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So, what are your top 10 albums of the year?
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http://allmediareviews.blogspot.com/2009...casts.html
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Soundscape...ndex__2_0_

100-51, blurbs, links and a podcast are all there if you're bored.

50. The Arusha Accord - The Echo Verses
49. The Swell Season - Strict Joy
48. Baroness - Blue Record
47. The Mars Volta - Octahedron
46. Yeah Yeah Yeah's – It's Blitz
45. Total Babe - Heatwave
44. Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
43. Lights on the Highway - Amanita Muscaria
42. Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings
41. The Boy Will Drown - Fetish
40. Solstafir - Kold
39. Graph - EP 2 (EP)
38. Oceansize - Home and Minor (EP)
37. Warpaint - Exquisite Corpse (EP)
36. 100Ft Snowman - Juggling Knives (EP)
35. Brooke Waggoner - Go Easy Little Doves
34. Scott Matthews - Elsewhere
33. Water & Bodies - Water & Bodies (EP)
32. Doves - Kingdom of Rust
31. Painted in Exile - Revitalized (EP)
30. The Most Serene Republic - ...And the Ever Expanding Universe
29. Shelter Red - Strike a Mortal Terror
28. Mute Math - Armistice
27. Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
26. Porcupine Tree - The Incident
25. The Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious
24. The Antlers - Hospice
23. The House Harkonnen - Vol.6
22. Sholi - Sholi
21. The Kris Norris Projekt - Icons of the Illogical
20. Grammatics - Grammatics
19. Malajube - Labyrinthes
18. Sound & Shape - The Love Electric (EP)
17. maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
16. My Latest Novel - Death and Entrances
15. Ramona Falls - Intuit
14. Archive - Controlling Crowds
13. Greg Herriges - Telluric Currents
12. Karen O - Where the Wild Things Are
11. Kiss Kiss - The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left
10. note. - my city of ghosts, stars and hours
9. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
8. Long Distance Calling - Avoid the Light
7. Umphrey's McGee - Mantis
6. Pure Reason Revolution - Amor Vincit Omnia
5. dredg - The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion
4. The Dear Hunter - Act III: Life and Death
3. 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
2. Soundscape - Grave New World
1. Kevin Gilbert - Nuts/Bolts
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Sinistas Wrote:Evan, two of those bands are from Boston (Revocation and Baliset), and worth checking out Wink

Thanks, Scott. I have Revocation but have only spun it once due to the backlogue of music I have to listen to. That guitar player is insane though.

Awesome work on all the replies, guys. I'm a big fan of seeing year end lists. Like SarahBeth said, things like this can turn you on to new music and that doesn't suck at all. Keep 'em coming, peeps!
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Trathena Wrote:I hope I'm allowed to edit! In no order:

1. Dredg - The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion
2. Jesu - Opiate Sun
3. Doves - Kingdom of Rust
4. Muse - The Resistance
5. Mew - No More Stories
6. Porcupine Tree - The Incident
7. Russian Circles - Geneva
8. Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted to Sin
9. John Fruciante - The Empyrean
10. And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Century of Self

Honorable Mention:

U2 - No Line on the Horizon
Pure Reason Revolution - Amor Vincit Omnia

I forgot to include Mew and And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Our Dead and Doves
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#24
There was a lot of decent-but-not-spectacular stuff this year so I will just put the records that really stood out to me in a list of 5-ish.


1. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love

2. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone

3. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity Live

4. Pearl Jam - Backspacer

5. Tie: Manchester Orchestra - Everything to Nothing / M. Ward - Hold Time



Band of the year:
Pearl Jam. My obsession for them surged this year with a really good record and an amazing Halloween show closing Philly's Wachovia Spectrum.

Best songs of the year:
Mars Volta - Desperate Graves
Pearl Jam - Unthought Known
Decemberists - The Wanting Comes in Waves
Iron and Wine - God Made the Automobile
Monsters of Folk - Ahead of the Curve
Jeremy Enigk - Restart
Trail of Dead - Bells of Creation

Disappointments:
Muse - The Resistance (I dunno guys, it's pretty awful)
Monsters of Folk - Self Titled (though it has some great tracks and the live show was phenomenal)

Looking forward to in 2010:
Far - We Live at Night
She and Him - Volume II
New Deftones
New Silverchair
New Fleet Foxes
Jimmy Gnecco solo record, of course
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feverdown Wrote:There was a lot of decent-but-not-spectacular stuff this year so I will just put the records that really stood out to me in a list of 5-ish.


1. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love

2. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone

3. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity Live

4. Pearl Jam - Backspacer

5. Tie: Manchester Orchestra - Everything to Nothing / M. Ward - Hold Time



Band of the year:
Pearl Jam. My obsession for them surged this year with a really good record and an amazing Halloween show closing Philly's Wachovia Spectrum.

Best songs of the year:
Mars Volta - Desperate Graves
Pearl Jam - Unthought Known
Decemberists - The Wanting Comes in Waves
Iron and Wine - God Made the Automobile
Monsters of Folk - Ahead of the Curve
Jeremy Enigk - Restart
Trail of Dead - Bells of Creation

Disappointments:
Muse - The Resistance (I dunno guys, it's pretty awful)
Monsters of Folk - Self Titled (though it has some great tracks and the live show was phenomenal)

Looking forward to in 2010:
Far - We Live at Night
She and Him - Volume II
New Deftones
New Silverchair
New Fleet Foxes
Jimmy Gnecco solo record, of course

I will have to check out some of the music on your top list! I also need to get OLP's new cd because I've heard nothing but amazing things about it and I really like them.

And Muse, really was a disappointment? I think their album is sheer genius and I really love it a lot. I especially love the symphonies at the end. I wasn't a huge fan of the previous album because I thought it was too heavy for my tastes, but I think The Resistance is a bit lighter.
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