Nothing like waiting until the last minute…  With less than 10 hours to go I give you my Best / Worst list of 2009.  Mind you none of these are in order/ranked, they are just the best / worst I have been pondering over all year long… Enjoy.

Best Albums:

• The Avett Brothers – I & Love & You
• Mastodon – Crack The Skye
• Frank Turner – Poetry Of The Deed
• Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus
• Converge – Axe To Fall
• Those Darlins – Those Darlins
• Gallows – Grey Britain
• Dan Auerbach – Keep It Hid
• P.O.S. – Never Better
• BlakRoc – BlakRoc
• The Sidekicks – Weight Of Air

Best Unreleased Album:

• Dangermouse & Sparklehorse – Dark Night Of The Song

Worst Albums:

• Brokencyde – I’m Not A Fan But The Kids Like It
• Alice In Chains – Black Gives Way To Blue
• Third Eye Blind – Ursa Major
• Sugar Ray – Music For Cougars

On The Fence About Albums:

• Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
• Drummer – Feel Good Together

Guilty Pleasure Albums:

• Owl City –Ocean Eyes
• Brokencyde – I’m Not A Fan But The Kids Like It

Best Box Set Released:

• Coheed & Cambia – Neverender

Best Anthology Released:

• Fat Wreck Chords – Wrecktrospective

Best Festival I Attended:

• Bonnaroo – Bruce Springsteen, Merle Haggard, Public Enemy, NIN, Andrew Bird, Wilco, Beastie Boys, Al Green, Elvis Costello, Jenny Lewis, Phoenix and many more.

Best Shows I Attended:

• The Avett Brothers @ Akron Civic Center – Akron, OH
• Dan Auerbach / Those Darlins @ Beachland Ballroom – Cleveland, OH
• Converge / High On Fire @ The Grog Shop – Cleveland Hts., OH

Loudest Show I Attended (EVER):

• Mastodon @ Beachland Ballroom – Cleveland, OH

Most Unsuspecting Show I Attended (with good reason):

• Britney Spears / Pussycat Dolls @ The Value City Area – Columbus, OH

Worst Show I Attended:

• Gin Blossoms @ Cain Park – Cleveland Hts., OH

Best Local Acts I Saw Live:

• Nicholas Megalis
• Unsparing Sea

Best Movies:

• Zombieland
• The Hangover
• District 9
• Inglorious Basterds
• Up
• Star Trek

Worst Movies:

• G.I. Joe
• Transformers 2

Movie That You Should Not Watch When Your Heart Aches:

• 500 Days Of Summer

Best TV Show:

• Community

The Awesome:

• Bouncing Souls celebrating 20 years as a punk band and releasing a song a month all year.
• Greg Ginn (of Black Flag) agreeing to play a couple of songs for free at Blue Arrow Records courtesy of myself and Addicted To Vinyl.
• Going to Bonnaroo with two of my favorite people and then coming home and immediate going to see Rancid / Rise Against from backstage.
• Seeing Those Darlins 4 times live.
• Matt’s wonderful girlfriend scoring me an autographed personalized CD from Frank Turner as well as a hi-five.
• Meeting the fine folk at Thirty Tiger Records followed by shopping at Grimey’s while pit-stopping in Nashville.
• Getting my Melt Bar & Grilled tattoo (I’m #47).
• Having friends from all around come up to visit and see the magic that is called Cleveland.

The Suck:

• November 5th, 2009
• My laptop crashing
• My external hard drive crashing
• Changing for the better.

RIP (there were plenty more but these are ones that stuck with me):

• Michael Jackson
• James “The Rev” Sullivan
• DJ-AM
• Taylor Mitchell
• Vic Chesnutt
• Les Paul
• Jay Bennett
• Brittany Murphy
• Captain Lou Albano
• Patrick Swayze
• Jim Carroll
• John Hughes
• Walter Cronkite
• Billy Mays
• David Carridine
• Dom DeLuise
• Bea Arthur
• Jeremy Lusk
• Heath Ledger

So with just a few hours left I would like to say goodbye to 2009.  It was a fun and incredibly rough year for me.  I see big things happening in 2010 for me.

Resolutions?  A couple I suppose…

• Portion Control – I can eat and now I need to watch how much of it I do
• Personal Conquest – I have ideas and will follow through
• Sugar – I am limiting my intake
• Live – I plan on attending more shows this year than previous years
• Blog On – I will continue making BHP bigger and better so that people actually will COMMENT on here…

Do you have a best of you wish to share or do you think I overlooked someone?  Let me know.  Email me at broken@brokenheadphones.com or comment below.  I want to hear from you!