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The Music of 2009 (AKA How I Obsessively Tag Everything in Sight and Waste 5 Minutes…

1 Jan 2010, 03:36 by CrimeForDummies

So as the year comes to an end it's that time where everyone picks what they think are the top 10/20/whatever albums of the year. I though think that's too easy and a bit of a cop-out. Picking a top 10 is easy most of the time, determining how every new release you listen to stacks up against one another though is a bit more difficult of a challenge. So like last year, I present my complete list of albums released over the past year organized from worst to first (minus EP's, compilations, live albums, etc. because if I did, the complete 'Neverender' boxset by Coheed and Cambria would take #1 by itself because of it's total and complete amazingness). Unlike last year though where I had the relatively low number of 112 albums to compare, this year had almost double the number albums to sort through, so either click back or brace yourself cause this might take a while to get through (and as always agree/complain/whine/whatever down in the comments. Useless trolling though will get you nowhere).

204. Burden of a Day – OneOneThousand
203. Neaera – Omnicide: Creation Unleashed
202. Emmure – Felony
201. Suicide Silence – No Time to Bleed
200. Apoptygma Berzerk – Rocket Science
199. Red – Innocence & Instinct
198. Carbon Leaf – Nothing Rhymes With Woman
197. Nightmare of You - Infomaniac
196. Crooked X – Crooked X
195. Eyes Set to Kill – The World Outside
194. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
193. 311 – Uplifter
192. American Me – Siberian Nightmare Machine
191. Blue October – Approaching Normal
190. Heartless Bastards – The Mountain
189. Hide The Knives – Savior For Sale
188. The Used – Artwork
187. Static-X – Cult of Static
186. The Autumn Offering – Requiem
185. Weezer – Raditude
184. Burn Halo – Burn Halo
183. Kill Hannah – Wake Up the Sleepers
182. We Came As Romans – To Plant a Seed
181. Marilyn Manson – The High End of Low
180. Oceana – Birth Eater
179. Papa Roach – Metamorphosis
178. Our Lady Peace – Burn, Burn
177. The Almost – Monster Monster
176. Blackened – This Means War
175. The Devil Wears Prada – With Roots Above and Branches Below
174. HORSE the band – Desperate Living
173. DÅÅTH – The Concealers
172. Breaking Benjamin – Dear Agony
171. The Dangerous Summer – Reach For the Sun
170. The Mars Volta – Octahedron
169. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – The Century of Self
168. The Blackout – The Best In Town
167. Burnt by the Sun – Heart of Darkness
166. Chickenfoot – Chickenfoot
165. Hatebreed – Hatebreed
164. Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
163. Leathermouth - XO
162. Drop Dead, Gorgeous – The Hot N’ Heavy
161. A Plea For Purging - Depravity
160. PsyOpus – Odd Senses
159. It Dies Today – Lividity
158. Trophy Scars – Bad Luck
157. Foundation – Hang Your Head
156. Julien-K – Death to Analog
155. Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
154. 3 – Revisions
153. Thy Will Be Done – In Ancient of Days
152. Confession – Cancer
151. The Dead Weather – Horehound
150. Job for a Cowboy – Ruination
149. Winds of Plague – The Great Stone War
147. Big Business – Mind the Drift
147. The Red Chord – Fed Through the Teeth Machine
146. Chimaira – The Infection
145. The Black Atlantic – Reverence For Fallen Trees
144. Cursive – Mama, I’m Swollen
143. Five Finger Death Punch – War is the Answer
142. Memphis May Fire – Sleepwalking
141. As Cities Burn – Hell or High Water
140. Say Anything – Say Anything
139. Silverstein – A Shipwreck in the Sand
138. Architects – Hollow Crown
137. within the ruins – Creature
136. Farewell to Freeway – Only Time Will Tell
135. Earth Crisis – To the Death
134. Throwdown – Deathless
133. Showbread – The Fear of God
132. Lacuna Coil – Shallow Life
131. These Green Eyes – Relapse to Recovery
130. Evans Blue – Evans Blue
129. The Prodigy – Invaders Must Die
128. Texas in July – I Am
127. Narrows – New Distances
126. Divine Heresy – Bringer of Plagues
125. Puscifer – "C" Is For (Please Insert Sophomoric Genitalia Reference Here)
124. The Fall of Troy – In the Unlikely Event
123. Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
122. Placebo – Battle For the Sun
121. Rancid – Let the Dominoes Fall
120. Salt The Wound - Ares
119. Sick Puppies – Tri-Polar
118. Coalesce – OX
117. Porcupine Tree – The Incident
116. Flyleaf – Memento Mori
115. You Say Party! We Say Die! – XXXX
114. Ace Enders And A Million Different People – When I Hit the Ground
113. Closure In Moscow – First Temple
112. The Sleeping – What it Takes
111. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
110. Telefon Tel Aviv – Immolate Yourself
109. mewithoutYou – It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All a Dream! It’s Alright
108. The Riverboat Gamblers – Underneath the Owl
107. AFI – Crash Love
106. Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
105. Sabertooth Zombie – …And Your Fathers Are Dead in the Ground
104. Miss May I – Apologies Are For the Weak
103. The Kris Norris Projekt – Icons of the Illogical
102. DevilDriver – Pray For Villains
101. Metric - Fantasies
100. God Forbid – Earthsblood
99. Mudvayne – Mudvayne
98. The Lonely Island – Incredibad
97. Rodrigo y Gabriela – 11:11
96. Taking Back Sunday – New Again
95. Moneen – The World I Want to Leave Behind
94. Three Days Grace – Life Starts Now
93. Killswitch Engage – Killswitch Engage
92. Death by Stereo – Death Is My Only Friend
91. Dance Gavin Dance – Happiness
90. The Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate
89. Dead by Sunrise – Out of Ashes
88. Great Northern – Remind Me Where the Light Is
87. The Sounds – Crossing the Rubicon
86. Mew - No More Stories…
85. Manchester Orchestra – Mean Everything to Nothing
84. Stray From the Path – Make Your Own History
83. The Killer and the Star – The Killer and the Star
82. Emery – …In Shallow Seas We Sail
81. Megadeth – Endgame
80. Bury Your Dead – It’s Nothing Personal
79. Death Before Dishonor – Better Ways to Die
78. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
77. Hester Prynne – The Goswell Divorce
76. Therefore I Am – The Sound of Human Lives
75. For the Fallen Dreams – Relentless
Essential Track: Two Twenty Two

