How Dive came up with its 2009 top ten

Dive's year end lists on music, N.C. music and movies were tabulated by taking a staff vote. Music writers and movie writers each voted in the lists in their area. Staffers each turned in ballots of ten items arranged from a top choice that received 10 points and a bottom choice that received one. Dive's two editors were able to turn in lists of 15 in all three lists with the top choice receiving 15 points and the bottom one receiving one. Assistant Editor Linnie Greene chose to only turn in a ballot of ten for movies. The ten albums and movies in each category with the most points made our top ten lists.

Click above to see the staff's individual lists.

Music

Jordan Lawrence - Diversions Editor

1. Baroness - Blue Record

2. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

3. F--k Buttons - Tarot Sport

4. Roman Candle - Oh Tall Tree In The Ear

5. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

6. Megafaun - Gather, Form and Fly

7. Horseback - The Invisible Mountain

8. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career

9. Mos Def - The Ecstatic

10. Pelican - What We All Come to Need

11. Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Links, Pt. 2

12. Dan Deacon - Bromst

13. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains

14. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

15 Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions

 

Linnie Greene - Assistant Diversions Editor

1. St. Vincent - Actor

2. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

3. Volcano Choir - Unmap

4. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

5. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

6. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport

7. Animal Collective

8. Girls - Album

9. Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light

10. The Antlers - Hospice

11. Dan Deacon - Bromst

12. Passion Pit - Manners

13. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic

14. M. Ward - Hold Time

15. Drake - So Far Gone

 

Benn Wineka - Staff Writer

1. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3

2. Wale - Attention Defecit

3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

4. B.o.B. - B.o.B. vs. Bobby Ray

5. Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Links, Pt. 2

6. Clipse - Till the Casket Drops

7. Drake - So Far Gone

8 - The xx - xx

9. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

10. Dan Deacon - Bromst

 

Elizabeth Byrum - Staff Writer

1. The xx - xx

2. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion

3. St. Vincent - Actor

4. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3

5. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

6. Grizzly Bear - Vecktameist

7. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

8. Volcano Choir - Unmap

9. Girls - Album

10. Wale - Attention Deficit

 

Joseph Chapman - Staff Writer

1. Megafaun – Gather, Form and Fly

2. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest

3. The xx – xx

4. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic

5. Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt. 2

6. Animal Collective – Meriwether Post Pavilion

7. Dan Deacon – Bromst

8. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport

9. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca

10. Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3

 

Anna Norris - Staff Writer

1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

2. Megafaun - Gather, Form, and Fly

3. The xx - xx

4. Volcano Choir - Unmap

5. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

6. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

8. Bowerbirds - Upper Air

9. The Dead Weather - Horehound

10. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport

 

Movies

Jordan Lawrence - Diversions Editor

1. "Where The Wild Things Are"

2. "Up in the Air"

3. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"

4. "Up!"

5. "Fantastic Mr. Fox"

6. "District 9"

7. "Inglourious Basterds"

8. "The Road"

9. "Public Enemies"

10. "(500) Days of Summer"

11. "Sin Nombre"

12. "The Girlfriend Experience"

13. "Funny People"

14. "The Informant"

15. "An Education"

 

Linnie Greene - Assistant Diversions Editor

1. "(500) Days of Summer"

2. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"

3. "Away We Go"

4. "Paper Heart"

5. "Where the Wild Things Are"

6. "Adam"

7. "Up in the Air"

8. "Adventureland"

9. "The Maiden Heist"

10. "The Hangover"

 

Rachel Arnett - Staff Writer

1. "Up in the Air"

2. "Sin Nombre"

3. "Precious"

4. "In the Loop"

5. "Inglorious Bastards"

6. "Adam"

7. "Up"

8. "An Education"

9. "(500) Days of Summer"

10. "Where the Wild Things Are"

 

Mark Niegelsky - Staff Writer

1. "The Hurt Locker"

2. "Inglourious Basterds"

3. "Up in the Air"

4. "Sin Nombre"

5. "Fantastic Mr. Fox"

6. "Crank: High Voltage"

7. "Goodbye Solo"

8. "The Informant"

9. "Public Enemies"

10. "Up"

 

Jonathan Pattishall - Staff Writer

1. "Sin Nombre"

2. "Up"

3. "Goodbye Solo"

4. "District 9"

