My Best of 2009Hello All,
What bubbles with excitement, makes you reflect on your past, and comes at the end of the year? No, not champagne silly, end of the year lists! Lists are a great way to compartmentalize and compact the past year into tiny little numbered details. This year we are fortunate to be hit with an onslaught of “best of the decade list” (no joke I saw a “best car chases of the decade” special on TV the other day). I present my favorite tracks, albums, and concerts from 2009. Maybe you can listen to it while you are drinking all that champagne…
Cheers to a great year in music!
PS. If someone figures out what to call the next decade, please let me know. (The teen’s?)
Tracks
1) Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
2) Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
3) Delorean - Deli
4) The Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the Move
5) Hey Champ - Cold Dust Girl
6) Camera Obscura - French Navy
7) Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension
8) Girls - Lust for Life
9) Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane Remix)
10) Grizzly Bear - While You Wait for the Others
11) The National - So Far Around the Bend
12) Phoenix - 1901
13) Vega - No Reasons
14) Discovery - Can You Discover
15) Solid Gold - Synchronize
16) YACHT - Psychic City
17) The xx - Islands
18) Delorean - Seasun
19) Memory Tapes - Bicycle
20) Neon Indian - Terminally Chill
Albums
1) Passion Pit - Manners
2) Girls - Album
3) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amedeus Phoenix
4) Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
5) The xx - xx
6) Various Artists - Dark Was The Night
7) YACHT - See Mystery Lights
8) Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
9) Discovery - LP
10) Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Honorable Mention
> Matt & Kim - Grand
> Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
> Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
> Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Concerts
1) Band of Horses - Lollapalooza
2) Passion Pit - Lollapalooza
3) The National - Pitchfork Music Festival
4) Friendly Fires / The xx - Bottom Lounge
5) Neon Indian - Lincoln Hall
6) Ra Ra Riot / Princeton - Schubas
7) Passion Pit - Apple Store (Michigan Ave, Chicago)
8) Santigold - Lollapalooza
9) Fleet Foxes - Lollapalooza
10) Crookers - Lollapalooza
