The first half of 2009 is almost gone, folks. Come July 1st, we’ll be entering the last half of the year. These past 6 months have given us some amazing music, amiright? What is your favorite song of the past 6 months? Favorite album? Color me curious.
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Efffing epic year for music! Top 5 songs:
Bat For Lashes – Daniel
Royksopp – The Girl & The Robot
Passion Pit – The Reeling
Yeah Yeah Yeah’s – Heads Will Roll
Royksopp – Were You Ever Wanted (Japanese Bonus)
Fave album: Royksopp – Junior
Best video: Royksopp – Happy Up Here
Best album: Royksopp – Junior
Runner-up: Lily Allen – The Fear
Best song: The Girl and the Robot – Royksopp
forgot to include in Best Songs:
Dirty Projectors – Useful Chamber
Best Songs:
Phoenix – Love Like a Sunset
SR – Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh!
AnCo – My Girls
Phoenix – Lisztomania
Grizzly Bear – While You Wait for the Others
AnCo – Brother Sport
Micachu – Vulture
Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
YACHT – Psychic City
SR – Paper Lace
SR – Silver Moons
Neko Case – People Gotta Lotta Nerve
Grizzly Bear – Foreground
Best Albums:
Sunset Rubdown – Dragonslayer
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillon
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why There Are Mountains
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
Biggest Letdowns:
Swan Lake – Enemy Mine
The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love
Peter Bjorn and John – Living Thing
The Thermals – Now We Can See
Franz Ferdinand – Tonight
Iron and Wine – Around the Well
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
Discovery – LP
MAJOR LAZER
A toss up between Closer by Kings of Leon and Shining Down by Lupe Fiasco.
Best album? Nothing really came out in the first half that is worth noting. Prodigy album was pretty crazy though.
Best song: La Roux – Bulletproof
Best album: Little Boots – Hands
Can’t get enough of Chiddy Bang’s Truth.
Dan Black – Symphonies (Passion Pit Remix)
Love and War by Daniel Merriweather has defs been my fave album of 09.
Album: N.A.S.A – Spirit of Apollo
Song: Miike Snow – Animal
I can’t believe I’ve only seen one shout out to Miike Snow! Miike Snow, hands down…favorite album of 2009 so far. For everyone who supports Animal Collective, I agree. Really, Miike Snow is just a poppier Animal Collective. Check it.
The Girl And The Robot is the BEST!!!!
How the fuck has no one mentioned the White Rabbits?
Sheep.
Track of the year: Sunglasses at Night by Skepta
The best album, for me has been Invaders Must Die by Prodigy
Really excited for our mixtape, Calvin Harris, Jay-Z, The Game, Arctic Monkeys, Mark Ronson, Wale & Dizzee Rascal
fave album, the noisettes – wild young hearts
Either ‘Invaders Must Die’ by The Prodigy
Or ‘The Spirit Of Apollo’ by N.A.S.A
Miike Snow – Animal
Best song would be Lisztomania- Phoenix.
My favorite album would be Fuck Bitches. Get Euros- Super Mash Bros. or Veckatimest- Grizzly Bear.
My favorite new artists are definitely Kid Cudi, Chiddy Bang, and U-N-I.
Songs:
Little Boots – Stuck on repeat
Little Boots – New in Town
Röyksopp – The Girl and the Robot
Bat For Lashes – Daniel
The XX – Teardrops
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero
Florence and the Machine – Dog Days Are Over
Albums
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You
Little Boots – Hands
Albums:
Passion Pit – Manners
Metric – Fantasies
Miike Snow – Miike Snow
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Songs:
The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition
Harlem Shakes – Sunlight
James Yuill – No Surprise (Earth Version)
Passion Pit – Sleepyhead (Neo Tokyo Remix)
Phoenix – Lisztomania (The Tremulance Remix)
St. Vincent – Laughing With a Mouth of Blood
Easy to choose. Album definitely is Golden Silvers “True Romance” and the single perhaps The Temper Trap “Science Of Fear”. This year is full of fresh meat, i’m so glad of it!
I am going to have to say A Camp’s Colonia for album, and Chinatown as song (which is from Colonia).
album: veckatimest (grizzly bear) / lp (discovery)
song: stillness is the move (dirty projectors) / two weeks (grizzly bear) / swing tree (discovery)
Album – Merriweather Post Pavillion
Song – Summertime cloths
Honorable mention – Veckatimest, The Estatic, Rainwater Cassette Exchange
Oh oh oh agree NASA
Ebander Holyfield’s Top 5 Songs of 2009:
5. Method Man and Redman – A-Yo
4. Chiddy Bang – Kids
3. One for the Team – Best Supporting Actress
2. Free Energy – Dream City (thanks for posting that!)
1. Girls – Lust for Life
Seriously – thanks for posting 3/5 of those songs. I’m eternally grateful, Luis.