It impossible to listen to every album that gets released during 2009 in the many indie genres and sub-genres so it’s very easy to pass by many albums that might have deserved a chance at a slot on one of our top ten lists. For the last two weeks I’ve been going through all the [...]
Most Grievous of Errors
I have so many release dates running through my head during the year that sometimes they get mixed up and it doesn’t help to try and keep track of both US and UK dates. Normally this is not a problem until later in the year when lists are being compiled and there tends to be [...]
There went the lists
We had a bit more year-end stuff planned for you, but our department was recently cut from seven to five, and take a wild guess who got to pick up the slack? So here are our year-end reviews, in review: Patrick’s Top Ten Album Covers of 2009 Patrick’s Most Anticipated Albums for 2010 Patrick’s Top [...]
Artist of the decade, 2000-2009
She doesn’t remember it this way, but I do. This would have been late 2004 or early 2005. I was delirious with fever and half-sleeping, half-listening to her sing our infant son to bed. Those were the days she sang him Rufus Wainwright, and I don’t care what the man produces from here on out. [...]
“we really wanted to put dre’s 2001 on here but realised it came out in 1999. in 2019 people will want to put this on these lists but will realise it came out in 2009. i think i just compared this to 2001. that’s fine, i’m sticking with it.”
Over at Ragged Words, We Were Promised Jetpacks list their top ten albums of the decade. Go read. Some WWPJ here:
Top Singles of 2009
One of the many things that I did poorly this year was keep track of my favorite tracks as the year progressed even though I knew that this list was looming in the future. Over the past few weeks I have racked my brain trying to remember that one particular track that I heard from [...]
Top Ten LPs of 2009
by Fred. Damn! what a year. We lost Michael Jackson and we gained Girls. The Decemberists put out an LP almost as good as Picaresque, but what with the stiff competition you won’t find it on top 50 lists anywhere. Similarly, considering the new relative logic of the last twelve months, Muse and Mars Volta [...]
Top Ten Albums of 2009
10. Loney Dear – Dear John Dear John was the first album I heard this year that made it onto this potential list. It also opened a great year for Sweden and all the amazing acts that are calling it home. Emil Svanangen turns a bit more to his darker and depressed side on this [...]
Top Ten Videos of 2009
I’m not a person that would consider themself “artsy” in any way. When I watch a music video I don’t look for cinematography or camera angle, I look to be entertained for a few minutes, for something that is going to keep me interested and guessing as to what is going to happen next. That [...]
Most Anticipated Albums for 2010
2009 came, dumped a crap ton of great music on our heads and is now departing so it’s time to start looking forward to what 2010 might have in store for us. The list below is not in order of what album I am most looking forward to the most but is rather in order [...]
