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My top 15 of 2009

1 TIMBER TIMBRE - S/T
2 THEE OH SEES - Help
3 VETIVER - Tight Knit
4 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Merriweather Post Pavilion
5 GANGLIANS - Monster Head Room
6 SIN FANG BOUS - Clangour
7 JULIE DOIRON - I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
8 PHOSPHORESCENT - To Willie
9 MICHAEL HURLEY & IDA - Ida Con Snock
10 MOUNTAINS - Choral
11 TUNE-YARDS - Bird-Brains
12 TELEKINESIS - Telekinesis!
13 THE WOODEN SKY - If I Don't Come Home You'll Know I'm Gone
14 THE WEATHER STATION - The Line
15 GRIZZLY BEAR - Veckatimest

My top 15 reissues of 2009

1 THE BEATLES - Stereo Box Set
2 VA - Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan, Vol. 2
3 ROYAL CITY - 1999-2004
4 GEORGE JONES - Blue & Lonesome
5 BOB DYLAN & THE BAND - The Basement Tapes
6 NICK LOWE - Quiet Please: The Very Best Of Nick Lowe
7 VA - The Sound Of Wonder!
8 VA - Sweet Soul Music (series)
9 EMITT RHODES - The Emitt Rhodes Recordings
10 ELVIS PRESLEY - From Elvis In Memphis (Legacy Edition)

My favourite artists are: The Beatles, Traveling Wilburys, Fleetwood Mac, Timber Timbre, Snowblink, etc, etc.

My all-time favourite album is: PAUL SIMON - Graceland

The first album I ever bought was: SPICE GIRLS - Spice World.  That's right.

On Saturday nights I throw down to: The Best of E.L.O.

On Sunday mornings I recover to: SNOWBLINK - Long Live

The show that made me fall in love with/believe all over again in music was: The Hidden Cameras (every time I forget how fun music is, there they are)

My favourite album so far this year is: NEON INDIAN - PSYCHIC CHASMS

The best show(s) I've seen so far this year is/are: MT EERIE (performing WIND'S POEM) in Berlin

The band that should come out of retirement is: Royal City.  Or maybe Dragon Care.