My Favorite Albums/Songs of 2009.

So last night, I stayed up late trying to figure this out, but I think I've finally narrowed down my favorite albums of the year. This year was tough! There were some great albums that I didn't get a chance to check out but wanted to..... they include new ones from Camera Obscura, Julian Casablancas, Bob Dylan, Animal Collective, The Horrors, Tom Waits, Bat for Lashes, The Raveonettes, Franz Ferdinand, The Decemberists, David Rawlings, and Mission to Burma......... but here they are...... along with my favorite songs of the year.

My Top 13 Albums of 2009

#1. The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You

#2. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

#3. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic

#4. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast

#5. U2 - No Line on the Horizon

#6. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

#7. Girls - Album

#8. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

#9. Slaid Cleaves - Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away

#10. The Arctic Monkeys - Humbug

#11. Heartless Bastards - The Mountain

#12. The Cribs - Ignore the Ignorant

#13. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

My Favorite Tunes of 2009

Cornerstone - Arctic Monkeys

Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise - Avett Brothers

Laundry Room - Avett Brothers

40 Dogs - Bob Schneider

Leftovers - Jarvis Cocker

We Share the Same Skies - The Cribs

Heartbroken in Disrepair - Dan Auerbach

Stillness in the Move - Dirty Projectors

Knotty Pine - Dirty Projectors with David Byrne

Home - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Lust for Life - Girls

Pulling on a Line - Great Lake Swimmers

Fee Da Da Dee - The Guggenheim Grotto

The Mountain - Heartless Bastards

I'm Watching You - Jay Reatard

Dear God - Monsters of Folk

I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris - Morrissey

So Far Round the Bend - The National

People Got a Lotta Nerve - Neko Case

Teclar - Os Mutantes

To Kingdom Come - Passion Pit

The End - Pearl Jam

Cry - Slaid Cleaves

Magnificsent - U2

You Never Know - Wilco

Zero - the Yeah Yeah Yeahs