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This years list has to work without any special order - so I choose the alphabet.
Also this year was focused on songs for me. As a lot of those are not included on the best albums, they need a special list.

The best songs from 2009

Vic Chesnutt - Coward
Swan Lake - Spanish Gold, 2044
must have been tokyo - Streetkids
Bat for Lashes - Glass
Elvis Perkins in Dearland - Shampoo
Ghost of Tom Joad - Into the Wild
Noisettes - Every Now And Then
Major Lazer - Hold The Line
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Kisses Over Babylon
Frank Turner - The Road
Ja, Panik - Pardon
Bruce Springsteen - Outlaw Pete

And here they are: The best albums from 2009.

Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time
Brings back memories of the 80s when I was listening to Green on Red, The Dream Syndicate, Giant Sand and all those Arizona Bands.
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Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
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Already 5% of 2010 has passed, so it's time now to list the most interesting, most played or simply most disturbing albums of 2009, no guarantee for completeness, taste or quality of course :-)

Platinum
The most perfect albums of this year...

Commercial Friendly - Subnormal
The one single album this year, that led to a simple chain of events: listen once, search the internet, buy the record, listen to it the whole day...

Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Seen live Porcupine Tree at Palladium, Cologne

dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
Seen live dredg at Zeche Bochum


Gold
Almost as good, but just not "the best of 2009":

Ghost of Tom Joad - Matterhorn

Steven Wilson - Insurgentes

The Gossip - Music For Men


Silver
In heavy rotation for the whole year, hopefully (but not mandatory ) a sign for quality :-)

Metric - Fantasies

The Mars Volta - Octahedron
Seen live The Mars Volta at Stahlwerk Düsseldorf

Crippled Black Phoenix - The Resurrectionists / Night Raider
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Die vier schwedischen post-grunge-indie Miesepeter von "Sounds Like Violence" liefern mit ihrem zweiten longplayer "The Devil On Nobel Street" eine hübsche Portion gepressten Weltschmerz ab.

Ihr letztes Album "With Blood On My Hands", war eine Ode an das Scheitern. Ein betrunkener Anruf bei der Ex. Ein letztes Lachen in einer verlorenen Schlacht.

Zwei Jahre später: Nichts hat sich geändert. Die Welt ist immer noch schlecht. Beziehung. Freunde. Gesellschaft. Es geht im großer Maßstab den Bach runter. Ihren jugendlichen Hass haben die Schweden aber abgelegt und nutzen nun ihre Erfahrung und Reife um den Schmerz in kunstvollere Formen gießen zu können.

Die eingängigen Riffs bekommen Gesellschaft von background Chören und Streicher-Arrangements. Der Sound ist insgesamt gewachsen, größer geworden. Es werden neue Klangräume aufgestoßen. Überalldem thront der klagende Gesang von Andreas Söderlund, der einfach aus Prinzip keine gute Laune hat.

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Monthly Top Artists

May-2007
Linkin Park (17 plays)
Jul-2007
Fall Out Boy (27 plays)
Aug-2007
Say Anything (123 plays)
Sep-2007
Yellowcard (147 plays)
Oct-2007
Say Anything (231 plays)
Nov-2007
Die Ärzte (194 plays)
Dec-2007
Rooney (114 plays)
Jan-2008
Nada Surf (74 plays)
Feb-2008
Paramore (60 plays)
Mar-2008
Panic at the Disco (80 plays)
Apr-2008
We Are Scientists (70 plays)
May-2008
Death Cab for Cutie (147 plays)
Jun-2008
Clueso (184 plays)
Jul-2008
Weezer (256 plays)
Aug-2008
Bloc Party (260 plays)
Sep-2008
Anberlin (115 plays)
Oct-2008
Tomte (142 plays)
Nov-2008
The Killers (213 plays)
Dec-2008
Fall Out Boy (158 plays)
Jan-2009
Coldplay (55 plays)
Feb-2009
Two Tongues (151 plays)
Mar-2009
The Fray (111 plays)
Apr-2009
Muff Potter (374 plays)
May-2009
Green Day (162 plays)
Jun-2009
Enter Shikari (336 plays)
Jul-2009
Bayside (163 plays)
Aug-2009
Olli Schulz & der Hund Marie (169 plays)
Sep-2009
Say Anything (64 plays)
Oct-2009
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A Day to Remember x2
A Wilhelm Scream
Alexisonfire
All Bright
All Time Low
anti flag
Arcade Fire
Architects
Arctic Monkeys
Attack! Attack!
Azriel x2
back down x11
Band of Skulls
Bayside
Beat the Red Light
Biffy Clyro
blink-182
Bring Me the Horizon x2
Broadway Calls
Broken Teeth
Chickenhawk
Cold Hearts x5
Colour
Cosmo Jarvis
Cypress Hill
Data. Select. Party.
Dead Swans x2
Deez Nuts
Dissolved In
Dizzee Rascal
Enter Shikari
Embrace Destruction
Failsafe x2
Fightstar
Fireworks x3
Francesqa x4
Four Year Strong x3
Fucked Up
Futures
Gallows x4
Gogol Bordello
Green Day
Gym Class Heroes
Hang the Bastard x2
Hearts Of Gold x3
Isolated
Kill The Arcade
Legions
Lionheart
Lower Than Atlantis
Mariachi el Bronx
Maximo Park
Me vs Hero
MC Lars
More Than Life
Motion City Soundtrack
Mumford & Sons
Municipal Waste
New Found Glory x2
No Direction
No Longer Bandits
No Second Chance
NOFX x2
Out of Sight x2
Paint It Black
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In no order

