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Dylan's Top 10 Albums of 2009

10. Who Are You Now?- This Providence
9. Dark Night Of The Soul- Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse
8. Horehound- The Dead Weather
7. Manners- Passion Pit
6. Love the Future- Chester French
5. Lungs- Florence + The Machine
4. The Resistance- Muse
3. The Spirit of Apollo- N.A.S.A.
2. Changing Horses- Ben Kweller
1. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix- Phoenix



Honorable mentions (ALBUMS):

"It's Blitz!"-Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"Homesick"-A Day to Remember
"Brand New Eyes"-Paramore
"Mariachi El Bronx"-The Bronx
"The E.N.D"-Black Eyed Peas
"Big Whiskey & The Groogrux King"-Dave Matthews Band
"My Maudlin Career"-Camera Obscura
"Rules"-Whitest Boy Alive
"Kingdom Of Rust"-Doves
"Aim and Ignite"-fun.
"The Blueprint 3"-Jay-Z
"Davy"-Coconut Records
"Far"-Regina Spektor

Top 15 singles of 2009

15. You Belong With Me- Taylor Swift
14. Help I'm Alive- Metric
13. Kingdom Of Rust- Doves
12. Weightless- All Time Low
11. Make Her Say- Kid Cudi (feat. Kanye West)
10. Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)- Beyoncé
9. 1901-Phoenix
8. You Found Me- The Fray
7. Waking Up In Vegas- Katy Perry
6. Boom Boom Pow- Black Eyed Peas
5. Use Somebody- Kings of Leon
4. Empire State of Mind- Jay-Z (feat. Alicia Keys)
3. I'm On A Boat- The Lonely Island
2. Uprising- Muse
1. Love Story-Taylor Swift

Honorable mentions (SINGLES):

~(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To-Weezer
~Little Bribes- Death Cab for Cutie
~Sooner or Later-NERD
~The Fear-Lily Allen
~The Show-Lenka
~We Are Golden-Mika
~Oscar Wilde-Company of Thieves
~Fireflies- Owl City
~Lifeline-Papa Roach
~Say Hey (I Love You)-Michael Franti & Spearhead
~Fairytale-Alexander Rybak
~I Gotta Feeling-Black Eyed Peas

Also, I would like to announce my utter love for Michael Giacchino's soundtrack to the exquisite Pixar film Up. If I felt that it was a valid contender for top album(s), it would surely be in my top 10. Here's to it winning a couple of Grammy's and the Academy Award!

In alpha order so I don't have to mess with it much when I update.

Commentary: The big winners don't surprise me at all. There are a few surprises that are on the list all together. Some how low they are, and some that are simply just counted. A few days of listening of things from my past are in here. :)

Last Update: December 8, 2009.

Amanda Palmer 4
Andrew Bird 2
Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire 1
Andrew Lloyd Webber 1
Animal Collective 1
Au Revoir Simone 1
Band of Horses 2
Belle and Sebastian 2
Ben Folds 16
Ben Folds Five 16
Ben Kweller 1
Ben Lee 2
Big Bang Boom 1
Billy Joel 1
Bishop Allen 3
Blitzen Trapper 1
Bloc Party 1
Bon Iver 1
Breaking Benjamin 1
Built to Spill 4
Cake 1
Claude-Michel Schonberg 1
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone 1
Cloud Cult 3
Colin Meloy 1
Corn Mo 1
DeYarmond Edison 1
Eef Barzelay 3
Eels 4
Eisley 1
Elliott Smith 10
Elton John 1
Green Day 1
Gomez 3
Hotel Lights 7
Immaculate Machine 1
International Orange 2
Jeff Buckley 1
Jenny Owen Youngs 1
Jukebox the Ghost 5
Kate Miller-Heidke 1
Kevin Devine 8
Manchester Orchestra 1
Maria Taylor 1
Mates of State 1
Menomena 1
Modest Mouse 1
Mitch Hedberg 1
Mute Math 1
My Morning Jacket 1
of Montreal 5
Oh No Oh My 1
Okkervil River 1
OK Go 1
Passion Pit 1
Radiohead 1
Regina Spektor 2
Rilo Kiley 3
Shout Out Louds 2
Sigur Ros 1
Snuzz 5
Squirrel Nut Zippers 1
Stars 1
Steven Curtis Chapman 1
Sufjan Stevens 2
Tapes 'n Tapes 1
The Avett Brothers 5
The Beatles 3
The Decemberists 1
The Dresden Dolls 4
The Flaming Lips 2
The Good Life 1
The Honorary Title 1
The Mountain Goats 3
The New Pornographers 2
The Old Ceremony 1
The Polyphonic Spree 4
They Might Be Giants 1
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists 1
William Fitzsimmons 1

