Top 10:

Marianas Trench – Masterpiece Theatre
The Used - Artwork
The Artist Life – Let’s Start A Riot/Let's Start A Campfire
Westbound Train – Come And Get It
This Providence – Where Are You Now?
Alexisonfire – Old Crows / Young Cardinals
Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
Silversun Pickups – Swoon
30 Seconds To Mars – This Is War
Brand New – Daisy

Honourable Mentions:

Sights And Sounds - Monolith
Yesterdays Ring – Diamonds In The Ditch
Silver Starling – Silver Starling
Taking Back Sunday – New Again
.Moneen. – The World I Want To Leave Behind

Top 10:

Alexisonfire – Old Crows/Young Cardinals
At first listen, it might sound like they have gone soft, but AOF are just serious now. They are a real band that works together and every member has their voice and sounds amazing throughout this album.

Brand New – Daisy
Despite what one Tangible Sounds reviewer thinks, Daisy shows more of the raw real side of Brand New than I think most of their stuff does. Jesse Lacey has had something to scream about for years and he is finally doing it. God it feels good.

Frank Turner – Poetry Of The Deed
Acoustic rock never sounded so real and so sweet. That’s all that needs to be said.

Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
Ok, so it’s not as epic as American Idiot, but the songs on 21st Century Breakdown can stand on their own feet much better and Billie Joe proves he will go down in history as our genre’s great musician.

Marianas Trench – Masterpiece Theatre
This is probably the only pop rock thing worth listening to in the whole genre right now. They are head and shoulders above their entire genre and other bands should look up to them even if they haven’t heard of them yet.

One Republic – Waking Up
I would have never ever saw this coming, but Ryan Tedder has written great songs for other people so it was only a matter of time before his own band had a great album. With that Timbaland beat feel running through the album Waking Up gives adult contemporary a needed shock to the heart.

Westbound Train – Come And Get It
It’s something in the vocals that makes this album great. It’s something in the way the whole band has put a positive spin on some of the saddest songs around.

The Artist Life – Let’s Start A Campfire EP
I already liked them, but I honestly didn’t know this acoustic album was in them. I didn’t know they could make me feel these songs on a whole new level.

The Academy Is... – Lost In Pacific Time EP
Welcome back guys! I missed you. Let’s not screw it up on the full length.

This Providence – Where Are You Now?
This is the kind of emo that I won’t be ashamed of listening to years from now.

Honourable Mentions:

1. A Fine Frenzy – Bomb In A Birdcage
Almost made the list for my girly side.
2. 30 Seconds To Mars – This Is War
Maybe when I’ve had more time with it I can decide, but Jared Leto sounds awesome.
3. Classified – Self Explanatory
Just so much fun, but too long to actually make the list.
4. Mute Math – Armistice
One of my favourites of the year, but not original enough to be the best.
5. The Almost – Monster Monster
Probably doesn’t deserve to be here, but it’s so much better than Underoath that I want them to know they shouldn’t give up this side project.

Top 10:

1. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
2. Clutch - Strange Cousins From The West
3. Evergreen Terrace - Almost Home
4. Despised Icon - Day Of Mourning
5. Coalesce - Ox
6. Rammstein - Liebe Ist Für Alle Da
7. Bastard Child Death Cult - Year Zero
8. Gaza - He Is Never Coming Back
9. Marilyn Manson - High End Of The Low
10. Storm Of Light - Forgive Us Our Tresspasses

Honourable Mentions:

Mars Volta - Octahedron
Skinlab - The Scars Between Us
The Devin Townsend Project - Addicted
Isis - Wavering Radiant
 Killswitch Engage - S/T

Top 10:

Silversun Pickups – Swoon
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
Built to Spill – There Is No Enemy
Black Lips – 200 Million Thousand
Jay Reatard – Watch Me Fail
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
No Age – Losing Feeling
Nirvana – Live at Reading
As far as live records or best of compilations go this fuses both perfectly, as well as capturing a band at the height of their career.
Telekinesis – S/T
Crystal Antlers – Tentacles
One of the freshest, most innovative sounds of the decade.

