Treehouse Staff Year-End "Best of" Lists

We're a little late on our staff "best of the year" lists for the year, but they are starting to trickle in. We'll post them here as they are submitted.

THE COMMANDER’S TOP 10 OF 2009

1. Death – … For the Whole World to See (Drag City)

2. Doug Paisley – s/t (No Quarter)

3. Magnolia Electric Co. – Josephine (Secretly Canadian)

4. Reigning Sound – Love and Curses (In the Red)

5. The Evening Rig – Is Doin’ Stuff (Heart of a Champion)

6. Vic Chesnutt – At the Cut (Constellation)

7. The Dexateens – Singlewide (Skybucket)

8. Obits – I Blame You (Sub Pop)

9. Chooglin’ – Sweet Time (Big Legal Mess)

10. Eleni Mandell – Artificial Fire (Zedtone)

MOTOR’S TOP 9 OF 2009

1. Red Pens – Reasons (Grain Belt)

2. Kurt Vile – Childish Prodigy (Matador)

3. The Big Pink – A Brief History of Love (4AD)

4. The Heavy – The House That Dirt Built (Counter)

5. The Dexateens – Singlewide (Skybucket)

6. Califone – All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (Dead Oceans)

7. Gospel Gossip – Drift EP (Guilt Ridden Pop)

8. Japandroids – Post-Nothing (Polyvinyl)

9. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest (Warp)

10. Chooglin’ – Sweet Time (Big Legal Mess)

THE PROFESSOR’S BEST OF 2009

Green Day – 21^st Century Breakdown (Reprise)

Levon Helm – Electric Dirt (Vanguard)

Death - …For the Whole World to See (Drag City)

Ian Hunter – Man Overboard (New West)

Bob Dylan – Together Through Life (Columbia)

Bruce Springsteen – Working on a Dream (Columbia)

Grant Hart – Hot Wax (Con D’or)

Bob Mould – Life and Times (Anti)

The Evening Rig – Is Doin’ Stuff (Heart of a Champion)

Jayhawks – Music From the North Country (Legacy)

Brother Ali – Us (Rhymesayers)

The Red Fox Chasers – I’m Going Down to North Carolina (Tompkins Square)

Chooglin’ – Sweet Time (Big Legal Mess)

L7-3 – Men of Distinction (Garage D’or)