1. M. Ward - Hold Time (335 scrobbles)



2. Ben Harper and Relentless 7 - White Lies For Dark Times (331)



3. Ben Kweller - Changing Horses (190)



4. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast (184)



5. Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Outer South (179)




6. Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement (158)



7. Jacob Golden - Revenge Songs (136)



8. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion (129)



9. Teddy Thompson - A Piece Of What You Need (125)



10. Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk (119)

-----------Top 20-----------
Animal Collective ~ Merriweather Post Pavillion
The Antlers ~ Hospice
Fever Ray ~ Fever Ray
Patrick Wolf ~ The Bachelor
Memory Tapes ~ Seek Magic
Phoenix ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Grizzly Bear ~ Veckatimest
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit ~ S/T
Fanfarlo ~ Reservoir
Animal Collective ~ Fall Be Kind [EP]

The xx ~ The xx
Atlas Sound ~ Logos
St. Vincent ~ Actor
Passion Pit ~ Manners
Neko Case ~ Middle Cyclone
Nomo ~ Invisible Cities
Umphreys McGee ~ Mantis
Flaming Lips ~ Embryonic
Yeah Yeah Yeahs ~ It's Blitz!
Magnolia Electric Co. ~ Josephine

-----------Excellent-----------
Cymbals Eat Guitars ~ Why are There Mountains
Dinosaur Jr. ~ Farm
A.A. Bondy ~ When the Devil is Loose
Manchester Orchestra ~ Mean Everything to Nothing
Local Natives ~ Gorilla Manor
Tegan & Sara ~ Sainthood
Neon Indian ~ Psychic Chasms
jim o' rourke ~ The Visitor
Mars Volta ~ Octahedron
Dirty Projectors ~ Bitte Orca
Bat for Lashes ~ Two Suns

Washed out ~ Life of Leisure [EP]
Sufjan Stevens ~ BQE
Hercules & Love Affair ~ Sidetracked
Pains of Being Pure at Heart ~ Higher than the Stars [EP]
Marissa Nadler ~ Little Hells
Bibio ~ Ambivalence Avenue
Toro y Moi ~ My Touch
Julian Casablancas ~ Phrazes for the Young
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart ~ S/T
Avett Brothers ~ I and Love and You
Mos Def ~ The Ecstatic

Built to Spill ~ There is No Enemy
Sunset Rubdown ~ Dragonslayer
maudlin of the Well ~ Part the Second
Discovery ~ LP
Beirut ~ March of the Zapotec [EP]
Tortoise ~ Beacons of Ancerstorship
Akron/Family ~ Set Em' Wild, Set Em' Free
Woods ~ Songs of Shame
The Decemberists ~ The Hazards of Love
Andrew Bird ~ Noble Beast
Tim Hecker ~ Imaginary Country

-----------Good-----------
Dan Deacon ~ Bromst
Islands ~ Vaupors
The Wooden Sky ~ If I Don't Come Home, You'll Know I'm Gone
Kid Cudi ~ Man on the Moon: End of Days
Girls ~ Girls
JJ ~ no. 1
Muse ~ The Resistance
Osso ~ Run Rabbit Run
Monsters of Folk ~ Monsters of Folk

Miike Snow ~ Miike Snow
Junior Boys ~ Begone Dull Care
Antony & The Johnsons ~ The Crying Light
Bon Iver ~ Blood Bank [EP]
fun. ~ Aim & Ignite
The Real People ~ Holland [EP]
Modest Mouse ~ No One's First and You're Next [EP]
Handsome Furs ~ Face Control
Polvo ~ In Prism
Volcano Choir ~ Unmap
Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson ~ Break Up

Sonic Youth ~ The Eternal
A.C. Newman ~ Get Guilty
Dead Weather ~ Horehound

-----------Meh-----------
John Mayer ~ Battle Studies
State Radio ~ Let it Go
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears ~ Tell Em' What Your Name Is!
Karen O and the Kids ~ Where the Wild Things Are
Röyksopp ~ Junior
Real Estate ~ Real Estate
Mastodon ~ Cracke the Skye
Hudson Mohawke ~ Polyfolk Dance [EP]
Ben Kweller ~ Changing Horses
Dave Matthews Band ~ Big Whiskey & The Groogrux King
Andrew Bird ~ Fitz and Dizzyspells [EP]

