The Top 90 Albums of 2009
Posted by Tom on January 1st, 20101 ARI HEST Twelve Mondays
2 COLDPLAY Viva La Vida/Prospekt’s March
3 BEN HARPER & RELENTLESS 7 White Lies For Dark Times
4 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Working On A Dream
5 ELVIS COSTELLO Secret, Profane, & Sugarcane
6 MARK KNOPFLER Get Lucky
7 QUINCY MUMFORD South Edgemere
8 WILCO Wilco (the album)
9 LEVON HELM Electric Dirt
10 THE BLACK CROWES Before The Frost…Until The Freeze
11 ERIC CLAPTON & STEVE WINWOOD Live From Madison Square Garden
12 THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM The ‘59 Sound
13 GREEN DAY 21st Century Breakdown
14 U2 No Line On The Horizon
15 BOB DYLAN Together Through Life
16 JACK JOHNSON En Concert
17 DAVE MATTHEWS BAND Big Whiskey And The Groo Grux King
18 PEARL JAM Backspacer
19 ONE ESKIMO One Eskimo
20 ASTRID WILLIAMSON Here Come The Vikings
21 DAVY KNOWLES & BACK DOOR SLAM Coming Up For Air
22 PHISH Joy
23 BRUCE HORNSBY & THE NOISEMAKERS Levitate
24 NEIL YOUNG Fork In The Road
25 THE GUGGENHEIM GROTTO Happy The Man
26 JOHN MAYER Battle Studies
27 TORI AMOS Abnormally Attracted To Sin
28 NORAH JONES The Fall
29 THE SMITHEREENS Play Tommy
30 STEVE FORBERT The Place And The Time
31 THE KILLERS Day & Age
32 ROSANNE CASH The List
33 YOUNG DUBLINERS Saints And Sinners
34 RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS Cardinology
35 DAVID GRAY Draw The Line
36 MONSTERS OF FOLK Monsters Of Folk
37 CHRIS ISAAK Mr. Lucky
38 MATTHEW SWEET & SUSANNA HOFFS Under The Covers
39 DONAVON FRANKENREITER Pass It Around
40 R.E.M. Live At The Olympia
41 WEEZER Weezer (red album)
42 TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS The Live Anthology
43 FOO FIGHTERS Greatest Hits
44 GOV’T MULE By A Thread
45 JOHN FOGERTY The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again
46 MASON JENNINGS Blood Of Man
47 KAISER CHIEFS Off With Their Heads
48 DEREK TRUCKS BAND Already Free
49 GOMEZ A New Tide
50 PETE YORN Back And Forth
51 JOHN WESLEY HARDING Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead
52 MEAT PUPPETS Sewn Together
53 ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN The Fountain
54 WPA Works Progress Administration
55 JORMA KAUKONEN River Of Time
56 SON VOLT American Central Dust
57 JOE BONAMASSA The Ballad Of John Henry
58 MILES HUNT and ERICA NOCKALLS Catching More Than We Miss
59 DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE The Open Door EP
60 FLOGGING MOLLY Float
61 JOSS STONE Colour Me Free
62 CRACKER Sunrise In The Land Of Milk And Honey
63 IAN HUNTER Man Overboard
64 BOB DYLAN Tell Tale Signs:The Bootleg Series Vol 8
65 ALEXI MURDOCH Away We Go soundtrack
66 DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack
67 STEVE EARLE Townes
68 WILLIE NILE House Of A Thousand Guitars
69 FASTBALL Little White Lies
70 JAMES MADDOCK Sunrise On Avenue C
71 CARA DILLON Hill Of Thieves
72 LOS LONELY BOYS 1969
73 YUSUF (formerly CAT STEVENS) Roadsinger
74 FLEET FOXES Fleet Foxes
75 TORI AMOS Midwinter Graces
76 CAGE THE ELEPHANT Cage The Elephant
77 ERIN McKEOWN Hundreds Of Lions
78 SHEMEKIA COPELAND Never Going Back
79 SHANNON McNALLY Coldwater
80 BELL X1 Blue Lights On The Runway
81 ALICE IN CHAINS Black Gives Way To Blue
82 RHETT MILLER Rhett Miller
83 PHOENIX Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
84 MIKE DOUGHTY Sad Man Happy Man
85 CITY AND COLOUR Bring Me Your Love
86 JILL HENNESSY Ghost In My Head
87 VARIOUS ARTISTS Live At The NIGHT Vol. 4
88 INDIGO GIRLS Poseidon And The Bitter Bug
89 THE SWELL SEASON Strict Joy
90 WILL HOGE The Wreckage
90.5 ASSEMBLY OF DUST Some Assembly Required
