Top Album Releases: November 2009
Nick’s Top
- Fun.: Aim and Ignite
- Real Estate: Real Estate
- Julian Casablancas: Phrazes For The Young
- Dave Rawlings Machine: A Friend of a Friend
- tUnE-yArDs: BiRd-BrAiNs
- Thomas A. Minor & The Picket Line: S/T
Cory’s Top
- Lady Gaga: The Fame Monster
- The Swimmers: People Are Soft
- Bad Lieutenant: Never Cry Another Tear
- Them Crooked Vultures: Them Crooked Vultures
- Morrissey: Swords
Yeah – I said it…I’ve been converted and Lady Gaga beat out the new project by former members of Joy Division and New Order as well as The Smiths frontman Morrissey.
Chris’ Top
- Them Crooked Vultures: Them Crooked Vultures
- Julian Casablancas: Phrazes For The Young
- Various Artists: Fantastic Mr. Fox (soundtrack)
Scott’s Top
- Frank Schweikhardt- Life But No More (easily my favorite of the year- SO GOOD)
- Real Estate: Real Estate
- Half-Handed Cloud: Cut Me Down & Count My Rings
- tUnE-yArDs: BiRd-BrAiNs
“Twin Cities” (off of Life But No More)
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Joey’s Top
- Morrissey: Swords
- The Cribs: Ignore The Ignorant
- Murder By Death: Finch
- Blur: All The People… Blur Live In Hyde Park 7/2/2009
More album releases below the break…
November 3, 2009
Acid Mothers Temple: Are We Experimental? (2-LP vinyl)
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Have Yourself A Meaty Little Christmas
Arriongton de Dionyso: Malaikat Dan Singa (vinyl)
The Band: Cahoots (vinyl reissue)
The Band: Stage Fright (vinyl reissue)
Bat for Lashes: Two Suns (CD & DVD with bonus tracks)
The Beach Boys: Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) (vinyl reissue)
The Beach Boys: Today! (vinyl reissue)
Bear in Heaven: Beast Rest Forth Mouth (vinyl)
Bee Gees: Ultimate Bee Gees (2-CD) (2-CD & DVD)
Brian Setzer Orchestra: Songs From Lonely Avenue (5-LP vinyl box set)
Brilliant Colors: Introducing (vinyl)
Carla Bley: Carla’s Christmas Carols
Cold Cave: Love Comes Close (reissue) (vinyl)
Devo: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (remastered with bonus tracks) (yellow vinyl)
Devo: Q: Freedom of Choice (remastered with bonus tracks) (red vinyl)
The Dixie Bee-Liners: Susanville
DOA: Kings of Punk, Hockey & Beer
Efterklang and the Danish National Chamber Orchestra: Performing Parades
Etienne Jaumet: Night Music (vinyl)
Foo Fighters: Foo Fighters Greatest Hits (CD & DVD)
Girls in Trouble: Girls in Trouble
Green Day: American Idiot (2-LP vinyl)
Guided By Voices: Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now (4-CD box set)
Half-Handed Cloud: Cut Me Down & Count My Rings
JJ Grey & Mofro: The Choice Cuts (vinyl)
Jookabox: Dead Zone Boys (vinyl)
Joy Electric: Favorites at Play
Julian Casablancas: Phrazes For The Young (vinyl)
Kathy Griffin: Suckin It for the Holidays
King Khan & BBQ Show: Invisible Girl (vinyl)
Kings of Convenience: Declaration of Dependence (vinyl)
Laarks: An Exaltation of Laarks
Little Dragon: Machine Dreams (vinyl)
Lymbyc Systym: Shutter Release
Mariah Carey: Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel (2-LP & CD box set)
Max Richter: Memoryhouse (reissue)
Melt Banana: Melt Banana Lite Live Ver 0.0
Melvins: Nude with Boots (vinyl)
Michael and the Mumbles: Michael and the Mumbles (vinyl)
Molina & Johnson: Molina & Johnson
Neutral Milk Hotel: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (vinyl reissue)
Neutral Milk Hotel: On Avery Island (vinyl reissue)
Nirvana: Bleach (remastered with bonus tracks) (2-LP vinyl deluxe edition)
Nirvana: Live at Reading (CD & DVD)
Nirvana: Nevermind (vinyl reissue)
On Fillmore: Extended Vacation (vinyl)
Pastels/Tenniscoats: Two Sunsets (vinyl)
Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm: Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm Singing Songs Of Christmas (remastered)
Propagandhi: Potemkin City Limits (vinyl)
REO Speedwagon: Not So Silent Night
The Residents: Ten Little Piggies
Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! The Rolling Stones In Concert (remastered 3-CD & DVD box set) (3-LP 3-CD DVD deluxe box set)
Slayer: World Painted Blood (CD & DVD deluxe edition) (vinyl)
State Radio: Let It Go (vinyl)
Straight No Chaser: Christmas Cheers
