When I decided to compile a list of “The Best of 2009,” I was very conscious that I did not want it to reflect just my opinions or be this "definitive" list that preaches this is what everyone must listen to. So over two evenings, Italian food, and a few insults, five of us gathered together and listed our favorites in four categories: albums, tracks, videos, and album covers, which is something that often goes ignored in the digital world. Ascribing a scoring system, with each position receiving a predetermined amount of points, we compiled the list to reflect our collective taste, and not our individual preferences. We kept conscious to a very specific scope: that which was posted onto the blog and released in 2009. And we make no pretext, this is just our collective opinion (feel free to share your own and even disagree with us).
So with no further ado l present to you our collective list of “The Best of 2009.” Perhaps somewhere on this list and / or the pages of this blog, the next iconic artists are present.
(Please note, the lists are presented in alphabetical order by album, track, or video title, not rank.)
Top Albums
Hello Seahorse!: “Bestia”
Hello Seahorse! - Después
Hello Seahorse! | MySpace Music Videos
Hello Seahorse! - Criminal (Video Oficial!)
Hello Seahorse! | MySpace Music Videos
Jason Ricci and New Blood: “Done with the Devil”
Royksopp: “Junior”
Röyksopp Happy Up Here'
Röyksopp | MySpace Music Videos
This Must Be It
Röyksopp | MySpace Music Videos
Little Boots: “Hands”
Editors: “In This Light and On This Evening”
IAMX: “Kingdom of Welcome Addiction”
The Horrors: “Primary Colours”
Shakespears Sister: “Songs from the Red Room”
Transbeauce: “Stories on the Radio”
Street Sweeper Social Club: “Street Sweeper Social Club”
Top Tracks
Simon Scott: “The ACC”
Royksopp, featuring Robyn: “The Girl and the Robot”
Royksopp, featuring Robyn: “The Girl and the Robot”
Thursday: “Love Has Led Us Astray”
Thursday: “Love Has Led Us Astray”
Annie Lennox: “Shining Light”
Little Boots: “Symmetry”
Undisclosed Desires
MUSE | MySpace Music Videos
Top Videos
Doctor, Doctor
JUST JACK>> ON TOUR OCT/NOV!!! | MySpace Music Videos
For What It's Worth
Placebo | MySpace Music Videos
Röyksopp 'The Girl And The Robot'
Röyksopp | MySpace Music Videos
Omen
The Prodigy | MySpace Music Videos
Depeche Mode - "Wrong" (official music video)
Depeche Mode | MySpace Music Videos
Top Covers
Elysian Fields: “Afterlife”
The Answering Machine: “Another City, Another Sorry”
Our Lady Peace: “Burn Burn”
Manic Street Preachers: “Journal for Plague Lovers”
Stereophonics: “Keep Calm and Carry On”
The Boy Least Likely To: “The Law of the Playground”
Franz Ferdinand: “Tonight: Franz Ferdinand”
The View: “Which Bitch?”
Morrissey: “Years of Refusal”
Wake the President: “You Can’t Change That Boy”
Keep up with these amazing bands at the following sites:
The Answering Machine: homepage, MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter
Baddies: MySpace
Black Lips: homepage and MySpace
The Boy Least Likely To: homepage, MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter
Depeche Mode: homepage, MySpace, and Facebook
Editors: homepage and MySpace
Elysian Fields: homepage and MySpace
Franz Ferdinand: homepage and MySpace.
Friendly Fires: homepage and MySpace
Hello Seahorse!: homepage and MySpace
The Horrors: homepage and MySpace
IAMX: homepage, MySpace, and Facebook
Jason Ricci and New Blood: homepage, MySpace, and Facebook
Just Jack: MySpace
Kasabian: homepage, MySpace, and Facebook
Annie Lennox: homepage, MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter
Little Boots: homepage and MySpace
Manic Street Preachers: homepage, MySpace, and Facebook
Morrissey: homepage and MySpace
Muse: homepage, MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter
Our Lady Peace: homepage, MySpace, and Facebook
Placebo: homepage, MySpace, and Facebook
The Prodigy: homepage and MySpace
Royksopp: homepage and MySpace
Simon Scott: MySpace and Keshhhhh (Scott's label)
Shakespears Sister: homepage, MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter
Stereophonics: homepage, MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter
Street Sweeper Social Club: homepage, MySpace, and Facebook
Thursday: homepage and MySpace
Transbeauce: homepage and MySpace
Trip: MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter
The Twilight Sad: homepage and MySpace
The View: homepage and MySpace
Wake the President: MySpace
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: homepage, MySpace, and Facebook
while i was reading this and going down the list my secret hopes would be that friendly fires would appear on it....AND THEY DID!!! so excited that they did show up on the list they deserve to be on it! WOOOO! <3 <3
ReplyDeleteI am open to all kinds of music and will give my opinion.well i dont listen to pop much but little boots is amazing i like both her music and her videos. i am X i have never heard of but from what is here i like there music and video. i have found new bands to listen to. i hope to expand my libary of music and i am open to listen to anything.
ReplyDeleteas i was reading this blog i reminisced on the music i listened to this year. A lot of it was mainstream music that everyone listens to, better known as "radio music". I'm happy that later into the year i broadened my listening to people like "Little boots" and "the editors" and now i see that radio music is crap compared to real artists out there. Not saying that everything on the radio is bad, just most of it isn't all its wrapped up to be. I hope that many of the artists on this list become even more famous in the U.S and get the props they deserve. =)
ReplyDeleteYou know the whole mainstream thing?
ReplyDeleteThat's me right there.
I mean, the only artists here that I knew and had in my Ipod where Royksopp, The Prodigy, Little Boots (whom I adore to bits!), and well, of course, Placebo (the best thing that had happened to me after Muse).
But it is fact, that most mainstream stuff is really fake compared to the opposing. Mainstream is all "popstar-cookie-cutter" stuff, you know what I mean?
And thanks for putting this up, like, I am so in love with IAMX and Editors.
You should put up an article about how mainstream stuff affects society today, cause it like, so does...well if you haven't done so already, cause you seem to have a lot of articles up.
Yeah.
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ReplyDeleteI am not surprised at all that Muse, Placebo, and Depeche Mode made was on this list. "Undisclosed Desires" is one my favorite singles of the past year. Never get tired of hearing that one. Royksopp "The Girl and the Robot" featuring Robyn is a great. Love her voice. That live performance was awesome. Hears a suggestion, best live performance of '09.
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