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Where does Backspacer rank in your albums of the year?

goldrushgoldrush Posts: 7,484
edited December 2009 in The Porch
Firstly, this isn't another "Name your top ten albums of 2009" post (there are plenty of them in Other Music). My questions for you are:

a - Does Backspacer make your own Top Ten of 2009 list?
b - If so, where does it rank?

Personally I would place Backspacer as my 4th favourite album of 2009. "Broken" is one of the best albums of the decade and the vinyl tracklisting of "Before The Frost..." is my favourite Crowes album in a long long time. Dan Auerbach and Backspacer are pretty even in my eyes. If they'd been released at the same time I may have played Backspacer all year and ranked it 3rd but Dan just gets ahead.

1. Soulsavers – Broken
2. Black Crowes – Before The Frost… Until The Freeze
3. Dan Auerbach – Keep It Hid
4. Pearl Jam – Backspacer
5. Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers
6. Masters of Reality – Pine/Cross Dover
7. Rodrigo y Gabriela – 11:11
8. Powderfinger – Golden Rule
9. Eels – Hombre Lobo
10. Wilco – Wilco (the album)
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  • mookeywrenchmookeywrench Posts: 5,870
    somewhere in the bottom of the top
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  • youngsteryoungster Posts: 6,576
    Honestly, I think Backspacer is #1. It is the most listened to album I bought all year.
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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    somewhere in the top 10.
  • DC29940DC29940 Posts: 661
    10. Editors - "In This Light and On This Morning"
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    8. Starsailor - "All the Plans"
    7. The Boxer Rebellion - "Union"
    6. Jars of Clay - "The Long Fall Back to Earth"
    5. U2 - "No Line On The Horizon"
    4. Pearl Jam - "Backspacer"
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  • FenwayFaithfulFenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    The Hazards of Love, Wilco (the Album), then Backspacer.
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  • dannydanny Posts: 2,278
    number 1!
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  • jimed14jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    Not in the top 5 ... I listed those albums in Other Music, Backspacer didn't make the cut.

    Probably in the back end of the top ten.
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  • SomethingCreativeSomethingCreative Posts: 3,371
    here's my top 5:

    1. Manchester Orchestra - "Mean Everything to Nothing"
    2. Pearl Jam - "Backspacer"
    3. Modest Mouse - "No one's First, and you're next"
    4. Cursive - "Mama, I'm Swollen"
    5. U2 - "No Line on the Horizon"
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,549
    number 1
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  • dave grolschdave grolsch Posts: 730
    Without doubt Backspacer is my most played album of 2009 :ugeek:
  • BALLBOYBALLBOY Posts: 1,030
    I only bought 2 new release's this year so it has to be hgh on the list. I cannot afford it & there is not much else out there to listen to. Is there?
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  • helplessdancerhelplessdancer Posts: 5,272
    numero uno
  • MysteryTrainMysteryTrain Posts: 1,188
    It ranks No.1 on my list now. Previously, it was held by DMB's Big Whiskey.
  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave Posts: 41,830
    I had it #5
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  • Paul AndrewsPaul Andrews Posts: 2,489
    #1 - but it is the only album released in 2009 that I purchased. I'm getting old. ;)
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  • OGT92OGT92 Posts: 1,588
    BALLBOY wrote:
    I only bought 2 new release's this year so it has to be hgh on the list. I cannot afford it & there is not much else out there to listen to. Is there?

    My thoughts exactly. I only bought 2 aswell. (AIC) So, yeah #1!
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  • davidtriosdavidtrios Posts: 9,732
    #1 this year and #2 in the decade
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