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2009: A Year In Blog
Well that's another year gone. Pretty much the same as all the others to be honest. Getting a bit older and the bones are hurting more than ever. That's what happens when you get to a quarter of a century kids. I think they call it arthritis?
Some great times were had and I'm looking forward to some more next year!
Top 10 Albums of 2009
1. Baroness - Blue Record
2. Propagandhi - Supporting Caste
3. Behemoth - Evangelion
4. Paramore - Brand New Eyes
5. Polar Bear Club - Chasing Hamburg
6. Megadeth - Engame
7. Lucero - 1372 Overton Park
8. Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic
9. Everygreen Terrace - Almost Home
10. Devin Townsend - Ki
Top 10 Live Shows of 2009
1. Propagandhi @ Corner Hotel
2. Misery Signals @ The Arthouse
3. Green Day @ Rod Laver Arena
4. Dropkick Murphys @ Billboards
5. NERD @ Vodafone Arena
6. Set Your Goals @ Corner Hotel
7. 3OH!3 @ The Hi Fi Bar
8. Architects @ Morrabin Town Hall
9. Stand Defiant @ The Arthouse
10. Dj Vike @ The Gazelle Bar
Top 10 Films of 2009
1. Up
2. Anvil! The Story Of Anvil
3. Whatever Works
4. The Wrestler
5. Funny People
6. Bad Lieutenant Port Of Call New Orleans
7. Fanboys
8. Terminator: Salvation
9. Zombieland
10. Star Trek
Top 10 Tv Shows of 2009
1. Curb Your Enthusiasm
2. Sons Of Anarchy
3. Survivor: Samoa
4. Eastbound and Down
5. The Ultimate Fighter: Rampage vs Rashad
6. Entourage
7. South Park
8. 30 Rock
9. Jersey Shore
10. Inside MMA
Top 10 Celebrities of 2009
1. Kim Kardashian
2. Larry David
3. Tiger Woods
4. Kanye West
5. Joe Rogan
6. Lil Wayne
7. Karl Pilkington
8. Christian Bale
9. Ricky Gervais
10. Adam Fiske
Happy Hanukkah and a merry Christmas to everyone!
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End Of Year Wrap Up
Top 10 Heavy Records
Honourable mentions to: Coalesce, Slayer, Goatwhore and Megadeth
Top 10 Punk/Hardcore Records
A Day To Remember – Homesick
Honourable mentions to: The Swellers, A Loss For Words, Narrows, Farewell
The Dangerous Summer – Reach For The Sun
Top 10 Australian Records
Hopeless – Dear World
Up
Honourable mentions to The Informers and The Bad Lieutenant as I’m sure they will both rule when I finally watch them
Misery Signals @ The Arthouse
Honourable mentions to: Architects @ Moorabbin Town Hall, Propagandhi @ The Corner, NERD @ Vodafone Arena and Mindsnare @ The Arthouse
Tiger Woods – couldn’t give two shits about the dude normally, but anyone causing that much trouble is ok in my books
Patrick Swayze – Roadhouse, Point Break, Donnie Darko. Yep, the guy was in all of them. RIP mate
John Daly – dude lots about 100 pounds and is still smashing beers and being a larrikin. What a guy!
Katy Perry – for no reason other than she’s unbelievably hot
Christian Bale – on set melt down where he swore like a sailor and threatened to smash someone… guru!
Tommy Wiseau – for looking like a creepy piece of shit who sounds like a stoned version of Borat, and thus introducing myself and my friends to the worst/best film of all time, “The Room”.
John Mayer – every time I see a gossip mag laying about he gets a mention for pumping half the women in Hollywood and generally leaves a trail of destruction wherever he goes. His music is balls but the dude sounds like he’d be fun to party with.
Andrew O’Keefe – dude hosts Deal Or No Deal (ruler) and got smashed and videotaped on Chapel Street. He mans up, where’s it on the chin and gets on with the job.
Kanye West & Taylor Swift’s publicist – sif she was even bummed about Kanye’s little outburst. He kept his name in the media after releasing a mediocre album and she sold another 20394729834923 records because people felt sorry for lil ol’ her. Good times.
Joe Rogan – UFC commentator, comedian and probably the most washed up dude ever. Wears thousand dollar, orange silk shirts (which he never irons) and always looks like he’s come off a 3 day coke bender. Joe… we salute you!