Platinum Pied Pipers ~ Abundance
God Help The Girl ~ Stills [EP]
Imogen Heap ~ Elipse
Brand New ~ Daisy
M. Ward ~ Hold Time
The Whitest Boy Alive ~ Rules
Zu ~ Carboniferous
Yuksek ~ Away from the Sea
Hudson Mohawke ~ Butter
Dragonette ~ Fixin to Thrill

-----------Pretty Bad/Horrible-----------

MSTRKRFT ~ Fist of God
Telepathe ~ Dance Mother
Amy Milan ~ Masters of the Burial
Wilco ~ Wilco (The Album)
IAMX ~ Kingdom of Welcome Addiction
Pete Yorn ~ Back and Forth
The Dodos ~ Time to Die
Audrye Sessions ~ Audrye Sessions
Great Lake Swimmers ~ Lost Channels
Vetiver ~ Tight Knit

Silversun Pickups ~ Swoon
Deerhunter ~ Rainwater Cassette Exchange [EP]
Lotus Plaza ~ Floodlight Collective
Japandroids ~ Post-Nothing
Swan Lake ~Enemy Mine
Conor Oberst ~ Outer South
Paper Route ~ Absence
The Bird and the Bee ~ Ray Guns are not the Future
Dent May ~ The Good Feeling Music of Dent May
N.A.S.A. ~ Spirit of Apollo

Bruce Springsteen ~ Working on a Dream
Iran ~Dissolver
Wavves ~ Wavves (soooo baddddd. epically bad)

'First, make a list of your overall top-20 artists. Then, for each of these artists, add the 9 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, add up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 200 represents an extremely varied one.'

1. Arctic Monkeys
2. Cobra Starship
3. Bloc Party
4. Van She
5. The Dust Brothers
6. Tom Snow, Dean Pitchford, Catherine Cox & Jeremy Kushnier
7. Architecture in Helsinki
8. Beck
9. Lisa Mitchell
10. The Presets
11. Vampire Weekend
12. Katy Perry
13. Owl City
14. Lady GaGa
15. blink-182
16. Ben Lee
17. 3OH!3
18. MGMT
19. Wicked
20. Millionaires

21. The Last Shadow Puppets
22. The Rascals
23. The Strokes
24. The Kooks
25. Milburn
26. Franz Ferdinand
27. Kasabian
28. The Libertines
29. The Fratellis

30. The Academy Is...
31. All Time Low
32. The Cab
33. Panic at the Disco
34. Fall Out Boy
35. Midtown
36. Boys Like Girls
37. Forever the Sickest Kids
38. Hey Monday

39. Foals
40. Editors
41. Pin Me Down
42. The Maccabees
43. The Cribs
44. Maximo Park
45. We Are Scientists
46. The Rakes
47. Arctic Monkeys repeat

48. Pnau
49. Grafton Primary
50. Cut Copy
51. Midnight Juggernauts
52. The Presets repeat
53. Bag Raiders
54. Miami Horror
55. The Whip
56. The Black Ghosts

57. David Holmes
58. Clint Mansell
59. Rob Dougan
60. Don Davis
61. Eric Serra
62. UNKLE
63. Ramin Djawadi
64. Massive Attack
65. Tomandandy

66. Sutton Foster
67. Company
68. Original Cast
69. Original Cast Recording
70. Janine LaManna
71. Original Broadway Cast
72. Adam Pascal
73. Jason Robert Brown
74. New Broadway Cast

75. I'm From Barcelona
76. of Montreal
77. Los Campesinos!
78. Tilly and the Wall
79. The Boy Least Likely To
80. Stars
81. The Unicorns
82. Islands
83. Belle and Sebastian

84. The Flaming Lips
85. The White Stripes
86. Radiohead
87. Cake
88. Blur
89. Gorillaz
90. Pixies
91. Eels
92. Sonic Youth

93. Sarah Blasko
94. Paul Dempsey
95. Bertie Blackman
96. Kate Miller-Heidke
97. Josh Pyke
98. Yves Klein Blue
99. Art vs. Science
100. Angus & Julia Stone
101. Little Birdy

102. Pnau repeat
103. Midnight Juggernauts repeat
104. Grafton Primary repeat
105. Van She repeat
106. Cut Copy repeat
107. Muscles
108. Bag Raiders repeat
109. The Whip repeat
110. Riot in Belgium

