Graphic by Fred Galoso.

Below is the fifth installment of the KRUI Best of 2009 lists.   You can view the station’s Comprehensive List Top Album List HERE.  Check back in the coming days for more lists!

Jeremy – KRUI Listener
Jeremy Enigk – OK Bear
Baroness – Blue Album
Russian Circles – Geneva
Saosin – In Search Of Solid Ground
Brand New – Daisy

Mike Kedzie – Host of Jam Session
1. Umphrey’s McGee – Mantis
2. Keller Williams – Odd
3. Phish – Joy

Lara Petersburg - KRUI alumni
1. Florence and the Machine – Lungs
2. Silversun Pickups – Swoon
3. Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3
4. Beirut – March of the Zapotec/Realpeople Holland
5. Bat For Lashes – Two Suns

Manny Zamudio - KRUI DJ
Fun. – Aim and Ignite
Sea Wolf – White Water, White Bloom
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Arctic Monkeys – Crying Lightning EP
Mew – Frengers

Daniel Payne – KRUI Listener
1. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
2. The Western Front – The Balkanization of Epidestemology
3. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion/Fall Be Kind EP
4. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
5. Tegan and Sara – Sainthood

John W. Komdat – Host of The Johnny Driftwood Show
Russian Circles – Geneva
Big Business – Mind the Drift
Clutch – Strange Cousins from the West
Mastodon – Crack the Skye
Baroness – Blue Record

Bryan Beecher – KRUI DJ
Japandroids – Post Nothing
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Passion Pit – Manners
Matt and Kim – Grand
La Roux – La Roux

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Dolan Murphy – KRUI Programming Director
1. Sunset Rubdown – Dragonslayer
2. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
3. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
4. Fever Ray – S/T
5. Dan Deacon – Bromst
6. Bruce Peninsula – A Mountain is a Mouth
7. The Raveonettes – In and Out of Control
8. Beak> – S/T
9. David Bazan – Curse Your Branches
10. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion

TC Lockhart - SCOPE Productions General Manager
1. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2. St Vincent – Actor
3. The XX – XX
4. Handsome Furs – Face Control
5. The Antlers – Hospice

Creighton McEleney – KRUI DJ
Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
The Black Crowes – Before the Frost
Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Pamela Belman – KRUI Listener
Bill Callahan, Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
St Vincent, Actor
Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest
Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavillion
The Pharmacy, Weekend
(also: Destroyer, Bay of Pigs)

Mike Rome – SCOPE Productions Director of Talent Buying
1.  The XX – XX
2.  Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3.  Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
4.  Japandroids – Post-Nothing
5.  Avett Brothers – I & Love & You

Greg Hollingsworth – KRUI Listener
Rancid – Let the Dominoes Fall
Clutch – Strange Cousins from the West
The Popes – Outlaw Heaven
William Elliot Whitmore – Animals in the Dark
Brother Ali – US

Zack Stiegler - KRUI Listener
1. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadaeus Phoenix
2. Arctic Monkeys  - Humbug
3. Antony and the Johnsons – The Crying Light
4. The Dead Weather – Horehound
5. The Raveonettes – In and Out of Control

Ben McFarlane – KRUI DJ
Age Sixteen – Open Up Finders, Please
Bomb the Music Industry – Scrambles
This Town Needs Guns – Animals
Oceans – Nothing Collapses
Druids – Pray For Water

Drew Ingersoll - KRUI Music Director
1. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimist
2. Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
3. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
4. Tyondai Braxton – Central Market
5. Real Estate – Real Estate

Christy Aumer – KRUI DJ
1. Grizzly Bear – Vecktamist
2. Wilco – The Album
3. M. Ward – Hold Time
4. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – Dark Night of the Soul
5. Bill Callahan – I Wish We Were an Eagle

Bri LaPelusa – KRUI DJ
1. Atlas Sound – Logos
2. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
3. Handsome Furs – Face Control
4. TV on the Radio – Dear Science
5. Fever Ray – Fever Ray

Will Roberts – KRUI Listener
1.  Mastodon- Crack the Skye
2.  Megadeth- Endgame
3.  3 Inches of Blood- Here Waits Thy Doom
4.  Austrian Death Machine- Double Brutal
5.  Slayer- World Painted Blood

A.C. Hawley – Host of Chrysanthemum Soundsystem
In no particular order:
Sally Shapiro – My Guilty Pleasure
Au Revoir Simone – Still Light, Still Night
The Raveonettes – In and Out of Control
The xx – xx
The Sleepover Disaster – Hover

Max Johnson – KRUI Music Staffer
1. Lightning Bolt – Earthly Delights
2. The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You
3. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
4. Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms
5. Beirut / Realpeople – March of the Zapotec / Holland

Josh Messer (DJ Arbiter) – Host of The Sequence
1. Muse – The Resistance
2. Jay Z – The Blueprint 3
3. Ben Folds – Way To Nowhere
4. Deadmau5 – For Lack a Better Name
5. Calvin Harris – Ready For The Weekend

Adam Olesen - KRUI Listener
1. The Temper Trap – Conditions
2. Cursive – Mama, I’m Swollen
3. Taking Back Sunday – New Again
4. Silversun Pickups – Swoon
5. Passion Pit – Manners

Kendall McCabe – KRUI Music Staffer
1. I & Love & You by The Avett Brothers
2. Actor by St. Vincent
3. The BQE by Sufjan Stevens
4. Sing Along to Songs You Don’t Know by Múm
5. Received Pronunciation by Pants Yell!

Paul Sorenson – Host of Little Village Live
1. The XX – XX
2. Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx pt. 2
3. The Antlers – Hospice
4. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
5. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!

Cody K. – KRUI Listener
1- GIRLS- Album
2- Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavillon
3- Japandroids- Post-Nothing
4- Woods- Songs of Shame
5- Neon Indian- Psychic Chasm

Andrew Ritchey – Host of Global Radio International
Atlas Sound – Logos
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
YACHT – See Mystery Lights
White Fang – Whatever
Aaron “”Flint”" Jamison – AIRGASS

Steve Crowley - KRUI Listener
Fruit Bats – Ruminant Band
Built to Spill – There is No Enemy
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Iron & Wine – Around the Well
M. Ward – Hold Time

Nathan Gould – KRUI General Manager
1. Merriweather Post Pavilion – Animal Collective
2. Veckatimest – Grizzly Bear
3. Bitte Orca – Dirty Projectors
4. I and Love and You – The Avett Brothers
5. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
6. Because I Was in Love – Sharon Van Etten
7. The Crying Light – Antony & The Johnsons
8. Bromst – Dan Deacon
9. The Knot – Wye Oak
10. Hospice – The Antlers