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(link<\/a> to the above spreadsheet)<\/p>\n

In a year in which some of my favorite acts cranked out records that didn’t do a lot for me, you’d think I’d have a relatively easy time putting this list together. Not so much. It was, in spite of a few records not up to expectations, a bang up year for music. This year’s list has thirty-plus entries, and I’m quite sure there’s another ten or twenty that deserve to be on here but I’ve simply forgotten about. <\/p>\n

Most of this list is courtesy of WOXY<\/a>, the only radio station I’ve ever liked, which recently moved down to the music capital of the US, Austin. The few things that I didn’t hear there first, I was going to find anyway – e.g. Backspacer. Thanks also to Anthony’s Hype Machine<\/a>, which makes following the bands so much easier. Which reminds me: their Best of 2009<\/a> is likely to be a lot better than this one. <\/p>\n

Last year<\/a>‘s caveats still apply, incidentally:<\/p>\n