74. Paramore – Brand New Eyes
Essential Track: Ignorance

73. Baroness – Blue Record
Essential Track: War Wisdom and Rhyme

72. iwrestledabearonce – It’s All Happening
Essential Track: I’m Cold and There Are Wolves After Me

71. The Number Twelve Looks Like You – Worse Than Alone
Essential Track:…If They Holler Don’t Let Go

70. Tegan and Sara – Sainthood
Essential Track: Red Belt

69. Rammstein – Liebe ist für alle da
Essential Track: Rammlied

68. Dream Theater – Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Essential Track: The Shattered Fortress

67. 32 Leaves – Panoramic
Essential Track: Erase All Memory

66. Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
Essential Track: Caligulove

65. Forever In Terror – The End
Essential Track: Overboard

64. ZAO – Awake?
Essential Track: Entropica

63. Sleep Serapis Sleep – The Dark Awakening
Essential Track: Destiny is Met on the Path That Betrays It

62. Raised Fist – Veil of Ignorance
Essential Track:Friends and Traitors

61. Isis – Wavering Radiant
Essential Track: Stone to Wake a Serpent

60. Zeromancer – Sinners International
Essential Track: Doppelgänger I Love You

59. Parabelle – A Summit Borderline/A Drop Oceanic
Essential Track: Are You Alaramed?

58. Propagandhi – Supporting Caste
Essential Track: Potemkin City Limits

57. Heartsounds – Until We Surrender
Essential Track: Highway Robbery

56. Bomb the Music Industry! – Scrambles
Essential Track: 25!

55. Saosin – In Search of Solid Ground
Essential Track: The Alarming Sound of a Still Small Voice

54. NOFX – Coaster
Essential Track: The Quitter Download

53. Take It Back! – Atrocities
Essential Track: Hollow Eyes

52. Gallows – Grey Britain
Essential Track: Queensberry Rules

51. Hurt – Goodbye to the Machine
Essential Track: Fighting Tao

50. Billy Talent – Billy Talent III
Essential Tracks: Rusted From the Rain, The Dead Can’t Testify

49. Poison the Well – The Tropic Rot
Essential Tracks: Celebrate the Pyre, Without You and One Other I Am Nothing

48. Austrian Death Machine – Double Brutal
Essential Tracks: I Need Your Clothes Your Boots and Your Motorcycle, It’s Simple If it Jiggles It’s Fat

47. He Is Legend – It Hates You
Essential Tracks: Party Time!!!, Cult of She

46. Celesty – Vendetta
Essential Tracks: Greed & Vanity, Legacy of Hate Pt. 3

45. Enter Shikari – Common Dreads
Essential Tracks: Step Up, Antwerpen

44. Atreyu – Congregation of the Damned
Essential Tracks: Stop! Before it's Too Late and We've Destroyed it All, Bleeding is a Luxury

43. Endwell – Consequences
Essential Tracks: Avoidant: Ghost Will Haunt, As Low as a Life Can Get: Jumping the Shark

42. Polar Bear Club – Chasing Hamburg
Essential Tracks: Boxes, Light of Local Eyes

41. Alexisonfire – Old Crows/Young Cardinals
Essential Tracks: Midnight Regulations, Emerald Street

40. Dethklok – Dethalbum II
Essential Tracks: The Gears, Burn the Earth

39. Slayer – World Painted Blood
Essential Tracks: Unit 731, Psychopathy Red

38. Mute Math – Armistice
Essential Tracks: Spotlight, Armistice

37. Strike Anywhere – Iron Front
Essential Tracks: South Central Beach Party, First Will and Testament

36. Reign Supreme – Testing the Limits of Infinite
Essential Tracks: Mother Superior, Crushed by the Weight

35. August Burns Red – Constellations
Essential Tracks: Ocean of Apathy, Marianas Trench

34. The Eyes Of A Traitor – A Clear Perception
Essential Tracks: Escape These Walls, Misconceptions

33. Strung Out – Agents of the Underground
Essential Tracks: The Fever and the Sound, Jack Knife

32. Set Your Goals – This Will Be the Death of Us
Essential Tracks: Gaia Bleeds (Make Way For Man): Our Ethos: A Legacy to Pass On

