I was going to do a big 2009 music wrap-up post, just like jwz does. But, yeah…that hasn’t happened. I did spend a little time hacking up some code to help me generate Last.fm links for all the music I did come across in 2009. So, at least there’s that. Or rather, this:
- A Fine Frenzy — Bomb In A Birdcage
- Arctic Monkeys — Humbug
- Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse — Dark Night of the Soul
- Depeche Mode — Sounds Of The Universe
- Editors — In This Light and On This Evening
- Franz Ferdinand — Blood: Franz Ferdinand
- Franz Ferdinand — Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
- Grand Duchy — Petits Fours
- Green Day — 21st Century Breakdown
- Jamie T — Kings & Queens
- Jay-Z — The Blueprint 3
- Jet — Shaka Rock
- Julian Plenti — Julian Plenti Is… Skyscraper
- KMFDM — Blitz
- KMFDM — Krieg
- Kasabian — West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
- La Roux — La Roux
- Manchester Orchestra — Mean Everything To Nothing
- Matt & Kim — Grand
- Metric — Fantasies
- Moby — Wait For Me
- Morrissey — Years Of Refusal
- Mos Def — The Ecstatic
- Ned’s Atomic Dustbin — Session
- Nosaj Thing — Drift
- Passion Pit — Manners
- Paul Van Dyk — Volume
- Pet Shop Boys — Love etc. (remixes)
- Pet Shop Boys — Yes
- Phoenix — Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Remix Collection)
- Phoenix — Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
- Prodigy — Invaders Must Die
- Rancid — Let the Dominoes Fall
- Skold Vs. KMFDM — Skold Vs. KMFDM
- The Bravery — Stir the Blood
- The Crystal Method — Divided By Night
- The Killers — Live From The Royal Albert Hall
- The Rifles — Great Escape
- Them Crooked Vultures — Them Crooked Vultures
- U2 — No Line On The Horizon
- Weezer — Raditude
- White Lies — To Lose My Life …
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs — It’s Blitz!
It violates all the rules of High Fidelity. It’s alphabetized. It has no judgement associated with bands or albums. It’s just a lifeless list. The only thing you have to go on is that at some point in 2009 I thought I might like said band/album and bought it. Some of them weren’t that great. Some I don’t listen to at all anymore. Some I have on near perpetual repeat. How will you know?! You won’t. Sorry, but it’s really not that important.