So I made this list. I slaved over it for a few days. I even wrote out an entry about what makes a good song and what makes a bad song. After writing like two or three pages, my faithful editor told me to try again or scrap it. I scrapped it. You may notice that 2009 songs on this list don't appear in the same order as the 2009 list. I can't explain why. I guess after a few nights rest, my opinions change.
Enjoy. Feel free to discuss.
-Garreth
- Outkast - “Hey Ya!”
- Gnarls Barkley - “Crazy”
- Jay-Z Feat. Alicia Keys - “Empire State of Mind”
- Arcade Fire - “Wake Up”
- *NSYNC - “Pop”
- Outkast - “B.O.B.”
- The Swell Season/The Frames/Glen & Mar - “Falling Slowly”
- Wilco - “Impossible Germany”
- Nelly - “Country Grammar (Hot Shit)”
- Kelly Clarkson - “Since U Been Gone”
- The Killers - “All These Things That I Have Done”
- Justin Timberlake - “Like I Love You”
- Queens of The Stone Age - “No One Knows”
- The Walkmen - “The Rat”
- The Strokes - “Last Night”
- Rihanna feat. Jay-Z - “Umbrella”
- The White Stripes - “Fell In Love With A Girl”
- Brittany Spears - “Womanizer”
- Norah Jones - “Don’t Know Why”
- Gorillaz - “19-2000 (Soulchild Remix)”
- Beyonce - “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”
- Black Eyed Peas - “Pump it”
- Amy Winehouse - “You Know I’m No Good”
- Bob Dylan - “Mississippi”
- The Raconteurs - “Salute Your Solution”
- Ben Kweller - “Fight”
- JET - “Are You Gunna Be My Girl”
- Animal Collective - “My Girls”
- Broken Social Scene - “7/4 (Shoreline)
- Modest Mouse - “Float On”
- David Bazan - “Bless This Mess”
- Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - “Magick”
- Dr. Manhattan - “Misses Steward”
- Natasha Beddingfield - “Unwritten”
- MGMT - “Time To Pretend”
- Nine Inch Nails - “The Hand That Feeds”
- Sufjan Stevens - “The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders”
- Ebu Gogo - “H.U.G.S.”
- John Mayer - “Neon”
- The Flaming Lips - “Do you Realize???”
- OK Go - “You’re So Damn Hot”
- Jay-Z feat. The Roots - “Can I Get A…/Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)/Ain’t No N**** (Live)”
- Alicia Keys - “Fallin’”
- Eminem - “Real Slim Shady”
- Christina Auguilera - “Ain’t No Other Man”
- Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - “Let It Ride”
- Basement Jaxx - “Where’s Your Head At?”
- Brittney Spears - “Toxic”
- The Hives - “Main Offender”
- R. Kelly - “Ignition (Remix)”
- Maroon 5 - “This Love”
- Wilco - “Jesus ect.”
- Alkaline Trio - “Take Lots With Alcohol”
- Jimmy Eat World - “The Middle”
- Paul Simon - “Father & Daughter”
- Iron & Wine - “Woman King”
- Kanye West - “The New Workout Plan”
- Coldplay - “Yellow”
- Arctic Monkeys - “Fake Tales of San Francisco”
- The Caesars - “Jerk It Out”
- Jay-Z - “Big Pimpin’”
- Johnny Cash - “Hurt”
- Foo Fighters - “The Pretender”
- John Mayer - “Vultures”
- The Killers - “Change Your Mind”
- Franz Ferdinan - “Take Me Out”
- Jay-Z & Linkin Park - “Numb/Encore”
- Against Me! - “Walking is Still Honest”
- Matt Costa - “Mr. Pitiful”
- Coheed & Cambria - “Three Evils (Embodied In Love and Shadows)”
- The Fall of Troy - “F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X”
- Andrew Bird - “Fake Palindromes”
- The Postal Service - “Sleeping In”
- Ryan Adams - “Firecracker”
- Bright Eyes - “Waste Of Paint”
- Flo Rida - “Low”
- Green Day - “Minority”
- The Raconteurs - “Level”
- The Roots - “The Seed (2.0)”
- Blink-182 - “Stockholm Syndrome”
- Brand New - “Sic Transit Gloria … Glory Fades”
- Josh Rouse - “It’s The Nighttime”
- Cursive - “Some Red Handed Sleight of Hand”
- Jay-Z - “99 Problems”
- NOFX - “Separation of Church and Skate”
- Ray Lamontange - “Jolene”
- Sufjan Stevens - “Romulus”
- John Mayer Trio - “Who Did You Think I Was?”
- The Faint - “Paranoiattack”
- Green Day - “Jesus of Suburbia”
- The Hives - “Two-Timing Touch and Broken Bones”
- Kings of Leon - “King of The Rodeo”
- Wilco - “Handshake Drugs”
- Of Montreal - “Dis-connect The Dots”
- All-American Rejects - “Dirty Little Secret”
- Halfpenny Marvel - “Spectacle & Show”
- Beck - “E-Pro”
- Bright Eyes - “Lua”
- Gorillaz - “Fire Coming Out Of A Monkey’s Head”
- Alkaline Trio - “Old School Reasons”
- Band Of Horses - “Is There A Ghost”
Falling Slowly hurts good to hear. So perfect is the balance between emotion and execution. I think it scares some people away when the emotion of the song gets under the defenses that had always been so reliable.
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