40 songs from 2009

needless to say, the release of georgie's favorite music of the past calendar year has a similar impact on the music industry as the yearly publication of the michelin guide on the restaurant business. hopefully, unlike in years past, an exclusion from this list will only engender minor bodily injuries and tepid attempts at character assassination.

rest assured of two facts:

(1) these ARE the best 40 songs of the year, and there is no room for debate.

(2) the 3 guys pictured above in white pants DO comprise perhaps the greatest band of the 20th century (and a strawberry milkshake goes to the first person who correctly guesses their identity).


VOLUME 1:

------ Song ---------------- Band/Artist --------------------- Album

1) Beginner's Luck ------------ EELS ------------------------- Hombre Lobo

2) Drivetime ------------------ Echo & the Bunnymen -------- The Fountain

3) Lenin -------------------- Arcade Fire ------------------- Dark Was the Night
4) 1901 ------------------- Phoenix -------------- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
5) The Heartbreak Rides ------ A.C. Newman ---------------- Get Guilty

6) Devils in Boston ------------ Samantha Crain ------------- Songs in the Night

7) Annan Water --------------- The Decemberists ------------- The Hazards of

8) Relator ---------------- Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson ----- The Break Up

9) Man Named Truth ----- Monsters of Folk ---------------- Monsters of Folk

10) Okay ------------------- Venice Is Sinking ---------------- Azar
11) The Horizon Is A Beltway-The Low Anthem-Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
12) The Walls Are Falling Down ---- Fanfarlo -------------------- Reservoir
13) It Don't Move Me ------------- Peter Bjorn and John ------- Living Thing

14) My Unusual Friend ----------- Fruit Bats ----------------- The Ruminant Band

15) French Navy ----------------- Camera Obscura ------------ My Mauldin Career
16) At the Cut -------------------- The Cave Singers ----------- Welcome Joy

17) To Save Me ------------------ M. Ward -------------------- Hold Time

18) Mismanaged Skies ------ Beatbeat Whisper --------- Wonder Continental

19) Move You ----- Anya Marina ------- Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II

20) I’ll Fight ----------------- Wilco ---------------------- Wilco (The Album)

VOLUME 2:

--- Song ---------------------Band/Artist --------------- Album
1) Lisztomania ---------- Phoenix ------------- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2) Train Song ------------ Feist and Ben Gibbard -------- Dark Was the Night
3) The Right Place ----------- Monsters of Folk ------------ Monsters of Folk
4) Hindsight -------------- Built to Spill ------------------ There Is No Enemy
5) All The Kings Men -------- Wild Beasts ------------------ Two Dancers
6) House of Mirrors ---------- Doves ---------------------- Kingdom of Rust
7) Kiss With a Fist ----------- Florence and the Machine ---- Lungs
8) Bellyfulla ------------------ Ramona Falls ---------------- Intuit
9) Oh No --------------------- Andrew Bird ---------------- Noble Beast
10) So Far Around the Bend ---- The National ------------- Dark Was the Night
11) Fee Da Da Dee ---------- The Guggenheim Grotto ----- Happy The Man
12) Take A Minute -------------- K'naan ------------------- Troubadour
13) You and I ------------------ Wilco -------------------- Wilco (The Album)
14) Honey in the Sun ---------- Camera Obscura ----------- My Mauldin Career

15) Home -----------Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros-Self-titled
16) I Am Goodbye -------------- Bonnie "Prince" Billy ---------- Beware

17) Pulling On a Line ------------ Great Lake Swimmers -------Lost Channels

18) Border Reiver ------------ Mark Knopfler ------------ Get Lucky
19) Kettering ------------------ The Antlers -------------- Hospice

20) Draw the Line --------- David Gray ------------------ Draw the Line

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