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Alphabetically. I've come to realize how ridiculous it is to actually try and rank these.

1. A.A. Bondy – When the Devil’s Loose
I wish I had a porch and lived in a cabin out in the country. Until the song ends. Then take me back to my normal, yuppie life with high-speed Internet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0DWZ3VBROw

2. Animal Collective – My Girls
The song that turned these unlistenable noisemaking jackasses into everyone’s favorite jam band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zol2MJf6XNE

3. Annie – Songs Remind Me of You
“You’re So Vain” for disco-loving homosexuals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y3FFWPBvBs

4. Big Boi – Shine Blockas (feat. Gucci Mane)
Party at my place, y’all. Shine Blockas will be on repeat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxBt_p8gFkw

5. Boston Spaceships – Tattoo Mission
A Robert Pollard song with a string hook and a Led Zeppelin riff. Yeah, I know, sounds crazy, but it is actually really good.

6. Bruce Springsteen – The Wrestler
The Ram jumps off the top rope, the screen goes black, Bruce Springsteen does his thing and I cry. God damn this is some powerful stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRUEKJIcvbo

7. Built to Spill – Done
It’s kind of funny that I find a song about loneliness to be so comforting. Goes to show I’m not much of a lyrics guy.

8. Built to Spill – Hindsight
“Hindsight brings me down / keeps me on the ground.” Yeah, hindsight hit me pretty hard this year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Ppc_4Be5o

9. Candlemass – If I Ever Die
Oh. My. God. It’s about time someone released a balls out metal song where the lead singer doesn’t sound like Doctor Claw.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG9InehQEos

10. Clipse – Kinda Like A Big Deal (feat. Kanye West)
I feel like kinda like a big deal when this comes on my iPod as I walk my dog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diEVUSBnNc8

11. Clutch – 50,000 Unstoppable Watts
Rage Against the Machine – Sanctimonious Douchebaggery + Awesome Blues Rock = This Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDoKyzHzP14

12.CunninLynguists – Don’t Leave (When Winter Comes) (feat. Slug)
These dudes put out some weed-brownie party song that everyone seemed to like really this year (it wasn’t very good). You cats are in denial if you think that's better than this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmpc6vqUyO0

13. Delorean – Seasun
Great song for driving at night. It would be perfect for a car commercial. Let's just hope and pray that never, ever happens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axi7mudxdmk

14. The Depreciation Guild – Dream About Me
Proof that shoegaze isn’t just a bunch of fuzzy, sad bastard music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXFj94qr0R0

15. Dinosaur Jr. – I Don’t Wanna Go There
I always knew these guys could crank out some extended guitar jams with the best of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qwWbVjKBR0

16. Dinosaur Jr. – Over It
Good alternative to emo for overcoming your sorrows. Works much faster too. I’m movin’ on, dude.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgTJtdn6VjM

17. Dusty Kid – Moto Perpetuo
Oh man, if I ever went to a dance club and the DJ played this, I would be throwing some wicked dice rolls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlRlqiXvyCw

18. Faunts – Feel.Love.Thinking.Of
Tyler and imaginary girl fall in love while this song is playing in the background.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_SJXtaTmBc

19. Girls – Lust For Life
Cool song, but I wish I’d never watched the uncensored video where the dude uses a guy’s dong as a microphone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuoTjYYqe4c (Not the uncensored version)

20. Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
Oh, yay, it’s everyone’s favorite new band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjecYugTbIQ

21. JJ – Ecstacy
This song takes the only good thing about Lil’ Wayne’s “Lollipop” and makes it safe for white Brooklyn kids.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQgjpkbZ2AU

22. Joker & Ginz – Purple City
I’ve never wanted window-rattling bass in my car until I heard this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bIR_YmiuVw

23. Julian Casablancas – 11th Dimension
Julian, I’ve really missed you. I’m sorry I said the last Strokes album sucked. Can we be friends again?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_h5DMHh5_M

24. Mastodon – Divinations
They took the original Mastodon formula of really heavy riffs and added radio-friendly hooks. Sounds like a recipe for disaster, but that shit actually works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxelXPg961M

25. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Young Adult Friction
The first time I heard this song, I was on my way to purchase barstools from Bed, Bath & Beyond. It deserved so much better than that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4itzHRpltQ

26. Raekwon – 10 Bricks
Just one step below “Verbal Intercourse” and “Knuckleheadz.” If you’re familiar with those songs, you’ll know that’s incredible praise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzS2dN99KxM

