2009 in music. • Page 5

01. Kamp & Whizz Vienna - Versager Ohne Zukunft (Austrian Rap, check out a song here)
02. Fashawn - Boy Meets World
03. Ghostface Killah - Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City
04. Maino - If Tomorrow Comes
05. Method Man & Redman - Blackout! 2
06. Mariah Carey - Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
07. Wale - Attention Deficit
08. UGK - UGK 4 Life
09. Rick Ross - Deeper Than Rap
10. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II

HM: Souls of Mischief - Montezuma's Revenge, Jay Z - The Blueprint 3

 

Yeah, it was really weird. Things were coming out about a few people in the Doomtree scene a couple years ago and Dessa spoke out about some abusive behaviors he exhibited while they were dating at some point. Very disappointing.

 

tbh i probably should have listed Scrambles, i'm sure Vacation will end up on my 2011 list

 

1. Paramore - Brand New Eyes
2. Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night
3. Demi Lovato - Here We Go Again

 

1. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
2. The xx - xx
3. Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon

 

@SpyKi is your name on the FANSD poster?

 

which one? I don't think so lol.

 

Listening to an underrated gem from 2009 at work right now

 

I don't have a pic of it unfortunately, but it was a poster of the cover art and they included everyone's name who bought the "special edition"

 

honestly it sounds familiar haha but I don't think I bought the special edition.

 

1. fun.: Aim & Ignite
2. Paramore: Brand New Eyes
3. Say Anything: Say Anything

All Time Low: Nothing Personal
4. Lady Gaga: the Fame Monster
5. Manchester Orchestra: Mean Everything to Nothing
6. Miranda Lambert: Revolution
7. Silverstein: A Shipwreck In the Sand
8. Every Avenue: Picture Perfect
9. Taking Back Sunday: New Again
10. Florence + the Machine: Lungs

Aim & Ignite is my favorite album of all time so that was a very simple choice for #1. It's the album I credit with opening up my mind to what I could enjoy listening to. I truly think every song is a 10/10.

Brand New Eyes could be my favorite Paramore album it really just depends on the day. Say Anything self-titled might've actually been the first one I heard - the IARB, IDOTG, and SA I pretty much got into all around the same time.

Technically my #3 would've been Nothing Personal. I'll prob stop including/talking about them after this but this album is also inseparable from this time in my life. Listening to it would really just transport me right back to summer 2009, walking around my neighborhood with my friends blasting this. That also goes for New Again which has some of my favorite TBS songs (especially Everything Must Go)

Shout out to Telephone (Gaga/Beyonce), White Liar (Miranda) and Dog Days Are Over (Florence) - some of my favorite songs.


Others I Love:
Kid Cudi: Man on the Moon
Arctic Monkeys: Humbug
Anarbor: Free Your Mind
Two Tongues: Two Tongues
Craig Owens: With Love
Green Day: 21st Century Breakdown
Kevin Devine: Brother’s Blood
John Mayer: Battle Studies
Rihanna: Rated R
Cage the Elephant: Cage the Elephant
Dashboard Confessional: Alter the Ending
Miley Cyrus: The Time of Our Lives

Have not aged well but I loved at the time:
Mayday Parade: Anywhere But Here
This Providence: Who Are You Now?
Breathe Caroline: Hello Fascination
Thirty Seconds to Mars: This Is War
A Day To Remember: Homesick
Sparks the Rescue: Eyes to the Sun
The Summer Set: Love Like This
I See Stars: 3-D

 

Thanks for letting me know - I'm reading Dessa's book at the moment too, which is a bit of a coincidence, as obviously POS has a significant role in her story, so very disappointing and sad to hear.

