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"Hidden Treasures" Category - Less than 1.000.000 plays on Last.fm
1. The War on Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues (Adam Granduciel & Kurt Vile playing their guitars)
2. William Elliott Whitmore - Animals In The Dark (If you want to know anything about death, just ask mr.Whitmore!)
3. Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard - One Fast Move or I'm Gone-Music from Kerouac's Big Sur (Words: Jack Kerouac Music: Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard - it's hard to beat that combination!)
4. A.A.Bondy - When The Devil's Loose (On American Hearts Bob Dylan is poppin' up from time to time, and this one recalls Ryan Adams from Heartbreaker phase! The influences could not be better! )
5. Dave Rawlings Machine - A Friend Of A Friend {A friend (Dave Rawlings) of a friend (Gillian Welch) is my friend too!}
6. Kurt Vile - God Is Saying This To You? (experimental + sense for melody)
7. Antje Duvekot - The Near Demise Of The High Wire Dancer (reminds me of Nanci Griffith) (EU)
8. The Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock (They entered the basement, picked up instruments that Bob Dylan & The Band left, and they started the New Basement Tapes! History repeats itself! )
9. Gregory Alan Isakov - This Empty Northern Hemisphere (Melancholic!)
10. Justin Townes Earle - Midnight At The Movies
11. Hope Sandoval & Warm Inventions - Through The Devil Softly (The best of 2009 in Cowboy Junkies/Opal/Mazzy Star subgenre)
12. Slow Club - Yeah So (EU) (Twee artist of the year!)
13. The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin (Hip!)
14. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - Seven Mile Island
15. Seasick Steve - Man From Another Time (Blues still exists!)
16. The Cave Singers - Welcome Joy (New American Folk)
17. Slaid Cleaves - Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
18. Langhorne Slim - Be Set Free
19. Derek Clegg - KJC The Album (Some nice singing and songwriting - promising!)
20. Kimberly Freeman - Sleep (Don't judge of the book by it's cover!)
The Best Live Albums
1. Tift Merritt - Buckingham Solo (Live)
2. Leonard Cohen - Live in London
"Between Nothingness and Eternity" Category - More than 1 million and less than 10.000.000 plays on Last.fm
1. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle (It's all about moods and feelings!)
2. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
3. Alela Diane - To Be Still
4. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
5. Emmy the Great- First Love
6. Noah and the Whale - First Days of Spring
7. Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young
8. Fanfarlo - Reservoir
The Best Eps
1. Joe Pug - In The Meantime EP
2. Laura Marling - The London Town EP
The Best Demos
1. Marybeth D'Amico - I'm on fire (Bruce Springsteen cover) (Not because of friendship!)
2. Marybeth D'Amico - Down within the Darkness (Live Ammersse Nov 2009)
The Best Cover Albums
1. John Doe & The Sadies - Country Club
2. Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs - Under the Covers Vol.2
3. Rosanne Cash - The List
"With God On Our Side" Category - More than 10.000.000 plays on Last.fm
1. Pearl Jam - Backspacer
2. The Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come (John Darnielle jumped into the Bible and get out alive, only for that it deserves place on my list)
3. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
4. Florence and The Machine - Lungs
5. Bruce Springsteen - Walking On A Dream
6. Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
7. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
8. Regina Spektor - Far
9. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
10. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic

Started the year with catching up on some of the albums iv'e totally missed over the last years, with no respect. The unique psychedelic woodcuter americana of Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther is probably one of the decade's strongest records, too bad what iv'e heard of their 2010 follow-up seems a bit dull in comparison. The other album iv'e totally ignored in 2008 is my fellow Swede: The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave An impressive Dylanish one-man-restortion singer/songwriter that in swedish comparison stands out by faar.

In a way I have reinvented myself this year in terms of, partly abandoning the mellow americana or catchy indie i adored during 2008. Though the V/A album Dark Was The Night is the collar that gilds my last years suit. I've also rediscovered the Hardcore and alternative metal scene, with sound-surprising new discovers. It gets to me that in such a retrograde genre there are changes and I think that change has just started. Most obvious heard in Converge, this generations Black Flag? Hoping for a huge jump out of the new-metal plague into an avantagardish era for alternative rock/metal, maybe sprung out of the sludge factories of Baroness hometown Savannah.

The second thing that strikes me entering the new decade is the closure theme of some of the lyrical highlights of the year. Bill Callahan's (ex. (Smog)) settlement with the ongoing clash of Emotion vs. rationality, Unity vs. Individuality, Horses vs. Eagles. David Bazan's (ex. Pedro the Lion) final secession with religion and Vic Chesnutt's sad closure with death on christmas day. Listen to his masterpiece Flirted With You All My Life.

It is also a bit surprising that Nirvana 17 years after their hayday's finally have released and restored the legendary Live at Reading performance, in one way it also fits as closure to a decade that did not really take a turn, comparing it to the 90's genre by genre MTV attention seekers. Hopefully the 2010's will not be retro 80's all over again. It is time for the early 90's to have its rough intervention with the neo kitch of the 2000's].

For some reason i do think that 2009 was a faar better year than 2008, but it is hard to pick any stand-out releases or sensational albums. Though it is easy to tell that the consolidation of an already promising progress does seem to continue into the new decade. The offspring of the torrent/spotify generation has finally grown from the soil....

Pick of albums from 2009.

1. The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You



* Rick Rubin creating some magic with what used to be an average band.

2. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm



*Best album since Where You Been, Mascis and Barlow friends again and reunited.

3. Future of the Left - Travels With Myself And Another



* Odd Alternative Rock from Wales, Great! Play it Loud!

4. Baroness - Blue Record



5. A.A. Bondy - When The Devil's Loose



6. Reigning Sound - Love and Curses



7. Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels



8. Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid



9. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle



10. Kylesa - Static Tensions



11. Gregory Alan Isakov - This Empty Northern Hemisphere



12. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)



13. The Dead Weather - Horehound



14. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More



15. David Bazan - Curse Your Branches



16. Converge - Axe To Fall



17. Vic Chesnutt - At The Cut



18. Andrew Jackson Jihad - Can't Maintain



19. M. Ward - Hold Time



20. J.Tillman - Vacilando Territory Blues



Best Live Album.

Nirvana - Live at Reading



Best V/A.

Dark Was The Night - Dark Was The Night



For a more complete list of my prefered albums of 2009 please check out my rateyourmusic page here: http://rateyourmusic.com/~Varjas.


