Friday, October 29, 2010

This is Where I Rank the Best Albums of Each Year: 2009

Please refer to the rating system link at the top. Albums with the same rating are loosely ordered based on my feelings about them, but they can be interchanged.

Albums:

01) The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love 9.8 Indie Rock
02) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 9.6 Psychedelic Indie Pop Rock
03) Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars 9.6 Atmospheric Black Metal
04) Tyr - By The Light Of The Northern Star 9.5 Viking Metal
05) Mastodon - Crack the Skye 9.5 Progressive Metal
06) I Come to Shanghai - I Come to Shanghai 9.4 Rock
07) Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs 9.3 Post Punk/Shoegaze/Black Metal
08) Isis - Wavering Radiant 9.3 Atmospheric Sludge Metal
09) Flight of the Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky 9.3 Comedy Music
10) George Harrison - Let it Roll 9.3 Pop/Rock
11) Hockey - Mind Chaos 9.2 Indie Rock mixed with Alternative Dance
12) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion 9.2 Psychedelic Pop
13) David Bazan - Curse Your Branches 9.2 Singer/Songwriter Indie Rock
14) Om - God is Good 9.2 Doom Metal
15) Port Royal - Dying in Time 9.2 Electronic/Ambient
16) Secret Chiefs 3 - Traditionalists: Le Mani Destre Recise Degli Ultimi Uomini 9.1 Experimental/Film Score
17) Modest Mouse - No One's First and You're Next 9.1 Indie Rock
18) Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect 9.1 Progressive Metal
19) Sun O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions 9.1 Drone Doom Metal
20) Sufjan Stevens - Run Rabbit Run 9.1 "Classical"
21) Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives of Henry VIII Live at Hampton Court Palace 9.1 Progressive Rock
22) Sufjan Stevens - The BQE 9.0 Modern Classical
23) The Lonely Island - Incredibad 9.0 Comedy Music
24) Chthonic - Mirror of Retribution 9.0 Melodic Black Metal
25) Pelican - Ephemeral 9.0 Post Metal
26) Muse - The Resistance 8.9 Alternative Rock
27) Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures 8.9 Hard Rock
28) Crepusculum - Sing on in Silhouettes 8.9 Instrumental Guitar
29) Benjamin Koppel & Bobby Watson - At Ease 8.9 Jazz
30) Pelican - What We All Come to Need 8.9 Post Metal
31) Iron and Wine - Around the Well 8.9 Contemporary Folk
32) Various Artists - Kind of Bloop: Chiptune Tribute to Miles Davis 8.9 Chiptune
33) glomag - DaMaGe 8.9 Chiptune
34) Bob Dylan - Christmas in the Heart 8.8 Holiday
35) Korpiklaani - Karkelo 8.8 Folk Metal
36) Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry, They Washed Away 8.8 Progressive Indie Pop Rock
37) The Mars Volta - Octahedron 8.6 Progressive Rock
38) Iron and Wine - Norfolk 8.6 Contemporary Folk
39) Eluviete - Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion 8.6 Celtic Contemporary Folk
40) Mattson 2 - Introducing the Mattson 2 8.6 Jazz/Rock
41) The Mermen - In God We Trust 8.5 Surf Rock
42) Jon Lajoie - You Want Some of This? 8.5 Comedy Music
43) Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest 8.5 Technical Death Metal
44) Ensiferum - From Afar 8.5 Folk Metal
45) Arkona - Goi, Rode, Goi!!! 8.4 Folk Metal
46) Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There are Mountains 8.4 Indie Rock
47) Blueneck - The Fallen Host 8.4 Post Rock
48) Ari Pulkkinen - Trine OST8.3 Video Game Soundtrack
49) Starscream - Future, and it Doesn't Work 8.3 Chiptune
50) Mr. Spastic - Claps and Leads 8.3 Chiptune
51) Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know 8.3 Heavy Metal
52) Portugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist 8.2 Indie Rock
53) AleStorm - Black Sails At Midnight 8.2 Pirate Folk Metal
54) Cornbeast - Chip Hero 8.2 Chiptune
55) Do Make Say Think - The Other Truths 8.2 Post Rock
56) Coova & Bud Melvin - She's the DJ, He's the Rapper 8.2 Chiptune
57) Copernicus - Disappearance 8.2 Avant-Garde
58) Pavaka - The Melodies of Sri Chinmoy Vol. 2 8.2 World/Rock
59) IAYD - Supergalactic 8.1 Chiptune
60) glomag - Roland & The Lamprey 8.1 Chiptune
61) NESessity - The Heartbits 8.0 Chiptune
62) Tomas Dvorak - Machinarium Soundtrack 8.0 Video Game Soundtrack
63) They Might Be Giants - Here Comes Science 8.0 Children's Rock/Pop
64) Coldplay - LeftRightLeftRightLeft 8.0 Pop/Rock
65) From Monument To Masses - On Little Known Frequencies 7.9 Post Rock
66) minusbaby - left 7.9 Chiptune
67) Saskrotch - I'll Have You Naked by the End of This ROM 7.9 Chiptune
68) Dysrhythmia - Psychic Maps 7.8 Math Rock
69) 8GB - Pravda 7.7 Chiptune
70) RABBIT - List of Secrets 7.7 Rock
71) Sundried Truth - Underdog 7.5 Rock
72) Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague 7.5 Death Metal
73) Various Artists - Mellow Beats, Friends & Lovers 7.3 Mellow Beats/Jazz Rap
74) Glimr - Faith of Our Fathers 7.1 Alternative and Punk
75) StarPause - AKID EP 7.0 Chiptune
76) Eric Hovey - Blues Farm 7.0 Blues
77) Tristan Clopet - Purple EP 6.6 Rock
78) Nosaj Thing - Drift WEB 6.5 Electronic
79) Receptors - USER Deluxe 6.3 Chiptune
80) David Armstrong - Galactic Groove 5.9 Synth Beat

