Thursday, November 12, 2009

List Mania

I cannot believe that 2009 is almost over. This has got to be one of the fastest moving years of my life. Anyway, as 2010 approaches, I am preparing to make my year end list of favorite records. I tend to alternate the number of albums on the list every year, but this year is looking like it will be a Top 25. I don't know exactly how many new albums came out this year (although I'm sure it is an outrageously high number), but my list will be based on the 98 albums I acquired over the course of the year, all of which are listed below in alphabetical order:
  1. AFI – Crash Love
  2. Against Me! – The Original Cowboy
  3. Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Agorapocalypse
  4. Alice In Chains – Black Gives Way To Blue
  5. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Century Of Self
  6. Animals As Leaders – s/t
  7. Baroness – The Blue Album
  8. Brendan Benson – My Old, Familiar Friend
  9. Between The Buried And Me – The Great Misdirect
  10. The Big Pink – A Brief History Of Love
  11. Billy Talent – Billy Talent III
  12. Black Lips – 200 Million Thousand
  13. Brand New – Daisy
  14. Brutal Truth – Evolution Through Revolution
  15. Built To Spill – There Is No Enemy
  16. Burnt By The Sun – Heart Of Darkness
  17. Cannibal Corpse – Evisceration Plague
  18. Celeste – Misanthrope(s)
  19. Chairlift – Does You Inspire You
  20. City Of Ships – Look What God Did To Us
  21. Clutch – Strange Cousins From The West
  22. Coalesce – Ox
  23. Coalesce – OX EP
  24. The Company Band – s/t
  25. Converge – Axe To Fall
  26. Crooked Fingers – Forfeit/Fortune
  27. Dead Weather – Horehound
  28. Deer Tick – Born On Flag Day
  29. The Devin Townsend Project – Addicted
  30. Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
  31. Dredg – The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
  32. Drive-By Truckers – The Fine Print (A Collection Of Oddities and Rarities 2003 – 2008)
  33. Dysrhythmia – Psychic Maps
  34. Steve Earle – Townes
  35. Eminem – Relapse
  36. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
  37. Flight Of The Conchords – I Told You I Was Freaky
  38. Future Of The Left – Travels With Myself And Another
  39. Gallows – Grey Britain
  40. Goes Cube – Another Day Has Passed
  41. Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
  42. Greymachine – Disconnected
  43. PJ Harvey – A Woman A Man Walked By
  44. Heartless Bastards – The Mountain
  45. Heaven & Hell – The Devil You Know
  46. Patterson Hood – Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)
  47. L’Homme Puma - On Remplace Les Yeux Cassés
  48. Howl – Howl
  49. Katatonia – Night Is The New Day
  50. If These Trees Could Talk – Above The Earth, Below The Sky
  51. Iron Age – The Sleeping Eye
  52. Isis – Wavering Radiant
  53. Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit – s/t
  54. Jay–Z – The Blueprint 3
  55. Jesu – Infinity
  56. Jesu – Opiate Sun
  57. Killswitch Engage – Killswitch Engage
  58. Kreator – Hordes of Chaos
  59. Kylesa – Static Tensions
  60. Lamb Of God – Wrath
  61. Lucero – 1372 Overton Park
  62. The Manchester Orchestra – Mean Everything To Nothing
  63. Marcy Playground – Leaving Wonderland…In A Fit Of Rage
  64. Mastodon – Crack The Skye
  65. Matt and Kim – Grand
  66. Megadeth – Endgame
  67. Mono – Hymn To The Immortal Wind
  68. Mount Eerie – Wind’s Poem
  69. Muse – The Resistance
  70. MUTEMATH – Armistice
  71. Napalm Death – Time Waits For No Slave
  72. NOFX – Coaster
  73. Noisettes – Wild Young Heart
  74. Obscura – Cosmogenesis
  75. Pelican – Ephemeral
  76. Pelican – What We All Come To Need
  77. A Place To Bury Strangers – Exploding Head
  78. Poison The Well – The Tropic Rot
  79. Portugal. The Man – The Satanic Satanist
  80. Revocation – Existence Is Futile
  81. Russian Circles – Geneva
  82. Scale The Summit – Carving Desert Canyons
  83. Shadows Fall – Retribution
  84. Shrinebuilder – s/t
  85. Silversun Pickups – Swoon
  86. Skeletonwitch – Breathing The Fire
  87. Slayer – World Painted Blood
  88. Sonic Youth – The Eternal
  89. Telekinesis – Telekinesis!
  90. Them Crooked Vultures – s/t
  91. Tombs – Winter Hours
  92. U2 – No Line On The Horizon
  93. Weezer – Raditude
  94. Where The Wild Things Are – Soundtrack (Karen O. and The Kids)
  95. White Lies – To Lose My Life
  96. Wolfmother – Cosmic Egg
  97. Wolves In The Throne Room – Black Cascade
  98. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz

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