27. Reigning Sound – Stick Up For Me
Songs like this are one of the reasons I love Memphis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSjdW8I19BQ

28. Shpongle – Electroplasm
I don’t do mushrooms or LSD or the like, but if I did, I would choose this to soundtrack the experience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3E--ZXTVdw

29. Washed out – Feel It All Around
I want to disappear in this song. Preferably some friends could come with me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PuCkZ1ALkI

I Don't Think - Dinosaur Jr.: vocals (Hand it Over, 1996)

Ballad Night - Collapsed Lung: vocals (cooler, 1996)

Casino Kisschase - Collapsed Lung: vocals (cooler, 1996)

Close Contenders

Manic Street Preachers Journal For Plague Lovers
The Low Anthem Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
Andrew Bird Noble Beast

Most exciting album of 2009

Nirvana Live at Reading

But my favourite albums of 2009 are these:

10. The Leisure Society The Sleeper

A pleasant little album, made prettier by the gorgeous The Last of the Melting Snow, (Ivor Novello nominated apparently), Are We Happy?, and The Sleeper, then counteracted with the sourness of Save It For Someone Who Cares, We Were Wasted and The Darkest Place I know. Wonderful debut album.

9. Atlas Sounds Logos

I'd never heard of this guy before and even less made the Bradford Cox/Deerhunter connection, which is slightly odd given that I love Deerhunter. I didn't like Logos much when I first heard it; it sounded unfinished, slightly rough cut. The classic case of an album being a grower. Standout tracks, Walkabout, Sheila?/ Shelia? and Quick Canal, the highspot of the album.

8. Memory Tapes Seek Magic

The Melding of Weird Tapes/Memory Cassette evidently. Although info on either band is a little sparse. Seek Magic is a fun dreamy, electronic affair in a dance-y sort of way. The first 3 tracks Swimming Field, Bicycle (with the inevitable-but-not-in-a-bad-way New Order comparison), and Green Knight are the strongest cuts on the album, although no tracks could be regarded as filler.

7. Papercuts You Can Have What You Want

One of those quietly understated albums which took a while to grow on me. Fragile and ethereal, it lends itself to repeated listening. The ghostly Future Primitive is a wonderful track, but for sheer beauty The Machine Will Tell Us So, and You Can Have What You Want allow you to wallow in introspection and longing. Yet are still strangely uplifting.

6. The Mars Volta Octahedron

So here's my confession, I never really liked TMV; or at least not De-Loused and Frances. They were just too messy and dissonant for me. Then they go and bring out Octahedron, their take on an acoustic album allegedly, and It's beautiful. Still plenty of squall and mess, but shot through with melodic choruses and riffs. From the opening track Since we've Been Wrong, it simply doesn't put a foot err, wrong. Cotopaxi and Luciforms are worth the price of the album alone


5. The Clientele Bonfires On The Heath

Lovely seasonal album as the title might suggest. Scrunching through the autumn leaves, the smell of woodsmoke, hazy, frosty early mornings. Largely a set of relentlessly heartbreaking and beautiful songs, with seemingly little hope of respite. Yet The Clientele still manage to capture a certain warmth throughout the album. I Wonder Who We Are, Never Anyone But You, and the gorgeous Share The Night are the cream of some of the best love songs written this year.

4. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Probably the most infectious and fun album of 2009. Filled with easy dreamy pop; nothing complex about it, nothing to bring on a dose of melancholia. Yet has staying power. How easy it is to love an album so much you practically listen on repeat, for what seems like forever, and then get bored with it. Not so with this one. Although they have a prettily gorgeous EP, Higher Than The Stars out should that happen... Highly recommended.

3. Dinosaur Jr. Farm

Dino deliver yet again. (Just in case Beyond with the new and reformed J, Murph, and Barlow looked like being a flash in the pan). Farm is just an all round great album. Pieces is the perfect opener, pulls you in, and compels you to stay for the rest of it. Although I do think Imagination Blind is the only weak (or maybe less strong) track on the album. There is nothing particularly new about Farm, and I see nothing wrong with that, why change a winning formula when you've been in the business as long as these guys have, and are as good as they are? But there is of course the to-die-for guitar solos, I Don't Wanna Go There, and the heartbreakingly beautiful love songs, Plans and See You. Saw Dino earlier this year, and it finally struck me; part of J's genius guitar playing is the fact that he makes it look totally effortless..

