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Nov 24, 2009 - 7:16PM

Uncut - EOY

1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years
3. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
4. Bob Dylan – Together Through Life
5. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
6. XX – The XX
7. Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
8. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
10. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
11. Bill Callaham – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
12. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
13. White Denim – Fits
14. Flaming Lips – Embryonic
15. Bassekou Kouyate And Ngoni Ba – I Speak Fula
16. Florance And The Machine – Lungs
17. Doves – Kingdom Of Rust
18. Graham Coxon – The Spinning Top
19. Sonic Youth – The Eternal
20. Horrors – Primary Colours
21. Low Anthem – Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
22. Alela Diane – To Be Still
23. Manic Street Preachers – Journal For Plague Lovers
24. Micachu And The Shapes – Jewellery
25. Sunn 0))) – Monoliths And Dimensions
26. Unthanks – Here’s The Tender Coming
27. Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs
28. Madness – The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
29. PJ Harvey & John Parish – A Woman A Man Walked By
30. Jim O’ Rourke – The Visitor
31. Dead Weather – Horehound
32. Iggy Pop – Preliminaries
33. Duke And The King – Nothing Gold Can Stay
34. Trembling Bells – Carberth
35. Tinariwen – Imidiwan: Companions
36. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
37. Dinosaur Jr – Farm
38. Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
39. Cornershop – Judy Sucks On A Lemon For Breakfast
40. Felice Brothers – Yonder Is The Cock
41. Van Morrison – Astral Weeks Live At The Hollywood Bowl
42. Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter
43. Bruce Springsteen – Working On A Dream
44. Reigning Sound – Love And Curses
45. Richmond Fontaine – We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River
46. Broadcast & The Focus Group - …Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age
47. Alasdair Roberts – Spoils
48. Raphael Saadiq – The Way I See It
49. Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3
50. Kurt Vile – Childish Prodigy

Much, much more in the magazine which I will type up when I've bought it tomorrow!

Nov 24th, 2009 - 7:16 PM

Nov 24, 2009 - 8:22PM

Re: Uncut - EOY

Very happy to see Bitte Orca at #2. That album really epitomizes "album as an art form". Best EOY list so far, and I believe Uncut is the first (soon to be of many) to annoint MPP.

atomic

Nov 24, 2009 - 10:19PM

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Awful list. The only album I like in the top 10 is the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Seems like a lot of polarizing bands in these top lists this year. I am sure more people hate bands like Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, and Wild Beasts than like them.

Phoenix album isn't too bad.

Stephan

Nov 25, 2009 - 12:27AM

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Some more love for 'XX' is nice, but another list to completely ignore 'Hospice'. Shame.

Nov 25, 2009 - 12:44AM

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Stephan

Some more love for 'XX' is nice, but another list to completely ignore 'Hospice'. Shame.

Agreed on both counts. XX is my #3 for the year, and Hospice will probably land in my T10. I'm sure the Indie lists will give it some love.

Chas

Nov 25, 2009 - 7:55AM

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The rest of it is already up at Rocklists.net except top 20 Americana & 10 bubblers which, in alphabetical order, are :

Lily Allen - It's not you it's me
The Antlers - Hospice
The Cribs - Ignore the ignorant
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight : Franz Ferdinand
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Luke Haines - 21st Century Man
Levon Helm - Electric Dirt
Ian Hunter - Man Overboard
Sun Araw - Heavy Deads
U2 - No Line On The Horizon

Nassim

Nov 25, 2009 - 11:11AM

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atomic

As a matter of fact I'm pretty sure that their top 14 (excluding Dylan and maybe SFA) are the albums that we will see the most on the EOY lists (maybe not Bill Calahan, but it should).
I can see how Dirty Projectors is polarizing (it almost even "polarized" myself, I sometimes love it and sometimes hate it... anyway Stillness is the Move is one of the top tracks of the year), but the 2 others are not that much. Animal Collective is as strange as usual but somehow manage to make an album that can appeal to a large audience. I listened to Wild Beasts for the first time yesterday and found it amazing, I guess people might dislike the voice of the singer (I'm not totally comfortable with it too) but I don't get how the rest of the music can be hated ! It will probably end on my top 5 of the year

And love for the XX and Fever Ray is more than welcome !

SuperFurry

Nov 28, 2009 - 2:13AM

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40. Felice Brothers – Yonder Is The Cock

Now that sounds like an interesting album...

Greg

Nov 29, 2009 - 8:58PM

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in their EOD list, the three highest-placed albums from 2009 were

Animal Collective
Dylan
Levon Helm (not even on this list)

odd

Nov 29th, 2009 - 8:58 PM

BillAdama

Nov 29, 2009 - 9:04PM

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I really like this list. My #2 is their #1 and my #3 is their #3. The only one near the top of my list that isn't on theirs is BLK JKS - After Robots. It's good to see White Denim - Fits on there.

hrs

Nov 29, 2009 - 11:06PM

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Mitchell Stirling

I have these! Nice to see Florence + The Machine, PJ Harvey and Alela Diane, finally getting some attention overseas.

ChrisF

Nov 30, 2009 - 7:00AM

Re: Uncut - EOY

SuperFurry

40. Felice Brothers – Yonder Is The Cock

Now that sounds like an interesting album...

It's probably worth checking out even if it is Yonder is the Clock. I saw them live and they rocked hard. Never heard one of their albums though.

SuperFurry

Nov 30, 2009 - 9:19AM

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ChrisF

SuperFurry

40. Felice Brothers – Yonder Is The Cock

Now that sounds like an interesting album...

It's probably worth checking out even if it is Yonder is the Clock. I saw them live and they rocked hard. Never heard one of their albums though.

I have already heard this and intend to get it, I was just being a bit of a smart-arse.