BEST SONGS OF 2009
These are my 75 favourite songs of 2009: songs I love more than peaches & pears. I follow one arbitrary rule: that no artist may be listed twice. I made similar lists in 2005 , 2006 , 2007 and 2008 . Of course this year I did the daftest thing and expanded from fiftysomething to 75 best tunes. Guys, I had to. The best way to browse this list is to click the little arrow beside each song and then to listen as you read. The things [...]
- Abe Vigoda - Wild Heart
- Ah Holly Faml'y - All Unfolding
- Andrew Cedermark - Hard Livin.
- Animal Collective - My Girls
- Bear In Heaven - Lovesick Teenagers
- Bill Callahan - The Breeze / My Baby Cries
- Blackout Beach - Cloud Of Evil
- Blame Ringo - Garble Arch
- Bombadil - Sad Birthday
- Bon Iver - Blood Bank
- Burning Hearts - I Lost My Colour Vision
- Cains & Abels - My Life Is Easy
- Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Natural Light
- Clues - Approach The Throne
- Cryptacize - The Cage
- Cuddle Magic - Expectations
- Daniel Johnston - Mind Movies
- Devendra Banhart - Baby
- dirty projectors - no intention
- Dirty Projectors + David Byrne - Knotty Pine
- Discovery - It's Not My Fault (It's My Fault)
- Drake feat. R. Kelly - Best I Ever Had (Skeemix)
- El Perro del Mar - Change of Heart
- Elfin Saddle - The Bringer
- Emmy The Great - MIA
- Emperor X - A Violent Translation of the Concordia Headscarp
- Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart
- Flaming Lips - Watching The Planets (feat Karen O)
- Girls - Hellhole Ratrace
- Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
- Haunted House - Sierra Trail
- Here We Go Magic - Fangala
- HIGHLIFE - F KENYA RIP
- Iron & Wine - The Trapeze Swinger
- Julie Doiron - When Brakes Get Wet
- Kelis - Acapella
- Kid Cudi - Make Her Say (Feat. Kanye West, Common & A-Trak)
- Land of Talk - Sixteen Asterisk
- Major Lazer - Pon de Floor (feat. VYBZ Kartel)
- Matias Aguayo - Rollerskate (Radio Edit)
- Micachu & the Shapes - Golden Phone
- Mirah - The River
- Mount Eerie - Ancient Questions
- Nneka - Heartbeat
- Noah And The Whale - Blue Skies
- Nurses - Technicolor
- Ola Podrida - Donkey
- Patrick Watson - Big Bird in a Small Cage
- Rattail - Go Green
- Rihanna Ft. The Dream - Hatin On The Club
- Rye Rye - Bang ft. M.I.A.
- Shakira - She Wolf
- Sharon Van Etten - Much More Than That
- Shelby Sifers - Are You Devo (The Spirituals Remix)
- Sister Suvi - Deadwood
- Slaraffenland - Away
- Sleigh Bells - Crown On The Ground
- Smith Westerns - Tonight
- Speech Debelle - Spinnin'
- Swan Lake - Paper Lace
- The Antlers - Two
- The Daredevil Christopher Wright - Clouds
- The Dream - Rockin That Shit
- The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea
- The National - So Far Around The Bend
- The XX - Islands
- tUnE-YaRdS - HATARI
- Twin Sister - I Want a House
- Vic Chesnutt - Flirted With You All My Life
- Wild Beasts - All The Kings Men
- Withered Hand - Hard On
- Woods - The Dark
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hysteric
- Yeasayer - Tightrope
- Young Galaxy - Destroyer





















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