ALBUMS THAT DEFINED MY 2009
I know that separation sunday, for emma forever ago, time without consequences, and separation sunday aren’t 2009 albums but they make the cut because they didn’t come onto my radar until this past year.
looking back at the year - it was more about the bands who either recreated themselves or were new to me. Although i’m happy with albums like Wilco (the album) and Big Whiskey — for the most part, the new albums released by my old favorites weren’t game changers. If they had been the first thing I’d heard of those artists - I don’t know that I’d be the fan I am today because of older works like Yankee Hotel and Before These Crowded Streets.
a quick overview.
1. i can’t articulate what it is about for emma, forever ago. the name of the album moves me. it defines my pain and my love. it fills me up with emptiness. and the tone of justin vernon’s voice still makes me cry more than anything else.
2. i know these stories. you’re the one i want to see me for all the stupid shit i’ve done
3. honestly - my only reasoning. listen to orange sky. watch away we go.
4. i hated this band. and then i found how a resurrection really feels. and then i fell in love with their energy and learned to love craig finn’s voice. and all of a sudden, there was no turning back.
5. anonanimal. tenuousness. fitz and dizzyspells. he didn’t dissappoint. and i can say with zero reservations that if someone gave me this album before his earlier stuff, I would’ve become a fan even faster. i can also say that andrew bird is the most talented musician i have ever seen perform
6. the format: wrote the “song” from my relationship with the only man i’ve ever loved, played during almost every defining moment of high school, and broke up during my senior year of high school when everything was falling apart. fun. brings me hope - it didn’t end with nate and sam. yes i’m cheesy but this album makes me smile endlessly
7. like the andrew bird post - except I wasn’t even a gigantic fan before this album. now i can’t stop listening
8. she reminds me why i love being a woman. why its fun to be girly and dance and sing. this album blows the rest of her work out of the water.
9. too good. i would put bright eyes, conor oberst solo work, m. ward, and my morning jacket all in my top 25. hello heavenly.
About me
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not quite, the not yet, the not at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."-- ayn rand
(i am not a disciple. i am disgusting by 95% of what she says. i love her words. not the ideas behind them - but the words themselves)