Sunn o))): Monoliths and Dimensions (vinyl)
Taylor Hollingsworth: Life With a Slow Ear (vinyl)
Themselves: Crownsdown (vinyl)
U2: The Unforgettable Fire (remastered vinyl)
Various Artists: Fantastic Mr. Fox (soundtrack)
Various Artists: Glee: The Music, Volume 1 (soundtrack)
Various Artists: Light On the South Side (2-LP & book box set)
Various Artists: NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack, Vol. 2 (soundtrack)
Various Artists: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live (dvd)
Various Artists: The Village – A Celebration of the Music of Greenwich Village
Warpaint: Exquisite Corpse (vinyl)
Weezer: Raditude (2-CD edition) (vinyl)
November 10, 2009
50 Cent: Before I Self Destruct
AC/DC: Backtracks (2CD & DVD box set)
Bad Lieutenant: Never Cry Another Tear
Ben Frost: By the Throat (vinyl)
Bill Frisell: Good Dog, Happy Man (2-LP vinyl & CD)
Billie Holiday: The Complete Commodore and Decca Masters (3-CD box set)
Bobby Birdman: New Moods (vinyl)
Brant Bjork: Somera Sol (reissue)
Brazos: Phosphorescent Blues (vinyl)
Britney Spears: Britney Spears: The Singles Collection
Caroline Herring: Golden Apples of the Sun
Chris Robinson: Chris Robinson and His Many Hand Band
Cindytalk: The Crackle of My Soul
Cobra Skulls: American Rubicon (vinyl)
The Cribs: Ignore The Ignorant
D. Boon: D. Boon and Friends (reissue)
Dashboard Confessional: Alter the Ending (2-CDs) (vinyl)
Detroit Cobras: The Original Recordings (reissue)
Devendra Banhart: What Will We Be (2-LP vinyl with bonus tracks)
DJ Rupture & Matt Shadetek: Solar Life Raft
Echo & The Bunnymen: The Fountain
Echo & The Bunnymen: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (reissue)
Ella Fitzgerald: Twelve Nights in Hollywood (remastered 4-CD box set)
Gabriel Yared: Amelia (soundtrack)
Gary Myrick: Language (reissue with bonus tracks)
Gary Myrick: Living in a Movie (reissue with bonus tracks)
Grant-Lee Phillips: Ladies’ Love Oracle (reissue)
J. Tillman: Year in the Kingdom (vinyl)
Jackson 5: I Want You Back! Unreleased Masters
Jason Mraz: Jason Mraz’s Beautiful Mess – Live On Earth (CD & DVD)
Jerry Garcia: The Jerry Garcia Collection, Vol. 2: Let It Rock
Katatonia: Night Is the New Day
Kevn Kinney’s S.T.A.R.: Comin’ Round Again (reissue)
The Killers: Live at Royal Albert Hall (CD & DVD)
King Diamond: House of God (remastered)
King Diamond: Voodoo (remastered)
King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King (remastered with bonus disc) Lady Dottie And The Diamonds: Lady Dottie And The Diamonds (reissue)
Ladytron: Light & Magic (reissue)
Les Paul: The Inventor: Great Guitar Instrumentals
Luther Dickinson: Onward and Upward
Madison Violet: No Fool for Trying
Manu Chao: Baionarena (2-CD & DVD)
Melody Gardot: My One And Only Thrill (with bonus tracks)
Merzbow: 13 Japanese Birds Volume Eleven
Nada Surf: Karmic EP (reissue with bonus tracks)
Nebula / Lowrider: Nebula / Lowrider Double EP (reissue)
New Monuments: New Monuments (vinyl)
Ola Podrida: Belly of the Lion
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez: Xenophanes
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Higher Than the Stars EP (vinyl)
Pants Yell!: Received Pronunciation (vinyl)
Philip Glass: Glass: A Madrigal Opera
Pixies: Minotaur (Deluxe Edition) (17-disc box set)
Porcupine Tree: Up the Downstair (reissue)
Queen: Absolute Greatest (remastered)
Ray Davies: The Kinks Choral Collection
R.E.M.: Live At The Olympia (4-LP 2-CD DVD limited edition)
Robin Crutchfield: The Hidden Folk
Robyn Hitchcock: I Often Dream of Trains in New York (CD & DVD)
The Rolling Stones: Flashpoint (remastered)
The Rolling Stones: Live Licks (remastered)
The Rolling Stones: Love You Live (remastered)
The Rolling Stones: Still Life (remastered)
The Rolling Stones: Stripped (remastered)
Stan Ridgway: Barbeque Babylon (reissue)
Stan Ridgway: Blood (Mark Ryden Piece) (reissue)
Stephen Stills: Stephen Stills (vinyl reissue)
Sunset: Gold Dissolves to Gray (vinyl)
Tori Amos: Midwinter Graces (CD & DVD)
Various Artists: 2012 Soundtrack
Various Artists: Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds and Ghanaian Blue 1968-1981
