Recordstore Customers' 50 Favourite Albums Of 2009

After much vote taking, here are recordstore's albums of 2009 as voted for by you....our lovely customers:

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (Polydor) >>>

You Said:  "two sides to this record one wants to get its groove on the other wants to swoon you."

2. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Warp) >>> 

You Said: "It's 2009's most perfect sound and harmonies"

3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion (Domino) >>>

You Said: "euphoric widescreen harmonic intensity"

4. Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions (14th Floor) >>>

You Said: "Packed full of anthems"

5. The XX - XX (XL) >>>

You Said: "Sonic bliss!"

6. The Horrors - Primary Colours (XL) >>>

You Said: "butterfly-like transformation from scrawny clotheshorses into pastiche perfection"

7. Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (Columbia) >>>

You Said: "Every tune a belter!"

8. Florence And The Machine - Lungs (Island) >>>

You Said: "Really powerful vocals with good melodic songs"

9. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (Parlophone) >>>

You Said: "Fantastically and hauntingly different. My copy is already wearing out"

10. Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers (Columbia) >>>

You Said: "Great tunes, and finally Richie's lyrics get realised" 

11. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers (Domino) >>>

You Said: "it's smooth, soft and quiet. and amazing"

12. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (V2) >>>

You Said: "Their best in a long time with killer singles"

13. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug (Domino) >>>

You Said: "of course it's not as good as the other albums...but they're changing, not standing still (Oasis, Kaisers etc....) A real grower"

14. White Lies - To Lose My Life (Fiction) >>>

You Said: "A return to the 80's....a poppy mix of Furniture and Jesus and Mary Chain"

15. Fever Ray - Fever Ray (Rabid) >>>

You Said: "Awesome electronic pop layered with superb other-worldly vocals"

16. Morrissey - Years Of Refusal (Decca) >>>

You Said: "return to form" (scarily this is as articulate as Morrissey fans have got about their hero....)

17. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport (ATP) >>>

You Said: "truly extraordinary filled with diversity and utter originality. It sounds like something from another world."

18. Pet Shop Boys - Yes (Parlophone) >>>

You Said: "Return to form after so many dull years!"

19. The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms (Fiction) >>>

You Said: "like that feeling you get when you fall in love, they've matured so much from the first album"

20. Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another (4AD) >>>

You Said: "how are these guys not the biggest band in the UK?"

 

21. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart (Fortuna Pop) >>>

 

 

22. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (Domino) >>>

 

 

23. Mastodon - Crack The Skye (Reprise) >>>

 

 

24. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (Island) >>>

 

 

25. Jamie T - Kings & Queens (Virgin) >>>

 

 

26. Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had The Blues, But I Shook Them Loose (Island) >>>

 

 

27. Editors - In This Light And On This Evening (Columbia) >>>

 

 

28. Noah And The Whale - The First Days Of Spring (Mercury) >>>

 

 

29. Madness - The Liberty Of Norton Folgate (Lucky Seven) >>>

 

 

30. The Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant (Wichita) >>>

 

 

31. Doves - Kingdom Of Rust (Heavenly) >>>

 

 

32. Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications (Rough Trade) >>>

 

 

33. Depeche Mode - Sounds Of The Universe (Mute) >>>

 

 

34. The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love (4AD) >>>

 

 

35. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures (Columbia) >>>

 

 

36. Converge - Axe To Fall (Epitaph) >>>

 

 

37. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Domino) >>>

 

 

38. Passion Pit - Manners (Columbia) >>>

 

 

39. Muse - The Resistance (Warners) >>>

 

 

40. Paramore - Brand New Eyes (Fueled By Ramen) >>>

 

 

41. Brendan Benson - My Old, Familiar Friend (Echo) >>>

 

 

42. The Temper Trap - Conditions (Infectious) >>>

 

 

43. Japandroids - Post-Nothing (Polyvinyl) >>>

 

 

44. Wilco - Wilco (Warners) >>>

 

 

45. Bob Dylan - Together Through Life (Columbia) >>>

 

 

46. Flaming Lips - Embryonic (Warners) >>>

 

 

47. Girls - Album (Fantasy Trashcan) >>>

 

 

48. Pearl Jam - Backspacer (Island) >>>

 

 

49. Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter (Mute) >>>

 

 

50. Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue (Parlophone) >>>

 

and these are your choices for the 10 worst albums released this year:

 

1. Robbie Williams - Reality Killed The Video Star (EMI)

2. JLS - JLS (Epic)

3. Cheryl Cole - Three Words (Polydor)

4. Lady GaGa - The Fame (Polydor)

5. U2 - No Line On The Horizon (Mercury)

6. Leona Lewis - Echo (Syco)

7. Black Eyed Peas - The End (Interscope)

8. Jonas Brothers - Lines, Vines and Trying Times (Polydor)

9. Chris Cornell - Scream (Polydor)

10. Susan Boyle - I Dreamed A Dream (Syco)

 

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

 

 

 

 

Comments

[anglopunk]

At least you could have picked a better quote for the Manics' JFPL that actually spells Richey's name correctly.

[Steve]

Best of a bad bunch mate - Morrissey and Manics fans despite their hero's way with words aren't a particularly verbose lot. Or very good at spelling.....