2. Matisyahu Light

Fervent Hassidic Jew eh? Singing songs of his faith in a rap/reggae/hip-hop/beatbox/freeform way, eh? Who would have thought Light could be such an astoundingly good album? (Not many evidently; overall, the album gets some pretty dire reviews). Here.http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/matisyahu/light?q=matisyahu Yet astoundingly good album it is. Smash Lies, So Hi So Lo and I will Be Light, (possibly my favourite track from the album), are taken from the lesser known Shattered EP. One Day and Darkness Into Light are standout tracks too. I absolutely love this album simply because it is uplifting, positive and fills me with hope. Not with the hope of some sort of spiritual redemption or awakening, I don't mean that. I guess it is the passion and sincerity Matis sings with. It kind of rubs off. Again, I saw him live a few weeks ago, and it was one of the most astonishing, memorable and joyous gigs I have been to.

1. Andrew Morgan Please Kid, Remember

Andrew Morgan has crafted a gossamer fine, delicate album of love and loss; yearning and regret, (are not all the finest albums based on such sentiments?), yet manages to make it anything but a depressing affair. He captures his feelings with a warmth and gentility and an almost gleeful contemplation of nights drawing in, the trees shedding their leaves, the cold winds blowing in, and the first snowfall of the year. His hushed and wistful vocals and the chiming melodies throughout the album add to the feeling of warmth and hope. Absolute highlights are Victory In Passing, (It's not a lament, it's a victory, just joyous), As Long As We're Together, First Snow Of The Year, and Turn Your Collar To The Cold. Please Kid, Remember was aptly described as 'like listening to music from within a snow globe.' I can't top that. I just wish I'd thought of it first....


That's it. Please let me know what other masterpieces I have missed this year!

Cheers.

2009 is a very special year for me... New house, first son... What a year it´s been!

So, I expect to make a good list for Album of 2009... So far I think it´s Dinosaur Jr., a band I never heard of before the release of Farm... What a shame!

But Franz Ferdinand, Girls, Doves, the great great album from Phoenix, The Mary Onettes... I´ll start listening to these albums in sequence so I can choose which one is the best.

Stay tuned.

ps: Henrique, I love you! ;)

ps2: Henrique is my son!

Owned:

