The RM TOP 50 of 2009

1. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
2. Pearl Jam - Backspacer
3. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
4. Built to Spill - There is No Enemy
5. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
6. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
7. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
8. The Antlers - Hospice
9. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
10. Soulsavers - Broken

11. Dinosaur Jr - Farm
12. The Mars Volta - Octahedron
13. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
14. Silversun Pickups - Swoon
15. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
16. Grizzly Bear - Veckitimest
17. U2 - No Line on the Horizon
18. The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
19. The Dead Weather - Horehound
20. Porcupine Tree - The Incident

21. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
22. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle
23. Fuck Buttons - Tarrot Sport
24. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
25. Baroness - Blue Record
26. Doves - Kingdom of Rust
27. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
28. Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
29. Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
30. A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head

31. The Black Crowes - Before the Frost...Until the Freeze
32. The XX - XX
33. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
34. Dredg - The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion
35. Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King
36. Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
37. William Eliott Whitmore - Animals In The Dark
38. Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
39. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
40. Akron/Family - Set 'em Wild, Set 'em Free

41. Metric - Fantasies
42. Handsome Furs - Face Control
43. Muse - The Resistance
44. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
45. Japandroids - Post Nothing
46. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
47. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
48. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
49. Kylesa - Static Tensions
50. The Reigning Sound - Love And Curses


And for anyone who's interested, here's 51-100 (all of which had at least 2 votes)

Spoiler: show

51 . Clutch - Strange Cousins From the West
52 (tie) . The Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come
52 (tie) . M. Ward - Hold Time
54 . Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter
55 . Ben Harper - White Lies for Dark Times
56 (tie) . Neil Young - Fork in the Road
56 (tie) . Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beware!
58 . Dethklok - Dethalbum II
59 . Tragically Hip, The - We Are The Same
60 . Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown

61 . The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
62 . Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream
63 . Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind EP
64 . Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
65 . Isis - Wavering Radiant
66 . Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
67 (tie) . Girls - Album
67 (tie) . Future of the Left - Travels with Myself and Another
69 . James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
70 . Mos Def - The Ecstatic

71 . Ramona Falls - Intuit
72 . Megadeth - Endgame
73 . Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
74 . Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
75 . Super Furry Animals - Dark Days / Light Years
76 . Real Estate - Real Estate
77 . Russian Circles - Geneva
78 . Ganglians - Monster Head Room
79 (tie) . Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom Live
79 (tie) . Regina Spektor - Far

81 . PJ Harvey - A Man A Women Walked By
82 . Deer Tick - Born on Flag Day
83 . Megafun - Gather, Form, Fly
84 . Vic Chesnutt – At The Cut
85 . White Rabbits - It's Frightening
86 . St Vincent - Actor
87 . Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
88 . Jonsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps
89 . Ahab - Divinity of Oceans
90 . John Frusciante - The Empyrean

91 . Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
92 . The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead
93 . Kurt Vile - God Is Saying This To You
94 . The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
95 . Sunn O))) - Monoliths And Dimensions
96 . Street Sweeper Social Club - Street Sweeper Social Club
97 . Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
98 . Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
99 . Florence And The Machine - Lungs
100 (tie) . State Radio - Let It Go
100 (tie) . Behemoth - Evangelion

The stats for this year:
-39 lists submitted/286 unique releases



The voting/list thread


Past lists:
Top 50 of 2008
Top 50 of 2007
Top 100 of 2006

50. The Reigning Sound - Love And Curses



49. Kylesa - Static Tensions



48. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light



47. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs



46. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart



45. Japandroids - Post Nothing



44. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca



43. Muse - The Resistance



42. Handsome Furs - Face Control



41. Metric - Fantasies

Not heard any of those. So unfortunately I can not comment on how other albums should have occupied positions 41 - 50.

This kind of rational attitude has no place in a thread like this.

Couple of great choices to be on the list (Handsome Furs, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, etc.). Reigning Sound is good although I didn't vote for the album. Japandroids did not impress me at all except for a song or maybe two.

that muse album sucks

indeed.

I'm actually glad to see it that low. I actually thought it would have been higher, so maybe it's getting the lack of appreciation it deserves.

not bad.

Can't wait to see the rest

I saw Japandroids last summer. Garage-emo.

How did Bitte Orca go so quickly?

Backspacer.

Metric, Pains and Muse were on my list

Had Japandroids and Kylesa on mine.

the only one i even heard was muse and it was terrible

that metric album is realy good, totally solid all the way through

i dont get the muse hate, it may be not their best, but its not that different from their previous work, even my gf who wasnt a fan enjoyed it

if only for the symphony, which was really good

i wont get into a fight, i love them, Origin of Symmetry is perfect and Absolution is close, and theyre one of the best live bands of the moment

I don't like Muse in general, so I didn't like this album either.

DP and Pains were awesome, and would have been much higher on my list, had I made one. Japandroids is fun and pretty much belongs right where it is. Still haven't gotten around to YLT and didn't hear anything else.

I thought the Handsome Furs wasn't bad, never really wanted to come back to it though. Antony was on my list. I've heard one song off the Muse album and I wanted to throw my speakers out of the windows.

Handsome Furs was on my list.

How many lists were submitted?