NPR's The Best Music of 2009....So Far

The Best Songs of 2009...so far

1. "My Girls" Animal Collective

2. "Two Weeks" Grizzly Bear

3. "Blood Bank" Bon Iver

4. "The Rake's Song" The Decemberists
5. "Lisztomania" Phoenix
6. "Zero" Yeah Yeah Yeahs

7. "This Tornado Loves You" Neko Case

8. "Sleepyhead" Passion Pit

9. "Laughing With" Regina Spektor

10. "The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid" The Decemberists
11. "Train Song" Feist and Ben Gibbard
12. "Knotty Pine" David Byrne & Dirty Project

13. "Daniel" Bat For Lashes
14. "Summertime Clothes" Animal Collective
15. "One Wing" Wilco
16. "The Fear" Lily Allen
17. "Heads Will Roll" Yeah Yeah Yeahs
18. "Wilco (The Song)" Wilco

19. "Stillness Is The Move" Dirty Projectors

20. "Help, I'm Alive" Metric
21. "Anonanimal" Andrew Bird

22. "On No" Andrew Bird

23. "No You Girls" Franz Ferdinand
24. "I And Love And You" The Avett Brothers
25. "French Navy" Camera Obscura

26. "Magpie To The Morning" Neko Case
27. "Woods" Bon Iver
28. "Black Hearted Love" PJ Harvey and John Parish

29. "While You Wait For The Others" Grizzly Bear
30. "Panic Switch" Silversun Pickups

Best Albums of 2009...so far

1. Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective

2. The Hazards of Love by The Decemberists

3. Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear

4. Middle Cyclone by Neko Case

5. Wilco (The Album) by Wilco

6. Noble Beast by Andrew Bird

7. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix

8. It's Blitz! by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

9. Dark Was The Night by Various Artists

10. Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors

11. Far by Regina Spektor

12. Actor by St. Vincent

13. Manners by Passion Pit

14. Hold Time by M. Ward

15. Reservoir by Fanfarlo

16. Fever Ray by Fever Ray

17. Fantasies by Metric

18. Two Suns by Bat for Lashes

19. My Maudlin Career by Camera Obscura

20. Dark Night of the Soul by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse

21. The Crying Light by Antony & The Johnsons

22. The Eternal by Sonic Youth

23. The Ecstatic by Mos Def

24. Outer South by Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band

25. Swoon by Silversun Pickups

26. Together Through Life by Bob Dylan

27. No Line on the Horizon by U2

28. March of the Zapotec by Beirt

29. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

30. The Mountain by Heartless Bastards

Go to http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2009/07/poll_results_best_of_the_year.html

to listen to some of the songs featured.