Air - Moon Safari
Air - The Virgin Suicides
The Appleseed Cast - Sagarmatha
Arab Strap - Elephant Shoe
Arab Strap - The Red Thread
Atlas Sound - Logos
Barzin - Barzin
Barzin - My Life in Rooms
Beach House - Beach House
Beach House - Devotion
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles - Revolver
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
Beirut - Lon Gisland EP
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk
Billy Corgan - The Future Embrace
The Black Heart Procession - Six
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Bram Stadhouders - The Ship Comes
Brian Eno - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder
Camera Obscura - Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi
Camera Obscura - Let's Get out of This Country
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
Catherine Wheel - Chrome
Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
Club 8 - Club 8
Club 8 - Nouvelle
Club 8 - Spring Came, Rain Fell
Coastal - Halfway to You
Cocteau Twins - Four-Calendar Café
Cocteau Twins - Milk & Kisses
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Cocteau Twins - Peppermint Pig Ep
Cocteau Twins - Lullabies EP
Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Con Dolore - Sailor's Warning
Con Dolore - This Sad Movie
Copeland - In Motion
The Cure - Faith
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
The Cure - Disintegration
Dave Matthews Band - Everyday
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
David Sylvian - Secrets Of The Beehive
Daydream Nation - Bella Vendetta
Daydream Nation - Daydream Nation
The Daysleepers - Drowned In a Sea of Sound
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Death Cab for Cutie - The Open Door EP
Deerhunter - Microcastle
Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP
Delays - Faded Seaside Glamour
Delays - You See Colours
Delays - Everything's The Rush
dEUS - Vantage Point
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Doves - Lost Souls
Doves - Lost Sides
Doves - Some Cities
Doves - The Last Broadcast
Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild
Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
Embrace - Out of Nothing
Embrace - Fireworks
Engineers - Three Fact Fader
Feeder - Polythene
Feeder - Swim
Feeder - Yesterday Went Too Soon
Feeder - Echo Park
Feeder - Comfort in Sound
Feeder - Pushing the Senses
Feeder - Silent Cry
Feist - The Reminder
Fiel Garvie - Caught Laughing
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
For Against - Coalesced
For Against - Shade Side Sunny Side
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Garbage - Garbage
The High Violets - To Where You Are
The Horrors - Primary Colours
The House of Love - The House of Love
Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
Idlewild - The Remote Part
Idlewild - Warnings/Promises
Idlewild - Make Another World
Idlewild - Post Electric Blues
Imogen Heap - Ellipse
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Interpol - Antics
Interpol - Our Love To Admire
Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti is...Skyscraper
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Joy Devision - Unknown Pleasures
Kill Hannah - For Never & Ever
Kill Hannah - Until There's Nothing Left Of Us
Lifehouse - Stanley Climbfall
The Long Winters - When I Pretend to Fall
The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed
Lorna - Writing Down Things To Say
Lush - Split
Lush - Spooky
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
The Magic Numbers - Those the broken
Magic Bullets - a Child but in life yet a DOCTOR in love
The Meeting Places - Numbered Days
The Meeting Places - Find Yourself Along the Way
Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today I’m Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories The World Is Grey I’m Tired Let’s Wash Away
Mojave 3 - Ask Me Tomorrow
Mojave 3 - Out of Tune
Mojave 3 - Excuses For Travellers
Mojave 3 - Spoon & Rafter
Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You
Muse - Sing for absolution EP
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Nada Surf - Let Go
Nada Surf - Lucky
Neil Halstead - Sleeping On Roads
Nirvana - Incesticide
Nirvana - Nevermind
Nirvana - In Utero
Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
Noah and the Whale - The First Days Of Spring
Oceansize - Everyone Into Position
Oceansize - Home & Minor EP
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher Than The Stars EP
Pete Yorn - musicforthemorningafter
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Where Here
Placebo - Placebo
Placebo - Black Market Music
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts
Placebo - Meds
Placebo - Battle For The Sun
Placebo - Once More With Feeling
Pulp - Different Class
Pulp - This Is Hardcore
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - My Iron Lung
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
R.E.M. - Out Of Time
Ride - Nowhere
Ride - Birdman EP
Ride - Leave them all behind EP
Ride - Twisterella EP
Saybia - Eyes On The Highway
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Should - Feed Like Fishes
Sigur Rós - ( )
Sigur Rós - Takk...
Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
Sigur Rós - Hvarf - Heim
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Slowdive - Just For A Day
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Slowdive - Catch the Breeze
Slowdive - Pygmalion
Slowdive - Pygmalion Outtakes
The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins - Machina/The Machines of God
The Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
The Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Sonic Youth - Goo
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Soul Whirling Somewhere - Please Sennd Help
Starrfadu - A Narrow Road to Silence
Starrfadu - And Yes... Our Thoughts Were Elsewhere
Starsailor - Love Is Here
Starsailor - Silence Is Easy
Starsailor - All The Plans
The Stone Roses - Turns Into Stone
Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
Suede - Coming Up
The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
Syd Barret - The Madcap Laughs
Syd Barret - Barret
Tegan and Sara - The Con
The Thrills - Teenager
Thirteen Senses - Contact
Tim Christensen - Honeyburst
Travis - The Invisible Band
Travis - The Man Who
Travis - 12 Memories
The Upper Room - Other People's Problems
U2 - No Line On The Horizon
U2 - The Best Of 1980 - 1990
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground - The Best Of The Velvet Underground
The Verve - Urban Hymns
The Vines - Winning Days

Wanted:

Airiel - The Battle Of Sealand
The Album Leaf - One Day I'll Be on Time
The Appleseed Cast - Two Conversations
Adorable - Against Perfection
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Carissa's Wierd - Songs about Leaving
The Clientele - Strange Geometry
Club 8 - The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming
Club 8 - Strangely Beautiful
City & Colour - Sometimes
Cranes - Forever
The Daysleepers - Hide Your Eyes EP
The Daysleepers - The Soft Attack
Eisley - Room Noises
Eisley - Combinations
Edward Shearmur - K-Pax: Original Motion Picture
Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees
Explosions in the Sky - The Rescue
Fosca - The Painted Side Of The Rocket
Hammock - Raising Your Voice...Trying to Stop an Echo
Idaho - Hearts of Palm
Kurt Vile - Constant Hitmaker
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy
The Mary Onettes - The Mary Onettes
The Mary Onettes - Islands
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief
The Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters
Sway - The Millia Pink and Green EP
Sway - winter heart ep

So, here are my favourites albums of 2009. Best songs list coming soon. Good year for scandinavian artists...On the Spanish front, well, i haven't been paying them that much attention so far, but kind of weak offerings...

