 311- Uplifter The Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D. All Time Low – Nothing Personal Owl City – Ocean Eyes Cobra Starship – Hot Mess Colbie Caillat – Breakthrough Miley Cyrus – The time of Our Lives Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3 Paramore – Brand New Eyes Backstreet Boys – This Is Us Lady Gaga – The Fame Monster Rihanna – Rated R Thirty Seconds to Mars – This is War
1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion 2. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca 3. Japandroids - Post-Nothing I think the top two are both near masterpiece level, and Post Nothing is to this day responsible for more than one of the most fun show experiences I've ever had. Shocked at the bitte hate, dirty projectors honestly suck more than not after but it's such a great combo of fun and accessible for how obnoxiously over the top the arrangements are. HM: Real Estate s/t was my favorite album from this year by far, but so much of why it's good is their absolute creep of a guitar player so it has been more tainted for me than not. Hospice is a solid album that always relied a bit much on how good its best songs are. Cymbals' debut is probably my least favorite Cymbals album, but they are the most underrated indie band of the decade and need an HM for every release they made. And Veckatimest is pretty good, too, but I was a little disappointed in it after Yellow House and its own magical first two singles. I did get to see GB like a month before the album play a bunch of stuff with an orchestra and that was awesome, but for some reason in general in their career I feel like they never quite ascended to the level I thought they'd get to after Yellow House. I imagine I'm forgetting some stuff.
What a year this ended up being for Scottish indie-rock type music! Lots I didn't mention too. 1. Tegan and Sara - Sainthood 2. The Xcerts - In The Cold Wind We Smile 3. Meg and Dia - Here, Here & Here Sainthood is the final album in Tegan and Sara's perfect little three album run, and probably saves the best for last. The songwriting here is so magical, and the three song closing run of The Ocean, Sentimental Tune and Someday is as good a three-song run as you can find on any album. I am still really gutted that I don't really enjoy their subsequent albums as much, but these three records mean the world to me. In The Cold Wind We Smile is a fantastic bit of Scottish alternative rock, with a big poppy heart. This was a really fertile period for bands like The Xcerts from Scotland, following in Biffy Clyro's footsteps, and The Xcerts are one of the best. Here, Here & Here is an album that I might lazily compare to Tegan and Sara, just a brilliantly produced and performed bit of pop-rock perfection, that's unassumingly done perfectly. Honourable Mentions There Will be Fireworks - There Will be Fireworks: The follow up to this record is so good, that I think I underrate this album, but this is a great bit of passionate indie rock with a strong post-rock influence. We Were Promised Jetpacks - We Were Promised Jetpacks: Operating in the same world and sound as The Xcerts, this is another great album, perfect for sing-alongs and shout-alongs. The Twilight Sad - Forget the Night Ahead: Yet more Scottish music, this time a louder and much more uncomfortable sounding shoegaze / post-punk type record. Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions: Biffy's big massive, stadium filler album - for pure arena rock music, this is them at their peak. Idlewild - Post Electric Blues: ...And one more great Scottish band and album, this time a bit more mellow from Idewild, but full of joy. Enter Shikari - Common Dreads: A fantastic blend of political post-hardcore and dance music - such a fun band. POS - Never Better: A really excellent hip-hop record, really sharp lyrically, with a huge amount of edge and aggression. The Antlers - Hospice: I can't get into anything else The Antlers did, but this is a really really sad and eloquently expressed album. And So I Watch You From Afar - And So I Watch You From Afar: Really fun, super energetic post-rock, none of that noodling around for 10 minutes before getting to the crescendo, this band are full of life and energy from minute one. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport: Super interesting and challenging electronica record, that doesn't sound like much else. The Maccabees - Wall of Arms: Excellent English indie band, a really layered sound to their music. Bon Iver - Blood Bank: Just an EP but 3/4 of these songs (sorry Beach Baby) would rank really high on my favourite Bon Iver tracks.
I saw this tour as well - actually I feel like it was the week that Veckatimest came out, in NYC. Show was definitely great - but I will echo what you said. That night for me, literally felt like they were "going places", and was the peak of Grizzly Bear at least for me. I know that this album obviously was a peak for them from a commercial success standpoint too, but in general I would agree that they had were a let down from that moment on in their career, which is a shame.