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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20Mastodon • Crack the Skye
“It's big, epic and raw with a rich, surging vein of intellect coursing through it.” — For Those About To Rock
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19Metric • Fantasies
“Plucky as hell with some of the most mature songwriting of the year, Emily Haines and co. have crafted a masterwork that is as strong punching the crap out of an electronic-rock song as they are in balladic bliss.” — Soft Synth
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18St. Vincent • Actor
“Oh, Annie Clark, your talent is unfair - who else can play guitar, bass, keys, horns and the triangle?” — Knox Road
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17The Decemberists • The Hazards of Love
“...an homage to prog rock and musical theater, which should be the combination from Hell but ends up being a compelling novella of sorts that has emotion, experimentation, humor, and hooks.” — Consequence of Sound
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16Florence + the Machine • Lungs
“It's really hard to believe from listening to her voice and hearing her lyrics that she's a mere 22 years old, she embodies a level of musical maturity that most people strive to achieve in a lifetime.” — take off your headphones
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15Flaming Lips • Embryonic
“Booming with fuzzed up entertainment and free minded lyrics. This is evidence that there is always room for growth in a band that has already perfected it's craft.” — Kata Rokkar
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14Pains of Being Pure at Heart • Pains of Being Pure at Heart
“This album can cure any bad mood...unless you hate twee music. Then it might make your mood a bit worse! But even then, I think you might have a hard time not falling in love with it.” — Amoeblog
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13Atlas Sound • Logos
“...a brilliant singer/songwriter with Brian Wilson-esque talent for architecture, pumping melodies through a deliciously melancholy filter.” — 1,2,3...Jamboree!
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12Bat for Lashes • Two Suns
“Khan mixes indie-rock, New Age tropes, Kate Bush-isms, and drum-machines to craft a meditation on how we live in two worlds at once, the spiritual and the material, and how that conflict creates the tension necessary for great art.” — The Wild Hunt
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11Neko Case • Middle Cyclone
“Forget Neko's pipes, her incredibly loud tomboy holler, this is a songwriter in the Flannery O'Connor tradition. ” — Tulip Frenzy
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 |