1. Florence and The Machine - Lungs
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
3. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
4. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
5. The xx - xx
6. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
7. Röyksopp - Junior
8. Calvin Harris - Ready For The Weekend
9. The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms
10. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
11. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
12. Delorean - AYRTON SENNA E.P.
13. Saint Etienne - Foxbase Beta
14. Kings of Convenience - Declaration Of Dependence
15. Little Boots - Hands
16. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
17. Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care
18. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
19. Passion Pit - Manners
20. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
21. Various Artists - Dark Was The Night
22. Various Artists - Valerie & Friends
23. Zoot Woman - Things Are What They Used To Be
24. Air - Love 2
25. Atlas Sound - Logos
26. Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
27. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
28. The Antlers - Hospice
29. Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - II
30. Telepathe - Dance Mother
31. Anorak - Neighbourhood Postcards
32. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
33. Zero 7 - Yeah Ghost
34. The Legends - Over and over
35. Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
36. The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
37. The Mary Onettes - Islands
38. Savath & Savalas - La Llama
39. White Lies - To Lose My Life
40. Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
41. Various Artists – Adventureland

Any comments?

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion * (7.0 of 10.0)
Anthony And The Johnsons – The Crying Light (3.3 of 10.0)
Arctic Monkeys – Humbug(7.2 of 10.0)
Bat for Lashes – Two Suns ** (8.6 of 10.0)
The Black Atlantic – Reverence For Fallen Trees (5.5 of 10.0)
The Bravery - Stir The Blood (7.4 of 10.0)
Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career – BLANK (I still haven’t listened)
Coldplay– Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends (5.8 of 10.0)
Dead Man’s Bones – Dead Man’s Bones (I still haven’t listened)
The Decemberists – Hazards Of Love (7.2 of 10)
Dinosaur Jr. – Farm(6.0 of 10.0)
Dragonette– Fixin To Thrill (5.5 of 10.0)
The Dodos – Time To Die (6.5 of 10.0)
Editors– In This Light And On This Evening* (7.7 of 10.0)
The Enemy –Music for the People * (7.6 of 10.0)
The Exploding Boy – Afterglow+ (7.4 of 10.0)
The Fiery Furnaces – I’m Going Away * (7.6 of 10.0)
Florence and The Machine– Lungs* (7.9 of 10.0)
Franz Ferdinand– Tonight* (7.6 of 10.0)
The Gossip– Music For Men * (7.8 of 10.0)
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest+ (7.2 of 10.0)
Kaiser Chiefs –Off With Their Heads + (7.6 of 10.0)
La Roux – La Roux + (7.5 of 10.0)
Lily Allen – It’s Not Me,It’s You * (7.7 of 10.0)
Little Boots – Hands* (7.7 of 10.0)
Mando Diao – Give Me Fire * (7.8 of 10.0)
Marina & the Diamonds – Some EP’s (6.8 of 10.0)
The Mars Volta – Octahedron(I still haven’t listented)
Mew– No More Stories Are Told (6.8 of 10.0)
Muse– The Resistance (7.0 of 10)
Noisettes- Wild Young Hearts(7.2 of 10.0)
Patrick Wolf – The Bachelor (I still haven’t listented)
Phoenix– Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (7.3 of 10.0)
Portugal.The Man – The Satanic Satanist (4.0 of 10.0)
Project:KOMAKINO - The Struggle For Utopia (7.0 of 10.0)
The Rakes – Klang! (6.0 of 10.0)
The Raveonettes – In An Out of Control (7.6 of 10.0) *
Regina Spektor– Far** (9.1 of 10.0)
St.Vincent– Actor+ (7.4 of 10.0)
White Lies – To Lose My Life ***(absolute favorite so far) (9.3 of 10.0)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz! + (7.2 of 10.0)

*** - absolute favorite so far
** - definitely a highlight
* - over-the-top
+ - better than the average

Biggest surprises (much better than I thought it would be)

-Animal Collective
-Editors
-The Enemy
-The Exploding Boy
-Florence and the Machine
-Little Boots
-The Gossip
-Regina Spektor
-St.Vincent

Biggest disappointments (they weren’t exactly bad,but they were disappointing to me)
-Arctic Monkeys
-Coldplay
-Dragonette
-Kaiser Chiefs
-Mew
-Muse
-Portugal.The Man
-The Dodos

I was already expecting something good from:

-Bat for Lashes
-The Fiery Furnaces
-Franz Ferdinand
-Lily Allen
-Mando Diao
-White Lies
-Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Next year I want new stuff from:

-Arcade Fire
-Blonde Redhead
-Amy Winehouse
-Interpol
-Dengue Fever
-Santogold
- etc

