Music: 10 Best Albums of the '00s. The top 25 albums of 2009 | Music | Best of. The best music of the decade | Music | Best of. For our best-of-the-decade music list, it was more about the gut than the strict math we use to determine the best albums of each year. We took a general poll of our music writers, then whittled things down to a manageable number, then talked some more about what should go where. It probably doesn’t need saying that not everyone will agree with these choices, but that’s what the comments are for—let us know what your favorite records were from 2000-2009. (Try and make an intelligent case that doesn’t start with “You guys are retards!” If you can.) Later today, we'll also post a companion article in which a few of the voters offer up the discs they loved that didn’t make the big list. 50. Considering how many musicians are featured on Broken Social Scene’s breakthrough, it’s impressive that it feels so effortless. 49. 48. 46. 45. 44.
Houston cult hero Devin The Dude is blessed and cursed with a reputation as a critical darling and the quintessential rapper’s rapper. 43. 42. 41. 40. 39. SPIN's 40 Best Albums Of 2009 - List. Staff Lists: The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s: 20-1. Today concludes our P2K coverage of the decade in music with... drumroll... the top 20 albums of the 2000s. You've read and listened to the tracks, read essays about developments in technology, pop, noise, and indie, watched the videos, heard what the artists' thought, taken in our recap of the big events, and read about albums from #200 to #21; now it's time for the best of the best. As indicated earlier in the week, in the interest of keeping the list broad, we capped the number of albums for any given artist at three. And, as with tracks, we're going to assemble an addendum with deserving albums released since we polled our writers for this list. Look for that in January. Thanks to you, our readers, for following along with our coverage of the decade.
We also want to offer huge thanks to interns Chris Bosman, Eliot Gronstal, and Susannah Young for all of their work on the P2K features. Their contributions were invaluable. OK, here we go, the top 20... 20. 19. 18. Kanye, you jerk. 17. Pretty Much Amazing’s Best Albums of 2009 at Pretty Much Amazing. Artwork by Brian Kuperman 2009 was an exceptional last year in an exceptional decade for music. In 2009 we were bombarded with solid release after great release after epic release throughout the entire year (upfront: I didn’t listen to every album released in 2009), so narrowing my picks for the best albums of the year was not easy.
Nonetheless, I have here Pretty Much Amazing’s 25 best albums of the 2009. At the end of this list, you will have the chance to enter the last PMA contest of 2009. . — a copy of every album on this list on vinyl (or CD, at winner’s request) in a Vinyl is Forever Tote Bag, along with a poster featuring one of the listed artists of their choice, and a custom one year subscription to Paste Magazine. I want give a big shout out to Brian Kuperman for designing this awesome artwork for our list. 25. 24. 23. fun.Aim and Ignite 22. 21. 20. 19. 18. 17. 16. 15. 14. 13. 12. 11. Read on for our 10 Favorite Albums of 2009 → 100 Best Albums of the Decade : Rolling Stone. The 25 Best Albums of 2009. Pitchfork's Top 100 Songs Of 2009 - List. Aught Not To Forget: The Most Underrated Records of the Decade « November 30, 2009 at 10:09 pm | Posted in Aughts, Best of, mp3, Music | 24 Comments Tags: A Frames, Aislers Set, American Analog Set, Animals That Swim, Blumfeld, Boat, Broadcast, Cornelius, Electrelane, Gentleman Jesse, Go-betweens, Goldfrapp, Graham Coxon, hollAnd, Human Television, Intelligence, It's Jo and Danny, Katerine, Kelley Stoltz, Moose, Pants Yell!
, Pelle Carlberg, Radio Dept., Rough Bunnies, The Fall, The Tyde, Tom Vek I was going to do a list of my favorite records of the 00′s, but as I was getting my list together I started to realize it was kind of boring. Really, how many music blogs do you need to tell you the same thing? That’s when I began thinking about the records that came out over last 10 years that I thought were criminally ignored, or just didn’t seem to get a fair shake.
So what I’ve got for you is a list of my most underrated albums of the decade. Every one of these records shoulda been a hit, but because the world is a cruel, cruel place they never were. BEST SONGS OF 2009. By Sean Please note: MP3s are only kept online for a short time, and if this entry is from more than a couple of weeks ago, the music probably won't be available to download any more. These are my 75 favourite songs of 2009: songs I love more than peaches & pears. I follow one arbitrary rule: that no artist may be listed twice. I made similar lists in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Of course this year I did the daftest thing and expanded from fiftysomething to 75 best tunes. The best way to browse this list is to click the little arrow beside each song and then to listen as you read.
You can also download a complete zip of the 75 songs here [315mb], via InfiniteMb. Don't forget: Dan listed his favourite albums of the year here yesterday. Please buy albums, singles and EPs by bands that you enjoy. Original painting by James McNeill Whistler (source) Staff Lists: The Top 50 Albums of 2009. 10. GirlsAlbum[True Panther/Matador] In the original video for "Lust for Life", Girls singer-songwriter Christopher Owens does a little "Subterranean Homesick Blues" routine. Dressed in a stripey bathrobe, he sits in the middle of a cluttered bedroom and flips scrawled messages that range from witty ("you wouldn't be so stupid if you were Randy Newman") to confessional ("Maria-- I'm sorry"). Along the way, he unveils one Sharpie'd piece of printer paper that stands out: "believe in me. " While many bands hid their ambition and/or emotion behind fuzz, fussiness, and psychedelics this year, Girls took full responsibility for their potential impact on the hearts and whims of young adults besot by that perennial, perilous question: "Now what?
" Owens doesn't offer an answer, exactly. 9. What's made Andersson's work even better is how her videos and performances amplify the music's sense of dread and mystery. 8. 7. There is no separating love from fantasy on Two Suns. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Staff Lists: The Top 100 Tracks of 2009. 10. Washed Out"Feel It All Around"[Mexican Summer] A year ago, Ernest Greene wasn't singing, really. Nine months ago, he wasn't making glimmering lo-fi electronic pop as Washed Out.
Until October, you couldn't buy any of his stuff in physical form. Not long before you finally could, he would've had no reason to ask upstart labels Mexican Summer or Mirror Universe to press more than tiny numbers of his Life of Leisure 12" EP or High Times cassette. Washed Out's first single doesn't tell you what, exactly, you're supposed to be "feel"ing, but that's the idea. 9. For a band that's inspired so much record-collector-rock referencing, it's no shock that Girls would brazenly swipe a well-worn Iggy Pop title for the first song on their first album. 8. Phoenix make it look easy. "So sentimental/ Not sentimental, no/ Romantic, not disgusting yet," he starts (and stops), dragging his side-margin notes to the fore. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.
Mixes tagged as best of 2009 | 8tracks. 01. LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends at Pretty Much Amazing! Artwork by Adam Sarpalius As 2009, and the decade come to a close, PMA will be looking back at our favorite songs of the last ten years. We will update a list with 75 empty slots until we reach that song that changed everything. You can keep track of this list by keeping an eye on this page. We make these lists in hopes that you guys will chime in the comments and share your favorite musical moments of the noughties. Naming a song the best of the decade is a bold statement, in spite of any credentials you may have. Before I even started this list, I knew that LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends” was my favorite song of the last ten years; and sitting here, trying to figure out how to tell you why it deserves such praise is proving to be far more difficult than I ever anticipated. I was taken back by this question.
It opens with a galloping piano loop that will accompany us throughout the entire ride. “All My Friends” is poetic in a way LCD Soundsystem hadn’t prepared you for.