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Just wanted to point a couple of things out:
1) Veckatimest hasn’t been released yet, so I’m not sure if it counts… but so many of you have put Veck as one of your favorites, I just might let it slide.
2) EPs are fine. So are compilations
3) UK / US releases are interchangeable
4) Manners isn’t out.. nor has it leaked, it’s sort of silly for you to put it up on here. Every other song, aside from The Reeling could suck balls. You wouldn’t know 
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1. It’s Blitz
2. MPP
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
1. Manners
2. It’s Blitz
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
I know that Manners will be my favorite album of the year. Prescience is a gift I am happy to call my own.
1. MPP
2. Matt & Kim – Grand
3. Dan Deacon – Bromst
1. Passion Pit – Manners
2. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3. White Lies – To Lose My Life
1. Merriweather Post Pavillion – Animal Collective
2. The Hazards of Love – The Decemberists
3. It’s Blitz – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
givemeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
1. Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. Love vs. Money
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
1. Fever Ray
2. It’s Blitz
3. Incredibad
(Can I stick in a bonus Veckatimest, even if it hasn’t been technically released yet?)
1. It’s Blitz – Yeah Yeah Yeah
2. Grand – Matt & Kim
3. No Line on the Horizon – U2
1. Fantasies – Metric
2. Why There Are Mountains – Cymbals Eat Guitars
3. Dark Was the Night – Various
(hope that last one counts, if not…put “The Bird and the Bee – Ray Guns are Not Just the Future” in spot 3)
1. Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You
2. Frankmusik – Complete Me
3. Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
1. Slim Thug – Boss of All Bosses
2. It’s Blitz – Yeah Yeah Yeah
3. NASA – The Spirit of Apollo
1. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2. It’s Blitz
3. Veckatimest
So, unrelated to the contest, I haven’t listened to the podcast yet, but I can tell it’s full of win. Why are you so awesome?
#1 Kelly Clarkson – All i Ever Wanted
#2 Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You
#3 Kylie Minogue – Boombox
1. Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
2. The Fray – The Fray
3. The-Dream – Love vs. Money
1) Bruce Peninsula – A Mountain Is A Mouth
2) Handsome Furs – Face Control
3) Hot Panda – Volcano… Bloody Volcano
1. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
2. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
3. Röyksopp – Junior
1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. Pete Doherty – Grace / Wastelands
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
You know Carrie, I ask myself that question every day…
no, but thanks! Listen to it!
1. The Whitest Boy Alive – Rules
2. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
3. Andrew Bird – Noble Beast / Useless Creatures
1. Merriweather Post Pavillion – Animal Collective
2. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
3. Tarlton – Papa Theses EP
that’s the freshest looking watch i’ve ever seen!!
1. It’s Not Me, It’s You – Lily Allen
2. Invaders Must Die – The Prodigy
3. Scream – Chris Cornell
1. Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
2. Invaders Must Die – The Prodigy
3.Fist Of God – MSTRKRFT
Oh Luis, why did you force (well, kinda
) me to make a list of all the great albums :O
Well.. my number three is kind a surprise for me:
Seventeen tracks of awesome Indie Rock!
3. Cursive – Mama, I’m Swollen
I haven’t listened to this band before but this album is really worth listening too more then once! Anguish, anguish, anguish…
On to number two:
2. The Decemberists – Hazards of Love
Just listen to the album and say that you don’t like it
AND the one who takes place number one is…
1. Röyksopp – Junior
Brilliant voices that gets your attention and makes you want to hear more! The made a great step from their other to albums to music that pierces your heart and gives you that warm and fuzzy feeling (or maybe I’m alone with that? lol.) I’m really looking forward to “Senior” coming later this year!
But let’s not forget all the other great albums released in 2009 (not in any particular order):
]
The Whitest Boy Alive – Rules
Matt & Kim – Grand
Metric – Fantasies
Handsome Furs – Face Control
Yeah Yeah Yeah’s – It’s Blitz
Fever Ray – Fever Ray [I love Karin]
Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You
White Lies – To Lose My Life [number 4
1. Merriweather Post Pavilion – Animal Collective
2. Hazards of Love – The Decemberists
3. Noble Beast – Andrew Bird
1. Merriweather Post Pavillion – Animal Collective
2. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3. It’s Blitz – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
1. Decemberists – Hazards of Love
2. Damien Jurado – Caught in the Trees
3. Royksopp – Junior
1. Walking on a Dream
2. Troubadour
3. It’s Blitz!
White Lies – To Lose My Life
Metric – Fantasies
Mando Diao – Give Me Fire
1. It’s Blitz – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2. Royksopp – Junior
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix – Phoenix
1. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2. Matt and Kim – Grand
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
Honourable Mention: Theophilus London – This Charming Mixtape
1. Tor & Sufjan Stevens — Illinoize
2. Andrew Bird — Noble Beast
3. Beirut — March of the Zapotec & Realpeople Holland
1. Merriweather Post Pavillion
2. The Hazards of Love
3. It’s Blitz
please and thank you~
1. The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
3. M. Ward – Hold Time
#1 – Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
#2 – Röyksopp – Junior
#3 – NASA – The Spirit of Apollo
1. Lily Allen: It’s Not Me, It’s You
2. Tigersapien: E.P.
3. A-Trak: Infinity +1 (at least the free tracks floating around, I would be very happy if I won the A-Trak prize)
1- Dan Deacon – Bromst
2- Matt & Kim- Grand
3- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
it’s painfully obvious i live in brooklyn. if someone else posted these picks I’d say, “god, what an asshole.” this is my life of self-hatred and living completely from “Stuff White People Like.”