31. Kylesa – Static Tensions
Essential Tracks: Scapegoat, Running Red

30. The Ghost of a Thousand – New Hopes, New Demonstrations
Essential Tracks: Moved as Mountains Dreamt of by the Sea, Running on Empty

29. Catherine – Inside Out
Essential Tracks: Fresh Air, Meaning

28. Arsonists Get All The Girls – Portals
Essential Tracks: The 42nd Ego, Saturnine

27. Shadows Fall – Retribution
Essential Tracks: My Demise, King of Nothing

26. CKY – Carver City
Essential Tracks: Imaginary Threats, Old Carver’s Bones

25. Dead and Divine – The Machines We Are
Essential Tracks: The Sugar Sickness, Chemical Valley, D.R.U.G.S.

24. Lamb of God – Wrath
Essential Tracks: In Your Words, Contractor, Everything to Nothing

23. Born of Osiris – A Higher Place
Essential Tracks: Now Arise, A Descent, Faces of Death

22. Street Sweeper Social Club – Street Sweeper Social Club
Essential Tracks: 100 Little Curses, Clap For the Killers, Promenade

21. Alice in Chains – Black Gives Way to Blue
Essential Tracks: Check My Brain, Your Decision, Acid Bubble

20. 30 Seconds to Mars – This is War
Essential Tracks: Night of the Hunter, Hurricane, Stranger in a Strange Land

19. Silversun Pickups – Swoon
Essential Tracks: There’s No Secrets This Year, It’s Nice to Know You Work Alone, Panic Switch

18. A Day to Remember – Homesick
Essential Tracks: My Life For Hire, I’m Made of Wax Larry What Are You Made Of?, Holdin’ it Down For the Underground

17. Maylene and the Sons of Disaster – III
Essential Tracks: Settling Scores by Burning Bridges, Step Up (I’m On It), Oh Lonely Grave

16. Every Time I Die – New Junk Aesthetic
Essential Tracks: The Marvelous Slut, After One Quarter of a Revolution, Buffalo 666

15. The Chariot – Wars and Rumors of Wars
Essential Tracks: Impress., Never I, Daggers

14. Evergreen Terrace – Almost Home
Essential Tracks: Enemy Sex, Hopelessly Hopeless, I’m a Bulletproof Tiger

13. Thrice – Beggars
Essential Tracks: The Weight, Doublespeak, At the Last

12. Hexes – White Noise/Black Sound
Essential Tracks: Eyes Like Knives, Sirhan Sirhan Sirhan, Lipgloss Ghosts

11. Darkest Hour – The Eternal Return
Essential Tracks: The Tides, Transcendence, Into the Grey

10. Brand New – Daisy
Essential Tracks: Bed, At the Bottom, Sink, Bought a Bride

9. Chevelle – Sci-Fi Crimes
Essential Tracks: Sleep Apnea, Mexican Sun, A New Momentum, This Circus

8. dredg – The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
Essential Tracks: Gathering Pebbles, Information, I Don’t Know, Quotes

7. Muse – The Resistance
Essential Tracks: Undisclosed Desires, Unnatural Selection, MK Ultra, Exogenesis: Symphony Part 2 (Cross-Polination)

6. Thursday – Common Existence
Essential Tracks: Friends in the Armed Forces, Beyond the Visible Spectrum, Love Has Led Us Astray, You Were the Cancer

5. Mastodon – Crack the Skye
Essential Tracks: Oblivion, The Czar, Ghost of Karelia, The Last Baron

4. Animals as Leaders – Animals As Leaders
Essential Tracks: Tempting Time, Soraya, CAFO, Inamorata

3. Between the Buried and Me – The Great Misdirect
Essential Tracks: Obfuscation, Disease Injury Madness, Desert of Song, Swim to the Moon

2. It Prevails – Capture and Embrace
Essential Tracks: Today is Yesterday’s Tomorrow, Brothers to the Flames, Trial and Tribulation, A Martyr’s Journey

1.Converge – Axe to Fall
Essential Tracks: Dark Horse, Reap What You Sow, Wishing Well, Cutter

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Top 100 Albums of the 2000's

1 Jan 2010, 00:56 by medulaespinal

Thsi decade was all about transition. I graduated from high school, then got to dive head first into college. Now at the end of the decade I've graduated college and am now transitioning to the next phase of my life. Musically I've gone from the swirling prog/hard rock to pop, dance and everything imaginable from left field. Here's my best stab at this "best of decade" list. It is not objective.

