Making best music of the year lists is kind of a lame thing… except when your favourite CJAM 99.1 FM programmers make them.
Andrew / Sonic North
(in no particular order)
Art Brut – Art Brut vs. Satan
Morrissey – Years Of Refusal
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Sylvester Anfang II – Sylvester Anfang II
Cold Cave – Love Comes Close
Jodis – Secret House
Morrissey – Swords
Thee Oh Sees – Help
White Rainbow – New Clouds
Krallice – Dimensional Bleedthrough
Jan / I Wear White Jeans
1. Wye Oak – The Knot
2. Field Assembly – Broadsides & Ephemera
3. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
5. Goblin Cock – Come With Me If You Want To Live
6. Steve Earle – Townes
7. Dan Deacon – Bromst
8. Atlas Sound – Logos
9. Oceanographer – Coral Fixation
10. Califone – All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
Chris / I Am Collecting Beautiful Things
1. D-Sisive – Let The Children Die / Jonestown
2. P.O.S. – Never Better
3. Field Assembly – Broadsides & Ephemera
4. The Got To Get Got – Sahalee
5. Little Claw – Human Taste
6. The Wooden Sky – If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone
7. Deastro – Moondagger
8. The Racoon Wedding – Gather Gather Bones/Rattle Rattle Truth
9. Evening Hymns – Spirit Guides
10. Ryan Dahle – Irrational Anthems
Songs:
Arbouretum – “Another Hiding Place”
Bike For Three! – “No Idea How”
Blankket – “Independence Is No Solution”
Cotton Jones – “Gone The Bells”
Dinosaur Jr. – “I Don’t Wanna Go There”
DJ Frane – “If I Had Wings”
Extra Happy Ghost!!! – “Mash-Up: Neither Being Nor Nothingness”
The Foreign – “Quicksand”
Fuck Buttons – “Surf Solar”
Ganglians – “Valient Brave”
Great Bloomers – “Thorn In My Side”
Handsome Furs – “Legal Tender”
Kestrels – “Take The Picture”
Language Arts – “Cavity”
Magnolia Electric Co – “O Grace”
Ox – “Burnout”
Shawn / Note To Self
1. The Darlings – “Teenage Girl”
2. King Khan and BBQ Show – “Invisible Girl”
3. Circulatory System – “This Morning (We Remembered Everything) “
4. Blakroc – “Ain’t Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo)”
5. The Fresh and Onlys – “I’m Gonna Be Your Elevator Now”
6. The National – “So Far Around the Bend”
7. Parlour Steps – “Ring That Bell”
8. Silver Starling – “Ghosts”
9. Jason Lytle – “Rollin Home Alone”
10. Vivian Girls – “Out for the Sun”
Adam / Biz Cas Fri
(in no particular order)
Califone – All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
Johnny West – Creative Nightmares
Bill Frisell – Disfarmer
Steve Earle – Townes
Wye Oak – The Knot
Nomo – Invisible Cities
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Beware
Lou Barlow – Goodnight Unknown
Dan Auerbach – Keep It Hid
Do Make Say Think – Other Truths
Josh / Trapper Radio
COUNTRY: Austin Lucas – Somebody Loves You
HIP-HOP: D-Sisive – Let the Children Die
PUNK: Riverboat Gamblers – Underneath the Owl
INDIE: Sunset Rubdown – Dragonslayer
BLUES: Duke Robillard – Stomp The Blues Tonight
ELECTRONIC: Black Mold – Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz
ALTERNATIVE: Future of the Left – Travels With Myself and Another
FOLK: Chuck Ragan – Gold Country
LOCAL: Yellow Wood – Son of the Oppresor
METAL: Heaven & Hell – The Devil You Know
Marc / Cowboys and Indies
1. Hatcham Social – You Dig The Tunnel, I’ll Hide The Soil
2. Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
3. Jamie T – Kings & Queens
4. The Joy Formidable – A Balloon Called Moaning
5. The Horrors – Primary Colours
6. The Big Pink – A Brief History Of Love
7. Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
8. Maximo Park – Quicken The Heart
9. Amazing Baby – Rewild
10. Kyte – Science For The Living
Dave / Revolution Rock
1. Black Lips –200 Million Thousand
2. Sloan – Hit & Run EP
3. Julian Casablancas – Phrazes For The Young
4. Pearl Jam – Backspacer
5. The Almighty Defenders – The Almighty Defenders
6. The King Khan & BBQ Show – Invisible Girl
7. The Dead Weather – Horehound
8. Various – War Child: Heroes Compilation
9. Franz Ferdinand – Tonight
10. The Howlies – Trippin’ With The Howlies
Clara / The Washing Machine
1. Die Mannequin – Fino + Bleed
2. The Raveonettes – In And Out Of Control
3. Sonic Youth – The Eternal
4. Metric – Fantasies
5. Heat-ray – Love All Over
6. The Big Pink – A Brief History Of Love
7. Spinnerette – Spinnerette
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Its Blitz!
9. The Horrors – Primary Colours
10. The Dead Weather – Horehound
Brandon / New Pulse:
1. Moderat – Rusty Nails
2. Zoot Woman – Saturation
3. Deadmau5 – Ghosts ‘n Stuff (ft. Rob Swire)
4. Passion Pit – Sleepyhead
5. Misstress Barbara – I’m Running (ft. Sam Roberts)
6. La Roux – Bulletproof
7. CFCF – You Hear Colours
8. Royksopp – This Must Be It
9. Animal Collective – My Girls
10. Marsheaux – So Far
Jesse/Sedgwick & Cedar and The Hammering Processs
1. For Today-Portraits
2. Myka Nyne-1969
3. Abstract Rude-Rejuvenation
4. Anthony Hamilton-Point Of It All
5. Impending Doom- Serpents Servant
6. Oceana- Birtheater
7. Classified-Self Explanatory
8. A Job For A Cowboy-Ruination
9. The Grouch and Eligh- Say G and E
10. Ignomnious Incarceration-Of Winter Born
Top 30 of 2009
Based on overall play counts and charting positions.
01. Field Assembly – Broadsides and Ephemera
02. The Got To Get Got – Sahalee
03. Yellow Wood – Son Of The Oppressor
04. Fortunately Everything Dies – Censored
05. Ox – Burnout
06. Sunparlour Players – Wave North
07. Johnny West – If I Had A Quarter…
08. Junior Boys – Begone Dull Care
09. Great Lake Swimmers – Lost Channels
10. Tara Watts – About Love
11. A.C. Newman – Get Guilty
12. Portugal, The Man – The Satanic Satanist
13. John Doe and The Sadies – Country Club
14. Catherine Maclellan – Water In The Ground
15. Patrick Watson – Wooden Arms
16. Lou Barlow – Goodnight Unknown
17. Phosphorescent – To Willie
18. Orphan Choir – Orphan Choir
19. Great Bloomers – Speak Of Trouble
20. The Peace Leeches – ROYGBIV
21. The Big Pink – Brief History Of Love
22. Do Make Say Think – Other Truths
23. Bell Orchestre – As Seen Through Windows
24. Valleys – Sometimes Water Kills People
25. M. Ward – Hold Time
26. (wh)y.m.e.(??) – AEIOU
27. Johnny West – Creative Nightmares
28. Andre Ethier – Born Of Blue Fog
29. Pissed Jeans – King Of Jeans
30. Brent Randall and His Pinecones – We Were Strangers In Paddington Green
