1. Neil Young - Archives, Vol. 1: 1963-1972
2. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
3. Masada Quintet Featuring Joe Lovano - Stolas
4. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
5. Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship
6. John Zorn - Filmworks XXIII: El General
7. Manassas - Pieces
8. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Beware
9. Six Organs of Admittance - RTZ
10. Johan - 4

01. (01) Georgia Anne Muldrow - Umsindo 5*
02. (02) 24-Carat Black - Gone: The Promises of Yesterday 4,5*
03. (03) Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love
04. (04) Betty Davis - Is It Love Or Desire
05. (05) Q-Tip - Kamaal The Abstract 4*
06. ( -- ) Shafiq Husayn - Shafiq En' A-Free-Ka
07. (06) Little Dragon - Machine Dreams
08. ( -- ) The Hickey Underworld - The Hickey Underworld
09. (07) Nino Moschella - Boomshadow
10. (09) Obba Supa - To:AM, Free:AM

Hier houd ik het op voor nu, maar zal ongetwijfeld nog veranderen in de komende jaren.

1. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic (2009)
2. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (2009)
3. Anne Soldaat - In Another Life (2009)
4. Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose (2009)
5. Soulsavers - Broken (2009)
6. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport (2009)
7. Ian Hunter - Man Overboard (2009)
8. Sophia - There Are No Goodbyes (2009)
9. Seasick Steve - Man from Another Time (2009)
10. The Swell Season - Strict Joy (2009)

1. Yeah Yeah Yeah's - It's Blitz
2. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
3. Hudson Mohawke - Butter
4. Pearl Jam - Backspacer (eindelijk weer een degelijk album)
5. Miike Snow - Miike Snow
6. Major Laser - Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do'
7. Harmonic 313 - When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence
8. The xx - xx
9. Tortoise - Beacons Of Ancestorship
10. Megafaun - Gather, Form & Fly

Al met al een mager jaartje, gezien mijn lijst. 8 t/m 10 hebben zelfs maar 3 sterren. Op naar het veelbelovende 2010!

De eindstand!

1. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
2. Oneida - Rated O
3. HEALTH - Get Color
4. Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
5. Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
6. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
7. Built to Spill - There Is No Enemy
8. Handsome Furs - Face Control
9. Julie Doiron - I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day
10. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Opvallend: 3 releases van het Jagjaguwar-label (#1, 2 en 9). Die boerden goed dit jaar.

1. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
2. The Veils - Sun Gangs
3. Scott Matthew - There Is an Ocean That Divides and with My Longing I Can Charge It with a Voltage That's So Violent to Cross It Could Mean Death
4. PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman a Man Walked By
5. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
6. The xx - xx
7. Brett Anderson - Slow Attack
8. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
9. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
10. Tiga - Ciao!

11. Soulsavers - Broken
12. Soap&Skin - Lovetune for Vacuum
13. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
14. Eels - Hombre Lobo
15. Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
16. Joan as Police Woman - Cover
17. Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
18. Lucky Fonz III - A Family Like Yours
19. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight
20. Editors - In This Light and on This Evening

21. Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor
22. Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be
23. Muse - The Resistance
24. Kyteman - The Hermit Sessions
25. Fever Ray - Fever Ray

Eerste twee zijn 4,5*, de rest 4*. Het was nog best lastig kiezen, ik vond het al met al een goed jaar.

1. Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers (2009)
2. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)
3. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm (2009)
4. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport (2009)
5. Vitalic - Flashmob (2009)
6. A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head (2009)
7. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight (2009)
8. The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules (2009)
9. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (2009)
10. Eels - Hombre Lobo (2009)

"Antony and the Johnsons","The Crying Light",2009
"Joe Gideon & The Shark","Harum Scarum",2009
"jj","jj n° 2",2009
"Fever Ray","Fever Ray",2009
"The xx","xx",2009
"Arctic Monkeys","Humbug",2009
"U2","No Line on the Horizon",2009
"Scott Matthew","There Is an Ocean That Divides and with My Longing I Can Charge It with a Voltage That's So Violent to Cross It Could Mean Death",2009
"Animal Collective","Merriweather Post Pavilion",2009
"Florence + The Machine","Lungs",2009

singles: Phoenix-Lisztomania, Lily Allen-Not Fair

overrated: Placebo, Grizzley Bear, Big Pink
underrated:: Green Day, jj, Girls

Ik moet eerlijk zeggen dat ik weinig albums geluisterd heb van dit jaar.
Hierdoor is mijn top 10, niet helemaal representatief voor mijn muziek stijl. Misschien, we hebben nog 2 weken, verandert hij nog iets.

