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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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Animal Collective takes it all! Merriweather Post Pavilion is the absolute best album of the year and “My Girls” is the best song I’ve heard in a very long time.
hrmm…
dull life>lisztomania>moth’s wings>two weeks
best album will be Ellipse – Imogen Heap
Dada Life – Happy Hands & Happy Feet = Song
Clara Luzia – The Ground Below = Album
Best Song – Chiddy Bang – Truth
Best Album – Passion Pit – Manners / Royksopp – Junior
Albums:
Fever Ray – Fever Ray (soooo good!)
Jenny Wilson – Hardships!
Songs
Royksopp – The Girl and the Robot
Phoenix – Lisztomania (Classixx Remix)
Annie – Antonio (Designer Drugs Remix)
Bat For Lashes – Daniel (Duke Dumont vs. Youth Attack! Remix)
Pony Pony Run Run – Hey You (Mondkopf Remix)
La Roux – In For The Kill (Skream’s Let Get Ravey Mix)
And so much more!!
2nd half I’m looking forward to Florence and the Machine and Zero 7!
BOLC PARTY – INTIMACY – SIGNS
Favorite album: In a Perfect World… – Keri Hilson
Favorite song: (tie) Lay Back – Rick Ross feat. Robin Thicke & Do It – Keri Hilson
Album: Grammatics-S/T
Song: La Roux- Bulletproof
DOWNLOAD THEM BOTH NOW!!
I am shocked that no one has said “It’s Blitz!”
song- Stillness is the move by the Dirty Projectors
so far for albums
Bitte Orca
MPP
or VECKI
Passion Pit-Manners
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Its Blitz!
New in Town single-Little Boots
Songs:
Bat for Lashes – Pearl’s dream
Bat for Lashes – Moon and moon
Bat for Lashes – Glass
Chester French feat. Pharrell & Jermaine Dupri – Life in L.A.
Dan Black – Yours (Blaqstar remix)
Daniel Merriweather feat. Adele – Water and a flame
Empire of the Sun – Tiger by my side
Empire of the Sun – We are the people
Empire of the Sun – Walking on a dream
Frankmusik – Gotta boyfriend
Franz Ferdinand – No you girls
Franz Ferdinand – Live alone/The vaguest of feeling (b side)
KiD Cudi – Sky might fall
KiD Cudi feat. Kanye West & Common – Poke her face
KiD Cudi – Switchin lanes
La Roux – In for the kill (Skream’s let’s get ravy remix)
Lily Allen – Back to the start
Little Boots – Stuck on repeat
Little Boots – Click
Little Boots feat. Phillip Oakey – Symmetry
Patrick Wolf – Count of casualty
Patrick Wolf – Hard times
Patrick Wolf – The bachelor
Phoenix – 1901
Phoenix – Lisztomania
Royksopp feat. Robyn – The girl and the robot
Royksopp feat. Lykke Li – Miss it so much
Simian Mobile Disco – Audacity of huge
Solid Gold – Bible thumper
The Streets – I love my phone
The Streets – A blip on a screen
The xx – Crystalised
Wale feat. Lady Gaga – Chillin’
Wale – Family affair
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Dull life
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Runawayy
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads will roll
as far as the album goes just copy the respective albums from above, like
Bat for Lashes – Two Suns
Patrick Wolf – The Bachelor
Empire of the Sun – Walking on a dream
It’s going to be hard at the end of the year to make the list of the best 40 songs of the year
Albums: filthy dukes – nonsense in the dark , tiga – ciao!, phoenix – wolgang amadeus phoenix, passion pit – manners.
Songs: phoenix – 1901, chiddy bang/MGMT – kids, filthy dukes – messages, tommy sparks – shes got me dancing, tiga – shoes.
and many more! soild year so far
Songs:
Big Bang & 2NE1 – Lollipop
Bat For Lashes – Daniel
Röyksopp – The Girl And The Robot
Album:
Utada – This Is The One
YEAH YEAH YEAHS
Best Album of the first half is Dragonslayer by Sunset RubdownWoot Woot!
