TOP TEN LP-TYPE EXPERIENCES for 2009

1. THE WOODEN BIRDS, Magnolia
2. WILCO, Wilco (The Album)
3. THE LONELY FOREST, We Sing The Body Electric!
4. DEPECHE MODE, Sounds Of The Universe
5. PARAMORE, Brand New Eyes
6. NOW NOW EVERY CHILDREN, Cars
7. THE TRAGICALLY HIP, We Are The Same
8. JULIE DOIRON, I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
9. THE DECEMBERISTS, The Hazards Of Love
10. METRIC, Fantasies

TOP TEN LP-TYPE EXPERIENCES for THE DECADE, 2000 - 2009

1. GILLIAN WELCH, Time (The Revelator)
2. EMILY HAINES AND THE SOFT SKELETON, Knives Don't Have Your Back
3. LAURA VEIRS, Carbon Glacier
4. DESTROYER, This Night
5. TED LEO + PHARMACISTS, Shake The Sheets
6. OUTKAST, Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
7. JOHN VANDERSLICE, Pixel Revolt
8. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, Sound Of Silver
9. JOY DIVISION, Unknown Pleasures reissue + 13 July 1979
10. DESTROYER, Destroyer's Rubies

2009 List

1. Getting hitched to the best girl in the world.
2. Seeing old friends at Ben's wedding.
3. Attending my first professional soccer game (Sounders v. Clesea)
4. Death Cab show in Bellingham where Ben dedicated "I Will Follow..." to me and Josh (I always *knew* that song was about me).
5. Roderick holding court while scarfing hot dogs at the Barsuk BBQ
6. Seeing Sonic Youth for the first time since 1994.
7. My Bloody Valentine show which caused my right ear to ring for two weeks.
8. Seeing John Vanderslice's face on the jumbotron at Sasquatch.
9. Discovering music by Telekinesis, Grizzly Bear, Grooms, Cymbals Eat Guitars, A Place to Bury Strangers, Pains Being Pure at Heart, St. Vincent.
10. Excellent records by long-time favorites Jason Lytle, John Vanderslice, Dave Bazan, Polvo, Lou Barlow, Califone, Flaming Lips, Mount Eerie.

year end list 2009 for my friendly neighborhood (if i lived in seattle) record label.

• telekinesis
• arthur russell
• school of seven bells
• the soft pack
• 70's songs i'd forgotten about because maybe i only heard them a couple of times. things like chicago, does anybody know what time it is?, not all amazing, but great as time travel.
• biz markie
• scarce coming back
• patton oswalt
• television

Top List for 2009

• YEAR END LISTS ARE THE DEATH OF CULTURE!

• BEST LIVE SHOW: Ramona Falls at the Crocodile
• BLOODIEST MOMENT: When Luna broke open the stitches on her ear by shaking her head, splattering blood all over the carpet and walls, and then ran from me as I tried to stop the bleeding, leaving a trail of blood throughout my house.
• FAVORITE NEW FOOD DISCOVERY: Persimmons
• FAVORITE NEW MEAL TO COOK: Quinoa Cakes w/Eggplant-Tomato Ragu
• FAVORITE 2009 MOVIE: Watchmen
(also LOVE-LOVE-LOVED "Man on Wire" and "Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog", but both of those came out in 2008)
• FAVORITE 2009 TV SHOW: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
• FAVORITE TV SHOW I DISCOVERED IN 2009: Two Fat Ladies
• BEST THING I DID: Incorporated into my life a new attitude towards food + exercise (and lost 25+ lbs)
• NO, REALLY, THE BEST THING I DID: Helicopter ride over Maui
• SERIOUSLY, THE BEST THING I DID: Rescue Henri, a 9-year-old German shepherd/chow chow (a dog I used to live with several years ago), from the animal shelter where he was very close to being euthanized

Top 10 of 2009

• Reigning Sound – Love and Curses
• David Bazan – Curse Your Branches
• Richard Swift – The Atlantic Ocean
• Dan Auerbach – Keep It Hid
• Lucero – 1372 Overton Park
• Heartless Bastards – The Mountain
• Greg Cartwright – Live at The Circle A
• Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
• The Love Language – S/T
• Obits – I Blame You

erika's best of 2009

• getting married to jackson justice long.
• boat - setting the paces
• telekinesis - telekinesis!
• tegan and sara - sainthood
• neko case - middle cyclone
• land of talk - some are lakes (2008, whatever, i love it)
• shook ones - the unquotable a.m.h.
• bat for lashes - two suns
• pearl jam - backspacer
• kings of convenience - declaration of dependence

Andrew Kenny's top 9 number 1s of 2009

• Favorite album of 2009: Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
• Favorite new club we played this year: The Bottletree in Birmingham, AL.
• Best wife still married to her husband after 5 months of touring out of the last 8: my wife.
• Favorite single with accompanying video: "In The Na" by Hidden Cameras
• Absolute number one scented lotion for 2009: Coconut.. don't call it a comeback.
• Favorite film of 2009: Moon staring Sam Rockwell
• My favorite new shoes of 2009: Brown/tan Adidas. You can dress them up, you can wear them out. They hide dirt.
• Favorite EP of 2009: Fun and Laughter Land of Talk
• Favorite new microphone: Beyer M69

Items of Enjoyment from the year 2009 A.D. (excluding Barsuk related stuff):

MUSICS:

• Phoenix / Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
• The Dutchess & The Duke / Sunset / Sunrise
• Cass McCombs / Catacombs
• The Flaming Lips / Embryonic
• Cymbals Eat Guitars / Why There Are Mountains
• Thee Oh Sees / Help

READS:

• Absolute Death (by Neil Gaiman)
• All-Star Superman (by Grant Morrison)
• Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973 (by Robert Dallek)
• Shakey: Neil Young's Biography (by Jimmy McDonough)
• Politico.com
• FiveThirtyEight.com

OTHERS:

• "The Nutcracker Suite" (http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/the_sporting_blog/entry/view/32723/ken_griffey_jr._is_cold_blooded)
• CLIFF LEE!!!!!!!!!
• The good folks of Crate & Barrel, who make nice furniture at an affordable price for the everyday person
• Yahama PM-1000
• Beatles Rock Band
• Townhouse Life
• Knee High Stocking Co.