Albums of 2009: Lists
Earlier this week we posted Kevin Devine's, Tegan and Sara's and Jeremiah Edmond of Manchester Orchestra's favourite albums of 2009. Today we give you a whole load of other lists from the likes of Frank Turner, The Wonder Years, Title Fight, The Xcerts, Tiger Please, Bayonets and many more.
Sean Reid (Alter The Press! Co-Editor)
1. Say Anything - Say Anything
2. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
3. Wolf Am I - Lead The Way
4. Moneen - The World I Want To Leave Behind
5. The Swellers - Ups and Downsizing
6. Thrice - Beggars
7. Bayonets - Wishes and Wishes
8. Passion Pit - Manners
9. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
10. Tiger Please - They Don't Change Under The Moonlight
Thank You to everyone who contributed their lists to this feature.
Frank Turner1. Converge - Axe To Fall
2. Future Of The Left - Travels with Myself and Another
3. Crazy Arm - Born To Ruin
4. Chuck Ragan - Gold Country
5. School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
6. Propagandhi - Supporting Castle
7. Jamie T - Kings and Queens
8. Drag The River - Bad At Breaking Up
Matt Sayward (Alter The Press! Live Review writer/The Cape Race/LAB Records)1. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
2. Wolf Am I - Lead The Way
3. Brand New - Daisy
4. Taking Back Sunday - New Again
5. Harvard - The Inevitable And I
6. Say Anything - Say Anything
7. Canterbury - Thank You
8. Tegan & Sara - Sainthood
9. Paramore - Brand New Eyes
10. The Almost - Monster Monster
Ben Bridges (ATP! Review writer/Fin Raziel)1. Imperial Leisure - The Art Of Saying Nothing
2. Brand New - Daisy
3. It Dies Today - Lividity
4. Innerpartysystem- Innerpartysystem
5. Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
6. Wilson Fisk - Bear Cub EP
7. Greg Holden - A Word In Edgeways
8. Does It Offend You Yeh- You Have No Idea What You Are Getting Yourself Into
9. Atreyu - Congregation of The Damned
10. Strung Out - Agents of The Underground
Matt Buck
1. Muse - The Resistance
2. The Xcerts - In The Cold Wind We Smile
3. Mute Math - Armistice
4. Paramore - Brand New Eyes
5. The Used - Artwork
6. Enter Shikari - Common Dreads
7. Ace Enders And A Million Different People - When I Hit The Ground
8. Spectrum 7 - So Silent The Night
9. Brand New - Daisy
10. The Swellers - Ups and Downsizing
Look Mexico1. Modest Mouse - No One's First and You're Next
2. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
3. Dave Bazan - Curse Your Branches
4. MewithoutYou - It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright!
5. Various Artists - Dark Was the Night
6. Fake Problems - It's Great to be Alive
7. Michael Jackson - This Is It
8 Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing
9. Built to Spill - There is No Enemy
10. Frank Turner - Poetry of the Deed
Dan "Soupy" Campbell (The Wonder Years)1. Fireworks - All I Have to Offer is my Own Confusion
2. Blacklisted - No One Deserves to be Here More Than Me
3. The Swellers - Ups and Downsizing
4. The Hold Steady - A Positive Rage
5. Title Fight - The Last Thing You Forget
Matt Brasch (The Wonder Years)
1. The Dear Hunter - Act lll: Life and Death
2. Fireworks - All I Have To Offer Is My Own Confusion
3. Paramore - Brand New Eyes
4. The Swellers - Ups and Downsizing
5. Title Fight - The Last Thing You Forget
Tim (All Or Nothing)1. Title Fight - The Last Thing You Forget
2. Banner Pilot - Collapser
3. Tegan and Sara - Sainthood
4. Johnny Foreigner - Grace and The Bigger Picture
5. Shook Ones - The Unquotable Amh
6. Broadway Calls - Good Views, Bad News
7. Fake Problems - it's great to be alive
8. PJ Bond - You Didn't Know I Was Alphabetical
9. Blakfish - Champions
10. The Swellers - Ups and Downsizing
Murray (The Xcerts)1. Brand New - Daisy
2. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
3. Monsters Of Folk - Monsters Of Folk
4. Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream
5. David Bazan - Curse Your Branches
6. Idlewild - Post Electric Blues
7. Jonsi and Alex - Riceboy Sleeps
8. Paul Steel - Moon Rock
9. Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen
10. Owen - New Leaves
Paul Savage (Punktastic.com)
1. The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About (reissue)
2. Say Anything - Say Anything
3. Paramore - Brand New Eyes
4. New Found Glory - Not Without A Fight
5. The Swellers - Ups and Downsizing
6. Brand New - Daisy
7. Cartel - Cycles
8. Four Year Strong - Explains It All
9. A Day To Remember - Homesick
10. Weezer - Raditude
Balance and Composure1. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing
2. Brand New - Daisy
3. Tigers Jaw - Spirit Desire
