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2009 - THE YEAR SO FAR ...
Albums worth another mention in no particular order (majority released over the past 12 months)
    
Albums are given marks out of 10: All albums given 10 or 9 are essential! - All albums given 8.5, 8+ and 8 are highly recommended,
those given 7.5 are very good and recommended (while a 7+ is much better than a 7 but not as impressive as a 7.5), a 6.5 or 6+ are good to decent, a 6 is average or just about acceptable, while anything from 5.5 downwards start to sound a bit grim, and all albums under a 3 should be removed from their cases and would have much better use as a beermat (biermat)!
THEM CROOKED VULTURES - Them Crooked Vultures (Columbia) 6/10
BLACK GOLD - Rush (Red Bull Records) 4.5/10
THE ANTLERS - Hospice (K7 Records) 5+/10
STING - If On A Winter`s Night ... (Decca) 6/10
STEREOPHONICS - Keep Calm And Carry On (Mercury) 3/10
TOM HINGLEY - Thames Valley Delta Blues (New Memorabilia) 7+/10
101 INDIE CLASSICS {5 CD} - various artists (EMI) 7.5/10
JULIAN CASABLANCAS - Phrazes For The Young (Rough Trade / RCA) 5.5/10
PURESSENCE - Sharpen Up The Knives (Caserta Red) 7.5/10
SKUNK ANANSIE - Smashes & Trashes (One Little Indian) 3.5/10
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO - Playing the Piano (Decca) 7+/10
CREED - Full Circle (EMI) 4+/10
SLAYER - World Painted Blood (Columbia) 3/10
BRETT ANDERSON - Slow Attack (BA Songs) 5+/10
LUCAS RENNEY - Strange Glory (Brille) 7/10
WOLFMOTHER - Cosmic Egg (Island / Modular) 5/10
MORRISSEY - Swords (Polydor) 7+/10
COPARCK - A Dog and Pony Show (V2) 5/10
EPICA - Design Your Universe (Nuclear Blast) 3/10
AIR - Love 2 (EMI / Astralwerks) 6+/10
HOCKEY - Mind Chaos (EMI) 5.5/10
THE FLAMING LIPS - Embryonic (Warners) 5+/10
SERGEANT - Sergeant (Shy Records) 6.5/10
SLADE - Live at The BBC {2 CD} (Salvo) 7+/10
MADNESS - Total Madness {CD & DVD} (Union) 8/10
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - The Fountain (Ocean Rain) 6/10
EDITORS - In This Light and on This Evening (Kitchenware) 6+/10
BAD LIEUTENANT - Never Cry Another Tear (Triple Echo) 7.5/10
GIRLS - Album (Fantasy Trash Can) 6+/10
ALICE IN CHAINS - Black Gives Way to Blue (Parlophone) 4/10
DAVID SYLVIAN - Manafon (Samadhisound) 7+/10
MAPS - Turning The Mind (Mute) 7+/10
KISS - Sonic Boom (Roadrunner) 3/10
IAN BROWN - My Way (Polydor) 6+/10
PEARL JAM - Backspacer (Universal) 6/10
DAVID GRAY - Draw The Line (Polydor / East West) 6/10
ANOUK - For Bitter Or Worse (EMI Benelux) 2.5/10
PARAMORE - Brand New Eyes (Fueled By Ramen) 6+/10
PALOMA FAITH - Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful (BMG) 7.5/10
MUSE - The Resistance (Warners) 7/10
THE CRIBS - Ignore The Ignorant (Wichita) 6/10
DJ HELL - Teufelswerk {2 CD} (Gigolo) 7+/10
HOPE SANDOVAL & THE WARM INVENTIONS - Through The Devil Softly (Nettwerk) 6.5/10
VICTORIAN ENGLISH GENTLEMENS CLUB - Love On An Oil Rig (This Is Fake DIY) 5+/10
MOKE - The Long and Dangerous Sea (PIAS) 2+/10
WILD BEASTS - Two Dancers (Domino Records) 7/10