Some of the tracks that i think standout during 2009:

J.Tillman - James Blues
http://open.spotify.com/track/0H5OnXaHsKc6CeCGnsmAn6

The Flaming Lips - Watching the Planets http://open.spotify.com/track/4qPDCVSTbvBFq1aM184E0X

Lou Barlow - Gravitate
http://open.spotify.com/track/4T7P1Q9jHT9Ie3O7sUspqY

The Avett Brothers - Slight Figure of Speech
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Slight+Figure+Of+Speech/23225469

Magnolia Electric Co. - O! Grace
http://open.spotify.com/track/47CqTcQjl9AbhIVg4W3DRv

Conor Oberst - Roosevelt Room
http://open.spotify.com/track/0F6STUTVOIObToSfuSzzSe

Vic Chesnutt - Flirted With You All My Life
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Flirted+With+You+All+My+Life/23201167

Future of The Left - Chin Music
http://open.spotify.com/track/7wHcIdR03cMh5DCdRfVtHq

David Bazan - Hard To Be
http://open.spotify.com/track/3FA43HWo2iE7lsvocTckmi

Converge - Dark Horse
http://open.spotify.com/track/39wky0R2DwmwklqXH4LaET

Frank Turner - Try This at Home
http://open.spotify.com/track/6ZcYKCuY1vr0lA3qqcRTQq

The Felice Brothers - The Big Surprise
http://open.spotify.com/track/2SrhI89St19aqqOZ1bF6cD

Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire
http://open.spotify.com/track/1yzTpiDikPPDa9gudLm0tA

Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time
http://open.spotify.com/track/1X5lTaNxT5mZfgHBL79lEW

Andrew Bird - Tenuousness
http://open.spotify.com/track/1tEtLHU8CIUm8qmGGeAYg0

Wilco - One Wing
http://open.spotify.com/track/60FEjb4tqGRemyxKYF0o7i

The Mountain Goats - Psalms 40:2
http://open.spotify.com/track/6qeHV3fTDyF1kb7ZpszJZH

Mumford & Sons - The Cave
http://open.spotify.com/track/33e9HtOfO1ye1h8xQ7Foc9

Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard - California Zephyr
http://open.spotify.com/track/4eBvIlQ3EhaP2b8At53Woo

Tom Russell - East of Woodstock, West of Vietnam
http://open.spotify.com/track/6e97HRYkTOIfavazciyygI

Elvis Perkins in Dearland - Shampoo
http://open.spotify.com/track/1ic4d2bSUtuPvHpHJPd2oH

Please visit my 2009 Mixtape for more songs:
http://www.lastfm.se/user/Varjas/library/playlists/3sl8v_2009