Various Artists: The Harmonic Series: A Compilation Of Musical Works In Just Intonation
Various Artists: Pirate Radio (soundtrack)
Various Artists: Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Guns N’ Roses
Various artists: Saint Etienne Presents: Songs for The Dog & Duck
Various Artists: Thai Beat A Go-Go, Vol. 1 (vinyl reissue)
Wale: Attention Deficit (vinyl)
Wilco: Being There (2-LP vinyl & CD)
Wyclef Jean: From The Hut, To The Projects To The Mansion
The Yardbirds: Roger the Engineer (vinyl reissue)
November 17, 2009
Alexandre Desplat: The Twilight Saga: New Moon – The Score
Anberlin: Anberlin – The Anthology
Bad Lieutenant: Never Cry Another Tear (vinyl)
Bell Orchestre: As Seen Through Windows (vinyl)
Blood Brothers: Burn, Piano Island, Burn (reissue with bonus CD)
Blood Brothers: Crimes (reissue with bonus CD)
Blood Brothers: March on Electric Children (reissue)
Blood Brothers: Young Machetes (reissue with bonus CD)
The Company Band: The Company Band
Dave Rawlings Machine: A Friend of a Friend
David Bowie: Space Oddity (remastered with bonus CD) (vinyl)
The Doors: Live in New York (6-CD box set)
The Fall: Hex Enduction Hour (remastered with bonus CD)
Fall Out Boy: Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits (CD & DVD)
A Fine Frenzy: Oh Blue Christmas
Forever the Sickest Kids: The Weekend: Friday
A Grave With No Name: Mountain Debris
The Horrors: Whole New Way (vinyl)
John Entwistle: Rigor Mortis Sets In (reissue with bonus tracks)
Keane: Hopes and Fears (with bonus CD)
The Les Claypool Frog Brigade: Purple Onion (vinyl reissue)
Lissie: Why You Runnin’ EP (vinyl)
The Lovely Feathers: Fantasy Of The Lot (vinyl)
Matt and Kim: Matt and Kim (vinyl reissue)
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson: Summer of Fear (vinyl)
Miles Davis: Live In Vienna 1973
Morrissey: Swords (2-CD deluxe edition)
Nurse With Wound: Space Music (vinyl)
Patrick Watson: Just Another Ordinary Day (reissue)
Paul McCartney: Good Evening New York City (2-CDs & DVD)
Rod Stewart: Storyteller (4-CD box set)
The Rolling Stones: In the 1960s (dvd)
Ryan Trevor: Introducing Ryan Trevor (vinyl)
Sheryl Crow: Tuesday Night Music Club (remastered 2-CD & DVD edition)
Spandau Ballet: Heart Like A Sky/Through The Barricades
Steve Martin: The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo (vinyl)
Sun Ra: New Steps (remastered)
Them Crooked Vultures: Them Crooked Vultures
Various Artists: Atlantic Records: The Time Capsule (11-disc box set)
Various Artists: Forge Your Own Chains, Vol. 1: Psychedelic Ballads And Dirges 1968-1974
Various Artists: Hoodwinked: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Various Artists: Psychedelic States – Mississippi In The 60’s
Various Artists: Refugees: Charisma Records Anthology 1969-1978 (3-CDs)
Various Artists: Score: 20 Years of Merge Records – The Remixes
Various Artists: Trapped in a Scene: UK Hardcore 1985-89
Vic Chesnutt: Skitter on Take Off (vinyl)
Vermillion Sands: Miss My Gun EP
We Shot the Moon: A Silver Lining
The Who, The Mods and the Quadrophenia Connection (dvd)
The Wingdale Community Singers: Spirit Duplicator
November 23, 2009
Beatles: A Hard Day’s Night (remastered CD & t-shirt)
Beatles: Help! (remastered CD & t-shirt)
Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour (remastered CD & t-shirt)
Birdman: Pricele$$ (2-CD edition)
Black Crowes: Cabin Fever (dvd)
Black Diamond Heavies: Live at the Covington Masonic Lodge (vinyl)
Blur: All The People… Blur Live In Hyde Park 7/2/2009
Bob Dylan: Christmas in the Heart (vinyl)
Brian Jonestown Massacre: One (vinyl)
Brimstone Howl: Big Deal (vinyl)
Britney Spears: Britney Spears: The Singles Collection (deluxe 30-CD box set)
Bryan Ferry: The Best of Bryan Ferry
Buddy Holly: Not Fade Away: The Complete Studio Recordings and More (6-CD box set)
David Sardy: Zombieland: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Dethklok: Dethalbum II (vinyl)
Elbow: Seldom Seen Kid (Live at Abbey Road) (CD & DVD)
Fever Ray: Fever Ray (2-CD & DVD edition)
Fever Tree: Fever Tree (vinyl remastered)
Genesis: The Movie Box, 1981-2007 (5-DVD box set)
Gov’t Mule: By a Thread (vinyl)
Gray Matter: Take It Back (vinyl reissue)
Holopaw: Oh, Glory. Oh, Wilderness.
