Here's my best of '09 list.
1. The Dead Weather – Horehound
2. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - S/T
3. The Black Crowes - Before the Frost...Until the Freeze
4. Them Crooked Vultures – S/T
5. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
6. Paterson Hood - Murdering Oscar
7. Cheap Trick - The Latest
8.Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
9. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
10. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
11. Silversun Pickups - Swoon
12. Steve Earl - Townes
13. Pearl Jam - Backspacer
14. Wilco - Wilco The Album
15. Built to Spill - There is No Enemy
16. The Von Bondies - Love, Hate and Then There's You
17. Regina Spektor - Far
18. The Hold Steady - A Positive Rage
19. Muse- The Resistance
20. Son Volt - American Central Dust
21. U2 – No Line on the Horizon
22. Elvis Costello – Secret, Profane and Sugar Cane
23. Tegan and Sara – Sainthood
24. The Felice Brothers - Yonder is the Clock
25. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
26. Alice in Chains – Black Gives Way to Blue
27. Wolfmother – Cosmic Egg
28. The Tragically Hip – We Are the Same
29. Roman Candle - Oh Tall Tree in the Ear
30. Avett Brothers – I and Love and You