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Dumblepizzle's top albums (3 months) 1. The Beatles - The Beatles 1 (300) 2. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (207) 3. The Beatles - Abbey Road (131) 4. Pink Floyd - The Wall - Disc 1 (128) 5. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III (125) 6. Rise Against - Appeal To Reason (118) 7. Rise Against - Siren Song of the Counter Culture (113) 8. Beatles - 1965 Rubber Soul EBBETTS JAPAN MONO (106) 9. Green Day - Dookie (105) 10. Rise Against - The Sufferer & The Witness (94)

20. Andrew W.K. - 55 Cadillac

Released 1/9/2009
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19. U2 - Magnificent

Released 22/5/2009
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18. royksopp - Junior

Released 24/3/2009
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17. Norah Jones - The Fall

Released 17/11/2009
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16. Blur - Midlife A Beginner's Guide To Blur [Disc 2]
Released 15/6/2009
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15. Wilco - Wilco [The Album]

Released 26/6/2009
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14. Jamie Cullum - The Pursuit

Released 9/11/2009
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13. The Hours - See the Light

Released 20/4/2009
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12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

Released 8/3/2009
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11. Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.

Released 5/6/2009
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10. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown

Released 15/5/2009
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9. Doves - Kingdom Of Rust

Released 30/3/2009
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8. Mute Math - Armistice

Released 18/8/2009
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7. Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg

Released 26/10/2009
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6. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue

Released 29/9/2009
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5. Muse - The Resistance

Released 11/9/2009
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4. Blur - Midlife: A Beginner's Guide To Blur [Disc 1]
Released 15/6/2009
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3. Creed - Full Circle

Released 27/10/2009
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2. Coldplay - LeftRightLeftRightLeft

Released 15/5/2009
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1. U2 - No Line On The Horizon

Released 3/3/2009
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Honourable mentions
- Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
- Coldplay - Life In Technicolor ii
- Lady GaGa - The Fame
- Muse - Uprising
- Yuksek - Away From The Sea

Created using OnDistantShores's Album Of The Year journal generator.

Backspacer - Pearl Jam
Fearless - Taylor Swift
White Noise - Living End
Revolution - Miranda Lambert
It's Not Me, It's You - Lily Allen
21st Century Breakdown - Green Day

1. How did you get into 29? (Disco Ensemble)
-my friend's older siblings used to listen to it, and it kinda caught me along :D.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? (Hollywood Undead)
-No. 5

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? (Paramore)
-Everybody live like it’s the last day you will ever see
Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pressure now?

4. How did you get into 49? (Watchout! Theres Ghosts)
-Hmm, dunno.. They were in my recommendations or something and I thought their name was kinda interesting.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? (Bloc Party)
-None :'/

6. What is your favorite song by 50? (Tegan and Sara)
-Underwater or Are You Ten Years Ago

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? (Blackfield)
-Guess they all are..

8. What is your favorite song by 15? (Kings of Leon)
-Jaiks.. uhmmm.. well, I love listening to Manhattan when it's dark outside and I'm driving in a bus and all the city lights are on <3

9. What is your favorite song by 5? (Robert Pattinson)
-Let Me Sign or To Roam

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (Billy Talent)
-YES! Even more now that I know they are coming to Finland AND I GOT THE TICKET TO THEIR SHOW!

11. What is the worst song by 40? (Lady GaGa)
-Brown Eyes and all that shit..

12. What is your favorite song by 10? (Enter Shikari)
-Johnny Sniper RAAAAAWWWWWR that shit's goooooooood

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? (Kevin Rudolf)
-Summer, driving to the beach, listening to it, LOUD


14. What is your favorite song by 38? (Happoradio)
-Puhu Äänellä Jonka Kuulen and Olette kauniita

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? (Rytmihäiriö)
-Yes, they all make me very giggly.

16. Is there a song by 25 that makes you sad? (A Skylit Drive)
-Oh, I don't know.. No?

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? (Britney Spears)
-Oh no! Do you really, honestly, think that I would remember?