/Niklas

001: I Monster - Goodbye Sun
002: Peter Doherty - Last Of The English Roses
003: Eels - That Look You Give That Guy
004: Jarvis Cocker - I Never Said I Was Deep
005: Peter Doherty - Lady Don't Fall Backwards
006: Noel Gallagher - Half the World Away
007: I Monster - A Sucker For Your Sound
008: I Monster - Dear John
009: Jamie T - Earth, Wind & Fire
010: The Rumble Strips - Not The Only Person
011: I Monster - The Best
012: The Rifles - Fall to Sorrow
013: Peter Doherty - Broken Love Story
014: Pet Shop Boys - The way it used to be
015: Eels - Beginner's Luck
016: Lisa Ekdahl - Give Me That Slow Knowing Smile
017: Jarvis Cocker - You're In My Eyes (Discosong)
018: Iggy Pop - A Machine For Loving
019: Reverend and The Makers - Hidden Persuaders
020: Mélanie Pain - Peut Etre Pas
021: Erobique & Jacques Palminger - Wann strahlst Du?
022: Arctic Monkeys - The Jeweller's Hands
023: The Dead Weather - I Cut Like a Buffalo
024: The Rumble Strips - Welcome To The Walk Alone
025: Eels - My Timing Is Off
026: Franz Ferdinand - Bite Hard
027: Eels - The Longing
028: Psapp - Screws
029: Eels - Ordinary Man
030: Franz Ferdinand - Katherine Kiss Me
031: Ancient Astronauts - Surfing the Silvatide
032: The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Crazy
033: Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
034: Peter Doherty - A Little Death Around the Eyes
035: Beck - Stranger Song
036: Pet Shop Boys - More than a dream
037: The Rumble Strips - Daniel
038: Reverend and The Makers - Mermaids
039: Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone (Maida Vale Studios 2009)
040: Franz Ferdinand - Live Alone
041: The Dandy Warhols - The Last High
042: God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl
043: Ian Brown - Just Like You
044: Jarvis Cocker - Fuckingsong
045: Timber Timbre - Lay Down In The Tall Grass
046: Au Revoir Simone - Another Likely Story
047: The Ideal Husband - I'll Stop To Play With You
048: Ian Brown - Marathon Man
049: Dial M for murder! - Do You Think So I Don't
050: Regina Spektor - The Calculation
051: Charlotte Gainsbourg - Heaven Can Wait
052: Eels - In My Dreams
053: The View - Unexpected
054: Camera Obscura - Forest and Sands
055: 1990s - The Box
056: The City and Horses - Little Finland
057: Iggy Pop - I Want To Go To The Beach
058: Beck - Suzanne
059: Jamie T - Hocus Pocus
060: Monsters of Folk - Baby Boomer
061: Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
062: Camera Obscura - You Told a Lie
063: Peter Doherty - Arcady
064: The Ideal Husband - Objects in the mirror
065: The Clean - In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul
066: The Kingsbury Manx - Over the Oeuvre
067: God Help The Girl - Perfection As A Hipster
068: The View - Shock Horror
069: Sodaphon - Local Comic Yesterday Store
070: Laleh - Big City Love
071: 1990s - Local Science
072: Holidays on Ice - Eat A Peach
073: The Whitest Boy Alive - Rollercoaster Ride
074: The View - Distant Doubloon
075: The Albertans - Warring Man
076: Jarvis Cocker - Leftovers
077: Dial M for murder! - NYC (Now You Care)
078: The View - Double Yellow Lines
079: Holidays on Ice - Fortune
080: Pet Shop Boys - Love etc.
081: Sodaphon - Early Morning Ticket
082: Peter Doherty - Sheepskin Tearaway
083: I Monster - Cool Coconuts
084: Charlotte Gainsbourg - Dandelion
085: God Help The Girl - I'm In Love With the City
086: Sodaphon - What´s In The News?
087: MJ Hibbett & the Validators - My Boss Was In An Indie Band Once
088: Peter Doherty - Salomè (Acoustic)
089: Jamie T - Emily's Heart
090: Regina - Terveiset paivantasaajalta
091: The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - The Sun Ain't Shining No More
092: Jamie T - Castro Dies
093: Mélanie Pain - if you knew
094: Dial M for murder! - You said
095: Jamie T - Sticks 'n' Stones
096: Holidays on Ice - Dog House
097: Mélanie Pain - My name
098: Kissogram - The Deserter
099: Iggy Pop - Spanish Coast
100: Mélanie Pain - Tomorrow Never
101: The National - So Far Around the Bend
102: Diving With Andy - Sugar Sugar
103: Jarvis Cocker - Slush
104: Raz Ohara And The Odd Orchestra - Miracle
105: Manic Street Preachers - Doors Closing Slowly
106: Jonna Lee - Lake Chermain
107: Golden Silvers - True Romance (True No. 9 Blues)
108: Bishop Allen - Tiger, Tiger
109: frYars - Lakehouse
110: Psapp - The Camel's Back
111: Kasabian - Ladies And Gentlemen (Roll The Dice)
112: Peter Doherty - Palace Of Bone
113: God Help The Girl - Musician, Please Take Heed
114: Dial M for murder! - The Mourning Comes The Morning After
115: Spoon - Got Nuffin
116: Ian Brown - Stellify
117: The Rifles - Science in Violence
118: Charlotte Gainsbourg - Time of the Assassins
119: The Whitest Boy Alive - Island
120: Kissogram - Rubber And Meat
121: the Little Hands of Asphalt - Blue & Green
122: Kissogram - Tonight I'll Go Out Alone
123: Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls
124: Das Pop - Girl Be A Man
125: balstyrko - Jagten paa noget
126: Kasabian - Where Did All the Love Go?
127: Mélanie Pain - Celle de mes vingt ans
128: God Help The Girl - The Psychiatrist Is In
129: Dial M for murder! - Fiction of her dreams
130: Wild Beasts - All the Kings Men
131: Friska Viljor - If I Die Now
132: Franz Ferdinand - Twilight Omens
133: Eels - Prizefighter
134: Kissogram - Prominent Man
135: Pet Shop Boys - Pandemonium
136: Regina - Tapaa minut aamulla
137: Franz Ferdinand - Can't Stop Feeling
138: Air - Sing Sang Sung
139: Hockey - Too Fake
140: Jan Delay - Kommando Bauchladen
141: God Help The Girl - He's a Loving Kind of Boy
142: Erobique & Jacques Palminger - Finsterwalde
143: The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - The Golden Age
144: Jamie T - British Intelligence
145: Reverend and The Makers - Long Long Time
146: Dial M for murder! - You can't have me
147: Jarvis Cocker - Angela
148: Jamie T - Chaka Demus
149: Regina - Sain levyt joita et halua kuunnella
150: Phantom Ghost - All manner of thing shall be well
151: Timber Timbre - Magic Arrow
152: The Albertans - We're On Our Own
153: The Ideal Husband - Terrified
154: Beck - Stories of the Street
155: Dial M for murder! - Oh no!
156: The Rumble Strips - London
157: balstyrko - Roennebaer
158: Regina - Musta musta puutarha
159: Station 17 feat Fettes Brot - Ohne Regen Kein Regenbogen
160: Oliver Koletzki - Zuckerwatte (feat. Juli Holz)
161: Hockey - Song Away
162: Monsters of Folk - Goodway
163: Jarvis Cocker - Hold Still
164: The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)
165: Pet Shop Boys - Vulnerable
166: Say Hi - November Was White, December Was Grey
167: Gregory Alan Isakov - One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
168: Sodaphon - Drama
169: Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson - Relator
170: The Rifles - The Great Escape
171: The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Around The Bend
172: Kasabian - Fire
173: The xx - Infinity
174: Arctic Monkeys - Dangerous Animals
175: Iggy Pop - Les Feuilles Mortes
176: Reverend and The Makers - Silence Is Talking
177: The Rifles - For the Meantime
178: Erobique & Jacques Palminger - Kathrin + Lars
179: Wave Machines - Keep The Lights On
180: I Monster - Escape from New Yorkshire
181: The Coronas - Far From Here
182: Gorillaz - Broken (demo)
183: Mika - Dr. John
184: Hockey - Everyones The Same Age
185: Mando Diao - Gloria
186: Super Furry Animals - Mt.
187: Franz Ferdinand - Backwards On My Face (Dub Version)
188: I Monster - A Pad Is Waiting
189: Kasabian - West Rider Silver Bullet
190: Das Pop - Let Me In
191: Editors - Papillon
192: Reverend and The Makers - No Soap In a Dirty War
193: Jonathan Johansson - Aldrig ensam
194: The Rifles - Romeo & Julie
195: The Flaming Lips - I Can Be a Frog
196: The National - Mansion On The Hill
197: Laroca - Brassic
198: Röyksopp - Happy Up Here
199: Bishop Allen - The Magpie
200: Flight of the Conchords - Hurt Feelings
201: Friska Viljor - People Are Getting Old
202: Regina Spektor - Laughing With
203: Golden Silvers - Queen of the 21st Century
204: Jamie T - Chaka Demus
205: Charlotte Gainsbourg - Le Chat Du Café Des Artistes
206: Jonathan Johansson - En hand i himlen
207: I Monster - Lust For A Vampyr
208: Mando Diao - Go Out Tonight
209: Gorillaz - Electric Shock (Demo)
210: The View - 5 Rebeccas
211: Little Dragon - Swimming
212: Cornershop - Operation Push
213: Das Pop - The Last Love
214: Monsters of Folk - Magic Marker
215: Hockey - Curse This City
216: M. Ward - Never Had Nobody Like You
217: El Perro del Mar - Change Of Heart
218: God Help The Girl - A Down and Dusky Blonde
219: Say Hi - Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh
220: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Runaway
221: A Band Called Quinn - Fluff Girl
222: The xx - Islands
223: Kent - Svarta linjer
224: Beck - One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong
225: Jason Lytle - Birds Encouraged Him
226: Parker Lewis - Bash the Cynicals
227: Ian Brown - Laugh Now
228: Das Pop - Fool For Love
229: WhoMadeWho - The Plot
230: The xx - Stars
231: Mando Diao - High Heels
232: Holidays on Ice - Dust Bunnies
233: Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Lady Jessica and Sam
234: Mando Diao - You Got Nothing On Me
235: Just Jack - 253
236: God Help The Girl - Stills
237: balstyrko - intet stopper helt
238: Kissogram - Backseat of my Mind
239: Girl With The Gun - In the sunshine
240: Monsters of Folk - Map Of The World
241: Laleh - Go Go
242: Bat for Lashes - Daniel
243: Charlotte Gainsbourg - Master's Hands
244: Wave Machines - I Go I Go I Go
245: Mika - Good Gone Girl
246: Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Fall Aside
247: Mélanie Pain - Plus Vite Que Le Temps
248: Arctic Monkeys - Potion Approaching
249: Johnny Cash - Big River (Count De Money Remix)
250: The Whitest Boy Alive - Courage
251: The Raveonettes - Suicide
252: Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Ray Ban
253: Regina Spektor - Genius Next Door
254: Jan Delay - Überdosis Fremdscham
255: Jay-Jay Johanson - Medicine
256: Voxtrot - Berlin, Without Return
257: RipChord - Shoot You Down
258: Das Pop - Wings
259: Laroca - La Glorieta
260: Mando Diao - Dance With Somebody
261: 1990s - Balthazar
262: The Dead Weather - 3 Birds
263: The Cribs - We Share The Sames Skies
264: Morrissey - That's How People Grow Up
265: Mike Patton - Chelios
266: Peter Von Poehl - Near the End of the World
267: audie darling - Little Bird
268: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Road
269: Graham Coxon - Humble Man
270: Noah and the Whale - My Broken Heart
271: M. Ward - For Beginners
272: Flight of the Conchords - Carol Brown
273: Urlaub in Polen - marseilles swell
274: Friska Viljor - Sunny Day
275: The Brute Chorus - All The Pilgrims
276: Ancient Astronauts - All Of The Things You Do
277: The Nightgowns - Solid Gold 2
278: Holidays on Ice - Plunkett St Push
279: Little Dragon - Never Never
280: Charlotte Gainsbourg - Looking Glass Blues
281: Jan Delay - Showgeschäft
282: The Cribs - Cheat On Me
283: James - Not So Strong
284: Ödland - Les yeux de l'oiseau
285: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Family
286: Cornershop - Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast
287: Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension
288: Starfucker - Medicine
289: The xx - Basic Space
290: Sodaphon - Shalalalala
291: Erobique & Jacques Palminger - Henri le chat
292: The Raveonettes - Bang!
293: Wave Machines - The Greatest Escape We Ever Made
294: Psapp - Parker
295: A Band Called Quinn - D.I.Y.
296: Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern - Amy and Rachel
297: MPHO - Last Supper
298: The Lightning Seeds - Said And Done
299: The Gossip - Dimestore Diamond
300: A Camp - Bear on the Beach
301: The City and Horses - I don't want to dream
302: Duncan Sheik - The Tale of Solomon Snell
303: Polly Scattergood - Please Don't Touch
304: The Flaming Lips - Sagittarius Silver Announcement
305: Desire - MIRROIR MIRROIR
306: Maxïmo Park - A Cloud of Mystery
307: Madness - The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
308: Oh Sweet Music! - four long years
309: Muse - Uprising
310: Jay-Jay Johanson - Lighting strikes
311: Flight of the Conchords - You Don't Have To Be A Prostitute
312: frYars - Olive Eyes
313: Timid Tiger - Palm beach bar
314: Oliver Koletzki - Headshaped box (feat. Kate Mosh)
315: RipChord - Another World
316: The Dutchess and the Duke - Scorpio
317: Telekinesis! - Imaginary Friend
318: The Flaming Lips - Convinced of the Hex
319: The Raveonettes - Heart Of Stone
320: A Camp - Here Are Many Wild Animals
321: The Mary Onettes - God Knows I Had Plans
322: Ian Brown - In The Year 2525
323: The Dutchess and the Duke - Sunrise / Sunset
324: Wave Machines - The Line
325: Jay-Jay Johanson - Broken Nose
326: Kent - Idioter
327: Lucky Fonz III - Summer Day
328: Findlay Brown - If I Could Do It Again
329: Frankmusik - Gotta Boyfriend
330: Little Boots - Love Kills
331: Just Jack - So Wrong
332: Girl With The Gun - Coast to coast
333: John ME - Sister
334: Beck - Master Song
335: Mika - Lover Boy
336: Jason Lytle - Brand New Sun
337: Ancient Astronauts - Classic
338: Air - So Light Is Her Footfall
339: Camera Obscura - Honey in the Sun
340: The Whitest Boy Alive - 1517
341: A Band Called Quinn - The Glimmer Song
342: Shelley Short - Mockingbird
343: Man Like Me - Booze
344: Music Go Music - Light of Love
345: The Bird and the Bee - Love Letter To Japan
346: Maia Hirasawa - South Again
347: Cornershop - The Roll Off Characteristics (Of History In The Making)
348: The Holloways - Jukebox Sunshine
349: Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter
350: Man Like Me - 9 Lives





