Zzz Records' Best Sellers of 2009

(Local artists noted in red print)

DECEMBER 2009

  1. The Sundogs "The Sundogs"
  2. Tom Waits "Glitter & Doom Live"
  3. The Envy Corps "Kid Gloves"
  4. Bob Dylan "Christmas in the Heart"
  5. Them Crooked Vultures "Them Crooked Vultures"
  6. Metric "Fantasies"
  7. Radiohead "In Rainbows"
  8. Sea Wolf "White Water, White Bloom"
  9. Mayer Hawthorne "A Strange Arrangement"
  10. Band of Skulls "Baby Darling Doll Face"

NOVEMBER 2009

  1. Nirvana "Bleach" (deluxe version)
  2. Devendra Banhart "What Will We Be"
  3. Sufjan Stevens "The BQE"
  4. Radio Moscow "Brain Cycles"
  5. Various "Yo Gabba Gabba: Music is Awesome!"
  6. Julian Casablancas "Phrazes for the Young"
  7. Flaming Lips "Embryonic"
  8. Roseanne Cash "The List"
  9. Gov't Mule "By a Thread"
  10. Sea Wolf "White Water, White Bloom"

OCTOBER 2009

  1. Monsters of Folk "Monsters of Folk"
  2. The Mountain Goats "Life of the World to Come"
  3. The Envy Corps "Kid Gloves"
  4. Pearl Jam "Backspacer"
  5. Sufjan Stevens "The BQE"
  6. Flaming Lips "Embryonic"
  7. Alice in Chains "Black Gives Way to Blue"
  8. Yo La Tengo "Popular Songs"
  9. The Big Pink "A Brief History of Love"
  10. Built to Spill "There is No Enemy"

SEPTEMBER 2009

  1. Pearl Jam "Backspacer"
  2. Monsters of Folk "Monsters of Folk"
  3. Yo La Tengo "Popular Songs"
  4. Black Crowes "Before the Frost"
  5. The Beatles "Abbey Road"
  6. Arctic Monkeys "Humbug"
  7. Radio Moscow "Brain Cycles"
  8. Dead Weather "Horehound"
  9. Camera Obscura "My Maudlin Career"
  10. The Hidden Cameras "Origin: Orphan"

AUGUST 2009

  1. The Autumn Project "This We Take With Us"
  2. Modest Mouse "No One's First & You're Next"
  3. The Envy Corps "Kid Gloves"
  4. Son Volt "American Central Dust"
  5. Wilco "Wilco (The Album)
  6. Dirty Projectors "Bitte Orca"
  7. Elvis Costello "Secret, Profane & Sugarcane"
  8. Neutral Milk Hotel "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
  9. Band of Skulls "Baby Darling Doll Face"
  10. Dead Weather "Horehound"

JULY 2009

  1. The Envy Corps "Kid Gloves"
  2. Wilco "Wilco (The Album)"
  3. Dead Weather "Horehound"
  4. Camera Obscura "My Maudlin Career"
  5. Dave Matthews Band "Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King"
  6. Dinosaur Jr. "Farm"
  7. Sonic Youth "The Eternal"
  8. Pavement "Slanted & Enchanted"
  9. The Decemberists "Hazards of Love"
  10. Clues "Clues"

JUNE 2009

  1. Sonic Youth "The Eternal"
  2. Dave Matthews Band "Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King"
  3. The Envy Corps "Kid Gloves"
  4. Bob Dylan "Together Through Life"
  5. Radio Moscow "Brain Cycles"
  6. Wilco "Wilco (The Album)"
  7. 311 "Uplifter"
  8. Beastie Boys "Check Your Head"
  9. Elvis Costello "Secret, Profane & Sugarcane"
  10. Pixies "Trompe Le Monde"

MAY 2009

  1. Bob Dylan "Together Through Life"
  2. Conor Oberst "Outer South"
  3. Grizzly Bear "Veckatimest"
  4. Ben Harper & the Relentless 7 "White Lies for Dark Times"
  5. Camera Obscura "My Maudlin Career"
  6. The Church "Untitled #23"
  7. William E. Whitmore "Animals in the Dark"
  8. Various "Dark Was the Night"
  9. Roman Candle "Oh Tall Tree in the Ear"
  10. Bonnie Prince Billy "Beware"

APRIL 2009

  1. Radio Moscow "Brain Cycles"
  2. Neutral Milk Hotel "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
  3. Bob Dylan "Together Through Life"
  4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs "It's Blitz"
  5. Pavement "Slanted & Enchanted"
  6. The Decemberists "Hazards of Love"
  7. The Thermals "Now We Can See"
  8. Fleet Foxes "Fleet Foxes"
  9. The Mummies "Play Their Own Records"
  10. Mono "Hymn to the Immortal Wind"

MARCH 2009

  1. Neko Case "Middle Cyclone"
  2. William E. Whitmore "Animals in the Dark"
  3. Animal Collective "Merriweather Post Pavillion"
  4. U2 "No LIne on the Horizon"
  5. Neutral Milk Hotel "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
  6. Fleet Foxes "Fleet Foxes"
  7. Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon"
  8. Portishead "Portishead"
  9. Von Bondies "Love, Hate, & Then There's You"
  10. Handsome Furs "Face Control"

FEBRUARY 2009

  1. Bruce Springsteen "Working on a Dream"
  2. M. Ward "Hold Time"
  3. Brother Trucker "The Flyover"
  4. Beirut "March of the Zapotec"
  5. Animal Collective "Merriweather Post Pavillion"
  6. Radiohead "In Rainbows"
  7. Portishead "Portishead"
  8. Morrissey "Years of Refusal"
  9. Mark Olson & Gary Louris "Ready for the Flood"
  10. Franz Ferdinand "Tonight: Franz Ferdinand"

JANUARY 2009

  1. Animal Collective "Merriweather Post Pavillion"
  2. Andrew Bird "Noble Beast"
  3. Pixies "Trompe Le Monde"
  4. Bruce Springsteen "Working on a Dream"
  5. Neutral Milk Hotel "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
  6. Fu**ed Up "The Chemistry of Common Noise"
  7. Spoon "Girls Can Tell"
  8. Smashing Pumpkins "Siamese Dream"
  9. Radiohead "Hail to the Thief"
  10. Kraftwerk "The Man-Machine"