"I didn’t know I was this geeky until I discovered the online world through my office’s 2400 baud modem back in ’93." My most played albums of 2009
According to Last.FM these are the albums I listened to the most in 2009. Not all of them were released in 2009, ‘Eden Ahbez – Eden’s Island’ in particular, which is from 1960.
I don’t listen to music as intensely now and I couldn’t tell you the titles of the songs of many of these albums, let alone what they’re about. I couldn’t tell you much about the bands or artists either. And I don’t pay as much attention to lyrics as I used to. Music plays while I’m doing something else and I don’t wallow in it. Occasionally a phrase will stand out, but I’m going mostly by melody now. So consider these the best melodies I heard in 2009.
U2 are the odd one out in a field of not so widely knowns. I don’t agree with Rolling Stone all too often, but yes, I too think Moment of Surrender is the best piece of music that I’ve heard this year, and possibly the best piece of music U2 have ever written and Bono’s ever sung. It should have been the single.
- The Airborne Toxic Event – The Airborne Toxic Event
- A Mountain Of One – Institute of Joy
- M83 – Saturdays = Youth
- Eden Ahbez – Eden’s Island
- Moderat – Moderat
- Darker My Love – 2
- Reverend and The Makers – A French Kiss In The Chaos
- The Black Atlantic – Reverence For Fallen Trees
- U2 – No Line on the Horizon
- TV on the Radio – Dear Science
Other albums I listened to that didn’t make top 10:
Bat for Lashes – Two Suns, La Roux – La Roux, Masters of Reality – Pine, M83 – Before the dawn heals us, The Horrors – Primary Colours, MGMT – Oracular Spectacular, Empire State Human – Audio Gothic, Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak, Wild Beasts – Two Dancers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!, Martha Wainwright – Martha Wainwright, Noah and the Whale – The First Days of Spring, Soulsavers – Broken, The xx – xx, Julian Plenti – Julian Plenti is skyscraper, Joe Henry – Blood from stars, TV Ghost – Cold Fish, White Lies – To Lose my life
