we're almost half way through 2009. so i thought this would be agood time to have a mid year look at our favourite music so far this year. this is not a poll or anything i just thought it would be interesting to see what people have been loving the most so far this year.

 

Top 5 Album- International

 

1. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Tied)

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Its Blitz (Tied)

3. Metric - Fantasies

4. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns

5. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight!

 

Top 5 Albums- Aussie

1. Karnivool - Sound Awake

2. Leader Cheetah - The Sunspot Letters

its been a slow year so far for us.

Special mention - Middle East - Recordings of the Middle East EP

 

Top 5 Songs- International

1. Kasabian - Underdog

2. The Big Pink - Velvet

3. Animal Collective- Also Frightened

4. Metric- Gimme Sympathy

5. Phoenix -1901

 

Top 5 Songs- Aussie

1. Middle East - Blood

2. Bob Evans- Pasha Bulkar

3. Eskimo Joe- Foreign Land

4. Tame Impala - Sundown Syndrome

5. Yves Klein Blue - Getting Wise

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPO7DSVqYYo]YouTube - The Middle East "Blood" - Live @ The Ed Castle, February 28th 2009[/ame]

 

 

the best band to come out of this country in a long LONG time.

1. Union - The Boxer Rebellion

2. To Lose My Life - White Lies

3. Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective

4. Invaders Must Die - The Prodigy

5. Battle For The Sun - Placebo

 

Cant really be bothered doing the others. I haven't listened to much Australian music this year (though there are promising releases coming out) and there are far too many brilliant songs to go through.

Foreign land - eskimo joe

Magnificent - u2

why is it that whenever i started a thread only aussies respond to it.

 

hope nobody was put off by my top 5 aussies albums. im not expecting everyone to make a list of their fave aussie albums of the year. heck if i cant reach 5 albums i highly doubt anyone else will.

 

how many people have actually heard more than 5 albums from 2009?

I have. :P

 

It's looking like this at the moment:

 

01. Grammatics - Grammatics (pretty much untouchable)

02. Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers

03. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

04. The Boxer Rebellion - Union

05. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

 

As for the songs:

 

01. Grammatics - Relentless Fours/The New Sobriety (really can't choose)

02. Maybeshewill - Accept & Embrace

03. Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others

04. We Were Promised Jetpacks - Moving Clocks Run Slow

05. Patrick Wolf - Hard Times

Guess I'll have to get the Grizzly Bear CD then.

I only have three albums of 2009 so I'll just post my favorite songs

 

1. Bat For Lashes - Glass

2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll

3. Royksopp - The Girl and the Robot

4. Phoenix - Lisztomania

5. Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes

My top 5 albums of 2009 so far:

 

1. No Line on the Horizon-U2

2. Merriweather Post Pavillion-Animal Collective

3. Veckatimist-Grizzly Bear

4. Invisible Hand-Fictionist

5. Noble Beast-Andrew Bird

Well here are my top 5 albums so far

 

1) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimist

2) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Its Blitz

3) Franz Ferdinand - Tonight!

4) Metric - Fantasies

5) Bat For Lashes - Two Suns

Top 5 Album- International

 

1. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Tied)

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Its Blitz (Tied)

3. Metric - Fantasies

4. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion

5. Joel Plaskett - Three

6. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

7. U2 - No Line on the Horizon

8. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns

 

Top 5 Albums- Canadian

1. Metric - Fantasies

2. Joel Plaskett - Three

3. Gentleman Reg - Jet Black

4. Charles Spearin - The Happiness Project

 

Top 5 Songs- International

1. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks

2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll

3. Bat For Lashes - Daniel

4. Metric - Blindness

5. Joel Plaskett - Through & Through & Through

 

Top 5 Songs- Canadian

1. Metric - Blindness

2. Joel Plaskett - Through & Through & Through

3. Metric - Sick Muse

4. Metric - Gimme Sympathy

5. Gentleman Reg - We're In A Thunderstorm

1 - Journal For Plague Lovers - Manic Street Preachers

2 - Kingdom Of Rust - Doves

 

To be honest I haven't really bought many new albums at all this year. There's a couple that I want to get but haven't got round to it. Nothing comes close to Journal for me at the moment though!

Top Albums (in no particular order):

Metric - Fantasies

White Lies - To Lose My Life

The Enemy - Music for the People

DMB - Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King

NASA - The Spirit of Apollo

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

U2 - No Line on the Horizon

 

Top Songs:

Passion Pit - Sleepyhead

U2 - Magnificent

Cage the Elephant - In One Ear

Phoenix - Fences, 1901

VEGA - No Reason

DMB - Lying in the Hands of God

Little Boots - Hearts Collide

The Enemy - No Time for Tears

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll

 

 

 

I'm sure I'm missing a bunch!

I'm enjoying this Metric love. :D

if I had to pick top 10 tracks so far it'd probably be (in no particular order):

 

1. What Would I Want Sky-Animal Collective (dunno if this counts because they only debuted the song live)

2. No Line on the Horizon-U2

3. Two Weeks-Grizzly Bear

4. My Girls-Animal Collective

5. Song for B-Fictionist

6. Blindness-Metric

7. Southern Point-Grizzly Bear

8. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight-U2

9. All We Ask-Grizzly Bear

10. Noisy Birds-Fictionist

 

I know it's the same bands, but I haven't really listened to many new albums for this year yet

alot of love for U2. .............

 

i know that not everyone listens to as much music as i (and some people on this forum) do. but i cant help but feel that the fact that neither coldplay nor radiohead have released an album this year and muse aren't releasing until september has something to do with everyone listening to fewer albums.

 

have some people taken a little break from music this year? or is June a little early to start choosing the best albums from this year??