Filter’s Top 10 of 2009, Day 1: J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr

Welcome to FILTER's Top 10 of 2009. You know the drill: Each day of December, we'll be posting a guest artist's Top 10 albums of the year, replete with delicious irony, whimsy, hilarity, obscurity and pop delight. Read 'em and weep, and be sure to look out for FILTER's very own Staff List, as well as our Best Reviewed Albums of the Year. Delight, I tell ya!

Starting us off is a man who needs no introduction, but here's one anyway: It's J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr, whose newly reunited band saw its new album, Farm, released this summer to mass acclaim. Here, in no particular order, are Mascis' Top 10 Records of 2009:


J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr

Carlton Melton, Pass It On

Bill Callahan, Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle

Wooden Shjips, Dos

Kurt Vile, Childish Prodigy

The Duchess and the Duke, Sunset/Sunrise

Sonic Youth, The Eternal

MV/EE, Barn Nova

Hush Arbors, Yankee Reality

Pink Mountaintops, Outside Love

Built to Spill, There is No Enemy