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1 The Avett Brothers I and Love and You
2 The Swell Season Strict Joy
3 Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures
4 Brandi Carlile Give Up The Ghost
5 The XX XX
6 Tegan and Sara Sainthood
7 Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Up From Below
8 Jack Penate Everything Is New
9 Brother Ali Us
10 Wilco Wilco (the Album)
11 Vampire Weekend Contra
12 The Rural Alberta Advantage Hometowns
13 Spoon Transference
14 Harper Simon Harper Simon
15 Girls Album
16 Florence and the Machine Lungs
17 Devendra Banhart What Will We Be
18 Wolfmother Cosmic Egg
19 The Heavy The House That Dirt Built
20 The Cribs Ignore the Ignorant
21 Thao with The Get Down Stay Down Know Better Learn Faster
22 Solid Gold
23 Kings of Convenience Declaration of Dependence
24 Julian Casablancas Phrazes for the Young
25 Blakroc Blakroc
26 Echo and the Bunnymen The Fountain
27 Delphic Delphic
28 David Bazan Curse Your Branches
29 Cold War Kids Audience
30 Yeasayer Odd Blood
31 White Denim Fits
32 Tanya Morgan Brooklynati
33 Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings Daptone Gold
34 Los Campesinos! There Are Listed Buildings EP
35 Rodrigo Y Gabriela 11:11
36 Monsters of Folk Monsters Of Folk
37 Megafaun Gather, Form and Fly
38 Lissie Why You Runnin’
39 Death Cab For Cutie Twilight: New Moon Soundtrack
40 Cornershop Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfa
41 Alec Ounsworth Mo Beauty
42 Yo La Tengo Popular Songs
43 Weezer Raditude
44 The Drums Summertime! EP
45 Mason Jennings Blood of Man
46 Imogen Heap Ellipse
47 Cory Chisel and The Wandering Sons Death Won’t Send A Letter
48 The Flaming Lips Embryonic
49 Pearl Jam Backspacer
50 Har Mar Superstar Dark Touches
51 Felt Felt 3: A Tribute To Rosie Per
52 Wild Beasts Two Dancers
53 Total Babe Heatwave EP
54 The Mountain Goats The Life Of The World To Come
55 The Clientele Bonfires on the Heath
56 Lucero 1372 Overton Park
57 Lookbook Wild at Heart
58 Fanfarlo Reservoir
59 The Temper Trap Conditions
60 The Pines Tremolo
The Chart Show At 8 p.m. on Thursday’s evening host, Mark Wheat counts down The Current’s listeners Top 20. They pick their top five tracks for next week’s chart show online at http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/the_current/features/specials/chart-show/ . Here is last week’s Top 20 as voted on by The Current’s listeners!
| TW | LW | Wks | 11/26/2009 | The Current Chart Show |
| Artist | Song | |||
| 1 | 1 | 7 | Edward Sharpe | Home |
| 2 | 3 | 5 | Vampire Weekend | Horchata |
| 3 | 8 | 8 | Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson | Relator |
| 4 | 4 | 7 | Mason Jennings | The Field |
| 5 | X | 1 | Wilco | I’ll Fight |
| 6 | X | 1 | Yeasayer | Ambling Alp |
| 7 | X | 1 | The Swell Season | Low Rising |
| 8 | X | 1 | Thom Yorke | Hearing Damage |
| 9 | 12 | 10 | The Big Pink | Dominos |
| 10 | 6 | 5 | Tegan & Sara | Hell |
| 11 | 7 | 6 | The XX | Crystalized |
| 12 | 11 | 3 | Florence and the Machine | Drumming Song |
| 13 | 15 | 9 | Radiohead | These Are MY Twisted Words |
| 14 | X | 1 | The Avett Brothers | Head Full of Doubt… |
| 15 | 17 | 9 | The Rural Alberta Advantage | Don’t Haunt This Place |
| 16 | X | 1 | Them Crooked Vultures | New Fang |
| 17 | r | 5 | Death Cab For Cutie | Meet Me On The Equinox |
| 18 | 20 | 2 | Har Mar Superstar | Tall Boy |
| 19 | r | 4 | Brother Ali | Fresh Air |
| 20 | X | 1 | Julian Casablancas | 11th Dimension |
It’s that time of year for The Current’s Top 89 of 2009! This is our audiences chance to tell us what their favorite songs were this year. We put together a list of nearly 700 new tracks we played on the air during 2009. Folks vote for 10 of their favorite songs and we’ll tabulate the results. Starting at 10 a.m. on New Year’s Day, we’ll play The Top 89 of 2009 as chosen by our listeners. Plus, one lucky participant will win a 32 gig iPod Touch and 89 downloads! Click here to vote now http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/the_current/features/specials/top89/ .
You can also check out our staffs favorite songs of the year here http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/the_current/features/specials/top89/stafftopten.shtml
The Current CD of the Week We feature a CD every week here at The Current. This week we’re featuring the new album from The XX titled XX. The XX recently were in our studios as well. Check it out! The XX performs in The Current studios The XX have accomplished something few other groups have: critical raves, a sellout worldwide tour, and unexpectedly stellar album sales. The best part? They’re all 20 years old. November 30, 2009
