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Jimmy Presents: The Monster 2009
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La Roux, Florence and Lily  I love how you have included British artists, hopefully they can have some success in the US in future.
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The Resistance is an amazing album
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"She Wolf" & "The Resistance" 
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5/10!! She Wolf is my favourite this time.
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Wow, just WOW!
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I LOVED your top five for videos!!
Oh my, also your top Artists list is amazing. The write-ups have been fantastic and your layout so simple <3 Only artist I would wonder about is BMTH... who I am not at all familiar with.
Haven't been that big on Demi out of the albums list and I have yet to hear a few other albums, including Ke$he's Animal.
The top 5 should be good, if similar to the other lists
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Thanks for your comments
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RECAP:
20. Rihanna - "Rated R"
20. Owl City - "Ocean Eyes"
19. Paramore - "Brand New Eyes"
18. Demi Lovato - "Here We Go Again"
17. Lily Allen - "It's Not Me, It's You"
16. Cobra Starship - "Hot Mess"
15. Black Eyes Peas - "The E.N.D"
14. Cinema Bizarre - "Toyz"
13. Ke$ha - "Animal"
12. Florence + The Machine - "Lungs"
11. La Roux - "La Roux"
10. Shakira - "She Wolf"
09. Muse - "The Resistance"
08. Flyleaf - "Memento Mori"
07. The Used - "Artwork"
06. AFI - "Crash Love"
 | 05. "All I Ever Wanted"
by Kelly Clarkson
Clarkson's voice remains one of the most powerful in pop, and on "Wanted" it flattens everything in its path, blasting through piano ballads, chirpy retrosoul and, on "Whyyawannabringmedown," a kind of AM-radio punk. "I'm not your love monkey, so be takin' back all of the lies you sold," cries Clarkson over a pogo-ing beat. That state of high dudgeon is her default mode. In song after song, she proclaims self-reliance in the face of ne'er-do-well men. It's a fine message, but Clarkson's sense of grievance, inflated to gargantuan size by her huge voice, can be wearying over 14 songs, particularly when the music sags. And sag it does. Clarkson has wedded her fate to Ryan Tedder, the heavily moussed OneRepublic songwriter: He contributes to four dreary songs, awash in strings and insipid sentiments like "Why are my convictions blinded by your spotlight?" Clarkson snarls gamely through such moments, but as My December proved, virtuoso vocals carry you only so far. Like everyone else, she rises and falls on the strength of her tunes. She has made brilliant singles, and may yet record a great album. It's no mystery how to start. Three words: more Max Martin.
TOP 5 TRACKS:
05) My Life Would Suck Without You
04) If I Cant Have You
03) Dont Let Me Stop You / Whayawannabringmedown
02) Cry
01) Already Gone |
 | 04. "Hands"
by Little Boots
Ms Victoria Hesketh almost lays claim to her throne as the new queen of pop, this is definitely one of the best albums this year.
Let’s just get this out of the way: POP! Once, at the height of alt.rock, it was the most critically reviled of genres, now in an era where the alternative is mainstream, it’s the most lusted-after and over-intellectualised. And new pop’s bijou Boadicea? Who else but Victoria Hesketh, an average northern girl blessed with the talent to charm the airwaves like a drunk snake, cursed with the over-exposure of new-year hype hysteria. Beneath the false-eyelashed perfection of her press shots, though, there’s a story much more inspiring than the usual girlband rags-to-riches tale. Having tried it all (punk, pop, prog, lounge jazz, Pop Idol) and nearly making it with Dead Disco, Victoria ended up back at square one. So, she rolled up her sleeves, stripped back to basics and hit gold.
TOP 5 TRACKS:
05) New In Town / Earthquake
04) Ghost / Stuck On Repeat
03) Remedy
02) Hearts Collide
01) Symmerty |
 | 03. "21st Century Breakdown"
by Green Day
Like American Idiot, 21st Century Breakdown is a Seventies-style epic, telling the story of two young punk lovers on the run in the wreckage of post-Bush America. The heroes are Christian and Gloria, two kids sold out by the church ("East Jesus Nowhere"), the state ("21 Guns") and every adult they've ever believed in ("We are the desperate in the decline/Raised by the bastards of 1969"). Christian's the impulsive, self-destructive one ("Christian's Inferno"), while Gloria's more idealistic and political ("Last of the American Girls"), but they're forced to take care of each other — because nobody else will. All over the album, Green Day combine punk thrash with their newfound love of classic-rock grandiosity — one moment they're quoting Bikini Kill, the next they're wailing away like it's the final minute of"Jungleland." The title tune is a multipart opus that pays cheeky tribute to a host of 1970s-heartland radio anthems — Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," Sweet's "Fox on the Run," Mott the Hoople's "All the Young Dudes." Armstrong takes a tour around the country, from his hard-luck childhood ("Born into Nixon, I was raised in hell/A welfare child where the teamsters dwelled") to the modern age ("Video games to the towers' fall/Homeland Security could kill us all"). He ends with nothing to show for it except his anger — and the heart to turn that anger into actual songs.The ballads are their glossiest ever; "Last Night on Earth" could be Air Supply, and don't think for a minute they don't love the idea of pissing people off with that. But the highlights are the rage-fueled punk anthems. They barrel through Latin-flavored guitar raves ("Peacemaker"), Clash-size bootboy chants ("Know Your Enemy") and four-chord garage slop ("Horseshoes and Handgrenades"). "Last of the American Girls" comes on as a fabulous left-wing love song to a rebel girl — when Armstrong sings, "She won't cooperate," he's giving her the highest compliment he can imagine.
