Top 5 songs released in 2009 (in no order):
- Weezer - (If you are wondering if I want you to) I want you to
- The Von Bondies - Earthquake
- Sonic Youth - Walkin' Blue
- Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
- Camera Obscura - French Navy
Honorable Mention: Weezer - The Girl Got Hot and Florence and the Machine - Kiss with a fist
Top 6 songs that define 2009 for me (I couldn't narrow it down enough):
- Company of Thieves - Oscar Wilde
- The Von Bondies - Earthquake
- The Buzzcocks - Ever fallen in love
- The Raconteurs - You don't understand me
- We Are Scientists - After hours
- Weezer - Falling for you
Honorable Mention: Weezer - The Girl Got Hot and Foo Fighters - Everlong
AND finally, the top 25 songs from 2000-2009 (in no particular order):
- Andrew W.K. - She is beautiful
- Ben Lee - Close I've come
- Bob Dylan - Things have changed
- Company of Thieves - Oscar Wilde
- Dave Matthews Band - Grey street (Lilywhite sessions version)
- David Gray - Babylon
- Dixie Chicks - The long way around
- Franz Ferdinand - Take me out
- Green Day - American idiot
- Jack Johnson - Bubble toes
- Jet - Are you gonna be my girl
- John Mayer - No such thing
- Kings of Leon - California waiting (single version)
- Los Lonely Boys - Heaven
- Outkast - Hey ya!
- Pearl Jam - World wide suicide
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell me baby
- Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Gone gone gone
- Ryan Adams - New York
- The Hold Steady - Sequestered in Memphis
- The Raconteurs - You don't understand me
- The Von Bondies - Earthquake
- The White Stripes - Seven nation army
- U2 - Stuck in a moment
- Weezer - I want you to
But there are so many good songs I didn't add...