1. XX – XX
2. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3. Warpaint – Exquisite Corpse
4. Papercuts – You Can Have What You Want
5. Japandroids – Post-Nothing
6. Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
7. Bear In Heaven – Beast Rest Forth Mouth
8. Built To Spill – There Is No Enemy
9. Band Of Skulls – Baby Darling Doll Face Honey
10. Polvo – In Prism
11. Great Lake Swimmers – Lost Channels
12. Viva Voce – Rose City
13. Foreign Born – Person To Person
14. Baroness – Blue Record
15. Real Estate – Real Estate
16. Desolation Wilderness – New Universe
17. Hush Arbors – Yankee Reality
18. Floating Joys – Occult Radiance
19. Royksopp – Junior
20. Fool’s Gold – Fool’s Gold
21. A Sunny Day In Glasgow – Ashes Grammar
22. Phantogram – Eyelid Movies
23. Trail Of Dead – The Century Of Self
24. Atlas Sound - Logos
25. Sonic Youth – The Eternal
26. Stellastarr* - Civilized
27. Iran – Dissolver
28. Silversun Pickups – Swoon
29. Jason Lytle – Yours Truly, The Commuter
30. Lightning Dust – Infinite Light
31. Manchester Orchestra – Mean Everything To Nothing
32. Memory Tapes – Seek Magic
33. JJ - JJ N° 2
34. Metric – Fantasies
35. Nirvana – Live At Reading 1992
36. A Place To Bury Strangers – Exploding Head
37. Lotus Plaza – The Floodlight Collective
38. A Shoreline Dream – Recollections Of Memory
39. Obits – I blame You
40. White Rabbits – It’s Frightening
41. Antlers – Hospice
42. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone

I had no idea Stellastarr* released a new album in 2009

I know. I guess it was a no fanfare release. Certainly no press.

Nice list Saint. Glad to see Desolation and Papercuts make your 20.

Thanks for not reading my list.

Saint, your list is pretty darn good. I'm going to investigate some of those at the top.

I saw that you had that album on your list. I bought it myself a while ago and thought it was a letdown.

tell me about the Fool’s Gold album.

fool's gold is getting a lot of attention out here in la. they're about 12 members deep. i saw them first when they opened for cat power. i instantly found myself grooving and loving the music. ok, it sounds retarded, but imagine afrobeat and throw in some hebrew lyrics, lots of percussion, some horns. it's just kind of groovy, fun music. a number of the members of foreign born are in the group.

review: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13494-fools-gold/

playlist from the album: http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/playlis ... d/22884354

i dig this stuff. they are great live.

thanks! let me know if i can describe any of them...

yah, they kind of died out, but i'm still a fan. they put on a great show at spaceland in december right before the holidays.

i really like that Hush Arbors album.

edit: had to add the JJ album which I'm just checking out. might be higher with more listens. good stuff.

Fool's Gold was top 10 for '09 for me. I'm hoping they come to Coachella this year.

I find it humorous that you and Rads share the same #1 album.

who was your number one, tanner? geaux saints!

I went w/ Nirvana - Live at Reading.

I need to relisten to the XX. It didn't grab me the first time, and I don't think I listened to it again.

def try it again. it's kind of slow and meticulous. for me, just amazing.