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2009 Best of Music List
My musical tastes are all over the map. I am not a huge pop fan but every so often something will catch my attention. Country is not my go to music but there are definitely country musicians I admire and listen to. Ultimately, it is about the sound. Sometimes I hear something and know within a few beats, I am going to love this. Other times it will take a while for something to grow on me. I am also surprised every year by a few albums that blow me away and then over time I am less enamored with them. The Mountain Goats were the prime example of this. I could not stop listening to the new album when it came out but by the end of the year I was barely listening to it anymore.
I think the only thing I like more than writing is listening to music. Truthfully, I don’t think I would like writing half as much if I wasn’t listening to music while making words dance for me. I love looking at people’s best of music lists. I scour them for someone that I might have missed and every year I find someone new and interesting. I hope my readers can do the same with my lists. I tried ranking them but the truth is I couldn’t. I liked each of them for vastly different reasons and depending on my mood they would rise or fall on the list.
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California Years Jill Sobule It's Frightening White Rabbits Dancing The Whole Way Home Miss Li Actor St. Vincent Middle Cyclone Neko Case Grrr... Bishop Allen Ordinary Riches Company Of Thieves Face Control Handsome Furs Yes! K-OS About A Girl Winter Gloves It's Blitz Yeah Yeah Yeahs Hometowns The Rural Alberta Advantage Saint Judas Mark Growden Crazy Enough Storm Large 11:11 Rodrigo y Gabriela Artichoke Perfume Zoe Boekbinder Ellipse Imogen Heap Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Phoenix Now We Can See The Thermals Laces Out USS (Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker) The Hazards of Love The Decemberists Fantasies Metric Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle Bill Callahan Far Regina Spektor My favorite songs from the year, once again in no particular order.Song-ArtistPercussion Gun White Rabbits Drumming Song Florence + The Machine Bird Song Florence + The Machine Eight Miles Wide Storm Large Bourgeois Shangri-La Miss Li Polythene Queen Miss Li Palm Springs Jill Sobule All The Difference Red Cortez Fuck You Lily Allen Don't Haunt This Place The Rural Alberta Advantage Marrow St. Vincent The Rake's Song The Decemberists The Wanting Comes In Waves The Decemberists Aha! Imogen Heap People Got A Lotta Nerve Neko Case I Cut Like A Buffalo The Dead Weather All We Want, Baby, Is Everything Handsome Furs Albatross, Albatross, Albatross Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band Two Birds Regina Spektor You Dissolve The Thermals Zero Yeah Yeah Yeahs Paralyzing Zoe Boekbinder Adventures of Turtle & Seahorse Zoe Boekbinder Rooftop Brawl Bishop Allen Eid Ma Clack Shaw Bill Callahan Help I'm Alive Metric Psalms The Mountain Goats Invisible Winter Gloves Fresh Blood Eels Coffee Girl The Tragically Hip In Passing Company of Thieves Saint Judas Mark Growden Satellite Skin Modest Mouse 4321 K-OS This Will Not End Well Wussy Back Stabbin' Betty Cage The Elephant Armistice Phoenix Hanuman Rodrigo y Gabriela Hora Zero Rodrigo y Gabriela Anti-Venom USS (Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker)(Visited 22 times, 1 visits today)One Response to “2009 Best of Music List”
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>I've been meaning to check out Imogen heap. I think I will now. My CAPTCHA is 'outhell" HA.