BEST of the BEST Albums of 2009:
Ranked in order of how
many times they showed up across 10 different “Best of 2009” lists
(non-weighted)
Spin,
Billboard, AV Club, Rolling Stone, last.FM, Metromix, metacritic, NPR, AOL, BBC
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Merriweather
Post Pavilion |
Animal Collective |
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Bitte Orca |
Dirty Projectors |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
Phoenix |
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It's Blitz! |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs |
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7 listings: |
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Veckatimest |
Grizzly Bear |
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Middle Cyclone |
Neko Case |
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6 listings: |
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Embryonic |
The Flaming Lips |
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Wilco [the
album] |
Wilco |
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5 listings: |
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Actor |
St. Vincent |
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Hospice |
The Antlers |
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Manners |
Passion Pit |
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Post-Nothing |
Japandroids |
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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart |
The Pains of Being Pure At
Heart |
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Crack The
Skye |
Mastodon |
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Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II |
Raekwon |
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I And Love
And You |
The Avett Brothers |
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The XX |
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3 listings: |
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The Crying Light |
Antony & The Johnsons |
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Album |
Girls |
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Tarot Sport |
Fuck Buttons |
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The Ecstatic |
Mos Def |
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The Life Of The World To Come |
The Mountain Goats |
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Two Suns |
Bat For Lashes |
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Elvis Perkins In Dearland |
Elvis Perkins In Dearland |
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Noble Beast |
Andrew Bird |
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A Brief History Of Love |
The Big Pink |
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Showed up at
least twice: |
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Kingdom Of Rust |
Doves |
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Miike Snow |
Miike Snow |
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Them Crooked Vultures |
Them Crooked Vultures |
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Welcome to
Mali |
Amadou & Mariam |
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Further Complications |
Jarvis Cocker |
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Watch Me
Fall |
Jay Reatard |
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Horehound |
The Dead Weather |
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Set 'Em
Wild, Set 'Em Free |
Akron/Family |
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Phrazes For The Young |
Julian Casablancas |
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Dragonslayer |
Sunset Rubdown |
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Axe To Fall |
Converge |
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Us |
Brother Ali |
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Oh My God Charlie Darwin |
The Low Anthem |
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My Maudlin
Career |
Camera Obscura |
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Know Better Learn Faster |
Thao with The Get Down
Stay Down |
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Dark Was The
Night |
Various Artists |
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The Blueprint 3 |
Jay-Z |
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BLACKsummers'night |
Maxwell |
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Troubadour |
K'naan |
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Fever Ray |
Fever Ray |
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Real Estate |
Real Estate |
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Popular
Songs |
Yo La Tengo |
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Farm |
Dinosaur Jr. |
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Blue Record |
Baroness |
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Why There Are Mountains |
Cymbals Eat Guitars |
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Bromst |
Dan Deacon |
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Catacombs |
Cass McCombs |
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Songs of
Shame |
Woods |
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