blink-182 x2
Green Day
Jay-Z
Gallows x6
Set Your Goals x9
Fucked Up
SSS
Paramore x2
Alkaline Trio x3
Plain White T's x2
Cobra Starship
Finch
My American Heart
All Time Low x2
The Audition
Chiodos
Broadway Calls x3
Meg & Dia
Mayday Parade
MC Lars
Bring Me the Horizon x3
The Secret Handshake
Deez Nuts x2
Dead Swans x2
New Found Glory x6
Four Year Strong x4
Crime In Stereo x2
Gym Class Heroes
Professor Green
Cosmo Jarvis
Tonight Is Goodbye x4
Malefice
You Me at Six x4
OMD
Lovers Electric
Undercut
Lights & Sounds
Out of Sightx3
Through & Throughout
Kill The Arcade
The Strategy
Swallow your pride
Your Demise x2
More Than Life x2
Lower Than Atlantis x3
Hang the Bastard
Something To Live For!
You Had Me At Hello
Sounds Like Violence
The Ghost of a Thousand x3
Every Time I Die
Death Can Dance
Young Guns x2
She Laid To Rest
Hollow
Climbsyke
Attack! Attack!
Bayside
Random Conflict
back down x2
Wolf Am I
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себе на память (из зарубежного/имеющего значение)

Linkin Park
Korn
Apocalyptica х2
Disturbed
Slipknot x2
Deftones х3
Guano Apes х3
Placebo х3,5
Kaiser Chiefs
Lacuna Coil
Staind
Chris Cornell
Loaded
Arctic Monkeys
The Offspring x2
Klaxons
The Ting Tings
Sounds Like Violence
Eagles of Death Metal
Less Than Jake
Anti-Flag
Snow Patrol
Razorlight
Flyleaf
Deathstars
Peter Bjorn and John
Iggy Pop
Europe
Corey Taylor
Papa Roach
Rammstein
And So I Watch You From Afar x2
Limp Bizkit x2
Sum 41
Skindred x2
The Kooks
Interpol
Roger Waters
Ringo Starr
James Blunt
Gogol Bordello
Paul McCartney
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Evanescence
Soundgarden
Mastodon
Metallica x0.5

Beginning from late November, 2008.
(left out local/unknown bands)

1349
30 Seconds to Mars
36 Crazyfists

Adept
After The Burial
Alesana x3
Alexisonfire
Alice Cooper
All That Remains
All Time Low
Amon Amarth
Apocalyptica
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
Arch Enemy
Architects x2
As Blood Runs Black
As I Lay Dying x2
Asking Alexandria x2
At Dawn We Rage
At The Skylines
Atreyu
Attila x2
August Burns Red x2

Beast War Returns
Beyond All Recognition
Bleed From Within
Bleeding Through x2
blessthefall x2
Bon Scott
Bring Me the Horizon x3
Broilers
The Browning
Bullet for My Valentine x2
Buried In Verona
Bury Tomorrow x2

Caliban x4
Callejón x2
Cannibal Corpse
Canterbury
Carpark North
Casper
Chelsea Grin x2

A Day to Remember
Deaf Havana
Deez Nuts x2
Despised Icon
Devil In Me
The Devil Wears Prada x2
Dew-Scented

Emarosa
Emmure x3
Escape the Fate
Eyes Set to Kill x2

The Faceless
For The Fallen Dreams
Funeral for a Friend

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