Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 2009 poll

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.