(Suburban) Kitsch, as adj.: A tacky or lowbrow quality or condition.

I need a happy distraction to get my mind away from stressing out about finishing up my one terrible statistics paper, and being horribly irritated because of a frustrating debate/discussion I have become involved in. Therefore I decided that making my pseudo-best of 2009 Albums list would be a good way to de-stress myself!

I have to preface this “list” by saying that I don’t think it’s possible for me to rank these in any order, as the ones I liked the best I just listened to over and over for months… Plus I spent about 4 months of 2009 listening to almost nothing but Fleet Foxes – s/t (which came out in 2008) on repeat, but I’m not putting it on here so as to be fair to albums that were actually released in 2009.

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The best

God Help the Girl – s/t

Regina Spektor – Far

Moby – Wait for Me

Cats on Fire – Our Temperance Movement

Andrew Bird – Noble Beast

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D. (OMG! How did that get on here?!?! Wes must have hacked my blog!)

Runners Up

Jenny Owen Youngs – Transmitter Failure

Loney, Dear – Dear John

The Swell Season – Strict Joy

Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career

A Fine Frenzy – Bomb In A Birdcage

Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels

Kings of Convenience – Declaration of Dependence

(500) Days of Summer Soundtrack (Admittedly, this soundtrack consists of mostly pre-existing tracks, but I. Don’t. Care.)

Away We Go Soundtrack (The same disclaimer applies to this soundtrack as well… But what can I say? I love Alexi Murdoch.)

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Yes I realize that I have an odd, eclectic taste in music. It’s not as “hip” and “indie” as a lot of what other people listen to.

I listened to a lot more music than this during 2009. These just happened to be a few of what I thought were the better albums I heard. I may make a “best songs” list at some point, but this was kind of fun. Now back to looking at multiple regression analyses.