This may change but, here is a first attempt at getting the top 10 albums of 2009.  I actually have a top 25.   That is a nice number.  Plenty of good albums.

1. Embryonic - The Flaming Lips
2. Bitte Orca - Dirty Projectors
3. Actor - St. Vincent
4. Merriweather Post Pavillion - Animal Collective
5. Where The Wild Things Are - Karen O and the Kids
6. Horehound - The Dead Weather
7. Grand - Matt & Kim
8. Live in London - Leonard Cohen
9. Middle Cyclone - Neko Case
10. Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear

11. Kid A (Collector's Edition) - Radiohead
12. One Foot in the Grave [Expanded Edition] - Beck
13. Wilco (the album) - Wilco
14. Posthumous Success - Tom Brosseau
15. Those Darlins - Those Darlins
16. The Woodlands - The Woodlands
17. To Be Still - Alela Diane
18. A Woman A Man Walked By - PJ Harvey
19. The Silence of Love - Headless Heroes
20. Goodnight Unknown - Lou Barlow

21. Tonight: Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
22. Sketches of Spain 50th Anniversary (Legacy Edition) - Miles Davis
23. Spells - The Happy Hollows
24. The Briar Patch - Freddy & Francine
25. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix