Fishpork’s 50 Favorite Tracks of 2009
This year really didn’t end up being that “greatest of the decade” as January-March may have suggested. With that said, our favorite tracks list became very album-heavy as it evolved throughout the year. With seven tracks from Animal Collective and Grizzly Bear in the top 20, you kinda get the point. Here is our very biased list of favorite tracks from 2009:
- HEALTH – “Die Slow”
- Grizzly Bear – “While You Wait for the Others“
- Animal Collective – “Summertime Clothes”
- Fuck Buttons – “Olympians”
- Built to Spill – “Things Fall Apart”
- Animal Collective – “My Girls”
- Fever Ray – “Concrete Walls”
- Grizzly Bear – “Ready, Able“
- White Lies – “Farewell to the Foreground”
- Moderat – “New Error”
- Atlas Sound – “Attic Lights”
- Grizzly Bear – “Two Weeks“
- Animal Collective – “Guy’s Eyes”
- Fuck Buttons – “The Lisbon Maru”
- Atlas Sound – “Walkabout”
- Animal Collective – “What Would I Want? Sky”
- Dredg – “Information”
- White Lies – “Death”
- Fever Ray – “Coconut”
- Animal Collective – “Brothersport”
- Built to Spill – “Good Ol’ Boredom”
- MC Rut – “I Don’t Really Know”
- The Mars Volta – “Since We’ve Been Wrong”
- Modest Mouse – “The Whale Song”
- Dirty Projectors – “Cannibal Resource”
- Deerhunter – “Game of Diamonds”
- Morrissey – “It’s Not Your Birthday Anymore”
- Animal Collective – “I Think I Can”
- HEALTH – “We Are Water”
- Dredg – “Mourning This Morning”
- Sufjan Stevens – “You Are the Blood”
- Fuck Buttons – “Surf Solar”
- Phoenix – “Girlfriend”
- The Flaming Lips – “Silver Trembling Hands”
- White Rabbits – “Rudie Fails”
- The Mars Volta – “With Twilight As Our Guide”
- Radiohead – “These Are My Twisted Words”
- Great Northern – “Fingers”
- Royksopp – “Tricky, Tricky”
- Dirty Projectors – “Useful Chamber”
- St. Vincent – “The Party”
- YACHT – “Ring The Bell”
- Bat For Lashes – “Sleep Alone”
- Atlas Sound – “Sheila”
- Washed Out – “Feel It All Around”
- Das Racist – “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell”
- Dirty Projectors – “Stillness Is The Move”
- Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs – “Skeletons”
- Great Northern – “Driveway”
- Morrissey – “I’m OK By Myself”
The Fishpork 20: Favorite Albums of 2009
2009 started off as one of the strongest years for music in the decade but then slipped into a summer that left us scratching our heads and yearning for more. An impressive set of Fall releases surprised their way onto our Favorites List and cemented 2009 as a year that will impress music lovers in retrospect. These are our favorite albums from the past year:
1. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
2. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
3. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
4. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
5. Built to Spill – There Is No Enemy
6. Atlas Sound – Logos
7. Morrissey – Years of Refusal
8. Dredg – The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
9. White Lies – To Lose Your Life
10. Moderat – Moderat
11. The Mars Volta – Octahedron
12. MC Rut – Middle Class Rut
13. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
14. Great Northern – Remind Me Where The Light Is
15. HEALTH – Get Color
16. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
17. The Flaming Lips – Embyronic
18. Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
19. Isis – Wavering Radiant
20. Royksopp – Junior
Most Disappointing Albums:
- Lotus Plaza – The Floodlight Collective
- Wilco – Wilco (The Album)