My 2009’s top 10 would be:

1- White Lies – To Lose My Life (9.3)
2- Regina Spektor – Far (9.1)
3- Bat for Lashes – Two Suns (8.6)
4- Florence and the Machine – Lungs (7.9)
5- Mando Diao – Give Me Fire (7.8)
6- The Gossip – Music For Men (7.8)
7- Editors – In This Light and on This Evening (7.7)
8- Lily Allen – It’s Not Me,It’s You (7.7)
9- The Enemy – Music For The People (7.6)
10- Kaiser Chiefs – Off With Their Heads (7.6)

(+ The Raveonettes and The Fiery Furnaces)


my 2009's tracks:

Animal Collective - Also Frightned (7.1 of 10.0)
Arctic Monkeys - Dangerous Animals (7.2 of 10.0)
Bat for Lashes - Daniel(10.0 of 10.0)
Bat for Lashes - Glass(7.7 of 10.0)
Bat for Lashes - Pearl's Dream (7.0 of 10.0)
Bat for Lashes- Travelling Woman (7.8 of 10.0)
Coldplay- Lovers In Japan/Reign Of Love (10.0 of 10.0 - the 1st part)
The Decemberists - The Wanting Comes in Waves (7.3 of 10.0)
Editors- Papillon(8.5 of 10.0)
The Enemy - Away From Here (7.2 of 10.0)
The Exploding Boy - London(8.2 of 10.0)
The Fiery Furnaces- Starring At The Steeple (7.4 of 10.0)
Florence and The Machine - Dog Days Are Over (8.7 of 10.0)
Florence and The Machine - Girl With One Eye (8.4 of 10.0)
Florence and The Machine- Drumming(7.5 of 10.0)
Franz Ferdinand- Ulysses(8.4 of 10.0)
The Gossip - Heavy Cross (8.6 of 10.0)
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks (8.6 of 10.0)
La Roux - Tigerlilly (8.4 of 10.0)
Lily Allen - Not Fair (8.2 of 10.0)
Little Boots - Remedy(8.5 of 10.0)
Mando Diao- Maybe Just Sad (8.7 of 10.0)
Mando Diao - You Got Nothing On Me (7.8 of 10.0)
Marina & the Diamonds - The Shampain Sleeper (7.5 of 10.0)
Muse- The Resistance (7.5 of 10.0)
The Raveonettes - Breaking Into Cars! (9.0 of 10.0)
The Raveonettes- Boys Who Rape (7.3 of 10.0)
Regina Spektor - The Calculation (8.6 of 10.0)
Regina Spektor - Blue Lips (8.4 of 10.0)
Regina Spektor - Two Birds (7.8 of 10.0)
Regina Spektor - Genius Next Doorr (8.5 of 10.0)
Regina Spektor - Man of a Thousand Faces (8.5 of 10.0)
St.Vincent -Actor Out Of Work (7.5 of 10.0)
White Lies - Farewell To The Fairground (10.0 of 10.0)
White Lies - To Lose My Life (10.0 of 10.0)
White Lies - Unfinished Business (10.0 of 10.0)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Runaway(7.4 of 10.0)

my 2009's top 10 tracks:

1)Bat for Lashes - Daniel
2)White Lies - Farewell to the Fairground and To Lose My Life
3)Coldplay - Lovers In Japan/Reign Of Love (the 1st part)
4)Regina Spektor - The Calculation,Man of a Thousand Faces and Genius Next Door
5)The Raveonettes - Breaking Into Cars
6)Florence and the Machine - Dog Days Are Over
7)Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
8)Mando Diao - Maybe Just Sad
9)Editors - Papillon
10)The Gossip - Heavy Cross

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Anthony and the Johnsons - Her Eyes Are Underneath The Ground;
The Black Atlantic - Fragile Meadow;
Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning;
Dragonette - Don't Be Funny;
The Dodos - Small Death;
Editors - In This Light And On This Evening;
The Enemy - Elephant Song,No Time For Tears,Sing When You're In Love;
The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away,Even In The Rain;
Franz Ferdinand - Lucid Dreams;
Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others;
La Roux - In It For The Kill,Quicksand,Bulletproof;
Lily Allen - The Fear,22,Chinese;
Mando Diao - Dance With Somebody;
Phoenix- Lisztomania;
The Rakes - You're In It;
The Raveonettes - Last Dance;
Regina Spektor - Folding Chair,One More Time With Feeling,Time Is All Around,The Sword & The Pen;
St.Vincent - The Strangers;
White Lies - Death,The Price of Love
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero.