4. Into It. Over It. - 52 Weeks
5. Mother of Mercy - III
6. Title Fight - The Last Thing You Forget
7. Man Overboard - Dahlia
8. Jay-Z - Blueprint 3
9. Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon
10. Morrissey - Years of Refusal
Thieves and Villains1. The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
2. Miniature Tigers - Tell it to the Volcano
3. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing
4. The Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
5. The XX - The XX
6. JJ - J no.2
7. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II
8. Mayer Hawthrone - A Strange Arrangement
9. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
10. Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light
Viva Sleep1. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
2. Mew - Now More Stories
3. Tubelord - Our First American Friends
4. Mae -(M)orning
5. Poison the Well - The Tropic Rot
6. Grizzly Bear - Veckatamist
7. Dear Hunter - Act III: Life & Death
8. The Moulettes - The Moulettes
9. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
10. Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen
Chris Hansen (No Sleep Records)1. Converge - Axe To Fall
2. Paramore - Brand New Eyes
3. New Found Glory - Not WIthout A Fight
4. Thursday - Common Existence
5. Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive
6. Cave In - Planets of Old
7. Trapped Under Ice - Secrets Of The World
8. Fun. - Aim and Ignite
9. On - Double Vision
10. Narrows - New Distances
Tom Beck (Walnut Tree Records)1. New Found Glory – Not Without A Fight
2. Say Anything – Say Anything
3. Owl City – Ocean Eyes
4. Mae – (M)orning
5. Fall Out Boy – Folie A Deux
6. Polar Bear Club – Chasing Hamburg
7. H2O – Nothing To Prove
8. Asher Roth – Asleep In The Bread Aisle
9. Data.Select.Party – Hanging With Humans
10. The Tupolev Ghost – The Tupolev Ghost
Jack (Alcopop Records)
1. Sam Isaac – Bears
2. Owl City – Ocean Eyes
3. Iwrestledabearonce – Iwrestledabearonce
4. Danananankroyd -Hey Everyone!
5. Frank Turner – Poetry of the Deed
6. Fight Like Apes - Fight Like Apes & the Mystery of the Golden Medal
7. Andrew WK – Cadillac 55
Ross Shotland (Enjoy The Ride Records)
1. Brand New - Daisy
2. Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
3. Harvard - The Inevitable and I
4. Cage The Elephant - Cage The Elephant
5. As Tall As Lions - You Can't Take It With You
6. Polar Bear Club - Chasing Hamburg
7. Emimem - The Relapse
8. The Used - Artwork
9. Portugal The Man - The Satanic Satanist
10. Paramore - Brand New Eyes
Romesh Dodangoda (Longwave Recording Studio)1. Muse - The Resistance
2. Thrice - Beggars
3. Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted
4. The Xcerts - In The Cold Wind We Smile
5. Taylor Swift - Fearless
Patrick Emmons (A City Inside Design and Photography/Enjoy The Ride Records Art Director)
1. Converge - Axe to Fall
2. Harvard - The Inevitable and I
3. Kylesa - Static Tensions
4. The Dear Hunter - Act III: Life and Death
5. Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
6. Isis - Wavering Radiant
7. Baroness - Blue Record
8. Disappearer - The Clearing
9. Zozobra - Bird of Prey
10. Coalesce - OX
James Shotwell (UnderTheGunReview.net)
1. Say Anything - Say Anything
2. A Fine Frenzy - Bomb in a Birdcage
3. Fun. - Aim and Ignite
4. Relient K - Forget and Not Slow Down
5. The Dear Hunter - Act III: Life and Death
6. Fireworks - All I Have To Offer is My Own Confusion
7. MewithoutYou - It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright!
8. A Day To Remember - Homesick
9. Thrice - Beggars
10. 1997 - Notes from the Underground
Castrovalva1. Health - Get Color
2. Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
3. Bygones - By-
4. El Grupo Nuevo De Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Ccryptomnesia
5. Grammatics - Grammatics
6. Blakfish - Champions
7. Tubelord - Our First American Friends
8. Adebisi Shank - This Is The Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank
Chickenhawk1. Future of the Left - Travels with Myself and Another
2. Converge – Axe to Fall
3. Coalesce - Ox
4. Kowloon Walled City - Gambling on the Richter Scale
5. Vandal X - All Lined Up Against the Wall
6. Kong – Snake Magnet
7. Keelhaul - Triumphant Return to Obscurity
8. Zu – Carboniferous
9. Health – Get Color
10. Kylesa – Static Tensions
Kong1. Shield Your Eyes - Shield Em
2. Jesus Lizard - Goat
3. Jesus Lizard - Down
4. Jesus Lizard - Liar
5. Mariachi El Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx
Stagecoach1. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2. Dananananankroyd -Hey Everyone!
