At the end of the year, I'm going to do a few yearly lists. They are:
10 Best Albums of 2009
10 Biggest Fail Songs of 2009
10 Best Albums of the Noughties
5 (maybe 10) Best Games of 2009
as well as Best Metal Album, Best Folk Album, Best Rock Album, Best Progressive Album, Best Alternative Album, Best Post-Rock Albumand the honorary awards:Absolute Worst Artist, Stupidest Thing to do in Public, Biggest Letdown Album
So, for myself as much as for the three people who read new blogs on this site, I'm going to post the shortlists I've come up with for these lists.
10 Best Albums:
- And So I Watch You From Afar - And So I Watch You From Afar
- Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
- Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light
- Atlas Sound - Logos
- Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
- Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Dark Night Of The Soul
- Do Make Say Think - The Other Truths
- The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
- Giant Squid - The Icthyologist
- Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
- If These Trees Could Talk - Above The Earth, Below The Sky
- Isis - Wavering Radiant
- Karnivool - Sound Awake
- Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
- maudlin of the Well - Part The Second
- Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry, They Washed Away, No More Stories, The World Is Grey, I'm Tired, Let's Wash Away
- Modest Mouse - No One's First, And You're Next
- Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
- Pearl Jam - Backspacer
- Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
- Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
- Tortoise - Beacons Of Ancestorship
- Yusuf - Roadsinger (To Warm You Through The Night)
and, some albums that might make it but I haven't listened to yet,
- Alexisonfire - Old Crows / Young Cardinals
- Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
- (i'll keep posting more here as i think of them)
The shortlist for the 10 best albums of the noughties list is going to be not-so-short, and will probably take me days of solid work to finally come up with one, even just a shortlist. So here is the 10 biggest fails shortlist:
- Lady GaGa - Love Game (all songs of hers qualify)
- Soulja Boy Tell 'Em - Kiss Me Thru The Phone
- DJ Sidney Sampson - Riverside
- Cobra Starship and Leighton Meestor - Good Girls Go Bad
- Flo Rida - Sugar
- Flo Rida - Right Round
- Taylor Swift - Love Story
- Kesha - Tik Tok
- 3OH!3 - Starstrukk
- 3OH!3 - Don't Trust Me
- Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
- Robbie Williams - Bodies
- The Lonely Island and T-Pain - I'm On A Boat
- Pitbull - Hotel Room Service
- Pitbull - I Know You Want Me
- Big Pink - Dominos
- The Millionaires - Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid
- Brokencyde - (everything off their album)
- (this is a work in progress, there's plenty more shit to be sifted through.)
Matt
Now listening to "Sigh No More" (2009) by Mumford & Sons(edit 2) Now listening to "Sound Awake" (2009) by Karnivool
to be quite honest i think you need to be listening to more punk n metal... just my opinion but yeah n whats the go with the "awards"... you havnt actually listed the band who "won" the award, just eluded to the band...
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