Michael Verner - Favorite 100(ish) Songs of 2009

Ok, I just couldn't narrow it down to 100 - I'm pretty proud just to get it down to 107 from the shortlist of 295 I started with. The cuts were starting to sting a bit so I decided to stop now.

There's only one real restriction on the list - no more than 2 songs from any album (with an exception on compilations - the Dark Was The Night album in particular). Just alphabetical order... not getting overly extracurricular with it...

Oh, and I know the Fall Out Boy and Ida Maria albums could be considered 2008 albums, but it's close enough to '09 for me.

St. Vincent - Actor
St. Vincent — The Strangers
St. Vincent — Actor Out of Work
Girls - Album
Girls — Lust For Life
Movits! - Äppelknyckarjazz
Movits! — Swing För Hyresgästföreningen
Art Brut - Art Brut Vs. Satan
Art Brut — Demons Out!
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Pearl Jam — The Fixer
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Dirty Projectors — Stillness Is The Move
Bon Iver - Blood Bank EP
Bon Iver — Blood Bank
A Fine Frenzy - Bomb in a Birdcage
A Fine Frenzy - What I Wouldn't Do
The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
The Big Pink — Dominos
Our Lady Peace - Burn Burn Burn
Our Lady Peace — Monkey Brains
Cage The Elephant - Cage The Elephant
Cage the Elephant — Ain't No Rest for the Wicked
Starlight Mints - Change Remains
Starlight Mints — Zoomba
Throw Me The Statue - Creaturesque
Throw Me The Statue — Pistols
Throw Me The Statue — Hi-Fi Goon
Various Artists - Dark Was The Night
Dirty Projectors [ft. David Byrne] — Knotty Pine
Bon Iver — Brackett WI
Antony [ft. Bryce Dressner] — I Was Young When I Left Home
Buck 65 [ft. Sufjan Stevens & Serengeti] — Blood Pt. 2
Stuart Murdoch — Another Saturday
Jonsi & Alex — Happiness
Dead Man's Bones - Dead Man's Bones
Dead Man's Bones — My Body's a Zombie for You
Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
Sunset Rubdown — Silver Moons
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Mos Def — Quiet Dog Bite Hard
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Up From Below
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros — 40 Day Dream
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros — Home
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
The Flaming Lips — The Ego's Last Stand
Ingrid Michaelson - Everybody
Ingrid Michaelson — The Chain
Handsome Furs - Face Control
Handsome Furs — Talking Hotel Arbat Blues
Handsome Furs — All We Want, Baby, Is Everything
Metric - Fanasies
Metric — Help I'm Alive
Metric — Sick Muse
Regina Spektor - Far
Regina Spektor — Folding Chair
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Fever Ray — If I Had a Heart
Fever Ray — Keep the Streets Empty for Me
Fall Out Boy - Folie à Deux
Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes — Fall Out Boy
Ida Maria - Fortress Round My Heart
Ida Maria — Oh My God
Ida Maria — I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked
A.C. Newman - Get Guilty
A.C. Newman — Elemental
Matt & Kim - Grand
Matt & Kim — Daylight
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
The Decemberists — The Rake's Song
M. Ward - Hold Time
M. Ward [ft. Zooey Deschanel] — Never Had Nobody Like You
M. Ward — One Hundred Million Years
Eels - Hombre Lobo
Eels — Fresh Blood
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
The Rural Alberta Advantage — The Ballad of the RAA
The Rural Alberta Advantage — The Deathbridge in Lethbridge
The Dead Weather - Horehound
The Dead Weather — I Cut Like a Buffalo
The Dead Weather — Will There Be Enough Water?
The Antlers - Epilogue
The Antlers — Epilogue
The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
The Avett Brothers — Kick Drum Heart
The Avett Brothers — Ill With Want
Flight of the Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky
Flight of the Conchords — Carol Brown
The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
The Prodigy — Invaders Must Die
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Zero
White Rabbits - It's Frightening
White Rabbits — Percussion Gun
Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
Lily Allen — F**k You
jj - jj n° 2
jj — Me & Dean
Dan Auerbach - I Want Some More
Dan Auerbach — I Want Some More
Beirut - March of the Zapotec
Beirut — The Akara
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective — In the Flowers
Animal Collective — No More Runnin'
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Neko Case — This Tornado Loves You
Neko Case — Middle Cyclone
Modest Mouse - No One's First and You're Next
Modest Mouse — History Sticks To Your Feet
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
Andrew Bird — Effigy
The Thermals - Now We Can See
The Thermals — I Let It Go
The Thermals — You Dissolve
Say Hi - Oohs & Aahs
Say Hi — November Was White, Decmber Was Grey
Say Hi — One, Two ... One
Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band - Outer South
Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band — Slowly (Oh So Slowly)
Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band — Nikorette
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart — This Love is F**king Right
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Japandroids — Young Hearts Spark Fire
The Horrors - Primary Colours
The Horrors — I Only Think of You
The Horrors — New Ice Age
The Bird and The Bee - Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future
The Bird and The Bee — Love Letter to Japan
An Horse - Rearrange Beds
An Horse — Camp Out
Great Northern - Remind Me Where The Light Is
Great Northern — 33
Muse - The Resistance
Muse — Uprising
Tegan & Sara - Sainthood
Tegan & Sara — Someday
Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
Elvis Costello — Sulphur To Sugarcane
YACHT - See Mystery Lights
YACHT — Right the Bell
YACHT — Psychic City
Headless Heroes - The Silence of Love
Headless Heroes — Nobody's Baby Now
Woods - Songs of Shame
Woods — The Number
Woods — Rain On
The Veils - Sun Gangs
The Veils — The House She Lived In
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Them Crooked Vultures — Spinning In Daffodils
Those Darlins - Those Darlins
Those Darlins — Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
White Lies - To Lose My Life
White Lies — Death
Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
Bob Dylan — I Feel a Change Comin' On
Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
Bat For Lashes — Sleep Alone
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Grizzly Bear — Two Weeks
Thao - We Brave Bee Stings and All
Thao — Geography
Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be
Devendra Banhart — Angelika
Devendra Banhart — Goin' Back
Karen O and The Kids - Where the Wild Things Are Soundtrack
Karen O and The Kids — Building All is Love
Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
Wilco — Wilco (The Song)
Wilco — Bull Black Nova
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Phoenix — Lisztomania
Phoenix — 1901
The xx - xx
The xx — VCR
The xx — Heart Skipped a Beat
Zee Avi - Zee Avi
Zee Avi — Honey Bee
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Green Day — East Jesus Nowhere
Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand
Black Lips — Starting Over
Various Artists - 500 Days of Summer Soundtrack
She & Him — Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want