Great year for bands coming out of retirement, underground hip hop and a few, new discoveries along the way.

Top 20 Albums Of 2009

01. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
02. We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
03. Superdrag - Industry Giants
04. Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
05. SPC ECO - 3-D
06. Sky Larkin - The Golden Spike
07. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
08. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
09. The Bird And The Bee - Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future
10. The XX - XX
11. The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love
12. The Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called Moaning
13. Jack Peñate - Everything Is New
14. Florence & The Machine - Lungs
15. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
16. Gliss - Devotion Implosion
17. Tanya Morgan - Brooklynati
18. Brakes - Touchdown
19. Marie-Pierre Arthur - Marie-Pierre Arthur
20. Seasick Steve - Man From Another Time

Honorable Mention:

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Amanda Blank - I Love You
Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
Caspian - Tertia
Cheap Star - Speaking Like An Elephant
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
Grooms - Rejoicer
The Heavy - The House That Dirt Built
The Horrors - Primary Colours
I Was A King - I Was A King
Lady & Bird - La Ballade Of Lady & Bird
The Life And Times - Tragic Boogie
Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
Miike Snow - Miike Snow
Noisettes - Wild Young Hearts
Now, Now Every Children - Cars
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Through The Devil Softly
Scary Mansion - Make Me Cry
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
The Sky Drops - Bourgeois Beat
St. Vincent - Actor
Surfer Blood - Astrocoast
Switchfoot - Hello Hurricane
Telekinesis - Telekinesis!
Two Hours Traffic - Territory
Cortney Tidwell - Boys
The Warlocks - The Mirror Explodes
Zoot Woman Things Are What They Used To Be

Hip Hop:

Blakroc - Blakroc
Dälek - Gutter Tactics
Del The Funky Homosapien & Tame One - Parallel Uni-Verses
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
N.A.S.A. - Spirit Of Apollo
Wax Tailor - In The Mood For Life

EPs & Singles:

Amusement Parks On Fire - Young Fight
Cheap Star & Jon Auer - Two For The Money
Cougarettes - Milk Fangs
The Jamboree - Doing Fine
Massive Attack - Splitting The Atom
No Age - Losing Feeling
Ume - Sunshower
Thom Yorke - Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses - The Hollow Earth (Single)

Disappointments / Pure Suckage:

Chris Cornell - Scream
Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
Mute Math - Armistice
Emilie Simon - The Big Machine

2008 Releases Discovered This Year And Enjoyed:

An Horse - Rearrange Beds
Burning Brides - Anhedonia
Peter Project - Peter Project
True Widow - True Widow

Albums Of The ’00s:

2000 : Radiohead - Kid A
2001 : Bjork - Vespertine
2002 : Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
2003 : Massive Attack - 100th Window
2004 : Autolux - Future Perfect
2005 : Dredg - Catch Without Arms
2006 : Mute Math - Mute Math
2007 : John Davis - Arigato!
2008 : Glasvegas - Glasvegas
2009 : Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing

Autolux's Future Perfect is by far my favorite album of the Aughts.

I just posted my year-end podcast.

I will also post a fav songs of '09 compilation on me blog tomorrow. 30 in all:



01. We Were Promised Jetpacks - "It's Thunder And It's Lightning"
02. Manchester Orchestra - "The Only One"
03. Superdrag - "Everything’ll Be Made Alright"
04. Biffy Clyro - "Whorses"
05. Brakes - "Don’t Take Me To Space (Man)"
06. Taking Back Sunday - "Sink Into Me"
07. Dinosaur Jr. - "I Want You To Know"
08. No Age - "You're A Target"
09. Japandroids - "Heart Sweats"
10. Doves - "The Outsiders"
11. Gliss - "Morning Light"
12. The Warlocks - "The Midnight Sun"
13. Two Hours Traffic - "Noisemaker"
14. I Was King - "Norman Bleik"
15. Telekinesis - "Tokyo"
16. The Veils - "The Letter"
17. Tanya Morgan - "Bang & Boogie"
18. Bot'Ox - "Blue Steel"
19. Miike Snow - "Cult Logic"
20. Charlotte Gainsbourg - "IRM"
21. Bear In Heaven - "Lovesick Teenagers"
22. Animal Collective - "My Girls"
23. Broadcast - "In Here The World Begins"
24. St. Vincent - "Actor Out Of Work"
25. The Bird And The Bee - "What's In The Middle"
26. Cortney Tidwell - "Son And Moon"
27. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - "For The Rest Of Your Life"
28. Grizzly Bear - "Fine For Now"
29. Radiohead - "These Are My Twisted Words"
30. Dead Man's Bones - "Dead Hearts"

Lot of stuff I haven't heard..."I download your mix when I get home"

An Amusement Park on Fire EP???

wow...gotta go get that! nice.

It's damn good.

2 new tracks, and new versions of cuts from each of the "Out Of The Angeles" EPs.

Third album comes out this Spring.

Nice effort on this list. damn.

Paul workin' overtime. Great stuff, man!

I respect your top album of the 00s. Bold choice, but realistically, warranted. Props.