My Favorite Songs of 2009

These are my favorite songs that I listened to a lot in 2009, not that were released in 2009. That list will come later. This list is too long, but it does contain the songs that I focused on this year.

Format: Band (# of songs by the band on the list)

Album

Song

Animal Collective (19 Songs) (I should mention that my 21 most played songs this year, according to last.fm, are animal collective songs)

Fall Be Kind

Graze

What Would I Want? Sky

I Think I Can

Merriweather Post Paviliion (this entire album could qualify and probably should be here, as it makes up my 11 of my 13 most played songs of the year)

In The Flowers

My Girls

Also Frightened

Summertime Clothes

Guys Eyes

Brother Sport

Strawberry Jam

For Reverend Green

Fireworks

Derek

Feels

Did You See The Words?

The Purple Bottle

Banshee Beat

Sung Tongs

Leaf House

Who Could Win A Rabbit?

We Tigers

BBC Sessions

Winter’s Love

The Beach Boys (6)

Pet Sounds

You Still Believe In Me

Let’s Go Away For A While

Sloop John B

I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times

Hang On To Your Ego

Sounds of Summer

California Girls

Brian Wilson (8)

SMiLE

Our Prayer/Gee/Heroes and Villains

Wonderful/Song for Children/Child Is Father of the Man/Surf’s Up

In Blue Hawaii

The Dirty Projectors (2)

Bitte Orca

Stillness is the Move

Useful Chamber

Panda Bear (3)

Person Pitch

Comfy in Nautica

Take Pills

Ponytail

Passion PIt (4)

Make Light

Little Secrets

Sleepyhead

Seaweed Song

Phoenix (5)

Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Lisztomania

Love Like A Sunset

Lasso

It’s Never Been Like That

Long Distance Calls

Napoleon Says

Wilco (4)

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

Radio Cure

Ashes of American Flags

Heavy Metal Drummer

Fleet Foxes (3)

Fleet Foxes

Sun It Rises

White Winter Hymnal

Sun Giant

Mykonos

Radiohead (5)

Kid A

Everything In Its Right Place

The National Anthem

Idoteque

Morning Bell

Motion Picture Soundtrack

Cut Copy (2)

In Ghost Colour

Voices In Quartz/Hearts on Fire

Dan Deacon (2)

Bromst

Build Voice

Snookered

Grizzly Bear (3)

Veckatimest

Southern Point

Two Weeks

While You Wait For The Others

Observations: This year was an avant-garde/noise rock year for me, with what I’d call “sound collages”, danceable beats, and electronic elements prevalent.