5. Jack Johnson – Brushfire Fairytales
So what happens when you take a guy who makes surf movies and surfs for a living and give him a guitar and let him do his thing? You get Jack Johnson's Brushfire Fairytales. The music world, well in Philly anyway, first found out about Jack via Philly's own G Love & The Special Sauce's 1999 release Philadelphonic. Well this year everyone else finally caught up to Philly and let Jack Johnson into their lives.

With his acoustic guitar and some killer songs, Jack helped make this the year of the singer songwriter. Johnson's laid back lyrics and approach make this album what it is, one of the best discs to hit it big this year and one of our favorites. There are so many highpoints that it is almost impossible to say that there is a bad song on the disc.

If we have to pick, standout tracks are "Sexy Plexi," "Flake," "Bubble Toes," "The News," "Mudfootball", hell you get the point!