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Top 20 Songs Of 2009 + 2

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Top 20 Songs Of 2009 + 2

Postby djcraig » Wed Dec 23, 2009 4:44 am

"Top" lists being by definition arbitrary, I made an attempt anyway.

Many in my top 10 were free downloads. Free download links are below the songs that feature them:<big>

1. Zero (RAC Remix)- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Yeah_Yeah_Ye ... _RAC_Remix

2. Surprise Hotel- Fool's Gold
http://www.rcrdlbl.com/artists/Fools_Go ... rise_Hotel

3. To Lose My Life- White Lies

4. Answer to Yourself- The Soft Pack
http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog= ... &tb=1&pb=1

5. In Your Heart- A Place to Bury Strangers
http://www.rcrdlbl.com/artists/A_Place_ ... ller_Remix

6. Use Somebody (Andre Anjos Remix)- Kings Of Leon
http://rcrdlbl.com/2009/04/08/exclusive ... rac_remix_

7. Sidedish Friend- Rachael Yamagata

9. Sea Within A Sea- The Horrors
http://www.spinner.com/2009/03/18/the-h ... f-the-day/

8. The '59 Sound- The Gaslight Anthem

9. Explode- Uh Huh Her

10. Help Im Alive (The Twelves Remix)- Metric
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Metric/track ... lves_Remix

<hr>

11. Landspeed Record- Black Tie Dynasty

12. The Blackest Days- 23RAINYDAYS

13. 1901- Phoenix

14. I Wanna Kill- Crocodiles

15. Signs- Bloc Party

16. Revolution Of The Mind- Fitzsimon & Brogan

17. I'm Confused- Handsome Furs

18. Reversible- Division Day

19. Once Around- Black Tie Dynasty

20. When The Lights Go Down- The Jan Watkins Band

21. The Day I Lost the Beat- Kinky

22. Song Away- Hockey

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Postby Frau_Blucher » Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:06 am

Man, I'm having a hell of a time with this. Coop mentioned in the albums thread that he thought it was more of a singles year. I actually think the complete opposite. I've really looked at the year from a totally album-oriented angle, and it's been a great album year at that. Here's my shot, basically taking some favorite tracks from favorite albums and likely missing a lot of one-off singles. Listing is in sort of mix mode, ie. no repeat bands even though many of my favorite bands would make the list two or three times otherwise.

01. Island - The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage
02. Whirring - The Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called Moaning
03. The Rake's Song - The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
04. Who Can Say - The Horrors - Primary Colours
05. Chandelier - Morton Valence - Bob And Veronica Ride Again
06. Sacred Trickster - Sonic Youth - The Eternal
07. Lightning Lightning - Violens - Lightning Lightning CDS
08. Death - White Lies - To Lose My Life
09. Zero - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
10. Something Global - Fight Like Apes - And The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion
11. Puzzles - The Mary Onettes - Islands
12. Step Aside - I Was A King - I Was A King
13. My Propeller - Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
14. Sick Muse - Metric - Fantasies
15. Don't Take Me To Space (Man) - Brakes - Touchdown
16. Let Go Of The Fear - Maps - Turning The Mind
17. Cities Burning Down - Howling Bells - Radio Wars
18. No You Girls - Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
19. The Great Escapes - Rifles - Great Escape
20. Stuck On Repeat - Little Boots - Hands
21. The Reeling - Passion Pit - Manners
22. There's No Secrets This Year - Silversun Pickups - Swoon
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Postby coop41 » Sun Dec 27, 2009 9:31 am

Well, here's a few more than 20. A very weird year for me - these were the best of times and the worst of times... or something like that.
Here's my Top 25 plus some:


1. Brand New- At The Bottom (this song was on constant play, lyrically kicked my butt)

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2. Great Lake Swimmers- Still (another lyrical gem that I'm stunned didn't appear on Blir's radar)

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3. The Boy Least Likely To - Every Goliath Has It's David

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4. Dr. Manhattan - Biscuits And Groovy (Stupid fun)
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5. Phoenix - Lisztomania (1901 could have easily been here too)