1) Silverchair - Diorama (2002)

2) Elbow - Cast Of Thousands (2003)

3) Ivy - In the Clear (2005)

4) Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf (2002)
5) The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible(2007)
6) School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms (2008)
7) A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms (2000)
8) The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (2005)
9) Poe - Haunted (2000)
10) At the Drive-In - Relationship Of Command (2000)

11) Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
12) The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003)
13) The Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)
14) Beck - Sea Change (2002)
15) Robyn - Robyn (2005)
16) The Dissociatives - The Dissociatives (2004)
17) Feist - The Reminder (2007)
18) The Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere (2004)
19) Interpol - Our Love To Admire (2007)
20) Natalia y la forquetina - Casa (2005)

21) Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (2008)
22) ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Codes (2002)
23) Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet (2006)
24) Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites (2005)
25) Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures (2009)
26) Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist (2006)
27) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)
28) The Strokes - Is This It? (2001)
29) Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (2006)
30) Sleater-Kinney - The Woods (2005)

31) Ours - Distorted Lullabies (2001)
32) Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)
33) Cat Power - The Greatest (2006)
34) Incubus - Morning View (2001)
35) CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy (2006)
36) Blonde Redhead - 23 (2007)
37) Green Day - American Idiot (2004)
38) Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me (2006)
39) The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute (2005)
40) Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer? (2008)

41) Kanye West - Graduation (2007)
42) Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career (2009)
43) Elbow - Leaders Of The Free World (2005)
44) Jamiroquai - Dynamite (2005)
45) Arctic Monkeys - Humbug (2009)
46) Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)
47) Battles - Mirrored (2007)
48) Incubus - A Crow Left of the Murder (2004)
49) Ivy - Long Distance (2001)
50) Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (2005)

51) Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine (2004)
52) Röyksopp - Junior (2009)
53) Metric - Fantasies (2009)
54) The New Pornographers - Electric Version (2003)
55) Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R (2000)
56) The White Stripes - White Blood Cells (2001)
57) Muse - Absolution (2005)
58) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C.
59) Florence + The Machine - Lungs (2009)
60) The Dresden Dolls - The Dresden Dolls (2004)

61)Nine Inch Nails - The Slip (2008)
62) La Oreja de Van Gogh - Lo Que Te Conté Mientras Te Hacías la Dormida (2003)
63) M.I.A. - Kala (2007)
64) Justice - Cross (2007)
65) Silverchair - Young Modern Station (2007)
66) Interpol - Antics (2005)
67) Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine (2005)
68) Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)
69) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell (2003)
70) TV on the Radio - Dear Science, (2008)

71) The Sounds - Dying to Say This to You (2006)
72) Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today I'm Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories the World… (2009)
73) The Shins - Wincing the Night Away (2007)
74) Thrice - The Alchemy Index: Vols I & II/Fire & Water (2007)
75) Burial - Untrue (2007)
76) Fantasmes - The Reveller (2007)
77) Camera Obscura - Let's Get out of This Country (2006)
78) Ours - Precious (2002)
79) A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step (2003)
80) Santigold - Santigold (2008)

81) Ignacio Peña - Anormal (2004)
82) Lily Allen - Alright, Still (2006)
83) Arctic Monkey - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)
84) My Brightest Diamond - A Thousand Shark's Teeth (2008)
85) Kenna - New Sacred Cow (2003)
86) Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (2008)
87) Björk - Medulla (2004)
88) Fever Ray - Fever Ray (2009)
89) Portishead - Third (2008)
90) MIMA - mima (2005)

91) Injected - Burn It Black (2002)
92) Turin Brakes - Ether Song (2003)
93) Sia - Some People Have REAL Problems (2007)
94) A Camp - Colonia (2009)
95) Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea (2003)
96) Mutemath - Mute Math (2006)
97) One Day as a Lion - One Day as a Lion (2008)
98) Silversun Pickups - Carnavas (2006)
99) LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver (2007)
100) Sparta - Threes (2006)

Honorable Mention: Guns 'N Roses - Chinese Democracy (2008) HEY AT LEAST HE FINALLY FINISHED IT!

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2009 Top 10 Most Listened To Artists

31 Dec 2009, 20:10 by Rawrz811

1. Green Day
2. Brand New
3. Say Anything
4. Eminem
5. Alkaline Trio
6. Jimmy Eat World
7. AFI
8. Rise Against
9. Silverstein
10. Bayside

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Top 10 Albums / 40 Songs of 2009

31 Dec 2009, 17:46 by medulaespinal

The year was weak in terms of albums. I can't really name 20 that stayed with me most of the time. Oh well...

