Well, here it is...the annual epic 111 best albums of 2009...as voted on by you.   Usually it's a close race...but this year, Animal Collective ran away with it.  In fact, the entire top ten was leaps and bounds above the rest.  And...if you have a problem with the list...then blame yourselves...you're the ones who voted.
See ya, next decade!!
Here are the 111 Best Albums of 2009:
1.  Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
2.  The xx - xx (Crystalised BBC)
3.  Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
4.  The Antlers - Hospice  (Kettering)
5.  Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (1901 live)
6.  Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca (The Bride)
7.  Wilco - Wilco (the Album)
8.  Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz (only $5.00)
9.  Metric - Fantasies (Help Im Alive)
10. Girls – Album
11. St. Vincent – Actor
12. Pearl Jam – Backspacer
13. Japandroids – Post Nothing
14. Monsters of Folk – Monsters of Folk
15. White Rabbits - It's Frightening (Percussion Gun daytrotter)
16. Modest Mouse – No One’s First and You’re Next
17. Bob Dylan – Together Through Life
18. Built To Spill - There is No Enemy 
19. Silversun Pickups – Swoon 
20. Lisa Hannigan – Sea Sew 
21. Morrissey - Years of Refusal 
22. The Dead Weather – Horehound
23. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone 
24. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers 
25. Cage The Elephant – Cage The Elephant
26. Regina Spektor - FAR 
27. Fanfarlo – Reservoir 
28. Various Artists – Dark Was The Night
29. Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Beware
30. Passion Pit – Manners
31. Noah and the Whale – The First Days of Spring 
32. Mos Def – The Ecstatic
33. The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love 
34. The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You
35. K’naan – Troubadour
36. Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years 
37. M. Ward – Hold Time
38. Sunset Rubdown – Dragon Slayer 
39. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic 
40. Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures 
41. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport 
42. Samantha Crain - Songs In the Night  
43. David Gray – Draw The Line 
44. Fever Ray – Fever Ray 
45. Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown (Know Your Enemy Colbert Report)
46. The Pains of Being Pure of Heart – POBOH 
47. Karen O and the Kids – Where the Wild Things Are
48. Dave Matthews Band – Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King
49. Devendra Banhart – What Will We Be
50. The Swell Season - Strict Joy 
51. Why? – Eskimo Snow 
52. Julian Plenti - …is a Skyscraper
53. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why There Are Mountains (Cold Spring)
54. The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin (Ticket Taker)
55. Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms 
56. Mew – No More Stories Are Told Today 
57. Fun. – Aim and Ignite 
58. The Horrors – Primary Colours 
59. Conor Oberst – Outer South
60. Crystal Method - Divided By The Night  (only $5.00)
61. Miike Snow – Miike Snow
62. The Big Pink – A Brief History of Love
63. Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career 
64. Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3.0
65. The Mountain Goats – Life of the World To Come
66. Dan Deacon – Bromst
67. Florence and the Machine – Lungs
68. Weezer – Raditude 
69. Mastodon – Crack the Skye
70. Say Anything – Say Anything
71. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – Up From Below 
72. Trail of Dead – Century of Self 
73. Paramore – Brand New Eyes 
74. Sonic Youth – The Eternal 
75. Handsome Furs – Face Control 
76. Wavves – Wavves
77. Antony and the Johnsons – The Crying Light (only $5.00)
78. Maxwell – BLACKsummer’s Night 
79. Von Bondies - Love, Hate and Then There's You
80. Deer Tick - Born On Flag Day (Straight Into A Storm)
81. Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
82. Muse – The Resistance
83. The Mars Volta – Octahedron
84. Cut Off Your Hands – You and I
85. Tanya Morgan – Brooklynati
86. Brand New – Daisy 
87. Manchester Orchestra – Mean Everything To Nothing
88. The Black Crowes - Before The Frost...Until the Freeze 
89. The Fray – The Fray 
90. Roman Candle – Oh Tall Tree In The Ear
91. Band of Skulls - Baby Darling Dollface Honey
92. U2 – No Line on the Horizon 
93. Placebo – Battle For the Sun 
94. Various Artists – Ghana Special (1968-91)
95. Gogol Bordello – Live from Axis Mundi
96. Flyleaf – Memento Mori (only $5)
97. Taking Back Sunday – New Again
98. Third Eye Blind – Ursa Major (only $5.00)
99. Jack Penate – Everything Is New
100.             Levon Helm – Electric Dirt (only $5)
101.             Mumford and Sons – Sigh No More
102.             Dananananaykroyd – Hey everyone!
103.             El Grupa Nueva De Omar Rodriguez Lopez – Cryptomnesia
104.             Raekwon – Only Built For Cuban Linx P2
105.             Wale – Attention Deficit (only $5.00)
106.             Franz Ferdinand – Tonight
107.             Matt & Kim – Grand ($5.00)
108.             Memory Tapes – Seek Magic
109.             Drake – So Far Gone (only $5.00)
110.             Andrew Bird – Noble Beast 
111.             Tegan and Sara – Sainthood 
 
 
1 comment:
The Phantom Band's Checkmate Savage probably deserved a place in your top 111. I came across it late last year and it turned out to be one of my favourite releases of the year.
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