Thursday, December 17, 2009

Top 50 Albums of 2009

As chosen by yours truly

01 Wilco - Wilco
02 Dawes - North Hills
03 Everest - Ghost Notes
(it was recorded in August 2007, i only found it this year.I cant stop listening to it, so it counts in my top 50)
04 Pearl Jam - Backspacer
05 Bonnie Prince Billy - Beware
06 The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
07 Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
08 Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
09 The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
10 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

11 Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
12 The Antlers - Hospice
13 Swell Season - Strict joy
14 Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
15 Iron & Wine - Around The Well
16 William Elliot Withmore - Animals in the Dark
17 The Black Crowes - Before the Frost...Until the Freeze
18 Imogen Heap - Ellipse
19 The Duke & The King - Nothing Gold Can Stay
20 Woods - Songs of Shame

21 Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock
22 Megafaun - Gather, Form & Fly
23 Deer Tick - BORN ON FLAG DAY
24 Bat for lashes - two suns
25 Bon Iver - Blood Bank EP
26 Bruce Sprinsteen - Working on a Dream
27 Papercuts - You Can Have What You Want
28 Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
29 Ben Kweller - Changing Horses
30 M. Ward - Hold Time

31 Beirut - March of the Zapotec/Holland EP
32 Sea Wolf - White Water, White Bloom
33 The Eels - Hombre Lobo
34 The Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come
35 J.Tillman - Vacilando Territory Blues / Year In The Kingdom
(Two great albums in one year, not to mention the Wild Honey Never Stolen/Borne Away On a Black Barge 7")
36 Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were Eagles
37 Built to Spill - There Is No Enemy
38 Broken Records - Until the Earth Begins to Part
39 Lightning Dust - Infinite Light
40 Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

41 John Frusciante - The Empyrean
42 Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
43 Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
44 Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
45 The Bird and the Bee - Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future
46 White Rabbits - It's Frightening
47 Loney, Dear - Dear John

- - - GUILTY PLEASURE SECTION - - -
48 Steve Martin - The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo
49 Kiss - Sonic Boom
50 Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue

I cant believe i left out Volcano Choir - Unmap
its a cracking good album featuring Justin Veron from Bon Iver
so in at number 51 Volcano Choir - Unmap