Saskatchewan Plates

It’s the very last day of 2009 making it the last possible moment for me to publish my music picks from both the last year and the last decade. I had planned fancy descriptions for all of these, but time constraints as a result of excessive holiday celebration have tied my hands. Thus I present four categories of musical picks: Top New Albums of 2009, Top New (to me) Albums of 2009, Top Singles of 2009, and the Top 40 albums of the decade. There’s probably a couple of questionable picks on the decade list as a result of me including a few albums that, while I don’t particularly love now, were fairly instrumental in my musical upbringing through the highschool years. You’ll know them when you see them.

Without further ehdo:

Top New Albums of 2009

1. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2. Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
3. Vitalic – Flashmob
4. The Rural Alberta Advantage – Hometowns
5. Burial/Four Tet – “Moth / “Wolf Cub”

Top New (to me) Albums of 2009

1. Fujiya & Myagi – Transparent Things/Lightbulbs
2. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colors
3. Yogoman Burning Band – Yogoman Burning Band
4. Paramore – Riot
5. Lovage – Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady to

Top New (to me) Singles of 2009

1. Das Racist – Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (Wall Paper Remix)
2. Friendly Fires – Skeleton Boy
3. Ohbijou – Black Ice
4. Jay-Z – Empire State of Mind
5. Miley Cyrus & Nortorious BIG – Party and Bullshit in the USA

Top 40 Albums of the Decade

1. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
2. Justice – Cross
3. Stars – Set Yourself On Fire
4. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot it in People
5. !!! – Louden Up Now
6. Death Cab For Cutie – Transatlanticism
7. LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem
8. Mark Ronson – Version
9. Deltron – Deltron 3030
10. The Streets – Original Pirate Material
11. The Postal Service – Give Up
12. The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
13. Cadeaux – Physical City
14. Radiohead – In Rainbows
15. Daft Punk – Discovery
16. Jamiroquai – A Funk Odyssey
17. Zero 7 – Simple Things/When It Falls
18. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Yanqui U.X.O.
19. The Rapture – Pieces Of The People We Love
20. Corb Lund – Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer
21. Manitoba/Caribou – Up In Flames/The Milk of Human Kindness
22. Shout Out Out Out Out – Not Saying Just Saying
23. DJ Shadow – In Tune and On Time
24. Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans
25. Reverie Sound Revue – Reverie Sound Review
26. Andrew W.K. – I Get Wet
27. Wolf Parade – Apologies To The Queen Mary
28. Iron & Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days
29. Arcade Fire – Funeral
30. Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights
31. Blink 182 – Enema of the State
32. Four Tet – Pause
33. Raising The Fawn – The North Sea
34. Thunderbirds Are Now! – Justamustache
35. Dashboard Confessional – Swiss Army Romance
36. Death From Above 1979 – You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine
37. Chad VanGaalen – Infiniheart
38. Thom Yorke – The Eraser
39. Matthew Good – Avalanche
40. Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand