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Pitchfork Media's Top 100 Tracks of 2009

post #1 of 10
12/17/09 at 3:39pm
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Well, Pitchfork has their top 100 tracks list up for this year. Here it is.

1. Animal Collective - My Girls
2. Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move
3. Phoenix - 1901
4. Bat For Lashes - Daniel
5. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
7. Big Boi ft Gucci Mane - Shine Blockas
8. Phoenix - Lisztomania
9. Girls - Lust For Life
10. Washed Out - Feel It All Around
11. Animal Collective - What Would I Want? Sky
12. Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others
13. Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer
14. Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo
15. Girls - Hellhole Ratrace
16. The XX - Crystalised
17. Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar
18. The Big Pink - Dominos
19. Joker - Digidesign
20. Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire
21. Raekwon ft Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck & Method Man - House of Flying Daggers
22. Delorean - Seasun
23. Animal Colective - Brother Sport
24. Basement Jaxx - Raindrops
25. Cass McCombs - You Saved My Life
26. Bon Iver - Blood Bank
27. Four Tet - Love Cry
28. Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You
29. JJ - Ecstasy
30. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Young Adult Fiction
31. Lilly Allen - The Fear
32. The Very Best ft Ezra Koenig - Warm Heart of Africa
33. DJ Quik and Kurupt - 9x's Outta 10
34. Atlas Sound ft Noah Lennox - Walkabout
35. Micchu and the Shapes - Golden Phone
36. Fever Ray - When I Grow Up
37. Surfer Blood - Swim
38. Dirty Projectors and David Byrne - Knotty Pine
39. Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
40. Bear in Heaven - Lovesick Teenagers
41. Major Lazer ft Nina Sky and Ricky Blaze - Keep It Goin' Louder
42. The Big Pink - Velvet
43. Camera Obscura - French Navy
44. Jay-Z ft Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind
45. The Flaming Lips ft Karen O - Watching the Planets
46. Memory Tapes - Bicycle
47. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
48. Destroyer - Bay of Pigs
49. Yo La Tengo - Here to Fall
50. Matias Aguayo - Rollerskate
51. Antony and the Johnsons - Aeon
52. St. Vincent - Actor Out of Work
53. The XX - Islands
54. Joker & Ginz - Purple City
55. Bat For Lashes - Glass
56. John Talbot - Sunshine
57. Sleigh Bells - Crown on the Ground
58. Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart
59. tUnE-yArDs - Sunlight
60. Kurt Vile - Freeway
61. Atlas Sound ft Laetitia Sadier - Quick Canal
62. Volcano Choir - Island, IS
63. Real Estate - Fake Blues
64. Annie - Song Reminds Me Of You
65. The Tough Alliance - A New Chance (The Juan MacLean Remix)
66. Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension
67. Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone
68. Royskopp ft Robyn - The Girl and the Robot
69. Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me
70. Discovery - Orange Shirt
71. A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Close Chorus
72. Matt & Kim - Daylight
73. Woods - Rain On
74. Neon Indian - Should Have Taken Acid With You
75. Gold Panda - Quitter's Raga
76. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Don't Haunt This Place
77. Frida Hyvonen - Jesus Was A Cross Maker
78. Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
79. Pictureplane - Goth Star
80. YACHT - Psychic City (Voodoo City)
81. Bowerbirds - Northern Lights
82. DJ Kaos - Love the Night Away (Tiedye Remix)
83. Lady Gaga - Paparazzi
84. Junior Boys - Parallel Lines
85. Wavves - No Hope Kids
86. Drake - Best I Ever Had
87. Here We Go Magic - Fangela
88. Passion Pit - Moth's Wings
89. No Age - You're a Target
90. The-Dream - Rockin' That Shit
91. HEALTH - Die Slow
92. Cam'ron - I Hate My Job
93. Morrissey - Something Is Squeezing My Skull
94. Best Coast - Sun Was High (So Was I)
95. The Thermals - Now We Can See
96. Gucci Mane ft Plies - Wasted
97. The Smith Westerns - Be My Girl
98. Future of the Left - Arming Eritrea
99. Julianna Barwick - Bode
100. Darkstar - Aidy's Girl's a Computer
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post #2 of 10
12/17/09 at 3:44pm
Maybe it's just my current borderline unhealthy obsession with the Fall Be Kind EP, but What Would I Want? Sky is in a pretty good place.
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post #3 of 10
12/17/09 at 3:52pm
I'm up in the air on most of the list (and I have to admit I haven't heard even a bigger portion than usual with Pitchfork's singles list), but the top 5 are pretty dead-on. I might switch the top two and I can think of a few others that could probably substitute for a few of those, but as it stands, I can't think of a good reason why those five songs wouldn't be top five material.
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post #4 of 10
12/17/09 at 3:57pm
I'd swap Stillness with My Girls just because Stillness seems to be more palatable, but I also never expected a pretty kickass club track from Animal Collective. So yeah, it's a tough call.

And you guys were right about It's Never Been Like That being better than WAP - my only complaint is all the occasional scoffing in the songs. For some reason I fixated on that, but yeah, great album. I had only heard the title track before, so the rest of it was a treat.
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post #5 of 10
12/17/09 at 3:59pm
Yeah, like Dave, I haven't heard a lot, so this list is more an indication of how out of touch (or uniterested?) I am in modern music according to Pitchfork.

There's some good stuff on there, though. Despite being totally uninterested in Bat for Lashes for some reason, I ended up loving the most recent album on the way back from London in October (British Airways has some good shit on their in-flight entertainment system--pay your cabin crew, BA!). "Zero" is great, and the XX stuff is pretty good, too. I can't get down with Animal Collective, so that's probably lost on me. Kudos for including "This Tornado Loves You," which might be my favorite of anything on that list.
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post #6 of 10
12/17/09 at 4:11pm
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69. Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me
Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you, but Beyonce had one of the best tracks of all time! One of best tracks on all time! <\end of overused joke>
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post #7 of 10
12/17/09 at 4:19pm
I'm not familiar with a large swath of these this year, so the only change I'd make would be to swap the places of 1901 and Lisztomania. Both are great, but the latter has been rolling around in my head non-stop.
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post #8 of 10
12/17/09 at 5:17pm
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Originally Posted by englebert View Post
Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you, but Beyonce had one of the best tracks of all time! One of best tracks on all time! <\end of overused joke>
I really was waiting for someone to do that.

By the way, if you want to hear these 100 tracks, there is a torrent on thepiratebay of the top 100.
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post #9 of 10
12/17/09 at 5:48pm
Ah fuck. Now I'll be stuck with Stillness is the move in my head again. Not that it's a bad song, but jesus...
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post #10 of 10
12/17/09 at 10:44pm
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Originally Posted by Pitchfork
83. Lady Gaga - Paparazzi
Go Pitchfork.

'Empire State of Mind' should be in the top 10. That chorus is probably Jay-Z's most indelible since 'Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)'.

Handsome Furs' 'I'm Confused' is top 5 of the year, easily.
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