Great year for bands coming out of retirement, underground hip hop and a 
few, new discoveries along the way.

*Top 20 Albums Of 2009*

01. Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
02. We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
03. Superdrag - Industry Giants
04. Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
05. SPC ECO - 3-D
06. Sky Larkin - The Golden Spike
07. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
08. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
09. The Bird And The Bee - Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future
10. The XX - XX
11. The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love
12. The Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called Moaning
13. Jack Peņate - Everything Is New
14. Florence & The Machine - Lungs
15. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
16. Gliss - Devotion Implosion
17. Tanya Morgan - Brooklynati
18. Brakes - Touchdown
19. Marie-Pierre Arthur - Marie-Pierre Arthur
20. Seasick Steve - Man From Another Time

*Honorable Mention:*

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Amanda Blank - I Love You
Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
Caspian - Tertia
Cheap Star - Speaking Like An Elephant
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
Grooms - Rejoicer
The Heavy - The House That Dirt Built
The Horrors - Primary Colours
I Was A King - I Was A King
Lady & Bird - La Ballade Of Lady & Bird
The Life And Times - Tragic Boogie
Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
Miike Snow - Miike Snow
Noisettes - Wild Young Hearts
Now, Now Every Children - Cars
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Through The Devil Softly
Scary Mansion - Make Me Cry
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
The Sky Drops - Bourgeois Beat
St. Vincent - Actor
Surfer Blood - Astrocoast
Switchfoot - Hello Hurricane
Telekinesis - Telekinesis!
Two Hours Traffic - Territory
Cortney Tidwell - Boys
The Warlocks - The Mirror Explodes
Zoot Woman Things Are What They Used To Be

I posted my year-end podcast which samples a dozen of those picks:
http://www.agooddayforairplay.com/2009/12/podcast-episode-109/

And my 2009 favorite songs compilation (30 in all):
http://www.agooddayforairplay.com/2010/01/agdfa-2009-year-end-comp-mix/

01. *We Were Promised Jetpacks* - "It's Thunder And It's Lightning"
02. *Manchester Orchestra* - "The Only One"
03. *Superdrag* - "Everything'll Be Made Alright"
04. *Biffy Clyro* - "Whorses"
05. *Brakes* - "Don't Take Me To Space (Man)"
06. *Taking Back Sunday* - "Sink Into Me"
07. *Dinosaur Jr.* - "I Want You To Know"
08. *No Age* - "You're A Target"
09. *Japandroids* - "Heart Sweats"
10. *Doves* - "The Outsiders"
11. *Gliss* - "Morning Light"
12. *The Warlocks* - "The Midnight Sun"
13. *Two Hours Traffic* - "Noisemaker"
14. *I Was King* - "Norman Bleik"
15. *Telekinesis* - "Tokyo"
16. *The Veils* - "The Letter"
17. *Tanya Morgan* - "Bang & Boogie"
18. *Bot'Ox* - "Blue Steel"
19. *Miike Snow* - "Cult Logic"
20. *Charlotte Gainsbourg* - "IRM"
21. *Bear In Heaven* - "Lovesick Teenagers"
22. *Animal Collective* - "My Girls"
23. *Broadcast* - "In Here The World Begins"
24. *St. Vincent* - "Actor Out Of Work"
25. *The Bird And The Bee* - "What's In The Middle"
26. *Cortney Tidwell* - "Son And Moon"
27. *Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions* - "For The Rest Of Your Life"
28. *Grizzly Bear* - "Fine For Now"
29. *Radiohead* - "These Are My Twisted Words"
30. *Dead Man's Bones* - "Dead Hearts"

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