3. Wilco -Wilco (the album)
4. Kevin Devine - Brothers Blood
5. Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind of Cadwallader (was released in 2008)
6. Favours For Sailors - Furious Sons
7. AC Newman - Get Guilty
8. Dinosaur Pile Up - The Most Powerful EP in the Universe
9. Tubelord - Our First American Friends
10. Brand New - Daisy
My First Tooth1. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
2. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle
3. Why? - Eskimo Snow
4. Brakes - Touchdown
5. Thermals - Now We Can See
6. Eels - Hombre Lobo
7. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
8. Woodpigeon - Treasury Library Canada
9. Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen
Adam Binder (Kyoto Drive/The Great State Race)1. The Dangerous Summer – Reach For The Sun
2. Owl City – Ocean Eyes
3. The Secret Handshake – My Name Up In Lights
4. Say Anything – Say Anything
5. Erik Hassle – Hassle
6. Jonny Craig – A Dream Is a Question You Don't Know How to Answer
7. Lights And Sounds – Feels Like Gold
8. Eye Alaska – Genesis Underground
9. Cartel – Cycles
10. Ace Enders – When I Hit The Ground
Toby Potter (Portman)1. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
2. The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms
3. El Mariachi Bronx - El Mariachi Bronx
4. Dinosaur Pile-Up - The Most Powerful E.P In The Universe
5. Tubelord - Our First American Friends
6. The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead
7. Fruit Bats - Ruminent Band
8. Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Modern Life (its from late '08 but was promoted this year)
9. Moneen - The World I Want To Leave Behind
10. Passion Pit - Manners
Mark Gibbs (Bayonets)1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. Brand New – Daisy
3. Florence & The Machine – Lungs
4. Wolf Am I – Lead The Way
5. Emmy The Great – First Love
6. Bon Iver – Bloodband EP
7. Kevin Devine – Brother’s Blood
8. Japandroids – Post Nothing
9. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
10. Manchester Orchestra – Mean Everything To Nothing
Tiger Please1. Florence and the Machine - Lungs
2. Twin Atlantic - Vivarium
3. Manchester Orchestra- Mean Everything to Nothing
4. The Temper Trap - Conditions
5. Newton Faulkner - Rebuilt by Humans
6. The Xcerts - In the Cold Wind We Smile
7. Lady Ga Ga - The Fame
8. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
9. Pearl Jam - Back Spacer
Burn The Fleet1. Thrice - Beggars
2. Michael Jackson - This Is It
3. Tegan & Sara - Sainthood
4. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
5. Closure in Moscow - First Temple
6. Blakfish - Champions
7. Alexisonfire - Old Crows/Young Cardinals
8. Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic
9. Matisyahu - Light
10. Say Anything - Say Anything
Ned Russin (Title Fight)1. Blacklisted - No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me
2. Mother Of Mercy - III
3. Brand New - Daisy
4. Trapped Under Ice - Secrets Of The World
5. Teenage Cool Kids - Foreign Lands
Chuck Daley (Tiny Engines/BearTrap PR)1. Friends Of Friends - Deep Search
2. The G - Hold My Gold
3. Juevenescent Beat! - One Day We're Gonna Fall Through This Roof
4. Tigers Jaw - Spirit Desire 7"
5. Broadway Calls - Good Views, Bad News
6. P.O.S - Never Better
7. What Price, Wonderland? - It Is True, It Is Shakey
8. Teenage Cool Kids - Foreign Lands
9. Shook Ones - The Unquotable A.M.H
10. Double Dagger - More
Daniel Frazier (Transit)1. Balance & Composure - Only Boundaries
2. The Dangerous Summer - Reach For the Sun
3. Brand New - Daisy
4. Owen - New Leaves
5. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing
6. New Found Glory - Not Without A Fight
7. Jay-Z - Blueprint 3
8. A loss For Words - The Kids Can't Lose
9. Man Overboard - Dahlia
10. The Swellers - Ups and Downsizing
PJ Jefferson (Transit)