18. What's your favorite lyric by 11? (James Blunt)
-He's a genious, so, there's just so many.

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? (My Chemical Romance)
-There is no favourite one, they are all great at what they do and I respect them all equally. Gerard is the cutest though :D.

20. Is there a song by 14 that makes you happy? (Breathe Carolina)
-YEAH, them all!

21. What is a good memory involving 27? (Family Force 5)
-It sounds a bit stupid to say there's no particular memories involving them, but it's true, and I'm not a liar.

22. What is your favorite song by 16? (3OH!3)
-I Can't Do It Alone or Starstrukk

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? (Bring Me the Horizon)
-Tell Slater Not To Wash His Dick

24. What is your favorite album by 18? (Eminem)
-All great, so... you pick.

25. What is your favorite song by 21? (The Filthy Youth)
-Boy Don't Smoke <3

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (Across the Universe)
-Girl, the first one that comes in the movie.

27. What is your favorite album by 3? (Escape the Fate)
-The new one.

28. What is you favorite song by 2? (Metro Station)
-After the Fall at the moment

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? (Coldplay)
-Can't remember!!

30. What is you favorite song by 8? (Jonas Brothers)
-Hahaha, embarrassing?? Well, Lovebug, When You Look Me In The Eyes or I Wanna Be Like You

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? (Muse)
-I haven't :(

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? (The Medic Droid)
-Fer Sure <3 :'D

33. How did you get into 12? (From First to Last)
-I was surfing on the net and I ran into Note to Self and I was in love.

34. What is the worst song by 45? (Alesana)
-Dunno, haven't even heard them all.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? (Drop Dead, Gorgeous)
-Naaah, me no remember.

36. What is the first song you ever heard by 48? (Fintelligens)
-Such hard questions!!

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? (Protest the Hero)
-0

38. What is you favorite song by 36? (Kanye West)
-Homecoming

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? (Miley Cyrus)
-Some Hannah Montana -song :DD

40. What is you favorite album by 7? (Olavi Uusivirta)
-They are both great.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? (PMMP)
-Pariterapiaa, Mummola and Matoja for example.


42. What is your favorite album by 41? (Katy Perry)
-She has just one, right?

43. What is your favorite song by 24? (Jason Mraz)
Dynamo Of Volition


44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? (Avenged Sevenfold)
-A friend.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? (I Set My Friends On Fire)
-hhahaha, they're all good!

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? (The Used)
-Hmmm, happy? No.

47. What is your favorite album by 4? (Cheek)
-You can't really put them into any order...

48. Who is a favorite member of 37? (Papa Roach)
-The only one I know by name is Shaddix, so.. :D

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? (Green Day)
-I don't remember, I was so little back then :D.

50. What is your favorite song by 20? (Nirvana)
-The Man Who Sold The World and Hairspray Queen

567 Social Distortion
468 Rise Against
363 Jonas Brothers
346 Sum 41
338 Lostprophets
324 Zebrahead
270 Story of the Year
269 Fightstar
234 Anti-Flag
223 Cauterize
222 Switchfoot
193 The Sounds
187 All-Time Low
169 The Offspring
167 Dropkick Murphys
162 3 Doors Down
155 The Killers
150 blink-182
145 Treble Charger
142 Flogging Molly
137 Ten Second Epic
129 Green Day
124 Nickelback
123 Scary Kids Scaring Kids
122 Matt Willis
108 Paramore
103 Mobile
102 Bad Religion
100 Gob
100 Placebo
-98 Pennywise
-95 12 Stones
-94 Elvis Costello
-93 Busted
-90 Alkaline Trio
-88 Smile Empty Soul
-86 Motion City Soundtrack
-86 Manic Street Preachers
-84 Faber Drive
-83 Franz Ferdinand
-81 Shinedown
-79 The All-American Rejects
-79 Three Days Grace
-78 Shiny Toy Guns
-76 Ramones
-74 30 Seconds to Mars
-71 AFI
-69 My Chemical Romance
-66 HIM
-63 Hawk Nelson

1. How did you get into 29?
Three Days Grace
Probably the radio, sadly. Known them for a looooong time.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Sunny Day Real Estate
I think it was In Circles.

