The 20 Best Songs of 2009
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"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.
122 Comments
Click here to comment- Posted By Anonymous
02.26.10 8:15 PM
Mmm the top 5 is simply delightful, not sure if I would've said the top but deffinetly up there. Throw some Passion Pit and Vampire Weekend in there and i'll be happy ha ha. Perhaps a better Florence and the Machine song too, even though I do love the one chossen, I think there is better.
- Posted By re4all
02.23.10 6:43 PM
I agree! where is Green Day! It should be be right there on the list. solar store alternative energy sources solar power cost
- Posted By Anonymouss
02.08.10 4:20 AM
What?? These songs are rubbish!! Not a single good song! I'm so disappointed in the people who chose these song!! The only one I have ever heard is Bulletproof!!
*Sigh*
- Posted By Anonymous
02.03.10 7:24 AM
I am so glad 1901 is on this list:D & of course no 2009 best of list would be complete without kings of leon. use somebody is a great song
would have loved to see Help I'm Alive - Metric on this list too
and the 59 sound - gaslight anthem. that song really deserves more attention.
- Posted By AzPaz
01.22.10 2:53 AM
My top 20 (coming from someone in Australia, so there may be artists you never heared of and order is no object). Sorry grant you need to change your one dimensional music taste, that was one of the worst top 20 I have seen.
1. Little Lion Man - Mumford and Son
2. Broken Leg - Bluejuice
3. Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
4. Fire - Kasabian
5. Uprising - Muse
6. Sleepyhead - Passion Pit
7. The Good News - Philadelphia Grand Jury
8. Summertime Clothes - Animal Collective (agree with Kaley on that one)
9. 1901 - Phoenix
10. Horchata - Vampire Weekend
11. Parlez Vous Francais ? - Art Vs Science
12. I've got friends - Manchester Orhestra
13. Ain't Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo) - Blakroc
14. Dominos - The Big Pink
15. With this ship - The Basics
16. Zero - Yeah yeah yeahs
17. Over it - Dinosaur Jr
18. Heart - Bertie Blackmann
19. Help I'm Alive - Metric
20. Scumbag Blues - Them Crooked VulturesThere are some from this list, but agree with them..thanks for reading my self-indulgent list.
- Posted By grant
01.21.10 2:08 PM
my top 20
1. The Fear - Lily Allen
2. Poker Face - Lady GaGa
3. I Gotta Feeling - Black eyed peas
4. just dance - lady gaga
5. boom boom pow - black eyed peas
6. russian **** - rihanna
7. fight for this love - cheryl cole
8. the climb - joe mceldery
9. boys and girls - pixie lott
10. beat again - JLS
11. starstrukk - 3oh!3 and katy perry
12. you are not alone - x factor finalists
13. hard - rihanna
14. bad romance - lady gaga
15. bodies - robbie williams
16. bad boys - alexandra burke
17. ignorance - paramore
18. party in the usa - miley cyrus
19. meet me halfway - black eyed peas
20. ego - the saturdays
03.11.10 5:45 AM
stndrds r dwn dis seasn......... most of em on da list r nt even songs........