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  Posted by gidarmy (U7627527) on Monday, 16th November 2009

  Hello,
  
  What are the best ones of the year then?
  
  As many as you like
  And feel free to mention reissues as well
  
  We'll either do a night of albums of 2009 or feature them across a week towards the end of the year.
  
  Thanks
  
  Gidx

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  Posted by the_roofdog (U9532299) on Monday, 16th November 2009

  The 2 standout records I can't choose between at the moment are:
  
  M Ward - Hold Time
  The Low Anthem - Oh My God Charlie Darwin
  
  I also very much enjoyed:
  
  Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
  Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
  Jon Hopkins - Insides
  Dawn Landes - Sweetheart Rodeo

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  Posted by Mike, Wivenhoe (U7622871) on Monday, 16th November 2009

  I'll pitch in if I may...
  
  Hospice by The Antlers.
  Signal Morning by The Circulatory System.
  Merriweather Post Pavillion - Animal Collective
  Josephone - Magnolia Electric Company
  Dragonslayer - Sunset Rubdown.
  
  Compo - Dark Was The Night
  Music Film - Soul Power or Anvil.
  Live performance - Thom Yorke at Latitude.
  
  We should have the Gidarmy Rock & Pop Awards 2009. Among the categories....
  Best New Act.
  Best UK Act.
  Most disappointing Christmas album by folk legend.
  Most desperate posthumous cash-in single.
  Best Jack White side-project.
  
  That sort o thing.
  

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  Posted by Mike, Wivenhoe (U7622871) on Monday, 16th November 2009

  That should read 'Josephine' by Magnolia Record Company. Wanted to get that clarified to avoid an outbreak of pedantry.

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  Posted by steve_swift (U2177659) on Monday, 16th November 2009

  Oh My God, Charlie Darwin - The Low Anthem
  Checkmate Savage - The Phantom Band
  Nothing Gold Can Stay - The Duke and the King
  Hold Time - M Ward
  Monsters of Folk
  Wilco (the album)
  When The Devil's Loose - AA Bondy
  Hospice - The Antlers
  Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle - Bill Callahan
  Let Freedom Ring - Chuck Prophet
  Secret, Profane & Sugercane - Elvis Costello
  Somedays The Song Writes You - Guy Clark
  We Used To Think The Freeway - Richmond Fontaine
  Planets Are Blasted - Boston Spaceships
  Zero To 99 - Boston Spaceships
  Popular Songs - Yo La Tengo
  I And Love And You - Avett Brothers
  Together Through Life - Bob Dylan
  Embryonic - Flaming Lips
  
  Compliation - the astounding 'Where The Action Is : Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-68' and
  
  Music From The North Country - The Jayhawks
  
  Re-issue - Murmur - REM
  

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  Posted by Valour Gull (U1637480) on Monday, 16th November 2009

  It's been a year for great Scottish albums.
  
  My Latest Novel - 'Deaths and Entrances'
  Fanfarlo - 'Reservoir'
  Lord Cut-Glass
  The Witch and The Robot - 'On Safari'
  The Twilight Sad - 'Forget the Night Ahead'

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  Posted by MattInGreenwich (U14035413) on Monday, 16th November 2009

  Late late entry for Local Natives with 'Gorilla Manor'.

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  Posted by File-Under-Water (U13817253) on Monday, 16th November 2009

  It's been a great year I reckon. I can pick three artists whose work had for some reason passed me by before this year:
  
  Richmond Fontaine: "I used to think...."
  Alela Diane: "To be still"
  Broken Family Band: "Please and Thank you"
  
  And add in The Decemberists, Jason Lytle, Monsters of Folk, Leisure Society, Mumford and Sons, Euros Childs...
  
  

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  Posted by steve_swift (U2177659) on Monday, 16th November 2009

  Forgot the rather obscure category of "Best Outtakes" -
  
  Around The Well - Iron and Wine
  
  If this is what he leaves out, imagine what the proper albums sound like.
  
  
  
  

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  Posted by Tinsnail_Racer (U1486682) on Monday, 16th November 2009

  
  
  I might just keep an eye out for that one. What sort of music is it - similar to the original Nuggets LP?

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  Posted by steve_swift (U2177659) on Wednesday, 18th November 2009

  There's a few overlaps.
  
  CD1 - "On The Strip" includes The Standells, The Palace Guard, The Seeds
  
  CD2 - "Beyond The City" includes Kim Fowley, Thee Midniters, The Others
  
  CD3 - "The Studio Scene" includes PF Sloan, The Monkees, Lee Hazlewood
  
  CD4 - "New Directions" included Gene Clark, Rick Nelson, Nilsson.
  
  101 tracks in all.

