Top Three Albums of the Year 2009
 

1) Shannon Wright "HonneyBee Girls"

 

2) Dead Weather "Horehound"



3) Sonic Youth "The Eternal"

 

1. Natural Snow Buildings - Shadow Kingdom
2. Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
3. The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Succubus

1. Rowland S. Howard - Pop Crimes
2. Mass of the Fermenting Dregs - World is Yours
3. Sonic Youth - The Eternal

Im getting that for Xmas, good to know Santa has taste

1. James Ferarro - "Clear"
2. Polvo - "In Prism"
3. Oneohtrix Point Never - "Rifts"

i'm curious to hear that work, Mr Rowland it's an interesting guitar freak.
can you describe something?

1. Popular Songs by Yo La Tengo
2. Heart to Elk by Point Juncture, WA
3. The Eternal by Sonic Youth

1. william basinski - 92982
2. emeralds - what happened
3. sir richard bishop - the freak of araby

I've probably heard better but I honestly don't remember.

i'm still doing my top 100 of the decade, maybe broadcast/focus group, basinski and oneohtrix?

any good? what it sounds like?

jackie o motherfucker - ballads of a revolution
polvo - in prism
sy - the eternal

Checkmate Savage - The Phantom Band
The Resurrectionists/Night Raider - Crippled Black Phoenix
Exploding Head - A Place To Bury Strangers

maybe.

Zu - Carboniferous
Why? - Eskimo Snow
Mono - Hymn to the immortal wind

I'm all for good songwriting lately ah ha.

It's basically Sir Richard Bishop playing with some sort of weird samba band. Highly recommended!

Oh and the new OGRE YOU ASSHOLE album is out for the 2 people who like them here.

yeah
zu - carboniferous is probably no 4 on my list! superb album!

1. christof kurzmann/burkhard stangl - neuschnee
2. master musicians of bukkake - totem one
3. aidan baker/thisquietarmy - picture of a picture
4. mass of the fermenting dregs - world is yours
5. glenn jones - barbeque bob in fishtown
6. natural snow buildings - daughter of darkness
7. james blackshaw - glass bead game
8. amen dunes - dia
9. vivian girls - everything goes wrong
10. yair yona - remember
11. sir richard bishop - freak of araby
12. tom james scott - schools and rivers
13. ooioo - armonico hewa
14. emeralds - what happened?
15. kurt vile - childish prodigy
16. harappian night recordings - glorious gongs of hainuwele
17. twinsistermoon - the hollow mountain
18. blue sabbath black cheer - crows eat the eyes from the leviathan's carcass
19. zs - music of the modern white
20. longmont potion castle - volume 7
21. wavves - wavvves
22. jim o'rourke - the visitor
23. blank dogs - under and under
24. suishou no fune - gold labyrinth
25. ben reynolds - how day earnt its night
26. polysics - absolute polysics
27. the skull defekts - the temple
28. ajilvsga - white crow
29. preslav literary school - beautiful was tie time
30. dan deacon - bromst
31. wet hair - dream
32. richard youngs - beyond the valley of ultrahits
33. drip house - sewer ghost
34. red deer - s/t
35. lightning bolt - earthly delights
36. six organs of admittance - luminous night
37. peaking lights - imaginary falcons cs
38. venetian snares - filth
39. experimental dental school - forest fields
40. brethren of the free spirit - the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb
41. predator vision / sun araw split
42. greg davis - mutually arising
43. skyramps - days of thunder
44. polvo - in prisms
45. 10-20 - s/t
46. ducktails - acres of shade
47. oneohtrix point never - betrayed in the octagon
48. loren connors/jim o'rourke - 2 nice catholic boys
49. gamelan son of lion - sonogram
50. james ferraro - heaven's gate
51. jandek - not hunting for meaning
52. alva noto - xerrox vol. 2
53. lilypad - signal longings
54. robedoor - exorcist blues
55. uuuuuu - su aside
56. isengrind - journey of the 7 stars
57. mark mcguire - tidings ii
58. tetuzo akiyama/kevin corcoran/christian kiefer - low cloud means death
59. thee oh sees - help
60. tim hecker - an imaginary country
61. monks of the balhill - lost and hide side
62. xela - heris of the fire
63. pan america - white bird release
64. lustmord - the dark places of the earth
65. super minerals - multitudes
66. pocahaunted - gold miner's daughter
67. bones of seabirds - sink thy hands deep into earth
68. group bambino - guitars from agadez vol. 2
69. flower man - peppermint steamroom
70. sunn o))) - monoliths and dimensions
71. xray eyeballs - s/t
72. john wiese/c. spencer yeh - cincinnati
73. eat skull - wild and inside
74. bionulor - bionulor
75. infinity window - articial midnight
76. sun araw - leaves like these
77. mist - certain expansion
78. c. spencer yeh - the strangler
79. medroxy progesterone acetate - mar'ah
80. boredoms - super roots 10
81. khanate - clean hands go foul
82. william basinski - 92982
83. zu - carboniferous
84. ephel duath - through my dog's eyes
85. squarepusher - numbers luscent
86. pelt - a stone for angus maclise
87. toshimaru nakamaru and ami yoshida - soba to bara
88. 8rolek - fat pigs
89. neokarma jooklo trio - time's vibe
90. pixel - the drive
91. svarte greiner - kappe
92. secret chiefs 3 - traditionalists: le mani destre recise degli ulaimi uomini
93. kabyzdoh obtruhamchi - estcho
94. sparkling wide pressure - seven inside and out
95. kane pour - wand in the beak of the yellow bird
96. peter broderick - ten duets
97. city center - s/t
98. real estate - fake blues
99. teepee - voodoo
100. million mists - haleakala
101. sorc'henn - nvit ravbe d'oree
102. acid mothers temple - lord of the underground
103. age of enlightenment - giantess
104. telecult powers - twilight of the oscillators
105. treetops - eternal sky
106. savage young taterbug - boys of the feather
107. rale - twelve hours of the night
108. brendan murray - s/t
109. cam deas - my guitar is alive and it's singing
110. chris zabriskie - dark glow of the mountains
111. habsyll - s/t
112. gregg kowalsky - tape chants