Jay Reatard: Blood Visions (reissue)
Kraftwerk: The Catalogue (8-CD box set)
Lady Gaga: The Fame Monster (2-CD edition)
LCD Soundsystem: 45: 33 Remixes (vinyl)
Les Claypool: Of Whales and Woe (vinyl reissue)
The Les Claypool Frog Brigade: Purple Onion (vinyl reissue)
Loney Dear : Citadel Band (vinyl)
The Lucy Show: …undone (reissue)
Martin Sexton: Black Sheep (vinyl reissue)
Medeski Martin & Wood: Radiolarians: The Evolutionary Set (5-CD, 2-LP, 1-DVD box set)
Melody Gardot: My One & Only Thrill + Live in Paris EP
The Mercury Program: Chez Viking (vinyl)
Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection (70-CD & 1-DVD box set)
Moby: Wait for Me (2-CD & DVD edition)
Neil Young: After the Gold Rush (vinyl remastered)
Neil Young: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (vinyl remastered)
Neil Young: Harvest (vinyl remastered)
Neil Young: Neil Young (vinyl remastered)
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez: Xenophanes (vinyl)
Oren Ambarchi: Intermission 2000-2008
Paramore: Brand New Eyes (vinyl)
Pixies: Minotaur (Deluxe Edition) (5-CD, 6-Blu-ray DVD, 6-DVD box set)
Placebo: The Sun Also Rises (dvd)
Primus: Frizzle Fry (vinyl remastered)
Queen: Absolute Greatest (remastered)
The Raincoats: The Raincoats (remastered)
Red Sparowes: Aphorisms (vinyl)
Russian Circles: Geneva (black vinyl)
Russian Circles: Geneva (clear vinyl)
Sting: Sting: A Winter’s Night…Live from Durham Cathedral
The Swell Season: Strict Joy (vinyl)
Telepathic Butterfiles: Wow & Flutter!
Thompson Twins: Thompson Twins Box Set (8-CD box set)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: The Live Anthology (4-CD box set)
Tom Waits: Glitter and Doom Live (vinyl)
Townes Van Zandt: In The Beginning
Various Artists: Alan Lomax in Haiti (10-CD box set)
Various Artists: Californication Season 3 (soundtrack)
Various Artists: Daptone Gold (2-LP vinyl)
Various Artists: Ninja Assassin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Various Artists: Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (soundtrack)
Various Artists: The Princess and the Frog (soundtrack)
Various Artists: A Very Special Christmas Volume 7
Various Artists: Wrecktrospective
Tags: 2009, Backseat Sandbar, November, Releases, Top, Top Album Releases, Vinyl
So glad someone else likes Fun. I was a big The Format fan and saw them at Bogart’s when they played with Steel Train. I became a huge Steel Train fan bc their frontman just killed it, and was an amazing guitarist. The main guy from Steel Train eventually joined with singer from the Format after they broke up and formed Fun. But pretty sure you guys know that.
the fun. album came out in august…
Does the guy who picked Lady Gaga like music or is he like a cat and get excited with pretty lights? Why is he allowed to talk about music?
It is just that good. Maybe it was released on vinyl this month. Whatever the case, I’m keeping it! Great album.
Upon further review. The Fun. album was released on vinyl this month (nov. 10). Still not technically a November release, but I only buy vinyl, so I didn’t know about the earlier release.