Favorites of 2009

[jvandyck87]

I Started a thread like this last year and didn't get in trouble, so I'm assuming this is close enough to being within the rules. I thought it would be nice for everyone to share their favorites to recap the year. I'll start with mine:

Top 10 albums of 2009:
1. Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
2. Karnivool - Sound Awake (though this isn't coming out in the US until 2010)
3. Katatonia - Night is the New Day
4. Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
5. Hurt - Goodbye To The Machine
6. Psychostick - Sandwich
7. Rammstein - Liebe Ist Für Alle Da
8. Silversun Pickups - Swoon
9. Hacride - Lazarus
10. Porcupine Tree - The Incident

Top 10 singles of 2009:
1. Alice In Chains - A Looking In View
2. Katatonia - Forsaker
3. Hurt - Wars
4. Dredg - I Don't Know
5. Vertical Horizon - Save Me From Myself
6. Silversun Pickups - Panic Switch
7. Slipknot - Snuff
8. Creed - Overcome
9. Metallica - All Nightmare Long
10. (tie) People In Planes - Last Man Standing/Lacuna Coil - Spellbound

Top 40 album tracks of 2009:

1. Rammstein - Ich Tu Dir Weh
2. Dredg - Gathering Pebbles
3. Hurt - Pandora
4. Karnivool - Simple Boy
5. Porcupine Tree - I Drive The Hearse
6. One Eskimo - Hometime
7. Psychostick - This Is Not A Song, It's A Sandwich
8. Karnivool - Goliath
9. Dredg - Mourning This Morning
10. Rammstein - Rammlied
11. Iwrestledabearonce - Tastes Like Kevin Bacon
12. Katatonia - Day And Then The Shade
13. Porcupine Tree - Bonnie The Cat
14. Muse - Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture)
15. Katatonia - Onward Into Battle
16. Alice In Chains - Private Hell
17. Silversun Pickups - The Royal We
18. One Eskimo - Givin' Up
19. Hacride - My Enemy
20. Katatonia - Nephilim
21. Hurt - Fighting Tao
22. Chevelle - This Circus
23. Muse - Undisclosed Desires (as of now still an album track)
24. Alice In Chains - All Secrets Known
25. Skillet - Awake and Alive
26. Lacuna Coil - I Like It
27. Psychostick - #1 Radio $ingle
28. Red - Start Again
29. Halestorm - The Familiar Taste Of Poison
30. Dave Matthews Band - Shake Me Like A Monkey
31. Hacride - To Walk Among Them
32. 30 Seconds To Mars - Night Of The Hunter
33. Psychostick - The Hunger Within
34. Red - "Confession (What's Inside My Head)"
35. Dredg - Ireland
36. Silversun Pickups - Growing Old Is Getting Old
37. One Eskimo - UFO
38. Breaking Benjamin - Crawl
39. Vertical Horizon - Welcome To The Bottom
40. 30 Seconds To Mars - Stranger In A Strange Land

Favorite Concert Attended: Sevendust at Toad's Place

Best new artist: One Eskimo. Unless I wanna be like the Grammys and count Silversun Pickups as new. There's also an emerging metal band that's gone viral on youtube called Periphery that should end up being one of the biggest bands in the genre.

Biggest Disappointment: Porcupine Tree's The Incident was a huge disappointment for me. They're still my favorite band, but for their album to only rank 10th on the year is not up to their standards. The new 30 Seconds To Mars record was also disappointing in that it didn't match the heaviness of their first record after all the comparisons. The new Breaking Benjamin and Skillet albums are more boring than I had expected. Oh and Killswitch's new album sucked, so much that I almost forgot to mention them at all.

Biggest (pleasant) surprises: I was not expecting to like Silversun Pickups as I didn't like the singles off Carnavas very much. I like the new Red stuff better than I thought I would, and if it weren't for Porcupine Tree loyalty, that might have actually been my 10th favorite album to come out this year. And I was not expecting to like Creed's comeback lead single as much as I did. "Overcome" is pretty monster.