01 I Monster: A Dense Swarm Of Ancient Stars


02 Peter Doherty: Grace/Wastelands
03 Eels: Hombre Lobo
04 Jarvis Cocker: Further Complications


06 Franz Ferdinand: Tonight Franz Ferdinand / Blood
07 Jamie T: Kings & Queens
07 Pet Shop Boys: Yes
08 Iggy Pop: Preliminaires
09 Mélanie Pain: Compilation Song
10 Reverend and The Makers: A French Kiss In The Chaos
11 The Rumble Strips: Welcome To The Walk Alone


12 God Help The Girl: God Help The Girl / Stills EP
13 Ian Brown: My Way
14 Dial M for murder!: Fiction Of Her Dreams
15 Beck]artist]: Songs Of Leonard Cohen
16 Arctic Monkeys: Humbug
17 Noel Gallagher: The Dreams We Have As Children
18 Regina: Puutarhatrilogia
19 Monsters of Folk: Monsters of Folk
20 The Ideal Husband: No bye no Aloha
21 Erobique & Jacques Palminger: songs of joy
22 Charlotte Gainsbourg: IRM
23 Timber Timbre: Timber Timbre
24 The Whitest Boy Alive: Rules
25 The View: Which Bitch?
26 Das Pop: Das Pop
27 Hockey: Mind Chaos