 

Forgot about o’brother, Junius, and Mew, added those in but they’re after my top 3

 

1. Meg and Dia - Here, Here, and Here
2. The Dangerous Summer - Reach for the Sun
3. Demi Lovato - Here We Go Again

Excruciating Cuts:
Lights - The Listening
This Providence - Who Are You Now?
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
Mandy Moore - Amanda Leigh

Others I Love:
Brandi Carlile - Give Up the Ghost
Taking Back Sunday - New Again
Thrice - Beggars
Ace Enders and a Million Different People - When I Hit the Ground
Bad Rabbits - Stick Up Kids EP
Tegan and Sara - Sainthood
Silverstein - A Shipwreck in the Sand
Passion Pit - Manners
P.O.S. - Never Better
Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream

Good Ones:
Owl City - Ocean Eyes
John Mayer - Battle Studies
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
Eye Alaska - Genesis Underground
The Damnwells - One Last Century
New Century Classics - Natural Process
Mansions - New Best Friends
Jenny Owen Youngs - Transmitter Failure
The Antlers - Hospice
Bon Iver - Blood Bank EP
Alicia Keys - The Element of Freedom
Cassino - Kingprince
Frank Turner - Poetry of the Deed
The Audition - Self-Titled Album
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Swell Season - Strict Joy
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Brother Ali - The Truth Is Here
Say Anything - Say Anything
Will Hoge - The Wreckage
Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey and the Groo-Grux King
The xx - The xx
A.F.I. - Crashlove
Kevin Devine - Brother's Blood
Little Brazil - Son
Lucero - 1372 Overton Park
Dan Fogelberg - Love in Time
Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted
Theophilus London - This Charming Mixtape
Prince - LOtUSFLOW3R
Iron and Wine - Around the Well
Two Tongues - Two Tongues
Destry - It Goes On
Maxwell - BLACKsummer'snight
Wild Light - Adult Nights
Anchor and Braille - Felt
The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
As Tall As Lions - You Can't Take It with You
Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing
John Nolan - Height
Jack's Mannequin - Dear Jack EP
Norah Jones - The Fall
Imogen Heap - Ellipse
Matisyahu - Light
Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More
Pianos Become the Teeth - Old Pride
Third Eye Blind - Ursa Major
Q-Tip - Kamaal The Abstract
Alexi Murdoch - Towards the Sun
Prince - MPLSoUND
Amerie - In Love and War
Sea Wolf - White Water, White Bloom
Cheap Girls - My Roaring '20s
Paper Route - Absence
Selena Gomez and The Scene - Kiss and Tell
Inkwell - Rivers of Blood and Sadness, or Maybe Happy
Metric - Fantasies
Meshell Ndegocello - Devil's Halo
Tinted Windows - Tinted Windows
toe - For Long Tomorrow
St. Vincent - Actor
Booker T. Jones - Potato Hole
Florence + The Machine - Lung
Mae - (a)fternoon
Brand New - Daisy
Chuck Ragan - Gold Country
Wale - Attention Deficit
As Cities Burn - Hell or High Water
The Mars Volta - Octahedron
fun. - Aim and Ignite
mew - No More Stories Are Told Today...
Our Lady Peace - Burn Burn
Dashboard Confessional - Alter the Ending
The Fray - The Fray
My Favorite Highway - How to Call a Bluff
Between the Trees - Spain
Fly Upright Kite - Weightless EP
Alexisonfire - Old Crows/Young Cardinals
Relient K - Forget and Not Slow Down
Caspian - Tertia
Cameron Blake - En Route
Bomb the Music Industry! - Scrambles
Mae - (m)Orning
Monty Are I - Break Through the Silence
Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
The Academy Is - Lost in Pacific Time EP
Manchester Orchestra - 14 Years of Excellence EP
Death Cab for Cutie - The Open Door EP
Moneen - The World I Want to Leave Behind
Holiday Parade - Tickets and Passports
Nural - Entitlement
The Civil Wars - Live at Eddie's Attic
Thursday - Common Existence
A Rocket to the Moon - On Your Side
Jarrod Gorbel - Ten Years After EP
The Menzingers - Hold on Dodge EP
Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Illusion
The Secret Handshake - My Name Up in Lights
Trevor Hall - Trevor Hall
Young Love - One of Us
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage
American Classic - Life Is Motion EP
Matisyahu - Live at the Twist and Shout
Ace Enders and a Million Different People - Australia EP
Farewell Continental - Farewell Continental EP
Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself
Rob Thomas - Cradlesong
So Long Forgotten - Things We Can See and Things We Cannot
John Farrell - In Passing

