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MY 2009 HALO LIST of UNHEARD GOODNESS

OK, so here's the stuff that came out in 2009 that I had an inkling to listen and the opportunity did not present itself. Some of these may end up in my amended most of/best of chart next year; some I may not get to until I am old and wrinkled. Albums are not in any particular order.

Dirty Projectors -- Bitte Orca
Sloan -- Hit & Run EP
Matt & Kim -- Grand
Mastodon -- Crack the Skye
Manic Street Preachers -- Journal For Plague Lovers
Sonic Youth -- The Eternal
Street Sweeper Social Club -- Street Sweeper Social Club
Pete Yorn -- Back And Forth
Brendan Benson -- My Old Familiar Friend
Jay-Z -- The Blueprint 3
Kid Cudi -- Man on the Moon: The End of Day
Pearl Jam -- Backspacer
The Flaming Lips -- Embryonic
Weezer -- Raditude
Them Crooked Vultures -- Them Crooked Vultures
Animal Collective -- Merriweather Post Pavilion
Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard -- One Fast Move or I'm Gone
Real Estate -- Real Estate
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01 - Phoenix - 1901
02 - Newton Faulkner - If This Is It
03 - Peter Doherty - Last Of The English Roses
04 - Jamie T - Sticks 'n' Stones
05 - Animal Collective - My Girls
06 - Biffy Clyro - That Golden Rule
07 - White Rabbits - Percussion Gun
08 - Phoenix - Lisztomania
09 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
10 - Paolo Nutini - Candy
11 - Jamie T - Chaka Demus
12 - Frank Turner - The Road
13 - Newton Faulkner - Over And Out
14 - Dirty Projectors And David Byrne - Knotty Pine
15 - Frank Turner - Try This At Home
16 - The Thermals - Now We Can See
17 - Peter Doherty - A Little Death Around The Eyes
18 - Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension
19 - Portugal. The Man - People Say
20 - Bishop Allen - Dimmer
21 - Peter Doherty - Salome
22 - Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard – California Zephyr
23 - A.C. Newman - There Are Maybe Ten Or Twelve
24 - Cursive - From The Hips
25 - Bombay Bicycle Club - Always Like This
26 - The Raveonettes - Bang!
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1. Merriweather Post Pavilion- Animal Collective
2. Veckatimest- Grizzly Bear
3. Hospice- The Antlers
4. Monsters of Folk- Monsters of Folk
5. Gather, Form, And Fly- Megafaun
6. American Central Dust- Son Volt
7. Mantis- Umphrey's McGee
8. Born on Flag Day- Deer Tick
9. Fall Be Kind (EP)- Animal Collective
10. I And Love And You- The Avett Brothers
11. Bitte Orca- Dirty Projectors
12. Embryonic- The Flaming Lips
13. Wilco (the album)- Wilco
14. Noble Beast- Andrew Bird
15. Dark Was the Night (Compilation)- Various Artists
16. Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King- Dave Matthews Band
17. Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free- Akron/Family
18. Outer South- Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
19. Man on the Moon: The End of the Day- Kid Cudi
20. One Fast Move Or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur- Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard
21. The Ecstatic- Mos Def
22. Joy- Phish
23. Backspacer- Pearl Jam
24. Them Crooked Vultures- Them Crooked Vultures
25. Hold Time- M. Ward
26. Horehound- The Dead Weather
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1. Wolfmother - "In The Morning"
2. Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard - "California Zephyr"
3. Jay-Z - "Empire State of Mind (Featuring Alicia Keys)"
4. Pearl Jam - "The Fixer"
5. Nick Drake - "Place To Be"
6. Bon Iver & St. Vincent - "Roslyn"
7. Dropkick Murphys - "The State of Massachusetts"
8. Bob Dylan - "The Times They Are a-Changin'"
9. Lily Allen - "Fuck You"
10. New Found Glory - "Boulders"

I keep this mostly for my own benefit so I can keep track of the shows I've been to but feel free to comment.

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A. A. Bondy
Abe Vigoda
Afortiori
The Airborne Toxic Event
Animal Collective (x2)
The Antlers
Arcade Fire
Ava Luna
Bachelorette
Band of Horses
Band of Skulls (x2)
Baths (x2)
Battles (x2)
Beach House
Bear in Heaven
Ben Miller/Degeneration*
Best Coast (x2)
The Black Heart Procession
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
The Blackbelts*
Blind Pilot
Bon Iver (x2)
The Books
Broken Social Scene
Cale Parks
Cary Brothers
Chairlift (x2)
Chikita Violenta
City and Colour
Coldplay
Cold War Kids (x2)
Com Truise
Craft Spells
The Cribs
CSS
Crystal Castles
Daan
Death Cab for Cutie (x4)
The Decemberists (x2)
Deerhunter (x2)
Delicate Steve
Delorean
Depeche Mode
DJ Shadow
Dr. Dog
Dum Dum Girls
The Earth is a Man
Envelope
Family Portrait
The Fiery Furnaces
Fleet Foxes
Free Energy
Friendly Fires
Frightened Rabbit
Gang Gang Dance (x2)
Girl Talk
Girls
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