[Edit: This was a draft from like a year ago that never got posted.]

We're assembling materials for our 10-year-anniversary retrospective. And 2009/2010/2011 have no "Best albums" lists, so here's one of them. [Edit: There is actually no planned 10-year retrospective but that would be cool.]

Overstuffed with more great mixtapes, EPs, and cassette-only releases than what followed, 2009 sparked the modern era. Many new artists. A jump in quality from what preceded.

(The title refers to a recent Bojack episode in which Mr. Peanut-Butter predicts that a Halloween 2009 party will be "cray-cray" although we're still not sure "cray-cray" was a thing prior to 2012.)

60. Clipse Til The Casket Drops

59. The Savage Young Taterbug River Mortis

Tim Allen cracks us the fuck up.

58. Turboslut & Pygmy Lush [split]

57. Bygones By-

56. Broken Water [cassette]

55. Rihanna Rated R

R&B end product is about as brutal as you'd.

54. UGK UGK 4 Life

R.I.P. Pimp C

53. Cult Ritual Live at Side Two

52. Milk Music [cassette]

51. Yo La Tengo Popular Songs

Maryann with the shaky hand

50. A Place To Bury Strangers Exploding Head

49. Jeff The Brotherhood Heavy Days

48. Jay Reatard Blood Visions

47. Merchandise Terminal Jagger Jane’s Addiction Boxset

Green

46. Paramore Brand New Eyes

45. Plies Da REAList

44. Atlas Sound Logos

43. Agoraphobic Nosebleed Agorapocalypse

42. Pearl Jam Backspacer

41. Pill 4075: The Refill

I think I hear somebody comin....

https://www.datpiff.com/Pill-The-Refill-mixtape.78860.html

40. Jason Lytle Yours Truly, The Commuter

"Sounds like Grandaddy"

39. Hush Arbors Yankee Reality

https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/hush-arbors-yankee-reality-cd/E.100L.html

38. Rick Ross Deeper Than Rap

baws

37. Flaming Lips Embryonic

36. Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II

35. Animal Collective Fall Be Kind

Hot new Starbucks item: "What Would I Want? Chai"

34. Gnaw Their Tongues ‎All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity

http://www.devotionalhymns.com/gnawtheirtongues/2009.html

33. The xx xx

32. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

31. Gucci Mane The State vs. Radric Davis

30. Lil B 6 Kiss

Thank you Kiss God

29. Absu Absu

I'm pretty smart, if I say so myself. This afternoon, we walked into a fruit store, and the clerk thinks I'm some out-of-town hick. "Those apples will be two bucks each," he tells me. That's where I outsmarted him. I pass over a five. And as he's about to give me a dollar change, I say, "Keep it, we're even. On the way in, I stepped on a grape.