Full spreadsheet

Click here for the full 2009 spreadsheet.

The spreadsheet isn't spell checked or anything. I only fact checked and spell checked the top 50 albums for putting on the blog, so just assume that the spreadsheet is rough.

Like last year, I'll be making a sampler of one song from the top 25 albums in the coming days. I'll post the link on this blog and over on Ants, and will try to have it up on Saturday/Sunday (this is my finals week, so it's too hectic for me to say for sure when it'll be up).

#1

Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavilion

Metacritic: 89/100

Pitchfork: 9.6/10 BNM

Allmusic: 4.5/5 AMG Album Pick

LP / CD

Original Points: 1412

Lists Appearing: 32

Final Points: 22,592

#1 Votes: 14

"Merriweather Post Pavilion is heartbreaking and heartwarming, and you can either disregard what is one of the most pleasing, enjoyably rich and rewarding releases of the past decade or you can rally with the rest of us, and clap, and sing, and blare it through the earphones on your iPod because we are still all the things outside of us."- Sputnikmusic

#2

Grizzly Bear- Veckatimest

Metacritic: 85/100

Pitchfork: 9.0/10 BNM

Allmusic: 4/5

LP / CD

Original Points: 1107

Lists Appearing: 30

Final Points: 16,605

#1 Votes: 3

"Veckatimest offers more than just an inventive exercise in collage: It’s like hearing the past few centuries of music playing in symphony, which sounds--thrillingly and reassuringly--like the future."- The A.V. Club

#3

Dave Matthews Band- Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King

Metacritic: 67/100

Pitchfork: Not Reviewed

Allmusic: 4.5/5

LP / CD

Original Points: 793

Lists Appearing: 39

Final Points: 15,463.5

#1 Votes: 6

"What makes Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King the Dave Matthews Band's richest, and quite possibly best, album is the implicit message that all the love and loss can be felt and shared through the music, that the creation of the music itself is the reason why they're here--and that's not just a moving tribute to LeRoi Moore, it's a reason for the band to keep moving on."- All Music Guide

#4

Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Metacritic: 82/100

Pitchfork: 8.5 BNM

Allmusic: 4/5 AMG Album Pick

LP / CD

Original Points: 1013

Lists Appearing: 29

Final Points: 14,688.5

"They're pleasure-pushers, filling tunes with riffs, phrases, and beats a five-year-old could love. But, on Wolfgang, those same songs are unfulfilled--and this band wouldn't have it any other way. There's beauty in a sunset. Phoenix are wringing it out."- Pitchfork

#5

The Antlers- Hospice

Metacritic: 86/100

Pitchfork: 8.5/10 BNM

Allmusic: Not Reviewed

LP / CD

Original Points: 952

Lists Appearing: 30

Final Points: 14,280

#1 Votes: 4

"Hospice succeeds by conveying deeply personal traumas as universally appreciable truths, until one man's lonely, painful catharsis transmogrifies into something panoramic and shared by all."- musicOMH.com

#6

Animal Collective- Fall Be Kind (EP)

Metacritic: No Page

Pitchfork: 8.9/10 BNM

Allmusic: Not Reviewed

EP / CDep

Original Points: 753

Lists Appearing: 25

Final Points: 9412.5

"There's still a sense of gamble with Animal Collective, nothing is fixed-- and that's exactly what makes them an especially exciting band."- Pitchfork

(Ed. Note: Song appears on EP as Graze)