Here are the albums and movies that came out this year that I enjoyed enough to list here. Albums are listed alphabetically, except for Propagandhi which was my favorite record this year.
This is usually a post that elicits a lot of replies, do don’t hold back and feel free to add yours from this year. I know TwoFour loves that Blacklisted record.
Propagandhi—Supporting Caste
Matt & Danielle’s Wedding—So. Much. Fun.
AFI—Crash Love
Bane—New 7″s
The Beatles—2009 Remasters
Blacklisted—No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me
Burning Fight—Great weekend of friends, food and music. Fanfuckingtastic.
Cave In—Planets of Old EP
Cloak/Dagger—Lost Art
Converge—Axe To Fall
Defeater—Travels
De La Soul (live, something I’ve wanted to see for a while)
Doomriders—Darkness Come Alive
The Ergs!—Hindsight Is 20/20 My Friend
Foundation—Hang Your Head and split w/ Meantime 7″
Green Day—21st Century Breakdown (yeah I like it, so what?)
Hope Conspiracy—True Nihilist 7″
Kylesa—Static Tensions
Lewd Acts—Black Eye Blues
Mastodon—Crack The Skye
Mother of Mercy—III
Municipal Waste—Massive Aggressive
Outbreak—S/T
Pearl Jam—Backspacer
Rise And Fall—Our Circle Is Vicious
Title Fight—The Last Thing You Forget
Trapped Under Ice—Secrets Of The World
Weezer—Raditude
As for movies, I enjoyed Up, Inglourious Basterds, Star Trek, I Love You Man, Where The Wild Things Are, 500 Days of Summer and others I am forgetting. Still need to see The Road, The Informant, Shutter Island, Zombieland, Extract and a bunch more.
Edit: I added the Burning Fight weekend and Matt & Danielle’s wedding (inspired by Saluzzi’s list).
Edit 2: Added Municipal Waste and Cloak/Dagger based on KRamsey’s list. Will probably add more soon.
A Few of my favorites for 2009
Albums:
Propagandhi – Supporting Caste
Earth Crisis – To The Death
Cave In – Planets of Old
Foundation – Hang Your Head
Alestorm – Black Sails at Midnight
Stormwarrior – Heading Northe (from 2008, but still awesome)
Converge – Axe To Fall
Live:
Bane
Burning Fight
Cave In
Matt & Danielle’s Wedding
For me, off the top of my head:
2009 Releases:
Ergs – anything, everything.
Psyched to Die – Sterile Walls 7″
Nightbirds – Demo
Cloak /Dagger – Lost Art
Nirvana – Bleach deluxe
Beatles – Mono Box Set
Municipal Waste – Massive Aggressive
Government Flu – CD of previous releases
more vinyl later…
Live:
X!!
Bruce Springsteen!!!!
the Waste
Black Wine
Dean Dirg (amazing band from Germany)
Nightbirds
Dead Milkmen
Ken S,
Haha, Alestorm @ Scion Fest was pretty damn entertaining. Totally forgot about that. I’d have to say, NOT getting to see Converge @ Scion because upstairs at the Masquerade was “at capacity” definitely did not make my list. Bullshit’s ass.
Ken R,
Totally forgot about the Waste (downloading now). And what’s this “Bleach Deluxe” business? (Googling now)
Aw, yeah. Here we go, in REVERSE (am I blowing your mind?!) alpha order and self-indulgent comments, as always.
3 Inches of Blood – Here Waits Thy Doom
Wilco – s/t
Thrice – Beggars
Them Crooked Vultures – s/t
Steve Martin – The Crow: New Songs For The Five-String Banjo (Yes, THAT Steve Martin… yes it’s really good.)
Stereophonics – Keep Calm And Carry On
Soul Control – Cycles
Son Volt – American Central Dust (Finally another good Son Volt record)
Russian Circles – Geneva (not as good as Station or Enter, but damn)
Propagandhi – Supporting Caste (probably my favorite of the year)
New Model Army – Today Is A Good Day (Nostalgia is a hell of a drug)
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone (20 pianos in a barn can’t be wrong)
Muse – The Resistance (Overindulgent, but what the hell)
Municipal Waste – Massive Aggressive (Total brutal)
Mindy Smith – Stupid Love
Mastodon – Crack the Skye
The Mars Volta – Octahedron (Gee, what a shock; a Mars Volta album on my list)
Jeremy Enigk – OK Bear
Elvis Costello – Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez – Cryptomensia (if you liked Amputechture, get this now.)
Converge – Axe to Fall
Chuck Ragan – Gold Country (I never liked Hot Water Music. THIS, I like!)
Blacklisted – No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me
Between the Buried and Me – The Great Misdirect (the only thing on Victory worth a shit)
Behemoth – Evangelion (The best metal album of the year. Period.)
Avett Brothers – I and Love and You (not as good as earlier stuff, but still great)
Antony & The Johnsons – The Crying Light
A.C. Newman – Get Guilty
Guess I need to get the new Propagandhi and Converge.
Everybody should check out Nightbirds – think DI, Aggression, DKs
That Neko case record is in my top 5 of the year. that Blacklisted record is NOT.
Carter,
Definitely downloaded a few from your list as well. I wanna check out Them Crooked Vultures, too.
