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I decided this year that I would rank the top ten and then just let the rest just battle it out.

10. Actor - St. Vincent

9. Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective

8. At The Cut - Vic Chesnutt

7. Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear

6. Industry Giants - Superdrag

5. Love and Curses - Reigning Sound

4. Middle Cyclone - Neko Case

3. Zero To 99 - Boston Spaceships

2. Embryonic - The Flaming Lips

and the #1 album for 2009 according to sonicdork……..

1. Popular Songs - Yo La Tengo

Other favorites from 2009

• Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
• The Duckworth Lewis Method - The Duckworth Lewis Method
• Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
• M. Ward - Hold Time
• Monsters Of Folk - Monsters Of Folk
• Tegan & Sara - Sainthood
• Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
• A.C. Newman - Get Guilty
• Brendan Benson - My Old Familiar Friend
• eels - Hombre Lobo
• Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
• Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy
• Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul
• Seven Worlds Collide - The Sun Came Out
• The Wave Pictures - Play Some Pool
• Vic Chesnutt - Skitter On Take Off
• Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
• Sonic Youth - The Eternal
• Pugwash - Giddy
• Port O’Brien - Threadbare
• Polvo - In Prism
• Pearl Jam - Backspacer
• The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - s/t
• Lou Barlow - Goodnight Unknown
• Lee Fields and The Expressions - My World
• Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Young
• Joe Pernice - It Feels So Good When I Stop
• Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
• Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter
• Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
• Flight of the Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky
• The Flaming Lips - Dark Side of the Moon
• Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
• Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
• The Dead Weather - Horehound
• Daniel Johnson - Is and Always Was
• Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
• Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
• Coconut Records - Davy
• Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream

Best Reissues / Live Releases / Boxed Sets

1. Keep Your Eye On The Sky - Big Star AND I Am The Cosmos (reissue) - Chris Bell
2. The Live Anthology - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
3. Good Evening New York - Paul McCartney (if only for the fact that I was at two of these shows!)