Top 10 of the year

smithnic

My list:

Top 10 of 2009.

Pearl Jam – Backspacer (there’s no number because I can’t objectively rate this one, but it's been in repeat since it's debut)

1. Lightning Dust – Infinite Light
2. Various – Dark Was the Night
3. Dead Weather – Horehound
4. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – s.t.
5. Condo Fucks – Fuckbook
6. The Deceberists – Hazards of Love
7. Sonic Youth – The Eternal
8. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
9. Andrew Bird – Noble Beast
10. Bob Dylan – Christmas is in the Heart

Honorable Mention EP’s
Bon Iver – Blood Bank
Modest Mouse – No One’s First and You’re Next

Lifted

i think this has already been done, but i'll throw my votes in...

1. neko case - middle cyclone
2. grizzly bear - vecketamist
3. animal collective - merriweather post pavilion
4. monsters of folk - monsters of folk
5. sonic youth - the eternal
6. the antlers - hospice
7. yo la tengo - popular songs
8. dan auerbach - keep it hid
9. dragonslayer - sunset rubdown
10. wilco - (the album)

honorable mentions - backspacer, hold time and embryonic

Bremerton

It's Blitz
Humbug
Backspacer
The XX
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Wilco
Them Crooked Vultures
Mt St Helens Vietnam Band
Dark Was the Night
Hazards of Love

Very disappointed with Muse, SS Pickups, Dead Weather and Julian Casablancas.

MysteryTrain

So much great music this year.

1. Backspacer – Pearl Jam
2. Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King - Dave Matthews Band
3. No Line On The Horizon – U2
4. Together Through Life – Bob Dylan
5. Before The Frost/Until The Freeze – The Black Crowes
6. Wilco (The Album) – Wilco
7. Revolution – Miranda Lambert
8. Working On A Dream – Bruce Springsteen
9. Monsters Of Folk – Monsters Of Folk
10. Horehound – The Dead Weather

intodeep

1. Baroness- Blue Record
2. Mastodon- Crack the Skye
3. Girzzly Bear-Vickatimest
4. Neko Case- Middle Cyclone
5. Roman Candle- Oh Tall Tree in the Ear
6. Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus
7. Built to Spill- There is no Enemy
8. Flaming Lips- Embryonic
9. Cymbals Eat Guitarls- Why there are Mountains
10. The Antlers- Hospice

I feel really strongly about the first 5 or 6. The rest might change before i make my final decision.

Most overated album for me was Girls- Album
Most disapointing album- Neil Young- Fork in the Road

PJGARDEN

My top 10 of the year

1. Soulsavers - Broken
2. Pearl Jam - Backspacer
3. Them Crooked Vultures - self titled
4. Dinosaur Jr - Farm
5. Matthew Ryan - Dear Lover
6. Visqueen - Message to Garcia
7. Doves - Kingdom of Rust
8. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
9. Jonneine Zapata - Cast the Demons Out
10. Soundtrack of Our Lives - Communion

Favorite E.P - My Jerusalem - Without Feathers
Biggest Disappointment – The Dead Weather – Horebound. I wish Alison Mosshart would go back to working with The Kills.

pretext

I'm only going with 5 so far. Trying to catch up before the year ends.

1. Dark Was the Night - VA
2. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
3. PJ - Backspacer
4. Dave Rawlings Machine - Friend of a Friend
5.Wilco - Wilco (The Album)

Gardenparty

in no order:

Do Make Say Think - Other Truths
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Antlers - Hospice
Eels - Hombre Lobo
Them Crooked Vultures - S/T
Caspian - Tertia
Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Linx 2
Swell Season - Strict Joy
Gibbard & Farrar - One Fast Move or I'm Gone
Various - Dark Was the Night comp

eeriepadave

1. Silversun Pickups- Swoon
2. The Decemberists- The Hazards Of Love
3. The Prodigy- Invaders Must Die
4. The Horrors- Primary Colours
5. Pearl Jam- Backspacer
6. Arctic Monkeys- Humbug
7. Kasabian- West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
8. Passion Pit- Manners
9. Dead Weather- Horehound
10. Them Crooked Vultures- Them Crooked Vultures
11. Alice In Chains- Black Gives Way To Blue
12. Peter, Bjorn, & John- Living Thing
13. Julian Casablancas- Phrazes For The Young
14. Green Day- 21st Century Breakdown
15. Muse- The Resistance
16. Wolfmother- Cosmic Egg
17. Franz Ferdinand- Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
18. Dave Matthews Band- Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King
19. Art Brut- Art Brut Vs Satan
20. Glasvegas- Glasvegas
21. Big Pink- The History Of Love (just bought this after seeing them in concert, might have ranked
higher had a gotten it earlier)
22. Wilco- Wilco (The Album)
23. 311- Uplifter
24. Modest Mouse- No One's First and You're Next
25. Twighlight Soundtrack (don't care for the movie, but a decent selection of songs and bands)

probably would be up there if i listened/bought the alums:
Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavilion (never got to around getting this :oops: )
Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (the two singles i heard i liked a lot)

Zoso

farm - dinosaur jr.
horehound- dead weather
wilco - wilco (the album)
dark was the night - various
backspacer - pj
the eternal - sonic youth
champagne and seashells - liam finn & ej barnes
outer south - conor oberst & the MVB
monster of folk
working on a dream - bruce springsteen