Wow, The Critics And I Live In Separate Universes!

That's to be expected, I suppose. They have taste; I don't!

Still, it's remarkable. I LOVE Dance music, really LOVE it, but on this Top 50 list of 2009's Dance Albums, I got real excited about #2 (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and maybe #42 (Lily Allen), and that's about it! Didn't even hear about the rest! How about that?:

1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
3. The XX - The XX
4. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
5. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
6. Horrors - Primary Colours
7. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
8. Florence and the Machine - Lungs
9. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
10. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
11. F*** Buttons - Tarot Sport
12. Girls - Album
13. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
14. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
15. Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
16. La Roux - La Roux
17. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
18. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
19. Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Pains of Being Pure at Heart
20. Jamie T - Kings & Queens
21. Doves - Kingdom of Rust
22. Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
23. Sun O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
24. Mos Def - The Ecstatic
25. Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter
26. Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream
27. Future of the Left - Travels With Myself and Another
28. Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
29. Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
30. Muse - The Resistance
31. Martyn - Great Lengths
32. Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose
33. Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
34. White Denim - Fits
35. U2 - No Line on the Horizon
36. Passion Pit - Manners
37. HEALTH - Get Colour
38. Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People Lazers Do
39. Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
40. Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate
41. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
42. Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
43. Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring
44. Telepathe - Dance Mother
45. Micachu and the Shapes - Jewellery
46. Dead Weather - Horehound
47. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
48. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
49. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
50. Gallows - Grey Britain

Here is "Summer Clothes" from Animal Collective's 'Merriweather Post Pavilion', which I don't much like - I mean, it's OK; especially the visuals - but since it's NUMBER ONE it must not only be good, but the wave of the future!: