Çarşamba 6 Oca 2010, 15:36
This is my summary of what 2009 has meant to me…
- Top 10 Artists
1. Animal Collective
2. Grizzly Bear
3. Leonard Cohen
4. Yo La Tengo
5. Antony and The Johnsons
6. Junior Boys
7. The Flaming Lips
8. Kraftwerk
9. Dirty Projectors
10. Madness
- Top 20 Albums
1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion/Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
2. Junior Boys – Begone Dull Care
3. Jeremy Jay – Slow Dance
4. Atlas Sound – Logos
5. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
6. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
7. JJ – nº2
8. Nosaj Thing – Drift
9. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
10. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
11. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
12. Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
13. Joan Miquel Oliver - Bombón Mallorquín
14. The XX – XX
15. YACHT - See Mystery Lights
16. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
17. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
18. Pet Shop Boys - Yes
19. The Field - Yesterday and Today
20. DM Stith – Heavy Ghost
- Top 5 Debuts
1. Discovery – LP
2. Passion Pit – Manners
3. Telepathe – Dance Mother
4. The Big Pink – A Brief History of Love
5. tUnE-yArDs – Bird-Brain
- Top 15 Singles/EPs
1. Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind EP
2. Delorean - Ayrton Senna EP
3. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Higher Than The Stars EP
4. Deradoorian – Mind Raft EP
5. The Radio Dept. – David EP
6. Elvis Perkins In Dearland – Doomsday EP
7. Flying Lotus – L.A. EP 3 X 3
8. Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms EP
9. Jeremy Jay – Love Everlasting EP
10. Annie – All Night EP
11. Memory Cassette – Call & Response EP
12. Realpeople – Holland EP
13. Sébastien Tellier – Kilometer
14. The Joy Formidable – A Balloon Called Moaning
15. Massive Attack – Splitting The Atom
- Top 5 Compilations
The Vaselines - Enter…
Various Artists - Warp20
Various Artists - 5 : 5 Years of Hyperdub
Various Artists - Dark Was The Night
Iron & Wine - Around The Well
- Top 30 Songs
As featured in my last.fm charts for 2009, one song per artist only…
1. Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes
2. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Young Adult Friction
3. Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
4. Phoenix – 1901
5. Jeremy Jay – We were there
6. Bat For Lashes – Daniel
7. Dirty Projectors – Stillness Is The Move
8. Camera Obscura – Honey In The Sun
9. JJ – Things Will Never Be The Same
10. Passion Pit – The Reeling
11. Junior Boys – Parallel Lines
12. James Yuill – This Sweet Love
13. Atlas Sound – Walkabout (with Noah Lennox)
14. The Big Pink – Velvet
15. Röyksopp – The Girl And The Robot
16. Memory Tapes – Bicycle
17. Joan Miquel Oliver – Dins Un Avió De Paper
18. Discovery – So Insane
19. The Joy Formidable – Austere
20. The Whitest Boy Alive – Courage
21. The Very Best – Warm Heart of Africa (feat. Ezra Koenig)
22. Micachu – Just in Case
23. The Juan MacLean – A New Bot
24. Delorean – Seasun
25. Neon Indian – Deadbeat Summer
26. La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey Remix)
27. Nosaj Thing – Coat Of Arms
28. Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele – College Town Boy
29. Fanfarlo – I’m A Pilot
30. Fever Ray – When I Grow Up (D.Lissvik)
And I have equally enjoyed…
1. The Dodos – Fables
2. Here We Go Magic – Fangela
3. Jonathan Johansson – En Hand i Himlen
4. Darren Hayman And The Secondary Modern – Pram Town
5. Antony and The Johnsons – Epilepsy is Dancing
6. The XX – Crystalised
7. Casiokids – Fot I Hose
8. Lemonade – Big Weekend (Delorean Remix)
