Rick Sieber's 2009 List

TOP 10 ALBUMS

1. Two Dancers – Wild Beasts
2. Bitte Orca – Dirty Projectors
3. Logos – Atlas Sound
4. Jewellery – Micachu & the Shapes
5. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
6. Embryonic – Flaming Lips
7. Merriweather Post Pavilion – Animal Collective
8. Nowhere Forever – Love of Diagrams
9. Actor – St. Vincent
10. Primary Colours – The Horrors

Bubbling Under:

• Mister Pop – The Clean
• Bonfires on the Heath – The Clientele
• Get Guilty – A.C. Newman
• Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
• Watch Me Fall – Jay Reatard

TOP 40 TRACKS

1. “Cannibal Resource” – Dirty Projectors
2. “Quick Canal” – Atlas Sound (featuring Laetitia Sadier)
3. “Marrow” – St. Vincent”
4. “Stillness is the Move” – Dirty Projectors
5. “Summertime Clothes” – Animal Collective
6. “I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris” – Morrissey
7. “The Fun Powder Plot” – Wild Beasts
8. “Daniel” – Bat for Lashes
9. “Golden Phone” – Micachu & the Shapes
10. “Wounded” – Jay Reatard
11. “Knotty Pine” – David Byrne & Dirty Projectors
12. “Black Hearted Love” – PJ Harvey & Jon Parish
13. “Disappearing Ink” – Deerhunter
14. “Young Adult Friction” – Pains of Being Pure at Heart
15. “All the King’s Men” – Wild Beasts
16. “Who Can Say” – The Horrors
17. “Got Nuffin” – Spoon
18. “Antenna” – Sonic Youth
19. “Zero” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
20. “Everyone’s At It” – Lily Allen
21. “Lisztomania” – Phoenix
22. “Forever” – Love of Diagrams
23. “Once We Walked in the Sunlight” – Papercuts
24. “Friend to Many” – David Kilgour & Sam Hunt
25. “No You Girls” – Franz Ferdinand
26. “Prison Girls” – Neko Case
27. “In the Dreamlife U Need A Rubber Soul” – The Clean
28. “That Damned Fly” – Future of the Left
29. “City Lights (Days Go By)” – Bob Mould
30. “Hey, Snow White” – New Pornographers
31. “Lust for Life” – Girls
32. “Journal for Plague Lovers” – Manic Street Preachers
33. “Famous Last Words” – Deerhunter
34. “Come Saturday” – Pains of Being Pure at Heart
35. “Bull Black Nova” – Wilco
36. “Evil” – Flaming Lips
37. “Static Information” – Love of Diagrams
38. “Save Me From What I Want” – St. Vincent
39. “Two Lines” – The Bats
40. “Red Oak Way” – Lotus Plaza

BEST BASSLINE: “Cannibal Resource” – Dirty Projectors

WORST ALBUM TITLE (Tie):

• Abnormally Attracted to Sin – Tori Amos
• Sacred, Profane, & Sugarcane – Elvis Costello