ApocalypticaWhew. It seems like it was only yesterday when I welcomed 2009, and now it's over. While it might've been shitty in many ways, it has certainly been an amazing year in music & movies.
My Top 5 Albums of 2009:
5: Editors - In This Light And On This Evening (this band also became the revelation of the year for me)
4: Depeche Mode - Sounds Of The Universe
3: Muse - The Resistance
2: Rammstein - Liebe ist für alle da
1: Puscifer - C Is For (Please Insert Sophomoric Genitalia Reference HERE) (yeah, it's an EP not a full album, but still, it's mind-blowing once you get past the funny/stupid cover, and The Humbling River is the song of the year for me)
Honorable mention: the self-titled debut by Karin Dreijer's project, Fever Ray
Low points of 2009:
5: The infamous Kanye West moment at the VMAs, but not for the reasons you might think: yes, he did act like an ass (is he capable of anything else, BTW?) but 2 far more awful things happened that night - Beyoncé was seriously nominated for a major award and Taylor Swift WON. A trophy. Taylor Swift. For being "the best" in something. Yeah.
4: This person who calls herself Lady GaGa (because Lady Coochie Coochie Coo would've been too complicated) has brainwashed the masses into believing that what she does is somehow more than fluffy pink dance pop with stupid-ass lyrics and she is being praised because she is more "talented" than Britney Spears which is pretty much the equivalent of saying she's smarter than a chicken because she doesn't shit on the dinnertable, whereas a chicken would definitely shit on the dinnertable if it had the opportunity to do so.
3: Susan Boyle sold HOW MANY ALBUMS???
2: The downward spiral (no pun intended) of Marilyn Manson. This was not a good year for him, to put it mildly. Not only did his new album The High End of Low flop enormously, his music failed to impress and his childish, incoherent ramblings were ridiculed in magazines and webzines all around the world and he's a few pounds away from morphing into Boy George. How the mighty fall...
1: Ex-Prince Of Darkness Trent Reznor had an apparent mental meltdown/severe midlife crisis & subsequently he went on a fundraising rampage which ended in failure and he also had a freakishly brief engagement to an obscure female who is more proficient at gold-digging than a hermit from Alaska, followed by a sudden wedding where he looked extremely uncomfortable in a waistcoat & tie.
Dishonorable mention: reunions up the wazoo, by the likes of Creed, Limp Bizkit & blink-182. They were truly missed and the world is better place now that they're back. Or something like that.
Releases I'm looking forward to in 2010:
The Deluxe reissue of The Fragile + new Nine Inch Nails material
New albums by Apocalyptica & Linkin Park
Possible new material from A Perfect Circle; a fresh Tool release would be amazing, but for now that's just wishful thinking on my part.
Now excuse me, I gotta go & throw up from a pink hearts overdose.
My Top 5 Albums of 2009:
5: Editors - In This Light And On This Evening (this band also became the revelation of the year for me)
4: Depeche Mode - Sounds Of The Universe
3: Muse - The Resistance
2: Rammstein - Liebe ist für alle da
1: Puscifer - C Is For (Please Insert Sophomoric Genitalia Reference HERE) (yeah, it's an EP not a full album, but still, it's mind-blowing once you get past the funny/stupid cover, and The Humbling River is the song of the year for me)
Honorable mention: the self-titled debut by Karin Dreijer's project, Fever Ray
Low points of 2009:
5: The infamous Kanye West moment at the VMAs, but not for the reasons you might think: yes, he did act like an ass (is he capable of anything else, BTW?) but 2 far more awful things happened that night - Beyoncé was seriously nominated for a major award and Taylor Swift WON. A trophy. Taylor Swift. For being "the best" in something. Yeah.
4: This person who calls herself Lady GaGa (because Lady Coochie Coochie Coo would've been too complicated) has brainwashed the masses into believing that what she does is somehow more than fluffy pink dance pop with stupid-ass lyrics and she is being praised because she is more "talented" than Britney Spears which is pretty much the equivalent of saying she's smarter than a chicken because she doesn't shit on the dinnertable, whereas a chicken would definitely shit on the dinnertable if it had the opportunity to do so.
3: Susan Boyle sold HOW MANY ALBUMS???
2: The downward spiral (no pun intended) of Marilyn Manson. This was not a good year for him, to put it mildly. Not only did his new album The High End of Low flop enormously, his music failed to impress and his childish, incoherent ramblings were ridiculed in magazines and webzines all around the world and he's a few pounds away from morphing into Boy George. How the mighty fall...
1: Ex-Prince Of Darkness Trent Reznor had an apparent mental meltdown/severe midlife crisis & subsequently he went on a fundraising rampage which ended in failure and he also had a freakishly brief engagement to an obscure female who is more proficient at gold-digging than a hermit from Alaska, followed by a sudden wedding where he looked extremely uncomfortable in a waistcoat & tie.
Dishonorable mention: reunions up the wazoo, by the likes of Creed, Limp Bizkit & blink-182. They were truly missed and the world is better place now that they're back. Or something like that.
Releases I'm looking forward to in 2010:
The Deluxe reissue of The Fragile + new Nine Inch Nails material
New albums by Apocalyptica & Linkin Park
Possible new material from A Perfect Circle; a fresh Tool release would be amazing, but for now that's just wishful thinking on my part.
Now excuse me, I gotta go & throw up from a pink hearts overdose.
st track: (12 Oct 2008)
