The best of 2009

Here's my choice:

Best Song :

1) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Head Will Roll

2) Think About Life- Sweet Sixteen

3) Malajube- Ursuline

4) Franz FerdinandUlysses

5) Tiga-Love Don't Dance Here Anymore

Best Album :

1) Think About Life- familyMalajube - Labyrinthes

2) Malajube - Labyrinthes

3) Franz Ferdinand - Tonight

4) The Horrors - Primary Colors

5)Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It<s Blitz

Best Live Act :

1) Franz Ferdinand

2) Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3) Think About Life

4)Dead Weather

5) Malajube

honorable mention : Japandroids and The Kills

Best New Artist (artists who have realeased a first LP this year)

1) Clues

2) The XX

3) Dead Weather

4) La Roux

5) Thunderheist

Artist Of The Year : Karen O ; for her work on YYY's album, her cameo on the Flaming Lips LP, her stage performance and the great work she did with the Where The Wild Things Are soundtrack. + She's very cute!

Let's see your choices!

I like Heads Will Rolls but the way she says "dance" just kills me :|

can i make my top of the year 1999 ? XD

because before than the CD of a unknown but very talented band (we can call them genius) from a little city of a little country come in my house i think it will take years XD

Here's mine, though I might need to change it come the end of December. I'm still trying to catch up with a few of 09's most highly rated albums, and haven't heard The XX, Animal Collective or Grizzly Bear yet. No John & Edward though, sorry!

Albums...

1. Julian Casablancas - "Phrazes For The Young"

2. The Horrors - "Primary Colours"

3. Silversun Pickups - "Swoon"

4. Metric - "Fantasies"

5. Arctic Monkeys - "Humbug"

6. The Big Pink - "A Brief History Of Love"

7. The Dead Weather - "Horehound"

8. Wild Beasts - "Two Dancers"

9. Noah & The Whale - "First Days Of Spring"

10. Band of Skulls - "Baby Darling Dollface Honey"

Tracks (in no particular order)...

The Horrors - "Sea Within A Sea"

The Big Pink - "Velvet"

Julian Casablancas - "Out Of The Blue"

Flight Of The Conchords - "Carol Brown"

The XX - "Crystalized"

Regina Spektor - "Human Of The Year"

PJ Harvey & John Parish - "Black Hearted Love"

Florence & The Machine - "Dog Days Are Over"

Miike Snow - "Animal"

Grizzly Bear - "While You Wait For The Others"

Arctic Monkeys - "Crying Lightning"

Bat For Lashes - "Glass"

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Zero"

Live Gigs...

1. Fleet Foxes (& Blitzen Trapper)

2. The Dead Weather (& Creature With The Atom Brain)

3. Noah & The Whale (& JJ Pistolet)

4. Brendan Benson (& Cory Chisel)

5. Antony & The Johnsons (& someone dressed up as a bird )

Still to see Arctic Monkeys, Eagles of Death Metal, Band of Skulls, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Spiritualized live this year.

And finally, this year's "I can't believe I only found out afterwards" award goes to Bat For Lashes & School Of Seven Bells

Michael you are SO indie.

I know, I'm thinking about attending one of those IWA (Indie Wimps Anonymous) meetings sometime soon

Where's your list, Matt? :persuazn:

09 music sucked for me Im still stuck on Bon Iver from last year.

The only highlights of 09 for me really (since i still haven`t heard all of them crocked vultures)

The Hazards of Love- The Decemberists (album)

Cleaning My Gun- Mark Knopfler (song)

Im still stuck on Bon Iver from last year.

Not a bad one to be stuck on though...

The Hazards of Love- The Decemberists (album)

Forgot all about that one

The Best New Act for 2009 was The XX..The Album is brilliant! Other then that i haven't got a clue

this was kind of a weak year musically to me, some of my favs though;

Rain Machine - Rain Machine

CYNE - Water For Mars

Cradle Orchestra - Velvet Ballads

Why? - Eskimo Snow

Iran - Dissolver

I didn't rly like the xx

The only highlights of 09 for me really (since i still haven`t heard all of them crocked vultures)

The Hazards of Love- The Decemberists (album)

Cleaning My Gun- Mark Knopfler (song)

Doh, forgot about Matthew Good

Top 2 albums:

1. Vancouver- Matthew Good

2. The Hazards Of Love- The Decemberists

Best albums... Hmm, I haven't been keeping in touch with the modern scene, so I'll just name these two albums:

Octaherdon by the Mars Volta

and

The Incident by Porcupine Tree

...oh, and also Crack the Skye by Mastodon, although I don't consider it their best album.

The only highlights of 09 for me really (since i still haven`t heard all of them crocked vultures)

The Hazards of Love- The Decemberists (album)

Cleaning My Gun- Mark Knopfler (song)

Doh, forgot about Matthew Good

Top 2 albums:

1. Vancouver- Matthew Good

2. The Hazards Of Love- The Decemberists

#1 album by far is:

Get Lucky- Mark Knopfler

Then the other two i posted

I looked through my 09 music again. It's the least amount of music from a year that i've added since 2005. Nothing really stood out.

I'm just checking out a few that are supposed to be good, Girls, The xx, Phoenix, Animal Collective. nothing really stands out yet. Even Arctic Monkeys was a letdown. Josh Homme kinda ruined them imo. And I love him more than anyone.

I guess the best of 2009 for me was The Beatles Remasters and The remaster of Paul's Boutique.

Best Song :

-Owl City - Vanilla Twilight

-Paramore - Ignorance

-AFI - I Am Trying Very Hard to Be Here

-AFI - Torch Song

-Pink - Funhouse

Best Album :

-Paramore - Brand New Eyes

-AFI - Crash Love

-Do As Infinity - Eternal Flame

-Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe

-The Gazette - Dim

Best Overall Album goes to Paramore with Brand New Eyes

Best Change in music goes to Shakira Shewolf. The album is so lighthearted and fun.

Here's mine, though I might need to change it come the end of December. No John & Edward though, sorry!

Albums...

...

5. Arctic Monkeys - "Humbug"

...

-Paramore - Brand New Eyes

...

missed those albums

besides this 2009 was a great year in music if you consider the following albums:

01) Long Distance Calling – Avoid The Light *

02) Russian Circles – Geneva *

03) Kylesa – Static Tensions *

04) Caspian – Tertia *

05) pg.lost – In Never Out *

06) Fall Of Efrafra – Inlé *

07) Callisto – Providence *

08) Ghost Brigade – Isolation Songs *

09) Insomnium – Across The Dark *

10) Heaven & Hell – The Devil You Know

Exxasens – Beyond The Universe *

Muse – The Resistance (I think about degrading this one for it's the worst Muse release since Hullabaloo)

Isis – Wavering Radiant *

Celeste – Misanthrope(s) *

Neaera – Omnicide

Swallow The Sun – New Moon *

Solstafír – Köld *

Katatonia – Night Is The New Day

Clutch – Strange Cousins From The West *

Heirs – Alchera *

of course this list is incomplete even though it was meant to be just a top 10.

* indicates, that this is a band I have never heard before 2009

best live:

Caspian

Metallica

Dark Tranquillity (though it was far too short, because it was a festival appearance)

Clutch

My favorite album was The Fame Monster, and I don't care if everyone hates Gaga, she was my top!

Songs would be:

Brown Eyes

Speechless

Bad Romance