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12/19/09

Top Albums Of 2009

As the year nears a close and the battle for the Christmas number one ends tomorrow I thought I’d blog my top 6 albums of 2009. I always buy a lot of music and 2009 has been a good year for music so here is my favourites! (in no particular order)


1 – Bowling for Soup – Sorry For Partyin’ - This was the follow-up for ‘A hangover you don’t deserve’ the band never had, fantastic album full of Bowling for Soup fun – Read my full review here

2. Relient K – Forget & Not Slow Down - One drummer change later and Relient K release what is now my favourite of their career with a fantastic mix of beautiful sounding piano and pop-punk energy – Read my full review here

3. Newton Faulkner – Rebuilt By Humans - The follow-up to his fantastic ‘Handbuild By Robots’ is possibly even better…Newton Faulker does it again…not much more to say on this album…BUY IT!

4. New Found Glory – Not Without A Fight - I had anticipated and looked forward to this album ever since hearing that Mark Hoppus of Blink 182 fame was producing it and I was so right to do so…cracking pop punk album that takes the band back to their ‘Sticks and Stones’ days – Read my full review here

5. Mat Kearney – City of Black and White - I only discovered Mat Kearney this year and liked him so much I ordered both his albums at once. Mat Kearney has a fantastic voice and his music is nice and chilled yet uptempo at the same time…well worth a listen.

6. Lily Allen – It’s Not Me It’s You - I can’t stand her first album but I love this one…I never wanted to though! It’s got a good mix of catchy pop tunes with some interesting lyrics which make you very glad that you’ve never slept with Lily Allen! – Read more of my thoughts on her here

Overall 2009 has been a good year for music but there hasn’t been masses of it released in the pop-punk arena…I’m looking forward to a new Blink 182 album next year, a new Angels and Airwaves album plus a new Sum 41 album! Bring on 2010 music!

03/9/09

I never wanted to like her…

I sat in the kitchen a while ago talking to Mark and enjoying the background music thinking ‘this song is quite good…I wonder who it is’ and then to my dissappointment Mark told me it was Lily Allen.

Now other than that stupid winey ‘Smile’ song I didn’t know (nor want to know) any of her songs but this one (The Fear) was actually good…with some thought provoking lyrics.

A week or so later Hannah Tibble mentioned the song at ‘The Point’ and so I thought I’d download her album ‘It’s not me, it’s you’ and have a listen (I have since bought the CD…my download wasn’t that legal!) and it’s a really good album.

Since installing Spotify last week and listening to her first album it’s not a case of me misjudging her, it seems to be a case of her going from writing (or having written for her) pants music to good music.

The album is musically pretty good, a nice mix of styles and track variations but also lyrically very very good with some really thought provoking lines and it has a real honest feel about it as if Lily (with help of ghost writers I’m sure) is writing about things she genuinely cares about.

It’s not often I recommend albums but there you have one!

I’m also looking forward to getting my hands on the new ‘New Found Glory’ record which was released today, it sounds like they’re getting back to their roots and it was produced by Mark Hoppus!