Noddin's 2009 Year End Comp

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No doubt less anticipated, I’ve got my 2009 year end comp ready. It’s nearly antithetical to Slosh’s. No whine; generally slower and a tad melancholy. I didn’t find much uptempto this year that struck me as interesting, and what there was, Slosh pretty much summed up and more. Granted, I don’t buy quite as much stuff as many of the regulars here.

Albums I thought were particularly good
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 : Goodnight Oslo
Cosmos : Jar of Jam Ton of Bricks
Heartless Bastards : The Mountain
Lee Harvey Osmond : A Quiet Evil

That I was surprised to like
Fever Ray : Fever Ray
Neko Case : Middle Cyclone

I’ve got 3 different links for you. They all go to Mediafire and let you download individual tracks (I don’t really find it any easier/faster to zip lossless files together). The mp3 is one zipped download. There’s a PDF of jewel case art at each link if you’re interested. I went through the hoops to make all the files behave and be tagged as a single album (Noddin’s 2009 Year End Comp) with tracks in proper order. You should be able to drag and drop files into your player/system of choice, hassle free.

Of course, for the luddites out there, PM me if you want a hard copy.


iTunes users should go for this one (6.18 GB)

FLAC aficionados take this one (6.18 GB)


MP3 folks (you don’t have to admit it), this one (71.2 MB).


The whole thing is about 57 minutes. Tracks are as follows.

01 Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics : Masenqo (Inspiration Information)
02 Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 : I'm Falling (Goodnight Oslo)
03 Cosmos : Zeppelin Commander (Jar of Jam Ton of Bricks)
04 Pearl Jam : Just Breathe (Backspacer)
05 Bill Callahan : Jim Cain (Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle)
06 Andrew Bird : Tenuousness (Noble Beast)
07 Heartless Bastards : Be So Happy (The Mountain)
08 Son Volt : When the Wheels Don't Move (American Central Dust)
09 Ben Harper and Relentless7 : Keep It Together (So I Can Fall Apart) (White Lies for Dark Times)
10 M. Ward : Never Had Nobody Like You (Hold Time)
11 Fever Ray : Triangle Walks (Fever Ray)
12 Norah Jones : You've Ruined Me (The Fall)
13 Neko Case : Middle Cyclone (Middle Cyclone)
14 Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 : Goodnight Oslo (Goodnight Oslo)