[Nicholas2.0]

Good stuff!

I'll get my (abbreviated) lists in here eventually, but in the meantime, I'll make a few comments:

That Dredg album should make my Top 10 or be just outside it. Ditto for Alice in Chains and Silversun Pickups. (Ran out of time to familiarize myself with the new Rammstein, unfortunately.)

Never even heard of Hacride before.

"Gathering Pebbles" is the first Dredg song that falls too short to make my superlong list of songs for the year. It's my 6th favorite from the album, though.

I love how you have an Iwrestledabearonce song on your list. Can't say I've listened to 'em much, but I dig what they do.

Songs in the running for my unabridged list:
Dredg "Mourning This Morning"
Alice in Chains "Private Hell" (my favorite album cut (and song) from Black Gives Way to Blue)
Silversun Pickups "The Royal We"
Muse "Undisclosed Desires"
Alice in Chains "All Secrets Known"
30 Seconds to Mars "Night of the Hunter"
Silversun Pickups "Growing Old Is Getting Old"

I, too, was pretty underwhelmed by the new Killswitch Engage record.

Oh, and while I don't love it like you do, I was impressed that Creed returned with such a likable rocker.

[fran182]

Top 30 Favorite Albums Of 2009

30. U2 - No Line On The Horizon
29. Chevelle - Sci-Fi Crimes
28. Weezer - Raditude
27. Passion Pit - Manners
26. Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
25. Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
24. Set Your Goals - This Will Be The Death Of Us
23. Breaking Benjamin - Dear Agony
22. Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
21. Rob Thomas - Cradlesong
20. The Dangerous Summer - Reach For The Sun
19. The Friday Night Boys - Off The Deep End
18. Cartel - Cycles
17. Third Eye Blind - Ursa Major
16. Our Lady Peace - Burn Burn
15. Fightstar - Be Human
14. AFI - Crash Love
13. Silversun Pickups - Swoon
12. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
11. Mae - (M)orning
10. Thrice - Beggars
9. Three Days Grace - Life Starts Now
8. Ten Second Epic - Hometown
7. Taking Back Sunday - New Again
6. Paramore - Brand New Eyes
5. Brand New - Daisy
4. John Mayer - Battle Studies
3. Relient K - Forget And Not Slow Down
2. All Time Low - Nothing Personal
1. New Found Glory - Not Without A Fight

You can also check this list (among others) on my Rate Your Music profile: rateyourmusic.com/~Fran182

[halo19]

Good call on Porcupine Tree. I had a late start but it's looking like Top 10-worthy stuff for me. I really loved Swoon as well.

Thrice were rightfully voted as Alt. Press' Most Underrated Band of 2009, by the people. They also got the staff's pick in the top 10 albums of the year. I don't know any bigger fan of the band than myself.

[fran182]

I just got into Thrice recently. It all started with an amazing record called Vheissu. Now, I love them. :)

[halo19]

RYM can be fun, too. I actually use an account there myself, as a way of archiving my collection and being notified what any artist has coming along the way, whether single or album.

[PHOBES]

*This space reserved*

I've basically been waiting for this thread to come up to give me an excuse to start compiling everything. I've just been so busy this Christmas.

[Shadows in the Dark]

Top 20 Albums of 2009

1. Green Day - "21st Century Breakdown"
2. Breaking Benjamin - "Dear Agony"
3. Three Days Grace - "Life Starts Now"
4. 30 Seconds to Mars - "This is War"
5. Alice in Chains - "Black Gives Way to Blue"
6. 311 - "Uplifter"
7. Chevelle - "Sci-Fi Crimes"
8. AFI - "Crash Love"
9. The Used - "Artwork"
10. Pearl Jam - "Backspacer"
11. Weezer - "Raditude"
12. Atreyu - "Congregation of the Damned"
13. Muse - "The Resistance"
14. U2 - "No Line on the Horizon"
15. Papa Roach - "Metamorphosis"
16. Silversun Pickups - "Swoon"
17. Depeche Mode - "Sounds of the Universe"
18. Sick Puppies - "Tri-Polar"
19. Them Crooked Vultures - "Them Crooked Vultures"
20. Dead by Sunrise - "Out of Ashes"

