Not sure if it's been mentioned but my favourite was Omar Souleyman: Dabke 2020: Folk and Pop Sounds of Syria on the Sublime Frequencies label

Updated Favorites from this year:
Sonic Youth, Mission of Burma (the 7" more than the album, but I do like the album), The Intelligence, Blank Dogs, Eat Skull, Kurt Vile, Skull Defects, Mi Ami, Psychic Ills, Obits, Death

Krallice--Dimensional Bleedthrough
Flaming Lips--Embryonic
Isis--Wavering Radiant
Belbury Poly--From an Ancient Star
Sunn0)))--Monoliths and Dimensions
Sonic Youth--The Eternal
Mastodon--Crack the Skye
Lightning Bolt--Earthly Delights
Yo La Tengo--Popular Songs
Polvo--In Prism
Yacht--See Mystery Lights
Mission of Burma--The Sound the Speed the Light
Tortoise--Beacons of Ancestorship
Broadcast and the Focus Group--Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
Dinosaur Jr--Farm
Slayer--World Painted Blood

bump.

My final report...

Top 10 full-length albums

1. Eat Skull Wild & Inside
2. Dan Melchior und Das Menace Thankyou Very Much
3. Nothing People Late Night
4. Sunny & the Sunsets Tomorrow Is Alright
5. Hunches Exit Dreams
6. Little Claw Human Taste
7. Mattress Low Blows
8. The Bassholes ...and Without a Name
9. The Intelligence Fake Surfers
10. Ratas del Vaticano Mocosos Pateticos

Top 10 EPs

1. Mayyors Deads 12"
2. FNU Ronnies Golem 12"
3. Flight Flowers 7"
4. Dan Melchior und Das Menace The Post Office Line 7"
5. Wounded Lion Friendly? 7"
6. Moon Duo Killing Time 12"
7. Timmy's Organism double 7"
8. Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones Cry 7"
9. Pink Reason/Electric Bunnies split 7"
10. Black Pus Down Down the Drain 7"

cassette releases

1. Warm Climate Edible Houses *
2. NoBunny Raw Romance
3. Tyvek Blunt Instrumental 2: True to the Game
4. Michael Stasis self-titled
5. Crappy Dracula The Lockhorns EP
6. Rank/Xerox / Grass Widow split
7. Audacity 2009 Winter Tour EP
8. Butcher Cover self-titled
9. Excavations self-titled10. Absinthe Minds The Song of Returning Light

* if this were on LP or even CD, it might be the best album of 2009.

My List:

40. Mission of Burma- The Sound, The Speed, The Light
39. Wolf Eyes – Always Wrong
38. MV & EE- Barn Nova
37. Zs - Music of the modern white
36. Sparks - Seduction of Ingmar Bergman
35. Yoko Ono & The Plastic Ono Band-Between My Head And The Sky
34. PJ Harvey & John Parish – A Woman A Man Walked By
33. Shit and Shine - '229 2299 Girls against Shit'
32. Tyondai Braxton - Central Market
31. Wilco-Wilco
30. Meat Puppets – Sewn Together
29. Master Musicians of Bukkake – Totem One
28. Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
27. John Zorn – O'o
26. Built To Spill-There Is No Enemy
25. Expo '70 - Awakening
24. Magik Markers - Balf Quarry
23. Jim O'Rourke – The Visitor
22. White Out with Thurston Moore & Jim O'rourke - Senso
21. Secret Chiefs 3 - Traditionalists: Le Mani Destre Recise
20. Glass Rock - Tall Firs Meet Soft Location
19. Six Organs of Admittance - Luminous Night
18. Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
17. Oneida – Rated O
16. Fiery Furnaces - I’m Going Away
15. The Thing - Bag It!
14. Do Make Say Think – Other Truths
13. Sunn o))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
12. Epsers – III
11. Om – God Is Good
10. Bardo Pond – Peri
9. Polvo - In Prism
8. Faust - C'est Com... Com... Compliqué
7. Arvo Part - In Principo
6. Sonic Youth -The Eternal
6. Zu – Carboniferous
4. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
3. The Bad Plus & Wendy Lewis - For All I Care
2. Flaming Lips – Embryonic
1. Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship

The Wire 2009 Rewind

 

TOP 10 EP’s/SINGLES IN NO ORDER
Total Control - Retiree 7”
Krysmopompas - Gesa 7”
Lakes - Tray Of Fire 7”
Kurt Vile & The Voilators - The Hunchback 12”
UV Race - Malaria 7”
Condominium - Every Night 7”
Middle America - Scars 7”
Naked On The Vague - Chitty Chat 7”
Pink Reason / Electric Bunnies 7”
Drunkdriver - Fire Sale 7”

TOP 10 LONG PLAYERS IN NO ORDER
Iron Age - The Sleeping Eye
Wolf Eyes - Always Wrong
Kitchen’s Floor - Loneliness Is A Dirty Mattress
UV Race - UV Race
Useless Children - The Sky Is Falling
The Intelligence - Fake Surfers
Home Blitz - Out of Phase
The Anals - Total Anal
The Factory men - The Fmen Album
Blues Control - Local Flavor

is that really wire mag's top 50 records of 2009?
im a bit disappointed... some really bad music is listed there (even
some stuff they wrote bad things about)

What is amazing to me is how many groups out there are recording music these days. Back when I first started to buy music in the sixties all there was, was vinyl so you had to hope you caught the ear of some music guy and then he went to his label then they recorded your stuff. Today anybody can publish their stuff put it out on the web and viola have a career in music. If you're good somebody will spread the word for you.

That list is really good. Aside from Merriweather and Repo, what are some other bad albums on there?

Most people would probably disagree with me but I hate that Dirty Projectors album.

And I dislike The xx...

At least they had Basinski but I thought they would have him higher than that... weird.

Have no idea what "the XX" is, sounds like a joke band.

It's some boring "indie" band things like the NME have been pushing... surprised to see The Wire is so into it.

the xx...awful album possibly the worst thing ive ever witnessed live as well.... terrible....

wow..i was way off there!

haha

Actually, I like that XX album quite much. Surprisingly good if you ask me.

1. Oneothrix Point Never - Rifts
2. Polvo - In Prism
3. Emeralds - What Happened
4. James Ferraro - Clear
5. Kolowrat - Slnko je vo veži
6. Reigns - The House on the Causeway
7. Michacu - Jewellery
8. Mark McGuire - A Pocket Full of Rain
9. Sundog Peacehouse - Brosound
10. Black to Comm - Alphabet 1968

dirty projectors is absolute shite, i could not listen to that album once it pissed me off sooo much!
the xx is just boring and overrated.. have noo idea what those things do in the wire mags top list..
its okay for a site like pitchfork but the wire??
and what the fuck is the new fuck buttons album doing in that list?
they wrote reeeeeally baad things about that lp ... so how come they put it in their list?


the sun araw lp is a masterpiece that is for sure tho!