1. Shook Ones - The Unquotable A.M.H.
2. Banner Pilot - Collapser
3. Brand New - Daisy
4. Agent - Awake In Their World
5. Tigers Jaw - Spirit Desire
6. Tegan And Sara - Sainthood
7. Firewords - All I Have To Offer Is My Own Confusion
8. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
9. Such Gold - Stand Tall
10. The Swellers - Ups and Downsizing
Joe Boynton (Transit)
1. Banner Pilot – Collapser
2. Shook Ones - The Unquotable A.M.H
3. Tegan and Sara – Sainthood
4. Converge – Axe To Fall
5. Algernon Cadwallader – Hot Green
6. Tiger’s Jaw – Spirit Desire
7. Lawrence Arms – Buttsweat and Tears
8. Agent – Awake In Their World
9. Owen – New Leaves
10. The Dangerous Summer – Reach For The Sun
Joe Lacy (Transit)
1. Castevet - Summer Fences
2. Converge - Axe To Fall
3. Tegan And Sara - Sainthood
4. Dangers - Anger
5. Shook Ones - The Unquotable A.M.H
6. Owen - New Leaves
7. Balance And Composure - Only Boundaries
8. Algernon Cadwallader - Hot Green
9. Paramore - Breand New Eyes
10. Tigers Jaw - Spirit Desire
Tim Landers (Transit)
1. Banner Pilot- Collapser
2. Manchester Orchestra- Mean Everything To Nothing
3. Brand New- Daisy
4. Shook Ones- The Unquotable A.M.H.
5. Balance and Composure- Only Boundaries
6. Defeater- Lost Ground
7. Owen- New Leaves
8. Tegan and Sara- Sainthood
9. Man Overboard- Dahlia
10. GDP- Realistic Expectations
Matt Scottoline (Everyone Everywhere)1. David Bazan - Curse Your Branches
2. Cheap Girls - My Roaring 20s
3. Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy
4. Dinosaur Jr - Farm
5. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
6. Sufjan Stevens - The Bqu
7. Japandroids - Post Nothing
8. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
9. Weezer - Raditude
10. Passion Pit - Manners
Mike Moak (After The Fall)1. Propagandhi - Supporting Caste
2. Preying Hands - Through the Dark
3. Paint it Black - Amnesia
4. Shook Ones - The Unquotable A.M.H
5. Defeater - Lost Ground
6. Marked Men - Ghosts
7. Agent - Awake in their world
8. Buried Inside - Spoils of Failure
9. Iron Chic - Shitty Rambo
10. Strike Anywhere - Iron Front
Oscar Albis Rodriguez (Nakatomi Plaza/Ludlow Lions)1. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
2. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
3. Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young
4. Metric - Fantasies
5. Nirvana - Live at Reading
Jordan Melkin (Ludlow Lions)1. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2. Converge - Axe to Fall
3. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
4. Polvo - In Prism
5. Vic Chesnutt - At the Cut
6. Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans
7. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
8. Mt. Eerie - Wind's Poem
9. Kowloon Walled City - Gambling on the Richter Scale
10. Future of the Left - Travels with Myself and Another
Brendan Coon (Ludlow Lions)
1. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2. Karen O & The Kids - Where The Wild Things Are OST
3. Keelhaul - Keelhaul's Triumpant Return To Obscurity
4. Riceboy Sleeps - Riceboy Sleeps
5. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Jon Loudon (Restorations)1. Attack In Black - Years (By One Thousand Fingertips)
2. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
3. Paint It Black - Amnesia / Surrender 7ins
4. Tombs - Winter Hours
5. Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come
6. Baroness - Blue Record
7. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
8. Hopalong - Wretches
9. Mark Kozelek - Lost Verses - Live"
10. Tom Waits - Orphans 7XLP Box Set
Justin Hackl (Only Thunder)1. Converge - Axe To Fall
2. Isis - Wavering Radiant
3. Baroness - Blue Album
4. Them Crooked Vultures - S/T
5. The Swellers - Ups And Downsizing
6. Chris Wollard And The Ship Thieves - S/T
7. Propagandhi - Supporting Caste
8. Narrows - New Distances
9. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
10. Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart(Reissue)
Andy Thomas (Only Thunder)
1. Mastodon - Crack the Sky
2. Converge - Axe to Fall
3. Damien Suomi – S/T
4. Good Old War – The Only Way To Be Alone
5. P.O.S. – Never Better
6. William Elliot Whitmore – Animals in the Dark
7. Cheap Girls - My Roaring 20's
8. Chuck Ragan - Gold Counrty
9. Mariachi El Bronx - S/T
10. Frank Turner - Poetry of the Deed
