Heels top 10 Albums of 2009

[Splugeon]

Coheed and Cambria?

Yeah I'd love to hear your suggestions. Because despite what you think, I'm not even peeved in the slightest. My dog has gas and that has me slightly annoyed right now, and my fiance hasn't returned from work with my snooty beers yet either.

Seemed like you were getting pretty pissed haha.

Just voicing me opinionales, broho.

[Anthony]

Kay Kay and his Weathered Underground -- (Self-Titled) (fucking awesome)

Minus the Bear -- Menos El Oso & Knights

Monty Are I -- Wall of People

Rx Bandits -- ...And the Battle Begun (One of my favorite albums ever)

Portugal, the Man -- Waiter: "You Vultures!" (Might be more around your guys' tastes, along with Kay Kay, which is fucking awesome)

The Spill Canvas -- Abnormalities EP (Just came out recently, only 3 songs but they're all fuckin' just solid)

The Girlfriend Season -- Things That Fly (Part 1) (Coming out soon )

Fall of Troy -- Manipulator

Coheed and Cambria -- In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (I'll listen to this album until I die)


There, pretty good assortment of genres in there too.

I've got all these bands covered with Coheed & Cambria & Fall of Troy being the exception, in my opinion, they're full of suck.

Regardless, thanks.

[Splugeon]

Ah we talked about Kay Kay and Portugal before I think.

What is it about FOT and C&C that sucks? Curious.

[Anthony]

I'll recommend you grab this album, if you're a fan of Interpol/Paul Banks that is.

[Anthony]

What is it about FOT and C&C that sucks? Curious.

I just don't like them, no real reason behind it.

[Splugeon]

Just curious. Gotta see Fall of Troy live to fully appreciate how incredibly talented Thomas Erak is. He's fuckin' nuts.

All three of them are, actually.

[Splugeon]

I know your scene. I bet you get pretty pissed when people call you an emo kid. Thing, is people don't even know what emo is. To me emo is Rites of Spring, Sunnyday Real Estate, Fugazi. That's what I listened to, I also listened to hardcore. I think the latest wave had a good start with some of their bands, but somewhere along the way they got way too high school little girlish. Alexisonfire even lost their edge. Last I heard Alesana was still rocking pretty hard, actually saw them back before they ever hit big back in NC. And fucking Chiodos. They had one of the best albums of the decade.

I just grew up I guess, and the music didn't.

Edit- I also thought you were going to list a bunch of albums that came out this year.

I didn't want to just post stuff from this year, from your list it didn't look like you expanded your horizons that much so I figured I'd just post some of my favorites.

The Spill Canvas is what a bunch of high school girls listen to. But listen to that EP, it's fuckin' baller. All on youtube/purevolume for streaming.

Bone Palace Ballet was ridiculously badass. With you completely on that one.

And again in agreement with you on people don't know what emo is. Stands for emotional, not hardcore/screamo. People are retarded. Anything from Dashboard Confessional's early stuff to Thursday to Fugazi can be classified as the original definition. Shit pisses me off haha.

Doesn't bother me as much as people not knowing the actual definition, but when people go straight to 'emo' when they see that I have long hair, well that just proves to me that said person is a complete idiot. Every guy with long hair = emo? Then the 80's was probably catastrophically dramatic.

EDIT: Monty Are I is about 1000 times more creative and just better than Alexisonfire.

And Kay Kay was the only band on there that I figured you might end up liking.

[Splugeon]

I can tell that you are a pretty big junkie now, just didn't seem like it from the list is all I meant ha.

[Maize]

Hey Heels, great list man. Have to agree with it, I liked seeing The Dirty Projectors, Grizzly Bear, and Gallows on the list. The way the list was going, I was surprised not to see BRAKESBRAKESBRAKES or The Mountain Goats.

My personal would look something like:

1. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2. Grizzly Bear - Vecktamist
3. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crookes Vultures
4. Gallows - Grey Britain
5. The Dirty Projectors - Bitte orca
6. Animal Collective - Meriweather Post Pavillion
7. The Dead Weather - Horehound
8. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
9. Anthony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
10. Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Young

And Wolfmother's Cosmic Egg was tough to leave off.

[James2Stapleton]

Someone died last night in the Gallows pit at the Soundwave festival, I was there :S

[Anthony]

Jello Biafra you fucking sell-out.