Apparently, today is the birthday of alpha charlie bravo. It was launched officially on February 3, 2003. I have no meaning to ascribe to this fact. However, feel free to take a look back at the first birthday celebratory extravaganza that was this post of: February 4, 2004. Hey, remember when I used to write?
The Podcast
[Parental Advisory]
1. Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. KiD CuDi
Man on the Moon: The End of Day
3. The Swell Season
Strict Joy
4. Maxwell
BLACKsummer'snight
5. The Decemberists
The Hazards of Love
6. Passion Pit
Manners
7. Amadou & Mariam
Welcome To Mali
8. The Flaming Lips
Embryonic
9. Jay-Z
Blueprint 3
10. Mission of Burma
The Sound, The Speed, The Light
Honorable Mention:
Califone, All My Friends Are Funeral Singers | The Dodos, Time to Die | Skyzoo, The Salvation
Note: Ultimately, I decided not to include The Dodos' 2008 album Visiter on my 2009 list, even though it may have been the best recording I heard this past year.
The Podcast Supplemental
So, I finally figured out my Ten Best Albums, which means this collection of my favorite songs from the year is now complete and available as a double podcast for those of you with way too much free time.
Best of 2009 Part 1
1. Dear God
Monsters Of Folk
2. Violet Stars Happy Hunting!!!
Janelle Monae
3. My Love
The Bird and The Bee
4. Pearl's Dream
Bat For Lashes
5. The Neighbors
St. Vincent
6. These Are My Twisted Words
Radiohead
7. Study War
Moby
8. No You Girls
Franz Ferdinand
9. 1901
Phoenix
10. This Tornado Loves You
Neko Case
11. Quiet Dog
Mos Def
12. The Fixer
Pearl Jam
13. Islands
The xx
14. Burning
Vijay Kishore
15. Rootless Tree
Damien Rice
Best of 2009 Part 2
1. Black Hearted Love
Pj Harvey & John Parish
2. Fables
The Dodos
3. For What It's Worth
Skyzoo
4. Alice Marble Gray
Califone
5. Swing
Zero 7
6. Sick Muse
Metric
7. Work
Hockey
8. Two Doves
Dirty Projectors
9. The Petrified Forest
The Handsome Family
If You Would Come Back Home
William Fitzsimmons
(Accidentally omitted. YouTube Link)
10. Ghost of My Old Dog
Jason Lytle
11. Two Weeks
Grizzly Bear
12. Sky Cake
Patton Oswalt
13. Black River Killer
Blitzen Trapper
14. L'Autre
DJ Spooky