6. Forro In The Dark - El Perro Loco
http://kcrwmusicnews.vox.com/library/po ... +the+dark/

7. Titus Andronicus - My Time Outside The Womb
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8. Blitzen Trapper - Black River Killer (another that should be on Blir's list)

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9. Fruit Bats - Ruminant Band (Another Blir song)
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10. Noah & The Whale - Blue Skies (Am I going soft?)
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11. Prostitutes - Leave It like It Is
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12. Fol Chen - Cable TV
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13. Why? - Against Me
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14. Cage The Elephant - Ain't No Rest For The Wicked

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15. Harlem Shakes - Sunlight
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16-25

Hatcham Social – Murder In The Dark
Nickel Eye – Brandy of The Damned
Alvarez Kings – You, Me, Them, Us
Fastball – Mono To Stereo
Fire! Fire! - Isolation
fun - All The Pretty Girls
Grand Duchy – Come On Over To My House
Handsome Furs – I'm Confused
Phoenix – 1901
Thermals – We Were Sick
Wild Light – California On My Mind


The Best Of The Rest of 2009:
1090 Club - Second Hander
1990's - Balthazar
A.C. Newman – There Are Maybe Ten Or Twelve...
A-ha - Foot Of The Mountain
Amazing Baby – Kankra
Arctic Monkeys – Crying Lightning
Army Navy - Silvery Sleds
Art Brut – Alcoholics Unanimous
Baddies – At The Party
Big Pink – Dominos
Big Pink - Velvet
Bishop Allen – Ancient Commonsense Of Things
Bishop Allen – Dimmer
Bishop Allen - Middle Management
Bishop Allen - Psycho Killer
Bishops – If You Leave Today
Bombay Bicycle Club – Autumn
Bombay Bicycle Club - Open House
The Boy Least Likely To – I Box Up All The Butterflies
The Boy Least Likely To – I Keep Myself To Myself
BPA ft. Iggy Pop – He's Frank
Brakes – Hey, Hey
Brakes – Don't Take Me To Space (Man)
Brendan Benson - A Whole Lot Better
Bromheads Jacket – You'll Lose It
Built By Snow – All The Weird Kids Know
Built By Snow – Algometric Touch
Cage The Elephant - Back Against The Wall
Cajun Dance Party - Amylase
Canadian Invasion - Three Cheers For The Invisible Hand
Canadian Invasion - Standing on the Shoulders of the Carcass of John Mayer
Cats On Fire - Horoscope
Clan Of Xymox - Home Sweet Home
Clan Of Xymox - Emily
Coconut Records – Nighttiming
Confuse The Cat - Get The Bullets
Crocodiles – I Wanna Kill
Dead Weather – I Cut Like A Buffalo
Decemberists - The Rakes Song
Devo – Head Like A Hole
Devo – Don't Shoot! I'm A Man
Dinosaur Jr. - Over It
Does It Offend You? Yeah - Dawn Of The Dead
Drums – Let's Go Surfing
The Duke Spirit – Baby Doll
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – 40 Day Dream
Eels – Lilac Breeze
The Enemy - Sing When You're In Love
Fake Problems- The Heaven And Hell Cotillion
Fake Shark Real Zombie – Sour Times
Foxes - Bill Hicks
Franz Ferdinand – No You Girls
Franz Ferdinand – What She Came For
Freelance Whales – Generator ^ First Floor
Frightened Rabbit – Swim Until You Can't See Land
fun – At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used To Be)
Green Go - Brains For Breakfast
Hadouken! - Driving Nowhere
Henry Clay People – Something In the Water
Hercules In NY - Nightlight
Hockey – Learn To Lose
Hockey – Work
Hockey - Song Away
Hot Chip & Peter Gabriel - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
Hungry Kids From Hungary – Set It Right
Iran - I Can See The Future
Jack Penate - Be The One
Japandroids – Young Hearts Spark Fire
Jay Reatard – Wounded
Joy Formidable - Whirring
Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension
Kooks – Stormy Weather
Legends – Always The Same
Lou Barlow – Gravitate
M83 - Graveyard Girl
Marcy Playground – Blackbird
Matt & Kim – Daylight
Mcfly - Do Ya
Midnight Juggernauts – This New Technology
Modern Skirts – Soft Pedals
Mumford And Sons - The Cave
M. Ward – Never Had Nobody Like You
Nada Surf - Beautiful Beat
Perfidious Words – My Body's Needs
Phantom Band – The Howling
Phoenix – Armistice
Placebo – For What It's Worth
Port O'Brien – I Woke Up Today
Port O'Brien – My Will Is Good
Prostitutes – Sunshine
Rakes- The Light From Your Mac
Rakes - 1989
Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely
Rifles – Darling Girl
Riverboat Gamblers – A Choppy Yet Sincere Apology
Rumble Strips - Not The Only Person
Scissor Sisters – Ghetto Ways
Sea Wolf – Wicked Blood
Sessions – 18 Candles
Silversun Pickups - Substitution
Sonic Youth – Sacred Trickster
Spoon – Got Nuffin
Spring Tigers – Just Suggesting
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Young Adult Friction
Thermals – Now We Can See
Those Dancing Days - Home Sweet Home
Throw Me The Statue - Ancestors
Vampire Weekend – Horchata
Veils – Sit Down By The Fire
Vetiver - More Of This
The View – Shock Horror
Voicst - Feel Like A Rocket
Von Bondies – Shut Your Mouth
Voxtrot - Berlin, Without Return...
Wedding Present - I Lost The Monkey
Weezer - (If You Are Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To
Wheat – Changes Is
White Lies – Death
White Lies – To Lose My Life
White Lies – From The Stars
White Lies - Taxidermy
Wild Light – New Hampshire
Wintersleep - Archaeologists
Wombats – My Circuitboard City
YACHT – Psychic City
Yes Pleases – 70 Percent
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Postby Frau_Blucher » Sun Dec 27, 2009 11:38 pm