Dit is hem tot nu toe.

1. Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up


2. Pearl Jam - Backspacer


3. Peter Doherty - Grace / Wastelands


4. Joe Budden - Padded Room


5. Jiggy Djé - De Ark de Triomf


6. Winne - Winne Zonder Strijd


7. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3


8. Acda en de Munnik - Jouw Leven Lang bij Mij


9. Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night


10. Flinke Namen - Superstuntwerk

De eindstand:

01. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
02. Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
03. The Smith Westerns - The Smith Westerns
04. A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
05. The Hickey Underworld - The Hickey Underworld
06. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
07. Heavy Trash - Midnight Soul Serenade
08. Future of the Left - Travels with Myself and Another
09. Kylesa - Static Tensions
10. Brimstone Howl - Big Deal, What's He Done Lately?

En van eigen bodem:

01. Heist - Razorblade Lemonade
02. DeWolff - Strange Fruits and Forbidden Plants
03. God Dethroned - Passiondale
04. Hausmagger - Dicht- & Sloopwerk
05. Awkward i - I Really Should Whisper
06. Drive Like Maria - Elmwood
07. Suimasen - Stay
08. Anne Soldaat - In Another Life
09. De Staat - Wait for Evolution
10. Daily Bread - Well, You're Not Invited

01 Fever Ray – Fever Ray
02 Soulsavors – Broken
03 PJ Harvey & John Parish – A Woman a Man Walked By
04 Mumford and Sons – Sigh No More
05 Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
06 Manic Street Preachers – Journal For Plague Lovers
07 Alela Diane – To Be Still
08 Lily Allen – It’s Not you, It’s Me
09 White Lies – To Lose My Life…
10 Noah and the Whale – The First Days Of Spring

1. Emily Jane White: Victorian America
2. Alela Diane: To be still
3. Neko Case: Middle cyclone
4. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions: Through the devil softly
5. Caroline Herring: Golden apples of the sun
6. Sam Baker: Cotton
7. Dave Rawlings Machine: A friend of a friend
8. Bruce Springsteen: Working on a dream
9. Bob Dylan: Together through life
10. The Avett Brothers: I and love and you

En voor mijn complete Top 50 + fotootjes + woordje uitleg verwijs ik u graag door naar mijn blog

Eind december dus jaarlijstjes tijd. Ik heb nog een stapeltje waar ik nog naar wil luisteren (om maar niet te spreken van Landings van Richard Skelton waar ik reikhalzend naar uit kijk), maar vooralsnog kom ik op onderstaande opsomming.

albums:

1 Scott Tuma & Mike Weiss - Taradiddle
2 John Zorn – Filmworks XXIII: El General
3 Simon Scott - Navigare
4 Dirac - Emphasis
5 Mountains - Choral
6 Lawrence English – A Colour for Autumn
7 Masada Quartet featering Joe Lovano – Stolas; Book of Angels Vol. 12
8 Rameses III – I Could Not Love You More
9 Vassilys Tsabropoulos – The Promise
10 Jim O’Rourke – The Visitor

11 Pillowdiver – Sleeping Pills
12 Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek – Blank Grey Canvas Sky
13 Black To Comm – Alphabet 1968
14 Ethan Rose - Oaks
15 Ran Blake - Driftwoods
16 Asher - Miniatures
17 Solo Andata – Solo Andata
18 Polvo – In Prism
19 Alva Noto – Xerrox Vol.2
20 Elegi - Varde

reissues of spul dat op de plank heeft gelegen:

1 Edward Williams – Life on Earth – Music from the 1979 BBC TV Series
2 A Broken Consort - Box of Birch
3 Richard Skelton – Marking Time
4 The Caretaker - Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia
5 Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson

klein formaat:

