Monday, December 28, 2009

my 2009 lists...love 'em, or leave 'em

Top 10 Albums of 2009
#10 --> Yim Yames - Tribute To
#9 --> Atlas Sound - Logos
#8 --> Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul
#7 --> Mos Def - The Ecstatic
#6 --> Girls - Album
#5 --> St. Vincent - Actor
#4 --> Mastodon - Crack the Skye
#3 --> The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
#2 --> Animal Collective - MPP
#1 --> Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

Honorable Mention Albums of 2009
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
Pains of Being Pure at Heart - S/T
Baroness - Blue Record

Most Disappointing Albums of 2009
Jay-Z - The Blueprint III
The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Air - Love 2
Them Crooked Vultures - S/T

Best Songs of 2009
Animal Collective - My Girls
Baroness - The Sweetest Curse
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Revenge (w/ The Flaming Lips)
The Flaming Lips - Watching the Planets
Girls - Summertime
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
Peter Bjorn & John - It Don't Move Me
Phoenix - 1901
St. Vincent - Marrow
White Rabbits - Percussion Gun
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
Atlas Sound - Walk About (w/ Noah Lennox)
Mastodon - Oblivion

Top 5 Shows of 2009
#5 --> Phish @ JPJA (Charlottesville)
#4 --> The Dead @ JPJA (Charlottesville)
#3 --> Sonic Youth @ The National (Richmond)
#2 --> The Avett Brothers @ The National (Richmond)
#1 --> My Bloody Valentine @ The National (Richmond)