Your Top 5 of 2009

[Ecosse]

So, whats everyones favourite albums of 2009? Doesn't have to be Prog, just anything you've liked as an album.

For me it's been:

5. NOFX - Coaster
4. Guilt Machine - On This Perfect Day
3. Riverside - ADHD
2. Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
1. Dream Theater - BC&SL

There's been loads more albums I've loved, but those 5 are definately the ones I keep listening too again & again.

[metalmatt]

Quite a few good albums this year, this is going to be a tough choice.

1. Enter Shikari - Common Dreads
2. Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
3. Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
4. Darwin's Radio - Template for a Generation
5. Between the Burried and Me - The Great Misdirect or Muse - The Resistance

There's definitely a few more I could of added to that, but I'll refrain for now.

[grif]

1. The Underfall Yard - Big Big Train
2. The Incident - Porcupine Tree
3. The Whirlwind - Transatlantic
4. Template for a Generation - Darwins Radio
5. Less is More - Marillion

[MikeEvs]

In no particular order:

Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
The Devin Townsend Band - Addicted
Megadeth - Endgame

[Geetar]

Again, in no particular order:

Riverside- ADHD
Big Big Train- The Underfall Yard
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind (and I'm still only half-way through it..)
Richard Hallebeek- One Spirit: Go for It
Arjen Lucassen's Guilt Machine- On This Perfect Day


Well, no-one said it had to be all prog.

[D S]

Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Darwin's Radio - Template For A Generation
Touchstone - Wintercoast
Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
Muse - The Resistance
(although I've been listening to Paul Cusick's rather excellent Focal Point CD a lot too recently).

Whilst I probably should include the Frost*Fest gig CD (especially for the intro and animal noises   ), I suspect that the final version, TPE, will almost certainly make it into the 2010 list!

EDIT:  Oops!  Forgot IQ's Frequency was also a 2009 release.  Should also be in the Top 5  but don't know which one to bump!

[robh]

Panic Room - Satellite
Parzivals Eye - Fragments
Touchstone - Wintercoast
Manning - Number 10
Lee Abraham - Black & White

[namister]

Lee Abraham - Black and White
La Roux - La Roux
Blind Ego - Numb
Steve Thorne - Into ether
Transatlantic

Disappointments of year

Big Big Train - Underfall (must be my wonky taste)
No Arena album
No Frost Live
No Peter Gabriel
No Roger Waters

[taliwakker]

1. The Dear Hunter-ACT III

this is the only cd that really blew me away this year. Brilliant. Everyone should check it out.


2.Devin Townsend-Addicted
3.DGM-FrAMe
4.Anthem-The Extended Mind
5.Anubis Gate-The Detached

[Drarok]

5. NOFX - Coaster

I didn't even know they were still going! I'll have to go dig out the old Fat Mike and co tunes!

[johninblack]

1. Praying Mantis - Sanctuary
2. Touchstone - Wintercoast
3. Darwin's Radio - Template For A Generation
4. Mother Black Cap- The English Way
5. Muse - The Resistance

[Ecosse]

5. NOFX - Coaster

I didn't even know they were still going! I'll have to go dig out the old Fat Mike and co tunes!

Oh yeah, they toured earlier this year, they played the Leeds Academy, but couldn't afford to go as it was the month after the DT/Frost* gig, so was skint from that.

[Bert]

Well....

In no particular order:-

Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot
Ellipse - Imogen Heap
Frequency - IQ
Black Clouds and Silver Linings (yeah yeah, I know, after all I said)
ADHD - Riverside

[L33VEY]

1) IQ - Frequency (TBE's finest hour or so?)
2) Darwins Radio - Template for a Generation (Dec's finest 40 minutes or so)
3) Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard (Jem's finest solos?)
4) Transatlantic - Whirlwind
5) Muse - The Resistance (but for Frost* this would have been No 1!)

[DannySoisSage]

Difficult! Especially since I've spent most of the year catching music from before this year! So here are two lists

Top Five of 2009

1) Devin Townsend - Ki/Addicted (cheating I know =D)
2) Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings (based entirely on ANTR and TCOT, nothing else!)
3) Mastodon - Crack the Skye
4) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
5) Tim Exile - Listening Tree

Honourable mentions
IQ - Frequency
Lamb of God - Wrath
OSI - Blood
Pure Reason Revolution - Amor Vincit Omnia
Imogen Heap - Ellipse

Now my Top Five Discoveries of 2009 that aren't from 2009 lol

1) Opeth - Ghost Reveries
2) Wendy and Lisa - White Flags of Winter Chimneys (ta Jem!)
3) Bigelf - Cheat the Gallows
4) Between the Buried and Me - Colours
5) Rush - Grace Under Pressure

Honorable Mentions

Filthy Dukes - Nonsense in the Dark
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Kino - Picture
Ladytron - Velocifero

Also really found my way with Meshuggah - Catch 33 this year which I just couldn't last year.

Great year for discovering music =) not so great for releases but not awful either!