If last year retrospective was called ‘ Laisse Moi Tranquille 2008 ’ since it was quite fitting considering the fact that I wanted nothing else from it, 2009 on the other hand was quite different, like I said in my previous post, it shared it’s own of ups and downs but the pace was more stable than 2008… leaving me time to breathe, which was a very good thing. Anyway, I’ve always found that making lists was a bit egotastic as everyone has different tastes and rarely you will find an universal list for anything, at least a [...]
Happy New Year everyone! To those of you who take even a little time out of your day to stop by this little blog, know that it is greatly appreciated. Hopefully you had an enjoyable holiday season. Now that we all have to get back to the regular business of work, school, and all of the other boring shit we have to do, I thought I'd put together another completely random assortment of tunes from the past year - enjoy: Megafaun - "Kaufman's Ballad" [...]
50) "Dominos" , The Big Pink 49) "Keep It Goin' Louder" , Major Lazer feat. Nina Sky & Ricky Blaze 48) "Idiot Heart" , Sunset Rubdown 47) "Ecstasy" , jj 46) "Sem Cais" , Caetano Veloso 45) "French Navy" , Camera [...]
While googling to find our readers the mp3 links for the Sirius XMU Top 41 of 2099 playlist, it struck me that all these songs have one thing in common. Almost all of these tracks are available via free + legal mp3 sites such as rcrdlbl , Pitchfork , The Fader , Prefix Mag , I Guess I'm Floating , etc. Record labels and upstart bands take note! If you want your new music to make a mark, make an mp3 easy to find and download. [...]
At least we arrive at the top 25 tracks for 2009. Up front warning: Most of these tracks were released in 2009, but a few were actually released earlier but I found them in 2009, hence them showing up on the list below. 25. PET SHOP BOYS In 2009 we saw the the tenth studio album, “Yes”, from the Pet Shop Boys. And in true PSB manner, they delivered a well crafted synth pop track in "Love etc..." [...]
Today is officially the last last day of 2009 so we thought it would be fitting to release our top songs of the year list. Maybe you can even use them to put a little NYE playlist together. As for me I'll be watching the Flaming Lips cover Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon . Everyone have fun and be safe tonight. See you next year. Goodbye year. Goodbye decade. 50. Silversun Pickups | "Growing Old [...]
The year (and decade for that matter) are over in 1 day, and I wanted to wait to the last possible moment to write out my picks. So after much deliberation and consideration, here are my 10 favorite albums of 2009 (And to make things interesting, I am going to attempt to tell you why they are awesome in 140 characters or less): 10: Fanfarlo Reservoir Better with each listen, I am continually drawn into this heavily layered, lush album. Every song so far has been my favorite of [...]
Check out our Top 20 Songs of the year!
I'm no expert here. I'm simply and honestly telling you the songs that I loved this past year - polls, charts, blogs, magazines aside. I avoided adding/removing songs just to reach some practical number, so there are only 24. Here we go with the very subjective and biased Top 24 Songs of 2009! 24. 'This God Damn House' - The Low Anthem Ok, so yes this is a 2007 song, but this version is from the August HearYa Live Sessions . I watched Ben Knox Miller [...]
Here are my top 30 songs of the year. My liking for songs tends to shift, so if you asked me in a month or so, the order of this list would undoubtedly be different, but I think this does accurately reflect my favorite 30 songs. Enjoy. 30. Pursuit of Happiness (Feat. Ratatat and MGMT) - Kid Cudi Very very catchy, and I absolutely love the backing stuff that Ratatat did. I'm a fan of Kid Cudi's voice as well. 29. New Moon Rising – [...]
GSL's Top Albums of 2009 revealed!
In a few days a new decade will begin and we'll have a whole new debate about what to call the decade, but first we must reflect on the final year of the zeroes/naughties. It seems like I talk every year about how surprised I am by the amount of new artists that show up on my end of the year list, but they've really outdone themselves this year with 2/5 of the albums represented on this list being debuts. It was also a year of being blown away by bands that I was never been able to fully invest [...]
für die Wahl unserer Jahrescharts habt ihr ja noch bis zum 5. Januar Zeit, um euch aber die Wahl zumindest in einer Kategorie vereinfachen zu könne, präsentiere ich euch hier die gemeinsamen Top 10 von 14 Musikblogs in Deutschland, darunter auch ich als Repräsentant dieser Seite. Platz 10: Fever Ray – s.t. Das vermeintlich kälteste Album des Jahres, zumindest wenn man die verzerrte Stimme und die dumpfen Synthiesounds die ersten Male auf sich wirken lässt. Doch hinter dem eisigen Wasserfall sind ungeahnte Landschaften zu finden. Ruhig stapft das [...]
New Music | Top 10 Albums 2009 Alas, dear friends, for I fear little Phoenix may have squeezed into the mainstream. And Animal Collective? Really? Maybe we're safe for another year, I don't know. Anyway bonjour and welcome to le top 10 for 2009 as dictated by NMB. No Grizzly Bear, no thanks. No Kasabian, no thanks. Just pure 2009 style quality, a vintage year that competes strongly with 2008 . Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Passion Pit [...]
Our finest 20 records of the year are the ones that are closest to our collective hearts from a San Francisco band's debut to a Kosmische pile-up between Tangerine Dream, Sunno))) and proggy ambient techno to the return of some French Anglophiles, to our highest charting Irish albums, a band on their 13th release, an icy Swedish enigma and a slew of Brooklyn based bands. Albums of 2009: 75-51 | 50-41 | 40-31 | 30-21 | 20-1 [...]
It's that time of the year again! Time for our Best Albums of 2009! This year there were tons of great albums released. I feel there were more this year than last year. Here are some of my favorites in no particular order. I'm sure I probably missed some, but these were the ones I listened to the most. Enjoy! [...]
As the first year for Too Much Happiness comes to a close, I look back and think that it was a pretty good year for music. I wouldn't say it was anything EPIC. Certainly some influential albums here and there, but no real game changers. This is MY personal list of my top 20 favorite albums of 2009. Mine and mine alone. I'm sure Paul and Adam would take exception to many of these (Metric over Phoenix? Paramore over Miike Snow?! Animal Collective is HOW FAR DOWN?!?!), and I'm not even saying these are what I believe [...]
To say the least '09 was an eclectic year for music, from Animal Collective to Kid Cudi, The Xx to Miike Snow, it seems like everyone had their 15 minutes of fame or should I say 15 seconds, I mean it is the internet age after all. However, when it's all said and done, there are certain albums that cut through the ruff loop and find a permanent place in our rotation, Et Musique Pour Tous & forthebeat have come together to highlight those records. I'm not a fan of numbered list so I chose not too put these in [...]
above & beyond mag
5 Score Pachyderm
Bloody Pop
The Color Awesome!
Audio Drums
Salad Days Music
I Hope Your Ears Bleed
GreenShoelace.com Music Box
jetcomx
Listening to the Song in My Head
musicforants.com
Backseat Sandbar
indiestreber.de
New Music Blog
State Magazine
Rubbish
::: Off the Radar :::
Too Much Happiness
Et Musique Pour Tous
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Deadmau5 Returns With Techno Track "Monophobia" After Being Absent For Months