Top 10 Albums of 2009

1) Them Crooked Vultures - THEM CROOKED VULTURES

2) Röyksopp - Junior

3) Metric - Fantasies

4) Fever Ray - Fever Ray
5) Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
6) Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today I'm Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories the World…
7) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
8) Neko Case - The Middle Cyclone
9) Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
10) Florence + The Machine - Lungs

Top 40 Songs of 2009

1) Röyksopp - This Must Be It (feat. karin dreijer andersson

2) Them Crooked Vultures - No One Loves Me & Neither Do I

3) Animal Collective - My Girls

4) Camera Obscura - French Navy

5) Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone

6) Florence + The Machine - You've Got the Love (XX remix) (The xx)

7) Mew - Introducing Palace Players

8) JJ - Ecstasy

9) Metric - Stadium Love

10) Phoenix - Lisztomania

11) Röyksopp - The Girl And The Robot (feat. Robyn)
12) Superaquello - Pecho 'e Paloma
13) Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - The Man Who Played God (feat. Suzanne Vega)
14) The Dead Weather - Treat Me Like Your Mother
15) Fever Ray - When I Grow Up
16) Camera Obscura - Honey in the Sun
17) Neko Case - People Got a Lotta Nerve
18) Portugal. The Man - The Sun
19) Tinted Windows - Back With You
20) Almas Band - C-alma

21) Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning
22) Silversun Pickups - Substitution
23) Magic Wands - Black Magic
24) dredg - Gathering Pebbles
25) Natalia Lafourcade - Azul
26) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction
27) Brand New - You Stole
28) Tegan and Sara - Hell
29) Company of Thieves - Around The Block
30) Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart

31) Florence + The Machine - Drumming Song
32) Bat for Lashes - Daniel
33) Letting Up Despite Great Faults - In Steps
34) Beirut - My Wife, Lost in the Wild
35) Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor
36) Karen O and the Kids - All Is Love
37) Robi Draco Rosa - Paraíso Prometido
38) Tigercity - James Iha
39) Grammatics - Rosa Flood
40) The Sounds - Home Is Where Your Heart Is

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National Anthems: Year IV

31 Dec 2009, 15:42 by halfapersona

Write the top 20 artists of the year from your last.fm page. Then write the first song you heard, what song made you love them, and current favorite song.

1. The New Amsterdams
First: The Spoils Of The Spoiled
Love: When We Two Parted
Favorite: Without A Sound (Eleanor)

2. Black Kids
First: I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You
Love: I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You
Favorite: I've Underestimated My Charm (Again)

3. Taking Back Sunday
First: Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From The Team)
Love: This Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know)
Favorite: Carpathia

4. The Boy Least Likely To
First: Monsters
Love: Paper Cuts
Favorite: The Boy Least Likely To Is A Machine

5. Shout Out Louds
First: Very Loud
Love: Very Loud
Favorite: You Are Dreaming

6. Annie
First: Crewing Gum
Love: Heartbeat
Favorite: Songs Remind Me Of You

7. The Beatles
First: I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Love: Hey Jude
Favorite: Penny Lane

8. Brand New
First: Seventy Times 7
Love: The Quiet Things That No-One Ever Knows
Favorite: Failure By Design

9. Morrissey
First: Suedehead
Love: Everyday Is Like Sunday
Favorite: Disappointed

10. Muse
First: Muscle Museum
Love: Hate This and I'll Love You
Favorite: Nature_1

11. Arctic Monkeys
First: A Certain Romance
Love: A Certain Romance
Favorite: Leave Before The Lights Come On

12. The Strokes
First: New York City Cops
Love: Last Nite
Favorite: Reptilia

13. The Big Pink
First: Dominos
Love: Dominos
Favorite: Dominos

14. Bloc Party
First: Banquet
Love: This Modern Love (Dave P & Adam Sparkles Remix)
Favorite: Two More Years

15. Fall Out Boy
First: Sugar, We're Going Down
Love: Sugar, We're Going Down
Favorite: A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More "Touch Me"

16. The Hold Steady
First: Your Little Hoodrat Friend
Love: Your Little Hoodrat Friend
Favorite: Stay Positive

17. Guided by Voices
First: A Salty Salute
Love: Everywhere With Helicopter
Favorite: Teenage FBI

18. Patrick Wolf
First: Tristan
Love: The Magic Position
Favorite: Damaris and/or Blackdown

19. Panic at the Disco
First: Time To Dance
Love: Time To Dance
Favorite: Camisado

20. The Replacements
First: Kids Don't Follow
Love: Here Comes A Regular
Favorite: Alex Chilton

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Best of 2009

31 Dec 2009, 09:29 by FACRock

10. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
9. Say Hi - Oohs & Aahs
8. Twin Atlantic - Vivarium
7. The Dangerous Summer - Reach For The Sun
6.Hockey - Mind Chaos
5. Ace Enders And A Million Different People - When I Hit The Ground
4. Owl City - Ocean Eyes
3. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
2. Brand New - Daisy
1. Say Anything - Say Anything

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Top 100 Albums of 2009

30 Dec 2009, 22:59 by CB2610

Every time I do one of these the number of albums fitted in seems to rise. Is it because there's more good music out there, or am I just discovering more of it than I used to? Hmmm.
Anyway, a top 100 this time round, and no doubt I'll get the usual comments because heaven forbid, I like pop music. I'm not suggesting that this order is correct in terms of technical ability, songwriting genius or anything else - it's just what I liked most. Sometimes a simple pop album can be far more enjoyable than something complicated, heavy and difficult to reap the rewards from.

