It’s that time again, time to make an ongoing, editable list of my top albums of 2009. Here’s a quick breakdown of star ratings and whatnot:
The number of stars (out of 5) represents a couple of things: how much I enjoy the album, how much I listen to it, and how good I feel that it is overall. All of these go into determining the rating. If something tanked rating wise, just know that it didn’t click well with me for whatever reason.
Now that the formalities are out of the way, let’s get to the list of the albums, shall we??
Here’s the official, final countdown of the top 31 of 2009 (read more on the blog about each one):
- 1:
A Camp – Colonia - 2: Antony and the Johnsons – The Crying Light
- 3: Gossip – Music For Men
- 4: Miike Snow – Miike Snow
- 5: The Saturdays – Wordshaker
- 6: Silversun Pickups – Swoon
- 7: Mat Kearney – City of Black and White
- 8: A Fine Frenzy – Bomb In A Birdcage
- 9: Lady GaGa – The Fame Monster
- 10: Passion Pit – Manners
- 11: William Fitzsimmons – The Sparrow and The Crow
- 12: Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
- 13: Elizabeth and the Catapult – Taller Children
- 14: Hayden – The Place Where We Lived
- 15: Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You
- 16: Band of Skulls – Baby Darling Doll Face Honey
- 17: Brandi Carlile – Give Up The Ghost
- 18:
Westlife – Where We Are - 19: Angel Taylor – Love Travels
- 20: Eulogies – Here Anonymous
- 21: Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions
- 22: Patrick Wolf – The Bachelor
- 23: Noah and the Whale – The First Days of Spring
- 24: Alexisonfire – Old Crows/Young Cardinals
- 25: VV Brown – Traveling Like The Light
- 26: Matthew Barber – Ghost Notes
- 27: Anouk – For Bitter Or Worse
- 28: Peter Bjorn and John – Living Thing
- 29: Jack Penate – Everything Is New
- 30: Noisettes – Wild Young Hearts
- 31: Kelly Clarkson – All I Ever Wanted
The rest:
- Will Young – The Hits
- 30 Seconds to Mars – This is War
- The Bird and the Bee – Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future
- Florence and the Machine – Lungs
- Glasvegas – Glasvegas
- Indigo Girls – Poseidon and the Bitter Bug
- Jars of Clay – The Long Fall Back To Earth
- The Lovemakers – Let’s Be Friends
- The Low Anthem – Oh My God Charlie Darwin
- Metric – Fantasies
- Muse – The Resistance
- Owl City – Ocean Eyes
- White Lies – To Lose My Life
- Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson – Break Up
La Roux – La Roux- Little Boots – Hands
- MIKA – The Boy Who Knew Too Much