Okay, after listening to Embryonic, I'm pretty sure this order will be completely fucked up. I have to decide where to put it after a few more listens.

1. Exploding Head-A Place To Burry Stranngers
2. Wind Poem-Mount Eerie
3. My guitar is alive and singing-Cam Deas

mos def - ecstatic
dinosaur jr. - farm
doomriders - darkness come alive

1. Eat Skull Wild & Inside
2. Dan Melchior und Das Menace Thankyou Very Much
3. Nothing People Late Night

actually he is playing arabic music, hence the freak of ARABY and whatnot.
very much inspired by omar korshid and he does some cool korshid, kalthoum fairouz covers.

Ah of course. Where did I pull 'samba' from? Oh well haha.

woah....really? AS in better than the eternal? I love jack white, and Allison...but I just don't think this band is anywhere as good as their original bands. I dunno...I gave the album a couple listens and seemed too.....recycled maybe? I dunno. It's been a while.

i was curious myself, way off lol

you know i didn't think there was many good albums this year at all

40. Mission of Burma- The Sound, The Speed, The Light
39. Wolf Eyes – Always Wrong
38. MV & EE- Barn Nova
37. Zs - Music of the modern white
36. Sparks - Seduction of Ingmar Bergman
35. Yoko Ono & The Plastic Ono Band-Between My Head And The Sky
34. PJ Harvey & John Parish – A Woman A Man Walked By
33. Shit and Shine - '229 2299 Girls against Shit'
32. Tyondai Braxton - Central Market
31. Wilco-Wilco
30. Meat Puppets – Sewn Together
29. Master Musicians of Bukkake – Totem One
28. Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
27. John Zorn – O'o
26. Built To Spill-There Is No Enemy
25. Expo '70 - Awakening
24. Magik Markers - Balf Quarry
23. Jim O'Rourke – The Visitor
22. White Out with Thurston Moore & Jim O'rourke - Senso
21. Secret Chiefs 3 - Traditionalists: Le Mani Destre Recise
20. Glass Rock - Tall Firs Meet Soft Location
19. Six Organs of Admittance - Luminous Night
18. Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
17. Oneida – Rated O
16. Fiery Furnaces - I’m Going Away
15. The Thing - Bag It!
14. Do Make Say Think – Other Truths
13. Sunn o))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
12. Epsers – III
11. Om – God Is Good
10. Bardo Pond – Peri
9. Polvo - In Prism
8. Faust - C'est Com... Com... Compliqué
7. Arvo Part - In Principo
6. Sonic Youth -The Eternal
6. Zu – Carboniferous
4. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
3. The Bad Plus & Wendy Lewis - For All I Care
2. Flaming Lips – Embryonic
1. Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship

Hmm, that would be...

The Flaming Lips - Embryonic (such a great record, I didn't think I'd ever give The Flaming Lips a new chance, but this album is fantastic!)

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion (while I don't think it's the masterpiece many says it is, I really love listening to it. Great pop songs. Not my favorite album of theirs, but it's awesome.)

Thåström - Kärlek Är För Dom (This awesome Swedish dude I like, don't know if he's well known outside of Sweden. Anyway, this is a personal and very beautiful album I love.)

1. Eat Skull - Wild & Inside

Krallice--Dimensional Bleedthrough
Flaming Lips--Embryonic
Isis--Wavering Radiant

just bought jim orourke's visitor, damn small hmv didn't have much choice in their 'rock&pop' section, but found this as a first encounter to jim's music. Got suspended from work for saying 'let's put our handbags away' to my hysterical gay boss on christmas eve, he's put in a complaint funny enough, and I got sent home today so decided to use a crimbo voucher. Their paying for my damn taxis!

Eat Skull-Wild and Inside
Rusted Shut
Kurt Vile and the Violators 12"

Is It Fire? - Jessie Evans
Down With Liberty ... Up With Chains - Chain And The Gang
Still Night, Still Light - Au Revoir Simone

im actually compelled to throw raekwon's cuban linx 2 on my list, reinvigorated my love of hip hop.