that said, i still love my blog and miss coming on regularly to rant and rave about stuff i like/dislike in music and pop culture so i'm going to start coming on here on a semi-regular but much more leisurely pace. for reals this time. before letting those good times roll though, i wanted to wrap up what ended up being an exceptional year (not to mention a pretty rad decade) for music. rather than go into those pretentious, long-winded spiels that i've done in the past (those will return in due time), i'm just cutting my losses and dumping all of my major lists for the year below at once. i figure all of these albums are great enough that a few good listens each could explain it better than i would.
i tried to play fair and base my inclusions and rankings on both what i listened to the most and what i see myself continuing to listen to more of in the future.
click below to see what made the cut and let me know what i left out in the comments.
my favorite albums of 2009
20. fuck buttons - tarot sport
19. raekwon - only built 4 cuban linx part 2
18. bat for lashes - two suns
17. antlers - hospice
16. japandroids - post-nothing
15. dirty projectors - bitte orca
14. atlas sound - logos
13. a sunny day in glasgow - ashes grammar
12. washed out - life of leisure ep/high times
11. phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix
my favorite songs of 2009
- animal collective - my girls
- washed out - feel it all around
- jj - ecstasy
- dirty projectors - stillness is the move
- atlas sound - walkabout (feat. noah lennox)
- the xx - crystalised
- VEGA - no reasons
- phoenix - lisztomania
- memory tapes - plain material
- girls - lust for life
- st. vincent - laughing with a mouth of blood
- fever ray - now's the only time i know
- grizzly bear - ready, able
- cold cave - love comes close
- bat for lashes - daniel
- the big pink - velvet
- neon indian - mind, drips
- the golden filter - solid gold
- major lazer - keep it goin' louder
- toro y moi - blessa
- animal collective - what would i want? sky
- a sunny day in glasgow - passionate introverts (dinosaurs)
- washed out - you'll see it
- HEALTH - die slow
- fuck buttons - surf solar
- yeah yeah yeahs - zero
- annie - songs remind me of you
- delorean - deli
- desire - if i can't hold you
- passion pit - moth's wings
- atlas sound - quick canal (feat. laetitia sadier)
- pictureplane - goth star
- museum of bellas artes - who do you love?
- raekwon - house of flying daggers (feat. inspectah deck, ghostface, and method man)
- SALEM - frost
- bear in heaven - lovesick teenager
- girls - summertime
- japandroids - i quit girls
- antlers - two
- neko case - this tornado loves you
my favorite remixes of 2009
florence and the machine - you've got the love (the xx remix)
animal collective - daily routine (phaseone remix)
fever ray - seven (the twelves remix)
au revoir simone - another likely story (aeroplane remix)
small black - despicable dogs (washed out remix)
my favorite albums from the rest of the decade
radiohead - kid a
the arcade fire - funeral
lcd soundsystem - sound of silver
panda bear - person pitch
the knife - silent shout
sigur rós - Ágætis Byrjun
sufjan stevens - illinoise
m.i.a. - kala
outkast - stankonia
the avalanches - since i left you
daft punk - discovery
interpol - turn on the bright lights
white stripes - white blood cells
animal collective - sung tongs
joanna newsom - ys
spoon - kill the moonlight
wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
jay-z - the blueprint
burial - untrue
modest mouse - the moon & antarctica
the strokes - is this it?
the streets - original pirate material
deerhunter - microcastle
hot chip - the warning
broken social scene - you forgot it in people
happy 2010 all.
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