Song: “While You Wait For the Others” – Grizzly Bear
Album: Bitte Orca, Dirty Projectors
BEST OF 2009
01) ANIMAL COLLECTTIVE – MERRYWETHER POST PAVILLION
02) PASSION PIT – MANNERS
03) WHITE LIES – TO LOSE MY LIFE
04) BLACK EYED PEAS – THE E.N.D
05) LITTLE BOOTS – HANDS
06) FRANZ FERDINAND – TONIGHT
07) MOVEIS COLONIAIS – COMPLETE ME (brazilian band-awesome)
08) ERIK HASSLE – HASSLE
09) GRIZZLY BEAR – VECKATIMESH
10) LILY ALLEN – IT’S NOT ME, IT’S YOU
Song: 80Kidz – Flying Buttress
Album: Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
hahaha
little boots > grizzly bear
get away
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song: Franz Ferdinand – Ulysses
album: Telekenesis (s/t)
Zero or My Girls.
song: “Two” – The Antlers
album: Dirty Pubs & Bouncing Rooms – All the King’s Men
Top 5 songs:
The Big Pink: Velvet
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Zero
Passion Pit: Sleepy Head
Bat for Lashes: Daniel
The Maccabees: Love You Better
Best album: It’s Blitz
Songs Two Weeks – Grizz, Moths Wings – PP , Girlfirend – Phoenix, The Veils – Sit Down By The Fire
Album: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Anticpating Humbug to be my favourite album when it comes out haha
Fearless by Taylor Swift, it came out last winter but most of its hype has been this year. It’s fantastic. There’s a reason it’s the best selling album of the year so far and why she was the best selling artist last year.
Also, Good Girls Go Bad by Cobra Starship is fantastic and their upcoming album is sure to be rad.
Best album: either Peaches or Little Boots. But I get the feeling Portugal. The Man may take the cake. Best song: Idiot Heart by Sunset Rubdown.
i really really really like “Taste” by Animal Collective… i’m probs alone on that… and its not a single.
ALBUM:
Circus – Britney Spears
SONG:
If U Seek Amy – Britney Spears
Radar – Britney Spears
Album is definitely Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors, followed closely by Veckatimest and Merriweather Post Pavilion.
Favorite song is much tougher. So many great options, but I think it narrows down between “Useful Chamber” from Bitte Orca, “My Girls” from Merriweather Post Pavillion, “Two Weeks” from Veckatimest, “Lisztomania” from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix, and “Little Secrets” from Manners by Passion Pit. And then there’s tons more.
Gosh, there’s been so much good music this year, and we’re only half-way through! It’s amazing! I am really looking forward to a great second half of the year.
Songs:
“Skeletons” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
“If I Had A Heart” by Fever Ray
“Daylight and the Sun” by Antony & The Johnsons
“My Girls” by Animal Collective
Albums:
Fever Ray by Fever Ray
Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective
The Crying Light by Antony & The Johnsons
It’s Blitz! by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
A bunch of other stuff, too. I’m too lazy to list them all off. These are the songs/albums that have really really impressed be so far, though. Fever Ray’s especially.
I’m going all Baltimore on this one:
Animal Collective – MPP
Dan Deacon – Bromst
Wye Oak – The Knot (wont be out til July but oh well)
Double Dagger – More
also
Phoenix – Wolfgang
YYYs – Its Blitz
GB – Veckatimest
Fever Ray
Seriously…this year hasnt been great for music. But if I had to name best song or songs: 1901 and The Reeling. As for best album, none are that great to named album of the year.
kasabian-underdog
Album: ANIMAL COLLECTTIVE – MERRYWETHER POST PAVILLION
Song: LITTLE BOOTS – MEDDLE (TREASURE FINGERS REMIX)
H@!
