Best albums of 2009

The best heavy metal album since Pantera was at the top of their game.
Favorite song: "The Czar (Usurper/Escape/Martyr/Spiral)"

Had this album been released sooner it would've been the soundtrack for my 20s & up until 2009. I can relate to all the songs far far too well.
Favorite song: "My Timing Is Off"

One of my favorite hip-hop albums of the 00s. I tend to listen to it every day for about a week straight whenever I give it a spin.
Favorite song: "Optimist" (or "Out of Category" or any other song on this album)

Favorite song: "Convinced of the Hex"

Favorite song: "Rats"

Favorite song: "that damned fly" (a song I often have stuck in my head)

Favorite song: "Even in the Rain"

Favorite song: "What Have I Done?" (possibly the best song Cursive has recorded to date)

I read something about Screaming Females on one of the music news sites I frequent & decided to look them up to hear their music. Soon after, I got my hands on Power Move and loved every moment of it. Then I saw them live & they were great.

I still need to pick up their other albums.
Favorite song: "Adult Army"

That'd be ex-A Perfect Circle member Paz Lenchantin on bass. When I read she was in this band I checked them out & really dug them. They've got a very 60s/70s rock vibe.
Favorite song: "M.L.K."

Favorite song: "Fig with a Bellyache"

Favorite song: "Who Doesn't Love a Good Dismemberment?"

Lyrics:
At one time when the days were nectar sweet I was a lovely boy.
I brought smiles in my bag to pass around to all the unpleasant I passed.
As life walked by.
I noticed it look at me and not once did it stop it's horrible stare.
I made that my occupation, self proclaimed devourer of problems.

It must be a long project to finally bring someone to their knees.
It didn't like me fucking up the balance.
I'm undoing life's work.

Since I never once saw that gaze fade.
My bag became smaller, the unpleasant wouldn't accept my smiles as easily as before.
I think I'm losing my friends.

I noticed it look at me and not once did it stop it's horrible stare.
I made that my occupation, self-proclaimed devourer of problems.

I think I was a lovely boy.
It feels like a million years since I was him.
I noticed it look at me and not once did it stop it's horrible stare.
I made that my occupation, self-proclaimed devourer of problems.

To think those stories were a lie and all he had to do was fix a gaze on me.
To turn it all around.
I think I was a lovely boy.
Let's see if we can't make a lovely lovely man.
listen to it here