Music Blog Zeitgeist 2009
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The Top 50 Albums of 2009 sourced from 550 bloggers personal Top 10 lists weighted according to their ranking.
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TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2009 | 50-41 | 40-31 | 30-21 | 20-11 | 10-1 |
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40U2 • No Line On The Horizon
“Some people like U2 best for their soaring anthems. Others prefer their willingness to experiment and play with dance beats. Here, they do both.” — Citizen Ghost Town
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39Paramore • Brand New Eyes
“Forget about Paramore being a band for teenage girls, if Williams' vocals on "All I Wanted" don't give you chills, then you are hardly human. ” — The B-Log
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38Muse • The Resistance
“An epic album that will get you pumped, remind you of Queen, and bring you into the score of a movie. Pretty intense stuff.” — The Peg Leg Blog
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37Bibio • Ambivalence Avenue
“These songs have a very modern, glitchy sound, but they can't escape the nostalgic warmth of Bibio's earlier work.” — mpbloggo
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36Converge • Axe to Fall
“Converge create art-school hardcore while still delivering on metal's basest needs” — Hi! My Name Is Chris
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35Arctic Monkeys • Humbug
“The Arctics' instruments achieved what their new haircuts failed to do: they've become the sort of band your children will listen to in 30 years time.” — Hotcakes
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34Them Crooked Vultures • Them Crooked Vultures
“One rarely has heard a hard rock album this loud and SEXY at the same time.” — Circle of Fits
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33Raekwon • Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2
“Raekwon and especially Ghostface blow the doors down then pillage all your snacks and shit.” — Thirty Helens Agree
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32Miike Snow • Miike Snow
“...you have to be so stoked that these guys decided to record their own album instead of making everyone else's album sound better.” — Audio Muffin
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31Wild Beasts • Two Dancers
“...medieval land of yo-ho-ho-ing court jesters, roto-tom funkiness, falsetto booty calls masquerading as simple Freudian slips, and sensory overdrive...” — Ear Farm
The Music Blog Zeitgeist data is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. It was compiled from 551 lists. You can also download the data used to prepare these lists here: raw data, compiled data.
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50 ALBUMS | 50-41 | 40-31 | 30-21 | 20-11 | 10-1 |