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E-PrinceThe-Dream: Love vs. Money
By anyone's standards, 2009 was the year of The-Dream. You may not have heard the name, but you've definitely heard the handiwork: This pudgy, pint-sized pop genius was behind every hit from Beyonce to ...
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Where is Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear??
The XX: XX definitely tops my list
spot on. that album is sick nasty.
Oh, my. So many great albums this year. Top 5:
it's all crazy! it's all false! it's all a dream! it's alright ~ mewithoutYou
Heavy Ghost ~ DM Stith
Aim & Ignite ~ fun.
The First Days of Spring ~ Noah and the Whale
Hey Everyone! ~ Dananananaykroyd
Best of the rest:
And So I Watch You From Afar ~ (s/t)
Can't Maintain ~ Andrew Jackson Jihad
Merriweather Post Pavilion ~ Animal Collective
Hospice ~ The Antlers
Free Soup Social ~ The Anomalies
Fruit ~ The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
My Maudlin Career ~ Camera Obscura
Axe to Fall ~ Converge
Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious ~ Diablo Swing Orchestra
Farm ~ Dinosaur Jr.
Bitte Orca ~ The Dirty Projectors
Reservoir ~ Fanfarlo
Album ~ Girls
Above The Earth, Below The Sky ~ If These Trees Could Talk
Post-Nothing ~ Japandroids
Riceboy Sleeps ~ Jónsi & Alex
Troubadour ~ K'Naan
La Roux ~ (s/t)
Journal for Plague Lovers ~ Manic Street Preachers
Fantasies ~ Metric
No More Stories Are Told Today I'm Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories The World Is Grey I'm Tired Let's Wash Away ~ Mew
Hymn to the Immortal Wind ~ Mono
So Close To Life ~ Moonlit Sailor
...And the Ever Expanding Universe ~ The Most Serene Republic
The Resistance ~ Muse
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart ~ (s/t)
Manners ~ Passion Pit
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix ~ Phoenix
Join the Q ~ The Qemists
Junior ~ Röyksopp
Brahmavidya: Transcendental I ~ Rudra
The Fear of God ~ Showbread
The BQE ~ Sufjan Stevens
Them Crooked Vultures ~ (s/t)
Beggars ~ Thrice
Sun Gangs ~ The Veils
Stockholm Syndrome ~ Derek Webb
It's Blitz! ~ Yeah Yeah Yeahs
...and so many others. (And I haven't even finished getting through all the ones I'd like to...)
Props to Tanaka for giving The-Dream his due props. Definitely the best R&B album of the year.
change my mind, the best album of the year was monsters of folk. ahh i'm such a space case for forgetting about that one
It made me so happy to see Can't Maintain on your list. That album is unreasonably good.