111. Ra Ra Riot
112. Discovery
113. The Shins
114. Band of Horses
115. Passion Pit
116. Fleet Foxes
117. MGMT repeat
118. Black Kids
119. The Strokes repeat

120. Lady GaGa repeat
121. Kelly Clarkson
122. Ashlee Simpson
123. The Veronicas
124. Ashley Tisdale
125. Lindsay Lohan
126. Miley Cyrus
127. Britney Spears
128. Lily Allen

129. Swimming With Dolphins
130. Lights
131. A Rocket To The Moon
132. Breathe Carolina
133. nevershoutnever!
134. The Secret Handshake
135. Breathe Electric
136. PlayRadioPlay!
137. Hellogoodbye

138. Britney Spears repeat
139. The Pussycat Dolls
140. Space Cowboy
141. Ashley Tisdale repeat
142. Katy Perry repeat
143. Ke$ha
144. Little Boots
145. Madonna
146. Pixie Lott

147. Box Car Racer
148. +44
149. Angels & Airwaves
150. Sum 41
151. New Found Glory
152. Bowling for Soup
153. Zebrahead
154. MxPx
155. Yellowcard

156. The Bens
157. Ben Kweller
158. Alex Lloyd
159. Matt Nathanson
160. Bernard Fanning
161. Josh Pyke repeat
162. Bob Evans
163. The Whitlams
164. Ben Folds

165. Breathe Carolina repeat
166. Family Force 5
167. LMFAO
168. Brokencyde
169. Metro Station
170. The Medic Droid
171. Hyper Crush
172. A Rocket To The Moon repeat
173. Cash Cash

174. The Management
175. Klaxons
176. Vampire Weekend repeat
177. Passion Pit repeat
178. Black Kids repeat
179. The Kooks repeat
180. Empire of the Sun
181. Late of the Pier
182. Friendly Fires

183. Jonathan Larson
184. Robert Lopex and Jeff Marx
185. Idina Menzel
186. Hairspray
187. spring awakening
188. Kerry Ellis
189. Les Miserables
190. Kristin Chenoweth
191. Aida

192. Jeffree Star
193. Blood On The Dance Floor
194. Ultraviolet Sound
195. The Medic Droid
196. Scotty Vanity
197. gEOFFREY pARIS
198. Electric Valentine
199. Hyper Crush
200. Porcelain and the Tramps

170/200 are varied.
85%.

I listen to a wide variety.

farrasiname's top albums (12 months)
1. Ben Folds - Ben Folds Live (566) 2. Kings of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street (381) 3. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (376) 4. Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner (371) 5. The Good Life - Album of the Year Disc 1 (343) 6. Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information (293) 7. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Armed Forces (288) 8. The Killers - Day and Age (276) 9. Ben Kweller - Changing Horses (275) 10. The Replacements - Let It Be (265)

Concerts prior to 2006

March 29, 2006 - 30 Seconds to Mars, Dozen Dead Roses, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, and Aiden
March 31, 2006 - 30 Seconds to Mars, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, and Aiden
April 7, 2006 - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and The Brunettes
May 16, 2006 - HIM and Aiden
June 10, 2006 - Tilly and the Wall w/ David Dondero and Dabenport
June 18, 2006 - 89x 15th Birthday Bash: Neverending White Lights, Kill Hannah, Bedford Drive, Say Anything, Thousand Foot Krutch, Bedouin Soundclash, Love Arcade, We Are Scientists, Mindless Self Indulgence, Hawthorne Heights, The Stills, Dashboard Confessional, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and AFI
June 19, 2006 - CKY w/ Backwoods Payback, The Knives, and The Autumn Offering
July 8, 2006 - Electric Six, The Muggs, and Priestess
July 18th, 2006 - Puffy AmiYumi and Tally Hall
July 29, 2006 - Warped Tour: Hellogoodbye, The Academy Is..., Billy Talent, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Gym Class Heroes, Greeley Estates, and Aiden
August 4-6, 2006 - Lollapalooza: Blue October, Aqualung, Cursive, Panic! At the Disco, Editors, Mates of State, Lady Sovereign, Iron & Wine, The Raconteurs, Violent Femmes, Death Cab for Cutie, Nada Surf, The Go! Team, Coheed and Cambria, Wolfmother, Gnarls Barkley, The Dresden Dolls, Common, The New Pornographers, Kanye West, The Redwalls, The Frames, Nickel Creek, Hot Chip, Ben Kweller, 30 Seconds to Mars, Matisyahu, She Wants Revenge, Queens of the Stone Age, Broken Social Scene, and Red Hot Chili Peppers