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The 97 Best Of 2009

Welcome to our definitive listing of the top 97 Modern Rock and Alternative albums of 2009 -- the 26th Annual 97 Best. Makes a great shopping list.

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Artist Album
1 Grizzly Bear Veckatimest
2 Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3 Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains
4 Wilco Wilco (The Album)
5 Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
6 Passion Pit Manners
7 The xx xx
8 Heartless Bastards The Mountain
9 Metric Fantasies
10 Doves Kingdom Of Rust
11 The Answering Machine Another City, Another Sorry
12 We Were Promised Jetpacks These Four Walls
13 The Big Pink A Brief History of Love
14 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
15 Neko Case Middle Cyclone
16 Pomegranates Everybody, Come Outside!
17 V/A Dark Was The Night
18 Sonic Youth The Eternal
19 St. Vincent Actor
20 Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz!
21 White Denim Fits
22 Junior Boys Begone Dull Care
23 Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca
24 The Flaming Lips Embryonic
25 The Twilight Sad Forget The Night Ahead
26 Wussy Wussy
27 Silversun Pickups Swoon
28 Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!
29 Yo La Tengo Popular Songs
30 Bat For Lashes Two Suns
31 Monsters Of Folk Monsters Of Folk
32 Mew No More Stories
33 Generationals Con Law
34 French Miami French Miami
35 Andrew Bird Noble Beast
36 The Thermals Now We Can See
37 Neon Indian Psychic Chasms
38 Thao w/ The Get Down Stay Down Know Better Learn Faster
39 Royal Bangs Let It Beep
40 Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career
41 Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next EP
42 The Temper Trap Conditions
43 These United States Everything Touches Everything
44 White Rabbits It's Frightening
45 Japandroids Post-Nothing
46 Dinosaur Jr. Farm
47 Peter Bjorn & John Living Thing
48 Fruit Bats The Ruminant Band
49 Asobi Seksu Hush
50 Loney Dear Dear John
51 John Vanderslice Romanian Names
52 Here We Go Magic Here We Go Magic
53 Built To Spill There Is No Enemy
54 Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
55 A Place To Bury Strangers Exploding Head
56 The Antlers Hospice
57 UME Sunshower EP
58 The Veils Sun Gangs
59 The Deep Vibration Veracruz EP
60 Harlem Shakes Technicolor Health
61 Handsome Furs Face Control
62 Dan Auerbach Keep It Hid
63 The Fiery Furnaces I'm Going Away
64 The Raveonettes In and Out of Control
65 Sea Wolf White Water, White Bloom
66 The Decemberists The Hazards Of Love
67 Fanfarlo Reservoir
68 Say Hi Oohs & Aahs
69 The Postmarks Memoirs At The End of the World
70 Richard Swift The Atlantic Ocean
71 The Dodos Time To Die
72 Glasvegas Glasvegas
73 The Love Language The Love Language
74 The Calm Blue Sea The Calm Blue Sea EP
75 Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
76 Cass McCombs Catacombs
77 Simian Mobile Disco Temporary Pleasure
78 Mumford & Sons Sigh No More
79 Atlas Sound Logos
80 Girls Album
81 Sunset Rubdown Dragonslayer
82 Morrissey Years Of Refusal
83 Throw Me The Statue Creaturesque
84 The Gossip Music For Men
85 Eat Sugar It's Not Our Responsibility EP
86 M. Ward Hold Time
87 Headlights Wildlife
88 Grooms Rejoicer
89 The Dead Weather Horehound
90 Florence + The Machine Lungs
91 Frontier Folk Nebraska Pearls
92 Royksopp Junior
93 Islands Vapours
94 Telekinesis Telekinesis!
95 Surf City Surf City EP
96 The Distant Seconds Spectral Evidence
97 The Low Anthem Oh My God, Charlie Darwin


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