Playlist: Best Songs of 2009
Author: Matt Moeller27 Jan
Running a little late on this one… As a companion to my list of the top 20 best albums of 2009, I present a playlist featuring one of the best cuts off of each of those albums, re-sequenced for maximum enjoyment.
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Top 20 Albums of 2009
Author: Matt Moeller10 Jan
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| The Gossip – Music For Men | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Girls – Album | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse – Dark Night Of The Soul | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mos Def – The Ecstatic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mountain Goats & John Vanderslice – Moon Colony Bloodbath | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wilco – Wilco (The Album) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Boat – Setting The Paces |
Playlist: Songs To Be Obsessed With – Volume 4
Author: Matt Moeller17 May
Please enjoy a new batch of songs that I’ve been obsessed with over the last 6 months or so. Here is a more detailed list of what you will find in the playlist at the bottom of this post.
1) “Misunderstood” by Wilco (6:28)from Being There – 1996.
2) “Borrowed Tune” by Neil Young (3:26) from Tonight’s The Night – 1975.
3) “Shine A Light” by Rolling Stones (4:16) from Exile On Main Street – 1972.
4) “Long as I Can See The Light” by Creedence Clearwater Revival (3:34) from Cosmos Factory – 1970.
5) “I Saw The Light” by Williams, Hank (2:44) from the single of the same name – 1948.
6) “Acuff-Rose” by Uncle Tupelo (2:35) from Anodyne – 1993.
7) “School Days” by Wainwright, Loudon, III (3:06) from Album I – 1970.
8) “The Mess Inside” by Mountain Goats (3:35) from All Hail West Texas – 2002.
9) “Surrounded” by Mountain Goats & John Vanderslice (2:21) from Moon Colony Bloodbath – 2009.
10) “Wind and the Dove” by Bill Callahan (4:34) from Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle – 2009.
11) “Tape From California” by Phil Ochs (6:47) from Tape From California – 1968.
12) “Sunny South Kensington” by Donovan (3:46) from Mellow Yellow – 1967.
13) “Oh! You Pretty Things” by David Bowie (3:15) from Hunky Dory – 1971.
14) “Photograph” by Ringo Starr (3:57) from Ringo – 1973.
15) “Collect Call” by Metric (4:46) from Fantasies – 2009.
16) “Little Bit” by Lykke Li (4:34) from Youth Novels – 2008.
17) “Very Loud” by Shout Out Louds (4:05) from Howl Howl Gaff Gaff – 2005.
18) “Treason” by Teardrop Explodes (2:58) from Kilimanjaro – 1980.
19) “Talking Hotel Arbat Blues” by Handsome Furs (2:43) from Face Control – 2009.
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Album Review: Metric – Fantasies (2009)
Author: Matt Moeller3 May
| Rating: | Track: | Sound Code: | Track Title: | Length: |
| **** | 1. | MH | Help I’m Alive | 4:47 |
| ***** | 2. | MH | Sick Muse | 4:18 |
| **** | 3. | M | Satellite Mind (FCC) | 3:43 |
| *** | 4. | M | Twilight Galaxy | 4:54 |
| ***** | 5. | MH | Gold Guns Girls | 4:06 |
| *** | 6. | M | Gimme Sympathy (FCC) | 3:55 |
| ***** | 7. | M | Collect Call | 4:46 |
| *** | 8. | MH | Front Row | 3:35 |
| **** | 9. | M | Blindness | 4:27 |
| **** | 10. | MH | Stadium Love | 4:13 |
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The 4th full length release from this Toronto based Indie Pop 4 piece fronted by sometimes Broken Social Scene member Emily Haines. One of my favorite albums from 2009 so far.
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