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  Posted by Billy__liar (U14191454) on Thursday, 19th November 2009

  
  WIPERS - the Jackpot records proper reissues on vinyl..
  EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING - Primary Colours LP
  Naked Raygun - Understand (proper reissue lp)
  Death - For The Whole World To See LP
  13th CHIME- The Singles 1981-1983 LP
  White Wires - s/t LP
  Shop Assistants reissue cd on cherry red
  Clap Your Hands,Stamp Your Feet compilation cd
  Paintbox - Trip Trance Travelling lp
  Manikin - stop the sirens lp
  The Times – Pop goes art LP (bootleg reissue)
  HUL – Den danske ungdom lp
  NODZZZ – S/T LP
  Television Personalities (180g reissue lp's) - mommy your not watching me & And dont the kids just love it
  Social Circkle - city shock lp
  Dicks - kill from the heart (bootleg lp reissue cos SST wont rerelease it for some reason)
  
  

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  Posted by Greg (U8004659) on Thursday, 19th November 2009

  Isn't mid-November still a wee bit early for 'Best Album of the Year' lists? Last year, both the Headless Heroes & Vic Chesnutt/Elf Power albums didn't reach my ears until very late in the year and both ended up on my list. I therefore won't be revealing my top ten until the third week in December (around the same time I commence my Christmas shopping....).
  
  Fanfarlo Scottish, Valour Gull? How so?

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  Posted by yamyumyer (U14222042) on Thursday, 19th November 2009

  Folk songs by James Yorkston and the Big eyes Family Players.
  
  Oh, while I'm here, do you want to watch my Christmas Video?
  
  
  
  Y

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  Posted by outmoder (U997314) on Friday, 20th November 2009

  10 good ones:
  animal collective - merriweather post pavilion
  bill callahan - sometimes i wish we were an eagle
  the field - yesterday & today
  grizzly bear - veckatimest
  isis - wavering radiant
  obits - i blame you
  polvo - in prism
  teenage cool kids - foreign lands
  wilco - the album
  yo la tengo - popular songs

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  Posted by alan_lloyd (U1160366) on Friday, 20th November 2009

  Picked up a copy of The Clientele's brand new album Bonfires On The Heath at their gig at the Luminaire in Kilburn last night. It's gone straight into my own personal albums of 2009 chart at number one (with the slight caveat that, my memory being how it is these days, I can't for the life of me remember what was released before about October).
  
  Anyway, it's lovely wistful autumnal stuff. With trumpets in places. And the influence of Forever Changes clearly evident in some of the songs, which is no bad thing as far as I'm concerned.

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  Posted by Mike, Wivenhoe (U7622871) on Friday, 20th November 2009

  Wow, that sounds like exactly what I need at the moment. I'm off to the webshops to search for The Clientele ......wait for it......nearly....now!

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  Posted by Luther (U1521508) on Sunday, 22nd November 2009

  I'll go for;
  
  The Phantom Band - checkmate savage (my favourite of the year, without doubt)
  Eddy Current Supression Ring - primary colours
  Future of the Left - travels with myself and another
  Wild Beats - two dancers
  The Decemberists - hazards of love
  The Cribs - ignore the ignorant
  Jason Lytle - yours truly, the commuter
  
  

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  Posted by Luther (U1521508) on Sunday, 22nd November 2009

  Sorry, that should say 'Wild Beasts', shouldn't it.

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  Posted by larome (U1695540) on Sunday, 22nd November 2009

  Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
  Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
  Fanfarlo - Reservoir
  Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
  Mos Def - Ecstatic
  Flaming Lips - Embryonic
  The xx - xx
  The Horrors - Primary Colours
  The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Self Titled
  Hudson Mohawke - Butter
  Maria Taylor - LadyLuck
  Sunset Rubdown - DragonSlayer
  Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
  Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter
  Annie - Don't Stop
  
  
  
  

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  Posted by kafdan74 (U14230712) on Monday, 23rd November 2009

  Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
  Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
  Paloma Faith - Do You Want The Truth?
  Glasvegas - Glasvegas

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  Posted by snuffles_badger (U11106710) on Monday, 23rd November 2009

  Papercuts_- You Can Have What You Want
  Cryptacize -Mythomania
  The Sleeper- The Sleeper
  

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  Posted by snuffles_badger (U11106710) on Monday, 23rd November 2009

  Oops! Sorry, my bad. I meant the Leisure Society, but you all knew that!

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  Posted by jasonaparkes (U3653332) on Monday, 23rd November 2009

  I'll pick...
  
