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| Minus The Flair - Songs Of 2009
list is objective | | 1 |  | Japandroids
Post-Nothing
Firstly, gotta say that I'm only using one song from each band on the list. If I didn't, the first 6 places would be taken up by this band.
Anyway - Young Hearts Spark Fire just edges out in front of the rest because I think I fractured my collarbone or something listening to it.
"i don't wanna worry about dying. i just wanna worry about the sunshine girls" | | 2 |  | Manchester Orchestra
Mean Everything To Nothing
I Can Feel At Hot One - and this one made me more sentimental than I ever want to be.
"i haven't heard a thing you've said in at least a couple hundred days. what you say?" | | 3 |  | The Antlers
Hospice
Stuck between two awesome tracks here - Kettering and Two.
Lets just leave them tied.
"i wish that i had known, in the first minute that we met, the unpayable debt that i owed you."
"two people talking inside your brain, two people believing that i'm the one to blame." | | 4 | | Burial & Four Tet
Moth/ Wolf Club
Moth - pure Burial, but better. If you can imagine it.
"um ts" | | 5 | | BATS
Red In Tooth & Claw
Gamma Ray Burst: Second Date. Infectious, intelligent, and flat out awesome post-hardcore that teaches a valuable lesson. Gamma rays are the way to a girl's heart. So many 'oh fucking yes' moments in this.
"GAMMA RAY BURST I SALUTE YOU" | | 6 |  | Bon Iver
Blood Bank
Blood Bank - It's Justin Vernon singing about how he met you at the blood bank. What's not to love?
"that secret that we know, that we don't know how to tell" | | 7 |  | The XX
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Heart Skips A Beat - Many would say that this song is the schmaltziest on the record, and they're probably right. But schmaltzy is my middle name, and the penetrating simplicity of Heart Skips A Beat can force this schmaltzy fucker to look a doe-eyed, heartbroken fool from its first beat to its last.
"please don't say we're done when i'm not finished, i could care so much more" | | 8 | | Rustie
Bad Science
Bad Science - Now, I have no idea what aquacrunkcore or whatever is, but if it's all as good as this, sign me up. Pro-per-ly sick. Although looking at the guy, you'd assume he just powerwalked out of Happy Shopper with his hood up and half the pick'n'mix stashed in his pockets. Devo's cousin knows how to make huge toons.
"wick a wack clunk clunk DOOSH DOOSH DOOSH" | | 9 |  | Weezer
Raditude
If You're Wondering... - About as good and out-of-place as Pork and Beans was to the abysmal Red Album. No, that's unfair. If You're Wondering is twice as good as Pork and Beans.
"the rest of the summer was the best we ever had, we watched titanic and it didn't make us sad" | | 10 | | husband&wife
Dark Dark Woods
Haven't Got A Friend - OH SWEET GOD NEW REALMS OF SADNESS. Why do we listen to shit like this?
"i sound like everybody else when i say i haven't got a friend in the world" | | 11 |  | Florence and the Machine
Lungs
Dog Days Are Over | | 12 |  | Fuck Buttons
Tarot Sport
Lisbon Maru | | 13 |  | Girls
Album
Lust For Life | | 14 |  | Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Summertime Clothes | | 15 |  | Jay-Z
The Blueprint 3
Empire State of Mind (feat. Alicia Keys) | | 16 |  | Say Anything
Say Anything
Ahh... Men | | 17 |  | Bat For Lashes
Two Suns
Daniel | | 18 |  | Yo La Tengo
Popular Songs
Fireside | | 19 |  | Taking Back Sunday
New Again
Sink Into Me | | 20 |  | Yellow Ostrich
Yellow Ostrich
Fog | | 21 |  | Brand New
Daisy
Vices | | 22 |  | Bloody Beetroots
Romborama
House N? 84 | | 23 |  | DJ Sprinkles
Midtown 120 Blues
House Music Is Uncontrollable Desire You Can Own | | 24 |  | The Dodos
Time To Die
Small Deaths | | 25 |  | fun.
Aim and Ignite
Benson Hedges | |
Minus The Flair
01.07.10 | list is purely procrastination to get me away from coleridge and shelley. | Minus The Flair
01.07.10 | probably most difficult decision i've had to make all year. and by all year i mean all year + 7 days.
young hearts > sovereignity > wet hair > heart sweats > i quit girls
but that can list can be flipped upside down so easily | Kiran
01.07.10 | 2, 3, and 4 are the same for me except 1 would be wet hair!
| Knott-
01.07.10 | i think wet hair is my fave almost joint with young hearts though
good list good list good list | qwe3
01.07.10 | FUCK YES BENSON HEDGES
i've been insisting that's the best fun. song for so fucking long | klap
01.07.10 | no one here listens to phoenix?!?!?!
matt my middle name is sappy we should be best friends | IsItLuck?
01.07.10 | Klap, I do, and Lasso, 1901, and Listzomania are fucking great.
As for this list, you have some interesting choices. I actually prefer Glass to Daniel for Bat For Lashes.
For The Antlers, it would be between Epilogue, Bear, and Wake, but that goes hand in hand with what you said for Japandroids, how I could pick a few different songs. As for Japandroids Wet Hair and Young Hearts Spark Fire essentially tie each other when all is done.
And, am I the only one who feels Shake It Out the most from the new Manchester Orchestra album?
I don't remember last year or the year before having so many albums with two, three, or even four tracks that could be consider the greatest on the album. 2009 ruled. | Minus The Flair
01.07.10 | list is a bit weird tbh. my music taste is all over the place, but essentially, embarrasingly, based purely in catchy hooks and over the top sentimentality.
i am meaning to check out phoenix, i just keep forgetting. could do it now... ya. | Electric City
01.07.10 | yes Moth is sooooo good im sorry i didnt find that split till after i submitted | Electric City
01.07.10 | ill just assume you havent heard What Would I Want? Sky either | Poet
01.07.10 | omg Summertime Clothes. | Minus The Flair
01.07.10 | i have not, but i haven't been that bothered cos i'm not a great fan of mpp and i figure, because its on an ep released so close to that album, that it will just be a continuation of that sound and that will make me sad cos it isnt feels. | Electric City
01.07.10 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-DBAZX8g7A
just do it | Minus The Flair
01.07.10 | i liked that a lot more than the majority of mpp, even though its not so far removed. thanks late 80's sports trademark. | Electric City
01.07.10 | well i mean it is a perfect song. | partyboy24
05.15.11 | I love vices thats a good call for daisy |
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