Mine (no order):
Merriweather Post Pavilion - by Animal Collective
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - by Phoenix
Black Gives Way to Blue - by Alice in Chains
Embryonic - by The Flaming Lips
Hospice - by The Antlers
Your top 5 albums of 2009 - WITH pictures
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2009 was a truly superb year for music.
1) Devin Townsend Project - Addicted
2) OSI - Blood
3) Kauan - Aava Tuulen Maa
4) The Dear Hunter - Act III: Life and Death
5) Baroness - Blue Record
Thats the only one I can recall that I liked all of the songs.
I haven't got many albums from 2009.
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Ulcerate - Everything is Fire
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II
Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel
Ok, here are my favorites:
1. Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders
2. Cloudkicker - Portmanteau
3. The Algorithm - The Doppler Effect
4. Persefone - Shin-ken
5. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
2. Sick Puppies - "Tri-Polar" 
3. Anti-Flag - "The People Or The Gun" 
4. Three Days Grace - "Life Starts Now" 
5. Paramore - "Brand New Eyes" 
Rx Bandits - Mandala 
State Radio - Let It Go 
Bomb the Music Industry! - Scrambles 
Signals Midwest - Burn the Blueprints 
mine in no particular order 
Take THAT society!
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Freelance Whales - Weathervanes
Girls - Album
The XX - XX
Nice choices.The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Freelance Whales - Weathervanes
Girls - Album
The XX - XX
joesh89
It pains me to leave out the XX's debut album, Morrissey's Years of Refusal and You Say Party! We Say Die!'s XXXX, but the following albums really took the crown last year.
Loney Dear - Dear John
Sky Larkin - The Golden Spike
Micachu - Jewellery
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
And my favorite album of 2009, a must-have... St. Vincent - Actor
10. The Handsome Furs - "Face Control"
9. Kurt Vile - "Childish Prodigy"
8. Timber Timbre - "Timber Timbre"
7. The XX - XX
6. Fever Ray - "Fever Ray"
5. The Twilight Sad - "Forget the Night Ahead"
4. Grizzly Bear - "Veckatimest"
3. The Protomen - "Act II: The Father of Death"
2. Phoenix - "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix"
1. The Antlers - "Hospice"
Got a top 200 of 2009 list on my blog, but that would take too long XD
2009 was an amazing year for music. I bought tons of CD's, much more than I usually do. These are my favorites though. I have a few more than 5.
1. Big big train- The Underfall yard
2. Frost- Experiments in mass appeal
3. The xx- xx
4. Porcupine tree- The Incident
5. Lonely london lad- Lonely london lad
6. Super furry animals- Dark days/ Light years
7. Kent- Rod
8. Maudlin of the well- Part the second
9. Royal Bangs- Let it beep
10. Health- Get color
11. Manic street preachers- Journal for plauge lovers
12. Magma- Emehntehtt-Re
13. Pure reason revolution- Amor Vincit Omnia
14. Riverside- Anno domini high defintion
15. God help the girl- God help the girl
16. The Twilight sad- Forget the night ahead
17. Vic Chestnutt- SKitter on take off
R.I.P:(
18. OSI- Blood
19. Diablo swing orchestra- Sing along songs for the damned and delirious
20. Transatlantic- The Whirlwind
21. The Avett Brothers- I and love and you
22. Miriodor- Avanti!
23. A Sunny day in glasgow- Ashes grammar
24. Phideaux- Number seven
25. Subsignal- Beautiful and monstrous
26. Gazpacho- Tick tock
27. The Mountain goats- The life of the world to come
28. Beast- Beast
29. The Dear Hunter- Act 3: Life and death
30. Mono- Hymm to the immortal wind
31. Shrinebuilder- Shrinebuilder
32. Present- Barbaro(Ma non troppo)
33. Kalisia- Cybion
34. Three- Revisions
35. John Zorn- O'o
36. Andrew Bird- Noble beast
37. Leprous- Tall poppy syndrome
38. The Antlers- Hospice
39. Sunset rubdown- Dragonslayer
40. Exivious- Exivious
Ok, here are my favorites:
4. Persefone - Shin-ken
RushKing
I thought it was their worst album. Pretty disappointing since Core was so awesome. :(
I posted my top 3 in my blog, but here's all 5:
Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow
Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire
Drowning The Light - Blood Of The Ancients
Denial - Catacombs Of The Grotesque
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles
All in all I felt 2009 was pretty weak for music. A few good albums here and there, but 2008 was stronger and 2010 is looking to be a ****ing monster! :D
Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
TYR - By The Light Of The Northern Star
Dream Theater - Black Clouds And Silver Linings
3IOB - Here Waits Thy Doom
That's about it.
That's about it.Assassin1349
I liked it compared to the terrible "A New Disease Is Born," and since it was called a return to form I was really hyped. It delivered, but not as well as I had hoped. Ultimately a good release though! :)
Their first two albums are in my opinion some of the best -if not the best- melodic death ever released. :P
These are in order of preference:
Baroness- Blue Record
Born of Osiris- A Higher Place
Between the Buried and Me- The Great Misdirect
Insomnium- Across the Dark
August Burns Red- Constellations
Also the other guy who put Baroness on their top five: hell yeah.
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That's about it.Saturos3091
I liked it compared to the terrible "A New Disease Is Born," and since it was called a return to form I was really hyped. It delivered, but not as well as I had hoped. Ultimately a good release though! :)
Their first two albums are in my opinion some of the best -if not the best- melodic death ever released. :P I agree... A New Disease Is Born was super lame. I hated the vocals too.
From my blog:
Top Albums of 2009
Number 5:
Swarth by Portal. The first time I listened to it, I hated it. I came back to it a few days later, and loved it. It has a great atmosphere to it.
Number 4:
Steven Wilson's solo album, Insurgentes. It's just a great album. Harmony Korine and Significant Other are my songs on it.
Number 3:
Anno Domini High Definition by Riverside. This is one of my favorite progressive rock albums of all time. Riverside are getting really good, and I look foreword to what they release in the future.
Number 2:
A Taste of Extreme Divinity by Hypocrisy. Hypocrisy are one of my favorite death metal bands, and this is the best album they've put out since their self-titled back in 1999.
Number 1:
The Incident by Porcupine Tree. No surprise here, right? 
Porcupine tree is my favorite band, and The Incident is one of their best albums, so it takes the number 1 slot.
1. Addicted - The Devin Townsend Project
2. The Voice of Steel - Nokturnal Mortum
3. Swarth - Portal
4. New Moon - Swallow the Sun
5. I can't choose so I'll let it be either Wavering Radiant - Isis/Exivious - Exivious/The Doppler Effect - The Algorithm/Everything is Fire - Ulcerate
In order:
1. Trail Of Tears - Bloodstained Endurance
2. Infected Mushroom - The Legend of the Black Shawarma
3. Leaves' Eyes - Njord
4. Lacrimosa - Sehnsucht
5. Sirenia - The 13th Floor
These are actually the only 5 albums I bought in 2009, so all I did was sort them in order of preference. :P
In the Unlikely Event - The Fall of Troy
How Big Can You Get: The Music of Cab Calloway - Big Bad Vodoo Daddy
Swoon - Silversun Pickups
Here Here and Here - Meg & Dia
Contra - Vampire Weekend
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