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28 The Rifles: The Great Escape
29 Sodaphon: The Pros And Cons Of Having Nothing / I No Longer Identify With Holden Caulfield
30 Psapp: The Camel's Back
31 Camera Obscura: My Maudlin Career
32 The Dead Weather: Horehound
33 Kissogram: Rubber & Meat
34 The Asteroids Galaxy Tour: Fruit
35 The City and Horses: I Don't Want To Dream
36 Holidays on Ice: Pillage Before Plunder
37 Just Jack: All Night Cinema
38 Flight of the Conchords: I Told You I Was Freaky
39 Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: The Road - Original Film Score
40 balstyrko: Jagten på noget
41 1990s: Kicks
42 Mando Diao: Give Me Fire
43 Jan Delay: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Soul
44 The Raveonettes: In And Out Of Control
45 Air: Love 2
46 Wave Machines: Wave If You're Really There
47 The xx: xx
48 Regina Spektor: Far
49 Jay-Jay Johanson: Self-Portrait
50 The Cribs: Ignore The Ignorant

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(alphabetical)
A Band Called Quinn: Sun Moon & Stars
A Camp: Colonia
Ancient Astronauts: We Are To Answer
Art Brut: Art Brut vs. Satan
audie darling: Full of Ghosts
Au Revoir Simone: Still Night, Still Light
Bellman: Mainly Mute
Bishop Allen: Grrr...
Cornershop: Judy Sucks Lemon For Breakfast
Danielle Ate the Sandwich: Things People Do
Editors: In This Light
Eleni Mandell: Artificial Fire
Frankmusik: Complete Me
Friska Viljor: For New Beginnings
Fruit Bats: The Ruminant Band
Golden Silvers: True Romance
Goodbye Ivan: The K Syndrome
Gregory Alan Isakov: This Empty Northern Hemisphere
His Name Shall Breathe: There Is an Earthquake Inside of Me
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions: Through The Devil Softly
Johnny Cash: Johnny Cash Remixed
Jonathan Johansson: En hand i himlen
Jonna Lee: This Is Jonna Lee
Julian Casablancas: Phrazes For The Young
Kasabian: The West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Kent: Rod
Laleh: Me and Simon
Laroca: Valley of the Bears
Leo Abrahams: The Grape And The Grain
Lisa Ekdahl: Give Me That Slow Knowing Smile
Little Dragon: Machine Dreams
M. Ward: Hold Time
Manic Street Preachers: Journal For Plague Lovers
Mika: The Boy Who Knew Too Much
Mike Patton: Crank 2: High Voltage
Morrissey: Years Of Refusal
Musette: Datum
Noah and the Whale: The First Days Of Spring
Ödland: The Caterpillar
Oliver Koletzki: Großstadtmärchen
Parker Lewis: Parker Lewis
Peter Bjorn and John: Living Thing
Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Polly Scattergood: Polly Scattergood
Röyksopp: Junior
Say Hi: Oohs And Aahs
Sophie Madeleine: LOVE.LIFE.UKULELE
The Albertans: Legends Of Sam Marco
The Dandy Warhols: The Dandy Warhols Are Sound
The Decemberists: The Hazards of Love
The Flaming Lips: Embryonic
The Kingsbury Manx: Ascenseur Ouvert!
The Lightning Seeds: Four Winds
The Nightgowns: Sing Something
Voxtrot: Berlin, Without Return
WhoMadeWho: The Plot
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz!

Di seguito la lista dei miei 30 album dell'anno, e a seguire gli album che ho comunque apprezzato. Ho anche aggiunto i link alle recensioni che ho scritto su OndaRock.
Here follows the list of my 30 favourite albums in 2009, followed by a list of albums I also liked. I added the links to the reviews I wrote, published on OndaRock (reviews are written in italian).


01. Leonard Mynx - Vesper
02. Savoy Grand - Accident Book
03. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Beware
04. The Leisure Society - The Sleeper
05. Noah and the Whale - The First Days Of Spring
06. Revolver - Music For A While
07. Mi and L'au - Good Morning Jokers
08. Grand Archives - Keep In Mind Frankenstein
09. Old Lost John – Faceless
10. Matt Jones - The Black Path

11. Kings of Convenience - Declaration Of Dependence
12. Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
13. The Mostar Diving Club - Don Your Suit Of Lights
14. Musette - Datum
15. God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl
16. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
17. Kesang Marstrand - Hello Night
18. Jens Carelius - The Beat Of The Travel
19. Simone White - Yakiimo
20. Castanets - Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beasts

21. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
22. David Tattersall - Happy For A While
23. Ed Laurie - Small Boat Big Sea...
24. Dan Mangan - Nice, Nice, Very Nice
25. Doveman - The Conformist
26. Bark Cat Bark - Mathilde
27. Doug Paisley - Doug Paisley
28. Emily Scott - abcdefg...etc...
29. Gustav & the Seasick Sailors - Brilliant Hands
30. Jacob Faurholt - Are You In The Mood For Love?


Mi sono anche piaciuti (non necessariamente in questo esatto ordine):
I also appreciated (not necessarily in this exact order):

# Laura Gibson - Beasts of Seasons
# James Yorkston - Folk Songs (with The Big Eyes Family Players)
# Digger Barnes - Time Has Come
# Terry Emm - White Butterflies
# Bahamas - Pink Strat
# Bowerbirds - Upper Air
# Owen - New Leaves
# Silent Paper Radios - Reborn as a Wind Chime
# Elvis Perkins in Dearland - Elvis Perkins in Dearland
# Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
# Alondra Bentley - Ashfield Avenue
# Thousand - The Flying Pyramid
# Oweihops - Viburnum
# Grant-Lee Phillips - Little Moon
# The Clientele - Bonfires on the Heath
# Stein Torleif Bjella - Heidersmenn
# Glorytellers - Atone
# The Steadfast Shepherd - The Steadfast Shepherd
# Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
# Joey Ryan - ...With Its Roots Above and Its Branches Below
# A Jigsaw - Like The Wolf
# The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
# Hayden - The Place Where We Lived
# Lisa Germano - Magic Neighbor
# M. Ward - Hold Time
# Vandaveer - Divide & Conquer
# Luke Winslow-King - Old/New Baby
# Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
# Huck Notari - Very Long Dream
# Scott Matthews - Elsewhere
# Garrett Pierce - All Masks
# Joose Keskitalo - Tule minun luokseni, kulta
# Joe Henry - Blood From Stars
# Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
# Spring Breakup - Spring Breakup
# Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be
# Grand Salvo - Soil Creatures
# Adam Arcuragi - I Am Become Joy
# David Åhlén - We Sprout in Thy Soil
# Royal City - Royal City
# Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul
# The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come
# A.A. Bondy - When the Devil's Loose
# Cat Malojian - The Dawn Chorus
# Buster Blue - This Beard Grows for Freedom
# Sea Wolf - White Water, White Bloom
# Jon-Rae Fletcher - Oh Maria
# J. Tillman - Year in the Kingdom
# John Doe & The Sadies - Country Club
# Barzin - Notes to an Absent Lover
# St. Vincent - Actor
# Justin Townes Earle - Midnight at the Movies
# The White Buffalo - Hogtied revisited
# Lord Mandrake - The Best of All Possible Worlds
# Chriss Sutherland - Worried Love
# Vio/Miré - January 2009
# audie darling - Full of Ghosts
# leif vollebekk - Inland
# Tim Fite - Change of Heart
# Gregory Alan Isakov - This Empty Northern Hemisphere
# Ola Podrida - Belly of the Lion
# Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, the Commuter
# Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
# Alessi's Ark - Notes From the Treehouse
# Patients - Patients
# CAMERON MCGILL AND WHAT ARMY - Warm Songs for Cold Shoulders
# Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard - 'Em Are I
# André Ethier - Born on Blue Fog
# Weinland - Breaks in the Sun
# Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine
# The Black Heart Procession - Six
# Gareth Dickson - Collected Recordings

1) Ray LaMontagne 814
2) Herman Düne 506
3) Fleet Foxes 455
4) Sam Baker 443
5) Band of Horses 427
6) Mumford & Sons 424
7) The Deep Dark Woods 412
8) Joe Henry 409
9) The Cave Singers 404
10) Micah P. Hinson 403
11) The Decemberists 391
12) John Prine 387
13) Madrugada 374
14) Andrew Bird 372
15) Editors 370
16) Alela Diane 366
17) Antony and the Johnsons 363
18) Kings of Convenience 355
19) Cold War Kids 342
20) Teitur 330
21) Mason Jennings 329
22) Luka Bloom 326
23) The Magic Numbers 324
24) Beirut 317
25) Sonic Youth 303
26) Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 302
27) Damien Rice 294
28) The Whitest Boy Alive 292
29) Paolo Nutini 290
30) Islands 264
30) Dez Mona 264
30) Mary Gauthier 264
33) Richmond Fontaine 262
34) Pavement 261
35) Travis 256
36) The Wooden Sky 254
36) Razorlight 254
38) Sophia 252
39) Great Lake Swimmers 248
40) The Veils 245
41) The Doors 242
42) Richard Hawley 240
43) Josh Ritter 239
44) Ryan Bingham 238
45) Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly 235
46) Amadou & Mariam 234
47) Rufus Wainwright 231
48) Other Lives 227
49) DeVotchKa 225
50) Calexico 221
51) Bright Eyes 220
52) Sufjan Stevens 219
53) Arcade Fire 213
54) The Beatles 207
54) The Felice Brothers 207
56) Eels 205
57) Tool 203
57) Dan Mangan 203
59) M. Ward 202
59) Husky Rescue 202
61) Kings of Leon 201
61) Lambchop 201
63) Dolorean 200
63) Belle and Sebastian 200
65) Radiohead 199
66) Gregory Alan Isakov 197
67) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 196
67) Iron & Wine 196
69) Joan as Police Woman 195
69) Lucky Fonz III 195
69) Eilen Jewell 195
72) I Am Kloot 194
72) Pink Floyd 194
72) Built to Spill 194
75) The Dodos 193
76) Pompeii 189
77) Silver Jews 182
78) Tindersticks 181
79) Sam Cooke 179
80) The Elected 177
81) My Morning Jacket 176
82) Pearl Jam 175
83) Leonard Cohen 173
83) Woven Hand 173
83) Grinderman 173
86) Loney, Dear 172
86) Sleep the Season 172
88) Yo La Tengo 170
89) Neil Young 168
89) TV on the Radio 168
91) The Shins 166
92) Rob Lutes 165
92) Nizlopi 165
94) Department of Eagles 163
94) Bon Iver 163
96 Sigur Rós 161
97) The Black Heart Procession 160
97) Elvis Perkins 160
97 Weinland

160
100 Play
Califone

159
100) Vetiver

159
102) Babel

157
103 Play
Wolf Parade

156
103 Play
Elbow

156
103
Florence + The Machine

156
103 Guillemots

156
107 Midlake 155
108 The Verve

153
108 Tinariwen

153
110 Port O'Brien

152
110 John Mayer 152
110 Play
Camera Obscura

152
113 Play
The Triffids

149
113 Play
Tom McRae

149
115 The Smashing Pumpkins

148
115 Ha Ha Tonka

148
117 Piano Magic

147
117 Beck

147
117 Arctic Monkeys 147
120 Monsters of Folk 144
121) Gert Vlok Nel 143
121) Stephen Fretwell

143
121 Play
Stars

143
121 Play
The National

143
125 Play
Royal Wood

140
125 Play
Kasabian

140
125 Play
Gomez

140
125 Play
Bob Dylan

140
125 Play
U2

140
125 Play
Bruce Springsteen

140
131 Play
Steve Wynn

139
131 Play
Nirvana

139
133 Play
Sivert Høyem

138
133 Play
Wilco

138
135 Play
Okkervil River

137
135 Play
Deer Tick

137
137 Play
Richard Ashcroft

136
137 Play
Willard Grant Conspiracy

136
139 Play
16 Horsepower

134
140 Play
Devendra Banhart

133
140 Play
Lewis & Clarke

133
142 Play
Beth Orton

131
142 Play
Stephen Malkmus

131
142) Jamie Scott & The Town

131
142) Molina & Johnson

131
146) Will Johnson

130
146) Phosphorescent

130
146) The Last Shadow Puppets

130
149) Alberta Cross

128
149) Clinic

128
149) Glasvegas

128
149 Play
Moby

128
153 Play
Absentee

127
154 Play
Frontier Ruckus

126
155) Feist 123
156) Conor Oberst 122
156) Bowerbirds 122
156) Maximilian Hecker 122
156) Salif Keita 122
160) Damien Jurado 120
161) Bill Callahan119
162) Kashmir 118
162) Frightened Rabbit 118
162) The Accidental 118
165) The Dutchess & the Duke 116
165 Play
Horse Stories

