Saturday, November 14, 2009

Amazon Editor's Picks: Best Albums of 2009

Amazon has made a list of their top 100 albums of 2009, as well as the 100 bestselling mp3s of the year. I'm a bit hesitant about this list, if only because there is still time before the year is done. Some selections make my eyes squint a little, but check out the top 50 below. What do you think?

1. Middle Cyclone - Neko Case
2. It's Blitz! - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
4. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
5. I And Love And You - The Avett Brothers
6. Album - Girls
7. Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective
8. Troubadour - K'naan
9. The Blueprint 3 - Jay-Z
10. My Maudlin Career - Camera Obscura
11. Fantasies - Metric
12. Wilco - Wilco
13. Manners- Passion Pit
14. Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear
15. Strict Joy - The Swell Season
16. Townes - Steve Earle
17. Song Up In Her Head - Sarah Jarosz
18. Welcome To Mali - Amadou & Marian
19. Live In London - Leonard Cohen
20. Primary Colours - The Horrors
21. Crack The Skye - Mastodon
22. Dark Was The Night (Red Hot Compilation) - Various Artists
23. Around The Well - Iron & Wine
24. Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future - The Bird And The Bee
25. The Crow: New Songs for the Five String Banjo - Steve Martin
26. Get Lucky - Mark Knopfler
27. Roadsinger - Yusuf
28. La Roux - La Roux
29. Welcome Joy - The Cave Singers
30. Ellipse - Imogen Heap
31. No Line On The Horizon - U2
32. Get Guilty - A.C. Newman
33. Julian Plenti Is... Skyscraper - Julian Plenti
34. Preliminaries - Iggy Pop
35. The Crying Light - Antony & The Johnsons
36. Together Through Life - Bob Dylan
37. Catacombs - Cass McCombs
38. Swoon - Silversun Pickups
39. Bitte Orca - Dirty Projectors
40. Actor - St. Vincent
41. Fondo - Vieux Farka Toure
42. It's Not Me, It's You... - Lily Allen
43. Creaturesque - Throw Me The Statue
44. Beware - Bonnie "Prince" Billy
45. Born Like This - Doom
46. Wild Young Hearts - Noisettes
47. A Strange Arrangement - Mayer Hawthorne
48. Know Better Learn Faster- Thao With The Get Down Stay Down
49. 11:11 - Rodrigo Y Gabriela
50. Incredibad - The Loney Island

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