Stubbadub Top 10 Albums of 2009
It’s the party end of the year (well it was when I started this post) and it’s time for the first ever inaugural Stubbadub top 10 albums of the year list!
Even without any significant contributions from Mike Patton this year, which can be directly attributed to a certain reunion tour, there have been many great Stubbadub related releases to tickle our ear drums.
So lets get started. Counting down from 10 to 1:
10. Zu – Carboniferous (Mike Patton) - Italian metallers Zu released their latest album Carboniferous via Mike Patton’s label Ipecac Recordings. Mike appears on a couple of tracks (Soulympics and Orc) along with Buzz from the Melvins (Chthonian).
09. Shrinebuilder – Self Titled (Dale Crover) - Featuring Dale Crover of The Melvins fame on drums and Neurosis frontman Scott Kelly on Guitar, Shrinebuilder released their stoner fueled debut album in October.
08. MadLove – White with Foam (Trevor Dunn) – Trevor Dunn’s Rock Album. Nuff said. Go get it.
07. Jello Biafra And The Guantanamo School Of Medicine – The Audacity of Hype (Billy Gould) – The latest installment from outspoken ex-Dead Kennedys’ vocalist, Eric Reed Boucher aka Jello Biafra is a kick in the sack from start to finish. The album features Billy Gould on bass and one has to assume that he would have toured with the band if he hadn’t been side tracked by the recent reformation of Faith No More. Hopefully he can make the next tour (and they bring it to Australia 
)
06. Chuck Mosley and the VUA – Will Rap over Hard Rock for Food (Chuck Mosley) – It’s been a while since Chuck released anything of significance, but it was worth the wait. A good album over all and the rework of Faith No More’s We Care a Lot (Featuring special guest Mr Roddy Bottum on keys) is very interesting and worth grabbing the album for alone.
05. Umlaut – Self Titled (Bar McKinnon) – Bar’s first release since becoming an Aussie. Recently toured with Les Claypool. A very tidy album all round with some very nice Bungle-esque/Secret Chiefs 3 moments.
04. Isis – Wavering Radiant (Ipecac Recordings) – The latest installment from rockers Isis as usual does not disappoint.
03. Secret Chiefs 3 – Traditionalists : Le Mani Destre Recise Degli Ultimi Uomini (Trey Spruance) – The newest SC3 album took everyone by surprise as Trey bucked his usual trend of announcing an album release and then missing that date by large margins. A great release by sub band “Traditionalists”, but leaves you hanging for the next book release.
02. The Fantastic Terrific Munkle – Music to Dance To (Danny Heifetz) – It is very difficult to keep up with what Danny is working on nowdays as he does not have any established online presence, but the best thing he is involved with at the moment is the Munkle band. Check this album out
01. John Zorn – O’o (Trevor Dunn) – The latest in Zorn’s “Romance” series and the follow up to 2008′s “The Dreamers”, this is an amazing record and by far my album of the year.
Honourable Mentions:
- SUNN O))) – Monoliths & Dimensions (Timb Harris, Eyvind Kang)
- Crank: High Voltage Soundtrack (Mike Patton)
Hopefully next year we will see the highly anticipated release of Mike Patton’s Mondo Cane, possibly Crudo and fingers crossed another Fantomas would be most welcome.
Also March 23rd sees the release of the Dillinger Escape Plan‘s latest album, Option Paralysis, and from the new song making the rounds (Farewell Mona Lisa), it’s gonna be kickarse.
Feel free to post your thoughts on albums in this list, or your own top 10 lists in the comments or in the forum.
Happy New Year Stubbers!
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January 3rd, 2010 at 12:53 am
5 in common with my lists (Zu, Isis, Munkle, SC3 & Zorn)… great year for music, if you ask me.
~Dan
January 3rd, 2010 at 3:36 pm
great minds and all that
January 3rd, 2010 at 12:54 am
PS- here’s hoping 2009 brings more FNM touring, Mondo Cane, Crudo, etc…
January 3rd, 2010 at 3:36 pm
hopefully you’ll get some concrete US FNM dates soon!
January 3rd, 2010 at 1:10 am
Very good top 10
Happy New Year!!!
January 3rd, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Pogo, love your work, wish I could understand it more fully though! Babelfish helps only so much
January 3rd, 2010 at 5:09 am
Great list! Happy New Year!
January 3rd, 2010 at 9:15 am
Great idea to publish Stubbadub top ten albums of 2009! A good guidance for further listening. Hope that 2010 will yield music at least as interesting as the past year!
