1. The Roots - how i got over
    Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
    Tired Pony - The Place We Ran From
  2. Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys - My Chemical Romance
    Come Around Sundown - Kings of Leon
    Dirt - Kids in Glass Houses
    Hold Me Down - You Me At Six
    Slash - Slash

    That's all I can personally think of. Been a pretty poor year for albums.
  3. My Best Of:

    The Black Keys: Brothers
    Arcade Fire: The Suburbs
    Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
    The National: High Violet
    Deftones: Diamond Eyes
    Kings of Leon: Come Around Sundown
    Eminem: Recovery
    LCD Soundsystem: This is Happening
    The Roots: How I Got Over
    Gorillaz: Plastic Beach

    I have Teen Dream to listen to, as well- I've heard its wonderful, I'll indulge tomorrrow. The albums above are in no order. "Brothers" was surely the best of the year, though, without question.

    Black Mountain's "Wilderness Heart" grows on me with every listen, but not quite enough to crack a best-of list yet.
  4. Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More
  5. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
    Robert Plant - Band of Joy
    Interpol - Interpol

    Poor poor year for albums
  6. My top albums for the year:

    Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
    The National: High Violet
    The Holidays: Post Paradise
    Vampire Weekend: Contra
    Washington: Rich Kids
  7. High Violet - The National
    American Slang - The Gaslight Anthem
    Flamingo - Brandon Flowers
    Stone Temple Pilots - Stone Temple Pilots
    The Winter of Mixed Drinks - Frightened Rabbit
    Love - Angels & Airwaves
    Recovery - Eminem
    Plastic Beach - Gorillaz


  8. The original version came out 2009 then a deluxe in 2010.
  9. You could say that about This Is War by 30 Seconds To Mars as well. It was released in 2009 but the deluxe edition was out in 2010.