Here are my picks for the best music of the year! Enjoy, and tell me your favorite albums or songs of 2009 in the comments or what you liked on my list!
Favorite Album of the Year
Winner:
BoA - "BoA (Deluxe Version)" (cover above)
Released September 22 (original album released March 17)
Hands down the most well-crafted, danceable, and addictive musical experience of the year. So good, it's actually surprising. Listen often, and listen loudly.
Runners Up:
Shakira - "She Wolf" (Released November 23)
Excellent set of songs that should be more popular than they are.
The Temper Trap - "Conditions" (Released October 13)
One of the best debut albums I've ever heard, from the Australian rockers.
Phoenix - "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix" (Released May 26)
I became less impressed as the year went on, but still a strong effort.
Maxwell - "BLACKsummers'night" (Released July 7)
Simple, beautiful music.
Honorable Mentions:
Passion Pit - "Manners" ... Office - "Mecca" ... Gossip - "Music for Men" ... Lily Allen - "It's Not Me, It's You" ... Robin Thicke - "Sex Therapy: The Session" ... Muse - "The Resistance" ... Pete Yorn - "Back & Fourth" ... Jay-Z - "The Blueprint 3"
Favorite Single of the Year
Winner:
The Temper Trap - "Fader" from "Conditions" (video above)
An amazing track, not a single instrument, note, sound is out of place.
Runners Up:
Muse - "Undisclosed Desires" from "The Resistance" (listen via YouTube)
Sexiest song of the year.
BoA - "I Did It for Love" from "BoA (Deluxe Version)" (listen via YouTube)
Pure relatively mindless fun.
Janet Jackson - "Make Me" from "Number Ones" (listen via YouTube)
Her best song in years, which is really saying something.
Britney Spears - "3" from "Britney Spears: The Singles Collection" (listen via YouTube)
Pop princess making perfect pop.
Phoenix - "1901" from "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix" (listen via YouTube)
The way electrorock should be done. Also, this sounds great live.
Honorable Mentions:
Shakira - "She Wolf" from "She Wolf" (listen via YouTube) ... Office - "Sticky Dew" from "Mecca" (listen to a sample at Amie Street) ... Amerie - "Why R U" from "In Love & War" (listen via YouTube) ... David Guetta featuring Kelly Rowland - "When Love Takes Over" from "One Love" (listen via YouTube) ... Ke$ha - "Tik Tok" (listen via YouTube)
Breakthrough Artist of the Year
Winner:
BoA (above)
I think I've talked the Korean pop star up enough so I'll simply say that I hope she keeps making English language work because I simply love her.
Runners Up:
The Temper Trap (above)
Passion Pit (above)
Ke$ha (above)
Adam Lambert (above)
Favorite Music Video of the Year
Winner:
Janet Jackson - "Make Me" (video above)
Take a great song, add some skilled dancing, then top it off with some stunning visual effects and you get a video that will become a classic one day.
Runners Up:
Passion Pit - "The Reeling" (video above)
Phoenix - "1901" (video above)
Shakira - "She Wolf" (video above)
Kanye West - "Paranoid" from "808s & Heartbreak" (video above)
That's all I got! See you in 2010 with more new music! Now you tell me, what did you like in 2009 now that you look back on the whole shedooby? Do let us know!
4 comments:
This year was hard for me to pick because the music tended to sound the same even if they were mostly generally pleasing. Like there was nothing offensive to the music I heard, but ask me who the tartlet or dogg who made the song and I will draw blanks. There were a few songs that did catch my attention for their uniqueness but I don't technically know when the songs came out.
Laces Out - USS (Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker)
Hey Lady - Thriving Ivories
Meet Me Halfway - Black Eyed Peas *my fave of the songs they came out with*
Empire State of Mind by Jay Z and Alicia? (I think, I have no idea...I just hear it 5 times a freaking hour and it stays in my head All. Day. Long...).
Bad Things - Jace Everett (ok, so it came out last year. But I heard it for the first time this year with my weekly True Blood obsession, so meh).
Hey Dani! I have to look up your choices because I haven't heard them but I love looking up new music so I'm on it! I will say that "Meet Me Halfway" is the only BEP song that I actually like...
I feel so square and 41 after enjoying this music. Well done darling. I'm going to ROCK OUT in 2010.
Don't feel that way Allan! Trust me, there's someone reading my choices who thinks I'm square so it's all relative... Glad you enjoyed the music. Hopefully I'll stay au courant in 2010!
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