best of 2009

[keith.]

well this had to be done sooner or later
whats your top shit of the year?

a lot of my favorite stuff werent necessarily albums but short demos and splits and eps ect. i like releases to be short and sweet:
cobalt - gin
war pigs - degeneration
slingshot - to my friends

creatures/downpresser split
bogus tokus - crystals/tides
dios mio! - shit life
grave maker - home is where the heartache is
shook ones - the unquatable a.m.h.
crippled black phoenix - night raider
johnny wakeham & featherwolf - demo
punch - s/t
children - hard times hangin at the end of the world
barn burner - bangers
unearthly trance/minsk split
no truce - s/t
doomriders - darkness comes alive
weekend nachos - unforgivable
hominid/war hero split
pulling teeth - paranoid delusions/paradise illusions
persistence of time - demo
graf orlock - destination time today
sixes - s/t
truckfighters - mania
ans - pressure cracks
priestess - prior to the fire

that turned into a way bigger list than expected..... but that is whats been in rotation all year for me
*edit* choppin this shit down, fucking lists i get carried away

[grind/bro]

Official list

1. Graf Orlock - Destination Time: Today
2. Converge - Axe to fall
3. Coalesce - OX
4. Comadre - A Wolf Ticket
5. Bon Iver - Blood Bank
6. Silversun Pickups - Swoon
7. Narrows - New Distances
8. Lewd Acts - Black Eye Blues
9. Trainwreck - Of Concrete Canyons and Inner Wastelands
10. A Textbook Tragedy - Rain City State of Mind

[Jordan f.]

Mindset-REALPOWER

2009 was a good year for youth crew

[grungePIG]

the yeah yeah yeahs - its blitz
japandroids - post-nothing
no age - losing feeling ep
BRAND NEW - DAISY
morrissey - years of refusal

and i haven't listened to anything else off the album but the track raindrops by basement jaxx deserves a mention cuz i have probably listened to it 500 times since april.
i don't think i am hardcore enough for this board.

[trappedinside]

i've kinda hated everything from this year for some reason.

Parlamentarisk Sodomi - Regnskog, Fred Og Vegetarmat
War Hero / Ummm split
Om - God is Good
Magrudergrind - s/t LP
Hatred Surge - Deconstruct
Mudlark - Lie to Speak
Kali - Demo
Extortion - Terminal Cancer
Iskra - Bureval
Insect Warfare - Noise LP

[xchadx]

.

[grind/bro]

Trainwreck - Of Concrete Canyons And Inner Wastelands was one of my favourite hardcore records to come out this year. Next level shit.

Yeah man, I was pretty into the self-titled. Then I heard about the new album, heard "The Dead Next Door" and my mind was blown. Crushing song.

[Mikey]

Fuckin, this list is going to be off the top of my head so expect oddities.

1. Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Beware
2. Neil Young – Fork In The Road
3. Leonard Cohen - Live in London
4. K'naan - Troubadour
5. Ben Kweller - Changing Horses

Slingshot for good measure cause I'm jammin that everyday lately. Otherwise that's all I got. Not my favorite year for music, last year was solid. Tallest Man On Earth was 2008. Good music.

[Hollow]

Doomriders-Darkness Comes Alive
Lewd Acts-Black Eye Blues
Baroness-Blue Album
Holy Mountain/Black Tusk-Split 7"
Wolfbrigade-Comalive
Converge-Axe to Fall


More will surely pop up later, this is just sorta what I can think of off the top of my head.

[dalamar501]

Mindset-REALPOWER

2009 was a good year for youth crew

didn't realpower come out in like 08...

[ebony]

Official list

2. Converge - Axe to fall
5. Bon Iver - Blood Bank
6. Silversun Pickups - Swoon

[dalamar501]

I haven't done my official list yet (which i do on my radio show...) probably will do it on new years eveeee


but here are some releases i could think of that will be in consideration.
Right now no numbering.
So will update when i get that.

Here are 25 releases that in consider get a lot of play from me or are sick!

Converge - Axe to Fall
kidcrash - Snacks
Sabertooth Zombie - Do You Think that your Fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledger book? against what? there is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.
Pulling Teeth - Paranoid Delusions | Paradise Illusions
Comadre - A Wolf TIcket
Litany for the Whale - Dolores
Sojourner - The Narrows
Blacklisted - No One Deserves to Be Here More Than Me
Clues - Clues
Azeda Booth - Tubtrek
Polar Bear Club - Chasing Hamburg
Soul Control - Cycles
Vicious Cycle - Pale Blue Dot
Ruiner - Hell Is Empty
Joan of Arc - Flowers
'it It - Hang Out
Devotion - Bastard Son of Affluence Blues
Food - Food
Graf Orlock - Destination Time: Today
Lewd Acts - Black Eye Blues
Almonds, Cohen - Amazing Grass
Swan Lake - Enemy Mine
Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Outbreak - Outbreak


Short releases / splits (4 songs or less or split)
Damages - Scars
Trash Talk - East of Eden
Lion of Judah - Number - rology
Creatures / Downpresser Split
End of A Year - End of A Year
Tonn/Lice split
Sixes 7"

[Jordan f.]

Mindset-REALPOWER

2009 was a good year for youth crew

didn't realpower come out in like 08...

was it the end of 08 or the start of 09

[Jordan f.]