116
165 Play
Angus & Julia Stone

116
168 Play
Starsailor

115
168 Play
Marianne Faithfull

115
170 Play
Aqualung

114
170 Play
Ludwig van Beethoven

114
172 Play
Adam Green

113
173) Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson

112
173 Play
Rock Plaza Central

112
173) Alaska In Winter 112
176) Broken Social Scene 111
176 Plants and Animals 111
178) Amy Winehouse 110
178) Vandaveer 110
178) Loudon Wainwright III 110
178) The Maccabees 110
178) Magnolia Electric Co. 110
183) Mark Olson & Gary Louris

109
183 Play
David Thomas Broughton

109
183 Play
Low

109
183
The xx

109
187 Play
Jacob Golden

108
188 Play
Orchestra Baobab

107
188 Play
The Raconteurs

107
190
Garett Brennan & The Great Salt Licks

106
190
Stuart A. Staples

106
192 Play
Simone White

105
192 Play
Brett Dennen

105
194 Play
Carissa's Wierd

104
194 Play
Snow Patrol

104
194 Play
Vampire Weekend

104
194 Play
Matt the Electrician

104
194 Play
The Byrds

104
194 Play
The Walkmen

104
194 Play
[unknown]

104
201 Play
My Latest Novel

103
201 Play
The Avett Brothers

103
201) Tyler Ramsey 103
201) A Hawk and a Hacksaw 103
205) Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan 102
205) Bloc Party 102
205) K.O.L.O 102
205) The Velvet Underground 102
205) Jon-Rae Fletcher 102
205 Play
Andy Palacio & The Garifuna Collective

102
211 Play
The Appleseed Cast

101
211 Play
Xavier Rudd

101
211 Play
William Fitzsimmons

101
211
Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová

101
211 Play
Elliott Smith

101
216 Play
The Kooks

100
216 Play
The Swell Season

100
216 Play
Brown Bird

100
216 Play
Stevie Wonder

100
216 Play
The Gossip

100
216 Play
Camphor

100
222 Play
Franz Ferdinand

99
222
Headless Heroes

99
222 Play
Revolver

99
222) Rivulets 99
226) Broken Records 98
227) The White Stripes 97
227) Dirty Three 97
227) John Lenehan & David Snell 97
227) The Bony King of Nowhere 97
231 Play
Thomas Dybdahl

96
231 Play
Paolo Conte

96
233) Solal

95
234 Play
Aereogramme

94
234 Play
Grant Lee Buffalo

94
234 Play
Holopaw

94
234 Play
Athlete

94
234
Ten Kens

94
239 Play
I'm From Barcelona

93
239 Play
The Feelies

93
239 Play
Jack Johnson

93
239 Play
Shawn Mullins

93
243 Play
Josh Pyke

92
243 Play
Jimmy LaFave

92
243 Play
Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs

92
243) The Rosie Taylor Project

92
243 Play
Rodney Crowell

92
248 Play
The New Pornographers

91
248 Play
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

91
250 Play
Janine Jansen

90
250 Play
City and Colour

90
250 Play
Bell X1

90
250 Play
Novastar

90
250 Play
Nancy Elizabeth

90
250 Austin Lucas 90
256 Play
Love Is All

89
256 Infadels 89
256 Anne Soldaat

89
256
Jeffrey Foucault

89
256 Play
Tunng

89
256 Play
Frontier Folk Nebraska

89
256 Play
The Leisure Society

89
263 Play
Babyshambles

88
263
Dead Man's Bones

88
263) Maplewood 88
266) The Rifles 87
266) Dire Straits 87
266) John Martyn

87
266 Play
Ohbijou

87
266 Play
Johnny Cash

87
266 Play
The Mountain Goats

87
266 Play
Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter

87
273 Play
The Antlers

86
273
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset

86
273 Play
Dear Reader

86
273 Play
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

86
273
William Elliott Whitmore 86
273) Saint Etienne 86
273) Poni Hoax

86
273) Nine Inch Nails

86
281) Devon Sproule

85
281) Joseph Arthur 85
281) Afel Bocoum 85
284) Jens Lekman 84
284) Cocoon 84
284) Electrelane 84
284) Ben Kweller 84
284) Ryan Adams & The Cardinals 84
284) Takka Takka

84
290) Mika

83
290) Joy Division

83
290) David Kitt 83
290 Play
Van Morrison

83
290 Play
Jason Mraz

83
295 Play
Tim Christensen

82
296) Tim Easton

81
296 Play
Rocky Votolato

81
296 Play
The Wave Pictures

81
296) Timesbold 81
296) Cass McCombs 81
296) Patrick Watson 81
296) Chris Eckman 81
296) Fanfarlo

81
304) Cloud Cult

80
304) Patrick Bruel 80
304) Cranes

80
304) Tom Waits

80
304 Play
Emmy the Great

80
304) White Lies 80
304) Tom Pintens 80
304) Horse Feathers 80
312) Lykke Li 79
312) Traveling Wilburys 79
314) Peter Bjorn and John 78
314) Mercury Rev 78
316) Chad VanGaalen 77
316) Julian Plenti 77
316) Alasdair Roberts 77
316) Angels of Light & Akron/Family 77
316) Dan Auerbach 77
316) Get Well Soon 77
316) The Tallest Man on Earth 77
316)Ron Sexsmith 77
324) Interpol 76
324) Elvis Costello 76
324) Nels Andrews 76
324) Grizzly Bear 76
324) The Modern Lovers 76
329) Laura Veirs

75
329 Elvis Presley

75
329) Megafaun

75
329 Play
Two Gallants 75
329) Modest Mouse 75
334) Fire On Fire 74
334) Ween 74
336) The Long Winters 73
336) The Airborne Toxic Event 73
336) Badly Drawn Boy 73
336) La Strada 73
340) Soap&Skin 72
340) Johnny Flynn 72
340) Snuffaluffagus 72
340) The National Lights

72
340) Adem

72
340 Play
Brian Eno & David Byrne

72
346) Nick Lowe 71
346) Patrick Wolf 71
346) DAAU 71
346) I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness 71
346) The Hold Steady 71
346) Oren Lavie 71
346) Nina Simone

71
346) Hayden

71
346) Eminem 71
355) CocoRosie 70
355) Guided by Voices 70
355) The Lancaster Orchestra 70
355) Nick Cave

70
355
Them Crooked Vultures

70
360) Gary Louris

69
360) Warren Zevon

69
360 Kreg Viesselman 69
360 dEUS 69
360 Blue Roses 69
360 Larkin Grimm 69
360 Lou Reed 69
360 Yeasayer 69
360 Doves 69
369 Charlotte Gainsbourg 68
369 Josh Rouse 68
369 And Also the Trees