3. How many albums by 13 do you own?
Jonas Brothers
Oh dear. I think I downloaded 1-2...


4. What is your favorite song by 5?
Backseat Goodbye
32 Ways To Make You Smile


5. What is your favorite song by 15?
Saosin
You're Not Alone


6. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Paramore
I can think of a few, yes.


7. What is your favorite song by 10?
Jack's Mannequin
American Love


8. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
Hawthorne Heights
The entire memory of Casey Calvert. RIP.


9. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Ludo
Topeka.


10. How many times have you seen 23 live?
Tokio Hotel
Never and I do not plan on doing so in the future


11. What is the first song you ever heard by 26?
The Beatles
I'm sure I heard a lot of their stuff when I was really little, so I couldn't say.


12. What is your favorite album by 11?
Panic at the Disco
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out


13. Who is a favorite member of 1?
The Rocket Summer
Bryce Avary... Clearly...


14. Have you ever seen 14 live?
Secondhand Serenade
No, but I'd like to.


15. What is a good memory involving 27?
The Men Who Control The Weather
The first show of theirs that I went to. Johnny cut his lip coming over to rock out with us. Went to that show for Awesome Car Funmaker, but had a blast with these guys.


16. What is your favorite song by 16?
Reel Big Fish
I'd have to go with Beer, even though that's really typical.


17. What is your favorite album by 18?
Underoath
Define the Great Line


18. What is your favorite song by 21?
The Used
Take It Away


19. What is the first song you ever heard by 25?
Drop Dead, Gorgeous
Dressed for Friend Requests


20. What is your favorite album by 2?
Chiodos
All's Well That Ends Well


21. What is you favorite song by 3?
Awesome Car Funmaker
Juice.


22. What is you favorite song by 8?
The All-American Rejects
Stab My Back or Straitjacket Feeling


23. How many times have you seen 17 live?
Green Day
Never, nor do I want to. Unless they reverted back to 90s Green Day


24. What is the worst song by 12?
Queen
No idea.


25. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
The Color Fred
If I Surrender


26. What is you favorite album by 7?
Forever the Sickest Kids
Television Off, Party On EP


27. What is your favorite song by 24?
Conor Oberst
Cape Canaveral


28. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
Anthony Green
Lots.


29. What is your favorite album by 4?
Tegan and Sara
The Con


30. How many albums do you own by 20?
Say Anything
Two.

It takes a special breed of person to make end-of-year top ten lists of a given category. I don't mean "special" as in exemplary, or somehow a cut above. Interestingly, though, that demographic dovetails nicely with the type of person who might think that their ranting and hyperbole might be interesting to the whole wide internet. So here's a list of Mike's Choices for the top ten records of the year. The year might not be over, but unless the Young Jeezy record or Rod Stewart albums is going to BLOW MY MIND, I'm going to call it. These are ranked, largely, by how much enjoyment I got out of them, how much I liked them. Not terribly empirical, but it seems to work for me.

1. The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
Huge without being silly, atmospheric without being limpid, it's just booming, thundering neo-shoegazer of the finest variety. Maybe not the best record of the year on a technical scale, but I've listened to and enjoyed this album more than any other this year, and it only came out in September. Bits of everything from My Bloody Valentine to The Jesus and Mary Chain are folded into the mix, but without ever really sounding specifically derivative. I heard the "Velvet" single and had to go out that day to get the single, just to have a real physical copy of it. It's that good, and there is no hesitation in me naming this my favorite album of the year.

2. The Vandelles - Del Black Aloha
Coming from out of a buzz-less nowhere with their debut EP, they followed up with a full-length that did everything you would want a first album to do after a killer EP... more of the same, but deeper. Sonically, it's halfway between some wicked surf band we've never heard of and a blast of feedback like a bucket of cold water in the face. Once again, Jesus And Mary Chain comparisons aren't inaccurate, but it's more than just sounding like a good band that makes this a great record. Thrilling sonics, oceanic reverbs, swaggering hooks... it's got what a good rock record needs to have.

3. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
With some of the more jagged edges sanded down from the unexpectedly amazing Beyond, what we have here is an imminently satisfying collection of wistful melodies and extended soloing. If you like Dinosaur Jr., you'll love this record... but if you don't like the band, this album might just win you over anyway. Barlow's rumbling bass guitar and Murph's furious tom rolls build a structure to hold up swirling, winding, neo-psychedelic explorations wrung from Mascis' Jazzmaster. It's impressive that any band could make a record this good, much less one that broke up less-than-amicably 20 years ago.

4. Early Day Miners - The Treatment
Not so much the sound of a band changing... more like snapping into focus. After several albums of hovering, beautifully longing soundscapes, tunes that felt like memories, a sharpening of hooks and shortening of tunes makes this feel like a new band. Post-punk seems like a touchstone, but it's hard to put my finger on just what this sounds like. Danceable rhythms, mercurical guitar lines, and hooks. Lots of hooks. A surprise? Maybe. A delight? For sure.

5. A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Having been angry that I slept on their self-titled first album, I was thrilled to hear about this follow up. Where the first album was a collection of recordings cobbled into an album release, this is the first one recorded as an album. What does this mean? Sonic cohesion. Every one of these static and reverb epics flows into each other, sounding like a monolithic call to feedback arms. Again, it's a good year to be a shoegazer.

6. The Dead Weather - Horehound
I'm no great champion of The Kills, singer Alison Mosshart's main gig, but I've got no beef with them. I'm on record as being a Jack White fan. So what's the deal with this ill-recieved project? Voodoo blues. Dark, oozing, psychedelic evil grooves. And it's fantastic. I do like the White-sung tracks a little better, but there's not a truly weak track on this. People didn't like it because it didn't sound like The White Stripes. So what? This is way more Captain Beefheart's The Mirror Man Sessions than B.B. King. If you wrote it off, try it again. If you haven't heard it, now's the time.

7. Sune Rose Wagner - Sune Rose Wagner
It doesn't sound like a Raveonettes album, but it couldn't have been made by anyone who wasn't in The Raveonettes. Gossamer, drifting, dreamy - I hate to fly, and this record put me at ease from Cleveland to Boston. All the Spector-esque arrangements you've come to love, but like Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind is sounds like it's being recorded by ghosts. It's beautiful, and the fact that it's all sung in Danish makes it even more ethereal. Forget the Cocteau Twins, this is what dream-pop should sound like.

8. Varsity Drag - Rock'n'Roll Is Such A Hassle : Live In Europe
Ben Deily left the Lemonheads in '89, put out a record with his new band, Pods, in 1994, then disappeared to have a real life until '06, when Varsity Drag debuted on record. This career-overview live disc shows that while he hasn't been prolific, Deily has certainly been consistently excellent. Everything from early L-heads songs up through 2009 material, it's a fantastic collection for anyone who likes good punky rock songs. Considering how good these songs are, I don't think I need to sell it any further.

9. The Raveonettes - In And Out Of Control
I've never considered them one of my favorite bands, but it seems like every year The Raveonettes release a record, it makes my top ten list. This year's is no different, in that it's completely satisfying, sounds wonderful, and has good songs. I just can't get enough of their surf/spy guitars and cooing backup vocals. Last year's Lust, Lust, Lust was a comeback of sorts for a band that never went away - it was just a lean, dark rock record. If you have liked almost anything on this list, you'll like this record. I guarantee it* (*this is in no way a guarantee).

10. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
This is the later edit that I knew would be inevitable. I had left this one off the big list of candidates. I didn't know they still had it in them. The trippiest, freakiest, most acid-drenched head record of the year. Totally deserving of the list



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Also-Rans: This was too good a year for music to constrain it to the top 10. There were several excellent records this year that just barely didn't make the cut, but deserve one more largely-unread blog to sing their praises.

of the metro - "April Is The Cruelest Month/Roboboogie": honestly, there would have been a place for this at the grown-up table if it had been more than 2 tracks. It was a best albums list, but this is only down here because of a technicality. What does it sound like? Electronic music that sounds HUMAN. That should be all you need to know. www.myspace.com/inastationofthemetro

Asobi Seksu - Hush: More dream-pop than shoegazer, it shows that you can strip huge things down, and if they're really good, they'll stand up. This does, and it's beautiful.

Death - ...For the Whole World To See: pre-punk, Motor City Dirtbombs-esque garage'n'roll that proves that obsessive record collectors deserve to be listened to from time to time.

Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown:
Far better than I expected. It's nice to hear a band that I know are honest about doing what's good about big, huge, old-fashioned rock music. It doesn't feel ironic, it doesn't feel put-on, and it's not smarmy like some of the other epically huge bands of the day.

Madlib - Beat Konducta, Vol. 5-6: Hazy hip hop fragments from the underground's best (I said it) producer.

Sonic Youth - The Eternal: solid, tight experiments from the kings and queen of avant-alterna-rock. Fantastic.

Metric - Fantasies: Haunted, danceable modern pop. It SOUNDS perfect, and probably would if it sounded different, too.

Mos Def - The Ecstatic: Not enough hip-hop on my proper list, but not for want of trying. After being written off for a couple of albums, Mos Def comes roaring back with his best since his debut.

Spinnerette - Spinnerette: Hard-edged Rock that shows that Brody Dalle is a lot more than a punk screamer. Almost made number 10 up there.

In alpha order so I don't have to mess with it much when I update.

Commentary: The big winners don't surprise me at all. There are a few surprises that are on the list all together. Some how low they are, and some that are simply just counted. A few days of listening of things from my past are in here. :)

Last Update: December 8, 2009.

Amanda Palmer 4
Andrew Bird 2
Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire 1
Andrew Lloyd Webber 1
Animal Collective 1
Au Revoir Simone 1
Band of Horses 2
Belle and Sebastian 2
Ben Folds 16
Ben Folds Five 16
Ben Kweller 1
Ben Lee 2
Big Bang Boom 1
Billy Joel 1
Bishop Allen 3
Blitzen Trapper 1
Bloc Party 1
Bon Iver 1
Breaking Benjamin 1
Built to Spill 4
Cake 1
Claude-Michel Schonberg 1
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone 1
Cloud Cult 3
Colin Meloy 1
Corn Mo 1
DeYarmond Edison 1
Eef Barzelay 3
Eels 4
Eisley 1
Elliott Smith 10
Elton John 1
Green Day 1
Gomez 3
Hotel Lights 7
Immaculate Machine 1
International Orange 2
Jeff Buckley 1
Jenny Owen Youngs 1
Jukebox the Ghost 5
Kate Miller-Heidke 1
Kevin Devine 8
Manchester Orchestra 1
Maria Taylor 1
Mates of State 1
Menomena 1
Modest Mouse 1
Mitch Hedberg 1
Mute Math 1
My Morning Jacket 1
of Montreal 5
Oh No Oh My 1
Okkervil River 1
OK Go 1
Passion Pit 1
Radiohead 1
Regina Spektor 2
Rilo Kiley 3
Shout Out Louds 2
Sigur Ros 1
Snuzz 5
Squirrel Nut Zippers 1
Stars 1
Steven Curtis Chapman 1
Sufjan Stevens 2
Tapes 'n Tapes 1
The Avett Brothers 5
The Beatles 3
The Decemberists 1
The Dresden Dolls 4
The Flaming Lips 2
The Good Life 1
The Honorary Title 1
The Mountain Goats 3
The New Pornographers 2
The Old Ceremony 1
The Polyphonic Spree 4
They Might Be Giants 1
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists 1
William Fitzsimmons 1