TINARIWEN - Imidiwan: Companions (Independiente) 7+/10
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS {ost} - various artists (Warners) 7.5/10
NOAH & THE WHALE - The First Days Of Spring (Mercury) 6/10
SUSANNA HOFFS & MATTHEW SWEET - Under The Covers, vol 2 (Shout Factory) 7+/10
SAINT ETIENNE - So Tough {2 CD Deluxe Edition} (Heavenly / Universal) 8+/10
SHE KEEPS BEES - Nests (Names Records / Rough Trade) 7.5/10
THE MADD - Are Pretty Quick! (Excelsior) 3.5/10
ARCTIC MONKEYS - Humbug (Domino) 7.5/10
ATHLETE - Black Swan (Polydor / Fiction) 4/10
MAGIC ARM - Make Lists, Do Something (Switchflicker Records) 7+/10
THE XX - XX (Young Turks / Rough Trade) 6.5/10
MEW - No More Stories Are Told Today ... (BMG / Columbia) 5/10
THE STONE ROSES - The Stone Roses {20th Anniversary Edition} (BMG) 9/10
REVEREND & THE MAKERS - A French Kiss In The Chaos (Wall of Sound) 6/10
THE RUMBLE STRIPS - Welcome To The Walk Alone (Island) 7/10
THE TWANG - Jewellery Quarter (B-Unique) 4.5/10
KiD BRiTiSH - It Was This Or Football - part 1 (Mercury) 7.5/10
THE DEAD WEATHER - Horehound (Polydor / Columbia) 6+/10
ISOBEL HEYWORTH - The Attic Recordings (Green Bird) 7+/10
ENGINEERS - Three Fact Fader (K-Scope) 6+/10
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB - I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose (Island) 7+/10
FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE - Lungs (Island) 6.5/10
DINOSAUR Jr. - Farm (PIAS) 3.5/10
SLOW CLUB - Yeah So (Moshi Moshi) 7+/10
WILCO - Wilco (None Such) 6/10
WHITE DENIM - Fits (Full Time Hobby) 5/10
LA ROUX - La Roux (Polydor) 7.5/10
THE GOSSIP - Music For Men (BMG) 6.5/10
THE ANSWERING MACHINE - Another City, Another Sorry (Heist Or Hit) 7+/10
Common People: The Brit Pop Story - va {3 CD} (Universal) 7.5/10
BLUR - Midlife: A Beginners Guide To Blur {2 CD} (EMI) 7.5/10
ENTER SHIKARI - Common Dreads (Ambush Reality) 7+/10
PLACEBO - Battle For The Sun (PIAS) 6+/10
SONIC YOUTH - The Eternal (Matador) 6.5/10
LITTLE BOOTS - Hands (679 / Warners) 7/10
KASABIAN - The West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (BMG / Sony) 5/10
JARVIS COCKER - Further Complications (Rough Trade) 7/10
SIMPLE MINDS - Graffiti Soul (Universal) 6.5/10
GRIZZLY BEAR - Veckatimest (Warp) 6+/10
MARILYN MANSON - The High End Of Low (Polydor) 7/10
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - At the BBC {3 CDs & 1 DVD} (Polydor) 9/10
SAINT ETIENNE - Fox Base Alpha {2 CD Deluxe Edition} (Heavenly / Universal) 7.5/10
BROKEN RECORDS - Until The Earth Begins To Part (4AD) 8/10
GOLDEN SILVERS - True Romance (XL) 7+/10
JOHAN - 4 (Excelsior) 4/10
PASSION PIT - Manners (BMG) 7+/10
THE FIELD - Yesterday and Today (Kompakt) 6+/10
POLLY SCATTERGOOD - Polly Scattergood (Mute) 6.5/10
THE MACCABEES - Wall of Arms (Polydor / Fiction) 6.5/10
GREEN DAY - 21st Century Breakdown (Warners / Reprise) 5/10
MANIC STREET PREACHERS - Journal For Plague Lovers (Columbia) 6+/10
MADNESS - The Liberty of Norton Folgate (Lucky Seven) 7/10
TORI AMOS - Abnormally Attracted to Sin (Universal Republic) 7+/10
THE HORRORS - Primary Colours (XL) 7+/10
