Just when you thought we were done with Top 10 lists for 2009…our music librarian Eric J Lawrence tabulated all of our DJs’ playlists and here are the results!
KCRW’S MOST PLAYED RECORDS OF 2009
1)  Phoenix  (308)
2)  Zero 7  (246)
3)  Little Dragon (Machine Dreams)  (204)
4)  Miike Snow  (201)
5)  Quantic  (199)
6)  Royksopp  (198)
7)  Air  (187)
8)  Grizzly Bear  (185)
9)  Mayer Hawthorne  (170)
10)  Animal Collective  (159)
11)  Dark Was the Night (v/a)  (135)
12)  Wilco (132)
13)  Doves  (131)
14)  Tosca  (117)
15)  Buraka Som Sistema  (110)
16)  Bat for Lashes  (109)
17)  Florence & the Machine  (106)
18)  The BPA  (105)
19)  …

Quadron is a band that seemingly came out of nowhere and then slowly but surely appeared on every KCRW DJ’s playlist towards the end of 2009. I finally found out the story behind this “phenomenon” straight from DJ Anthony Valadez:
“Robert Wilson is a friend of mine from college and a long time KCRW supporter. He regularly shows up at my residencies with a CDR full of music he thinks I should hear. It is hit and miss – I’m a picky guy. But this one time it was possibly the …

I have the extreme pleasure of being able to walk down the hall from my desk and see some of the best bands in the world. We don’t take it for granted, believe me, and Music Director Jason Bentley wanted to share some of his favorites with you. He put together his Top 10 Performances of 2009. The list includes soul singer Mayer Hawthorne, who made his debut here at the station, as well as a set from Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johannson. They liked their set so much, they …

1. The Beatles – Revolver (remastered) (EMI)
2. The Beatles – A Hard Days Night (remastered) (EMI)
3. The Beatles – The Beatles (White Album) (remastered) (EMI)
4. The Beatles – Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (remastered) (EMI)
5. The Beatles – Rubber Soul (remastered) (EMI)
6. The Beatles – Abbey Road (remastered) (EMI)
7. The Beatles – With The Beatles (remastered) (EMI)
8. The Beatles – Help (remastered) (EMI)
9. The Beatles – Magical Mystery (remastered) (EMI)
10. The Beatles – Let It Be (remastered) (EMI)

1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion (Domino)
2. Daniel Wang – Presents the Best of Balihu: 1993-2008
3. Amanda Blank – I Love You (Downtown)
4. Band of Skulls – Baby Darling Doll Face Honey (Artist First)
5. Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon: The End of Day (Motown)
6. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport (Atp Recordings)
7. White Lies – To Lose My Life… (Geffen Records)
8. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest (Warp)
9. Miike Snow – Miike Snow (Downtown)
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz! (Interscope Records)

1.Clark – Totems Flare (Warp Records)
2. Desire – II (Italians Do It Better)
3. Various – Purple Brain (Rvng Intl)
4. The Horrors – Primary Colours (Beggars XL Recording)
5. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note)
6. The Big Pink – A Brief History of Love (4ad Records)
7. Various – “Melenudos!” (Gorilla Records)
8. Memory Tapes – Seek Magic
9. Kurt Vile – Childish Prodigy (Matador Records)
10. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion (Domino)

1. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest (Warp)
2. Band of Skulls – Baby Darling Dollface Honey (Shangri La)
3. Imogen Heap- Ellipse (RCA)
4. Temper Trap – Conditions (Glass Note)
5. Silversun Pickups — Swoon (Dangerbird)
6. One Eskimo – One Eskimo (Shangri La)
7. Flight of the Conchords – I Told You I Was Freaky (Sub Pop)
8. Jack Penate – Everything is New (Beggars/XL)
9. Telekenisis! – Telekenisis! (Merge Records)
10. Morning After Girls – Alone
See the rest of the DJs Top 10 Albums here!

1. Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle (Drag City)
2. The Clientele – Bonfires On The Heath (Merge Records)
3. The XX – XX (Xl Recordings)
4. The Horrors – Primary Colours (Beggars XL Recording)
5. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion (Domino)
6. Various Artists – Dark Was The Night (4AD Records)
7. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest (Warp)
8. Florence + the Machine – Lungs (Universal Republic)
9. Dex Romweber Duo – Ruins Of Berlin (Bloodshot Records)
10. The Very Best – Warm Heart Of Africa (Green Owl Records)

1. Quadron – Quadron (A:larm/Attack)
2. Quantic And His His Combo Barbaro – Tradition in Transition (Tru Thoughts)
3. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note)
4. Norah Jones – The Fall (Blue Note Records)
5. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion (Domino)
6. Mayer Hawthorne – A Strange Arrangement (Stones Throw)
7.  School of Seven Bells – Alpinisms (Ghostly International)
8. Zero 7 – Yeah Ghost (Atltantic)
9. Little Dragon – Machine Dreams (Peacefrog – EMI)
10. Miike Snow – Miike Snow (Downtown)

1. Me’Shell NdegeOcello – Devil’s Halo (Downtown)
2. Bodycode – Immune (Spectral Sound)
3. Blk Jks – After Robots (Secretly Canadian)
4. Little Dragon – Machine Dreams (Peacefrog – EMI)
5. Dam-Funk – Toeachizown (Stones Throw)
6. Lusine – A Certain Distance (Ghostly Int’l)
7. The XX – XX (Xl Recordings)
8. Maxwell – BLACKSummer’sNight (Columbia)
9. Baaba Maal – Television (Palm Pictures)
10. Rodrigo y Gabriela – 11:11 (ATO Records / Red)