(man,my lists sucks)

Sadly it does contain a lot of crap from when I first started listening to music. Also, if I own multiple albums by an artist they are ordered by the year of release.


Abigail Williams - Legend
Abigail Williams - In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns
Aborted - Goremaggedon: The Saw And The Carnage Done
Aborted - The Archaic Abbatoir
Aborted - Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture
Aborted - Strychnine.213
Absu - Barathrum: V.I.T.R.I.O.L.
Absu - Absu
The Acacia Strain - The Dead Walk
The Academy Is... - Santi
AFI - Answer That and Stay Fashionable
AFI - Very Proud of Ya
AFI - Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes
AFI - A Fire Inside E.P.
AFI - All Hallow's E.P.
AFI - Black Sails in the Sunset
AFI - The Art of Drowning
AFI - Sing the Sorrow
AFI - DECEMBERUNDERGROUND
AFI - Love Like Winter
AFI - I Heard A Voice, Live From Long Beach Arena
AFI - Crash Love
Against - Left For Dead
Against - Loyalty & Betrayal
Agnostic Front - Victim In Pain
Agnostic Front - Cause for Alarm
Agnostic Front - Liberty & Justice For...
Agnostic Front - Warriors
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Altered States of America
Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Apartment 213 - Domestic Powerviolence
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
Akercocke - Choronzon
Alexisonfire - Alexisonfire
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Alice in Chains - Nothing Safe
All Shall Perish - The Price Of Existence
Alkaline Trio - Maybe I'll Catch Fire
The Amenta - n0n
The Amity Affliction - The Amity Affliction
The Amity Affliction - High Hopes
The Amity Affliction - Severed Ties
Amon Amarth - Once Sent From the Golden Hall
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Anaal Nathrakh - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
Anal Cunt - It Just Gets Worse
Anarchsphere - 2008 Sampler
Angela's Dish - War On Time
Angelcorpse - Of Lucifer And Lightning
Anime Fire - On The Wings Of Hope
Ansur - Axiom
Annotations of an Autopsy - Before The Throne Of Infection
Antagonist A.D. - These Cities Our Graves
Anthrax - Spreading The Disease
Anthrax - Among The Living
Anti-Flag - Underground Network
Anti-Flag - For Blood and Empire
Apocalyptica - Cult
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant
Architects - Hollow Crown
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Arsebreed - Munching The Rotten
As Blood Runs Black - Allegience
At the Gates - The Red in the Sky Is Ours
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Atreyu - Lead Sails Paper Anchor
August Burns Red - Messengers
Austrian Death Machine - Total Brutal
Autopsy - Severed Survival
Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding The Seventh Trumpet
Avenged Sevenfold - Waking The Fallen
Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
Bad Religion - The Gray Race
Bad Religion - New Maps Of Hell
Behemoth - Evangelion
Behind Crimson Eyes - Prologue: The Art Of War/Cherry Blossom Epitaph
Behind Crimson Eyes - A Revelation For Despair
Behind Crimson Eyes - Behind Crimson Eyes
Beneath the Sky - What Demons Do To Saints
The Berzerker - The Berzerker
The Berzerker - Dissimulate
The Berzerker - World of Lies
The Berzerker - Animosity
The Berzerker - The Reawakening
Between the Buried and Me - The Silent Circus
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Black Comedy - Instigator
The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed
The Black Dahlia Murder - Miasma
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal
The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate
Black Flag - Damaged
Black Like Vengeance - Empty As The Day
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Black Tide - Light From Above
Blaqk Audio - Cexcells
Bleeding Through - Portrait of the Goddess
Bleeding Through - This Is Love, This Is Murderous
Bleeding Through - The Truth
Bleeding Through - Declaration
blink-182 - Cheshire Cat
blink-182 - Dude Ranch
blink-182 - Enema Of The State
blink-182 - The Mark, Tom And Travis Show
blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
blink-182 - blink-182
blink-182 - Greatest Hits
BLKOUT - Total Depravity
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Blood Duster - Cunt
Blood Tsunami - Grand Feast for Vultures
Box Car Racer - Box Car Racer
The Boy Will Drown - Fetish
Boys Like Girls - Boys Like Girls
Brain Drill - Apocalyptic Feasting
Break Even - The Bright Side
Breaking Benjamin - Phobia
The Bright Star Alliance - Oceania
Bring Me the Horizon - This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For
Bring Me the Horizon - Count Your Blessings
Bring Me the Horizon - Suicide Season
Brokencyde - I'm Not a Fan But the Kids Like It
Buio Omega - Planet of Tombs
Bullet For My Valentine - Bullet for My Valentine
Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison
Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire
Burning Skies - Greed. Filth. Abuse. Corruption
Burning Witch - Towers
Burning Witch - Rift. Canyon. Dreams