And finally, the song of the year.
T.I. featuring Mary J Blige - Don't Forget Me
BRING ON 2010
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Boob Scotch
So 2009 has all but come to an end. Personally I’ve had a great year. Loving life. Anyway the almighty heavenly father of KYS, Jared “The Athlete” Heilborn has asked for bloggers to post their top 10’s for 2009. Well here ya go …
Top 10 Albums of 2009 (in no particular order)
Claude Von Stroke- Bird Brain
Great record from start to finish from the house legend. Some really great beats on this disc. The track ‘The Greasy Beat’ feat. Bootsy Collins is a standout for me.
Blakroc- Blackroc
The Black Keys team up with a slew of hiphop stars to create one of the most unique records of 2009.
Amanda Blank- I love You
American rapper who has worked with some pretty big names over the years. This record is huge. Dirty electro fused hiphop. What a woman.
The Bloody Beetroots- Romborama
This record is just straight up dirt. Rude beats that make me wanna get nude. Love it.
Fever Ray- Fever Ray
Solo project for Karin Dreijer Andersson of the band The Knife. This album is hauntingly good and produced six massive singles. The video clips for these tracks are also pretty amazing.
Royksopp- Junior
Junior is the first album in around 5 years from Norway’s finest and it’s a little beauty. So many great songs on this album. Great work from my Viking cousins.
Passion Pit- Manners
Such a fun record. Will be getting a solid workout over summer. Dance!
Grizzly Bear- Veckatmist
Amazing harmonies on this album. Great times!
Calvin Harris- Ready For The Weekend
What a great pop release. Album is full of catchy tracks that get your toes tapping.
Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx pt. II
Excellent release from the hip hop legend. Some of his best work yet in my opinion.
Honorable mention...
Lady GaGa- The Fame Monster
P P P P Poker Face. Chic? Dude? Regardless this album was one of my favorites for the year. Great pop songs. Keen for GaGa to tour here next year. Will be huge!
Some other bands that dropped decent stuff this year include Animal Collective, Kid Cudi, Duck Sauce, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, Phoenix, The XX, Air, Jamie T, The Eels, Dirty Projectors, Dan Sultan, Metric, Lost Valentinos, Mumford & Sons, Muse, N.A.S.A, Dizzee Rascal, Junior Boys, La Roux, Lucero, Daniel Merriwether, Brother Ali, Major Lazer, and many many more. Good year for tunes!
I figured I’d drop a list of my favorite Australian releases of 2009 as well…
Closure In Moscow- First Temple
Kisschasy- Seizures
Lisa Mitchell- Wonder
Bertie Blackman- Secrets and Lies
Art Vs Science- Art Vs Science
Philadelphia Grand Jury- Hope Is For Hopers
Hilltop Hoods- State Of The Art
The Nation Blue- Rising Waters
Young Heretics- The Dreamers
The Duvtons- Greatest Hits (Marvel- Bottle of Gin will do thanks mate)
Top 10 live shows of 2009.
Now to be totally honest, I’m not even sure if I went to 10 live shows this year. I most certainly didn’t go to 10 shows that were any good. So what I will do is list my favorite live ‘shows/events’ instead…
Lupe Fiasco @ The Palace
N.E.R.D @ Hisense Arena
Yacht Club DJs @ Ding Dong
You Am I @ Prince
Steve Aoki @ Sorry Grandma
Old mate who plays Credence covers @ Puggs every Thursday night.
DJ sets on opening night @ The Gazelle Bar
Whoever the bands were that made me dance for hour’s @ The Spanish Festival
Hulkamania @ Rod Laver Arena
Horse Racing in Melb/Syd/QLD. Great days to be alive!
Top 10 Films of 2009
Where The Wild Things Are
District 9
Inglorious Basterds
Up
Anvil
The Wrestler
Moon
Balibo
Star Trek
Avatar (Haven’t seen it yet but I’m predicting it will rule).
Top 10 Celebrities of 2009.
I questioned Jared on why I should list my top 10 celebrities for 2009 or what that even means but anyway here is my list of celebs…
Tiger Woods- The greatest golfer in the world who also has the greatest time management and organisational skills on earth. I tip my hat to a man who can have that many broads on the go. Just taaaaaap it in.
