Friday, December 18, 2009

My Top Ten Favourite Albums Of 2009

In no particular order...

1. Matt and Kim -Grand
2. Handsome Furs - Face Control
3. Fever Ray - Self Titled
4. Dead To Me - African Elephants
5. Future Of The Left - Travels with Myself and Another
6. The Horrors - Primary Colours
7. Metric - Fantasies
8. Moneybrother - Real Control
9. The Raveonettes - In And Out Of Control
10. The Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come

53 comments:

Hannah said...

not Lucero's 1372 Overton Park huh? or Tegan and Sara's Sainthood? I haven't heard the latter of the two myself but I guess those albums have a lot of competition

Sean said...

... no love for the Buttsweat and Tears?

and have you ever heard The Cobra Skulls? they're quite "ill"

As for African Elephants, I CAN'T stop listening to it... It's addicting!

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Nina said...

hell yes dead to me!

Anonymous said...

awesome to see metric on there

but yeah what about tegan and sara!

John Deacon said...

What about Chinese Democracy?? oh wait, that was 2008... but still.

Anonymous said...

No Propagandhi?

Anonymous said...

Dead to me's album is legit for sure... chuck ragan's gold country was also pretty good...

Adam said...

I'm not sure if you listened to White Lies' album Death, but it's pretty stellar. It's not too late to change the list man!

kylewagoner said...

I'd have Teenage Bottlerocket, Propagandhi, Cobra Skulls, American Steel, and definitely that Dead to Me album. I'm not sure what else...

love,
Kyle

Cody said...

Seems odd to me. Your band is going in a more poppy direction, and now I find out you like these poppy bands... Depressing to me, Anyhow, the mountain goats kick ass.

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CrgFlxbl said...

Solid list. Though I'm going to have to agree with everyone else and call you out for not having every single punk album that came out in 2009 on this list.

Ten is a restricting number and favorite means it's just his opinion, don't lose sleep over it.

Anonymous said...

No love for "It's Great to be Alive"? That's a shame...

crille said...

I cant stretch how cool I think it is that you listens to my Swedish country fellow Moneybrother!

Mr. Ryan Bince said...

HEll yeah. Excited to see Matt and Kim on there. Any chance of another tour with them?

Anonymous said...

do one for movies next

Anonymous said...

Hm, thought you used to be into punk music. Oh, well. Good luck on the next album, I guess.

Brittany Strummer said...

Dead to Me is on there. Quit whining. Boo hoo. Tom likes to expand his musical tastes.

I only listened to three things on this list. BtMI! is totes number one on mine.

Anonymous said...

Solid, but what about Tegan and Sara?

Caleb Naquin said...

A few of your favorite records aren't on the top 10 list and you automatically assume the guy doesn't like them? Kinda silly...

Anyway, great list. Nothing like mine, I couldn't really get into the new Dead to Me. In fact, the only record we have in common is the Future of the Left record, but I'll be checking out most of this list.

Anonymous said...

nice list.

I like the inclusion of the raveonettes, whose album and live show was a lot of fun this year but destined to be overlooked by people put off by Vice records. future of the left and the horrors had great ones this too.

Good to see you keep listening to great records while most people want you to only listen to stuff made on a cassette recorder and pots and pans and sticks.

Bailzig said...

The Horrors! That album is so under represented on end of the year lists! The album so fucking solid, front to back. Amazing! Exclamation Point!

Dan Dupree said...

Interesting show in San Jose last night. Last show I had a chance to see was last year at Night So Silent Night.

Dr. Hilarious said...

can't complain about this list and definitely don't think Sainthood should be on it - one band i might add is Bonus Eventus, their album Canaceros was definitely one of the bests of 09

PressureKid said...

The Horrors did have a great album. Nice choice. And I will join Brittany on the BtMI train. Amazing.

Cait from Cleveland said...

YES YES YES and YES!

The video for "daylight"-matt and kim
makes me look at all surfaces in terms of drummablility.

t said...

Hell yes to dead to me! I'm surprised to see metric on here-emily haines is an awesome frontwoman! People need to stop being genre label whores. Appreciation of music shouldn't be limited to one specific genre.grow up!

Anonymous said...

TOm, this is totally not punk! come on TOM! Show some roots here TOM!

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Herr. verärgert said...

for all you "this aint punk" people
wouldnt it be submission if he refused to listen to anything else? i love it as much as the next guy, but believe it or not, there are artists w/talent and integrity outside of punk.
so in short screw all you "you used to be real people"

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Whitney said...

Thanks. saw this and checked out your list. really, really like metric "help im alive"

badkidsgoodgrammar said...

I can't believe I just found your blog. Been a listener and concert-goer for 6-7 years now! Great blog. Great tunes. I just worked for 16 hours and I can't think of any other words than "great"...sorry.

Madison Acid said...

you know at first i was a little confused, but i listened to handsome furs and the horrors and they're both sickk

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