song: Japandroids – Young Hearts Spark Fire (Lisztomania and Summertime Clothes come in close seconds)
album: Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca (Veckatimest, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Post-Nothing, MPP, Fever Ray)
Song:
Lisztomania – Phoenix
Something Good Can Work – Two Door Cinema Club
Oscar Wilde – Company of Thieves
Sparxxx – The Love Language
Röyksopp Forever – Röyksopp
Perfect Fit – Clues
Album:
The Love Language – The Love Language
Primary Colours – The Horrors
Dark Night of the Soul – Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse
Clues – Clues
Bitte Orca – Dirty Projectors
Amanda Blank – Might Like You Better
Men – Off Our Backs
N.E.R.D. Feat Santigold & Lil Wayne – Soldier
La Roux – Bulletproof
& oh so many more:D
Why the hell does everyone post at least twenty favourite albums while they’re clearly asked for one.
Song: delphic. – Counterpoint
Album: Tiga – Ciao!
Compilation: Valerie and Friends
Album: Royksopp – Junior
Song: Stillness Is The Move – Dirty Projectors
Remix: TORN BETWEEN:
1. Please Don’t Touch (The Golden Filter Vocal Edit) – Polly Scattergood, for the GINORMOUS improvement that The Golden Filter did for this song; and
2. Lisztomania (Classixx Version) – Phoenix. JUST WOW.
Hmmm.. Interesting one… I’d say it’s one of the following:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
Little Boots – Hands (Remedy is just A-M-A-Z-I-N-G)
Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You
Grizzly Bear – Ready, Able
PEACHES i feel cream.
Albums of the year: 1. MPP
2. Passion Pit- Manners
3. Harlem Shakes
4. Phoenix
5. Grizzly Bear
Song of the year? SLEEPYHEAD (or LITTLE SECRETS), TWO WEEKS (or WHILE YOU WAIT FOR THE OTHERS), or MY GIRLS (or IN THE FLOWERS).
commercially…Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
actually…Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Song: Grizzly Bear – While You Wait For The Others (no question, the song is a perfect classic)
Empire of the Sun – Walking On a Dream (Album)
Harlem Shakes – Technicolor Health (Album)
albums:
Metric – Fantasies
Phoenix – WAP
The Antlers – Hospice
song? New In Town! & Alex Metric Remix of Lisztomania
Favorite album: NASA Spirit of Apollo
Favorite song: New in town by little boots, the original recording, that might of been leaked. she re-recorded it and i couldn’t get into it.
Songs and Albums
Lisztomania-Phoenix-Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Wet Hair-Japandroids-Post-Nothing
Useful Chamber- Dirty Projectors-Bitte Orca
Orange Shirt- Discovery-LP
My Girls-Animal Collective-MPP
Two Weeks-Grizzly Bear-Vecki
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.
Oh oh oh agree NASA
Album – Merriweather Post Pavillion
Song – Summertime cloths
Honorable mention – Veckatimest, The Estatic, Rainwater Cassette Exchange
album: veckatimest (grizzly bear) / lp (discovery)
song: stillness is the move (dirty projectors) / two weeks (grizzly bear) / swing tree (discovery)
I am going to have to say A Camp’s Colonia for album, and Chinatown as song (which is from Colonia).
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!
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
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
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.
Miike Snow – Animal
Either ‘Invaders Must Die’ by The Prodigy
Or ‘The Spirit Of Apollo’ by N.A.S.A
fave album, the noisettes – wild young hearts
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
How the fuck has no one mentioned the White Rabbits?
Sheep.
The Girl And The Robot is the BEST!!!!
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.
Album: N.A.S.A – Spirit of Apollo
Song: Miike Snow – Animal
Love and War by Daniel Merriweather has defs been my fave album of 09.
Dan Black – Symphonies (Passion Pit Remix)
Can’t get enough of Chiddy Bang’s Truth.
Best song: La Roux – Bulletproof
Best album: Little Boots – Hands
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.
MAJOR LAZER
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
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
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
forgot to include in Best Songs:
Dirty Projectors – Useful Chamber
Best album: Royksopp – Junior
Runner-up: Lily Allen – The Fear
Best song: The Girl and the Robot – Royksopp
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