I’ve processed some of the best of lists in my bookmarks folder. Here are some of the more interesting and/or diverse ones. I’m trying to wrap up my own list, but damn these lists always give you lots to catch up.

+ Simon Reynolds’ Notes on the Noughties

+ The Essential : All Charts by Boomkat

+ The Milk Factory 2009 : Vladislav Delay, Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek, Moritz von Oswald Trio, King Midas Sound, Broadcast & The Focus Group, (The Milk Factory)

+ FACT 40 best: Albums of 2009 : Subway, Major Lazer, Paul White, Hudson Mohawke, Zomby, Omar-S (FACT)

+ Pitchfork Guest List Best of 2009 : lists by Avay Tare, Dean from No Age, Anand from Yeasayer, J. Mascis etc. (Pitchfork) also : The Worst Album Covers of 2009

+ Pop Matters : Best Music of 2009 for seperate genres.

+ Forest Gospel Best of 2009 : Grooms, OOIOO, Sunset Rubdown, Axolotl, Leyland Kirby (Forest Gospel)

+ Headphone Commute best 20 EPs of 2009 (Headphone Commute)

+ Winged Migration best 22 : Topped by Deastro, inc. Subway, 5 Years of Hyperdub, The Field, DOOM (Winged Migration)

+ Rose Quartz best songs of 2009 (Rose Quartz)

+ Matt Merewitz’s Top 10 Jazz Records : John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, Peter Bernstein Trio, Open Strings: 1920s Middle Eastern Recordings (The Jazz Clinic)

+ Take Five’s Top 10 Jazz Records Of 2009 (NPR)

+ The Best Jazz CDs of 2009 : incl. Vijay Iyer, Ben Allison, Matthew Shipp, Joe Lovano, Egberto Gismonti (Jazz.com)

+ Frieze Mag Highs and Lows of 2009 (Frieze)

+ Wild Mercury Sound’s 2009 Top 100 : Madness, Flower-Corsano Duo, Tim Hecker, Pocahaunted, Sir Richard Bishop, Om, Ducktails, Them Crooked Vultures, Tinariwen, James Blackshaw, Real Estate, Sun Araw, Bill Callahan, Grizzly Bear. (Uncut)

+ Adam Saville’s Favourite List : No Age EP, Fever Ray, Matias Aguayo, Washed Out (Dummymag)

+ Amie Street Best of 2009 : Neon Indian, Japandroids, Girls, Mos Def, Dirty Projectors, Ben Allison, Yo La Tengo, (you can also buy most of them for 5-10 bux) (Amie Street)

+ Bored of generic end of year lists – Let’s get some specific awards going! (Drowned in Sound)

+ Twitter live search #bestof09

Steer clear :

+ Q Magazine Best of 2009

+ Last.fm : A true testimony to why direct democracy will never work. No disrespect to Last.fm itself, data visualization is magnificient.