Not a fan:
Dance Gavin Dance - Happiness
All Time Low - Nothing Personal
Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
For Serious This Time - When You're in It
Sleep for Sleepers - The Clearing
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
A Day to Remember - Homesick
Mayday Parade - Anywhere But Here
The Popes - Outlaw Heaven
The Fauns - The Fauns

Obviously not ranking my own:
A Fond Farewell - Live Wires and Frayed Ends
Hailey, It Happens - Everything for You EP

Targets for Listening:
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Baroness - Blue
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Clipse - Til the Casket Drops
Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
U2 - No Line on the Horizon
Miranda Lambert - Revolution
The Swellers – Ups and Downsizing
Emery – ...In Shallow Seas We Sail
There Will Be Fireworks - There Will Be Fireworks
Deas Vail - Birds and Cages
Regina Spektor - Far
Cartel - Cycles
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day
Drake - So Far Gone
Portugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist
New Found Glory - Not Without A Fight
Dawes - North Hills
Mute Math - Armistice
Weezer - Raditude
A Fine Frenzy - Bomb in a Birdcage
Matt Kearney – City of Black & White
The Xcerts - In The Cold Wind We Smile
We Were Promised Jetpacks - We Were Promised Jetpacks
The Sidekicks - Weight of Air
J. Cole - The Warm Up
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Justin Townes Earle - Midnight at the Movies

 

1. CFCF - Continent
2. toe - For Long Tomorrow
3. 18 Carat Affair - Spent Passions

Honourable Mentions

• Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
• Tortoise - Beacons Of Ancestorship
• Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
• Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself
• Fever Ray - Fever Ray
• Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Here Be Dragons
• Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue

 

That Fashawn record was cool.

 

Some records in your targets for listening section that I am legitimately surprised you haven’t heard.

 

This is like The Year of Disappointing Follow-Ups for me. Common Existence, Daisy, The Pariah The Parrot and the Illusion, Nothing Personal, Anywhere But Here, Trevor Hall, Killswitch Engage, etc. Weird year.

This makes me happy as hell. If I made this list in '09, I'd have put The Dangerous Summer #1 but this one has just burrowed into my heart over time.

Your lists always make for such an appealing bit of homework for me to do eventually. Haha

FUCK yes.

I adored that book. I think she's a staggeringly incredible writer.

 

Probably fair. Which ones in particular?

Keep in mind my tastes absolutely exploded in like 2010-2011 and I wasn't always the most consistent about going backwards.

 

there's always some I'm surprised he's not heard but I'm also always surprised at the sheer amount he has heard lol.

 

Didn't realize so many people hated Bitte Orca, that would def be my #1 album from this year and prolly a top 3 ever. Next-level vocal/guitar performances and an electricity I've yet to hear in another record since. Makes sense they were doing like 9-hour rehearsals lol

 

Bitte Orca definitely my favorite album of theirs, so damn good

 

These ones in particular:

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
U2 - No Line on the Horizon
Miranda Lambert - Revolution
Dawes - North Hills
Mat Kearney – City of Black & White

IMO, that's the best Lambert album. And I adore the Kearney album. His purest singer-songwriter record, with some really lovely Laurel Canyon touches.

 

I will be honest: I do not know if I've heard Post-Nothing. I was pretty sure I had. But it's not on any listening or to-buy list I have. So I'll just have to re-listen and be sure.

I definitely have heard parts of the U2 and Green Day albums as well, just never front-to-back.

 

Those U2 and Green Day albums were really big releases for me back in the day (and the latter was just generally pretty inescapable), hence my surprise.

I definitely did not hear Post-Nothing in 2009, but went back to it after Celebration Rock.