1 Aaron Martin – Grass Wounds
2 Taylor Deupree – Weather & Worn
3 Pillowdiver – Tony on a Bike
4 Stephan Mathieu – The Key to the Kingdom
5 Machinefabriek & Nils Frahm – Dauw (split)

Concerten:

1 Bar Kokhba – North Sea Jazz – juli 2009
2 Alva Noto – Verkadefabriek Den Bosch – november 2009
3 Simon Scott – Fluister, Dordrecht – december 2009
4 Isis – Trix Antwerpen – december 2009
5 El Fog – Camera Japan, Dordrecht – oktober 2009

Mijn concerten top 10:

1. Gang Gang Dance, Paradiso kleine zaal, februari
2. Soap&Skin, Incubate festival, september
3. And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Dour festival, juli
4. Dan Deacon, Paradiso grote zaal, juni
5. Girl Talk, Paradiso grote zaal, maart
6. Pulled Apart by Horses, London Calling festival, april
7. Aphex Twin, Dour festival, juli
8. Battles, Paard van Troje, december
9. HEALTH, Melkweg oude zaal, oktober
10. Animal Collective, Paradiso grote zaal, maart

Eigenlijk een onmogelijke opgave maar vooruit dan maar:

1. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love (2009)
2. Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk (2009)
3. Muse - The Resistance (2009)
4. Wilco - Wilco (The Album) (2009)
5. Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses - Roadhouse Sun (2009)
6. Joe Bonamassa - The Ballad of John Henry (2009)
7. Ian Hunter - Man Overboard (2009)
8. Johan - 4 (2009)
9. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Beware (2009)
10. Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot (2009)

1. Scott Matthew - There Is an Ocean That Divides and with My Longing I Can Charge It with a Voltage That's So Violent to Cross It Could Mean Death (2009)
2. Loney, Dear - Dear John (2009)
3. Fanfarlo - Reservoir (2009)
4. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (2009)
5. The Raveonettes - In and Out of Control (2009)
6. The Boxer Rebellion - Union (2009)
7. Sivert Høyem - Moon Landing (2009)
8. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (2009)
9. Doves - Kingdom of Rust (2009)
10. Röyksopp - Junior (2009)

1. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug (2009)
2. Noisettes - Wild Young Hearts (2009)
3. Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You (2009)
4. White Lies - To Lose My Life... (2009)
5. Florence + The Machine - Lungs (2009)
6. Passion Pit - Manners (2009)
7. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (2009)
8. The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love (2009)
9. Dan Black - Un (2009)
10. Little Boots - Hands (2009)

7 debuutalbums, een matig jaar. Al ben ik verbaasd dat ik toch nog zo'n mooie top 10 heb kunnen samenstellen

01. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion [Domino]
02. Wilco - Wilco (The Album) [Nonesuch]
03. Monsters Of Folk - Monsters Of Folk [Shangri-La]
04. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport [ATP]
05. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest [Warp]
06. The Deep Dark Woods - Winter Hours [Black Hen]
07. Jónsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps / All Animals [Parlophone]
08. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms [Lefse]
09. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic [Warner]
10. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix [V2]

01. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
02. Loney, Dear - Dear John
03. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
04. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
05. Soap&Skin - Lovetune for Vacuum
06. Anne Soldaat - In Another Life
07. Archive - Controlling Crowds
08. The Bony King of Nowhere - Alas My Love
09. Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
10. AGF/Delay - Symptoms

1. Archive - Controlling Crowds

2. Mastodon - Crack the Skye

3. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue

4. OSI - Blood

5. Porcupine Tree - The Incident

6. Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

7. Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

8. Gazpacho - Tick Tock

9. Megadeth - Endgame

10. Lamb of God - Wrath

Het valt niet mee ...., het valt niet mee !!

