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Your top albums of 2009

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It's closing in on that time of the year when it's time to choose your favorite albums of 2009!

It's a great way also to clue people in to bands they might not know of. If you'd like, list a few tunes off the album as well to demo for prospective listeners.

Here are a few of my votes to get things started:
Format is Artist - Album (Songs)

Andrew Bird - Noble Beast (Anonanimal, The Privateers, Masterswarm, Soverign)

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (While You Wait For The Others, Ready/Able, Fine For Now)

St. Vincent - Actor (Black Rainbow, Marrow, The Party)

Pelican - What We All Come To Need (Glimmer, The Creeper, Strung Up From The Sky)

Russian Circles - Geneva (Hexed All, Melee, Geneva)

Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect (Mirrors, Disease/Injury/Madness, Fossil Genera)

Also, don't forget to vote in NPR's best of 2009
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2009/11/vote_now_for_the_best_music_of.html
 
Derek Trucks Band - Already Free (Southern slide guitar bluesy rock)
Eliyahu & the Qadim Ensemble - Eastern Wind (Middle Eastern)
Darbuki Kings - Lawrence of Suburbia (Sort of Middle Eastern - East European with one song that sounds a whole bunch like The Clash)
Lhasa de Sela - Lhasa (Singer/Songwriter - the ultimate mental illness self awareness album)
Rokia Traoré - Tchamantche ( Mali )
 
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Meat Puppets - Sewn Together
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Clutch - Strange Cousins from the West
 
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone <-- Best by far
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
 
my favorites starting at the top of the list:

p.o.s. - never better
mos def - the ecstatic
k-os - yes!
them crooked vultures - them crooked vultures
street sweeper social club - street sweeper social club
green day - 21st century breakdown
 
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Kylesa - Static Tensions
Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Buckethead - Slaughterhouse on the Prairie
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know(Heaven & Hell album)
U. D. O. - Dominator
 
Spinnerette - (Self titled)

Soulsavers - Broken

Them Crooked Vultures (Self Titled)

Ian Brown - My Way

Lily Allen - Its not me its you
 
I think I'm in the minority on the Them Crooked Vultures album.. just couldn't get into it at all. It was decent but nothing extraordinary and definitely not greater than the sum of its parts.
 
Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King
M. Ward - Hold Time
R&#246;yksopp - Junior
Sufjan Stevens - The BQE
Venus Hum - Mechanics & Mathematics
 
OSI - Blood


Lots of love for "Them Crooked Vultures". Guess I should've gone to see them @ the Wiltern afterall
 
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