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Playlist: Best Songs of 2009 – Honorable Mention

Author: Matt Moeller

1 Feb

As a companion to my list and playlist of the top 20 best albums of 2009, I present a playlist featuring the best cuts from 2009 that were not included on those lists.

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Playlist: Best Songs of 2009

Author: Matt Moeller

27 Jan

Running a little late on this one… As a companion to my list of the top 20 best albums of 2009, I present a playlist featuring one of the best cuts off of each of those albums, re-sequenced for maximum enjoyment.

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Top 20 Albums of 2009

Author: Matt Moeller

10 Jan

#	Artist	Album	Label
1.	Metric	Fantasies	Metric/Last Gang	\|Listen\|Buy\|
2.	Dirty Projectors	Bitte Orca	Domino	\|Listen\|Buy\|
3.	Handsome Furs	Face Control	Sub Pop	\|Listen\|Buy\|
4.	Camera Obscura	My Maudlin Career	4AD	\|Listen\|Buy\|
5.	Joe Henry	Blood From Stars	Anti	\|Listen\|Buy\|
6.	Why?	Eskimo Snow	Anticon	\|Listen\|Buy\|
7.	Jason Lytle	Yours Truly, The Commuter	Anti	\|Listen\|Buy\|
8.	Dinosaur Jr.	Farm	Jagjaguwar	\|Listen\|Buy\|
9.	Andrew Bird	Noble Beast	Fat Possum	\|Listen\|Buy\|
10.	Bill Callahan	Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle	Drag City	\|Listen\|Buy\|
11.	Doves	Kingdom Of Rust	EMI	\|Listen\|Buy\|
12.	Built To Spill	There Is No Enemy	Warner Bros.	\|Listen\|Buy\|
13.	Animal Collective	Merriweather Post Pavilion	Domino	\|Listen\|Buy\|
14.	Antlers	Hospice	Frenchkiss	\|Listen\|Buy\|
15.	Pains Of Being Pure At Heart	Pains Of Being Pure At Heart	Slumberland	\|Listen\|Buy\|
16.	jj	jj n° 2	Sincerely Yours	\|Listen\|Buy\|
17.	Lou Barlow	Goodnight Unknown	Merge	\|Listen\|Buy\|
18.	Sonic Youth	The Eternal	Matador	\|Listen\|Buy\|
19.	Mountain Goats	Life of The World To Come	4AD	\|Listen\|Buy\|
20.	Yeah Yeah Yeahs	It’s Blitz	Interscope	\|Listen\|Buy\|

Honorable Mention:

The Gossip – Music For Men

Girls – Album

Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse – Dark Night Of The Soul

Mos Def – The Ecstatic

Mountain Goats & John Vanderslice – Moon Colony Bloodbath

Wilco – Wilco (The Album)

tUnE-yArDs – BiRd-BrAiNs

Boat – Setting The Paces

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Best Albums Of 1999

Author: Matt Moeller

8 Feb

BEST ALBUMS OF 1999
#	Artist	Album	Label
1	Flaming Lips	The Soft Bulletin	Warner Bros.
2	Wilco	Summer Teeth	Warner Bros.
3	Dismemberment Plan	Emergency & I	Desoto
4	Splashdown	The Red Shift EP/Blueshift	Java/Unreleased
5	Pinback	Pinback	Ace Fu
6	Tom Waits	Mule Variations	Anti
7	Low	Secret Name	Kranky
8	Folk Implosion	One Part Lullaby	Interscope
9	Guided By Voices	Do The Collapse	TVT
10	Matthew Sweet	In Reverse	Volcano
11	Sloan	Between The Bridges	Murder
12	Built To Spill	Keep It Like A Secret	Warner Bros.
13	Hang Ups	Second Story	Restless
14	Arcwelder	Everest	Touch & Go
15	Essex Green	Everything Is Green	Kindercore
16	Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci	Spanish Dance Troupe	Beggars Banquet
17	Old 97’s	Fight Songs	Elektra
18	Magnetic Fields	69 Love Songs	Merge
19	Les Savy Fav	The Cat & The Cobra	French Kiss
20	Kingsbury Manx	Kingsbury Manx	Overcoat