Pitchfork Top 50 Albums/Top 100 Songs of 2009...

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7744-the-top-50-albums-of-2009/



http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7742-the-top-100-tracks-of-2009/

Top 50 Songs I Discovered in 2009...

These are the Top 50 songs I discovered in 2009, which were not released in 2009...

(in order)

1. The Killers - "Tidal Wave"
2. Young Jeezy - "Get Allot"
3. Young Jeezy - "My President (Feat. Nas)"
4. Warren Zevon - "Desperados Under the Eaves"
5. OutKast - "13th Floor/Growing Old"
6. Philip Glass - "Organics"
7. Philip Glass - "Facades"
8. Atlas Sound - "Eros"
9. Animal Collective - "Chocolate Girl (BBC Version)"
10. Passion Pit - "Smile Upon Me"
11. Passion Pit - "Sleepyhead"
12. Tim Maia - "Nobody Can Live Forever"
13. Fugazi - "I'm So Tired"
14. Let's Wrestle - "I'm in Fighting Mode"
15. Arthur Russell - "That's Us/Wild Combination"
16. INXS - "Don't Change"
17. The Rolling Stones - "Lady Jane"
18. Suicide - "Cheree"
19. R.E.M. - "Laughing"
20. A Flock of Seagulls - "Wishing (I Had a Photograph of You)"
21. Grateful Dead - "Unbroken Chain"
22. Listening Party - "Song and Sea"
23. Fleetwood Mac - "Wish You Were Here"
24. Iggy Pop - "Dum Dum Boys"
25. Morrissey - "Speedway"
26. Arthur Russell - "Keeping Up"
27. Tubeway Army - "Are 'Friends' Electric?"
28. Bat For Lashes - "Bat's Mouth"
29. Bat For Lashes - "Sad Eyes"
30. Wilderness - "Beautiful Alarms"
31. Bob Dylan - "Romance in Durango"
32. The Doors - "Indian Summer"
33. Neil Young - "I've Loved Her So Long"
34. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - "Pardon My Heart"
35. Fleetwood Mac - "Only Over You"
36. Prince - "The Beautiful Ones"
37. Passion Pit - "I've Got Your Number"
38. Boogie Down Productions - "9mm Goes Bang"
39. The Magnetic Fields - "I Wish I Had an Evil Twin"
40. Townes Van Zandt - "I'll Be Here in the Morning"
41. The Modern Lovers - "Hospital"
42. Yaz - "Only You"
43. Joanna Newson - "Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie"
44. Heartsrevolution - "Digital Suicide"
45. Khonnor - "The Stoned Night"
46. Crystal Stilts - "Crystal Stilts"
47. Crystal Stilts - "Prismatic Room"
48. Stevie Nicks - "I Will Run To You (Feat. Tom Petty)"
49. Pyramids - "The Echo of Something Lovely (Jesu Remix)"
50. Liars - "Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack"

Top 10 Most Disappointing Albums of 2009...

(in order)

1. Wavves - "Wavvves"



2. N.A.S.A. - "Spirit of Apollo"



3. Junior Boys - "Begone Dull Care"



4. Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band - "Outer South"



5. Magnolia Electric Co. - "Josephine"



6. Eminem - "Relapse"



7. Sally Shapiro - "My Guilty Pleasure"



8. Peter Bjorn and John - "Living Thing"



9. Sufjan Stevens - "The BQE"



10. Cursive - "Mama, I'm Swollen"

Top 10 Most Overrated Albums of 2009...

(in order)

1. Wavves - "Wavvves"



2. Girls - "Album"



3. Various Artists - "Dark Was The Night"



4. Monsters of Folk - "Monsters of Folk"



5. Major Lazer - "Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do"



6. Sunn O))) - "Monoliths & Dimensions"



7. Annie - "Don't Stop"



8. YACHT - "See Mystery Lights"



9. Sonic Youth - "The Eternal"



10. Julian Casablancas - "Phrazes For The Young"

Top 10 Most Underrated Albums of 2009...

(in order)

1. Papercuts - "You Can Have What You Want"



2. Small Black - "Small Black EP"



3. KiD CuDi - "Man On The Moon: The End of Day"



4. Ducktails - "Landscapes"



5. Cold Cave - "Love Comes Close"



6. Moby - "Wait For Me"



7. Fool's Gold - "Fool's Gold"



8. HEALTH - "Get Color"



9. Foreign Born - "Person To Person"



10. Editors - "In This Light And On This Evening"

Top 10 Music Videos of 2009...

(in order)

1. Washed Out - "Feel It All Around"



2. Grizzly Bear - "Foreground (Live on Cemetery Gates)"



3. Modest Mouse - "King Rat"



4. Cass McCombs - "You Saved My Life"



5. Phoenix - "1901"



6. Animal Collective - "My Girls"



7. Fever Ray - "If I Had a Heart"



8. Dan Deacon - "Paddling Ghost"



9. Jay-Z - "Empire State of Mind (Feat. Alicia Keys)"



10. Pictureplane - "Goth Star"



(tie)

10. Kanye West - "Welcome to Heartbreak (Feat. KiD CuDi)"

The Top 10 Films I Saw in 2009...

Here is my list of the best films I saw this year. As always, I did not see a lot of 'new' films...therefore, I often find myself digging into the past in order to find quality films that I have missed along the way. The following films were new to me... and by far the best that I saw in 2009.

(in order)

1. "Stardust Memories"



2. "Country Boys"



3. "Bigger, Stronger, Faster"



4. "The Wrestler"



5. "Kurt Cobain: About A Son"



6. "Manda Bala (Send A Bullet)"



7. "Mister Lonely"



8. "Bringing Out The Dead"



9. "Fantastic Mr. Fox"



10. "The Future Is Unwritten: Joe Strummer"



Honorable Mention:

Man on Wire
Burn After Reading
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Capitalism: A Love Story
Brüno
Kramer vs. Kramer
Paranoid Park
Pineapple Express

Best of 2009...

My "Best of 2009" lists begin rolling out on monday...

10 Years Ago Today: Rick Danko Dies in New York...

Richard Clare "Rick" Danko (December 29, 1942 – December 10, 1999) was a Canadian musician and singer, best known as a member of The Band. On December 10, 1999, just days after the end of a brief tour of the Midwest that included two shows in the Chicago area and a final gig at The Ark in Ann Arbor, Michigan Rick Danko's heart gave out, and he died in his sleep at his home near Woodstock, New York.

He was survived by his wife, Elizabeth; stepson Justin; and daughter, Lisa, by his first marriage. (His son Eli, also from his first marriage, had died in 1989 at the age of 18, from asphyxiation.)

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