My Personal Best of 2009

[greystreetgirl]

I have to state again, emphatically and with unwavering conviction, that 2009 was one of the single best years of music I have experienced personally in my 27 years of being musically active. For the first time in recent memory, my Top 25 can be filled entirely with music released in 2009. That speaks volumes about how amazing this year was.

Songs of 2009

1. Blood Bank - Bon Iver
2. This Tornado Loves You - Neko Case
3. Cheerleader - Grizzly Bear
4. Lisztomania - Phoenix
5. Sleepyhead - Passion Pit
6. My Girls - Animal Collective
7. Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
8. Intro - Xx
9. What Would I Want? Sky - Animal Collective
10. Heads Will Roll - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
11. Monster - Lady Gaga
12. French Navy - Camera Obscura
13. The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned) - the Decemberists
14. Kingdom of Rust - Doves
15. Lucid Dreams - Franz Ferdinand
16. Help I’m Alive - Metric
17. Stay Alive - the Pains of Being Pure at Heart
18. Armistice - Phoenix
19. Dance in the Dark - Lady Gaga
20. Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
21. Brother Sport - Animal Collective
22. Swimming in the Flood - Passion Pit
23. Love, etc. - Pet Shop Boys
24. Train Song - Ben Gibbard & Feist
25. Fences - Phoenix

Honorable Mention (Songs that did not come out in 2009)

1. Kids (Pet Shop Boys Synthpop Mix) - MGMT
2. Electric Feel - MGMT
3. Hold On, Hold On - Neko Case
4. Heartbeats (live) - The Knife
5. Computer Blue (Extended Mix) - Prince and the Revolution
6. Knocked Up/Fans/Charmer/On Call - Kings of Leon
7. Losing My Edge - LCD Soundsystem
8. The Purple Bottle - Animal Collective
9. Empire State of Mind - Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys
10. Gifted - N.A.S.A. feat Kanye West, Santogold, Lykke Li
11. Bad Education - Tilly and the Wall
12. View from a Hill - the Chameleons
13. Dashboard - Modest Mouse
14. Blind - Hercules and Love Affair
15. Half a Person - the Smiths

Albums of 2009

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
2. Middle Cyclone - Neko Case
3. The Hazards of Love - the Decemberists
4. The Resistance - Muse
5. Blood Bank - Bon Iver
6. Merriweather Post Pavillion - Animal Collective
7. Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear
8. Xx - xx
9. Manners - Passion Pit
10. I And Love And You - the Avett Brothers

Honorable Mention

1. Fantasies - Metric
2. Xx - xx
3. God Help the Girl - God Help the Girl
4. Hospice - the Antlers
5. It’s Blitz! - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
6. Logos - Atlas Sound
7. My Maudlin Career - Camera Obscura
8. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - the Pains of Being Pure at Heart
9. The Dodos - Time to Die
10. Volcano Choir - Unmap

Biggest Disappointments

1. Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
2. Wilco (the Album) - Wilco

Best Concert

1. The Decemberists at the Palladium, May 15
2. Wilco at the Wiltern, June 22, 23, 25
3. Franz Ferdinand at the Palladium, August 27
4. Jimmy Eat World at Club Nokia, March 5
5. Grizzly Bear at the Palladium, October 20
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Greek, September 17
7. KROQ’s Acoustic Christmas feat. Muse, Metric, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend - December 13
8. Thom Yorke at the Orpheum, October 4
9. Neko Case at the Greek, June 12
10. Camera Obscura at the Henry Fonda Theater, June 11
11. Fleetwood Mac at Staples Center, May 28
12. The Killers at the Hollywood Bowl, September 16
13. Bon Iver at the Wiltern, September 25
14. U2 at the Rose Bowl, October 25
15. Pet Shop Boys at the Greek, September 24