TwoFour,
Digging that Neko Case record today, as well.
If there’s anything on my list that anyone wants, lemme know.
Here go mine:
Andrew W.K. – 55 cadillac (entire album is just him playing classical piano, extremely well)
Appleseed Cast – Sagarmatha
Antony & the Johnsons – Crying Light
As Tall As Lions – You Can’t Take It With You
Avett Brothers – I and Love and You (better live), Live E.p. from Charlotte 08.08.09
Beatles – mono
Bon Iver – For Emma Forever Ago(2008, sorry)
Cave In – Planets of Old
Converge – Axe to Fall
Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
Doomriders – Darkness Come Alive(i’m headbanging to this right now)
Earth – The Bees Made Honey In the Lion’s Skull(also came out in 08, but i listen to the shit outta this)
El Groupo nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez- Cryptomesia(holy fuck)
Hope Conspiracy – True Nihilist
Isis – Wavering Radiant (really good live)
Julian Plenti – Julian Plenti is… Skyscraper
Mars Volta – Octahedron
Mastodon – Crack the Skye
Monsters Of Folk – s/t
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
Omar Rodriguez Lopez – Old Money
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amedeus Phoenix
Portugal The Man – The Satanic Satanist
Propagandhi – Supporting Caste(fucking awesome live)
Thrice – Beggars
Wizard Smoke – Live Rock In Hell
Wasted Time – Futility lp
War Cry – Nausea 7in & Demos lp
Ringworm – Promise lp (Reissue)
Government Warning – Executed 7in
Smalltown – Implosion lp & Read Between The Lines 10in
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Higher than the Stars 12in
Iron Age – Sleeping Eye lp
Rival Mob – Raw Life lp
Lucero – 1372 Overton Park lp
Masshysteri – Var Del Av Stan lp (Ex Vicious)
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
Victims – “Lies, Lies, Lies” 7in, “Killer” Lp
Midnight – Demos lp
Live:
Cock Sparrer, CroMags Jam, Midnight at Chaos in Tejes
Motorhead in LA, fucking sleaze fest.
Pogues @ Club Nokia (Shane falls down 3 times and doesn’t die)
Let Downs:
Government Warning – Paranoid Mess lp
Direct Control – Farewell lp
Going to see the Business instead of staying to watch War Cry at Chaos in
Tejas. Fail.
Neighbor,
Good call on the Masshysteri LP – that would make my list as well. Live also!
my favs of 2009…(not necessarily stuff that was released in 2009, just stuff that i am currently into)
getting married to danielle lilla distefano (miller)
adulthood (but still young till i die)
f/1.2
f/1.4
hustling
girl talk “feed the animals”
m.i.a
santogold
tegan & sara
new bane songs
foundation ( live & on record )
burning fight shows.
new tattoos
self employment (sans the whole tax thing though)
wanting to go skateboard more ( now i just need to do it)
genius playlist made from big audio dynamite’s “rush”
home owning
the internet
our labor of love
new tattz
watching my friends be creative
trainwreck & justice
atlanta
Thanks everyone for your lists about what they enjoyed over the past year. Here’s hoping that 2010 is even better.
It’s not just going to be a good year. It’s going to be THE year.
Oh and I still hate spinach.
I finally got my list together .
Not in any order.
MUSIC:
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
Clint Mansell – Moon O.S.T.
Coliseum – Demos Oct 2009
Doomriders – Darkness Come Alive
Iron Age – The Sleeping Eye
Naam – Naam
Om – God Is Good
Guano Padano – Guano Padano
Reigning Sound – Love And Curses
Sir Richard Bishop – The Freak Of Araby
Fever Ray – Fever Ray
Converge – Axe To Fall
The Beatles – Stereo/Mono Box Sets
Masshysteri – Var Del Av Stan
Satanic Threat – In To Hell
Tweak Bird – Reservations
Wardruna – Gap Var Ginnunga
Wolves In The Throne Room – Malevolent Grain
Keelhaul – Triumphant Return To Obscurity
Alex Goose – The Blueprint 3 Outtakes
Dave Rawlings Machine – A Friend of a Friend
Animal Hospital – Memory
Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
Almost made the list:
Sunn O))) – Monoliths & Dimensions
Baroness – Blue Record
Jay Reatard – Watch Me Fall
Church Of Misery – Houses Of The Unholy
Crippled Black Phoenix – The Resurrectionists / Night Raider
Giant Squid – The Ichthyologist
Rise And Fall – Our Circle Is Vicious
PJ Harvey And John Parish – A Woman A Man Walked By
Russian Circles – Geneva
Shrinebuilder – Shrinebuilder
YOB – The Great Cessation
STUFF:
Still being self-employed. 5 years in!
JZ (my life buddy) being self-employed.
People asking me to be in art shows.
People buying art from me.
Bosch 1590EVSK Jigsaw.
Bosch Extra Clean for Wood Jigsaw Blades.
Williamson Bros Chipotle Bar-B-Q Sauce.
Being in Matt and Danielle’s wedding.
Starting a love affair with brussels sprouts.
After giving tons of yellcouragement, to him to see Matt’s photo career take off this year has been awesome…..but now I am jealous of his success.
The Dekalb Farmers Market.
Obama being inaugurated in Jan. A vote against crazy.
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