Friday, January 8, 2010

THE BEST OF 2009

The Best New Music of 2009

1. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle (Drag City)

2. THE FELICE BROTHERS - YONDER IS THE CLOCK (Team Love)

3. THE LOW ANTHEM - OH MY GOD CHARLIE DARWIN (Bella Union)

4. Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara - Tell No Lies (Real World)

5. Chuck Prophet - Let Freedom Ring! (Cooking Vinyl)

6. Alela Diane - To Be Still (Fargo)

7. Rancid - Let the Dominoes Fall (Hellcat)

8. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone (Anti)

9. Chris Cacavas - Love's Been Discontinued (Blue Rose)

10. DAVE ALVIN - DAVE ALVIN AND THE GUILTY WOMEN (Yep Roc)

11. Os Mutantes - Haih or Amortecedor (Anti)

12. The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die (Take Me To The Hospital)

13. Portugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist (Equal Vision)

14. Arbouretum - Song Of the Pearl (Thrill Jockey)

15. Dawn Landes - Sweetheart Rodeo (Cooking Vinyl)

16. Booker T. - Potato Hole (Anti)

17. EMILY LOIZEAU - PAYS SAUVAGE (Bella Union)

18. Jim 'O Rourke - The Visitor (Drag City)

19. The Baddies - Do The Job (Medical)

20. The Black Crowes - Before The Frost (Silver Arrow)

21. ANDREW BIRD - NOBLE BEAST (Bella Union)

22. Om - God is Good (Drag City)

23. Robyn Hitchcock & Venus 3 - Goodnight Oslo (Proper)

24. Alasdair Roberts - Spoils (Drag City)

25. Extra Golden - Thank You Very Quickly (Thrill Jockey)

26. Oneida - Rated O (Jagjaguwar)

27. PHOSPHORESCENT - To Willie (Dead Oceans)

28. A.A. Bondy - When The Devil’s Loose (Fat Possum)

29. The Lemonheads - Varshons (Cooking Vinyl)

30. Michael J. Sheehy & The Hired Mourners - With These Hands (Glitterhouse)

31. Street Sweeper Social Club - Street Sweeper Social Club (Cooking Vinyl)

32. RICHMOND FONTAINE - WE USED TO THINK THE FREEWAY SOUNDED LIKE A RIVER (Décor)

33. Joe Gideon & The Shark - Harum Scarum (Bronzerat)

34. Kris KristoffersonCloser To The Bone (New West)

35. Forest FireSurvival (Talitres)

36. The Black Heart ProcessionSix (Temporary Residence)

37. BEAUSOLEIL - ALLIGATOR PURSE (Yep Roc)

38. Frànçois And The Atlas Mountains - Plaine Inondable (Talitres)

39. Forro in the Dark - Bonfires of Sao Joao (Nublu)

40. THE FLOWERS OF HELL - COME HELL OR HIGH WATER (Benbecula)

41. HANDSOME FURS - FACE CONTROL (Sub Pop)

42. Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey)

43. The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away (Thrill Jockey)

44. ThriceBeggars (Vagrant)

45. KANTANGOIDA Y VUELTA (Microcosmo Dischi)

46. Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter (Anti)

47. OOIOO - Armonico Hewa (Thrill Jockey)

48. Jeremy Jay - Slow Dance (K Records)

49. Welcome wagonwELCOME TO THE WELCOME WAGON (Asthmatic Kitty)

50. Mirah - (A)spera (K Records)


The 20 Best Reissues

1. 801 - 801 LIVE - COLLECTORS EDITION (Expression)

2. The Gun Club - Miami (Cooking Vinyl)

3. Midnight Choir - Amsterdam Stranded (10th Anniversary collectors edition) (Glitterhouse)

4. HAWKWIND - ASTOUNDING SOUNDS, AMAZING MUSIC (Atomhenge)

5. Harmonia & Eno `76 - Tracks and Traces (Gronland)

6. LYDIA LUNCH - QUEEN OF SIAM (Cherry Red)

7. Dr Strangely Strange - Kip Of The Serenes (Hux)

8. The Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story (Cooking Vinyl)

9. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART - SAFE AS MILK (Rev-Ola)

10. RED RED MEAT - BUNNY GETS PAID (Sub Pop)

11. Pere Ubu - Dub Housing (30th Anniversary Remastered Edition) (Cooking Vinyl)

12. JOHN MAYALL - MOVING ON (Lemon)

13. Death - ...For the Whole World To See (Drag City)

14. Sonny Landreth - Levee Town (Proper)

15. THE VASELINES - ENTER THE VASELINES (Sub Pop)

16. EXPLOITED - PUNK'S NOT DEAD / ON STAGE (Anagram)

17. MOONDOG WITH JULIE ANDREWS AND MARTYN GREEN - TELL IT AGAIN - SONGS OF

SENSE AND NONSENSE (Poppydisc)

18. HAWKWIND - QUARK, STRANGENESS AND CHARM (Atomhenge)

19. WORLD DOMINATION ENTERPRISES - LET'S PLAY DOMINATION: THE ANALOGUE

REMASTER (Free Love)

20. Nick Lowe - The Brentford Trilogy (Proper)


The 10 Best Anthologies – Box Sets

1. HAWKWIND - SPIRIT OF THE AGE ~ AN ANTHOLOGY 1976-1984 (Atomhenge)

2. VARIOUS ARTISTS - THREE SCORE YEAR & TEN - A VOICE TO THE PEOPLE (Topic)

3. Drive-By Truckers - The Fine Print (A Collection Of Oddities And Rarities 2003-

2008) (New West)

4. The Incredible String Band - Tricks Of The Senses - Rare And Unreleased

Recordings 1966 – 72 (Hux)

5. VARIOUS ARTISTS - CHARLEY PATTON - 75th YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION (Proper)

6. The Turtles - Save The Turtles: The Turtles Greatest Hits (Manifesto)

7. Various Artists - The Little Red Box of Protest Songs (Proper)

8. Nick Lowe - Quiet Please…The New Best Of Nick Lowe (Proper)

9. Thin Lizzy - Still Dangerous - Live At the Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, 1977

(Thin Lizzy Productions)

10. Chris Wood - Albion - An Anthology (Navigator)


The 5 Best Compilations

1. Various Artists - Ciao My Shining Star: the Songs Of Mark Mulcahy (Shout

Factory)

2. Various Artists - Twenty First Century Twenty First Year (Luaka Bop)

3. Various Artists - Got No Chains: the Songs Of The Walkabouts (Glitterhouse)

4. VARIOUS ARTISTS - The Best Is Yet To Come: The Songs of Cy Coleman (New West)

5. VARIOUS ARTISTS - SULLE RIVE DEL TANGO - L' INCONTRO (Microcosmo Dischi)

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