Best Albums of 2009 (So Far)

Here's what I've been listening to and liking so this year.

1. Eels - Hombre Lobo
Key Tracks: "Fresh Blood", "Tremendous Dynamite", "That Look You Give That Guy", "Prizefighter", "In My Dreams",

2. Doves - Kingdom of Rust
Key Tracks: "Compulsion", "Kingdom of Rust", "Jetstream", "Winter Hill", "Spellbound".

3. Gomez - A New Tide
Key Tracks: "Airstream Driver", "Natural Reaction", "Little Pieces", "Lost Track", "Other Plans"

4. Kram - Mixtape
Key Tracks: "Silk Suits", "Ridin' High", "Satellite", "Burnin Sands"

5. Kasabian - The West Rider Pauper Lunatic
Key Tracks: "Underdog", "Fast Fuse", "Vlad the Imapler", "Fire"

6. Silversun Pickups - Swoon
Key Tracks: "Panic Switch", "There's No Secrets This Year", "Sort Of", "Surrounded"

7. Ben Harper and Relentless7 - White Lies for Dark Times
Key Tracks: "Number With No Name", "Keep it Together", "Boots Like These", "Shimmer and Shine"

8. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
Key Tracks: "The Rake's Song", "The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid", "Annan Water",

9. The Mars Volta - Octahedron
Key Tracks: "Cotopaxi", "With Twilight As My Guide", "Teflon", "Halo Of Nembutals"

10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Its Blitz!
Key Tracks: "Heads Will Roll", "Shame and Fortune", "Zero", "Soft Shock"

11. Lady of the Sunshine - Smoking Gun
Key Tracks: "White Rose Parade", "The Wolf", "Kings Black Magic", "Smoking Gun"

12. Dan Auerbach - Keep it Hid
Key Tracks: "I Wan't Some More", Street Walkin'", "The Prowl", "Trouble Weighs a Ton

13. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Key Tracks: "Two Weeks", "Foreground", "Fine for Now", "Southern Point"

14. Bob Evans - Goodnight, Bull Creek!
Key Tracks: "Pasha Balker", "Someone So Much", Hand Me Downs", "Brother O Brother"

15. The Temper Trap - Conditions
Key tracks: "Sweet Disposition", "Science of Fear", "Love Lost", "Fader"

16. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle
Key Tracks: "Eid Ma Clack Shaw", "Faith/Void", "Too Many Birds", "Jim McCain"

17. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight
Key Tracks: "Ulysees", "Turn it On", "No You Girls", "Twilight Owens"

18. Peaches - I Feel Cream
"Talk To Me", "Trick or Treat", "Serpentine", "I Feel Cream"

19. Wilco - Wilco (the Album)
Key Tracks: "Wilco (The Song)", "One Wing", "You and I (feat Feist)", "I'll Fight"

20. Eskimo Joe - Inshalla
"Foreign Land", "Losing Friends Over Love", "Childhood Behaviour", "Inshalla"

21. Placebo - Battle for the Sun
Key Tracks: "For What it's Worth", "Battle for the Sun", "Ashtray Heart"

22. Regina Spektor - Far
Key Tracks: "Laughing With", "Blue Lips", "Machine", "Dance Anthem of the 80's"

23. Daniel Merriweather - Love & War
Key Tracks: "Change", "Chainsaw", "For Your Money", "Giving Everything Away For Free"

24. The Lemonheads - Vashions
Key Tracks: "Dirty Robot (feat Kate Moss)", "Yesterlove", "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye (feat Liv Tyler)", "Waiting Around to Die"