Honourable Mentions:
 
Monsters Of Folk – S/T
Pissed Jeans – King Of Jeans
Eels – Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs Of Desire

Top 10:

1. MewithoutYou - It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All A Dream! It’s Alright
-Every single person ever needs to hear this album.
2. Fake Problems - It's Great To Be Alive
3. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
4. Girls - Album
5. fun. - Aim and Ignite
6. Owen - New Leaves
7. Karen O & the Kids - Where the Wild Things Are OST
8. O Pioneers!!! - Neon Creeps
9. Scott H. Biram - Something's Wrong/Lost Forever
-Somewhere between drunk, crazy, and blue.
10. Junior Battles - Hotel Bibles

Honourable Mentions:

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Outer South
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Summer of Fear
Bon Iver - Blood Bank
David Bazan - Curse Your Branches

Top 10:

Paramore - Brand New Eyes
Although they aren’t my favourite band on the list, Paramore’s Brand New Eyes has definitely been the most listened to album on my CD rack since it’s release.
Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic
Drake - So Far Gone
Lights - The Listening
Fall Out Boy - Believers Never Die (Greatest Hits)
Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon: End of Day
Lady GaGa - Fame Monster
Owl City - Ocean Eyes
Cobra Starship - Hot Mess
Tegan and Sara - Sainthood
Not their best album, but most definitely deserving of being among the best albums of the year.

Honourable Mentions:

Dead and Divine - The Machines We Are
So maybe it’s because they are one of my favourite hometown bands, but these guys have released nothing but stellar albums since their first EP and they continue to break the mainstream music mould of today.
Asher Roth - Asleep In The Bread Aisle
MSTRKRFT - Fist of God

Top 10:

1. Silver Starling – Silver Starling
2. The Decemberists – The Hazards Of Love
3. Kiss Kiss – The Meek Shall Inherit What Is Left
Nerdy Prog-punk album that can only be described as awesome
4. Regina Spektor - Far
5. The Stagehands – The Silent City
A progressive punk rock musical, I don’t need to say anything else.
6. Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
7. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
8. Emmy The Great – First Love
9. Sonic Youth – The Eternal
10. Dinosaur Jr – Farm

Honourable Mentions:

1. Rival Boys – Life of Worry EP
2. Language Arts – Small Run EP
3. Dark Mean – FrankenCottage EP
4. Ben Folds Presents – A University! A Cappella
5. Asobi Seksu – Hush

Top 10:

1. Japandroids – Post-Nothing
2. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
-Adolescent love distilled into its purest form and poured into a C86 mould.
3. Dalek – Gutter Tactics
-New Jersey alt-rap crew makes hip hop as envisioned by Gibby Haynes.
4. Future Of The Left – Travels With Myself And Another
5. Art Brut – Art Brut Vs. Satan
6. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why There Are Mountains
7. Manic Street Preachers – Journal For Plague Lovers
8. Jay Reatard – Watch Me Fall
9. Pissed Jeans – King Of Jeans
10. Raekwon – Only Built For Cuban Linx Pt. 2

Honourable Mentions:

1. Sunn O))) – Monoliths & Dimensions
2. Mark Kozelek – Lost Verses Live
3. Modest Mouse – No One’s First And You’re Next
-Check out the Heath Ledger-directed video for “King Rat” and prepare to be creeped out.
4. The Twilight Sad – Forget The Night Ahead
5. A Place To Bury Strangers – Exploding Head

Top 10:

Titan – Colossus
Colossus is hands down the album of 2009, and best of all they are local. In 25 minutes they will crush in your skull, rape your mother and then buy you breakfast the next morning.
Reign Supreme – Testing The Limits Of Infinite
If Comeback Kid and Figure Four produced a bastard love child it would be Reign Supreme.
Converge – Axe to Fall
Gallows – Grey Britain
Nofx – Coaster
Raised Fist – Veil of Ignorance
Rise and Fall – Our Circle is Vicious
Chuck Ragan – Gold Country
Yesterday's Ring – Diamonds in the Ditch
Defeater - Travels