BEANSONBREAD 2009 AWARDS
(Award # 9)
Best Album of 2009
2008 Winner - Wild Beasts 'Limbo, Panto'
2007 Winner - Animal Collective 'Strawberry Jam'
2006 Winner - Safetyword 'Man's Name Is Legion'
2005 Winner - Animal Collective 'Feels'
2004 Winner - Devendra Banhart 'Rejoicing In The Hands / Nino Rojo'
2003 Winner - Dizzee Rascal 'Boy In Da Corner'
2002 Winner - The Streets 'Original Pirate Material'
2001 Winner - The Beta Band 'Hotshots II'
2000 Winner - Outkast 'Stankonia'
1999 Winner - The Beta Band 'The Beta Band'
There will be two 'Best Of 2009' OLO Radio podcasts (made up from selected tracks from this list) uploaded sometime before 2010.
2008 Albums that i heard after last year's list was written that I have listened to this year (and the number they would have entered in last year's list..confused??)..
Deerhunter - Wierd Era (49)
The Week That Was - The Week That Was (44)
School Of Language - Sea From Shore (43)
The Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby (45)
Wavves - Wavvves (48)
Errors - It's Not Something But It Is Like Whatever ( - )
Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires ( - )
Department Of Eagles - In Ear Park (42)
THE RULES -
NO Reissues, Live albums, and EP's. I am allowing Mixtapes this year.2009 Albums that i'd wish i'd heard/owned (but due to lack of funds i couldn't afford/lack of skill i couldn't steal). This is a list for me to check back to make sure i hear them next year. Really wanna hear..
Zomby - On Foot Ahead Of The Other, Washed Out - High Times, Durrty Goods - Ultrasound, Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle, Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II, Joe Goddard - Harvest Festival, Javelin - Jamz N Jemz, King Creosote - My Nth Bit Of Strange, Broadcast & The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age, Silkie - City Limits Vol. 1, Moderat – Moderat, Nosaj Thing – Drift, Ducktails - Ducktails, DOOM - Born Like This, Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
Wouldn't mind a listen..
Ben Frost - By The Throat, The Leisure Society – The Sleeper, Fanfarlo – Reservoir, Wilco – Wilco (The Album) , Japandroids – Post-Nothing, The Sandwitches - How To Make Ambient Sadcake, Smith Westerns - Smith Westerns, Memory Tapes - Seek Magic, Nite Jewel - Good Evening, The Hidden Cameras - Origin: Orphan, The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love, Annie - Don't Stop, Neko Case - Middle Cyclone, Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions, Pet Shop Boys - Yes, Sonic Youth - The Eternal, Miike Snow - Miike Snow, Beirut - March Of The Zapotecs, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, PJ Harvey And John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By, Doves - Kingdom Of Rust, Crystal Stilts - Alight Of Night, Passion Pit - Manners, Fool's Gold - Fool's Gold, Alela Diane - To Be Still, 2562 - Unbalance, Shackleton -
Three EPs, Martyn - Great Lengths, Withered Hand, Mew, My Latest Novel, The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come, Morrissey - Years of Refusal, Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs, Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong, Taken By Trees - East Of Eden, Cate Le Bon - Me Oh My, Simian Mobile Disco – Temporary Pleasure, Fanfarlo - Reservoir, Lindstrom and Christabelle - Real ife Is No Cool, Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter , Jarvis - Further Complications, Regina Spektor, Noah And The Whale - The First Days Of Spring, The Antlers - Hospice, Sufjan Stevens - The BQE, Clark – Totem’s Flare,
Themselves - Crownsdown, Busdriver - Jhelli Beam, Beirut - March Of The Zapotec And Realpeople Holland, Theophilus London – This Charming Mixtape, ..and probably loads loads more i have forgotten.
2009 Albums that i have listened to but didn't really get into..
Susan Boyle - I Dreamed A Dream, Monsters Of Folk - Monsters Of Folk, Mumford And Sons - Sigh No More, Bat For Lashes - Two Suns, The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love, Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster, Jamie T - Kings & Queens, Florence And The Machine – Lungs, Tim Exile - Listening Tree, Cold Cave - Love Comes Close, Au Revoir Simone - Still Night Still Light.
2009 Albums i didn't get around to listening to enough (so cannot really be included in the top list)..
Dam-Funk - Toeachizown, Jay-Z- The Blueprint III, Martipants - Good Lads, Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be, Jon Hopkins - Insides, Jeffrey Lewis - 'Em Are I, White Denim - Fits, Iron Crease - Eye Increase, Baby Button Eyes, Blue Roses - Blue Roses, Beak> - Beak>, Malcolm Middleton - Waxing Gibbous
THE 2009 RUNNERS-UP (in no order)..
Rain Machine - Rain Machine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!, Volcano Choir - Unmap, Toddla T - Skanky Skanky, Aidan Moffat And The Best Ofs - How To Get To Heaven From Scotland, Daniel Johnston - Is And Always Was, Arctic Monkeys - Humbug, SJ Esau - The Gist, Karen O And The Kids - Where The Wild Things Are Soundtrack, Andrew Bird - Noble Beast, School Of Seven Bells - Alpinisms, Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young, YACHT – See Mystery Lights, Blk Jks - After Robots.
MY TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2009..
50) jj - n° 2
49) Black Dice - Repo
48) HEALTH - Get Color
47) The Invisible - The Invisible
46) James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players - Folk Songs
45) Bonnie Prince Billy - Beware
44) Dent May - The Good Feeling Music Of Dent May
43) Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
42) The Field - Yesterday & Today
41) Discovery - LP
40) La Roux - La Roux
39) Clipse - Til The Casket Drops
38) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
37) The Welcome Committee - The Welcome Committee
36) Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
35) Dizzee Rascal - Tongue In Cheek
34) Zomby - Where Were U in '92?
33) The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage
32) The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
31) Dan Deacon - Bromst
30) Mos Def - The Ecstatic
29) Eric Copeland - Alien In A Garbage Dump
28) Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care
27) Antony And The Johnsons - The Crying Light
26) The Unthanks - Here's A Tender Coming
25) St Vincent - Actor
24) Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
23) Francois & The Atlas Mountains - Plaine Inondable
22) The Horrors - Primary Colours
21) The Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa
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