The 20 Best Songs of 2009
Magazine
"Up to Our Nex"Robyn Hitchcock
The great psych-rock surrealist struggles—in unerringly tuneful fashion—to get over, under, and around the feeling of falling in love. "So rad!" "How sad!" Neither. Both. Beautiful.
"Life in Marvelous Times"Mos Def
Over a triumphant beat, Mos futurizes and postulates a Brooklyn of sidewalk sin and sympathy, then concludes, "We can’t be alive in no time but now."
"Raindrops" Basement Jaxx
Pop music's MDMA moment came and went. This track brings it back—giddier. Go kiss a stranger.
"This Tornado Loves You"Neko Case
Anthropomorphizing meteorological phenomena sounds like the stuff of kids' music; Case's breathy coo puts an end to that idea real fast.
"Bulletproof" La Roux
A perfect pop hook backed by bubbly eight-bit bloops and delivered by a ginger-pomp'd cross between Annie Lennox and a replicant. The superhuman league.
154 Comments
Click here to comment- Posted By musiclover2161
06.08.10 5:00 PM
you must be one of those people who dislike mainstream music becasue its mainstream. Half these bands I have never even heard of. AND THERE IS A REASON FOR THAT!!1 Whatever that may be. Not saying they suck, but they are not as good as KOL or Paramore Band of Horses etc.
- Posted By Anonymous
06.08.10 4:56 PM
why exactly does spin suck? Most of these bands are so not mainstream. A band doesnt have to be mainstream to be good, but why is it that these mags feel the need to think they are cool and pick all of these bands that the masses have never heard of. In this day and age you dont have to have radio play to be mainstream. The internet takes care of that for you.
- Posted By Anonymous
05.08.10 9:47 PM
not bad choices but kings of leon suck and that song is a gigantic rip off of 'dont save us from the flames' by the lovely m83. and i like that girls song, but above my girls and walkabout...hell naw. girls are a little overrated in my opinion (sounds weird to say haha), but they still have some decent stuff.
- Posted By Smellslikeacorpse
04.26.10 10:08 PM
whats wrong with you people???
these songs arent personally my picks for best song of 2009
but they are pretty good and 100 quintillion times better than anything that was or still is playing on kiss fm
or everyone on myspace is ****ting about while taking duckface pictures of themselves and uploading it on the internet!
so if you absolutely believe that the black eye peas, Ke$ha, paramore, taylor swift, justin beiber or any of those bastards and whores for musicians deserve a spot on this real critical listing
you better go back to reading more seventeen and watching 16 and pregnant
**** off and have a great day you ingnorant teenagers!
- Posted By Smellslikeacorpse
04.26.10 9:59 PM
kid this site and maganize isnt for you then.
if you like taylor swift go to tiger beat or seventeen for some downloads.
- Posted By Anonymous
04.26.10 3:45 PM
I feel that these songs are the type where you listen to them for a month straight and may never listen to them again. I would have enjoyed seeing maybe some Passion Pit, Vampire Weekend, Arcade Fire, or Band of Horses ect. I really enjoyed seeing Animal Collective that high up on the list, but i disagree on the number one spot. Yes, it is a great song, but is it the greatest song of the year 2009?
- Posted By Anonymous
03.29.10 11:55 AM
Alot of good choices, but I agree with glisterine, the track successful is the most polluting piece of aural diarrhea I've ever heard, evidenced by the fact that Trey Songz (yes good name), thinks that cars and clothes are a measure of success. This lust for material things is the most insidious vaporous not to mention damaging element in music and western society and so prominent in rap (importantly not hip hop). This music makes me want to self harm.
- Posted By Anonymous
03.27.10 10:20 PM
I love the Top 40 lovers! People who are wondering about the whereabouts of Green Day, Black Eyed Peas and Linkin Park, read the heading: "Best Songs of 2009." They would have had to have written/performed a GOOD song to make the list. Green Day hasn't written a good song since 39/Smooth, Kerplunk and even Dookie. The other 2 acts have never written a good song especially Linkin Park.
- Posted By Anon
03.21.10 8:47 PM
I find your comment hilarious because you sound entirely dim. The point of this list was that it was an opinion of what this author thought to be the best of 2009, and if I may shove my own opinion in here, why would the Black Eyed Peas even be on a "Best of 2009" list anyways? The author of this picked songs that were for the most part unknown and still very very good, and with actual depth to them, rather than moronic but catchy songs such as "Party In The USA," anything by Ke$ha, and by your apparent favorite band "I Gotta Feeling."
- Posted By Anonymous
03.17.10 9:53 AM
"So here, with a regal hip check, she strides off by her lonesome, resplendent synth riff all aquiver, cooing, "Get your leather on," as we gambol on the grave of 2009’s tragic, orgiastic flimflam."
Anyone who knows anything about writing would tear this apart.
Resplendent?
Gambol?
Orgiastic flim-flam?
You're almost trying to sound like a hack. I hope that's what your aim is.
08.24.10 7:08 AM
WTF-I even dont know any of this songs just bullet proof...