TOP 5 TRACKS:
05) 21st Century Breakdown
04) Murder City
03) East Jesus Nowhere / Last Night On Earth
02) Viva La Gloria!
01) 21 Guns |
 | 02. "Its Blitz!"
by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
It's Blitz!, tells you all you need to know about how far the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have come, from Fever to Tell through the middle-ground growing pains of 2006's Show Your Bones and up to today. A clean, simple image of a woman's hand bursting an egg-- it's no less powerful an indication of feminine strength and defiance than Fever's abrasive scrawl, yet it's miles and miles more subversive. It's also a fitting symbol for its music, taking familiar shapes and tools and recombining them in ways that are bracing and unexpected.
It's Blitz! is constructed from parts that by themselves aren't extraordinary-- in fact, many of them are quite banal, like the generic Franz-Bloc-Killers modern rock riff that propels "Dull Life" or the doomy one that drives "Shame and Fortune", sounding ripped straight off a late-period Smashing Pumpkins record. Much has been made of the album's heavy reliance on rock's eternal bugaboo, the synth, but often the synths are doing rock things rather than dance things, like on the buzzing, road-burning opener "Zero". Only two songs, "Heads Will Roll" and "Dragon Queen", deliver real disco backbeats. Great Year for the YYYs! 
TOP 5 TRACKS:
05) Hysteric
04) Dragon Queen
03) Skeletons
02) Zero
01) Heads Will Roll |
 | 01. "The Fame Monster"
by Lady GaGa
Unexpected?  This is of course my favorite album from 2009, its brilliant in every sense of word. Lady Gaga is the out-of-the-blue planetary pop phenomenon of 2009. At the age of 23, Stefani Germanotta, the funny-looking girl from Yonkers, has established herself as a self-created autonomous star, an avatar of avant-garde freako fashion and the queen of state-of-the-art electronic dance-pop. And, given that she writes or co-writes her material (unlike the majority of rivals in her field), a frighteningly prolific artist.
Contrary to initial reports, The Fame Monster is not the average "deluxe" edition of a hit album hastily pitched at the Christmas market. This eight-track stand-alone disc is a whole new piece of art in its own right. TFM kicks off with the phenomenal current single "Bad Romance", whose Boney M-ish refrain is the most fiendish earworm of the year. Its first line proper – "I want your ugly, I want your disease..." – sets the tone for an album whose dominant atmosphere and aesthetic, from the monochrome cover shot and the crucifix logo onwards, is small-g gothic. Examples include the zombie metaphors of "Monster" ("He ate my heart..."), the strange Cossack pop of "Teeth" ("Take a bite of my bad-girl meat...") and "Dance in the Dark" ("Silicone, saline, poison, inject me...") which gives shout-outs to deceased females such as Monroe, Plath, Princess Di and even JonBenét Ramsey. Darker still is "Speechless", a 1970s rock-inspired number that touches upon abusive relationships ("I can't believe how you slurred at me with your half-wired broken jaw..."). There are one or two pieces of pop fluff, but there's always a suggestion of something interesting going on behind those glitter-encrusted eyes, such as the lesbo-erotic "So Happy I Could Die" in which she confesses to a secret girl-crush on her best friend: "I love that lavender blonde/ The way she moves the way she walks/ I touch myself, can't get enough..." If this is her idea of a stopgap release, we're looking here at a major talent indeed. On the evidence available so far, Lady Gaga isn't flesh and blood like the rest of us. She is made of amazingness.
TOP 5 TRACKS:
05) Alejandro / LoveGame
04) Telephone / Monster
03) Bad Romance / Starstruck / Paparazzi
02) Dance In The Dark / Just Dance
01) Speechless / Poker Face |
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AIEW,It's Blitz!,21st CB
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03,5|05
 Lady GaGa | Kelly Clarkson | Green Day | (0,5) YYY
Hope U on my CD ^__^
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Great top 5!!!
All I Ever Wanted >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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4/5!!!
Lady GaGa
Although, I would have used So Happy I Could Die for the Top 5 tracks...not Alejandro
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3/5. Gaga and Kelly are the BEST.
Alejandro 
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Recap TOMORROW!
Im gonna post the rest of the content in my personal blog 
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5/5 Great top 5!
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4/5
Lady GaGa
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