Best of 2009 Volume 1 (1/30/10)
1. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Zero
2. Phoenix- 1901
3. Girls- Lust for Life
4. Japandroids- Young Hearts Spark Fire
5. Dirty Projectors- Stillness is the Move
6. Neon Indian- Deadbeat Summer
7. Washed Out- Feel It all Around
8. Best Coast- Sun Was High (So Was I)
9. jj- Ecstasy
10. Animal Collective- Summertime Clothes
11. Jay-Z (Feat. Alicia Keys)- Empire State of Mind
12. The Big Pink- Velvet
13. The XX- Islands
14. Bat for Lashes- Daniel
15. Grizzly Bear- Two Weeks
16. Passion Pit- Little Secrets
17. Yacht- Psychic City (Voodoo City)
18. Joker- Digidesign
19. The Flaming Lips- Watching the Planets
Best of 2009 Volume 2 (1/30/10)
1. Animal Collective- My Girls
2. The Antlers- Two
3. Neko Case- This Tornado Loves You
4. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart- Young Adult Friction
5. Lady GaGa- Bad Romance
6. La Roux- Bulletproof
7. Metric- Help I’m Alive
8. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Dragon Queen
9. Phoenix- Lisztomania
10. Passion Pit- The Reeling
11. Girls- Summertime
12. Atlas Sound (Feat. Noah Lennox)- Walkabout
13. Fever Ray- When I Grow Up
14. Raekwon (Feat. Capadonna & Ghostface Killah)- 10 Bricks
15. Mastodon- Divinations
16. Dinosaur Jr.- I Want You to Know
17. Dirty Projectors- Two Doves
18. Grizzly Bear- While You Wait for the Others
Best of 2009 Volume 3 (1/30/10)
1. Mastodon- Oblivion
2. Raekwon (Feat. Inspecktah Deck, GZA, Ghostface Killah & Method Man)- House of Flying Daggers
3. Dirty Projectors- Cannibal Resource
4. Wild Beasts- We Still Got the Taste Dancin’ On Our Tongues
5. The Very Best (Feat. Ezra Koenig)- Warm Heart of Africa
6. Annie- Don’t Stop
7. Joy Orbison- Hyph Mngo
8. The-Dream- Put It Down
9. Animal Collective- Brother Sport
10. the XX- Shelter
11. Neon Indian- Should Have Taken Acid with You
12. The Flaming Lips- Silver Trembling Hands
13. Girls- Hellhole Ratrace
14. Stuart Murdoch- Another Saturday
15. Camera Obscura- French Navy
16. Atlas Sound- Shelia
17. The Avett Brothers- I and Love and You
Best of 2009 Volume 4 (1/30/10)
1. Yo La Tengo- Here to Fall
2. Built to Spill- Hindsight
3. F*ck Buttons- Phantom Limb
4. Animal Collective- No More Runnin’
5. Passion Pit- Moth’s Wings
6. Grizzly Bear- Ready, Able
7. The XX- Basic Space
8. Phoenix- Fences
9. Dirty Projectors- No Intention
10. Kind Midas Sound- Meltdown
11. The Flaming Lips- Convinced of the Hex
12. Royce Da 5’9″- Shake This
13. Mos Def- Casa Bey
14. Bear in Heaven- Lovesick Teenagers
15. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Hysteric
16. Handsome Furs- I’m Confused
17. Matt & Kim- Daylight
18. St. Vincent- The Strangers
19. Neko Case- Don’t Forget Me
Some well-thought out lists, Bri! Our tastes remain frighteningly similar. Passion Pit, Phoenix, a little Mos Def and that one Metric track, “Help I’m Alive”- definitely the best track off that album. The Avett Brothers did the guitar tracks for my company’s commercial back in the day (2003). Great to see those guys finally get noticed. Keep up the great work man, and check out Tanya Morgan’s “Brooklynati” when you get a minute.
R
Thanks Rick. My buddy just hipped me to another Tanya Morgan track. Strange name for a rap group of men- pretty funny. I don’t even have the Metric album just love that track. Glad I don’t need the whole thing. What are some of your other hip hop favorites of the past few years? Most of the good stuff has gone back underground.