9. Major Lazer – Hold the line (feat. Mr. Lexx & Santigold)
10. Simian Mobile Disco – Bad Blood (feat. Alexis Taylor)
11. Annie – Anthonio
12. Circlesquare – Ten to One
13. Papercuts – Future Primitive (Ruby Suns Remix)
14. Joe Crepúsculo – Ritmo Mágico
15. Dizzee Rascal – Dirtee Cash
16. Joy Orbison – Hyph Mango
17. Pet Shop Boys – Did You See Me Coming?
18. Bear In Heaven – Wholehearted Mess
19. YACHT – The Afterlife
20. Au Revoir Simone – Shadows (Tanlines Remix)
21. La Bien Querida – De Momento Abril
22. tUnE-yArDs – Sunlight
23. HEALTH – Die Slow
24. Yo La Tengo – All Your Secrets
25. St. Vincent – The Strangers
26. M. Ward – For Beginners
27. Washed Out – Feel It All Around
28. Toro Y Moi – Left Alone At Night
29. Pictureplane – Goth Star
30. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll
And 5 singles released in 2009 of albums that will be out in 2010…
1. Hot Chip – One Life Stand
2. Beach House – Norway
3. Vampire Weekend – Cousins
4. Yeasayer – Ambling Alp
5. Delphic – Counterpoint
- Top 5 Disappointments
1. Air – Love 2
2. Maps – Turning The Mind
3. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart not playing in Ireland
4. Fever Ray not playing in Ireland
5. The XX live at the Electric Picnic – A big part of the audience were not there to enjoy the band and maybe thought everyone else were there for the same reason… That’s what hype does.
- Top 10 Live Acts
1. Grizzly Bear + St. Vincent (Vicar Street, Dublin)
2. The Dodos (Sala Becool, Barcelona)
3. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (Primavera Sound, Barcelona)
4. of Montreal + Casiokids (The Button Factory, Dublin)
5. Yo La Tengo (Primavera Sound, Barcelona + Tripod, Dublin)
6. Animal Collective + Dent May (Tripod, Dublin)
7. The Whitest Boy Alive (Electric Picnic, Stradbally)
8. La Roux (Bestival, Isle of Wight)
9. EBONY BONES! (Primavera Sound, Barcelona + Electric Picnic, Stradbally)
10. Micachu and The Shapes (Bestival, Isle of Wight)
- Top 2 Festivals
1. Primavera Sound
2. Bestival
- Top 5 Music Videos
1. Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjecYugTbIQ
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt0IlrQYOxM
3. Fever Ray – When I Grow Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Gb22GQ7Kc
4. Coldplay – Strawberry Swing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYtk1Z0UUuE
5. Chairlift – Evident Utensil + Bruises
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pU9oAIFLcY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw5xLAX8hHg
- Top 3 Music DVD's
• Los Planetas – Principios Básicos de Astronomía
• Arcade Fire – Miroir Noir
• Leonard Cohen – Live at The Isle of Wight
- Top 5 Movies
1. Up (Peter Docter & Bob Peterson)
2. Where The Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze)
3. A Serious Man (Ethan & Joel Coen)
4. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
5. Let The Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
- Most Admired Artist Band
- Most Detested Artist
Ra Ra, Oh La La, Ga Ga, Blah Blah Blah…
- Most Memorable Media Moment
All the summaries of the Noughties
- Most Detested Media Moment
Obama getting the Peace Nobel Prize!!!
- Top 10 Albums of the Noughties
1. Radiohead – Kid A
2. Panda Bear – Person Pitch
3. The Strokes – Is This It?/Room On Fire
4. Portishead – Third
5. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post-Pavillion
6. M.I.A. – Arular
7. The Magnetic Fields – i
8. Junior Boys – So This Is Goodbye
9. Isolée – Rest
10. The Avalanches – Since I Left You
- Top 15 Songs of the Noughties
Too many to be able to choose…
My top song is probably How to Disappear Completely from Kid A.
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