#420. ND's Best Songs of 2009

1. Thom Yorke – All for the Best (Ciao My Shining Star)

2. Yeasayer – Tightrope - (Dark Was The Night)

3. Animal Collective – Lion in a Coma (Merriweather Post Pavilion)

4. Jay-Z – Death of Autotune Death of Autotune (The Blueprint 3)

5. Grizzly Bear – Ready, Able (Veckatimest)

6. Phoenix – 1901 (Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix)

7. Animal Collective – My Girls (Merriweather Post Pavilion)

8. Dirty Projectors – Useful Chamber (Bitte Orca)

9. The Avett Brothers – Laundry Room (I and Love and You)

10. Matt & Kim – Daylight (Grand)

11. Jay-Z – Empire State of Mind (The Blueprint 3)

12. Antony & The Johnsons – Aeon (The Crying Light)

13. Slow Club – Christmas TV (Christmas, Thanks for Nothing) *

14. Cam'ron – I Hate My Job (Crime Pays)

15. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes – Home (Up From Below)

16. Yeasayer – Ambling Alp (Odd Blood)

17. White Rabbits – Percussion Gun (It's Frightening)

18. Jay-Z – Thank You (The Blueprint 3)

19. Dirty Projectors & David Byrne – Knotty Pine (Dark Was The Night)

20. Metric – Help I'm Alive (Fantasies)

21. We Were Promised Jetpacks – It's Thunder and It's Lightning (These Four Walls)

22. The Dodos – Longform (Time to Die)

23. Sunset Rubdown – Black Swan (Dragonslayer)

24. Discovery – Orange Shirt (Discovery LP)

25. The National – So Far Around the Bend (Dark Was The Night)

26. Passion Pit – Moth Wings (Manners)

27. Matt & Kim – I'll Take Us Home (Grand)

28. Atlas Sound – Walkabout (featuring Panda Bear) (Logos)

29. St. Vincent – Actor Out of Work (Actor)

30. Wale – TV On The Radio (featuring K’Naan) (Attention Deficit)