Señor Smashaway's '09 Listzomania (which does not include the song, "Listzomania")

Below is my best of '09. There's a link to 97% of the playlist pictured above HERE.

13 creams of the 2009 album crop (in order of greatness–most to semi-most)

Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms

Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport

Passion Pit: Manners

Dan Deacon: Bromst

Atlas Sound: Logos

Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion

Lovvers: Ocd Go Go Go Girls

Okmoniks: Party Fever!

Major Lazer: Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do

Matt and Kim: Grand

Blak Roc: S/T

Wavves: Wavves

YYYs: It's Blitz

Quite Honorable Mentions

Smith Westerns: Smith Westerns

The Very Best: Warm Heart of Africa

Foreign Born: Person to Person

Ty Segal: Ty Segal

Harlem Shakes: Technicolor Health

Röyksopp: Junior

Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (I guess)

5 Mixtapes that were the straight dope

The Hood Internet: The Mixtape Volume 4

Diplo's Major Lazer Essential Mix

DJ Bonez McCoy: Trill Ass Car Mix

Lil' Wayne: No Ceilings

Kevin Casey Music: Live from New York

Best mashup: (Yeah!)

The Hood Internet: Kanye West vs Cage & Aviary Touch The Television

Best Songs of '09

Please see the image above. It takes too long to write 'em all.

Good year, music!

Whatevs' Best Of 2009

Here are all my (Whatevs) favorite songs from the final year of the aughts. At first I didn't think this was a particularly watershed year for music but after trolling through my iTunes I've settled on 39 songs that really stood out to me, and I think I've changed my initial assessment.

The order is a little crazy but I chose it to specifically call attention to each track, so there's a pretty big tonality disparity between each track. It's not a mixtape. It's a bunch of songs that are pretty different from one another. There's some rock, some R&B, some rock, some hip-hop, some rock, some alt-country, and ten other kinds of rock.

Hope you enjoy.

Whatevs' Best Of 2009

1. "Hold The Line – Major Lazer [Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do]
2. "Tremendous Dynamite – Eels [Hombre Lobo]
3. "Two Weeks – Grizzly Bear [Veckatimest]
4. "I And Love And You– The Avett Brothers [I & Love & You]
5. "Make - Up" – Amanda Blank [I Love You]
6. "Future Primitive" – Papercuts [You Can Have What You Want]
7. "Hang You from the Heavens" – The Dead Weather [Horehound]
8. "LBG (Little Booty Girl)" – Thunderheist [Thunderheist]
9. "Do You Love Me (Like You Say You Do)" – Lee Fields & The Expressions [My World]
10. "M.A.D." – Hadouken! [M.A.D.]
11. "It Gets Your Body Movin'" – Suckers [Suckers EP]
12. "Good Ol' Fashion Nightmare" – Matt & Kim [Grand]
13. "Ladies" – Lee Fields & The Expressions [My World]
14. "Kick Drum Heart" – The Avett Brothers [I & Love & You]
15. "Jerk It" – Thunderheist [Thunderheist]
16. "Wilco (The Song)" – Wilco [Wilco (The Album)]
17. "Young Hearts Spark Fire" – Japandroids [Post-Nothing]
18. "Fresh Blood" – Eels [Hombre Lobo]
19. "Get It Right" – Breakestra [Dusk Till Dawn]
20. "Sleepyhead" – Passion Pit [M 3]
21. "Cocotte" – Teenage Bad Girl [Cocotte]
22. "Feels Like Summer" – Johnny Foreigner [Grace And The Bigger Picture]
23. "Burial" – Miike Snow [Miike Snow]
24. "Stay Off The F*%$#n’ Flowers (feat. Raekwon)" – Blakroc [Blakroc]
25. "Oh No" – Andrew Bird [Noble Beast]
26. "Gazzillion Ear" – DOOM [Born Like This]
27. "Lisztomania" – Phoenix [Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix]
28. "Laura" – Girls [Girls]
29. "Moth's Wings" – Passion Pit [M 3]
30. "Boys Are Fine" – Smith Westerns [Smith Westerns]
31. "Chillin Out Maxin" – Get Busy Committee [Uzi Does It]
32. "California Queen" – Wolfmother [Cosmic Egg]
33. "Blood" – The Middle East [The Recordings Of The Middle East]
34. "Pine On" – Obits [I Blame You]
35. "Daylight" – Matt & Kim [Grand]
36. "Orange Shirt" – Discovery [LP]
37. "Treat Me Like Your Mother" – The Dead Weather [Horehound]
38. "Animal" – Miike Snow [Miike Snow]
39. "Bye Bye Bye" – Plants And Animals [Parc Avenue]

Victor's Best of 2009

Top Ten Albums of 2009
1. The xx - The xx
2. CFCF – Panesian Nights
3. Kid CuDi – Man on the Moon
4. Passion Pit - Manners
5. Raekwon – Only Built for Cuban Linx II
6. The Very Best – Warm Heart of Africa
7. Grizzly Bear – Vecktamiest
8. Memory Tapes – Seek Magic
9. Matt & Kim – Grand
10. The Hood Internet – Mixtape Vol. Four

Most Overrated Artists of 2009
1. Girls
2. Animal Collective

Top Thirty-Nine Songs of 2009, Plus an Overture
Download Mix of Top Tracks Here
OVERTURE - The xx – Intro
1. Bat For Lashes – Daniel
2. Animal Collective – My Girls
3. Pictureplane – Goth Star
4. The xx – VCR
5. Here We Go Magic – Tunnelvision
6. Kid CuDi – Pursuit of Happiness
7. Japandroids – Young Hearts Spark Fire
8. Drake vs. Miike Snow – Cult Logic Forever (The Hood Internet Mash-up)
9. CFCF – You Hear Colours
10. Electric Wire Hustle – They Don't Want
11. Shakira – Loba
12. Beach House – Norway
13. Memory Tapes – Green Knight
14. Matt & Kim – Daylight
15. HEALTH – Die Slow
16. Guido – Way You Make Me Feel
17. Passion Pit – Moth's Wings
18. The Very Best – Yalira
19. Lee Fields and the Expressions - Ladies
20. Animal Collective – What Would I Want? Sky
21. BLK JKS – Lakeside
22. Andrew Jackson Jihad – We Didn't Come Here to Rock
23. Air France – GBG Belongs To Us
24. Small Black – Despicable Dogs
25. Yeasayer – Ambling Alp
26. Kid CuDi – Up Up & Away
27. Raekwon – House of Flying Daggers
28. We Were Promised Jetpacks – Ship With Holes Will Sink
29. Passion Pit – Little Secrets
30. Mos Def – Supermagic
31. Handsome Furs – All We Want, Baby, Is Everything
32. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Wind Phoenix (Proper Name)
33. K’Naan - Wavin’ Flag
34. CFCF – Goodbye
35. Beastie Boys vs. Matt & Kim – Good Ol' Fashioned Rump Shaker (The Hood Internet Mash-up)
36. Gui Boratto – No Turning Back
37. Kid CuDi – Soundtrack 2 My Life
38. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
39. Outro – The Hood Internet

Top Lyrics of the Year
1. “I don't mean to seem like I / Care about material things, / Like a social status, / I just want / Four walls and adobe slats / For my girls” -My Girls, Animal Collective
2. “We used to dream / Now we worry about dying / I don't wanna worry about dying / I just wanna worry about those sunshine girls” -Young Hearts Spark Fire, Japandroids

Reverse Engineering "Smack My Bitch Up"

They should do this with every song ever. Did you have any idea "Bulls On Parade" was sampled in this song?