Probably as final as it's going to be at this point.

1. Tragically Hip We Are the Same
2. The Manvils The Manvils
3. Rich Hope Whip It On Ya
4. Ike Reilly Hard Luck Stories
5. Lucero 1372 Overton Park
6. The Dudes Blood Guts Bruises Cuts
7. Band of Skulls Baby Darling Doll Face
8. Cornershop Judy Sucks Lemon For Breakfast
9. Daddy For a Second Time
10. Gidgets Ga Ga The Big Bong Fiasco
11. John Doe & the Sadies Country Club
12. Von Bondies Love, Hate and Then There's You
13. Wilco Wilco (The Album)
14. The XX 2.0
15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz
16. Dan Auerbach Keep It Hid
17. Pearl Jam Backspacer
18. Rancid Let the Dominoes Fall
19. The Black Crowes Before the Frost...Until the Freeze
20. Blue Rodeo The Things We Left Behind
21. Deadstring Brothers Sao Paulo
22. Dawes North Hills
23. Rain Machine Rain Machine
24. Chuck Prophet Let Freedom Ring!
25. Izzy Stradlin Smoke
26. Yo La Tengo Popular Songs
27. Sonic Youth The Eternal
28. The Dead Weather Horehound
29. Sour Jazz American Seizure
30.The Bottle Rockets Lean Forward
31. Roman Candle Oh Tall Tree in the Ear
32. Neko Case Middle Cyclone
33. Gin Wigmore Holy Smoke
34. Son Volt American Central Dust
35. Reigning Sound Love and Curses
36. Sean Riley and the Slowriders Only Time Will Tell
37. Scott Miller For Crying out Loud
38. Deer Tick Born on Flag Day
39. One Hundred Hurricanes 60 Years Under the Stars
40. Cracker Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey


This isn't a ranked mix, but rather just a mix of 25 tracks I liked a lot in 2009. I did it for the whole decade, you can find that here.

Decade End Mix: 25 Songs from 2009

1. Who Fingered Rock 'n' Roll Cornershop
2. Baby You're A Star Gidgets Ga Ga
3. Turpentine The Manvils
4. This Is Our Perfect Crime The Von Bondies
5. Duke Hat One Hundred Hurricanes
6. Smoke Lucero
7. Where the Hell is Henry Chuck Prophet
8. Hang You From the Heavens The Dead Weather
9. I Know What I Am Band of Skulls
10. The Fixer Pearl Jam
11. Not S'pose to Call The Dudes
12. Without You Sour Jazz
13. Morning Glory Ike Reilly
14. Why Modern Radio Is A-Ok Roman Candle
15. The Long Way The Bottle Rockets
16. Soul and Skin The Clarks
17. It's A Shame Deadstring Brothers
18. In Spite of All That Happened The Evening Rig
19. You And I Wilco
20. Morning Moon The Tragically Hip
21. Cheap Ain't Cheap (For Crying Out Loud) Scott Miller
22. Everybody Loves Me (But You) The Junior League
23. Love In A Bottle Daddy
24. Oh My Gin Wigmore
25. Why My Light Comes Shining Rich Hope

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That's just weird for me to see. I used to hang out with Mike a bit and he dated a girl that I was friends with in HS. You've been touting GGG for a while and, while I heard a lot of his early songs -- 14 years ago or so -- I really need to pick that up. Thanks for the reminder.

I'll try to get back in touch with Mike and let him know about this list. (Hell, if it were me getting news that some total stranger had my album on a "best of" list, that would make my decade.)

Son Volt is on mine as well.

I've yet to hear that Sonic Youth album.

And as always, see my sig.

excellent, thanks

have yet to hear quite a few of these. thanks Dj.

Who Fingered Rock 'n' Roll is definitely fucking great. Good to see The XX in there so high.

Yeah, I've been playing that Cornershop almost daily. That XX album is insidious, it creeps and crawls into the brain.

well done

one listen and this was already in my top five

You can tell him that at least two strangers will have it listed.

We can speak for all of western Canada, too. Everyone loves it.

I liked all of these a lot.

I didn't quite cotton to these as some of the other folks around here. The Deer Tick guy's voice is only good in small doses for me.

i liked all of these more or less. HIVE

I didn't hear Cornershop, Prophet, or Ike Reilly. I feel like any list of mine won't be complete until I do.

The only one I don't really get is the xx. Not sure what people see in that one.

If you need these Tanner, I can hook you up.

i feel that chuck prophet has about 2 good songs and a lot of mediocre stuff. ike reilly and cornership are good pretty much throughout.

i think maybe one of these (deer tick) will make my list.

Cornershop


Chuck Prophet


Ike Reilly

Thanks Charlie!

Some good holiday listening.

I only know Cornershop from that Bosom Pillow song, but since people have been jacking their pee-pees over it lately, I'll giver 'er a go.

I like that damn ol Gidget Ga Ga, too.

good call on the new Tragically Hip. It will be my #2 album of the year.

I have the new Blue Rodeo as well, and i will likely give it a better rating than you have. Will probably crack my top ten. I think it was seeing them live a couple weeks ago that did it for me, the new tunes sound great live.

I'm seeing them in January so maybe I'll rank it higher after that. Got great seats too, 4th row centre.

Numbers 1 and 2 for me, in that order.

Whoa! You've heard Rich Hope? That dude destroyed my local bar.

I've given that one a ton o' play as well. Good shee.