1. Alela Diane - To Be Still
2. Florence & The Machine - Lungs
3. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
4. The Dead Weather - Horehound
5. Diane Birch - Bible Belt
6. El Perro Del Mar - Love Is Not Pop
7. The Gossip - Music For Men
8. Kinny - Idle Forest of Chit Chat
9. Metric - Fantasies
10. N'Dambi - Pink Elephant
11. Michelle Shocked - Soul of My Soul
12. Morrissey - Years of Refusal
13. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
14. St. Vincent - Actor
15. Meshell Ndegeocello - Devil's Halo

1. Annie- Don't Stop
2. Bat for Lashes- Two Suns
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- It's Blitz!
4. Prince- LotusFlow3r
5. The xx- The xx
6. Franz Ferdinand- Tonight
7. Bachelorette- My Electric Family
8. Peaches- I Feel Cream
9. Julian Casablancas- Phrazes for the Young
10. Depeche Mode- Sounds of the Universe
11. Prince- MPLSound
12. Morrissey- Years of Refusal
13. Antony and the Johnsons- The Crying Light

Moonbeam said:

I like all of the albums on your list except for Depeche Mode.

Some of the Depeche album leaves me cold, and in all honesty, I haven't listened to it in awhile. Maybe I should redo my list.

Wowugotit said:

The only album I really, really loved this year was Bill Callahan's Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle. I didn't buy much else, and what I did buy didn't really lift my skirt too much.

I am interested in hearing those XX & Bat for Lashes records, & I'll end up getting the Animal Collective album at some point as well.

damosuzuki said:

I don't know how much you'd like either of the first two albums, as they're both kind of "pretty". I quite like them (I like Two Suns more than anything from 2008), though! I'd love for you to hear Don't Stop plus the All Night EP.

ive bought great albums , none of them mention the year 2009 though.
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Moonbeam said:

Crackers, the thought of listening to something that could be described as pretty almost makes me sick.

I really should give the Annie thing a try. I've actually been playing Fever pretty regularly (it's great for jumping rope), and I've always had a weakness for robo-pop (in small doses).

motownlover said:

LMFAO!

Well i have been thinking of a list for this year and its been tough, there were actually very strong albums.

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1.Foot of the Mountain - a-ha
2.No line on the Horizon - U2

After this no particular order

Wilco (wilco the album)
Stefani Vara - Storybook Diaries
Anjulie- Anjulie
Prince- LotusFlower
Norah Jones- the Fall
Pearl Jam-Backspacer
Amerie-In Love and War
Dave Matthews Band- Big Whiskey
Bon Jovi-the Circle
One Hundred Years From Now-DennisDeyoung
The Saturdays-Wordshaker
Me'shell-Devils Halo
Jessie James-Jessie James

Nathan Barr - True Blood score
Norah Jones - The Fall
Alela Diane - To Be Still
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Prince - Lotusflow3r
Sting - If on a Winter's Night...
Meshell - Devil's Halo
Wendy & Lisa - White Flags of Winter Chimneys (the packaged version was released this year )
Passion Pit - Manners (half of it anyway )
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Maxwell- Black Summer Nights
lady gaga- the fame monster
the black eyed peas-the e.n.d
jay-z-the blueprint 3

everybody else I been listening too are old school lol

My top 12 of 2009 so far:






1. The Horrors - Primary Colours
2. The xx - xx
3. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
4. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
5. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
6. God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl
7. Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night
8. Company Of Thieves - Ordinary Riches
9. The Dead Weather - Horehound
10. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
11. Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul
12. PJ Harvey & John Parrish - A Woman a Man Walked By

Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night
Brownout - Aguilas And Cobras
Prince - Lotusflow3r

That's all I can think of that I really liked.

sextonseven said:

I'd like to hear that as well. They had an album a few years back that I really enjoyed.

In fact, I think I may have clued into it because you were talking it up here.

damosuzuki said:

Not as incredible as Let's Get Out Of This Country (one of my fave albums of this decade), but still very, very good.

sextonseven said:

Cut, paste, save.

I love it when you post what you're listening to. Makes for less homework for me.

Lammastide said:

Thank you kind sir.

But there has to be a clunker in one of my posts. Ask sosgemini about the time he bought Nellie McKay's first album because I said it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. He still hasn't forgiven me for that.

Primary Colours - The Horrors
In And Out Of Control - The Raveonettes
It's Blitz! - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
A Brief History Of Love - The Big Pink
Raditude - Weezer

The rest of the stuff I've heard this year was below what I'd hoped it would've been.

1 Prince / MPLSound
2.Prefab Sprout / Let's Change The World With Music
3.Prince / Lotusflow3r
4.Bruce Springsteen / Working On A Dream
5.Jesse Johnson / Verbal Penetration
6.La Roux / La Roux
7.Maxwell / Black Summers' Night
8.U2 / No line On The Horizon
9.Phoenix / Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
10. Empire Of The Sun / Walking On A Dream