[The Party Captain]

Top 5 Albums
1. Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey ~ Cracker
2. No Line on the Horizon" ~ U2
3. Before the Frost...Until the Freeze ~ The Black Crowes
4. Big Whiskey & the Groogrux King ~ Dave Matthews Band
5. Working On a Dream ~ Bruce Springsteen

Top 15 Singles
1. I Ain't Hiding ~ The Black Crowes
2. (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To ~ Weezer
3. Mess of Me ~ Switchfoot
4. Take a Bow ~ Sister Hazel
5. Hurt Feelings ~ Flight of the Conchords
6. The Man Who Can't Be Moved ~ The Script
7. Uprising ~ Muse
8. Turn On Tune In Drop Out With Me ~ Cracker
9. Working On a Dream ~ Bruce Springsteen
10. Life in Technicolor ii ~ Coldplay
11. Staring Down ~ Collective Soul
12. Oh Yeah ~ Chickenfoot
13. Little White Lies ~ Fastball
14. She's a Genius ~ Jet
15. All the Right Moves ~ OneRepublic

[@DiegoMarcondes_]

Top 10 albums of 2009:
1. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight
2. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
3. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
4. Rob Thomas - Cradlesong
5. John Mayer - Battle Studies
6. Arctic Monkeys- Humbug
7. The Dead Weather- Horehound
8. Weezer- Raditude
9. U2- No Line on the Horizon
10- Pearl Jam- Backspacer

Top 10 singles of 2009:
1. Them Crooked Vultures - New Fang
2. Foo Fighters - Wheels
3. Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls
4. Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning
5. Weezer - If You're Wondering I Want To
6. Linkin Park - New Divide
7. The All American Rejects - The Wind Blows
8. Pearl Jam- The Fixer
9. Muse - Uprising
10. Green Day - East Jesus Nowhere

[stetz]

Hope you all don't mind that this list isn't exclusively "altnerative/rock", i just took my most played data and removed the stuff released prior to 2009:

Top 20 albums:
1.Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing
2.A Day to Remember - Homesick
3.P.O.S. - Never Better
4.Pearl Jam - Backspacer
5.Brand New - Daisy
6.K'naan - Troubador
7.(Hed) PE - New World Orphans
8.Atreyu - Congregation of the Damned
9.Thrice - Beggars
10. The Fray - The Fray
11.Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Outer South
12.Taking Back Sunday - New Again
13.Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day
14.Thursday - Common Existence
15.Gallows - Grey Britain
16.Leathermouth - XO
17.Breathe Carolina - Hello Fascination
18.The Sleeping - What It Takes
19.New Found Glory - Not Without A Fight
20.Monkeybiz - Firepower 3: Where There's Smoke There's Fire

Top 20 Singles (charted/released '09):
1.Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
2.Manchester Orchestra - I've Got Friends
3.Manchester Orchestra - Shake It Out
4.K'naan - If Rap Gets Jealous
5.Rise Against - Savior
6.Michael Franti & Spearhead - Hey World (Don't Give Up Version)
7.Pearl Jam - Brother
8.Kanye West - Love Lockdown
9.Pearl Jam - The Fixer
10.Staind - All I Want
11.Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
12.Cage the Elephant - Ain't No Rest for the Wicked
13.The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
14.Big B - Sinner (feat. Scott Russo)
15.3OH!3 - Don't Trust Me
16.Hollywood Undead - Undead
17.Kid Cudi - Day 'n' Nite
18.Brand New - At the Bottom
19.Kanye West - Amazing (feat. Young Jeezy)
20.A Day to Remember - The Downfall of Us All
also 20.Rise Against - Audience of One

enjoy :)

