Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 2009 poll

finally back to close this thing out.

the last virgin poll, sad.

Stillness Is The Move! Although, the Solange/Dr. Dre version is the best.

Spotify

thanks, as i always forget. also always welcomed.

Bad Romance is so good. always felt like an alt universe Queen song to me

Thanks for making these polls, bee! They're pretty fun.

Stillness Is the Move, easily.

contributing to higher ac placement by voting my girls instead of bro sport

Bad Romance over........ Drake.

I had no idea the band "Joy Orbison" was so highly rated.

ha i remember hearing that drake song for the first time and thinking i was gonna be a fan of that guy. welp

"daniel" over "bad romance". bunch of indie album tracks i like but i find it weird that they populate this list

a wild gapdy appears

voted die slow

The Drums? How the hell did they make it on here?

Remember the Joy Orbison hype being real. Out of stuff I still listen to its a testament to the song that after eight years of advert licensing 'French Navy' can still melt my heart once so often. Probs a toss up between that and one of the Pains of Being Pure at Heart tracks.

OFF OFF OFF WITH YOUR HEAD
DANCE DANCE DANCE 'TIL YOU'RE DEAD

Otherwise, what a shit list. Huge decline in quality from the beginning of the decade.

I still like these (voted for Joy Orbison) but yeah this list doesn't represent the music of 2009 particularly well.

1 209 Animal Collective - My Girls
4 526 Phoenix - 1901
6 637 Bat for Lashes - Daniel
8 744 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
9 802 Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is the Move
12 1423 Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo
14 1591 Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes
29 3150 Lady Gaga feat. Beyoncé - Telephone
30 3157 Major Lazer - Pon De Floor
32 3344 Beach House - Norway
34 3384 HEALTH - Die Slow

The Big Pink definitely the Glasvegas of this list.

My ignorance of this year is pretty shocking. Hyph Mngo out of the ones I know.

Sea Within A Sea, quite obviously. I don't even care that it's kind of a rework of the 2008 winner

I listened much more to worriedaboutsatan and Her Name Is Calla, but this list seems pretty representative of what was big that year, no? Boy, indie sure seemed promising that year, huh?

Fuck Buttons is the only one I could stand to listen to and even then I'd need some provoking.

the year of GAPDYX when only 6 bands released music. From what I recall, this year was peak brostep, peak lumbersexual and kind of a faddy year for music in general. Still got a soft spot for some of these songs, like Brothersport (one of the few great moments on a highly-overrated and patchy album). I also love the naivety of Let's Go Surfing. Went for Sea Within A Sea which is still really great. This year finally feels like it was a long time ago now though, and the music reflects that.

"lumbersexual"?

you know, the whole Bon Iver 'let's wear woolly jumpers and drive 4x4s as though we live in forest cabins' thing

The lack of Fever Ray is kind of surprising.

I think there was Fever Ray in the 08?

Aha, you're right.

hmm...

1 209 Animal Collective - My Girls
2 318 Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind
4 526 Phoenix - 1901
6 637 Bat for Lashes - Daniel
7 713 The xx - Crystalised
8 744 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
11 1272 Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers
13 1542 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
29 3150 Lady Gaga feat. Beyoncé - Telephone
30 3157 Major Lazer - Pon De Floor
33 3349 The xx - Islands
35 3491 Passion Pit - The Reeling
36 3518 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll

I remember liking Yeasayer at the time but can't remember anything about them now. My top contenders are Pon De Floor/Telephone/Islands/Zero

Whenever I go back to that Passion Pit album, I just get sad about how nothing else dude has done has come close to working for me. That album is great, though.

"Party In The USA" might be better than all of these.

Yeasayer were a poorman's AC, they even went to the same high school and lived in Brooklyn but tried to pass themselves off as a Baltimore band.

though their big song, i think it's ambling alp, is p good

They did a song last year,I Am Chemistry, that was almost a little diverting, but yeah, hipster scrapheap for the most part

The first Yeasayer album is good, as is Ambling Alp. The album wasn't, though, and I've liked nothing they've done since.

Islands by the xx.

5 622 Phoenix - Lisztomania
6 637 Bat for Lashes - Daniel
9 802 Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is the Move
13 1542 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
14 1591 Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes
25 2629 Yeasayer - Ambling Alp
31 3291 Camera Obscura - French Navy
32 3344 Beach House - Norway
33 3349 The xx - Islands
36 3518 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
39 3994 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction

One of these. A lot of hype machine-y tracks on this list that I remember listening to a lot that just don't hold up anymore. Also, there are people who actually think that Empire State of Mind is a good song and not just a tourism commercial?

ESoM is a good song that is also a tourism commercial.

"ambling alp" is a great song but "o.n.e." is way better and if it were here i'd be voting for it. first half of that album is still their best work (iirc someone here likened it to lindsey buckingham? "poor man's animal collective" feels way off regardless)

otherwise i think i'd vote for "telephone," "bad romance," "french navy," or "heads will roll"

not that i'm here to defend yeasayer really bc what i've described as their "best work" is the only good work they've done lol

When Yeasayer were good they were pretty much a poor mans AnCo, and that was quite good. Then they changed and became boring.

Agreed with Brad on "O.N.E.," which is far better than "Ambling Alp." There were a couple good songs on their debut, as well, namely "2080" and "Sunrise"--I still jam to this one

Considering how recent this is, it is amazing how little memory I have retained of many of these bands (Yeasayer, The Horrors, La Roux, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart). The Big Pink I only really remember because of Nicki Minaj's use of "Dominos."

I liked the first Yeasayer album but thought the second one was terrible although I'd struggle to recall exactly what was wrong with it.

"Lisztomania"

Camera Obscura

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
2. Lady Gaga feat. Beyoncé - Telephone

I'd actually somehow managed to forget about the existence of 'Telephone' ...

I've come around to thinking that it is Gaga's best single.

ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh

there are people who actually think that Empire State of Mind is a good song and not just a tourism commercial?
it's a dumb song, but it bangs

Ouch these don't feel almost a decade old. At least I dont want them to be that old.

^ OTM.

haven't quite finished listening to the playlist but think i have my song picked out.

i remember where i was when i watched Michael Jackson's death unfold. i was working at LAX, some 30 miles from Neverland. first report was they were taking him to the hospital. we turned on the TV and watched, when we could, the day happening. a really sad day and couldn't believe that voice was gone forever.

Surf Solar

RIP Michael Jackson.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Stillness Is the Move

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

"Empire State Of Mind" is probably still the most overrated '00s hit.

xp I enjoyed this series! Was there already a 2010 edition?

no have done 1960 - 2009. will have to wait for the decade to finish before doing the next 10 years i think.

will still do these run-off polls but for the most part it's over.

Good run :)

So could we consider Bad Romance to be in the same class of 2000s pop classics as Get Ur Freak On, Toxic, and Ignition (remix), or nah?

absolutely IMO

LOL @ Animal Collective being thwarted (as they should be) by Lady Gaga. The vocals on that track are whiny and fucking annoying.