And, if I needed another reminder…
Over on Reddit, which I sometimes check, someone asked the question, “What’s your favourite album of 2009?” Some other kind person consolidated a list from the answers. As I read it, a few of things became clear:
- I am an unhip, unaware, old fart.
- I know OF maybe 3% of this list, the rest are completely new to me.
- Of the ones I know OF, only 3 are anything I’ve ever listened to.
- I did not know any of the three I listened to had released a new album this year.
- I am clearly out of the demographic of users who read Reddit.
- I should probably do something else with my time.
The list follows. Given that my iPod contains the likes of Pink Floyd, U2, Paul Simon, Natalie Merchant, Bruce Cockburn, Aimee Mann, Radiohead, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Sting, Genesis, Sarah McLachlan, The Eagles, Led Zeppelin, and Blue Rodeo, does anyone know if there’s anything on the list that I might actually appreciate?
The Dirty Projector’s – Bitte Orca
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Fever Ray – Fever Ray
Muse – The Resistance
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Royksopp – Junior
Passion Pit – Manners
The xx – xx
Various Artists – Dark Was The Night
Flaming Lips – Embryonic
Micachu – Jewellery
The Antlers – Hospice
Dan Deacon – BROMST
Metric – Fantasies
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
Mastodon: Crack The Skye
Raekwon: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… 2
Nas – Illmatic
Mos Def – The Ecstatic
Ghostface Killah – Ghostdini Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City
Monsters of Folk – Monsters of Folk
Decemberists – The Hazards of Love
Daisy – Brand New
K’naan – Troubadour
Dethklok – Dethalbum II
Yeah Yeah Yeah’s – It’s Blitz!
Silversun Pickups – Swoon
Them crooked vultures – Them crooked vultures
Between the Buried and Me – The Great Misdirect
St. Vincent – Actor
Nile – Those Whom The Gods Detest
Porcupine Tree – The Incident
Sunset Rubdown – Dragonslayer
Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
Lamb of God – Wrath
Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs
MuteMath – Armistice
Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon
Either Karnivool – Sound Awake
P.O.S. – Never Better
Lady Gaga – the fame
Dinosaur Jr – Farm
Burial & Four Tet – moth/wolf cub
Warm Heart of Africa – the very best
Girls – album
Sunn O))) – Monoliths
Shpongle – Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland
Andrew Bird – Noble Beast
Sonic Youth – The Eternal
Matt & Kim – Grand
Cage The Elephant – Cage The Elephant
Fun – Aim and Ignite
Wooden Arms – Patrick Watson
For Lack of A Better Name – deadmau5
Rx Bandits – Mandala
Neon Indian- Psychic Chasms
Dream Theater – Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Mr. Lif – I Heard It Today
Baroness – Blue Record
JayZ – Blueprint 3
Just Jack – All Night Cinema
Eluveitie – Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion
Florence + the Machine – Lungs
Big Business – Mind The Drift
Blut Aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars
YACHT – See Mystery Lights
Atlas Sound – Logos
DMB — Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King
Propagandhi – Supporting Caste
Morphine – At your service
future of the left- travels with my self and another
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – Up From Below
Tragically Hip – We are the Same
Felix Da Housecat – He Was King
Fanfarlo – Reservoir
Thrice – Beggars
Washed Out – High Times/Life of Leisure
Diablo Swing Orchestra: Sing-Along Songs For The Damned & Delirious
k-os – Yes!
Big Boi – Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Night Castle
Islands – Vapours
IQ – Frequency
Julian Casablancas – Phrazes for the young
Cass McCombs – Catacombs
Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo
Karnivool – Sound Awake
Ramona Falls – Intuit
Local Natives – Gorilla Manor
Pearl Jam – Backspacer
Dying Fetus – Descend Into Depravity
Wolmother – Cosmic Egg
mewithoutYOU’s – “It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All A Dream It’s Alright”
People Under the Stairs – Carried Away
Bomb The Music Industry! – Scrambles
AIC – Black Gives Way To Blue
A Sunny Day in Glasgow – Ashes Grammar
Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
Gazpacho – Tick Tock
Monster Monster – The Almost
The Prodigy – Invaders Must Die
Great Escape – The Rifles
Toro y Moi – My Touch
Heaven and Hell – The Devil You Know
Our Lady Peace – Burn Burn
Air – Love 2
Manchester Orchestra – Mean Everything to Nothing
Eels – Hombre Lobo
Miike Snow – Self titled
Alka – A Dog Lost In The Woods
Transatlantic – The Whirlwind
Young Widows – Old Wounds
BLK JKS – After Robots
Matthew Good – Vancouver
Clues – Clues
Paul White – The Strange Dreams of Paul White
Relient L – Forget and Not Slow Down
Brother Ali – “Us”
Marcy Playground – Leaving Wonderland…In A Fit of Rage
A Mountain is a Mouth- Bruce Peninsula
Crippled Black Phoenix – Night Raiders/ The Resurrectionists
Mike Posner- One Foot Out the Door
Dan Auerbach – Keep It Hid
Psychostick – Sandwich
Langhorne Slim- Be Set Free
Miike Snow – Miike Snow
Eminem – Relapse
K.O.D. – Tech N9ne
Omar Rodriguez Lopez – Xenophanes
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
The Dead Weather – Horehound
MSTRKRT – Fist of God
Infected Mushroom – Smashing the Opponent
Crash Kings – self-titled
Part the Second – maudlin of the Well
311 – Uplifter
Say Anything – Say Anything
Breaking Benjamin – Dear Agony
Franz Ferdinand – Tonight
Dan Bull – Safe
Chickenfoot – Chickenfoot
Mayer Hawthorne – A Strange Arrangement
Underoath – Lost in the Sound of Separation
Symphony of Science – Auto Tuned Sagan, Feynman, Tyson and Nye
Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
Rural Alberta Advantage – Hometowns
Soldiers of Jah Army – Born in Babylon
The Legends – Over and Over
Twisted Sister – Stay Hungry
Them Crooked Vultures – Never Deserved the Future
Parachute- Loosing Sleep
Kylesa – Static Tensions
Third Eye Blind- Ursa Major
Andrew Dost – Columbus
Beatles remasters
Full Circle – Creed
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Lonely Road
Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown