Showing posts with label Best of 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Best of 2009. Show all posts

Tyler's 2009 Lists

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Ok, so I'm gonna list off the 20 albums I enjoyed from this year and then follow it up with a list of my top 25 tracks from 2009. Only 20 albums because, honestly, I find it frustrating to find five more that I can truly say that I enjoyed and can listen the whole way through. I will go ahead and use those five I didn't use and replace them with a list of 2009's worst. Now I'm not gonna lie, there are some definite similarities among Ryan's, Kyle's, and my lists but that's what happens sometimes when you've come from the same musical womb. I was just gonna go ahead and name my lists "The Situation" but unfortunately somebody already has that nickname. Lucky dude.

20 Albums
- "The Issue"

20. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
19. The xx - xx
18. Weird Tapes - Get Religion
17. Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
16. The Mercury Program - Chez Viking
15. Washed Out - Life of Leisure
14. Delorean - Ayrton Senna
13. P.O.S. - Never Better
12.
Flight of the Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky
11. Discovery - LP
10. Royksopp - Junior
9.
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
8. New Ruins - We Make Our Own Bad Luck
7. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
6. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
5. The Most Serene Republic - ...And The Ever Expanding Universe
4. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. Passion Pit - Manners
1. Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care

25 Tracks - "The Dilemma"

25. Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart
24. The Big Pink - Velvet
23. White Belt, Yellow Tag - You're Not Invincible
22. P.O.S. - Never Better
21. Wild Beasts - All The Kings Men
20. Japandroids - Sovereignty
19. Delorean - Deli
18. Animal Collective - Brother Sport
17. Kid Cudi - Day 'N Nite (Crookers Remix)
16. Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer
15.
Junior Boys - Hazel
14. The Mercury Program - Chez Viking
13. Discovery - Swing Tree
12. Manchester Orchestra - I've Got Friends
11.
Washed Out - Feel It All Around
10. Royksopp - Happy Up Here
9. The xx - Basic Space
8. Passion Pit - The Reeling
7. The Most Serene Republic - Heavens To Purgatory
6. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
5. Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move
4. Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
3. Phoenix - Lisztomania
2. Junior Boys - Parallel Lines
1.
Animal Collective - My Girls

5 Worst Albums of 2009

5. Daughtry - Tougher Than You Want
4.
Black Eyed Peas - Songs Made From Picking Samples From A Hat
3.
Jonas Brothers - A Scarf And A Guitar
2.
U2 - We're Even Sick Of Us
1.
Green Day - We Had To Create Another Band Cause This One Has Turned Into Crud

Sorry, that wasn't funny, but Murry Krimus either way.

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Fikak! Best of 2009!

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Musically, 2009 has been all over the place (in a good way). Lot's of really good acts, new & old, releasing records; lots of genre-less bands and (deserving) straight-up pop/rock bands breaking through at the same time. Bands giving away music and selling lots of records after doing so. Exciting stuff.


2009 has also resulted in Fikak! picking up another contributer (welcome, Kyle). So we've stepped up our game a bit: two "best of" lists a piece (Albums and Tracks). Enjoy, and feel free to rip them apart or leave your own list behind. Here's to 2009:



Ryan's Top 25 Albums of 2009
25. The Clientele Bonfires on the Heath
24. Julian Casablancas Phrazes for the Young
23. Imogen Heap Ellipse
22. Built to Spill There is No Enemy
21. Neon Indian Psychic Chasms
20. The Wooden Birds Magnolia
19. Delorean Ayrton Senna
18. The Very Best Warm Heart of Africa
17. Loney, Dear Dear John
16. The Raveonettes In and Out of Control
15. Real Estate Real Estate
14. The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha
13. Junior Boys Begone Dull Care
12. New Ruins We Make Our Own Bad Luck
11. Bon Iver/Volcano Choir Blood Bank/Unmap
10. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
9. The xx xx
8. Memory Tapes Seek Magic
7. Discovery LP
6. Jeremy Enigk OK Bear
5. Mercury Program Chez Viking
4. Grizzly Bear Veckatimest
3. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2. Passion Pit Manners
1. Atlas Sound Logos


Kyle's Top 25 Albums of 2009
25. Baroness Blue Record
24. Built to Spill There is No Enemy
23. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
22. Jeremy Enigk OK Bear
21. Russian Circles Geneva
20. Silversun Pickups Swoon
19. DD/MM/YYYY Black Square
18. P.O.S. Never Better
17. Disappearer The Clearing
16. Modest Mouse No One's First and Your Next
15. Pissed Jeans King of Jeans
14. Bon Iver Blood Bank
13. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca
12. Lymbyc Systym Shutter Release
11. Jesu Opiate Sun ep
10. The Dodos Time to Die
9. Japandroids Post-Nothing
8. Real Estate Real Estate
7. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
6. Billy Mahonie BM
5. Mercury Program Chez Viking
4. Pelican What We All Come to Need
3. Holopaw Oh, Glory. Oh, Wilderness.
2. New Ruins We Make Our Own Bad Luck
1. Califone All My Friends Are Funeral Singers





Ryan's Top 25 Tracks of 2009
25. "Happy Up Here" Röyksopp
24. "Heavens to Purgatory" The Most Serene Republic
23. "People Got a Lotta Nerve" Neko Case
22. "Like a Hitman, Like a Dancer" A.C. Newman
21. "Can You Discover?" Discovery
20. "Airport Surroundings" Loney, Dear
19. "11th Dimension" Julian Casablancas
18. "Into the Mirror" Minus the Bear
17. "Plain Material" Memory Tapes
16. "Years" New Ruins
15. "Chez Viking" Mercury Program
14. "Moths Wings" Passion Pit
13. "Blood Bank" Bon Iver
12. "Mind Idea" Jeremy Enigk
11. "Island, IS" Volcano Choir
10. "Hazel" Junior Boys
9. "Walkabout" Atlas Sound (w/ Noah Lennox)
8. "Two Weeks" Grizzly Bear
7. "Stillness is the Move" Dirty Projectors
6. "So Far Around the Bend" The National
5. "Suicide" The Raveonettes
4. "Little Secrets" Passion Pit
3. "My Girls" Animal Collective
2. "So Insane" Discovery
1. "1901" Phoenix


Kyle's Top 25 Tracks of 2009
25. "Crying Lightning" Arctic Monkeys
24. "Substitution" Silversun Pickups
23. "The Sweetest Curse" Baroness
22. "Purexed" P.O.S.
21. "Day N Night" Kid Cudi
20. "So Insane" Discovery
19. "Military Madness" (Graham Nash Cover) Woods
18. "Woods" Bon Iver
17. "Be My Girl" Smith Westerns
16. "Trichromatic" Lymbyc Systym
15. "Other Ones" New Ruins
14. "Kind of Like a Big Deal" Clipse
13. "Crystalised" The xx
12. "False Jesii, Pt. 2" Pissed Jeans
11. "Rockers East Vancouver" Japandroids
10. "Island, IS" Volcano Choir
9. "Pool Swimmers" Real Estate
8. "The Art Teacher and the Little Stallion" Holopaw
7. "Bottle Breaks" Billy Mahonie
6. "Ephemeral" Pelican
5. "Deflated" Jesu
4. "Stillness is the Move" Dirty Projectors
3. "My Girls" Animal Collective
2. "Whale Song" Modest Mouse
1. "Bunuel" Califone

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