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Obligatory Top 10s of 2009

Obligatory Top 10s of 2009 December 21, 2009

Well, it’s the end of a decade and we’re wrapping up 2009 with a Top 10s post…just like everyone else…We rounded up the TSR staff and polled them for their Top 10s. See them (copied and pasted from a long e-mail thread) below:

Carrie Sloan:

Dirty Projectors- Bitte Orca
Animal Collective- MPP
Fever Ray- Fever Ray
Camera Obscura- My Maudlin Career
Tim Hecker- An Imaginary Country
Why?- Eskimo Snow
Ducktails- Landscapes
A Sunny Day in Glasglow- Ashes Grammar
Holiday Shores- Columbus’d… you know
Robert A.A> Lowe- Fazo IV: La Kvalito de Spequloj

Ben Tousley: 

1 Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
2 DM Stith – Heavy Ghost
3 The Clientele – Bonfires on the Heath
4 Cass McCombs – Catacombs
5 Real Estate – Real Estate / Reality EP
6 Odawas - The Blue Depths
7 Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion / Fall Be Kind EP
8 Broadcast – Broadcast & the Focus Group
9 Papercuts – You Can Have What You Want
10 Holiday Shores – Columbus’d the Whim

Dan Goshorn: 

top ten music kicks of the decade

10. Guns n Roses November Rains
9. Dinosaur Jrs
8. Public Enemy Vans
7. Pharrell Dunks
6. Jay-Z’s Supra Muska Skytop  from the “Umbrella” video 
5. Aaron Lacrate Vans
4. Osiris Beat-Its
3. Coachella Vandals
2. Kanye West Louis Vuitton Dons
1. ?uestlove x Nike 1 World Air Force 1 Gold Toe

Brian Kerr:

top eleven albums

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Holiday Shores - Columbus’d The Whim
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Dead Man’s Bones - S/T
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Candy Claws - In The Dream Of The Sea Life
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
Real Estate - S/T
Cass McCombs - Catacombs
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Bat For Lashes - Two Suns 

Zach Pollakoff: 

Top 10 Favorite Release of 2009

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Holiday Shores - Columbus’d The Whim
Real Estate - S/T
Girls - Album
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy 
That Ghost - Get It And Get Out EP
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion 
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
tUnE-yArDs - BiRd BrAiNs
Best Coast - Make You Mine 7”

Top 10 Favorite Songs from Releases that aren’t in My Top 10 Favorite Releases of 2009

Atlas Sound - ‘Walkabout (Feat. Noah Lennox)’
Grizzly Bear - ‘Two Weeks’ 
Animal Collective - ‘What Would I Want? Sky?’
Avi Buffalo - ‘What’s It In For?’
Rainbow Bridge - ‘Big Wave Rider’
Washed Out - ‘Feel It Around’
Glass Ghost - ‘Like a Diamond’
Fergus & Geronimo - ‘Blind Muslim Girl’
Jay-Z - ‘Empire State of Mind (Feat. Alicia Keyes)’
Candy Claws - ‘Catamaran’