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Music Blog Zeitgeist 2009

Top 50 Artists of 2009 Top 50 Albums of 2009 Top Songs of 2009

The Top 50 Albums of 2009 sourced from 550 bloggers personal Top 10 lists weighted according to their ranking.
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  1. 40U2 • No Line On The Horizon

    “Some people like U2 best for their soaring anthems. Others prefer their willingness to experiment and play with dance beats. Here, they do both.” — Citizen Ghost Town

  2. 39Paramore • Brand New Eyes

    “Forget about Paramore being a band for teenage girls, if Williams' vocals on "All I Wanted" don't give you chills, then you are hardly human. ” — The B-Log

  3. 38Muse • The Resistance

    “An epic album that will get you pumped, remind you of Queen, and bring you into the score of a movie. Pretty intense stuff.” — The Peg Leg Blog

  4. 37Bibio • Ambivalence Avenue

    “These songs have a very modern, glitchy sound, but they can't escape the nostalgic warmth of Bibio's earlier work.” — mpbloggo

  5. 36Converge • Axe to Fall

    “Converge create art-school hardcore while still delivering on metal's basest needs” — Hi! My Name Is Chris

  6. 35Arctic Monkeys • Humbug

    “The Arctics' instruments achieved what their new haircuts failed to do: they've become the sort of band your children will listen to in 30 years time.” — Hotcakes

  7. 34Them Crooked Vultures • Them Crooked Vultures

    “One rarely has heard a hard rock album this loud and SEXY at the same time.” — Circle of Fits

  8. 33Raekwon • Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2

    “Raekwon and especially Ghostface blow the doors down then pillage all your snacks and shit.” — Thirty Helens Agree

  9. 32Miike Snow • Miike Snow

    “...you have to be so stoked that these guys decided to record their own album instead of making everyone else's album sound better.” — Audio Muffin

  10. 31Wild Beasts • Two Dancers

    “...medieval land of yo-ho-ho-ing court jesters, roto-tom funkiness, falsetto booty calls masquerading as simple Freudian slips, and sensory overdrive...” — Ear Farm

Creative Commons License The Music Blog Zeitgeist data is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. It was compiled from 551 lists. You can also download the data used to prepare these lists here: raw data, compiled data.

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