DrownedinSound's forty favourite songs of the first quarter of '09 (Spotify-centric)
DiS has gone through all the albums, singles and b-sides of the year (so far!) and put together a playlist of our favourite forty tracks for your exploration, deliberation and listening pleasure.
As we've done this using Spotify (visit Spotify.com to download the software) there's plenty of opportunity to wander off and discover more artists that you may like. Click this text here to stream this playlist
Feel free to spend your extended weekend making and sharing your own playlists of your songs of the first three months of 2009 and post them as a link in the comment section below.
- Andrew Bird - 'Anonanimal'
- Bat For Lashes - 'Pearl's Dream'
- School Of Seven Bells - 'Iamundernodisguise'
- The Maccabees - 'No Kind Words'
- Metric - 'Help I'm Alive
- Patrick Wolf - 'Vulture**
- PJ Harvey - 'A Woman A Man Walked By / The Crow Knows Where All The Little Children Go'
- Fever Ray - 'If I Had A Heart' (Fuck Buttons Remix)
- Animal Collective - 'Summertime Clothes'
- Beirut - 'Mimizan'
- The Veils - 'Sit Down By The Fire'
- Grammatics - 'Murderer'
- The Decemberists - 'The Hazards Of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won’t Wrestle The Thistles Undone)'
- M. Ward - 'Epistemology'
- Antony & The Johnsons - 'Another World'
- Bon Iver - 'Woods'
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 'Skeletons'
- Telepathe - 'Chrome's On It'
- Handsome Furs - 'Radio Kaliningrad'
- The Kills - 'Black Balloon'
- Sky Larkin - 'Antibodies'
- Passion Pit - 'Sleepyhead'
- Blk Jks - 'Lakeside'
- Doves - 'Compulsion'
- Franz Ferdinand - 'No You Girls'
- Morrissey - 'I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris'
- Sparks - 'I Can't Believe That You Would Fall for All the Crap in This Song'
- Jack Penate - 'Tonight’s Today'
- Sufjan Stevens - 'You Are The Blood'
- Mastodon - 'Crack The Skye'
- ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - 'Far Pavillions'
- Dananananaykroyd - '1993'
- Micachu and the Shapes - 'Calculator'
- Wavves - 'So Bored'
- Animal Collective - 'My Girls'
- TV on the Radio - 'Make Love All Night Long'
- Friendly Fires - 'Skeleton Boy' (Air France Remix)
- White Lies - 'To Lose My Life' - 'Filthy Dukes Remix
- La Roux - 'In For The Kill' - 'Skream's Lets Get Ravey remix
- The Horrors - 'Sea Within A Sea'
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DiScuss: Love it? Hate it? Too obvious? Surprised by the inclusion/exclusion of anything? Two too many Animal Collective tracks? Basically, tell us what we should have added to this playlist (obviously we were limited a little by what is and isn't available on _Spotify) and make a better playlist and link it in the comments below..._
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Animal Collective
The Horrors
I've done something similar
only not including tracks from albums already released in 2009. So singles, remixes, b-sides and free downloads mainly.
http://itsgettingboringbythesea.blogspot.com/2009/04/january-march-2009-in-45-tracks.html
When I get Spotify sorted proper I'll do this...
though additions would include:
Cursive - Caveman
Fanfarlo - The Walls Are Coming Down
Elvis Perkins - Shampoo
Mirah - Generosity
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Inspiration Information
Andrew Bird - Effigy
Emmy The Great - First Love
Papercuts - You Can Have What You Want
M.I.A. - O...Saya
Laura Gibson - Funeral Song
The National - So Far Around The Bend
Dang, it's been a good year thus far...
Oh and Ashes In The Snow off the Mono album
is colossal
AND
Buriedfed by Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - all complementary to the very healthy list...
Ah
I'm not too savvy to the world of Spotify yet, it has to be said.
listening now
seems pretty good. I can't stand Andrew Bird though.
If Spotify had The Pains of Being Pure at Heart then I would have put Young Adult Friction on it.
Are you always going to restrict your choices by making lists Spotify playlists now?
I'd pick 'Buddy' off the Iran album over any TVOTR track
shame thats such a step above the rest of the album though.
I think more of this spotify collaborative and non-collab playlist stuff...
...should be done. Works pretty damn well in exposing people to new music, in my opinion. Great stuff.
La Roux?
ha that Skream remix of La Roux is a complete joke. Actually, its not funny, its disgusting.
They must a SHIT hot PR team behind them to get that on BBC 6. Pffft. The same as the cheeky girls prehaps?
nice mix of styles, DIS
Here's my March playlist
http://open.spotify.com/user/abeech/playlist/6cuBfMrAUwrp8e8TQWk9vM
And Spotify comment piece on my blog..
http://fallingnlaughing.blogspot.com/2009/03/tuning-out-is-spotify-eating-up-your.html
One a week (Traditionally)
No Age - Things I Did When I Was Dead
Woods - Rain On
Animal Collective - My Girls
Zomby - Float On
Runaway - Brooklyn Club Jam
Charlie Parr - Just Like Today
Bon Iver - Blood Bank
Wavves - I'm So Bored
Yeasayer - Tightrope
Micachu & the Shapes - Lips
The Kills - Black Balloon
Handsome Furs - All We Want, Baby, Is Everything
Dan Deacon - Snookered
Gui Boratto - No Turning Back
not technically all from 09 but heard for the first time in it so bollocks
You do know
that the list could change within the next 8 months, right?
Lists are list I suppose....
but no The Joy Formidable - Jeez give me strength.
We all have different tastes I can see that but the fact that no JF tracks appear on this list disappoints me more than I can say.
oh, i see its the first quarter of the year
me = not reading stuff properly
No Teitur?
i can't stop playing his record. wish emmy the great was on spotify.
That's a good playlist
Some there I haven't heard so will give it a listen
Nah, it's not on there.
Good record, though, like really good.
I'm pretty sure Float by Zomby was last year
I think he has only dropped a remix of Franz Ferdinand this year so far, I hope thats rectified soon mind.
LOL?
Andrew Bird, the king of bland music, on #1 /facepalm. Also Metric and M. Ward?! looooool
No space for John Frusciante?
Come on, that album is amazing. I'm not convinced singles from albums released last year should count (i.e. The Kills). And La Roux? Pur-lease, her voice is horrible.
Looks interesting apart from that though. Lots of stuff there that I've clearly missed.
Hearing Vulture again
it sounds better then i remember :D
Buddy is brilliant
one of my top 5 songs of the years so far.
my list
http://open.spotify.com/user/airboypaul/playlist/1FkODGgUAPsB69FKwjZOGq
Anni Rossi- Wheelpusher
Choir Of Young Believers- Action/Reaction
Clem Snide- Me No
Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern- Compilation Cassette
Dear Reader- Dearheart
Loney dear- Under A Silent Sea
Riceboy Sleeps- Happiness
Sin Fang Bous- Advent In Ives Garden
Soap&Skin- Spiracle
Sufjan Stevens- You Are The Blood
The National- So Far Around The Bend
The Phantom Band- Throwing Bones
Yeasayer- Tightrope
wow
I have no taste in music anymore :(
my favourite (not just singles+b-sides)
1. Fever Ray - Keep The Streets Empty For Me
2. Marissa Nadler - Heart Paper Lover
3. Antony And The Johnsons - One Dove
4. Royksopp - True To Life
5. Asobi Seksu - Me & Mary
6. Telepathe - So Fine
7. Mono - Ashes In The Snow
erm
this wasn't a list ordered like a chart, I just did a playlist which vaguely fitted together in a vague order.
honestly,
I think anyone who has actually given the album due consideration will see that while "I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris" was the single and most-showcased track, it is far from the best. It's really very blunt, actually, and coming from Morrissey that is a sad sign of decline. Its one soaring vocal hook right before the chorus is all that stand out, I think. Better contenders would be "Mama Lay Softly on the Riverbed", or better yet "I'm OK By Myself".
I guess it's silly to contest matters of opinion... but, too late I suppose.
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