2009: A Brief Retrospective Of Songs
My top 25 songs of the year thus far. |
| 1 | Animal Collective
My Girls
I didn't go ga-ga over Merriweather Post Pavillion like most people, in fact I really don't like this band. But goddamn this is catchy and my most played song from this year. |
| 2 | Mono
Everlasting Light
The piano part is great and as Electric City said, the last ten seconds are probably the best 10 seconds of recent memory. |
| 3 | Grizzly Bear
Ready, Able
Perhaps not the most obvious choice compared to Two Weeks, Southern Point or While You Wait For the Others, but the refrain at the end of this song is what made the album click for me. |
| 4 | Andrew Bird
Souverian
His most underrated record produces perhaps one of his best songs. |
| 5 | maudlin of the Well
Rose Quartz Turning to Glass
First Half = violin ftw. Second Half = vocal melodies ftw. |
| 6 | The Antlers
Two
Pretty. Catchy. Depressing. |
| 7 | Yo La Tengo
Gentle Hours
Dark Was the Night was tailor-made to populate a good chunk of year end song lists. Mine will be no different as you will see. Great, dreamy, piano driven shoegaze. |
| 8 | Bat for Lashes
Daniel
I think she likes the 80's. I think I like that she likes the 80's. |
| 9 | Grizzly Bear
Foreground
God, what a gorgeous closer. |
| 10 | Japandroids
Young Hearts Spark Fire
All I have to say is, "I don't wanna worry about dying / I just wanna worry about those sunshine girls." Best line of the year. |
| 11 | Cymbals Eat Guitars
And the Hazy Sea
It was a tough decision to pick my favourite from their excellent debut. But the opener just lets you know what you're in for perfectly. |
| 12 | Charles Spearin
Vittoria
The change from big band jazz to surf rock is sweet. |
| 13 | Camera Obscura
Honey in the Sun
The horns create a great fanfare and I just love her voice. |
| 14 | St. Vincent
Black Rainbow
Epic ending. |
| 15 | Feist & Ben Gibbard
Train Song
Another Dark Was the Night participant, this is an infectious, low-key folk tune. |
| 16 | Phoenix
Love Like a Sunset (Pt. 1 and 2)
So I'm cheating with this one a bit, who cares. Epic krautrock. |
| 17 | Isis
Hall of the Dead
rawr. |
| 18 | The Decemberists
The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid
No it is not their best song (Crane Wife 1 and 2 and a handful of others say hi) but it does come close |
| 19 | maudlin of the Well
Excerpt From 6,000,000,000,000....
haha, I'm not typing that all out. |
| 20 | Andrew Bird
Effigy
Violin solo makes Noble Beast |
| 21 | Sufjan Stevens
You Are the Blood
This is beyond ridiculous. And that makes it awesome. |
| 22 | Conor Oberst and Gillian Welch
Lua
See, I told you Dark Was the Night had a lot of great stuff. |
| 23 | Dirty Projectors & David Byrne
Knotty Pine
Oh, hey Dark Was the Night. |
| 24 | Charles Spearin
Vanessa
So beautiful. "And then I felt my body, moving with something." |
| 25 | St. Vincent
The Strangers
I love the fuzzed out guitar at the end of this song. |
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