[Nicholas2.0]

Jan 2, 2010 12:38:58 GMT -5 The Party Captain said:

Top 5 Albums
1. Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey ~ Cracker
2. No Line on the Horizon" ~ U2
3. Before the Frost...Until the Freeze ~ The Black Crowes
4. Big Whiskey & the Groogrux King ~ Dave Matthews Band
5. Working On a Dream ~ Bruce Springsteen

I really like how Cracker, the Black Crowes, and Bruce Springsteen made 3 of your 5 favorite records this year. Those artists are a little less common around here and it's nice to see something a little different.

Jan 3, 2010 21:47:52 GMT -5 stetz said:

Hope you all don't mind that this list isn't exclusively "altnerative/rock", i just took my most played data and removed the stuff released prior to 2009:

Top 20 albums:
1.Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing
2.A Day to Remember - Homesick
3.P.O.S. - Never Better
4.Pearl Jam - Backspacer
5.Brand New - Daisy
6.K'naan - Troubador
7.(Hed) PE - New World Orphans
8.Atreyu - Congregation of the Damned
9.Thrice - Beggars
10. The Fray - The Fray
11.Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Outer South
12.Taking Back Sunday - New Again
13.Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day
14.Thursday - Common Existence
15.Gallows - Grey Britain
16.Leathermouth - XO
17.Breathe Carolina - Hello Fascination
18.The Sleeping - What It Takes
19.New Found Glory - Not Without A Fight
20.Monkeybiz - Firepower 3: Where There's Smoke There's Fire

This is the first I've noticed you, but I love the diversity found among the rock spectrum in your list. I love how you can enjoy acts as diverse as Manchester Orchestra, A Day to Remember, P.O.S., Pearl Jam, (hed) p.e., Atryeu, the Fray, Conor Oberst, Kid Cudi, Thursday, Gallows, and even Breathe Carolina. All existing in harmony on the same list together.

[pen]

I'm surprised someone else other than me likes the new Hed (P.E.) album.

[wallace]

Working on a Dream is, IMHO, a better album than Devils & Dust or Magic - it's Bruce's best original studio album since The Rising.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who thought the Chickenfoot album had some good stuff on it. Satriani meshed with a band better than a lot of people thought he would, and Hagar still knows how to sing second fiddle to his guitarist.

[The Party Captain]

I actually prefer Magic over most of Bruce's albums.

[stetz]

yeah it doesn't suprise me that you haven't seen my name before. i read the pulse forums alot but dont make all that many comments haha. but yah i have a pretty kickin taste.

[PHOBES]

I know I'm slow:

Favorite Albums of the Year
1. Red – Innocence & Instinct
2. Kutless – It Is Well
3. Breaking Benjamin – Dear Agony
4. Skillet – Awake
5. Switchfoot – Hello Hurricane
6. Daughtry – Leave This Town
7. Decyfer Down – Crash
8. Thousand Foot Krutch – Welcome to the Masquerade
9. Pillar – Confessions
10. Default – Comes and Goes
11. Jason Aldean – Wide Open
12. 30 Seconds to Mars – This Is War
13. Casting Crowns – Until the Whole World Hears
14. FM Static – Dear Diary
15. Brad Paisley – American Saturday Night
16. Lynyrd Skynyrd – God & Guns
17. Weezer – Raditude
18. OneRepublic – Waking Up
19. Creed – Full Circle
20. Cavo – Bright Nights * Dark Days
21. Three Days Grace – Life Starts Now
22. Chevelle – Sci-Fi Crimes
23. Muse – The Resistance
24. Flyleaf – Memento Mori
25. Pearl Jam – Backspacer
26. Burning Yesterday – We Create Monsters Not Machines
27. Dead By Sunrise – Out of Ashes
28. Falling Up – Fangs!
29. Bon Jovi – The Circle
30. Dave Matthews Band – Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King
31. Seventh Day Slumber – Take Everything
32. Sick Puppies – Tri-Polar
33. The Used – Artwork
34. U2 – No Line on the Horizon
35. MuteMath – Armistice
36. Thrice – Beggars
37. NewSong – Give Yourself Away
38. Newsboys – In the Hands of God
39. Fiction Family – Fiction Family
40. Alice In Chains – Black Gives Way to Blue
41. The Veer Union – Against the Grain
42. The Fray – The Fray
43. Our Lady Peace – Burn, Burn
44. Hoobastank – For(n)ever
45. Paramore – Brand New Eyes
46. Adelitas Way – Adelitas Way
47. Papa Roach – Metamorphosis
48. Hurt – Goodbye to the Machine
49. Chris Cornell – Scream
50. Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown

EP Honorable Mentions:
1. The Coliseum – “Patience”
2. The Letter Black – "Breaking the Silence"
3. Ghost of Gloria – “Voices from the Red Room”
Greatest Hits:
1. Incubus – Monuments & Melodies
2. Foo Fighters – Greatest Hits

Best Album from each of the last 10 years:
2000: Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory
2001: Creed – Weathered
2002: Breaking Benjamin – Saturate
2003: Switchfoot – The Beautiful Letdown
2004: Breaking Benjamin – We Are Not Alone
2005: Casting Crowns – Lifesong
2006: Skillet – Comatose
2007: Alter Bridge – Blackbird
2008: Fighting Instinct – Under the Gun
2009: Red – Innocence & Instinct

Album of the Decade: Skillet – Comatose

Favorite Songs (Limit 1 Per Artist)
1. Skillet – Awake and Alive
2. Kutless – What Faith Can Do
3. Red – Forever*
4. Breaking Benjamin – Dear Agony
5. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Still Unbroken
6. Decyfer Down – Fading
7. Pillar – Call to Action
8. Brad Paisley – Welcome to the Future
9. Daughtry – What We Have Become*
10. Switchfoot – The Sound (John M. Perkins Blues)
11. 30 Seconds to Mars – Kings & Queens
12. Falling Up – Streams of Woe at Acheron
13. Default – A Little Too Late
14. Thousand Foot Krutch – Fire It Up
15. Cavo – Crash
16. Linkin Park – New Divide
17. OneRepublic – Secrets
18. Bon Jovi – Superman Tonight
19. Dave Matthews Band – Funny, the Way It Is
20. Jason Aldean – Don’t Give Up On Me
21. Muse – Guiding Light
22. Dead By Sunrise – Fire
23. Seether – Careless Whisper
24. Anberlin – True Faith
25. Weezer – Let It All Hang Out
26. Foo Fighters – Wheels
27. Cage the Elephant – Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked
28. Flyleaf – Again
29. The Letter Black – Hanging On By a Thread
30. The Coliseum – Can You Feel It
31. Our Lady Peace – All You Did Was Save My Life
32. Hurt – Wars
33. Chevelle – Jars
34. Three Days Grace – World So Cold
35. FM Static – Take Me As I Am
36. Casting Crowns – Holy One
37. Ghost of Gloria – Fight
38. Creed – Silent Teacher*
39. Pearl Jam – Amongst the Waves
40. Sick Puppies – Rip Tide
41. U2 – Magnificent
42. Newsboys – Glorious
43. The Fray – You Found Me
44. Alice In Chains – A Looking In View
45. Hoobastank – The Letter
46. Paramore – Brick by Boring Brick
47. The Veer Union – Seasons
48. Incubus – Black Hearts Inertia
49. Chris Cornell – Long Gone (Rock Version)*
50. Green Day – 21 Guns

* B-side or non-album track.

Honorable Mention: Skillet's “Lucy” (Had I made it so more than one song from each artist could chart, I (1) would be stuck here all day compiling hundreds of songs, and (2) this song would’ve been number 2 or 3 on this list).

