Albums of the Year 2009

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10. Passion Pit, Manners

9. Rhett Miller, Rhett Miller

8. Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson, Break Up

7. Metric, Fantasies

6. Eels, Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire

5. Bishop Allen, Grrr...

4. Harlem Shakes, Technicolor Health

3. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Pains of Being Pure at Heart

2. XX, XX

1. The Thermals, Now We Can See

Songs of the Year: Phoenix, "1901," Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Zero," The Sounds, "No One Sleeps When I'm Awake," Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard, "One Fast Move or I'm Gone," Cracker, "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out with Me," Lady GaGa, "Pokerface."

Previous years' lists: 2008, 2007.

Originally posted at Sunday, December 20, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Some of the best lists are idiosyncratic, as is this one. My two pieces of criteria were: 1. Are most, if not all, of the songs on the album very good (non-skippable); and 2. how often I went back to listen to the album, months or years after I first heard it. In all of these cases, these albums met those criteria. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have. ...

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