68
369 Play
iLiKETRAiNS

68
369 Play
Ryan Adams

68
369
Robert Forster

68
369 Play
Fever Ray

68
369 Play
Axton Kincaid

68
369 Play
Death Cab for Cutie

68
369 Play
Gavin DeGraw

68
369 Play
DM Stith

68
369 Play
James Yuill

68
369 Play
Paul Kalkbrenner

68
382 Play
Johan

67
382 Play
Shout Out Louds

67
382 Play
David Kilgour

67
382) Railroad Earth

67
386) Anna Ternheim

66
386) Dan Wilson

66
386) Soulsavers

66
386) Aimee Mann 66
386) Pink Martini 66
386) Kris Delmhorst 66
386) Depedro

66
393 Play
Jennifer Warnes

65
393 Play
Owen

65
393 Play
Boards of Canada

65
393 Play
Bell Orchestre

65
397 Play
Brendan James

64
397 Play
De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig

64
397
Alexander de Vree

64
397 Play
Lil' Wayne

64
397
Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire

64
397 Play
Piers Faccini

64
397 Play
Ratatat

64
404 Play
Portishead

63
404 Play
Songs: Ohia

63
404) Jakob Dylan 63
404) Architecture in Helsinki 63
408) She & Him 62
408) Red Hot Chili Peppers 62
408) Firekites 62
408) Dennis Kolen 62
408) Kyteman

62
413 Play
Moss

61
413
Jason Lytle

61
413 Play
Jolie Holland

61
416 Play
Foy Vance

60
416 Play
Sticks & Delic

60
416 Play
Allen Toussaint

60
416 Play
Tom Baxter

60
420 Play
Death Vessel

59
420 Play
The Gaslight Anthem

59
420 Play
The Good Life

59
420
Hellwood

59
420 Play
Alamo Race Track

59
425 Play
The Feeling

58
425
Hoots and Hellmouth

58
425 Play
The Opposites

58
425) The Submarines

58
425) Portugal. The Man

58
425) The Pink Mountaintops

58
425 Play
Rue Royale

58
425) Grandaddy 58
433) Duke Special

57
433 Play
Whiskeytown

57
433) Blitzen Trapper

57
433 Play
The Low Anthem

57
433) Spoon

57
433) Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions 57
433) Deerhunter

57
433 Play
Ben Harper

57
433 Play
Dengue Fever

57
433) PJ Harvey

57
443) Son Volt 56
443) Jarvis Cocker 56
443 Julie Doiron 56
443) This Immortal Coil

56
443 Play
Ali Farka Touré

56
443 Evangelicals

56
443 Fionn Regan

56
450 R.E.M.

55
450) Air 55
450) Citizen Cope 55
450) Manu Chao 55
450) The Notwist 55
450) Neko Case 55
456) Ane Brun 54
456) Sleepin Pillow 54
456) A.A. Bondy 54
456) The Cardigans 54
456) Po' Girl 54
461) Page France 53
461) Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin 53
461) Levon Helm 53
461) The Twilight Singers 53
461) Emmanuel Jal 53
461) Crooked Fingers 53
461) Current 93 53
461) Albert Hammond Jr. 53
461) The Dears 53
461) Fred Eaglesmith 53
461) Michael Ford, Jr. & The Apache Relay 53
461) Alejandro Escovedo 53
473) Morphine 52
473) British Sea Power 52
473) Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu 52
473 Coldplay 52
473) Greg Laswell 52
473) Nina Nastasia & Jim White 52
473) The Temper Trap 52
473) Alela Diane featuring Alina Hardin 52
473) Woodpigeon 52
482) South San Gabriel 51
482) Share 51
482) Grand Archives 51
482) Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks 51
482) The Handsome Family 51
482) Otis Taylor 51
482) White Rabbits 51
482) The Album Leaf 51
482) Pete Yorn 51
491)Michael Hill 50
491) Wild Beasts 50
491) Ghostface Killah 50
491) Los Lobos 50
491) Shearwater 50
491) Brightblack Morning Light 50
491) Guster 50
491) Eric Clapton 50
491) Film School 50
500) David Bowie 49

Here's my 30 favourite albums of the year:

1. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
2. Timber Timbre- Timber Timbre
3. The Antlers - Hospice
4. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
5. M. Ward - Hold Time
6. Dave Rawlings Machine - A Friend of a Friend
7. Why? - Eskimo Snow
8. The Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock
9. Deer Tick - Born On Flag Day
10. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
11. A.A. Bondy - When The Devil's Loose
12. Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
13. The Deep Dark Woods- Winter Hours
14. Gregory Alan Isakov - This Empty Northern Hemisphere
15. Phosphorescent - To Willie
16. Girls - Album
17. The Cave Singers - Welcome Joy
18. Castanets- Texas Rose, the Thaw and the Beasts
19. Megafaun - Gather, Form & Fly
20. J. Tillman- Year In The Kingdom
21. Langhorne Slim - Be Set Free
22. Real Estate - Real Estate
23. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
24. Richard Swift - The Atlantic Ocean
25. Eels - Hombre Lobo
26. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Beware
27. Ola Podrida - Belly of the Lion
28. Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy
29. Soulsavers - Broken
30. Joshua James- Build Me This

Joe Pug
Gregory Alan Isakov
A.A.Bondy
William Everett Cline
William Elliott Whitmore
William Fitzsimmons
Jeffrey Foucault
Peter Mulvey
Jay Jay Pistolet
Hayes Carll
Ben Sollee

stretts's top albums (overall)
1. The Dear Hunter - Act III: Life and Death (386) 2. Anathallo - Floating World (333) 3. Gregory Alan Isakov - This Empty Northern Hemisphere (277) 4. Rx Bandits - And the Battle Begun (256) 5. Closure In Moscow - First Temple (234) 6. Silversun Pickups - Swoon (232) 7. Anathallo - Canopy Glow (226) 8. The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning of & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading (225) 9. The Stiletto Formal - Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta (190) 10. The Mars Volta - Octahedron (185) 11. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup (159) 12. Saltillo - Ganglion (159) 13. Bark Cat Bark - Á Lífi (148) 14. Kid Cudi - Man On the Moon - The End of Day (Expanded Version) (139) 15. Rx Bandits - Mandala (137) 16. Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen (135) 17. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing (133) 18. Parov Stelar - Coco pt 1 (128) 19. organic stereo - The Stories Linger in My Mind (126) 20. Beirut - Black Session at France Inter FM 11-26-FM (126)