Best song from each of the last 10 years:
2000: Lifehouse – Hanging by a Moment
2001: Creed – My Sacrifice
2002: Breaking Benjamin – Phase
2003: Switchfoot – This Is Your Life
2004: Breaking Benjamin – Blow Me Away
2005: Casting Crowns – Praise You in this Storm
2006: Skillet – Rebirthing
2007: Casting Crowns – East to West
2008: Fighting Instinct – Under the Gun
2009: Skillet – Awake and Alive

Song of the Decade: Casting Crowns – Praise You in This Storm

I was 9 years old when this decade began, so a comprehensive singles or albums chart from the decade would lean heavily on post-2005 stuff.

Top Artists of the Decade
1. Breaking Benjamin
2. Skillet
3. Red
4. Casting Crowns
5. Switchfoot
6. Linkin Park
7. Daughtry
8. Kutless
9. Lifehouse
10. Shinedown

Best New Artists of 2009
1. Cavo
2. Dead By Sunrise
3. Fiction Family
4. Burning Yesterday
5. The Veer Union

(Had they released full length albums instead of EP's, both The Coliseum and The Letter Black would be above Cavo)

Most Anticipated Albums of 2010
1. Switchfoot – Vice Versus
2. Lifehouse – Smoke and Mirrors
3. Linkin Park – TBA
4. Jeremy Camp – TBA
5. Alter Bridge – Alter Bridge III / Myles Kennedy – TBA

A fantastic year for music, the only thing lacking were new artists. If you asked me if Cavo would be my favorite new artist after I had only heard "Champagne," I would have laughed at you.

I kept switching my favorite album. At one point, each album in my top 4 was my favorite of the year. In the end, the first album I purchased in 2009 turned out to be the best one, Red's Innocence & Instinct. Kutless put together an amazing effort, but I just couldn't give number one to an album that had so many covers (even though that was the point). Last year they were number 3, and this year they moved up to number 2. They're expected to release another album within the next year, so who knows?

My most anticipated album of 2009, Dear Agony, checks in at number 3, and my second-most anticipated, the follow-up to my all-time favorite album, Comatose, comes in at number 4. After that, I knew Switchfoot was top-5 worthy, and that Daughtry, Decyfer Down, Default, Pillar, and Thousand Foot Krutch would make up the rest of the top 10 in some way, shape or form.

Well, the rest of it wasn't as carefully done. But, as of right now, I think it reflects my way of thinking pretty accurately.

[Matt4319]

These are my 50 favorites of 2009 and my 400 favorites of the 2000s:

pulsemusic.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=personal&action=display&thread=92434

[Nicholas2.0]

In the words of a gruff, coked-up Brian Griffin, sorry I'm tardy to the party.

Full Top 10s (which, ironically, are actually abridged) for all the charts I've made to date are here, but I'll at least post the highlights in this topic:

2009:

Top 10 Songs/Singles:
01. Shiny Toy Guns "Ghost Town"
02. Paramore "Decode"
03. Silversun Pickups "Panic Switch"
04. Lady Gaga "Poker Face"
05. Coldplay "Lost!"
06. Carolina Liar "Show Me What I'm Looking For"
07. Lady Gaga "LoveGame"
08. Lady Gaga feat. Colby O'Donis "Just Dance"
09. Paramore "That's What You Get" (still a huge hit on my chart for nearly all of '09.)
10. Kelly Clarkson "Already Gone"
11. AFI "Medicate"

Top 10 Albums:
01. AFI - Crash Love
02. The Used - Artwork
03. The Lonely Island - Incredibad
04. Paramore - Brand New Eyes
05. U2 - No Line on the Horizon
06. Atreyu - Congregation of the Damned
07. Rancid - Let the Dominoes Fall
08. Brand New - Daisy
09. Muse - The Resistance
10. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue

Top 10 Concerts:
01. No Doubt - (with Paramore, Bedouin Soundclash)
02. AFI - (with Gallows)
03. Shiny Toy Guns - (with EleventySeven, All Fall Down)
04. Paramore - (with Paper Route, the Swellers)
05. Chris Cornell - (with Crash Kings)
06. Rancid - (opening for Rise Against, with Riverboat Gamblers)
07. Coldplay - (with Amadou & Mariam; Kitty, Daisy & Lewis)
08. Dredg - (with Rx Bandits, As Tall as Lions)
09. Social Distortion - (with the Strangers, Middle Class Rut)
10. Avenged Sevenfold - (with Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Saving Abel)

Top 10 Music Videos:
01. The Lonely Island feat. T-Pain "I'm on a Boat"
02. Lady Gaga "Bad Romance"
03. Bleeding Through "Germany"
04. The Lonely Island "Jizz in My Pants"
05. AFI "Medicate"
06. The Lonely Island feat. Seth Rogen "Like a Boss"
07. Slipknot "Snuff"
08. Lady Gaga "LoveGame"
09. T.I. feat. Justin Timberlake "Dead and Gone"
10. Taylor Swift feat. T-Pain "Thug Story"

Top 10 Musicians of All-Time:
LY TY
01 01 Tool
02 02 AFI
04 03 Avenged Sevenfold
03 04 Rancid
07 05 Nine Inch Nails
05 06 Red Hot Chili Peppers
08 07 Madonna
06 08 Garbage
09 09 Bad Religion
10 10 U2

Best Pop Song:
Lady Gaga "Poker Face"

Best R&B Song:
Akon feat. Colby O'Donis & Kardinal Offishall "Beautiful"

Best Hip Hop/Urban Song:
T.I. feat. Justin Timberlake "Dead and Gone"

Best Hot AC/AAA/Indie Song:
Coldplay "Lost!"

Best Country Song:
Taylor Swift "You Belong with Me"

Worst Song of 2009:
R. Kelly "Echo"

2000s:

Top 10 Songs:
01. Tool "Parabol/Parabola"
02. Tool "Schism"
03. AFI "Girl's Not Grey"
04. AFI "Miseria Cantare- The Beginning/The Leaving Song pt. II"
05. Avenged Sevenfold "Bat Country"
06. Avenged Sevenfold "Waking the Fallen/Unholy Confessions"
07. Avenged Sevenfold "Afterlife"
08. Avenged Sevenfold "I Won't See You Tonight parts 1 & 2"
09. AFI "The Great Disappointment"
10. Atreyu "Right Side of the Bed"

Top 10 Singles:
01. Tool "Parabola"
02. Tool "Schism"
03. AFI "Girl's Not Grey"
04. AFI "The Leaving Song pt. II"
05. Avenged Sevenfold "Bat Country"
06. Avenged Sevenfold "Unholy Confessions"
07. Avenged Sevenfold "Afterlife"
08. Atreyu "Right Side of the Bed"
09. Atreyu "Lip Gloss and Black"
10. Justin Timberlake "Summer Love"

Top 10 Albums:
01. Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
(Only when making this list did I realize that this had now eclipsed Sing the Sorrow after four years.)
02. AFI - Sing the Sorrow
03. Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen
04. Avenged Sevenfold - s/t
05. AFI - The Art of Drowning
06. The Used - In Love and Death
07. Tool - Lateralus
08. Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
09. Atreyu - The Curse
10. AFI - Decemberunderground

Top Album Unheard Until the 2000s:
blink-182 - Enema of the State
(Granted, I was only a year late on this one, but it was because I wanted to own Dude Ranch first, and I thought "Dammit" and "Josie" were better songs than "What's My Age Again?" and "All the Small Things." Little did I know, but the rest of Enema of the State blows the rest of Dude Ranch out of the water so badly it's not even funny.)

Best R&B Single:
Pharrell feat. Jay-Z "Frontin'"

Best Hip Hop/Rap Song:
Dr. Dre feat. Eminem "Forgot About Dre"