5. "Fantastic Mr. Fox"

6. "Public Enemies"

7. "Black Dynamite"

8. "Bright Star"

9. "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans"

10. "The Hurt Locker"

 

Suzanne Enzerink - Staff Writer

1. "Star Trek"

2. "An Education"

3. "(500) Days of Summer"

4. "Where the Wild Things Are"

5. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"

6. "Gigantic"

7. "Avatar"

8. "Up in the Air"

9. "The Hurt Locker"

10. "Inglourious Basterds"

 

Rocco Giamatteo - Staff Writer

1. "Up in the Air"

2. "Where the Wild Things Are"

3. "Fantastic Mr. Fox"

4. "Inglourious Basterds"

5. "The Hurt Locker"

6. "Avatar"

7. "The Girlfriend Experience"

8. "Precious"

9. "Adventureland"

10. "Star Trek"

 

N.C. Music

Jordan Lawrence - Diversions Editor

1. Megafaun - Gather, Form and Fly

2. Horseback - The Invisible Mountain

3. Hammer No More The Fingers - Looking for Bruce

4. The Mountain Goats - Life of the World to Come

5. Red Collar - Pilgrim

6. Reigning Sound - Love And Curses

7. Floating Action - Floating Action

8. I Was Totally Destroying It - Horror Vacui

9. Bowerbirds - Upper Air

10. The Love Language - The Love Language

11. J. Cole - The Warm-Up

12. Dexter Romweber Duo - Ruins of Berlin

13. Midtown Dickens - Lanterns

14. The Beast - Silence Fiction

15. The Bronzed Chorus - I'm the Spring

 

Linnie Greene - Assistant Diversions Editor

1. Bowerbirds - Upper Air

2. Love Language - The Love Language

3. Megafaun - Gather, Form and Fly

4. Horseback - The Invisible Mountain

5. The Mountain Goats -  The Life of the World to Come

6. I Was Totally Destroying It - Horror Vacui

7. Floating Action - Floating Action

8. Hammer No More the Fingers - Looking for Bruce

9. J. Cole - The Warm-Up

10. Bombadil - Tarpits and Canyonlands

11. Mike Posner - One Foot In the Door

12. Red Collar - Pilgrim

13. Reigning Sound - Love And Curses

14. The Beast - Silence Fiction

15. Lonnie Walker - These Times Old Times

 

Benn Wineka - Staff Writer

1. J. Cole - The Warm-Up

2. Kooley High - Kooley Is High

3. Megafaun - Gather, Form and Fly

4. The Love Language - The Love Language

5. I Was Totally Destroying It - Horror Vacui

6. Horseback - The Invisible Mountain

7. Hammer No More The Fingers - Looking for Bruce

8. Mike Posner - One Foot In the Door

9. Bowerbirds - Upper Air

10. Charlie Smarts - f'alex

 

Elizabeth Byrum - Staff Writer

1. Megafaun - Gather, Form and Fly

2. I Was Totally Destroying It - Horror Vacui

3. Lonnie Walker - These Times Old Times

4. Bombadil - Tarpits and Canyonlands

5. The Beast - Silence Fiction

6. Bowerbirds - Upper Air

7. The Love Language - The Love Language

8. Red Collar - Pilgrim

9. Charlie Smarts - f'alex

10. Midtown Dickens - Lanterns

 

Joseph Chapman - Staff Writer

1.  Megafaun – Gather, Form and Fly

2. The Beast – Silence Fiction

3.  The Bronzed Chorus – I’m the Spring

4.  The Love Language – The Love Language

5.  I Was Totally Destroying It – Horror Vacui

6.  Red Collar – Pilgrim

7.  Kooley High – Kooley Is High

8.  Lonnie Walker – These Times Old Times

9.  Hammer No More The Fingers – Looking For Bruce

10.  Horseback – The Invisible Mountain

 

Anna Norris - Staff Writer

1. Megafaun - Gather, Form and Fly

2. Lonnie Walker - These Times Old Times

3. The Mountain Goats - Life of the World to Come

4. Hammer No More The Fingers - Looking for Bruce

5. Bowerbirds - Upper Air

6. Reigning Sound - Love And Curses

7. The Love Language - The Love Language

8. I Was Totally Destroying It - Horror Vacui

9. Red Collar - Pilgrim

10. Kooley High - Kooley Is High