YEAR END LISTS - here's my top movie and music lists for the year. They will be posted next week on the blog - which you should always be reading -
http://unclecritic.wordpress.com/ . A lot of these surprised me esp the albums after I went back and listened to everything while making the lists.
Top 20 Movies of 2009, and the bad - There's still a few movies out that I need to see, if I happen to in the next 2 weeks I'll adjust the list if needed.
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1. The Hangover
2. Star Trek
3. Public Enemies
4. Zombieland
5. Inglourious Basterds
6. Observe and Report
7. Black Dynamite
8. Dead Snow
9. Funny People
10. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
11. The Men Who Stare at Goats
12. The Final Destination
13. I Love You, Man
14. Shrink
15. Drag Me to Hell
16. Extract
17. Adventureland
18. District 9
19. (500) Days of Summer
20. Friday the 13th
Aaaand it wasn't all good, so here's the bottom rung, the bad.
6. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
5. 12 Rounds
4. Year One
3. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
2. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
And the worst movie of 2009:
1. Dragonball Evolution
Top 15 EP's of 2009:
This list includes, EP's, Singles, splits and 7"s - Albums will be a seporate list.
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1. Hard-Ons With Neil Hamburger: American Exports
2. The Steinways: Art of the Underground Single Series Volume 27
3. Psyched To Die: Sterile Walls
4. Drag The River: Can't Leave These Strays
5. John K. Samson City Route 85
6. The Copyrights/The Dopamines: Songs About Fucking Up
7. Transgressions: Waste My Time
8. The Ergs!/The Measure[sa]
9. The Dazes/The Wimpy's: Greetings from Japan!
10. Barrakuda McMurder: Slow Crawl
11. Spork Kills: Beaches Love Us
12. Drag The River: Under The Influence Vol. 5
13. Sandworms: ...it's a fucking demo
14. The Measure [sa]: Art of the Underground Single Series
15. The Apers: Art of the Underground Single Series Volume 28
Top 20 albums of 2009
A couple notes first here. I'm leaving 'Iron Maiden: Flight 666' of the list here because Iron Maiden is in a league of their own and will always capture the top spot with an unfair advantage. Second note I'm also leaving off 'Death: For The Whole World To See' it was released this year but actually happened in the 70's, so I'm not sure if it qualifys. If I leave it on it would most likely be in the top 5 because it is amazingly awesome. Also I'm not including 4 that would have most likely made it, "R.A. the Rugged Man: Legendary Classics Vol 1", "Deep Sleep: Three Things At Once", "Psyched To Die: Year One" and "Drag the River: Bad at Breaking Up" because they are compilations. And lastly I'm not including "Judas Priest: A Touch of Evil: Live" because it is a live album.
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1. Parasites: Solitary
2. Dear Landlord: Dream Homes
3. House Boat: The Delaware Octopus
4. Propagandhi: Supporting Caste
5. Teenage Bottlerocket: They Came From The Shadows
6. Wizard: Thor
7. Chad Price: Smile Sweet Face
8. Jon Snodgrass: Visitor's Band
9. Mean Jeans: Are You Serious
10. Del The Funky Homosapien: Funk Man (the stimulus package)
11. Sick Sick Birds: Heavy Manners
12. Jetty Boys: Sheboygan
13. Anvil: This Is Thirteen
14. The Riptides: Tales From Planet Earth
15. Del the Funky Homosapien/Tame One: Parallel Uni-Verses
16. The Vivian Girls: Everything Goes Wrong
17. Delay: Plain Language
18. The Riverdales: Invasion USA
19. Spinal Tap: Back From The Dead
20. The Apers: You Are Only As Strong As The Table You Dance On