25. Little Birdy - Confetti
Key Tracks: "Summarize", "Brother (feat Paul Kelly)", "Crazy", "Run Run Run"

Most Played Albums From Past 6 months (Last FM)
1 Gomez – A New Tide - 171
2 Kram – Mix Tape - 130
3 Eels – Hombre Lobo - 130
4 Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid - 129
5 Lady Of The Sunshine – Smoking Gun - 126
6 Gomez – How We Operate - 120
7 Doves – Kingdom of Rust - 118
8 The Black Keys – Attack and Release - 117
9 Mason Jennings – Boneclouds - 113
10 Ben Harper – Fight for Your Mind -106
11 Dan Auerbach – Keep It Hid -105
11 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It's Blitz! -105
13 You Am I – Hi Fi Way -98
14 Bob Evans – Goodnight, Bull Creek! -97
15 TV on the Radio – Dear Science, -93
16 You Am I – Dilettantes-92
17 Mat McHugh – Seperatista! -92
18 The Arcade Fire – Neon Bible -88
19 Ben Harper and Relentless7 – White Lies For Dark Times -88
20 Dr. Dog – Fate - 87

Most Played Artists From Past 6 months (Last FM)
1 Gomez - 451
2 Elbow - 267
3 You Am I -259
4 Doves -240
5 Eels -237
6 Mason Jennings -227
7 The Black Keys -211
8 Ben Harper -194
9 The Beautiful Girls -140
10 Kram -133
11 Ween -132
11 Arcade Fire -132
13 Yeah Yeah Yeahs -128
14 Lady Of The Sunshine -127
15 TV on the Radio -125
16 The Kills -113
17 Elliott Smith -109
18 Silversun Pickups -107
19 Bob Evans -106
20 Dan Auerbach -105

Most Played Songs From Past 6 months (Last FM)
1 Elbow – Grounds for Divorce - 33
2 The Kills – Cheap and Cheerful - 33
3 Gomez – Airstream Driver - 32
4 Ben Harper and Relentless7 – Number With No Name - 30
5 AC/DC – Ride On - 29
6 Bill Callahan – Eid Ma Clack Shaw - 28
7 Dan Auerbach – I Want Some More - 28
8 Kram – Silk Suits - 27
9 The Black Keys – Strange Times - 27
10 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero - 26
11 Tame Impala – Half Full Glass Of Wine - 25
12 Elbow – Running To Stand Still (U2) - 24
13 My Morning Jacket – I'm Amazed - 24
14 Lady Of The Sunshine – White Rose Parade - 23
15 Kram – Ridin High - 23
16 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll - 23
17 Arcade Fire – Lenin - 22
18 Doves – Compulsion - 22
19 Franz Ferdinand – Ulysses - 21
20 Ben Harper – Mamas Trippin (Freedom Mix) - 21
21 Sting – Fields of Gold - 21
22 Elbow – The Bones of You - 21
23 Conor Oberst with Gillian Welch – Lua - 20
24 Cold War Kids – Something Is Not Right With Me - 20
25 Gomez – Machismo - 20
26 Dr. Dog – Army of Ancients - 20
27 TV on the Radio – Golden Age - 20
28 The Beautiful Girls – Periscopes - 20
29 Babybird – Bad Old Man - 20
30 Doves – Kingdom of Rust - 20
31 The Beautiful Girls – I Thought About You - 20
32 Bob Evans – Someone So Much - 20
33 Peter Bjorn and John – Lay It Down - 20
34 Gomez – Notice - 20
35 Gomez – Natural Reaction - 19
36 Regurgitator – Track One - 19
37 Lady Of The Sunshine – The Wolf - 19
38 Yeasayer – Tightrope - 19
39 Lady Of The Sunshine – big jet plane - 19
40 Machine Gun Fellatio – Unsent Letter (acoustic) - 19
41 Beastie Boys – Sabotage - 19
42 Radiohead – Paranoid Android - 19
43 Gomez – If I Ask You Nicely - 18
44 The Do – On my shoulders - 18
45 Mat McHugh – Numb - 18
46 Stone Temple Pilots – Meat Plow - 18
47 M.I.A. – Paper Planes - 18
48 Gomez – Sunset Gates - 18
49 The Smashing Pumpkins – 1979 - 18
50 Sia – Breathe Me 17