Well, these selections certainly reinforce what Zil is saying in the Simon Reynolds thread. [;)]

http://nwoutpost.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=28083
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Postby Mathman » Wed Dec 30, 2009 3:26 am

There are always lots of new things I find out about just by looking at the next wave topic. This seemed like a singles year, as few groups sustained a full album worth for me. These are the songs I listened to the most - the last actually a 2008 release, but someone I just discovered this year. Some things mentioned before, some worth checking out.

1. Enter Me, Exit You - Office
2. Heads Will Roll - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3. To Lose My Life - White Lies
4. Young Adult Friction - Pains of Being at Heart
5. God Knows I Had Plans - Mary Onettes
6. Everything Is Shattering - Maps
7. 40 Day Dream - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
8. 11th Dimension - Julian Casablancas
9. Rat Race - the Hundreds and Thousands
10. Keep Slipping Away - A Place to Bury Strangers
11. Nightingale - Howling Bells
12. Quiet Little Voices - We Were Promised Jetpacks
13. We Share the Same Skies - the Cribs
14. Arcadia - Ash
15. Skyscraper - Julian Plenti
16. Sirens - the Whip
17. 1901 - Phoenix
18. Cradle - the Joy Formidable
19. The Joys of Finding and Losing that Girl - New Rhodes
20. Synchrotron - Simon Bookish
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Postby zill » Wed Dec 30, 2009 5:35 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>Well, these selections certainly reinforce what Zil is saying in the Simon Reynolds thread. [;)]

http://nwoutpost.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=28083
[/quote]

Things are pretty slow at NWO when people start referring to my comments. [:o)]
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Postby Frau_Blucher » Fri Feb 05, 2010 12:16 pm

I didn't listen to The Rake's Song that much until I put in on my 2009 mix CD. Every time it comes on in my car, the more blown away I am by this song. It's at the nearly ear-splitting volumes that the full power of this song really takes hold. I don't know that there's been another song like it the entire decade. It's incredibly original, bizarrely brutal, and unbelievably compelling. I'm really starting to see the twisted genius of this song...

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Although now it strikes me that the video is far less interesting than just the song alone - it leaves too little to the imagination. In my mind, the "video" was a much darker Brothers Grimm or Washington Irving affair. Cool live version here that's better than the video imho...

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