Creatures/Downpresser split was a rager

[dalamar501]

did my radio show...
here is what i played as my top 30.
I usually do another write up of why each of my top 10-15 are there etc..

http://theactionindexoncfuv.blogspot.com/

30. Swan Lake - Enemy Mine (Jagjaguar)
song played: Spanish Gold, 2044

29. The Catalyst - Swallow Your Teeth (Perpetual Motion Machine)
song played: Sterling Is a Hole

28. Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights ( Load)
song played: S.O.S.

27. Why? - Eskimo Snow (Anticon)
song played: Berkely by Hearseback

26. Reign Supreme - Testing the Limits of Infinity (Deathwish Inc)
song played: Apostle

25. Joan of Arc - Flowers (Polyvinyl)
song played: Life Sentence / Twisted Ladder

24. Blackout Beach - Skin of Evil (Soft Abuse)
song played: The Whistle

23. Soul Control - Cycles (Bridge 9)
song played: End Times

22. Outbreak - Outbreak (ThinkFast!)
song played:Misdirected
Temporary Hype

21. Almonds, Cohen - Amazing Grass (Old Life)
song played: Backgammon

20. Ruiner - Hell Is Empty (Bridge 9)
song played: Dead Weight

19. Clues - Clues (Constellation)
song played: Remember Severed Head

18. Lewd Acts - Black Eye Blues (Deathwish Inc)
song played: Wide Black Eyes

17. Litany for the Whale - Dolores (MolSook)
song played: Philistines

16. Pulling Teeth - Paranoid Delusions | Paradise Illusions (A389/Deathwish Inc)
song played: Unsatisfied

15. 'it It - Hang Out (Old Life)
song played: Oh, Man

14. Vicious Cycle - Pale Blue Dot (Deranged)
song played: Black Dot

13. Punch - Punch (... insert label here)
song played: Feminists, Don't have a cow

12. Polar Bear Club - Chasing Hamburg (Bridge 9)
song played: Living Saints

11. Sabertooth Zombie - ...And your Fathers are Dead In the Ground (Twelve Gauge)
song played: Old Fools

10. Graf Orlock - Destination Time: Today (Virtrol)
song played: An Interest in Prothetics

9. Sojourner - The Narrows (16OH)
song played: Life of a Killer
Waiting

8. Shook Ones - The Unquoteable AMH (Paper + Plastick)
song played: For Collards

7. Food - Food (MolSook)
song played: March Fourth

6. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer (Jagjaguwar)
song played: Paper Lace

5. Comadre - A Wolf Ticket (Adagio 830)
song played: Hamlets

4.kidcrash - Snacks (Denovali / Init)
song played: Where Nerves Were

3. Devotion - Bastard Son of Affluence Blues (Rivalry)
song played: Neon Lights

2. Blacklisted - No One Deserves to Be Here More Than Me (Deathwish Inc)
song played:
Everything In My Life Is For Sale
No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me
I Am Extraordinary

1. Converge - Axe To Fall (Deathwish Inc)
song played:
Reap What You Sow
Axe To Fall

[officespace]

Top 5:
Supporting Caste-Propagandhi
The last Thing You Forget-Title Fight
To All My Friends-Slingshot
Fuck your emotional Bullshit-Snowing
Scars-Damages


Off the top of our heads

[absorb]

Just woke up, post a list in a bit.

Question: A bunch of you are mentioning a band called "Sixes". Are you referring to the Harsh Noise outfit or some other group?

If it's some other group, please point me in the right direction.

- &E

[absorb]

The Album of the Year:
De Magia Veterum - Migdal Bavel

Song of the Year:
Kerasphorus - Swarm Intelligentsia

Best of 2009 (no order):
Sylvester Anfang II - s/t
Converge-Axe to Fall
Wormsblood - Mastery of Creation
Ancestors - II
Crippled Black Phoenix - 200 Tons of Bad Luck
Skagos - Ást
YOB - The Great Cessation
Current 93 - Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain
Six Brew Bantha - Demo CD-R
The Devil's Blood -The Time Of No Time Evermore
Zu - Carboniferous
Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
Raspberry Bulbs - Finally Burst... With Fluid
Iskra - Bureval
Portal - Swarth
Nac/Hut Report - 1000 Double Difference Error
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - White Lunar

2009 7"s:
Harvey Milk / Wildildlife - Split
Wold - Social Pressure
Contagium - s/t
Shearing Pinx - s/t
Ash Pool - Saturns Slave
The Austrasian Goat - Witch

2009 Reissues/Best Of Complations worth checking out:
Fauna - The Hunt (re-issue)
Wold - Imperator (best of)
LEADBELLY - Definatetive
Teitanblood - Black Putrescence of Evil
Wildildlife - Drongolet Demos
Death - ...For The Whole World To See
Cremation - Black Death Cult
Sewer Goddess - Dejection Veil (Cassette)
Dust - Hard Attack
Shitstorm - Paranoid Existence (Best of 2004-2008)

2009 Honorable mentions:
L'Acephale - Malefeasance
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer / SIXES - Split
pissed jeans - king of jeans
Zola Jesus & Burial Hex - Split
Bon Iver - Blood Bank
Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
In Disgust - Reality Choke
Fearthainne - 2cd s/t
Mutiny - s/t

[FANTASTIC WOUND]

Trainwreck's new and Comadre. Wolf Ticket is one of the better albums i've heard in years, despite it's short length.

[dalamar501]

Just woke up, post a list in a bit.

Question: A bunch of you are mentioning a band called "Sixes". Are you referring to the Harsh Noise outfit or some other group?

If it's some other group, please point me in the right direction.

- &E

another group pretty fuckin rad.
http://oursound.net/sixes/index.html