Mojo - The Music Magazine

The votes have been cast and the results of MOJO's 2009 Readers' Poll 2009 can now be revealed!

WHAT A YEAR IT WAS for Portland's psychedelic alchemists Animal Collective. They were the big winners in your world with triumphs in the Best Album (Merriweather Post Pavilion), Best Artist and Best Track (My Girls) categories. Check out their reaction to the news in our exclusive Q&A here.

The long-promised Beatles Remasters were finally delivered in September causing you to fall in love with the Fabs all over again. Those lovingly packaged box sets won Best Reissue. You can read our review of the Stereo and Mono box sets here.

Elsewhere, Florence & The Machine scooped Best Newcomer, everyone's new favourite rock doc Anvil! The Story of Anvil won Best DVD and Muse's galactic arena shows garnered them the Best Live Act gong.

And there's more... much more.

A massive thank you to everyone that voted! Here are those results in full:

Best Albums Of 2009

1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
3. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
4. Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
5. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
6. Florence & The Machine - Lungs
7. Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
8. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
9. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish You And I Were An Eagle
10 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

Best Artist

1. Animal Collective
2. Muse
3. Arctic Monkeys
4. Wilco
5. Kasabian
6. Them Crooked Vultures
7. Bob Dylan
8. Grizzly Bear
9. The Cure
10. The Beatles

Best Track

1. Animal Collective - My Girls
2. Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone
3. Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers
4. Florence & The Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
5. Bob Dylan - It's All Good

Best Reissue

1. The Beatles - Remasters
2. Big Star - Keep An Eye On The Sky [box]
3. Kraftwerk - Remasters
4. Neil Young - Archives Vol 1
5. R.E.M. - Reckoning [Remastered]

Best Newcomer

1. Florence & The Machine
2. The XX
3. Them Crooked Vultures
4. The Low Anthem
5. The Phantom Band

Event Of The Year

1. The death of Michael Jackson
2. Bruce Springsteen at Glastonbury
3. The Specials tour
4. Beatles remasters
5. The Blur reunion

Best DVD

1. Anvil! The Story of Anvil
2. Leonard Cohen - Live In London
3. The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter
4. Nirvana: Live At Reading
5. Flight Of The Conchords - Complete HBO Second Season

Best Book

1. Mozipedia: The Encyclopedia Of Morrissey And The Smiths - Simon Goddard
2. The Death Of Bunny Munro - Nick Cave
3. The Haçienda: How Not to Run A Club - Peter Hook
4. Ballad Of Britain - Will Hodgkinson
5. The Velvet Underground, A New York Art - Johan Kugelberg

Best Live Act

1. Muse
2. Wilco
3. Neil Young
4. Bruce Springsteen
5. Leonard Cohen
6. The Specials
7. Mott The Hoople
8. Kings Of Leon
9. U2
10. Arctic Monkeys

Heroes Of 2009

1. Bob Dylan
2. Leonard Cohen
3. Neil Young
4. Bruce Springsteen
5. Barack Obama

Villains Of 2009

1. Simon Cowell
2. Gordon Brown
3. Katie Price aka Jordan
4. Kanye West
5. Bankers

Best Radio Show

1. Radcliffe & Maconie [BBC Radio 2]
2. Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan
3. Marc Riley [BBC 6 Music]
4. Adam & Joe [BBC 6 Music]
5. Guy Garvey's Finest Hour [BBC 6 Music]

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MOJO writers' 50 Best Albums of 2009 were won by Karl Burling of Stockport.