Well hello there. Like every other post I seem to have written I’ll note how long it has been since my last post. But unlike the other times, it really has been a while this time due to neglect through being busy with final year of uni and then just plain forgetfulness and lazyness since, or the fact I’m now in the regular human working world so free time tends to consist of sleeping or eating, but there you go.
So towards the end of the year I started getting reminiscent and nostalgic about the year and decade just passed. To say they have both gone quickly is an understatement as I enter the 3rd decade proper of my life. In particular, I have been reminiscing about the music which has inspired, moved and motivated me in the past decade. A decade in which I moved from being fairly naive in my musical taste to now having a wonderfully eclectic taste. All of this, along with a couple of other reasons, made me want to get back into the blog world to write down and chronicle all of this exciting music. And I will really try to blog regularly from now on; more than likely reviewing new albums, movies and gigs that appear in my life etc. as well as probably venting my spleen every now and then on topical issues which happen to be grinding my gears or floating my boat at that particular time (that enough cliches for ya?). In fact, I was going to start my resurgence with a vent about X-Factor and stealing the Christmas number 1 spot but just before I was going to write, the wonderful Rage Christmas miracle facebook campaign had just gathered all of its momentum so my points would have just been an echo of everything being said at the time.
But anyway, here goes, to kick off my new blogging resurgence is the best songs of last year in my humble opinion. Nothing too complicated for now but will return soon for albums of the year and decade and maybe a review of Sherlock Holmes which I’m going to see in a couple of hours.
50 Best Tunes of ‘09 after the jump….
- 50. Jet – She’s a Genius
- 49. Kano – Rock ‘n Roller
- 48. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Hysteric
- 47. Arctic Monkeys – My propeller
- 46. Foo Fighters – Word Forward
- 45. The Prodigy – Run With Wolves
- 44. Plan B – Stay Too Long (Pendulum Remix)
- 43. Kasabian – Happiness
- 42. Green Day – East Jesus Nowhere
- 41. Hollywood Undead – Young
- 40. Paramore – Ignorance
- 39. Steel Panther – Party All Day
- 38. VV Brown – Game Over
- 37. Dizzee Rascal – Bonkers
- 36. Foo Fighters – Wheels
- 35. Muse – MK Ultra
- 34. The Prodigy – Invaders Must Die
- 33. Them Crooked Vultures – Elephants
- 32. Chipmunk – Oopsy Daisy
- 31. Little Boots – Remedy
- 30. Reverend & The Makers – No Soap (In A Dirty War)
- 29. Example – Watch The Sun Come Up
- 28. Arctic Monkeys – Pretty Visitors
- 27. The Prodigy – World’s On Fire
- 26. Them Crooked Vultures – Mind Eraser, No Chaser
- 25. Jay-Z – D.O.A (Death of Auto-tune)
- 24. Cheryl Cole – 3 Words
- 23. The Dead Weather – Treat Me Like Your Mother
- 22. Reverend & The Makers – Hard Time For Dreamers
- 21. Marmaduke Duke – Rubber Lover
- 20. Kasabian – Fast Fuse
- 19. Jay-Z – Empire State of Mind
- 18. Calvin Harris – I’m Not Alone
- 17. Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
- 16. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll
- 15. The Duckworth Lewis Method – Jiggery Pokery
- 14. Muse – I Belong To You/Mon Couer S’Ouvre a Ta Voix
- 13. Hot Leg – Kissing In The Wind
- 12. Biffy Clyro – That Golden Rule
- 11. Black Eyed Peas – Boom Boom Pow
10. Dizzee Rascal – Holiday
- Best of his recent No. 1 tunes. Absolute trance freakout halfway through kills me!
9. Jay-Z – Run This Town
- Thanks to a show-stopping verse from Kanye, this was one of the standouts of the Blueprint III.
8. Paolo Nutini – Pencil Full Of Lead
- This just appeared out of nowhere this year and cannot fail to make you happy when listening to it.
7. Oasis – Falling Down (A Monstrous Bubble Mix)
- Hard to fully explain, but expands on the subtle quality of the original to make a 22-minute journey of beauty, confusion and serenity.
6. Just Jack – The Day I Died
- A massive grower, I just love the story and the imagery that it conjures up.
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Skeletons
- Such a beautiful and peaceful microcosm of the stunning album, which, from this song, should really be re-branded It’s Bliss, because it really is.
4. Wiley – Take That (ft. Chew Fu)
- This track is an absolute monster! No other way to describe it.
3. Them Crooked Vultures – No-one Loves Me and Neither Do I
- The slow, swaggering build to this song only heightens the immenseness of the climaxing mammoth riff.
2. Eminem – Beautiful
- This really crept up on me at the end of the year. Surprising really to have a track of Relapse on here because the album was underwhelming, but this song, like a good tin of Ronseal, does exactly as is says on the tin!
1. Drake ft. Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem – Forever
- Howe could this not be the top tune. 3 of the best rappers around at the moment trying their hardest to steal the limelight. Eminems verse almost steals the show but they all put in a hard lyric. And don’t get me started as to why we Brits aren’t allowed the proper version over here; I mean why get rid of Kanyes bit completely. But ah well, it’s still massive!
Right, so there you go, that’s whats been on my radar all year. I’ll be back soon with retrospective album blogs. And here is a Spotify playlist of all the songs I could find on there just so you can hear as well as read about what music I’ve been digging.
Songs of 2009
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