Best Albums of 2009 (AKA getting older)

Ok this year is moist diffiult than ever…as one of my latest status updates made it clear few days ago:

“You realize you’re getting old when you discover that you’ve listen just 1/5 of the top 50 album of the year published by pitchfork.com”.

So this year is the worst ever: I haven listen to very few records this year (for my standards at least)

Anyway things are how they are so .. no worries..

So I’ve tried to spend 1o minutes thinking about without looking at my iTunes or iPhone… and that’s my pick:

Best Album of 2009

1) Decemberists: Hazards of Love [X]

2) Andrew Bird: Noble Beasts [X]

3) Sunset Rubdown: Dragonslayer

4) Handsome Furs: Face control

5) Ra Ra Riot: The Rhumb Lime [X]

[X] Artist I’ve seen live in 2009

But I think that in the end the best albums are the one you’ve listen the most .. and here’s the iTunes on the rescue:

Most Played Albums of 2009:

1) All New Adventures of Us: Best Loved Goodnight Tales (album technically of 2008 so if it was 2009 it would have been my number 1)

2) Andrew Bird: Noble Beasts (2009)

3) The Decemberists: The Hazards of Love (2009)

4) Ra Ra Riot: The Rhumb Lime [X] (2009)

5) Shout out Louds: OUr ill Wills (2007)

Best Compilation of the Year:

- Dark was the Night

Honorable mention for:

- Patrick Wolf: The Bachelor

- Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest (this album contains few masterpieces one above all: “While you wait for the others.)

- Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Pains of Being Pure at Heart

- Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Best Albums from the past (I actually bought them again from iTunes)

1) Black Crows : Greatest hits 1990-1999

2) Church: Starfish

3) Peter Murphy: Deep