Below you can see our top 10 lists for 2009. Feel free to comment on them and even leave your own lists to share.
Ben Minsky
- A Day To Remember – Homesick
- The Dangerous Summer – Reach For The Sun
- New Found Glory – Not Without A Fight
- John Mayer – Battle Studies
- Every Time I Die – New Junk Aesthetic
- Set Your Goals – This Will Be The Death Of Us
- Jay- Z – The Blueprint 3
- Saosin – In Search Of Solid Ground
- Taking Back Sunday – New Again
- The Devil Wears Prada – With Roots Above And Branches Below
Favorite Band of 2009: The Dangerous Summer
Bryce Jacobson
- Say Anything – Say Anything
- The Dangerous Summer – Reach For The Sun
- Owl City – Ocean Eyes
- The Fold – Dear Future, Come Get Me
- Set Your Goals – This Will Be The Death Of Us
- Sherwood – QU
- Skillet – Awake
- New Found Glory – Not Without A Fight
- Twin Atlantic – Vivarium
- Tegan & Sara – Sainthood
Favorite Band of 2009: The Dangerous Summer
Favorite Song of 2009: Say Anything – “Do Better”
Manual Garcia
- “Veckatimest” by Grizzly Bear
- “The BQE” by Sufjan Stevens
- “Two Suns” by Bat for Lashes
- “Noble Beast” by Andrew Bird
- “Beggars” by Thrice
- “Popular Songs” by Yo La Tengo
- “The Ecstatic” by Mos Def
- “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix” by Phoenix
- “It’s Blitz” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- “Hold Time” by M. Ward
You have put some brilliant records on your list, but only one of them made my top ten. It is always hard to choose 10 when you find yourself picking from a pile of about a hundred good records, not to mention hundreds and hundreds of songs, so I have left out many equally good ones. This was a good year for metalcore/post-hardcore and screamo and there were several bands that I wanted to put on the list such as We Came As Romans, A Day To Remeber, August Burns Red, The Devil Wears Prada and Killswitch Engage, but I chose to leave them out and focus on the more mainstream rock just to narrow the pile a bit.
Top ten albums:
01. The Red Jumpsuite Apparatus – Long Road
02. Making April – Egg Hunt
03. Biffy Clyro – Only revolutions
04. 30 Seconds To Mars – This Is war
05. Paramore – Brand New Eyes
06. Nural – Entitlement
07. The Audition – Self Titled Album
08. Taking Back Sunday – New Again
09. Marianas Trench – Masterpiece Theatre
10. Mayday Parade – Anywhere But Here
Top ten songs:
01 Angels & Airwaves – Hallucinations
02 30 Seconds To Mars – Kings and queens
03 Halestorm – Bet u wish you had me back
04 Orianthi – According to you
05 Marianas Trench – Masterpiece theatre pt 1
06 Meg & Dia – Fighting for nothing
07 Cartel – Retrograde
08 Sick Puppies – That time of year
09 Biffy Clyro – Many of horror
10 Saosin – What we were made for