January 3rd, 2010 at 3:39 pm
glad you liked it
yeah hopefully 2010 is just as good if not better
January 3rd, 2010 at 1:42 pm
@pogo/blandten: thanks and happy new year to you!
January 4th, 2010 at 3:23 pm
I’ve got so much to catch up on,
havent listened at all to Shrinebuilders, jello, Chuck, SC3 or the Munkle.
I’ve been a bad boy.
January 5th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Frketson you’ve gotta get them.
the shrinebuilder album was surprisingly good………….
January 5th, 2010 at 2:36 am
Thanks a lot for this list. Happy New Year
January 5th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
glad you liked, Agata
January 5th, 2010 at 4:54 am
My top five:
1. Converge-Axe To Fall
2. Mike Patton-Crank: High Voltage soundtrack
3. Les Claypool-Of Fungi And Foe
4. SC3: Traditionalists-whatever
5. Supermachiner-Rust
January 5th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
nice list clubber. so you liked the new les claypool? i really didnt like it. went and saw him though and it was an awesome show
January 6th, 2010 at 3:04 am
I only did top five cos I had to much trouble coming up with ten, for me it was a lean year. But yeah I don’t often really like albums the first time around but I did with Claypool’s new one and I wasn’t exactly expecting anything from it. I recently got his ’5 Gallons of Diesel’ DVD which is a fair slab of his non-Primus stuff but haven’t watched it yet. I remember hearing his ‘plays highball with the devil’ album back in the day and thought it was terrible so hopefully the rest of his non-Primus back catalogue is half decent. Good to hear you enjoyed the show gronk, $70 wasn’t it? That’s stretching things a bit too much for mine. What were Umlaut like? All I’ve heard of them is that song they did with Patton and it scared me right off of listening to the album
January 17th, 2010 at 10:36 am
les was awesome albeit a bit more than I wanted to pay. Umlaut were dissapointing. bar was pissed off and it showed
January 5th, 2010 at 6:25 am
Interesting list, breath of fresh air from the usual repetition that occurs at the end of every year!
January 5th, 2010 at 9:58 pm
thanks! saw your list too
nice work, didn’t realize lightning bolt had a new one!
January 5th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Happy New Year to all of you,
I think it’s a good idea to share our personal top lists,
something interesting might come up.
I use to make my personal top 5 each year but 2009 was really a difficult one.
I’m not quite happy of the quality of the albums that came out recently
but anyway here it is TOP 5 Albums for 2009:
#1 – Soulsavers “Broken”
#2 – Marco Benevento “Me Not Me”
#3 – Renaud Garcia-Fons “La Linea Del Sur”
#4 – Arvo Part “In Principio”
#5 – Kronos Quartet “Floodplain”
Honourable Mentions:
Ilya “Carving Heads On Cherry Stones”
Flat Earth Society “Cheer Me, Perverts!”
Garage A Trois “Power Patriot”
Barrett Martin “Zenga”
January 5th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
i have to hunt down this new Kronos
January 14th, 2010 at 9:23 am
I know this is really late, but i advised people to check out.
Its not really experimental, and i doubt any of you guys will like it. But its just really good indie rock. Plus Rosario Dawson sings on a track, which automatically makes it awesome.
Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
January 14th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
my top 11 in no particular order:
the slew
mastodon
MUSE
big business
the jesus lizard reissues
tangled thoughts of leaving (discovered in 2009)
caverns
hunab ku (discovered in 2009)
chuck mosley and vua
ill insanity (2009 release? or was it ’08?)
crank 2: high voltage
still gotta get them crooked vultures and that jello cd!
January 17th, 2010 at 10:37 am
them crooked vultures didnt really do it for me…. maybe I need to give it another chance
January 14th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
highly anticipated 2010 releases:
rob swift
rahzel(?)
mondo cane
crudo
dillinger escape plan
caverns
tangled thoughts of leaving
you ever hear of tangled thoughts of leaving, gronk? they’re Aussie and amazing!
January 17th, 2010 at 10:38 am
never heard of them, have you got a link or something so i can check them out?
January 20th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
here’s a link to their myspace: http://www.myspace.com/ttol
here’s a link to mine:
http://www.myspace.com/447729927
here’s a link to my “music”:
http://www.myspace.com/onlymrpenguin
befriend if you’re into that sort of thing!
January 22nd, 2010 at 12:17 am
awesome thanks mate I’ll check em all out