  *Monoliths and Dimensions by Sunn O)))
  *21st Century Man by Luke Haines
  *Manafon by David Sylvian
  *All My Friends are Funeral Singers by Califone
  *Black Sea by Fennesz (tho it might be 2008?)
  *Devotion by Beach House
  *Judy Sucks... by Cornershop
  *The Ecstastic by Mos Def
  *Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2 by Raekwon
  *Espers III by Espers
  *Broadcast & the Focus Group Investigate...
  *Mind Raft by Deradoorian (ok, an e.p.!)
  *Bitte Ocra by Dirty Projectors
  *Josephine by Magnolia Electric Co
  *Hymn to the Immortal Wind by Mono
  *Maker by Pontiak
  *Luminous Night by Six Organs of Admittance
  *The Pattern Prism by Vowels
  *The Silence of Love by Headless Heroes
  *Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free by Akron/Family
  *Sylvester Anfang II
  *Three Fact Fader by Engineers
  *Twice Born Men by Sweet Billy Pilgrim
  *Veckamtiest by Grizzly Bear
  *The Eternal by Sonic Youth
  *Wilco (The Album) by Wilco
  *Running with the Beast by zZz
  *9 Bach by 9 Bach
  *Embryonic by The Flaming Lips
  *Totem One by Master Musicians of Bu**ake
  *5 Years of Hyperdub by V/A
  *The 32nd Annual Report by Throbbing Gristle
  *Actor by St Vincent
  *The Liberty of Nolton Folgate by Madness
  *Beginner's Guide to African Music by V/A
  *Beware by Bonnie Prince Billy
  *Sometimes...Eagle by Bill Callahan
  *Black River Killer e.p. by Blitzen Trapper
  *Crack the Skye by Mastodon
  *I Told You I Was Freaky by Flight of the Conchords
  *Middle Cyclone by Neko Case
  *The Spinning Top by Graham Coxon
  *This is It... by Marnie Stern
  
  ....will ponder what I've forgotten - reissues tomorrow...
  
  Oh, and didn't go crazy for the LP, but 'Sleep Alone' by Bat for Lashes was my song of the year...

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  Posted by scottishpenguin (U14231732) on Monday, 23rd November 2009

  Album of 2009 (so far!)
  
  Hope and Social - Architect of this Church
  
  This year has been made so much better for finding these guys!
  
  S.

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  Posted by mtzion (U14231770) on Monday, 23rd November 2009

  Top 10 of the Year
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  1> M Ward - Hold Time
  2> The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage
  3> DM Stith - Heavy Ghost
  4> Wooden Arms - Patrick Watson
  5> Twice Born Men - Sweet Billy Pilgrim
  6> 'Em Are I - Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard
  7> Embryonic - The Flaming Lips
  8> Truelove's Gutter - Richard Hawley
  9> Two Suns - Bat For Lashes
  10> Two Dancers - Wild Beasts

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  Posted by mtzion (U14231770) on Tuesday, 24th November 2009

  Revised and Expanded:
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  1> M Ward - Hold Time
  2> The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage
  3> DM Stith - Heavy Ghost
  4> Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
  5> Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Twice Born Men
  6> Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter
  7> Atlas Sound - Logos
  8> The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
  9> Two Suns - Bat For Lashes
  10> Origin:Orphan - The Hidden Cameras
  11> 'Em Are I - Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard
  12> Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
  13> It Hugs Back - Inside Your Guitar
  14> British Sea Power - Man of Aran
  15> Years - Years
  16> Blue Roses - Blue Roses
  17> Yeah Yeah Yeah's - It's Blitz
  18> Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
  19> Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
  18> Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
  19> The Horrors - Primary Colours
  20> The Maccabees - Wall of Arms
  

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  Posted by Al McGregor (U2976807) on Tuesday, 24th November 2009

  My top 10 in no particular order, save number one:
  
  1) Merriweather Post Pavillion - Animal Collective
  
  Logos - Atlas Sound
  Deaths & Entrances - My Latest Novel
  Forget the Night Ahead - The Twilight Sad
  Checkmate Savage - The Phantom Band
  To Be Still - Alela Diane
  Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear
  Little Hells - Marissa Nadler
  Childish Prodigy - Kurt Vile
  Tarot Sport - F... Buttons

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  Posted by derbahnhof (U14233232) on Wednesday, 25th November 2009

  Don't forget Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
  
  Monsters of Folk
  
  Idlewild - Post-Electric Blues (what a return to form!)
  
  Mountain Goats - Life of the World To Come
  
  Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
  
  Duke Special - I Never Thought This Day Would Come
  
  

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  Posted by Greg (U8004659) on Thursday, 31st December 2009

  BOING!
  
  OK, I said that I would wait until I was sure I wouldn't hear anything new before I posted my Top 10 albums of 2009. I'm pretty sure nothing is going to come onto my radar now.....
  
  1. Sleeper - THE LEISURE SOCIETY
  2. Fish Fowl Flood - LOOKING GLASS
  3. Reservoir - FANFARLO
  4. Here And Elsewhere - MY SAD CAPTAINS
  5. My Maudlin Career - CAMERA OBSCURA
  6. The Golden Spike - SKY LARKIN
  7. Rumpus - THE KABEEDIES
  8. First Love - EMMY THE GREAT
  9. Roman Radio - NAT JOHNSON & THE FIGUREHEADS
  10.Amor Vincit Omnia - PURE REASON REVOLUTION
  
  Gigs of the year:
  
  1. DRUGSTORE - Dingwalls, 07/09/09
  2. BRITISH SEA POWER (Live soundtrack of 'Man of Aran' & 'Winged Migration') - BFI National Film Theatre, 23/04/09
  3. LOS cAMPESINOS! - Joiners Arms, Southampton,
  22/10/09
  
  Band of thr year:
  
  THE KABEEDIES - for making me grin like a loon every time I've seen them play live or played their records this year.

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