As always, it goes back to front, from 100 to 1, and as always there's a couple of albums released elsewhere before 2009 but released in the UK in 2009 and therefore I feel they warrant inclusion on the list as, if I did not have friends in other countries, this year would be the first time I'd listened to the albums in question. It's a grey area, however.

Enough rambling now, on with the list.

100. mewithoutYou – It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All A Dream! It’s Alright
99. Billy Talent – Billy Talent III
98. Seabird – Rocks Into Rivers
97. The Dangerous Summer – Reach For The Sun
96. Tyler Read– Hallelujiaville
95. Zebrahead – Panty Raid
94. The Summer Set – Love Like This
93. Cheryl Cole – 3 Words
92. Set Your Goals – This Will Be The Death Of Us
91. JLS – JLS
90. Silversun Pickups – Swoon
89. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
88. Memory Tapes – Seek Magic
87. Of Machines – As If Everything Was Held In Place
86. For the Fallen Dreams – Relentless
85. August Burns Red – Constellations
84. Evans Blue – Evans Blue
83. Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions
82. Frank Turner – Poetry Of The Dead
81. Michael Bublé – Crazy Love
80. Epica – Design Your Universe
79. AFI – Crash Love
78. The Fold – Dear Future, Come Get Me
77. Demi Lovato – Here We Go Again
76. Adam Lambert – For Your Entertainment
75. Jonas Brothers – Lines, Vines and Trying Times
74. Dashboard Confessional – Alter The Ending
73. Thrice – Beggars
72. Taking Back Sunday – New Again
71. Atreyu – Congregation Of The Damned
70. Marmaduke Duke – Duke Pandemonium
69. The Mars Volta – Octahedron
68. Steel Panther – Feel The Steel
67. Paolo Nutini – Sunny Side Up
66. Spinnerette – Spinnerette
65. Say Anything – Say Anything
64. Muse – The Resistance
63. The Fray – The Fray
62. Sick Puppies – Tri-Polar
61. Carrie Underwood – Play On
60. Lacuna Coil – Shallow Life
59. The Devil Wears Prada – With Roots Above And Branches Below
58. The Higher – It’s Only Natural
57. Esmée Denters – Outta Here
56. Marilyn Manson – The High End Of Low
55. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Lonely Road
54. 30 Seconds to Mars – This Is War
53. Every Time I Die – New Junk Aesthetic
52. New Found Glory – Not Without A Fight
51. Anaal Nathrakh – In The Constellation Of The Black Widow
50. Asking Alexandria – Stand Up And Scream
49. Papa Roach – Metamorphosis
48. Manic Street Preachers – Journal For Plague Lovers
47. Maximo Park – Quicken The Heart
46. OneRepublic – Waking Up
45. Placebo – Battle For The Sun
44. The Blackout – The Best In Town
43. Vanna – A New Hope
42. Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson – Breakup
41. Four Year Strong – Explains It All
40. Pixie Lott – Turn It Up
39. Florence & The Machine – Lungs
38. Three Days Grace – Life Starts Now
37. Pearl Jam – Backspacer
36. Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
35. Megadeth – Endgame
34. Fightstar – Be Human
33. Natalie Imbruglia – Come To Life
32. iwrestledabearonce – It’s All Happening
31. Daniel Merriweather – Love & War
30. Jordin Sparks – Battlefield
29. Leona Lewis – Echo
28. Taylor Swift – Fearless (UK release: March 08th 2009)
27. Little Boots – Hands
26. Boys Like Girls – Love Drunk
25. Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You
24. Lady GaGa – The Fame Monster
23. All Time Low – Nothing Personal
22. The Veronicas – Hook Me Up (UK release: October 12th 2009)
21. A Skylit Drive - Adelphia
20. Asher Roth – Asleep In The Bread Aisle
19. Marianas Trench – Masterpiece Theatre
18. Owl City – Ocean Eyes
17. Rihanna – Rated R
16. The Saturdays – Wordshaker
15. Mayday Parade – Anywhere But Here
14. A Day to Remember – Homesick
13. Daughtry – Leave This Town
12. Brand New – Daisy
11. Enter Shikari – Common Dreads
10. Jimmy Robbins – See Through Secrets
09. The Swellers – Ups and Downsizing
08. The Casino Brawl – Shades; Directions
07. Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
06. Kelly Clarkson – All I Ever Wanted
05. Kris Allen – Kris Allen
04. Blake Lewis – Heartbreak On Vinyl
03. The Wildhearts – ¡Chutzpah!
02. Oh, Sleeper – Son Of the Morning
01. Paramore – Brand New Eyes

And there we have it.

I was attempting to do a list of my favourite songs from the year, but it was far too difficult and even more confusing than a list of albums so I'll leave it as that.

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Lyrics Game

30 Dec 2009, 21:31 by d0llparts

I did one of these exactly one year ago, so I figured it was time for a new one. :)

Step 1: Put iTunes on random.