Lady GaGa- Some say GaGa has got a wang, others say she’s a broad… (I vote woman) either way Lady GaGa was huge in 2009. Buy The Fame Monster if you haven’t already. The album is a beauty.
Katy Perry- If she were president, she’d be Babe’raham Lincoln.
Michael Jackson- Sad day when the king of pop passed away. Strange dude but largely misunderstood in my opinion. RIP
Patrick Swayze- RIP Bodie… “He Ain’t coming back!”
Adam Fiske- Star of the hit TV show ‘Keepn It Real’ 2009 has been a huge year for this bloke. He’s a legit Viking too. What a guru.
Barrack Obama- New President for the US is inaugurated. People are stoked and cries of “Change is here!” are heard across the world. Not sure why? The dude is just a puppet for the corporate interests that govern the world. The guy also manages to win the Nobel Peace Prize for sending more troops to the middle east… go figure?
Brendan Fevola- Old mate gets well pissy at the brownlow medal dinner, grabs a microphone for the footy and calls out Chris Judd for trying to be Steven Segal. I thought it was funny.
Rhianna- Gets beat up by her boyfriend and is in the news for months. Tipping the old backhander from Chris Brown helped album sales along a little too (album was really good mind you). Not gonna lie, she’s got a pretty sweet haircut.
Kanye West- Legit guru. The guy loves himself so much that it’s actually amazing. Another big year for Mr. West. His stage invasion at the MTV awards was brilliant. What a guy.
Anyways that’s it for now. Have a Merry Christmas, drink lots, eat good food, dance, smile, and go fishing.
God Bless Ya!
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Top whatever whatever of 2009
So our glorious fuhror jarule has asked us blog posters to have our top 10s of this year. Well safe to say there are a fair few contenders that didn't make it onto my lists. Here you go.
Top 10 Albums of 2009
1. Converge - Axe to Fall
2. Consider the Thief - Signs & Wonders
3. Thursday - Common Existance
4. Rise and Fall - Our Circle is Vicious
5. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
6. Every Time i Die - New Junk Aesthetic
7. Thrice - Beggars
8. Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders
9. Scale the Summit - Carving Desert Canyons
10. Baroness - Blue Record
Honourable mentions to: All Leather, Cloak/Dagger, Coerce, Anchors, Anchor and Braille and Anime Fire.
Top 10 Live Shows of 2009
1. La Dispute @ Irenes Warehouse, Melbourne
2. Rise and Fall @ Rosemount Hotel, Perth
3. The Ataris @ Amplifier Bar, Perth
4. Minus the Bear @ Soundwave
5. NoFX/Bad Religion @ Metro City, Perth
6. Saves the Day/Alkaline Trio/Rival Schools/The Subways @ The Hifi Bar, Melbourne
7. New Found Glory @ Soundwave, Perth
8. Anberlin @ Capitol, Perth
9. Leftover Crack acoustic show @ 78 Records, Perth
10. Elora Danan Farewell show @ Rosemount Hotel, Perth
Top 10 Films of 2009
1. Inglorious Basterds
2. Watchmen
3. Zombieland
4. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
5. Star Trek
6. Up
7. Fanboys
8. Funny People
9. District 9
10. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Honourable mentions to Avatar.
Top 10 Celebrities of 2009
1. Tiger Woods.
2. Tiger Woods.
3. Tiger Woods.
4. Tiger Woods.
5. Tiger Woods.
6. Tiger Woods.
7. Tiger Woods.
8. Tiger Woods.
9. Tiger Woods.
10. Gary Busey.
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Band of the Week - On The Day Of My Disaster
Considering On The Day Of My Disaster formed in Adelaide in the first quarter of 2009, the amount of ground they have covered coupled with the large fan base assertained in such a short period of time is nothing short of impressive.
The aggressive combination of hardcore and electronic sections (with a few thrash riffs thrown in for good measure) can come out like a dogs breakfast 9 times out of 10, thankfully OTDOMD (what a cunt of an abreviation) pull it off without the extra cheese which shows in their first demo entitled "..Go To Bratislava" recorded with Micah Leinonen mid this year.
If this young band can keep up the solid ethic towards music and work towards a release in 2010, it could be their year to back winners.
For fans of House vs Hurricane, Nazarite Vow and Underoath
www.myspace.com/otdomd
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