Burst - Origo
Burzum - Burzum
Burzum - Aske
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Butthole Surfers - Independant Worm Saloon
Caliban - The Awakening
Cancer Bats - Birthing The Giant
Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer
Candlemass - King of the Grey Islands
Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst
Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed
Cannibal Corpse - Kill
Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction
Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious
Carnage - The Day Man Lost
Carnage - Infestation of Evil
Carnage - Dark Recollections
Carnal Forge - Testify For My Victims
Carnophage - Deformed Future//Genetic Nightmare
Carpathian - Carpathian
Carpathian - Nothing To Lose
Carpathian - Isolation
Catastrophic - Pathology Of Murder
Cattle Decapitation - Humanure
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Children of Bodom - Something Wild
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
Circa Survive - On Letting Go
Circle of Dead Children - Human Harvest
Civet - Hell Hath No Fury
Closed Casket - Thy Blood, Thy Word
Coal Chamber - Coal Chamber
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Coldseed - Completion Makes the Tragedy
Comeback Kid - Turn It Around
Confession - Can't Live, Can't Breathe
Cradle of Filth - Dusk and Her Embrace
Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast
Cradle of Filth - From the Cradle to Enslave
Cradle of Filth - Midian
Cradle of Filth - Damnation and a Day
Cradle of Filth - Thornography
Crowbar - Equilibrium
Cry Murder - Above Us The Waves
Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy
Cryptopsy - Once Was Not
Cryptopsy - The Unspoken King
Cult of Luna - Salvation
Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway
Daath - The Concealers
Dance Gavin Dance - Downtown Battle Mountain
The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Darkest Hour - The Eternal Return
Darkthrone - Dark Thrones & Black Flags
The Day Everything Became Nothing - Invention: destruction
Dead Child - Attack
Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Death - Spiritual Healing
Death - Human
Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis
Deeds of Flesh - Crown Of Souls
Deez Nuts - Rep Your Hood
Deez Nuts - Stay True
Deicide - Legion
Deicide - The Stench of Redemption
Deicide - Till Death Do Us Part
Demilich - The Four Instructive Tales... Of Decomposition
Demilich - Nespithe
Demiurg - The Hate Chamber
Deranged - The Redlight Murder Case
DevilDriver - The Fury of Our Maker's Hand
DevilDriver - Pray For Villains
Dew-Scented - Impact
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter - Riders On The Storm
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions
Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon
Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind
Dio - Holy Diver
Disbelief - 66Sick
Disillusion - Back To Times of Splendor
Dismember - Like An Everflowing Stream
Disturbed - The Sickness
Disturbed - Believe
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
Disturbed - Indestructible
Double Dragon - Scars of Fire
Double Dragon/Truth Corroded - The Devastation/Decimation E.P.
DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage
Dreadnaught - Dirty Music
Driller Killer - The 4Q Mangrenade
Drowning Pool - Sinner
Dying Fetus - Destroy the Opposition
Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Ekpyrosis - Mensch Aus Gold
Electric Six - Fire
Emperor - In The Nightshade Eclipse
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Escape the Fate - There's No Sympathy for the Dead
Escape the Fate - This War Is Ours
Evanescence - Fallen
Evanescence - The Open Door
Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty
Exodus - Shovel Headed Kill Machine
The Faceless - Planetary Duality
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Faith No More - King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime
Faker - Be The Twilight
The Fall of Troy - Manipulator
Fall Out Boy - Fall Out Boy's Evening Out With Your Girlfriend
Fall Out Boy - Take This to Your Grave
Fall Out Boy/Project Rocket - Split E.P.
Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree
Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High
Fear Factory - Archetype
Fear Factory - Transgression
Fear My Thoughts - Vulcanus
Five Star Prison Cell - Slaves Of Virgo
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 - The Late, Late, Late Show
Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 - Night of the Living Drag Queens
Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 - Songs From the Recently Deceased
Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 - Viva la violence
Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 - Rare Treats
Fuck the Facts - Disgorge Mexico
Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing
Fugazi - The Arguement
Funeral for a Friend - Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation
Funeral for a Friend - Hours
Furze - UTD

G through # coming soon.