1. Scott Matthew - There Is an Ocean That Divides and with My Longing I Can Charge It with a Voltage That's So Violent to Cross It Could Mean Death
2. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
3. Grand Salvo - Soil Creatures
4. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
5. Lightning Dust - Infinite Light
6. Alela Diane - To Be Still
7. Dez Mona - Hilfe Kommt
8. Frank Boeijen - Camera
9. Vic Chesnutt - At the Cut
10. Venice Is Sinking - Azar

1. Elbow and the BBC Concert Orchestra - The Seldom Seen Kid Live at Abbey Road
2. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
3. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
4. The xx - xx
5. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
6. Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
7. U2 - No Line on the Horizon
8. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
9. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
10. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

Lang getwijfeld of ik wel een live uitvoering van een album van vorig jaar op 1 kon zetten. Maar ik vind het gewoon de mooiste muziek die dit jaar is uitgekomen.

Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti Is...Skyscraper
The Maccabees - Wall of Arms
The xx - xx
HEALTH - Get Color
Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
Oneida - Rated O
Decorate Decorate - Instructions

definitieve top 10 2009

1. Gazpacho - Tick Tock (2009)

2. Maudlin of the Well - Part the Second (2009)

3. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (2009)

4. Mastodon - Crack the Skye (2009)

5. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

6. Elbow and the BBC Concert Orchestra - The Seldom Seen Kid Live at Abbey Road (2009)

7. Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition (2009)

8. Transatlantic - The Whirlwind (2009)

9. The Devin Townsend Project - Ki (2009)

10. Soulsavers - Broken (2009)

1.Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
2.Burnt By The Sun – Heart Of Darkness
3.Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
4.The Antlers- Hospice
5.The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
6.jj – jj no.2
7.The Field - Yesterday And Today
8.Fever Ray - Fever Ray
9.The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
10.Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
11.Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
12.PJ Harvey & John Parish – A Woman A Man Walked By
13.Tiga – Ciao! Tiga
14.Slayer – World Painted Blood
15.Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Lynx Pt.2
16.Lamb Of God – Wrath
17.Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
18.Mastodon – Crack The Skye
19.Gui Boratto – Take My Breath Away
20.Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon: The End Of Day

Lijstje 2009

1. Decorate Decorate - Instructions (2009)
2. A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head (2009)
3. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport (2009)
4. Fever Ray - Fever Ray (2009)
5. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone (2009)
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (2009)
7. White Lies - To Lose My Life... (2009)
8. Sonic Youth - The Eternal (2009)
9. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns (2009)
10. Silversun Pickups - Swoon (2009)

Beetje f*cked up, maar zo gaat ie ook ..

1. Thirty Seconds to Mars - This Is War (2009)
2. Editors - In This Light and on This Evening (2009)
3. Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster (2009)
4. Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream (2009)
5. Matthew Good - Vancouver (2009)
6. Florence + The Machine - Lungs (2009)
7. Pearl Jam - Backspacer (2009)
8. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures (2009)
9. Silversun Pickups - Swoon (2009)
10. Fever Ray - Fever Ray (2009)

Toch nog even aangepast voor het einde van het jaar:

01. (01) Georgia Anne Muldrow - Umsindo 5*
02. (02) 24-Carat Black - Gone: The Promises of Yesterday 4,5*
03. (03) Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love
04. ( -- ) The xx - xx
05. (04) Betty Davis - Is It Love Or Desire
06. (05) Q-Tip - Kamaal The Abstract 4*
07. (06) Shafiq Husayn - Shafiq En' A-Free-Ka
08. (07) Little Dragon - Machine Dreams
09. (08) The Hickey Underworld - The Hickey Underworld
10. (09) Nino Moschella - Boomshadow

Even een reminder, morgen is de laatste dag dat je je lijst kunt invoeren. Het is bovenaan erg spannend, 3 albums die telkens stuivertje wisselen voor de hoogste positie in de eindlijst. Oudjaarsdag zal om 12.00 uur 's middags de lijst bekend worden.

1. Soulsavers - Broken (2009)
2. Archive - Controlling Crowds (2009)
3. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue (2009)
4. Patterson Hood - Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs) (2009)
5. A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head (2009)
6. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (2009)
7. Silversun Pickups - Swoon (2009)
8. Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up (2009)
9. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle (2009)
10. Mastodon - Crack the Skye (2009)