THE SHEER - Here and Now and Long Before (PIAS Benelux) 1.5/10
MAXIMO PARK - Quicken The Heart (Warp) 6+/10
POST WAR YEARS - Greats & The Happenings (Wealth) 7+/10
THE GATHERING - The West Pole (Psychonaut) 3.5/10
GALLOWS - Grey Britain (Warners / Sire Records) 7/10
GAZPACHO - Tick Tock (HWT / Bertus) 5+/10
THE ENEMY - Music For The People (Warners) 4+/10
SKA MANIA - various artists {2CD} (Universal - UMTV) 7+/10
SILVERSUN PICKUPS - Swoon (Warners / Dangerbird) 6/10
DEPECHE MODE - Sounds Of The Universe (Mute) 7.5/10
ART BRUT - Art Brut Vs Satan (Downtown / Cooking Vinyl) 7/10
SUPER FURRY ANIMALS - Dark Nights / Light Years (Rough Trade) 6/10
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - A Kiss In The Dreamhouse {Remastered} (Polydor) 7.5/10
THE MUMMERS - Tale To Tell (Big Bass Drum) 7.5/10
CAMERA OBSCURA - My Maudlin Career (4AD) 7+/10
ENNIO MORRICONE - Soundtracks {2 CD} (Metro) 7.5/10
DANANANANAYKROYD - Hey Everyone (Best Before) 6.5/10
BAT FOR LASHES - Two Suns (EMI / Echo / Astralwerks) 8+/10
THERAPY? - Crooked Timber (Demolition / Global) 3.5/10
THE BOAT THAT ROCKED {ost} - various artists - 2 CD (Mercury) 7+/10
ULTRAVOX - Best of: Sight and Sound {2 CD & DVD} (EMI) 7+/10
DURUTTI COLUMN - Love In The Time Of Recession (Artful) 7/10
THE VIRGINS - The Virgins (Warners / Atlantic) 5/10
THE VEILS - Sun Gangs (Rough Trade) 6.5/10
GOMEZ - A New Tide (Eat Sleep) 6.5/10
DOVES - Kingdom Of Rust (Heavenly / EMI) 8/10
Peter Bjorn and John - Living Thing (Wichita) 6/10
CRYSTAL ANTLERS - Tentacles (Tough & Go) 5/10
SAINT ETIENNE - London Conversations: The Best Of {2CD & DVD} (Heavenly) 7.5/10
THE DECEMBERISTS - The Hazards of Love (Rough Trade / Capitol) 5/10
PJ Harvey and John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By (Island Records) 7+/10
OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT - Understanding Electricity (One Little Indian) 7+/10
ROYKSOPP - Junior (Wall Of Sound / EMI / Astralwerks) 7+/10
THE WHITEST BOY ALIVE - Rules (Bubbles) 6+/10
1990s - Kicks (Rough Trade) 5/10
THE RAKES - Klang (V2) 5+/10
KARIMA FRANCIS - The Author (Kitchenware) 7+/10
CHRIS CORNELL - Scream (Polydor / Interscope) 3/10
Dark Was The Night - various artists {2 CD} (4AD) 7/10
BLACK LIPS - 200 Million Thousand (Vice) 4/10
STARSAILOR - All The Plans (Virgin) 4.5/10
HOWLING BELLS - Radio Wars (Independiente) 4/10
MONGREL - Better Than Heavy (Wall of Sound) 6.5/10
PETER DOCHERTY - Grace / Wastelands (Parlophone / EMI) 3+/10
SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS - Alpinisms (Ghostly International) 7.5/10
YEAH YEAH YEAHs - It`s Blitz! (Polydor) 7/10
WAR CHILD: Heroes - various artists (Parlophone) 6+/10
U2 - No Line On The Horizon (Interscope / Mercury) 5/10
RED LIGHT COMPANY - Fine Fascination (Lavolta) 7+/10
BEIRUT - March OF The Zapotec / Holland (Pompeii) 5/10
PASSION PIT - Chunk Of Change EP (BMG) 7+/10
THE PRODIGY - Invaders Must Die (Cooking Vinyl / V2) 4/10
DEERHUNTER - Microcastle (4AD / Kranky) 5/10
MARIKE JAGER - The Beauty Around (Morning Coffee) 3.5/10