1. Tigersapien-E.P.
2. White Lies – To lose my life
3. Franz Ferdinand – Tonight : Franz Ferdinand
1. Merriweather Post Pavillion- Animal Collective
2. Veckatimest- Grizzly Bear
3. Actors- St. Vincent
1. Röyksopp – Junior
2. White Lies – To Lose My Life
3. Heroes & Zeros – Simian Vices Modern Devices
1. Merriweather Post Pavillion
2. Technicolor Health
3. Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
I would have to say
1. Passion Pit – Manners, seeing that they had a huge ep with only one song going on the album, and the leaked/released reeling is amazing.
2.Frankmusik – Complete Me. the sampler is amazing! and he has so many covers and others creeping around the net that are very good too…
3. A-Trak – Infinity +1, i know its a mixtape/compilation, but its gonna be dope and it had a dose of A-trak in every minute that plays by.
1. Doom “Born Like This”
2.Joe Budden “Padded Room”
3. Saigon & Statik Selectah “All in a Days Work”
1. DOOM – Born Like This
2. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest (confident that it will be even better when it comes out on cd)
3. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
1. Dark was the Night – Various
Best cd of the year
2. Useless Creatures – Andrew Bird
The noble beast half is not even comparable to the instrumental half
3. Incredibad – The Lonely Island
The PMA E.P.- Timid Tiger
It’s Blitz
Wolfgang Amadaeus Phoenix
1. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
2. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
3. Metric – Fantasies
1. Manners
2. To Lose My Life… (official US release in 09)
3. Sweetheart (oh god I’m a corporate whore)
1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
2. Turboweekend – Ghost of a Chance
3. White Lies – To Lose My Life
Matt & Kim – Grand
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
Passion Pit – Manners
1. White Lies
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3. Glasvegas
1. Hazards of Love
2. Troubadour- Knaan
3. Love vs. Money
Not out yet but will be soon and will be #1- Asleep in the Bread Aisle
1. Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
2. Junior (Royksopp)
3. Incredibad (Lonely Island)
(I think I just lost my indie cred
)
1. Röyksopp – Junior
2. Lily Allen: It’s Not Me, It’s You
3. Franz Ferdinand: Tonight
It’s Blitz!
It’s Not Me, It’s You
Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
1. Röyksopp – Junior
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
3. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
1. (a)spera — Mirah
2. It’s Blitz — Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3. The Spirit of Apollo — N.A.S.A.
siick watch!
1. M. Ward – Hold Time
2. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3. Vetiver – Tight Knit
1. Thunderheist- Thunderheist
(Luis, you have to check this CD)
2. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3. Royksopp- Junior
Please try not to scratch my watch when shipping it
1. War Child Heroes
2. A.C. Newman – Get Guilty
3. The Boy Least Likely To – Law of the Playground
1) Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Looking forward to their SNL appearance on the 4th.
2) The Spirit of Apollo — N.A.S.A.
3) The Crying Light – Antony and the Johnsons
Blood Bank- Bon Iver
Middle Cyclone- Neko Case
The Fray- The Fray
1. Merriweather Post Pavillion – Animal Collective
2.Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix – Phoenix
3. Here We Go Magic – Here We Go Magic
Thanks PMA!
1. Crack The Skye – Mastodon
2. It’s Blitz – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3. Incredibad – Lonely Island
The Bird and the Bee – Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future
Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You
Swan Lake- Enemy Mine
1.) Its Blitz! – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2.) Insides – Jon Hopkins (might only be out in UK at the moment)
3.) Hungry Bird – Clem Snide
Happy Monday Luis.
