Saturday, January 09, 2010

The Best of 2009: Songs 100 to 1

A little late, admittedly...but I wanted to fully process all of those 12/29 releases. Select downloads below.


100 >> Condo Fucks, “What’cha Gonna Do About It?”

99 >> Devendra Banhart, “Baby”

98 >> Ah Holly Fam'ly, “All Unfolding”

97 >> The Soundtrack of Our Lives, “Flipside”

96 >> Lily Allen, “The Fear”

95 >> The Flaming Lips (feat. Karen O), “Watching the Planets”

94 >> Speech Debelle, “Spinnin’”

93 >> Lou Barlow, “Too Much Freedom”

92 >> Erin McKeown, “The Foxes”

91 >> Annie, “I Don’t Like Your Band”

90 >> Art Brut, “Summer Job”

89 >> Kurt Vile, “My Best Friends (Don”t Even Pass)”

88 >> The Antlers, “Bear”

87 >> Patrick Watson, “Big Bird in a Small Cage”

86 >> Dent May, “26 Miles (Santa Catalina)”

85 >> Bob Mould, “I’m Sorry Baby, But You Can’t Stand in My Light Anymore”

84 >> Blame Ringo, “Garble Arch”

83 >> Liechtenstein, “Postcard”

82 >> White Rabbits, “Percussion Gun”

81 >> Here We Go Magic, “Fangala”

80 >> Marina & the Diamonds, “Mowgli’s Road”

79 >> Jail, “No Mindless Love”

78 >> Matt & Kim, “Daylight”

77 >> The Mountain Goats, “Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace”

76 >> Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, “Natural Light”

75 >> Burning Hearts, “I Lost My Colour Vision”

74 >> Ben Kweller, “Fight”

73 >> Dinosaur Jr., “I Want You to Know”

72 >> Monsters of Folk, “Say Please”

71 >> Andrew Bird, “Oh No”

70 >> The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, “Everything With You”

69 >> The Raveonettes, “Suicide”

68 >> Deer Tick, “Easy”

67 >> Wye Oak, “Take It In”

66 >> Wussy, “Muscle Cars”

65 >> M. Ward (feat. Zooey Deschanel), “Never Had Nobody Like You”

64 >> Cuddle Magic, “Expectations”

63 >> Handsome Furs, “I’m Confused”

62 >> Young Galaxy, “Destroyer”

61 >> Fruit Bats, “My Unusual Friend”

60 >> Immaculate Machine, “Sound the Alarms”

59 >> Neon Indian, “Deadbeat Summer”

58 >> Woods, “Get Back”

57 >> Regina Spektor, “Folding Chair”

56 >> Tegan and Sara, “Hell”

55 >> The Thermals, “Now We Can See”

54 >> Miike Snow, “Animal”

53 >> Lady GaGa, “Poker Face”

52 >> Surfer Blood, “Swim (To Reach the End)”

51 >> We Were Promised Jetpacks, “Roll Up Your Sleeves”

50 >> Daniel Johnston, “Mind Movies”

49 >> St. Vincent, “Actor Out of Work”

48 >> Crocodiles, “I Wanna Kill”

47 >> BOAT, “Name Tossers”

46 >> Vic Chesnutt, “Flirted With You All My Life”

45 >> God Help the Girl, “Come Monday Night”

44 >> Bishop Allen, “The Ancient Commonsense of Things”

43 >> Eels, “My Timing Is Off”

42 >> Ha Ha Tonka, “Close Every Valve to Your Bleeding Heart”

41 >> Camera Obscura, “My Maudlin Career”

40 >> Fanfarlo, “I’m a Pilot”

39 >> Southeast Engine, “Preparing for the Flood”

38 >> Telekinesis, “I Saw Lightning”

37 >> The Decemberists, “Annan Water”

36 >> Jay Reatard, “Wounded”

35 >> The Swell Season, “Feeling the Pull”

34 >> Lonely, Dear, “I Was Only Going Out”

33 >> Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, “Cardinal Rules”

32 >> J. Tillman, “Though I Have Wronged You”

31 >> The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, “Contender”

30 >> Girls, “Lust for Life”

29 >> Tegan and Sara, “The Ocean”

28 >> The Mountain Goats, “1 John 4:16”

27 >> Matt & Kim, “Good Ol’ Fashioned Nightmare”

26 >> Vetiver, “Everyday”

25 >> Dirty Projectors, “No Intention”

24 >> The Swell Season, “The Verb”

23 >> Wilco (feat. Feist), “You and I”

22 >> Arcade Fire, “Lenin”

21 >> Harlem Shakes, “Sunlight”

20 >> Neko Case, “I’m an Animal”

19 >> The Avett Brothers, “I and Love and You”

18 >> Cave Singers, “Beach House”

17 >> El Perro Del Mar, “Change of Heart”

16 >> Animal Collective, “My Girls”

15 >> Sharon Van Etten, “Much More Than That”

14 >> Phoenix, “Lisztomania”

13 >> Bowerbirds, “Northern Lights”

12 >> A.C. Newman , “There Are Maybe Ten or Twelve”

11 >> Cains and Abels, “My Life Is Easy”

10 >> Emmy the Great, “MIA”

9 >> The National, “So Far Around the Bend

8 >> Bon Iver, “Blood Bank”

7 >> Andrew Bird, “Natural Disaster”

6 >> Grizzly Bear, “Two Weeks”

5 >> Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Hysteric”

4 >> The Antlers, “Two Weeks”

3 >> Neko Case, “People Got a Lot of Nerve”

2 >> Dirty Projectors and David Byrne, “Knotty Pine”

1 >> Phoenix, “1901"


Download the top 25:

Part 1 (No. 25 to 16): http://bit.ly/2009_25to16

Part 2 (Top 15): http://bit.ly/2009_top15


The links are good until 1/16. After downloaded and unzipped, drag+drop both folders into iTunes. Then sort by track number, which will display as a countdown (The #1 song will be listed as Track 25.)