EMPIRE OF THE SUN - Walking On A Dream (EMI) 6.5/10
MORRISSEY - Years Of Refusal (Decca / Polydor) 7.5/10
A R RAHMAN - Slumdog Millionaire {ost} (Polydor) 7+/10
THE FRAY - The Fray (Sony) 4/10
THE VIEW - Which Bitch? (1965) 6/10
LILY ALLEN - It`s Not Me It`s You (Parlophone) 5+/10
FRANZ FERDINAND - Tonight ... (Domino) 7.5/10
THE SCRIPT - The Script (BMG / Sony) 3/10
SKY LARKIN - The Golden Spike (Wichita) 7/10
THE RIFLES - Great Escape (679 Recordings / Warners) 4/10
ANTHONY & THE JOHNSONS - The Crying Light (Rough Trade) 5+/10
WHITE LIES - To Lose My Life (Fiction / Polydor) 7.5/10
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) 6/10
FIGHT LIKE APES - The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion (Model Citizen) 7/10
FACTORY RECORDS: Communications 1978-92 - various artists {4 CD} (Rhino UK) 8+/10
FALL OUT BOY - Folie A Deux (Mercury / Fueled By Ramen) 7+/10
BELLE & SEBASTIAN - The BBC Sessions (Jeepster) 7.5/10
THE KILLERS - Day & Age (Island) 6+/10
THE SMITHS - The Sound Of The Smiths {2 CD} (Warners) 9+/10
SNOW PATROL - A Hundred Million Suns (Polydor / Geffen) 6/10
KEANE - Perfect Symmetry (Island) 2+/10
TRAVIS - Ode To J. Smith (Red Telephone Box) 7.5/10
GRACE JONES - Hurricane (Wall of Sound) 8.5/10
FLEET FOXES - Fleet Foxes (Bellaunion / Sub Pop) 7+/10
KINGS OF LEON - Only By The Night (BMG / RCA) 7+/10
GLASVEGAS - Glasvegas (Columbia) 7+/10
DOLPHIN BOY - Vertical Variations (Vertical Records - 2008) 7.5/10
DEATH OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD - Death of the Neighbourhood (Atic) 7.5/10
BLOC PARTY - Intimacy (Wichita) 4+/10
THE WEEK THAT WAS - The Week That Was (Memphis Industries / PIAS) 7.5/10
THE BEEP SEALS - Things That Roar (Heron) 7+/10
OASIS - Dig Out Your Soul (Big Brother) 7+/10
AIMEE MANN - @#%&*! Smilers (ADA / Super Ego) 8+/10
THE FUTUREHEADS - This Is Not The World (Nul Records) 8.5/10
THE TING TINGS - We Started Nothing (Columbia) 7.5/10
TINDERSTICKS - The Hungry Saw (Beggars Banquet) 7+/10
THE COURTEENERS - St Jude (Polydor) 8.5/10
JAMES - Hey Ma (Mercury / Fontana) 7.5/10
THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS - The Age Of The Understatement (Domino) 8/10
    
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2009 - THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY (the best, the worst & the most over hyped guitar orientated drivel ever to get a record released):
THE GOOD – DEPECHE MODE, ARCTIC MONKEYS, PJ HARVEY, BAT FOR LASHES, THE FUTUREHEADS, THE COURTEENERS, ARCADE FIRE, DOVES, AIMEE MANN, MORRISSEY, BROKEN RECORDS, GRACE JONES, DELPHIC, FIELD MUSIC & RADIOHEAD
THE BAD – STEREOPHONICS, KEANE, RAZORLIGHT, CHRIS CORNELL, ATHLETE, THE SCRIPT & more to follow!
THE UGLY – THE KOOKS, MOKE, AVRIL LAVIGNE, KID ROCK, ANOUK & BABYSHAMBLES
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ALBUM OF THE YEAR - 2009
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ALBUM OF THE YEAR - 2008
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ALBUM OF THE YEAR - 2007
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