Step 2: Post the first line(s) from the first 50 songs that play.

Step 3: Strike out the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.

1. Mother Mary, bury me in a place they'll never find.

2. Tonight the cinema's the treatment clinic where the perverts seek the cure.

3. I've got a million things going 'round in my head and I never really paid attention to what you said.

4. I can't tolerate your sadness cause it's me you are drowning.

5. It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tank.

6. I know you want to love her for the rest of your life, but man, this woman, her intentions ain't right.

7. Please tell me why we couldn't stay, don't let this feeling ever go away.

8. God bless the daylight, the sugary smell of spring time.

9. Oh, oh, I really wanted that thing. I just want to sing.

10. Park my van on the Pacific shore.

11. Blame it all on my roots, I showed up in boots and ruined your black tie affair.

12. When panic grips your body and your heart's a hummingbird

13. So go on and I will refrain and I'll keep on running this never ending race.

14. Old world underground, where are you now?

15. Well I'm back out on the road again lost among the city lights.

16. My shadow's shedding skin.

17. I have called you children, I have called you son.

18. I wrote the words to this song on the back of a photograph.

19. Skip town, slow down, push it to the east coast.

20. I'm on fire and now I think I'm ready to bust a move.

21. Downhearted man, where do you come from?

22. Scratch the tears in for good, sadist, feels good.

23. He comes, he comes, judge so severe.

24. I can't remember anything, can't tell if this is true or a dream.

25. Failed attempts have turned us into one pathetic twisted wreck.

26. Hey boy, take me off the radar.

27. This is my life, it's not what it was before.

28. Throw away the radio suitcase that keeps you awake.

29. Hey see I know what I know and I don't. You promise you promise and I know you won't.

30. Cheap cocaine, a dry inhale, the pills that kill and take the pain away.

31. Maybe I didn't love you quite as often as I could have

32. My rhyme ain't good just yet, my brain and tongue just met.

33. Annie's 12 years old, in 2 more she'll be a whore.

34. White glow on the TV set, lights dancing on the screen.

35. Oh noose tied myself in, tied myself too tight.

36. It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside.

37. This is the story about a circle of women.

38. She packed my bags last night pre-flight.

39. His head was a city of paper buildings.

40. I heard the door slam and I couldn't tell, was it just the wind or was she mad again, aw hell.

41. When you're ripe, you'll bleed out of control.

42. I'm a sailor peg and I lost my leg.

43. I've got this thing about you now. I tried to understand, but baby let me show you how

44. You went into the kitchen cupboard, got yourself another hour.

45. They say it fits if you let it.

46. Your lipstick, his collar, don't bother angel.

47. I wanna thank myself for being so hard on myself.

48. What we're doing is so wrong and what you're wearing is so right, it's so tight.

49. Hey, hey, hey, Mr. Hangman, go get your rope.

50. Crown myself the prince of buzz

Alkaline Trio
Pantera
Elton John x2
Felix da Housecat
Arcade Fire
Motion City Soundtrack
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
In Flames
Metric x2
Regina Spektor x2
Mirah
City and Colour
Brand New
Strung Out
Leftover Crack
Death Cab for Cutie x2
Chris Cagle
Tool
The Suicide Machines
Taking Back Sunday
The Distillers
The Pogues
Against Me!
Shout Out Out Out Out
Deftones
Alexisonfire
The Planet Smashers
Every Time I Die x2
Sublime
Willie Nelson
Big D and the Kids Table
Nothingface
Staind
Garth Brooks
Mad Caddies x3
CKY
Bright Eyes
Our Lady Peace
Sufjan Stevens
Final Fantasy
Modest Mouse
Dropkick Murphys
Metallica

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My Top 11 records of 2009

30 Dec 2009, 21:07 by whereistherent

Ólafur Arnalds - Found Songs
Not an album as such, but a collection of 7 tracks recorded over a 7 day period and released online for free download. also collected for a 10" vinyl release, so I don't see why it can't count. This guy makes such beautiful yet elegantly simple music it's hard to find the words to do it justice, so you should just listen, it's free after all

Florence and The Machine - Lungs
Florence needs no introduction really. Definitely a bit of mental, but with a cracking voice. You've probably heard this already so I won't bother banging on about it.

Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing
Another sophomore effort, this the follow up to the excellent Mean Everything to Nothing. This record is frantic, it's emotional, and it needs to be listened to LOUD.

Kevin Devine - Brother's Blood
Kevin's 5th studio album was the first to be put out in the UK, by the super Big Scary Monsters record label.
There is definitely a sense that he's raised the bar a notch or two with this one, the instrumentation and production are second to none. It still doesn't quite capture the rawness and poignancy of his live show, but it's the closest he's got so far.

Chuck Ragan - Gold Country
This is the former Hot Water Music mans 2nd full length since embarking on his journey as punk/folk troubador (someone needs to come up with a new genre here, punk-folk just sounds shit). This record is insanely catchy, get it.

Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
These guys are probably the best live band in the UK. They finally got around to releasing their debut album this year, containing a couple of tracks off previous EP releases with some new material. It's a remarkable combination of incredibly beautiful vocals and a rawkus hoedown. Magic.

Bayonets- Wishes & Wishes
Put out by another excellent UK label that is worth a mention, Walnut Tree Records, Bayonets' debut effort comprises 8 tracks of rock brilliance. These guys wear their influences firmly on their sleeves and thus comparisons with the likes of Brand New and Manchester Orchestra whilst lazy, are inevitable. However that isn't a slight on the band at all, this is arguably the Brand New would have released if they were from Hereford and hadn't turned crap.

Matisyahu - Light
An Hasidic Jew from New York that makes reggae music? What's not to like. Definitely a poppier vibe when put up against his debut, Light blends in beatboxing and rap with his reggae stylings. Noice.

A Day to Remember - Homesick
I unashamedly love A Day to Remember, fuck you. Yes, there were bands doing this 10 years ago, yes, it's music for kids, but its fun, get over it. Definitely their best release to date.

Nothington - Roads Bridges & Ruins
Punk rawk with a soulful, Southern tinge. The guys formed out of the ashes of Tsunami Bomb, their first album was good, but this is really great. They're also planning their first trip to the UK in February, get stoked.

Polar Bear Club - Chasing Hamburg
The 2nd release from polar bear club doesn't instantly grab you in the way their previous material will, but after a couple of listens the singalongs will smack you in the face and you'll wonder how you missed them in the first place. Massive record.

Tiger Please - They Don't Change Under the Moonlight
Another Walnut Tree release, I'd been meaning to pick this up for a while and finally did at the start of December. I only wish I'd got it earlier because I've hardly been able to stop listening to it since. 6 tracks (seperated by 5 interludes) of incredibly mature and emotional music that belies the tender age of the band. Gorgeous stuff.

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Obligatory end of year navel-gazing.

30 Dec 2009, 16:14 by stgemma

Best album of 2009.
Paramore- brand new eyes
Honestly, this album exceeded all my expectations. Showing they are so, so much more than the 'pop-punk/ emo' category many have unfortunately threw them into, this album doesn't bore you for one second, between the alarmingly catchy Brick By Boring Brick and the haunting Misguided Ghosts, the country leanings of The Only Exception and the jaw dropping vocals in All I Wanted. Other favourites I have on this album are Careful, Looking Up, Playing God, Turn It Off- although really, there isn't a bad track on this album.

Bands I discovered in 2009.
2009 was an amazing year for me as far as discovering bands goes. The most important would be the re-discovering Brand New. Although I first heard them in 2003, purchasing Deja Entendu after hearing The Quiet Things That No-One Ever Knows and Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades, I discarded it after only a few tracks as it was 'too emo'. In fact, it was only this year after Last.fm threw tracks like Okay I Believe You, but My Tommy Gun Don't at me that I realised how wrong I'd been. Either that or I was way smarter at the age of eleven than I am now, I don't know. And then after dusting off Deja Entendu, I got into Your Favourite Weapon and The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me, by which point a suddenly had a new favourite band.

Other bands of note I got into this year include Dashboard Confessional which was basically the soundtrack to my summer, getting properly into bands I'd previously skitted around like Jimmy Eat World and Bayside, and of course expanding my tastes with things I wouldn't have looked at a year ago, like Cobra Starship and Tegan and Sara.

Gig Of The Year.
I've thought about it, and I can't call it. I was fortunate enough to see four of my very favourite bands this year, and will remember those nights for the rest of my life. I got to meet four fifths of Taking Back Sunday, caught Billie Joe Armstrong's guitar pick and got to see Paramore and You Me At Six on the same night. 2009 will go down as an amazing live year for me.

Worst Thing About 2009.
There are several events I can think of, which all seem to centre around the fact that 2009 has it out for frickin' everybody. I write these words approximately nine hours after I learned of the untimely death of Avenged Sevenfold's The Rev, and it really hasn't sunk in yet. While I don't listen to Avenged Sevenfold quite as much as I once did (usual story- ex got me into them, can't listen to them without being reminded of him) I retain a tremendous amount of respect for them and The Rev's death has utterly shocked me. He will be sorely missed.

2009 also seems to have had it out for bands splitting up and losing members. Panic at the Disco was the one that upset me the most, although I'm very optimistic about their future as just Brendon and Spencer. Cute Is What We Aim For breaking up, Craig Owens leaving Chiodos, Fall Out Boy's suspicious sounding hiatus, and a lot more. Seriously, what is with this year?

Best Thing About 2010.
Despite so many bands splitting up this year, it doesn't quite cancel out my excitement that blink-182 is back. Blink were one of the most important bands to me when I was getting into music all those years ago, and I was gutted when they split. I didn't believe any of the reunion rumours and never dreamed they'd get back together, so when I heard they were back I was literally crying with happiness. Admittedly it will all really depend on what sort of music they release next, but many people seem to have forgotten that they've only been gone for about six years- many bands have gone longer than that between albums without splitting up without it affecting the quality of the output.

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