1. Years Of Refusal – Morrissey
2. Tonight: Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
3. It’s Blitz! – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
It’s Blitz – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix – Phoenix
Begone Dull Care – Junior Boys
1. Röyksopp – Junior
2. The Fray – The Fray
3. Morrissey – Years Of Refusal
1. Gustaf Spetz – Good Night Mr. Spetz
2. Great Lake Swimmers – Lost Channels
3. The Appleseed Cast – Sagarmatha
1. It’s Blitz!- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2. Metric- Fantasies
3. Bon Iver- Blood Bank (if EP’s count) It’s Not Me It’s You- Lily Allen (if not)
Röyksopp – Junior
Morrissey – Years of Refusal
Marissa Nadler – Little Hells
1. Grand – Matt and Kim
2. Its Blitz – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3. The Spirit of Apollo – N.A.S.A
1. Antony & The Johnsons – The Crying Light
2. Fever Ray
3. tUnE-YaRdS – BiRd-BrAiNs
1.) Its Blitz! – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2.) Merriweather Post Pavillion – Animal Collective
3.) Noble Beast – Andrew Bird
1. Day & Age – The Killers
2. Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You
3. Kelly Clarkson – All I Ever Wanted
1. Dark Was The Night- Various
2. Noble Beast- Andrew Bird
3. The Fray- The Fray
1. Andrew Bird – Noble Beast
2. M. Ward – Hold Time
3. The Lonely Island – Incredibad
that is a bad ass watch! fingers crossed
Just wanted to point a couple of things out:
1) Veckatimest hasn’t been released yet, so I’m not sure if it counts… but so many of you have put Veck as one of your favorites, I just might let it slide.
2) David… Day & Age is from 2008
3) EPs are fine. So are compilations
4) UK / US releases are interchangeable
5) Manners isn’t out.. nor has it leaked, it’s sort of silly for you to put it up on here. Every other song, aside from The Reeling could suck balls. You wouldn’t know
#1. It’s Blitz! – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
#2. Away From The Sea – Yuksek
#3. Merriweather Post Pavilion – Animal Collective
1. Its Blitz – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2. The Spirit of Apollo – N.A.S.A
3. The-Dream – Love vs. Money
1.) Junior Boys – Begone Dull Care
2.) The Whitest Boy Alive – Rules
3.) Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
1. Merriweather Post Pavillion – Animal Collective
2. The Hazards of Love – The Decemberists
3. Spirit of Apollo – NASA
GIMME <3
So early in the year, yet already so difficult-
3)M. Ward: Hold Time
2)Merriweather Post Pavillion – Animal Collective
1)It’s Blitz! – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Those are my first thoughts, so I’ll post ‘em. I know if I think about it too much, I’ll change these three so many times I’ll miss the deadline.
1.Roysopp – Junior
2.The-Dream – Love vs. Money
3.The Lonely Island – Incredibad
1.Royksopp – Junior
2. The-Dream – Love vs. Money
3. The Lonely Island – Incredibad
1. Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. Love vs. Money
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
1. Metric – Fantasies
2. Röyksopp – Junior
3. Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
1. Dan Deacon – Bromst
2. Various Artists – Dark Was The Night
3. Röyksopp – Junior
Luis – I see what you’re saying about “Manners” (it is on my list), but given Passion Pit’s track record so far, I’d be a betting woman and double down on it being very good. Phoenix’s album isn’t out yet either, but it is also showing up a lot. I wanted to put Empire of the Sun’s “Walking on a Dream” on my list, but didn’t know if it counted because it was released in 2008 in Australia but nowhere else until 2009.
1. MPP
2. Fist of God- MSTRKRFT (5.5 or not, I still like it)
3. Incredibad
1. Kylie Minogue – Boombox
2. DMX – Playlist your Way: The DMX Hits CD
3. Korn – Korn: Collected
1) It’s Not Me, It’s You — Lily Allen
2) Ayumi Hamasaki — Next Level (gotta love the Jpop ^^V)
3) The Spirit of Apollo — N.A.S.A.
Damn!! Only 3?!?
1 Nonsense in the Dark (Filthy Dukes)
2 Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Its leaked, it counts)
3 THE.PMA.EP
Honerable mentions: Incredibad Merriweather Post Pavilion
Hazzards of love Tonight: Franz ferdinand Dark was the Night TIGER SAPIAN EP :-.D (probably) manners It’s Blitz! (!!!!) and more. BTW there seem to be alot of Davids, so from here on out I am the david with ~!.
My EP thats dropping in the next few weeks, totally ;-.)
1. Lady Gaga – The Cherrytree Sessions (live) – EP
2. Of Montreal – Mad Decent Remixes – EP
3. N.A.S.A. – The Spirit of Apollo
EP’s Better Count.
1. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amedeus Phoenix
2. Yeah Yeah Yeah’s – It’s Blitz
3. Grizley Bear – Veckatimest
Kelly Clarkson – All I Ever Wanted
Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You
Utada – This Is the One
Number one at this point would have to be NASA’s ‘Spirit Of Apollo’. SOme of the collabs on there are jut amazing; Tom Waits & Cool Keith, RZA & John Frusciante, and my favourite – George Clinton & Chali 2na.
Number two would be Dan Auerbach’s solo album ‘Keep It Hid’. It’s pretty much a continuation of The Black Keys’ sound, but it has some really improved songwriting and changes in tempo which keep it really dynamic. And damn, is he a great guitarist.
Number three really has me stumped. Not a fan Of Lily Allen, or electro really. Dislike Animal Collective like no man should, but do. I think for numver three I’ll go with The Lonely Island boys’ ‘Incredibad’, solely for Natalie Portman. She’s pretty great.
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