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Best Albums of 2009 - Prefix Readers
We started the Decade No One Can Sufficiently Name (aughts, noughties, whatever -- all of them suck unequivocally) with a hotly disputed election whose winner wasn't announced until later than made sense. So, we at Prefix decided to end the decade in kind. But unlike Bush vs. Gore, the Prefix election to determine who put out the best album of 2009 didn't involve ballot stuffing and sketchy recount practices. Well, maybe it did. Either way, we can positively, absolutely verfiy that no one named Jeb was involved in any way.
At any rate, below you'll find our list of the Top 50 albums of 2009, as picked by us, the Prefix staff, and you, the Prefix reader. After much shuffling and a back and forth that has gone on long enough, our collective pick for album of the year is the xx's self-titled debut, an album of majestic simplicity, palpable sexual tension and the kind of masterwork you'd never expect from the xx, a group of London-based 20-year-olds. The xx are followed by a list of bands and rappers that will probably be familiar to you. The results will surely be debated. Expect a Michael Moore documentary in three years.
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It's a shame you forgot to add the #1 album of the year! What were you thinking, Prefix? Was this a typo?
#1 Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon: The End of Day
Everyone reading this article just add 1 to the albums listed above in the article.
Nicky Nickles
just slightly disgusted with the readers that atlas sound and the antlers are so low
This was the list as selected by our readers.
I think it's a pretty solid list, overall. Thank you to everyone who built a best-of list and took part in the voting!
The only glaring omission for me is the Very Best. That was a massively underrated disc.
Mos Def is in the top 10. I'm happy.
Agreed. I just started listening to Ecstatic on the regular again, and it keeps getting better! Mos's best solo album, I think.
Kid Cudi IS infact on this list... at #46 where he belongs, and he should be happy with that. Even coming from a guy who was crazy about the mixtapes issued prior to man on the moon. The album was a let down.
dirty
Yeah Yeah Yeahs are too high and Atlas Sound is too low, other than that this list is pretty solid...
About what I'd expect, for better or for worse. I'm glad the XX won; probably the perfect pick for this site.
i would have put kid cudi in the top 10, too. also f*ck buttons. surprised mos made it up there, though i think slick rick's lines would take Verse of the Year, so i guess it works.
I should finally get around to that Japandroids album, huh?
matt & kim "grand" is the only missing one is notice... passion pit should be higher up
sean