Sycophantically compiling end of year lists in November's one thing. Condensing twelve musical months, or 52 weeks, or 365 days, or 8,760 hours etc into 20 commendable efforts or so ranked more or less in terms of iTunes play counts, added to the entire rejection of any other records released over the course of those 525,600 minutes, seems rather futile. Squeezing a decade into a few albums more is simply ludicrous. When this decade commenced, I was twelve. To put it into perspective, the hypocritical adoration for X Factor that's engulfed Old Blighty was merely the terminology for a certain "je ne sais quoi" in the smug-as-fuck brain cells of Simon Cowell to ambiguously describe a spark he'd presumably never seen nor understood behind the eyes of a brain-dead postman/ call centre worker/ Sky dish installer, Hear'Say had just won Popstars and The Strokes were just getting to grips with This Is It, arguably the album of the decade. Popstars and This Is It were the first records of the decade I remember buying. Times have changed. Superficially at least. Hopefully...
No Play Counts were read nor harmed in the making of this post.
No Play Counts were read nor harmed in the making of this post.
Dots & Dashes Tracks of '09
20. Lust For Life, Girls
19. Love Long Distance, Gossip
18. Treat Me Like Your Mother, Dead Weather
17. Daniel, Bat For Lashes
16. Heartbreaker, MSTRKRFT
15. Burial, Miike Snow
14. Oblivion, Mastodon
13. Crystalised, The XX
12. Bodies, Robbie Williams
11. Camera Talk, Local Natives
10. Headlock, Esser
9. Punk Spirit, Wave Machines
8. Barcelona, Plastiscines
7. Peeled Apples, Manic Street Preachers
6. Wonderful Life, HURTS
5. When I Grow Up, Fever Ray
4. Billionaires, Your Twenties
3. Empire State of Mind, Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys
2. Last Dance, The Raveonettes
1. Xtatic Truth, Crystal Fighters
Keep your apples, um, eyes peeled for the records that powered '09 in my shitty worthless opinion...
