Headphone Bumpers of 2009

(In no particular order, save for Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavillion IS number one), I present to you...

Headphone Bumpers of 2009:

1. Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavillion **
2. The Flaming Lips- Embryonic
3. Dirty Projectors- Bitte Orca
4. Russian Circles- Geneva
5. Why?- Eskimo Snow
6. Pheonix- Wolfgang Amadeus Pheonix
7. The Dead Weather- Horehound
8. Grizzly Bear- Veckatimest
9. Animal Collective- Fall Be Kind EP
10. This Will Destroy You- Field Studies EP
11. Girls- Album

2009 also brought some terrible things. I present to you, now...

Ear Poison of 2009:

1. Jay Z- The Blueprint 3 (Hey, don't get me wrong, I loved Empire State of Mind, but other than that, it was bland, boring, and generally predictable. Letdown Maximus.)
2. Anything autotune or even the slightest hint of Kanye.
3. Gucci Mane- The State vs. Radric Davis (I never listened to the whole thing, but I sure hated it on the radio)
4. Creed- Full Circle (When are these guys gonna stop making records? They all sound the same.)
5. Bon Jovi- The Circle  (I sense a repetitive theme, here..)

There you have it. And I assure you, there is a lot more Ear Poison out there than just 5.


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