Singles / Other:
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I'll listen to these and properly rate them soon:
28) Marc Maron - Final Engagement 9.0 Stand Up Comedy
Church of Misery - Houses of the Unholy
39) Doug Stanhope - From Across the Street 8.0 Stand Up Comedy
41) Eugene Mirman - God Is a Twelve-Year-Old Boy with Asperger's 7.6 Stand Up Comedy

Albums I haven't listened to but are probably quite good:
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
Portico Quartet - Isla
Amorphis - Skyforger
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Swallow the Sun - New Moon
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
Mumford and Sons - Sigh no More
Rodrigo y Gabriella - 11:11
Slough Feg - Ape Uprising!
The XX - XX
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Vic Chesnutt - At the Cut
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Up from Below
The Kilimanjaro Dark Jazz Ensemble - Here Be Dragons
Johnny Winter - the Woodstock Experience
Gov't Mule - By a Thread
Joe Bonamassa - The Ballad of John Henry
Brother Ali - Us
Medeski, Martin & Wood - Radiolarians II
Medeski, Martin & Wood - Radiolarians III
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs for the Damned and Delirious
Levon Helm - Electric Dirt
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Russian Circles - Geneva
Ea - Ea II
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Quantum Fantasy - Kaleidothrope
The Derek Trucks Band - Already Free
Ned Collette - Over the Stones, Under the Stars
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
The Black Crowes - Before the Frost ... / ... Until the Freeze
Branford Marsalis - Metamorphosen
John Zorn - Alhambra Love Songs
Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol. 3
Per Norgard - Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7
Fell Voices - Fell Voices
Urna - Iter Ad Lucem
Baby Woodrose - Baby Woodrose
Steve Roach - Immersion: Four
Ravage - The End of Tomorrow
Sunstorm - House of Dreams
Kauan - Aava Tuulen Maa
Deluge Grander - The Form of the Good
Thousand Foot Crutch - Welcome to the Masquerade
相対性理論 - ハイファイ新書
Eels - Hombre Lobo
R.E.M. - R.E.M. Live at the Olympia
Nokturnal Mortum - Голос сталi
Leonard Cohen - Live in London
Vektor - Black Future
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - The Live Anthology
Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom Live
Dark Tranquility - Where Death is Most Alive
Converge - Axe to Fall
Devin Townsend - Addicted
Colour Haze - Burg Herzberg Festival 18 Juli 2008 Live
Paul McCartney - Good Evening New York City
Magma - Emehntehtt-Re
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid Live at Abbey Road
Emperor - Live Inferno
Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood - Live from Madison Square Garden
Natural Snow Buildings - Shadow Kingdom
The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
The Killers - Live from the Royal Albert Hall
Raekwon - Only Build 4 Cuban Linx Part II
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
The Builders and the Butchers - Salvation is a Deep Dark Well
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Present - Barbaro (ma non troppo)
Rome - Flowers from Exile
Morphine - At Your Service
Kylesa - Static Tensions
Ulcerate - Everything is Fire
David S Ware - Live in Vilnius
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
Thy Catafalque - Roka Hasa Radio
Rowland S Howard - Pop Crimes
Fashawn - Boy Meets World
While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
Lost Soul - Immerse in Infinity
Panzerballett - Hart Genossen von Abba bis Zappa
Lee Fields and the Expressions - My World
Jan Garbarek - Live in Dresden
Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter
P.O.S. - Never Better
Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics - Inspirations Information
Emptyset - Emptyset
Clark - Totems Flare
Shpongle - Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland
Per Norgard - Seadrift

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